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Q: Game progress not showing logging in to 2nd ps4

Hi my son has ps4 at his mums and then at mine. He purchased a game on my machine which he started at his mums but when logging back into mine, Thame appears the process hasn't transferred and he needs to start again. How can I fix this? His mums is set as his primary one, I've tried all options ...

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Q: PlayStation 4 - USB stick content, where to see?

I am tasked with porting one of our Unity3D games from Windows to PS4. Thing is, I never touched a console before, sooo... I got stuck right at the beginning. Right now I am trying to just have something run on the PS4, but to no avail. First I tried to use the Neighborhood app, that didn't work...

ps4

Wipqozn

I wonder if @JasonBerkan / @aurevoir is playing Overwatch.

au revoir

@Wipqozn Yeah, because I don't completely suck at shooters.

Waterseas

That's why you play symmetra

Turns into playing a strategy game

Wipqozn

@aurevoir Just be the healer

Sterno

@Fluttershy Ahhh, right!

@Wipqozn I'm about to.

fredley

15:10

Oh man, Iran totally rocks when it comes to naming Government tech bodies

Private Pansy

You can now connect your GOG account to Steam and get your Steam games on GOG - gog.com/connect

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Waterseas

wattttt

That's mindblowing

StrixVaria

Somebody from England tell me what "went a right pearler" means.

Someone at work said it in an email and I have no idea.

Waterseas

It's also absolutely genius

Private Pansy

@StrixVaria One of these?

fredley

15:13

@StrixVaria "what a right pearler" means "What an excellent/well executed thing"

I assume that's what they meant

StrixVaria

Doesn't work in context. Oh well.

Tim Stone

@fredley wat

It's a good thing we took ownership of English

And by we I mean Canadians, in this case

fredley

Actually more of an Aussie thing afaik

cc: @Robotnik

ardaozkal

@PrivatePansy I posted a while ago but I guess more descriptive text gets stars

fredley

UGH

Waterseas

15:14

@TimStone Eh?

Tim Stone

Indeed

fredley

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Election Hell

@fredley Good news! Trump will be visiting your glorious nation this month!

fredley

@twobugs Luckily he'll be confined to Scotland

Unionhawk

@fredley Is he actually banned?

fredley

15:18

@Unionhawk No

Unionhawk

Damn

fredley

Few 100k people signed a petition tho

Unionhawk

That'd be hilarious

two bugs

Also, I find it very strange that we're still relying on recovering the blackboxes of airlines rather than adopting some more modern realtime streaming of data

Tim Stone

@fredley I have it on ~~completely made up~~ good authority he has rabies so you know what to do

SaintWacko

15:18

@twobugs That is a bit odd, especially considering you get internet on airplanes now

Unionhawk

@TimStone Stab him in the stomach with a rabies vaccine?

I'm pretty sure that's how it works right?

fredley

@twobugs Blackboxes use crazy-vintage tech too

two bugs

I can see why you wouldn't want it openly available to Joe Sixpack, but it would be really nice in situations like the EgyptAir crash

Waterseas

Yeah, might be a security concern with streaming data

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk The UK is virtually rabies-free, so I imagine some sort of quarantine is in order

two bugs

15:20

I can't imagine it would be a huge concern if you properly implemented security measures

Which, granted, is a big assumption these days

But the plane's location is pretty much clear to everyone with a radar dish... Or eyes.

ardaozkal

@twobugs there is realtime streaming afaik, however considering the speeds of internet on planes and the amount of real data generated, I'd guess that it only delivers some vital info.

Waterseas

Sure, but the kind of information stored in a black box isn't

ardaozkal

If you check the news, they are mostly like

"The plane was last seen in X before the communication was lost in Y"

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@Waterseas I'm not saying it should be unencrypted

Waterseas

Obviously

ardaozkal

15:22

so I'd guess that some data is being delivered and they just want the data between Y and crash

Waterseas

I just think the detriments outweigh the benefits in most cases

Given the rarity of plane crashes

two bugs

I don't really agree, we've had several recent high profile plane crashes where locating the black box to get some idea what was going on (Which is then plastered over every news agency) was a big deal

Tim Stone

@twobugs Cost and processing requirements are limiting factors, but there is a push to upgrade systems

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I mean, did they ever even find the Malaysian black box?

Waterseas

Sure

Again, infrequent

Tim Stone

15:24

@twobugs That's a different issue though

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn So far, it's pretty fun, although some of the stylus sensitivity could be adjusted.

Tim Stone

The MH370 black box is somewhere thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean

Even if you knew where it went down, locating it would still be an issue. Less of an issue, but an issue

Waterseas

Right, which his solution solves

two bugs

It just seems like a lot of that data could be streamed. I'm not claiming this is perfect, but having to recover a physical box which is non-trivial on roughly 70% of our planet seems... not the best.

Waterseas

You're not taking into account the number of flights over oceans compared to number of flights not

Yuuki

15:27

Also, as far as I know, flights try not to go over open ocean unless they have to.

MBraedley

> Another process is blocking the working copy database, or the underlying filesystem does not support file locking; if the working copy is on a network filesystem, make sure file locking has been enabled on the file server.

Yuuki

I used to take direct flights from Houston to Shanghai and we'd always go over the Bering Strait rather than over the Pacific.

user4704

A few years back I worked at Raytheon, specifically at a subsidiary that solved this small problem the US had prior to 9/11.

user4704

The problem was "we don't know where all the planes are."

user4704

There were a few experimental forays into streaming data off planes but it was basically a non-starter. Almost impossible to ensure any kind of uninterrupted, reliable transmission.

user4704

15:30

I suppose the situation has improved significantly in recently years; obviously enough to actually stick poorly-performing overpriced wi-fi on planes.

MBraedley

It's going over the Bering Straight because it's shorter

user4704

But I'd be rather surprised if it was reliable enough to transmit a significant amount of useful data.

ardaozkal

@JoshPetrie I read that the amount of data per flight was about half a terabyte.

Yuuki

Technically, no.

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@JoshPetrie Interesting

Yuuki

15:32

But the difference is probably negligible.

MBraedley

@Yuuki No, that is wrong wrong wrong

user15026

@Yuuki good to know. :)

user4704

Plus, there's the whole cost factor of upgrading all your planes and all your hardware and software on the ground to do so

two bugs

Perhaps my streaming idea is naive. It just seems like Blackboxes themselves are pretty dated technology (I've heard this complaint made by far smarter people)

MBraedley

Trust me, this is something I need to know for my job.

user4704

15:33

They are dated technology.

Tim Stone

There is a push to make updates to at least location information is tracked every 15 minutes, for all flights

Yuuki

Well, it'd be nice to see what your estimate of the length of the "over the Pacific" route.

Unionhawk

Transpacific flights would be dangerous otherwise I think

Transatlantic isn't quite as huge as transpacific

Tim Stone

But if @ardaozkal is anywhere close to right about there being half a terabyte of data on average from flights, at roughly 90,000 flights daily that'd work out to 45 petabytes of information a day

user4704

It's just not, unfortunately, quite as simple as "stream all the things." I think we're more likely to see improvements in external mechanisms to track planes instead, since I think they work out to be more cost-effective when it comes to the idea of seeing everything.

Tim Stone

15:34

Oh, which reminds me

You too can track planes

Yuuki

You just posted the Bering Strait distance and said "trust me, it's my job". I believe you, but I'd like to see the other distance at least.

two bugs

I can't imagine it's 500gb of data on average.

user4704

And then you can leverage the physical placement of those to provide better "wi fi" class connectivity. And maybe then we can start slowly transitioning to being able to stream all the black box data.

MBraedley

@Yuuki It's about an extra 1000km

Tim Stone

@twobugs There's a lot of information that gets stored in the black box to determine the cause of the crash, so if you can't know that the crash is going to occur you'd have to send all the data all the time

two bugs

15:36

I don't see any reason why it would be 500gb... that's a hefty amount of data and how can you say that's "average" when flights range from under an hour to almost 20?

Is it the median flight time?

user4704

Either way it will be slooooooooow because the whole airline industry steers like an office building and is this massive interconnected network of distinct corporations who don't really like eachother.

two bugs

@TimStone Right, I get that. But I don't see how that would add up to 500gb.

MBraedley

@Yuuki The image you posted has the correct distance, just not the correct route.

user4704

There's probably an ancient hub in a closet in some random airport you can unplug and break half the system.

two bugs

I mean, 500gb would be an extremely high resolution of data. I guess I don't know the use case exactly...

I don't buy 500gb of data on average, though. Black boxes are ancient tech, I highly doubt they all have upwards of 500gb storage

user4704

15:38

These may be relevant reading: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7839/…

user4704

(plus the two(?) duplicates)

ardaozkal

@twobugs jet motors have hundreds of sensors, and there are more inside the plane. Saving the data from them constantly could easily reach 500gb.

two bugs

500gb sounds plausible for the information created as a result of black box data, but not the black box itself.

user4704

The source for the 500GB figure in one of those answers won't let me read it because ads, but it might be informative.

two bugs

The articles making the 500gb are blocked for me

Yeah, same reason

ardaozkal

15:41

bit the bullet- disabled ublock

user4704

I still think the bigger issue is maintaining the connectivity.

ardaozkal

no detail.

two bugs

You're probably right. I just wonder what could realistically be done to improve things

Robotnik

@fredley 'pearler' is definitely common slang in Aus. Usually means 'impressive'

Tim Stone

@twobugs The 500gb figure is cited for the newest generation of airplanes, and FDRs have been upgraded as more comprehensive requirements have come into play

badp

15:44

can someone please leave a comment under this. for science.

Tim Stone

At a minimum I think they require at least 80-some parameters to be collected? That happens a few times per second

two bugs

@badp Science complete

Tim Stone

I forget the retention period, though. Many hours at least.

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I think I'm not going to target this election cycle. I'll focus on contributing as I currently do and if I'm interested/still around next cycle I'll declare

badp

@twobugs science success?

two bugs

15:47

You... you killed my comment!

CASUALTY OF SCIENCE

ardaozkal

@twobugs wait, nomments can be removed?

wow. nice question fredley

GnomeSlice

juan is the only nominee that's been here longer than me

badp

yes, we can moderate things, and we can moderate nomments. We're doing science to see if/how we should do this since, well, some nomment threads are getting longish

GnomeSlice

that's a weird feeling

ardaozkal

@badp indeed.

GnomeSlice

15:49

how am I even still here

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I figured that was the science objective, so I left a purposefully pointless comment

Unionhawk

Yeah that Unionhawk guy has tons of nomments

Robotnik

@badp Can you migrate the discussions to the election chat?

au revoir

@GnomeSlice I'm assuming because you opened a browser this morning.

Unionhawk

I should probably not poke that particular bear

Tim Stone

15:49

@Unionhawk mmm nomments

nom nom nom

badp

@Robotnik no.

ardaozkal

aand nomment removed. @badp pls

Waterseas

Figure I'll leave this here in case anyone is interested boardgame-online.com/?page=joingame&g=kYDU&k=a

ardaozkal

that was a comment more serious than yours

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@GnomeSlice That's Life, my friend

Robotnik

15:50

@badp :(. Shame really. I feel there are definitely valid points on there but I agree some are a little too long

badp

@Robotnik I mean. Nothing stops me from copy pasting them in a chat room manually, then deleting comments and linking to that place

fredley

@badp I'm quite tempted to prune nomments

badp

except terminal laze

fredley

Although, unlike comments, there appears to be no way to undelete nomments

ardaozkal

@fredley lol

badp

15:52

wrong room?

ardaozkal

you can't flag nomments either

Unionhawk

There's not a magic button to do it like for comments

fredley

ffs

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Tim Stone

No one knows why though

fredley

> 5

wat

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15:52

You guys should try moving this pear

badp

most of the buttons are missing, yes

Grace Note

@TimStone Knows why what?

Tim Stone

No one knows!

ardaozkal

@TimStone -1 confuses me.

Unionhawk

@TimStone reasons probably

fredley

15:53

Maybe you could try spoofing the request to undelete?

You'd have to remember the comment id though

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UGH why can't people just offer simple installers

ardaozkal

@fredley they aren't comments

two bugs

I don't want to download your dumb installer that streams data from another network location

ardaozkal

well, from what I've seen, they are different

two bugs

Just let me download your stupid application

fredley

15:54

@twobugs [package manager] install [app]

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@fredley :(

Don't be mean

Daemon Tools Lite can't download the actual program because I'm not connected to the internet. Which is news to me...

badp

ZMOG U PIR8 B&D

Robotnik

also @twobugs I did end up editing that Warhammer: Total War post. I had to read it a few times to understand it, but I got there

two bugs

@Robotnik Yep, I think it looks good now! Strangely another close vote, but oh well

ardaozkal

why would anyone use daemon tools?

Pre W8 -> use wincdemu. Post W8 -> just double click

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Dragonrage

good morning bridge

Chippies

@ardaozkal copy protection

ofc you wouldn't benefit from it with iso's

mdf/mds though

I mean, I doubt that's why @twobugs is using it for

GodEmperorDune

16:26

@ardaozkal because daemon tools were the de facto thing for a very long time

ardaozkal

@Chippies yeah, makes sense

badp

Ukrainian military band - A Cruel Angel Thesis

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Meanwhile at Atari

Tim Stone

16:46

> Forbes Lowers Estimate of CEO Elizabeth Holmes' Net Worth From $4.5 Billion to Zero

Ouch

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GodEmperorDune

@TimStone wat

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@Chippies Daemon Tools? I need to install an ISO we have at work

GodEmperorDune

not even the land is worth anything?

GnomeSlice

Chippies

16:47

@twobugs a lot of modern OS's have such functionality built in

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune Right? I mean even I'm worth a few tens of thousands, technically. Maybe they think she'll have to forfeit literally everything in the course of the government investigations?

two bugs

We're on Windows 7, which I don't think can be considered "modern" :P

Chippies

that being said, I myself use daemon tools lite over the built in iso mounting tools

@twobugs according to @ardaozkal, windows 7 has that functionality as well, albeit not as 'in your face' noticeable

GnomeSlice

This election has really made me realize my status in the community. I'm going to try and be better.

Chippies

51 mins ago, by ardaozkal

Pre W8 -> use wincdemu. Post W8 -> just double click

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16:49

@Chippies Eh, I already got it running

It was just a stupid thing with our corporate proxy

Chippies

Fair enough, I'm just saying that if you only need a one-time iso mount, you probably don't need to install daemon tools :)

ardaozkal

@Chippies win8, not 7

two bugs

Wincdemu does not exist on my computer, either

Chippies

eh, I figured that was something built-in the OS

I guess not

ardaozkal

wincdemu is a software

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16:50

I appreciate you trying to help, though @Chippies

ardaozkal

like a lightware daemon tools

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone ah, they are saying everything is in the company stock, and her stock is not likely to get paid out

ardaozkal

@GnomeSlice same

GodEmperorDune

> Forbes went back to its slide rule and, after talking to venture capitalists and industry experts, recalculated Theranos’ value at $900 million, based on its intellectual property and money it has already raised. “At such a low valuation, Holmes’s stake is essentially worth nothing,” Matt Herper writes.
That’s because Theranos’s other investors own preferred shares, and since Holmes owns common shares, they would get paid first if the company were forced to liquidate.

Chippies

if I had to download an iso mounting software, I'd go with daemon tools lite over wincdemu as well :P

@ardaozkal daemon tools lite is pretty lightware itself

GodEmperorDune

16:52

so i think they aren't including any other assets in their calculation

Chippies

worst case - you can always just extract the iso with winrar or I'm assuming 7zip can do it as well

two bugs

I also don't implicitly trust Microsoft in everything they do /shrug

Not saying I distrust them, but they don't always have the best product

And given that I'm trying to install VS2010, which they make decidedly stupid...

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune Yeah, it seems so. Still kind of a damning way to state it though :P

Chippies

well, I use daemon tools myself, even though I'm on win10, which is probably silly, as I only use .iso's and only once every few months

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs but how do you explain the wild commercial success of the zune, of bing, of windows phone?

@TimStone yep

Chippies

16:53

but daemon tools is great and it's what I'm used to

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@GodEmperorDune I wonder if there's an alternate universe where those products succeeded

Probably not

To be fair I think people hate on them (microsoft) more than they deserve sometimes

The Zune had some nice features, from what I understand

Chippies

People hate on microsoft because it's cool to hate on microsoft

GodEmperorDune

for what it does, windows is decent. they fixed a lot (not nearly everything) going from vista to 7

Tim Stone

I can't imagine waking up to be told that my $4.6 billion valuation had been reduced to nothing though. We blew through savings when we had a kid but that's chump change in comparison >_>

Chippies

it's cool to hate on the big companies in general

the bigger it is, the cooler it is to hate

two bugs

16:54

There was that debacle where Google claimed Bing was stealing their search results, but it ended up being Google doing some convoluted honeypot bullshit to intentionally mislead Bing

GodEmperorDune

i wish the corel suite of utilities won over msoffice, because "show tags" in wordperfect was goddamn amazing

i could actually fix all the autoformatting bullshit so easily

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune windows has got faster and more lightweight with each iteration. Yes, they have added some bs features and removed some stuff a few people liked, but overall it's getting better, imho

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies yes

Tim Stone

@twobugs Windows Phone would have done much better if it started earlier and did a better job attracting developers. Microsoft really went about that the wrong way, didn't curate their app store, and then tried to fix it all after the fact at which point it was too late.

Chippies

but if you read the consensus of the internet, you'd think windows has gone to shit with every iteration and we should all be using ms-dos as that's the best version of windows

Waterseas

16:56

It's pretty hilarious

@TimStone Windows Phone was pretty attractive to indie developers, with the exception it didn't have a user base

au revoir

@Chippies There was a time, many moons ago, where I was considered the in-house expert on DOS.

(Primarily because of what I learned trying to get the last 50K of memory required for F-15 Strike Eagle III.)

Chippies

@aurevoir ah, the times when you couldn't just slap another 8-16gb of ram into your PC and call it a day

ardaozkal

In the movies that'll be released this year: imdb.com/title/tt1853693

MBraedley

(sigh) wy couldn't we have switched to git or hg?

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@TimStone Ah, sounds fuct

Waterseas

16:59

@MBraedley Using tortoise?

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Still, I appreciate that they put effort into this stuff, even if it is mismanaged

ardaozkal

@TimStone "didn't curate their app store" it is less curated now than the times you mean.

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone alternatively if they didn't try to make a consumer phone and went after blackberry in the enterprise market

Wipqozn

Trump continues to ab a terrible human being who has no place running for president of the USA

MBraedley

@Waterseas Yes, but it's not the UI that's the problem, it's the backend, SVN.

two bugs

16:59

@Wipqozn Yup, this is honestly some of the worst I've seen from him

Waterseas

Ahh ^^;

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