While they only played Battle Royal games for 5 hours a week... that might becuase they are playing other more traditional FPS games such as COD etc. Even additionally playing Warcraft or Minecraft for 30 hours a week will likely result in them having better hand-eye coordination and reflexes over someone that plays less games in general, and someone who plays many different games will be more likely to spend more on their gaming system that someone that just plays one game as they also more likely spend more on the games themselves.
If you rearrange the same set of stats you could even stretch to the conclusion that people with more money play a wider variety of games and so are better at them in general making this a class issue....
Its worse that that. On their own consoles, Nintendo has a pricing policy for digital games on their walled garden store that links the price to physical copies of the game. As the game cards for the switch sell relatively few and cost a lot to produce as they need special fabrication plants that along with licensing fees, they won't achieve a good ROI for the game maker without being priced somewhere above what you could call a budget price bracket. The price of the physical copies is significantly higher than they would otherwise be and difficult to reduce in price during the life of the game. This results in older games, including their download versions, being 'stuck' at an inflated price so don't expect to see downloads of old mainstream games with physical copies drop in price any time soon. And of course Nintendo continues to take a large cut of from development platform licensing, store fees, hardware licences etc. and that's on top of the profit they actually make on the consoles themselves.
It is a mistake to assume just because there is no web page the domain is inactive.
Not all active domains carry public web pages. I have a number of domains that I only use for email and other non-web things such as game servers or have web pages on non standard ports and require authentication for special uses such as my private family photo archive.
Not even really true. Except for the apple TV thing, which I only heard in passing in a general article listing all the TV related announcements and isn't even really about apple or innovation, this is the first I've seen any reporting on any of these three from CES this year and all this article claims is the opposite of my personal experience so I am inclined to consider it a paid promotion to try and make up for their lack of impact.
IANAL however my understanding is that if they say "we expect" something and actually do expect that with available information then it isn't a false statement even if what they expected didn't happen due to factors outside their control. They possibly knew there was a chance of overstock but had accounted for that and made mitigations for it with the new AI uses etc, however what they couldn't possibly control, know or predict was the shareholders, for no real reason, to suddenly dump sell shares on the back of it which is actually they only reason shareholders lost so much value. For there to be any chance of this lawsuit to get off the ground they need to be able to prove that Nvidia had actual concrete knowledge that the statement was false.
Its also kind of interesting that the stardock employee goes by the name of "deepspacenine", which I'm sure they don't have permission to use in relation to a space game from whoever the current holders of the DS9 trademarks are (CBS/Paramount?)...
The first court filing was actually December 2017, over a year ago, and according to those filings there had been ongoing communication around potential infringement between the parties for years before without resolution. It seems that the final straw for F&P was the announcement of the DLC that by its very nature can't not infringe as it is based on the original games.
Going by the filed court documents (from both sides) they paid for: 1) The Star Control Trademark (ie 'the name', not the copyright on the universe/characters/ships/backstory etc.) 2) The CODE for SC3 3) Possibly (but possibly not, its fuzzy) small parts of the SC3 IP that were original to that game and weren't directly derived from the SC1/2 material such as some artwork and story dialog. The quantity of this likely to be minimal and mostly useless when detached from the bulk of the SC IP.
It is also clear from the court filings that Stardock were aware of this but still went ahead with developing and publishing a game based on IP the don't have rights for.
The licence from the creators to Accolate/Atari expired when Atari didn't pay the required royalties for a number of years so they didn't purchase usable distribution rights for SC3 (without a new licence being agreed) or sufficient IP to base a game on.
Given that Stardock previously decided to try and block Fred and Paul from releasing the source for SC1/2 (which they own 100% of the rights for) under a non commercial use licence, resulting in them having to rename it as Stardock have the trademark, there is no surprise that they are reluctant to licence anything to Stardock.
On a related note. If (and it seems likely given the current filings) the full court case is found in favour of F&P, Stardock will likely have to pay all profit from Origins to F&P, along with damages, withdraw/block all sales (ie. no more downloads on any platform, including their own website) and be significantly out of pocket. They may also have to take steps to disable any existing installs of Origins if the court decides it. They may also be along the way have to forefit the trademark.
Except if you read the full announcement history from Stardock they initially stated that Origins didn't have the original IP, then later claimed it did, and apparently included a reasonable portion of the SC1/2 universe back story which they have admitted (in court filings)that they didn't have rights to.
Ultimately tho the use of the character/story/universe/artwork IP for 1&2 belong to Paul and Fred, 3 was developed under a specific licence from Paul and Fred which not only was for one game only (as part of a three game publishing licence), it expired when as per a clause in the contract royalties stopped which is accepted fact in court filings by both sides. Leaving Accolade/Atari/Stardock owning a specific trademark registration and the code for 3 but with no right to use the characters. Also Stardock were aware of this over a year ago yet continued knowing they had no right to use the story material they were using, which resulted in the owners of the IP correctly filing a DMCA claim. Stardock put themselves into this situation and have no one else to blame, despite the spin they are trying to put on it.
Also Stardock are clearly misrepresenting the timings of events in an attempt to save face, given the timing of their posts and claims, compared to the date of record on the court documents.
This is barely different than if I went and developed a star wars game, featuring all the main characters, ships etc. just because i bought a VHS tape 20 years ago and didn't expect (now) Disney to do something about it.
Maybe someone needs to write a paper with an statistical analysis on how the length of the lit review relates to the usefulness and citability of a paper...
The fact is the increased need for computational power, which makes profit for the company (why do it if no profit), actually drives the companies to solar, wind and other "free" energy sources. If you are making $10000 a day and your only non capital cost at $1000 a day is electricity it suddenly becomes a lot more worthwhile to invest in solar panels and more efficient processors.
You realise you could have bought the Vive headset addon for a lot less than a new VR system giving you "integrated" headphones? Of course as a Rift shill I guess you never really bought a Vive to begin with....
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C# and even *shudder* VB.Net allow you to do this with compiler options/directives and/or use of var type out of the box. Not that i would recommend it but you can effectively do the above by turning off the requirement to declare variables or declare everything as a var and setting the compiler options to allow all implicit type conversions. As you move towards completed code you move towards specific type declarations and disallow any implicit conversions...
If the whole tube shears? The capsule is probably screwed anyway as it hits a tube edge and shears in half... near vacuum wouldn't matter either way.. not that different than what would happen to any current underground/tube rail system although the speeds involved would make things nice and quick. Damage on this scale however would be very unlikely as its analogue would be the wings falling off a plane or a major bridge collapsing as you drive over it. While these things do happen its normally due to bad design or very poor maintenance, which are issues with any mass transit system. If the capsule is lucky however it will hit the incoming air, decelerate due to the air pressure and stop before it reaches the break in the track and if everyone was strapped in they may survive.
Likely however, for most breaches the size of the hole will limit the inrush of air. There won't be a sonic boom 'wavefront' for as the hole the air is entering through is much smaller than the overall diameter of the tube. This is one of the main reasons the glass tube experiments are just wrong. As the capsule approaches the zone where there is air it will hit increasing air resistance, gradual at first, and cause the capsule to slow. While deceleration could be quite rapid, as there is space around the edges of the capsule for air to flow past there is no reason that the capsule would not stay on its rails or that the deceleration itself would be destructive.
Ultimately however the only way to find out for sure is to try it. Answering questions like this is one reason they are building a test system. A system where they can run through various failure scenarios, design in safety systems and mitigate risks.
The implosion scenario that is being touted by a few "science" youtubers catering for the clickbait sensationalist audience to inflate their view counts and advertising revenue isn't even close to how the system would fail in a real build, just like how the movie myth of people being sucked out of an impossibly small hole (such as a bullet hole or a small window) in the event of an aircraft decompression is not even close to what would happen. The experiments they claim to model what would happen are not even close for a large number of reasons... for instance the hyperloop capsules won't be creating a near seal to the walls like the steel ball bearings they use to "model" the transport cars. The way glass shatters bears no resemblance to how a reinforced and buttressed steel tube would fail or react to a failure. The thickness and strengths of the materials used don't scale the way they claim they do to the different forces involved between the models used and life size. The transport cars aren't solid lumps of steel and are able to deform if impacted. Things like expansion joints in sealed pipes most definitely have many existing solutions and despite claims there is little difference between the expansion joints needed for a 300km hyperloop and a 300km oil pipeline.
Kodi is open source... even if they did add signing requirement to the official build, it would be trivial for someone to fork it and produce a version without the signing requirement. Pretty sure if the Pirates have the skill to write a Kodi plugin to facilitate that, they would have no difficulty with making a custom build without signing.
When I started reading/. (which is about a year before I first created this account) I was happy to exclude it in adblock as the advertising was mostly on target and not intrusive. About 6 months ago I reversed this situation so for this user at least the increase in advertising will mean LESS revenue.
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While they only played Battle Royal games for 5 hours a week... that might becuase they are playing other more traditional FPS games such as COD etc. Even additionally playing Warcraft or Minecraft for 30 hours a week will likely result in them having better hand-eye coordination and reflexes over someone that plays less games in general, and someone who plays many different games will be more likely to spend more on their gaming system that someone that just plays one game as they also more likely spend more on the games themselves.
If you rearrange the same set of stats you could even stretch to the conclusion that people with more money play a wider variety of games and so are better at them in general making this a class issue....
Its worse that that. On their own consoles, Nintendo has a pricing policy for digital games on their walled garden store that links the price to physical copies of the game. As the game cards for the switch sell relatively few and cost a lot to produce as they need special fabrication plants that along with licensing fees, they won't achieve a good ROI for the game maker without being priced somewhere above what you could call a budget price bracket. The price of the physical copies is significantly higher than they would otherwise be and difficult to reduce in price during the life of the game. This results in older games, including their download versions, being 'stuck' at an inflated price so don't expect to see downloads of old mainstream games with physical copies drop in price any time soon. And of course Nintendo continues to take a large cut of from development platform licensing, store fees, hardware licences etc. and that's on top of the profit they actually make on the consoles themselves.
It is a mistake to assume just because there is no web page the domain is inactive.
Not all active domains carry public web pages. I have a number of domains that I only use for email and other non-web things such as game servers or have web pages on non standard ports and require authentication for special uses such as my private family photo archive.
Not even really true. Except for the apple TV thing, which I only heard in passing in a general article listing all the TV related announcements and isn't even really about apple or innovation, this is the first I've seen any reporting on any of these three from CES this year and all this article claims is the opposite of my personal experience so I am inclined to consider it a paid promotion to try and make up for their lack of impact.
IANAL however my understanding is that if they say "we expect" something and actually do expect that with available information then it isn't a false statement even if what they expected didn't happen due to factors outside their control. They possibly knew there was a chance of overstock but had accounted for that and made mitigations for it with the new AI uses etc, however what they couldn't possibly control, know or predict was the shareholders, for no real reason, to suddenly dump sell shares on the back of it which is actually they only reason shareholders lost so much value. For there to be any chance of this lawsuit to get off the ground they need to be able to prove that Nvidia had actual concrete knowledge that the statement was false.
Its also kind of interesting that the stardock employee goes by the name of "deepspacenine", which I'm sure they don't have permission to use in relation to a space game from whoever the current holders of the DS9 trademarks are (CBS/Paramount?)...
The "Facts" as stated in that article are at odds with the various court filings from both sides and statements made since by Stardock.
The first court filing was actually December 2017, over a year ago, and according to those filings there had been ongoing communication around potential infringement between the parties for years before without resolution. It seems that the final straw for F&P was the announcement of the DLC that by its very nature can't not infringe as it is based on the original games.
No.
Going by the filed court documents (from both sides) they paid for:
1) The Star Control Trademark (ie 'the name', not the copyright on the universe/characters/ships/backstory etc.)
2) The CODE for SC3
3) Possibly (but possibly not, its fuzzy) small parts of the SC3 IP that were original to that game and weren't directly derived from the SC1/2 material such as some artwork and story dialog. The quantity of this likely to be minimal and mostly useless when detached from the bulk of the SC IP.
It is also clear from the court filings that Stardock were aware of this but still went ahead with developing and publishing a game based on IP the don't have rights for.
The licence from the creators to Accolate/Atari expired when Atari didn't pay the required royalties for a number of years so they didn't purchase usable distribution rights for SC3 (without a new licence being agreed) or sufficient IP to base a game on.
Given that Stardock previously decided to try and block Fred and Paul from releasing the source for SC1/2 (which they own 100% of the rights for) under a non commercial use licence, resulting in them having to rename it as Stardock have the trademark, there is no surprise that they are reluctant to licence anything to Stardock.
On a related note. If (and it seems likely given the current filings) the full court case is found in favour of F&P, Stardock will likely have to pay all profit from Origins to F&P, along with damages, withdraw/block all sales (ie. no more downloads on any platform, including their own website) and be significantly out of pocket. They may also have to take steps to disable any existing installs of Origins if the court decides it. They may also be along the way have to forefit the trademark.
Except if you read the full announcement history from Stardock they initially stated that Origins didn't have the original IP, then later claimed it did, and apparently included a reasonable portion of the SC1/2 universe back story which they have admitted (in court filings)that they didn't have rights to.
Ultimately tho the use of the character/story/universe/artwork IP for 1&2 belong to Paul and Fred, 3 was developed under a specific licence from Paul and Fred which not only was for one game only (as part of a three game publishing licence), it expired when as per a clause in the contract royalties stopped which is accepted fact in court filings by both sides. Leaving Accolade/Atari/Stardock owning a specific trademark registration and the code for 3 but with no right to use the characters. Also Stardock were aware of this over a year ago yet continued knowing they had no right to use the story material they were using, which resulted in the owners of the IP correctly filing a DMCA claim. Stardock put themselves into this situation and have no one else to blame, despite the spin they are trying to put on it.
I'd recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?... for an overview of the court's current view of the situation.
Also Stardock are clearly misrepresenting the timings of events in an attempt to save face, given the timing of their posts and claims, compared to the date of record on the court documents.
This is barely different than if I went and developed a star wars game, featuring all the main characters, ships etc. just because i bought a VHS tape 20 years ago and didn't expect (now) Disney to do something about it.
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My thoughts and prayers go out to Intel processors everywhere.
Community standards will guarantee the spread of disease goes viral.
Maybe someone needs to write a paper with an statistical analysis on how the length of the lit review relates to the usefulness and citability of a paper...
The fact is the increased need for computational power, which makes profit for the company (why do it if no profit), actually drives the companies to solar, wind and other "free" energy sources. If you are making $10000 a day and your only non capital cost at $1000 a day is electricity it suddenly becomes a lot more worthwhile to invest in solar panels and more efficient processors.
You realise you could have bought the Vive headset addon for a lot less than a new VR system giving you "integrated" headphones? Of course as a Rift shill I guess you never really bought a Vive to begin with....
you've never owned a Beats headset (since the Apple takeover) the cables on them fail even faster than an iphone headphone adaptor...
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Really why?
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I guess someone had some spare budget for programmers and they had to give them something to do for busywork...
C# and even *shudder* VB.Net allow you to do this with compiler options/directives and/or use of var type out of the box. Not that i would recommend it but you can effectively do the above by turning off the requirement to declare variables or declare everything as a var and setting the compiler options to allow all implicit type conversions. As you move towards completed code you move towards specific type declarations and disallow any implicit conversions...
People used to believe that if you were on a train going more than 30mph you wouldn't be able to breathe due to the wind.
Until it is tested on a full size system no one can be sure of anything.
Most likely scenario?
If the whole tube shears? The capsule is probably screwed anyway as it hits a tube edge and shears in half... near vacuum wouldn't matter either way.. not that different than what would happen to any current underground/tube rail system although the speeds involved would make things nice and quick. Damage on this scale however would be very unlikely as its analogue would be the wings falling off a plane or a major bridge collapsing as you drive over it. While these things do happen its normally due to bad design or very poor maintenance, which are issues with any mass transit system. If the capsule is lucky however it will hit the incoming air, decelerate due to the air pressure and stop before it reaches the break in the track and if everyone was strapped in they may survive.
Likely however, for most breaches the size of the hole will limit the inrush of air. There won't be a sonic boom 'wavefront' for as the hole the air is entering through is much smaller than the overall diameter of the tube. This is one of the main reasons the glass tube experiments are just wrong. As the capsule approaches the zone where there is air it will hit increasing air resistance, gradual at first, and cause the capsule to slow. While deceleration could be quite rapid, as there is space around the edges of the capsule for air to flow past there is no reason that the capsule would not stay on its rails or that the deceleration itself would be destructive.
Ultimately however the only way to find out for sure is to try it. Answering questions like this is one reason they are building a test system. A system where they can run through various failure scenarios, design in safety systems and mitigate risks.
The implosion scenario that is being touted by a few "science" youtubers catering for the clickbait sensationalist audience to inflate their view counts and advertising revenue isn't even close to how the system would fail in a real build, just like how the movie myth of people being sucked out of an impossibly small hole (such as a bullet hole or a small window) in the event of an aircraft decompression is not even close to what would happen. The experiments they claim to model what would happen are not even close for a large number of reasons... for instance the hyperloop capsules won't be creating a near seal to the walls like the steel ball bearings they use to "model" the transport cars. The way glass shatters bears no resemblance to how a reinforced and buttressed steel tube would fail or react to a failure. The thickness and strengths of the materials used don't scale the way they claim they do to the different forces involved between the models used and life size. The transport cars aren't solid lumps of steel and are able to deform if impacted. Things like expansion joints in sealed pipes most definitely have many existing solutions and despite claims there is little difference between the expansion joints needed for a 300km hyperloop and a 300km oil pipeline.
Kodi is open source... even if they did add signing requirement to the official build, it would be trivial for someone to fork it and produce a version without the signing requirement. Pretty sure if the Pirates have the skill to write a Kodi plugin to facilitate that, they would have no difficulty with making a custom build without signing.
When I started reading /. (which is about a year before I first created this account) I was happy to exclude it in adblock as the advertising was mostly on target and not intrusive. About 6 months ago I reversed this situation so for this user at least the increase in advertising will mean LESS revenue.
Good job.