I used it a bunch at parties and even my family thought it was cool. Plus, there was never "I don't see your phone in the list" or "can you see me," it just worked.

Of course adoption didn't really take off because at the same time all the manufacturers kept shipping their NFC enabled phones with NFC disabled by default (to save battery, apparently). Since users won't go hunting around for extra features to turn on, that kinda killed it.

It really took all the pain out of bluetooth sharing, and I wish they could've just adapted it to use wifi like this does instead of killing it entirely. Especially since my latest phone finally shipped with NFC on by default - it could work now. This just feels like a case of Android actually having something better, and killing it just to copy the way apple did it.

This is actually possible on Android if you have KDE on your computer and both are on the same Wi-Fi network (and paired in the KDE Connect app). That combined with KDE's multi-level clipboard was way more useful than I expected it to be. (it also lets you transfer files and use your phone as a touchpad for your PC, but I found I didn't use those nearly as much)

Beam actually uses Bluetooth (though your first point still stands). NFC is only used to trigger both phones to turn their bluetooth on (if it's off), pair, and initiate a file exchange. It was pretty magic; the only problem was the majority of phones shipped with NFC off to meet battery targets(?). I mostly used it to transfer photos I had just taken to people at parties.

Here is the correct link: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Mostly due to the software procurement/licensing/provisioning/installation workflow being so convoluted at most enterprises (where users don't have admin, so they can't install anything), I've noticed more enterprise software being written for the browser. If this trend continues we might not need Windows for the enterprise desktop much longer (except for that dang excel).

Also wait, Adobe products run better on Windows? Since when? (I mean, they don't run particularly well anywhere, but this the first I've heard of windows compatibility not just causing problems for everybody)

I only found out when I tried to play Paragon, and Epic's game is so PC - centric that logging in is broken until you plug in a keyboard and type in your password that way. (there's no way to trigger the on screen keyboard for that field somehow)

The whole UI is so keyboard and mouse based that you have to move a little cursor around with your analogue stick and "click" on things. I may need to jut plug a mouse in and go PC on this thing, but until I have a computer that can handle it, I'm stuck playing on consoles.

Controller adapters should absolutely /not/ be banned, since they'll take assistive devices out with them. That, and I have friends who play xbox fighting games with mouse/keyboard because they're hardcore pc players, and I play all my xbox games with a Dualshock 2 -> xbox360 adapter.

The best move here is to add keyboard and mouse support, and separate matchmaking by device type used.

That actually falls under his second condition: "... openly and easily support [all controller types] for all players." On PC all controller types are supported, including gamepad and mouse+keyboard. Everyone knows this, and everyone has that choice. Thus, it's fair.

On console the assumption is that you're playing with a controller. Until Playstation/Xbone openly support plugging in mouse/keyboard, he wants them either banned, or support added.

The joke's on him though, the PS4 openly supports keyboards. Mouse? I don't know. I haven't tried.

I'm not sure I would be able to handle *Force and linkedin under the same roof. That's too much corporate sketchiness in one place. Granted MSFT isn't a whole lot better, but they're slightly more obvious in how they work.

Yeah it's wrong. Click "this report from Motherboard" to get the actual link from the article. It took me a bit to figure it out.

You can't. If you have a modern intel CPU, the chip will detect that ME is disabled and shutdown the computer after 30 minutes.

Yes. In this instance, YouTube should be blamed for taking down content that clearly predates the work it's supposedly infringing upon, even by YoutTube's own records.

Well, maybe not Tokyo. They're CDMA. (though they use GSM/WCDMA for 3g if you got a 2100MHz 3G phone, there's no GSM to fall back to, only CDMA). Also it was only in the last couple of years you were able to buy/use an unlocked phone there. It sucked. While their tech is great, they're somehow more behind on the mobile sphere than we are. (except in payments, where they kick our ass)

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and also some funny looks from the TSA.

Well, there was oneplus.net, but they ditched CM for their own android flavour recently anyway. Also they only sell on Tuesdays.