[Funny] Funny Pictures! (Keep em clean, folks!)
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The benchmarks would seem to say otherwise, but who knows what the future might bring? These benches only talk about video fps, and not how easy it is to write for APIs, etc.
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He was talking from a business perspective. The tablet style interface will only display programs and such that are approved by Microsoft, which in the case of games means what they sell from their new storefront thing. If you own a game via Steam but Microsoft hasn't given their approval then it won't show up in the tablet style stuff. For that stuff, you need to go to the desktop.
So Gabe was saying that Microsoft was trying to do an end run around the PC market and make themselves the de-facto authority for PC games with Windows 8 by controlling what shows up on people's desktops.
Or at least that was the sentiment at the time. Back then I don't think anyone thought we'd still have the normal desktop.
So Gabe was saying that Microsoft was trying to do an end run around the PC market and make themselves the de-facto authority for PC games with Windows 8 by controlling what shows up on people's desktops.
Or at least that was the sentiment at the time. Back then I don't think anyone thought we'd still have the normal desktop.
Strangely enough, at least part of the reasoning that Microsoft had for requiring game sales to be made through their app store was actually to make things easier for game/software developers. The software being sold on the app store didn't need to be compiled by the developer before being submitted. All of the compiling would be handled by a process at the store itself, so that a developer could submit just one copy of the code for their game, and the store's software would detect the device type and OS bit type at the time of purchase and compile the code accordingly. This way a company like Rovio wouldn't need to submit one set of code for Angry Birds to be run on the Microsoft Surface and a second set of code for Angry Birds to be run on the Windows Phone and yet a third set of code for it to be run on a PC with Windows 8. Of course, even such an "altruistic*" ideal as that can still be a bad thing, because it can effectively rule out the use of software purchased through other sources.
*And if you think that this was really a purely altruistic move, and that at least someone at Microsoft didn't think about the possibilities of this limiting usefulness of purchases from other sources, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
*And if you think that this was really a purely altruistic move, and that at least someone at Microsoft didn't think about the possibilities of this limiting usefulness of purchases from other sources, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
I remember when this thread use to be about pictures and how funny they were.
Because I'm in an Ed Edd n Eddy mood!
I'm on the fence on it in all honesty. I agree that its weird how the kids all seem to have dialects from different places while supposed to have lived in the neighborhood their whole lives, and the fact that the time-period of the show is up to question is very interesting. But saying the reason that their tongues are oddly colored is because they are decaying corspes?! NO! Their tongues are oddly colored because they eat candy all the time! The reason for the Kankers tongues being normal is because they don't eat candy. At least thats just me.
Plank is EVIL!
Too lazy to go drive over and take a picture.
One of the churches near me has their sign set up to say, "Whoever is praying for snow: Please stop."
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That Tombstone machine is no joke. It heats up the food in a plastic bag that comes with a paper tray, then drops it. It works surprisingly well.
That's not even the weirdest machine I've seen here in Columbus. I've seen one that makes pizza on demand.
That's not even the weirdest machine I've seen here in Columbus. I've seen one that makes pizza on demand.
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The Seattle Police Department is pretty cool.
Beautiful.
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I wish.
Saw this pic on Facebook and burst out laughing. I kept imagining a little old lady trying to pray the Chinese out of me. I'd tell her I was born this way, but she'd shake her head and say no, obviously being Chinese is a choice.
Wait, we can fill out this form based on what we're into? Okay, I'm choosing "lesbian" then.
If I filled cockinasian in the others section, would
*fuck the world
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