Technically I think that’s still “put us first on the search bar” money. You’re giving the real under-the-table explanation.

Cheese Kurds would be a little cannibalistic.

No. I would like to go back to beans, please.

But the floppy diskette and the “hard disks” did in fact have circular discs inside that spin around.

I suspect that the word diskette was created as an analog to tape “cassette”. With both diskette and cassette, the media is stored inside an enclosure, and you don’t have to take it out manually.

I sure hope you have some peer reviewed clinical studies to back up a controversial statement like that!

criminal lawsuit?

What? Do they mean “criminal prosecution?”

Instead the story is that the source engine was located in the “Src” directory in their Visual Source Safe. And the Half Life 1 engine was in a separate branch named GoldSrc because it was about to ship real soon, and they needed to keep changes to a minimum.

Well it probably wasn’t a Vic Mackey-style rubber hose attack, because it sounds like this chump is getting hauled into court.

That’s what I’ve got (on Gentoo).

I’m thinking of highly niche industrial and embedded products who are likely to be left behind.

A major traditional selling point for Windows has always been the backwards compatibility.

Yeah. This sounds a lot like some PM type thinks they’re gonna get rid of control panel, and they just don’t know what all is actually in there.

And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

But the ads on search are the big revenue driver for Google overall. Presumably those stay with the Google Search subunit, and they would have plenty of cash to do whatever?

This is actually pretty important to being able to solve engineering problems in the real world. Invariably, every little sub industry has its own cursed unit system. And dimensional analysis is great for solving real problems on its own.

And if you get to a high enough physics level, they start setting hbar = c = 1 or G = c = 1, and you never have to worry about it again.

I’m the mean time, it’s worthwhile to learn the trick to do this stuff fast-ish.

Of course it plays^HH^HH^H ponders Doom.

But if they’ve only been found to monopolize search, how does that remedy the search monopoly? Presumably the new separate Google Search company would still have a search monopoly.

For the money they are (were I guess) handed to set that it’s clearly worth it.

Not disagreeing with you. I just want to point out that Google is probably deliberately “overpaying” on this Mozilla deal, because they want to keep Firefox afloat, because they don’t want to catch a court ruling that they are monopolizing the browser market too.

Dirty tricks with web browsers is the antitrust charge that actually caught Microsoft in the 90s.

Noooooooo. I want hamster dance, that baby, and Charlie the Unicorn. I can’t handle the change.

Specifically several sitting justices have previous white house administration experience where they had to worry about consulting their lawyers because of the illegal stuff they were doing (like Iran Contra).

It really is junk fake Latin.

Pro tip: EU membership comes with its own defense pact among just the EU members. Whether you join NATO or not.