Ah yes, you're completely right. As in not even slightly. Possibly because Europe has many genuine festivals going back hundreds of years to bother with make pretend cosplay bullshit ones. And that includes the one you cite ffs.
The really stupid part is that all modern vinyl and cassettes would be produced from digital masters anyway, but not before undergoing range compression for noise reduction and to stop records skipping.
I wonder if people buy these shitty inferior sound formats just so they can waste a lot of money on the equipment and cables needed to make it sound acceptable.
The AGL whitepaper says it has real time support with predictive reaction time. Perhaps that is sufficient for the majority of vehicles, but some might require hard real-time subcomponent for safety purposes. Hard to say without researching a lot more.
Car manufacturers are (understandably) hyper paranoid about software faults in their vehicles. They even have a lintable subset of C called MISRA-C which is designed to identify and eliminate some of the problems commonly associated with the language - memory leaks, dangling pointers etc.
Modern cars are increasingly complex things with many subsystems, network connectivity, over the air updates, telematics, driver assistance, HUDs, entertainment systems, message buses etc. Not only must they worry about software faults during normal operation of the car, but also malicious attacks - people trying to unlock a car, or even take control of it. There may even be separate hardware for the human machine interface from the rest of the car and they must still communicate securely.
Therefore it makes sense that manufacturers pool their resources and try to come up with a security model and framework that hardens vehicle to attack and offers a stable platform to build up a user experience.
That too. See also GAME as another example of this phenomena - rape people on the cost of new / used games and trade-ins. Then they wonder why they have zero customer loyalty and keep entering receivership.
HMV barely changed its model from the last time it went bankrupt. It sells a few physical items like speakers, T-shirts, posters, figures etc. but its main business is still DVDs, CDs and console games and unsurprisingly these aren't selling as well as they once did.
Well that's wonderful!. An inconvenient dongle that you can stick in the only port in your phone and while it is plugged in (obviously not when you're charging, syncing, docked or whatever), you can use wired headphones. What a wonderful solution to simply putting a jack in the phone and incurring literally pennies of additional cost.
What will this unnamed but innovative and consumer-focussed phone manufacturer thing of next? Perhaps yet another dongle that allows their phone to sync / charge with cables that virtually every manufacturer already uses?
Because removing the headphone jack was a cynical move by phone manufacturers to upsell you a pair of bluetooth headphones. There is virtually no benefit to the consumer of such a move.
Amazon's "Prime" is like an express lane in a theme park to skip the queue. Except that so many people have paid for it that it has become its own queue. The sane thing to do would be to stop paying Amazon this money - if you're going to get a shitty service it may as well be for free. Better yet, shop somewhere else where they value the customer experience a little bit more.
Oh wow, a whole tiny handful of people have managed to profit from it. That certainly justifies all those losers wasting their entire lives in front of a screen playing computer games.
The tunnel is the least of the problems with this system. Trying to scale it to a size which would have any measurable impact on traffic would be the challenge. And if it did scale, imagine the queues of cars all waiting to be somehow transported under the surface by lifts or whatever. Where do these cars wait and for how long, and where? Cities could end up swapping one traffic management problem for another and potentially not even be the beneficiaries if it is run by a private company.
I.e. the actual drivers. The people who are supposed to extricate the dumb car's ass when it does something really dumb, which will be often. Let's hope the drivers are not fiddling on their phones when their attention is critical at all times.
Yes mostly since all of the traffic is moving in the same direction and the number of external factors to mitigate for are relatively low. People aren't likely to walk out into the road. Cars aren't likely to be driving down the wrong side etc.
Even so there may be things like road works, lane closures, accidents, weather, speed restrictions, tolls etc. on roads for which no automated car could reliably cope with. And since there is no one single continuous road across the entire continent, there are also exits, lights etc. along the way. And nobody drives across the states without stopping to sleep, eat, refuel etc.
So even if we were to assume that the highway drive was mostly automous, the difficult bits weren't. So he's out and out lying.
It was very clear at the time and since that the strategy was to split the Democratic vote by boosting Stein & Sanders in order to disenfranchise voters away from Clinton, while simultaneously inflaming the right on divisive topics like guns, immigration etc. to boost Trump.
The strategy only has to be sufficient to tilt the scales by a few % to significant impact on the outcome. And clearly it worked.
Funnily enough I suspect it worked TOO well as far as Trump was concerned. He was using the campaign for the free publicity, hoping to return to private business afterwards. By winning he invited investigations on himself, his family and his corrupt cronies. Almost certainly he is an unindicted co-conspirator on the Stormy Daniels stuff, and we still have the Russian investigation, emoluements, and 2 years of congressional subpoenas into his taxes and other dealings to look forward to. What fun.
You don't sell your product -- be it corn, or boats, or steaks, or crypto coins for less than they cost to make.
It happens all the time. A firesale is where some product is heavily discounted to get rid of it and cut someone's losses rather than hang onto and see those losses increase.
Ah yes so your solution as to how a developer might have federated chat, achievements, multiplayer etc. is to tell them not to use those features in the game. Way to miss the point.
How are you trapped in a vertical slice? What does "federated" mean in this context? What is stopping you from purchasing a game on GOG and joining a game with your friend who purchased it on Steam? Do you just want universal chat/grouping functions? Isn't that called Dischord (or any number of clients/services before it)?
Trapped means exactly that. Every service comes with a massive set of terms & conditions. My games are locked into that service and those terms. I buy my game subject to those terms, I can't move my games, I can't connect to games running across different services, or talk to my friends across those services, or play people on those services. I can't choose which store to buy a game from and then choose the service I choose to run it over. It's all linked together.
This is a completely solvable issue, but it is not in the interest of the stores to solve it. And thus it isn't solved. The closest thing that game to it was Games for Windows - you bought a game with the GfW logo and it offered single sign on, achievements and some other stuff regardless of where you bought it.
Please try and understand, it isn't difficult. If I sell my game on Steam, I must compile and link to their platform services. If I sell my game on Epic, I must compile and link to their platform services. And so on. Not just compile & link, but test and maintain. Essentially multiple platforms despite this being a single operating system running on a common architecture.
Now as a publisher I bear the cost of every damned platform I support. Yeah it's great (I guess) that one platform rakes less than some other, but the reality is that any additional profit I make is probably wiped out by the above effort.
That's great, but if devs now have 2, 3, 4 different platforms just on the PC to maximize their footprint, then that still sucks and costs a lot of money. My point is why is this even necessary when all these platforms share essentially the same core services. It should be possible for a game to run without modification regardless where it is sold.
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Ah yes, you're completely right. As in not even slightly. Possibly because Europe has many genuine festivals going back hundreds of years to bother with make pretend cosplay bullshit ones. And that includes the one you cite ffs.
The really stupid part is that all modern vinyl and cassettes would be produced from digital masters anyway, but not before undergoing range compression for noise reduction and to stop records skipping.
Renaissance fairs are big in Europe? I think you'll find that they're mostly a US phenomenon.
I wonder if people buy these shitty inferior sound formats just so they can waste a lot of money on the equipment and cables needed to make it sound acceptable.
The AGL whitepaper says it has real time support with predictive reaction time. Perhaps that is sufficient for the majority of vehicles, but some might require hard real-time subcomponent for safety purposes. Hard to say without researching a lot more.
Modern cars are increasingly complex things with many subsystems, network connectivity, over the air updates, telematics, driver assistance, HUDs, entertainment systems, message buses etc. Not only must they worry about software faults during normal operation of the car, but also malicious attacks - people trying to unlock a car, or even take control of it. There may even be separate hardware for the human machine interface from the rest of the car and they must still communicate securely.
Therefore it makes sense that manufacturers pool their resources and try to come up with a security model and framework that hardens vehicle to attack and offers a stable platform to build up a user experience.
That too. See also GAME as another example of this phenomena - rape people on the cost of new / used games and trade-ins. Then they wonder why they have zero customer loyalty and keep entering receivership.
HMV barely changed its model from the last time it went bankrupt. It sells a few physical items like speakers, T-shirts, posters, figures etc. but its main business is still DVDs, CDs and console games and unsurprisingly these aren't selling as well as they once did.
What will this unnamed but innovative and consumer-focussed phone manufacturer thing of next? Perhaps yet another dongle that allows their phone to sync / charge with cables that virtually every manufacturer already uses?
Because removing the headphone jack was a cynical move by phone manufacturers to upsell you a pair of bluetooth headphones. There is virtually no benefit to the consumer of such a move.
Amazon's "Prime" is like an express lane in a theme park to skip the queue. Except that so many people have paid for it that it has become its own queue. The sane thing to do would be to stop paying Amazon this money - if you're going to get a shitty service it may as well be for free. Better yet, shop somewhere else where they value the customer experience a little bit more.
Oh wow, a whole tiny handful of people have managed to profit from it. That certainly justifies all those losers wasting their entire lives in front of a screen playing computer games.
E-sports is like an anti-special Olympics - even if you win you're still a loser.
The tunnel is the least of the problems with this system. Trying to scale it to a size which would have any measurable impact on traffic would be the challenge. And if it did scale, imagine the queues of cars all waiting to be somehow transported under the surface by lifts or whatever. Where do these cars wait and for how long, and where? Cities could end up swapping one traffic management problem for another and potentially not even be the beneficiaries if it is run by a private company.
I.e. the actual drivers. The people who are supposed to extricate the dumb car's ass when it does something really dumb, which will be often. Let's hope the drivers are not fiddling on their phones when their attention is critical at all times.
Even so there may be things like road works, lane closures, accidents, weather, speed restrictions, tolls etc. on roads for which no automated car could reliably cope with. And since there is no one single continuous road across the entire continent, there are also exits, lights etc. along the way. And nobody drives across the states without stopping to sleep, eat, refuel etc.
So even if we were to assume that the highway drive was mostly automous, the difficult bits weren't. So he's out and out lying.
Or he should be prosecuted for reckless endangerment.
The strategy only has to be sufficient to tilt the scales by a few % to significant impact on the outcome. And clearly it worked.
Funnily enough I suspect it worked TOO well as far as Trump was concerned. He was using the campaign for the free publicity, hoping to return to private business afterwards. By winning he invited investigations on himself, his family and his corrupt cronies. Almost certainly he is an unindicted co-conspirator on the Stormy Daniels stuff, and we still have the Russian investigation, emoluements, and 2 years of congressional subpoenas into his taxes and other dealings to look forward to. What fun.
You don't sell your product -- be it corn, or boats, or steaks, or crypto coins for less than they cost to make.
It happens all the time. A firesale is where some product is heavily discounted to get rid of it and cut someone's losses rather than hang onto and see those losses increase.
... you've hit the bottom of the barrel. You as may as well start broadcasting "Ow! My balls" for all the effort required to reach that demographic.
They're sales staff. They're as much geniuses as Subway sandwich makers are "artists".
Ah yes so your solution as to how a developer might have federated chat, achievements, multiplayer etc. is to tell them not to use those features in the game. Way to miss the point.
How are you trapped in a vertical slice? What does "federated" mean in this context? What is stopping you from purchasing a game on GOG and joining a game with your friend who purchased it on Steam? Do you just want universal chat/grouping functions? Isn't that called Dischord (or any number of clients/services before it)?
Trapped means exactly that. Every service comes with a massive set of terms & conditions. My games are locked into that service and those terms. I buy my game subject to those terms, I can't move my games, I can't connect to games running across different services, or talk to my friends across those services, or play people on those services. I can't choose which store to buy a game from and then choose the service I choose to run it over. It's all linked together.
This is a completely solvable issue, but it is not in the interest of the stores to solve it. And thus it isn't solved. The closest thing that game to it was Games for Windows - you bought a game with the GfW logo and it offered single sign on, achievements and some other stuff regardless of where you bought it.
Now as a publisher I bear the cost of every damned platform I support. Yeah it's great (I guess) that one platform rakes less than some other, but the reality is that any additional profit I make is probably wiped out by the above effort.
That's great, but if devs now have 2, 3, 4 different platforms just on the PC to maximize their footprint, then that still sucks and costs a lot of money. My point is why is this even necessary when all these platforms share essentially the same core services. It should be possible for a game to run without modification regardless where it is sold.