Asimov says in “Forward Foundation” that the Empire was not overbearing. He has the emperor himself explain it. He said they are spread thin. With millions of planets he can not possibly control them all and his influence really ends at the edge of the place grounds. He does not even rule the planet he is on. Asimov…

In the book “Foundation” we learn that you were correct, the collecting of knowledge was pointless and it was just a trick Seldon used to get scientist placed on this planet. In the book the scientist s shocked that their stated life work is of no value. The real reason was economics. A near dead ice covered plant…

You only think trackpads are “crappy” because you have not use the Apple trackpad. Every PC notebook I’ve seen has a crappy plastic trackpad. They are horrible. Apple’s product is the only good one on the market. It is dramatically better. Mostly because of the ground glass top. grinding the glass to a fine…

I’m running BOTH Crashplan and Backblaze. The speed difference is night and day different. Backblaze backed 93GB of data (from a newly plugged-in external disk) in a few hours, Crashplan is STILL scanning and not moved a byte of data . CPU utilization is below 40% with both running and the disk read speed remains…