Either that or you avoid Windows. I had a virus on an old Mac IIsi running System 6, but I've never had one since. I've never gotten viruses on Linux or MacOS X, and it's not because I'm oblivious to the threats. It's because I made a conscious decision to avoid an insecure platform.

I work for a huge company (50k+ employees). We're all issued Windows laptops. In the 3.5 years I've worked here, I've had to have my laptop replaced or re-imaged 7 times. I don't run any nonstandard software, I don't download stuff off the internet, and honestly, I mostly use it for email, because I do my real work on a Linux desktop. These aren't some offbrand either, they're Lenovo and HP enterprise machines.

It's no wonder Apple is doing well in the enterprise. The few people who got Macs during one manager's brief stay never have issues with them, ever. If I could get one and run Parallels or VMWare Fusion, I'd do so in a heartbeat.

I got the 3G iPad. I thought I'd need the 3G. Turns out, there's free wi-fi almost everywhere you go, so the 3G is mostly useful in the car. I turn it on once a year for the family vacation.

Of course, now I have a Nokia N8 with the free Joiku Hotspot app, so I just use that as my Wi-Fi to 3G bridge now.

Have you considered developing some muscle tone? My 4 year old can use the iPad for as long as I will let him with no complaints, and I have the heavier old model.

5 minutes to come down and install (program X that's actually work related) for me? Try a week and a half, if you're lucky. Wait, my software development IDE is not on the "approved list", even though it's the defacto standard for the work I do? Oh, you want to install Silverlight on my computer, even though I don't want, need, or use it? Hmm, it's seems I accidentally formatted the hard drive and installed Ubuntu. Oops.

That's unfortunately a very Americanized view of the original statement, "". What it really means is something along the lines of, "You should not emphasize your own individual excellence or difference over group harmony (wa, ) to avoid resentment and dissension." The Japanese have great respect for the group over the individual. It's not about repression.

They're not equivalent. The question is, how much value is there in Flash, and how much do you care if you don't have it? Aside from youtube and clones of youtube, I keep FlashBlock running on all my browsers at home and at work, and I don't ever look at Flash, ever. I guess if you do a lot of online Flash games or something, then it has value. I've heard a coworker talk about a streaming music site called GrooveShark that depends on it too, but for me, there's little to no value in Flash at all, so lacking it wouldn't hurt at all.

TLDR: I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW/OLD GOVERNMENT OVERLORDS.

I have a couple of mobile devices with purported Flash support (Nokia N900 and N8), and while they play video and handle "click" ok, they don't do mouseover, dragging, and other things that makes anything besides video viable. The one device that I saw that supported these advanced features did so by creating a virtual cursor that you moved via arrow keys -- terrible. When Apple decided not to support Flash, this was one of the justifications, and in my mind, the only truly legitimate one. Until Adobe redesigns flash with some sort of drag or gesture support, it's always going to be a poor experience on mobile devices.

Most of the comments here and elsewhere say something to the effect of, "I already have a smartphone and a laptop, so why do I need it?". The thing is, a lot of people have neither, or one or the other. Much as crossover vehicles are neither car nor SUV, people who could benefit from either but only want one find them a reasonable compromise. I have a powerful desktop computer. I also have an iPad. My laptop died, and I haven't bothered to replace it. For couch surfing, emailing, web browsing, and playing an occasional game, the iPad is awesome. I won't suggest that it will replace your laptop that you use for Office documents, but honestly, I never, ever write Office documents at work or at home, and the things I would use a laptop for (enumerated previously) the iPad does very well.

Their plan is idiotic. You may not like what Elop has proposed, but suggesting that Nokia just go stick their heads in the stand and work only out of Finland is idiotic. The Finnish culture at Nokia is largely what caused their downfall in the first place. The arrogance is unbelievable.

Actually it's quite easy to get a DVD movie onto an iPad.

1) Most movies come with "Digital Copy" now. Put the code in iTunes, and you are done.
2) For the ones that don't there's always Handbrake, which has presets for it and makes it trivial to convert in a few minutes. Once it's done, drag to iTunes and sync.

the Slashdot crowd would love the 7600. It had expansion slots, lots of memory slots, and a processor on a card that you could easily upgrade. I started out with a 7500, and upgraded the processor card 5 times, eventually putting the motherboard in a Daystar Genesis case and ending up with a dual processor 604e card.

As a geek, I loved that design. It ran MkLinux too.

This is a non-story.

1) Developer submits an app intentionally to get it rejected.
2) App gets rejected.
3) ???
4) Profit!

The funny thing is, this is actually happening here. 3 seems to be getting the "press" to cover you so people hear about your other apps.

My grandfather probably liked Benny Goodman. My dad was part of the Beatles generation, but I think he was more partial to Elvis.