Couldn't the players who purchased legal copies of the game in territories when it was allowed and now is banned; couldn't they file a class-action lawsuit against Sony?
They bought a game and now cannot play it. Classic breach of contract and expected product that was paid for.
"The researchers examined ENDS-related Instagram posts in December 2023, using a simulated 14-year-old female's profile to search hashtags such as #vapelife, #vapecommunity, and #ecig. The team reviewed 51 posts from these hashtags to assess the presence of health-related warnings and common themes."
- Direct Quote from the article
It's not marketing if people are searching hashtags.
I was living in a building that converted to "smart" locks (not Latch) in the middle of my lease. It was horrible. It mostly worked but, it added daily frustration and friction. There was almost no benefit for me and it all went to the landlord. There is a record of every time I entered my apt that I'm not in control of. It made it harder for delivery people because the complex already had an intercom system and now I had to give directions to two different systems to successfully deliver.
It was one of the main drivers for me to move out. I will never rent an apt with a system like that again. Now I know to ask if they have "smart" locks and will avoid them like the insecure plague they are.
They also had some wireless box that communicated with my apt lock that I had to put in my apt, connect it to my wifi, and use my power, all without any compensation.
Movie studios don't want the tech to be a button that spits out a movie. Because if a movie studio can do it, then Netflix can do it better in-house. If Netflix can do it, then a group of dedicated fans can do it for the fun of it.
Imagine a bunch of Marvel fans mad over the last few Thor movies making a gritty, comics accurate version. Imagine fans making the DC vs Marvel move that literally couldn't exist because of the studios would never allow it? Star Trek/Starwars crossover?
In a world where entertaining media becomes easy to produce, the only thing about the studio system worth anything is the distribution. Netflix would eat them alive.
The end state is something like media becomes so easy to create that most of it is only watched by the person who created it and even then probably not even that.
How many stable diffusion images are glanced at out of the 4 that pop up in MidJourney and are never looked at again but, just sit on MidJouney's servers forever? Eventually movies and video games will be this disposable.
Out of that might come gems that would have never otherwise been made but, most of it will be garbage.
Cannot agree more. Communication shouldn't be a specialized skill like writing code or designing bridges. It's a universal that is accessible to everyone and should be taught to everyone. It's exactly why colleges have general education.
If someone finds that their team keeps getting in trouble or failing due to mis-communication as a pattern, then something deeper is wrong.
I'm sorry but, stay at your job so that you more valuable to your company and your co-workers and quality of the code at the cost of your career and earning potential is bad advice.
People don't own their social media accounts, the social media companies do. I would bet that the fine print of every signup contract for a social media network would have explictly say that the social media platform has zero legal obligation to provide you services, they can cancel at any time for any reason.
No matter how valuable your username is, you are renting it without renter's rights. It's the equivalent of people building multi-million dollar businesses on land they don't own and can be kicked off of without notice or reason given.
It's even more insane that people use this for communication too and open themselves up to censorship, easedropping, governments listening. Social networks are good for connection but, relying on them and making an archive of sensative information in them is risky.
I make the initial connection in the social network for the network benefits and try to move people to better more secure and reliable channels later.
Traffic for basically every site went up. People thought it was an internet-wide DDOS attack when it was just the 3B people on FB's properties finding entertainment elsewhere.
The site looks like it was based off a template and a cheap one at that. It doesn't strike me as trust-worthy nor are the people deeply invested in making something that will last and be worth investing my time and social network into.
Not on Solana. In fact, people are already writing software (metamask) that uses on chain computation, file storage with ipfs and even could support an blockchain controlled CDN for distribution (https://media.network/).
All with gas prices that literally fractions of a penny and 50k+ transactions per second.
The wear on electric cars is significantly cheaper. No pistons, no oil, no gears, no transmission, no exaust system, no series of gaskets for the coolant to flow through the engine block. In fact, electric motors only have metal to metal contact at bearings, the actual forced produced is without metal to metal contact.
Fleet prices for electric cars today are already significantly cheaper. In the future, probably more so.