They're not slimeballs, they're fucking morons.

When the original IT staff is training their replacements, a fucking moron would realize they are more than qualified to do the damn job.

This was about money, plain and simple. And any fucking moron who wants to stand up and claim otherwise will earn their title of fucking moron for assuming the rest of us are as dumb and ignorant as they are.

You do realize "to fleece the pockets means "to line" right?

At a $35,000 price point for one of these I, like many others, am interested.

However, I heard this MSRP "news" a year ago. As I said before, dunno how this bean counter shit gets anyone here excited, but it apparently does.

I guess Apple should have waited another 6 months to release their watch. After all, with this logic, customers will be perfectly happy for months staring at a price tag, merely wondering what the product does.

No mention of increased range, capabilities of new battery packs, options, nothing. Just an estimated price and delivery date. Oh, and some hyped up BS that a battery pack is sold out now.

The parent is right. This kind of bean counter shit hardly whets my tech appetite. Not sure how it satisfies yours.

Who said government customers give a shit about what that price is? It's not their money.

And of course there's huge mark-up. That's because Harris knows damn well what kind of legal revenue can be generated from one of these things. I wouldn't be surprised if the ROI on this is less than 6 months.

And the i7 in my Mac Mini pulls considerably less. It's called efficient design.

And if you're only running an i5 in a desktop, then you can likely run an i7 in a laptop, and consume a lot less power during the day.

Serious business apps are large ERP and financial systems such as Oracle or SAP that run in server farms or hosted in the cloud, which only require a "puny" browser running java to interface.

And your accounting department still uses Excel and Access as "serious business apps" outside of those larger systems, which could run on a tablet today.

Even stranger times when citizens believe them.

Let's just say this particular organization has become infamous for saying one thing, and doing another.

Are you certain dragging innocent citizens into a courtroom and milking them for thousands to fleece the pockets of various members of the legal community isn't in fact the intended purpose?

It's become a very expensive evidence gathering tool that also happens to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars for the legal system, legal or otherwise. So far this county seemingly doesn't want to play along, but I question the other 99% of the country that has no qualms using it.

Cute theory here, but go ahead and tell me why the average corporate desktop needs to be anything more powerful than an i5 today.

Fact is, it doesn't. Hardware started really eclipsing software demand long ago. And smartphones are only getting more and more powerful with every iteration. Desktops are not really on the same linear progression anymore, mainly due to demand.

Yes, there will be a need for powerful computing but that will live inside the cloud, with virtual server offerings and other massive parallel computing needs that would reduce even future desktop systems to pathetic performing crap. Why the hell would I run a "powerful" desktop in the future and wait an hour for my local processing to be done when I can own a smartphone and send that job to the cloud system to process in seconds?

Fact is, I wouldn't.

You're correct and it was specifically a poor example, but there are plenty of others to be found along with plenty of reasons we don't use language like that anymore, unless we feel like channeling Shakespeare.

Look, we can go back and forth on this all day long. At the end of the day it was a judge acting unprofessionally. Blowing off steam, adding a little variety, spicing up the paperwork are all excuses and nothing more.

Again the dangerous part with word fuckery in a courtroom is watching lawyers literally want to rip it apart letter by letter looking for loopholes or reasons to dismiss. This case is so obvious it likely won't make a difference here, but it's stupid shit like this that allows loopholes to be found and executed and cases dismissed for BS reasons when they shouldn't have.

I run a Macbook and a Mac Mini at home. I own two cell phones, one of which is an iPhone.

Nice try though.

Tell that to Microsoft. They have a considerably different point of view by presenting a single pane of glass across all smartphones, PCs, and tablets. In the end, we won't even be manufacturing a traditional desktop like you have today outside of very specialized applications.

Your smartphone will make today's most powerful desktops look like cheap toys in 10 years or less, and battery advancements will likely push it out to lasting at least a few days, regardless of what mode (desktop or phone) you use.

And a desktop, or more to the point a corporation WILL care about all those power-saving features when they are fined per machine by the power regulators for running any device consuming more than 10 watts on the desktop.

You do realize that a lawyers job is to rip apart each and every single word that is presented to them in a literal manner to ensure interpretation is dead accurate and loopholes cannot be exercised, don't you?

Now as I've pointed out before, kindly tell me what a directive is, why it is considered prime, why it is exactly located eleven decks up, why it is located on a deck to begin with, and where that deck is physically located, complete with directions so that my defendants will fully understand what you are accusing them of.

And no, this is not me defending the assclowns in this case in any way. This is me defending common sense when working in the literal landscape that is our legal system.

And I find it incredulous that I have to remind a judge of this.

Understand this has nothing to do with me or anyone else understanding it easier.

This has everything to do with the literal interpretation of what is being said, which is exactly what a lawyers job is.

Now feel free to literally interpret what the prime directive here is, why you feel I'm failing to follow it, why it's located on a deck, and where that deck is.

In the legal landscape that can easily define and re-define the word "or" 17 different ways when ripping apart legal directives and contracts, one does not fuck around with wordplay. This would be akin to my broker re-wording my mortgage contract in Ye Olde English just because they visited a Renaissance festival last weekend and thought it was cool. In the meantime, I'm arguing with the building contractor over what the hell a "fortnight" is on the schedule.

And a judge (who likely used to be a lawyer), should fucking know this, beyond simply maintaining professionalism.

There are plenty of highly-trained resources and standing requirements around a courtroom to translate legalese.

In contrast, there are no known requirements for anyone working in a courtroom to translate or understand what the hell a prime directive is and why it is located on a deck. Could the defendants fire up their lawyers under the what-the-fuck-are-you-trying-to-accuse-us-of defense? Likely so, simply based on principle. Again, a lawyer will want to know exactly who to speak to on deck #11 about the prime directive they allegedly are responsible for understanding, with directions on how to get there.

As for the judge, it's called being professional. If you can't maintain this no matter what various assclowns present in your courtroom, then perhaps you should step down.