I would be THRILLED if I could get VA-style coverage through my employer or otherwise afford it. Company-provided insurance has been pretty terrible since 2008 or so, and I don't know anyone with enough money to cover it out of pocket.

That site is garbage. They score an RX100 at 70, but a Sony Z2 phone at 79. I use both all the time. The RX100 has a brilliant sensor (it will outshoot a Canon 7D Mark II in many cases). The Z2 sensor is so bad it makes me angry any time I try to use it for something I might want to keep (it's fine for taking photos of serial numbers I don't want to write down and crap like that). Yet according to DXOMARK the Z2 is better than the RX100?

Are you actually finding the eye autofocus on the mirrorless accurate? I found it completely useless for insects, and then ended up ditching the mirrorless to go back to DSLR since I can accurately judge manual focus with a real eyepiece but not on a mirrorless screenback (they need like 4x the resolution to be remotely useful). I do love the RX100 though, I still carry a first-gen one for incidental landscape shots, so that I don't have to carry a wide angle lens for the big camera. It's also my go to concert and event camera since its still small enough to be kind of discreet, and the low light performance is acceptable.

Apple has been Orwellian for the last 10 years. Is there any other explanation for devices in 2010 that can only connect over proprietary data cables, through proprietary software, that have no removable storage, no mass storage class driver support, and have to use a company mandated store to install any applications? Not to mention a smartphone that can't be used as a tethered modem? Their complete ban on all uncontrolled input and output is completely Orwellian, and it's no surprise that they treat their forums that way too.

As far as I know they started the Smartphone market. I had a Windows Mobile Smartphone 5 years ago that had fairly high speed CDMA internet, tethering, and quite a few handy applications (the HTC Apache). There were models around some years before that too. The problem is, they had this massive lead over everyone else, but they were completely apathetic towards their own product. There were no great first party applications, and there was no organized way to find applications for the phone (not advocating a singular market entity, but having no means at all to find applications isn't good either). They also didn't market it to anybody. The only people who even knew were the ones who went looking for the capabilities on their own. The only company who wasn't completely apathetic towards the market was HTC, who went through a lot of trouble to make Windows Mobile usable, and later to even make it look nice. Now Microsoft is completely shooting themselves in the face with Windows Mobile 7 - no backwards compatibility, no multi-tasking, no UI changes (and a bad looking UI from shots so far)... what the hell? So upgrading to a new Windows Mobile phone in the near future means I'm starting over from scratch? I went ahead and switched to Android, though I stayed with HTC. I do hope that Microsoft gets around to making a nice portable version of Office though, and that they have the decency to port it to all platforms (or at least Android, Documents To Go kind of sucks).

They used to pull this shit back in the 90s when I used them too. Back when System 7 was out, there were tons of freely available system extensions and control panels on the web, and small applications that added desktop gadgets and whatnot. Well, both System 7.5 and System 8 were nothing but Apple ripoffs of extensions and control panels stolen from the community and packaged into overpriced OS upgrades. Systems 7 and 7.5 even had compatible Finders (shells), there was practically nothing different about the OSs aside from the stolen extensions. I put up with that behavior then since at the time Apple was years ahead of the rest of the personal computer market, but I jumped ship as soon as I could get a good alternative.

The puzzle is oddly cool, but have you looked at the poster? It's the stuff of nightmares. The napkins are going to be randomly placed in restaurant napkin dispensers.

Bullshit - the dock on Mac didn't show up until 7.5, and it was stolen from a free (non-Apple) system extension then anyway (like almost every "upgrade" after System 7).