It’s a lending program, for free. With a deposit for full value so it becomes a purchase if you don’t return it in time. Same structure but the phrasing matters.
The US right now is more harsh to live in than the US pre-Reagan, which was more harsh than many countries with a strong welfare state, but all of them are capitalistic.
In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any non-zero electricity. Whether the wires are connected or not at the far end doesn’t matter.
They never clarified how strong the other current would be.
Usenet was a very open system, where iirc moderation sometimes happened per discussion group but otherwise everyone individually had to ignore bad actors (add to killfile). It scaled badly with more people and spammers. Arguably it started going downhill 30 years ago. Found a decade old discussion:
$100 appears in your account. That’s one part. The other part depends on why.
* you moved money from another account, the double is -100 in that account.
* you sold stuff, +100 in income.
* you borrowed some money, +100 in ‘debt’.
In a physical book each of these categories would have a left and right column, and each transaction has numbers in one left and one right column. Or in many columns but the sums of left vs right columns must be the same.
When describing a game that looks like it had a smallish team and graphics budget, ‘indie’ is a useful shorthand. It sets certain expectations.
Certainly marketing and media (as evidenced by the article) find this useful, but I think many consumers also are more interested in the game than in the creators. So it makes sense that this language shift happens.
But yes it certainly misses the theoretical point of a category like that.
And would be nice if it was replaced with a technically correct word. ‘Indie-like’?
No. If you listen to only a single artist for a month, your payment is still split the same way everyone else’s payment is, by total streamed numbers.
It sounds better if they artist got your entire monthly payment (after payment processors and Spotify’s fee), but probably a nightmare for accountants.
Unfortunately, games involving human reflexes or difficulty-to-see visual clues aren’t very fun against strangers who can run what they want on their devices. Because cheating.
I don’t think a good solution exists except to keep those games to locked down consoles only.
But maybe a more transparent appeals process could help, even if it gets expensive.
> To the developers: You signed a contract, and now you expect to not have to live up to it?
From what I can tell, it’s more like they have a short term contract they are happy with, but their business model requires them to be able to extend it. They can avoid the new fees ‘simply’ by not letting any user download their Unity games after Jan 1.
> The key question is /why/ air moves faster on one side, and once you get away from the misconception of same time, I've never heard an intuitive argument.
Since the air follows a curved surface instead of straight ahead, you could perhaps apply your intuition for centrifugal force. Momentum sort of pulls the air away from the surface.
> In this analogy, Coinbase is upset its heroin sales are illegal when a licensed pharmacist can sell a similar product.
In this analogy Coinbase' story seems to be that they asked how to apply to become a licensed pharmacist, but never got an answer. While the SEC suggests they never tried.
This gets confusing when the crime is phrased as unregistered heroin sales.
To me it looks like a clearly-defined line between text and real-time voice/video. What the user experiences, not the technical background.
Ie it would have been perfectly fine for google to ban text chats, and just use calls/meetings; even with the same software. As inefficient and unpleasant as it would be.
If YouTube-dl let you bypass the paywall, that would make its main use closer to “obviously illegal”.
If it only allows a paying user to make a local copy against the company’s wishes, we would have about the same situation as today. And maybe also a lot of banned YouTube/google accounts when detected.
It’s a lending program, for free. With a deposit for full value so it becomes a purchase if you don’t return it in time. Same structure but the phrasing matters.
Cool idea.