My sentiment exactly. 2 days ago I put it on my wishlist, reasoning that even if they weren't marketing, the results would still be interesting. What if I get a kit now? Do I manually look up everything in SNPedia or something?
I have an unused kit from the 99$ sale years ago... Crap. Will they still provide all of the data? One could create a 3rd party service to give the same analysis?
I purchased a kit as a gift before November 22nd, but have not given it to the recipient. Will they still receive health results when they send it in?
Yes. Access to health-related results is based on the purchase date of the kit. Any kit purchased before November 22, 2013 and returned to our lab will receive health-related results.
That being said, aren't the kits only good for a year?
I think it's interesting that they are still selling the kits at the $99 price point. They also haven't removed the health tab from their site. I'm guessing what they are doing is buying themselves time to prepare and discuss with the FDA. They might continue to run all the same SNPs on their already-designed chips and just try to justify to the FDA that those SNPs are medically relevant in the ways 23andMe says they are.
I heard about a service called Promethease[1] that will apparently give you some in-depth reporting as well as risk levels for disease. It may be of interest to you.
Unfortunately the differences genetically between different groups, aka ancestry, is less than the differences between individuals in the same group, so the medical part is what is interesting.
I recently bought a new Macbook Air. My old Macbook Pro was 4 years old. Not that the old machine stopped working - it still works perfectly fine. The Core 2 Duo CPU was up to all tasks I threw at it (compiling C++ code). I just wanted longer battery life.
That's why I see no problem with the new Mac Pro being so "unmodular". Unless something revolutionary happens with CPUs that machine will be good enough for more than 5 years.
What tasks do you do? I have a 2010 MBPro running ML and it slow has hell for doing any kind of iOS dev work. It used to be pretty fast but Apple's software updates - OS + Xcode have slowed it down considerably.
How much RAM do you have? OS X is quite memory hungry and is terrible when it has to page. I'd recommend maxing out the RAM if you haven't already. I'm guessing you have a regular hard drive too. An SSD will make it feel like a new machine.
Also, Mavericks is much snappier than ML from what I've seen so far and makes much better use of RAM.
I have 4GB and yeah, my hdd is non-SSD. But it wasn't this bad back when I was working with snow leopard. Unfortunately Apple forces you to get their new OS to use the new Xcode and that has screwed my performance.
I've disabled a bunch of things, Spotlight indexing, dashboard, their notification stuff, etc and also moved swap to a new partition, its helped, but still not as snappy as when it was new.
At the moment, I'm weighing my choices .. do I upgrade RAM,SSD or do I get a new one - but then I have to buy apple's expensive ram and cant easily change the SSD in the future.
If you max the RAM to 8GB and add a SSD it will be a completely new machine. Also not that hard to do, well worth it. I have the 2011 model and updated first from 4 to 8 and then 16GB of RAM and from a standard HDD to Crucial M4 500GB and the machine is a beast, must faster in 10.9 than when I originally bought it.
I upgraded my late-2008 iMac with Mavericks to see if it performed better than Mountain Lion given that my machine's maxed out at 4GB of RAM and my experience thus far has been that overall, the system is more responsive, but there's a lot more latency in doing things like restoring backgrounded applications that haven't been quit, but are still running. It may be that my machine is too old, but Mavericks has just shifted the latency around in this case.
I had a 2009 MBP. Lion was slow as hell but swapping the HDD for a SSD did wonders. The RAM upgrade I tried before that didn't help as much as the SSD.
And to follow up, the E5 is an absolute beast of a processor. It's hard to imagine Intel having that kind of leap in the next 5-7 years (but here's hoping ;).
I'm not going to hold my breath on the actual RAM number until we see an iFixit teardown. Due to just the shear size, the iPad mini has always had half the ram as the regular sized iPad. I wouldn't be surprised if the Air had 2GB and the Mini had 1 GB.
>The iPad Air, like the iPhone 5s, ships with 1GB of LPDDR3 memory. Apple frowns upon dissection of review samples but I think it’s a safe bet that we’re not talking about a PoP (Package-on-Package) configuration but rather discrete, external DRAM here. It’s also probably a safe bet that even the iPad mini with Retina Display will ship with 1GB of memory as well.
I wasn't sure how Retina vs. non-Retina apps behave in memory. Some apps presumably ship both sizes of assets, in which case the OS could load only the smaller ones into memory. But if an app only ships Retina assets, would those go straight into memory, or is the OS clever enough to resize them dynamically and throw that into memory?
Understandable, some people do, some people don't.
I'm one of those people who do. For $10, if this thing included IRC, I would switch over in a heart beat. If it also included SKYPE? Oh man, the things I would do to the developer who made it...that would be heaven.
Less apps open usually means less memory consumption, and overall less clutter on my desktop.
They are fantastic pens, too. I've had one since high school (so...about 8 years now) and I've refilled the ink cartridge all of three times. A very VERY solid investment for writers.
Same, I've had one of these pens since 2007 or 2008. First saw them in HS, when the $20 or $30 sounded like a lot of money, when a grandchild of one of the founder(he claimed, and it would be an odd claim to make if it weren't true) was in a class of mine. I used to get made fun of, which hasn't bothered me since high school, until people started realizing they were always asking to borrow it to write down a note or sign a receipt.
I watched the same video, love Adam and Tested.com, my favorite aspect of the pen is how small it is when you put the cap on. Fits in my pocket and I can't tell its there.
I found a Stanley screwdriver that is great to carry around in my pocket. I used a bit of Instamorph to build a clip for both and now they don't slide around in my pocket!
This right here is the real problem I had with the space pen. I used to use them religiously until I was losing one every couple months.
The ones without the clips are the worst, because they'll roll off of anything. They also had a nasty habit of falling out of my pockets when I sat down/got up. They are excellent pens though.
