Imagine your company logo emblazoned across the surface of an asteroid.

Not only will your company have done something great for all mankind, but mankind will be reminded of it in perpetuity.

First we paint the whole thing white and then get computer controlled pain ball guns to splatter, like an inkjet printer, your company's logo all over the asteroid.

Think of watching a Papa John's ad every time you look up in the sky and having to say a little prayer that you can actually enjoy a large nutritious Papa John's pizza instead of having been reduced to a smokin' crater . :-)

Seriously...

The dweeb's trying to legislate humor.

Most of it is very human and always of dubious taste.

EG: After Columbia shuttle fateful meeting with a O-Ring weakness, what the FIRST THING I saw on the web? What does NASA stand for? "Need Another Seven Astronauts."

This is another futile attempt to regulate people reactions. (Ask the Taliban how their campaign to stop girls from getting an education's going...)

Micro Soft began its rise based on their strong-arming OEMs into using their OS in the 80s and they could get away with such coercive tactics because the accountants of the world demanded multiple sources for the acquisition of the hardware (to the accountants of the world hardware and software came out of different accounts,) and that is why PCs got purchased. The illegality of the software's origin was "somebody else's problem."

Apple was a single source for uniquely designed hardware so it was NOT getting past a corporate accountant. Even IBM was forced to abandon touting their superior OS/2 as a selling point. Anything else at that time that anyone else was offering was going to be multi-source and therefore receive a pass from an accountant, after some justification for the expenditure at a board meeting or two.

The accountants NEVER cared about the OS or the software, hardware wasall that they were writing the purchase orders for. Its now 2012 and they STILL DONT CARE. (Bean-counters don't understand the synergy, they only understand the difference. Ask them and you'll see I'm right. [They teach entire seminars in medical schools about this blind-spot.])

All they know is that it better be perpetually cheaper to own and NOT get in the way of their firms' buying of hardware.

Now that tablets are sub $1K products, and accountants are NOT being consulted for such petty-cash expenditures, Apple's iPad is getting adopted (despite Apple's best efforts to remain a consumer electronics products company.)

News Flash...

299,792,458 metres per second is the fastest that car, or anything else, can ever go.

And 0K is the coolest you'll never be.

Give it up guys...

a recipe for miserable workers and substandard code

Since when has that ever mattered to upper management?

... those books are fine and valuable art: protect, preserve, safeguard. :-)

HTML5 is roughly equivalent to Java as far as a multi-platform programming language and development platform.

Java has been dying the death of a thousand cuts since its inception. Its latest suffering through mismanagement at/in the hands of Oracle doesn't hide the fact that the JIT interpiler isn't worth sh*t. (The only successful approach I've ever encountered to using a virtual machine was employed by the Digitalk VM which cached successive VM invocations so that you ran at native 'raw iron" machine speeds after encountering the performance hit the first and only time an pseudo-instruction was executed in a method.)

The lethal performance problems that WordPerfect encountered trying to implement their suite of office products in Java still apply.

HTML5 is doomed to suffer the same fate regardless of how many spare CPU cycles we throw at it because its fundamentally not parsimonious enough with response time.

Until Linux boxes become as dumbed down as Macs, techies who love to play with all the wiz-bang settings through CLIs will never allow that to happen.

Windows boxes are safe, MCIEs will never be able to get Linux boxes working. (They'll keep on sucking at the poisoned tits, lurching from one badly bitten, scabrous and gangrenous nipple to another. :-)

Seriously, keep toys of of the workplace.

If executives want some toys, well their offices aren't places for work anyway. Let them buy Apples.

Big If ...

Imagine you're a corporate boss with all of your hundreds or thousands of employees in their cubicles all being, ahem, productive.

Why the [expletive deleted] would you want to buy them new tablet PCs?

You were pissed off when Microsoft EOL'd Windows NT 4.x and made you test everything again for XP.

You have paid big bucks to set up all of the ergonomic crap for the drones, so they can just sit in front of their CRTs until the accountants twist your arm into upgrading to flat panels.

This crap won't fly in 90% of Microsoft's markets.

MS DOS was built on the bones of QDOS which was acquired for that very purpose by Microsoft.

This was Microsoft's first foray into a non-intel/z80 architecture DOS and it thought it was faster and easier to acquire an existing DOS than to develop their own for the IBM PC. Time was a big factor as IBM had clout in the enterprise hardware market then.

This was never in question.

Who was the ignorant idiot who filed the lawsuit?

This is exactly the WRONG way to use social media.

Its NOT to broadcast to a select few what decision [insert name here] reached.

Social media is to solicit from the "Wisdom of the Commons" who a running mate should be.

This is so stupid that its doesn't deserve further comment.

I'm replying to this message using the voice recognition feature, it's amazing.

That is really changing how I'm using this MacBook Pro now on.

GUIs alone or so 1984.

I am sure that Microsoft would never stoop that low. :-)

The actually delivered, uh, the Kin, the Zune, their software is legendary for fitting inside 640k. (Nobody needs more than that...)

in its day.

Its sold in huge numbers because it was elegant (In some respects it was MORE elegant than the MacBook because it used another ubiquitous component, the TV, for its display.)

Commodore's only fault was that they didn't know it, and couldn't follow it up, (otherwise you'd be up to your butt with nautically named products, instead of Lion this and Panther that...)