"It's something some of us Apple fans have long figured out is that individual specs sometimes are completely meaningless."
No they are not.
If you are transcoding video then a fast video card if using OpenCL or Cuda will really speed things up.
If you are not then an I7 will really help.
I love OS/X and I really like my macbook pro but the new iMac, Mac Book Pros, and Mac Pro are not as flexible as I want or need.
SSDs are advancing too fast for me to not want the option of installing a new one. Apple charges too much for memory as well so yes I want to plug it in.
The issue btw is not that the new MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro lack those features. The issue is that none of the Apple line are really expandable.
BTW Thunderbolt does not count. It is too slow for serious CUDA or OpenCL work. It just can not match the speed of a 16x slot.
Right now I am running Xeon Ivy Bridge-e machine with 32 gigs of ram and two SSDs in a raid and it still takes a while to do some compiles.
 

No it was the Apple III. It had a few issues because the design was really pushing board design.
PDP?
DEC Would never allow that. Frankly picking up and dropping most PDP 11s could cause death or a minor earthquake.

You mean like Lenovo?

You idiot. How dare you point out that they title is pure flamebait!
What will you do next? Logical discourse?
What is the world coming too.

Actually no it does not. That is called trespassing.

Never said it was a good thing but the chances are that the extinction event should be lower than the earlier one.
Overall your comments play well but show a real lack of any understanding of evolution, science, and so on.
For example most people that died at Hiroshima died of burns and or the blast effect and not the radiation. It was an air burst so the fallout was limited.

BTW yes I know that you were comments where an attempt to shame and try to show ignorance and I am sure that many found it funny but it was those that are not all that knowledgeable.
I never said that it was a good thing just that life in the sea today should have a higher tolerance to a change on PH than those that died eons ago.

That means that all sea life is descended from sea life that survived the change in the Ocean.

"One big war, since the Dutch managed to stay out of the first one. But according to this article that period coincides with increasing body length, so that supports the idea that food is a limiting factor."
They did but I am sure that they still suffered shortages during WWI just as Sweden did in WWII. But for the most part they have not had famine .

"You need to grow it first, and being tall doesn't help with that."
A famine typically is when you do not have enough food for everyone. Being the strongest tends to allow you to take food from the week or at least defend what you have.

"Both are horribly expensive things that don't work"
Funny but the Bradley did very well in Desert Storm. At least my friend that was on gunner on one thought they did and he was their.
As I get older I tend to doubt that any large project is ever properly managed.

1. Not a lot of issues with food shortages in the Holland for the last 105 years or so except for those two big wars.
2. Taller is often also physically stronger which means you tend to have more access to food.

Actually yes it will.
If you do not allow H1B then they will hire programmers in Ireland, India, and .... name the country.
Those programmers will buy food, cloths, houses, cars, and so on in those nations and pay income tax in those nations.

If they get H1Bs they have to pay US income tax and buy stuff here.

As people so like to point out the internet erases borders. You can bring people here or work with them remotely. Working with them here means they pay taxes here.
We ran into this with a worker at my office from Canada. He had a hard time renewing his visa so he worked from Canada as a consultant until his visa was granted. That pay was tax free as far as the US is concerned.

Funny thing is someone once accused me of being a SJW because I found the stereotyping of all Indian contract programmers as talentless hacks to be bigoted.
It does seem to be fine line between a SJW and a bigot.

Frankly just about every new system introduced was considered a total failure by the Press at one time or another.
The F-4 Phantom, F-14, F-15, F-18, M1A1, AH-64, M2 Bradley, B-1, F-111, The Nimitz class carrier, and going way back to pre WWII the B-17 crashed in testing and was thought to be too big and expensive.
This article is full of fluff and opinions from unnamed experts. The SBX may be a disaster but I don't see the limited angle as that big of a deal. It is designed so that if the US feels threatened by North Korea then we target them with the SBX. It is a system that is designed to respond to an escalation in threats not to stand guard for a sneak attack.

If you 24/7 protection from sneak attack that will cost you. You will need to build many X-Band and S-Band radars and re-establish the DEW Line. Then you will want to re-establish the Pine Line in Canada. Next you will want to convert the old Safeguard system in ND to house BMDs and then add installations in along the coasts. Maybe Land Aegis along the coasts. And we should probably build some X-Band Radars in American Samoa , Midway, Hawaii, and Christmas Island. In the Atlantic interceptors should be based in Greenland....
As you see it would be a massive project. Truth is that it is unlikely that North Korea or Iran would just go and pop a nuke at the US without any escalation. The simple truth is the interceptors are to save lives in North Korea and or Iran. If a single warhead hits a US city the response would be terrible. Those nations would cease. The death toll would be staggering.
If the leaders of those nations did get stupid and we manage to intercept the warhead the response would be much lower.

THe problem is that they really missed the target.
The goal is not to have more people of color, women, or one eye gay Episcopalian kangaroos to win awards,
The point is for everyone have an equal chance to win the awards based on the quality of their work.
AKA the issue should never have been one of inclusion. It needs to be one of ending exclusion.

When Need head down time I just put in my headphones. At my office people know that unless it is urgent leave me alone.