If you hear "if you can't afford a Macbook Neo you're too poor to be an Apple customer," don't be surprised.
I definitely heard that related to iMessage a decade ago. The 666 304's had some thing about bubble colors.
I'm not going to run it but people have said the kernel handles realtime needs much better than 10.
I do wonder how much of the bloatware needs to be disabled to actually realize that, though.
> Emirates operates these with over 500 passengers
Well they did until the value proposition of Dubai and Abu Dhabi suddenly came into question with three days' food and no way to restock and no sewer system, relying on petroleum-powered sewage trucks to keep people alive.
It sure seems 'convenient' that they suddenly have an insurable loss on very expensive and unprofitable airframes at just the right time.
Let's see what kind of cars the regulators purchase in a few months, or maybe it's just a coincidence.
Lutnik is an Epstein Associate.
AI Surveillance Police State is his ultimate goal.
Americans are getting 'too uppity' (sovereign).
I'm familiar with the backup power design of some of the cell towers where I live.
Let's just say I'm also learning how to build solar Meshcore repeaters and placing them on appropriate hilltops where I can.
You can Royal Decree anything but don't bet your life on it.
Also nobody likes to mention that the big Spanish overvolt grid crash coincided with the arrival of a very large CME. We mustn't rile the natives.
Who made the call to fire these guys?
Were they Americans who did the firing? Were they Americans who got fired?
It's important to understand the sociology potentially putting huge American enterprises risk
And why would we believe the claim that a 1-year reliability rating had anything to do with this?
Anybody who vaguely understands automotive manufacturing knows that cars that were sold over one year ago were designed several years ago and tooling takes months to years for a new model.
This article seems designed to obfuscate rather than clarify.
This makes me feel like buying a BYD would be less risky.
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.
So funny to see people bitching about spyware when they carry a smartphone everywhere, do online shopping, use credit cards etc.
1. You sure these are the same people? There are LOTS of people in the world, some people complain about spyware AND either don't carry a phone, or carry a dumbphone or run Graphene or something similar.
2. Online shopping and credit card usage can be limited; one can buy their laundry detergent on Amazon with an Amex and still pay for their kink toys in person with cash. One need not opt out of the surveillance tradeoff EVERYWHERE to still desire a means of making private purchases in certain cases.
3. Most of the surveillance done in a car is done after the car has been paid for by the user. Money has changed hands, but the OEM still seems entitled to sell data the driver generates. The selling of the data does not benefit the owner of the vehicle at all, only the person gathering and selling it. This is different than a payment processor or online merchant that provides a service that has some benefit to the user - access to goods not easily available through traditional retail or where retail purchase would involve prohibitive distance or transport requirements being some examples. In the case of credit card companies, yes, they most definitely make money off purchase data...but they also use it to combat fraud and mitigate liability, which cash simply doesn't make possible. And, in the case of smartphones, even stock ones, data harvesting is more selective, and the phone can be left home, while the car cannot. Yes, data is still harvested and used in ways that don't benefit the customer, granted...but it *does* provide a counterbalance that a remotely usable vehicle kill switch does not.
"But muh smartfownnn" is such a lazy and overly reductive argument against a very complex situation that has plenty of room for nuance and specifics.
Everyone bitching and moaning over too much spyware and nanny electronics here is what you asked for.
Is it, though? Serious question, I looked into this some time ago...and they make NO claims of this. They claim they don't have an infotainment system, fine...but that doesn't mean it lacks a GPS tracker, a "tattletale" connection that sends CANBUS/ODBII data back to a mothership somewhere, and/or a remotely accessible kill switch.
If you've got documentation that says that the Slate lacks these things SPECIFICALLY, I'd love to read about it...but when I looked, they made no claims of this and made no spectacle of it in their privacy policy...so 100% sincerely, if you've got a citation for this, I'd LOVE to read it.
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 ?
A dependency required for the software to function no longer exists (like when a game's servers get shutdown) is essentially the same as an object breaking naturally over time due to wear and tear.
There's where your mental model is just wrong. The game server is in the domain of the seller. Some hardware breaking due to wear & tear or abuse is NOT. That is an incredibly important legal distinction.
f you spent $50 when the game launched and played for 500 hours, should you get a refund when the game shuts down 4 years later?
What EXACTLY do you mean with "the game shuts down"? That is the whole point. The game SERVERS shutting down is not the same as disabling the game. If it's an online-only game, there could still be OTHER servers, not run by the seller. Official or unofficial. That is the whole point of "stop killing games".
If your license was revoked because you were cheating, breaking rules, and generally being a complete cunt in some online game
Again, this is relevant for online games only, and is not about the game at all, but about access to a specific community or server. Even if I am the biggest asshole on the planet and every ban was absolutely justified - why should I not be able to set up my own server, invite my equally assholish friends and play there? There is no reason to disable the GAME, only the access to a specific server. These can be two distinct things. You buy the game, but you subscribe to a server.
Come to think of it, how the fuck are they supposed to issue refunds accurately anyway?
They shouldn't create the need to refund. You're making up a problem here. Every refund ever was done at the point of sale for the price you paid. That's why invoices and receipts exist.
You can't steal a contract, which is all the license really is. Your payment gets you a contract.
But that's not what it says. Every shop ever treated games as a SALE. Steam doesn't label the button "buy" anymore, but most other shops still do, and even on Steam everything else is handled exactly like a sale of a product. Shopping cart and all.
Because they want to eat their cake and have it, too. I'm sure players would be more hesitant to part with 60 bucks if it clearly said: "temporary, revocable at any time for any reason, permission to play".
There is no way the businessmen involved in building these reactors are going to want to spend the time and money to properly maintain them let alone decommission and shut them down when they are no longer safe to run.
This is the actual problem with nuclear power. And by the time it comes around, the people who made the decisions have already safely moved elsewhere or into pension.
Correct. Breaking is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.
If something breaks, it's on me. This is about companies being able to take something away that isn't broken at all, at any time they choose, without any refund.
For any other item that'd be theft and would land them in jail.
That's OK but the only reason many people buy American cars and trucks is to support American jobs.
When it's all robots might as well get a Tundra rather than a 1500. Or maybe BYD will come in with something soon.
We'll see how that goes.
The guys who built those giant ovens could have told themselves that somebody was going to be baking a whole lot of bread
Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too. The ones who do think all of the above is just fine. There will always be someone.
Truth is free, but information costs.
