Comment Re:RHEL is for servers not desktops (Score 1) 231
Ubuntu LTE.
Ubuntu LTE.
I very rarely have data losses while working on a computer.
Back when I first started out I had the experience of using some quite dodgy software so I got into the habit of saving things quite frequently. It's served me well over the years.
>The only shortage is in intelligence...
You mean wisdom and understanding of thermodynamics.
There's lots of intelligence, but it's usually misdirected.
Sockets are unreliable too.
You do know Intel is getting out of the mobo biz, right?
I've really only found it necessary to flash a mobo BIOS once in the past 10 years or so. It made my hands sweat. Not going to do it again if I can avoid it at all.
Primitive island states are unstable.
Plus it gets real boring to live on a place that you can circumnavigate in a couple of hours.
You are much better off in a small nation-state like Monaco or Jersey.
The problem with your idea is that lots of patents are improvements on inventions owned by somebody else.
You can't implement them without violating their patent.
> Turn all of Facebook off.
And nothing of value is lost.
Suppose I am a 65 year old writer.
If I work, say for a movie studio my creations will be worth substantially less to the studio than a younger author if the copyrights expire at my death.
This will make it hard for me to get a job or otherwise sell my works.
I'm very sparing with RAID as well. Maybe the balance would tilt in favor of UPS use if I used RAID more often.
The computer turns off.
The only difference is that it's less graceful that if you have a UPS.
Depends on your income. For Eric Schmidt long term cap gains will be 23.5.
This Eric pays 15%.
My kids pay 0%.
Ownership is just a notation in a book somewhere.
When the revolution comes that will be erased too.
Since when did patents ever legitimately cover algorithms in the first place?
The idea that 'doing it on a computer' is enough to get a patent is ridiculous. The computer is a general purpose calculating device that applies to any known practical algorithm. IT IS OBVIOUS to put your algorithm on a computer.
Software patents are intrinsically unpatentable. End of story.
The argument that allowing patents on algorithms benefits society is a fail also. Patents are a contract between inventor and government that grants a limited right to prevent others from practicing an technique in exchange for revealing the details of the implementation.
Since anyone with a reasonable toolkit can monitor code execution the contract is completely one sided. We get nothing. They get a monopoly.
> So what do you call 3.4 billion a year for the next ten years, as approved in 2012 when the postmaster general asked to close branches and congress instead laughed at him and whipped out the checkbook?
I call that fair. If congress is going to insist on the USPS providing unprofitable services they should finance it. If people don't like the results they should stop whining when the USPS closes a post office in their area.
The USPS gets a lot of interference from Congress. If Congress were to leave them alone they no doubt would be more efficient.
The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means. -- Saul Alinsky