CYR1X

Wait, the paid tier of a service that has a free tier almost never means they're stopping data collection at the free tier of users. This article seems to confuse that with switch to a different service provider that is paid only.

It then goes into self-hosted, but wait why don't you just pay someone to self-host for you?

Bad article.

If there are truly no other options, then the developers are going to have to severely reduce the price of their real estate or choose not to build there. This is simply taking an implicit approach to things, which may or may not work.

If anything doing this is a way for cities to implicitly get citizens on board for investing more in public transit. All of the new apartment buildings in the hip parts of town don't have any parking for your cars, so you're forced onto public transportation more, which you might think stinks, so you now care more about voting for infrastructure improvement.

I mean regular call centers employed that tactic too. Use the right language to make it appear as if something is happening, and you agree with the customer, but not doing either of those things.

Or ones that outright are dishonest. Had a slew of fraudulent returns on ebay and called only for humans to waste my time and end up saying "I will submit this to some-other-department and I very much expect the case to be ruled in your favor" only for them to send me an email an hour later saying the ruled against me. This happened like 3 times in the span of three months. I eventually learned I can't get all of my money back if a buyer trashes my item on purpose, returns it to me in a literal pile of ewaste pieces, and thoroughly document everything and bring it to ebay. I've been selling for 15 years, too.

It seems like customer service nowadays is just to wait the customer out. Mercari made me send 8 unique photos in order to get a return...wtf? Just waste their time and make them jump through as many hoops as possible I guess so that they give up. I feel like in a decade online retail returns will be the equivalent to cancelling gym memberships.

Would be harder for them to not sell your data and try to bulk resell subscriptions themselves.

The masses aren't great at distinguishing between 1080p and 720p, or 720p and 360p. They don't even know what video codecs are. So no they aren't really going to complain if their 1080p video downs to 360p for 2 seconds.

This doesn't mean anything. Salary info could be as simple as "yes, there is a salary." This is like discounts that are "up to" a certain percentage. It doesn't actually mean anything.

Oh man I think this is a great idea too. Would be a great way to support some independent maker. Somebody like a level1techs.

Probably because you exploit this. Do this a bunch in some what that leans towards whatever your agenda is and eventually one of those articles will get a bunch of hits and attention before anyone considers revising it.

Would be better if the LVDS ribbon cable connectors for all of these devices was more standardized, and you could just buy an adapter to HDMI/Display Port. These actually exist but AFAIK there isn't just one LVDS ribbon cable standard or even close to one.

Question: What's the profitability to passenger ratio generally? Like is it linear? If so then this really isn't an airline problem it's a policy and customer problem. They are offering the flights as they are allowed by policy, which means it has to go to Adelaide, but customers don't want to fly there, so the plane is largely empty. If the customer demand was there then would the airline be so against selling more tickets like the article implies?

If it's not linear, and like 30% capacity is less profitable than both a full plane or a near empty plane, then sure the airline could be abusing policy loopholes. I wonder if the policy penalizes cancellations then? Like what if the airline wanted to cancel these "ghost flights" for the sake of being more green? So they just always canceled the last leg.

People have determined what the player structs are on the xbox-memory-state side of things, so my guess is "age_in_a_bot" might be the time elapsed for a given player aka how long they've been alive:

https://github.com/CYRiXplaysHalo/XboxHaloGameLogger/blob/ma...

This was common in PC games at the time, but not on console games. Essentially you're just dumping game state memory somewhere and then replaying it. Half-life games had it.

It's just branded network tunneling software. They went through the effort of making friends lists and integrating IRC channel into it, but if any two people want to play each other there are a myriad of ways to tunnel local network traffic over IP. Here's one by the guy who created xemu:

https://github.com/mborgerson/l2tunnel

Thanks for the answer. Like 5 years ago I tried snooping around halo system link packets because I just assumed there was no encryption and was disappointed. Wasn't this multiplayer rushed out in a month? Why on earth is a LAN protocol secure in 2001?! lol

Since you branded it, did you use it in any other games by chance?