Don't forget their cheapest desktop that can hold two hard drives and an optical drive is the Mac Pro.

The operative word being "holds". With USB and Thunderbolt, there is *zero* reason to have more than one hard drive slot inside a Mac.

The next Mac Pro doesn't have *any* internal drive bays. None of the creative pros, whom the machines are targeted at, are complaining. They're happily going to connect multi-terabyte RAID arrays to it via any of its six thunderbolt 2 ports, each of which offers more bandwidth than a multilane 6Gbps SAS port.

Apple charges for upgrades; that is not 'charging for the OS"; OS is not available "for purchase." It can be made to run on hardware not offered by Apple, but to do so is against the license.

Apple's machines are not built using commodity hardware. They have commodity components like hard drives, memory, and in some cases, graphics cards.

Apple develops all aspects of their computers in-house.

"The best solution" has nothing to do with "the apple tax." Yes, they're interested in maximizing profit - so is every company, in case you hadn't noticed, fuckwit. That they don't offer what *you* want doesn't mean that there is an "apple tax."

The Mac Pro serves a market for creative professionals whose applications are by and large GPU accelerated, and newer GPUs slot into it just fine. That the processors are older Xeons doesn't really matter. However, in case you hadn't noticed, the Mac Pro just got a complete redesign.

"Facts", indeed.

"So... you can buy twice the amount of ram at -retail- for 30% less than Apple will charge you just to upgrade. THAT is the 'mac premium'."

Odd then, that Dell, Lenovo, and HP all charge this "mac premium" on their computers.

Seriously, you do realize *all* vendors do this, right? They're taking advantage of people who a)don't know they can get it cheaper elsewhere, or don't want to be bothered with the hassle of ordering, don't know how to install the component, or don't have the time b)don't want to be hassled with fingerpointing when something breaks c)are financing the purchase and thus want it all rolled into one d)are purchasing for non-personal use and are limited in terms of suppliers and whatnot.

The NTSB also appears to not be considering that there are people on motorcycles, foot, and bicycle.

That's particularly poor, given that motor vehicle occupant safety has gone up, while pedestrian and cyclist safety has plunged. Why? Cars are increasingly safe for occupants, yet nothing is being done to stop drivers from plowing into other people.

All the safety has simply made people less careful. Why should they be careful? They're unlikely to be seriously injured, insurance will cover the damage and injuries, and they sure as hell aren't going to get charged with any crimes.

You can drive into a storefront and injure half a dozen people and not even get a ticket.

Kill a cyclist and the police will term it an "accident" - all you have to do is say the sun was in your eyes or you were changing the radio station. A little girl in Texas lost both her parents because a guy in a pickup truck slammed into her parents. His excuse: he'd looked down to change the station (and somehow drifted several feet onto the road shoulder.)

The myth of the "apple tax" or "mac premium" has always been based on pretending that the largest distinguishing feature (the operating system) doesn't exist, or isn't worth anything to people in the market for a new computer. Windows 7 closed the gap a bit, but OS X is still less virus-prone, has better backup integration, doesn't use a registry, and benefits from less platform diversity / hardware+OS from the same vendor.

It also ignores the fact that for years, whenever PC magazines have tested Macs, they've consistently found them to be amongst the best-performing machines money can buy at time-of-release. Boot Camp changed things dramatically, in the sense that suddenly PC magazines could directly compare them to PC hardware with the same benchmark tools.

Apple is reaping the benefit of in-house design (instead of "show me what you got that we can slap our label on"), top-notch system architects, and aggressively securing rights with suppliers for major components to get the best stuff before everyone else.

parked in a way that they think nobody can see them

Psht. Some cops have hiding down to an art form. I remember driving along the highway and thinking "Why does that snowbank have a police light bar...."

As I drove by, I saw he'd precisely trimmed the snowbank with a shovel, flat-topping it just enough to see over and for his radar unit.

That said, we don't need speed enforcement. We need illegal/improper/unsafe operation enforcement, proper crash investigation, and criminal penalties for negligence that results in property damage or injury.

Cats are a product of their upbringing and environment, like many critters, people included.

Cats that grow up in very active households tend to be very sociable towards strangers (same for "shop" cats). Cats that grow up spending their lives with someone who doesn't socialize much, tend to be more skittish of strangers. Cats that grow up by themselves tend to be more sociable towards humans; cats that grow up with another cat tend to be more social with the other cats (playing, following, snoozing, etc.) and more aloof to humans.

Cats can be passive, cats can be assertive. I dated someone whose cat decided that when we were making out on the couch, that was a swell time to climb up and sit on her back and purr and knead her back.

I've known people who had cats who would play fetch; it's not that unusual - and my cat came when he was called, usually because he knew that it meant he'd get a warm lap, petting, or ear/chin scratching.

You know how hard the plane accelerates when it's full of fuel, you + all the other passengers, luggage, cargo, etc on take off? Enough to push you back into the seat preeeeeeetty hard, right?

Imagine that same force, but in a plane with no passengers, no cargo or luggage, and a light fuel load.

It won't do 62,000 feet a minute like a F-16 will, but I've heard pilots describe unladen performance as breathtaking, and at airshows, they can buzz the runway and do a HARD climb.

I have a Nexus 4, not a Nexus 7, and yes, according to the scanner tool, it's still unpatched.

That is because Android handset makers have been slow to issue updates for their handsets.

I have a Google Nexus 4, supposedly gets all the updates right away, first to get new versions of Android, etc. I haven't seen an update since I bought the phone 6+ months ago. Samsung has apparently patched their phones; Google announced a code fix months ago.

What's Google's excuse for not patching my device? No carriers involved, current model, etc.

Unless the "plug" has a lot more RAM than your average plug-in device, Plug can't support ZFS either. ZFSoL has a minimum RAM recommendation of 2GB. ZFS also has the overhead of checksumming, which on modern non-embedded CPUs isn't a problem, but on an embedded system, present a significant overhead.

ZFS is an enterprise filesystem; it's not designed for low-end hardware.

The OP is probably blocking their air vents or placing them in closets where they're overheating, or on top of cable boxes/DVRs (which are like ovens.)

Your scrawny friend had what's referred to as neuromuscular strength and it has nothing to do with aerobic conditioning, and yes, it can be trained. Your friend also probably had lots of what's called "fast twitch" muscle fiber. The proportion is somewhat determined by genetics, but can be influenced by training. There are many, many measures of human strength, power, and endurance. There's three energy systems, as well - neuromuscular (1-15 sec efforts), anerobic (few minutes) and aerobic (10min and up.)

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=road+taxes+cyclists

You don't pay a "road tax" in the United States. You pay registration fees, which do not even begin to cover the cost of the roads - they merely cover the cost of handling the paperwork related to your vehicle and license. Property taxes and income taxes pay roads in virtually the entire world over.

My bicycle does not weigh enough or generate enough force to cause any wear on a road surface. I ride on bike paths that haven't been paved in 20-30 years and look brand new.

  Your vehicle, especially since you're overcompensating for your small dick by having a big truck, causes enormous road wear. The wear you cause is a fourth-power function of weight.

Dumb hick.

As someone who has started learning about power and cycling - this was a job for an cat 1 / "elite" racer, or at least someone significantly lighter than the guy in the video. I ride pretty regularly but not competitively, and I'm able to do about 300W for a minute. That's piddlesticks in the world of racing, for my weight.

A sprinter would be able to put out massive power (probably 5-7 times what I can do) but sprinters also tend to be heavy. Someone who isn't a sprinter would have less power, but could weigh 50lb less. There are cyclists who specialize in races with climbing, mostly through being light, pacing themselves properly, and having excellent technique.

I'm wondering how much of a warmup he did - in order to do an effort like that, you really do need to be properly warmed up.