Evolution over a single generation is a new one on me. But I firmly believe that people should be free to practice their religious beliefs how they see fit.

Oops. We software developers have been assuming you have infinite memory. Kind of explains a lot about this industry, doesn't it.

PhDs are expected to publish. The old saying of "publish or perish" applies here. Each contributor likely has their own funding and own motives for participating in this research. But given that contributor is part of a "media lab" and another is part of a "parrot kindergarten" makes me suspect that very little money was required to fund this particular research.

What scientific value does it have? Well it's not a missile or bomb, so it doesn't help the war effort. I guess we'll have to be satisfied that this is merely the expansion of human knowledge. Perhaps the "parrot kindergarten" can use the information during their training and psychological evaluation or whatever they are doing over there.

We know of these people because they were lucky. Not because they are superior specimens.

Sorry if my earlier reply was too terse and misinterpreted.

Either way the artists usually get fucked. They get roughly dick from album sales too.

If you want them to get money, download their music, then go see them in concert. If you can find a show at a venue where Ticketmaster isn't eating it all, that is.

OK, but what about the authentically shoddy Cisco equipment?

You think your kids are going to care for you when you're old? I doubt they can stand to be around you at any age.

It makes you think that intelligent people like intelligent birds?

Vulkan works fine on Windows 7 with Nvidia, up to a certain version anyway when they stopped support. There is no technological reason why it couldn't continue working, only logistical.

Lucky.

That isn't what's happening. They're deciding what purposes the software is fit for. They aren't doing anything to actually prevent them doing it — They're not Apple — but they are stating that doing so is a violation of the license and therefore they can wash their hands of the liability.

China shined on WTO rules in nationalistically anticompetitive ways from day one. If you won't stand for it from Apple, why would you support it from China?

Careful, if you can't spell then your salary may be reduced below fifty cents.

Both things are converging on the same point, an inadequately cooled shiny slab with ARM cores that are crippled by a case design that doesn't adequately radiate heat and a battery that doesn't last the useful life of the device.

" This is outside Microsoft's decision making IMHO"

It isn't.

Dollars to doughnuts that this is however just a ploy to get more money.