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That picture is amazing, lol.

Oh, I see what you’re saying. Thanks for the explanation!

The character’s auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where they put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices as a way to move ingame currency around between mules.

I thought poe2 didn’t have a real AH, just currency market. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re trying to say.

Rest of the stuff checks out though.

Yep, pretty much.

If you watch to the end, the reason she can’t get to her online classes was because her ISP’s configuration CD was windows only.

So if we’re looking to find fault, it’s partly Dell for insisting everything would just work, partly Verizon for not having a good Linux process, and partly her for not just calling her ISP for tech support.

How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems… very specific.

Yes exactly. They did this in theatres where small sections of the movie would be in 3D. There’d be a blinking icon to tell you when to put your 3D glasses on.

The problem with 3d anaglyphs is that there’s a tradeoff: To get the depth information across, there’s a big loss in colour reproduction. It’s fine as a gimmick, but doing the whole movie that way probably isn’t the best idea.

VR headsets just have a different set of tradeoffs (hot, sweaty and isolating ;) which make them basically equally undesirable for a good viewing experience.

The idea behind having only sections in 3d is that you only accept the tradeoffs when they’re most worthwhile.

It’d actually be kinda cool if there were movies with supplemental VR. That is, mostly 2d but with VR headset sections. I know they had this in the theatres in thr past with red/blue VR glasses, but it’d look so much better with a good VR headset.

The issue is that it’s a bit of a hard sell within an already limited market segment. You’d need to already have a largeish TV, and then also a 3D headset on the same PC.

I’d think most VR enthusiasts would have their VR on either a standalone unit or on a gaming PC, not on their HTPC.

As you’ve said, watching an entire film in VR is kinda ass.

Just embrace being horny on main. :) Unless you’re American. Then instead of you coming, they’ll be coming for you in the next 4+ years.

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Yep, agreed. It’s the potential for exploitation that’s the main issue.

Don’t get me wrong, Vanguard is BS, and I quit playing riot games because of it. However, simply having low level access isn’t sufficient to classify it as spyware, otherwise drivers would be spyware. I still haven’t seen any evidence that it currently does anything nefarious with that access, which means it’s quite unlikely it’s being used for mass surveillance.

To me, there are 2 problems: 1) It could be used for targeted attacks, and the likelihood anyone would find out is much lower than in a widespread surveillance scenario. 2) It could be used to deploy a massive bot-net.

I think the US reclassification here is precautionary in nature.

I mean, there’s always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There’s absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.

It is untrue, but your assessment is a little off. The issue is that any actual PR system would’ve been an unmitigated disaster for the Liberals, and they knew it, even worse than FPTP. So they had to find the one Non-FPTP system that most benefitted themselves, and bullheadedly push for only that system, effectively harpooning their own initiative.

I think whoever the Libs do pick is going to be in an even worse position. At least Trudeau could score some points dealing with Trump.

If they wanted to do some good, they’d either disband completely, or merge into the NDP so the left/centre vote doesn’t get split. They have no problem crying “Anything But Conservative” when they’re the Anything, but I doubt they’ll have the grace to do it when it’s not to their benefit.

Yep. And just to be a little more precise, since the distinction is a bit subtle: an emulator typically involves translating byte code so that you can run a binary on different hardware. A compatibility layer translates OS calls so that a binary can run on different software.

In the latter case, the binary still runs, as is, directly on the CPU because it’s compiled for the same instruction set architecture (x86_64, in this case).

I don’t think gate keeping engineering is bullshit, software or otherwise. In fact I think it is one of the few eminently important things to gatekeep.

If computer systems have peoples lives depending on them, having accredited engineers that may be part of a chain of liability for their mistakes is a potentially life saving measure. It provides increased guarantee that someone will be held responsible, be it the firm, or in the case of bankruptcy, the individual engineer.

This provides a significant incentive to only sign off on work that meets all relevant safety criteria.

I’m not sure if that’s how it works in software engineering, but it certainly should.