Subject line says it all :)

Just because a form factor looks good doesn't mean it is practical. Does the new Mac Pro look nice from the outside? Yeah, I suppose. Does the form factor lend itself well toward a performance computing solution? With the *exact*, *limited* specs they offer - well enough... but with a lot of caveats in terms of what you can do with it. And I bet it wouldn't look as nice once you have multiple external drives stacked around it, with tons of cables everywhere, because they won't let you put more than a single SSD inside the thing.

Not in full, no - I mostly look at the specs and prices (the price increase to upgrade from one part to another, specifically). The story is all there, in terms of value.

Hmm, are they really that powerful? It seems odd that Apple would overcharge for the RAM, the CPU options, the SSD... but then drastically under-price the video cards. Something else is going on there, methinks.

I didn't read that part of the article, but if the Mac version of Premiere Pro doesn't use dual GPUs then that is unfortunate. The PC version definitely can, though you only notice the difference when working with resolutions above 1080P:

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-Professional-GPU-Acceleration-502/#4k(Custom)Results

This is not true - the Xeons and Core series chips that are built on the same tech generations perform almost identically in terms of heat and processing power. The Xeons can use ECC memory, which most of the Core series cannot, but there is no difference in heat generation or whatnot. A properly built Core i7 workstation can keep going - even with TurboBoost'd speeds - indefinitely, you just need to right sort of cooling in place (which is also true of the Xeons).

Yeah, it is true that if they wanted a single socket solution with >6 cores Intel doesn't have a product specifically for that. I just don't understand why they didn't stick with the dual socket setup that past Mac Pros have used, and most other high-end pro-grade workstations also offer. Or maybe offer both, with the dual CPUs in a larger version of the round chassis? Anyway, just another example of the limited selection and choices you get with Apple products.

- Only a single CPU, despite using the more expensive line of dual-CPU capable Xeon E5 processors (so you are paying for the added circuitry to handle dual procs without the corresponding benefit).

- Dual video cards, despite this not being a gaming system. Granted, some media editing applications can utilize multiple GPUs for computing - like Adobe Premiere Pro CC - but many cannot, and even ones that can don't necessarily get a doubling of performance from the second card.

- Only room inside for a single drive, so any serious storage has to be external (adding wires and cluttering up things, rather than saving space like this small form factor seems to be designed for).

- 64GB of RAM maximum, despite the CPU's ability to handle more.

- Upgrades overpriced... and this is coming from someone who works at a custom system builder, and we sometimes get dinged by folks for charging more than Newegg. Obviously things like labor, support, warranty, etc have to be factored into the parts costs, but Apple charges more than any other company I've seen for that 'value add' (this is not new news, though - just a continuation of what they have always done).

I've already had customers of mine asking for price and performance comparisons, and the good news? We always come out on top! I love PCs :)

Nice link, but next time a NSFW warning would be appreciated - not for the pictures of the burnt thieves, that's no biggie, but for the rather risque site logo and ads :/

Thanks :)

So there are some potentially cool applications of this - stopping a criminal in a car chase with police, for example - but it has massive potential for crime as well. Stopping cars at night, in secluded areas, to steal them and/or assault the passengers? Or causing mayhem by stopping cars on freeways, not all of which will slow at the same speed, leading to massive pile-ups.

Fascinating - thank you!

It makes sense in that time and setting, though I expect they (Adam and Eve) weren't speaking Hebrew - that was likely just the translation as rendered to Moses by God when he was writing the Torah. When there was only one man and one woman, there was no need to identify further in the language: the only woman was the only wife, and likewise the only man was also the only husband.

The context and especially verse 24 ("Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.") do still pinpoint Adam and Eve as being married. This is further evidenced by Jesus quoting this passage later when discussing marriage and divorce with a group of Pharisees in Matthew 19 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019:3-6&version=ESV).

Actually, they were married - the first couple, wed by God. In fact, the passage in Genesis refers to the "man" (Adam) and his "wife" (Eve) for a long time before ever mentioning her name as being Eve!

'Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.'

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202:23-25&version=ESV

I think you may have posted on the wrong thread - Google is not (yet) the government ;)

The thing I am loving about Star Citizen is that there *is* meat already. The final game is a long way off, but there is already a hangar module where several of the early ships can be seen and interacted with if you have contributed toward the game. By doing this they are keeping backers interested, and also involving us in the development process. We can send feedback, find bugs, etc *way* before any sort of formal open beta would begin.

They are also doing a really great job of feeding tidbits about the progress on a daily basis, with a weekly streaming tv show and official fiction / lore too. Would this work for every potential crowd-funded game project out there? No - you are correct that it takes a combination of factors to get people into something like this... but there is a ton for those who want to mimic SC's success to learn from here. And if it does end up being even 75% of the game they have promised, I think we will see more gamers being willing to back similar projects in the future.

On the contrary! I greatly applaud scientific efforts to understand how things work. It helps us advance our knowledge of God's creation, and aids us in all manner of activities in life: health care, transportation, food production, etc. I also find it fascinating when discoveries are made that change the way we understand the world, and I am constantly amazed at the complexity of things we take for granted in day to day life because we cannot see them in detail easily (DNA replication, atomic interactions, etc).

One of the things I am most fascinated by is the double-slit experiment, and I look forward to someday finding out what is going on there - and so research into that, both practical and theoretical, is of great value.

The difference between my approach and that of the naturalistic scientific community is that my worldview does not require our universe to be a closed system. In a completely closed system, with no interaction from outside (past, present, or future) things we find in nature have to be interpreted in certain ways. I can see those same findings and interpret them in a way that meshes science with the activity of God - both in His initial creation of our universe, and in select interactions since then... and I find that a lot of things in life make a lot more sense with that approach. I understand that a lot of people (likely most, in a forum like Slashdot) would disagree - and I won't insult them for it. I would appreciate the same courtesy from others. [please note that I am not saying the poster above me was insulting in any way, but others in this discussion have been]