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Judge Issues Split Decision in Epic v. Apple
 
In court, a party will push for the entirety of its interests and hope to get as much ruled in their favour as they can. However, that doesn't mean they expected to get everything they asked for, and they often ask for a lot more than they expect and hope to get just some of what they asked for.
 
The split-decision ruling in this case, to me, appears to favour Epic, as there's no major negative consequence for them. People could still download Fortnite for iOS from a source other than the iOS store, if Epic wishes to make it available, and other projects using Unreal Engine are unaffected by this decision. The threat that all apps using Unreal Engine would be removed from the App Store and developers would have to avoid using it if they wanted their app to be available in the App Store was the real danger in Apple's response, IMO. And Epic have avoided that situation.
 
Epic and Apple will face each other in a court hearing on September 28.

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@LinusTech Bro fisting Lisa Su circa 2017 

Look at how Happy the Boy was knowing there was something Brand New on the Market to Drop.

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Still waiting for this Phone OS 🤔
 
And I remember Windows 95 very well 😑
 

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I wrote a poem for the windows 95 25th anniversary, here it is:
 
Windows oh windows 95, 25 years, my oh my
We've been through a lot, all the things you've taught
25 years, have just gone by
You brought the internet into our homes, our hearts
You've been here, while playing Duke 3D
The taskbar came, and won't go by
Windows Xp, the nostalgia's there, but you were the one, who got us there
When duty calls, you're the centre of the office
But now, you're outdated, and will never be back there
How many floppy's, not 1, not 2, it was 13, no more, no less
Although MS Bob failed, you didn't, you stuck beside us, until 1998
You won't be neglected, you won't be forgotten
Yet 25 years have passed, but you'll still be there
You were a change to the old, and sparked some new
You may be old, but you're still loved by few
You gave us MS solitaire, and passed many hours
You taught the kids, that give us computers 
Windows oh windows 95, 25 years, my oh my

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

Nicky V getting my phone call. circa 2020.

 
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who in gods name would wear anything like this?

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

who in gods name would wear anything like this?

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

To be fair, it's not really Blackberry making a new phone. It's a new company taking the naming rights, and trying to push out a new device. While I would normally be pretty interested to see where it's going, if you watched their press video on it, it looked like it was done with a (albeit decent) cell phone camera against a meeting room wall. It really didn't instill any kind of confidence in them actually coming out with a decent product, especially in the amount of time they have.
 
There's definitely a target audience for a device like this, it's just very niche, and the company that's making the phone had better realize that going in. Unfortunately that also means it'll likely have mid range specs with a high price tag. I only hope they also got the rights to TCL's keyboard; without something like that they're already dead in the water.
 
Just because you don't doesn't mean no one does
I'd love a physical keyboard, and I know at least three friends that would buy a phone like that without hesitation.
Not everyone uses their phones as a purely entertainment consumption device.
They're not. They simply lease their name. If people want to fail using their name to make products, why not?
I...would definitely not. It'd be way too wide to easily use.
It still has a touch screen
It's not hard to have the OS come out at the same time when you only have a handful of devices. You can't really compare the two; they're entirely different entities.
 
They didn't promise 3 years of updates. They promised 3 generations of updates. So, this year counts as one, and then you get two more. It's not that much better than they already had. Though, with the work Google has been doing on update packages, it should be a lot easier for companies to release them. I don't think Android vendors really have a problem when it comes to update length, if people were that upset about it they'd have changed by now.
 

You should really look into this new plane called LS420. It's a marvel in latest high tech flight technology.
 

What a great story

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Hello all

As I do on many free Saturday mornings, I’ve just been enjoying the WAN show vod with a cup of coffee.  I’m not often one to comment, but so many of Linus’ remarks about Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator resonated with me so deeply I felt I had to (over)-share!

The reason I started watching LTT (well, NCIX tech tips #19) about 11 years ago was because even 3 years after release, Flight Simulator X was itself a complete performance hog.  Then 13-year-old me wanted to learn how to overclock as I’d heard this would help quite a bit and crucially didn’t cost anything.  

The part of the WAN show discussion which specifically made me want to write this, was about the educational value of flight simulators and how they might facilitate entry into a career in aviation.  When I first flew on an aeroplane aged 5, I immediately decided I wanted to be a pilot, but I’m pretty sure it was my dad’s decision to buy me a copy of Flight Simulator 98 (old, even at the time) when we got home which cemented my obsession with flying.

Growing up, flight sims were all I wanted to do with my free time.  I found the rabbit hole of things to learn to be almost bottomless, from fundamentals like principles of flight, all the way to hunting for questionable English translations of operating procedures for the airliners of the Soviet Union.

Once I got to be a teenager though, the reality of the expense of getting a pilot’s licence started to seem very daunting.  I was able to do a fair bit of flying and gliding for free with the Air Cadets, but even a Private Pilot Licence seemed a long way away.  Amazingly flight sim ended up being of great help with this too, as after appearing as a guest on the then popular FSBreak podcast, I netted a job offer from a co-host.  I should explain here that for flight simulators, third party content plays a far more prominent role than it does for just about any other game.  It’s extremely common for users to spend hundreds of pounds on additional aircraft, scenery and utilities modifying everything down to how the game keeps time.

In my case, I was writing scripts for a company called Angle of Attack, who provided video training for some of the more complex aircraft DLCs of the day.  This had me poring through real world 737 documentation to turn it into something watchable and hopefully enjoyable for the average user.  Crucially for me, it earned me enough money to start taking flying lessons.

Since money was the limiting factor on how much I could fly, I was usually pretty determined to find ways of making more, and having learned to build PCs from watching LTT proved to be a way.  I’d met many people through the flight sim community who wanted something optimised for the game, and it was easy to considerably undercut established builders who made PCs marketed to simmers and still turn a profit.  I thought it might tickle anyone from LMG reading this to know, you essentially paid for one of my most memorable training flights – my first solo cross-country flight from Blackbushe, Surrey to Goodwood, West Sussex back in 2014.

After working on my private licence at the local flying club, I was accepted onto an airline’s cadet programme to earn my commercial licence.  I’ve been flying the Airbus A320 family since late 2017 and earned my Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence at the beginning of this year (for North Americans reading this, you can fly performance class A (equivalent to part 121) aircraft in Europe on a CPL).

The short version of this then, and what I’m really trying to say is that whilst flight simulators can simply be fun in the same way as any other PC game, they can also be a fair bit more than that.  As is so often the case, I think you absolutely nailed it with your hot-take on the WAN show.

As a closing note, I’d just like to say thank you.  I remember in your vlog on your thoughts about retiring, you mentioned that you sometimes question how meaningful your work is.  For what it’s worth, in my case I think it was instrumental in getting to where I’ve always wanted to be in life.

Happy birthday to @LinusTech, He grew from being a pubescent boy to a manly bearded chad in just 1 year.  #LinusTechBirthday
 

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