Something the union could negotiate...

Working well doesn't matter. Acquiring user voiceprint biometrics does.

The marketing group that has plans to sell voiceprint data...

Computer, order Microsoft to stop selling really, really accurate analyses of my voiceprint to spy acencies and police forces.

Vegans who want to eat something that tastes of the animals that they refuse to exploit are called vegetarians, not vegans.

I can assure you there are LOTS of people prefer the taste of meat.

That's a straw man argument. I didn't claim otherwsie, and I agree with you.

The crux of my argument is that people who like the taste of meat won't buy fake-meat instead of real-meat on a consistent basis unless there's a price advantage.

Here's my reasoning: The TAM for a vegan food product is all the humans. The SAM is those that can afford the product. This marketing-ese ignore the fact that no vegan would buy something that tastes like meat, vegetarians aren't particularly interested in something that tastes like meat, and omnivores would only buy faux-meat regularly if there's a price advantage.

There was a spurt of interest intially as a fad "gosh it really does taste like cow".

But the only reliable long term price-insensitive market is people who are meat-intolerant but like the taste of meat. Not a large market.

Solution: commoditise by dropping the price a lot, and compete on price.

I'm curious whether this deal is really to correlate up to 10 PCs to a family.

What's an MS account anyway?

Also didn't say that the PDK for the same process on the two fabs won't be identical.

Close, but you you won't be able to run the same design on either fab at whim, but have to pick either the TW or the USA fab at design start.

Freescale had this issue with their TSMC/Austin dual sourced processes back in the day. And everyone wanted to pick the TSMC fab because it was cheaper.

Eh? Solano Foundry's 2,100 acres includes these planned houses. It has nothing to do with SF.

If the higher paid tech talent doesn't live there, what's the target market for the "planned walkable city with over 175,000 homes"?

The project will die because the higher paid tech talent doesn't want to live there, and lower paid don't want to commute there.

Unless they build onsite dormitories for the $15/hr staff, the support/service workforce won't exist either.

Consider how many people just use webmail, and don't use a client such as Thunderbird to keep a local (as in on your own computer) copy of all their emails...

You mean the social media that's locked down for friends and family only?

It's still surveillance and analysis. No thanks.