It's even more noticeable with warranties.

Dell Optiplex 790 with core-i7/4GB for us is around $900 with a 5-year warranty (even covers user vandalism and other such coverage.)

While you can get a 17" iMac for a little more there is only 1yr. warranty, not to mention no user replaceable/upgradeable memory, Hdd, no PCIe expansion slots, no tray optical drive (if you need to use media that has labels or is mini-CD/DVD), no multi (non-SD) card reader. (not to mention the additional $70 Office license since users have to have that)

The prices are not as wide as they used to be but they still do not have any mid-range business lines. (only the most basic consumer iMac or hellishly expensive Mac-Pro that doesn't even come with a monitor)

If my Dells break i place an e-mail/phone call/online order and part is sent within 24hrs. (on a mac you can't do anything except drive it down to the nearest consumer apple store and wait in line and spend most of the day to just get a bad HDD replaced.)

Only MS can have a font compromise security.

Somehow i was immediately reminded of this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/02/bofh_gets_to_the_back/

Because it's "supposed" to be PUNISHMENT! (not enjoyable!)

They're supposed to be miserable. That's the fucking point of prison, make you miserable enough NOT to do anything to get there again.

Prisons are for them to be fucking punished!

Not every Android "CONSUMER" device allows sideloading. (Fixed that for ya)

nearly all "business" android smart-phones (outside at&t from what i've seen) have the "Unknown sources" option available (and non-locked) for 3rd-party installs from "any" source.

Our org. buys smart-phones though our Sprint business account and i have not seen (out of the several android phones from 1.5 to 2.3) that have not had this available.

I can do this for free with various methods (UNC, Web, SCP) using Windows and Linux server for no additional cost on most other generic hardware/software

I hear this all the time from the apple iFans about how Apple is "enterprise" ready, Yet a single Mac server (mac pro tower) occupies about 19U of valuable rack space and can't be placed in cabinets since it disrupts air-flow mechanics. (since they discontinues the "only" rack-mount server they offered years ago) I can't run OSX server in a VM or get redundant PSUs. (yeah "enterprise data-center" ready my A^$)

Actually initially iTunes/iPod only supported MACs, they added Windows versions/support later. (plus the first versions were firewire/ieee-1394,not USB which most PCs did not have)

Zune failed because it was just plain ugly, hell i think someone even sold hollowed out zunes specifically designed to hide iPods from theft because no one would be caught dead even stealing a zune.

And then there was the fiasco when MS terminated the music licenses one day and no-one could play what they had purchased.

Don't forget Apple's 30% cut.

Good thing i buy Seagate and stopped touching the crap that is WD years ago. (I miss Maxtor, the real one not the fake Quantum crap.)

"It makes me wonder: if that employee's GPS told them to drive over a bridge, but they saw no actual bridge there, would they try it anyway because that is what the computer says?"

There are plenty of morons who would do just that. (and have!)

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/gps-unit-drives-british-man-off-cliff-20090327/

http://gothamist.com/2011/05/22/gps_drives_jersey_man_off_road_and.php

Rounded corners are not a patented aspect, visual looks of interfaces are not a patented aspect either.

And i'm pretty sure the look and feel aspect has already been tried and they lost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation

$5,000 in most jurisdictions qualifies as "Grand theft" hence the harsher sentence. If he had sold it for $100 it probably would have been a misdemeanor theft charge, $5K is pushing into the felony realm. (not to mention as a prototype apple probably claimed the value as much higher.

You haven't watched politicians on the house/senate floor (or debates in general) have you? They behave exactly like 5 year olds. (kindergarten age is 5, not 6)

"but with enough effort and depending on the quality of your old password, it could be cracked."

So just wait for the torrent to come out and check the list then.

I've just been setting up some new 2008 R2 servers and they use the new Vista (aka crap) start menu, I'm still trying to hit Win-Key, then L or U, then Enter to Logoff or Shut down.

Then i realize those don't work anymore so i have to go grab the mouse and point at the little arrow. (a few dozen or hundred times a day and this gets annoying real fast)

And don't even get me started on the now un-efficient mess of the new security and sharing tabs. (pain in the ASS when setting file share permissions now)

I haven't got to the Windows 7 Pro. in the domain yet but i hope they don't use the same login screen as 2008.

"Congress is by and large doing nothing simply because right wingers can't compromise"

Then how do you explain nothing getting done between Jan 2009 - Jan 2010? (when left-wingers had total control)

Personally i like when neither side controls the whole thing, their being occupied by bitching at each other means they can't fuck it up anymore than it already is so it can't get any worse.