I kind of hope gaben has set up something smart for his death. Eg Valve is owned by a trust.
I kind of hope gaben has set up something smart for his death. Eg Valve is owned by a trust.
It supports both online co-op as well as split screen with multiple controllers; at least it does on PC.
I think it’s far more likely there’s some sales goal and or performance indicator at play here.
I’m really hoping for thermite. A lot of thermite.
It depends on how bright it is where you are.
When it’s very very dim your color sensing part of your eyes, which are less sensitive to light, don’t work. Only the black and white parts of your vision work.
Kind of.
Honestly, I think almost everything else is worse than Google.
I set my default to duck duck go, and it’s getting better, but I still fall back on google with some regularity
It’s just that in America they realized if they complain enough, they get to rub they’re hands gleefully at the thought of all that electricity they’re going to sell, AND all the public money they’re going to get to upgrade the grid!
Assumedly, to deal with a race condition.
As a general rule, the amount of exploitation and fraud it takes to “become” a billionaire should probably be illegal.
Lying about what you do with peoples data and who you share it with.
Sentencing and punishment are affected by “caste”
It muddies the water around, supporting the various states, and the public image of that.
The same thing for the Palestine genocide ongoing now, the US has a second war to supply.
An ipod with a much larger screen (320×240 vs 480x320), a camera, and could take phone calls, browse the internet, and do email.
Oh, he was an absolute asshole. Seems I deleted that sentence. RIP me.
“I have enabled and ushered in a new age of knowledge access like no other, here’s a cool way to eat that goes against all reasonable nutritionists’ advice. Sounds good to me!” - Really seems like a fitting way to kick off this century IMO.
I think people love to hate Steve. The one thing people love more than a great figurehead, is hating one. I think that Steve had a great internal model of how to combine form/function.
iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone, but it may as well have been. It brought the smartphone to the mass market.
Part of it was a great advertising campaign, which unlike the smartphones at the time, pitched it as a luxury good as opposed to an executive enterprise one. You owned a blackberry to answer emails wherever and whenever you were, you owned an iphone so you can check Google Maps. A large part of it was redefining both the form factor, and use case of a smartphone.
The US won’t. The EU probably will.
Make the fine the last 10 years of activision/blizzard gross profits.
Make the fuckers bleed.
Penalty? Don’t you mean just another cost of doing business?
Congratulations on being old e ough to buy property when it was cheap.
For the rest of us, we all adapted to the low interest post-08 world. Now, we need to adapt to the higher interest post-21 world.
You need more upvotes.
High interest rates are here, and it’s likely to be some time before we get back down to the 1% interest rates we saw during covid (or even before).
Companies are shifting either to real or imagined pressures of the stick market. And those pressures are less about chasing unlimited growth and want to see some return.
Ergo. Layoffs. Meta producing dividends.
If interest rates stay high, I’d expect to see large megacorps shift more and more to profitability over growth.
Time to donate to the internet archibe.
The same as what happened when vine shut down.
Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.