AChiTenshi

I wish this was limited to just windows phones. My travel device, a windows laptop with a removalbe keyboard, will no longer be able to download shows. Which means no more Netflix on airplanes for me.

Do you want skynet? Because this is how we get skynet.

Depends which version of superman. The one who ‘died’ to doomsday, I think he could easily beat.

The more powerful versions I don’t think so.

I’m slowly building a 3d printer using an Ldo Voron Trident kit.

For the general consumer Microsoft is making it as hidden as possible to make a local user during installation.

When I had to reinstall windows a month or two ago the option to make a local machine user was not there until I unplugged the ethernet or brought up a terminal to force the installer to show the option.

It will depend on how the game is packaged. On your two examples that let you play before finishing download the clients will have multiple downloads that will prioritize everything needed to play early content. This will allow you to play for a bit and by the time you are far enough into the game the rest should have downloaded.

I am not entirely sure how steam manages downloads but I suspect it compresses the whole game as a single download and decompresses and installs it once the download is done. This would mean that nothing is playable until the entire game has been downloaded. It’s something they could potentially change with their download process but not many developers would take advantage of it so it’s likely a low priority thing.

Perhaps. But a rather large issue arises when your content is generated primarily by users who wouldn’t want to pay for a service.

There is also the issue where if you are having to pay to get around interaction limits is it really free speech? Or just limited to those that can afford to pay?