Comment Re: CostCo crap for a few pennies (Score 1) 64
Right. Which makes Kisai's dismissal of the problem a waste of breath.
Right. Which makes Kisai's dismissal of the problem a waste of breath.
Probably.
But the mirrors, for example, are made by Zeiss. Lots of parts are from the supply chain and ASML doesn't even HAVE their secrets.
You are right that some industrial espionage could be useful. I just say it's not as useful as most people would assume (which is basically the Hollywood plot of "steal this secret and we can copy it"). Nah. You can find on the Internet how a nuclear bomb is made. But it takes a lot more than a print-out to actually make one, and a couple of those steps are genuinely hard.
Fascinating answer.
It seems to me that the unablated thoughts fall into the category of "what would a human user expect that a good answer to this prompt would be?" - and out comes something that is clearly an aggregate of stream-of-consciousness writing.
But then the ablated models seem to go for a direct answer without much less interpretation and "pretend to be human". I wonder what that's about. I'd love the AI to answer more like the machine it is, and right now I'm getting that through skills.
Not sure how far industrial espionage gets you here.
There's nothing fundamentally secret in lithography. We know how it works. The secret sauce is the experience, processes, know-how, highly specialised suppliers etc. The practical complexities are immense. Given the security incidents ASML already had, I'd make a bet that a large amount of the valuable data is already in China. But the supply chain and the engineering don't live on paper and are not easily duplicated.
Again, you were either eleven or you were living under a rock if you hadn't heard of the Transformers. Cuz if you had heard of it, you'd have known it was for kids and adolescents, and the female actress was there to keep the dads interested.
And that's exactly why we need to build more power infrastructure, particularly nuclear, and hand it all over to AI companies for free.
... as in: If you get in bed with them, you'll get screwed.
You really have to be a special kind of dumb to buy anything from Facebook. What did you expect? Their entire business model is selling YOU.
OK, so explain how you had supposedly never heard of the Transformers? They've been around since 1984.
Hint: check my
I don't understand the nature of your comment. Are you confirming that you were 11 or 12 at the time?
Hint: Have you checked my
Turned out it was a movie for 13 to 16 year olds dragging their parents into a cinema.
And yet you'd never heard of the Transformers before you saw the Michael Bay movies. I guess you were 11 or 12 at the time?
Was anyone ever invested in Supergirl though?
I'm told she's had some well-liked stories.
Still, James Gunn seems to have this obsession with pulling up C-list characters from the comics and putting them in central roles in movies. For a lot of the running length of Superman, it was a movie about some guy named Mr. Terrific that nobody's ever heard of. I assume this is because he wants to tell new stories, rather than rehashing the same old origins and motives for characters that everybody's known about for years. But it's not the same as actually introducing new, appealing ideas; these characters are C-listers for a reason. Nobody cares.
She fights this evil character multiple times and could take the antidote at any point. Of course, she doesn’t because that’d be the end of the movie.
Haven't seen the movie, but I've heard it's not just that
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.
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".
"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!" "Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" -- Doonesbury