Two words: Resale value
You can sell the Mac Mini after a couple of years and recoup 60% of the cost of the machines.
You've got millions of consumers who would be willing to buy a used Mac Mini. How many buyers would you have for a used Dell server?

Guess you haven't met me. I've had next to no trouble with Unity. The only application that acts weird is Netbeans. Otherwise it works perfectly fine, and I still don't understand how people have a hard time using it. That said, it did run slow on a 6 year old laptop. I would find it surprising if that many "power users" were using hardware *that* old though. The Dash means I no longer need GnomeDo. What I would want though is a reduction of icon sizes, and the chunky alt-tab switcher needs more work. The icons are too chunky, and the different highlight on each icon makes it difficult to figure out which application is currently selected.

Almost. You also have to factor in time and money spent going to the rental shop. Petrol isn't cheap! That said, I still think paying $6 on iTunes for a new release is a wee bit steep.

No, Ubuntu will not be changing to a rolling release, has never planned to, and probabily never will.

Your source does not actually support your claim.

The Bible was written to be taken literally (to be understood by its literary genre). In other words, poetry is to be understood as poetry, historical narrative is to be understood as historical narrative, etc.

If you don't take it literally, then you're free to treat the psalms as historical narrative or the laws as poetry, etc. In other words, you could make it mean whatever you want it to.

That actually comes close to the arguments used by creationists: http://creation.com/astronomy-and-astrophysics-questions-and-answers#starlight

No, because Theistic-Evolution is self-refuting. If God said he created in 6 days, but actually took billions of years, then that would make him a liar. If he's lying about how he created, then there's a good chance he's not telling the truth about being God either (basically the inverse of John 3:12). It also ignores the premise for Evolution; a way to explain origins without God. Something is very wrong with Evolution if you have to invoke God to get it to work.

The correct url to the interview is: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1883592 not http://queuedev.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1883592

Wow. I actually saw your comment get down moded in real time! Kind of proves your point about moderator abuse...

When people say they're against "embryonic stem cell research" everyone else just hears "stem cell research" because they're too dumb to know the difference (and that's on both sides!).

APC will be included in PHP6. Bytecode caching has not really been a huge issue in PHP until more recently with larger MVC frameworks being used.

In principle, I agree, but that doesn't excuse the blanket covering of anyone who doesn't agree with AWG as a denier. And even if they are "deniers", calling them so, certainly won't win them over to your cause. Most of the anti-AGW stuff I've seen has dealt with the science, while most of the pro-AGW stuff I've seen has been fingers-in-the-ears name calling. Maybe we've just been visiting different sites?

Totally agree. I like how they've started calling people who don't believe in AGW "deniers" now instead of "sceptics". Is their "science" so flaky that they have to resort to character assassination? And BTW, it's called Climate Change now. Kind of hard to call it Global Warming when past decade has seen a downward trend. Luckily they chose a term that is sufficiently vague that any variation in weather would classify as proof of Climate Change.