Oh, and the IIvi debacle where Apple discontinued it just 4 months after introduction and then dropped the price of the IIvx to near where the IIvi was selling for. That really pissed a lot of people off at the time.

Interesting choices. The MacPortable seemed to be decent for the time. I never knew what the sales figures were, but know the store I worked at had a lot of doctors and lawyers buying them.

You sure about IIgs sales? I sure remember selling and repairing a lot of them. Wasn't the C128 about 1/4 of the price? It was the Amiga that was competing, and while the Amiga was a great computer, it never sold very well.

Just doing the math, the 30% seems like a big number, but it really isn't. Apple does provide the servers, bandwidth, and ease of distribution. All of these cost money to operate.

I think I would add that the iPad is also slow in comparison to desktops and laptops. We've advanced this far only to take a step backward for the sake of making it ultra portable?

@Kardster: LED is nowhere near as bright as the Surefire. I have a Surefire and about 15 different LED. LED are great for up close work where the Surefire is too bright, but my little Surefire can double as a headlight on my 4-wheeler... That's how bright it is.

@Bs Baldwin: It's not a dumptruck, it is a series of tubes!

@rockboy04: I don't think that is a size comparison. I think it was mistakenly put here. It looks more like when there was a major economic downturn, a major building was completed. But what do I know?

Compare todays Cruise ships to the (what we thought was) huge Battleships of WWII.

Mexico is attacking us, declare war!

Isn't one of the early social network called church? Maybe community baths?

Privacy is dead, get over it.

I always wondered about the design of that last one, wouldn't the bullets ricochet down into the bunker from the inside of the roof part?

@thebear91: Oops, BTW - Raid 0 is not for data protection, just speed. I know you know that, but someone reading this might not.

@waclark57: I compared a 4 drive RAID 0 using enterprise drives to just using a SSD and they came out about the same speed. This was using an expensive 3Ware raid card. Yes, the RAID was faster at copying files to itself, about 7x faster, but read speeds were about the same.

Does this mean all those videos tourist take without informing everyone in the shot are illegal?

@chriscalvert: not to mention that todays demorats are much different from the ones of 35 years ago.

@PhineasJW: What, and not be one of the "cool" crowd? LOL

no fuses?