No I'm not.

I'm clearly talking about when I bought the one sitting in my office.

...coming from someone with a 2012 Mac Pro dual hex core.

I know it's been said before, but for God's sake people - paying Apple's RIDICULOUS prices for SSD, RAM, processors, is just insane.

I like OSX, and Apple's laptops are sometimes the best choice, but as a desktop or dev box? Last choice by a wide margin. I only had to buy one for very specific (unhappy about it) reason and hopefully will never need to buy one again.

Just an example of the obscene pricing from Apple, 24GB of RAM from Apple was going to cost me almost $2000 at the time. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. I bought better RAM, ending up with 26GB, with better performance and all the same trimmings (ECC et cetera), and it cost me $400.

I wonder if their SSDs are made out of solid gold as well... Oh, and good luck with upgrading your graphics card in a year.

Unfortunately you can have your home seized in a forfeiture if you default on paying back a judgement, so if the judgement is large enough, yes, you can lose your home.

Maybe all file sharers should incorporate into Subchapter S or LLCs ;)...

BDI's defense income is insignificant for Google, but the acquisition is a great risk mitigation tactic for anyone wanting to get into robotics in a big way.

...the PS3 and the XBox 360 for the PS4 and XBox One respectively?

Lack of backwards compatibility in this day and age is pretty lame.

I'm aware of the testing issues involved, and frankly I think if you provided a backwards compatibility platform that was extensible by the game companies themselves (i.e. they could patch the game to run inside the VM without Micro$oft or $ony being involved) at least you'd make things better...

Perhaps you meant to say "It's not complicated." It is quite obviously difficult for many people.

Surely you're joking... Senior people can't be expected to relocate? You better live in the Bay Area, San Jose, or Seattle with that attitude.

I'm not sure which economy you think we're living in, but I certainly would expect a lot of compromises on my part if I couldn't relocate to accept a job...

It has always been a rarity, even when the real estate market was bonkers on the plus side.

The only times I've ever heard of it being used for non-executives was when a company, such as SIEMENS, needed someone to relocate someplace they weren't interested in living (like some booming oil town in some crap hole someplace) but they company really needed.

As to your "point", your reply to my original post was asking me if I was willing to drop $100k on a senior QA guy to "cover relocation expense." That's not quite the same point as "no longer do non executives gets $100k relocation packages."

I'm sorry, why would I (the business owner) be paying for someone to sell their home?

I don't know any software company that does this for you, and the large corporations that I know that do this only do it in certain situations for certain employees, and the costs come out of the profits from the sale of the home. The corporations evaluate whether or not there is a likely hood of the costs being covered before agreeing to do this (i.e. General Electric.)

$100K? What planet are you on?

Presuming you're spoiling your potential employee:
A large house, with full pack and unpack, runs in the 10-15k range depending upon distance.
Putting them up in a hotel during a house hunting trip - $1500.
Airline (presumably) for 2 people - $1000

I can't imagine what else you think people get offered in regards to relocation by a software company. Most software companies simply give you a flat amount of money for relocation that you can do with what you wish (watch out for the I.R.S. though...) ;)

I would think that most of them remember the Kent State shootings, and in any case they're likely to feel the same about police, so I'm not sure what the point you're trying to make is...

I don't know what planet you're from but the most recent gun show I visited with my neighbor (who is a licensed firearms dealer and goes to gun shows to buy, not sell) had dozens and dozens (probably more than a hundred) people walking around with signs, and several guys with tables that ADVERTISED no background check required. I asked one of these idiots about it and he said that he only sells at gun shows and therefore is actually unable to obtain a federal firearms license, and without a license he can't run background checks. I found this to be rather dubious reasoning as to why he was advertising 'no background check required' - but people find it especially easy to lie to themselves (as you appear to do in your post.)

Who said that? I didn't. Note how carefully you insert

- presumably you actually meant "licensed dealer" because you can have a table at the show without a license (like the jerkoff I spoke with above.)

They'll sure stop some of them, plus lots of other people that shouldn't have them either. I'm not anti-gun, I'm anti-stupid.

Perhaps you should consider that you possibly don't understand what "anti-gun folk" fear about handguns. They don't fear an interlocking series of components that produces a chemical reaction that accelerates an emitted object or objects. They fear the human abuse of such an item.

I don't think I've ever heard an anti-gun protester complain about a marine carrying a sidearm in uniform, but lots of them seem to complain about how amazingly trivial it is to obtain one even if you're a diagnosed schizophrenic felon (just head to your nearest gun show.)

Death by handgun isn't any more horrible than death by any other method (hell, you could argue that it is more humane if the shooter knows what they're doing - I'd rather die by gunshot to the head than burn to death) - but I have never heard anyone complain that dying by handgun is worse than anything else.

What I have heard people complain about is that handguns are more dangerous than other 'murder weapons' for the same reason that assault rifles are more dangerous than handguns, that hand grenades are more dangerous than assault weapons, that grenade launchers are more dangerous than hand grenades, and a 20mm automatic cannon is more dangerous than a grenade launcher. Each one makes it easier to kill more people than the next.

I assure you that carrying two M9s will allow you to kill far more people than carrying two knives.

So, perhaps you're a bit mistaken about why people don't like handguns. Personally, I enjoy handgun shooting as a sport, but don't carry one - I use a Mark 23 (a little big to carry anyhow.)

...someone like you involved - but the problem is that your greatest value to me would likely be your actual presence at the company. The guy who stays calm in the face of adversity, who had seen it all, who would head off problematic decisions before they become canon, et cetera. All of that is awful hard to do when you're a remote worker.

My point is that your greatest asset IS your experience, and that's difficult to share remotely (unless you're an architect or someone who works a bit more in isolation.)

My $0.000002