valve developed a controller and the link, i honestly don't know why they didn't do the same for steam machines.
If you look at Windows desktop share % and Mac desktop share % I think that tells you what Valve were thinking.
The reason Windows is dominant and Mac as a desktop % is tiny is mostly down to the fact that anyone could make a Windows machine. High end, low end, everything in between- anyone could make a windows run PC and target any niche they wanted. Valve probably hoped the same thing would happen with steam machines. They were wrong, it didn't take off, but that's probably what they hoped would happen.
It's all fun and games until Microsoft drops Windows as a gaming OS to focus on Cloud.
Once they do that, I drop Windows. If Microsoft make it impossible for me to game on a PC, or force them to use Microsoft store... that will force me to learn Linux and set my computer up as a Linux machine. Despite MS's best efforts to push me away from them- I still use Windows.
Windows Store not taking off hardly has anything to do with Steam Machines.
They wanted to mimic iOS's walled garden, but wanted to still support existing applications because it was the only way to get people to convert over. You can't give people a choice of "choice" and "walled garden" within an operating system and expect people to choose "walled garden".
Windows Store failed because MS did a compromise and didn't force it on people. (thankfully)
Biggest issue for the Link was not being able to port over voice channels. I was gonna buy one, then realized after research that I couldn't access discord (kinda expected but disappointing) or any other voice channel through Steam itself. Combined with the Steam controller, I could have seen playing several games from the couch, but would have effectively been cut off from playing any of these games with friends.
I know you can access Discord from the phone as well, but then you get into further logistics issues. I don't have a bluetooth headset. For those that do, you'd need a single ear deal because you couldn't connect both your phone and the link at the same time, rather than say, the xbox headset I already had. Etc. Etc. Was bad planning on their part.
It really depends on the type of game you're playing. I saw the Link being ridiculously cheap over Black Friday last year and was tempted to buy one, but then I tried to think of a game I could play with it. The reason I PC game is because I like strategy games and they typically require keyboard and mouse. Link doesn't really work for that.
FPS and racing games, yeah, I can see the couch being ideal for that... I'd probably buy a console though if I liked that type of game since they are tuned for that type of game.
While Hitler grew up in the catholic church from his own words we know he was against it and all Christian groups because it was not the right religion for the third reich.
he did stay a member because he said it would allow him to control it being a member. You can see all of this in the Kirchenkampf.
He rejected Christianity and God but did seem to believe in a supreme being so most historians consider him a deist with a non-Christian god.
Hitler's objection to the church was not religious, it was about power. He wanted the church to be subservient to the state. He wasn't a religious man in his later years, but his own writings show he was certainly very religious in his early years. He certainly didn't "reject God", he would credit God when he won certain victories, or when he survived assassination. He was no priest, but he certainly wasn't an atheist.
It's fitting that April Fool's and Easter are on the same day. The resurrection has got to be the greatest April Fool's joke ever.
Christianity being an anti-sex death cult is one big joke. And considering the harm that Christians have caused this country - especially the Evangelical kooks - it's a very cruel joke. All based upon a fairy tale.
A lot of America's earliest settlers came from the British isles- Scandinavia and Europe. If Christianity hadn't existed and those people still believed in the Norse Gods and/or old Celtic Gods Americans might be having human sacrifices made even today- or at least throughout a lot of her history she would have. With that in mind, Christianity can't be too bad by comparison.
I bought a 5' chunk of maple 1x2 and it had the same label.
Trees cause cancer in California... well now I've seen everything.
Some tree based products CAN cause cancer. No idea if any in Maple can, but the wood was probably something that "causes cancer in California". As long as you use the product somewhere other than California though you're probably safe.
That's why I haven't moved to California, I don't want cancer.
I found it was pretty easy to pass most classes just by showing up.
I had friends who went to different universities and had that exact same experience. Unfortunately for me, I went somewhere that they expected you to work... and work hard. There were no "basket-weaving" classes at my university.
Dyslexia doesn't wear off by 10:00 AM. You just got to bed late, didn't get enough sleep and were nodding off in class. You should have gone to a Christian private school.
Who's to say he's Christian? My experience with kids from private Christian schools in University is that they weren't able to cope with the more rigorous classes in University. They were used to being coddled in High School where teachers had to give them high grades because the parents were paying them for their kids to have high grades instead of learning.
The Christian High School kids in my University as a general rule tended to crash and burn. They weren't used to having to do work.
I thought that most (not all) college classes had options for scheduling. I know there are night school classes so is this about educating kids that they can change their schedule for the better or simply to provide another excuse for those who are under-performing?
You're more likely to find flexible schedules at big Universities than at smaller Colleges. If you're the kind of person who can't work well in the morning, a small private College probably isn't for you- go to Big Bland State University instead; you'll do better and learn more there.
Our ancestors (most of them) worked all day from before the sun rose to after it set just to survive, farming, gathering, hunting, whatever it took.
Our ancestors worked a few hours a day hunting game and then went back to doing nothing.
You're both right. It depends on which ancestors you are looking at. 300 years ago AC is correct. 3000 years ago Opportunist is correct. It depends which ancestors you're looking at. I imagine 3000 years ago, it probably depended on the season a lot too. In winter you probably had to work a lot harder to get you daily calories than you had to in late Spring.
Life isn't always about getting the schedule or job you want. Sometimes you have to suck it up and do what you need to do and stop whining about why you fail.
You must be a "half-empty" kind of guy.
The message that this study gives is not to use it to make excuses for failing. The message is to try to plan your day to your appropriate peak attention, if you can.
If so-called cryptocurrencies are really good innovation, why they attract so many criminals/criminal activity?
Are the two things mutually exclusive? Can criminals not be attracted to good innovation too? Is that why criminals always ask to leave the bank robbery with a getaway horse-and-carriage because a car is too innovative and criminals don't like innovation?
Could it really be because, all cryptocurrencies themselves are scams, and that is why they attract all kinds of criminals/criminal activity?
There very well might be crypto currencies that are scams. Bitcoin was an idea, not a scam. It all went a bit uncontrollably inflationary for a while, but that was driven by people wanting to get in on the action. Unwise investment but not a scam.
Took two months before I started reading my first book. Show me any other language which is possible to casually learn in 2 months. For only speaking and reading: Japanese or Thai.
China even has all it's official news translated into Esperanto Interesting, I did not do any Esperanto since about 30 years, but that would be a nice reason to refresh it.
tests show knowing Esperanto halves the time it takes to learn additional new languages- which is the real reason I learnt it in the first place. European languages...
I've heard elsewhere that Japanese is an easy language to learn. I might put that on my list to consider next. I'm refreshing my German, and about to start Spanish, but once I've completed my Spanish course I might pick up Japanese.
Obviously Esperanto helps you learn European languages more than it helps you learn other language families; and I've not seen any studies on it's use for learning non-European languages, but I suspect it probably would help. If for no other reason of confidence. I think people who already know two languages tend to have more confidence in themselves learning a third and that helps. I've only learned European languages so far so I'm not sure if there is much shared grammar with Asiatic languages.
Why? I mean, other than to make Facebook more money and to encroach further on Google and Amazon's territory. But why would a Facebook user want such a thing?
Some people like to share everything. One of my coworkers annoyingly takes photos of her lunch... EVERY DAY and uploads it. You can probably predict how long she spends on the toilet by watching her facebook feed to see what she's eating.
... ahh apples and oatmeal today with a cup of coffee... She's going to be pretty quick today.
Maybe the Facebook-Alexa can update your relationship status based on whether it hears any moaning coming from the bedroom. Moaning therefore Relationship Status = in a relationship. Two different voices heard = it's complicated.
After the failed Facebook-Phone I can't imagine Facebook-Alexa would be anymore successful. I can't see anyone wanting facebook having a microphone in their home. If they were willing to have an ear they would have an Alexa or a Google Home by now.
I'm not convinced that that is a bad thing. Uber is like a parasite. They put taxi drivers out of work, and after cost for car maintenance/depreciation is considered- you actually make negative money driving for Uber (it's not a smart business proposition for the driver- people don't think it through long term). All the while Uber has been doing some pretty unethical things.
There are few companies I WANT to see fail more than Uber.
We've been failing at speech recognition so long, maybe it's time to re-train humans to speak in a non-ambiguous language designed with clear sounds that machines can better understand.
Good luck with that; we could call it something like "Esperanto"...
I completed the Duolingo Esperanto course in less than 2 months. I'm not fluent- but know enough that I'm reading a novel written completely in Esperanto now. Took two months before I started reading my first book. Show me any other language which is possible to casually learn in 2 months.
There is no reason why schools couldn't teach one year of Esperanto and have the whole world communicating effectively. (now, I'm sure it's easier to learn Esperanto if you're coming from a European language because almost all of it's words have European roots- but it's actually the Chinese who seem to be promoting it more in school- and it is easier to learn than most languages due to its predictability and minimal root words. China even has all it's official news translated into Esperanto).
I doubt I'll ever get to have a conversation with anyone in Esperanto (besides my kids who also learned it, but not as thoroughly in the same time); however the advantage is, tests show knowing Esperanto halves the time it takes to learn additional new languages- which is the real reason I learnt it in the first place.
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valve developed a controller and the link, i honestly don't know why they didn't do the same for steam machines.
If you look at Windows desktop share % and Mac desktop share % I think that tells you what Valve were thinking.
The reason Windows is dominant and Mac as a desktop % is tiny is mostly down to the fact that anyone could make a Windows machine. High end, low end, everything in between- anyone could make a windows run PC and target any niche they wanted. Valve probably hoped the same thing would happen with steam machines. They were wrong, it didn't take off, but that's probably what they hoped would happen.
It's all fun and games until Microsoft drops Windows as a gaming OS to focus on Cloud.
Once they do that, I drop Windows. If Microsoft make it impossible for me to game on a PC, or force them to use Microsoft store... that will force me to learn Linux and set my computer up as a Linux machine. Despite MS's best efforts to push me away from them- I still use Windows.
Windows Store not taking off hardly has anything to do with Steam Machines.
They wanted to mimic iOS's walled garden, but wanted to still support existing applications because it was the only way to get people to convert over. You can't give people a choice of "choice" and "walled garden" within an operating system and expect people to choose "walled garden".
Windows Store failed because MS did a compromise and didn't force it on people. (thankfully)
Biggest issue for the Link was not being able to port over voice channels. I was gonna buy one, then realized after research that I couldn't access discord (kinda expected but disappointing) or any other voice channel through Steam itself. Combined with the Steam controller, I could have seen playing several games from the couch, but would have effectively been cut off from playing any of these games with friends.
I know you can access Discord from the phone as well, but then you get into further logistics issues. I don't have a bluetooth headset. For those that do, you'd need a single ear deal because you couldn't connect both your phone and the link at the same time, rather than say, the xbox headset I already had. Etc. Etc. Was bad planning on their part.
It really depends on the type of game you're playing. I saw the Link being ridiculously cheap over Black Friday last year and was tempted to buy one, but then I tried to think of a game I could play with it. The reason I PC game is because I like strategy games and they typically require keyboard and mouse. Link doesn't really work for that.
FPS and racing games, yeah, I can see the couch being ideal for that... I'd probably buy a console though if I liked that type of game since they are tuned for that type of game.
Maybe China also invented copyright piracy and stealing intellectual property.
While Hitler grew up in the catholic church from his own words we know he was against it and all Christian groups because it was not the right religion for the third reich.
he did stay a member because he said it would allow him to control it being a member. You can see all of this in the Kirchenkampf.
He rejected Christianity and God but did seem to believe in a supreme being so most historians consider him a deist with a non-Christian god.
Hitler's objection to the church was not religious, it was about power. He wanted the church to be subservient to the state. He wasn't a religious man in his later years, but his own writings show he was certainly very religious in his early years. He certainly didn't "reject God", he would credit God when he won certain victories, or when he survived assassination. He was no priest, but he certainly wasn't an atheist.
Athiest have the high moral ground. You are absurd. Pol Pol and Stalin and Hitler breathed oxygen. Do you? Fuck you
Hitler was a Christian not an Atheist. Stalin WAS atheist though.
It's fitting that April Fool's and Easter are on the same day. The resurrection has got to be the greatest April Fool's joke ever.
Christianity being an anti-sex death cult is one big joke. And considering the harm that Christians have caused this country - especially the Evangelical kooks - it's a very cruel joke. All based upon a fairy tale.
A lot of America's earliest settlers came from the British isles- Scandinavia and Europe. If Christianity hadn't existed and those people still believed in the Norse Gods and/or old Celtic Gods Americans might be having human sacrifices made even today- or at least throughout a lot of her history she would have. With that in mind, Christianity can't be too bad by comparison.
/ Agnostic... no horse in the race.
I bought a 5' chunk of maple 1x2 and it had the same label.
Trees cause cancer in California... well now I've seen everything.
Some tree based products CAN cause cancer. No idea if any in Maple can, but the wood was probably something that "causes cancer in California". As long as you use the product somewhere other than California though you're probably safe.
That's why I haven't moved to California, I don't want cancer.
Given coffee came via Ethiopia, Sufis, and Italians, why do Americans call it “Joe”
?
Because if they called it Jill it would sound too effeminate for most male-drinkers.
I thought their motto was: Either drink the coffee or eat the cup, they taste the same.
I think you're underestimating how nice their cup tastes. Their cup tastes of paper.
I found it was pretty easy to pass most classes just by showing up.
I had friends who went to different universities and had that exact same experience. Unfortunately for me, I went somewhere that they expected you to work... and work hard. There were no "basket-weaving" classes at my university.
because I was dyslexic at first period
Dyslexia doesn't wear off by 10:00 AM. You just got to bed late, didn't get enough sleep and were nodding off in class. You should have gone to a Christian private school.
Who's to say he's Christian? My experience with kids from private Christian schools in University is that they weren't able to cope with the more rigorous classes in University. They were used to being coddled in High School where teachers had to give them high grades because the parents were paying them for their kids to have high grades instead of learning.
The Christian High School kids in my University as a general rule tended to crash and burn. They weren't used to having to do work.
I thought that most (not all) college classes had options for scheduling. I know there are night school classes so is this about educating kids that they can change their schedule for the better or simply to provide another excuse for those who are under-performing?
You're more likely to find flexible schedules at big Universities than at smaller Colleges. If you're the kind of person who can't work well in the morning, a small private College probably isn't for you- go to Big Bland State University instead; you'll do better and learn more there.
Our ancestors (most of them) worked all day from before the sun rose to after it set just to survive, farming, gathering, hunting, whatever it took.
Our ancestors worked a few hours a day hunting game and then went back to doing nothing.
You're both right. It depends on which ancestors you are looking at. 300 years ago AC is correct. 3000 years ago Opportunist is correct. It depends which ancestors you're looking at. I imagine 3000 years ago, it probably depended on the season a lot too. In winter you probably had to work a lot harder to get you daily calories than you had to in late Spring.
Honestly, not many of us were alive during our ancestors' time,
I was... at least for 2 generations of my ancestor's time. 1 of those generations is still around.
Life isn't always about getting the schedule or job you want. Sometimes you have to suck it up and do what you need to do and stop whining about why you fail.
You must be a "half-empty" kind of guy.
The message that this study gives is not to use it to make excuses for failing. The message is to try to plan your day to your appropriate peak attention, if you can.
If so-called cryptocurrencies are really good innovation, why they attract so many criminals/criminal activity?
Are the two things mutually exclusive? Can criminals not be attracted to good innovation too? Is that why criminals always ask to leave the bank robbery with a getaway horse-and-carriage because a car is too innovative and criminals don't like innovation?
Could it really be because, all cryptocurrencies themselves are scams, and that is why they attract all kinds of criminals/criminal activity?
There very well might be crypto currencies that are scams. Bitcoin was an idea, not a scam. It all went a bit uncontrollably inflationary for a while, but that was driven by people wanting to get in on the action. Unwise investment but not a scam.
Took two months before I started reading my first book. Show me any other language which is possible to casually learn in 2 months.
For only speaking and reading: Japanese or Thai.
China even has all it's official news translated into Esperanto
Interesting, I did not do any Esperanto since about 30 years, but that would be a nice reason to refresh it.
tests show knowing Esperanto halves the time it takes to learn additional new languages- which is the real reason I learnt it in the first place. ...
European languages
I've heard elsewhere that Japanese is an easy language to learn. I might put that on my list to consider next. I'm refreshing my German, and about to start Spanish, but once I've completed my Spanish course I might pick up Japanese.
Obviously Esperanto helps you learn European languages more than it helps you learn other language families; and I've not seen any studies on it's use for learning non-European languages, but I suspect it probably would help. If for no other reason of confidence. I think people who already know two languages tend to have more confidence in themselves learning a third and that helps. I've only learned European languages so far so I'm not sure if there is much shared grammar with Asiatic languages.
I'd go with Alexa, but I'd be thinking of Siri.
Imagine how embarrassed people would be if their friends found out they used a Google-Mini.
Why? I mean, other than to make Facebook more money and to encroach further on Google and Amazon's territory. But why would a Facebook user want such a thing?
Some people like to share everything. One of my coworkers annoyingly takes photos of her lunch... EVERY DAY and uploads it. You can probably predict how long she spends on the toilet by watching her facebook feed to see what she's eating.
Maybe the Facebook-Alexa can update your relationship status based on whether it hears any moaning coming from the bedroom. Moaning therefore Relationship Status = in a relationship. Two different voices heard = it's complicated.
I really have no interest in tech companies being more intimately involved in my everyday life.
So you don't want an Alexa powered fleshlight for Christmas?
After the failed Facebook-Phone I can't imagine Facebook-Alexa would be anymore successful. I can't see anyone wanting facebook having a microphone in their home. If they were willing to have an ear they would have an Alexa or a Google Home by now.
Without self-driving cars Uber is dead.
I'm not convinced that that is a bad thing. Uber is like a parasite. They put taxi drivers out of work, and after cost for car maintenance/depreciation is considered- you actually make negative money driving for Uber (it's not a smart business proposition for the driver- people don't think it through long term). All the while Uber has been doing some pretty unethical things.
There are few companies I WANT to see fail more than Uber.
We've been failing at speech recognition so long, maybe it's time to re-train humans to speak in a non-ambiguous language designed with clear sounds that machines can better understand.
Good luck with that; we could call it something like "Esperanto" ...
I completed the Duolingo Esperanto course in less than 2 months. I'm not fluent- but know enough that I'm reading a novel written completely in Esperanto now. Took two months before I started reading my first book. Show me any other language which is possible to casually learn in 2 months.
There is no reason why schools couldn't teach one year of Esperanto and have the whole world communicating effectively. (now, I'm sure it's easier to learn Esperanto if you're coming from a European language because almost all of it's words have European roots- but it's actually the Chinese who seem to be promoting it more in school- and it is easier to learn than most languages due to its predictability and minimal root words. China even has all it's official news translated into Esperanto).
I doubt I'll ever get to have a conversation with anyone in Esperanto (besides my kids who also learned it, but not as thoroughly in the same time); however the advantage is, tests show knowing Esperanto halves the time it takes to learn additional new languages- which is the real reason I learnt it in the first place.