In 1988, Mazda produced a 4 cylinder engine for the Ford Probe and Mazda MX-6 that felt like driving a 6 cylinder while getting 45 MPG. There are current hybrids on the market today that still can't match that. If anyone can do something like this, it is probably Mazda.

You are buying the car, but licensing the software that makes it work. The "autonomous driving" feature within the software is not being licensed for commercial use at this time.

I have done some software installs where the vendor is assisting via a shared desktop session and they just click through on the EULA agreement. I tell them that I didn't give them permission to agree on my behalf, but they just laugh it off. Joke's on them....

I taught myself rudimentary BASIC on my dad's suitcase sized luggable in 1982 (probably a Kaypro or some HP portable testing device that supported BASIC), so I could create random character scores for D&D. Took BASIC a year later in my junior year of HS, then FORTRAN my senior year, and again as a freshman in college. Took assembler my junior year and then a 101-level evening course in C right after I graduated. Everything after that was either self taught or on the job training to learn various IDEs (C++, Java, VB, C#, and a few others), scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Bash), and one-offs like HTML, XML, and SQL.

These days it's primarily just the occasional MS Office Macro, Excel spreadsheet programming, or web development using a CMS like Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla.

Thinking about teaching myself some mobile game development over the summer, but I need to find a good cross platform (IOS & Android) development tool to invest the time in.

I think the early instructional course work was valuable for teaching the basic understanding of stepwise problem solving and some of the deeper concepts of computer and software architecture. Without it, the later self-directed stuff would have come a lot harder.

If money is speech , then one should be able to "freely" do whatever one wants with any amount of one's money under the 1st amendment. If the government wants to track someone's spending patterns, they should get a warrant.

When I got my first personal email address and shell account through Software Tool & Die (AKA world.std.com) sometime around 1990, I had to sign a form saying I wouldn't use the account for commercial purposes. Gopher and WAIS were the main search engines and Lynx was my browser. There was no way the private sector would have been able to lay that groundwork without the government's help. Even with that headstart, there were so many corporate flameouts during the first Internet bubble that many of the companies that helped build it are no longer around.

As many in the private sector IT space know, if there is a compliance requirement to protect, archive, or destroy data, the responsibility falls on someone in the IT staff to ensure that everything is in place and working. Someone within IT knew that she was using her personal email address and should have put a mechanism in place to monitor, secure, and archive those emails. If she pushed back, they should have notified someone up the chain and ultimately the lawyers of her lack of compliance. Baring a documented trail that shows that IT reported on and attempted to rectify the situation somehow or that she was told to do something and refused to, White House IT is responsible for the failure here.

Obviously, the Great Simulator has a killer deduplication algorithm with up to 117 orders of magnitude compression. Everything in the known universe resolves to either 117 elements or 36 sub-atomic particles (that we know of), so it just a matter of finding all the element or particle strings in the universe's file layout and replacing most of them with pointers.