While the NUCs are overkill for HTPC duty, the PIs are also not sufficiently there either. A PI just has problems keeping up with the user interface (XBMC).

Something like a Chromebox is the sweet spot. Decent enough GPU for video decoding and a CPU that's not ridiculously anemic.

You mean that Canadians have a nasty spending cap and get turned down for treatments that Americans take for granted? That kind of cheap?

Don't swim in the kool-aid.

Better yet, if people are re-inventing your work why do you even think you should be granted ownership of it? Chances are that you contributed nothing to the state of the art. You didn't publish anything that's actually useful. Patents are rubbish as documentation. So if that's all you've contributed to the world, then you didn't contribute anything really.

The fact that ANYONE could "re-invent" your stuff means the patent should be tossed.

Patents are evil that way. They allow patent holders to claim ownership of the work of others. It's legalized theft.

I don't have to "imagine" anything. I have seen it firsthand. I have seen the no-talent schmucks from India used as scab labor and I have seen the overqualified and highly talented types from 1st world countries. Both were underpaid and in a vulnerable position.

Talent worth importing is talent worth importing with full status and no strings attached.

No. The H1B debate is about creating an easy to exploit underclass. Even the "talented types" get abused by corporations. Corporations get a free pass to rape pillage and plunder because that's just (Ayn Rand) trendy these days.

Corporations want people that are easy to exploit. People with full legal status are harder to abuse. They also have higher expecations and higher overhead.

I wouldn't even go that far. In all of the locations I looked at where I have some knowledge of the going rates, that data actually showed that the H1-Bs are on the low end of the scale.

This data doesn't appear to be anything to brag about really.

Well, the idea of taking at least one day off every 7 is a pretty old one. I am sure it's not limited to one particular nation state or culture.

It's a pleasant fantasy that you can drive labor indefinitely but the physical universe (and human bodies) has finite limits.

The problem with the argument is that it tries to distort the situation and ignores any useful discussion of the market value of the item in question.

What is the single value of an impression? How does that relate to the value of a single broadcast? How does that relate to the value of a single?

Most of these headlines are loud whining that depend on general innumeracy.

What chip? It's a useful distinction that actual exists now in the real world. It's relevant to the discussion.

Performers don't get paid for radio airplay but songwriters do.

Plus I think Nye is committing the usual fallacy of conflating the equivalent of being familiar with the lastest Papal Bull with "knowing science". This is more about being able to repeat the current appeal to authority fad than it is actual science.

All of the current talking heads seem to replicate that fallacy.

> The nuts and bolts of computer architecture isn't in the scope of computer science.

It is in the ACM curriculum. Whether or not your ITT "computer science" degree included it is another matter.

Someone should be answering to a judge over this.

If the DA won't do it then it's up to those "sleazy ambulance chasers".

The only advantage that BSD has is the ability to piss off developers. People describe the GPL as some sort of communist crusade but it really came about because of rather practical considerations.

Most charitable people don't want to feel they have been taken advantage of.

Beyond that, the Toddler's Dilemma really impacts very few people. Most people (and even companies) don't see the need to pretend that someone else's work is their exclusive property.

That's funny because any time I install Linux from scratch it "just works". Whenever I try this with Windows, it NEVER does.

I can't imagine a normal consumer going through all of that trouble on their own.

The only reason that Windows "works" for anyone (or MacOS for that matter) is that it's already preloaded and ready to go.

> Hardly. The "year of Linux on the desktop" is indeed understood to mean some form of market dominance.

So? Apple managed fine without this.

It's a DOS centric mindset that demands that a successful consumer microcomputing product must WIPE OUT all of the other options. Although it does nicely frame the problem that any alternative faces.