I hope nobody is spending money on crucial right now after Micron's dumbass decision to trash the brand. Don't let them forget it when they try to bring it back after the AI bubble bursts either
I love how Valve's strategy is basically just 'don't piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool', while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face
Tbh I don't really care about the actual games Epic makes free- I derive a weird sort of satisfaction from having all these games that they paid for in the hopes that I go on to purchase things from their shitty storefront (never spent a penny and my library has 200+ titles at this point).
No. I think too many people obsess about what happens after they're gone rather than living their life to the fullest. One doesn't need to make it into history books to leave an impact on the world around them.
The following is a story I was told as a child that I think puts some if this in perspective:
One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, "What are you doing?"
The youth replied, "Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them back, they'll die."
"Son," the man said, "don't you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can't make a difference!"
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said, "I made a difference for that one."
The bioengineered meat bit is honestly hilarious to me, it's clear this guy has no relation to actual production. 3D printed meat is nowhere near viable for the scale of production that Campbells operates at- it can't keep up with the sheer volume required and it is significantly more expensive than traditional meat production.
Dude's just gone off the deep end with right-wing conspiracy theories, which makes sense given the whole racist tirade and hating the poor.
What I want is consistency, either apply the law equally and fairly or reform the whole system. Nobody, especially not big business, should be getting special carve-outs to be exempt from copyright infringement outside of 'fair use' considerations.
In my ideal world, IP law would be framed to protect novel ideas just long enough for inventors or creators to capitalize on their ideas and prevent outright 1:1 copying without any sort of innovative or transformational changes. It would also discourage squatting on things like patents- patent squatting and the like should lead to losing rights.
Lol honestly I had to search it to make sure they were actually distinct, especially since the venn diagram between them definitely has a large shared space in regards to regulating tech companies
How the hell does all the physical infrastructure an ISP maintains cost that little?
That doesn't sound like it's even in the ballpark, given that even the server they might host their website and payment portal on would likely cost more than that in electricity use.