Provided they're already running a Windows Server. Let me rephrase: How many Windows PCs would a small business normally be expected to have in operation before purchasing a Windows Server at all?

That's 15 minutes on a bicycle there and 15 minutes back. Some people in my home town cycle farther just to donate their blood plasma. How much do an entry-level bicycle and a helmet cost?

If you're already working, and the library and other government offices are closed for the evening or for the weekend when you're off work, good luck using the Internet terminal in the library or other government office to find a better job. Same with public transit that stops running for the evening or for the weekend.

And watch the single-issue pro-life base in the United States of America vote the murderers out of office.

That's fine if you happen to live somewhere that offers at least some minimal level of bus service on Sundays and holidays. My city does not (source: fwcitilink.com).

This wouldn't be advertised as "Internet access". It would be advertised as a tool to find a job or a better job.

Just the headlines from the Report and Retort, not the article bodies, to provide some minimal level of awareness of current events.

The point of zram is to take the memory latency hit while continuing to run at far better than HDD speed. I was guessing that an FPGA would reduce the memory latency hit compared to gzipping each swapped-out page in software.

Does your TV with a tuner also have a device that delays playback of a live program by a few minutes? A buffer for live TV would let you join late, pause the stream while you take a bathroom break, and gradually catch up to live by fast-forwarding through unwanted segments such as waiting for the pitch in Major League Baseball. Or does TiVo still own that idea?

For this, I'm told you can blame the lazy-ass programmers at Sun, which provided no way for a Java app to check OS versions other than with a string like that.

Our business currently does not. How many Windows PCs would a small business normally be expected to have in operation before purchasing a Windows Server on which to run WSUS?

In Europe, how do individuals pay other individuals through the post, as Captain Hook pointed out? And how do churches collect donations? Or is everybody expected to already be paying for a subscription to cellular Internet access in order to make or receive electronic payment?

Demanding an apology is an anti-pattern.

Is that any different from how Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice Calc, or Gnumeric prompts to save a spreadsheet in native format even if you've already exported it to CSV? Or how Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, or AbiWord prompts to save a document in native format even if you've already exported it to plain text or RTF? Most formats other than XCF do not support layers, and if your document has layers, flattening them to save would lose data.

Would an FPGA be viable as a lossless data compression coprocessor? That way, the computer could swap to a RAM disk and save space on whatever's currently paged out. It'd be like a hardware-accelerated version of zram (or Connectix RAM Doubler before that).

Probably at the next process shrink, once tomorrow's Pentium is as fast as today's Core i7.

A paragraph of the article you linked claims that Android infringes patents but doesn't specify or link to which. So it's an alleged patent tax, not a copyright tax. Besides, which patents are these? And can they be designed around by not having an SD card slot?