The scale of what government is capable of compared to government plus the private sector are not remotely comparable.
It is a statement of fact that if private companies were not entitled to the fruits of their research it’s literally impossible anywhere near as much research would be done, and literally impossible that output of that research would be further along.
The economics of academic research is actually something to complain about. That research is paid for in large part with public funding, then privatized and paywalled.
There is no theoretical world where academic research could get paid for at anywhere near the rate of the private sector. If trade secrets didn’t exist, we would be decades slower in technology at a generous best case.
Your opinion doesn’t have even the tiniest sliver of validity underlying it.
The knowledge wouldn’t be out there. It wouldn’t exist because the companies paying for the work would be bankrupt.
I’m not willing to dig too deep, but here’s a Samsung.com link saying it was 16 billion in 2018 and trending up. I’m not sure if building fabs goes into that bucket or a different one, and that’s a budget copycats also need, but the amount of investment in research is absolutely enough that not being able to benefit from it before being copied would make it much more difficult to do.
If they couldn’t protect trade secrets, they couldn’t afford the literal billions of dollars of research they do to make that progress.
Nonsense.
Minimum requirements go up a little, but the reason they don’t support modern versions is exclusively cost cutting.
And it’s definitely not true with Linux. They occasionally abandon old, dead hardware when the development effort is too high for the benefit, but for the most part mainstream hardware will still work as well or better on modern versions.
E-ink doesn’t block/emit light. It reflects it. This is why it reads like paper. Instead of having a light blasting at your face, you have light from the front bouncing off of the display into your eyes. This means that your display can use ambient light instead of needing to overpower it.
Reflective LCD displays actually do exist. You basically have little mirrors behind the pixels because LCDs are transparent and designed to use a backlight. If you’re curious, search RLCD or if you want to see a tablet, the Hisense Q5.
It has to be. Epaper is done by physically moving the “ink” particles (which are designed to not move at all when you aren’t deliberately moving them) around. It takes too much time for fast refresh rates.
The benefit is that it actually reads like paper. You can’t replicate that on LED or OLED.
I configured the higher end of what I’d want and 2500 + my own storage with high RAM capacity and the higher end of the CPU/GPU isn’t awful. Still wouldn’t do it over my MacBook personally (or that 15" air has a real nice form factor), but my impression on value is better than it was with the older version.
What you’re describing is no longer a human civilization filled with humans. Free will is a core to what makes people people, and that means people being permitted to clash, disagree, and compete.
It’s not defeatist in any way. His weird fantasy world where work and investment aren’t rewarded sounds like a miserable hell hole.