What's the use case where storage is at enough of a premium to matter? None of this is targeting a server where you're getting silly with optimizing storage, and even the smallest storage on most consumer facing hardware is filled by media one way or another. It straight up doesn't matter to a reasonable end user. Storage is less than dirt cheap.
It could be that Walmart was planning to start winding down physical game sales and made that clear to Microsoft, but Microsoft made a deal to foot the bill for extra inventory to keep supply available during the holidays. Even with packaging and distribution, the actual cost per game to Microsoft isn't really that high.
It's just a computer (or program, depending on context). It can do whatever you want it to.
If I want to write/modify a mail server that watches video feeds from 6 different beaches and only bothers accepting mail when beaches 2, 3 and 5 are empty and beaches 1, 4, and 6 have 500 people, nothing is stopping me. It's stupid and a waste of time, but it's a computer. It can run arbitrary code.
That's ignoring that if you read what he wants, it would be a client to the actual recipient mail server and only needs to actually serve the web interface so that he can access his email from various browsers.
They're just protocols. There's nothing preventing a program from interacting with both. Webmail isn't some mystical art no one's ever thought of before.
Yes. The exact same reason you admitted that you can't pass through a monitor is the reason it cannot possibly be used for any productivity requiring text. The density real monitors have is the density you have to have for productivity use.
Text is not mediocre. It's absolute, blow your brains out trash. You cannot do meaningful reading on it.
They could be paying licensing per user for some third party solution that meets the security requirements of stuff like remote unlocking. (Yeah, they also could do it themselves, at the cost of hiring a couple security experts, and the scale should make it pretty cheap per car, but a lot of the times companies like to hire it out so they have someone to point to if there are flaws.)
They could also just not care and do a shitty job, but doing the software part correctly isn't free either. But yeah, cellular with how little they use it and economies of scale isn't going to be a massive outlay, but it's something that makes some sense to have behind a paid service. Right now it's not a huge cost, but down the road, if they're paying for 20 years of cars worth of connectivity when most of them aren't used, it could add up to meaningful expenses that are pointless.
I promise none of these people are using a VPN. IP is plenty.
Chrome never claimed it was spoofing any of those details, and spoofing those details without clearly telling the users what they're doing and why would murder the user experience. Their position as a browser had literally no impact on that tracking.
That's the generous best case of what you can tell a computer to display to, and it is still guaranteed to make text look like absolute shit.
It is not possible to use the terrible resolution of any of the quests to replace multiple physical monitors for productivity. The displays are bad for literally everything but entertainment.
It looks like it's almost ARPG-like combat with the Pals, and the Pals in factory building looks more interesting in terms of base building. There's mention of exploring dungeons, too. I could see giving it a shot down the road.
It looks like it could catch me more than most survival stuff. I'm going to keep an eye on it and see how it evolves. But the traditional survival loop definitely isn't my thing, and all these articles calling it pokemon are super misleading.
I mean, maybe. But if you're not a AAA studio just not having (or realistically, enabling from a cloud provider) enough capacity when your game sells way more copies than expected is entirely reasonable.
No, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible.
A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.