One of the gates to getting a patent approved is proving that you are attempting to patent it in a timely manner. You’re supposed to file a patent within one year of first public disclosure to prove that you’re actively protecting your IP and plan to develop it, and if you don’t it’s grounds for denial.

Palworld alone has been out over a year now, let alone how long most of the Pokemon stuff Nintendo has been patenting. Nintendo has zero grounds for applying these patents, and the fact that they are able to obtain them just because they have more lawyer money means the patent system is completely pointless and laws don’t matter.

Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn’t even exist, I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.

So, if you have enough money, you can just fire off a shitload of ex-post-facto patents after a competitor releases a prior-art product, sue them, and win using patents that didn’t exist when the competitor’s product was created???

Might as well just close the whole patent system and leave, there’s quite literally no point to obeying it if you can so blatantly steal anything and everything.

That’s a really good question, you’d have to ask Google about that one.

“Yes” with the asterisk that there is no phase change, and the flow paths are segregated.

In a heat pipe, water is installed such that it is kept near it’s liquid-gas phase change point on the pressure-temperature curve. When heated, it turns to “steam”, travels thru the center of the pipe, condenses back to liquid on the cold/fins side (giving off all it’s heat), then returns via capillary action on the metal foam walls of the pipe.

In a thermosiphon, the water never leaves the liquid phase. It simply relies on the density change based on temperature (hot water becomes less dense, and will rise to the top of a column) to force some circulation to occur. The hot fluid rises out of the heatsink and displaces the cooled water in the radiator, which then flows down the other side to return to the heatsink.

Very old cars (<1920) used to rely entirely upon the thermosiphon effect, rather than a pump.
It’s not terribly efficient, especially at higher dissipated power densities. They are also very prone to being overloaded with heat, if the overall loop temperature gets too high and/or the radiator loses some efficiency (e.g clogged with dust), the water can start to boil on the hot plate side and you’ll lose basically all cooling effect when your siphon is blocked with steam.

If Email is ever sorted in any order other than purely Chronological, it is a deadly affront to humanity. Even the “sponsored” two emails at the top of Gmail is an insult.

Why dies it have to be such a pain?

Intentionally bad, if you buy Apple you’re supposed to use iCloud and never, ever leave the ecosystem.

So Plex just killed itself? Got it. Lmao bye Felicia nobody’s paying the middleman for shit they are hosting on their OWN FUCKING HARDWARE.

The point is not that it is being used, the point is that corporations must protect their trademarks or else they may lose the exclusive rights to them. Intel also still uses the “Core” branding on their modern CPU’s so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to try and continue legally protecting “Core 2 Duo” under the guise of retaining the “Core” part of their trademarks.

I have a Garmin Instinct and I can definitely recommend their hardware, but their mobile app to link for notifications and health stats is flaming hot garbage and never actually worked for me.

And why are both watches a “2” variant?

Because this is the next generation of the original Pebble watches.

Core 2 Duo

I’ll actually be surprised if this makes it to launch without Intel perhaps making a few legal calls and prompting a device name change.

Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
You can also buy a sharp punch that looks like this and punch thru the sheetmetal side to really get those platters broke.

Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.

Any normal computer can become a “server”, its all based on the software.
Most enterprise server hardware is expensive because its designed around demanding workloads where uptime and redundancy is important. For a goober wanting to start a Minecraft and Jellyfin server, any old PC will work.
For home labbers office PC’s is the best way to do it. I have two machines right now that are repurposed office machines. They usually work well as office machines generally focus on having a decent CPU and plenty of memory without wasting money on a high end GPU, and can be had used for very cheap (or even free if you make friends that work in IT). And unless you’re running a lot of game servers or want a 4k streaming box, even a mediocre PC from 2012 is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff on.

That’s what happens when accountants gain control of publicly traded companies, they see only cost centers that look like a black hole on a spreadsheet, but provide delayed, but massive unaccounted benefits for the rest of the company’s operations.

The lessons Intel is learning with the Alchemist and Battlemage GPU cards are paying off in integrated chips. This is what competition looks like!

lol

Their achieved accuracy was +/- 1.5km and +/- 2m/s

Which is an improvement in of itself. That improves flying craft navigation to and from the moon into something significantly easier to automate and coordinate between multiple ships, more than ballistic dead reckoning.

The biggest thing they did to kill it was banner ads in the client. The second those showed up, all my friends and myself instantly jumped to the new, fledgling Discord.

Calling it now, EA is going to do it anyway if they haven’t already, and tell them all to go pound sand.

Narrator: “AMD, unfortunately, proceeded to screw it all up.”