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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
"Probably fly away again in April."
Yeah, I've had houseguests like that.Those usually don't fly away again. They tend to remain in permanent orbit.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
By coincidence, I happened to encounter a couple more last night. "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin
are you doing listening to Christmas songs at the end of February?
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@HardwareGeek oh man, now I'm going to have to link some extreme weirdness:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
By coincidence, I happened to encounter a couple more last night. "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin
are you doing listening to Christmas songs at the end of February?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
By coincidence, I happened to encounter a couple more last night. "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin
are you doing listening to Christmas songs at the end of February?
in a "what would ________ sound like if ________ had written it?" mashup.
It's a thing I hear on the radio sometimes on my way home from work. A guy takes a familiar tune and rewrites it in the style of some classical composer — Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, whoever — and you're supposed to try to figure out the original tune — sometimes it's heavily modified — and the composer whose style is being imitated.
Last night's was fairly easy, if you heard the whole thing and were paying attention (I didn't; I got in my car in the middle of it) and were sufficiently familiar with Wagner's music (I'm not) to recognize the "Tristan chord" at the end. The first part of the melody was fairly clear at the beginning, before it started being woven into and through the dense wagnerian texture.
I don't know why he chose that particular melody to use now. After the answers are revealed, he talks a bit about the composer's style, whether the mashup was based on a specific piece or just a general style, and how he adapted the popular tune to fit, but never (that I've ever heard, anyway) about why he chose a particular tune. I wouldn't be surprised if he deliberately avoided this at Christmas time, because it would be too easy if you were already thinking about Christmas music.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek oh man, now I'm going to have to link some extreme weirdness:
Ooh, boy. I sometimes stream music at work, but I never watch YouTube, even if it's just music, so I won't listen to them now. I'll give them a go this evening, but I don't know how much extreme weirdness I can handle.
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@HardwareGeek those are also just ones I picked from the top of the search for those groups, so they might be weird examples anyway.
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You ever wonder whether the apocalypse is happening?
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@Magus If it's a weird example of extreme weirdness, does that mean it's really not extreme weirdness after all?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
By coincidence, I happened to encounter a couple more last night. "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin
are you doing listening to Christmas songs at the end of February?
Many of my neighbors still have their lights up. And some of them are still turned on at night.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
You ever wonder whether the apocalypse is happening?
Nah, it already happened, this is the afterlife.
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EDIT: Apparently it was updated after they recovered it. Earlier headline:
Filed Under: Necromancy is not a crime
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@boomzilla DNS failure; no such domain :(
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@HardwareGeek : s/zombo/zombie/
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@boomzilla Yes, I got the joke; it's fairly obvious. I'm just disappointed that it doesn't exist.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
A spokesman for JD Wetherspoon said they have checked the stairs since the latest incident with council health and safety officers and no defects had been found.
So drunk people falling down stairs?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Zecc this page:
...has a bunch of tweets talking about the texting. It's pretty amazing.
Wonder if the IT guy had to go into witness protection.
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During their research, Faber and Kingston developed their own measurement system in order to asses the likelihood of a child developing autism.
Um... that's not how you spell "assess".
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Next time you're struggling at work, think of how you might still be better off than this Aussie vet pulling an entire beach towel out of a pet snake's stomach:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Next time you're struggling at work, think of how you might still be better off than this Aussie vet pulling an entire beach towel out of a pet snake's stomach:
So I assume carpet pythons usually feed on carpets instead?
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Frankfurt joins the Maybe-drone Club. Gatwick overjoyed at getting fresh company. Confirmed drone sightings still at 0. News
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There's always one little self-important indie turdhole in the crowd...
E: I can't into twatter. See the post below.
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Sorry to those who are disappointed you can no longer play #thelongdark on GeForce Now. Nvidia didn't ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it. Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist.
"Complain at them because we asked them to remove it"
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@loopback0 they're... right, though.
I'm not sure Nvidia could even be said to be acting legally, depending on how this works. But if they're going to be distributing games, they definitely need to pay for it, and if they're not, removing the game is the only option worth even considering.
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@Magus I don't follow your logic. How can a 3rd party butt into an agreement which impacts said 3rd party in precisely zero ways?
Remember, they're not losing any money over this.
But let's play this through:
- I'm installing the game through Steam on my own rig at my own home and can stream the game through my nVidia card's capabilities.
- I'm installing the game through Steam on a rented rig at my own home and can stream the game through my nVidia card's capabilities.
- I'm installing the game through Steam on my own rig at a server host and can stream the game through my nVidia card's capabilities.
- I'm installing the game through Steam on a rented rig at a server host and can stream the game through my nVidia card's capabilities.
So, at which point do we cross the "You may not do that" threshold and for what reason?
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@Rhywden I don't see any problem at all until around the fourth one, assuming they're using your personal steam account for it all.
But also, they aren't some random unrelated third party: they made the game, and agreed to the ways it can be distributed. Valve can't just change that because it will make them money.
On top of that is the argument they themselves made: the draw of the service is the library of titles. No one will buy into it otherwise. If they advertise or even namedrop people they haven't paid for this advantage they're reaping, there's definitely something bad going on.
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@Magus It's still distributed through Steam, though. You literally cannot do anything without Steam (or any other service they support). And you need to "own" the game on your personal account. Obviously, "own" is only "licensed" here.
Only the endpoint is different. And pray tell, what makes number four so magically different?
Let's change it to a leasing model.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 they're... right, though.
They're morons. The reason it's not availble on Geforce Now is because they asked it to be removed, that's their fault and disgruntled customers should take it up with them.
@Magus said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure Nvidia could even be said to be acting legally, depending on how this works. But if they're going to be distributing games, they definitely need to pay for it, and if they're not, removing the game is the only option worth even considering.
All Geforce Now is basically just a VDI. Steam is still doing the distribution and it still needs the end user to have bought it on their Steam account. it's just accessed via Geforce Now.
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Just renewed all certs for my own server.
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@Rhywden If GeForce Now was just a "remote desktop" wrapper around Steam I might agree. But from their website
There are more than 225 games currently supported. More games will be added regularly. You need to own the supported games on Steam, Uplay, or Blizzard Battle.net to play them on GeForce NOW.
They are clearly doing... something to the games, to add them to their service. And thanks to copyright law, anything that's not explicitly allowed in the EULA is illegal. And EULAs say you may run one copy in your own computer and don't you even think about doing anything else to their precious software.
So yes, step 1 might already be illegal if the EULA says you don't get to stream the game.
A more common example: Microsoft and Oracle tend to have licenses where only you have to pay for every different person that directly or indirectly accesses their product, even if it's just one copy running in your computer. That's a very similar case and it's widely enforced.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
So yes, step 1 might already be illegal if the EULA says you don't get to stream the game.
But steam does offer its own form of network streaming, which must be legal under Steam/whatever game's EULA
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden If GeForce Now was just a "remote desktop" wrapper around Steam I might agree. But from their website
There are more than 225 games currently supported. More games will be added regularly. You need to own the supported games on Steam, Uplay, or Blizzard Battle.net to play them on GeForce NOW.
They are clearly doing... something to the games, to add them to their service.
They're probably only caching the installation files. Everything else would not lead to those installation times measured in seconds.
Basically, they do the same thing you can do on your own PC (and which I did myself after reinstalling Windows) - simply copying the cache contents of
/steamapps/...
into your local folder. Steam then only looks if everything is alright and does not re-download everything.
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I wonder if there are ponies. 'Cause I know a guy that... never mind
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
They are clearly doing... something to the games, to add them to their service.
Compiling them to Linux, maybe?
Remember this?:
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@Dragoon One of the birds in the control group was called Gartner.
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@Applied-Mediocrity
He created statistics by plucking his nose and flipping a coin?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The arguments make sense. Opening weekends are very important to a movie's viewership; few people will be viewing a 3 month old movie. There's a billion and a half people in China and I estimate the total number of cinema visits in China in the next three months will be approximately zero. And with covid-19 proliferating in Europe, the amount of people visiting a large congregation like a cinema will be lower than usual. Not to mention that the original release schedule is still a month out - there might well be a prohibition of assembly in large parts of Europe by mid April, like there is already in Switzerland.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
there might well be a prohibition of assembly in large parts of Europe by mid April, like there is already in Switzerland.
I was just googling for that; last I heard, the ruling in Switzerland was only for assemblies with >= 1000 people. Apparently somewhere, the local government stepped in and restricted movies to at most 50 people per room. The other mention that I found was for a concert hall. Normally they can fit a bit more than 1000 people in there. Now they are restricting each viewing to 900 guests. (Not sure why 900 people would be OK, but 1100 wouldn't,... But, I guess, if you decide to draw a line, you need to draw it somewhere.)
As you mention, I wouldn't be surprised if the cinemas have already taken a hit in the past few days.
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@cvi Yeah, the 1k limit for Switzerland is all I heard so far too. I don't think many cinemas have rooms that seat more than that, but they do usually have multiple rooms, so it depends on how the prohibition is written as well. Consider what happens in case of evacuation.
Also, I've only got Dutch-language links, but apparently Italy today issued a closure of all schools and universities until 14 March, and a prohibition on spectators at sporting events (primarily indoor and stadiums) until 4 April. Naturally these are initial dates which are likely to be extended if the situation does not improve.