Yes, it's great that Exchange can be scripted (and I've written some neat ones), but the Powershell long-winded command names is highly annoying and basically require an IDE to anything beyond the most cursory scripts. Meanwhile, I can code Bash scripts a lot more quickly.

I'll be blunt. After coding in Powershell for a couple of years now, and appreciating how, since Server 2008, Microsoft has opened up a lot of its core functionality in its various server products to scripting (although, oddly enough, I still can't dump Exchange 2010 public folders to a PST file like I can mailboxes), I still come to the conclusion that Microsoft just doesn't get CLIs and CLI scripting. Powershell opens up a lot of options, but is absurdly long winded about it. Bash is still a superior CLI shell.

Let's not even get started on the fucking .NET updates, each one of which has to apparently rebuild the libraries from scratch. I just dread .NET updates. As much as I hate having to redistribute Java every time there's an update, at least the installer just replaces Java entire rather than the agonies of an actual lib-by-lib update.

Server core... that's sort of like some braindead version of the Unix CLI, right, with a bizarre "object oriented" shell with stunningly long command names like "Dump-Exchange-Mailboxes-Into-Trash-While-Converting-All-Excel2007-Files-To-PDF", right?

Prison would have only been part of the punishment. It's likely that his parole conditions would have pretty much destroyed his career.

There was a war started by the US for the express purposes of stealing Mexican territory. We can dicker all day, but that's where it stands.

I'm enjoying the discomfiture of Republicans as Latino numbers swell, as demographics accomplish what Mexican soldiers couldn't.

Maybe you should give them first dibs because you stole half their country.

If you can't trust a hyperpartisan think tank that produces reports to orders for their ideological fuckbuddies, then who can you trust? HMmm? Who can you?

Indeed. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" doesn't exactly seem like a happy positive message to me.

You haven't been modded up yet? There is indeed no justice in the world.

Thanks for proving wage slaves don't exist, John. I was all worried that many people are economically stick in crap jobs, but your anecdotal story has proven how wrong I was.

Thank goodness you're taking a reasoned opinion and not oversimplifying and overgeneralizing.

If it can't pump out Java byte code, I'm not interested.

Or it could be a badly written summary and article that completely misrepresent what is being stated.

If every science journalist on the planet were to spontaneously combust, not only would it introduce a whole new physical phenomenon, it would cause the average IQ of the planet to jump by at least 5 points.

And a huge tablet like a Surface 3 isn't clumsy?

My Nexus 7 and 15" notebook both fit nicely in my case, and combined cost at least a couple of hundred bucks less than the Surface 3. If I was to spend that much on a laptop, I'd get a helluva better unit than this underpower device.

If it works for you, great. Myself, I consider it an appalling waste of money.

Because regional conditions represent global conditions.