EA going bust... and nothing of value will be lost.

Some good will come of it, a large player going bust and all their servers getting turned off will finally force governments (well I mean the EU and possibly Australia and Canada will join in) to address the issue with ownership of games. No one will want to acquire EA as it'll have a load of potentially toxic debt in the form of refunds, class actions, et al. from games that are no longer playable.

Did you not play Mass Effect Andromeda?

It was a case study in how a game designed by committee is terribad.

Lets make a game that is as inoffensive as possible but also try to make it cool and edgy. Make a bad guy that looks like an overgrown infant and use all the same tropes from the previous game yet pretend it hasn't been done before. Also make the gameplay as fun as gouging your eyes out with a rusty fork but above all else we must not, never, ever, ever, ever, upset the most fragile minority of all... White Male Americans.

Graphics were eye meltingly great but the rest was pure crap. I hold it up as key evidence in my theory that graphics don't matter. You can't pretty a bad game into success.

Bioware was dead long before then, same with Mass Effect, we should really let it rest in peace.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha... tell me another one.

Consoles are usually using out of date hardware by the time of their release. The PS5 was released with a Zen3 CPU and RDNA2 GPU. Sure good biz for AMD but it Zen 4 was released nearly a year before the PS5, it was less powerful than a gaming PC I built 2 years earlier and I've just bought a new one using a Zen 5 CPU (Zen6 is just around the corner though). Be careful not to cut yourself on that edge, it's so old you'd need a tetanus shot.

This is true though, they generally aren't able to handle supply chain disruption but that is really true of any business using JIT supply chains.

The big problem is that the PS and XB hardware was always sold as a loss leader with the expectation to make that money back by ripping off the owners at every turn. High fees for publishers and developers, monthly fees for basic functionality, sub standard hardware that would regularly break (usually a week or so after the warranty expired, it's called the Sony timer for a reason). This worked fine for years but now belts are tightening both Sony and Microsoft are finding that they're not making ends meet by nickel and dime'ing the punter at ever turn as the punter is doing everything they can to avoid it.

So the next logical step is to stop selling the hardware at a massive loss, which both Sony and Microsoft are testing the waters on. Sony with a $900 PS5 and now MS with this.

Also, if you're looking for a next gen console, they're already here... have been for ages... they're called a gaming PC. With things like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine being targetted as "living room" machines, they are in a position to eat Sony's and Microsoft's lunch as there is no monthly Steam fee (not to mention GOG, Epic, et al.).

For once Trump is being honest... He's preparing for war except the war is going to be against the US and it's people. Billionaires can't dare be questioned.

From what I've read this seems more targetted at the kind of host that thinks they can save a few shekels on cleaning by making the guest do it.

This doesn't mean hots can't request the letting be "left as they found it" so to speak but it does mean that they can no longer charge an additional fee or force a guest to forfeit their deposit for a few dirty dishes or not taking the rubbish out.

Given that many AirBNBs are now essentially professional lettings as opposed to someone renting out their spare room for a few quid it seems reasonable to start treating those listings that way... That means they'll have to start ensuring that some minimum standards are met... which means that hosts who wanted a money printing apartment can't cheap out any more.

Of course I get the other side of the argument, I've seen how some people leave their workplace or car and hate to think of the pig sty they live in (which means they'll also treat someone else’s place with as much if not more neglect)... but there are already rules in place for that, this is more for the people who think they can charge an arm and a leg because of a few dirty dishes.

That being said, I think AirBNB is on it's way out, slowly but going as it's just a platform for professional lessors at this point and it's not a very good one any more.

Is that where Musk's $44bn from Twitter go? Spun out of SpaceX, who bought it from xAI, who bought it from X using money funnelled from Tesla who in turn are subsidised by sales to SpaceX?

This is not a chicken and egg problem. It's an analysis problem. SpaceX built rockets for reasons started by government incentives and prizes to get new rockets designed. Once their rockets were designed customers also came flooding in. They'd be doing perfectly fine without Starlink. Starlink came almost a decade after SpaceX's first launch and the first Starlink constellation went up 2 years after SpaceX was already handling commercial and government contracts using second hand (reused) boosters.

Starlink on the other hand needed a very cheap launch vehicle to be viable and it wasn't even a conceptual idea before that happened. We very much know which came first.

EA has no money to invest. Thanks to a leveraged buyout all they have is a huge debt to serve. They will keep doing this by milking what they have while rapidly selling off or cost cutting their way to bankruptcy.

Normally you just post about how you don't understand what statistics mean. It's refreshing to see you have no idea about history either. I mean there are actually "movies" you could cite which would relate to what you are talking about, but the two you chose are not them. Try again. At least you're on the right continent though.

The cops had nothing to do with that. For the general populace that change was pushed a lot by Facebook which at the time pushed its service as a way of connecting to real people at your college. But even then you have rose coloured glasses on. Remember the advice? I think the advice came *after* the internet of old. These days very few people use their real name online unless you have a public facing personality and that "blue check" is a source of income for you. On the other hand if you look to Slashdot UIDs in the sub 10000 you'll find a significant number of them actually do use their actual real name.

I remember the early days of the internet. Everyone (including me) was very naïeve about the concept of privacy and security.

Sorry but no. Phishing and fraud existed before the "normies" did, and there are a significant number of very stupid and naïve tech gurus out in the world as well whose idea of privacy and security amount to "Who? Never met them." I mean the early internet by design considered no aspect of anonymity, privacy, or security.

Take the rose coloured glasses off.

Garin's beam was not infrared, it was visible light created by some kind of chemical candles IIRC.

Quit? Oh man you should have lived in Europe. You'd probably have been able to retire on the payout the courts would have given you.

Oh they very much are anonymous. At least they are where I live. If they weren't (I really hope they aren't and would love to prove it) my employer would find themselves financially arse-fucked by the courts and I will be able to retire early and rich.

In the olden days the chip in your CPU was made from different materials assembled in a different way than today. Not all silicon is the same, not all transistors are the same. There's a reason why some devices burn out at 75C junction temperature, and others can stand easily over 150C.

Also we don't measure temperature the same as we always did. That 80C in your "olden days" CPU... it probably is the same 100C as your current one. Multi-point precision on die temperature sensing is something from the past decade (and change).