Microsoft is looking for it and it wouldn't surprise me if they are paying a decent penny for it to try to stop the Linux gaming momentum the deck is driving.
It's entirely irrelevant to me. I don't care what the specs are if it's just running Windows.
It's all data, whether that data is text, an image, audio, or a binary containing computer code.
Raw audio data is just a series of amplitudes. It has a bit depth (which says how many bits are in each amplitude sample) and a frequency (what is the change in time going from one amplitude to the next). Using those, you can convert it to an analog signal that can be played on a speaker. And if you use the same values to convert that signal back to digital, you end up with the same input signal (though with some random noise added and if you get unlucky and your sample phase lines up with the player's transition phase, you won't be able to extract the original signal, though it might sound similar). The multiple recordings help mitigate these issues.
Given that data format, any arbitrary file can be treated as raw sound that can be transmitted as analog audio.
The only real difference between this and other transfer methods we use to transfer files is that this involves a less reliable conversion from digital to analog back to digital because it wasn't designed to do that like USB, COM, wifi, etc connections are.
I wonder what mundane items from today will be found far in the future and speculated about what they could be for. And if our plastic world will leave more or fewer of these artifacts.
I just hit the little up arrow. It was pretty easy, actually.
I believe PlayStations tend to become profitable a few years into the cycle.
Sometimes they do, but they usually have a golden parachute that makes it still a win for them.
On the other hand, I saw it on gamepass when looking for interesting looking games to try this weekend and passed it over. So even though I didn't have to pay anything to try it, I didn't. Maybe that's a trend they are seeing on that platform, that interest is low even though it's free access. Though it's also competing with starfield and lies of P on there.
You can have missing objects with real ray tracing. Like the player object itself generally doesn't need to be rendered so it might not even be added to the scene. Unless the player is looking down. If their arms are holding a gun or reloading, it might just be disembodied arms if you could move the camera to see it from another angle.
Or, different game, but in GT7, the ray tracing doesn't include vehicles' self reflections. Which is probably an optimization because every reflection ray trivially intersects with the object it is reflecting from, so it makes sense to skip the reflecting object, but then you miss cases where it should be reflecting another part of itself.
Well then I hope the West continues to provide that help and that Ukraine makes improvements in the areas it needs to so it can launch attacks into Russia without that help. Assuming it really does need western help. Given Russia's track record for honesty, it might be more likely that Ukraine is doing this with Russian help.
Too bad his only other passengers weren't that lawyer and head engineer.
Tbh that safety guy that got fired and sued pisses me off, too. His legal fees were being covered but he still settled out of court and allowed the problem to disappear for them.
Though the real villain is the legal system that allows a lawsuit about a safety director disagreeing that something was safe to proceed or one involving the wife who wasn't otherwise involved. Which is also why I wish the lawyer, that said "ok" when the piece of shit asked him to file that lawsuit, was on the sub when it imploded.
I was part of an ISP that was a customer coop. I bought a share when I signed up and then sold it when I moved away.
Another way it could be done is via dilution. Like every so often, new shares are issued to current employees based on whatever criteria they use to determine division of ownership. Existing shares remain outstanding so former employees still get dividends and voting rights, but the guy that worked there for 3 months 8 years ago isn't an equal owner to someone who joined 3 years ago and hasn't left. Though there's then the question of can people sell their shares to someone else, potentially leaving the door open for a hostile takeover when a large enough group of former employees want to cash out? If they can't sell them, what happens to the shares when an owner dies?
The first one is cleaner. Personally, I'd go with the first option but have an exception for people retiring so their shares can act as a non-transferable pension but then the shares cease to exist once they die (or exist for a limited amount of time after death for their next of kin).
Why is this being looked at from the angle of "law enforcement shouldn't be buying this information" instead of "companies shouldn't be selling this information"?