It's because of anti-nuclear people that it became so expensive.
Ecoligists in general frequently slow down construction, increase costs and slow down innovation, one example being the Superphoenix project: a next-generation reactor which would have solved the problems of nuclear waste had to be dismantled before the initial investment was even paid off due to FUD from ecologists. Of course they couldn't use that as the reason to close it, so they pretended it was because of excessive costs.

The obvious fix is to get rid of the DMCA.
I don't understand why exemptions are even allowed to be a thing.

I don't understand this focus on games.
Who cares about video games on their computers apart from kids?

People who use computers are looking for devices they can can use to do useful things.

I feel good knowing I'm part of the 1%.

Who's responsible in case of accident? The car owner or the software developer?

Am I the only one to think that it looks mediocre?
It's clearly not nearly as good as The Lord of the Rings was.

The story isn't the problem, it's the direction.

Decompression time is always real time. That's obvious.
Compression is a whole different beast. Some applications need real-time encoding (such as video-conferencing), but most do not.
Have you even ever written an encoder?

Compression and decompression are different things.

very high compression has limited utility if it takes an extremely long time

I don't see how the utility is limited.
Most content is mastered once and viewed millions of time.

How much time it takes to compress is irrelevant, even if you get diminishing returns the longer you take. What's important is to save space when broadcasting the content.

The front end and the back end are separate.

This one had pretty serious performance problems. 4.7 is one of the best.

The word you're looking for is 'propaganda'.

4.8 was even worse.
That's hardly news.

This is what Nao from Aldebaran is.

Good domain-specific tools are written as command-line utilities, and are even better if you wrote them yourself for your project.
Text editing (which includes syntax highlighting etc.) is also much better with a text editor.

Editors are also more flexible, scale better for large projects, and can do anything you need them to do.
An IDE is extremely constrained and won't work properly whenever you need to do something that wasn't planned by the developer who coded it.