I mean. Maybe. But in all actuality that doesn’t happen easily on automatic cars because of the way automatic transmissions are built. Parking pawl holds the transmission while it’s parked. Then the valve body system and the torque converter work together to keep the car moving in the direction it’s geared in. So in drive you’d be geared to move forward and so on.
Yeah. I think it might have been France that required kids to put their phones in faraday bags and leave them in a designated place (lockers or cubbies). But this article in particular didn’t specify how the ban was being applied. I am curious.
I’m surprised people think it will improve engagement or even kids paying attention to the lessons. Because as much as I understand that cell phones are absolutely a distraction in class to the point where I can understand banning them, kids who don’t want to pay attention and don’t have cell phones will find other ways to get distracted. The cell phone is just the newest medium.
If what some of these studies are saying is correct, not being allowed to have a cell phone is just as distracting if not more so.
Were you banned from bringing them to school or banned from using them in class? My school didn’t care so long as your gaming system or CD player etc was in your backpack or locker. They just didn’t want you using it in class or while transiting the hallways. When we eventually did get cell phones (mostly the Nokia bricks), a lot of us had them in school. But they were not an accepted thing to use or have cause disruptions or distractions.
So I wonder a lot about what we recall vs what actually was normal back then.
People have tracked this. They have literally made whole tracking websites just for this. This is a verifiable thing. This isn’t just someone making this up based on anecdotal evidence. There are websites dedicated to this.
The article is alleging. We don’t yet have proof of the veracity of the documentation that has been collected. When the trial finishes and the court has determined whether or not those documents and other information gathered during the course of the case have been proven to be true, then and only then do we have something that says that Valve actually did this.
I don’t trust WB and I don’t trust Ubisoft. I’m not sure I trust Valve either but I can say that my distrust for them isn’t as extreme as my distrust for the other two companies.
If Valve did this, throw the book at them. But at the same time, I want to see difinitve proof.
I don’t think that’s what people are arguing.
If I manufacture your product from a product version prototype you provided me and give you unlimited access to that product to use outside my manufacturing plant and store front, then say, you can have and sell all this free product I manufactured for you, but you have to price it the same in my store as you do where you sell it elsewhere, that’s makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense and what isn’t right, is if they say "you can’t price your product that someone else is manufacturing for you at a price lower than the one your price my manufactured product of yours at.
But people keep thinking that those two groups are saying the same thing, that Valve should be allowed to do it regardless of who manufactured what when that’s not what they are saying.
If Valve is doing this, they obvious should have the book thrown at them. But we haven’t seen evidence of that that isn’t tantamount to hearsay. So we are doing what you should do when you hear something and can’t determine the veracity of what is being said. You wait for proof and don’t make up your mind based on rumors.
People don’t leave platforms until their discomfort outweighes whatever they want from the platform. Things have been on the slow slide to enshittification for more than a decade now. AI is kind of raising the stakes a bit and increasing the rate at which things get endhittified, but you’ll note that most people don’t leave because of that. They find ways to circumvent it. We have seen this with Google Chrome, Firefox, DuckDuckGo etc.
People don’t like change. They get comfortable with a platform and they stick around there until it’s completely untenable. The easier it is to insulate yourself in that platform from things you don’t want to see, the more likely people are to stick around. This is why so many people tried to block Elon Musk’s account on Xitter, instead of leaving. It’s why they block communities like r/thedonald on reddit. It’s why Tumblr is currently having a whole shit fit about the exclusion of trans flags from their little icon fest thing for pride month, and doxing themselves/other ban evading accounts in the process.
When they do leave, they don’t often try to get others to leave with them. They ghost the platform and move on. Sometimes that means going somewhere else. Sometimes it means filling that hole with a different kind of platform entirely.
Why is AI in play books? I don’t need AI to read books. I don’t even want AI to help me find books. I would bet this is AI to provide summaries. I don’t want that.
Eight whole years or more of allegations and not one singular leak? Nobody kept a record of their contract? Not one dev? Nobody heard the news about Wolfie and went “hey wait a minute” and went back and read their contracts?
I am taking these allegations with a grain of salt because the internet sometimes is very loud and very wrong and without a credible source of information (news outlets would love even a hint of proof of this), it’s a lawsuit that hasn’t been determined to be factually proven yet, and some rumors.
My problem isn’t that you’ve said Valve allegedly did this. My problem is that you posited your statement as if it was a proven fact and linked to “evidence” that a court of law might even consider hearsay.
I’m not trying to break your balls here. I’m just saying I clicked that link thinking there was something of substance in it.
If you make a claim on the internet it should be backed up by facts. I don’t care if Gaben is guilty or innocent. I am pointing out that we don’t have a credible source for the allegations up to this point (even a copy of a contract with the specific wording would suffice and likely would have been leaked at some point in the last 8 years).
A podcast with some quotes isn’t hard evidence. Hard evidence is what people are looking for (myself included).
Wolfire’s claims haven’t been proven in court and if they are, then there will be evidence in the public record. But people have been looking for hard proof of this for years. So right now your claim is also a “myth”.
It would be a good idea if the entirety of the current industry for it wasn’t built entirely on smoke and mirrors type promises.
The general idea (so far as I can parse) is that if these companies are expecting a government bailout when it all goes south, then the tax payers who would be bailing them out should get paid back. But in practice, what will happen is we’ll be saddled with the debt and these companies will weasel out of it.
The fact is I don’t want to own a stake in any of these companies. I would rather they make it illegal for these companies to ask for a bailout from the government and close loopholes they will use to file for bankruptcy.
If they’re going to fail the government should buy their assets (data centers, infrastructure, etc) if the people agree that’s okay. Instead of what will likely happen (the companies left standing when it all goes under will buy up all the assets dirt cheap).
This has been re-hashed over and over. The terms are that if they want to discount steam provided keys on another platform they have to match that price on Steam. Steam keys are free to generate for them. They are free to distribute them on any platform. But the deal they make when they generate the steam keys is that they will adhere to the pricing rule.
If they want to discount keys generated on Epic’s store, then they can generate and sell them at any price they want.
Almost every single police shooting of a person still in their vehicle is a “PR nightmare”. If that’s all it took to stop this from happening it wouldn’t have happened again after the first time.
Would you want to be the person trying to get into the seat only to stop the vehicle and then get arrested by the cops for fleeing? That sounds like a recipe for getting shot in the US.
With a wheel a shifter, and pedals, you can put the vehicle in neutral and push it out of the road if it dies or something. It doesn’t make sense to get rid of them.
Username checks out.
The irony of calling out Wire for “Dishonest Reporting tm” while saying this nonsense in your leaked memo is staggering:
So you know this feature is controversial, you absolutely do plan to release it to the public according to your own internal memos, and you have the nerve to call out a publication for explaining what the feature is and why it’s bad before they explain that it’s not currently implemented and you claim it won’t be. Sloppy work, guys.