maybe isn't a valid tip, but it sure seems the same from a "pay-per-article" standpoint.

it would be neat if any of these tips actually worked to fix the problem.

iphone > pants. that is all.

pre-street-date copies of Bioshock have been known to cause cancer and red rings of death in laboratory rats.

and two contests that have the same rules (compare with joystiq where each contest required a different comment topic.)

favorite part is the boozehound tonic, since it makes it feel like the game was really written just for me

pre-street-date copies of Bioshock have been known to cause cancer and red rings of death in laboratory rats

pre-street-date copies of Bioshock have been known to cause cancer and red rings of death in laboratory rats

#3 Bull shit. Apple doesn't "steal" software, or they would have just stolen Cover Flow and not have PAID for it

cough cough *konfabulator* cough cough

this article loses a lot of sauce with comments like (and i apologize for the long cut-and-paste here_:

The fact that he can easily change the OS's underlying file structure with a simple right click enabled him to configure his XP desktop to look like the desktop on his MacBook. He was so taken with the MacBook's clean user interface that he wanted to replicate it on his Dell, so he created a short cut that takes him to all the files he's working on. The only other items on his Dell desktop—as on his Mac—are a trash can and a launch bar with icons for his e-mail client, Firefox client, a calculator, a notepad and wide area network wireless connectivity.

this "change the underlying file structure" bit was also tossed about in the OSX likes department, but with less description. I think pretty much anybody reading this website knows you don't have to "modify the underlying FS" in Windows or OSX to change the number of icons on the desktop. You right-click in a few places (excuse me: Ctrl-click)

if that wasn't bad enough, the article basically blames Apple for the problems/featureset of Entourage, which as we know, is a Microsoft Product. Yes, Entourage can only be found on a Mac, and is one of the only Exchange solutions for the platform.

What I'm getting at here is not the "his views of Windows are biased" or the "his views of OSX are biased" rant that would be so easy to do. Instead, I offer that this article is nearly valueless, and worse, actually could have negative ramifications. Shitty articles with inaccurate information and copious use of buzzwords read by gullible CIOs are the bane of sysadmin/it manager/tech wonks world wide.

My boss wants a blackberry because he's got compensation issues, not because he's got email to read in the toilet. Could be that he read an article in CIO mag once about how blackberry's will increase productivity no matter what, deployment, security and usability issues be damned.

I'm not sure what my actual point is here, just that the article is reminiscent of too many CIOs I've known (and surely, that you've known), who see buzzword 'X' tossed about in a smashingly non-technical article, and demands it be rolled out. I still have XML coming out of my ears after the internets brief flirtation with it a few years ago (of course, thanks to AJAX, it's back again).

(CAVEAT: I use a Dell d420, same notebook listed in the article as being his preferred hardware platform. Being a dork, my Windows doesn't crash, and only gets rebooted on patch days, if that. That said, if apple made anything resembling it, I'd probably pay whatever it cost.)

double prod.