Frontline had a documentary about this: Plastic Wars

tl:dw - That in-school film about recycling we all saw?
Yeah, they lied. Most of it is still trash - spread out a little here, little there, more to some developing country (thanks trash bro), and a whole butt-load of it in the oceans.

Good luck to all the new VO artists/actors; your union job pool - however small, elusive, and meritocratic it may have been, just got smaller, more elusive, and more competitive.
Imagine if you will, an actor who is deceased and their estate has now licensed their AI voice to be used for whatever IP - it's going to happen, you're going to compete for roles against other actors living and dead.

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Sep 12, 2023, 14:28:
Wonder if these guys are working on a warhammer 40k total war..

I wish.

If anyone were to do the WH40K large unit battle game it would be CA, but 40K is a huge under taking as it involves a massive timeline with lore, planet size campaigns, etc.
The only thing remotely close in CA's catalogue (imo) is TW: Empire - something that would be considered a tech proof of concept for TW: WH40K.
Maybe they could tackle it by taking a slice of the 40K universe, but who knows - I'm sure CA has definitely talk about it.

If they are working it, that would be huge news to the WH40K community. I'm always hopeful.

I couldn't get past how washed out the visuals were, like a soapy film, especially in the opening level. But the modders came through and a few files later it's much easier on the eyes.
I'm still in New Atlantis, and yep, it's a slog, but I'm hopeful. The modding community is a blessing. CIG f*cking better come through with SC.....10+ years and $600mil+, g*d dammit!

animal wrote on May 27, 2023, 04:46:
Grosse Pointe Blank had lots of funny conversations over the phone and would require the fun version of Keanu Reeves (there was such a thing).

See Parenthood with Steve Martin ...no killing, but you get young Keanu trying his best at a relationship (and he crashes a drag racer)

Admitting to this is like that scene out of The Simpsons where Lisa makes Marge pay for 2 grapes...
Two grapes? Who cares.
Apple uses/licenses someone else's already established tech. Nothing burger. Good for Sony. Good for Apple.
Move along.

Damn, that WaPo article on Diablo IV was concerning at best, damning at worst...there better not be any micro transactions, we are paying for a full game ffs.

Wait a sec - are we talking about the same geographic location?
I'm specifically talking about, and limiting my argument to, the United States, because the article is reporting on the FCC.
Even small towns or villages, if you will, in the US, have access to copper landlines for ADSL and would be a perfect candidate for FTTH because the trenches can be dug and infrastructure can be master planned out.
Most if not all, small towns would see this as a massive selling point for growth. "Come to our town, we got clean air, plenty of space, and Google Fiber!"

But I hear you on the cost - it wouldn't be cheap, but then again, the US taxpayer already paid for some this in the 1970s and 1990s via infrastructure and telecommunications acts that were passed by the US Congress.
As for where did the money end up? Well that's another thing.

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The only disadvantage that the consumer will encounter is cost, but that is at the initial setup. Once everyone implements FTTH then the market/competition will bring prices down, especially if municipalities get involved (see Chattanooga TN)

The advantages are everything else, the number one being less time waiting for something to complete equating to more minutes/hours saved in a day.
Not everyone's situation is the same - it would be altruistic and a human benefit to have a level field of performance for everyone at maximum (e.g.1000+/1000+).

I don't know if this analogy (see below) makes sense or not. but if we could build faster and shorter information delivery infrastructure paths then we literally, on a macro level, save years...

From the movie Margin Call:

Eric Dale: Do you know I built a bridge once?
Will Emerson : Sorry?
Eric Dale : A bridge.
Will Emerson : No, I didn't know that.
Eric Dale : I was an engineer by trade.
Will Emerson : Hmmm... hmmm

Eric Dale : It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years.

1000/1000 FTTH -- Anything less is just a waste of time and we need to catch up. Haven't we already paid for it?
It's time to start digging trench or mandate the use of existing conduit/infrastructure.

JeffD wrote on Jan 6, 2021, 14:04:
#1 many of us are just waiting for bug fixs and optimizations before continuing. I still have plenty of grind to do in ff14. I am in no hurry.
#2 lack of end game content, the game probably has little to do after the stories are done like super bosses. dlc will help this.

Re: #1 - Well said - Yeah, my PC can't run the game as well as I would like so I'm playing on console (PS5) - I played a few missions then decided to wait for the PS5 patch and not spoil it. Between steam sales and epic giveaways plus all the other console releases - we should all have plenty of content to look forward to.

Great read, thanks for the link RedEye9

Question: So, would we need...

1. A DirectStorage compatible NVMe SSD
2. A DirectStorage compatible motherboard
3. DirectX with DirectStorage integration enabled/installed
4. A game that takes advantage of DirectStorage

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Sideshow. The other keynote speakers will deliver the real meat for CES 2020.

I've dropped about $1k on the promise of CR's vision. I hope it comes to fruition. I'm fine with the spent funds. Will I be contributing anymore funds in the short-term? No. I've given enough. If/when the IP ships, that's when I'll determine to give more.

As a former Project Manager of software developers, I've been having a blast following the ups and downs and I've met some great people along the way. I know all to well the JIRA jargoon and Project Manager speak they've incorporated these past few years. It's a slog, no doubt about it, especially with scope creep. I wish them the best of luck.

Sorry to hear that man...best wishes for you and the family.

The Half Elf wrote on Jan 2, 2018, 20:32:
Iranians were also spotted at the Twin Pines... er Lone Pine mall in a VW Bus chasing a teenager in a life preserver and killing a doctor who produced a time machine out of radioactive material and a Delorean.

Iranians at the Lone Pine mall? More like the Libyans, Iranians hangout at the Beverly Center.

Ask any project manager or developer who worked on sophisticated software or has been involved on a complex project with lots of dependencies and moving parts. They'll gladly share how challenging a task of estimates can be.

Agreed 100% I've used t-Shirt sizing, Story Points, and Fibonacci to help developers estimate tasks...at the end of the day, you really find out what the level of effort is/was during retrospectives.

With new tech...IMO, we're lucky to get a ballpark LoE. SC is no different. Again this is just my opinion. I wish CR, ER, and CIG gang all the luck in the world.

It was inevitable, had to happen. They knew it, we knew it, and that's that.
Good luck EA/BioWare...I hope you treat this IP better than you treated the talent base that created it.

It's very legal here in the United States. My company was recently sued in small claims court and before the judge even heard arguments, he had to acknowledge the 'change of venue' request we had presented to the court before the trial date (we also mailed it to the plaintiff).

Yes, we have a similar clause in my company's ToS.

The judge asked if both parties could present a copy of the ToS and we both did. The judge remarked that each ToS was identical. He clearly stated that all disagreements must be handled via arbitration, and that the courts had no jurisdiction in this case because both parties agreed to the same ToS. The judge dismissed right then and there.

The Plaintiff can still sue, but it must be done by arbitration.

On a personal note, I run a small business with a few great employees, built it from the ground up, and went through some tough, tough times, some folks in the past took a pay cut and so did I, but we pulled through. Anyway, the plaintiff was a dick. We provided double, in a dollar amount, of what this guy was suing for, and his case was baseless. I offered to pay his court fees, after three hours of mediation, before the case went before a judge, because I 99% already knew the outcome, but still, you never know. Even the mediator was shaking his head at the plaintiff. The guy rejected my offer and the above was the result.