Maybe because it would look bad if they only halted the sales on steam?

Yeah, exactly what happens in my company, the laptops are windows with a bunch of crap on them (antivirus, audit system) that is scheduled to run once a day and when it does run it makes the computer useless for half a hour.

Ah it also helps that when I want to work from home I just take the SSD not the whole computer.

My company gave us notebooks without SSDs, but they are pretty lax on external devices (you can bring your own mouse, pen drives and such). So I brought a SSD and bought an esatap cable (esata-powered, those cables are a pain in the ass to find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and installed linux mint in it. I boot straight to linux (they don't lock the bios) and do not even use the HD inside the notebook. Since the company also seems to think that RAM is a non-renawable resource they also saw fit to give us only 4gbs of it, so my swap partition is also on the SSD.

This setup helps my work a lot, before I started doing this my workflow was frustratingly slow, now everything runs just fine. It helped a lot when the RAM runs out and it starts doing swap, it still gets slow but not anywhere near as much as before.

This is all rather fishy, I am wondering if Steam is actually curating big releases for quality and taking the thing out of steam by themselves and only allowing the publisher/developer to make it seem like it was their own decision all along.

I am not from the US, but do they recognize eSports as actual sports or is it a different category? If so what are the difference between each category?

To me facebook is in the stage "said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise)". The users have not yet started to migrate to alternatives.

To me facebook is in the stage "said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise)". The users have not yet started to migrate to alternatives.

Slashdot is the one that is only a shell of what it once was and digg is the one that is dead.

See? you are part of the problem, you can't let these services get popular. Stop sharing your sharing websites!

A website comes and makes some "social web application for sharing stuff", said web application has some very interesting discussions -> said web application gets popular -> said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise) -> users start to migrate to alternatives -> only a shell remains -> death.

See: digg, facebook, myspace, orkut, slashdot...

Actually the pros do care a lot if it considered a sport or not, it can make it a lot easier to travel (getting visas for example), get incentives from their governments (tax breaks and such), companies can have a "sports budget" to sponsor sport teams and guess what, they can not use that budget if it is not an sport.

In short, the pros don't care what it is labeled as long as their governments (and the governments of the countries they will visit) recognize them as sports or at least have a specific rules for competitive eletronic games.

Counter strike is far more limited in the range of possibilities of what that can happen in a single match. Not only are the matches far shorter (and as such does not have phases like dota) given a map there are only a handful of strategies possible to use. A bunch of other reasons too, statistically mine a game like dota to me seems to be an impossible task, there is just too much variation between matches.

You know, the clock app on android, back in version 4 it worked fine. Came version 5 they changed the icons (arguably worse ones) made the background of the app change in color (I just woke up! give me a black background for gods sake) and introduced animations (to change the background from colorful to black and back again) which means I have to wait a couple seconds to put my alarm 30 minutes from now while ALL I WANT IS TO GET SOME MORE SLEEP.

Google bad UI decisions are literally making my day start in the wrong foot.

https://xkcd.com/908/

There is a lot of caching

Yeah computers have a system like that, it is called memory.