Clearly this implementation left a lot to be desired, as military contractors tend to be not very good at their jobs, and are more concerned about their cost-plus profits.

Most military contracts are fixed price nowadays. The contractors still want to make a profit though so they're more likely to cut expenses like usability testing.

Why on earth would touch screens even be up for consideration? Do military engineers not understand haptic feedback?

Human factors engineers aren't in the most glamorous engineering profession. If corners are going to be cut, that's one position that likely won't be filled, or if filled will be by people with little or no domain experience such as new grads or those who have only worked with graphical UIs.

I "subscribe" to PaaS, Piracy as a Service. It provides a higher quality product, at a much lower cost.

-No subscription fees
-No renewal fees
-No tracking
-No automatic billing
-No DRM [ Digital Restrictions Management

This is what SaaS is competing against. Guess which one gets my money.

I'm guessing neither!

I like the [i]idea[/i] of software as a service. I like to be able to access my software and data from anywhere and I like automatic updates that include the latest features. But 99 times out of 100 it is just too expensive compared to the buy once model. The break-even point for me is 3 years. If 3 years of service costs less than or equal to the pay once price, it's probably worth it, with the logic being that if I like it I'll probably want to upgrade in 3 years anyway and if I don't like it I can stop paying anywhere in the 3 year window and save money.

You can write the speed sensitive library in C or C++. Then someone who is more of a domain specialist than a programmer can use Python to feed data to the library and format the results as needed. That way you get the best of both worlds.

McDonnald's has many successful restaurants in countries where the tax is included in the price. American customs are just weird.

You can get an entire internet connection cheaper than that. It sounds like a scam to get investor money. It has the classic scam buzzwords like "exclusivity", "long waiting lists" and "support of influential venture capitalists and bigwigs" who will happen to make a lot of money if they can get other investors to join in.

From the FAQ:

What will happen to WSL 1? Will it be abandoned?

We currently have no plans to deprecate WSL 1. You can run WSL 1 and WSL 2 distros side by side, and can upgrade and downgrade any distro at any time. Adding WSL 2 as a new architecture presents a better platform for the WSL team to deliver features that make WSL an amazing way to run a Linux environment in Windows.

From the previous article:

Stadia is not a dedicated console or set-top box. The platform will be accessible over the internet on a variety of platforms: browsers, computers, TVs, and mobile devices. In an onstage demonstration of Stadia, Google showed someone playing a game on a Chromebook, then playing it on a phone, then immediately playing it on PC, picking up where the game left off in real time.

Stadia can stream games in 60 fps, with HDR and 4K resolution, said Google's Majd Bakar. In the future, Bakar said, Stadia will achieve resolutions up to 8K and frame rates up to 120 fps. Google showed AAA games like Ubisoft's Assassinâ(TM)s Creed Odyssey and id Software Doom Eternal running on Stadia.

So it basically sounds like you'll be able to play games from any device using powerful cloud hardware on the back end.

Is Apple going to audit every script file in the universe to make sure it hashbangs and fix those that don't?

They could write a script to do that!

A password on a post-it at least requires physical access. More troubling are short easy to remember passwords that don't need to be written down, like "passsword" (or if you need a capital, number and special character, "Passw0rd.")

I apologize to everyone whose password I've just exposed.

Our system is much simpler. You fill out the paper ballot like a scan-tron and the voting machine eats it and tallies the numbers. Election officials can always go back and count the ballots by hand if needed.

We're manufacturing more than ever. It's just that usually it's higher up the food chain than screws.

NIMBYism also is a factor. If you can't build where the people live then you have to keep building further and further out.