Engine released under GPL, but the media required to play the game is commercially licensed.

It's what John Carmack did with id games.

You pay the game creators for their art, or you can find free art and play the game with that.

There is an important difference between Google and Microsoft. Google is using their market dominance to push their opinions on the open standards bodies; Microsoft used their market dominance to ignore standards bodies completely.

Googles browser offers functionality to Googles websites that it does not offer to any other website.

When you log into an Google owned site, it interacts with the browser so that you are 'logged into your browser' with that Google account.

That is not pushing standards into a direction. That is blatant exploitation of ther market position.

You're already logged into sites you're already logged into.

I'm not exactly sure how advantageous you think this is.

For what sites would other browsers do this? Would those browsers be paid by those sites?

The standards are unimplementably complex. Open but inaccessible is not useful for fostering competitors.

Is it USB 2 or USB 3? Is it 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2? Gen 1, Gen 2, or Gen 2x2? Do I need USB-A or Micro USB or USB-C? Do I need USB-A on one end of this cable and USB-C on the other, or some other combination? Does it support Quick Charge or Power Delivery? If it's Power Delivery, how many Watts?

Those are just some of the questions non-technical consumers are expected to know the answers to when they are buying USB products.

This is absurd.

Bingo

The fact that C++ versioning uses two digits for the year is the most 1980s thing about it.

If C++ continues to release a new version every 3 years, 2098 will be C++98 again. So either the language designers don't think C++ will survive to 2098 or they will need to change their versioning.

We can then skip that 98 and go straight to C++101.

I think you meant C++XP.

> We don’t arbitrarily stop every single person to ferret them out.

This is NYC we're talking about. Stop-and-Frisk was a fun game the cops played for years.

Oh for sure. Terry stops were (are?) massively abused in that city.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_C...

It's interesting how effectively propaganda has convinced people that searching known felons for illegal weapons isn't a "common sense gun law."

Edit: Case in point.

Stop-and-frisk had little to do with felony status. It was your black-and-young-and-male status that would trigger a search.

The law makes a clear distinction between entrapment and opportunity.

Setting up a "honeypot" is not entrapment.

That's not to say that this was anything other than a waste of time and resources, and a textbook example of what happens when a law enforcement agency is unleashed from regulation.

Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't thought about that difference, makes sense.

Since the government insists that it has the authority to violate the 4th Amendment whenever it feels like if I'm in a 100-mile vicinity of a border, I really want devices to have "reset switches" which reset the device to, if not a factory-default state, then a state of "just completed initial configuration without logging into any services."

Which is the state I now feel compelled to set my devices whenever I travel, and then restore from a remote backup when I reach my destination.

You can't prepare for the complete collapse of civilization.

Even the Survivalists who go out with "nothing" and build their shelters, start their own fires, hunt their food, they still need backpacks to carry their gear. They still need gear to carry, like saws, axes, fishing poles, knives. They still need clothes to wear. They still depend on the infrastructure of society in myriad ways.

Thankee-sai