The real difference is that at the end of the year, with MS, you still have closed software being managed by a mediocre admin and are pretty much limited to what the vendor wrote in the software and what your admin can find on google.

With the second option, you've still spent $60k, but you started with a much higher level of base competence and things usually go up from there. At the end of the year you have many more options and much more flexibility in what you're capable of, IT wise and business wise, with that higher level of competence.

I'd much rather, and when it's been my decision to make have always, put my money in people rather than software licenses. If I need to solve a problem "right now!", then I'm likely to buy a solution that solves that problem "right now!" but even then with an eye towards what problems will that solution allow me to solve later.

Using an unencrypted, open wifi connection is the 2012 equivalent of using morse code over shortwave or other open broadcast. You have specifically configured your wifi transceivers to forgo encryption and created a public broadcast station.

Ah, you see, but the article has made no statement about the importance of either company, but only the relative valuation of the market capitalization of various companies. No social or political value judgements, only the monetary price of the outstanding shares of the companies.

"icloud, etc all runs on azure anyway."

Citation please? I find it difficult to imagine in what universe Apple would use a half-finished, poorly marketed and mediocre system like Azure for their cloud offerings.

yum install emacs

time emacs -nw -Q --eval "(kill-emacs)"

real 0m0.123s
user 0m0.043s
sys 0m0.011s

Tuttle? that you?

I'd love to have a TV with the resolution of the current iPad3. Though I'd prefer to have a 50" panel with the same pixel *density* as the iPad3. :)

Check your sources again. $50 / mos for the entire Adobe CS6 suite. All the packages.

The ruling states that you, basically, have to take deliberate actions to save the image to your hard drive. Merely viewing a page in your browser without further actions on your part to "procure" the image (ie.. save it to a folder on your system, rather than just the browser cache) is what the court is speaking to.

Metaphor time: Having someone park a stolen car in front of your house is like viewing a page (#chan?) with CP on it without specifically looking for it. Going out and pulling that car into your garage and closing the garage door would be like saving the image to your hard drive for later perusal and enjoyment.

Why would web developers need an 'extremely thin' version? What's this obsession with super thin laptops? Has the fashion industry invaded our IT departments or something?

We had a discussion at work about a tech refresh coming down the pipe. Rumor mill was pointing toward all the admins/engs/archs/devs getting shiny new dell ultrabooks.. 13 inch, super light, super thin, "sexy".

The unanimous and loud "Noooooooo!!!!" would have made Lucas proud.

I specced a Dell "portable workstation" with 1920x1080, 15inch matte screen, quad core, 8gb ram, ssd, professional discreet graphics card for about the same price as the 1366x768 13inch, 4gb (max), dual core wafer thin model. Yeah, it's 7lbs vs. 2lb, but it has a usably fast cpu, decent screen real estate, etc.

It's not "stylish" unless you define style as "doing your job on time with a kick ass powerful machine that doesnt' get in your way" as being stylish.

They're aiming at the right market, ie.. Macbook pro using IT and design professionals, developers, etc.. However, their marketing is a bit skewed in that they still equate mac purchasers as those interested in 'style' over function.

I won't go into all the reasons I use a macbook pro for my day-to-day work computer, and have for the last 5+ years. Suffice it to say, though, that it has nothing whatsoever to do with 'stylish' and everything to do with power and flexibility and appropriateness to the environments I work in.

To advance the materials and manufacturing science needed to build a craft that can withstand those forces. Then take that knowledge and apply it to similar problems in other domains. Temperatures, vibration, torsion, flight control, sensor integration and attitude correction (catastrophic failure of a passenger plane?), computerized models of all of the above, etc.. etc.. etc..

At no time does any high tech study like this, especially at the very edge of known science ever apply to only a single problem domain.

Look at the history of transistor and how it developed. Pay especial attention to the studies that led to the processes that allowed that first transistor. Not many of them were in the computational power field.

Of course they sell to Iran, China, et al.. And the CIA and MI5 *help* them with the code they write, especially the code they sell to others. Backdoors in the backdoors.

I prefer to encase the entire drive in lucite. That way the bits are immutable. No loss.