The appeal of the "we could have been a contender" fantasy for Microsoft is the idea that they'd be printing money by collecting the 30% tax on apps and in-app purchases. If they were 100% dependent on Samsung, they'd be printing at least 50% less money
yildo
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Because you are nostalgic for win 8 with its full screen start menu?
What year was Android an also-ran?
2013: 51.8% Android, 40.6% iOS, 3.8% Blackberry, 3.3% Microsoft
M2 Ultra performance cores have a 64 mb L2 and a 96 mb L3
I dare a self-driving car to drive through a bit of snow
Scotiabank is the only one that spammed me with insurance sales calls ten years ago and wouldn't let me take myself off the list because having a bank account was a pre-existing business relationship. I had to close my bank account to get the spam calls to stop
Steam Workshop is several years broken for Cities in Motion 2 without any changes in Cities in Motion 2
I guess whether they use Google Docs or Microsoft Office, they are paying a competitor. Microsoft must be less scary than Google
Anything that looks like standard AI output is going to be extremely unfashionable in a year
Big fan of Caesar II. I like it better than III or IV. III doubled down on the walker mechanic with its unsatisfying meta of avoiding intersections. The roadblock solution to the weird meta didn't show up until the later Pharaoh and Zeus games
Caesar II is elegant and has graphics that have aged very well
Russian warship, go f*** yourself
Gaza's the size of a suburb. There isn't space for a DMZ on the Gazan side of the border, though with the Israeli military evacuating tens of thousands of Israelis from the Israeli side they might end up setting up a DMZ on the Israeli side for a change