My favorite was when the behavior of a USB drive in /etc/fstab went from "hmm it's not plugged in at boot, I'll let the user know" to "not plugged in? Abort! Abort! We can't boot!"
This change over previous init behavior was especially fun on headless machines...
Where does $25M come from? ~260 work days in a year, and using the full 18k each way, is a little under $10M: $18,000×2×260 = $9,360,000
Still a ridiculous transportation bill, of course...
Edit: I think you increased the 18k by a factor of two instead of decreased, and used all 360 days instead of weekdays: $18,000×2×2×360 =$25.92M
I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase...
As far as physics stuff goes, I think this is far preferable to using someone's name.
Other comment says there is a way from inside, just not outside (which doesn't help with a young kid/toddler/baby is the inside passenger of course).
Either way, glad this is "only" a huge embarrassment, and not a dead kid.
I would be surprised if you couldn't get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication
8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today's standards!) drive.
Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?
It was mostly just so I could make people I don't like call me Dr.
Acoustic doesn't have a top tube...
Unfortunately, I think there is no real way around companies killing games. Because as shitty as this is, is it worse than every game which doesn't intend to comply simply selling the game as a service instead? I doubt that could realistically be made illegal.
In other words, one way of complying would simply be to only sell a 1-mo. "lease" to your game. You don't own it, and at some point they stop selling more leases, and then kill the game. You never owned it to begin with, so you didn't lose anything; you are no longer a customer. Of course...this is just describing a shitty subscription system.
That said: I think it would be a good start for companies to be required to list earliest end-of-support date. You already get this with many hardware vendors (enterprise network gear won't be supported forever).
Feels like the death throes of the internal combustion engine, the supernova before they die out in common usage.
Or not.
Same argument against vegetarianism/veganism
we have teeth "designed" or evolved for eating meat, thus we should eat meat.
...we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!