Even the $3000 model is not internally expandable these days.
Have fun with your mismatched enclosures, USB hubs and dongles cluttering your desk next to your sleek and "sturdy" well made all-metal piece of computer.

The only problem with Macs is that people hoard them instead of throwing them in the trash where they belong. Else I would have picked up a Mac Mini on the ground, install BootCramp on it and then it would be about good enough as a DHCP server and porn storage unit.

He already has a smart dryer if the dryer is able to stop when the clothes are dry.

Maybe you can find some OCAML projects and ask people there what they think about it.

I guess developing F# stuff in Mono would be great, but Mono is that frowned-upon child chasing the trail.

At the uni I went to they did teach "Caml Light" as an introduction language! Heard they stopped doing that. We all cordially hated it but damn it was nice. Writing polymorphic functions by accident, the "map" function, the arbitrary, automatic and extremely strong types.. But when you get to learn some crap language like Java afterwards, you're spoiled. (C courses were a bit fun, at least it's widespread, historic and low level. looks like BASIC with structs and pointers.)

I miss MSN, the chat client/protocol. It's what everyone called it in my country, the other "MSN" stuff (later "Windows Live") we tended to not care about.. What was important is that everyone was on MSN Messenger - and we were free to use other clients like Trillian and aMSN and maybe GAIM ; just like everyone is on F...book now. We could just chat with people that were there, real name very optional, no need to go to a website and I don't think there were ads (just use a 3rd party client anyway).

Hell, I remember when I had gotten .wmv streaming to always work reliably! (around when I got to use ffdshow to be able to play everything without hunting for codecs). Full screen web video on a 500MHz computer, later flash video and youtube required a 2GHz computer to do the same. (HTML5 is even worse unless you have a smartphone or a Windows PC with recent enough graphics card, I guess)

In these days I hated Microsoft and was worried about the upcoming Palladium dystopia (which hasn't worked out on PC : Trusted Platform Module is optional and thus not included in consumer mobos, and being able to disable Secure Boot is mandatory). But I mourn the loss of MSN chat and what replaced it is worse. I won't become a facebook slave, thanks. (btw nobody used AIM or ICQ that I know of). I thought of getting a jabber/XMPP account but don't exactly know where to get one and how the stuff works exactly, so I know I'll never get other people to join in.

Thanks for the reply.
I like to kid myself that I have a really great set up for real cheap.
The VRMs for the CPU must explain the notion that aggressive power management brings up noise - something that I learnt from that whole slashdot discussion but doesn't affect my PC as far as I know (old socket AM2 motherboard, with AM3 CPU)

There's PSU noise in the hundreds of KHz.. I feel this can simply be ignored. Likewise modern SMPS such as the one powering my amp (and I suppose the same kind of PSU powers USB hubs and DAC) "vibrate" at frequencies well above 20KHz.
I take your word that that's not the whole story. I'd like to keep a stance that for 99% of consumer use, sound coming out of a PC will be good enough (use a good PSU like Seasonic G360?, a simple sound card, some simple and common ATX motherboard - both the very bottom end and the very high end flashy stuff are to be avoided)

A very good PSU (not a computer one) (still switched mode) costs more than a cheap DAC or tiny class D amp, lol.

I don't pay ATM fees - which makes all the easier to me to use cash as my primary payment method.
I can get cash from any ATM too, the limitation is that at banks other than my own the minimum withdrawal is 20 euros while I can withdraw 10 euros on my bank (and have the account balance printed).

We're soon gonna see display using Displayport compression. Analogous to texture compression, small blocks are compressed but that is done in real time with dedicated hardware, with a supposedly very good algorithm. The goal is to enable power savings on mobile devices (including laptops), by reducing the insanely high bitrates for transmission between the GPU or SoC and the display. It will also allow a PC with Displayport 1.3 to output to an 8K display, even though the bandwith (increased from the current standard) would be too small to do that uncompressed.

Is that why I've looked at some shots on the web that were very high res and very noisy?
Maybe you have to do the anti-aliasing / proper reconstruction in the RAW importing software.

Interesting.

I for one would simply like a high res monochrome LCD (or greyscale, if monochrome implies 1bit).
It was prevalent in the 80s and 90s, works unlit, is usable outdoors and gives you much longer battery life to boot. I wouldn't give a damn about black and white if I had a long-lived, always usable device. Hell, a 1989 Game Boy is still a better gaming device than a smartphone and I tried to read a book on one (read the first chapter before being bored with it. Blocky font with very few pixels per character is not exactly ideal)

I was getting used to the notions of multiverse so broad there exists a copy of me somewhere with a penis in place of the nose and a nose in place of the penis. And that's far from the weirdest things out there.

Can be a nice present for a linux user.
I'm not saying linux drivers are better, then often suck and have so few features you might as well forget about anything other than basic stereo out.. at least they're invisible low level plumbing, so no (further) bloat.

I guess it would work fine if you simply stuff your motherboard slots with USB controllers.

Forget Star Wars the movie anyway. Vader royally fucked up on planet Hoth, seemed to have an overwhelming position but for some reason he decides to go on foot to capture Luke & Leia personnally. But everyone manages to escape and the scary star destroyers in orbit don't manage to destroy or stop any ship. The star destroyers are managed by grossly incompetent captains.. But even with such idiots at the bar, victory would have been certain would all the ships and stuff have burnt the rebel place to the ground with a giant laser/blaster/plasma massacre.

As for the first movie, it has manually aimed WW2-style air defences ;). "The rebel fighters are too small for our turbolasers", or something like that.
Star Wars is about resistance/terrorists defeating an evil military industrial empire that suffers from royal fuck ups and ineffective pork barrel weapon projects.

Did you try the driver from www.kxproject.com ? It should support Windows 7 x86-64 (no idea about 8.x)
The Live 5.1 was pretty great as long as you did not think about installing a Creative driver.