Manufacturers are required to provide support for Class I & II devices at least until the shelf life of the product passes.

Source: wife works in Regulatory Affairs pertaining to medical devices.

Do you know what tone deafness is?

From Wikipedia:

The ability of relative pitch, as with other musical abilities, is inherent in healthy functional humans. The hearing impairment appears to be genetically influenced, though it can also result from brain damage. While someone who is unable to reproduce pitches because of a lack of musical training would not be considered tone deaf in a medical sense, the term might still be used to describe them casually. Someone who cannot reproduce pitches accurately, because of lack of training or tone deafness, is said to be unable to "carry a tune." Tone deafness affects ability to hear pitch changes produced by a musical instrument.

However, tone deaf people seem to be only disabled when it comes to music, and they can fully interpret the prosody or intonation of human speech.

MS Project isn't software. It's a religion.

Wow. Blast from the past. Nice catch.

You forgot the corollary to Slashdot Rule #237: Also within 8 hours there will be a reply stating that they doesn't own an iPhone and don't plan on ever owning one. This can be made by the OP or someone else.

Where's that goatse image when you need it...

Silly you. This is America. The tobacco companies will pay for your mistakes. After all, they're the ones that provided the product that caused the cancer. They even told you it could cause cancer -- therefore it's their fault!!

Optimus Prime?

Seriously, right now the US is fighting wars in 2 theaters and is limited by the will of the politicians in power. If American soil were occupied or under imminent threat of occupation, I don't think the politicians would 1) worry about popularity of the upcoming war poll numbers 2) need to worry about said poll numbers. Americans would band together, at least for a while, to expel and destroy with prejudice an occupying force just so we could get back down to the business of our own politics without outside influence.

--Mike

Why didn't you define "large" in the original post? A "large" deployment of Macs could be 100, 200, 500, 1,000, or 20,000. It makes a difference.

You are a purveyor of lies. That or you heard it once and never bothered to keep current.

Someone doesn't like you -- you got mod'd down.

I agree that we can't have real reform until you control the costs associated with being in health care (malpractice insurance which is expensive due to malpractice suits; 50 separate insurance markets due to individual State mandates...why can't we have a single market????)

Insurance should be for catastrophic events (the Big C, major car accident) -- routine health care should be out of pocket which would be cheaper if the market weren't so skewed already.

--Mike

I am GenX as well...

Never did I think that I would be the "Get Off My Lawn" guy at age 37 -- kids these days have such an incredible sense of entitlement it is sickening. I graduated from a top State school with a BS in Chemistry in 1994 -- not the world's best job market. After working a number of temp jobs -- including one at ETS as a customer service rep -- I decided to move to Boston to live with my brother. Been here ever since, never had a job in Chemistry. College is about learning how to think critically which is a skill that is widely applicable. A number of our interns in my department are all "MIS Majors" at a local private university -- I don't even know what that means. It's not a Liberal Arts curriculum; it might be a business tract.

--Mike

Kind of like Slashdot comments?