Fanbois on both sides are about to hit this thread in 3, 2, 1, ... /popcorn

That's what you get when you issue contracts to the lowest bidder. I'm personally aware of several instances just like this. One of my favorites was when a former employer elected to contract out the work for a database migration (same data, different table layout, with extra fields populated with default data). After several weeks of status updates indicating all was on track, the contractor demoed and delivered the finished product. Supposed due to contract conditions, engineering wasn't given access to the final product before the payment check was cut. We were horrified... What they'd done was a manual search and replace for the db version string and hacked up the test harness so it would output data that looked like a correctly completed query. We had our old db, with a new version and a crafted test harness used to simulate the final result.

I doesn't take me 2 weeks to adjust, but it *does* take my kids and my pets at least 2 weeks to adjust. Therefore, my life is disrupted while they get their internal clocks back in sync. For instance, my dog is now religiously barking to go out at 6am, which was fine a week ago when it was actually 7am. So much for the extra hour in the morning. My kids complain that they aren't tired at 9pm, 'cause their internal clocks say its 10pm and they've got their second wind. I can't put them to bed at 8pm and ignore the adjustment, as their activities have all shifted. Yes, it definitely takes 2 weeks to re-establish the schedule.

R belong to us!

The O/S supports the additional resources. Who has am O/S today that has a proven roadmap to get there?

1. Make condescending vid comparing folks who don't like your new UI with someone's 3yo 2. ??? 3. Profit?

Don't blame Blackberry for that, blame friggin Verizon. Verizon likes to put the screws to phone providers asking for all kinds of stuff that benefit their bottom line, not make the product useful to the purchaser.

Did the MS product mgmt, engineering and test orgs not think to try this out on a standard desktop machine with the high res monitors pretty much everyone uses these days? Incomprehensible!

I had a nice vacation planned with the family to travel back home for a visit. However, the boss dithered and delayed until it was too late to get accommodations for the trip down. So I sent the family on the plane, while I stayed home with our elderly dog who can't fly. BIG strike 2 for this workplace. Might be time time to find myself a new boss.

The Enabler of Disinformation Services! You may know my brother, Mordac the Preventer of Information Services.

Any municipality that allows cellphone use while driving is, essentially, endorsing driverless cars. If someone gets engaged in a deep conversation on the phone, their driving skills drop below that of someone with 0.08% blood alcohol...

That's a classic bait n' switch. How usable would an OS that pops ads all the time be? What if, after installing, they upped the ad frequency etc? Would the ads be embedded or fetched over the network? Could you downgrade to your previously legally obtained, ad-free, OS without losing all your work?

This isn't an Apple bash or even a Steve Jobs bash. That idea is pure, unadulterated, marketing evilness.

The courts will be so completely swamped they'll be backed up for years and real criminals will go free due to extreme delays in getting a fair trial.

My guess is any charges of this sort will be tossed out.

Use of this product may cause:
- bloating
- sluggish behavior
- loss of memory
- sudden fits of aggression and/or rage
- a prolonged feeling of regret and/or disappointment leading to depression

Really, no basis at all in reality.

The editor who posted this should DIAF.