It's a productivity boost for the people who have to generate the text that nobody reads. At an organisational level it's a wash caused by requiring that text in the first place
The (non-tech) industry I am in generates an enormous amount of text that it's fairly certain nobody reads past the executive summary.
My workmates love it. Amongst the tech community, I see a divide very similar to the crypto one - everybody who has a stake in it succeeding is very optimistic. Everybody working in other areas seems dubious at best.
I found this game from a recommendation here and I have played it every day since. I think it's great. The rules take a bit of getting used to, but the dynamic of never having to guess (and getting penalised for guessing) makes it really interesting. It's just hard enough without being infuriating.
The page says that there are other Sam puzzles which can be played in html5, but the link only goes to the app store. Congrats on this one. Where can I find the browser versions of the others?
So, having abandoned your points A and B above, your new point is that being that there are countries with worse child labour problems, India is moving in the right direction?
None of the quoted stats or linked articles support the assertion that things are improving. The only trend that I can see noted is that Indian child labourers are moving to the cities to do manufacturing work and abandoning rural/agriculture work which on the face of it doesn't seem like a fully positive development development all.
I've had a pretty good run of calling the MS support line and getting them to reactivate if Win10 deactivates due to a hardware change. Takes 5 minutes, maybe. Occasionally if you're on an upgraded-from-win7 or 8.1 OEM license the service agent will tell you that it can't be done for OEMs but hanging up, calling back and getting a less fastidious agent on the line is easily done.
Agreed, though - paying 3 times for the same software would be insane, especially at MS prices
Sorry - I should have been more general in my snobbery. I think that hardcore solitaire players are unlikely to want to learn an entirely new OS regardless of who made it
> Charging for something like that is a good way to make unhappy customers.
I don't mean to sound snobby but I have the feeling that people who are emotionally invested in playing solitaire on a PC are the ones who are least likely to uninstall windows on favour of Linux or equivalent
I've installed Win10 on dozens of machines and I've never seen ads on the lock screen, in the taskbar, and in notifications like the article talks about. Maybe because I always say "no" to all those creepy tracking/advertising ID type options on the initial config screen and I always say no to Cortana at the same time.
What I heard (and it seems reasonable) is that MS included games like Solitaire and Minesweeper in 3.1 as a soft way of training the enormous user base who were using PCs for the first time in mouse functions like click, drag, right click and click precision. I guess now that everybody knows that , MS sees no practical reason to keep those games free.