Non-IT News Thread
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Ubisoft goes Steam-less, embraces Epic Games Store for The Division 2
Epic gets a major "exclusive," Ubisoft gets a bigger cut, Valve gets rejected.
The Epic Games Store's relatively new effort to take on Valve's Steam juggernaut received a major shot in the arm today. That's because Ubisoft has announced that the PC version of The Division 2 will not be sold on Steam and will instead be available only through the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft's own UPlay service.
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@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
The world’s first 1-terabyte SDXC card is here
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/the-worlds-first-1-terabyte-sdxc-card-is-here/Oh great now I'm going to have to explain how these SDXC cards aren't protected, and no I don't care how many of them you buy as "protection against one failing".
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@DustinB3403 Explain to the uninformed please (namely me)
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@pchiodo said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 Explain to the uninformed please (namely me)
This technology as far as I'm aware is incredibly susceptible to bit rot. It will degrade over time.
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@pchiodo said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 Explain to the uninformed please (namely me)
There is no reasonable fashion to protect this SDXC card from damage, theft or corruption. So without constantly copying the data to something that is actually backed up is the data on here viable.
I'd qualify this as Schrodinger's Cat. The data is both on the card and not. You don't know until you mount the storage and find out.
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@DustinB3403 Thanks! And the video was an added pleasure. Even though I already know Schrodinger's cat theory, I had to watch for the amusement.
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@pchiodo Yeah so storage like this is both good and bad. Good for a specific use, bad for everything else.
The data may be good and usable one moment and corrupted the next. Even between taking the card out of a camera and plugging it into a laptop.
So there is no great way to use this card other than with a lot of hopes and prayers that it A works all of the time when needed, and B fails only when there is nothing critical on it.
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Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal
Bossa Studios MMO Worlds Adrift among games affected.
Unity Engine games developed with SpatialOS' cloud-based multiplayer Game Development Kit (GDK) are now in violation of Unity's terms of service, according to SpatialOS maker Improbable. The decision imperils the operation of many in-development game projects, including some that have already been released to the public.
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Few people shared fake news in 2016 election, but seniors shared the most
Less than nine percent of Facebook users surveyed shared links to fake news.
If you're convinced your grandparents or crazy old Uncle Larry share a lot more dubious posts on Facebook, your intuition is likely correct. It's primarily people over the age of 65, identifying as conservative or Republican, who shared the most fake news articles during the 2016 election, according to a new study published in Science Advances. But the overall number of people who shared fake news at all is actually very low: less than nine percent.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews relevant...
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_flynn_why_our_iq_levels_are_higher_than_our_grandparents?language=en
That was a very good Ted talk
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Yeah, I liked that one. I've already used some of the information in that to help understand someone's grandfather recently.
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@JaredBusch That was interesting. I would like to add that not all stars become white dwarves which I thought the writer was implying. It depends on their original size and mass what they will turn into.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch That was interesting. I would like to add that not all stars become white dwarves which I thought the writer was implying. It depends on their original size and mass what they will turn into.
The title certainly implied that. I did not think the article did too much.
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Rodents of Unusual Size—Meet the invasive, orange-toothed pests of coastal erosion
New nutria documentary is a whole lotta fun even if the rats themselves very much aren't.
By now, anyone following environmental news recognizes Louisiana as one of the front lines for climate change in the United States. In recent years, writers from the state have famously wondered out loud about whether the boot shape we all learned in elementary school fits anymore, and residents of a small community in Isle de Jean Charles made headlines in 2015-2016 by becoming the first "climate refugees" in the country. Between flooding and the various forces pushing coastal erosion, the town quite literally lost 98 percent of its physical land in the 60 years between 1955 and 2015, forcing a concerted relocation effort.
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Etch a Sketch lives on in browser-based Chrome Labs project
Web a Skeb is open source and works in both desktop and mobile browsers.
Everyone who remembers the Etch A Sketch slabs of yesteryear remembers how difficult it was to translate your vision onto its "magic screen," and how proud you felt upon success. Now, Google's Chrome Labs has translated that experience (quite literally) for the digital age with the fun Web A Skeb project. It's a browser-contained version of an Etch A Sketch that you can use to draw and doodle—if you can get the hang of its dials.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Rodents of Unusual Size—Meet the invasive, orange-toothed pests of coastal erosion
New nutria documentary is a whole lotta fun even if the rats themselves very much aren't.
By now, anyone following environmental news recognizes Louisiana as one of the front lines for climate change in the United States. In recent years, writers from the state have famously wondered out loud about whether the boot shape we all learned in elementary school fits anymore, and residents of a small community in Isle de Jean Charles made headlines in 2015-2016 by becoming the first "climate refugees" in the country. Between flooding and the various forces pushing coastal erosion, the town quite literally lost 98 percent of its physical land in the 60 years between 1955 and 2015, forcing a concerted relocation effort.
Just waiting for PETA to get involved in this one. . .
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