Russland vielleicht? /s-hoch-zehn-verdammt-noch-eins

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/gronau-atommuell-wird-wieder-nach-russland-exportiert-a-1292879.html

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/uran-brennelemente-deutschland-russland-100.html

Die Delle in meinem Tisch wird Tag für Tag immer größer.

The presentation was genuinely astounding. An absolute marvel for the hardware it runs on and it still holds up today, at least visually. Gameplay-wise, not so much, unfortunately.

Aber bitte vorschriftsmäßig unterm Kruzifix anbringen!

I didn't see it until its tentacles had already engulfed my little submersible. I screamed like a little girl and didn't touch the game again for weeks. No other game has ever managed to scare me like this.

Will die ZPÜ gebühren von Cloud anbietern dafür, dass sie von Künstlern ihre kunstwerke auf einer plattform hosten?

Sie will Gebühren dafür erheben, dass Cloudanbieter urheberrechtlich geschützte Werke hosten und damit verfielfältigen könnten.

Oder isses andersrum?

Nein.

Will die ZPÜ unrechtmäßigen und nicht lizensierten gebrauch copyright geschützter werke anfechten?

Im Prinzip geht es darum, dass es legal möglich ist, als Privatmensch urheberrechtlich geschützte Dinge zu kopieren (sofern keine "wirksamen" technischen Schutzmaßnahmen ausgehebelt werden - wirksam heißt nur, dass deine Oma das nicht hinkriegen würde), was bedeutet, dass es ganz legal Kopien von urheberrechtlich Geschützten Inhalten gibt und diese von Leuten genutzt werden können, ohne dass die Rechteinhaber dafür direkt bezahlt werden. Die Pauschalabgabe soll das zum Teil auffangen und Rechteinhaber dafür entlohnen. Da realistisch (ohne eine Totalüberwachung, die tatsächlich von anderen Rechteinhabern gefordert wird) nicht erfasst werden kann, ob und in welchem Umfang urheberrechtlich geschützte Inhalte von und auf jedem Gerät kopiert und gespeichert werden, ist diese Abgabe pauschal - selbst wenn z.B. eine Speicherkarte am Ende nur für private Urlaubsfotos genutzt wird.

Es gibt also diese Pauschalabgabe schon für alle möglichen Speichermedien und Kopiergeräte, einschließlich Festplatten und Computer. Hier liegt der Hase begraben: Cloudanbieter sind keine Händler oder Hersteller für Speichermedien und fallen als solche nicht unter die gegenwärtige Rechtssprechung.

Genau das will die ZPÜ wohl nach diesem Misserfolg mit weiterer Lobbyarbeit ändern. Entweder wird wohl die Definition vom Gesetzgeber angepasst oder eine neue Kategorie geschaffen werden. Leider stehen die Chancen nicht schlecht, gerade nach der nächsten Bundestagswahl, dass sie damit Erfolg haben wird. Am Ende wird das nur dazu führen, dass deutsche Cloudanbieter noch teurer und damit weniger wettbewerbsfähig im internationalen Vergleich werden - und die zusätzlichen Einnahmen werden natürlich hauptsächlich großen Verlagen zufließen. Es ist nichts als eine weitere Wertabschöpfung von der Allgemeinheit an eine kleine Gruppe.

Merkel hatte freilich auch u.a. mit Trump und Bush Jr. zu tun (und das Verhältnis zu Obama war kompliziert). Mit anderen Worten: Wenn die USA ihre Führungsrolle - die sie nunmal haben - nicht angemessen wahrnehmen, dann ist es einfacher und notwendiger, eine eigene Außenpolitik zu machen, zumal Biden als Transatlantiker alter Schule eine sehr europafreundliche Einstellung hat und in vielen Fällen in beiderseitigem Interesse handelt. Das kann man von Trump nun wirklich nicht behaupten.

Nichtsdestotrotz wäre ein bisschen mehr Eigenständigkeit von Scholz keine schlechte Sache.

Das können die übrigens machen, weil die Beweispflicht nicht bei denen liegt. Ziemlich schmutzige Sache.

Die bereits existierenden Abgaben für Geräte und Speichermedien sind übrigens happig:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauschalabgabe

... or gulagware.

In the real world, communism also suffered from the mandated growth problem, as well as a long list of other issues that some people still like to pretend solely exist under capitalism and some serious problems that are exclusive to this system. Yes, it is actually bad, with and without Cold War propaganda making it sound both worse and better than it actually was. It failed everywhere for a reason.

This doesn't mean that there aren't real issues with capitalism as well. So far, the best system we've come up with as a species is heavily regulated capitalism with strong social safety nets. Not perfect, but nothing is on this rock.

Especially if you're fine with the low image quality of streaming services. Equivalent video files aren't particularly big.

Only use torrents if you know what you're doing. In the developed world, this usually ends with a very expensive letter in your mailbox.

Yes, exactly! Coming from one of the best-made mindless game series to essentially gaming high art is quite the transformation. There has always been a lot of talent at Kroteam, but I'm glad they have finally found their true calling.

The small handful of nods to Serious Sam in The Talos Principle are quite amusing, by the way. I almost got a heart attack from suddenly hearing the sound of the headless kamikaze...

I'm currently playing through this game. At one point, it totally hit me that the non-linear structure and even the way secrets are scattered throughout the world is very reminiscent of Super Mario 64.

Small clarification: Satellite imagery is only used where higher quality aerial photography isn't available. For cities with full photogrammetry, a plane needs to fly over the whole area twice (the second time at 90 degrees relative to the first pass) in order to capture buildings from all sides.

Were you streaming at 180mbps?

More than that, actually. I measured well over 250 over large cities. Others have reported more than 300.

That’s not how cache works.

In this case, it does. The cache for this simulator is a disk cache - and it's completely configurable. You can manually designate its size and which parts of the world it'll permanently contain. There's also a default rolling cache (also on SSD - this program doesn't even support hard drives), which does get overwritten over time.

Only the installs were slow. Terrain streaming worked just fine right from the start (I played it from day one) - and once it's cached on your machine, they can shut down the servers all they want, it's still on your machine.

But…that’s what you’re doing? Streaming the game at 180mbps…

No. Map and weather data is being streamed, cached on your SSD and then the game engine loads it from there into RAM and uses it in combination with other locally stored data and locally performed physics calculation to render the game on your machine. You get an uncompressed, high quality image and low-latency input, freshly baked by your graphics card for your eyes only. At 1080p and 60 fps, that's already 2.98 Gbit/s per second generated by your GPU and sent to the screen as is. At 1440p, we are at 5.31 Gbit/s and at 4K, 11.94 Gbit/s. DisplayPort can handle up to 20 Gbit/s per lane and use up to four lanes, by the way.

Xbox Cloud Streaming only uses up to 20 Mbit/s (and that's very optimistic). At the advertised 1080p, this means that only 6.7% as much data as generated on the server is reaching your screen.

The problem with game streaming is that in order to limit latency, they have to compress the image and send it very quickly, 60 times per second, which means they have just 16.7 milliseconds for each frame - and do this for potentially millions of users at the same time. This cannot physically be done at any decent level of quality. It is far easier to send much larger amounts of map data that is not time critical: It doesn't matter if it's even a few seconds late on your machine, since the game engine will render something with the data it already has. At worst, you get some building or terrain pop-in, whereas if even a single of the 60 frames required for direct game streaming is being dropped, you'll immediately notice it as stuttering.

That sounds like a great reason not to buy this game.

If you don't have the hardware to play this game locally, then I would not recommend it. If you have - and a base Xbox Series S is enough for a reasonable experience, which costs just 300 bucks new or about half as much used - then there is no reason for using the streaming service, unless you absolutely have to play it on your phone at work.

FS 2020 had an offline mode. I don't see why this one wouldn't have one as well. It's either using procedurally generated or cached data.

You can not get the same visual fidelity and low latency with game streaming. I've tried nearly every service there is (going as far back as OnLive - remember that one?) and they are all extremely subpar, including Microsoft's own game streaming service.

FS 2020 is available for streaming, by the way, and FS 2024 is likely going to be as well. You're only getting the console version though. Officially, the resolution is "up to" 1080p, but due to extremely heavy compression, it looks far worse than that. It's comparable to 720p at best, which means that nearly all fine detail is lost behind huge compression artifacts. On anything larger than a smartphone screen, it looks horrible. That's on top of connection issues and waiting times that are still plaguing this service.