It's always been a bit of a PITA to even consume Amazon content; I've got a fairly poor network connection and they're nowhere near as good at throttling as Youtube, let alone Netflix. When you compound that with their long-standing and only relatively recently-relaxed attitude towards permitting Android devices to consume Amazon Instant Video, my desire to have Amazon Prime has been extremely limited... until now.

Assuming this is true, this might be what finally lures me into Prime membership.

Yeah, there's already been embedded SPARC processors, I talked to some guys at a job fair a long (long) while back who had built a digital camera around one. The problem is, they're just not cheap enough.

one option is to install grub to another device, like a flash drive. then you only have to get your BIOS to boot that device; if it doesn't happen automatically, F12 is usually the key to select boot devices during POST, but YMMV.

P.S. It has come to my attention since writing that comment that if you actually do an in-place upgrade, Microsoft gives you 30 days to roll it back. That's assuming the roll-back works, though.

Really? I'm surprised by that.

Over time I've found the extra cores goes a long way to a better experience.

Obviously I don't disagree with that statement, I bought more than two cores.

Yeah, but that's the thing, these days you can do that with just two cores if you have a SSD. The web browser I/O is the only part of all those tasks that really punches your computer in the nuts, especially if you have a halfway-decent GPU — basically anything from nvidia or even AMD which will run in the currently shipping driver will decode all common media formats for you.

Yes, I got only the 1GB video card myself; if you don't have 4k it doesn't matter much. Few games need more than 1GB to reach their full potential at 1080p or less (I'm playing at 1920x1200, but close enough.) And I too am just old enough to be in awe of how cheap this stuff is. My first computer was a C= 16, then I had an Apple ][+, then an Amiga 500, then when I killed that I got an IBM PC-1 from someone, a 386DX25, and then I got a Sun 4/260 which was kind of hilarious. Had 24MB RAM, though. So yeah, when I can throw these systems together for virtually nothing and they are faster than my first ten computers put together and then some and some of those computers were just as powerful as multiuser systems I was happy to have accounts on elsewhere at the time... it's a good time to be a nerd.

Yeah, I agree with all that, I just think that these days a fairly decent dual-core (especially something from intel with four threads, but even just an AMD processor) is more processor than most people will actually use most of the time, and a really good dual-core will cover all the needs of all but the most hardcore users. I eight cores because I too like to do lots of things at once, but frankly I rarely actually pin more than four of 'em.

Ok, nice generalization.

You're ignoring some key points; this has been tried in Germany (this is where San Francisco got the idea) and it seems to be completely successful. And as a man who lives in SF neither me, nor anyone I know, has ever peed on a wall in a public place in the city to the best of my knowledge. The behaviour is really relegated to the homeless, whom I have seen doing this. For all the talk about piling on the poor homeless they really don't appear to give two f*cks about other people. There is a huge problem in San Jose, which is at the other end of Silicon Valley where homeless encampments sprout up, and wherever they do they create a huge trash/fire problem. The police come and shut them down, and they sprout up elsewhere. It would be one thing if they set up and were respectful of the environment and other people, but they never are; drugs and crime (rape) are the order of the day in these encampments.

Lastly, we need to do something. A friend of mine was here last year during the summer and his remark was "Beautiful city, too bad it smells like pee." Could have been the bay, or maybe it was the pee. Either way, it would be nice to not have people peeing like animals all over the place.

Temp forecast for today is a seasonable 98F.

I'll stick with my truck. You can bike all you want...just stay out of my way.

Ha! I suspect it would more likely be bricked.

I'm keeping my car and my truck and my motorcycle.

I can work on all three and keep them running for decades.

How many groceries can you carry?

How often do you go grocery shopping?

I'll be sure to carry a supply of D cell batteries I can toss to any electric car owner I see on the side of the road, completely out of juice.

Say, how much electricity can you carry in a 2 gallon container?

Isn't that some kind of Privilege?

Is Jesse Jackson going to get involved?

Complete Adrenalectomy.

Done at 7AM on Monday went home noon on Tuesday afternoon. Nothing but Tylonel, pain free by Wed morning. Dr. said less than a cup of blood was lost.

Now I have 5 cool looking, little holes that I tell people were gunshot wounds.

He used a Da Vinci robot.

Alternative was open surgery, complete with a 6 inch incision and a week in the hospital.