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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Cleaning colored bills is a crime, so selling cleaning agents for that purpose would probably fall under entrapment. But like I said, IANAL.
RACIST!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
Better Call Saul was good.
The AMC show produced by the AMC network and distributed by Sony Pictures? I agree it's fantastic, but Netflix has nothing to do with its production
Just watching the latest episode and the intro says “A Netflix Original Series”.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
Better Call Saul was good.
The AMC show produced by the AMC network and distributed by Sony Pictures? I agree it's fantastic, but Netflix has nothing to do with its production
Just watching the latest episode and the intro says “A Netflix Original Series”.
Netflix list some shows as "Netflix Original" if they're the exclusive distributor in the country you're watching it.
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@topspin I did a quick search just now and apparently they show the "Netflix original" title-card in the regions where Netflix has exclusive streaming rights for it
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Our current timeline keeps on delivering:
"Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202201174If nothing else, they nailed the naming. There are some videos too.
Filed under: Servitors
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
"Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators"
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
Better Call Saul was good.
The AMC show produced by the AMC network and distributed by Sony Pictures? I agree it's fantastic, but Netflix has nothing to do with its production
Just watching the latest episode and the intro says “A Netflix Original Series”.
Netflix list some shows as "Netflix Original" if they're the exclusive distributor in the country you're watching it.
The first time I saw "Netflix Original" tagged onto a movie that's almost as old as I am, I went .
Since then I've learned to ignore it as advertising lingo that has little or nothing to do with reality.
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heise.de has an article on the fonts to use or not to use in your job application (in German):
Etc.
Bla blah blah
Etc.
Are those people looking for Software Developers and IT Experts, or for Sales Men and Marketing Drones?
Yes.
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@BernieTheBernie Now I want to see a job application in Impact.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
heise.de has an article on the fonts to use or not to use in your job application
But nothing on making it so that the job application can be read and understood, or ensuring that it is actually relevant to the job applied for?
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@dkf Well no, that could give the impression that a CV might actually get read.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie Now I want to see a job application in Impact.
Wing Dings
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie Now I want to see a job application in Impact.
I'd like to see job descriptions written in Sans Bullshit Sans.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I'd like to see job descriptions written in Sans Bullshit Sans.
Blank pages are so easy to review.
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This story might perk up @Boner (the thread's founder):
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@cvi so basically Pickle Rick.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
advertising lingo that has little or nothing to do with reality
But you repeat yourself.
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Damn radio says the damn president is releasing damn disaster relief to damn Kentucky. Fuck Kentucky.
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@JBert Please try to keep this thread above the waist.
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If you thought cable companies couldn't get any worse...
An off-duty Charter Communications employee attempted to rob an 83-year-old woman a day after making a service call at her home and murdered her when she caught him in the act. Her family sued Charter, claiming they were negligent in supervising him, failed to do proper pre-employment background checks, ignored warning signs, etc. The jury agreed Charter was at fault — 90%, anyway — and awarded the family $357M in compensatory damages.
But wait; there's more! They awarded a further $7B in punitive damages. Needless to say, Charter will appeal.
Not mentioned in this version of the story, but discussed elsewhere.
- Charter continued to bill the woman for service after she was deceased.
- Charter attempted to force the suit into arbitration, which would have
- used an arbitrator of Charter's choosing,
- been secret, and
- limited damages to the amount of her final bill.
- Charter's attempt for force arbitration allegedly included forging documents in which the victim agreed to arbitration. There were a couple of problems with those documents.
- They were forms for paying by mail with a check, with a to accept arbitration. The family proved she paid by credit card, so she wouldn't have used those forms.
- Like many such forms, it had a version date. The date of that version of the form was two years after the woman was murdered. Therefore, she couldn't have used those forms, unless she was still paying her bill from beyond the grave.
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@HardwareGeek sounds really shitty of them. Things like forced arbitration should just be deemed invalid, no matter what you sign, fuck off with that.
But $7.3 billion? That’s ridiculous. Just means they’ll drag this lawsuit into the 22nd century and the lawyers will eat it all. Family won’t see a dime.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But $7.3 billion? That’s ridiculous. Just means they’ll drag this lawsuit into the 22nd century and the lawyers will eat it all. Family won’t see a dime.
Considering the last 2 points in @HardwareGeek's post, I'd say the 7B is justified. Sadly, your last 2 sentences are probably still true...
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Today in I think that's the point:
*laughs in PC master race*
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@DogsB Then again, PC users get to enjoy the very reliable and trustworthy anti-cheat kernel-mode driver.
*laughs in doesn't-play-Activision-or-in-fact-any-multifucker-crap master race*
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Then again, PC users get to enjoy the very reliable and trustworthy anti-cheat kernel-mode driver.
*laughs in doesn't-play-Activision-or-in-fact-any-multifucker-crap master race*
Playing a single-player game apparently doesn't prevent you from having to be online, log in to stupid fucking launchers, downloading 70 bajillions GB of updates every week (typing in your UAC password 4 times, guess limited user accounts do not exist in their design), etc.
In other words, I'm not going to pay for pc games anymore in this lifetime, unless they make HL3.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Then again, PC users get to enjoy the very reliable and trustworthy anti-cheat kernel-mode driver.
Pretty sure consoles have that kind of crap built right into them from the get go.
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Rich German man living alone refusing to pay occasional 60 eurodollars for PC game considered harmful
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin In other news today ()...
Rich German man living alone refusing to pay occasional 60 eurodollars for PC game considered harmful
If they only make crap so "rich" loner can't spend his available income without getting angry at the purchase, I fail to see how that's my fault.
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@topspin .the .product will make you .happy
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Then again, PC users get to enjoy the very reliable and trustworthy anti-cheat kernel-mode driver.
*laughs in doesn't-play-Activision-or-in-fact-any-multifucker-crap master race*
Playing a single-player game apparently doesn't prevent you from having to be online, log in to stupid fucking launchers, downloading 70 bajillions GB of updates every week (typing in your UAC password 4 times, guess limited user accounts do not exist in their design), etc.
In other words, I'm not going to pay for pc games anymore in this lifetime, unless they make HL3.
Some of the many aspects to weigh in your purchase decisions. There have been several games that appealed to me with their gameplay and graphics, but which I skipped buying due to their added shackles.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in I think that's the point:
It's probably less of the point than you think.
In The Old Days, a game being owned by a particular console maker meant it didn't appear on the other consoles. There wasn't Halo on Playstation and there wasn't Sonic on Nintendo.
Microsoft has committed to keeping Call of Duty going on Playstation. Sony already publishes a few Xbox games, notably the Major League Baseball game that comes out every year.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear The console hardware is also rather similar these days (this gen as much as last; before that, the differences were way more significant).
The other question is how much it matters at this point. At release, having a good+exclusive lineup was likely more important (get them into the ecosytem). At this point, people will already have decided which console to go with (or to go with both). How many people would buy a new console just for CoD? How many of those don't already have both consoles anyway? Perhaps better to sell a few more copies of the game...
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in I think that's the point:
It's probably less of the point than you think.
In The Old Days, a game being owned by a particular console maker meant it didn't appear on the other consoles. There wasn't Halo on Playstation and there wasn't Sonic on Nintendo.
Microsoft has committed to keeping Call of Duty going on Playstation. Sony already publishes a few Xbox games, notably the Major League Baseball game that comes out every year.
I suspect the end game for Xbox is a subscription service that runs everywhere. There's not much in hardware unless you can convince people it's a lifestyle choice. I just hope cloud isn't the endgame unless latency disappears one day. would be excellent bait.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I just hope cloud isn't the endgame unless latency disappears one day.
The speed of light laughs at you.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I just hope cloud isn't the endgame unless latency disappears one day.
Waiting for available virtual console. Approximately 5 minutes remaining...
Would you like to try our new Lite-games, which do not require GPU time? now only $200/month.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Waiting for available virtual console. Approximately 5 minutes remaining...
A few years ago, NVIDIA was in particular talking about dynamic distribution of the resources on HW. Instead of waiting 5 minutes for a "free" virtual console, you'll get one immediately. Everybody else on the same node just gets a bit lower quality graphics too...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I just hope cloud isn't the endgame unless latency disappears one day.
The speed of light laughs at you.
Quantum entanglement might be laughing, but you're afraid it will stop if you look at it.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Quantum entanglement might be laughing, but you're afraid it will stop if you look at it.
I don't think anyone's ever exhibited information transfer faster than the speed of light by quantum entanglement. Or any other mechanism (there have been a few claims, but they've never actually included information transfer).
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Waiting for available virtual console. Approximately 5 minutes remaining...
A few years ago, NVIDIA was in particular talking about dynamic distribution of the resources on HW. Instead of waiting 5 minutes for a "free" virtual console, you'll get one immediately. Everybody else on the same node just gets a bit lower quality graphics too...
: Weekend. Work's done. What should we do now?
: Battlefield 124 just came out. We could try that.
: Meh. Graphics are shit on Fridays. And a new launch on top of that? The resolution's going to be horrible. No.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
(there have been a few claims, but they've never actually included information transfer)
Like the transfer of majesty?
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@acrow You can use your flexible working hours to free up some time for gaming between 06:00 to 09:00 (best performance + graphics). Work in the evenings instead, since everybody else is hogging the cloud then.
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@cvi No can do. That's when my is charging.
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@Boner At least you can be reasonably confident you won't get vegan . Cats are obligatory carnivores, and I approve of that much inspiration, at least.
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@Boner Filed under: Things a 5-year-old never said
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@HardwareGeek you would still almost certainly barf from BARF though.
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@Bulb Normal minced meat fulfills the requirements for most cats, AIUI. So, if you were to eat Steak Tartare...
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Radio says Louisiana has legalized noodling - thus freeing its incipient fishperson citizenry to begin their destined journey back to Dagon's beckoning sea.