No it wasn't, as soon as you install iOS 7 and enable find my iphone the device is locked to that users icloud account, there's a way to disable it but it requires attaching the phone to a physical machine. You can disable the feature through MDM now, but it has zero effect if the user has already set it up (horse meet barn door). We've lost a half dozen devices due to folks being let go and refusing to unlock our property, Apple's gotten better about unlocking the devices in the last couple months, but if they're not on our main account so we can easily show proof of ownership we're SOL.

The i* device revolution has been extremely annoying for enterprise IT since Apple has had almost zero understanding or interest in supporting us. Things like requiring plugging in an iphone to a PC to turn off the find my iphone feature with iOS 7 as an example (No I can't contact all 300 field users and ask them to mail me their iphone for a few days).

What does SM have that's even remotely like Moonshot? I don't believe they have anything like 45 modules with 4x 8-core ARM processors in 5U. Verari looks interesting, but at 1700 cores per rack it's almost 10x less dense than moonshot.

Nah, HP's all about long lived chassis, the C7000 blade enclosure is 8 years old and they're still adding new blades and I/O modules for it. The previous P class chassis was supported for 6 years.

More like 30-60W/m^2 depending on if they're amorphous or poly-crystalline, most folks won't be buying 25+% efficient monocrystalline panels for charging their cellphone =)

He should tell Congress that Tesla should be blocked from direct sales, that's the only way to ensure that a law allowing direct sales in all 50 states will be passed =)

Our budget is ~$15M for capital and non-capital expenses, our Microsoft annualized cost for our current agreement is $365,000. I'm not lying, just providing the facts as it applies to my enterprise. You seem to be spending half as much on licensing as we do but have a WAY smaller operation (I'm currently negotiating a deal for a partial server refresh and disaster recovery array at ~$420k, that alone in more than our MS software cost and and it's a small part of our annual budget.)

Your knowledge is WAY out of date, basically everything in Windows can be done through Powershell, in many ways the programmability of Windows is ahead of Linux since things are more standardized across application spaces.

I know you were going for funny, but the reality is Microsoft licensing just isn't that expensive. We've got the full ecal suite plus service center for all servers, SQL, Exchange, etc and MS licensing is well under 3% of our annual IT budget. Salesforce, our document management system, our Oracle maintenance, our cellphone bill, our copier bill, and especially personnel are larger costs.

Yeah well, what about something in between? Fire people in order of how badly they need to be fired,

That's what Cisco does, they do regular bottom 5% cuts where those who are ranked in the bottom 5% on their performance reviews are let go. Groups that are performing well and are full of talented people are sometimes allowed to take their 5% from open positions, but only with the approval of an SVP or above. (at least this was the practice when I was there in the early 2000's)

Copyright most certainly applies to design files, just like you can run into issues printing photographs proving ownership of the image you would need to prove ownership of the design file you are submitting before they'll use it to make something for you.

The per piece rental would make more sense, HD charges your card at rental time the full cost of the tools replacement as a deposit and I'm not sure how many people would have $2,800 open on their card. Of course then they'll run into copyright issues, so probably best just to sell the units.

Custom cases for phones/electronics projects (Raspberry Pi comes to mind), prototypes of all sorts of things (custom rings is one I saw in their twitter feed, heck I read a story about a surgeon in the UK who used 3D printing to make models of bones and organs to practice surgery procedures on saving several thousand pounds and several weeks vs traditional hand made models.

+1 Funny, I hope.

Lol, what's funny about that is if they like rock or electronic music it's highly likely the source of the music is CL, many instruments including the Korg Triton use CL chips (in the case of the Triton it was the same chip as in one of the high end SB Live cards).