Why is this a problem that only the biggest publishers in the game/movie/music industry seem to be concerned about?

"Piracy is hurting out sales, we need to monetise all our content in every way possible"

Is this not a problem of mentality?

A person can blame a nameless group for all their problems; the government, immigrants, pirates

But ultimately if these factors are outside of your control, is it not more productive to focus on the things that you CAN control instead? There will always be pirates, regardless of how much you legislate, technology always adapts to a changing environment faster than the law Accept this and find inner peace Mr Yerli

I agree with Smidge, that we could potentially create new intelligent artificial life and would like to add something further
The reason why it's so difficult to quantify what a soul is and what it does, is because it's a wishy-washy concept that blurs the line between personal ego and consciousness (self-awareness)
The more and more I delve into mysticism, Hinduism, Buddhism and the concept of enlightenment in general, the more I realise what Einstein did
Pure consciousness may be the immortal aspect of human life, but there's absolutely nothing personal about it
An artificial life form could be created without the need to burden it with emotions or an ego
Why create an AI with an ego when machines by default don't have one to begin with?

Yeah except if you've got lots of money and not much skill you'll still get repeatedly pwned by creative and skilled players with relatively cheap decks It's usually the homegrown decks that utilise some strange quirk or combo that catch EVERYONE off-guard, you don't understand what they're doing till they've killed you Even the most unfair expensive decks can get squashed by something that side-steps their whole strategy

I graduated from the University of Essex in 2004, it was ranked 44th out all the 127 universities in the UK, so a very middle of the road uni, nothing like the Redbrick or Ivy League unis
The Computer Science course was heavily Java oriented, there was a bit of C, SQL and *shudders* Prolog too

It taught us everything mentioned in Bjarne's article with the exception of direct memory access, because it's not needed except in some very specific situations (e.g. when Accenture were re-writing the trading platform for the London Stock Exchange and speed was of the utmost importance)

Bjarne spends much of the article plugging his book and talking about the impressions of employers, but when was the last time he spoke to a developer in the trenches? Starting salaries for graduate developers in the UK are appalling (outside of London), the pay is about the same as that for a data entry clerk (I've done both and the latter only involves 2-3 hours work per day with the rest spent looking busy)

Being a good developer demands much more than a 9-5 commitment ESPECIALLY during you first job, if there is no incentive then why bother? Why not just find another career which isn't so demanding and has better rewards?

That's why there's a shortage of good grad developers these days, because the smart ones have already figured out that the game is rigged and it's not even worth playing