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Comment Re:It's not "Cal Tech" (Score 1) 97

Style depends on where you live and what conventions you follow. In Canada, we seem to be adopting American spellings and punctuation rules I think more as a result of the auto-correction features and misspelling underlines in Firefox et al than a desire to conform to your standard. Laziness (failing to employ Canadian English dictionaries etc.) results in homogeneity favouring (yes there's a 'u' in there) the culture that designed the tool. Here's the breakdown on punctuation -- I happen to follow the British style myself.

Comment Re:It turned me into a newt! (Score 2, Informative) 475

Are you serious? Sure they'll send you a new one... and then another... and yet another, each time your brand new machine fails instead of doing good quality control at the outset. Then when you're one minute beyond the warranty period of the FIRST machine they sent you that was broken, you're SOL. The Internet is filled with Dell nightmares... here's mine: Dell's Quality Control and Service is Total Crap

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