Probably not but it should run on the Courier.

That word doesn't mean what you think it means. Unless you mean the US was run up on a beach for the fouling to be removed from its hull. Perhaps you meant (or the Editor meant) career?

With 70% of our planet's surface under at least 1 mile of water it makes more sense to develop ways of exploring (and exploiting) the oceans. We really have no idea what's down there. The "abyssal plains" of the '70s are disproved. What next? Of course, a nice big phallic rocket with lots of noise, fire and smoke will thrill Joe SixPack but where's the payoff? Mining asteroids? You're kidding, right? We can't even get back to the moon.

>> Apple probably has quite a few patents for overcharging for products, too...
You say that as if there was no alternative to Apple's products. In fact, virtually the whole industry shelters under Apple's price umbrella.
Imagine the outcry if Apple started competing on price. I suspect "predatory pricing" would replace "overcharging" in your posts.

I don't get all the hype with the iPad. I really don't.
This tells us more about you than it tells us about the iPad.

When I worked for IBM in the '80s there was a policy for suppliers:
1. We aren't the supplier's sole/major customer.
2. They aren't our sole/major supplier.
3. We changed suppliers every few years so there was no risk of dependency building up.
Also, it doesn't do anyone any good to bankrupt your suppliers. Some competitor could swoop in and buy them out. Their skilled people may leave the industry. They may merge with their competitor and reduce diversity of supply. And so on.
No sane manufacturer puts his suppliers in jeopardy by forcing them to sell at a loss.

You guys are Pros. I have never seen a thread critical of Microsoft derailed into an Apple bash-fest quite as fast as this one. TFA wasn't even suggesting that MS was up to no good.

William Ewing (Columbia Univ), back in the '50s, said that he had evidence of a 60-year freeze/thaw cycle for the Arctic Sea. Evaporation from an ice-free Arctic Sea fed snow falls on Siberia, Canada and Greenland resulting in glaciers sending floes into the Arctic Sea. As the Sea got covered up the evaporation slowed and so did the glaciers. Rinse and repeat.

Have you done the same with your Windows PCs?
Microsoft has the self-same conditions in the Windows EULA.

But does the edict cover anyone other than Apple? Are MS staff barred from buying (with company funds) Android phones and/or Linux PCs? If not, it shows where Microsoft's concerns are. If so, it's still revealing.

That may have contributed but the main reason was that the PC team had only a year to bring the product to market. They preferred the 32-bit 68000 over the 16-bit 80XX but Motorola's design and dev tools were far inferior to Intel's and the engineers had much more experience working with Intel chips in IBM's Vendor Technology Logic-based products. So, in their rush to market, the team saddled us with all that Expanded/Extended Memory stuff as well as other sins.

The "walled garden" is there as a security measure, not QA.
Can you imagine the screams of outrage if Apple had knocked back Google's new toy? You'd have been lining up to throw crap at Apple and I note very little criticism of Google in this thread. Fanboys springing to Google's defense trying to make it Apple's problem?

70%? Down, fanboy, down!
When will you Android boosters realize that you are not Google's customers? Nor are the phone companies, for that matter. You are the product that Google is selling to its actual customers, the advertisers.

>> Why do I have to support your purchase? Because that's what you are paid to do. If you can't I can pretty soon find someone who will. It seems that many sysadmins see themselves as gatekeepers on "their" networks. The gatekeeping is usually related directly to the sysadmin's skillset and biases. The network is there to serve the business objectives of your employer. It is not there as an ego-prop, a career-path or a toy. Your employer is shelling out a wad of cash so he can have the services he thinks he needs. He's much better placed to decide what he wants than you are. If you had any business chops you'd be in a public-facing job and not skulking in your e-cave. Most sysadmins I have dealt with had no real idea of where the network fitted into the company plan and cared even less. Making it useful/usable for the user was the furthest thing from their minds. Making sure that they were irreplacable with minimal work was top priority.

Why would HP fund Android? Android makes more money, at this point in time, for Microsoft than WP7 does and will probably do so for quite a while. Google makes its money by showing Android users advertising.