Don't most Android owners just call their phone a "phone", not an "android phone"? Where Apple owners who call their phone "my iPhone", so that we know they are cool?

I tend to agree that iPhone users are likely to be more prone to drop their phone into the toilet, but including "android" in the trend results might skew things.

I'd guess (feel free to prove me wrong) that only people who spent a lot on their phone try to find out more info if they break it, so they search for repair info if it was broken/wasn't working properly and wasn't under warranty. A lot of those missing "cracked android screen" searches probably ended up as landfill.

Aren't these results also biased based on market penetration (I mean the "high end" smartphone market)? You'd need to filter results for iPhones compared to only other phones of similar quality to get a result you could use to refute the GP's suggestion that an iDevices "is no more nor less likely to break than other good-quality stuff".

This is the best citation I can come up with to prove that market penetration impacts on the results:

Google Trends search for "blackberry cracked screen"

"Your terms - blackberry cracked screen - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."

No - he didn't mention yellow bicycles.

How about Rule 34a: If it exists, there is dodgy car analogy porn about it?

You're saying these submissions are limited to specific cultures too? It isn't summer here.

Don't underestimate, fine, but you probably should account for the time to transfer the data from disk to tape and load all of the tapes into the SUV

If he's talking about the modern day equivalent, then it's extremely unlikely that his system stores its data on the tapes. The data would need to be moved off the tape and onto disk to be useful so the time taken to do that should be added to the comparison.

A large SATA disk will store a similar(ish) amount of data to a tape. We're talking about data transfer not long term storage requirement so for the purposes of the thought exercise it would be easier to use large SATA disks, or maybe SD cards.

I am sure someone with no time on their hands has worked out the relative bandwidth of a station wagon full of SATA disks versus a guy with a suitcase full of miniSD cards catching a plane back/forward.

I've chosen to ignore the possibility that you were trying to by funny. "Woosh" away, people.

There are a few other safe vendors - VMware, Citrix, IBM? I am sure there are others that have a fairly trusted rep/advertise heavily in the Harvard Business Review.

Google (or bing search, if you really must) for "MCSE: private cloud". They've turned HyperV into a "private cloud" as per the direction VMware have headed, or that's what MS are calling it anyway - a private cloud. They're at least making up ground on the VMware and XenServer offerings.

My point is that they aren't always that far behind the cutting edge.

Um, no. You may end up with the best of both worlds though - "deploy this, it's pretty rock solid, it's from Microsoft" and at the same time "this product sucks as much as Vista did, typical MS".

No matter what you do, if crunch time comes you'll get the blame if it suits for the people above you to let that happen.

I'm not trolling here, or am trying not to anyway - I am a fan of some of Microsoft's stuff, and other parts of their product suite drive me nuts. I recently built a Forefront TMG deployment and had a lot of fun doing it, at the same time I'd rather be castrated than be a full time Sharepoint dev/admin. (Based on some of the full time sharepoint admins I've worked with, that might be a mandatory employment criteria..?)

:-\ Oh well. Maybe she has a sister...

I wouldn't have thought so.

I thought the overhead of Aero was one of the reasons the original "Vista capable" devices performed badly? Stripping pretty effects out of the interface doesn't seem that drastic to me. If it represents a slight performance increase, I'll take it.

I don't ever spend a lot of time staring at the windows 7 interface, I don't expect to with windows 8.

I doubt it. I still have a tiny bit of hope that hasn't been crushed yet though.

Please, tell us more about the excellent banking system in Europe.

Oh, right... never mind.

I like that when I use the moderation on my Android phone, I have to select from the radio buttons then hit "ok". On my windows 7 laptop I don't get that second chance.

(FYI I'm posting this to undo an incorrect mod)

I agree that making a phone is better than doing nothing. And facebook has a locked-in user base to leverage, if they played their cards right (I'm not betting money on this.)

I'm surprised they aren't planning to make a bargain basement 10" tablet (also). And their user base is already used to their products being crud, so they could go in very cheap on the quality and no-one would be overly surprised.

I'd love to see a reliable poll on how many people who use facebook regularly were pleased to see the share price tank...

...but I couldn't see where I could mod the submission as "troll"?

No-one ever said on their death beds that they wanted to spend more time in the office. And your career will never wake up one morning and tell you it doesn't love you any more. Both of these are reasons to do something she actually wants to do.

If she is in the unenviable position of having to trade her time for money in order to live, she should at least do something she has some interest in. Just work out what she wants to do, then get the qualifications or experience to suit. Don't assume her current qualifications should be the starting point for making that decision. She wouldn't necessarily be starting from scratch, having a degree of any kind (especially a Masters degree) gives you a head start in many other areas.

The OP says this person is a "bright young woman", retirement is probably a long way off... hopefully she can find something she likes that makes economic sense also.

Good luck.

I don't think the courts care much any more about what is/is not illegal.