It could be the constant push to sell more devices, but I have a feeling they just want as many people as possible to use their latest OS to provide a consistent interface to all users.
I am not from California, but it is trivial to find out the median home value there. It is very uncommon for the average Californian to have $400,000+ to buy a home in full. They take out a mortgage to be able to buy the home initially..
A homeowner with a mortgage does indeed own their home. They can do with it as they wish. The mortgage holder can initiate foreclosure on the homeowner for breaking the terms of the mortgage, but the person that signs the mortgage is the owner of the home.
So don't wait. There is no need for you to stare at the progress bar while it downloads. Go do something else while the download is going on. Come back in a couple days and play your game.
But of course nobody in the US seems to actually give a shit about this part of Jesus' teachings or else you would not have the death penalty.
This pretty much sums it up. Religion is used to push for certain policies and behaviors, but certainly not for this kind of pacifist / caring behavior. It's hard to rile up the public to take action about turning the other cheek.
Way to jump into a thread about fictional superheroes and then call someone out for it being fake. No crap it's fictional, but that is the frame of reference for the conversation. I tend to think that, EVEN THOUGH IT IS ALL FICTION, the comics have decades of history and are what more people would think of as the history of the Hulk rather than movies that were made well after the character was created.
This is all in regards to a comment above claiming that radiation only is not enough to create a superhero.
I'd be most concerned with a burst pipe from freezing weather. Then at #2 is punk kids turning the water on and flooding the yard. A distant #3 would be theft of water. In my municipality water is not metered so someone can come take all they want and I don't pay more.
I fail to see how accidents like this influence human evolution much. This is a car that is expensive enough that it is bought and driven by people that have gone past the general age of procreation. Case in point Mr. Walker was 40 years old and already had a daughter, I'm not sure the family situation of the driver.
The subject matter that TMZ normally covers causes their reporting to be tabloidy. For what they are, they have a good ability to track down information and get the scoop on others.
Most people never bothered to customize their Start Menu by moving shortcuts or arranging them in custom folders. They just got used to the poorly designed mess created by each program making it's own folder filled with mostly unnecessary shortcuts for things they didn't need (uninstall shortcuts, readme files, url links). The Start Screen is more like a phone in that each program is given just 1 icon in most cases. It's easy to arrange and becomes faster to use. Idiots, assholes, morons, and troll like you will cry about it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an improvement in the long run.
What has changed that will make people bother to customize their start screen now? For many users it'll quickly degrade into the same mess that their start menus were. If they exclusively install windows store apps, they'll have 1 icon for 1 program. If they install many desktop applications, they'll have icons flooding their start screen soon enough.
I don't know if things have changed any, but when win 8 first came out I looked into coding for the modern UI. At the time, there was no way to make a connectioon to a SQL Server instance on the same machine. They assumed that we would all want to expose databases as web services and access them that way. With that kind of approach, I don't think Microsoft will be very successful ported many business apps to the modern UI.
I won't buy one until they officially add media server software. Sony's excuse for not including it is... okay, but I don't believe them until it is officially in the software.
OTOH, I really think Microsoft should be tooting their horns a little louder about tablets running real Windows 8.1 that can run any Windows application.
I agree with you. Microsoft probably shouldn't have set their new OS up to be primarily about the metro interface. It's clear that they want to replace as many Windows applications as they can with modern UI applications. Any use case that isn't 100% modern, or 100% desktop has a bad interface for people to switch between.
This isn't shocking. They had branding problems by calling it Windows. It's near impossible to explain the difference to a non-technical user. The end result is that Microsoft will no longer have any ARM tablets. This will mean, for a little while at least, their tablet hardware will be more expensive and drain batteries faster. Not exactly traits that will have them dominate the tablet market. They might be able to get users that want or need to run Windows applications on a tablet, but that's not a large percentage of the tablet market.
Of course like many here my employer bought the computer.
Seriously though, having a computer today allows me to use it. I consider that use worth the savings I could get by putting off buying it. A computer is not a currency.
Surely there is a grain of truth to what you say though. There is a non zero amount of people that will not buy a computer today because they believe a better deal can be had by waiting. That reduces sales and impacts the market. Likewise, the deflationary nature of bitcoins will not prevent all uses and trades of them, but it will have an impact on the market as a whole.
That reminds me of the time porn thought it was a good idea to have movies that you can cut to different camera angles in the same scene. Intriguing idea for titillating video, but for mainstream content, directors tend to want to control the camera angles the audience sees. Not every tech the adult industry backs works out.
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Then we can finally assemble the sexy.exe Tesla malware
No, they're high because people can still get mortgages that will bankrupt them when and if interest rates ever rise back to sensible levels.
This is assuming they have adjustable rate mortgages. Many of them probably do, but they are fools.
I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down to see someone agree with me. Wish I had mod points now.
FTFY
It could be the constant push to sell more devices, but I have a feeling they just want as many people as possible to use their latest OS to provide a consistent interface to all users.
California Median home value
I am not from California, but it is trivial to find out the median home value there. It is very uncommon for the average Californian to have $400,000+ to buy a home in full. They take out a mortgage to be able to buy the home initially..
I have no idea what the stats in Canada are to compare, but it appears that 1/3 of American homeowners have no mortgage.
A homeowner with a mortgage does indeed own their home. They can do with it as they wish. The mortgage holder can initiate foreclosure on the homeowner for breaking the terms of the mortgage, but the person that signs the mortgage is the owner of the home.
So don't wait. There is no need for you to stare at the progress bar while it downloads. Go do something else while the download is going on. Come back in a couple days and play your game.
A Vegas taxi servicing the strip, or the shuttle bus between Harrah's and The Rio...
You don't want to kill the driver before he picks up very many people do you?
Never did play Devil's Crush, but I did play the heck out of Alien Crush on the Tgfx16
But of course nobody in the US seems to actually give a shit about this part of Jesus' teachings or else you would not have the death penalty.
This pretty much sums it up. Religion is used to push for certain policies and behaviors, but certainly not for this kind of pacifist / caring behavior. It's hard to rile up the public to take action about turning the other cheek.
Way to jump into a thread about fictional superheroes and then call someone out for it being fake. No crap it's fictional, but that is the frame of reference for the conversation. I tend to think that, EVEN THOUGH IT IS ALL FICTION, the comics have decades of history and are what more people would think of as the history of the Hulk rather than movies that were made well after the character was created.
This is all in regards to a comment above claiming that radiation only is not enough to create a superhero.
That's 1.81 Gigawatts. Doc Brown used the alternative pronunciation, but the spelling is the same.
I'd be most concerned with a burst pipe from freezing weather. Then at #2 is punk kids turning the water on and flooding the yard. A distant #3 would be theft of water. In my municipality water is not metered so someone can come take all they want and I don't pay more.
Some people are idiots regardless of upbringing. Nice of you to judge a person from one sentence they wrote.
I fail to see how accidents like this influence human evolution much. This is a car that is expensive enough that it is bought and driven by people that have gone past the general age of procreation. Case in point Mr. Walker was 40 years old and already had a daughter, I'm not sure the family situation of the driver.
This one needs to go into the dustbin of Slashdot. News for Nerds is no longer mentioned on this site at all.
The subject matter that TMZ normally covers causes their reporting to be tabloidy. For what they are, they have a good ability to track down information and get the scoop on others.
Most people never bothered to customize their Start Menu by moving shortcuts or arranging them in custom folders. They just got used to the poorly designed mess created by each program making it's own folder filled with mostly unnecessary shortcuts for things they didn't need (uninstall shortcuts, readme files, url links). The Start Screen is more like a phone in that each program is given just 1 icon in most cases. It's easy to arrange and becomes faster to use. Idiots, assholes, morons, and troll like you will cry about it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an improvement in the long run.
What has changed that will make people bother to customize their start screen now? For many users it'll quickly degrade into the same mess that their start menus were. If they exclusively install windows store apps, they'll have 1 icon for 1 program. If they install many desktop applications, they'll have icons flooding their start screen soon enough.
I don't know if things have changed any, but when win 8 first came out I looked into coding for the modern UI. At the time, there was no way to make a connectioon to a SQL Server instance on the same machine. They assumed that we would all want to expose databases as web services and access them that way. With that kind of approach, I don't think Microsoft will be very successful ported many business apps to the modern UI.
I won't buy one until they officially add media server software. Sony's excuse for not including it is... okay, but I don't believe them until it is officially in the software.
Newsflash, there isnt a tablet market, it is an iPad market. And then there is a market of subpar, less than 100 euros tablets for iPads wannabes.
Get out of here with this nonsense. Maybe once upon a time this was true, but there are tons of tablets out there that are selling quite well.
OTOH, I really think Microsoft should be tooting their horns a little louder about tablets running real Windows 8.1 that can run any Windows application.
I agree with you. Microsoft probably shouldn't have set their new OS up to be primarily about the metro interface. It's clear that they want to replace as many Windows applications as they can with modern UI applications. Any use case that isn't 100% modern, or 100% desktop has a bad interface for people to switch between.
This isn't shocking. They had branding problems by calling it Windows. It's near impossible to explain the difference to a non-technical user. The end result is that Microsoft will no longer have any ARM tablets. This will mean, for a little while at least, their tablet hardware will be more expensive and drain batteries faster. Not exactly traits that will have them dominate the tablet market. They might be able to get users that want or need to run Windows applications on a tablet, but that's not a large percentage of the tablet market.
Of course like many here my employer bought the computer.
Seriously though, having a computer today allows me to use it. I consider that use worth the savings I could get by putting off buying it. A computer is not a currency.
Surely there is a grain of truth to what you say though. There is a non zero amount of people that will not buy a computer today because they believe a better deal can be had by waiting. That reduces sales and impacts the market. Likewise, the deflationary nature of bitcoins will not prevent all uses and trades of them, but it will have an impact on the market as a whole.
That reminds me of the time porn thought it was a good idea to have movies that you can cut to different camera angles in the same scene. Intriguing idea for titillating video, but for mainstream content, directors tend to want to control the camera angles the audience sees. Not every tech the adult industry backs works out.
To play devil's advocate here, how far away from that monitor are you sitting? How far away from your TV do you sit?