I'm wondering about that as well. Commercially they are very successful after all.
What demographics are watching them anyway? Are there any reliable statistics here?
But then again not even as a kid I had much use for your typical superhero stories from DC or Marvel.
Depends on the kind of book you want to write, I suppose.
I used LaTeX for quite some time, because it was the preferred word processor in the engineering department of my University. Everyone used it and you were expected to use it as well. It's a good tool for writing scientific papers and similar things.
But when I moved to writing fiction narratives as a hobby I found other (proprietary) software, like Scrivener, a lot more comfortable to work with. Programs like these have a GUI that is designed to aid writers in organizing and sorting their thoughts for writing fiction and non fiction. For someone who is new to using a word processor, this may also be a lot more intuitive.
'Pro' primarily distinguishes those people who do their activity for monetary or other gains from 'amateurs' who do it for fun.
As far as I see this, as soon as big money is involved (maybe only indirectly) and sportsmanship in itself becomes less important the incentive to cheat in order to gain an advantage over your opponents gets bigger as well.
I also does not appear to be unique to video gaming. A similar phenomenon has been observable in physical sports for a long time.
Most German restaurants won't like it if you order tap water.
They'd be willing to serve you some "Tafelwasser" which is essentially bottled tap with additions (may be carbonated or not). It's distinct from mineral water, which is the most frequently consumed form of bottled water. And of course they expect you to pay for it.
And yeah, most soft drinks in Germany are also carbonated. Except for 100% fruit juices and milk based products.
When they introduced deposit costs for carbonated drinks in cans, PET, and glass bottles some manufacturers tried to circumvent these costs by not making their drinks carbonated. If I remember correctly they tried to compensate for the slightly acidic taste of beverages we've gotten used to with other additives. But judging from what I can find today in our regular super market chains, where virtually none of these beverages are still in existence, this approach must have failed. People rather pay the additional 0.25€ deposit for a 250ml can of Redbull knock-off that otherwise would only cost something like 0.2€.
Yes, I also agree on the other things about being more cautious. But how does the sensitivity of the microphone work based on electromagnetic radiation? I'm intrigued.
I mean, I do agree on you. At least as far as all those security concerns go. Having a backdoor of any kind in your device is dodgy at best.
But I think your reasoning appears to rely on the premise that a backdoor planted by the Chinese government is inherently less secure than a backdoor planted by authorities like the NSA. And therefore the Chinese backdoor would be more prone to exploitation, which then outweighs the dangers that may come from surveillances by a local authority. Feel free to correct and or add something here.
Maybe that is true. Maybe not. I'm not in a position to make assumption about the competence of China's cyberwarfare. I just can see why at least some people are more concerned by spying from people who can directly affect them than those that are far far away.
Yes, a backdoor is in your phone. Which in itself is a risk that ought to concern you, since it could be exploited by others as well. However that wasn't exactly the point of your question.
You don't bring the foreign "disaster" to your neighbourhood as you don't grant them jurisdiction over you or your neighbourhood just by owning a device that was compromised by them. So unless you plan to go to China yourself or some other place that puts you within the reach of Chinese authorities, what can they do to you? Blackmail?
Now think about what local authorities could do to you if they have some dirt on you. Then compare the two. On top of blackmail the latter can incarcerate you without issues, get a search warrant for your house and worse.
(Playing devil's advocate) that is the reasoning that I can see, despite the whole thing being a false dichotomy to begin with.
Let me use this hyperbole here.
What does you scare more? Hearing from some devastating natural disaster that's happening on the other side of the world. Or hearing from a devastating natural disaster that happening inside your country is headed your way?
Now I don't know how you would answer that question. But a lot of people would probably be more concerned when something like that goes down in their neighbourhood. Things that happen in your vicinity are a more immediate concern to most people.
Conversely we assume that if a foreign Government is spying on you - a civilian - who doesn't live in their jurisdiction can't be affected by their spying as much as badly as from your local authorities. And of course we also assume that these foreign governments do not share their intelligence with our own governments. Which of course is in no way certain. Of course if you're an employee working in sensitive areas, maybe concerning national security or involving things like trade secrets this may be a different issue.
Now this doesn't make being spied on by a foreign government a good thing. And these arguments reek of whataboutism. We ought to prefer nobody spying on us and ought to avoid any device that is suspicious in this way. But I hope this helps to understand why some people would rather let a foreign government spy on them than their domestic government.
What? You don't have your alarm clock across the room? You sleep with it next to your bed? What a strange person you are!
Personally I still use a regular alarm clock and even wear a wrist watch, because that's how I grew up. But seeing how modern cell phones have become these all-in-one devices I am not at all surprised that other older and 'discrete' tech gets displaced by these new devices and that people want to keep them close at all times. That's one of the many other factors that have to be considered here as well.
Google News can go fuck itself with a rusty cheese grater for all I care.
But still, the idea to tax these things is a delicate issue. Having read the currently approved proposal of Article 11 I know that the wording is pretty vague. Certainly not enough to be sure for what they really want. In its current form it would allow "mere hyperlinks accompanied by individual words". Mere hyperlinks, sure. Those usually also contain the head line. But what the hell is "individual words" supposed to mean here? How much leeway can you have here as a for profit company? Would you be able to write a small synopsis of the article in your own individual words?
Article 13 did pass. But you should really read how the article was revised. Now it reads like this:
1. Without prejudice to Article 3(1) and (2) of Directive 2001/29/EC, online content sharing service providers that store and provide perform an act of communication to the public. They shall therefore conclude fair and appropriate licensing agreements with right holders.
2. Licensing agreements which are concluded by online content sharing service providers with right holders for the acts of communication referred to in paragraph 1, shall cover the liability for works uploaded by the users of such online content sharing services in line with the terms and conditions set out in the licensing agreement, provided that such users do not act for commercial purposes. [See Council’s paragraph 1, subparagraph 3 (row 238)]
2a. Member States shall provide that where right holders do not wish to conclude licensing agreements, online content sharing service providers and right holders shall cooperate in good faith in order to ensure that unauthorised protected works or other subject matter are not available on their services. Cooperation between online content service providers and right holders shall not lead to preventing the availability of non-infringing works or other protected subject matter, including those covered by an exception or limitation to copyright.
2b. Members States shall ensure that online content sharing service providers referred to in paragraph 1 put in place effective and expeditious complaints and redress mechanisms that are available to users in case the cooperation referred to in paragraph 2a leads to unjustified removals of their content. Any complaint filed under such mechanisms shall be processed without undue delay and be subject to human review. Right holders shall reasonably justify their decisions to avoid arbitrary dismissal of complaints. Moreover, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, Directive 2002/58/EC and the General Data Protection Regulation, the cooperation shall not lead to any identification of individual users nor the processing of their personal data. Member States shall also ensure that users have access to an independent body for the resolution of disputes as well as to a court or another relevant judicial authority to assert the use of an exception or limitation to copyright rules. [See Council’s Article 13(7) (row 252)
3. As of [date of entry into force of this directive], the Commission and the Member States shall organise dialogues between stakeholders to harmonise and to define best practices and issue guidance to ensure the functioning of licensing agreements and on cooperation between online content sharing service providers and right holders for the use of their works or other subject matter within the meaning of this Directive. When defining best practices, special account shall be taken of fundamental rights, the use of exceptions and limitations as well as ensuring that the burden on SMEs remains appropriate and that automated blocking of content is avoided.
The (German) laws have nothing to do with something as silly as using the wrong pronouns for someone. That is protected speech. You can also hate people as much as you want and tell everyone about it. That is protected speech as well.
There's a law against speech that incites the masses called "Volksverhetzung", which is usually applied when speech contains calls for violence and or other arbitrary actions against groups of people. You can read about it accurately enough on Wikipedia.
Then there's laws against slander, which exist in pretty much any civilized nations, of course including the US. Cases rarely hold up in court, because of their difficult nature.
True. Trickle down works to some degree. But you know, that requires having enough employees that can put their money back into the economy, being interested in offering lower prices and invested in growth.
Let's start with the first requirement. I wonder how many employees these companies have in the UK or Europe by extension to whom they could possibly pass down those 'dollars'?
Viner and Gaskill had been partners in a game of "Call of Duty" that day. When one particular session ended badly, both teammates blamed each other and Viner reached out online to Barriss and asked him to "swat" Gaskill, prosecutors said.
Barriss then taunted Gaskill in a Twitter direct messages, before Gaskill challenged the California man to swat him, according to court records. Gaskill even gave Barriss the address to target: a home where Gaskill had once lived that was now occupied by Finch's family.
"Gaskill practically begged him (Barriss) to come at him, 'Here’s everything you need, my address,'" Distrcit of Kansas U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman James Cross told NBC News on Friday. "Gaskill was letting him know he wasn't afraid of him."
This should answer your question. Viner and Gaskill are those two gamers that the article is talking about.
If true, this means Gaskill was fully aware of the possibly lethal consequences for anyone who lived at that particular address. There could and ought to be a case against him as well.
I get it that your response is sarcastic, but I'll try to be honest and blunt here.
It's essentially Seth MacFarlane's fanfiction scripts for TNG, where he gets to play the captain.
This means that it also contains a lot of his humour and moral values, so beware. If you don't like 'get a room' elements, like some of the users above. In one of the episodes for example there's an Andorian looking alien, who gets everyone super horny he comes in contact with. Which happens to be Seth MacFarlane's character among others. If this kind of mental and visual imagery causes you Clockwork Orangesque reactions, maybe avoid watching it.
Where the original Treks often take themselves far too serious, with the notable exception of DS9, Orville's humour makes the often silly plots appear a bit less silly.
I thought it was alright.
Each to their own.
I prefer story arcs that last several episodes to entire seasons over the episodic format that dominated TV shows into the 90's and still does in the form of all those CSI shows. Unless these shows are set up as comedy that doesn't take itself serious, I can't enjoy them any more.
In these modern formats stories you can have proper drama. Characters can die and their actions can have far reaching consequences. While in these 'classic' case of the week formats, when something drastic happened to a character of the main cast, you as the viewer could be almost certain that they'll use some stupid and lazy plot device (Star Trek and its spin-offs are especially guilty of this) to make it end with everything essentially in the same state as at the beginning of the episode. At least for me this kills most of the suspension such a story can build, because you know the main cast is safe, and those that get killed off are practically red shirts or maybe get a little bit of character development in that particular episode, just to be written out of it again at the end for some cheap plot reasons.
Although these lazy practices only become real issues if there is something like a main cast to begin with. Anthology series that tell short stories, with different settings and characters every time, do allow writers to come up with good plots. Series like Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or Black Mirror are doing a great job with the episodic format.
The question here would be whether exercising and keeping your weight or not exercising and reducing your weight would be more beneficial to your health; or a variation of this with an emphasis on either exercise or weight reduction. Or at least that is what I took away from your post.
The general problem with weight reduction due to reduced calorie intake alone, as I see it, if you do not put in the minimum required work to exercise your muscles your muscles it won't only be triglyceride that are burned, muscle mass will also decrease over time as your body does not require as much muscle power to move around any more. For people living sedentary lives, this may pose a real risk.
To use some anecdotal evidence, I'm an active cyclist doing my 15 to 20 miles almost every single day of the week (except when it is too snowy or black ice covers the crucial parts of my route). I'm keeping my weight around 170lbs at 5'8.5" which is already overweight if you have any faith in that BMI system. My body fat is pretty low. When I go on vacation for 3 weeks or more, not exercising my legs properly during that time, and get into cycling again I already notice the effects of atrophy as a decrease in performance while in general I keep my weight.
I should add that I also don't eat too much what is generally consider to be unhealthy food. But there's the occasional ice cream, salty potato chips, beer, and soft drinks. Cutting them out would be a decrease in life quality to me and I rather spend some extra time on my bicycle to burn those calories (20 mile days).
You underestimate those older Millennial and younger GenX gamers. There's a good chunk that is interested in multi-player which is reflected in the crowd funding base of Star Citizen for example. The average age of players in EVE Online also happens to be within that range. CCP even had the means to evaluate the hardware of their player base and see whether they'd be a possible target audience for the game. Other than that, Valkyrie also has a single player campaign as far as I know.
Other than, yes, their game not being good didn't help it either. From what I know the single player was bad as well.
However, if they just released it for the PC without all the additional requirements it could have done a lot better in filling that action-gameplay gap from which their EVE Online has been suffering for a long time.
Pretty much the same applies to Dust 514, which was a mediocre shooter at best. And since the crowd that is mostly attracted to consoles wasn't really interested in the link with EVE Online, Dust 514 had to stand on its own legs. And there it had to compete with other shooters like Call of Duty, Battlefield and the likes. I believe it would have fared a lot better on the PC with its direct link to EVE Online. There its mediocrity could have easily been overshadowed by it offering its complementary gameplay to existing EVE Online players.
That's a lot of EVE players wanted at that time anyway. But CCP knew better.
Given all the previous questionable moves they made they're pretty bad at anticipating how technology will play out for them.
Their main game EVE Online runs on Python, which requires them to use specialized server hardware that emulates single-core behaviour on multi-cores systems.
They made deals with Sony to develop their Dust 514 for the PS3, a console whose feature was already superseded by the PS4 when the game finally released. And also while all of their consumer base was using the PC platform.
Their investment in White Wolf and the development of the World of Darkness MMO didn't go too well either.
I'm not too surprised that they miscalculated once again.
As far as I'm informed it's not AMD's 7nm process to begin with. They haven't had their own fabrication since 2008 when they chose GlobalFoundries. Apparently they took this step because of the costs involved in every subsequent node shrink. What they do now is to develop the CPU design and TSMC will be using their 7nm process to implement said design.
Theoretically Intel could do the same if they wanted to. Outsource at least some of their production until their own processes have become good enough.
The big question is what it would take for them to do so. Personally I think we won't be seeing this happen as long as enough people are willing to pay for their overpriced CPUs, just to get the best possible performance in video games.
Perhaps.
But that may not remove the need for at least some exercise while also involve changing our diet as well. Higher carbohydrate intake for example has also been linked to diabetes mellitus in cats. This of course usually doesn't happen in their natural environment, where they mostly are carnivorous. For this they seem to have evolved one of the most efficient digestive system. But we humans put extra carbs in their food to increase caloric value at a low cost. At least that's what I've noticed the last them when looking at the ingredients in dry cat foot. There you can usually find wheat flour or brewers rice. Which introduces energy sources that their metabolism seemingly isn't prepared to deal with properly. They're still far less prone to these conditions as other animals like dogs or us omnivorous humans for example, but the tendencies are certainly there.
From my personal observations I know that cats usually still have some very active phases during which they may dart around like a lunatic in your house. Or they do whatever they want outside like hunting and killing small animals at which they are very good if you can believe the claims that link cats to the decline of wildlife. That may be already enough to keep their bodies relatively healthy.
I call bullshit on this one. If you cut your calories you'll lose weight. Sure, that in itself isn't a bad thing. But if you don't exercise your muscles, which of course includes your cardiovascular system, you still won't get the necessary training we humans evolved for.
Face it, our biology did not develop over tens of thousands of years for sitting around most of the time. Storing excess energy in the form of triglyceride now and then is part of that surviving strategy. Keeping energy stored that way apparently is not.
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I'm wondering about that as well. Commercially they are very successful after all.
What demographics are watching them anyway? Are there any reliable statistics here?
But then again not even as a kid I had much use for your typical superhero stories from DC or Marvel.
Depends on the kind of book you want to write, I suppose.
I used LaTeX for quite some time, because it was the preferred word processor in the engineering department of my University. Everyone used it and you were expected to use it as well. It's a good tool for writing scientific papers and similar things.
But when I moved to writing fiction narratives as a hobby I found other (proprietary) software, like Scrivener, a lot more comfortable to work with. Programs like these have a GUI that is designed to aid writers in organizing and sorting their thoughts for writing fiction and non fiction. For someone who is new to using a word processor, this may also be a lot more intuitive.
'Pro' primarily distinguishes those people who do their activity for monetary or other gains from 'amateurs' who do it for fun.
As far as I see this, as soon as big money is involved (maybe only indirectly) and sportsmanship in itself becomes less important the incentive to cheat in order to gain an advantage over your opponents gets bigger as well.
I also does not appear to be unique to video gaming. A similar phenomenon has been observable in physical sports for a long time.
I could swear that I read something very similar some days ago here: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Most German restaurants won't like it if you order tap water.
They'd be willing to serve you some "Tafelwasser" which is essentially bottled tap with additions (may be carbonated or not). It's distinct from mineral water, which is the most frequently consumed form of bottled water. And of course they expect you to pay for it.
And yeah, most soft drinks in Germany are also carbonated. Except for 100% fruit juices and milk based products.
When they introduced deposit costs for carbonated drinks in cans, PET, and glass bottles some manufacturers tried to circumvent these costs by not making their drinks carbonated. If I remember correctly they tried to compensate for the slightly acidic taste of beverages we've gotten used to with other additives. But judging from what I can find today in our regular super market chains, where virtually none of these beverages are still in existence, this approach must have failed. People rather pay the additional 0.25€ deposit for a 250ml can of Redbull knock-off that otherwise would only cost something like 0.2€.
Yes, I also agree on the other things about being more cautious. But how does the sensitivity of the microphone work based on electromagnetic radiation? I'm intrigued.
Carry a smartphone in a backpack, in a zipped pocket, in order to reduce sensitivity of the microphone (an electromagnetic radiation).
Wait what?
I mean, I do agree on you. At least as far as all those security concerns go. Having a backdoor of any kind in your device is dodgy at best.
But I think your reasoning appears to rely on the premise that a backdoor planted by the Chinese government is inherently less secure than a backdoor planted by authorities like the NSA. And therefore the Chinese backdoor would be more prone to exploitation, which then outweighs the dangers that may come from surveillances by a local authority. Feel free to correct and or add something here.
Maybe that is true. Maybe not. I'm not in a position to make assumption about the competence of China's cyberwarfare. I just can see why at least some people are more concerned by spying from people who can directly affect them than those that are far far away.
Yes, a backdoor is in your phone. Which in itself is a risk that ought to concern you, since it could be exploited by others as well. However that wasn't exactly the point of your question.
You don't bring the foreign "disaster" to your neighbourhood as you don't grant them jurisdiction over you or your neighbourhood just by owning a device that was compromised by them. So unless you plan to go to China yourself or some other place that puts you within the reach of Chinese authorities, what can they do to you? Blackmail?
Now think about what local authorities could do to you if they have some dirt on you. Then compare the two. On top of blackmail the latter can incarcerate you without issues, get a search warrant for your house and worse.
(Playing devil's advocate) that is the reasoning that I can see, despite the whole thing being a false dichotomy to begin with.
Let me use this hyperbole here.
What does you scare more? Hearing from some devastating natural disaster that's happening on the other side of the world. Or hearing from a devastating natural disaster that happening inside your country is headed your way?
Now I don't know how you would answer that question. But a lot of people would probably be more concerned when something like that goes down in their neighbourhood. Things that happen in your vicinity are a more immediate concern to most people.
Conversely we assume that if a foreign Government is spying on you - a civilian - who doesn't live in their jurisdiction can't be affected by their spying as much as badly as from your local authorities. And of course we also assume that these foreign governments do not share their intelligence with our own governments. Which of course is in no way certain. Of course if you're an employee working in sensitive areas, maybe concerning national security or involving things like trade secrets this may be a different issue.
Now this doesn't make being spied on by a foreign government a good thing. And these arguments reek of whataboutism. We ought to prefer nobody spying on us and ought to avoid any device that is suspicious in this way. But I hope this helps to understand why some people would rather let a foreign government spy on them than their domestic government.
What? You don't have your alarm clock across the room? You sleep with it next to your bed? What a strange person you are!
Personally I still use a regular alarm clock and even wear a wrist watch, because that's how I grew up. But seeing how modern cell phones have become these all-in-one devices I am not at all surprised that other older and 'discrete' tech gets displaced by these new devices and that people want to keep them close at all times. That's one of the many other factors that have to be considered here as well.
Google News can go fuck itself with a rusty cheese grater for all I care.
But still, the idea to tax these things is a delicate issue. Having read the currently approved proposal of Article 11 I know that the wording is pretty vague. Certainly not enough to be sure for what they really want. In its current form it would allow "mere hyperlinks accompanied by individual words". Mere hyperlinks, sure. Those usually also contain the head line. But what the hell is "individual words" supposed to mean here? How much leeway can you have here as a for profit company? Would you be able to write a small synopsis of the article in your own individual words?
Source: http://data.consilium.europa.e...
But who gives a crap about what they actually approved of, right?
The (German) laws have nothing to do with something as silly as using the wrong pronouns for someone. That is protected speech. You can also hate people as much as you want and tell everyone about it. That is protected speech as well.
There's a law against speech that incites the masses called "Volksverhetzung", which is usually applied when speech contains calls for violence and or other arbitrary actions against groups of people. You can read about it accurately enough on Wikipedia.
Then there's laws against slander, which exist in pretty much any civilized nations, of course including the US. Cases rarely hold up in court, because of their difficult nature.
True. Trickle down works to some degree. But you know, that requires having enough employees that can put their money back into the economy, being interested in offering lower prices and invested in growth.
Let's start with the first requirement. I wonder how many employees these companies have in the UK or Europe by extension to whom they could possibly pass down those 'dollars'?
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...
This should answer your question. Viner and Gaskill are those two gamers that the article is talking about.
If true, this means Gaskill was fully aware of the possibly lethal consequences for anyone who lived at that particular address. There could and ought to be a case against him as well.
I get it that your response is sarcastic, but I'll try to be honest and blunt here.
It's essentially Seth MacFarlane's fanfiction scripts for TNG, where he gets to play the captain.
This means that it also contains a lot of his humour and moral values, so beware. If you don't like 'get a room' elements, like some of the users above. In one of the episodes for example there's an Andorian looking alien, who gets everyone super horny he comes in contact with. Which happens to be Seth MacFarlane's character among others. If this kind of mental and visual imagery causes you Clockwork Orangesque reactions, maybe avoid watching it.
Where the original Treks often take themselves far too serious, with the notable exception of DS9, Orville's humour makes the often silly plots appear a bit less silly.
I thought it was alright.
Each to their own.
I prefer story arcs that last several episodes to entire seasons over the episodic format that dominated TV shows into the 90's and still does in the form of all those CSI shows. Unless these shows are set up as comedy that doesn't take itself serious, I can't enjoy them any more.
In these modern formats stories you can have proper drama. Characters can die and their actions can have far reaching consequences.
While in these 'classic' case of the week formats, when something drastic happened to a character of the main cast, you as the viewer could be almost certain that they'll use some stupid and lazy plot device (Star Trek and its spin-offs are especially guilty of this) to make it end with everything essentially in the same state as at the beginning of the episode. At least for me this kills most of the suspension such a story can build, because you know the main cast is safe, and those that get killed off are practically red shirts or maybe get a little bit of character development in that particular episode, just to be written out of it again at the end for some cheap plot reasons.
Although these lazy practices only become real issues if there is something like a main cast to begin with. Anthology series that tell short stories, with different settings and characters every time, do allow writers to come up with good plots. Series like Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or Black Mirror are doing a great job with the episodic format.
The question here would be whether exercising and keeping your weight or not exercising and reducing your weight would be more beneficial to your health; or a variation of this with an emphasis on either exercise or weight reduction. Or at least that is what I took away from your post.
The general problem with weight reduction due to reduced calorie intake alone, as I see it, if you do not put in the minimum required work to exercise your muscles your muscles it won't only be triglyceride that are burned, muscle mass will also decrease over time as your body does not require as much muscle power to move around any more. For people living sedentary lives, this may pose a real risk.
To use some anecdotal evidence, I'm an active cyclist doing my 15 to 20 miles almost every single day of the week (except when it is too snowy or black ice covers the crucial parts of my route). I'm keeping my weight around 170lbs at 5'8.5" which is already overweight if you have any faith in that BMI system. My body fat is pretty low. When I go on vacation for 3 weeks or more, not exercising my legs properly during that time, and get into cycling again I already notice the effects of atrophy as a decrease in performance while in general I keep my weight.
I should add that I also don't eat too much what is generally consider to be unhealthy food. But there's the occasional ice cream, salty potato chips, beer, and soft drinks. Cutting them out would be a decrease in life quality to me and I rather spend some extra time on my bicycle to burn those calories (20 mile days).
You underestimate those older Millennial and younger GenX gamers. There's a good chunk that is interested in multi-player which is reflected in the crowd funding base of Star Citizen for example. The average age of players in EVE Online also happens to be within that range. CCP even had the means to evaluate the hardware of their player base and see whether they'd be a possible target audience for the game. Other than that, Valkyrie also has a single player campaign as far as I know.
Other than, yes, their game not being good didn't help it either. From what I know the single player was bad as well.
However, if they just released it for the PC without all the additional requirements it could have done a lot better in filling that action-gameplay gap from which their EVE Online has been suffering for a long time.
Pretty much the same applies to Dust 514, which was a mediocre shooter at best. And since the crowd that is mostly attracted to consoles wasn't really interested in the link with EVE Online, Dust 514 had to stand on its own legs. And there it had to compete with other shooters like Call of Duty, Battlefield and the likes. I believe it would have fared a lot better on the PC with its direct link to EVE Online. There its mediocrity could have easily been overshadowed by it offering its complementary gameplay to existing EVE Online players.
That's a lot of EVE players wanted at that time anyway. But CCP knew better.
Given all the previous questionable moves they made they're pretty bad at anticipating how technology will play out for them.
Their main game EVE Online runs on Python, which requires them to use specialized server hardware that emulates single-core behaviour on multi-cores systems.
They made deals with Sony to develop their Dust 514 for the PS3, a console whose feature was already superseded by the PS4 when the game finally released. And also while all of their consumer base was using the PC platform.
Their investment in White Wolf and the development of the World of Darkness MMO didn't go too well either.
I'm not too surprised that they miscalculated once again.
Won't Intel also outsource some of their chipset production to TSMC?
Would Intel's money benefiting AMD as well?
As far as I'm informed it's not AMD's 7nm process to begin with. They haven't had their own fabrication since 2008 when they chose GlobalFoundries. Apparently they took this step because of the costs involved in every subsequent node shrink. What they do now is to develop the CPU design and TSMC will be using their 7nm process to implement said design.
Theoretically Intel could do the same if they wanted to. Outsource at least some of their production until their own processes have become good enough.
The big question is what it would take for them to do so. Personally I think we won't be seeing this happen as long as enough people are willing to pay for their overpriced CPUs, just to get the best possible performance in video games.
Perhaps.
But that may not remove the need for at least some exercise while also involve changing our diet as well. Higher carbohydrate intake for example has also been linked to diabetes mellitus in cats. This of course usually doesn't happen in their natural environment, where they mostly are carnivorous. For this they seem to have evolved one of the most efficient digestive system. But we humans put extra carbs in their food to increase caloric value at a low cost. At least that's what I've noticed the last them when looking at the ingredients in dry cat foot. There you can usually find wheat flour or brewers rice. Which introduces energy sources that their metabolism seemingly isn't prepared to deal with properly. They're still far less prone to these conditions as other animals like dogs or us omnivorous humans for example, but the tendencies are certainly there.
From my personal observations I know that cats usually still have some very active phases during which they may dart around like a lunatic in your house. Or they do whatever they want outside like hunting and killing small animals at which they are very good if you can believe the claims that link cats to the decline of wildlife. That may be already enough to keep their bodies relatively healthy.
I call bullshit on this one. If you cut your calories you'll lose weight. Sure, that in itself isn't a bad thing. But if you don't exercise your muscles, which of course includes your cardiovascular system, you still won't get the necessary training we humans evolved for.
Face it, our biology did not develop over tens of thousands of years for sitting around most of the time. Storing excess energy in the form of triglyceride now and then is part of that surviving strategy. Keeping energy stored that way apparently is not.