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you should definitely do that musty

we've had 2 10 minute outages since hte power came back on. I expect to lose it for 12+ hrs at some point over the next couple of days. The eye of the storm is currently tracking to spend 6 hrs near us.

I'm jealous, TRI sounds amazing.

Our power is back at least for now

Our power just went out

Nope. I work for the army now. Someone else screwed this up.

We stocked up on supplies and put batteries in the weather radio.

My scenario wasn't serious.

I'd love to hear the argument tho "I knew the patent was invalid when I applied for it. I just was going to use it to make a profit. But now it should be revoked, because I want to use it to make a profit."

I refuse to buy a tablet without a bluray drive

happy beef day

I'm tuned in, nice mellow beats

[brent]now with moar butter[/brent]

or it's just "now with more better"

except no analog inputs

I did not successfully resist purchasing the mini ipad today. My silver 32gb verizon ipad mini should be at my house in mid november.

I can't imagine what you're doing that makes apple maps so impactful on your ipad.

I certainly didn't think steve would be offended by a joke about the tice. It's nearly a meme here, after all.

Or Steve's Tice

Well, I think financially everyone wins on those shows, so at least there's that.

Other than ripping cds and dvds, I haven't used an optical drive in years. And given that most people buy their music online and don't rip their movies, I don't see it's really that out of the question that they don't do optical drives anymore. You could have made the same argument about the need for floppies when apple abandoned them, too. And it's not just apple's optical drives that are crap. Any laptop drive (which is the form factor for a device like the imac) isn't going to stand up to heavy duty ripping duties.

for heavy duty ripping duty, I'd use an external drive anyway, the drives they put in the imac/macbook wear out, and are kinda slow. Get a usb3 external bluray drive and rip away.

Were you also pissed when they stopped putting floppy drives in systems?

was for lunch, but I had bbq chili nachos and a chili dog at a local bbq joint. Was heart attack inducing good.

I'd bet the 13" mba gets discontinued.