I think people answering these comments are from other countries that don’t understand that on a train from Reading to London in rush hour, there might be 60 seats and 80 passengers per carriage. 20 of these pax standing despite their ticket that said “Feel free to sit on any free seat you happen to find!”
Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don’t arrive early enough?
Except you haven’t, that’s the point.
If you don’t get to the train early, you have to stand. That’s how British trains work. People who get to the train will see many seats unreserved saying “Seat Available” on the overhead sign, regardless of whether they’ve reserved a seat.
So someone who hasn’t clicked “reserve a seat” on the booking process might sit on that, while you stand in the hallway.
The ticket literally means “sorry, you don’t have a seat assigned”.
Donut county and Untitled goose game. Neither is that long (DC is particularly short), but both were super funny and enjoyable.
My take is that best case scenario you’d arrive roughly at the same time you left.
If you have breakfast in London at 8am, then make it to the airport by 8:30, you’re at the gate at 9:30 after one hour of security and controls, and you’ve made it exactly at the time when boarding starts, which usually is 45 minutes before takeoff on most airlines. You take off at 10:15, arrive at 11:45 (which is 6:45 local time), then still have to go through half an hour of border control and getting out of the airport, and then another half an hour to get to the city centre and have a coffee.
You’d still arrive at about 8:30, but I don’t see the whole ordeal taking any less than 5 hours.
I routinely take a 1.5 h flight to visit my family and while I’m a fair bit away from the airport, I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get door-to-door in less than 8 hours. 6 if we are measuring departures lounge to arrivals.
It literally took me months to get through the character creator in MH World. Even that was so dense that I would get bored before finishing.
I think it’s probably safe to say that they’re not games for ADHD individuals.
It’s not a waste of resources if you learn something. Think of this as research rather than product development. You can try many things (from VR, to miniaturised computers, to cloud gaming, controllers with wonky form factors…) to see what results in a good experience. You don’t need to get anywhere near a full fledged product to understand those things, so the waste of resources isn’t massive anyway.
I’d bet at the moment people decided “this is useful, I even want this for me, so let’s turn it into a product” the steam deck looked more like a screen, a gamepad and a raspberry pi all taped together or jammed into a 3d printed prototype chassis.
If people have spare capacity to work on these projects, the material cost at such a point can be under <5k which is peanuts for a company like Valve.
To be honest I get your point. We use it at work for summaries of 70-page lists of software commits, and with adequate prompting to “understand” what’s what in our codebase it works remarkably well.
Granted it doesn’t work near as well as a person who spends a month working on such a summary, but it does it in seconds. Then a person can work for a day on reviewing this and tidying up rather than wasting time trying to summarise 100k lines of code by hand.
It seems OpenAI should learn to use it correctly first.
What are detached tabs? Sandboxed? Dragged out into their own window? Genuine question
Oh wow that’s terrible. I did think the poem was AI generated. The author (of the blog post) is right, this does an excellent job… at degrading the art.
I agree with you with the fact that it’s wild, very distopian sci-fi.
However, even it this very much an ethical no-no, I’m not sure which bit is the technically illegal part.
If he were selling normal sheep, that would be perfectly legal. Nobody would bat an eyelid, despite being similar treatment to animals.
Is it the cloning that is illegal? If he were to clone a species on the brink of extinction to re-populate an area, would that be ethical but illegal?
Is the problem that he’s cloning without authorisation? Who decides whether we can bring new animals to life via cloning? Is there a Ministry of Clones that needs to authorise people to clone stuff?
Sure, just like other brick and mortar stores can refuse to give you backups of a DVD you own.
As long as the installer works offline this is just as good. It’s up to you to store it in whichever format you prefer so that you don’t lose it - hard drive, thumb drive, DVD…
If you nuke your computers hard drive with the installers of your games, or you step on your blu rays with games and break them, then you lose access to them. As it’s always been, no matter the format?
I’m not a lawyer but, I know when you file for a patent you can do that in just one country or internationally (which is significantly more expensive). Skimming through the Wikipedia article it seems to be talking about that, but first you need to have filed for the patent internationally and not in just one country.
From what I’ve read about this topic, it sounds like this is a patent active in Japan only.
rsync <source> <destination>HAHAHAHA King Boo and Kirby. In that order. Annoyingly it works well.
I don’t know why they keep insisting on live service with an upfront cost. The only way these games are successful is by having a fuckton of teenagers with no money to fill the lobbies and make it feel lively and worthwhile. The minute you add an initial cost, there’s just not enough of a player base to support a game with microtransactions.
I’m not a business genius, but they don’t have to learn from me. There is the very clear precedent of Kill the justice league that they’re choosing to ignore!
It might be a different game, but I thought there would be flights too! Especially when they fight against the robot uprising of the year 2000.
So to make development faster and make sure they didn’t waste time, they spent their time reinventing slack/teams/SharePoint/etc.
It sounds like if Nintendo were a person, they’d have ADHD. This also explains how for every generation, their flagship console looks like a completely new thing. They’re just getting understimulated and bored.
Great western railway operates like this, offering you a “mystery seat” regardless of whether they’ve sold 120% of the seats in the train.