I don't think Windows can read Xbox discs. But you don't necessarily need to "rebuy" it:
> If you already own a digital license for these games on console, that license now carries over to your PC or handheld.
There's nothing wrong with storing some things *also* in cloud services.
But when it comes to copies of important things, two is one and one is none.
If I got one for free, I'd probably plug it in and mess with it a bit, establish that it doesn't really add anything useful, and shove it in a drawer.
If it was $25, I could see a few niche users buying it.
But $230 is insanity.
AI is too easy to use, when the work is done at home. And I say, good riddance. Homework has for decades been a substitute for learning. AP classes aren't actually "advanced" they just require more homework. If AI kills all those extra hours of busywork, that's a good thing.
The historically-bad results of the final at least suggest that doing out-of-class work themselves actually helps students.
However, much progress has been made. I am alive right now because of a breakthrough cancer therapy that was FDA approved in 2011. (Well after Nixon!)
This fall I am going to get a therapy that mass-replicates your own immune cells in a lab for re-injection. It's so expensive (and has uncertain benefit) that it's not generally available in the UK or Canada yet. Automation will be a key to making it cost-effective.
It's such a complex area, I think information retrieval and computational science / simulation, or AI if you prefer, will help.
Now imagine saying this about, say, Japan.
I've noted the comments here about how this is old news: that's true. But it will be novel to some people who didn't live through it, and even for those who did, it's a necessary reminder. Japan is ruthless, unscrupulous, and unethical: they will do anything. They're not the only ones, of course, but they're arguably the most dangerous because of their size, wealth, and longevity. They're the enemy of open standards. They're the enemy of open source. They're the enemy of open protocols. They're the enemy of America. They're the enemy of The West. They're the enemy of security. They're the enemy of privacy. They've always been the enemy and they always will be, because it's in their DNA: it's impossible for them to change.
So any time -- ANY TIME -- there's some statement or initiative or announcement that they're going to support freedom/democracy/etc., any of the things I listed -- the first things that should come to mind are these wise words of Ash: "It's a trick -- get an axe."
Latency to LEO is not a dealbreaker for backup usage. 25-50 ms for Starlink.
Granted, your issue about bandwidth still stands and seems hard to fix. They form virtual cells on the ground with beamforming, but I don't know how many satellites are in view of a city at the same time to divy it up.
Well, I bought Triggerheart Exclica on Xbox Live Arcade back in 2006 on an Xbox 360.
I can go download that game, right now, on my Series X, because, gasp, it's the same account.
So if I were to buy GTA VI for Series X in a few months, and type the download code into the 'redeem code' box, it ties that code to my account. See?
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."
