My mistake. Taskbar, obviously. I'm sorry to admit that I am not that well versed in Windows 7 terminology yet... I keep using Windows Xp terms :)

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Ruemere

Why leave Quick Launch on the left then? Both Show Desktop and Quick Launch are essential for management of applications cluttering desktop... and now I need to jump left-right-left-right to find stuff. It's like the ribbon interface - good premise, terrible execution.

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Ruemere

Please mod parent up.

A guy wakes up in a middle of a night, looks at his wife sleeping next to him and reflects that the very next day it is their twenty fifth anniversary... and that if he committed a murder twenty five years ago, he would be a free man at dawn.

Consider that while there is no pleasing some people, there is always a way to find something to be depressed over. [1]

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Ruemere

[1] For some reason, I am really partial to standard desktop PCs.

And if you haven't had an iPad, you would probably have assumed a healthier position in a comfortable chair. And your wife wouldn't have had to learn to sleep with you doing weird things in bed.

In other words, it's quite likely that his arguments are more suited to general public than yours.

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Ruemere

This should be marked funny, possibly sarcastic, not interesting.

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Ruemere

Nah. It's like Perl; In high demand because nobody knows how to use it. <ducks>

You can get conductive fabric to make EMF-shielding curtains from LessEMF.com.

the whole system would be undermined.

Maybe it should be. Why should it be taxed at anything other than the sales tax rate?

The Activision that I remember is the one that released River Raid! Now get out of my lawn!!!

This is actually very nice and neat usability design for this particular case, but how would it work in other circumstances, such as no network connection, no scanner connected, disk io error, random memory error caused by broken hardware or cosmic radiation, printer on fire or any other hardware malfunction ?

Ten points for bringing up quantum mechanics and measuring precision, negative a thousand points for referring to it as a "thingie".

The user should see nothing, or as little as possible. If your program can adapt to the error without the users input, it should (as an example, using relative paths to ensure that if your program is moved it doesn't break).

If it needs further input, it should ask for it directly (this file seems to have moved--where is it now?)

If it's an unexpected exception, always append as much of your state as you can to a log and restart. Never clear this log. If you cannot start, offer the user the ability to send you his log in a Very Short Dialog. Make it trivial to send, a single button-press if possible.

Don't expect them to read a dialog and implement a solution for you. If you know enough about what's going on in the dialog to have them fix it, fix it for them. If you don't, don't have them guess, have them contact you (assuming it's internal company support).

Whenever you solve a problem, be sure to incorporate it back into your program so you don't see that problem again.

One data center for each machine?! I think you've unfairly misrepresented their efficiency. I think an estimate of 200 total machines would be more appropriate.

I feel a Federal Datacenter Consolidation tax coming on.

I shudder every time I hear about a government I.T. project. Can't wait to see what mess occurs after this and who steps down as a result.