I'm a happy owner of ASUS EEE Pad Transformer 32 GB with keyboard dock. Let me make several points:
- no dock keyboard means painful typing experience whether you use iPad or any other on-screen keyboard tablet
- a colleague of mine tested Samsung Tab keyboard and found out Transformer's to be superior by a large margin, mostly due to responsiveness and stability
- the Prime version screen is of great quality, allowing you to work in brighter environments (you're still out of luck in bright daylight, of course)
- running time (with Keyboard) is at least 12 hours (more if you avoid flash and films or certain games)
- if you like to haul large PDF library, you need at least 32 GB version
- tablets, contrary to expectations are not easy on your wrists - keyboard dock stabilizes them and let's you comfortably work for a few hours straight
- supports most VPN standards decently

The key difference lies in applications installed - apart from decent Office suite (Polaris Office, compatible to certain degree with MS Office), you are strongly recommended to visit XDA Developers and peruse list of compatible applications. Personally I'd suggest:
- Astro File Manager with SMB share
- Hacker Keyboard for a free on-screen keyboard mimicking normal PC one
- ezPDF reader for handling more complex PDFs
- Jota text editor
- Beautiful Widgets to get nice forecasts

Regards,
Ruemere

Try: millions of deaths. Three orders of magnitude higher.
Otherwise, I totally agree with you.

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Ruemere

People who remember Tiananmen and Tibet would like to have a word with you.

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Ruemere

He was a man of thought. Something most aspiring geeks would love to be, nevermind the field of study or convictions.

Have a cup of tea. And a cigar. It's on me.

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Ruemere

What software is actually affected? What phone models? What platforms? What applications?
If it's just AT&T and its victims, well, it's their own private little hell. Otherwise, some facts would be nice.

For now, (quoting from the article), phrase of "millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones" smacks of cheap propaganda and scaremongering.

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Ruemere

That and make everyone integrate socially. Folks who used to chat informally with each other are more likely to help each other, as opposed to making a call to a distinctly alien entity in foreign country whose sole capability is limited to following faulty protocols.

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Ruemere

PS. To me, outsourcing and cloud are not at odds with existence of local IT department. Relying on the former tends to produce huge technological inertia (IE6 throughout thousands of desktops, anyone?), relying too much on the latter may produce star syndrome and lead to hostage situations. Best way would be to tread carefully forward with responsibility in hands of competent management liaisons.
PS2. Based on personal experiences in several different international companies.

There were _some_ improvements. In general, Unity is stable, fast and adjustable, but it lacks polish. Its size, inability to provide decent management for absolute paths (I have more favored applications than allowed by Unity default space, and I like them in groups, just fine) make for quite bad user experience, even with improved System Settings menu.
I wish I could access my little app park the same way I can do that with System Settings...

Anyway, there are fallback options, without Unity. They work fine and provide missing functionality.

In general, system feels a little faster than 10.10.

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Ruemere

Thank you for clearing this up. Additionally, it looks like Banshee, by becoming default Ubuntu player, is getting more audience already. That's a win for Banshee developers, too.

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Ruemere

Amen.

Or, if I really have to manage your private computer, you need to hand all your user access rights to me, including ALL administrative privileges. And agree for standard set of services preconfigured to comply with company regulations.

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Ruemere

Server != Workstation.

Quite a lot of additional work (at least according to the article).

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Ruemere

Depends on the number of documents you have. I've reached several tens of thousands... so searching their content does not work for me.

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Ruemere

Disclaimer: I work with both Win7 and WinXp on everyday basis.

"You have unused icons on your desktop"
== "You really need to learn to organize your desktop"
OR
== "Google for 'win turn off notification balloons'"

The rebooting policy can be managed centrally by competent IT staff, locally by users (requires certain permissions or simply users who can be trusted to do stuff reliably).
Nagging is relative... and when compared to bothersome and unnecessarily obfuscated wireless management menus (or network options), Windows 7's "friendliness" loses to Windows Xp's simplicity. Not to mention that in centrally managed environment Win7 is only a tiny bit any better than WinXp (or worse, as the enforcement of GPOs is almost as bad as under WinXp).

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Ruemere

Depends on the number of items or how unambiguously they are presented.

Examples:
Calc vs Scalc is easy. OpenOffice Scalc vs LibreOffice Scalc vs Go-OO Scalc are not.

Additionally, Windows7 menu does not integrate well with applications using their own menu system, and so the benefits of integrated search are lost as you still need to jump through several hoops.

In short, instant search is nice as long you don't need to look too deeply (just like with KDE). And for basic stuff, I still have my Quick Launch Bar... (Windows 7's " + type + select and run" VS "standard run from shortcut").

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Ruemere

Dear Sir,

I do feel your pain (similar issues with Win7 here). On the other hand, your method of typing posts, that of MUD spelunker, is not helping you to state your point.

Kindly reconsider your style.

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Ruemere

Precisely. Besides, I like my desktops to be quiet, peaceful, snappy - calming colors/graphics, zero animations, important elements grouped thematically together and available via a single click or key combination.

Regards,
Ruemere