I'll resist this with every ounce of my being.
I'll resist this with every gram of my being.
----- So, you're even less willing to accept whatever "this" is. Gram wins.

I won't give an inch on this issue.
I won't give a centimeter on this issue. (FTFY)
----- Again, you're even less willing to cede any terrain on "this issue". Centimeter wins.

They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
----- Metric ton. Equal to 1000 kilograms.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
An gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure.
----- Since gram < ounce and kilo > pound, again the saying gains strength in metric.

I will also continue to argue that, while the imperial system seems great for those who grew up with it, it's actually not as good for most things in day-to-day life when you look closer.

For example, measuring things in Fahrenheit seems to make sense, but the Celsius scale is just as good for measuring weather, as well as other practical applications. In Celsius, 0-100 degrees is exactly the range of temperatures in which water is liquid at normal pressure, which has all kinds of important applications both in your kitchen, and outside of it. And I know, it's not the range of comfortable temperature: that would be 0C to 30C (32 to 86 F); anything outside of that range is very uncomfortable although people frequently have no other option but to put up with it. In Fahrenheit, the range of liquid water translates into 32 to 212. That seems stupid and arbitrary by comparison. Also, if you measure only in 1 degree increments, Celsius degrees are equally good, since even supporters of the Fahrenheit scales acknowledge that they can't tell the difference between 69 degrees and 70 degrees anyway, and that's because humidity has a huge effect on our perception of temperature.

But similarly, the length of feet and yards are pretty irrelevant for measuring spaces. Being an average-sized Caucasian man, my foot is barely 10.5 inches long, for example. If I want to measure the size of a room, I can put one foot in front of the other and walk, counting my footstep, have an totally unacceptable error of 14%: I said the room was 16 ft long, and it's actually 14 ft. In the end, I have made a pretty bad approximation. And if I'm a woman, child, or even man of almost all other races, that error becomes much, much larger. Measuring a person's height in feet also gives a range with pretty useless resolution if you round: "she was between 5 and 6 feet, your Honor" (she's actually 5' 6"). With decimeters, a perfectly valid metric unit, the range of 5 to 7 feet becomes 15 to 21 giving you better resolution. Now the woman measures between 16 and 17 decimeters or, for you, 5' 3" and 5' 7", a much better approximation. (And converting back and forth between decimeters and meters or centimeters is beyond trivial).

I know some people won't quite get my point, or they'll say, "But imperial is so much easier because I don't need to learn it!" Really though, imperial only seems easier because you have not been exposed to it in everyday life. If you had been exposed to both as I have you would realize how ridiculous that is. On a day to day level, the perceived advantages of imperial are just a matter of familiarity, and being able to do the math in your head even for trivial things becomes a pleasure that can only be enjoyed if the math is simple.

It can also tell the difference between Capitol and capital, which is something many Slashdotters can't do.

Why was that comment modded "Funny"? It clearly should have been modded "Informative" or maybe "Insightful".

More or less.

I had absolutely no idea that the Swift runtime was written in C++11. Can someone please provide a link to this, since the parent is an AC?

You are right in that xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs, but the dosage you mention is way off. In this study, for example, they gave 1 or 4 grams of xylitol per kg of weight to 12 adult Pekingese dogs. Since adult Pekingeses weight around 4.5 kg, that means that six of the dogs in the study received around 18 grams of xylitol. (Six other dogs received the lower dose, and six more were controls who received distilled water; the abstract is misleading as it suggests that all 18 dogs received xylitol).

All of the dogs who got xylitol showed significant effects, in several cases very severe. But... none of them died.

The poor guy's full name is Felipe de Jesús Pérez García, which is usually shortened to Felipe Pérez. TFS butchered both by calling him Felipe del Jesús Peréz García and Felipe García.

There are three errors in TFS's version. First: Felipe de Jesús means Philip of Jesus. The incorrect version, Felipe del Jesús means Philip of the Jesus and sounds even more absurd in Spanish than it does in English.

Second: It's not Peréz, it's Pérez. That means that the main emphasis is on the first syllable, not on the last one (regardless of how Perez Hilton pronounces his made-up name). Again, in Spanish the wrong version sounds... horribly wrong.

Finally: The complete surname of the guy is Pérez García. He got Pérez from his dad, just like people usually do in English, and he passed it to his own kids. García is his mother's maiden name. If you are going to contract the name, you drop the maternal surname, never the paternal one.

Okay, but as you well said Judge James Rodney Gilstrap serves at the Marshall division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. But TFA clearly states, the case took place at the Tyler division, which is served by District Judges Leonard Davis and Michael H. Schneider, Sr., both of whom, along with Chief Judge Ron Clark were appointed by George H. W. Bush (not that who appointed a judge at that level has as much significance as it does for Supreme Court Justices).

Here's an idea - how about you do some, I dunno, decent research, before you spout veiled partisan politics.

The built-in versioning that the AC is referring to was detailed by John Siracusa in his Lion review. You can see that it is a close cousin of Time Machine interface-wise, so it is easy to mix them up.

I'll agree with you that anyway it is not the solution the poster is looking for anyway, for a number of reasons.

Just make a minimal install of OS X in a small partition in your HD, or much better yet, in an external drive. Use it for Mac-only maintenance, disaster recovery, and stuff like EFI updates.

Of course, as Ash-Fox said, you should research the EFI update very carefully before installing it to make sure Linux compatibility isn't affected.

It seems you don't completely understand what an app bundle in OS X is. Yes, it is a directory where all the files that comprise an app are packaged up nice and neat.

But that directory is treated by the Finder in a special way: from the point of view of an end user, it is just a file. He double clicks on it, and the app launches. He drags a document icon on top of it, and the document opens in the app. He can move it around, move it to another disk or to another Mac, etc., and it consistently behaves like a single file and retains its functionality. Only when he right-clicks on it and chooses "Show Package Contents" is its true identity as a neatly organized folder revealed.

In fact, app bundles aren't the only kind of packages (i.e., directories that present themselves as files) in OS X. There are many others. For example, some apps like Apple's Keynote save documents as packages. From the point of view of most users, a Keynote file is pretty much like a PowerPoint file, except for the app that opens it. A slightly more advanced user knows that he can right click on the Keynote file, search for the graphs he included in the presentation, and replace those files (PNG, JPEG, PDF, whatever) with updated versions that reflect updated data... and the presentation gets updated without even opening Keynote.

Maybe. In that case, just buy it from the Apple store:
http://store.apple.com/us/prod...

Mmmm... Ok, but you are exaggerating in this statement:

Of all Mac Pro models only the earliest four don't run OS X 10.10 Yosemite. But all four of them can be upgraded to 10.7.5, as you can verify by clicking on their links in that page.

I find it odd that an owner of such a machine wouldn't know that.

Searching again for a suitable replacement for Time Machine I found Back In Time, which seems to have the same functionality as tym but with a reasonable GUI. That's great and helps alleviate the pain for a non-technical user. But it is still based on rsync --link-dest and as I said before that has very big technical disadvantages when compared to Time Machine.