Windows Store == games for windows live, just for Windows 10.
It's basically their own special sandbox that they get a cut of, which is rife with technical hickups, and no guarantee you'll keep what you buy when the service is (nigh inevitably) shut down in (roll 2d8) years.
Lots of multi-platform development tools have added Windows store as a publishing output, but honestly, a regular-old Windows exe put out to GOG/Steam is the best choice, looking at every single example of income streams I've seen.
2d8? If I understand the lingo correct that's two 8 sided dice? Try flipping two coins instead. Heads = 1, tails = 0.
There are a lot of apps available for Roku that aren't for the Apple TV. My recommendation would be to spend $35 and upgrade to one of the cheaper Roku models. Well worth it.
By and large, they have better content than Netflix as well. It's ruined by a godawful UI and mixing in paid shows with the free ones.
If Amazon cleaned up their UI I would drop Netflix. As it is, if I weren't getting Prime from my wife's.edu account, I'd be more likely to drop Prime despite the better content.
We're glad you feel that way and are willing to donate your entire wealth, along with other donors, to someone in order to test if they continue working.
I don't have one nor do I ever intend to have one, but I did borrow one once to use as a guinea pig for an application I wrote for work (that was later installed on 6 field-model machines). It was OK, but I wouldn't ever have need of one for myself, I'd spend comparable money on a better laptop.
I watched the first three- first was OK, 2nd was horrendous, 3rd was horrendous.
I have no intention on watching the 4th. It feels stale and over-rehearsed and over-scripted compared to their time on Top Gear. On Top Gear, you knew it was all fake, but their reactions seemed spur of the moment comments. On GT, it feels like they're reading from a teleprompter:
"Stage Direction: Look surprised and say, 'Oh No, Hammond is in a Dodge'"
I wouldn't bother... it's not that good anyway. First episode showed promise, but since then it just feels very wooden and overly scripted.
I know Top Gear was always scripted and fake, but the new Amazon version of it with Clarkson, et al. just seems way over-rehearsed and wooden. I was really looking forwards to it but feel majorly let down.
I hope I can hold off getting cancer until after I retire (if I ever retire). I'll leave America and go home when I'm retire. I don't want to rely an American healthcare when I get old.
How about stop subsidizing maize at ridiculously high rates. I don't like paying taxes to support super cheap big Macs that will make me and the rest of America fat.
Absolutely, I don't go to the doctor when I'm sick. Can't afford it. I pay thousands a year for insurance, but if I go to the doctor I know that's another several hundred just to be maybe be told I need an antibiotic, or maybe be told I need to rest and drink fluids.
How many cancers are not caught early because people don't go to the doctor for something they think is minor and so don't want to pay several hundred dollars for a single mundane visit. It's in the back of my mind each time I get sick, but I just can't afford to go. If I get an xray for something and a few tests I could end up with a $1000+ bill- and it might be for nothing.
I've always opposed to the corn subsidies, I find it ridiculous we subsidize maize at a rate higher than any other healthier vegetable. When Bush started the ridiculously high subsidies is when we started having these 99cent heart-attack specials pop up everywhere. In essence we're paying taxes for farmers to produce the worst food crop, that goes in part to feed cows to make artificially cheap low quality corn-fed beef.
Not just that we're subsidizing the world. Our taxes are making everybody else fat too. as countries like us, and Argentina ship tax payer funded cheap fatty beef around the world.
Can't we subsidise cabbages, or peas, or lettuce, or... I don't know anything else healthy instead of maize which is essentially just sugar with almost no nutritional value?
The price really is the sticking point... but there again, it already is. $25 is less than you pay for two at the cinema currently and you get to enjoy it in a more comfortable atmosphere rather than the hell hole that is the cinema.
That said, I always wait for rentals to be $2 or $3 before watching them. I never go to the cinema, not because it's a hell hole (which it is) but mostly because it's too darn expensive. $25 is still too much.
$25 for a new release maybe, if it's one the whole family can watch. If it's just me and the Mrs, $15 before I will watch it- and then only if it's something I'm dying to see early... otherwise I'll wait until the price is $3 or lower.
I almost never go to the cinema. It's useful when you're a kid wanting to date as neutral ground (although from what I understand kids don't date anymore- just hook up).
I'd much rather watch in the Living room than the cinema. No overly loud sound. No uncomfortable squished together seats. No popcorn stuck to the floor. The cinema isn't exactly a positive experience.
A lot of negative genes that would have resulted in a person not reaching reproductive age are being propagated whereas they might have died out if we were less advanced.
I guess that explains the dramatic rise in the number of plain old fucking stupid people I've started encountering as my life goes on.
Seriously, there really seems to be MANY more of them around these days.
It's way too hard to win a Darwin Award these days.
Indeed it could. Genes that make a male more likely to rape (aggression?) are not getting passed on like they would without abortion. Genes that make females more maternal (more likely to not want abortion) are going to be passed on more.
Abortion could be helping lead to a more "domesticated" humanity.
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Windows Store == games for windows live, just for Windows 10.
It's basically their own special sandbox that they get a cut of, which is rife with technical hickups, and no guarantee you'll keep what you buy when the service is (nigh inevitably) shut down in (roll 2d8) years.
Lots of multi-platform development tools have added Windows store as a publishing output, but honestly, a regular-old Windows exe put out to GOG/Steam is the best choice, looking at every single example of income streams I've seen.
2d8? If I understand the lingo correct that's two 8 sided dice? Try flipping two coins instead. Heads = 1, tails = 0.
I'm a parent, I don't work for American Express... will they give me 20 weeks?
There are a lot of apps available for Roku that aren't for the Apple TV. My recommendation would be to spend $35 and upgrade to one of the cheaper Roku models. Well worth it.
By and large, they have better content than Netflix as well. It's ruined by a godawful UI and mixing in paid shows with the free ones.
If Amazon cleaned up their UI I would drop Netflix. As it is, if I weren't getting Prime from my wife's .edu account, I'd be more likely to drop Prime despite the better content.
I loved the job I had in College. I'd gladly work in a small bookstore again if money weren't an issue, and such things still existed.
I've seen people hit the lottery for $5 million,
I'd like you to introduce me to some of your friends.
We're glad you feel that way and are willing to donate your entire wealth, along with other donors, to someone in order to test if they continue working.
Thank you,
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I don't have one nor do I ever intend to have one, but I did borrow one once to use as a guinea pig for an application I wrote for work (that was later installed on 6 field-model machines). It was OK, but I wouldn't ever have need of one for myself, I'd spend comparable money on a better laptop.
Haven't seen it yet, but I have high hopes for it.
I watched the first three- first was OK, 2nd was horrendous, 3rd was horrendous.
I have no intention on watching the 4th. It feels stale and over-rehearsed and over-scripted compared to their time on Top Gear. On Top Gear, you knew it was all fake, but their reactions seemed spur of the moment comments. On GT, it feels like they're reading from a teleprompter:
"Stage Direction: Look surprised and say, 'Oh No, Hammond is in a Dodge'"
All the above, and Grand Tour.
Seems the formula is harder to replicate than many people thought.
Hammond in the Challenger just seemed too much like a badly scripted, badly acted sitcom. None of their reactions seemed genuine.
Hey guys, any of you want to try out this fantastic new software I've just got, let me give you a link, you can download it for free.
I wouldn't bother... it's not that good anyway. First episode showed promise, but since then it just feels very wooden and overly scripted.
I know Top Gear was always scripted and fake, but the new Amazon version of it with Clarkson, et al. just seems way over-rehearsed and wooden. I was really looking forwards to it but feel majorly let down.
He needs to be a black lesbian blind girl with Aids if we're really doing this right.
If he's a blind girl of course it makes the game cheaper because they don't need to do any graphics.
I hope I can hold off getting cancer until after I retire (if I ever retire). I'll leave America and go home when I'm retire. I don't want to rely an American healthcare when I get old.
How about stop subsidizing maize at ridiculously high rates. I don't like paying taxes to support super cheap big Macs that will make me and the rest of America fat.
Absolutely, I don't go to the doctor when I'm sick. Can't afford it. I pay thousands a year for insurance, but if I go to the doctor I know that's another several hundred just to be maybe be told I need an antibiotic, or maybe be told I need to rest and drink fluids.
How many cancers are not caught early because people don't go to the doctor for something they think is minor and so don't want to pay several hundred dollars for a single mundane visit. It's in the back of my mind each time I get sick, but I just can't afford to go. If I get an xray for something and a few tests I could end up with a $1000+ bill- and it might be for nothing.
I've always opposed to the corn subsidies, I find it ridiculous we subsidize maize at a rate higher than any other healthier vegetable. When Bush started the ridiculously high subsidies is when we started having these 99cent heart-attack specials pop up everywhere. In essence we're paying taxes for farmers to produce the worst food crop, that goes in part to feed cows to make artificially cheap low quality corn-fed beef.
Not just that we're subsidizing the world. Our taxes are making everybody else fat too. as countries like us, and Argentina ship tax payer funded cheap fatty beef around the world.
Can't we subsidise cabbages, or peas, or lettuce, or ... I don't know anything else healthy instead of maize which is essentially just sugar with almost no nutritional value?
The price really is the sticking point... but there again, it already is. $25 is less than you pay for two at the cinema currently and you get to enjoy it in a more comfortable atmosphere rather than the hell hole that is the cinema.
That said, I always wait for rentals to be $2 or $3 before watching them. I never go to the cinema, not because it's a hell hole (which it is) but mostly because it's too darn expensive. $25 is still too much.
$25 for a new release maybe, if it's one the whole family can watch. If it's just me and the Mrs, $15 before I will watch it- and then only if it's something I'm dying to see early... otherwise I'll wait until the price is $3 or lower.
I almost never go to the cinema. It's useful when you're a kid wanting to date as neutral ground (although from what I understand kids don't date anymore- just hook up).
I'd much rather watch in the Living room than the cinema. No overly loud sound. No uncomfortable squished together seats. No popcorn stuck to the floor. The cinema isn't exactly a positive experience.
I guess that explains the dramatic rise in the number of plain old fucking stupid people I've started encountering as my life goes on.
Seriously, there really seems to be MANY more of them around these days.
It's way too hard to win a Darwin Award these days.
Why do my back hairs ruffle whenever I read the word "Microsoft" next to the word "non-removable"?
Just don't buy any Microsoft butt plugs!
This is great news... ... I always hated LinkedIn, now I know it'll be gone in 5 years.
Indeed it could. Genes that make a male more likely to rape (aggression?) are not getting passed on like they would without abortion. Genes that make females more maternal (more likely to not want abortion) are going to be passed on more.
Abortion could be helping lead to a more "domesticated" humanity.