This week, Microsoft — a company that already announced layoffs of 1,900 game workers earlier this year — once again took the scythe to its own workforce, shuttering four Bethesda studios in a single swing. It did so, according to an email to staff from Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty, to “double down” on franchises.
Sooo…Fallout is a franchise. You could double down on that and do Fallout 5.
Microsoft guts four studios to focus on priority games aka Bethesda games
Oooh.
Adding to the ever-increasing list of game developers losing their jobs, Microsoft Xbox has shuttered three studios it acquired with Activision Blizzard, according to IGN. The three shuttered development studios in question are Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush, The Evil Within, Ghostwire), Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom), and Arkane Austin (Prey, Redfall). Roundhouse Games is also being absorbed into ZeniMax Online Studios to work on The Elder Scrolls Online.
Oh. The other Bethesda franchise. Well, I guess that series is okay too.
As you’d expect fans are desperate to know more, and frantically searching for some sort of release window to look forward to.
This eventually led to them reaching out to Emil Pagliarulo, who acted as writing director for Starfield, lead designer for Fallout 4, and finally senior designer on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for potential answers.
Pagliarulo described it as a “good question,” and a “complicated question,” before saying “development times can vary for a variety of reasons. On Starfield, we spent a lot of time updating and developing tech. We also paused for a bit to assist with Fallout 76.”
They went on to say: “At the end of the day, though, it always comes down to that most important resource of all – people. As with any dev team, we have talented folks who need time to make great stuff. So we can’t do everything at once.”
So, if Bethesda decides to keep Fallout 5 in its grasp, bad news for the game’s release date as juggling three games at once doesn’t seem achievable, even for a studio as big as Bethesda is.
The CPU features 8 cores: 4x fast Cortex-A76 and 4x efficient Cortex-A55.
Yes.
I think arm architecture are only going to become more prevalent with the success of the M line macs
I dunno. They have a long battery life (though somebody that is just having a large battery in the laptop). But…
This comes running Debian. If you’re just running open-source software, like stuff out of a Linux distro, then you can use Debian’s ARM build of everything. But if you’re gonna run Steam on it, then you’re gonna be running x86 code, and that emulation is gonna cut into battery lifetime.
EDIT: Cool, the trackpad is modular, and they even have a trackball option with mechanical buttons. Haven’t seen those in ages.
EDIT2: Oh, that’s also hot – they just use standard 18650 batteries. You can just pick up more off Amazon or whatever and replace 'em.
8x owner-serviceable 18650 cells totalling 12 Ah/3.2 V. 5 h approximate battery life
Not huge battery capacity in total, but they say that the hardware is open-source. I wonder if there’s some mod to stick more cells in somehow and clue the battery controller into the fact?
EDIT3: Oh, that’s cool as hell. The firmware has its own little tiny display right above the keyboard independent of the main display. I’m kind of surprised that no other laptop manufacturer I’ve seen has thought of doing that.
EDIT4: Hah, awesome. It defaults to having swapcaps (caps lock and control swapped). I have to go through and do this on every computer that I buy.
EDIT5: The reviewer says that he likes their keyboard more than anything else he’s used on a laptop – they made the thing thick, so they’ve got space for it. goes looking Apparently they not only tell you the mechanical keyswitch type on the store page (Kailh Choc) but give you a choice of either of keyswitches (Brown or White). I’m not familiar with Kailh. Looking at Kailh’s store, it looks like the whites are clicky, and the browns quieter – looks like they have color conventions that follow Cherry’s conventions.
EDIT6: Yeah, the reviewer liked mechanical buttons, but not the trackball. I wish they could put a Synaptics trackpad on there, but it sounds like they’re only using open hardware, which might constrain them.
EDIT6: Hah, the reviewer swapped in his own Pi compute module, so I guess it’s compatible with the Pis. listens further Yeah, the reviewer says that it should be possible to stick in a future Raspberry Pi 5 compute module.
If you look at the parent’s comment history, they appear to be generally saying things aimed at getting a rise out of people, and are pretty consistently downvoted. I believe that they’re a troll (in the original sense of the term, using flamebait to troll for bites, as in trolling for fish). They’re wanting a reaction.
I’d probably just downvote and move on, not engage.
I mean, based on the image, it does say the caffine content prominently up front. Just doesn’t run around saying “EXTREME” or the like on it, and I dunno how many people have a feel for how many milligrams does what, because other stuff doesn’t normally indicate caffine content like that.
I’d never bothered trying it at my Panera’s, as I prefer zero-calorie drinks, but I didn’t think of it as being an energy drink.
I dunno, dude. My local Panera’s is pretty much the only restaurant I’ve seen that has zero-caffine diet colas in their soda machines (was right next to said charged lemonade).
I think that that might make the ethanol evaporate, as it’ll do so more-readily than water.
It seems to me that that would have two effects:
That would presumably cause the ethanol content to drop over time. You’d either have the impact fall off, or need to replenish it. I’d suggest a small Cupid statue urinating pure ethanol into the Four Loko fountain.
If you can evaporate enough of it, maybe you can get enough ethanol vapor going on to get everyone in FlyingSquid’s Panera’s establishment drunk from breathing. I dunno if fountains would be enough, though. I’m thinking maybe add some of those ultrasonic misters, which would create a mysterious Four Loko fog at ankle level and add to the ambiance.
Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to...
I was taught that the default is to write out numbers, but if you’re comparing multiple numbers, they’re normally supposed to be written in numeric form. I feel like they should have either started with a number or restructured the sentence.
googles
Apparently AP style guidelines say that for ten and above, you should use numeric form. Below that, write it out. That may be the driving factor here.
In general you should spell out numbers one through nine in AP Style. Consider the following examples of AP Style numbers,
The Chicago White Sox finished second.
She had six months left of her pregnancy.
You should use figures for 10 or above and whenever preceding a unit of measure or referring to ages of people, animals, events or things. Also use figures in all tabular matter, and in statistical and sequential forms.
Well, one person is trying hard to get it going and keeps constantly posting prompts, but nobody is actually filling them in. I feel kind of bad for that guy.
The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one’s own world, an accurate evaluation of how much one is noticed by others is uncommon. The reason for the spotlight effect is the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one’s own world, one is not the center of everyone else’s. This tendency is especially prominent when one does something atypical.[1]
Research has empirically shown that such drastic over-estimation of one’s effect on others is widely common. Many professionals in social psychology encourage people to be conscious of the spotlight effect and to allow this phenomenon to moderate the extent to which one believes one is in a social spotlight.[2]
The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed.
I mean, that’s not ideal, but as information goes, that seems kind of limited. Bank data is maybe useful for someone trying to steal money, but I don’t see as how Chinese intelligence would benefit that much.
Maybe they could confirm that someone was working for the British military or something, like if they were working secretly for military intelligence? I don’t know if that’s something that the UK does.
If your bank balance is in the negative and you work for the MoD
Knowing their financial situation could buy them useful information, true.
So, I’m going off the US here, but I don’t think that just knowing a bank account number is sufficient to let you see what’s in it. And I don’t believe that a normal bank account will let you run a negative balance, absent something like bank fees. Like, it’s not a credit card. You can get a credit card from a bank, but then knowing a bank account number won’t let you know the balance on the credit card.
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Security on checking accounts is pretty horrendous. I guess if an employer is moving money into a direct-deposit bank account, if that account is a checking account, you could forge a check for a given amount and see whether it goes through, and then do a transfer back the other direction, and if it bounces, transfer an amount sufficient to cover the “bad check” fee. However, if you’re forging checks en masse I think that banks – not to mention account holders – are liable to notice.
Like, what they’re getting is what someone’s employer has. The employer doesn’t normally get to know someone’s financial situation.
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if the Kremlin isn’t happy with the current state of the war with Ukraine, that probably wouldn’t produce a situation more to their liking.
Like, in that there probably isn’t a huge application for a pump-action AK-47?
Why not?
I mean, there is a lot more variety in firearms out there than purely-functional reasons. Why have different finishes available on firearms? Why am I drinking my (sips) chocolate shake, rather than just gruel?
The primary OS for this disk was Unraid. Its formated in BTRFS. I don’t think either of those matter. The disk spins and worked before the reboot. But now. No matter what machine, port or cable I use its not mountable. Is there anything I can try? I was going to attempt Spinrite on it however it doesn’t see anything either....
If you have a Linux machine, look in /sys/class/block and see if it shows up there. That’ll give you a list of devices at the block device level. There should be an entry there, regardless of what you’ve done with partitioning or filesystems on those partitions.
If it doesn’t show up there, the drive is probably having trouble at a hardware level. There are various tactics that people have tried to get a rotational drive functioning, like different temperatures, having the drive in different orientations, etc. Those might work, but if the drive is having physical problems, it might also continue to degrade.
If that’s the case, your best bet, if the information is sufficiently worthwhile to you, is probably to send the drive to a data recovery company. What they’ll do is use a drive with the same hardware, and in a clean room, swap the platters, and as long as it’s still functional, they can image the drive at that point. IIRC you’re talking something in the neighborhood of $500, though I’ve never needed to do this myself (backups!).
If it does show up, then you can look at whether you’re getting kernel log errors when attempting to read from the drive (journalctl -k -b). If so, it might be recoverable, at least in part.
If there aren’t any errors, then whatever your issue is might only be in terms of the data on the drive. My first step – knowing nothing about how Unraid sets things up – would probably be to look at the partition table on the drive (sudo parted <drive-device-name>). You can manually mount a partition with (mount <partition-name> <mount-point>).
EDIT: Oh, one last note. You might try swapping the cable before throwing in the towel, if you haven’t already. While I doubt that this is it, and I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with a hard drive, a few times in my life, I’ve run into puzzling problems where a device isn’t visible that came down to a faulty data cable. Can’t hurt to try, at any rate.
Okay, it looks like you posted this prior to me posting my comment above. I’m not familiar with this graphical utility, but I’m assuming that it means that your disk is visible (like, if you run ls /dev/sda, you see your disk).
So what you’ve probably got is a functioning hard drive, with a functioning partition table, and on the first partition (/dev/sda1), a LUKS layer.
I haven’t used LUKS, but it’s a block-level encryption layer for Linux. It’ll have some command to expose an unencrypted layer, and you can mount that.
“My vice was Twitter… I’m kind of a news junkie, and I love to refresh it all throughout the day, and sometimes argue with people online, I guess, so it was a bad habit,” explained Stults.
Along with his partner Daisy Krigbaum, they decided to adopt a less-screen-filled lifestyle and help others do the same. “Some people just can’t function with how addictive the smartphone currently is,” Stults said.
when you could just freeload on volunteers work instead?
Part of – if not the primary point – of OSM is that people can use its database in their projects. That’s a feature, not a bug. They could have very readily restricted commercial use of the database and chose not to do so.
I would have been far less-willing to contribute if it weren’t a resource available to everyone.
while most of their “peer” countries (most importantly pretty much all of Europe) have moved on from this sort of view of being “powerful” after WW2 by the latest.
There was a point in time when most of the economy was in the primary sector. Fishing, mining, farming, etc. There, economic potential is generally tied to the land. If you can get control of land, you increase your economic potential. And there’s a limited amount you can do to increase things otherwise. Farming has been around for (checks) maybe 13,000 years. The low-hanging fruit to improve things has been taken already – it’s not easy to improve things via just figuring out a way to farm better. So a lot of what matters, in such an environment, in terms of who gets money is who controls a given piece of land and can extract the wealth that it generates.
And so, for a long time, control of land was super-important. You had whole political systems structured around control of land, like feudalism.
Thing is that, subsequent to the Industrial Revolution, the secondary sector became dramatically more important. That’s not bound to the land in the same way – one can have a very large amount of wealth-producing economic potential even if one is, for example, sitting on a bunch of some rather small islands, like the UK was.
The primary sector still has a role, and there are still some places that can make some money from the primary sector and do fight over control of land, but in general, the incentives to fight over land are just a lot smaller.
You still need access to stuff produced by the primary sector – if someone can cut you off from something that the primary sector produces, they can crater your secondary sector, which gives them leverage over you and thus the ability to extract wealth from you – but then (a) transport got cheaper, which made it easier to get those inputs from other sources than nearby ones, and (b) the tertiary sector of the economy became more-important and further decoupled control of territory from wealth.
Economic potential is now more-linked to human labor (and especially skilled human labor). Thing is, human labor – unlike land – is mobile. If someone doesn’t like how things are shaping up in a country, they might just leave and take the economic potential of their labor with them. Avoiding that, if your country is a really unpleasant place to be, requires setting up something like the Berlin Wall or like what North Korea has going on on their borders – you jail your population, don’t let people leave. That’s kinda difficult and tends to have some pretty negative effects on the value of that human capital, since you may have to kinda cut it off from the outside world informationally so that you can tell it that things are way, way better locally and that that population definitely does not want to walk out the door, and not let them hear any information to the contrary. Access to information is kinda important for making people be productive, though, so if you want to cut people in the country you run off from the outside world to retain access to their labor, you’re likely gonna have to do things that…decrease the value of their labor.
So I don’t think that there was so much some dramatic shift in principles in Europe after WW2. It’s more just that the world and political institutions were kinda catching up with present economic realities. The land being fought over just doesn’t have the same kind of proportional value that it once did; the fighting was causing far greater losses than anything that one could win.
The Soviet Union invaded Finland in the Winter War. And they did take some of Finland’s land. But…virtually everyone in the occupied territories left. So, sure, you get access to some land. But what’s valuable isn’t Finnish territory, but the Finns themselves. If you can’t capture the Finns via an invasion, the land you slice off just doesn’t have a lot of value.
For France and Germany, one concern had historically been fighting over land with coal – not because they necessarily wanted the coal industry, but because they wanted to be able to have secondary-sector industries that depended upon coal. Creating the European Coal and Steel Community after WW2 meant that they didn’t have to fight over it.
I don’t think that governments have given up on being powerful (or, perhaps reducing this further, wealthy) at all. I think that they’ve generally rationally-recognized that in the present economic environment, lopping land off their neighbor generally just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense economically. If you have a given amount of capital, you’re gonna get a better return doing stuff like investing it in increasing your human capital, growing it, and retaining it than trying to slice some land off your neighbor, because that’s not where the money is anymore.
That’s just a function of labor – especially skilled labor – being the the bottleneck on production.
And I don’t think that those basic economic realities are gonna change unless (1) the world sees an enormous increase in demand for some primary-sector resource, such that control of land containing it becomes critical again, or (2) something – and maybe human-level AI could do this – greatly reduces our dependence on human labor such that we have some new bottleneck.
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HDD spins but OS doesnt see mountable disk
The primary OS for this disk was Unraid. Its formated in BTRFS. I don’t think either of those matter. The disk spins and worked before the reboot. But now. No matter what machine, port or cable I use its not mountable. Is there anything I can try? I was going to attempt Spinrite on it however it doesn’t see anything either....
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