The cops don't really need backdoors to security systems. The proper way is to use cryptanalysis to break those cyphers. It's a hard task but government has access to supercomputers. They don't need backdoor to all ciphers just like they don't need master key to all locks. Their push against cryptography is irrational and will in fact compromise security. No encryption means easy access to credit card credentials and what not for criminals. Backdoors mean that criminals can use it too. Only matter of time before it leaks.

All this is irrelevant. Linux already is used heavily by technical people who bother to install their OS. Vast majority of people don't install their OS and use whatever OS vendor installs. Windows managed to get its market share by dealing with PC vendors. Quality was never something OSes competed on. Subverting vendors with evangelism is only thing that matters.

There always is room for improvement, but in this case that improvement is done in one step forward two steps backwards sort of way. Indeed a lot of history exists but people who actually make games mostly ignore it. I feel that areas I named have in some ways even regressed since 1990s and something needs to be done about that. Maybe good intentions are involved here, but as saying goes road to hell is paved with good intentions..

You may make up as many excuses as you wish. But did it contain Rome? No. Did it speak Latin? No. There you are. As time went by Byzantine has changed both politically and culturally and at end of its days had no more claim of being Rome than Sultanate of Rum or orthodox Tsardom("Tsar" is from "Caesar") of Russia, "third Rome".

Uhh.. I think you better look up those words in a dictionary. No matter Greek or no all rulers tend to resort to them, some more, some less. Mapping it to some nationality traits is nonsense. The very notion of nationality is nonsense. All this is sophistry and waste of time.

What does it have to do with Mongols? You mean that original invaders were of mongoloid phenotype? Nobody ever cared about that at that time. Islam vs Christianity mattered a lot more. And whole concept of nationality didn't even exist. Just some powerful warlord conquered Anatolia from Byzantine and made it his property. Was he mongoloid of Turkish origin? Nobody cared.

"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.

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Also AI design, GUI design, plot writing, game ruleset design.. Everything except graphics.

Mostly "Turks" are of Armenian and Greek ancestry, their ancestors being Armenians and Greeks converted to Turkish culture, either voluntarily using economic incentives or enslaved in young age and grown as Turks. So any Armenians and Greeks that don't want to be Turks are considered existential threat by Turkish nationalists..

Unless they assume they already pay more than needed. The main problem here isn't money. The point is changing requirements make project significantly later no matter how much money is spent on it. This economy cargo cult idea that money automatically make things happen is one of underlying reasons of all messes like that. Religious belief in power of money often makes people forget about doing actual work.

OK. If government can't determine what is religion and what isn't then any corporation can declare itself a religious organization and take tax break. No justification is needed whatsoever because government can't determine this. So just make it a blanket tax exemption for everyone to avoid wasting time on paperwork that will result in them all declaring themselves religion.

It's obvious that the reason for those changing requirements is that they lack understanding of how development process works, so they just need technical background to understand what requirements make sense and what don't. Just being good at "management" is not enough.

No, it's not GPL that is PITA but closed specs and NDA requirements. They're PITA no matter whether you're using BSD or GPL. So who cares if GPL prevents you from doing things in lawyer approved OCD way those companies want? It just won't work. At most you'll end up with some BLOB nobody maintains and which gets obsolete within a year.

Jade Empire still existed alongside proper RPGs. Could be considered a side project.