A lot of people don't know what the flu really is like - they get a winter cold and call it "the flu", or they get some gastrointestinal bug and call it "the stomach flu". My ex-boss was notorious for the former... he'd have the sniffles but it was "a touch of the flu". Then when a coworker was out for two weeks with the real thing, ex-boss made a lot of derogatory comments because of course HE always came to work, even with "the flu".

The real flu lays most people out flat - congested lungs, bad sore throat, temps well above 100, a feeling like a truck ran over you. The increased mucus production can make you queasy when it ends up in your stomach, but it's not a stomach bug.

BTW I'm not intending to take sides - just making a comment.

If they're doing all this emulation in JavaScript - they're going to need all that time...

Oh, no, I NEVER whine on Slashdot...

(shuffles feet uncomfortably, keeps staring at floor, tries to think of a way to change the subject...)

Congratulations. You've just described 90% of what gets submitted to Slashdot.

Dude's been dead for a couple years now... it might be time to find a new meme.

Yeah, Apple will never catch Google or Microsoft in the tablet space...

(snicker... Microsoft!? really?)

They probably shouldn't have incorporated the tablets into the wood shop curriculum - if a student doesn't have a hammer available, he's gonna use the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Fortunately, back in my day, that just meant occasionally driving nails with a crescent wrench.

Is the next Slashdot article going to complain about having to see Long John Silvers advertisements when there aren't any Long John Silvers restaurants in the area? Because I see those ads pretty frequently...

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

For a moment I thought it said "bacon discovery" and got really excited.

Try DuckDuckGo.

While our previous setup wasn't from IBM/Lotus, we switched to Google Apps a couple years ago. In our case the thinking wasn't "do we have 100% of our old functionality?", it was "is it good enough, especially given the cost savings (Apps is free since we're an educational institution)?" - and the answer to that question was yes.

It's sort of like all those places that switched to Hyper-V a few years ago. It was obvious Hyper-V was lacking in features when compared to VMware ESX; but in a lot of circumstances it ended up not costing anything up front, so the "good enough" argument combined with the cost savings won the day.

I'm not saying it was necessarily the right decision - it wasn't my decision to make, only to implement. But it sure seems like "good enough if it's cheap enough" rules the day much of the time, anymore.

To Mel Blanc? That's pretty weird, man.

Unfortunately Apple Maps interpreted those phrases as actual place names located in the Australian desert.

I'd be more concerned about using Facebook, period.