Do you have any information about them being kicked out of Kickstarter? That would be interesting.

Why do you say that "AWS is 3-5x more costly". If I for example compare a T3 from aws with 16GB ram, it seems to cost about the same as a similar vm at Azure.

Do Azure really have better prices for vm hosting?

I would like to change away from aws, but all my calculations for hosting, seems to show that Azure is a tiny tiny bit more expensive.

Not in any of the nordic countries. Where does that 88% stat come from?

You should not even have any kind of firewall needing configuration with that size. Just a "Reject all incoming" box, which is nicely handled by your nat.

You really need to outsource all IT jobs, and not host anything on premise with so few people.

And they have. They just took out a loan for more then 2 billion $
 

Sorry, but Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence. you don't get to define artificial intelligence as "Thinks like a human" just because you don't like the current definition of the word.

But what more work would that be, if they are not paid for their work, creating more work would not really help.

And you seems to not understand what a publisher do. Publishing/Distribution have not been a major time consumer for publishers in the last 40 year. That is just a small part of their job

The main job of a publisher is really editorial work, cover design, proof reading, graphics design, book layout and so on. In general anything required in the process from a raw word file, and to finished and polished book.

But with that said, most publishers are bad, and most authors should just pay for this service upfront, and then keep all the book revenue them self.

That might be partial true for most books, but things such as film rights might happen even for older books.

And ebook sales do have quite an interesting long tail, so some authors may sell even after 14 years.

But even more important. With only 14 years of copyright, we would have almost infinite amount of Harry potter, and "Calvin and Hobbes" merchandise.

Copyright for books is not just about "free books for me" but also about how the work can be used by others which is important.

No, Apple is not allowed to specify how much the shop must sells their products for. That is controlled 100% by the shop.

They went from 1 to 4 ? What happend to Maxtrix 2 and 3 ?

I am not sure about that.

Since the Google implementation don't share code with the Oracles gpl java implementation, I don't think that releasing Android as gpl would have changed anything, since it would still not be a derived work of the gpl implementation.

How is this different from you simple adding partyAffiliation=Democrat to the url?

Why should most cpu tasks be starved for bandwidth?

It got more then twice as much ram bandwidth as the 32 core threadripper, and that did not have big issue with being ram starved.

But it does obviously require highly threaded code to be effective, which is why it even get beat by Ryzen on some of the benchmarks. (No games are going to be optimized for a 2000$ cpu).

Now, I don't know much about music production but if they recorded all tracks and then sent them to the studio, would the studio not just use a standard pc/mac to do the mixing? A 4000$ computer, should be able to do the mixing, so what kind of expensive hardware would the studio need for mixing?

No they did not. The court case clearly showed that Android did not contain any code directly written by Oracle. Not a single line. (There were 7 lines used by mistake in an internal Android test framework, but that was not distributed as part of Android).

The court case is about the fact that because Google wanted to have api compability with the existing java code, so some of the code Google wrote, looks like the code which Sun/Oracle wrote with the exception of whitespace things, such as tabs, spaces and newlines.

Also: You talk about the jit, but the early versions of Android covered by this court case, did not even have a jit, so they obviously did not copy that from Oracle. (And the concept of a jit, is not java specific at all).

And again, the VM used by Android does not contain ANY code written by Oracle/Sun. It does not even read java bytecodes.