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if by "decent" you mean a racing bike, or a high end mountain bike... if you want something that can get you from A to B safely you can easily spend a lot less. my own bycicle only cost me a couple hundred and it's just fine. maybe look into the used market too, people sell their bikes all the time even if there's nothing especially wrong with them and most age related problems can be easily fixed even by yourself.

are you asking if a browser will automatically know that you changed a line on a page it already received from your server? In that case the answer is no. If you mean whether you'll see changes done through the browser's developer tools right away, then yes, you will - though you could have found that out in 20 seconds by just trying.

Do you have figures showing those to be more than 300 milion? Or figures to back up anything at all you assert?

even if I believed you with no source that's still more than twice the figure you claimed they'd need to make back their investment.

You're grasping at straws, the sales figures are still over a million per month near launch. All released sales figures from EA place sold units over 20 million for the last few games, even at half price that's enough to make back double what they spent in licensing and development.

The last couple of fifa games have reached that in under 3 months. At full release price, not with a steam discount. FIFA 21 has sold over 30 million copies as of a year ago.

Oh I don't know, I was just responding to OP at face value since I don't really take issue with that anyway.

I have no simpathy for the Russian government or RT but anything that undermines copyright law and the DMCA is good in my opinion. Sorry, I really don't care if you want to sue someone for using a part of your video in a piece of barely related content. Who cares? If it's dubbed then it's reaching an audience it otherwise wouldn't have anyway. I could see a problem with a full reupload with no changes (and even then only because of how screwed youtube's monetization system is) but a dub is fine.

The game does make them a lot, and anything they make on top of that through microtransactions is basically free money so they have no reason to stop inserting them. The upfront price of the game covers the cost of development; the only way to make them lose money is to take away that guaranteed baseline income.

Consider that it doesn't matter if you buy the loot boxes or not. If anyone buys it it's going to be worth the investment by EA, which is roughly 0 compared to other development costs, into making the game worse to push extra monetization. To really hurt their bottom line people would have to not buy the game in the first place... but a lot of people want to play fifa, even if it's not as good as it could be, so that doesn't really happen.

Either you make it a public utility, meaning private corporations are excluded from the market or can only participate within a strict set of rules, or you force private companies to at least provide for everyone. I'm partial to the first solution but I have a feeling comcast isn't. It may not be comcast's "fault" if someone lives in an isolated place but it sure as hell isn't that guy's fault that comcast pushed competitors out of the area and is now refusing to fill that void.

I know. I'm saying that if a company like comcast wants to operate in a given area (say a county) it should be required by law to provide equal service to all residents at the same cost, no matter if providing service to some users would cost more to the company itself. Internet access should be considered a baseline utility at this point, just like electricity and water.

And all he needed was a small loan of 2.6 million dollars from the federal government I wonder if instead comcast and other large ISPs should have been forced to provide at least baseline internet access to everyone in the areas they operate in... Yeah, it's almost like infrastructure is expensive and we shouldn't place its cost on the shoulders of individual people just because they live in poorly serviced locations.

I don't think so, or if he did he didn't actually realize what he was doing

Hardly a bad business decision considering it kept Microsoft from being broken up by antitrust authorities. I don't think MS is particularly worried about macOS overtaking windows and operating system sales aren't even their main revenue source. nothing is exactly the same as anything else. in this case the functionality boost really wasn't that big, the iphone was just marketed really well. most of the things you associate with and take for granted on a smartphone were not present in the original iphone, it didn't even ship with an app store. Actually yes, it is illegal. I think one of the worst decisions in the tech space was Nokia's decision to partner with Microsoft instead of just using Android. They could have seamlessly continued to absolutely dominate the mobile space if they hadn't, easily filling the space Samsung occupies today.

lmao, "1v1 me bro" what's wrong Elon, scared of the trial? he probably didn't, he said he did to get an attention boost which in the past has worked to pump his stocks. in this case he forgot that contract law exists. he also wanted to shift attention from the credible sexual harassment allegations against him that surfaced around that time.

lmao I started using Linux off and on when I was 13. I think it's safe to say I was an "unwashed plebeian" back then, and Linux distros were a lot less polished than they are now. Nobody is saying you should just uproot everything and switch exclusively to Linux, a lot of people can't due to proprietary windows software they need or just want to run... which is why I don't particularly like the idea that LTT has sort of been pushing that you should see Linux as a free windows alternative for videogames. Videogames are possibly the worst use case for Linux. I mean... that sounds like a "you" problem? It's fine if you don't care to learn about Linux but that doesn't mean it's impossible or that you should automatically know everything about it just by virtue of having an engineering job, especially since you started your career years before Linux even existed. Who's "chastising" you for being unwilling to learn Linux? Are you being asked to learn to use it better for your job and you're salty because you don't want to? I've had plenty of update issues on windows, the only difference is that on Linux I actually have a chance to fix them whereas Windows is a black box that sometimes just breaks and can't be fixed.

Sounds like game mods with extra steps

I'm not referring to just animations; depending on the game type, balance and behavior for an item would have to change. Well not really because NFTs do not override copyright law.

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I have a feeling those people whereas I have no trouble believing someone who plays games in their spare time can also lead a perfectly healthy life, regardless of whether they play 10 minutes or 2 hours on any given day.

sure, node.js is one. django also works. you won't be writing python code in your web pages but you don't need to worry about manually connecting them to a django backend, there is special syntax for that that python uses to generate the frontend.

US citizens would have you believe otherwise but "American" is not a nationality

user input can be gathered in normal JS directly on the webpage and it can be used to change what you see on the page itself. if you want to collect that input and use it to, say, send an email then you need a backend, meaning code that runs on your server and not on the webpage itself.