Double the human pop = more forests need to be cut down for roads, farms, housing, businesses, etc... Climate scientists pretending to be dumb, because talking about birth control in the 3rd world is inconvenient.
No, I would be willing to put money on the majority of climate scientists being absolutely for promoting birth control.
It's "Christian" conservatives who are against birth control like condoms and abortions. They are also the ones against doing anything about climate change. Strange that isn't it?
YOU may stream whatever you like, and I respect your decision to do that. But that's apples, and we're talking about ORANGES here, friend. I'm talking about Sony making, (I'm suddenly struggling to remember the particulars of this story...) Playstation games downloadable, but in such a way, IIRC, that you can only play them if the console can verify that you're allowed to play them.
It sounds like you didn't pay attention to the story the first time either, because we're talking about PlayStation Now here. A subscription service where you pay monthly to access a library of streamable games for no extra cost. That you can also now download and play offline.
You had me until "If I stop paying, or Sony turns it off because they can, I can't access the content I have *purchased*"
You probably should have carried on listening, because this doesn't apply to anything you *purchased*. It's only for their Netflix-style subscription service where you pay monthly and can then stream (and now download) any game in their subscription library for "free" (i.e. no additional cost).
Goat Simulator started out as a broken mess and got that polish when it hit it big. It was just somebody playing around in the Unreal Editor and they posted the "game" as a joke. It took off with Streamers and the rest as they say is history.
You just got literally everything wrong about Goat Simulator. It was an internal game jam entry from one of Coffee Stain Studio's staff members that they posted on YouTube and became a viral video hit before they (as a company) polished it and released it on Steam.
It was never released in a non-finished state on Steam.
Another good example is Surgeon Simulator, a game released as a prototype outside of Steam and was only released on Steam after it was finished.
Steam is not the Apple App Store of PC, if you have an early prototype you can release it anywhere. All that having a flood of prototypes and genuinely bad faith asset flips on Steam does is make it hard to find good indie games.
because there's no accounting for taste, and if you took away garbage there'd be no Goat Simulator. As the saying goes, one man's trash is another's treasure.
I'm sorry, but anyone with a functioning brain would see that infinitely more effort and polish has been put in to games like Goat Simulator than any of those garbage "asset flips" that litter the Steam store.
Yes the difference between a good and bad game is subjective, but broken zero effort trash is much easier to agree on...
Because when connected to a computer with a serial cable, you can only speak to the chip over serial
Serial? You mean RS-232? Who connects to their phone over RS-232 any more? How do you even connect to a modern smartphone with an RS-232 cable??
When I plug my phone into my computer over USB the phone gives me the option to tether via USB, which then presents the phone as a USB ethernet device and routes the traffic over that...
The left's position is actually - Internet service providers should not prevent me from accessing content platforms through their network. Content platforms can choose what they publish on their own platforms.
Being forced to publish someone else's speech is a violation of freedom of speech.
Twitter is not a town square, the internet as a whole is the town square and Twitter is the equivalent of a newspaper; Just one of many private sources of speech.
As per Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974) it is unconstitutional to compel a publisher to print a reply - a newspaper is neither “government-owned nor government managed”; thus newspapers deserve different analysis and robust First Amendment protection against governmental intrusion.
At least initially, the Dugout Loop clientele would be limited to about 1,400 people per event, or roughly 2.5 percent of stadium capacity. The Boring Company says that capacity could be doubled over time
Is that it? 2-3 subway trains worth of people per event? If someone just built a real subway system then it could potentially shift everyone to the stadium and back.
The law only applies to data-enabled phones so that first one is by design, the transition from micro-USB to USB-C is an awkward phase but it'll happen, and while Apple basically got away with it they were "forced" to sell micro-USB to Lightning adapters in Europe and are rumored to be switching to USB-C at some point.
To be fair, if you're comparing this 3D printed gun to a zip gun then the 3D printed gun does need less manual skill to create and the minimal metal content (none if you unload it and remove the pin) makes it much easier to get it passed security screening.
The lack of strength is a disadvantage but it might be enough for a one-shot weapon...
> But since you think they are magical boxes that make production precision devices at the push of a button
No, but from what I remember when we were first talking about this 3D printed gun years ago (why is it back in the news now?) you do get a set of relatively easy to assemble, barely strong enough parts at the push of a button, minus the firing pin which was a nail or something.
Then, there's Android which you can perfectly use without Google services and which is free to download, modify and compile.
However if, as a manufacturer, you want to sell a phone with the Play Store preinstalled you have to also bundle all of Google's other apps and make them the default.
The fact that Android is based on open source is irrelevant as 99.9% of people who buy Android are only interested in the content on the proprietary Play Store.
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No Jedi shit is involved here
Server: Authentication please
Client: My authentication was successful, I may enter
Server: Your authentication was successful, you may enter
I think that "Jedi mind trick" is a good analogy.
Double the human pop = more forests need to be cut down for roads, farms, housing, businesses, etc... Climate scientists pretending to be dumb, because talking about birth control in the 3rd world is inconvenient.
No, I would be willing to put money on the majority of climate scientists being absolutely for promoting birth control.
It's "Christian" conservatives who are against birth control like condoms and abortions. They are also the ones against doing anything about climate change. Strange that isn't it?
How dare Google support government censorship like that !
YOU may stream whatever you like, and I respect your decision to do that. But that's apples, and we're talking about ORANGES here, friend. I'm talking about Sony making, (I'm suddenly struggling to remember the particulars of this story...) Playstation games downloadable, but in such a way, IIRC, that you can only play them if the console can verify that you're allowed to play them.
It sounds like you didn't pay attention to the story the first time either, because we're talking about PlayStation Now here. A subscription service where you pay monthly to access a library of streamable games for no extra cost. That you can also now download and play offline.
You had me until "If I stop paying, or Sony turns it off because they can, I can't access the content I have *purchased*"
You probably should have carried on listening, because this doesn't apply to anything you *purchased*. It's only for their Netflix-style subscription service where you pay monthly and can then stream (and now download) any game in their subscription library for "free" (i.e. no additional cost).
What if others picked up on this?
What, you mean like instead of paying for individual audio CDs you could pay a flat monthly fee and listen to anything you like?
Or instead of paying for individual movie DVDs or TV show boxsets you could pay a flat monthly fee and watch anything you like?
Or just rip the blu-ray disc..?
When did twitter become the equivalent of a PR release to a financial magazine?
How about "when the CEO of a company reveals plans for that company"? Doesn't really matter what medium the announcement is made on does it?
That's not a very diverse portfolio, you should at least have some Beanie Babies in there...
Mobile devices have those neutered OSes that only let you install approved software and don't give you full control over your own property
(Looks at rooted custom ROM Android phone) Maybe you're just using the wrong mobile device?
Goat Simulator started out as a broken mess and got that polish when it hit it big. It was just somebody playing around in the Unreal Editor and they posted the "game" as a joke. It took off with Streamers and the rest as they say is history.
You just got literally everything wrong about Goat Simulator. It was an internal game jam entry from one of Coffee Stain Studio's staff members that they posted on YouTube and became a viral video hit before they (as a company) polished it and released it on Steam.
It was never released in a non-finished state on Steam.
Another good example is Surgeon Simulator, a game released as a prototype outside of Steam and was only released on Steam after it was finished.
Steam is not the Apple App Store of PC, if you have an early prototype you can release it anywhere. All that having a flood of prototypes and genuinely bad faith asset flips on Steam does is make it hard to find good indie games.
I'm sure the type of developer who does that would simply abandon their old label and create a new developer account to carry on.
because there's no accounting for taste, and if you took away garbage there'd be no Goat Simulator. As the saying goes, one man's trash is another's treasure.
I'm sorry, but anyone with a functioning brain would see that infinitely more effort and polish has been put in to games like Goat Simulator than any of those garbage "asset flips" that litter the Steam store.
Yes the difference between a good and bad game is subjective, but broken zero effort trash is much easier to agree on...
Because when connected to a computer with a serial cable, you can only speak to the chip over serial
Serial? You mean RS-232? Who connects to their phone over RS-232 any more? How do you even connect to a modern smartphone with an RS-232 cable??
When I plug my phone into my computer over USB the phone gives me the option to tether via USB, which then presents the phone as a USB ethernet device and routes the traffic over that...
The left's position is actually - Internet service providers should not prevent me from accessing content platforms through their network. Content platforms can choose what they publish on their own platforms.
Being forced to publish someone else's speech is a violation of freedom of speech.
Twitter is not a town square, the internet as a whole is the town square and Twitter is the equivalent of a newspaper; Just one of many private sources of speech.
As per Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974) it is unconstitutional to compel a publisher to print a reply - a newspaper is neither “government-owned nor government managed”; thus newspapers deserve different analysis and robust First Amendment protection against governmental intrusion.
At least initially, the Dugout Loop clientele would be limited to about 1,400 people per event, or roughly 2.5 percent of stadium capacity. The Boring Company says that capacity could be doubled over time
Is that it? 2-3 subway trains worth of people per event? If someone just built a real subway system then it could potentially shift everyone to the stadium and back.
The law only applies to data-enabled phones so that first one is by design, the transition from micro-USB to USB-C is an awkward phase but it'll happen, and while Apple basically got away with it they were "forced" to sell micro-USB to Lightning adapters in Europe and are rumored to be switching to USB-C at some point.
Or "It's unsafe to open our iMac Pro because we left exposed capacitor leads on the PSU"
The first? What about the USB charger law that put a stop to this nonsense?
You don't need to download spyware on to peoples' devices if it already comes preinstalled at the factory (points finger at forehead)
Erm, doesn't your ISP / phone company know your real name and address?
To be fair, if you're comparing this 3D printed gun to a zip gun then the 3D printed gun does need less manual skill to create and the minimal metal content (none if you unload it and remove the pin) makes it much easier to get it passed security screening.
The lack of strength is a disadvantage but it might be enough for a one-shot weapon...
> But since you think they are magical boxes that make production precision devices at the push of a button
No, but from what I remember when we were first talking about this 3D printed gun years ago (why is it back in the news now?) you do get a set of relatively easy to assemble, barely strong enough parts at the push of a button, minus the firing pin which was a nail or something.
Then, there's Android which you can perfectly use without Google services and which is free to download, modify and compile.
However if, as a manufacturer, you want to sell a phone with the Play Store preinstalled you have to also bundle all of Google's other apps and make them the default.
The fact that Android is based on open source is irrelevant as 99.9% of people who buy Android are only interested in the content on the proprietary Play Store.