There's a vocal group of people that probably need Red Hat's level of support, but simply don't want to pay for it. And I don't really have... there's not much we can tell them

Here's what you can say to us: "goodbye".

We were happy to pay for Red Hat support on our production servers, but not on our Dev/QA servers which go down constantly anyway and nobody cares. However, we needed those servers to be identical to the production server.

... so, we no-longer use RHEL anywhere. Including the servers we were happy to pay for.

They are thinking about security. This entire class of exploit is impossible on iOS and will be impossible in the next release of OS X (where it's much harder if you want to be compatible with typical UNIX software).

You do have to re-enter your passwords after restoring from a backup with Apple devices.

I just had to go through it earlier this week.

Also consider they're not just a taxi company, they're also a courier company and have potential to become the biggest in the world.

FexEx has a market cap even larger than Uber's and they offer vastly inferior service to the network Uber is building.

No. Apple music is a hybrid of four things:

  1. rent/play whatever you want (like spotify
  2. purchase whatever you want (like old school iTunes)
  3. internet radio with an algorithmic dj (like pandora)
  4. internet radio with a human dj (like old school radio)

It costs $10/month for the first item, $1 per song for the second one, and items 3 and 4 are free.

Cellular iPads default to being pay as you go for data. Just go into the settings app and buy a few gigs of data when you actually need it.

Some people do have them on a plan... but even then some carriers have "family" plans where you have a single bill for multiple devices.

And if you actually do use a lot of data, then having a dedicated plan for the iPad works out fairly well. Lets do the math:

A 16GB WiFi only iPad is $499 from Apple Australia, but if I used it a lot with tethering I'd have to upgrade my phone's data pack. Adding an extra 3GB will increase my phone bill by $30 per month.

Alternatively, I could buy the same iPad with a 4GB/month data plan over 24 months for [url=https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telstra.com.au%2Ftablets%2Ftablets-on-a-plan%2Fipad-mini-3]$55/month with my carrier[/url] – and $0 upfront, the iPad is "free".

That's $1,219 for a WiFi iPad with 3GB of data per month, or $1,375 for a Cellular iPad with 4GB of data per month. Slightly more expensive but much more convenient and a larger data plan.

So, assuming you actually do use your iPad out of WiFi range frequently it's not crazy to have a cellular plan.

A quick check of wikipedia shows Balmer had very high scores in mathematics and engineering. He also studied business but dropped out.

I'm pretty sure he knows how to type into a word processor.

What "small inventors"?

The cost to file a patent is already so high that small inventors do not ever patent anything. It's a total waste of time to try and protect them because they are a class of people who simply do not exist at all.

A far bigger problem is when small companies, say ones with five or six employees, are sued for patent infringement. They can't afford to defend themselves even if they don't infringe on the patent. If you could rack up millions of dollars defending yourself and have the patent holder be forced to pay your legal fees if the court rules that you did not infringe on their patent, then that would be quite an improvement. Then lawyers would be willing to work pro bono in patent defence lawsuits.

I think you're misguided. The criteria for patentability has never been bad, and has actually gotten worse since the recent change to "first to file".

The problem is it's impossible for anyone to know what can or cannot be patented without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars hiring an entire team of lawyers to search through the back catalogue of patents and inventions and court precedents.

The patent office does not have enough staff to do proper research while a patent is being filed. If they did proper research, they would only be able to approve a handful of patents per year with the number of employees currently working at the PTO.

This means the patent office has no choice but to approve patents that may or may not be valid, and the only way to truly test if a patent is valid is by accusing somebody of violating a patent, and having the defendant refuse to settle out of court —choosing instead to spend two years investigating the patent trying to prove that it's invalid.

Even huge corporations like Apple and Samsung don't have deep enough pockets to defend themselves properly when a bogus patent is filed against them. They have to pick and choose two or three patents per year that they're willing to defend in court, while settling out of court for every other patent holder who demands royalties.

It simply isn't possible for a small company to defend themselves at all, their only viable option is to settle out of court which inevitably means nobody actually knows whether or not the patent is valid. After years of watching this issue closely I have never seen a small company defend themselves in court. Some have tried, but every single one gives up and settles out of court half way through the process. Some times they get lucky and the patent holder drops the charges and stops asking for royalties, but that's not the same as actually defending yourself properly and having a jury rule in your favour. Only big companies like Apple and Newegg are able to do that and they've only done it five or six times in their entire company history.

Personally I don't see how any reform could possibly fix the problem. There are certainly ways to improve the situation but I don't think anything can truly fix it. I've never seen anybody suggest a viable solution.

No it doesn't have anything to do with that. Apple's CPUs are just better. A lot better.

Even basic stuff like copying memory from one location in the CPU to another location is drastically faster on an iOS processor. The latest iPad Air is as fast as a low end Intel x86 chip... and the iPad chip does it with *far* less battery drain than the intel one.

This tablet has a low end x86 chip, which means it will be faster than any ARM processor money can buy... except for Apple's ARM processors.

Sure... except that this one has exactly the same colour (although Apple has three colours and they have only copied two of them), exactly the same size, exactly the same buttons in exactly the same locations, ports in exactly the same location except that Apple has two rows in their speaker grill and this has three rows of holes and it has USB-Type C instead of Lightning (which are also visually indistinguishable from each other).

The design is so close one has to wonder if they are actually using the same machinery for some of the components between this tablet and the iPad. They really are that similar.

There are no "other" divisions of Nokia. All of the employees who worked in every other division is now a Microsoft employee.

All that remains at Nokia is a skeleton of upper management (and not even that really, most of those work for Microsoft now too. Including Nokia's CEO).

At least until they re-invent themselves Nokia is basically a patent and intellectual property troll and a brand name. They have sold their name to Foxconn for use on it's own product.

This has been done. A thousand times over.

And now we have a thousand unified make systems.

I think it's a bad idea to rely on distributors to do this work. With my projects, I always try to make the build process as simple as possible.

If somebody is thinking about maybe contributing to the project, I want it to be completely painless.

It doesn't always work out, especially with third party dependencies, but I try to keep the build process as simple as checkout source code, and build it. No configuration at all. Obviously you can configure stuff, but there should be a default that will work for almost everyone.

My non-noise-cancelling closed ear SRH-440's have better sound than any pair of headphones Bose has ever made and they cut out more background noise as well. I recently wore them trackside at a car race to prevent hearing damage, worked perfectly.