Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

It's gonna be half advice on how to score easy whale pussy and the other half how to avoid overly horny whales.

If I were going to buy one so that I can play this game, which is the better choice? Which one is newer?

Out of the box, the Xbox Series X is slightly better hardware than the regular PS5. it's not really enough to matter, especially on a mutliplatform game, but since you asked...

That said, Sony offers the PS5 Pro, a higher spec version of the console that Microsoft does not offer an equivalent of. So if price is no object, the PS5 Pro is expected to be the best platform to play it on.

> China's 200TB optical disk

This exists in a laboratory and nowhere else. The technology used for it hasn't been commercialized and might not be able to be. It's good science for sure, but pretending it's a real thing that someone somewhere can use for data, is dishonest. Extant optical media is very slow compared to magnetic media (including tapes) and electronic media, so is this high density disc something that has a good speed or a bad speed, if it were developed more? Hard to predict based on the pretty much nothing we have to go on.

It would be nice to see more progress though. Optical media done correctly can outlast everything else we use day to day, which is its own sort of interesting thing. If you put your family recipes on some high quality blu-ray and put it in a drawer, that could be readable longer than any other way- even potentially books.

You lose a capability and still pay for it in the sticker price, and you get nothing with the space.
It's an absolute ripoff and I bought correct laptops until the big companies just stopped making them correctly. Now I have to drag around little USB external guys, which isn't great at all.

>It's bizarre because you can just install off a USB stick and it's much faster but I guess that's just not what they are used to.

For installation media specifically you have to use up a USB stick entirely for the duration of its life as install media. This is true of optical media as well, but the USB stick costs way more. The installation disc you made also just sits around until you throw it out in a year or whatever.

But installation media is kind of a carefully picked example right? I mean, it's something that USB generally does better. Being able to back up valuable stuff to optical media- especially M-disc- is pretty great. USB sticks aren't suitable for any kind of longer term backup solutions- they die all the damned time. Also when I started my latest D&D campaign, I did actually hand out cheap little USB sticks with campaign documents on them, but that was a special case; I'm going to hand out discs later. Obviously discs are cheaper for this purpose, and you wouldn't have any problem handing out a hundred CDs if you wanted to.

For Blu-rays and reading and playing from them, there's some decent piracy forums that I read over when I was picking out drives for my newest mainbox, because I wanted some that could support that sort of thing, and there definitely are still plenty of great models for that. The two drives I have now are an LG WH16NS40 (which I believe has no useful piracy capability, but seemed great for burning and reading blu-rays and M-discs) and a Pioneer BDR-212V which is allegedly suited for such purposes if you flash it (I've done none of that; it was just something I wanted to have in the box for now). It doesn't support all discs before you flash it. Anyway, if you look around I'm sure you can find a way to get a drive that can reliably play all your official anime opticals, and of course you should be able to burn them too in such a way as to play elsewhere which does seem to take effort but does seem to be things people do.

Anyway, I think a machine without an optical drive is incomplete, and the fact that all the good laptops lack them means that I have to have external USB blu-ray burners, which is not the end of the world but it is certainly not ideal compared to them being inside the actual laptop.

>I mean I have put quite a bit of money into arcade cabinets back in the day so I'm not completely opposed to the idea of temporary entertainment.

I don't think there's any comparison here really. A subscription MMORPG is the modern equivalent of dropping a quarter into a pacman cabinet; a series of hard boosts and purchases, soft boosts with the expectation that the consequences persist- these things all assume the game will go on as long as it plausibly can. Games with a decent amount of active players being targeted for closure (to prevent the game from competing with the next thing) are just top scummy.

Obviously you can play all these games without spending a dime, but equally obviously that's not the intended way of playing these games. Done properly, the games that sell you stuff don't turn around and delete it the moment they have convinced themselves that you'll buy it again.

100 seems a better number for a test like this.

Apple TV now means "the device and the shows". Maybe it won't be ALL the shows, but it will be plenty, and it will be free, and it will be on that Apple TV device. And then there will be a subscription tier- or more- that remove the advertisements.
That's my prediction!

https://themindcollection.com/...

Upcoming? The iPhone 16e was released last year. These are schematics for a phone that has been out for a year.

The problem with this document's release is that it's technical information that was supposed to be kept confidential forever.

I'm assuming this is just an error on the FCC's part, and that they automatically released it after a year. Though with the current administration, Hanlon's razor is getting harder and harder to apply.

>Despite doubling their expected livespan

This is incredible but it's mostly down to germ theory, antibiotics, and to a much smaller extent vaccines; things that really help infants make it to childhood is a lot of the lifespan increase. Science hasn't been able to enlarge the max human lifespan, and there's still plenty of diseases that the treatment is lacking for, so I could see being disappointed in that. And lets be real, the fact that science was responsible for many of these gains in the past means nothing about how funding is spent in the future, nor does it speak to fields relatively far removed from what's being debated- "Semmelweis being correct when everyone else wasn't" is pretty far from string theory.

>they'll never have to worry about starving to death

Also strangely mostly down to a relatively few discoveries. And I'd pair this with the ability to access a lot more energy, as making a very large difference between modern life and most of human existence.

But one of the main points brought up by the article is string theory, and string theory had an era where it was almost exclusively considered the most respected academic darling, but many string theories got discarded when the colliders reached good enough energies that a lot of scientists expected to see something. Of course, none of this was ever going to block off string theory as a group, it just eliminated a set of them. Check this >10 year old article:
https://profmattstrassler.com/...
And you'll see that, theoretically, string theory is still perfectly healthy. But the article really smooths over what did get eliminated, which was lowkey what a lot of people were hyped about- a solution to the hierarchy problem ("natural supersymmetry" in that article), and string theory isn't helping with that, and high energy collisions have eliminated the types of string theories that would (not entirely, but like, to a degree).
While you'll find no shortage of physicists defending this, and pointing out *technically string theory never promised this*- including this wall street journal one which tries to politicize it by implying that the critics are conspiracy theorists- the simple fact is that the reason string theory got so much interest and funding wasn't because of the barely-falsifiable high-flying stuff, but because it implied that we were gonna get something better and more explanatory than the standard model, something that, once we had seen a few real pieces of, could have experimental results plugged in that would then yield even more insights into reality. That isn't happening, but that's why string theory captured so much for so long.

Isn't it fair to criticize a system that appears to have gotten kinda lost in the wrong caves, for about two generations of scientists? Even if just the magnitude of resources allocated, men and money.

Not too long. It's defense in depth; it's not meant to be outright impenetrable, just very (very) hard to get through.

Someone with enough drive, enough time, and enough resources will eventually put together an exploit chain that doesn't require an invalid tagged memory access. But if that raises the manpower requirement by 10-fold (to pull a number out of my ass), then it makes it that much more expensive to attack a phone. At some point, the Apple juice won't be worth the squeeze.