I'm going to assume the people banned were doing a truly excessive amount of regular returns, but it would be nice to see the actual numbers for these people. They were probably abusing the system by buying say, 3 sizes of clothing for each garment they wanted, then returning the two that weren't the best fit. Doing that over and over again for years.
Not just that it was public facing: If it was the FOI website, wasn't that the entire point of the server? To provide these documents to citizens? The only minor issue I could see was if he didn't set a reasonable refresh time on scraping documents and was hammering the server, thereby causing troubles for other users.
Technically speaking, "battle royale" was *popularized* by PUBG, but actually saw its initial interest from zombie survival games like H1Z1, Ark, etc. But yes the TLDR is there was a game last year (PUBG) which became really popular for battle royale gameplay and Fortnite was originally a wave-defense game that jumped on the bandwagon quickly with their own battle royale mode which wildly eclipsed the original game mode in popularity and ate PUBG's lunch.
As a driver in a test vehicle he should have been paying attention since its an unproven system. At the same time, that woman didn't react or even look his way either. My guess is she was too drunk to ride the bike, hence her walking it—and also explains not being attentive to staying under the streetlights or at least be looking towards traffic. I am not excusing Uber's potential liability in the situation, but at the same time his level of half-attentiveness seems likely to be the norm for people using these systems in the future, if not far worse.
I think its a reasoned response, but unfortunately I see them then skirting the issue just by dividing the mining load across more accounts. Put up a bunch of sheds and register each as a different account, etc.
I actually like the fact they don't keep pushing new updates which will only inevitably slow down the performance of the phone. My Xperia Z3 came with 5.0 and was updated to 5.1.1 around a year later. Now 3 years on, its still performing decently for me, albeit needing a battery replacement in the next year if I want it to be able to continue lasting an entire day without recharge. Meanwhile my Droid Bionic before that started with 2.3 and was eventually updated to 4.0 and 4.1... by which time it was essentially unusable: Even with restricting the system to less background processes, it would still often lock up for a minute at a time even when running only one browser tab.
Which is why Verizon et al are also petitioning to pass a federal law that prevents states from passing state laws to protect privacy/neutrality. Because internet is "inherently interstate"... you heard it right, they're looking to both claim they don't deserve Title2 and that they are interstate and shouldn't be able to be regulated by states either.
The thing is, those cosmetics used to be stuff included in games, placed behind challenges or bought with in-game currency after beating the game, etc. And you got specifically what you wanted, it wasn't obfuscated. They know dressing up avatars is very popular, so they now hide all of that inside a lootbox with a bunch of other quantified crap like sprays and voice emotes to lower the odds. Getting in-game currency to purchase a specific skin is the rarest drop out of the boxes and it would take many hundreds or more of them to unlock everything. FF14's unofficial motto is "Glamours are the real end-game." Its a shitty predatory tactic that compromises game quality.
That may be true, but $40B buys you a lot of expertise to bypass at least a few of those years by bringing in outside people. It also will allow you to progress much faster than the resources Tesla has available to them, and leverage their name and supply chain.
Maybe things have changed, but what turned me off after initially playing maybe the first 6mos was mostly the playerbase, but also partly the gameplay just not being as rewarding and skill-based as SC1. Even into high Platinum I was still facing 75% cheese strats where you thwart it and they quit the game immediately. It just wasn't fun, and I didn't have the time to dedicate to the game to keep my ELO in Diamond as there was a certain level of atrophy or inflation to maintain your position on the ladder. The management also was rather "faux micro"... it has the appearance of doing all this micromanagement, but it was really mindless busywork. In hindsight it reminds me of the inane APM in LoL to make up for archaic imprecise controls.
The problem is having a handful of individuals setting up a vast network to snap up all the tickets instantly. No matter what ticket price they set, these people will have the capital to buy huge chunks of the tickets to resell. Every time. Their systems are setup to snap up tickets faster than you can by going through the process legitimately.
So you're going to plug in a USB DAC, which is generally larger than a cellphone, into the cellphone to get decent audio quality. What courage to drop that headphone jack.
I'm waiting for there to be the inevitable latency issues with the BT audio which makes using it in a game setting impossible. Not that there are any games on mobile worthy of 120hz play. Its all funbux cashgrabs and gacha games.
The biggest irony to me about the whole Vocaloid scene, especially once they started doing "live converts" with hologram tech, was how it is reminiscent of Sharon Apple from Macross Plus. An OVA from 1994 that includes a virtual idol hologram that sings songs at huge concert venues. It seemed so far-fetched and unrealistic at the time, and yet here we are...
Its generally better than TV, however. While kids might have Sesame Street to watch for an hour a day and the rest was regular brainless content, you can load up the tablet with a lot of educational apps to keep them "pacified" today other than just dumping them in front of Netflix. And even if it is Netflix, there are a lot of educational kids shows available on Netflix as well.
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64% of the capital investment is from France, with another 20% coming from Germany. Rest is peanuts spread across a dozen other countries.
I'm going to assume the people banned were doing a truly excessive amount of regular returns, but it would be nice to see the actual numbers for these people. They were probably abusing the system by buying say, 3 sizes of clothing for each garment they wanted, then returning the two that weren't the best fit. Doing that over and over again for years.
Not just that it was public facing: If it was the FOI website, wasn't that the entire point of the server? To provide these documents to citizens? The only minor issue I could see was if he didn't set a reasonable refresh time on scraping documents and was hammering the server, thereby causing troubles for other users.
Technically speaking, "battle royale" was *popularized* by PUBG, but actually saw its initial interest from zombie survival games like H1Z1, Ark, etc. But yes the TLDR is there was a game last year (PUBG) which became really popular for battle royale gameplay and Fortnite was originally a wave-defense game that jumped on the bandwagon quickly with their own battle royale mode which wildly eclipsed the original game mode in popularity and ate PUBG's lunch.
Just gotta watch out for Nicolas Cage...
As a driver in a test vehicle he should have been paying attention since its an unproven system. At the same time, that woman didn't react or even look his way either. My guess is she was too drunk to ride the bike, hence her walking it—and also explains not being attentive to staying under the streetlights or at least be looking towards traffic. I am not excusing Uber's potential liability in the situation, but at the same time his level of half-attentiveness seems likely to be the norm for people using these systems in the future, if not far worse.
I think its a reasoned response, but unfortunately I see them then skirting the issue just by dividing the mining load across more accounts. Put up a bunch of sheds and register each as a different account, etc.
I actually like the fact they don't keep pushing new updates which will only inevitably slow down the performance of the phone. My Xperia Z3 came with 5.0 and was updated to 5.1.1 around a year later. Now 3 years on, its still performing decently for me, albeit needing a battery replacement in the next year if I want it to be able to continue lasting an entire day without recharge. Meanwhile my Droid Bionic before that started with 2.3 and was eventually updated to 4.0 and 4.1 ... by which time it was essentially unusable: Even with restricting the system to less background processes, it would still often lock up for a minute at a time even when running only one browser tab.
Which is why Verizon et al are also petitioning to pass a federal law that prevents states from passing state laws to protect privacy/neutrality. Because internet is "inherently interstate"... you heard it right, they're looking to both claim they don't deserve Title2 and that they are interstate and shouldn't be able to be regulated by states either.
Increase prices 3.5% to get 1% cash back. What a deal!
The thing is, those cosmetics used to be stuff included in games, placed behind challenges or bought with in-game currency after beating the game, etc. And you got specifically what you wanted, it wasn't obfuscated. They know dressing up avatars is very popular, so they now hide all of that inside a lootbox with a bunch of other quantified crap like sprays and voice emotes to lower the odds. Getting in-game currency to purchase a specific skin is the rarest drop out of the boxes and it would take many hundreds or more of them to unlock everything. FF14's unofficial motto is "Glamours are the real end-game." Its a shitty predatory tactic that compromises game quality.
Apparently it stands for Water Displacement Formula #40. And yes, he didn't perfect it until the 40th try. Science, bitches.
That may be true, but $40B buys you a lot of expertise to bypass at least a few of those years by bringing in outside people. It also will allow you to progress much faster than the resources Tesla has available to them, and leverage their name and supply chain.
Punkbuster actually came out in 2000, and there may have even been anti-cheat software before that. That is the first one I remember, at least.
Maybe things have changed, but what turned me off after initially playing maybe the first 6mos was mostly the playerbase, but also partly the gameplay just not being as rewarding and skill-based as SC1. Even into high Platinum I was still facing 75% cheese strats where you thwart it and they quit the game immediately. It just wasn't fun, and I didn't have the time to dedicate to the game to keep my ELO in Diamond as there was a certain level of atrophy or inflation to maintain your position on the ladder. The management also was rather "faux micro" ... it has the appearance of doing all this micromanagement, but it was really mindless busywork. In hindsight it reminds me of the inane APM in LoL to make up for archaic imprecise controls.
Ubisoft is giving away Watchdogs1 for free this week and that has only been out for 3 years. SC2 came out over 7 years ago.
The problem is having a handful of individuals setting up a vast network to snap up all the tickets instantly. No matter what ticket price they set, these people will have the capital to buy huge chunks of the tickets to resell. Every time. Their systems are setup to snap up tickets faster than you can by going through the process legitimately.
They're have to ask them to move to the Channel Island of Jersey to pay for them, since that's where all their money is though...
Then they're a shitty UX designer. Logical layout, common workflow patterns, and readability etc. should be primary concerns in UI design.
So you're going to plug in a USB DAC, which is generally larger than a cellphone, into the cellphone to get decent audio quality. What courage to drop that headphone jack.
No SD slot when they want you loading "games" onto it? Wat.
I'm waiting for there to be the inevitable latency issues with the BT audio which makes using it in a game setting impossible. Not that there are any games on mobile worthy of 120hz play. Its all funbux cashgrabs and gacha games.
Verizon themselves admitting their business is interstate. Sounds kinda like a utility that should be regulated as Title 2, doesn't it?
The biggest irony to me about the whole Vocaloid scene, especially once they started doing "live converts" with hologram tech, was how it is reminiscent of Sharon Apple from Macross Plus. An OVA from 1994 that includes a virtual idol hologram that sings songs at huge concert venues. It seemed so far-fetched and unrealistic at the time, and yet here we are...
Its generally better than TV, however. While kids might have Sesame Street to watch for an hour a day and the rest was regular brainless content, you can load up the tablet with a lot of educational apps to keep them "pacified" today other than just dumping them in front of Netflix. And even if it is Netflix, there are a lot of educational kids shows available on Netflix as well.