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People can already buy PC titles anywhere they like. EGS, direct purchase, steam, GOG, twitch, whatever. There's nothing to allow.
This is unrelated to them supporting their 'direct pay to developers' stance on their own storefront. And no, people can't 'buy PC titles anywhere they like' as every game is not multiplatform / storefront.
It's maybe my perception, but I don't know if 'is this cheaper form of payment directly to you less safe?' is a question many users would be having. To me anyway, it seems like an excuse to namedrop a bunch of services where direct payment is offered (again, primarily for physical goods) so users can have a list of these in their mind provided Apple cracks down on this.
Maybe you're thinking of FandangoNOW? AFAIK Fandango does not let you 'buy movies'.
No, I'm asking if they will allow people to buy digital PC titles on EGS via direct purchase to the developer and bypass the percentage EGS takes. People are bringing up digital currency or IAP, but if Epic is arguing for 'direct payments in all apps', why would this be limited solely to digital currency and not the digital item itself?
Does a new payment method on mobile mean purchases there are less safe?
No. Thousands of apps on the App Store approved by Apple accept direct payments, including commonly used apps like Amazon, Grubhub, Nike SNKRS, Best Buy, DoorDash, Fandango, McDonalds, Uber, Lyft, and StubHub. We think all developers should be free to support direct payments in all apps. [0]
All of these services provide something physical. You can't buy Kindle Books, for example, on Amazon's app on iOS. This a bit disingenuous.
We think all developers should be free to support direct payments in all apps.
Does this mean Epic will start allowing users of the Epic Games Store on PC to directly pay game developers and bypass the EGS cut?
[0] https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/fortnite-mega-drop-faq
Figures there would be some obstacle.
The vulnerable application is the interactive chat application that allows to send messages to other passengers.
A bit of a side note here, but does anyone actually use this? I remember seeing it on an ANA flight and thought it was a funny feature. I suppose the intent is to message someone you know if you happen to be seated far away, but the thought of sending random unsolicited messages to any seat (assuming there isn't something to prevent this, e.g. message receiving is off by default unless you allow specific seat numbers) is a bit fun / odd. 'Seat 24B here, anyone else can't sleep?'
Buying an HHKB and typing 70-90 WPM does not make one an "Expert Typist"
The lowering of the planet’s albedo through melting ice sounds like the most worrisome runaway effect.
It's from April, but a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q_DDXpzQgw
Also important to remember is that GPS is not the same as location services. Even if GPS and cellular data are unavailable, a mobile device calculates location using Wi-Fi and/or BT. Apps and websites can also use other sensor data (that does not require user permission) and web browser information to obtain or infer location information.
Wondering what kind of sensory data they meant here, I had a look at the citation[0]. If anyone else is curious:
We describe PinMe, a novel user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory/sensory data stored on the smartphone, e.g., the environment’s air pressure and device’s timezone, along with publicly-available auxiliary information, e.g., elevation maps, to estimate the user’s location when all location services, e.g., GPS, are turned off. Unlike previously- proposed attacks, PinMe neither requires any prior knowledge about the user nor a training dataset on specific routes. We demonstrate that PinMe can accurately estimate the user’s location during four activities (walking, traveling on a train, driving, and traveling on a plane).
No doubt. Enjoying & (feeling like compared to others I was) excelling at finding information was what made me get interested in information science in the first place, but I often felt advances in ML and NLP would allow for anyone to find exactly what they wanted (which would be great) even considering the increasing amount of information to have to search through. Google’s ‘I’m going to ignore half the words in your search query’ seem to be moving away from that for whatever reason.
mac presentation: Prepare MAC for presentation: minimize all apps, close browsers, send files from desktop and downloads to trash and set not disturb mode
This sounds like a terrible idea, just because of the chances of accidental trash emptying. Why not just a folder in a Documents or something?
Might be my librarian career bias but I'm always surprised at how few people know about query operators. Ironically as Google search seems to be ignoring vital parts of people's queries, they are becoming more needed now, whereas years ago I would have assumed a constantly improving Google search would get better at determining what I was looking for.
Antergos has been discontinued afaik. Might as well recommend Manjaro in addition to Arch instead.
Surprised at no mention of Pop!_OS. Many people I know have recently switched to it from Windows, apparently because it is recommended for those wanting good Steam support.
Can you give a use case for this, or how one could have anticipated the Ideanomics surge you mention? Searching something like 'electric vehicle' will show many recent patents by Tesla, Apple, Honda, et al. Is the idea that you would search for such a term and try to find some outlier company, assume their recent patents would reflect an entry into the market, and buy accordingly?
Oh, explains it. Though they simply said the 'her' jumped out at them, not because they felt it was in error with the question, but maybe that was it. My mistake.
If it said ‘he’ would you have gone to check for verification of this? The quote altering is odd but this ‘jumping out at you’ is also a bit weird.
I noticed this lately, I think when getting a new OS installed and making the dictionary UK English instead of Canadian English, thinking there would be little difference. The main issues have been with words that may end in an 'ism', e.g. criticize, nationalize, like those mentioned in the post. I've always spelt (purposely ignoring Canadian version, 'spelled' which I grew up with) these words with the 'ize' ending but the OS' UK English dictionary is now always flagging these as wrong, preferring the 'ise'.
I don't use it, but Cleanshot X can do this - https://cleanshot.com/
Why do some submissions get auto flagged as duplicates but others don't?
With Ster’s new ad server, advertisers are blind—they receive no information on the user. Instead, they get information about what the user is looking at. Pages and videos are tagged based on their content. Instead of targeting a certain type of customer, advertisers target customers reading a certain type of article or watching a certain type of show.
For normal targeted advertising, is page content taken into account as well, or is it simply the user?
I wonder how other alt milks fare. All of my milk consumption is spelt or oat (not oatly though), and I avoid almond for environmental issues. Cost performance, taste, and environmental impact make those two the best for me, but is anything significant better? I don't imagine the other nuts are (cashew, hazelnut, etc.) but maybe rice?
They add some vitamins and minerals to get the nutritional makeup closer to cow’s milk, but no amount of extra vitamins makes sugary vegetable oil healthy for you.
Also this was a bit much.
I'd love to see schema.org updated and used more. As someone still doing linked data work, albeit in academia, I mainly use it simply to provide more context to self-created, domain specific properties within ontologies using things like rdfs:seeAlso, skos:related, etc.
Ideally it'd be nice (imo) if schema.org had more domain specific extensions, similar to the bib[0] one which allows for things like comic book properties to be described.
I need a keyboard shortcut expert to help me out with something specific in Safari.
If I type a term into the URL bar, the bottom list of suggestions is for 'Bookmarks and History'. If arrow down to select one of these, it places it in the URL bar, but the only text I can edit here is the title of the page, I can't actually edit the URL. Is there a way to make the URL here editable without actually visiting the page first? I could just press enter then Command-L to edit it, but I'm looking for a way to append the URL first.
Alright, that was the only thing I could thing of that would cause my confusion here. I viewed it simply as 'it's False to say all eggplants are fruits' but I guess the author's intention was 'because people consider eggplants to be culinarily a vegetable, saying all eggplants are fruits is False'.
It's an interesting addition to the disgusting about meaning in linguistics, but according to formal logic as used by linguistics, is the eggplant example even correct? It seems as though no matter what, 'an eggplant is a fruit' is True, and perhaps there is a different logical notation to imply it could be considered otherwise depending on context.
Forgive the dumb question but what is False about ‘∀x eggplant(x) ⇒ fruit(x)’
I don't use voice assistants so I don't know if these are common, but some of the examples in the list of commands[0] are interesting.
Ask about a webpage - Display or open information to the current page or website.
Example - What are people saying about this page? (Opens Reddit comments for a specific webpage or article) - What did this page used to look like? (Shows page history in archive.org)
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Giving commands nicknames (experimental) - Create names or shortcuts for actions.
Example - Say "open new york times", then "Give that the name news" - news (will open nytimes.com)
[0] https://mozilla-extensions.github.io/firefox-voice/lexicon.h...
I was thinking of buying some gold mining company or gold ETF shares a while ago. Still time for the ETF buy I suppose, but maybe wait for a dip before buying the former.
There are many seemingly mundane things people watch on Twitch. Farming, Truck Driving, etc. It's not really any more strange than the majority of the 'Just Chatting' section.