Oracle don't have customers, they have hostages! Have look at what they are doing with 'free' Java licenses.

Australia calls horse manure to that. â..." of all households have solar panels. With many suburbs over 60% with the most almost 70% https://arena.gov.au/blog/aust...

>Do you think, Australian newspapers will experence anything else? Rupert Murdoch will give it a go. He owns the government. This law is for him.

Me too :-(

+1 The EA does not want access to ANY systems. That is not the role of an EA (or ANY architect to be honest). The job of an EA is to be the bridge between the business and technology. You should not have enough time to be 'on the tools'. You need to be building relationships with the business and finding technology solutions to their problems. Get yourself on a TOGAF course. You are lucky that the company does not realise that you are probably not actually qualified to the role of an EA. You sound like someone who knows technology, but I am not sure you understand what is required in a strategic role. (submitting as me, not as anonymous)

But people ARE investing in green energy companies, in big ways, as they are the only energy companies with a long term future.

When Henry Ford started his car factory you could have made the same statement to the horse buggy industry.

Who just happens to be a hard core Unix Sysadmin living in Melbourne Australia!

for Stephen Boucher wizard of Windows, dragon of DOS without whom this book would have been written in crayon

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein

After Prism, companies outside of USA are very reluctant to house corporate data in US company cloud.

Yes, if you define 'niche' as pretty much every other person who is not a 'techie', your mum, dad, grandma, kids, the 95% of the population who reads a couple of email, updates their facebook status and looks at a few photos! A sub $500 device, long battery life, can sit in your lap while you are watching tv, no reboot, patching, virus software updates makes a LOT more sense than any laptop/netbook/desktop. WE ARE THE NICHE! We are the ones who need laptop/netbook/desktop, for most people it is complicated, expensive overkill.

Purchase price is only one factor. My macbook pro will cost less over a 2-3 year period. And you will still carry around a portable mouse because the 2 the thinkpad ships with are un-usable. The multi-touch trackpad on the Mac means you never see people with a macbook using and external mouse. 3 years down the track, I will sell the macbook to upgrade - I will re-coup the difference in purchase price on resale value. How long will it take you to migrate machines? I plug my new macbook in, it detects my old one on the network, asks me if I want to copy everything (including applications) an hour later the machine is IDENTICAL to my old one - settings, files, applications!! You will spend that long getting rid of IBM crapware before you even think of how you will copy all your old files and re-installing (finding DVD's or downloading files) all of your applications. And I don't pay the Windows tax and run a virus checker. How much time over the life of the machine will you waste starting/stopping windows? My macbook is usable and connected to the network by the time I open the lid. Your machine might cost less in purchase price. But I think my total cost of ownership will end up a LOT less.

No, but you are going to have to wipe the disk then re-install a fresh Win7 to get rid of all the cr@p ware loaded on by those pre-built brand name vendors.

Make mine a mac.

The touch pad is still the best selling point. Go to a coffee shop, you NEVER see a person with a mac and an external mouse, pretty much every PC user has attached an external mouse.

Eh, no, they have just copied what Apple have been doing for however many years!!

Ask him/her about vertebral subluxation, then ask him how Simon Singh is going. A Chiroquackter is the last person you should be asking about peer reviewed, double blind, substantial number of client, research! The media got hold of this and pushed it for all it was worth. 12 people is not a large enough sample set to change practices - it might be enough for investment in further research, but it is not enough to change practices. It is just bad science

Because that is the laptop that is the most idiot proof. Things like opening and closing the lid to put it to sleep properly - and it wakes up every time - for months on end - without rebooting.