This is unfortunately one of the problems with corporations in America. It seems that the only people allowed to have stakes in the company are the owners. Workers, despite all that they might do in a company have no stakes. This is not the case elsewhere. I wish it was more prevalent but Germany is a good example of where companies are expected to have representation from workers included in the decisions made by the firm.

Not that it necessarily makes a difference to your points, but you can get a stonkingly great PC for 3000-4000 euros. A good PC would be around 2000 euros.

I can only comment on games here. However, proton is absolutely brilliant in my opinion. Played Horizon Forbidden West on the day it was released on Steam and it was flawless. When you read the discussion groups there are numerous problems for people running on Windows. Whilst I'm sure that not everyone has the same experience as I do with Proton, it clearly does work well with the latest AAA games.

Democracy is indeed flawed. I can't wait until someone comes up with something better. Until then, democracy is the best we've got.

You need to remember the purpose of this program - to discover the meaning to life, the universe and everything.

I've been a fan of Doctor Who since I was a child, hiding behind the sofa. My first Doctor was Jon Pertwee so you can infer my age. I've enjoyed the series more at some times than others but have remained a fan right up to now. I'm glad to say that I'm able to enjoy the classics and appreciate what they are doing that's new. Even with the missteps from Chibnall there is something to enjoy.

I strongly suspect that the other engineering disciplines would do the same if it was practical and cost effective to do so. You only have to see what SpaceX are doing to see that it can be done and there are desirable reasons to do so. I would be happy to accept that the jury is still out on if it is the best approach for SpaceX but it's certainly produced results.

I don't think you're quite correct. First off, the article does mention IBM i (OS/400) and Pick as part of the article. Secondly, this is not just about filesystems. Yes, the filesystem is going to be held in the database but the article is quite clear that all of the OS processing would take place within the DB, not the OS. I defer to those who know IBM i better than I do but to me that was the essential difference. As if this is an actual good idea or not, I would want to see the implementation. However, having worked for many years as a DBA using Linux, I am constantly conscious of the issues that Linux creates.

On the other hand, this would allow countries to identify where they are losing methane and allow them to tap it.

I accept your point. However, if this is companies thinking medium to long term then it starts to make more sense. We know that parts of the world could become uninhabitable if temperatures continue to rise so it could be that certain parts of the US could become like that.

I do think that MS has started to realise the limitations of windows though. I've not used Azure so don't have first hand experience but if they are really giving cloud services the features that people are expecting then I can imagine how difficult that is for windows to achieve. I know that they have also ported important s/w (such as MS/SQL) to run on Linux. Don't get me wrong, I don't see them ditching windows any time soon but unless they really put some effort into its development, far more than the superficial tweaks that somehow require a whole new version, then I do see its life coming to an end.

90+%? I accept that you may have a more comprehensive library than I do but I have a very high success rate with Proton. I'd be going with 99% from personal experience and the only thing that didn't work was a 3rd party program I added myself. Even then, the program worked partially.

It could also include things like thin clients. The one I use at work may log me into windows but it is quite clearly a Dell box running some flavour of GNU/linux.

To be fair, NASA had to solve a lot of problems along the way. Those are things we know now and should not need to be relearnt. However, I do think you've right that the timetable seems extraordinary given that not a single New Glenn has been launched yet and that everything we know about Blue Origin is that they like to take there time.

Star Trek was woke from the very start. The original pilot had a female first officer.