“My loyal advisor,” said the king, “I must grant you a reward for your many years of good service. What is it that you desire?” And the advisor asked the king, “Sire, simply give me one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, two on the second square, four on the third square and so forth until all sixty-four squares are filled.” “Such a small thing?” said the king. “It shall be done at once.” And so the advisor was given all the rice in the kingdom.
Did you ever wonder why so many games have a seemingly unnecessary multiplayer/online component these days? If the server side code is an integral part of the game then it can be used as a form of DRM.
Expect specialist “open” hardware capable of installing any software/OS to become increasingly expensive, while increasingly locked-down, mass-produced consumer hardware remains at current price. You only need to look at TVs for an example of this - try finding a recent non-smart TV at a reasonable price as the cheap models are all subsidised by the revenue from pushing ads into your face.
Maybe something that could be dried, soybeans could work. Would have to be properly stored to keep it dry.
That wasn’t intended as a correction. Mastered is definitely correct. Tamed is a bit more poetic maybe.
Tamed
Yeah, I don’t think I would be playing the game if crashing had real-world consequences.
No joke I think this is genuinely why conspiracy theories are so appealing
…And I wouldn’t be surprised if they are using AI to generate the artist backstory and album art.
Probably an instance of Spotify “Ghost Artists”. Spotify pays unknown musicians small amounts to record generic-sounding tracks and sign over all royalties to Spotify.
I would hope that any competent person can see that this can not end well.
Google must know that they are not a monopoly in search.
Number of search queries is such a bad metric for quality of your product. If your search is trash then the user is going to need more queries to get a satisfactory answer. That is, until they stop using your service of course.
I used to love the Eyewitness Guides books when I was a kid. Had no idea that it existed as a show as well.
TV tech is nudging ever further into Torment Nexus territory.
Then I will have my encryption program make the encrypted data look like text/images/whatever…
Taking a stroll past the knife factory.
This is basically the basis of the patent system. Patent too generic? Add more details!