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This seems like a silly complaint to me. Epic's engine team isn't the one coming up with game mechanics - that's largely up to teams actually making games. Unreal may have some functionality related to commonly implemented mechanics but anything truly unique isn't coming from the code in a generic engine anyway - it's coming from the studios building on top of it.

This is a demo showing off tech. Any "game" that exists in the demo is purely to sell the realtime aspect and making it in a familiar environment or with familiar mechanics is just to show how the tech might be implemented in an otherwise known area.

CS:GO was literally made by an outside dev (Hidden Path). It's definitely unfair to say Valve's only additions have been monetization though, it seems Valve took over development pretty soon after the initial release and there have been a lot of major updates since then.

If the game is SteamVR-compatible, most VR headsets will work but generally the most common options are some variation of Vive/Rift/Index.

That said, we don't actually know the requirements yet - as far as we know it'll require full finger tracking or be straight up Index-only (as unlikely as I personally think that is, it's still possible). Definitely don't pull the trigger on anything until the full announcement on Thursday.

Seeing as apps like Signal and Telegram already exist and seem to do exactly what you say... What is different about Thread?

On individual channels it does, on an entire team it doesn't. You can mention a team itself (rather than a channel in that team) and there's no way to mute that afaik.

Aside from what was mentioned, you can also self-host perforce at a relatively low cost (provided you don't need more than 20 users, as that's all perforce's free license supports).

I personally host a perforce server on google compute engine for around $15 a month (g1-small + whatever size persistent disk you want). Relatively easy to set up (they provide repositories for ubuntu and fedora iirc), configuration is largely interactive when setting up or through the P4Admin tool (which allows you to very easily setup permissions, depots, etc).

I know that isn't fully managed like github and doesn't provide issue tracking, wikis, etc, but I've found it fairly easy to deal with if you know a bit of how to setup a linux VPS.

Yeah... I really want the i7 with 16GB RAM but there's no way I can pay for it.

Only problem for me is that price... $1499 starting price is a bit high for my tastes, though I'd love to have one otherwise.

I'd argue that the fingerprint sensor has no effect on your second scenario, as manufacturers could make a backdoor to send the government your normal password too. The fingerprint sensor doesn't make that bit any easier.

Aside from the wireless charging which comes as a surprise since the last few generations all had it, I feel like your points don't constitute much of a disappointment for the 5X. #2 and #3 haven't been a part of the Nexus line since at least the N4, so you're in the realm of wishful thinking. I agree having everything you said would be nice, but it's hardly a surprise.

I have a setup in my apartment with speakers running throughout. The system is hooked up to a rack that contains a CD player, record player, and amplifier. For quite a while I've wanted to stream media to it but I haven't found a good way to do it that is also cheap.

I might not be the norm but I certainly have a good use for this.

Well, suicide pills are certainly possible. The question is whether any agencies use them. To that end I have no idea.

I do question exploding molar implants, however... that seems like something straight out of a cheesy spy movie. If those do exist I'd love to see what the idea in using them was, because that's kind of funny.

In my opinion, the Windows 10 UI is a bit nicer than Windows 8. There will always be conflicting opinions about UI changes.

As for the tablet/desktop UI... Win10 is leagues ahead of Windows 8. All of Microsoft's apps work better with a mouse and keyboard, and the tablet mode does still exist if you're using a device that would benefit from it. The only meaningful change is that you now have to press a button to switch from normal, resizable windows to fullscreen tablet mode.

Whatever your thoughts are on Vista, the changes pretty much had to happen. The old driver model was just that: old. Something had to give, and unfortunately a lot of companies weren't ready. Windows 7 cleaned up much of the UI, fixed some performance issues, and was released at a time that drivers and memory usage weren't as big of a deal. Does that make Win7 that much better than Vista? Not really, but it does make Win7 a better release simply due to timing.

I'd say that Apple could have had a similar issue with going from OS9 to OSX, though they at least had a long period of some degree of backwards compatibility. They, however, handled the transition much better since they controlled all of the hardware and drivers.

I agree that most of these features should be opt-in (Cortana is, at the very least), but most of the privacy options are in a central location in Win10. The problem is more that you have to know they exist in the first place, which is why being opt-out is such a big issue.

Chromecast is pretty much a dumb terminal, though. Almost all improvements come from apps supporting it, and on that front Chromecast has done very well.

Also, for $35 you can't really beat what you get from a Chromecast even today.

Nope. Surface Pro 1 (and 2?) used Wacom tech, had 10-point multitouch, and the stylus didn't need batteries or recharging. The induction stuff that Wacom does is pretty cool.

By Google "verified", they seem to mean that the phone runs some tests on the network before actually connecting to the VPN, and disconnecting completely if the Wifi isn't up to par. It would be nice for them to confirm exactly how it works, though.

The VPN only works with access points that the phone automatically connects to through wifi assistant (this excludes any you have manually selected at any point in time). The VPN only works when the phone itself finds a hotspot that you have never selected and decides to connect.

It's not pre-approved APs as far as I'm aware, it's any public AP that has no password or landing page, and isn't manually set by you. If you have wifi assistant enabled, it will automatically try to connect to anything that's open from what I've seen.

Where is the proof that CF is doing anything remotely like what you say? All they've done is create a Github repo (which is many developers preferred platform) and say that they are moving to a more distributed governance model. All at the request of the original maintainer, Mike Pall.

They've even explicitly stated that CF will not be taking over the project; they're only helping move it to a new home and to find a group who can maintain it to replace Mike Pall. There's zero evidence that CF's intentions are to the contrary, so I do think what you are saying is completely unfounded. Please correct me if I'm wrong.