I work in a hospital and you are right. Multi million dollar FDA approved equipment is slow to get updates. The larger the company the worse the service (I am looking at you GE). However, MRIs should talk DICOM and not SMB. SMB would be a very stupid option!

If I had modpoints! You are too reasonable for these murica-first/total-comunism slashtards. You describe a model that works pretty well where I live. 10mbit is the minimum available for everyone at a reasonable price (40-50 USD/mo).

No CowboynealOS option? I am not impressed.

Thanks! I'd prefer debian but I didn't bother checking how to install it. After all, at the moment it is only an xbmc box. in the long run i'd like to build a groundstation for my autonomous vehicles on it, then a reliable distor matters more.

I don't know about this one, but I own an Odroid U3 (Cortex A9, quad 1.7ghz) and it does very well. It costs abit more (I think it was around usd 50 or 60).

Their Linux distro is not the best, based on ubuntu and their documentation is really crap. Fine hardware tho.

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Actually our central IT buys core i7 with 1GB ram and HDDs. What we do (after the fact is) adding an SSD and 4GB ram for my departement. Also we have been heavily pushing for 1GB ethernet to all offices.

After that we started buying clients with slower cpus but with SSD, more ram and combined with the faster network the overall performance is much better for an office user. And the average price per client is now usd 400 instead of usd 1200. Our researchers get faster computers where needed.

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I am working for a company with 6000+ desktops. I do not understand why our client engineering is rolling out faster hardware every year. 95% of all office workers need MS office, a browser and email. Most of the home users just need a browser these days. Those core i7 are just idling around heating office space.

I have now started rolling out 200 dollar desktop hardware (zotac). Which could really become a problem for microsoft. The windows licence price tag looks really expensive with these hardware prices.

Office problems are solved, we do not need faster hardware. And microsoft is manly making money from, *drumbeat*, office workers.

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Good questions indeed. Apple has rolled out a "Safari Update" on Sept 29th, but there seems to be more to it, however, apple is very secretive about the security updates. Something I really dislike about them:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT...

simply no.

Haha, my fist thought after reading the headline.

For those who don't know, this comes from a Windows Vista speech recognition demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... skip to 0:30

This is because microsoft manages to be incompatible with their own ISO standard (I guess their own "standard" is not documented).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

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I am feeling very privileged to live in a direct democracy, the country is very small and is called Switzerland. We do have 2 instruments to keep our Politicians behaving and represent the people:

1) Referendum: if we don't like what our policy makers have enacted, we can collect 50'000 signatures and the people have to vote on it

2) Initiative: Our policy makers don't want to take care of a certain topic? we, the poeple will vote on it after collecting 100'000 signatures.

It's not a perfect system and it might not work in larger countries on national level, because it is a somewhat slow process to find consensus. However, only the thought alone that politicians' decisions could be overthrown by the people helps keeping them thinking twice what to support and do.

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Our Linux servers (there are many) are updated much more frequently than the windows servers, because we expect and have less problems.

This is appropriate use of "generally" and "fairly" in that sentence I guess.

Microsoft had to support XP so long because Longhorn development was a disaster. Only with win7 they gave companies a viable upgrade. I am working for a large company and we are only just finishing the transition from XP to 7. Guess why? because of loads of Microsoft specific technologies that are not supported anymore and had to be replaced.