Which leaves a large portion of the population who will.

Sure is, when the previous gen processor with a much smaller screen and the same amount of ram at ~$650...(when you factor out the contract subsidy). Oh - and the market is clearly wiping the floor with Apple, what with the Xoom priced at $600.

Indeed. I mean, how many people owe their very existence to alcohol?

Neither can Randall Munroe, but that didn't stop him.

It was the backup screen.

Precisely why slashdot has two distinct moderations for posts in that vane: "Troll" and "Flamebait". TFA is really discussing the latter.

My point was that startups are, for the most part, unproven and unprofitable, so people working for them overcompensate by being a bit egotistical. I say this as someone who's been kicking around the "Silicon Alley" startup culture for a while; I've seen it a few times.

It's a civil trial. The word is "plaintiff".

That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...

Failure to ctrl-t the transposition typo is -1, so it's even.

Indeed, I've seen a lot of Apple "product placement" where they've placed circular silver stickers over the Apple logo on the back of the screens.

Indeed. Macs running OS X server make decent file servers (for a tiny shop) and single domain web servers (again, for a tiny shop) . Use them for anything more sophisticated and things go to shit quickly. Their configuration screens give novice server admins the false impression that they are actually capable of everything they claim to be.

In my opinion, Mac OS X is an _excellent_ client OS, but a horrendous server OS. At my previous place of employment, my boss wanted to use Mac OS X for everything: DNS, Mail, web application servers, etc. They're just not cut out for it. I fought tooth and nail to replace Mac OS X with Debian every time one of the Mac servers failed (or failed to do what it was supposed to) and my life as the primary sysadmin at the time (i've since left for greener pastures) was much better for it. I should note that I was also the lead software engineer of a very small team, I was much more productive not having to deal with Mac OS X's idiosyncrasies. For servers, Debian "just works." Not so with Mac OS X.

It seems ideally suited to both tasks...

We use BCC all the time at my work, any time someone sends an email that remotely effects the entire (small, startup company) everyone@ gets BCC'ed.

I was under the impression that, for a while, expert sexchange was allowing the google bot to crawl their whole site, but not allowing users who came from google to actually view the answers. My understanding was that google removed them from their indexer for that, and that they then allowed people who clicked on the link from google (getting the google.com referrer headers) to see the results by scrolling all the way down. Wikipedia, however, is saying that as of Dec. 18, 2010 this is no longer the case, but they appear to be incorrect. A search on google (with site:experts-exchange.com appended to it) shows (to me, anyway) that this is still how they operate. Pasting the same url returned by the google results in a new tab makes the actual results unavailable (and not in the source of the page, at least from my cursory glance at it).