CSS3 is not a programming language. No more then HTML is.

Of course they are. They can be used to tell the computer to perform some task (render a logical structure with a particular formatting). They just aren't Turing complete.

A _web developer_ maybe, but a _programmer_ surely isn't.

JavaFX insists on setting component attributes by feeding them Strings containing CSS fragments rather than using setter functions. True story.

[sigh]

Again, you seem to have a different definition than everyone else of what constitutes "lending". If individuals at MtGox were appropriating customer deposits, that's not a lending activity, that's a criminal activity. And it's still criminal even if they returned the BTC with interest.

Furthermore, at no time did MtGox sell or offer for sale any BTC loan products. If you're not making loans, you're not a bank by any generally accepted definition.

...only if one subscribes to your ridiculous position that appropriating customer deposits is equivalent to lending. But please, continue making up new definitions for common words...it's quite entertaining. I'm sure you're a real hit at cocktail parties.

Cheers!

Nobody mentioned rape, and nobody wished it on anyone.

Yes. You are more responsible than surgeons, for example. Either that or you are an ignorant idiot who still can't figure out that the reason you can stop at one beer is because you are not an addict. You still don't get that it isn't prolonged and excessive use that makes an addict, but being an addict that results in prolonged and excessive use.

It's called Boot Camp. In other words, no, I'm not making the claim and never did. Also, nobody in their right mind would ever do it unless they had a corporate imposed need.

"Here you can see your posts 10 pages in : http://slashdot.org/users2.pl?...

Congratulations on finally having something to add in a Slashdot thread!

"I have a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering."

You should demand a refund.

I don't know about that... My nice 47" TV draws 210W at maximum, powering a 47" 120hz panel, a CPU (smart TV), TV tuner, image processor and stream decoder, and 2 channels of 20 watt nominal (10watt RMS) audio. The only part of that I can account for in numbers is the audio amplifier, which is probably something around 80% (being generous) efficiency... 20W x 2 channels / .8 = 50 watts, leaving 160 for everything else. In use and streaming a video, the unit (according to my Kill-A-Watt) actually draws 172W, which means all components except the audio amp (which we determined to be a 50W load) are sharing the remaining 122W.

Additionally, I have a less-nice 36" TV that draws 64W in total (5W for audio), and the following 3 higher-end monitors: a 25" that draws 31W (6W for audio), a 23" that draws 35W (no audio), and a 22" that draws 36W (no audio).

Add to that, my current 17" MBP has a very nice (if perhaps a bit too blue before calibration) panel that sucks down only a handful of watts (the entire system can run with all cores pegged and pushing the GPU to its limits, on 85W and still charge the battery).

How do you figure a 17" panel is going to draw more current than a 47"? Am I missing something?

Mismatch traces carrying parallel signals in a system with tight timing tolerances and get back to me. I never said what you're claiming, but congrats on the degree.

A 17" retina... driven properly (the crap performance is the result of driving them at voltages that are below-spec or near the low end of the spec for a given panel)... and, being 17", plenty of room for the battery to support it all... maybe a 2nd hard drive bay (I ripped out my DVD drive and stuck the original HDD in a caddy that fills that space, and installed an SSD... I'd love to have a similar setup next time around, as well)... otherwise similar specs to the high-end 15" rMBP model... that would be my ideal laptop right now.

Or, maybe, "design" as in how the PCBs are laid out and the various component are interconnected. Yes, this matters, and yes, Apple does this.

Don't even get me started on Apple's phone offerings... complete and utter garbage IMO. The iPad, on the other hand, sees much more use than the Android device I finally realized I wasn't actually using and gave to my wife the other day. That and my MBP, I absolutely love; I just wish they still made 17" MBPs, as this one's getting a little long in the tooth, though it still suits my needs just fine, for now.

Precisely. Spoken just like I used to say it before I inherited the one I'm typing on now.

Same CPUs? Yes. Same RAM? Yes. Same chipsets? Mostly. Same build quality? No. While I have seen Apple put out some real garbage, it's rare; in general, their build quality is on par with, or better than, most manufacturers' high-end, similarly-priced systems.

I say that as I'm glancing over at my VAIO Z-Series, which has similar specs to my MBP from around the same time, and cost a couple hundred less. A fair trade for being twice as thick, twice as heavy, and made of plastic; it maybe should have weighed in at a few hundred $$ less for that.

MY experience with their PSUs is the exact opposite. My wife caught the cable of her MBP's PSU in the mechanism of our recliner and shorted it out no less than 3 times. I am now using that MBP and I use that very same PSU (having repaired the cable each time) 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, at my desk at work. This is a late 2011 MBP and the factory original PSU I'm talking about.

Regarding the PMU issues, she encountered such issues with this machine shortly after each incident with the recliner. I've encountered exactly zero in the past 2 years in which I've been using the machine; but, then, I haven't shorted it out, either.