though a lot of ex-hippies get to watch the drama unfold from the comfort of their homes in the Berkeley hills.
One of the things that amuses me about gentrification whining is that much of it comes from the people who cashed out and moved to much nicer, richer neighborhoods - or moved and rent out their property, exploiting the people who want to live in the nicer neighborhood. For example, I live in a community that flipped from predominantly black to predominantly white. All the black people cashed out on rising property values, buying huge houses in other areas. They then overbought, signed stupid mortgage terms, etc...people making $25k a year were given $600k mortgages. Then they all whined about foreclosures and how that was just so goddamn unfair and racism and blah blah blah.
What's goddamn unfair is that my tax dollars are going to bail out people who abandoned their communities in the name of financial gain, and through greed and stupidity, signed contracts they couldn't possibly honor.
English Russia. Mostly photo-essay / slideshow style, but with really high quality, large images. Tons of urban exploration themed stories, for example. Very neat.
One of the reasons that I think the mainstream press has been biting it online is that many of them still think 300-pixel-wide images are acceptable for covering a story. I have a camera where I can shoot someone's photo from a block away and practically see their nosehairs, news photographers are shooting with the same or better, and they're posting crappy, overcompressed, over-contrasted, tiny garbage.
The Boston Globe's Big Picture posts images 990x660, and they're so much better it's astounding. They're standard newswire photos - just not compressed to hell and shrunk to the size of a postage stamp like they are almost everywhere else!
I would add: Get a decent (~$100-200) fountain pen, good quality notebooks, and quality ink.
Waterman makes the Expert 2 and is a pretty safe recommendation, but there are a bunch of others out there to try. Note that fountain pens should be held extremely lightly against the writing surface, and are not really ideal for occasional use if you live in a dry climate. For daily or bi-daily use, they'll be fine.
Clairefontaine sells notebooks with superb paper that is very smooth, strong, and thick enough to not bleed through to the other size...and sells proper cloth-covered, stitched-binding notebooks.
Noodler's Ink has "bulletproof" varieties which will not run or bleed from almost any common solvent or bleaching agent, making them quite ideal for labs and such (or if you simply drop your notebook in a puddle.) Doubles as a very good ink for signing important documents.
Are you seriously comparing a civil employee to a military officer?
If you're an officer, you're not criticizing "the administration", you're criticizing your commanders. Most people in the military understand why they shouldn't even consider getting involved in politics...if you need to understand why military shouldn't be involved in politics, I cannot help you. A history book can, however.
If you're hungry, eat. When you're not hungry anymore, stop eating. This sounds simple, but it can be difficult to practice.
Yup, partially because processed foods have very high calorie counts, and sweetened drinks are everywhere. One of the reasons soda is such a pain is because it's so many calories for not a lot of stomach space. Switching to water, tea, etc helps. I almost never have anything except water with meals now. Kinda nice - cleans the palate, works with everything, cheap, etc.
But as an instructor pointed out, "You spent 20 years putting on that weight. It's not going to all come off in 20 days."
Eh, that's kind of a silly comparison or line of reasoning. The problem is mostly that there are a TON of calories in one pound of fat - 3500+. Calorie restriction works, it's just that because of the energy in a pound of fat, it can only work at a certain speed (dropping too many calories from your diet will result in weakness, getting sick more, etc), and that speed is a bit slower than people might hope. Let me put it this way: if your daily calorie usage is about 2000 calories and you don't eat anything for 24 hours, you'll lose well less than a pound (yes, I'm ignoring glycogen stores.)
Implementation of calorie restriction is difficult for many, yes. If you eat because you're unhappy, for example, then you shouldn't just talk to a dietician - you should also talk to a (licensed) mental health councilor of some sort. If you're snacking throughout the day or eating a massive lunch, you need a better breakfast. Etc. etc.
Everyone thinks exercise helps - and yes, it does, and you're definitely healthier and better off for it. But one of the cruel jokes about exercise is that when you do more of it, you become more efficient as a food-burning machine. People also underestimate the amount of calories burned from exercise, and above a certain level of activity, most of the calories come from your glycogen stores and carbohydrates, not fat.
Increasing activity and muscle mass helps, too, as muscle mass increase = daily calorie use increase. Everyone should do at least some sort of weight training, including-and-especially women, where weight lifting helps counteract bone density loss. Walking and cycling for transport helps quite a bit - even a 15-20 minute commute by bike is worth a decent number of calories, maybe 10% or so of your daily needs.
So your government gives out these cards - great. That works fine if you're Estonian (and apparently, you don't have a choice in whether you carry one or not...unlike, say, the US, where you are not required to acquire nor posses ID.)
What if you're not Estonian? What if you're not in the country legitimately?
It wouldn't surprise me if you have an entire second class of people - those who can't get the cards, and thus can't sign contracts, can't get bank accounts, can't email officials, can't get transportation passes, etc. Do you need the card to get medical care? File a police report? Etc?
The problem with being forced into the black market is that there's a lot less legal protection in it, and a lot more people interested in taking advantage of you...especially if you can't/won't go to the police.
The technology sounds great, but it's effectively an immigration control tool. Which is a bit of a problem, given Estonia's population has plunged in the last 30 years.
Please do not link to the CSM or support them - their parent organization (which is where the profits from the CSM go) spreads belief that if you get sick, it's punishment for not being a good enough Christian Scientist/follower of god, and that you should not seek medical treatment. That's some seriously fucked up shit.
If you're a dimwitted adult and you want to deny yourself medical care, fine - but the children of Christian Scientists don't have a choice, and this cult endangers the lives of tens of thousands of children who depend upon their guardians for sound medical care decisions.
Mary Baker Eddy was relentlessly criticized (rightly so) by the press of her time for being absolutely batshit crazy (which she was. Someone should've tattooed "correlation is not causation" backwards on her forehead.) She got all huffy about being called a wacko all the time, and started the CSM - specifically to have a newspaper that wouldn't criticize her and would present her with a worldview she found acceptable.
Yes, they do good reporting. It doesn't matter - the money still supports a cult.
A researcher friend recently described how their PI handed them a paper from a former lab member from many years ago and said "review this, ok?" (and what was of course unsaid was "approve it.")
Turns out the journal of the National Academy of Sciences is a joke - it's just a place for members to dump crap they can't get accepted for publishing anywhere else. It certainly is a joke if you can get someone in your own lab to accept a paper from a former lab member.
The NSA will probably next be cornering the market on high GPU count graphics cards.
What makes you think they don't have the private keys already, or can't get them?
At this point it's probably not unreasonable at all to assume that the NSA either has their foot in the door somehow, or simply National Security Letter's the CA into giving them any keys they want. Technically, all they'd need is the CA's keys, as that's all that protects *your* private key when it's in transit to you, since they're already snooping for everything else.
Really, the current CA system is a dream for the NSA - encryption that is controlled completely by a small group. It's now making a lot of sense why they went after Zimmerman for PGP. The peer-to-peer trust network and person-to-person encryption must've scared the shit out of them.
While we're on the subject of reasonable assumptions - it seems reasonable to assume that the NSA has worked to insert weaknesses and vulnerabilities in most open-source encryption software. Whether they've been successful or not is what we need to know. Remember the fuss a few years ago with IPSEC, OpenBSD, and the FBI?
Let's not kid ourselves, it probably helps that he's white and privileged, too.
The vast majority of the US prison population is white and male. Women have significantly lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates - with significantly lower sentencing lengths, higher probation rates, etc. Women are enormously privileged when it comes to the criminal justice system, and that includes when they're victims; males are victims of violent crime at a ratio of 3:1 men:women, and case clearance rates for female victims are higher than case clearance rates for men.
While we're on the subject of privilege: women are more likely to finish high school, more likely to go to college, more likely to finish, more likely to pursue an advanced degree. Worldwide, basic literacy rates are far lower for men...because they're out doing the menial, tough, hard labor jobs women can't/won't/don't want to do. 99% of workplace deaths in the US are men, by the way...because women can't, won't, or don't want to do the brutal, dangerous manual labor jobs.
Most of the homeless population in the US is male. Unemployment is higher for men than women. Life expectancy is significantly lower for men than women, and in every category of disease, men are afflicted more than women and are more likely to die from said disease. The draft is still male-only, and our armed forces are predominantly male...
Nice job parroting the social justice crap, though.
Hands free technologies are not less distracting; in some cases, they're the worst. The cell phone lobby is desperately trying to focus on "hands free" stuff to sidetrack the issue.
Having your hands on the wheel simply increases your control of the car. It does not do ANYTHING about your brain being more preoccupied with the conversation or task.
Your job in your car is to DRIVE. Not to eat, not to put on makeup or comb your hair, not to text, not to read, not to talk to someone who isn't in the car. You're piloting 2-3 tons of metal that can and do injure, maim, and kill. People driving cars kill 30,000+ a year in the US alone. Take the responsibility seriously and stop faffing about trying to carry on your life in your car. If you need to get things done while traveling, RIDE THE BUS.
Don't forget their cheapest desktop that can hold two hard drives and an optical drive is the Mac Pro.
The operative word being "holds". With USB and Thunderbolt, there is *zero* reason to have more than one hard drive slot inside a Mac.
The next Mac Pro doesn't have *any* internal drive bays. None of the creative pros, whom the machines are targeted at, are complaining. They're happily going to connect multi-terabyte RAID arrays to it via any of its six thunderbolt 2 ports, each of which offers more bandwidth than a multilane 6Gbps SAS port.
Apple charges for upgrades; that is not 'charging for the OS"; OS is not available "for purchase." It can be made to run on hardware not offered by Apple, but to do so is against the license.
Apple's machines are not built using commodity hardware. They have commodity components like hard drives, memory, and in some cases, graphics cards.
Apple develops all aspects of their computers in-house.
"The best solution" has nothing to do with "the apple tax." Yes, they're interested in maximizing profit - so is every company, in case you hadn't noticed, fuckwit. That they don't offer what *you* want doesn't mean that there is an "apple tax."
The Mac Pro serves a market for creative professionals whose applications are by and large GPU accelerated, and newer GPUs slot into it just fine. That the processors are older Xeons doesn't really matter. However, in case you hadn't noticed, the Mac Pro just got a complete redesign.
"So... you can buy twice the amount of ram at -retail- for 30% less than Apple will charge you just to upgrade. THAT is the 'mac premium'."
Odd then, that Dell, Lenovo, and HP all charge this "mac premium" on their computers.
Seriously, you do realize *all* vendors do this, right? They're taking advantage of people who a)don't know they can get it cheaper elsewhere, or don't want to be bothered with the hassle of ordering, don't know how to install the component, or don't have the time b)don't want to be hassled with fingerpointing when something breaks c)are financing the purchase and thus want it all rolled into one d)are purchasing for non-personal use and are limited in terms of suppliers and whatnot.
The NTSB also appears to not be considering that there are people on motorcycles, foot, and bicycle.
That's particularly poor, given that motor vehicle occupant safety has gone up, while pedestrian and cyclist safety has plunged. Why? Cars are increasingly safe for occupants, yet nothing is being done to stop drivers from plowing into other people.
All the safety has simply made people less careful. Why should they be careful? They're unlikely to be seriously injured, insurance will cover the damage and injuries, and they sure as hell aren't going to get charged with any crimes.
You can drive into a storefront and injure half a dozen people and not even get a ticket.
Kill a cyclist and the police will term it an "accident" - all you have to do is say the sun was in your eyes or you were changing the radio station. A little girl in Texas lost both her parents because a guy in a pickup truck slammed into her parents. His excuse: he'd looked down to change the station (and somehow drifted several feet onto the road shoulder.)
The myth of the "apple tax" or "mac premium" has always been based on pretending that the largest distinguishing feature (the operating system) doesn't exist, or isn't worth anything to people in the market for a new computer. Windows 7 closed the gap a bit, but OS X is still less virus-prone, has better backup integration, doesn't use a registry, and benefits from less platform diversity / hardware+OS from the same vendor.
It also ignores the fact that for years, whenever PC magazines have tested Macs, they've consistently found them to be amongst the best-performing machines money can buy at time-of-release. Boot Camp changed things dramatically, in the sense that suddenly PC magazines could directly compare them to PC hardware with the same benchmark tools.
Apple is reaping the benefit of in-house design (instead of "show me what you got that we can slap our label on"), top-notch system architects, and aggressively securing rights with suppliers for major components to get the best stuff before everyone else.
parked in a way that they think nobody can see them
Psht. Some cops have hiding down to an art form. I remember driving along the highway and thinking "Why does that snowbank have a police light bar...."
As I drove by, I saw he'd precisely trimmed the snowbank with a shovel, flat-topping it just enough to see over and for his radar unit.
That said, we don't need speed enforcement. We need illegal/improper/unsafe operation enforcement, proper crash investigation, and criminal penalties for negligence that results in property damage or injury.
Cats are a product of their upbringing and environment, like many critters, people included.
Cats that grow up in very active households tend to be very sociable towards strangers (same for "shop" cats). Cats that grow up spending their lives with someone who doesn't socialize much, tend to be more skittish of strangers. Cats that grow up by themselves tend to be more sociable towards humans; cats that grow up with another cat tend to be more social with the other cats (playing, following, snoozing, etc.) and more aloof to humans.
Cats can be passive, cats can be assertive. I dated someone whose cat decided that when we were making out on the couch, that was a swell time to climb up and sit on her back and purr and knead her back.
I've known people who had cats who would play fetch; it's not that unusual - and my cat came when he was called, usually because he knew that it meant he'd get a warm lap, petting, or ear/chin scratching.
You know how hard the plane accelerates when it's full of fuel, you + all the other passengers, luggage, cargo, etc on take off? Enough to push you back into the seat preeeeeeetty hard, right?
Imagine that same force, but in a plane with no passengers, no cargo or luggage, and a light fuel load.
It won't do 62,000 feet a minute like a F-16 will, but I've heard pilots describe unladen performance as breathtaking, and at airshows, they can buzz the runway and do a HARD climb.
That is because Android handset makers have been slow to issue updates for their handsets.
I have a Google Nexus 4, supposedly gets all the updates right away, first to get new versions of Android, etc. I haven't seen an update since I bought the phone 6+ months ago. Samsung has apparently patched their phones; Google announced a code fix months ago.
What's Google's excuse for not patching my device? No carriers involved, current model, etc.
Unless the "plug" has a lot more RAM than your average plug-in device, Plug can't support ZFS either. ZFSoL has a minimum RAM recommendation of 2GB. ZFS also has the overhead of checksumming, which on modern non-embedded CPUs isn't a problem, but on an embedded system, present a significant overhead.
ZFS is an enterprise filesystem; it's not designed for low-end hardware.
The OP is probably blocking their air vents or placing them in closets where they're overheating, or on top of cable boxes/DVRs (which are like ovens.)
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though a lot of ex-hippies get to watch the drama unfold from the comfort of their homes in the Berkeley hills.
One of the things that amuses me about gentrification whining is that much of it comes from the people who cashed out and moved to much nicer, richer neighborhoods - or moved and rent out their property, exploiting the people who want to live in the nicer neighborhood. For example, I live in a community that flipped from predominantly black to predominantly white. All the black people cashed out on rising property values, buying huge houses in other areas. They then overbought, signed stupid mortgage terms, etc...people making $25k a year were given $600k mortgages. Then they all whined about foreclosures and how that was just so goddamn unfair and racism and blah blah blah.
What's goddamn unfair is that my tax dollars are going to bail out people who abandoned their communities in the name of financial gain, and through greed and stupidity, signed contracts they couldn't possibly honor.
You know what's a more interesting site?
English Russia. Mostly photo-essay / slideshow style, but with really high quality, large images. Tons of urban exploration themed stories, for example. Very neat.
One of the reasons that I think the mainstream press has been biting it online is that many of them still think 300-pixel-wide images are acceptable for covering a story. I have a camera where I can shoot someone's photo from a block away and practically see their nosehairs, news photographers are shooting with the same or better, and they're posting crappy, overcompressed, over-contrasted, tiny garbage.
The Boston Globe's Big Picture posts images 990x660, and they're so much better it's astounding. They're standard newswire photos - just not compressed to hell and shrunk to the size of a postage stamp like they are almost everywhere else!
I would add: Get a decent (~$100-200) fountain pen, good quality notebooks, and quality ink.
Waterman makes the Expert 2 and is a pretty safe recommendation, but there are a bunch of others out there to try. Note that fountain pens should be held extremely lightly against the writing surface, and are not really ideal for occasional use if you live in a dry climate. For daily or bi-daily use, they'll be fine.
Clairefontaine sells notebooks with superb paper that is very smooth, strong, and thick enough to not bleed through to the other size...and sells proper cloth-covered, stitched-binding notebooks.
Noodler's Ink has "bulletproof" varieties which will not run or bleed from almost any common solvent or bleaching agent, making them quite ideal for labs and such (or if you simply drop your notebook in a puddle.) Doubles as a very good ink for signing important documents.
Are you seriously comparing a civil employee to a military officer?
If you're an officer, you're not criticizing "the administration", you're criticizing your commanders. Most people in the military understand why they shouldn't even consider getting involved in politics...if you need to understand why military shouldn't be involved in politics, I cannot help you. A history book can, however.
If you're hungry, eat. When you're not hungry anymore, stop eating. This sounds simple, but it can be difficult to practice.
Yup, partially because processed foods have very high calorie counts, and sweetened drinks are everywhere. One of the reasons soda is such a pain is because it's so many calories for not a lot of stomach space. Switching to water, tea, etc helps. I almost never have anything except water with meals now. Kinda nice - cleans the palate, works with everything, cheap, etc.
But as an instructor pointed out, "You spent 20 years putting on that weight. It's not going to all come off in 20 days."
Eh, that's kind of a silly comparison or line of reasoning. The problem is mostly that there are a TON of calories in one pound of fat - 3500+. Calorie restriction works, it's just that because of the energy in a pound of fat, it can only work at a certain speed (dropping too many calories from your diet will result in weakness, getting sick more, etc), and that speed is a bit slower than people might hope. Let me put it this way: if your daily calorie usage is about 2000 calories and you don't eat anything for 24 hours, you'll lose well less than a pound (yes, I'm ignoring glycogen stores.)
Implementation of calorie restriction is difficult for many, yes. If you eat because you're unhappy, for example, then you shouldn't just talk to a dietician - you should also talk to a (licensed) mental health councilor of some sort. If you're snacking throughout the day or eating a massive lunch, you need a better breakfast. Etc. etc.
Everyone thinks exercise helps - and yes, it does, and you're definitely healthier and better off for it. But one of the cruel jokes about exercise is that when you do more of it, you become more efficient as a food-burning machine. People also underestimate the amount of calories burned from exercise, and above a certain level of activity, most of the calories come from your glycogen stores and carbohydrates, not fat.
Increasing activity and muscle mass helps, too, as muscle mass increase = daily calorie use increase. Everyone should do at least some sort of weight training, including-and-especially women, where weight lifting helps counteract bone density loss. Walking and cycling for transport helps quite a bit - even a 15-20 minute commute by bike is worth a decent number of calories, maybe 10% or so of your daily needs.
So your government gives out these cards - great. That works fine if you're Estonian (and apparently, you don't have a choice in whether you carry one or not...unlike, say, the US, where you are not required to acquire nor posses ID.)
What if you're not Estonian? What if you're not in the country legitimately?
It wouldn't surprise me if you have an entire second class of people - those who can't get the cards, and thus can't sign contracts, can't get bank accounts, can't email officials, can't get transportation passes, etc. Do you need the card to get medical care? File a police report? Etc?
The problem with being forced into the black market is that there's a lot less legal protection in it, and a lot more people interested in taking advantage of you...especially if you can't/won't go to the police.
The technology sounds great, but it's effectively an immigration control tool. Which is a bit of a problem, given Estonia's population has plunged in the last 30 years.
Please do not link to the CSM or support them - their parent organization (which is where the profits from the CSM go) spreads belief that if you get sick, it's punishment for not being a good enough Christian Scientist/follower of god, and that you should not seek medical treatment. That's some seriously fucked up shit.
If you're a dimwitted adult and you want to deny yourself medical care, fine - but the children of Christian Scientists don't have a choice, and this cult endangers the lives of tens of thousands of children who depend upon their guardians for sound medical care decisions.
Mary Baker Eddy was relentlessly criticized (rightly so) by the press of her time for being absolutely batshit crazy (which she was. Someone should've tattooed "correlation is not causation" backwards on her forehead.) She got all huffy about being called a wacko all the time, and started the CSM - specifically to have a newspaper that wouldn't criticize her and would present her with a worldview she found acceptable.
Yes, they do good reporting. It doesn't matter - the money still supports a cult.
"if they misuse that trust they can cause huge damage"
Odd the NSA didn't take that to heart themselves...
A researcher friend recently described how their PI handed them a paper from a former lab member from many years ago and said "review this, ok?" (and what was of course unsaid was "approve it.") Turns out the journal of the National Academy of Sciences is a joke - it's just a place for members to dump crap they can't get accepted for publishing anywhere else. It certainly is a joke if you can get someone in your own lab to accept a paper from a former lab member.
The NSA will probably next be cornering the market on high GPU count graphics cards.
What makes you think they don't have the private keys already, or can't get them?
At this point it's probably not unreasonable at all to assume that the NSA either has their foot in the door somehow, or simply National Security Letter's the CA into giving them any keys they want. Technically, all they'd need is the CA's keys, as that's all that protects *your* private key when it's in transit to you, since they're already snooping for everything else.
Really, the current CA system is a dream for the NSA - encryption that is controlled completely by a small group. It's now making a lot of sense why they went after Zimmerman for PGP. The peer-to-peer trust network and person-to-person encryption must've scared the shit out of them.
While we're on the subject of reasonable assumptions - it seems reasonable to assume that the NSA has worked to insert weaknesses and vulnerabilities in most open-source encryption software. Whether they've been successful or not is what we need to know. Remember the fuss a few years ago with IPSEC, OpenBSD, and the FBI?
Please explain how traveling to China and South Korea (the latter of which is a protected ally) constitute any reason for suspicion.
Let's not kid ourselves, it probably helps that he's white and privileged, too.
The vast majority of the US prison population is white and male. Women have significantly lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates - with significantly lower sentencing lengths, higher probation rates, etc. Women are enormously privileged when it comes to the criminal justice system, and that includes when they're victims; males are victims of violent crime at a ratio of 3:1 men:women, and case clearance rates for female victims are higher than case clearance rates for men.
While we're on the subject of privilege: women are more likely to finish high school, more likely to go to college, more likely to finish, more likely to pursue an advanced degree. Worldwide, basic literacy rates are far lower for men...because they're out doing the menial, tough, hard labor jobs women can't/won't/don't want to do. 99% of workplace deaths in the US are men, by the way...because women can't, won't, or don't want to do the brutal, dangerous manual labor jobs.
Most of the homeless population in the US is male. Unemployment is higher for men than women. Life expectancy is significantly lower for men than women, and in every category of disease, men are afflicted more than women and are more likely to die from said disease. The draft is still male-only, and our armed forces are predominantly male...
Nice job parroting the social justice crap, though.
Hands free technologies are not less distracting; in some cases, they're the worst. The cell phone lobby is desperately trying to focus on "hands free" stuff to sidetrack the issue.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012900053.html
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/12/autos/aaa-voice-to-text/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/even-hands-free-you-shouldnt-talk-or-text-while-driving/2013/07/29/4d7214ec-f3d0-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/opinion/hands-free-distractions.html?_r=0 ...and on and on, if you just google things like "hands free driving distracting"
Having your hands on the wheel simply increases your control of the car. It does not do ANYTHING about your brain being more preoccupied with the conversation or task.
Your job in your car is to DRIVE. Not to eat, not to put on makeup or comb your hair, not to text, not to read, not to talk to someone who isn't in the car. You're piloting 2-3 tons of metal that can and do injure, maim, and kill. People driving cars kill 30,000+ a year in the US alone. Take the responsibility seriously and stop faffing about trying to carry on your life in your car. If you need to get things done while traveling, RIDE THE BUS.
Don't forget their cheapest desktop that can hold two hard drives and an optical drive is the Mac Pro.
The operative word being "holds". With USB and Thunderbolt, there is *zero* reason to have more than one hard drive slot inside a Mac.
The next Mac Pro doesn't have *any* internal drive bays. None of the creative pros, whom the machines are targeted at, are complaining. They're happily going to connect multi-terabyte RAID arrays to it via any of its six thunderbolt 2 ports, each of which offers more bandwidth than a multilane 6Gbps SAS port.
Apple charges for upgrades; that is not 'charging for the OS"; OS is not available "for purchase." It can be made to run on hardware not offered by Apple, but to do so is against the license.
Apple's machines are not built using commodity hardware. They have commodity components like hard drives, memory, and in some cases, graphics cards.
Apple develops all aspects of their computers in-house.
"The best solution" has nothing to do with "the apple tax." Yes, they're interested in maximizing profit - so is every company, in case you hadn't noticed, fuckwit. That they don't offer what *you* want doesn't mean that there is an "apple tax."
The Mac Pro serves a market for creative professionals whose applications are by and large GPU accelerated, and newer GPUs slot into it just fine. That the processors are older Xeons doesn't really matter. However, in case you hadn't noticed, the Mac Pro just got a complete redesign.
"Facts", indeed.
"So... you can buy twice the amount of ram at -retail- for 30% less than Apple will charge you just to upgrade. THAT is the 'mac premium'."
Odd then, that Dell, Lenovo, and HP all charge this "mac premium" on their computers.
Seriously, you do realize *all* vendors do this, right? They're taking advantage of people who a)don't know they can get it cheaper elsewhere, or don't want to be bothered with the hassle of ordering, don't know how to install the component, or don't have the time b)don't want to be hassled with fingerpointing when something breaks c)are financing the purchase and thus want it all rolled into one d)are purchasing for non-personal use and are limited in terms of suppliers and whatnot.
The NTSB also appears to not be considering that there are people on motorcycles, foot, and bicycle.
That's particularly poor, given that motor vehicle occupant safety has gone up, while pedestrian and cyclist safety has plunged. Why? Cars are increasingly safe for occupants, yet nothing is being done to stop drivers from plowing into other people.
All the safety has simply made people less careful. Why should they be careful? They're unlikely to be seriously injured, insurance will cover the damage and injuries, and they sure as hell aren't going to get charged with any crimes.
You can drive into a storefront and injure half a dozen people and not even get a ticket.
Kill a cyclist and the police will term it an "accident" - all you have to do is say the sun was in your eyes or you were changing the radio station. A little girl in Texas lost both her parents because a guy in a pickup truck slammed into her parents. His excuse: he'd looked down to change the station (and somehow drifted several feet onto the road shoulder.)
The myth of the "apple tax" or "mac premium" has always been based on pretending that the largest distinguishing feature (the operating system) doesn't exist, or isn't worth anything to people in the market for a new computer. Windows 7 closed the gap a bit, but OS X is still less virus-prone, has better backup integration, doesn't use a registry, and benefits from less platform diversity / hardware+OS from the same vendor.
It also ignores the fact that for years, whenever PC magazines have tested Macs, they've consistently found them to be amongst the best-performing machines money can buy at time-of-release. Boot Camp changed things dramatically, in the sense that suddenly PC magazines could directly compare them to PC hardware with the same benchmark tools.
Apple is reaping the benefit of in-house design (instead of "show me what you got that we can slap our label on"), top-notch system architects, and aggressively securing rights with suppliers for major components to get the best stuff before everyone else.
parked in a way that they think nobody can see them
Psht. Some cops have hiding down to an art form. I remember driving along the highway and thinking "Why does that snowbank have a police light bar...."
As I drove by, I saw he'd precisely trimmed the snowbank with a shovel, flat-topping it just enough to see over and for his radar unit.
That said, we don't need speed enforcement. We need illegal/improper/unsafe operation enforcement, proper crash investigation, and criminal penalties for negligence that results in property damage or injury.
Cats are a product of their upbringing and environment, like many critters, people included.
Cats that grow up in very active households tend to be very sociable towards strangers (same for "shop" cats). Cats that grow up spending their lives with someone who doesn't socialize much, tend to be more skittish of strangers. Cats that grow up by themselves tend to be more sociable towards humans; cats that grow up with another cat tend to be more social with the other cats (playing, following, snoozing, etc.) and more aloof to humans.
Cats can be passive, cats can be assertive. I dated someone whose cat decided that when we were making out on the couch, that was a swell time to climb up and sit on her back and purr and knead her back.
I've known people who had cats who would play fetch; it's not that unusual - and my cat came when he was called, usually because he knew that it meant he'd get a warm lap, petting, or ear/chin scratching.
You know how hard the plane accelerates when it's full of fuel, you + all the other passengers, luggage, cargo, etc on take off? Enough to push you back into the seat preeeeeeetty hard, right?
Imagine that same force, but in a plane with no passengers, no cargo or luggage, and a light fuel load.
It won't do 62,000 feet a minute like a F-16 will, but I've heard pilots describe unladen performance as breathtaking, and at airshows, they can buzz the runway and do a HARD climb.
I have a Nexus 4, not a Nexus 7, and yes, according to the scanner tool, it's still unpatched.
That is because Android handset makers have been slow to issue updates for their handsets.
I have a Google Nexus 4, supposedly gets all the updates right away, first to get new versions of Android, etc. I haven't seen an update since I bought the phone 6+ months ago. Samsung has apparently patched their phones; Google announced a code fix months ago.
What's Google's excuse for not patching my device? No carriers involved, current model, etc.
Unless the "plug" has a lot more RAM than your average plug-in device, Plug can't support ZFS either. ZFSoL has a minimum RAM recommendation of 2GB. ZFS also has the overhead of checksumming, which on modern non-embedded CPUs isn't a problem, but on an embedded system, present a significant overhead.
ZFS is an enterprise filesystem; it's not designed for low-end hardware.
The OP is probably blocking their air vents or placing them in closets where they're overheating, or on top of cable boxes/DVRs (which are like ovens.)