There are countless videos online that show the same simple technique that can solve any rubix cube. You repeat the same movements over and over -- even blindfolded -- and its solved. Depending on your hand speed you can solve any combination in under a few minutes. I had my mom, who has never seen a rubix cube, repeat the same steps and she was able to solve it with ease. Then she asked what a Rubix Cube was for/about. 'nuf said.
Anyone taking bets on the name of one or more of their custom chips? You know, to generate buzz by Sony (and every startup today). Some possible candidates:
Here in Canada we simply rely on your efforts in grade 12. So we dont have any SAT style approach and it works out very well. The same is true for many other first world countries. It's nice to see USA finally catching up with the rest of the world in common sense. Now if we can just get you guys to start using the elegant (and simple) Metric system and not that mess called Imperial.
But we're told that legal bribes don't influence our politicians decision making. So surely their donating millions won't affect our leaders decisions in doing the right thing. Will it?
The greatest return on investment for any company is to buy a politician.
I wonder what the exact date will be (and it will come) when MOST people realize Bitcoin isn't just a get-rich buy-then-sell cash scheme, and instead, has an actual beneficial purpose to this world. Seeing it in widespread by the average person everyday life would be a sight. It is that day when bitcoin's price will dramatically fall to more commonsense levels. But i figure that day will only come when these people get bored of the cash grab and lose interest causing it to take a massive nose dive (ie, a crash) and then someone finally finds its true killer app (not including b2b behind-the-scenes stuff).
People here in the comments are bashing EA but are missing the big picture. Cloud gaming IS what gaming WILL be like. It is a guarantee. You can see that is the direction by how things are moving.
1. Live streaming gets massive viewership -- a priming effect for the idea that streaming frames of gameplay is normal (and tech has shown latency can be reduced to the milliseconds -- see that Microsoft, twitch competitor -- sorry i cant remember their name)
2. Mulitplayer is (and always has been) bigger (and growing) than single player.
3. Broadband speeds is commonplace and getting faster.
4. People have different devices (ie, tablets, phones, laptops, pc) which have varying levels of computational power but yearn to play games they normally couldn't
Netflix, Spotify, iTunes, etc show that people are eager to pay monthly subscriptions
And of course for game companies cloud gaming has always been the holy grail because it is limitless in profit and piracy of their IP drops to 0.
So the only question is WHO will control this lucrative market. Logically, it should be a Netflix, a Steam, an iTunes, the Play Store since logically they sever as the hub for entertainment to consumers but as expected the publishers dont want that (ie, EA). They want their own hub for their own games which will cause a fractured mess for consumers. As was the case for movies and music back then until the publishers banded together (e.g. Hulu) or relented (ie, gave into Apple terms, or Netflix terms). In the end it is likely going to settle down and a few hubs will exist and likely it could be Netflix or Steam who are the Cloud Gaming giants.
Kids will always have money. When you watch Twitch you see an endless stream of teens and tweens forking out money to videogame streamers who are neither doing anything in their stream, nor acknowledging the free cash they go from this anonymous kid. And this kid is happy about it. These streamers are multi-millionaires from all this endless free cash from these kids.
The hate for EA, like history has shown with human behavior, is that people will forget when they see the next announcement trailer for the next anticipated game. They were upset by the Star Wars debacle, but trust me, history shows, they forget quiet easily.
You make it sound like that is going to stay that way for the rest of time. Ten years ago the average internet speed was 3Mbps today its over 20Mbps. Latency has also dropped in tandem.
Reality set in and they discovered it is harder to plan a safe and technically feasible trip for a casual tourist than it is to send seasoned astronauts who gladly did so at a very high risk for country patriotism in nothing more than a tin can with flashing lights.
So the question is which commercial space company today wants to be the first to kill a tourist. Oh i am sure the stock price will go well that day. Having an optimistic guestimate of late 2018 was just for PR purposes, nothing more. It certainly helped the stock price.
I don't understand what that means....what problem would that be solving and making my life as consumer easier when it becomes distributed?
For something to be disruptive it needs to solve an aching problem that a large mass of people have with the current process. Be it, reducing the # of steps, more convenience, etc. If you are going to say more transparency and/or better privacy control then that is not what most consumers think about. They say they are concerned by it but a study that was posted here a few weeks back showed what they say in a study is not what they actually do in their actions. Consumers prefer convenience, even if it sacrifices privacy.
Not so crazy when you see NRA and so many others on the right repeatedly fight tooth and nail to ensure those who are likely to shoot someone are still able to conveniently buy military-grade assault weapons without any background checks. I understand the aim is to increase firearm sales since, if and when they become the next school shooter, NRA's members share prices will spike. It's all a business move. And it's made a small group of people very rich for decades. I understand that. It's the American dream. Even if innocents have to die for it.
However, at least with UBI for these individuals the premise is that it is trying to combat one of the potential causes by these people becoming domestic terrorists and/or mass shooters: They lost their job and hence, not receiving a livable income.
Statistically, most domestic terrorists have a right-wing ideology (e.g. smaller government, racial hatred, non-christian intolerance) and carry out their murderers usually for political reasons not because they don't have a livable income. They apparently had enough money to buy easily available firearms without respectable background checks, afterall.
So although I agree with you that offering up higher UBI to these individuals seems like a pointless exercise, I can understand their logic as more reasonable than I can relative to NRA's complicit encouragement in arming these unstable individuals to become the next mass killer headliners.
And just like the long gone (real) Atari they are selling promises of things like "new games" that will never see the light of day. They are just a startup who won the lottery this go around to get the Atari name brand so they can get the public to fund them, like what happens every 3 years, so they can develop a few units, pocket the funding profits and then wait another 3 years to repeat. The nostalgia for retro Atari, like Commodore, never fades. And they continue to exploit that.
You can also thank its endless refusal to die, so as to make way for better alternatives like Animated-PNG, largely because most Millennials incorrectly began mispronouncing "GIF" since it looked and felt like a "Gift" from their friends on social media.
And technically, it is "since 1989" not "since the 90s". All GIFs made today still make use of the good ole "GIF89a" starting header.
I'm more in awe there is a legitimate company structure in place when it's clear the site can run itself, being that it relies solely on 15 year old boys uploading hastily made gifs at random moments in a day.
I use to live in a dorm and many of us would have our doors open to allow anyone to walk in at any time. Through my years i had sat with many of these people (many were friends) and one consistent thing i saw was that not one, NOT ONE would ever bookmark anything. They would always use google to re-search what they wanted (assuming they had a desktop/laptop). It was totally bizarre. They'd google for Facebook 20x a day, GMaps 5-10 times per day, Youtube, and Amazon... and i think that is all they ever searched for since to them that was the entire Internet.
Despite, letting them know one could bookmark the site, they just didn't care to use the feature. They'd just considered googling as quicker and more efficient.
I would expect it to be higher than 71%. However, considering how every millenial and gen-z (the biggest consumer of phones) find they can't live unless they have the next (trivial) incremental update to a phone then from a carrier perspective there is no urgency. Especially since the next phone should have the latest android release that includes the latest security patches -- the one they would use prior to filling it with their bloatware.
Also, lets not forget that these largest consumers don't care much about their stolen privacy since they share it regularly on FB and other social media. There was a story where a bot could identify people with 80%+ accuracy solely by their publicly available social media posts.
Although it's very clear Republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of big corporations it's very clear to me the real issue is legal bribery of our politicians. It's a damn shame that most people get so easily distracted from non-issues or just simply find all this boring to care. Removing money from politics would very likely make republicans less likely to sell their votes to the highest bidders.
Although impressive it still isn't quite accurate in some parts. For example this and many simulations still forget that Titanic stopped, but then resumed moving only to discover they were taking on even more water, then stopped again. It was this action that sped up the sinking.
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There are countless videos online that show the same simple technique that can solve any rubix cube. You repeat the same movements over and over -- even blindfolded -- and its solved. Depending on your hand speed you can solve any combination in under a few minutes. I had my mom, who has never seen a rubix cube, repeat the same steps and she was able to solve it with ease. Then she asked what a Rubix Cube was for/about. 'nuf said.
Anyone taking bets on the name of one or more of their custom chips? You know, to generate buzz by Sony (and every startup today). Some possible candidates:
AI Emotion Chip
Blockchain Quantum Disrupter Chip
Crypto Cybernetics Chip
Loot Manager Chip
Procedurally Generated Realtime Engine Chip
That does seem to be the pattern.
Here in Canada we simply rely on your efforts in grade 12. So we dont have any SAT style approach and it works out very well. The same is true for many other first world countries. It's nice to see USA finally catching up with the rest of the world in common sense. Now if we can just get you guys to start using the elegant (and simple) Metric system and not that mess called Imperial.
But we're told that legal bribes don't influence our politicians decision making. So surely their donating millions won't affect our leaders decisions in doing the right thing. Will it?
The greatest return on investment for any company is to buy a politician.
I wonder what the exact date will be (and it will come) when MOST people realize Bitcoin isn't just a get-rich buy-then-sell cash scheme, and instead, has an actual beneficial purpose to this world. Seeing it in widespread by the average person everyday life would be a sight. It is that day when bitcoin's price will dramatically fall to more commonsense levels. But i figure that day will only come when these people get bored of the cash grab and lose interest causing it to take a massive nose dive (ie, a crash) and then someone finally finds its true killer app (not including b2b behind-the-scenes stuff).
People here in the comments are bashing EA but are missing the big picture. Cloud gaming IS what gaming WILL be like. It is a guarantee. You can see that is the direction by how things are moving.
1. Live streaming gets massive viewership -- a priming effect for the idea that streaming frames of gameplay is normal (and tech has shown latency can be reduced to the milliseconds -- see that Microsoft, twitch competitor -- sorry i cant remember their name)
2. Mulitplayer is (and always has been) bigger (and growing) than single player.
3. Broadband speeds is commonplace and getting faster.
4. People have different devices (ie, tablets, phones, laptops, pc) which have varying levels of computational power but yearn to play games they normally couldn't
Netflix, Spotify, iTunes, etc show that people are eager to pay monthly subscriptions
And of course for game companies cloud gaming has always been the holy grail because it is limitless in profit and piracy of their IP drops to 0.
So the only question is WHO will control this lucrative market. Logically, it should be a Netflix, a Steam, an iTunes, the Play Store since logically they sever as the hub for entertainment to consumers but as expected the publishers dont want that (ie, EA). They want their own hub for their own games which will cause a fractured mess for consumers. As was the case for movies and music back then until the publishers banded together (e.g. Hulu) or relented (ie, gave into Apple terms, or Netflix terms). In the end it is likely going to settle down and a few hubs will exist and likely it could be Netflix or Steam who are the Cloud Gaming giants.
Kids will always have money. When you watch Twitch you see an endless stream of teens and tweens forking out money to videogame streamers who are neither doing anything in their stream, nor acknowledging the free cash they go from this anonymous kid. And this kid is happy about it. These streamers are multi-millionaires from all this endless free cash from these kids.
The hate for EA, like history has shown with human behavior, is that people will forget when they see the next announcement trailer for the next anticipated game. They were upset by the Star Wars debacle, but trust me, history shows, they forget quiet easily.
You make it sound like that is going to stay that way for the rest of time. Ten years ago the average internet speed was 3Mbps today its over 20Mbps. Latency has also dropped in tandem.
Reality set in and they discovered it is harder to plan a safe and technically feasible trip for a casual tourist than it is to send seasoned astronauts who gladly did so at a very high risk for country patriotism in nothing more than a tin can with flashing lights.
So the question is which commercial space company today wants to be the first to kill a tourist. Oh i am sure the stock price will go well that day. Having an optimistic guestimate of late 2018 was just for PR purposes, nothing more. It certainly helped the stock price.
I don't understand what that means....what problem would that be solving and making my life as consumer easier when it becomes distributed? For something to be disruptive it needs to solve an aching problem that a large mass of people have with the current process. Be it, reducing the # of steps, more convenience, etc. If you are going to say more transparency and/or better privacy control then that is not what most consumers think about. They say they are concerned by it but a study that was posted here a few weeks back showed what they say in a study is not what they actually do in their actions. Consumers prefer convenience, even if it sacrifices privacy.
Not so crazy when you see NRA and so many others on the right repeatedly fight tooth and nail to ensure those who are likely to shoot someone are still able to conveniently buy military-grade assault weapons without any background checks. I understand the aim is to increase firearm sales since, if and when they become the next school shooter, NRA's members share prices will spike. It's all a business move. And it's made a small group of people very rich for decades. I understand that. It's the American dream. Even if innocents have to die for it.
However, at least with UBI for these individuals the premise is that it is trying to combat one of the potential causes by these people becoming domestic terrorists and/or mass shooters: They lost their job and hence, not receiving a livable income.
Statistically, most domestic terrorists have a right-wing ideology (e.g. smaller government, racial hatred, non-christian intolerance) and carry out their murderers usually for political reasons not because they don't have a livable income. They apparently had enough money to buy easily available firearms without respectable background checks, afterall.
So although I agree with you that offering up higher UBI to these individuals seems like a pointless exercise, I can understand their logic as more reasonable than I can relative to NRA's complicit encouragement in arming these unstable individuals to become the next mass killer headliners.
And just like the long gone (real) Atari they are selling promises of things like "new games" that will never see the light of day. They are just a startup who won the lottery this go around to get the Atari name brand so they can get the public to fund them, like what happens every 3 years, so they can develop a few units, pocket the funding profits and then wait another 3 years to repeat. The nostalgia for retro Atari, like Commodore, never fades. And they continue to exploit that.
You can also thank its endless refusal to die, so as to make way for better alternatives like Animated-PNG, largely because most Millennials incorrectly began mispronouncing "GIF" since it looked and felt like a "Gift" from their friends on social media. And technically, it is "since 1989" not "since the 90s". All GIFs made today still make use of the good ole "GIF89a" starting header.
I'm more in awe there is a legitimate company structure in place when it's clear the site can run itself, being that it relies solely on 15 year old boys uploading hastily made gifs at random moments in a day.
The most interesting part is there is nearly 50% of the country who will be glad they will now have less rights at work.
I use to live in a dorm and many of us would have our doors open to allow anyone to walk in at any time. Through my years i had sat with many of these people (many were friends) and one consistent thing i saw was that not one, NOT ONE would ever bookmark anything. They would always use google to re-search what they wanted (assuming they had a desktop/laptop). It was totally bizarre. They'd google for Facebook 20x a day, GMaps 5-10 times per day, Youtube, and Amazon ... and i think that is all they ever searched for since to them that was the entire Internet.
Despite, letting them know one could bookmark the site, they just didn't care to use the feature. They'd just considered googling as quicker and more efficient.
In order: 1. Vic-20 2. Commodore 64 3. Amiga 500 4. Amiga 2000 5. Amiga 1200 6. 486 PC (Zzz)
Finally, common sense, and honest thinking has prevailed in this thread. Thank you.
Use STYLISH plugin in Firefox with the DarkTube or YouTube Umbra stylesheet has been the go to way for many years now.
Bonus points for having an Amiga computer.
I would expect it to be higher than 71%. However, considering how every millenial and gen-z (the biggest consumer of phones) find they can't live unless they have the next (trivial) incremental update to a phone then from a carrier perspective there is no urgency. Especially since the next phone should have the latest android release that includes the latest security patches -- the one they would use prior to filling it with their bloatware. Also, lets not forget that these largest consumers don't care much about their stolen privacy since they share it regularly on FB and other social media. There was a story where a bot could identify people with 80%+ accuracy solely by their publicly available social media posts.
Although it's very clear Republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of big corporations it's very clear to me the real issue is legal bribery of our politicians. It's a damn shame that most people get so easily distracted from non-issues or just simply find all this boring to care. Removing money from politics would very likely make republicans less likely to sell their votes to the highest bidders.
Said VPN would simply just do a rebranding and open shop anew with a new slogan. Rinse & Repeat.
Although impressive it still isn't quite accurate in some parts. For example this and many simulations still forget that Titanic stopped, but then resumed moving only to discover they were taking on even more water, then stopped again. It was this action that sped up the sinking.