How do you expect retail stores to buy copies of your game and then also undercut them on digital pricing? You have to cooperate with your retail partners for that to work.

So when you no longer have boxes in stores you're practically selling direct through an online marketplace, you can do sales or special pricing or whatever moves more copies anytime you want.

This seems blindingly obvious.

So... why are you comparing games to movie distribution rights, you know that's different.

Games are more likely to have their server infrastructure shut down being the biggest problem. But.. game companies are bought and sold also, and it's not a platform specific problem of old games getting pulled from digital stores and IP locked up and abandoned.

Your steam library disagrees with you though.

When you no longer have your game sitting on shelves at Walmart and Target etc, you have more freedom to set your price in the digital stores.

Jellyfish that could concentrate heavy metals from the water they live in.
You would let them breed and clean up water in an area, then release a pheromone to get them to jump into your harvester ship, render them and get the contaminants.

They were released in an area with an old nuclear waste dump, so some of the stuff they were concentrating was potentially fissile.
Especially so when the pheromone told them to go up the water intakes at a power plant...

This is likely the proceedings with the paper:

https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/epd...

It appears the ACM PDF reader loaded an 850MB PDF into my phone's browser and has been stuck doing a search on "beam steering" for ten minutes.

No joke, I read ACM papers on information retrieval and human computer action three decades ago and this is just hostile design.

I'll try again on my desktop at home tomorrow but maybe somebody can extract the paper before then.

And, yeah, as others have said this is old (November 2025) but it would be handy to have integrated with my Home Assistant. Much better than setting up ESP-32's with 26Ghz radars in each room.

I would bet $5 you are right.

Courts love Parallel Construction.

These missiles are known for evading Patriot PAC-3's with non-ballistic maneuvering.

That's at least part of what needs CPU. However a $6 233MHz ESP-32 could handle those calculations.

Those nVidia boards are often used for home video boxes, including transcoding. It's possible this was just a video uplink component.

Reportedly the Tomahawks used in the Minab Massacre were video-guided and did fly-arounds to time the double-tap and experimental use of thermobaric detonation of unspent fuel to incinerate the surviving girls and responding parents.

We should worry more about bringing those people to Justice than whatever Russia is doing.

Their finances have been widely covered in the news.

Their IT Lead is making ~$180K.

Their interest income alone was $500K.

They didn't have a local copy strategically, not for a lack of $5K.

Cloud backup is just another backup, not primary storage, if you care about your data.

Some of us have online, nearline, offline, offsite, and multiple cloud backups with much smaller budgets.

That's for people who care about their data (including the bean counters).

Many IT folks (most?) have had to "I told you so" after a bean counter said no to a small spend. I wouldn't assume the IT department is incompetent without evidence.

I suspect most of the amplification of right wing noise has something to do with the left wingishness of the complainers.

My stance comes from seeing it from the other side. I'm comfortably right of center and my previous experience with Twitter (x is a stupid name) is that it absolutely was a left wing echo chamber. It indeed was rather calmer because of the aggressive pruning of any conservative voices.*

I believe the algo serves you aggressively oppositional views to spur contrary posting and raise engagement. It's a rather simplistic but effective tactic. If you're leftish, you get served the worst of the right, along with a strong current of fringe left views to affirm you are "reasonably left, not like those crazies". If you're conservative you get the worst of the left, and a current of toxic right wing enough to affirm that you're not that far right.

My "for you" feed is exclusively militant socialists, feminists, pro trans activists, leftist local politicians (not hard to find as I'm in MN) all just ceaselessly toxic people.
My "following" is like wise a cess pool of right wing commenters, the worst of the worst shouting all sorts of racist, anti women nonsense, interspersed with occasionally interesting comments about ttrpg games and science subjects that are actually interesting.

I joke that "for you" is comments entirely from people I completely disagree with and despise. "Following" is only *mostly* people I disagree with and despise.

(I actually "follow" only maybe a dozen people in science, tech, ttrpg gaming, and work-related subjects. No politics, no dogmatics of either side. Certainly no politicians.)

As a result, I spend almost no time on Twitter

*(Nota bene to this day I still have a banned account from just before musk's takeover for a post in a David Axelrod thread, observing that transsexual strippers & burlesque dancers seemed to militantly insist on the right to dance in front of children to "express themselves" but I'd failed to see any comparable insistence to dancing in front of the elderly.)

About the most succinct, blather free summary I've seen.

Unfortunately, and definitely not to credit the legions of ai snake-oil sales going on, Jevons paradox probably means that rather than ai ushering in some sort of low-work utopia, we'll more likely indeed just figure out how to use it properly and end up back at 40 hour work weeks with (likely) an explosion of increased productivity.
I don't know how we get there personally but that's the sort of blindness we have before paradigms genuinely change, like the coming of the Internet.

New here? Slashdot has been suffused with politics for two decades, as tech stories are largely replaced with a feed that's more and more like the usual social media cesspool of left and right wing dogmatics shutting at each other.

When a candidate is granted a professorship based on race, and then militantly (irrationally) defended again largely based on race, how is nobody supposed to bring that up?

... it's the same fucking people. Who lives in a bubble and doesn't understand how dumb raw dogging the internet is, and enabling remote administration on top of that, that's not specialized Windows or Linux training lol.

Why would your Mac be a directly Internet connected server with no firewalls and remote screen sharing enabled.

You have to go out of your way to enable this then bypass your home router and plug straight into your modem. Or create a cloud instance and intentionally open the remote admin ports to the whole fucking Internet? I'm sure it's been done like I'm sure there's MySQL instances out there somewhere exposed in the raw, but you take all responsibility when you type 0.0.0.0/0 in that box.

It's pretty cool that they're seeing where the supermassive black holes come from. The models of what's happening in there must be amazing.