Apparently the SRY gene on the Y chromosome is a fairly specific gender selection switch. Mutations on that gene on the Y chromosome can lead to XY women, and transcription of that gene to the X chromosome can lead to XX men. But I guess they tried that test and it wasn't robust enough to be used routinely. BTW I just…

It's a difficult issue, but somehow a clear and basic rule has to be devised. I'm inclined to agree with Ram-Sacked below - if you're not XX, then you're with the men. Yes, it may be unfair to a few individuals, but you also don't want to be unfair to the vast majority of other women as well. It sounds like they used…

Isn't this as easy as dividing the groups between those having XX and those having XY chromosomes? I'm not sure what else would matter.

For my use, I care. Apple won't have a monopoly on HiDPI laptops forever, so I'll just stick with my 2011 MBA and 2010 MBP. First thing I did when I got my MBP, upgraded RAM and slapped in an SSD. Did it again this year. Especially the hard drive is an issue - SSD's have had a nice progression in speed and GB/$, and…

Not to nitpick, but it's around $100 for 16GB of RAM, and I usually go with the high end SSD's like the Samsung 830, which benches better than the vanilla SSD's that usually go into these machines.

I'm shocked that more people don't complain about this. It's annoying as hell, everybody on the planet has the same iPhone ringtone.

This is a shame...the first thing I did when I got my last MBP was upgrade the RAM and install an SSD. I'll wait for PC's to get retina for my next laptop.

I wouldn't blame them if they killed it, but they should either kill it, spin it off, or support it. Right now the Mac Pro is an embarrassing relic that is somehow still featured on their website. It probably took all of one man-day of paperwork to release the "update", and it wouldn't be that hard to simply update…

Wow...the comments here are much more forgiving than the nerd rage that's going on over in the macrumors forums. The bottom line is that Apple hasn't invested a single dime in the Pro market in the past two years, so content creators are starting to question whether or not they will keep the platform. Even if they…

I'll have to say I'm shocked they didn't update the Pro. The iMac will more than likely get an update soon enough, but to have a two year old artifact sitting in their portfolio as a premium workstation is just sad. You'd never see HP, Dell, Lenovo, or anybody else selling a premium workstation with two year old…

I think this is one of the best explanations. It's bad enough when a key programmer quits, but if the company is using an obscure language and you have to train the replacement on the language as well as learn the code, it just adds an avoidable delay and expense to the project. There has to be a damn good reason to…

Enough moralizing. For all the harrumphing over pink, scantily clad models, or featuring a *gasp* MAN on a cover about being a dad, there's plenty of women who appreciate that stuff. I suppose one idea could be to start a publishing and tech company catering to grouchy feminists.

I can do that in windows too, but just typing what you want is more intuitive and saves the bother of setting up shortcuts on every machine you work on.

I'd say some sort of trade union between Australia, UK, Canada, Ireland, the US, and maybe India could be likely (some sort of expanded or reformed commonwealth), especially if the Euro and EU dies and if Scotland votes for independence in their upcoming referendum. Puerto Rico is a gimme, and if Quebec seceded then…

There's also the possibility of east and west California, where the more rural central valley Californians separate from the urban coastal cities. I'd give the dissolution of California pretty high odds either way, considering what a disaster the place is.

Well, with 7 you have to get in the search menu, with 8 you just hit the windows key and start typing on the main start page. I think 8 presents the results easier, and for me it's just more intuitive than doing the same on 7. Of course, you're still limited on keyboard friendliness by the individual application, but…

Oddly enough with all the emphasis on touch, I've found Windows 8 to be more keyboard friendly than anything else out there. Hit the windows key, start typing to do what you want, then hit enter. Being a hard core Windows user over the years, I'll need to relearn some habits but I really like this. With my MBA I spend…

Fix the damn keyboard. Display lower case when typing lower case, display upper case when typing upper case.

Extinction...the ultimate disaster porn entertainment.

I just thought it was because the ratings were terrible, but I suppose that operating a 30's carnival and paying people who can actually act gets expensive.