They also have cut off people who paid, though. It's currently being paid for and had another cutoff for Ukraine in early February.
I do always think it's interesting that the "bad" guys like EA had, for a long time, much friendlier store terms (refunds) than Valve did. I also never thought that it was very nice of Valve to historically have…
The guy in charge of it has demonstrated that he'll cut people off from accessing it on a whim, though, so it's not really cheap and easy access for the entire globe. It's access for the selected people.
If you want to see it outside the context of tech forums, you can look up the industry reports and see the numbers yourself. There are some media types that are dropping, obviously, but there are multiple types of…
> I doubt that they will go back to where Sony are now. I agree. However, I do think they would get some positive attention (and some accompanying sales) if they were to backtrack and announce a console more like the…
Xbox has an interesting opportunity going forward, that I expect they'll fumble. Interest in physical media has actually been on the upswing, and, with Sony announcing their plans to abandon physical media, it feels…
Yeah, it definitely requires some luck or planning. I mostly meant that all simply to say, I think that, with Blu-ray physical media, the odds are pretty good you'll be able to watch it in the future, via some means.…
> What happens when those servers go offline? Funny enough, if you keep your PS4 on an old version and jailbreak it, you can just go in and activate the license yourself. No internet or servers required. Turns out, you…
For what it's worth, if it was a PS4, they only require internet access the first time a Blu-ray is played. And, I don't mean the first time a specific Blu-ray is played, but the first time any Blu-ray video is played.…
The AI companies seem to take the viewpoint that everything on the internet is free, except their stuff. It's okay to hammer some random website with AI crawlers, ignoring robots.txt, and causing bandwidth costs to…
Games at a certain point in their life are cheaper on console. At least, physically. I remember being shocked at this years ago, because I expected PC to be cheapest. But, a few years back, I went through and looked up…
Doesn't Steam do that too? For a long time, offline mode in Steam didn't work for many people, and, when it did, it wasn't reliable for being offline for long periods of time. Is that all sorted?
> It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company. Honestly, I'm fine with just placing extra requirements on very successful companies.
I don't understand why anyone who sees how the world works would expect us to end up with a utopia where people work less. The trend has almost always been to work the same, or more, hours as new technologies come out,…
Isn't a solar panel going to be a poor heatsink, though? It's flat, and thus has relatively small surface area compared to its size.
You're ignoring the fact that timing has a lot to do with a short position. There was a long period where shorting Enron would've ruined you, and a short period when it'd make you rich.
Companies that are 80, 100, 200 years old or more have trouble with founders dying. One of the disadvantages of relying on the founder is that founders die. If I'm trying to keep a fund going for the next 100 years,…
I don't even remember what it is I have learned about Creative Labs in the past, but I went into this pretty sure that Creative Labs was going to fuck it up somehow.
I'm expecting most everything to go this route eventually. Charging a subscription fee and having ads seems to be a money maker, so most services will get here eventually. This is also one of the reasons I don't like…
If someone comes in and points out a bunch of valid similarities, are you going to start being nice, or are you just going to call that person's ideas stupid too?
I can think of a couple of possible explanations. One is that they don't really want to sell a lifetime subscription, but it'll look bad if they discontinue the option. This way, they effectively don't sell them…
> Musk at one time said something like "I work 80+ hours a week, so the people around me should work that much too". They are completely blind to how sociopathic they are. It's a totally unhealthy amount to work for…
I'm starting to think that the most likely solution to this problem is that one or more generations leave things in such bad shape that everyone dies. Problem solved, no future generations to be worse off than prior…
I imagine it'll be a while before Amazon wants to build another phone, after what a spectacular failure the Fire Phone was. I'm guessing they'll try again at some point, though.
What's the data in the FsTx folder? Is it just some magic data that Windows looks for?
They also have cut off people who paid, though. It's currently being paid for and had another cutoff for Ukraine in early February.
I do always think it's interesting that the "bad" guys like EA had, for a long time, much friendlier store terms (refunds) than Valve did. I also never thought that it was very nice of Valve to historically have…
The guy in charge of it has demonstrated that he'll cut people off from accessing it on a whim, though, so it's not really cheap and easy access for the entire globe. It's access for the selected people.
If you want to see it outside the context of tech forums, you can look up the industry reports and see the numbers yourself. There are some media types that are dropping, obviously, but there are multiple types of…
> I doubt that they will go back to where Sony are now. I agree. However, I do think they would get some positive attention (and some accompanying sales) if they were to backtrack and announce a console more like the…
Xbox has an interesting opportunity going forward, that I expect they'll fumble. Interest in physical media has actually been on the upswing, and, with Sony announcing their plans to abandon physical media, it feels…
Yeah, it definitely requires some luck or planning. I mostly meant that all simply to say, I think that, with Blu-ray physical media, the odds are pretty good you'll be able to watch it in the future, via some means.…
> What happens when those servers go offline? Funny enough, if you keep your PS4 on an old version and jailbreak it, you can just go in and activate the license yourself. No internet or servers required. Turns out, you…
For what it's worth, if it was a PS4, they only require internet access the first time a Blu-ray is played. And, I don't mean the first time a specific Blu-ray is played, but the first time any Blu-ray video is played.…
The AI companies seem to take the viewpoint that everything on the internet is free, except their stuff. It's okay to hammer some random website with AI crawlers, ignoring robots.txt, and causing bandwidth costs to…
Games at a certain point in their life are cheaper on console. At least, physically. I remember being shocked at this years ago, because I expected PC to be cheapest. But, a few years back, I went through and looked up…
Doesn't Steam do that too? For a long time, offline mode in Steam didn't work for many people, and, when it did, it wasn't reliable for being offline for long periods of time. Is that all sorted?
> It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company. Honestly, I'm fine with just placing extra requirements on very successful companies.
I don't understand why anyone who sees how the world works would expect us to end up with a utopia where people work less. The trend has almost always been to work the same, or more, hours as new technologies come out,…
Isn't a solar panel going to be a poor heatsink, though? It's flat, and thus has relatively small surface area compared to its size.
You're ignoring the fact that timing has a lot to do with a short position. There was a long period where shorting Enron would've ruined you, and a short period when it'd make you rich.
Companies that are 80, 100, 200 years old or more have trouble with founders dying. One of the disadvantages of relying on the founder is that founders die. If I'm trying to keep a fund going for the next 100 years,…
I don't even remember what it is I have learned about Creative Labs in the past, but I went into this pretty sure that Creative Labs was going to fuck it up somehow.
I'm expecting most everything to go this route eventually. Charging a subscription fee and having ads seems to be a money maker, so most services will get here eventually. This is also one of the reasons I don't like…
If someone comes in and points out a bunch of valid similarities, are you going to start being nice, or are you just going to call that person's ideas stupid too?
I can think of a couple of possible explanations. One is that they don't really want to sell a lifetime subscription, but it'll look bad if they discontinue the option. This way, they effectively don't sell them…
> Musk at one time said something like "I work 80+ hours a week, so the people around me should work that much too". They are completely blind to how sociopathic they are. It's a totally unhealthy amount to work for…
I'm starting to think that the most likely solution to this problem is that one or more generations leave things in such bad shape that everyone dies. Problem solved, no future generations to be worse off than prior…
I imagine it'll be a while before Amazon wants to build another phone, after what a spectacular failure the Fire Phone was. I'm guessing they'll try again at some point, though.
What's the data in the FsTx folder? Is it just some magic data that Windows looks for?