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For a moment there I was excited. You mentioned the 4 GB and 2 GB (ram) models, followed by "add more memory". The video was about upgrading the SSD, though. Not surprisingly, as it's generally much easier to change the disk than ram, although there are exceptions (my trusty/mouldy Powerbook has a simple RAM bay, but you need to dismantle the whole thing with O(100) screws to access the HD).

Every hospital emergency room can have a speeding ambulance ready to pick bleeding Mexicans off the ground and whisk them across the Rio Grande before they stop breathing. Problem solved!

Screw brain images! *I* can predict a person's political leanings with >95% accuracy just by observing their grammar!

Shirley, you're joking, Mr. Fey-man.

I already read that article. But your grammar is kind of ambiguous so I'm not sure what you're trying to say about it.

People in Kentucky are receiving "ELECTION VIOLATION NOTICE" mailers from Mitch McConnell's campaign that appear to be from the board of elections. "You are at risk of acting on fraudulent information that has been targeted for citizens living in $COUNTY_NAME". You have to open it and read the fine print to realize you won't be arrested for voting.

IMHO, good languages are fairly terse, because they allow you to see a bigger picture at a glance. Mathematics has plenty of examples of this -- you often devise some ad hoc notations to make a complicated problem easier to visualize. In programming, the obvious equivalent would probably be functions and classes etc. but it helps if the language is not too verbose to begin with.

That's why they are called "ram" -- you don't insert the sticks, you ram sticks.

In this case (pun intended), I too would be worried about thermal conductivity.

To get back on topic, I'm aware of the general meaning of "noise" in physics/electronics, but I couldn't help the comment, since people generally mean "unwanted sound" when talking about "noise", and unwanted sound is one of the first things to come to mind when discussing badass computers.

They aren't making their own payment system. They're basically just giving you a debit card that hits your checking account without asking for a PIN. But that's ok because it can only be used at Wal-Mart, CVS, and Rite Aid? I'm surprised this is even legal.

As opposed to non-acoustic noise - the kind of noise you cannot hear?

Can you turn water into Vino de Meesa?

Yeah! Check it out: http://bit.ly/1zxi6hd

Oh I agree with you totally. I thought my snark was more obvious.