mimixco

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by mimixco 5y ago
True. But Nintendo has sold very well from their proprietary handheld device and its store. So they probably think they can. Maybe they can. They already have a great UI in Xbox and a great library of games that will run. They might not nee
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by mimixco 5y ago
Xbox runs Windows so MS could make everything work on a handheld device w/ Windows w/ an Xbox-style UI. Xbox ran Windows from the very beginning. Only the "chrome" is different.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Not lecturing anyone. Just citing from the article why that might be a stumbling block. I'm a happy Steam customer. No complaints from me and I have no dog in the fight. I hope Steam Deck is very successful.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Yes, all of these workarounds are examples of why it's not a workable solution. Can you imagine if a Nintendo Switch required that much falderal? It wouldn't sell. The point I'm making is that normal folks will not dock it or
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by mimixco 5y ago
I think you'll be very hard pressed to use a tiny device without a mouse or keyboard effectively in Windows. Even Windows 11 contains numerous small and overlapping dialogs with all kinds of UI affordances. None of this is setup for to
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by mimixco 5y ago
For sure! Being tied to MS is probably why they didn't do it. I seem to remember that's why Newell made Steam in the first place, so he wasn't tied to MS.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Right. I'm talking about the rest of the computer. How will you manage files on a Steam Deck? How will you access Windows Update? Is your "desktop" going to be covered in icons? Using Windows on Steam Deck (not using Steam
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by mimixco 5y ago
Yes, that's what I meant. Surely home computers have been gaming machines since before Windows and that was also a heavy use case for Windows early on. What I mean was that Steam simplified the selling, installation, updating, forums,
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by mimixco 5y ago
We've lost the essence of journalism. Instead of a venue where multiple options are presented for review by the reader (along with editorial comment, of course), we now have platforms which are nothing but editorial. Not only individ
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by mimixco 5y ago
I know. But that's not a smoothly-integrated user experience and navigating the rest of Windows on that machine without a mouse and keyboard is going to be a pain. Steam didn't build a console UI that works from the boot state,
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by mimixco 5y ago
Lots of misinformation on YouTube is bad for people and isn't stopped. And I would hardly call Google, YouTube's owners, a "company with a conscience" since nearly their entire business is based on predatory surveillance
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by mimixco 5y ago
The Oracle vs. Google battle has shown that compatibility is different from copying. Amdahl and IBM went through this, too, with mainframes. I see this as a victory for all software makers.
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by mimixco 5y ago
I'm excited about the Steam Deck but hesitant about this Linux decision. Despite Gabe Newell's objections, Windows works quite well as a gaming UI. The Xbox runs Windows and all of Steam's games work on Windows, so calling it
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by mimixco 5y ago
You have CORS issue: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://service.denigma.app/explain/demo/ . (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ miss
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by mimixco 5y ago
Absolutely nothing. Firefox or Chrome.
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by mimixco 5y ago
The individual driver has no buying power to negotiate a lower price on cars, fuel, or maintenance and the big players are disincentivized to hand him one. The gig nature of the job means he pays consumer prices for everything while Uber sk
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by mimixco 5y ago
Uber cannot take advantage of the economies taxi companies have in fleet purchase, in-house maintenance, commercial prices for parts, and fuel contracts. None of these scale well nationally, which is why there has never been anything more t
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by mimixco 5y ago
I would add that "they got funding." Lots of companies have one or the other (viable product, enough money) but not both.
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by mimixco 5y ago
The live example on the home page doesn't seem to work. I assumed JS was supported and typed this: const addOne = function(someNumber) { return someNumber + 1 } The "explain" box shows nothing. This site makes bold claims wh
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by mimixco 5y ago
We have several good Indian groceries where I live near Houston and I like to try new things, so I bought one of these brands once: Vadilal, mentioned in the post. Way too many scary ingredients; I should have read the label first. Not su
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by mimixco 5y ago
Interesting that you bring up alchemy, which is now entirely possible. Lots of metals can be turned into gold (or other things) through radioactive bombardment. Problem is, it costs more than the gold is worth to do so.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Here are the most popular reasons. Please do not attack me personally; I'm only trying to summarize the viewpoint for someone who asked: 1. The Van Allen belts are filled with lethal, impenetrable radiation. An attempt to "clear t
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by mimixco 5y ago
I like these people: https://www.delawareregisteredagent.com/ To be a Delaware corp, you must have a registered agent with a physical office in Delware, and these guys are right across the street from the Dept. of Corporati
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by mimixco 5y ago
I love these kind of games and others have mentioned Tropico 6 as a standout in the field. I've put lots of hours in that game and it's amazingly subtle and complex. There are many, many ways to achieve whatever you want, but also
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by mimixco 5y ago
I certainly can't argue that you're wrong! Private communication, even for business, is a human right. I was not suggesting that some authoritarian arm "shut them off," but rather that a profusion of businesses and indiv
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by mimixco 5y ago
I was referring mostly to the suggestions that attempted to justify this behavior by saying the targets are "bad companies."
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by mimixco 5y ago
There's an elephant in this room and its name is ethics. When I was a mainframe programmer at IBM, one of they first things they taught us was how to stop the processor of a System/370 machine. If you can do that, ladies and gen
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by mimixco 5y ago
I think the Paradise Lost analogy is about effectuating top-down decisions while making them appear to be consensual. A contemporary version can be found in the Hegelian Dialectic. Bob Gurr, a famous Imagineer, said of his boss Walt Disne
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by mimixco 5y ago
For sure, but they're not all novels. There's lots of factual graphic books and lots of conceptual things that can be learned from those books. It's also notable that the NYT did not mention any of the differences between U
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by mimixco 5y ago
Einstein said, famously, "Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler."

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