Out if interest, what "infections"? Do you have any examples. That's clearly a big issue if you're dealing with it daily. What infections are we talking about here?

Not that I'm doubting your story or anything.

(NECESSARY DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT CLAIMING THAT OS X CANNOT GET INFECTIONS)

Right, but it's an awfully lot more convenient if you can check from home - especially if you're poor and have a lot of other time commitments (other job, school run, kids etc).

The money is already there, they just need to amend the wording because it was written in the 80s to say "landline or cable/dsl connection" rather than just "land line" as it does now.

I'd be interested to see your success in a job hunt if you used only your phone and had no access to email or online forms vs having access to the net.

We'll leave out that a lot of school business is also conducted via email now, but we'll assume that they also send home paper copies of things that never get lost in between the kid's hands and the kitchen table.

Ahaha. Good one.

Obama has been nowhere near this. The phrase "obamaphone" originated in the right wing media sphere as a way to generate outrage fuel for right wingers to throw on the "we hate obama" fire.

However, don't let facts get in the way of a good, baseless Obama bash. Carry on.

"Use a library!"

"But they closed all the libraries due to public spending cuts. They said everyone already had smartphones!"

"So use your smartphone!"

"While Fox News said Obama was handing out free iPhones the reality is that it's not actually a smartphone"

Also, if you read the article (I know, I know, who has time for that before coming here to lay out their highly informed and expert opinion), you'd see that the money is not an "increased" expenditure, it's just a provision to allow the already allocated funds to be used for more than simply a landline since the legislation was written during the Reagan era and doesn't explicitly mention broadband for some reason. You think they'd have written it in if they meant for your precious taxes to be used for it, but such as it is. I can't think why they'd need to review the documentation.

They want a standard but good USB connector for the laptop and a proprietary port they control for the phone.

That's why they gave USB-C away for nothing.

It's the same reason they gave away the mini-displayport connector for free too - they want it to be a standard.

The phone port though, they want to control because they want to control the peripheral market for the iPhone and iPad. The peripheral market for computers they don't care about, but they would rather that the connector of choice be a good one.

I bootcamp to run Windows-only steam games on my iMac, but that's the only thing I use it for.

All my work-related stuff that is Win only (Origin 8, ACD labs, Omnic, etc) is done via VM. With Unity mode in Fusion you barely notice the VM itself, other than the fact that the windows look like Windows.

I think you mistake my comment about the nature of GPU driver availability as some sort of criticism of the platform. I'm merely commenting on the reality given the original commenter in this thread wondered about OS X support. I'm just laying it out as I see it. Colour me unsurprised that OS X development of the Rift has been put on hold (almost certainly indefinitely).

Guess what platform I use for the bulk of my computing work?

Right now the "consumer Macs" don't have the GPU power (the Mac Pro does, but it's a sliver of their sales), and even if they did, Apple doesn't focus on the drivers in the way that happens on Windows - while it's possible for third party vendors to release drivers (Nvidia does it, for example), it's just not common - the vast majority of Mac users are running with the driver that ships with the OS and it doesn't get updated often.

They have made some strides forward in shipping decent GPU hardware, but the software is still somewhat lacking for heavy 3D lifting.

They're investing a lot into infrastructure - charging stations, R&D, the giant battery factory - it's not surprising that they are losing money on paper right now.

It's obviously a gamble, but one they are hoping will pay off. They're still in the early stages.

You recycle them. They contain some lithium, a transition metal like cobalt or equivalent, and various anions (PF6, BF4, BPh4) that make up the electrolyte.

You can separate out and recover all of the materials you used to make the battery and make another one.

Lithium ion batteries also don't contain rare earth metals.

Humans.

"Bug closed: Issue only affects small portion of user base with mental age = 12"

Holy shit, you're a fucking moron. I'm not sure it can be stated any more clearly than that. Pardon my French.

Calamine lotion as a treatment for chickenpox? Are you fucking high?

Calamine doesn't "treat" chicken pox - it treats the symptoms of the disease. That is, the itching and the rash. It's not a drug that fights off the virus.

Next time I get a serious viral infection I'll just rub some zinc carbonate on my skin. Much better than vaccinating myself.

Jesus fucking christ you anti-vaxxers are unbelievable.