Mr Sewards, who is a member of a parliamentary group focused on consumer protection, also voiced fears that such a precedent could eventually extend to physical goods, as digital technology becomes increasingly integrated into household items.
If anything, the recent AWS outages and all the IOT physical device failures prove beyond all reasonable doubt that this is happening, and not just accidentally.
That’s not the point I was making. She argued that opening the box was tantamount to agreeing to the terms, but the full terms aren’t on the box. You can’t access the full terms until after you’ve opened it, thus you haven’t agreed to them yet as you haven’t had the opportunity to read them. And, even then, the agreement is far from iron clad.
Yes if GOG is an option I go for that.
THANK YOU!! It’s a crime that this wasn’t in the original meme
It’s only a monopoly in that it’s so much more popular than everything else that’s come along, and the main reason for that is because it’s better than competitors. Most others are just publisher stores, and almost all have functionality that users disagree with.
In the OP article, the game distribution platform Rokky is also apparently a publisher store, having recently bought the rights to distribute Chinese games in the west.
On the subject of ownership, Peacock claimed that video games being licensed to consumers, rather than sold, was not a new phenomenon, and that “in the 1980s, tearing the wrapping on a box to a games cartridge was the way that gamers agreed to licensing terms.”
This is absolute bullshit and not at all how it works, now or back in the 1980s. You can’t agree to terms without seeing them first, and even then such agreements aren’t necessarily legally binding. For someone who is supposed to write laws, she should be removed from office for showing such gross incompetence.
Okay, I’m starting to think this article doesn’t really know what it’s talking about…
For most of modern computing history, however, analog technology has been written off as an impractical alternative to digital processors. This is because analog systems rely on continuous physical signals to process information — for example, a voltage or electric current. These are much more difficult to control precisely than the two stable states (1 and 0) that digital computers have to work with.
1 and 0 are in fact representative of voltages in digital computers. Typically, on a standard IBM PC, you have 3.3V, 5V and 12V, also negative voltages of these levels, and a 0 will be a representation of zero volts while a 1 will be one of those specified voltages. When you look at the actual voltage waveforms, it isn’t really digital but analogue, with a transient wave as the voltage changes from 0 to 1 and vice versa. It’s not really a solid square step, but a slope that passes a pickup or dropoff before reaching the nominal voltage level. So a digital computer is basically the same as how they’re describing an analogue computer.
I’m sure there is something different and novel about this study, but the article doesn’t seem to have a clue what that is.
Microsoft already trialled this in Scotland, except it was powered by prototype tidal which was also being tested at that site.
One of the other things Microsoft tested was running the server room in a pure nitrogen atmosphere. Apparently this was very beneficial as it reduced the failure rate of components - you can’t have a spark without oxygen. That was actually the main advantage taken away from the test, with a view to maybe adopting that for datacentres on land (I doubt this though, the level of protection you’d need for workers makes it cost-prohibitive).
Cold is better managed by being somewhere cold - which is why they’re all busy building tons of datacentres in Nordic countries.
More like a wet three bean salad.
So does he have to use the girls’ bathroom, also??
Some cars even have a separate zone for the rear. However I’ve only seen that on touch screen models, so they can suck a dick.
I had great fun with it in the back, though. They couldn’t see my temp on the touch screen at the front, just that the zones had been split, and I managed to get the two in the front to bicker because the driver thought the front passenger had split them XD
Hard disagree. Physical buttons with a digital temperature and split controls for left and right (and maybe rear as well). Automatic climate control that also does the fans. I had all of this on a car in 2010, and it was perfect - I could just leave the temperature set at what I wanted all the time, and the fans would blow hard if it needed to heat or cool significantly to get there.
Some manufacturer’s, eg Volvo, don’t automatically adjust the fans, which is wank. But nothing is as wank as touch screen controls - I fucking hate it when you’re trying to aim at a button, then as you go in to press the car bumps and you completely miss.
Not to mention the fact this is a UK media outlet sharing a story from the US - and it’s not even their reporting but just a regurgitation of an actual local news station.
One of the big issues with 7-Zip is that it only really updates manually. There is literally no update functionality baked in, at least in the version I’ve been running.
I didn’t read the article when I started the comment, because I wanted to comment based on my existing knowledge. Then I edited after I’d watched it and confirmed my assumptions were correct.
The article is about the necessity of keeping clear of robots that have the physical capability to cause harm.
Well what do you mean by provocation? Because I can’t imagine her doing anything that would actually warrant the responses alleged.
Car software is a massive issue in many regards. Traditionally they’ve been terrible at it, many outsource to small outfits and the end product tends to be crap. Kind of like TVs, the software is bloated and the hardware (CPU and memory) is cheap. But all of it is proprietary, meaning you can’t reprogram them, and this is mandated by law in some parts such as engine management.
There is diagnostics, though, and some of it is standardised and has been for decades. Other parts are proprietary, but it is possible to gain access to some of it. Technology Connections just started a series on car stuff, and it starts with how the Engine Management Unit (or whatever Nissan call their car computer) handles the fuel injection mixture to continuously oscillate between rich and lean and ensure proper catalytic conversion of the exhaust while also monitoring the condition of the catalyst.
So yeah, you can maybe see why some of it should be locked down and difficult to interfere with, and why laws mandate this. If cars are supposed to meet emissions requirements, you have to ensure that somehow.
Unfortunately there aren’t as many laws requiring car manufacturers to open up other things in their software.
Bob’s Autos would probably have some sort of OBD tool for whatever vehicles he expected to work on. Car mechanics either keep up with the industry (and pay for access to some things) or they go out of business. And the cost is ultimately passed on to the customer.
Yeah, I mean you never explicitly stated it wasn’t the fault of the Israeli’s here. But I think that is still implied by what you said, and that’s why people are raging against you.
There’s a nuanced issue here about fault and responsibility, I think. The Israelis are absolutely at fault for any mistreatment of Greta (or any prisoner), and the Israelis are responsible for their actions, but Greta is also responsible for putting herself in harm’s way. However, Greta isn’t necessarily at fault for doing so, and furthermore her responsibility for her own actions must in no way detract from the responsibility nor fault by the Israeli forces.
Responsibility isn’t portioned out in percentages. Someone can be 100% responsible for something, but someone else can also have some responsibility. However, fault is portioned out, and a victim is in no way at fault for the fault of their attacker.
But your original point was that Greta “provoked” the Israelis. This is you implying fault. And I don’t think you can reasonably justify this assumption.
This sounds like utter nonsense.