In 2030, someone will say that. In 2040, everyone will be laughing about it.

I did a bit of experimenting. My MacBook can be convinced to do seven FMA's (fused multiply-add) in double precision and 14 in single precision per cycle. Counting fused multiply-add as two operations makes it 56GFlops double precision or 112GFlops single precision on one core of an M3 processor. M3 Max has 12 cores, so 672 Gflops double and 1344 Gflops single precision. A bit of browsing and editing can be done on the low power cores.

That's without using the GPUs.

You are indeed a clueless twat. I would know what she needs. And 4GB is _not_ enough. 8GB is enough for her. 16GB would be overkill.

And maybe we know now why you can't find a girlfriend. "Hey, I have this great laptop for you from a few years ago." "Cheapskate. Your cases are packed. Goodbye."

It's the same thing. The cops are allowed to open your safe. If you claim you don't have the key, or you forgot the combination, then they are allowed to break it open with force, assuming they have a valid warrant.

The only case where you are safe is when the information that you know the passcode is in itself incriminating.

An unknown person X hit Y over the head with their MacBook and killed them. The MacBook is locked with a password. The fact alone that you know the password means it's your MacBook and you are the murderer. Then they can't force you to unlock it, or can't use the fact that you know the password as evidence against you.

Or you bought a used hard drive on eBay. It's password locked. The police claims there is CP on it. You claim you don't know the password, you intended to reformat and use the drive. The fact that you know the password is evidence against you which cannot be used.

And strange enough, you completely ignore any Mac user who bought one and is happy with performance. Maybe there is some delusion going on in your brain? Maybe 8 GB is not enough for your OS and your applications?

You are soooo funny. Seriously, funny. Can you tell us any more "jokes"?

You haven't offended any Apple users. You have given them a good laugh at your expense. Do you think even a single Mac or iPhone user takes you seriously?

What a nonsense. If my wife wanted a computer, she wouldn't need more than 8 GB (she is very happy with her iPad by the way). So why should I have to pay more because some numpty on Slashdot wants me to?

Step 1: You buy a Mac with as much RAM as you like. No problem at all. They have these things called "Apple Store" with people who are actually there to help you buy the right stuff that you need. Step 2: You stay away from memory eating browsers like Chrome. Step 3: If you want a large SSD drive, just go and buy an external one. They are cheap. They are big. They are not very fast, but the slowest ones are still four times faster than any hard drives.

And then you read up. Like memory compression. Apple has memory compression built into the chip, so you get two or three extra gigabyte without touching the hard drive, and without you noticing anything. Direct connection to your graphics card. There is no duplication between RAM and video memory. Saves a lot of storage. Fast swapping: The built-in hard drives are fast and once they start swapping, they swap compressed memory which saves time and effort, and they have minimal overhead.

I bought 16 GB RAM. Because _for me_ 8 GB is not enough. For many people, it is.

So are Stanford researchers:
https://youtu.be/HaaZ8ss-HP4

None of the arabic or muslim countries around there wanted to take any refugees from the area. Because they wanted a population that was going to create conflict. And the only peaceful solution they will accept is Israel being wiped out.

I don't know how the maths works in the USA. But I used to commute into London, at a cost of 15 pound a day. Times 230 days a year, that's 3,450 pound a year. I pay 40% income tax and 2% national insurance on that money, so you have to pay me (3,450 / 0.58) or 5,950 pound a year extra so that I have the same money in my pocket after paying for my train ticket. In addition, my employer pays 15% employer national insurance, so it costs them 6,840 pound a year to put the same money into my pocket.

That only pays for my train ticket. It doesn't pay for me driving to the train station, it doesn't pay me for three hours commute a day, it doesn't pay me for exorbitant prices in London to get some food at lunch time.

Now if I work from home, I do more work per hour because I'm not exhausted from the commute, I sometimes work longer because I'm in the flow and don't notice that it is 5 o'clock or because I just want to finish something and don't have to leave to get the train. The employer saves the office space.

So this is a win-win situation for everyone. If you don't count the benefits for the employees, just realise that given the choice between job A where I work from home, and job B where I go to the office every day, even spending 7,000 pound extra money from your annual budget doesn't manage to make your company more attractive.

In California, it looks like this has been on the books since 1943...

He entered dozens of contracts and is obligated to pay the same amount as a normal customer. Just because you lied in the contract doesnâ(TM)t remove your obligations.

Iâ(TM)ve seen it differently for shipping insurance. If it costs $100 to build an item that I sell to you for $200 then I only need $100 insurance to build a new item and send it to you. But if the item gets stolen and I lose $200 because someone buys the stolen item, then I need $200.