There are many reasons that make GPU not as useful for audio.
The second is that most audio processing usually relies on complex directed graphs consisting on nodes that each process a different task, and that kind of interaction is too complex for the simpler, massively parallel GPU architecture.
It would be fanastic for us that work in the audio industry to have some sort of DSP acceleration coprocessors for audio, but there's not enough demand to make that affordable so we can only wait for GPUs to become more flexible and realtime friendly, or CPUs to become more parallel.

I guess that's why it was closed-source only?

You don't sell technology to venture capitalists, you sell a business plan with well done research and projections.
Or, alternatively, you should start by licensing the technology to those interested first (figure out who) and create a steady income from there.
Or create a product that end users might find useful directly, like an iOS app.
One example of successful business model based on an algorithm is elastique, which is used in pretty much all major audio and DJ apps.
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Manufacturing using robots is very efficient and can easily drive down the costs of hiring humans to do the job.
However, teaching humans how to assemble a new device is, in many cases, faster and cheaper than designing an automated assembly line, this reduces the time to market (TTM) of new product cycles.
China is still by far the most competitive country for this, not only in terms of price but available workforce too.

KDE people makes awesome apps but it's too hard to get them working on windows. I used to use KDevelop a lot for C/C++, but having to constantly switch computers/places/OSs to develop (depending on the target platform), makes QtCreator the only IDE I can really use..

This research is pure prejudice and a waste of taxpayer's money. The scientists should have waited a little more and ask the neanderthal directly.

I'm sorry but if you can't find a job it's not because someone from another country took it, it's because either you are not talented enough,there is not enough demand for your experience or talent, or you are asking for too much money. Companies don't do beneficence, they run a business so either way it's your own fault.
The problem with H1B is that it allows the employer to hire shitty workers and exploit them (the talented ones don't have a problem shifting companies even on H1B), if the visa worked more on the grounds of talent and was not tied to companies, that wouldn't be a problem.

The argument about H1B is completely stupid and misses the point.
The reality is that the US is one of the biggest markets in the world and products are developed for that market all around the world.
I live in an emergent economy (South America) and 90% of the companies that develop software or expot other kind of product/services have the US or Europe as target.
The main difference between here and the US is that, even though people does not earn as much in the US, talented or experienced employees are much, much cheaper.
And about the saying that American companies will always prefer to deal with other American companies, it's really easy to set up a company in America even if your workforce is somewhere else.
My point is, it doesn't really matter where the brightest people is, but that it's much easier to "steal" American jobs by not being in America than being there, and this is not even about outsourcing. At least with H1B, the worker will pay taxes in America and will help create jobs, as they will be a part of a team.
Other countries, like Canada or Germany, understand this much better than America and welcome reasonably talented people and gives them citizenship very easily, because they understand it's much more benefical to have them inside the country than outside.
That is why, the fact that H1B itself exists is proof of American arrogange and stupidity. It's the old xenophobic political fallacy of blaming those outside for the problems inside, and by judging the arguments of most posting in this article, it is really working.

It doesn't work/misses the point if companies like Microsoft go after those who implement it or use it rather than Linux itself.

"Developers are busy and don't have time to learn a new programming language. We believe that the only remaining eco-system is the web and there are more developers for the web than for any other platform in the world"

Yes, developers are busy writing native applications for iOS and Android, or using some sort of toolkit/engine for portability. HTML5 is an option in all the other platforms too, yet it's not as popular as C++, C#, Java or Objective C. I don't get the point of this OS.

-Instancing: For drawing lots of trees without draw call overhead.
-Impostors: For the groups of trees far away
-Vertex Program: For the sway of the trees, probably with per vertex amount of strength
-PSSM: For the shadows
-Godrays: For the sunrays through the trees
-HDR+Bloom with luminance bleeding: For the lighting and skybox
-Instanced Particles: For the clouds

I sure am forgetting some of them, but I think this demo, with huge amounts of instancing, is mainly designed to stress the vertex pipeline of modern videocard.

The concept seems pretty useless to me, given that your cellphone is almost equally as accessible nowadays. Maybe they are letting out these rumors to force their competition to re-focus their R&D in something useless and make them waste money ant time? The idea of the Apple TV screen kind of rings of the same.

The reason why most devices are version 2 is because there are plenty of feature phones (like the Galaxy Ace or Xperia Mini) being sold in emergent economies.

Agreed, we should abolish stuff like Baseball and Football. It gets people too emotional and forces them to spend a lot of money they could better be spending at taxes.

I'm not from the US, but if you really wanted to pirate stuff, isn't just renting a proxy or doing ssh -D somewhere else outside the country enough?
Or is it one of those measures trying to prevent John Doe from using bittorrent? (and expecting he won't learn how to use a proxy)