The leak was last month. Sales have fallen off since Q4 2009...well before the leak started. Face it, the iPhone has fallen behind it's competitors.

I was surprised to see that as well, but I am sure there is an Android equivalent to this somewhere out there. I wouldn't be surprised if Rove ported the application to Android.

You're doing it wrong.

Or that the iPhone is an inferior product in the Enterprise market. Or that people don't like dealing with the AT&T network. There could be a million different reasons for this.

But they're not really going "for free." You're paying for it, but you're paying for it over the life of the contract and data plan instead of a lump sum up front. I think the AT&T now uses this model with the newer iPhones as well, but not to the same extent as other carriers with other smartphones.

I doubt it. The tablet market is going to become a very crowded space very shortly with several potential competitors who have been developing their products for much longer than Apple has.

While the iPad won't fail, it won't enjoy the same long-term success the iPhone has had.

Since when? Most laptops come with one DIMM of the lowest density RAM they can put in the machine and are easily upgradeable. RAM is one of the only components that can easily be upgrades in almost all laptops except Macs and some Dell Latitude E-series machines since you only have to open a service door or remove the palm rest to upgrade RAM.

Every laptop has some form of display out (VGA, HDMI, or DisplayPort) that can be used to hook up a monitor, projector, or HDTV (especially one that isn't crippled to 1024x768). The machine is still usable at that point even if you lose portability. Almost every one also has USB and most have bluetooth so you can hook up external devices.

LOLWUT??? You realize that there are very few laptops with external power supplies. The AC/DC conversion usually happens in the AC adapter, and it can be replaced by a ~$100 vendor specific or $50 universal AC adapter.

PC != Microsoft Windows, no matter what Apple's marketing tells you.

Dev Tools for Windows are free. Microsoft makes the Windows SDK available for free. The .Net framework includes the necessary compilers for the framework. If you want an IDE, there are the Visual Studio.Net Express options or the open source SharpDevelop. Notepad ++ can also be used for developing VB, C, and C# on Windows.

To keep up appearances, we'd need to put one in the Smithsonian.

I had modded this overrated, but this really deserves a reply.

You're in the wrong place if you expect sympathy. There are a lot of other sysadmins here. There are a lot who wear all of the hats. You're not alone.

You had a poorly designed or poorly implemented mail system. That isn't clamAV's fault. It's not their fault that you didn't upgrade or check your system logs. This is no different than forgetting to pay the maintenance bill on a commercial mail gateway or hosted solution. Would you blame Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, or CA if you didn't pay the bill and your mail stopped flowing?

The fact that you didn't follow a blog or mailing list about a critical piece of your infrastructure says a lot about you as a sysadmin. They're even on Facebook and Twitter. If you can't take the time to keep an eye on your mail gateway or antivirus product, what else aren't you keeping up on. Think about that for a few minutes, set up a Google reader account, and then start subscribing to blogs. If you have a smartphone, add Google reader to your RSS Reader. It makes good bathroom reading.

We have a couple of heavy-lift launchers according to Wikipedia. The Ares V is classed as a Super-Heavy lift vehicle and can lift 6-8 times as much as an Atlas V or Delta IV. Is the Ares V a good design? I don't know. I think we can do better than merging Shuttle-era technology with Apollo-era concepts.

I learned a lot about PMS from my wife. Does Linux get PMS every 28 days, or just when you have to reboot?

/Yes...I know what you meant.

I knew it! A three digit slashdot ID. They really do exist!

Your reading comprehension is terrible. I acknowledge where it isn't included in the OS, and I don't fall back to 3rd party arguments except in a few small cases. You must be confusing me with other posters in the thread.

Just because an option in OSX is offered to Windows users as an add-on by multiple other sources does not mean that it is important to everyone. Choice is never a bad thing. One of the key benefits of Windows, like Linux, is that you have more control over customizing your user experience. Not nearly as much as Linux, but there are a lot of options available.

They're not the same. The Dock is an application launcher that has rudimentary taskbar features. Except for rearranging task bar windows, the task bar could launch applications (quick-launch bar option) and separately show you what programs were open. Live Preview is cool, but hardly necessary.

Some of the features of Expose have been available in all versions of Windows. For instance, almost every version of Windows had a Quick-Launch icon to minimize all programs to the desktop. I can also access this feature by right-clicking on the desktop. If I want to put all of my open windows on-screen, I can right click on the taskbar and choose a variety of options for displaying all of my open windows. It doesn't work as well as Mac's features, but it has been there.

Saying that most people disabled it is not a reason to say that Mac had it first. If it was there, it was there. It also is still a performance pig, its just that computer hardware has improved to the point where it isn't as noticeable.

There is no such thing as a fragmentation-free file system. Every file system fragments. There are even defragmenting tools for EXT4 Some have tools that try to clean up after itself. HPFS does this for files under 20 MiB, which I admit is a nice feature. Some use different allocation models such as allocate-on-flush (again, a feature of HPFS and ZFS, but not NTFS). NTFS has several other features that aren't available in HFPS, and it would help to read this wikipedia article comparing file systems before spouting that one is clearly more modern than another.

Bash command prompt. Your words, not mine. Slashdot readers can read and know when something is being quoted.

Interesting...2006 was many years after Vista? According to Wikipedia, it was only about 7 day.

It was tacked on in the deprecated Windows 9x OS. NT was designed as multi-user from the beginning, and that is what XP is based upon. While older software had some issues with this, especially programs written for 9x, that hasn't been an issue since 2004-2005 when XP became the standard except for some very specialized software like Allen-Bradley and other low-level hardware programming tools that you won't find on Macs.

A lot really has changed since the legacy days of Windows. Reinstall isn't as common as it used to be, and in a properly maintained corporate environment, you shouldn't have to do routine machine reimages. It may happen on personal computers because people install tons of crap and don't know how to properly maintain their machines. Personal anecdote - means nothing here - I've only had to reinstall XP on my laptop once in the three years I've owned it, and that was because I decided to try Windows 7. I routinely install and remove crap from my machine, and I haven't noticed a significant slowdown. Of course, I also clean up files on my computer and defragment.

Not sure if that is an OS feature, but it was an area that Windows was lacking right out of the box until Server 2008 w/ Powershell. It was available as an add-on for XP/2003/Vista for users who felt they could use it.

That's not really a feature when most websites were written for the browser that came with Windows. That has since changed...

Some of the features of Exposé have been available in every version of Windows since 2000 (taskbar to quickly find a window, show the desktop) or as Windows XP Powertoy.

NTFS is journaled and has been the preferred file system since Windows 2000.

Let's be real...if Microsoft even talked about building this into Windows, Adobe would launch an anti-trust lawsuit. This is a business decision, not a technical decision. That said...there are now several options to save as a PDF in windows, either through a postscript printer (most are open-source) or through the Office 2007/Open Office Save as PDF function.

IIRC, there were legal or licensing issues involved in this as well. I believe that Windows 7 does have built-in support for MPEG2 format, however.

As the other poster noted, Windows 7 can run a Pentium IV w/ 512 MB of RAM.

Not built-in, but Taskbar Shuffle (free add-in) has been available since 2006. Not a huge deal either way, IMO.

Bzzzt. Wrong. Indexing Service has been included since Windows 2000. Vista just put a better UI on it.

Available as an add-in for XP...but like Taskbar Shuffle, this isn't a huge deal.

This is true, and most people didn't know how to set up to run as a limited user. However, it is possible to run without admin rights on XP (some software doesn't like this, but that is poor coding practices by developers).

Not a huge deal to me, but I can see where it would be an accessibility issue.

Both are kinda meh! Multiple Desktops are a pain to work with, and between GRUB and virtualization, the bootloader isn't an issue. The truth is that they steal or license ideas from each other. There are features in Mac (Time Machine is the only one I know off the top of my head) that originated in Windows (Volume Shadow Copy). I'm sure there are other features that originated in Windows that ended up in Mac.