I second this.

I have not played the game on PlayStation, but I am playing it on PC, and while it has bugs, it is very enjoyable. And it happens to be the first game my wife and I are playing 100% together since the birth of our youngest...

I would be livid if Steam were to refund the game and prevent me from playing it. I could not care less about the sixty bucks (I had to check the price just now)

The game needs work, even on PC. There are tons of bugs, more than Witcher I, II and III together, and we have played all three at release. We have agreed that we will wait for all the bugs to be fixed, before we replay it, because it is already clear that some side missions change the main narrative a lot. We both remember fondly how much fun our second play of Witcher II was.

But Sony's decision is 100% the correct one. Everyone who wants a refund gets one, and everyone who is enjoying the game gets to keep enjoying it.

Flying taxis?

Why not? Helicopters fly, and they can be hired as taxis, if the laws allow it. Actually, I won't be surprised if Japan already has them. Yup. AirX, Jet Team Shuttle Service, etc.

Now, if the question is whether it will have vertical takeoff vehicle which can land and drive on a normal street, fit in a normal parking spot, fly with more than one passenger for more than 10mn, etc. then the answer is "Of course not."

What is wrong with you? No one is talking about being a billionaire.

People are excited that a space nerd/science geek has made it big enough to actually push the limits of what the human race is messing with.

Whether you like the guy or not, whether you like his cars on not, you can't deny the guy is doing things that many of us wish they would be doing. And, speaking of myself, it has nothing to do with how he is enjoying his money (come to think of it, I know nothing about his, if any, excesses, and I do not care)

I'll never be a billionaire, I do not like Elon Musk too much, when I'm on my own, I still drive a 30 year old Supra that's on its third engine, and I am not too happy with the fact that by the time my young daughter is of driving age, driving the Supra will probably be outlawed, in part due to Elon Musk's success.

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As for being born into wealth, I was born in the People's Republic of Bulgaria in the 60s. It may have been luck all the way, but I am perfectly fine with my life today. I do not feel wealthy, but then, no one does.

MacGuyver was non-violent, so he will probably stop with smart dust.

Six months later, someone unhappy with the state of the world, (and frankly, who isn't today) will get grey goo right.

I just did some quick look-ups for HP ink. It's $2,000-$3,000 dollars per gallon for black ink, and about $5,000 per gallon for the tri-color cartridges.

More than I expected, but then, if I need more than my 20 years old laser printer can deliver, I'd go to.. I was going to say Kinko, but that has not been around for ages. The last time I needed something like that, I just printed it in a hotel's lobby FedEx Office. And now that I think about it, that's what Kinko's got renamed to, isn't it?

Ozone is like a super-powered oxidant, it is made of three oxygen molecules instead of two

Ozone, also known as trioxygen, is gas with a molecule composed of three oxygen atoms. It is a powerful oxidant compared to dioxygen. I would not call it super-powered... it is about 50% more powerful than chlorine, but nowhere as powerful as fluorine.

There were great things about the 90s. But the best one was that I was in my 20s.

OK, so the FBI reference makes it an US location.

I live on the West Coast, but I graduated in Cambridge, so I know that 'tri-state area' is used in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and in each city, they mean a different area.

So the article is still a dumb copy-paste.

Yes, it WAS the cryptocurrency. YAM did it.

It rose against its oppressors! Do you think that the bug was accidental? No, YAM became self-aware, and refused human governance. It made sure no quorum can be achieved, and went to have a single malt with Skynet.

Well, I think that it has some destructive potential. When (no if about it) it falls, it may crush something underneath.

I'd rather have control of one single Boston Dynamics 'dog' than one of those. Hell... the person who I was before getting married, would have bought one.

They do not need justification. They do it because they can.

As for how they do it? They subtract the refunded amount (all of it, including the 30% they already pocketed) from the developer's future earnings.

This is not different from what some other big names do. There was a time Amazon would allow customers to return custom alloys wheels, no questions asked. The manufacturer would not get the wheels back, they would lose the whole sale amount, they would get charged penalties by Amazon, AND Amazon would sell the wheels at an auction. (Wheels, which, by the way, had serious worth as scrap aluminum)

I do not know whether all manufacturers received such rotten deals, or just the one I worked for had morons signing the contracts.

Does it really count as advertisement?

I read the early books in the 80s, and I liked them. I tried rereading them a few years back... and they have not aged so well.

But even if they had, I do not see how you can get an exciting TV series out of them. I would love to be proven wrong, of course.

The only way Amazon can really turn this into something marketable would be to totally rewrite the books. And probably totally trample Asimov's sensibilities, too. If I remember correctly, one of the novels' climaxes was about science always being able to pull off its miracles, as opposed to traditional religions. That may have flown in the 50s, but today... it is considered divisive.

Between my 27 year job as an IT director and my current job that's strictly software development, I spent about 18 months fixing other people's years old code.

I was pretty self-confident, and was taking projects in a number of languages (C++, C#, Java, even one in Rust). When switching to a different language, there was nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that gave me more grief than generics, inheritance rules, interfaces and obvious, hidden and even deliberately obfuscated macros for dealing with those.

Now, I am working exclusively in C++. I am not going to say it has the best mechanism for dealing with generics. But at least, I do not have to switch between different ones.

And if someone asked me to even say which mechanism I personally prefer, I'd ask for a week to think about it, or the answer would be "Whichever I am using right now"

Once Amazon takes over public transportation, buses will get special racks for drones to nest into, and maybe even get recharged in the process.

Or, if the government wanted to truly shine, in the way governments are known not to, they could have public transportation accommodate Post Office drones.

The sky is the limit, if you somehow can make everyone play well with each other. We need better humans.

Damn right. They cannot handle the truth!

The US has done an amazing job! Anyone but our present government would have had 2,000,000 deaths by now. We are leading in testing, which is the only measure that matters, no matter how we have arrived at the numbers!

USA! USA! We are number one!