And that is the problem. Most people are below average, ;) Place your product where it takes a smart person to use it and you're doomed.

So true, so true. You just described my whole career. I'm gonna go cry now.

I see dead servers.

Me thinks it might have been an OK system and is now f'ed up. I mean if you really did all that work and it is still a pile of junk then who is to blame?

Uh, no you dont. Have you ever activated an Iphone? You used to but now you dont. I just did some the other week and I did not have to use a PC or MAC.

Yeah forget Humble whatevers,... They should bring back Interplay's Descent. Put it on the HUD in my car and let me play while trying to commute to work.

Or Radar off of MASH.

It is way past time to turn this post into a list of stupid user jokes. Please limit it to actual true cases. I had a user write click on her desktop. I asked her to right-click on the desktop and then choose properties. She said nothing happened. After a few repetitions of this I walked down to accounting and there was the work CLICK written on her physical desk top. I invested in remote control and imaging software every place I have worked since that one.

There FTFY.

If they tend to use a specific domain name then just block it?

I submit to you the possibility of a third kind of person, a competent individual simply chasing money. Yes dear, mercenaries do exist on modern day Earth.

Yeah, I agree. We dont really throw them down the stairs. I usually convince the user to let me send them back to Verizon. Verizon says they give the phones out to charities like for battered/abused recently divorced women. At least, that's what the return envelope says.
Damn try to make a joke and you get branded as a shill.

Sorry dude, remove the tinfoil hat. I am sincerely just another network admin who reads slashdot.
I just happen to not like RIM cause IMO the Iphones and Droids are better.
I exaggerate things in the hopes of making them funny.
My ID is large cause I lost the password to my old one.
If I was paid for then I want a lawyer cause I aint seen no money yet. ;)

This comment is biased, way biased. I absolutely hate RIM and hope they die a slow and painful death. Their licensing scheme took advantage of us for years and now the cheapest Droid blows them away. After setting up a few Droids and a butt load of Iphones, I will offer to buy my users a smart phone just for the privilege of switching them over. That way I get to personally throw the crappy BB phone down the back stairwell myself. Then I put the BB in a box addressed to RIM HQ with a letter explaining and a video showing me and my techs throwing the damn thing against a cinder block wall.

There, I feel much better now.
PS: we only have one user left on the BES and I simply cannot wait to switch him over and turn that server off. No P to V for that server. More like P to oblivion. ;)
RIM you can KMA, long live the Iphone, long live the Droid.

Starve in the midst of plenty? History say, starving people take food or die trying.