It's just another situation with diminishing returns. Going from the spinning rust to an SSD achieves considerable and noticable gains whereas going to the next step does not. The transition to SSD probably already got rid of most of the perceptable bottleneck.

It's too bad that Intel hardware has such crappy performance. I am more interested in the base case. That's FAR more relevant to FAR more people. People bragging about how complicated they can make their parlour tricks are ridiculous and irrelevant.

That's total hogwash. There is nothing about how Linux works in practice that makes BLOB drivers any less reliable or any harder to deal with. What problems may have existed have been fixed already and fixed for a long time already.

You sound like some stupid Lemming working out of an outdated playbook.

Just take advantage of the fact that Unix is well suited for automation.

> Churches don't harass people who leave

Are you kidding? If you really believe this then you need to seriously educate yourself. Take off the blinders and take a look around.

No. He's just more anal about rules than a German is.

The problem with liberty is when people start deciding to play favorites. Then what you have just devolves into the religious wars that early American settlers fled from.

If you are trying to play favorites in any way shape or form then liberty and equality have just been thrown out the window.

Some people have a hard time with this (especially Europeans).

Then you run through every use case. Confer with the actual users to see what those are.

Medicine is not the only field where you could have a highly complex system deployed that doesn't achieve anyone's requirements. I've seen that myself in banking (Fortune 500) and also in "startups".

You can whine mindlessly or you can point to an actual counterexample. Such an example might actually prove your point. Although you seem distinterested in that.

It doesn't matter. If you are waiting for a storage vendor to send you replacement gear then you're irresponsible and putting your company at unecessary risk. Even a good SLA that's actually successfully executed is still too much exposure.

No, it sounds like they have allowed a machine on their network to become a part of the Google botnet. It's like that brand of TV (LG I believe) that likes to snoop around. All it takes is installing the wrong app and then not fully understanding it.

Any software or hardware you allow on your network could be up to no good and reporting back to the mothership. This kind of nonsense isn't just for Microsoft or Sony anymore.

Unfortunately, most people are rubes and are actively encouraged to stay that way.

...or people that just think they are better and end up regretting their actions the next morning.

American workers are constantly encouraged to push themselves past sensible physical limits and to ignore genuine health and safety concerns.

Neither should a competent contractor or adjuster.

This is something that seems deceptively useful but I suspect that it will be less effective than everyone thinks. Plus someone still has to operate it and do so competently to at least succeed in doing a poor job at it.

The degree to which Apple is a monopoly in any market is dependent entirely upon the point that a particular fanboy is trying to make that day. They can either be obscure and on the ropes or they can be nearly taking over the planet. It all depends on what that day's agenda is.

Nonsense. Both Apple and Microsoft are in the wrong here.

If it's a part of an "industry standard" then the patent should be FREE. Don't like that? Don't make your invention part of something that no one can avoid.

It's like recreating the DOS monopoly by committe.

> And after the indiana legislation, several businesses have refused to do business in indiana. How is one boycott bigotry, and the other isnt?

Who wants to go where they aren't welcome? Other busineses have to consider that their employees or their customers will be abused and made to feel unwelcome by the climate in Indiana.

It doesn't even matter if you are really gay or not. Some ignorant hayseed might decide you are gay for whatever strange reason and then suddenly decide not to serve you. It's not just RuPaul that has to worry here.

Now you're trying to conflate an actual religious institution with a mere business. These are not things that are treated the same. They never have been treated the same in this country. An actual religious organization will actually get MORE slack because genuine religious oppression is a sacred cow here.

This "religious freedom" law is nothing more than a sham that allows any bigot to scream "but religion" any time they want to justify their bigotry. It doesn't have to have ANY thing to do with whatever religion they practice. It could even be CONTRARY to the stated doctrine of their own religion.

The actual governing body of what ever religion these bigots practice might want to chime in here and confirm or deny that their doctrine supports (or demands) discrimination against any person or group.