Leather.

Office 365 isn’t cheap but it has SkyDrive Pro included, which is protected by multiple U.S. data centers, and is only in the U.S.

That would be too obvious. Last sentence below seems to have some importance:

“The interglacials and glacials coincide with cyclic changes in the Earth's orbit. Three orbital variations contribute to interglacials. The first is a change in the Earth's orbit around the sun, or eccentricity. The second is a shift in the tilt of the Earth's axis, the obliquity. The third is precession, or wobbling motion of Earth's axis.[1] Warm summers in the northern hemisphere occur when that hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the Earth is nearest the sun in its elliptical orbit. Cool summers occur when the Earth is farthest from the sun during that season. These effects are more pronounced when the eccentricity of the orbit is large. When the obliquity is large, seasonal changes are more extreme."

Not for most people. Receptionists need phones are their desk only because it is tied to a place, but most office workers do not.
I forward my desk phone and blackberry to my iPhone. I still don't get enough calls to even approach my plan limit, since most calls are during the day and cell to cell. I'd really be happy if they could take the physical phone away and just keep the extension forwarded.

Actually, what he was trying to say was "you won't believe what a low bar I've set for what I now find acceptable."

You've been watching too many movies.

Just being placed in that situation makes you commit that? What, are you Pavlov's dog? Think for yourself instead of blaming Facebook. You stray in a moment of weakness because you can't say no to being self-destructive. It's in your nature, just by looking at the things you're saying. The Thanksgiving Dinner post below is the most intelligent post for this article. Stop being so jealous, greedy, and possessive.

On that scale, distributed parallelism is key, where the system takes into account downed nodes and removes them from duty until it can return to service, or can easily add a replacement node to handle the stream. That's why Google and Facebook don't go down when a node fails.

Bitcoin will never be mainstream until we can buy a hotdog from a street vendor with it.

"this is not sound anymore"

Tell that to the elephants.

If he's looking for reliability in a backup, then his choice of disks is going to be a factor. A drive with consumer grade chances of URE is going to die in a handful of writes and reads. USB grade drives (Caviar Green anyone?) aren't known for their reliability. Something like a Hitachi Ultrastar RE has a very very low chance of encountering a URE, so will be much more reliable.

So no tuna fish sandwiches?

There are plenty of employee-owner businesses. Support them by either going to work for one to help their success or start your own.

The owner has invested capital in committing to the business. The employee is just there til the next better paying job comes around the corner. The day to day tasks are not all there is to making a business succeed. The fact you think about dividing day to day effort to measure their worth shows that you don't see the long commitment to success.

Granted, there are a lot of owners that don't take the business seriously and end up driving it into the ground, taking people's livelihoods down with it, that should be shot. But this socialist shpiel is just too broadly painted across every corporation.

Due to Taco Bell, here.
Ruined a whole Christmas break.

So now we're living in that episode of Star Trek Voyager?