Comment Won't ever fly in the foreseeable future at my job (Score 1) 571
I work for the college of engineering at a major university. Others have mentioned software issues, which are absolutely correct for us as well. The issue I'd like to mention is the fact that most consumer boxes are so poorly configured by the vendor, then further fucked by the owner with spyware, crapware, bullshit tunes, etc, etc,etc, that the machine often isn't stable enough to run half the engineering applications.
We don't have the time to fix every moron's HP vomitbox running Vista (We banned Vista on our Domain due to massive software incompatibility and overall piss poor video
Maybe for the business school they could get away with having no labs, as the only thing they ever use is M$ office. But for us and probably the CS guys, there are going to be dedicated labs for some years to come.
