Perhaps Apple could build usable phones that actually last a full day on their battery instead of competing for the biggest buzzword of the moment and be able to say: "Look, this is the thinnest phone on the market". It bends easily, it breaks easily, it's got an awful battery, but ei, they can state it's the thinnest phone on the market.

You just explained exactly why the users prefer Uber.

Sure, like you said, there are nice taxis therein Poland regulated by the government. And then there are all the other scammers around.

Now, me as a tourist, I land at Krakow airport and I have no clue which is which and I may as well end up in a shitty dirty unregulated cab paying 5x the fare I was suposed to pay and I basically have no way to even complain about it. Or, I can just connect to the airport WiFi, call a Uber driver and be sure to arrive at my destination in an accountable transport that charges me the minimum fare possible for that trip.

Guess which one the users choose.

Funny enough, just today I was watching a presentation in ESO with one of the leading scientists in this project. And it's a bit more complicated than I thought.

Unlike NASA, ESA never applied this technology, so they can't just use it in space probes. They would have to get in a partnership with NASA or to allow some years for the engineering teams working with them to find out how to use the technology correctly (we are talking about systems with very limiting energy and weight requirements here).

Then, even if they know how to apply it correctly, the probe would be launched using an Ariane taking off from French Guiana and, by French law, any nuclear device transiting in French territory would need to have an express signed order by the French president, allowing it.

I totally agree this is a baseless fear, but now, we are so deep into it that even if we wanted to use a nuclear power source, we would need to do it with great effort.

Keep adding some features coming from some pet projects of the most vocal developers that a great part of the user base doesn't care... while products that gets bloated, slower and buggy at every interaction. Somehow this doesn't seem like a good business strategy.

Personal experience: Changed to Chrome about 3 months ago... since I learned to live with the definitively less advanced tab management, everything has been better. Much faster and less buggy.

We must find space to get an even thinner iPhone, perhaps we can ship one without a battery next time. We already use the iPhone plugged to the wall most of the time anyway and I'm quite sure the marketing geniuses at Apple will find a way to advertise that as a "feature".

This is an extremely simplistic view of the problem. Somehow you just choose to disregard the very small fact that Greece economic problem started with a world wide crisis when the Greek government had to bail out (under imposition mainly from Germany) the Greek banks.

Like if people needed yet another reason to ditch Firefox for Chrome. Only thing that kept in in Firefox these last 2 years was tab management (which true is much better in Firefox), but all the rest was so far behind Chrome (speed and the current crashes and halts in some pages... Amazon for instance which is widely reported) that I took the plunge and learned to live with without the tab management system.

It's getting absurd that lower qualified women get positions in science just because they are of the right gender. Stop discrimination in science.

I'm just an end user "with no deep technical knowledge" compared to an admin, and you are just an admin "with no deep technical knowledge" compared to many distro maintainers. You may know better than me, but they surely know better than you and they choose to use systemd.

Those of us that have to stand the IT department will tell you that you practically always think that you know way more than you actually do and that we also know that your arrogance needs quite a bit of taming. Surely any reasonable persons agrees that someone that is ahead of a distro or a kernel programmer knows way more about how the various components of a linux distribution fit togheter than than some guy from the IT department that lives to make user's lives miserable.

Not really, like stated, it's Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, CentOS, etc, etc, Linus Torvald and a lot of people the contribute a lot to the Linux community that don't see any problem in using systemd... versus a bunch of vocal people that keep complaining about systemd but that don't do much/nothing for the Linux community.

Then, why don't you create your own distro free of systemd? Nobody is forcing you to use it, and way smarted people than you, that actually create the most used distros, as well as the all mighty keeper of the Linux kernel, don't see a problem with systemd.

Then go ahead and create your own distro free of systemd.

Sincerely, all this hate towards systemd looks like pure zealotry.

True, I know very little about the inner workings of systemd so I'm not qualified to vouch or to go against it. But well, I'm pretty sure that the collective intelligence of: Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, CentOS, etc, etc, etc, creators that choose to use systemd in their distributions and even of Linus Torvald that already stated that systemd just isn't the anti-christ you try to make it look to be, surely surpasses yours or any of the systemd hatters that keep starting flame wars about it here in ./

True, like any piece of software, systemd surely must have issues (binary logs seem like one) that should be fixed or parts that may be improved, but all this constant bashing from some members against it, is just purely irrational.

Linux is open, if you hate systemd so much, just make your own distro and watch all the users flock to your world of paradise void of systemd... or not. In any case, normal users and readers of /. are sick and tired of your constant rantings about systemd.

Congratulations for specifically missing the entire point of the article.