So yeah, they do live by the super-sea and frolic in the autumn mist. I draw the line at super-honalee though. That's batshit crazy!
We need a new word to describe open source where the developers pledge to never get paid for the lifetime of their involvement with the project.
They won't be OceanGate-grade. They used PRCF that had already been rejected by quality control. That's a non-starter in aircraft.
As production has ended, if the A380 is genuinely necessary, then the economics shift somewhat. That doesn't mean they CAN be replaced, from the sounds of it they can't* (at least in many cases), but the inability to replace the aircraft would mean that options that aren't rational become necessary.
*I have to be careful here. If the wing is designed to be the absolute minimum weight possible, then I don't see how they could be without fully disassembling the entire wing and then reconstructing it from the ground up. And adhesives/welding might mean that just can't be done. At all. On the other hand, there's no obvious reason why you couldn't design a wing to have far more structural support than actually needed AND make spars deliberately maintainable and replaceable. I don't have an A380 handbook in front of me, so can't say how Airbus approached this. But it seems improbable that they're built to be swapped.
Remember: it's IPO season for Anthropic and OpenAI. Anything they say now is (more) suspect (than usual).
Not always. If you pay money to get a ticket into a movie or a concert, cause some sort of commotion, you will be kicked out and you will not get a refund nor would you deserve a refund.
That is largely true.
But in the case of games, I'm not on your property. And we already discussed servers - I might not even be on your servers.
It might help to clearly separate these two cases: Pure online games with servers hosted exclusively by the game publisher, and the 90% of other games (single player or multiplayer with player-operated servers).
Because you are such an entitled moron, you don't realize how wrong you are about pretty much everything.
And there we have it, the usual ad hominem of people who have run out of actual arguments. Signaling the end of the discussion, because why the fuck should I bother talking to someone who says such shit?
Goodbye.
Actually, they are just tiny flat Egyptians.
We've all seen the murals, there's always a Pharaoh surrounded by tiny little people doing menial work. Turns out it's not Artistic Perspective at all.
The game server is in the domain of the seller. -- Irrelevant.
No, it's not. Nice of you to cut away the part that already said so. It is HIGHLY relevant if something you purchased becomes unusable due to an action of the seller or not.
Why should you be allowed to? Because you gave them money?
If you are new to this planet, this might be news to you, but otherwise: Yes, that is how commercial transactions work. You pay for something, you get to use it.
Just because you paid money doesn't give you permission to do whatever you want
No, but it absolutely DOES give me not just the permission but the RIGHT to use the thing I paid for for its intended purpose and for any other purpose I see fit. First sale doctrine and so on.
If refunds for a disabled games were to be a thing, they'd have to figure something out, because it's not the store's fault.
That is correct. But the store could either sell the same game again (in your case where the buyer personally was banned for whatever) or demand a refund from the manufacturer as is common practice when defective goods are returned. Really, there's not much to figure out, this is already a solved problem.
[the word "buy"] does not automatically mean you are now the owner of something.
Actually, that is exactly what it means.
Merriam-Webbster: (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buy)
"to acquire possession, ownership, or rights to the use or services of by payment especially of money : purchase"
Seriously, why are you trying to defend an indefensible position ?
The Trash 80s? Had a Commodore PET 3032. A whole 1 megahertz. On the other hand, the IEEE 488 meant that I could send a command to one disk drive to transfer to a second disk drive, whilst printing, with the computer then totally free to actually do other stuff. SCSI it wasn't, but for the time, it was an ingenious solution to a lot of problems.
Sheer luxury, lad! Sheer luxury!
We had to make our own bits and push them uphill! Both ways! In the snow!
Pah, youngsters.
However, some of you might be old enough to remember the April 1st when the front page turned pink and a link to Cute Overload caused absolute chaos. Did CmdrTaco ever get a pony, btw?
The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.
