Depends on where you are in the US. There are a lot of brick and stone buildings in the northeast. Florida because of hurricanes they tend to build houses out of cinder block. In California because of earthquakes they tend not to build with masonry.
That said the US historically had a lot of wood. Most everywhere. So it was cheap and light[1] easy to transport. And wood if it's kept dry is durable. My house is 70 years old. The wood framing is totally solid. Previous house is 115 years old. The framing is also solid.
[1] House built of wood is probably 1/4 the weight of a house built of masonry.
It goes up much quicker and requires less highly skilled tradesman to build and to maintain.
There are new developments in the states where they produce the frames for the various housing 'templates' off-site, and then ship it to the plots and build the house there, almost like a lego kit.
For my gf (in the usa), it's aesthetics. Though I look at brick and think "longevity." Perhaps historically it was cheaper/easier to use local wood and that image stuck with people?
Nothing is built with brick anymore. If you see a newer than 1940s brick house, its a stick frame (wood) with a layer of brick outside it for aesthetics. Also people associate brick with longevity, but as several of my friends in old ass brick row homes, their foundations are crumbling, and are usually in need of serious structural repair. Brick isnt bomb proof like people think it is. Its even more susceptible to long term stress from wind shear.
It has to have the ME silicon and the AMT enabled firmware. According to Matthew Garrett, who I'd generally trust on this stuff, Apple hasn't ever shipped AMT-enabled firmware.
It's nice to see that for once it's a good thing that Apple hardly ever ships standard firmware and instead usually leaves out all the components and features they don't plan to use.
vPro isn't a CPU, it's a particular combination of CPU, PCH (southbridge), Intel NIC/WiFi, and AMT firmware. There's no evidence that Macs have AMT or vPro.
You're right about that. Intel's product lineup is a huge mishmash of optional features that no one understands and now it's going to bite them. (But not really, because what else are you going to buy? A Ryzen laptop?)
I joined a startup wholly-owned by GOWEX 5 months ago. A startup that is now defunct.
I know it sounds crazy but we all believed those numbers, we were happy, money everywhere.
But from time to time one of my mental alarms would go off, and I would just ignore it. "What could possibly be wrong with this company? It's a publicly-traded company, after all."
The moral of the story is: pay attention to your instincts.
"I know it sounds crazy but we all believed those numbers, we were happy, money everywhere.
... 'What could possibly be wrong with this company? It's a publicly-traded company, after all.'"
Sounds like we've already forgotten about Enron[1]. They seemed to be rolling in cash, were hyped by Wall Street analysts and the media, etc. How could it all have been a scam?
I do shuffle around pieces because I'm trying to pick the version I like the best. I don't think I'm removing that much overall, but this is a work in progress.
I also decided to fact-check myself after posting the links, so I deleted some things that multiple sources say are spurious (not by J. S. Bach at all). If all of those happened to be your favorites, it might be that there's another Baroque composer you like better than Bach that you should look for!
Even if it’s cheaper, is it worth to have a cheaper but obviously less durable building when compared to brick and mortar?
It’s always been baffling for my southern European mind.