Or more likely, trying to source smaller memory chips would cost more

I'm rather thinking they would have more then C64 functionality in mind for the board, otherwise they could have just implemented an ASIC. Also; the original Commodore 64 did not have WiFi, or a LAN port, or USB ports, but this board has all those things.

The whole point of a FPGA chip is that it is programmable. And presumably hackers will want to do cool things with it if possible. Also there should be some memory overhead for loading a Commodore 64 core onto the FPGA at power on, and executing whatever other software and firmware they had in mind to help manage the C64. I imagine at power on the firmware chips, or whatever they actually have will need to read the core they have programmed for the FPGA from some location such as the flash chips or external storage and place the whole implementation of the Commodore 64 into some RAM area first If they want to provide the ability to load different programs supplied by the user onto the FPGA to open the possibility to recreate other kinds of hardware.

Perhaps most people only wrote for the c64, But I would suggest that C64 enthusiasts of today would most likely be pleased not to be restricted to the base 64 and potentially have other capabilities from that FPGA, such as potentially? having all the memory expansions available that were possible under the original hardware including the 256kb REU expansion and the geoRam the expansions that had been made for use with the GEOS 8bit Operating System, Etc.

Considering you can pretty much take any low-end hardware and emulate a C64

Perhaps, but the C64 Ultimate is not an emulator. It's a FPGA-based recreation of the hardware.

Which could make the result is better or truer. Emulators are usually good enough for most purposes, but are also imperfect.

Even in the 1980s there was a lot of talk about RAM expansions for the C64, And of course some of the C64 software may require RAM expansions. Or it's just much more convenient to have 100 meg than to have 64K; that's for sure.

No.. A C64 at this point is specialty hardware in low supply and thus more valuable than some generic laptop. Put it this way: You see broken C64s sold "for parts" at more than $100 these days, and very old used C64s in working condition sell for $200 to $400.

You bought it. You own it. Unless someone breaks into your home and takes it or your home burns down, it is yours forever.

You know.. these scenarios are also a problem. What might be even better than a DVD is video files either ripped from a DVD or obtained through Unofficial channels and saved on a NAS backed up to the cloud.

The words in that first paragraph are defined in the 2nd paragraph.

And what 12ft does: Changing a browser User-Agent does not circumvent a measure that effectively controls a work. See (3)(b)

(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

The key words are that it has to be Measure that ordinarily requires Applying information with the authority of the copyright owner to gain access Or alternatively requires applying a process or treatment with the authority of the copyright owner to gain access.

The technological measures performed by these news sites Do none of those things. They simply transmit the copyright work to the browser where it can be captured without applying any Information, Process, or Treatment that requires the authority of the copyright owner in its ordinary course of operation. And Conceal it from some viewers based your web browser's type, user agent, and capabilities, None of which are defined with the authority of the copyright owner. The information they act on is not within the copyright owner's control or authority.

"Atlantic Council" fake website is a joke and isn't NATO, and Josh Cohen is a Putin-dicklicking troll. Yawwn.

FYI: Microsoft's suggested solution would work with Movies but not TV.

I'm not sure why exactly, but It's something I found out a long time ago.. You can use their service to sync your purchases across multiple online services, but it only works with actual movies or movie DVDs, and not TV shows, or the DVDs which are Seasons of Television shows. Those aren't included in the program with other media for some reason.

US customers can use the Movies Anywhere service to sync their purchased content to other compatible platforms.

In fact one of their justifications for invading Ukraine was "denazification".

So you're a Putin-Dicksucking little bitch who's too fucking stupid to understand that Putin the Nazi Shitbag's "denazification" claims were a smokescreen. Fucking kill yourself you disgusting Putin-Dicksucking Genocidal Little Nazi Bitch.

Nazi-run Facebook is banning people for posting links to the Holocaust Day Memorial Trust. The whole Meta monopolist crime syndicate needs to be ended.

That is why the DMCA is so annoying.

The DMCA is annoying, but nothing 12ft does violates the DMCA. The thing does not descramble a scrambled work does not decrypt an encrypted work, etc. It does nothing to a copyright work. It causes their server to think you are a search engine and lets you see what the website is publicly presenting to search engines.

Naturally the news companies want the search engines to fully index their articles, so that they can benefit from having traffic towards their website driven by searches. They just don't want to let normal browsers see the content they allow search engines to see. In other words: The news companies want to have their cake and eat it too.

As for 12ft.IO; It does not matter that what they are doing does not break any laws - media companies find out and Do not like it, And can bully them with lawyers anyways.

They have a history.. in 2022 I see the media companies got them shut down by their hosting provider Vercel for "Terms of Service" violation They were reinstated a month later..

Obviously if there was a DMCA claim to be made: It would have been made a long time ago.

Media companies can still threaten to sue you over various claims that Don't even have a thing to do with copyright.

Every news agency has their own lawyers, and my guess would be it gets too annoying for a single website to deal with them all after awhile.

Also; Some of the most notorious paywalls blocked 12ft.io from working with their website.

I read that: "Some websites have blocked 12ft, such as Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Athletic."

I mean.. the News websites banning their IPs from accessing the website pretty much makes them useless, so you are better off with a self-hosted solution anyways. At that point it makes sense for them to just shut down, because the strategy of having a centralized Proxy server doing this means the Paywall runners are just going to all block their hosting provider's IPs once they become aware of it.

if they used air brakes then the hose is what transmits the braking information and you would not need a radio.

If gas pumps used handle stops, then the wire that connects the nozzle to the pump transmits stopping information, and you would "not need" a shunt trip circuit breaker connected to a big red button out front that has emergency stop printed on it.

Perhaps.. But is this technical Information, and the necessary radio even available to the emergency services in the first place? I think it is unlikely that any police and firefighters currently possess within their cars a box that can trigger even the old unauthenticated system.

It might not be that useful to responders in cases of a runaway train, Because the engineers are already trying to manage it, and most likely the observation of a runaway train says an extremely bad mechanical failure has happened. In the most memorable runaway train cases the Trains' braking system had already failed. For example: The dynamic brakes are being overpowered by the train moving downhill, and the train is moving so quickly that the Airbrakes have melted. In this case the rear engineer attempted to activate the Emergency brakes, but it was the wrong call, since the emergency brakes had melted they were no longer effective, And as per automatic safety protocols Activating the Emergency brakes automatically Disables the dynamic brakes, and the train accelerated to an even higher speed as a direct consequence of Pulling the emergency brake (which was non-functioning).

Most likely it is the railroad's dispatcher who would have access to this type of control systems. IF it is meant to be capable of being used by anyone other than the engineers/pilot on board the train itself. And the emergency services can just call the dispatcher to alert them to the runaway train.

Although there have also been train disasters where the dispatcher cannot be reached immediately.

Except.. How can they be awesome if the software won't even run on my Macintosh PC?

The devil's in the fine print that suggests they are dropping x86_64 Mac support.

Deprecations: Collada, Big Endian, legacy .blend, Intel Mac support