Are there people in the world who have the slightest chance of wanting to play Civ V, that don't already have Civ V?

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Which country is that? Sounds like human rights violation to me.

I can't believe he made a false equivilancy and compared the gathering of some machine statistics to the state butchering people alive.

This is a topic where being ignorant and opting-in have serious reprecussions.

There is a difference between the date on a death certificate, and the reality. And strictly speaking from a cold truth & surgical perspective -- the organs are optimal for successful use when they are not harvested post-death.

With that in mind take for example this recent news article from just 3 weeks ago

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”

The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

https://npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive [External Link]

Denial is a powerful drug. Truth is sobering. If anyone thinks opting in is still a good idea after considering the facts -- best of luck.

Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country [...] and that's right approach as well

Also, could we just not do the "My country is better than you & your country thing" -- if you have to do the "Go My Team" thing, stick to the Platform Wars, or Software or something else that is not divisive if you would kindly.

Hang on a minute. So if I understand correctly, your comment is in opposition to opt-out organ donation, which you characterize as the state butchering living people. But--what state?! Your example is a private hospital ("Baptist Health hospital"), in a place with opt-in organ donation. In the United States, notorious for utterly unethical private health care. It's not clear from the article that the guy was even an organ donor!

So this strikes me as an example supporting exactly the opposite. It shows that it is indeed the state, not the private sector, that should be doing health care. And what your example says to me is, opt-in organ donation is going to tend to result in a shortage of organs, and lead to scrambles to grab whatever organs become available without paying much attention to safeguards. If organ donation is opt-out, so that most patients are organ donors, there will be no such shortage and more care can be taken.

And finally, it drives home for me that the "my country is better than you & your country" is awfully tempting when "your country" is the United States, self-proclaimed indispensable nation, greatest country in the world etc.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: NibelheimCheck networth and how AMD is crushing Intel since 2022. Sales don't mean anything.

I would want to claim that sales do in fact mean something, and indeed that things like stock market valuation can often be deeply misleading, especially these days when it can often reflect cannibalizing the firm by using all the profits for share buybacks instead of investing in the firm. Boeing's net worth was sky-high until certain unfortunate incidents revealed they no longer have the ability to build decent planes.

If a company is in the selling chips business, and it is selling chips, you should have a lot more confidence in it than if it is not selling chips.

This is not to say that I have a ton of faith in Intel right now in particular. Just, in your haste to rubbish them don't create a bad rule of thumb that will mislead you.

The present seems make you wrong.

16.3 billions loss last quarter for Intel and now American government think about fusion Intel with AMD.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/01/2024/concerns-grow-in-washington-over-intel [External Link]

Well, believers are caught up by the reality.

You . . . didn't read what I wrote, did you?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo they say, yes. That doesn't necessarily mean it would stand up in court, so they often prefer not to push it too hard.

They don't push it too hard because it would be terrible publicity.

That too, certainly.

Quoting: GamallMaybe you have more hope for the courts than I do. But my point was that if even the most basic right to access anything at all you paid for is in question, and sadly it is, then "an update broke the game on my Linux and this is bad because, legally, I paid for it" is unlikely to have any impact, and certainly not from the legal angle, because it's a strictly weaker argument.

There's no simple answer to this--it depends very much on the country. And in some countries where strict "property" arguments would fail, there would still be applicable consumer protection laws . . . even if something isn't your "property", someone selling you something and then taking it away could still be violating some law.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Yeap. Here in the UK organ donation was swapped to opt-in for the same good reason Manjaro should use opt-in for their telemetry. Lots of people who aren't bothered either way, will never opt-in, but those who care will always opt-out

I feel like you swapped one or two "out" and "in" somewhere in there.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

I was with you until "as well".

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumYou have been legally prevented from using a product you have paid for with updates which intentionally block your usage, this is no fault of your own and thus you should demand a refund until you get one.

The problem is that the product that you purchased is a licence to download and execute a piece of software, at the forbearance of the seller.

So they say, yes. That doesn't necessarily mean it would stand up in court, so they often prefer not to push it too hard.

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Quoting: Geppeto35Nice, you are at the "logistic" stage. What's next?

Well thats the "fun part"... keep watching... The profile can only ever be sigmoid since it will plateaux.

Nonsense. I believe we can reach 150%, 200%, even 300% . . . just like the amount of effort sports people can give! :wink:

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Quoting: compholio

Quoting: BeamboomWhat's the server-side difference between a player with great game sense, and one with wallhacks?

You don't send the position of other players to someone when they're not in view.

Do you not, really? How then can the client embed sounds (footsteps, guns fired etc) from the enemy?
And if not - how do you determine they are not, since the server already believes they are since it is triggered to send the coordinates?

Listen, I'm not an expert on the stack involved here, far from it. But logically, when an entire industry - no exceptions - struggle with this, it's clearly, CLEARLY not an easy task. If they *could* avoid this entire challenge of client side with all their endless variations on hardware, systems, peripherals etc, they would. Clearly, they would.

How you do it is by having the server do all the processing, which is why most games don't do it. The server needs to run a complete copy of the game and calculate everything for each and every player, including things like audio amplitude if you are going to play footsteps.

The common wisdom in the industry is to make the server a simple relay system that passes all the information about the other players (within reason, depending upon game size) to every player. This puts all the computational costs on the individual player machines, massively reducing how much hardware/cloud compute is needed by the servers. This is not a technical problem, but a money problem - they have chosen to solve this in a particular way because they don't want to pay more for servers.

I guess the question becomes, how much more? If it's "a little more" then they're shortsighted jerks who could probably make the cost back just from more people coming to a game without cheaters. If it's "now each additional player will put them further in the hole" more, then that's not a real solution.

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