Problem is that's all you get on dating websites. A photo, probably airbrushed. Some generic interests, maybe a paragraph written by the person. You have to be willing to contact a lot of people to find ones you might really get on with.

I steal a lot of stuff but don't feel bad about it. I always DVR through the adverts or at least channel surf or mute the sound. I also use AdBlock. I usually download music before buying it (sometimes second hand, older issues of CDs have better mastering), and rarely ever buy movies (although I do go to the cinema, and screw them over by using coupons and not buying any food/drinks).

I'm even consisting giving up on my TV licence and only watching iPlayer after the broadcast, and listening to Radio 4 in the car. I like the BBC so want to contribute, I just object to the way the licence is enforced. A lot of what I watch is on YouTube anyway, and my Panasonic smart TV's app doesn't show adverts.

So yeah, I'm a total thriving bastard.I mean, they get money from me because I buy stuff, especially software and music, but apparently because I don't accept their pricing out preferred vendor I'm some kind of criminal.

Tell me though, when has anyone been compelled to buy all the media they consume? Including stuff like books they borrowed from the library, and videos watched at friend's homes etc. Sorry, buy not every view earns you money. You are competing for a finite resource.

People have a finite amount of money to spend. Either you try to fleece them and get nothing (second hand shops, piracy, waiting for it to be free on TV and skipping the commercials) or you charge a fair price and get some custom.

The "red wedding" was tending on G+ immediately after broadcast. I'm not a heavy user, but it was unavoidable. In any case, most people are social and want to experience things with their friends. Not saying it justifies piracy, just that you can't dismiss that.

Sure enough, when there is less delay there is less piracy.

go build your workers paradise somewhere else

Slippery-slope fallacy.
   

Business is booming!

Snowden is the man. He accomplished what many previous whistleblowers attempted who were told "you don't have any proof, shut up."

You don't have any proof of this. Shut up!

I have an NEC LaVie ultrabook that is thinner and lighter than a Macbook Pro but similar or higher spec. The battery is easily replaceable by removing for screws and unclipping it. The clips are just to hold it in place until the bottom cover is back on, which stops it rattling around.

The WiFi card is also replaceable. It is generally quite easy to maintain. If other manufacturers can do it without sacrificing weight or thickness then so can Apple, but they choose not to.

Batteries are something that Apple undeniably makes a packet on, just like RAM upgrades and cables. That's not a criticism, just a statement of fact.

PCIe cards are the form factor of choice for internal expansion. GPUs and flash memory in particular. Much neater than a bunch of external boxes and associated power supplies.

In what way is Thunderbolt more reliable than USB?

They are probably not dedicating 16 lanes to each GPU. The GPUs they use are not the same as the full workstation cards. Apple states they have about 75% of the single precision computing performance, but don't state what 3d performance is like. The GPU is probably a binned one that didn't quite make workstation card grade so runs with fewer steam processors at a lower clock rate, and probably with slower memory too. 8 lanes is likely all each one gets, relying on the large amount of RAM to reduce bus traffic.

It is to encourage you to buy a higher base spec instead of external upgrades, and to prevent benchmarking discreet workstation GPUs against the internal ones.

So what you are saying is that only a tiny number of people who do 4k video editing from a SAN but don't want rack mounting or upgrading or local storage should by a Mac Pro.

For what it's worth a lot of people doing 4k video like to have a few TB of local flash storage so they can edit complex scenes together without network overhead or loading the shared SAN to much. The gigabit Ethernet that the Mac has is only good for about 70-80mb/sec, way lower than a local HDD and an order of magnitude less than an SSD.

So why bother with the unusual form factor case? You need a stack of TB enclosures and associated power supplies. If you need a SAN why not make the Mac rackable or at least stackable.

The situation will only get worse as time goes on and you need to expand the machine, adding more external boxes to it. The only alternative is blowing thousands on A whole new machine, assuming Apple keep updating it.

Like RSA they will just keep denying it and hope there is nothing to directly contradict them. They may well be telling the truth, but we can't be sure now and maybe even Apple don't know that one of their engineers was compromised and forced to work for the NSA.

We know that iphones kept location logs, for example. Apple claimed it was done in error... Perhaps a deliberate error by an NSA agent in their ranks, but we will probably never know.