Really? Wow. You do so well. And I thought *I* was disciplined. I have a 250GB SSD and a 500GB HDD (OWC data expander) in my MBP right now, and I have already used 200GB on the SSD. :-( I put all movies and images (except around 20GB that I am currently processing) on the HDD. Yes, I do have 30GB or so of music on the…

Yea. I was thinking about setting up a home server. But I'm not sure if the speed of an internet connection—ESPECIALLY at a cafe or when i'm on the road—can handle that if I run it at full res and highest color. I'm not a professional photographer though. I'm pretty much an amateur.

Yea. But I was thinking if you had one or two screws or bolts in a system that had to be very highly resistant to corrosion, then it might make it worth it. A quick calculation yields and extra $40-50 to the cost of a M4 5cm long screw. The real question is about alloys and metallurgy. I don't think it's generally…

I'm thinking of getting a 15" Retina, which are lighter and thinner—-so maybe I will feel it's portable enough? If I bump up the specs (on the apple site) of a standard MBP to 500GB SSD and 16gb ram, the two prices are around the same. The more I think about it, the more I think I will stick to a max'ed out MBP…

Same story. :-)

There really ought to be some organized Jezebel, Lifehacker, gawker, and io9 singles events (I'd cut out the gizmo guys, they're nutters!).

No way I'm switching to Windows. :-) Tell me more about this "isn't as smooth" problem when running OSX on a homebuilt desktop. Did you follow the Hackintosh guide and recommended hardware?

Yea. I could probably accept playing music from my phone. But when I'm out at a cafe (YES, i'm one of those!) I sometimes like to open Lightroom to process some RAW (16mb) or TIFF (300mb) images. I can see the Air struggling with that a bit... such a tough choice!

"Get rid of your MacBook Pro, build a desktop, and buy an ultrabook." Thinking seriously about it, but what are the cons? I'm worried about being out-and-about and all of a sudden I want to do some half serious processing. Also keeping everything nicely sync'd across the desktop and ultrabook.

I was an enthusiastic astronomy student many years ago. Then during a summer research project, I was sent down to spend a week at a remote observatory in the south of New Zealand. On an evening with a wonderfully clear night sky, we had a star-gazing night on a 0.4m Meade LX200 telescope from an altitude of 3,000ft or…

All in good humour though, right? Wait until you see the reply to the asteroid thread!

From http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57564281/nasa-making-strides-in-tracking-near-earth-asteroids/ :

Does anyone know if I added iridium to stainless steel instead of chromium whether it would make it even more corrosion resistant? Has this been done? If so, how much does it cost?

"Oh!" said Chicken Licken, "the sky is falling! I must go and tell the king."

I would like to also correct the number of 100s of millions to 10s of million. And there are debates over whether the khmer rouge regime fully replicated maoism. But in my mind, the emphasis of the regime on rural labor and the destruction and hatred towards the middle class does follow Maoism.

:-) you're fun!

That logic is flawed. If we trace that back, it would be saying that using ANY tool, including a hammer and a nail, to any form of engine or machine, would create unemployment and therefore be bad for the world. The truth is, the way to solve the world's poverty problem is NOT simply to make sure everyone is employ in…

I thought we have exactly same conclusion! Or am I not understanding something? Large, professional telescopes should focus on wide-field scans of the sky with complicated software to find the objects in the first place. Once they are found, rough coordinates can be given to amateurs to track accurately over many…

hmmm but one could argue that when one knows exactly where to look, then finding faint objects and tracking them is not difficult. So the bigger difficulty is finding the faint ones in the first place, therefore, this job should be given to the big 'scopes which have greater light collection abilities, higher…

Yea. I've heard of people eating the skin—-after thorough washing first, of course. My mum blends up the whole fruit with the skin. But I think that when people put up with eating things they don't like, trying too hard to be healthy, it never lasts permanently, and they end up resenting it and swinging too far to the…