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In some cases IAP actually facilitates better games. Developers can put in enough effort to get the base game up and running, and then use IAP to spur additional content development throughout the life of the game.

I'm thinking specifically of Hero Academy here. A really neat little turn-based strategy game which cost a few bucks when it came out, and had (I think) 3 teams to choose from the beginning. More teams or different skins for your team cost extra. This was the best use of IAP I've seen, and facilitated the devs getting what was essentially a proof of concept out, then building on it.

For gamers it gave you the freedom to just buy the base game, or only pay for the additional features/teams etc that you felt were interesting. I would never have paid $20 for that game off the bat, but because I had the freedom to choose what I DID buy, I probably ended up spending a lot more, and happily so.

So IAP is not inherently bad, it's just frequently (and intentionally) misused to turn games into cash generating slot machines via intentionally bad game design. It doesn't have to, and isn't, always that way.
Why would moderators remove a post because it mentions Microsoft? That doesn't make sense.
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For the record, Dolphin has all of those features as well (although text-path-by-default and open-zipfile-as-folder both need to be enabled manually).
Right, it's called testnet. I left more info in another comment.
Why doesn't anyone mention that our diets are also culprits because they weaken our immune systems. Diets full of fats cholesterol and cooked vegetables do not have the required nutrients that we need day to day. This is pretty eye opening: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528734/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I went to a congress, last year, I think, and Microsoft and Nokia representatives came on stage to announce that for every Windows Phone app they got on the store (and they had an expedite process going on during the event), they'd gift a Nokia phone.

For many it wasn't clear it would be a Nokia Asha phone, but, still, they got a crapload of young students writing apps for them.
Canonical have an interesting challenge. The people who are most aware of their product are not their target market, and seem to actively dislike the direction their product is headed in. Worse, those people seem to be under the impression that they are the users that Canonical are targeting.

In my opinion, this phenomena might sufficiently explain why "desktop Linux" never went mainstream. No previous "desktop Linux" company was so willing to ignore the desires of existing Linux users in order to make a product that would be good for their target market. Canonical do seem to be bold enough to have a good chance at pulling it off despite their critics, though.
I want to know how much overlap there is between mobile gaming consumers and console/pc gaming consumers. Has mobile gaming stolen away any of the spending of the console/pc gaming demographic? Or has it instead created an entirely new market that doesn't do console/pc gaming at all?

I can only go by personal experience as I cannot find any consumer surveys, but I've spent about a grand total of 5 dollars on mobile games, all for expanded content, not consumables, but I've spent hundreds on my 3DS alone. I strongly suspect the audiences for in game purchases and the audience for deeper games hardly overlap at all.

Are kids just not going to know that real gaming exists? I'm simply not convinced that the existence of mobile non-games means that the discoverability of real games is hampered. Console gaming isn't exactly a niche market that few people know exists and never end up experiencing.
I used to love Nautilus. It's gotten steadily worse year by year.
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Unfortunately, there is no way to spend a multisig (or any other nonstandard) transaction besides using the createrawtransaction API. It would be really nice if somebody implemented a better(safer) interface for them - n-of-m transactions could seriously increase security in many scenarios, but it's hard to get them right.
THAT is what scares the willys outta me. Because we've all seen how far those types of agencies will take these types of "security measures".
It's not the grammar footprint that makes it a large change. It's that a lot of people will change the way they write erlang programs now that maps exist.
Yes, but I recommended elementary OS because the person I was replying to wanted "a simple, nice OS anybody could use". I've used a lot of Linux distros over the years (I have a "Linux computer" and I often install different distros just for fun) and when someone asks me the same question my answer is usually "either install Xubuntu or elementary OS". I could be considered a power user, but even I'm using elementary OS right now because it's so hassle free and it just works. Xubuntu is the same, but it's a bit boring compare to elementary OS.
I took a look at this. Excellent work on his part!

I still use windows and Metro is just forced full screen apps that dont even work with the desktop classic
. One thing apple got right was not to mixed iOs with MacOS (or whatever it is you guys call it) - Microsoft once again tried to stuff the kitchen sink into one OS.

I'd actually like to - corny as it sounds - literally just have a smart widows logo floating around. It pops up when I hit the windows button on the keyboard, and it always finds an empty blank spot on the desktop to appear in to be ready.

When i click on it this floting windows logo has literally four flyouts from it that contain a way to access apps, documents, email, and yuch - social feeds. (maybe its configurable so its for settings) - might work well for touch screens too.

Of course these flyouts would be configurable to be a palette of your choice.

Of course I'm not a designer and have terrible ideas - so into the ether with this rant and Prepare for downvote!
Pretty much. With Classic Shell I finally have the perfect start menu; a combination of 95, 98, XP and custom traits. I doubt anything Microsoft does will surpass it.
There appears to be a giant difference between ubuntu and android, though. Seems somewhat vindictive to feel ubuntu is no longer linux.
So he splashed some new colours onto things, added back in a new Start Menu that is less usable than both the full screen metro one but also the old Windows 7 one, and then made the metro interface even more convoluted? Meh.

As they say, it is very easy to criticise someone else for at least trying something and very hard to solve it yourself. I will fully admit that I have no better ideas for how to both keep the classic desktop but also integrate the new touch screen "metro" elements into it.

I really do have to say that I think Apple has the "best" solution right now. iOS for touch devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod) and OS X for desktop. Then they get to sit back and make an absolutely wonderful user experience for both scenarios without worrying about the potential crossover.

If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with some emulation layer so people can run a touch app on the desktop (in like a sandbox window).

Frankly Windows Desktop has a LOT of crust on it. Go look at Control Panel. They have UIs unchanged since Windows 9x (Mouse, Keyboard, etc), then they have UIs added in XP (Firewall), then different ones added in Vista (Action Centre, etc), and now in 8 we have "Change PC Settings" which is another UI concept again.

If you've ever used OS X for any amount of time, the thing is just polished and consistent from top to bottom. I mean go compare OS X "Preferences" to Control Panel on Windows 8, and Apple manage to get that kind of consistent polish all over the place.

Microsoft cannot kill the Windows Desktop as much as they might wish, so for the love of god go through from top to bottom and modernise it. Control Panel = Gone. Folder Options = Gone. Device Manage = Gone.
Wow, I had Ghostery paused and this web site loaded over 50 resources that would otherwise be blocked.

109 JS files clocking over 3MB.
now all they need is a finance banker Dad who knows Marissa Mayer so they can sell it to yahoo just on a prototype!
That's how my boss does it. He pretty much has a notebook with him at all times, and any item on his todo list gets a line and a checkbox.

It serves him immensely well.
That's... not how evolution works.
There was a patch[1] some time ago that prevents sending fees larger than 1 BTC. Still a lot of money, but it won't let you lose thousands of dollars.

1: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2949
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Nice. I'd like to see this for Apple Store too.

Obvious features that are needed:

Categorization
Sortability (price, category, price+category, rating, etc)

Keep improving. Nice first pass.
The issue is that you'll run into the Gasketball problem of having 100,000 players but limiting the amount of things they can buy (should every player be worth $1.99 IAP?). It's just a math problem, and the reality is that you want to do it like League of Legends where you can never run out of things to buy for a long time, but of course whilst not being annoying like most mobile games are currently.

I think it's better for players to enjoy a game fully for free (if you're doing IAP), and then provide ways to monetize that enhance their experience. Ramin Shokrizade has lots of amazing blogs about this: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/914048/
I haven't had wifi issues with Ubuntu for over 5 years. What computer did you have these problems with, where you needed to install a new kernel module?

You hate package managers? I don't have experience with Fedora's and I don't know why it entered an inconsistent state, but OSX/iOS use a package manager. Android uses a package manager. What problem could you possibly have with package managers? Do you enjoy manually updating software one app at a time?

The answer in "Linuxland" may still be to open the terminal and enter commands but the times a regular user needs to do that are becoming few and very far between. I have the majority of our (albeit small) office running Ubuntu 13.10 and I've yet to encounter anything like what you've described.
I was a pretty huge fan of Sins of a Solar Empire for a long while too.
Does anyone know what this means for the windows 8 app store? Is it still going to be restricted to metro only apps? I know you can link to desktop apps but you can't sell them through the app store yet. Will they lift this restriction?
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The distribution of these cases is likely to skew towards the Elderly and over 50 demographic. I'd be curious to see the impact of this on the analysis.
I agree on the last point, this complaint is so casual and frequently expressed. What is the issue? That they are paid less and the service would be better otherwise? The adobe CEO is Indian too. Fact is that when I work with international teams, the English of Indian team members have been a breath of fresh air compared to ESL European counterparts. This call center first world problem trope is tired. Would love to see folks deal with call center operators from areas of the UK with more abstract manifestations of English.
I'll grant you that Gimp's user interface is kind of a mess, but what specifically is wrong with Inkscape?
Was an amazing interview, definitely needs more views.
I took more than 20 in a couple of months (ordered by myself) after doctors couldn't find anything concrete (later on the current diagnostic is "fybromialgia" and the symptoms remain nearly 2 years later). I was aware of cancer danger but I needed to find some treatment before ending completely mad.
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I think a lot of time is wasted trying to interpret comments with spelling/grammar problems. Every time I see something like 'should of' instead of 'should have', my brain trips out and I have to re-read the sentence.

For a typical blog post, the amount of effort required to get it right is minuscule in comparison to the number of eyes which will (hopefully) read it. For a public relations employee, it's just a matter of professionalism.
The allcaps menus are genuinely baffling to me. I cannot even begin to comprehend that decision. It's not a different font or anything, it's just...all caps. Like some mid 90s teenager messing around with Visual Basic thought it looked cool.

Fortunately they didn't manage to really screw up Visual Studio in any significant way, and the dark interface skin looks great.
I have been using Linux for a long time, Gnome since v. 1.4. While I am enthusiastic about the platform as a whole, I feel let down by the Desktop teams as a whole.

While a few aspects of the UI are greatly improved (anti aliasing, localization, FX, etc.). In terms of functionality, applications have not gained much.

Nautilus especially has a history of removing features for the sake of "Design" that people depend on. remember the time when nautilus always opened new windows when navigating the file system tree? Or the gnome project announcing to remove the middle-click paste? Ubuntu moving the menu out of the windows into a mac-style menu bar on top of the screen, a behaviour you could not revert as a non-admin and menus were invisible (in favor of the window title) when not hovering over that top-of-screen area?

In general I do value thoughtfully designed user interfaces and I see that care has to be taken to avoid clutter and keep them clean and sanitized. But with the linux desktops, it just feels like the designers have lost their focus and just harp on _abstract_ principles.

As a linux enthusiast it saddens me that Gnome has not even come somewhere near to a functional GUI that could compete to MacOS or Windows 7 in terms of ease of use and functionality.

To me, the CLI ecosphere will always make me want to choose linux. Yet with the linux desktop I have more than ever the feeling that I have an inferior piece of software in front of me.
>If you do the math by ICRP formulae, you end up with increase chance of cancer of 1 in 2600 over the next 20 years from a single 7ms CT scan today. This compares favorably with "natural" risk that is 1 in 10 without any extra exposure above background radiation.

But that is a meaningless comparison. The doctor should be comparing this additional risk, to the benefit of the scan.

The "natural" risk of developing cancer is totally irrelevant to the cost-benefit analysis.
Pretty much exactly the same thing happened in the NFL, with regard to high tackles (in an attempt to reduce concussions).
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This is a great question (or leading question anyway) especially if you tell candidates ahead of time that you'll be asking them this question and setting where it leads. The best interviews I've done have always allowed the candidate (or me) to prepare.
hypervisors don't expose the same attacker surface as a complete kernel. its a huge difference. nothing's unbreakable tho :)
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or when they install additional 'value added software' without my consent.
Wow this is fantastic. Does it mean the next version of Android will have ART enabled by default?
> Elder Scrolls Online, however, is $60 + $15/mo, with no IAP. Everyone is expecting it to die a horrible death.

Because it's $15/mo with no IAP...?
yeah, my thoughts exactly. The study is fairly biased in that if you did this to Remuera school, results may be significantly different.
I think you mean "greatest common factor".
"Lowest common denominator" is in fact the ideal format for clear, accurate expression of computation.

"Lowest common denominator" is what people say when they don't understand what the original term means, and think "lowest" must be worse than "greatest".

See also: "could care less".
Yep. For example, Alfred on OS X is a fantastic third-party interface addition. The Windows 8 start screen is similar in concept, but it's a pile of crap in comparison: slow, bad search, lacking features, takes over your whole screen, etc.
A competitor to Windows?

I'd say even Windows 98 has a better UI than what Ubuntu has become: at least Windows 98 has a taskbar that can show multiple instances of the same program.

(And fortunately, so does KDE still, for now, for long I hope)
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I like this a lot. It does a good job of dispelling the poor I've-got-nothing-to-hide defense. Being against a surveillance state isn't about being against the state being able to prosecute criminals, it's about being against giving the state (a group of people) the architecture to leverage personal information to maintain a political agenda. This sounds conspiratorial in the US and, I think, for now, it kind of is. However liberty is chipped away in bits and pieces, not in broad swings of an axe.

"161719" is absolutely right, it probably won't be Obama, or the next President, or the President after that abuses the surveillance architecture that has been put in place. However, the day will come when the chips are down on some administration, because of some terrorist attack (domestic or foreign) or politically volatile situation, and there will be immense political and moral support for them to utilize our, now, nascent surveillance architecture to stop bad things from happening that are morally gray (like a political movement that is highly divisive). That's the nightmare scenario. Those who take the government's surveillance abuses seriously aren't (de facto) anti-security or anti-law-and-order they are concerned, I think, rightly so about the path we are headed down.
yeah but they don't get the same sort of commercially-baked advertising - which will not mention the issues and make you believe it's the next big thing.

also, jail has an arguably better implementation.

containers, jails, etc. are useful for the right scenarios of course.

But I question their usefulness as "vm-replacements". For the reason tptacek presented the long list of similar possibilities. It's complex and thus it's hard to secure.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20527
The 'Start Button' was in the wrong place during its existence. It should have been at the top left rather than bottom right. The convention being that menus drop down rather than climb up. It went against the 'E' shape of what people scan for on a VDU and the mouse movements to get there were always a bit arcane. Maybe Apple had a patent on it coming from the top left and MicroSoft had to think differently. Windows 8.n presents an opportunity to fix this usability defect but I doubt they will do it.
Yup, and all the advise that helps are being voted down. So we shall enjoy you people getting what you deserve.
Taking your numbers at face value, it seems the problem you're having is the epidemiological interpretation of risk as it pertains to patient populations. You can decide for yourself if a 1/2600 risk is acceptable to you, but doctors are in a position to decide for a far larger number of people.

If 10m people are exposed per year to the given risk you outline, the expected number of additional cancers is ~4k people over 20y. In 10 years of scanning, that's 40k additional cancers over the next 30 years. For elderly people over 70, this may be less of an issue, but for everyone else, this is definitely a problem!
Because we operate in likelihood ratios, the unexposed risk is important so the risk can be computed (at least, in theory; in practice, people go more by indication than by formal risk prob/benefit prob).
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