EGS gets timed exclusives all the time, because they pay developers and publishers to release their games there first. GOG could have The Witcher and Cyberpunk as exclusives, since they developed them, but that's not their goal as a storefront. there's also whatever Ubisoft calls their storefront this month, likewise EA. Amazon has Luna, Microsoft has Gamepass. and then there are game streaming platforms like GeForce Now (I know there are others, but I can't think of their names right now).

there are tons of competitors in the game marketplace space, and developers/publishers could choose to publish to all but Steam if they wanted to. Valve isn't holding a gun to anybody's head and saying "you will publish your game on Steam". they know they have the best storefront, and that has earned them the largest market share. I don't recall ever seeing an ad for Steam anywhere, beyond the logo at the bottom of a game poster, between the logos for Xbox and Playstation.

also, the survey is of "gaming executives", so it's not the people who actually make the games, it's the management assholes who are upset.

I've been a CL fiber customer (Quantum Fiber) since I moved into my house two years ago, and it's been rock solid and inexpensive (~$40/mo for 200Mbps symmetric, which is plenty for my needs).

I don't know who I'm going to switch to, but I am morally opposed to giving either AT&T or Comcast money.

how about we allow the transition, but OpenAI must accept (and pay in full), whatever the state determines is an appropriate amount of back taxes for their time as a "non-profit"

in my mind, at least, the best response would be for google to contract with whatever the largest corporate law firm is in Ukraine, and draft an official letter to the russian authorities.

"from [suitably important people at google]
to: [relevant russian ministries]
re: $20 decillion dollar fine
that's nice.
signed: google"

Government Agencies never move quickly. I feel like it's fairly common for actions to be taken a year or more after the inciting incident.

SpaceX notified the FAA on May 2nd, and launched on June 18th. that is a long window for a response, but in that time SpaceX perfomed twelve other launches, six of which were even from the same pad as they would use on the 18th (LC-40). presumably they used their old procedures and facilities for those launches, the last being six days before the incident. I can only guess that SpaceX did something incredibly stupid like decommission and start dismantling their old launch control center immediately after their June 12th launch, because the FAA would 'obviously' approve their new control center before the next launch on the 18th. and when the FAA found out that they were planning to use the new control center, they rushed the notice to SpaceX saying, in effect, "uh, we haven't approved that change yet, so stick with the existing plan."

I'm assuming that the launch poll is a "go/no-go" from launch control staff, and I don't understand why anyone would feel the need to drop that during launch prep, apart from ego.

also, while it isn't included in the notice PDF, the FAA has given SpaceX a list of options for responding to the Notice. It is telling that SpaceX's response is "We're going to sue the FAA because we violated our launch plan!"

and that's just the June launch. the July one is obviously an absurd timeline for changes to launch procedures.

it seems to me your issue is more with the FAA taking a year to settle on this course of action. I expect they've spent the last year trying to talk to SpaceX about resolutions and next steps, only to have every option shot down by the CEO, and now all that's left is to take it to court.

"a stunning victory for casts, crews, writers, directors, studios, and the creative community across the globe"

I'm not familiar with that spelling of "shareholders, executives, and lawyers"

it says something about Microsoft (and my mild, but deep-seated paranoia), that my first thought regarding the changeover is "they probably want everything in settings because they've undoubtedly packed it with telemetry feeds that nobody thought to put into control panel. it has nothing to do with usability or user experience, and everything to do with harvesting more marketable data."

It should be a "Minityrannus Princeps". Or maybe "Tyrannosaurus Dux".

I've gotten used to a larger phone, but I would love to be able to get something around the size of my old Moto X.

I've thought for a long time that this is how Copyright should be adjusted:

when you publish a work, it gets 20 years of protection. after 15 years, you can file for a ten year extension, but there's a fee attached. the fee is 2% of gross income from the work. you pay the fee, your copyright term gets extended ten years from it's initial expiry date. five years from that date, you can file for another extension. this time the fee is 4%, minus the previous fee. next extension, 8%, then 16%. you can file for extensions as long as you like, but there's no cap to the fee percentage, and it doubles every time, so at your 7th extension the fee is 128% of gross income from the work. for works that are older, you'd have to extrapolate the fees and timing, or come up with a one-time exemption as the new law comes into effect.

I have two, both 3Bs

one is a Pihole, a network-level adblocker.
the other is running Octoprint, managing my 3d printer. it used to be my HTPC, but it was struggling with my Kodi library, so I built a full computer to take it's place.

the new pi intrigues me, but I don't have a use case for it... yet.

having a sense of humor about your failures bodes well for future successes, I feel.

I was wondering about charlotte, too. specifically, how does it have more streets running north than south? I didn't see any mention of taking directionality of traffic into account in the article.

what do we think the odds are that the audit will come back saying "the USPS has a massive pension they are required to fund, fixed infrastructure and payroll costs, and declining revenue due to the prevalence of digital technology supplanting many of their services." versus coming back "Jeff Bezos is actually a secret Chinese agent working for the deep state to import Mexican rapists and their families into the country illegally to spread fake news."?

...or does it seem slightly meta that, in a sense, Intel's backdoor has it's own backdoor.