Looking forward to this tech evening up arguments with my wife.

I would say that I wouldn't want to be one of the first signing up, but that doesn't even matter. They already have everyone's data from the IRS, Homeland Security, etc available to them. This is an identity theft cracker's wet dream. I am glad they are giving so much attention to QA: One day. What a joke.

Sounds like a winner. Are you suggesting that this individual is a representative sample of boomers? BTW, I am an X'er, not a boomer.

How about having some respect for the knowledge which may be gathered by your elderly counterparts? Not everything can be learned from college or between the pages of a technical manual. I think sometimes new grads tend to feel like they know it all because they typically are working from fresher learning of technical info. Your more senior counterparts are not dinosaurs. They have learned to navigate office politics and interface well with their business partners. Whether you are aware of it or not you can learn a great deal from senior staff. To think otherwise it to cripple your own path.

Yes.

Seriously, I don't entirely disagree with this ruling. Why should the bank pay for losses from these phishing scams? It is not like there was a breach of their systems. The breach was entirely on the client side. Am I missing something here?
I expect my bank will do what it can to protect me from scams, but they can't protect me from every stupid way I might be duped.

The TSA doesn't care if the backscatter scanner doesn't detect contraband. They don't even care if the terrorists know it. They don't want the general public at large knowing it because this kind of thing really messes up the security theater magic act. They also don't want to answer the accusations of exposing passengers to radiation for a less than perfect technology.

I saw a sign in the airport las weekend. "The backscatter scanner exposes you the same amount of radiation as you receive in two minutes in the airplane". Yeah but think of it this way; standing on a beach on a sunny day would you accept someone telling you that you were going to get a sun blast equal to two minutes in the sun in two seconds? Radiation doesn't always hurt bit it is always harmful to your DNA. There is a reason heath care providers put a limit on the number of X-rays you get in year.

I am guessing the reason for this is that Windows 8 is not really Windows and they don't want to re-create all the GUI stuff needed to make the GUI like real Windows? If so it is a double edged sword for Microsoft. If they think they have issues with version upgrades now, wait till they offer an OS with no GUI or a crippled GUI. Unfortunately improved stability may lose to knowledge deficit with a CLI.

I could be talking out of my arse, but a reasonably good intuitive GUI with a user base who is used to it is one thing that Microsoft has going for it in the server space. Imagine Active Directory and Exchange without GUI's to manage them.

Microsoft will find a way to do this without alienating their users unless they are complete idiots. Does anyone know if the GUI in 8 is poor, or what the reason is for the GUI-less deployment recommendation?

Red Chinese, Red Handed. Coincidence? I think not!

All the things you mention still puts it in the realm of toy. Executives and doctors alike want to "find a use for it" as you state yourself. The rub comes when it is the wrong tool for the job. You understand the infancy of the tablet, doctors and executives don't and when you tell them it won't work well, they look at you like you must be woefully inadequate at your job.

I can't say that i am ready to jump on the tablet bandwagon, but if I did it wouldn't be an iPad. I know I risk being left behind by not being an adopter, but tablets just haven't proven themselves primarily because developers don't write important mission critical programs for touch screens, they write them for keyboards and mice.

We recently went live with an EMR (Electronic medical record) at our hospital. As slick as the EMR is, it is written for a keyboard and a mouse. Guess what the docs want, you guessed it; Can we get it work on an IPAD? Oh yes, while technically possible via Citrix it is about as about as practical as mounting a steering wheel on a horse. Can't you teach the horse to respect the steering wheel? Um, no.

We have tried tablets in the past for the EMR. The users get excited about them and once they have them, they collect dust. $2,000.00 state of the art spill proof made especially for hospital settings tablet PC's which never leave their docking bays. What a waste.

All tablets are currently toys, iPad included. If I want toy to play with and have an extra couple hundred bucks burning a whole in my pocket then maybe I will buy one, but why would I want a toy with limitations, like the iPad?

Tablets may some day be a respectable tool for some apps who's developers are willing to write to them, but that will be 10 years out. Then, they will be about as sexy as a Palm is today.