Why not, if you play only AAA games and no indie games?

Why cant they just do "Researchername,DOB"?

If you have 20 researchers all named I.P. Freely and are all born on 12/13/1992 then I think there is a bigger problem here.

"How big of a population explosion are you expecting?"

It depends if T Wang's Cloning project is a success.

It could be a massive explosion.

Think of the birthday paradox. It's quite unlikely that any given researcher has the same name as any other given researcher. But there are n!/(2(n-2)!) pairs to consider, which gets big really fast, so you have to adjust your expectations for multiple comparisons.

If you play indie games, a growing number of those are ported to Linux. If you play major-label games, there are plenty of those on consoles.

> These days we no longer believe that Silverlight is a
> suitable platform for write-once-run-anywhere technology

It took you HOW long to figure this out? It wasn't extremely obvious to you, for example, when you saw the original Silverlight announcement from Microsoft?

Better late than never I guess. At this rate it'll be 2105 before they finally realize there's absolutely no point in emulating .NET either.

"You can't trust Wikileaks. Its founder raped two girls in Sweden."

After a two-week statutory waiting period. A lot of videos are no longer relevant after two weeks.

Ah, the legal wisdom of Antonin Scalia. The man isn't fit to judge traffic court.

Paying for a proprietary software license is no guarantee that you are in compliance. Even buying the software puts you at risk of a BSA raid. All it takes is for one employee to install the software on a machine not covered by the license, and you're at risk of serious fines.