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14y ago
They've removed all visual cues that let you know what things do. You'd have no way of knowing that clicking the bottom left takes you to metro if someone or something doesn't tell you. If you click on the bottom right corner, you minimiz
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14y ago
I've been using Windows 8 since they released the consumer preview. I hated it with a passion at first, but I wanted to see if it was just because it was different, or just because it was bad, so I kept using it. You definitely can get pas
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14y ago
What I'm about to say might be absurd, but I've found this to be true of me playing computer games. I'll use Civilization II as an example -- I used to play Civilization II quite a bit, and occasionally I did absurdly well. If it ever got
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14y ago
I think a far more likely solution / scenario is that we'll have cars that drive themselves. It'd also be a hell of a lot safer.
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14y ago
Absolutely, but even if you go beyond 55 mph, I think that self-driving cars would still be a net benefit in terms of conserving energy. Traffic jams, which are a tremendous waste of energy, would be eliminated if every car was self-drivin
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14y ago
I think it doesn't matter how hard it is. The barrier to entry is very low, and the social game market is already crowded and extremely competitive. You're going to have a varied number of people releasing hits, so the point is that you c
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15y ago
I'm half expecting them to replace this field entirely with speech to text technology in 50 years or so.
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15y ago
Ah, I'm sorry, I actually gave the wrong impression. On the machine I own, you can choose whether or not to have it display English, or what you've actually written, or a split screen with English on one side and what you've actually writt
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15y ago
I'm going to school right now to become a court reporter / stenographer. Basically, I type on a funny looking keyboard ( http://www.acculaw.com/images/products/display/stenograph%20... ) where you're not so much typing letters as much as y