I love how they're adding these features when a) Visual Basic has been available for decades and b) this is going to be a security hole, just like DirectX was.

What could go wrong?

This seems like the inevitable progression "Live Tiles" would bring you.

Good luck kids, enjoy Typhoid Mary but she does have DirectX "N"

Right? Even if you're a prodigy, the loans can ream you without scholarships or grants -- and even those are under heavy competition. It irks me that some students a lot of students rank in the "your parent(s)/you make too much" and "your parent(s)/you make too little" -- this being a Venn diagram and they're at the intersection, which makes them easy prey for predatory lending; thereby, they hope to get a good enough paying job afterwards to cover the loans or never get through paying them off.

This smells like the works of Thomas Jefferson and Fur Traders, whereby you become indebted, and are enslaved to the system. And now, you ask what do you give up when you can't repay those loans: entrepreneurship, unable to buy a home (to build any equity), unable to invest (to gain dividends), you skimp on pro bono work, vacations are a dream, you're desperate so ..., wages are stagnant (because owner's equity comes first because they too have loans), etc. Find someone whose liabilities are less than their assets and equity, and you've found a 1%

And it has come full circle. Again, you'll be logging on a dumb terminal/thin client to get access to the mainframe. The PC is no longer personal with DaaS

I don't know, but it seems ground work for Zero One -- "the machine city (Animatrix)"

The whole premise of both this and the robot are very insensitive. They can't be bothered to attend service with the bereaved? I'd take my business elsewhere.

Certainly, Hawking Radiation -- which has been theorized -- is created from the disintegration of matter. The weird part is trying to think up a particle that is massless and can escape; an electron has mass, as does any other fundamental particle so we get into weird matter -- muons, gluons, quarks, etc.

I personally think that dark matter is just the weird matter exhausted by the "furnaces" within stars and especially black holes. It, having no mass or doesn't interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, is undetectable except through indirect observations.