The problem isn't that they are trying, or not trying. It's that they are trying the same shit again, even after finding out it doesn't work (community bitch-slapping that W8/W8.1 has, atrocious phone sales, etc) and saying "Oops! Next time we'll get it. Oh, and you'll have to pay all over again."

I have zero interest in Metro, or the whole tiles motif. They function well enough for touch interfaces, even if I don't like their aesthetic take on it... but meanwhile back in the real world, people don't get a lot of work on touch devices (excepting niche cases, which is exactly why it's a bad idea for general-purpose use)

I don't think this word means what you think it means.

You don't need to give a thread for each pathfinding - a small handful would be a vast improvement on... well, no threads other than the one the whole program runs in.

No, perhaps 2 threads to split the load - or as many as would be efficient for the purpose. Even a single thread for pathfinding in general would be an improvement upon a single thread for -everything- as it currently is.

Mine don't, but I still play them (though rarely).

zsnes and the like, you know ;)

Why do you think the Constitution of the United Stated of America's first amendment is... the first amendment?

Because this behavior from the UK is hardly new...

Eventually the disenfranchised (it's not hyphenated, btw) youth will be the older generation(s) and the ones who go all crazy voting these days will not be around anymore.

Really, the problem with cattle isn't really methane release as it is the groundwater pollution, local ecological damage, and high water usage related to the mass rearing of cattle.

It's a pretty dirty and inefficient process.

It's been a long time since a computer drew as much power as it could, regardless of load.

My powerhouse gaming/computing machine draws less than 50 watts while browsing the web, and when I'm actually using the thing for something serious, it can draw almost 600.

Re: bitcoins: yep. if you can't stand your computer to be idle, run something of actual use to humanity.

5. Because everyone (for some hidden away more so than others) is a pyromaniac at heart, and FIRE!

If we didn't rear so many of them, the mess we're in might not be quite as bad as it is.

Or even this thought:

All 400 kittens don't need to pathfind in serial. Each kitten could run it's own pathfinding in it's own thread (or groups of kittens in serial, with the groups running in parallel).

You're assuming it's a single path-find that he wants to thread out.

It isn't. It's 100s to 1000s of path-finds that could all be run on their own.

There's also no excuse that can't all be handled in a different thread than the UI. No need for that to become sluggish, too, even if you kept the actual pathfinding to a single thread itself.

Or, the "Lazy Newb Pack"

After letting .40 get all the large nasty bugs squished first...