Rather than speculate why not look at the actual game and what reviewers are saying about it?
The biggest issues are the DLC and the fact that buying the game gets you a shell that you have to pour more money into. Generic gameplay, lack of interesting multiplayer modes in a fairly saturated market... Nothing to do with the fact that you can have a female avatar.
Who are the perpetually offended ones here? The ones who got upset because the trailer had a woman in it and on that basis decided the game was shit before even playing it?
Surely if it's a fun game the fact that you are able to select a woman as your avatar is irrelevant. For people who claim not to care and only want good games that's a rather strange complaint. It's not even historically inaccurate, plenty of women fought in WW2.
Alignment can be by one of two methods. The device can be aligned somehow, e.g. the shape of the charger guides it in, or magnets pull it into place. Alternatively the charger can align itself to the device, with a moving coil or by having multiple coils and selecting the right one. I have a Panasonic one that moves when you drop the phone onto it.
Charge speed is low not because of efficiency but because early chargers, like the older USB ones, don't support the high current modes. The older/cheaper ones are only 2.5W (which is what basic USB can deliver), modern ones can put out 10W which is reasonably quick for charging. A typical 3000mAh phone battery will take a couple of hours to charge with one of those, similar to a 7.5W wired charger.
At CES this year they demoed a special applicator that uses something like an inkjet print head and a high speed camera to apply makeup to just the pores and imperfections on your face, smoothing your skin out and making you look younger in a fairly natural way. It didn't look like heavy foundation, it was the kind of thing that you would need an expensive makeup artist for, but easy to apply in a minute or two yourself.
That's the default setting on most camera apps for phones. All they did was accelerate it to realtime.
Unfortunately photoshopping is basically the default now. No skill required, the app magically makes you look better without even bothering to ask if that's what you want, before offering to upload to Facebook or Instagram.
Either we have to build the tech into every mirror or start educating people how harmful it is pushing for natural beauty and imperfections to be the standard. Just as some magazines and fashion brands were doing that we got hit with the apps.
Considering many people are now using NFC for payment anyway, it seems like you might as well send a receipt over at the same time. Obviously if you wrapped your card in tinfoil then a paper receipt (that you can easily burn after reading) is probably best.
All the necessary data could be encoded in the QR code, or transferred via NFC (which doesn't require the phone to give up any identifiers etc.)
It would be better for stores too as they could include a signature to verify the transaction and prevent the creation of fake receipts. In practice they probably won't enforce it though, because "computer says no" is not good customer service.
And asking for anything to be signed "written by Blogbot v1.0" or some such is naive in the extreme. Doesn't this guy understand: people (and computers) can tell lies.
By that logic most laws are pointless. The idea is that if you make it a requirement then not doing it becomes a reason to ban the account, or even to investigate and prosecute persistent offenders.
Probably the same way you do - by looking at them and seeing how they present themselves. It's inexact but this is marketing, most of it is a wild stab in the dark.
It's not a very accurate description though. The character they are controlling is not their avatar, it's more like "choose the protagonist's adventure".
What you missed is that Europe has strong laws for "distance selling", i.e. buying stuff on the internet.
In a physical shop you can see and examine the goods. On the internet all you get is a stock photo of the item and a promise that it will match the description. If it doesn't you can return it. I'm not sure about Germany but in the UK you have 2 weeks to change your mind and Amazon pays the return postage. You only need return the item, self-destructing packaging etc doesn't get them off the hook.
It goes further than that though. In this case the problem is that by pressing the Dash button you indicate you want a particular item at a particular price you were offered once. Amazon can substitute whatever it likes for that item and charge you whatever price it has today. Amazon abuses that by slowly ramping up prices and substituting inferior stuff.
The ruling is basically saying that Amazon needs to stop altering the deal after the customer has accepted it. They could probably fix it just by emailing the customer with price changes and subs ahead of time, with a 24 hour grace period for people who pushed the button before seeing the mail.
The problem is that there is no way to control the air molecules. You can't bounce light off them, you can't heat them in any kind of controlled manner good enough to make an image.
A more practical option is contact lenses with displays in them and some kind of wireless link to the phone. Can you imagine the security nightmare it would be though.
This has been happening for ages already. You can buy high power laser pointers and even higher power laser modules online for very little money, and they are more than capable of destroying CCTV cameras and the like. The tricky part is doing it without being caught on the camera itself.
Indeed, WhatsApp is banned in China. If students are using it there they must be also using TOR or an illegal VPN service like Private Internet Access to bypass the firewall.
Okay, you say, Trump's wall will be better. Higher, stronger, cover the entire border. Here's a video of a couple of guys climbing the existing very similar existing wall, in broad daylight, with drugs strapped to their backs, using only ropes. Takes them less than a minute.
The problem needs to be tackled at source, not at the border.
Unless they try to trick you into speeding. Say with a two lane open road that is normally 100 kph, then suddenly goes down to 80 with poor signage and the camera hidden behind a wall.
I think people would be mostly okay with speed cameras if they appeared to be honest attempts to reduce road accidents.
Also the mobile ones are just random number generates, totally worthless.
Selectively not covering things is part of the bullshitting.
They only tend to start the favourable coverage when they can't ignore it any more and they want to support their chosen cause. They are hyper-partisan like that.
Wikipedia has extensive info on this, with references. The stuff about the Trump/Russia investigation is a particularly good example.
Google search I would like to remove my personal information from Google's search results I would like to file a request to delist information per European data protection laws (Right to be Forgotten)
Perhaps even more interesting than the story is how desperate some people are to deny it. It's the same with what is widely accepted as the first ever novel - written by a Japanese woman. People will bend over backwards to find some reason why it wasn't first or why she was actually just a front for a man.
Still going on too, happens all the time with female engineers on YouTube.
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Rather than speculate why not look at the actual game and what reviewers are saying about it?
The biggest issues are the DLC and the fact that buying the game gets you a shell that you have to pour more money into. Generic gameplay, lack of interesting multiplayer modes in a fairly saturated market... Nothing to do with the fact that you can have a female avatar.
Who are the perpetually offended ones here? The ones who got upset because the trailer had a woman in it and on that basis decided the game was shit before even playing it?
Surely if it's a fun game the fact that you are able to select a woman as your avatar is irrelevant. For people who claim not to care and only want good games that's a rather strange complaint. It's not even historically inaccurate, plenty of women fought in WW2.
You can get better charging mats.
Alignment can be by one of two methods. The device can be aligned somehow, e.g. the shape of the charger guides it in, or magnets pull it into place. Alternatively the charger can align itself to the device, with a moving coil or by having multiple coils and selecting the right one. I have a Panasonic one that moves when you drop the phone onto it.
Charge speed is low not because of efficiency but because early chargers, like the older USB ones, don't support the high current modes. The older/cheaper ones are only 2.5W (which is what basic USB can deliver), modern ones can put out 10W which is reasonably quick for charging. A typical 3000mAh phone battery will take a couple of hours to charge with one of those, similar to a 7.5W wired charger.
At CES this year they demoed a special applicator that uses something like an inkjet print head and a high speed camera to apply makeup to just the pores and imperfections on your face, smoothing your skin out and making you look younger in a fairly natural way. It didn't look like heavy foundation, it was the kind of thing that you would need an expensive makeup artist for, but easy to apply in a minute or two yourself.
That's the default setting on most camera apps for phones. All they did was accelerate it to realtime.
Unfortunately photoshopping is basically the default now. No skill required, the app magically makes you look better without even bothering to ask if that's what you want, before offering to upload to Facebook or Instagram.
Either we have to build the tech into every mirror or start educating people how harmful it is pushing for natural beauty and imperfections to be the standard. Just as some magazines and fashion brands were doing that we got hit with the apps.
They are only doing it in retaliation for what the US and Canada did.
Considering many people are now using NFC for payment anyway, it seems like you might as well send a receipt over at the same time. Obviously if you wrapped your card in tinfoil then a paper receipt (that you can easily burn after reading) is probably best.
All the necessary data could be encoded in the QR code, or transferred via NFC (which doesn't require the phone to give up any identifiers etc.)
It would be better for stores too as they could include a signature to verify the transaction and prevent the creation of fake receipts. In practice they probably won't enforce it though, because "computer says no" is not good customer service.
And asking for anything to be signed "written by Blogbot v1.0" or some such is naive in the extreme. Doesn't this guy understand: people (and computers) can tell lies.
By that logic most laws are pointless. The idea is that if you make it a requirement then not doing it becomes a reason to ban the account, or even to investigate and prosecute persistent offenders.
Probably the same way you do - by looking at them and seeing how they present themselves. It's inexact but this is marketing, most of it is a wild stab in the dark.
It's not a very accurate description though. The character they are controlling is not their avatar, it's more like "choose the protagonist's adventure".
What you missed is that Europe has strong laws for "distance selling", i.e. buying stuff on the internet.
In a physical shop you can see and examine the goods. On the internet all you get is a stock photo of the item and a promise that it will match the description. If it doesn't you can return it. I'm not sure about Germany but in the UK you have 2 weeks to change your mind and Amazon pays the return postage. You only need return the item, self-destructing packaging etc doesn't get them off the hook.
It goes further than that though. In this case the problem is that by pressing the Dash button you indicate you want a particular item at a particular price you were offered once. Amazon can substitute whatever it likes for that item and charge you whatever price it has today. Amazon abuses that by slowly ramping up prices and substituting inferior stuff.
The ruling is basically saying that Amazon needs to stop altering the deal after the customer has accepted it. They could probably fix it just by emailing the customer with price changes and subs ahead of time, with a 24 hour grace period for people who pushed the button before seeing the mail.
It's probably pie in the sky I'm afraid.
The problem is that there is no way to control the air molecules. You can't bounce light off them, you can't heat them in any kind of controlled manner good enough to make an image.
A more practical option is contact lenses with displays in them and some kind of wireless link to the phone. Can you imagine the security nightmare it would be though.
This has been happening for ages already. You can buy high power laser pointers and even higher power laser modules online for very little money, and they are more than capable of destroying CCTV cameras and the like. The tricky part is doing it without being caught on the camera itself.
Indeed, WhatsApp is banned in China. If students are using it there they must be also using TOR or an illegal VPN service like Private Internet Access to bypass the firewall.
Hypothetical countries do not make a very convincing argument.
Sorry, screwed up the video link: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The fence was a failure. People simply went around it or went over it. It was also breached 9,287 times in 5 years, resulting in repair costs.
People would climb it, tunnel under it, throw drugs over it... It even started a drug war that resulted in 2000 deaths.
It also had some pretty bad effects on the environment where it was built.
Okay, you say, Trump's wall will be better. Higher, stronger, cover the entire border. Here's a video of a couple of guys climbing the existing very similar existing wall, in broad daylight, with drugs strapped to their backs, using only ropes. Takes them less than a minute.
The problem needs to be tackled at source, not at the border.
Unless they try to trick you into speeding. Say with a two lane open road that is normally 100 kph, then suddenly goes down to 80 with poor signage and the camera hidden behind a wall.
I think people would be mostly okay with speed cameras if they appeared to be honest attempts to reduce road accidents.
Also the mobile ones are just random number generates, totally worthless.
Maybe they saw what a failure the fence was an decided that something different was needed.
I'd rather have leaders who learn from their mistakes than ones that double down on them.
You really think the democrats will burn everything just to save Clinton?!
Selectively not covering things is part of the bullshitting.
They only tend to start the favourable coverage when they can't ignore it any more and they want to support their chosen cause. They are hyper-partisan like that.
Wikipedia has extensive info on this, with references. The stuff about the Trump/Russia investigation is a particularly good example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
$10 and a backend and GDPR compliance and the inevitable negative publicity? Not worth it.
Google search
I would like to remove my personal information from Google's search results
I would like to file a request to delist information per European data protection laws (Right to be Forgotten)
takes you to https://www.google.com/webmast...
Fill that in.
Perhaps even more interesting than the story is how desperate some people are to deny it. It's the same with what is widely accepted as the first ever novel - written by a Japanese woman. People will bend over backwards to find some reason why it wasn't first or why she was actually just a front for a man.
Still going on too, happens all the time with female engineers on YouTube.