Crozekiel

You can’t plagiarize mechanics because you cannot copyright mechanics… And you don’t want to live in a world where you can. Imagine if the first company to make a first person shooter game copyrighted it… Or if Nintendo owned the rights to all 2d side scrolling games… Gaming would have never grown to what it is today.

Hell, even board games would have been crippled by this kind of copyright.

The wikipedia page linked in the OP says it wasn’t even built until 1939 :(

GPS is quite a bit different. The satellites just orbit and send the same information out. The user device doesn’t have to send anything back - the “communication” is only 1-way. Also, GPS is significantly further out from the planet and involves a lot less satellites, so it is not really feasible to turn them off specifically targeting a small area or an individual target - you’d have to black out a huge chunk of the planet to reliably block “an enemy” from using it.

I don’t feel like nationalizing Starlink for the USA is best for everyone. It is a world-wide network, I feel like it would be better as something that isn’t controlled by any single country (but, obviously I agree it should not be controlled by a single billionaire fuck-boy either…).

That might make sense if they were posting pictures of PS1 era Lara Croft, but they aren’t, they always use the newest examples… They would show a bigger gap in time passed if they used the dragonborn from the initial release of skyrim vs the newest remastered version.

Once got a spec sheet for an appliance made in Europe, but clearly trying to break into the US market so they had gotten rid of all the metric and used inches for cutout dimensions… But they did NOT get the memo about our love of powers of 2 denominators so it was giving everything in fifths and tenths of inches… None of the contractors could figure out how the hell big to make the opening because nobody knew how big 3/5ths or 7/10ths of an inch was…

I had to beg the company rep for the metric measurements, as at least we could get a tape measure with mm markings, but they just wouldn’t do it and sent a corrected spec sheet and the dimensions were now in 32nds and 64ths… At least it was on the right track but I still don’t have a tape measure with that kind of precision… Eventually just had to write our own dimensions that were “close enough”.

(keep in mind, we are talking about a hole in cabinets for refrigerators and dishwashers and stuff… so its like 72 and 37/64 inches tall or some nonsense, so you definitely were not expected to be using a precision measuring tool like calipers for this…)

It’s crazy to suggest we just stop working on something because it’s good enough, because that’s not what people do.

Came here to say this, glad it’s already been posted.

Also, why is it that every time someone is being critical of advancements in “realistic graphics” they always post screenshots of Lara Croft?

It’s people from Hexbear… From what I’ve seen, you can’t expect anything other than this from them. Just don’t engage them.

It would actually be 35 days, since it is inclusive of July 3rd. Maybe simple mistakes are equally simple to overlook, sometimes. :P

Heat signature. And Minecraft

Is Arch like the linux version of being Vegan? ie the running joke is people using Arch can’t get through a conversation without mentioning it? I feel like I’ve see basically a carbon copy of this comment on so many posts about Linux I’m wondering if there’s an “in joke” there I am missing, lol.