I just got a reservation notice for Win10 from Win8 itself. So it must be pretty close.

I think the implication was that the most developed countries ought to have advanced past paper checks to fully electronic payment.

The real WTF is how this assumption survived in Android H through L. Google should have invalidated this assumption way back in Honeycomb, the first tablet-optimized version of Android.

Home theater PCs are for geeks because they're not quite as easy as a dedicated device. Dedicated devices in small, quiet cases are easier to obtain, as they're sold pre-built in major electronics chains, unlike a small form factor PC where you usually have to buy it over the Internet and deal with mail order drawbacks, buy it as parts and assemble it yourself, or both. (Or since when has Best Buy started to carry a small, quiet PC other than the $600 Mac mini?) A dedicated device is also less complicated to maintain than a general-purpose computer.

That's a useful technique - agreeing or conceding the immediate issue, while making nebulous unsupported statements about everything else. Look to see this for the next year or so. "I agree with him on this issue, but everything else is crazy".

...problem is, that "agreeing on this one issue" seems to happen a lot. Like, for most issues.

Who do you recommend as an alternative? (And did they, by any chance, support the Patriot act?)

Many games sold on Steam are playable on X11/Linux, all games sold on Google Play are playable on Android/Linux, and games dumped from console cartridges are playable on emulators that run on X11/Linux or Android/Linux.

The Huffington Post was live updating the proceedings, and said this:

Rand Paul stated that the Freedom Act will likely get passed on Tuesday.

Wait... did we win or not? Isn't this just a 2-day repreive?

"Phone-like" can have several meanings:

• Pointing device driven, as opposed to gamepad driven
• Intended for play sessions shorter than five minutes, as opposed to the longer sessions associated with PCs and consoles
• Small in scope to fit a sub-$7 impulse buy budget, as opposed to a $60 full disc game
• Reliant on social networking, as opposed to single-player or real-time multiplayer
• Abusive free-to-play with consumable in-app purchases to skip artificial in-game waits of hours or days, as opposed to paying once for a well-balanced game

OUYA's library would port well to this device. True, a lot of games on OUYA are intended for short sessions, as were a lot of Flash games for PC when that was a thing. But they're all adapted for a controller, and many are sold on a "shareware" model with a free subset followed by a one-time IAP.

How so? Windows 8's Windows Runtime environment introduced the "Snap an App" feature, which allows a 3:1 split of the horizontal space. Press Win+Period, and one Windows Runtime app fills 1/4 of the screen's width, roughly as wide as a cell phone's display, and the other 3/4 shows either the desktop or another Windows Runtime app. Windows 8.1 allowed changing the ratio, reminiscent of the tiling window manager that shipped with Windows 1.

Once you understand Snap an App, you'll realize that the most serious fault of Windows 8 was that the Start screen could not open snapped. A snapped Start screen would have been equivalent to the Start menu of previous Windows versions.

It works perfectly fine for everything except DirectX gaming. I don't think you need to worry about Call of Duty in your office environment. There's a difference between a VM and emulation, just so you know.

Let me put it another way: Some people want to be able to work in one app while referring to information presented through another.

But how many apps support multi-window operation? Last time I checked the Android CDD, it allowed apps to assume that the screen size will never change after installation, other than by exchanging width and height. As far as I can tell, apps have to opt-in to Samsung's multi-window mode, and only developers of apps who regularly test on a larger Samsung Android device (Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab) are likely to enable that.

My tablet's screen is twice as big as that of a phone. All I really miss is the ability to edit in one app while referring to information displayed through another app. Are you trying to claim that a simple side-by-side tiling window manager is "not simple anymore"? Heck, Windows 1 had that.

The artificial distinction drawn between "consumptive" and "productive" user interfaces on a device that can theoretically support both is the problem. It acts as a barrier to participatory culture, as a lot of people don't have $400 to splurge on a "productive" device when they get the itch to do something "productive".

For someone who already bought a tablet computer or received one as a gift, a $50 Bluetooth keyboard is still less expensive than a $400 "productive computer".

True, the text selection mechanism on Android through level L leaves something to be desired. But that's an argument for improving the text selection mechanism, not for continuing "consumptive" policies.

The lion's share of MDs could be replaced by machines. We tend to worship the ground they walk on in the United States but at the end of the day medicine is just a trade, no different than plumbers or electricians, and nurses do the bulk of the work in your typical medical practice. The percentage of truly innovative Doctors is no different than the percentage of truly innovative coders, for most it's just rote memorization and long established best practices.

There are countries that recognize this fact, where MDs are paid less than teachers and society doesn't treat them as Gods walking amongst men. Of course, in fairness to American MDs, Doctors in those nations don't have to deal with crushing malpractice premiums and student loan debt.......