"Store it"? You are doing it wrong.

If the new model has a larger screen, 5K would definitely be insufficient.

I'm a photographer and and constant user/developer of image manipulation software. I edit every shot. I don't need 5k in a monitor; if I need a full-image overview, I can have that, zero perceptible time. If I need to look at pixels, same thing. Or anywhere in between. I do *not* need to be squinting at a monitor in order to resolve detail. I value my vision too highly. And at these resolutions, you don' t squint, you can't see it. And I have extremely high visual acuity.

Higher (and higher) resolution makes sense in data acquisition. Once you have it, you can do damned near anything with it. Even if you exceed the MTF of the lens, you get the advantage that while the edges are smoother, they now start in a more accurate place, geometrically speaking. It can be thought of as like old TV luma; the bandwidth is limited, so the rate of change has a proportionally limited slew rate, but the phosphor on an old B&W monitor is continuous, and you can start a waveform anywhere (horizontally) with luma, to any accuracy within the timing of the display, which can be pretty darned high. So things tend to look very, very good as opposed to what you might expect from naively considering nothing but the bandwidth. It's not like a modern color display, where the phosphor/pixel groups serve to sub-sample the signal no matter how you feed it in. But that advantage goes away when the subtleties exceed your eye's ability to perceive them. Or you have to strain/hurt yourself to do it.

So anyway... any single one or combination of these three things would motivate me to buy more new Apple hardware. Nothing else:

o A Mac pro that is self-contained -- installable, replaceable drives, lots of memory, replicable display cards. The "trashcan" Mac pro is an obscenity. All it did was send me to EBay to buy used prior model Mac Pros. The trashcan isn't so much a wrong turn as it is a faceplant.

o A Mac mid-tower that can have hard drives installed+replaced and at least 16gb of RAM. 32gb would be better. Doesn't have to be that fast. Real gfx. I know, mythical, not probable. Still want it, though. Actually, I want several. :/

o A multicore Mac mini with a real graphics card, 8gb or better ram, network, USB, HDMI and audio ports.

I have uses for all those. Failing that, and in fact that's my expectation, more fail -- I'm done with them. And I have no use whatever for "integrated" graphics.

What's annoying is that just about when they finally managed to a get a stable OS with most of the features I like and want (and the ability to get around the stupid features like "App Nap"), they totally borked the hardware side. I just can't win with Apple. Sigh.

sheeeeeit. These are NOTHING compared to the 16k displays that'll be out in the spring. I hear that's when they're going to add the mandatory "oil cooling hotness" to the Mac Pro, too. Of course, if you wait till fall, those 32k displays are on the way!

[Looks sadly at N(ever)T(wice)S(ame)C(color) security monitor...]

As Cheech and Chong might have put it, "Even gets AM!" Well, ok, old school TV that isn't broadcast any longer. But you know what I meant.

Or not. I'm old.

GET OFF MY NURSING HOME'S LAWN!

I'm with you in doubting that you could get hundreds of thousands of dollars out of a single exchange. But it's valuable enough for the darknet drug dealers to rely on. There are several exchanges that you could pull USD out of, so that adds a multiplier. There are also goods you can buy directly with BTC, computer equipment and Tesla cars at least, maybe more that I'm unaware of.

If you know your virtual and meatspace markets well enough, you can also make "withdrawals" from your BTC wallet by buying and selling drugs, quintupling or more the "face value" of your BTC on a legal exchange. This, of course, involves significant risk.

My software is SdrDx. Details here: Very much a "radio person's" design.

As for the eggs, that's not all of em -- those are the easiest to find, too. And they're a thing that's been in there for a couple of years or so, I figure it's not much a secret. Also, there's not much overlap between slashdot and my users. If any. Lastly, I don't think of them as exclusive so much as I do something fun to find.

You might be the first, if it turns out to be something you can use. :)

And a related question: Is Qt 5 exception-safe yet?

It's so cute how the young people of today think that Python is a real programming language because "bindings".

They'll put one on? Why wouldn't they?

First: the item must be marked by an assay office (after the maker's mark is applied by the manufacturer). Secondly, since this isn't a traditional gold alloy, traditional methods of assaying the gold may not work, thirdly, traditional methods of applying the hallmark may not work.

I wonder what Apple is going to do in the UK, which requires marking of gold items with hallmarks.

The top meter is one of the documented ones for reference -- so you can see the kind of "normal" thing the eggs replace. With this meter model, the left meter is the s-meter, and the bar graph sub-display in it is the noise detection level, which correlates with the noise reduction intensity. The squares are unfilled dark red because the noise reduction function was off when I took the screen capture. The segments are filled with a light blue color with noise reduction on; they display the detected noise level actively regardless of the setting. The smaller, yellow meter on the right is an audio VU meter that tracks the modulation percentage for FM, SAM, FSK and AM (bottom scale), and the dB output level for other modes -- USB, LSB, CWU, CWL.

For the Klingon meter, The triangle at the left is the s-meter value; as the signal increases, it fills with nested triangles, segment by segment. The slanted bar is the AGC level, which is independent from the S level in my radio design. The double row of symbols that comes next is the freq to kHz resolution on top, and the remaining freq component in Hz on the bottom. The last set of larger symbols is the signal level in dBm.

For the Predator meter, the first two symbols are the S meter value.The next five are the signal level in microvolts. The last four are the current time HHmm. On the bottom row, all the symbols are frequency.

Here's what they look like.

I *always* squeeze out one or more easter eggs.

My latest: The application, which is free, is software defined radio. It's loaded with features, and everything is documented in detail. Radios have something called an "S Meter", which in a "real" radio is often an actual meter. I offer, and fully document, quite a few different s meter types you can switch by simply clicking on the currently displayed meter. Left click gets you the next model, right click the previous model. Some are classic looking meters, some are digits, some are graphs, some have audio dB meters incorporated as well, some read S, some read S+AGC, some read S+noise reduction, some read S+microvolts at the antenna input, some graphs are vertical, some are horizontal... and there are various combinations of the foregoing. Quite a variety.

So, if you follow the directions, you get exactly what the docs tell you you'll get.

But if, when you reach the last s-meter model, you left click again, you get an s-meter with some of the above information packed into it... in Klingon. :)

If you click one more time, you get the same set of information again, but this time... predator.

Both meter styles are quite dynamic. As they should be, since they're driven by actual data and displaying it. Albeit not in the usual fashion.

My only regret is that Alien's aliens were not written language users. I suppose it was alien to them. And perhaps that's why they were so mean... because they were... alienated.

Ok, I'll stop now. :)

How is that states can pass laws that relate to in-state sales of cars to consumers, but apparently laws that relate to in-state sales of drugs to consumers are pre-empted by federal law?

That right! Earl Tomblin (D).

Just goes to show that personal enrichment is higher on the average policician's priorities than ideology for all parties.

Just create two other "car companies" that sell re-branded Tesla cars and have the three of them open up a permanent auto trade show in which they would be allowed to sell directly.

Why bother creating other companies? Just create a trade show for electric-only cars. If Nissan and Fiat (is there anyone else selling 100% electric cars?) don't show up, it's still a trade show. Tesla doesn't compete with the Nissan or Fiat electric cars, yet.