Winter is coming.

This is my response. Getting let off because they can't prove the headset was turned on is dodging the real issue, which is whether or not it should be legal to drive with an augmented reality display active.

What were you expecting? Low-Cost Morphing Power Rangers? :P

Quite.

However, if it does synthesize into something runnable, then you've just proved an upper bound for the cost of the implementation. If the upper bound is in any way commercially feasible then it's definitely worth optimising.

It's also ill-formed (to the point of being almost meaningless) in the sense that the smallest number of gates for a given algorithm is probably going to be to implement some kind of low-end processor which then runs the algorithm as code.

What they really wanted to ask was "what's the best price/performance option for executing this algorithm, given the following expected parameters and an initial production run size of X".

Oh man, that stuff. It's like the Time Cube of liquid soap.

No-one will ever prove that any given challenge can't be accomplished.

Except this one.

Maybe.

The engineers were working on a work-for-hire basis, and they knew it. What they get is no different to what an incidental musician or a member of a pub band would get: An hourly wage for their labour.

Musicians who write albums and then publish them, receiving ongoing income, are more analogous to an inventor or a startup company, who design a product and then market that product, making money off the ongoing sales.

The musicians that you refer to, who work for a few years and live the rest of their lives on the royalties from that music, are the equivalent of the guy who invented and popularized the Tetra Pak milk carton.

Oh. Whelp, I've clearly been drinking the koolaid. Thanks.

(They get bonus points in the Licensing of the Press Act for conflating "unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets" with "seditious treasonable Bookes and Pamphlets." Still a staple for those trying to bundle legislation supporting their own interests in with legislation that "everybody should vote for.")

Barring issues with excess fat, sodium etc, is a diet that contains all the necessary micronutrients still an "unhealthy" diet?

You mean back when it was made with actual oranges, which contain Vitamin C?

Well yes, money is why companies do things. But wait, let me get this straight - because of copyright law, a company is releasing music to the public that otherwise may never have been released?

Isn't that the entire purpose of copyright law? To encourage the release of artwork? Is this not a perfect example of copyright working as intended?

...and subprime lending really DID destroy the U.S. economy.

When you study business, management, or basically anything "non-technical" you don't give a shit and just want the nerds to go sit in the back room and do whatever it is they do so the computers magically keep working.