This is actually less true now - Nvidia is publishing their own driver packages for OS X because they are tired of Apple shipping ancient versions whenever they get around to including them in a point release.

They are labeled for Quadro, but they work just fine with GeForce. I'm running a Geforce GTX 780 Ti in my Mac Pro completely unmodified - all I don't get is the uEFI boot screens. Once the kext loads, everything is perfect.

The ten cards you sell ($4000 revenue) by spending 80 hours of developer time ($4000 expense) to fix extreme edge cases aren't worth it, as they still have to pay to manufacture the cards. Those developers could be fixing issues that will shift hundreds of thousands of units instead.

(Numbers based on $400 / card, $50/hr developer - not out of the realm of possibility)

Only if you launch at the coast. If he launches from somewhere like Texas, then there's still plenty of North America to land on.

I think the ultimate goal is to delete the barge and land on land - they're using the barge because they can put it somewhere uniquely devoid of anything that anyone cares about.

It takes far bigger thrusters to move the whole planet underneath the descending rocket...

Never mind that when the Pope says something into a microphone somewhere, it's rebroadcast through satellites to every corner of the globe - you took down Vatican City's web site!

That'll fix their little red wagon!

Murder, torture, and more murder.

Next question?

Create the keys from a phrase you aren't likely to forget? And, if you get bashed over the head and can't remember the phrase, you are unlikely to need that backed up data anyway.

More to the point, why would the NSA give a shit about your 2013 tax filings?

Everyone keeps talking about this, but isn't it just an extension of "I stored my backup at my brother's house, which just burned to the ground" ? Also, it's not like Google / Amazon / Apple / Microsoft are going to disappear overnight - these are hundred billion dollar corporations backing those "cloud" storage systems.

Especially Amazon, now that they are have S3 replication between regions available. Upload it there, have it replicate to Oregon, the Bay Area, and Virginia at once.

The only thing that is sufficiently "fire proof" is a storage container that is not in a fire - If the fire is allowed to burn long and hot enough, it will transfer heat through the container and melt or scorch anything inside.

Off site is the only reasonable answer, even if it's just an encrypted SD card at someone else's house.

Exactly - cloud storage is available for free, or a pittance. Use an encrypted disk image to hold your stuff, using a strong password and a strong cipher. And then put that encrypted container on a couple different services just to make sure that DropBox / Amazon S3 / Google Drive / iCloud don't have a fire.

Problem solved.

Yeah, because companies hate it when the press continually talks about how their new product is so successful that they can't keep up with demand for weeks on end, and the notion of "it's so good that hundreds of thousands of people are willing to wait weeks for delivery" absolutely doesn't get other people to take another look at the product and / or get in line themselves.

See: Christmas launches of set-top gaming consoles.

You missed the post above you where someone claimed all of them were purchased by people planning to resell on eBay for higher prices by restricting availability.

Completely shocking that it was posted anonymously.

Lenovo absolutely buys Xeon, and by the truckload for their servers and P-series workstations like this one which you can put two Xeon E5-2699v3 CPUs into, which is the highest spec part Intel makes right now.

Don't forget that they now own IBM's xSeries server business, which uses practically nothing but Xeon.