I love each and every robot most of all!

It has no control over what decisions dell,hp,sony etc make with regards to bundling

Sure, as long as it's bundled with Windows. To use another car analogy, that's rather reminiscent of Henry Ford's fabled "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

Microsoft's stranglehold on desktop computing was despite it not being a hardware company. It was a software company that had a bunch of hardware companies at its beck and call.

So Legally MS is gimped, and Apple walks away free? How is that fair? Oh right because we hate Microsoft.

No, because Microsoft has had a stranglehold on the desktop computer industry for years. When you are a monopoly, the same rules do not apply to your company as do to the rest of the industry in question.

Complaining about Apple controlling the Apple computer market is like complaining Toyota controls the Toyota car market. Microsoft has controlled 90%+ of the worldwide desktop computer market for going on three decades now and has been repeatedly busted engaging in illegal, anti-competitive practices. They *shouldn't* be treated the same as Apple or any other company until they stop abusing their dominant position.

Crying "unfair" for poor Microsoft is really, really funny. Being a Microsoft apologist is really amusing, too, but if you feel like defending that behemoth from a bunch of mean Internet posters, knock yourself out.

Hey, 2005 called and wants its joke back.

Hey, 1995 called and wants its rejoinder back. ;)

FWIW, the proper way to measure this is just after you've woken up, while you're sitting down or lying down...

So, at work.

Just put the old printer in the new printer's box, tape it up, and return it. Now that's what I call recycling your e-waste! ;)

Well, in all fairness, the camera operator got a splitting headache. ;)

Yea you know, the brainless one that is actually fun to play?

Rugby? ;)

Boy, you sure lepton that joke in a hurry.

Not *that* impressive. The failure of the initial assault was a result of the ATF team being ordered in despite the element of surprise having been lost. The 51 days were a combination of Koresh's negotiation stalling, including not holding up his end of the bargain when concessions were made, to prolong his moment in the sun as long as possible.

If, back in the context of this particular thread, a military-style police force were ordered to suppress what amounted to (in the state's eyes) armed insurrectionists, you can bet it won't last very long. Those government tanks would be put to very different uses than driving around and around the building blasting music. All the Davidians would be dead within a day.

You must be new here.

Many of us here on /. work in corp environments and as much as we detest marketing-droids, at the end of the day, we realize their usefulness on some level.

Sure, they keep the horde of undead occupied while you escape via the parking garage or roof.

I'd love to have had some wimpy English major or some such where I didn't have colossal books to lug around all the time.

Spoken as someone who never had to lug around the gigantor Norton Anthologies. :)

"Someone with too much time on their hands..." quoth the Internet denizen with time enough for a Slashdot submission and a snarky comment.

It's the people who *don't* do anything you should be complaining about.

I don't think anyone willingly uses Windows ME for any useful task anymore.

Were they ever able to? ;)