What are you talking about? Apple hasn’t introduced a new laptop using a standard laptop hard-drive in years. The last one left that they offer is the non-retina 13 inch MacBook Pro, but that’s only sticking around until they sell them all off. The 15 inch pro (only available with a retina display), the consumer level…

I know the guy who plays the world’s smallest viola, and any time he tries to get a gig, the world’s smallest violin player always beats him to the punch. Perhaps this will be a good year for my buddy’s career.

I write software for windows 50+ hours a week. At the end of the day, It’s nice to know that I get to turn off my Toshiba laptop and switch to a machine where you can tell that the hardware engineers give a shit about doing things the right way instead of the cheap and fast way. Even with this storage thing, I…

You’re the second person to make this suggestion. To be honest, I can’t remember which drive is in which spot. I put the drives in within two weeks of buying the machine.

Because I did so much traveling for work, I don’t have a “primary” desktop and a “secondary” laptop. My laptop is my primary machine. While at home, both drives are backed up via time machine. These days, I’m not away very often, so I don’t worry too much about about backups while traveling. Before the days of time…

Buy an airport and plug your external drive into the USB on the back. It works just like a time capsule, but you can use any drive you want, and, if the drive fails, you can replace it without voiding warranty / buying a whole new one.

I used to travel ALL THE TIME for work. I got used to having everything I owned on my laptop wherever I was. Now I work from home, so things are a lot easier. I do have a 3 TB drive on my network for backups, but some part of me likes knowing that if I need to jump on a plane, I won’t have to leave any data behind.

Yeah, I have my OS and apps all on the SSD. The real hard drive is for music, movies, TV shows, etc.

In 2013, I purchased, brand-new, a “mid 2012” MacBook Pro. The last of them available with a standard hard-drive and optical drive. I swapped the hard-drive for a 1TB drive, and I replaced the optical drive with a 512GB SSD. (I also tossed 16GB of RAM in there for good measure.) I’m torn; I want to keep this mac…

Nope. They promoted him. I generally think he’s a good guy, but I was ranting about the redesign and all the staff changes. I can see why he felt I went over the edge, but in my mind, he certainly overreacted.

Exactly what I came down into the comments to say.

Your “devil’s advocate” scenario doesn’t even apply here. They are collecting data on domestic to domestic calls. It would be easy to collect data ONLY on calls going through an international exchange; it’s not a technology limit.

That’s the problem with the current data collection processes. Every person in the united states who ever (EVER!) sends or receives a phone call is on the list. The NSA argues that they no longer need a “reason” to collect information about who you’re talking to for every single phone call you make. And they’re using…

Nope. Livin’. Workin’. Commenting from time to time. My account never quite recovered from when Jesus removed my star and banned me a few years ago. I probably make comments on tons of articles you read, but you never see my comments because they are hidden.

How have you been?

I like to joke that I’m an “evangelical atheist.” My wife is a Roman Catholic. We both love the new pope. I think he’s the best thing to happen to Christianity in a century or more.

There was a similar port on the first macintosh. Jobs wanted no expansion period, because he didn’t want knowledge of how to take apart a computer to be a requirement to owning one. He insisted on zero expansion ports. The engineers building it were all old-school hardware geeks who STRONGLY disagreed with his…

My mom’s whole body breaks out in hives and she can’t breathe if she touches a mango skin or touches something that has touched mango skin. But, if my dad peels the mango and then washes his hands and washes the peeled mango, she has no problem with it and loves them.

Because this could, with enough market saturation, vastly improve the health of a modernized large power grid, it’s completely possible that power companies could heavily subsidize the cost of these. That would go a long way towards making the numbers make more sense.

Exactly right.

Yes, perhaps if Qatar were located within the American south somehow.