>Halo Studios has had to dedicate a lot of staff to developing the Slipspace Engine, and parts of it are almost 25 years old.
I don't know anything about Unreal Engine 5, but unless it was rewritten from scratch since the first release of Unreal Engine, wouldn't parts of it also be 25 years old?

That was my thought. I still have a link to macslash that I have been waiting to return.

- I have seen worse UIs - a proprietary X11 interface for one.
- the variable names are mostly in German, but once you have programmed in it, you learn what they are - very consistent usage within and across modules. There is English documentation provided by SAP.
- SAP is NOT written in COBOL. As someone else stated, it is C kernel with ABAP for the business language.
- it is expensive, but it is cheaper now than it was 5 years ago. Most of the cost is in paying people to do the implementation, and then support contracts. Much like every other enterprise software.

Many SAP projects go over budget. It is a large complicated piece of software - which many do not understand. Like any vendor, the ease of installation is over sold by SAP and confirmed by implementors wanting the work.

The biggest issue that any implementation has is under estimating how much the business process will change.

I worked on a few implementations, the biggest failure was also a success. The system did exactly what the company wanted. However, the company did not understand it's own business and thus asked for the wrong features. Once implemented the company's operations came to a stand still as they could not follow the business process as implemented and was eventually bought by their biggest competitor.

I no-longer work with SAP, but I think it is a great product - just be sure you understand what your business process is and how that process will change once implemented in SAP. Rushing a project and taking shortcuts is a surefire way to end up with a failed project. Oh, and any project that lasts as many years of this, will have had 300% turnover of the implementation staff, so plenty of time will have been lost rolling consultants on/off the project.

Sorry, but this is the first I heard of an App store from Red Hat. What kind of software can you get there?

There is R http://www.r-project.org/ as a free alternative.

> we've discovered nothing whatsoever that is non-reproducible about the brain's structure and function,

That's probably because we have discovered little about the brain's structure and function.

> all that has to happen here is for that trend to continue

Well the field of AI in the last 40 years has made practically zero progress towards human-like intelligence , but I agree with you - the trend will likely continue.

Two personal heroes of mine:

Ernest Rutherford - A great scientist with several ground breaking discoveries, a national hero, and the mentor to numerous other Nobel Prize winners, such as Bohr, Geiger and Chadwick. Admired by Einstein.

Rosalind Franklin A heartbreaking and inspiring story about a scientist that eschewed fame (and was cheated of it) but was instead dedicated to science for science sake and not the politics.