Someone's missed the point.

Can I take a small, short-acting dose of this in the form of a nasal spray, and finish reading the entire encyclopedia while I wait for my coffee pot to finish brewing? If implanted in reservoir form, in something like an insulin pump, (along, probably, with a quick-acting antidote) could I actually gain the benefit of "bullet time" when trying to avoid a car wreck when some texting-while-driving type cuts across three lanes of traffic? I believe this was touched upon in the Honor Harrington series, and it seemed like a good ideaand now somebody's gone and figured out that it's actually feasible.

And we go and waste it on this?

*sigh*

Goddammit people.

Sayeth the inhabitant of that world-famous abattoir of haute-cuisine---Mississippi.

"But", you say, "there's lots of fine food in Mississippi". Agreed, but Brit food is pretty damn good.

The number of Michelin starred restaurants in Mississippi is...zero? Even Glasgow, that city mocked for deep fried everything, has a Michelin starred restaurant.

Yeah, I get the joke, but it's a stereotype that isn't actually remotely true any more,

Fixed that for you.

Actually, specifically pertaining to chess, systems of expert plus computer advisor consistently outperform either the best computers or the best human grandmasters. For those who enjoy watching competitive chess, the games are decidedly not boring.

Grandma is not "no longer Grandma" at any point in this exercise, though at some point she should consider replacing everything but that mostly-nanotech brain; she's still going to have worn-out disks and arthritis, even now that her Alzheimer's is cured; she might want to move back out of that nursing home at some point.

Since Safari for Windows was deprecated, I've found myself missing it. I keep the ultimate version installed, but I've been forced onto Firefox, as even iCloud has dropped support for Safari.

It had a better memory footprint than Chrome or Safari, and didn't choke under a heavy tab load (hundreds). Apple's 64-bit-first philosophy probably had something to do with that, even on Windows. And it was snappier. Chrome pulled me off it for a while, but then it got slow and bloated and now I only ever use Chrome for interacting with Google products, since it can now lag an Ivy Bridge black with an SSD and far too much RAM.

I'm leaning toward Pale Moon or Waterfox now to maintain extension compatibility (adblock, flashblock, noscript, iCloud) without giving up that raw third-half-of-my-brain responsiveness I crave.

PS: Has /. started using heavier scripting lately? It doesn't work right with NoScript enabled any more.

1. I suppose so, but it did reach that at the DRAM high-water mark when Thailand flooded. It's a small concern compared to the humanitarian crisis, I suppose, but it left a mark on long-time apple buyers' memory.

2. I could cram four terabytes into my current Macbook Pro between my two bays, or using the latest from Western Digital, I can have a pair of 128 gig SSD partitions and 2tb of magnetic storage for the purposes of an enormous Fusion Drive. (well, for a laptop) A Macbook Pro currently goes up to 1 terabyte, and a Macbook Air to half a terabyte; you can't go higher for love nor money.

3. My choice would be to further upgrade my current machine, but it's a Core2 and I don't own a reflow oven. I don't think MBPs go up to 32 gigs RAM, because the modules haven't been invented yet. Also, while the SSDs are blistering fast, their absolute capacity isn't great, and their price-per-gig ratio isn't great either. I'd love to upgrade my machine as you suggest, but she's really at her limits. Had there been a 16 gig Macbook Air configuration, I'd have picked one up, never looked back, and been perfectly happy - but with the current lineup, every single Macbook offers some compromise I don't want to make. And every non-Mac means losing access to some really incredibly useful software - either repurchasing my commercial software on Windows or doing without on Linux, plus either doing without BASH (Windows) or well, I'm sorry to say, a lot of good software.

It's also the non-Haswell, non-GPU, non-bigscreen style, which is rather irritating.

1: That's more than you'll find it for on Black Friday.

2: The new PCIe based modules are proprietary, probably based on the M2 electrical protocol over a mini-PCI physical layer. They compare favorably to RevoDrives in both price-per-gig and in performance, however. Still, there's no upgrades available at the moment.

3: Actually, no I can't - if I want a 15" macbook, it's a Retina model. If I want a Macbook Pro with discrete graphics, it's a Retina model. The non-Retina 13" model didn't even get upgraded processors, they're still kickin' it old school with the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge CPUs. Could you have at least dropped a Haswell in the socket, guys?

Are they taking a loss on any laptop they sell me?

No?

Am I advising my non-technical family and friends on what kind of computer to buy?

well duh, this is /. - of course I am.

Therefore, they want me as a customer.

Secondary finishing steps may be minimal, but even with state-of-the-art techniques, surfaces will unavoidably require polishing.

The slide remaining open is actually a design feature, called a "slide lock" or "slide stop", that's usually put into gun designs to make them faster and easier to reload, but it's not universal - Kel-Tec's tiny pocket .380 didn't have room for the levers without adding at least a mm to the thickness - we may all think of Apple as being obsessed with "thin and light", but they're not the first company to sacrifice functionality for pocketability.

Except the process of metal printing will melt your cryo-treated powder, destroying the microstructure created by cryo-treatment.

Strictly speaking, "automatic" is probably best thought of as the category that includes both "semi automatic" and "fully automatic" operation.

They were making IV clamps with stereolithography ten years ago.

To answer your question, yes they can - but that happened while you weren't paying attention

In the Kellerman study, 37 of the reported deaths were suicides, constituting 86% of the recorded deaths. The remainder included husbands shot while beating their wives and intra-family drug deals gone bad.