According to Windows Central, Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, is currently not expected to include a built-in disc drive.
The report says Microsoft is instead working on a disc-to-digital system that would let players convert eligible physical Xbox games into digital licenses tied to their account.
The feature is still being tested internally and has not been officially announced.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has quietly changed its position after facing backlash over its comments about private servers.
After previously saying that private servers were “illegal,” Instead, it now says that private servers can violate a publisher’s intellectual property rights if they use or distribute copyrighted content without permission.
The group also said its earlier comments came from a discussion where the terms “community server” and “private server” were used interchangeably.
So here's a story about the Düsseldorf University Hospital where heart patients are sweltering in 38°/100.4° temperatures right now because this 15-year-old building lacks central A/C.
I taught at the law faculty of this university for 15 years. When the law faculty built a new expansion in 2005, I asked whether it would be air-conditioned. They said: "No, because then every building on campus would ask for it". I thought to myself, "Well, that's Europe for you. Crabs in a bucket."
Then the university announced plans for this new building, the one you see in the picture, which would be the main university hospital. That was in 2013 or thereabouts. Shortly thereafter, they published the plans and sketches online. No A/C infrastructure visible.
At some sort of faculty function, I asked the dean or assistant dean of the medical faculty whether they were going to install central air-conditioning on this building. "It's no problem if lawyers are brain-fuddled because of the heat -- in fact it might be a bonus! -- but surgeons? Patients?"
The dean answered: "Well, we asked, but the construction board and city officials said no, because if this new building gets air-conditioning, then all the older buildings on the university campus will demand it."
"Even though this is a fucking hospital?" I asked with typical American coarseness.
"Yes, even though it's a hospital," responded the dean, staring with chagrin into his beer.
And so now dozens of people recovering from open-heart surgery are bathing in their own sweat. Across the country, thousands of people are dying in un-air-conditioned hospitals right now.
As in all former heatwaves, there will be institutional pressure at all levels to attribute their deaths to underlying ailments, not the fact that they sweltered for over a week in brutal temperatures.
@pudgenet@Movox23 Regardless of actual fact, I don't think even "extremely rare" is the argument you think it is. That should say "impossible" and anything else is people like you gaslighting yourselves.
@meistensraphi "Mehr also jeder Fünfte" ist virtuell "jeder Vierte".
Mit anderen Worten: 3/4 haben keinen Bock, der Rest hat "mindestens einen Wert von 1" - also auch keinen Bock.