Most push media work exactly like tv. Magazines and newspapers have ads in between the content and don't forget about radio that works exactly the same.

User tracking

And it's resolved: "Dear Developer,

We apologize that the update was rejected due to an snag in the review system. The updated item will be available in the Chrome Web Store within 30 minutes."

This one of the problems the internet brings as a pull mechanism. The great thing about Blendle is that younger people actually pay for content and have the possibility to read articles from multiple outlets (which is better imo than only reading only single newspaper)

Just because you can doesn't make it more professional imo.

But they might just use their wifi connection ;)

And it would raise prices for the real thing

The look like soft little puppies. Everybody loves and nurtures puppies.

Oh as a gamer you can better just get used to it, because of DirectX 12 games that will come in time.

Can't you just put Steam in the equivalent of the startup folder?

I've not used Win10 but all I do with Win7 is act as a bootloader for Steam. I don't really anticipate ever doing anything else with it, either. I assume there is something analogous to the old startup folder.

I mostly seem to spend my time running modded minecraft (FTB) on linux anyway.

Oh as developers you better just get used to supporting DirectX 11, because a lot of people still don't want to be brute forced into these situations.

It'll start as "better on DirectX 12," there'll be a Crysisesque "DirectX 12 only" game that is the prettiest thing anyone has ever seen, everyone will move and the holdouts can keep playing old games off Steam and GOG if they don't like it.

That was the plan with DX10 and we have seen, how that one went.

The thing is, the majority of gamers will update based on the available cash, and so gamedevs will be targeting the expected hw base at the time of release.

So it really depends, whether you except the gamers to go on spending spree (nvidia and intel would certainly love that), or not.

Existing DX11 cards will be compatible with DX12.

Except gamers will upgrade because of the performance implications of the DirectX 12 API. With an incentive like that, no one will care about the few holdouts that refuse to upgrade because they're uncomfortable with a few UI changes that don't affect what you can actually get done.

You mean like when Microsoft tried to force adoption of Windows Vista by not bringing DirectX 10 to XP, and in response developers stuck with DirectX 9 for years?

A huge portion of the gaming market (China and large parts of Asia) is still using Windows XP. D3D9 renderers aren't going anywhere.

No, DX9 renderers aren't going anywhere, but they're being abstracted away and all the shiny new code is being written for DX11 and DX12. So all of the fancy high end features will be on newer systems only, with the others having less and less support. I know because this is what I'm doing at work at this time.

That's why you would let some scrap collectors in and basically say to them: What would you pay me for this scrap if you have to haul it away yourself?