I was actually reading about this the other day...

Above all, these instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. However, the many blind tests from 1817 to the present (as of 2000) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivarii and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.[2] In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 program in 1977, the great violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish among the "Chaconne" Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del Gesú, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist. The two violinists were allowed to play all the instruments first. None of the listeners identified more than two of the four instruments; two of the listeners identified the 20th-century violin as the Stradivarius.[3]

The violinist Christian Tetzlaff formerly played "a quite famous Strad", but switched to a violin made in 2002 by Stefan-Peter Greiner. He states that the listener cannot tell that his instrument is modern, and he regards it as excellent for Bach and better than a Stradivarius for "the big Romantic and 20th-century concertos."[4]

Hardware sales have more or less been in line with each other when release dates are aligned. The Xbox obviously has higher total numbers given its earlier release. Cost wise the PS3 has a substantial advantage (Free online play, built in wifi, blu-ray player)

Exclusives are a fair split these days, IMHO, a PS3 exclusive tends to look better than an Xbox exclusive. [Note: I OWN AN XBOX, AND LOVE IT. Quick plug... my PSN and XBL name is Malcorin :- ) Feel free to add me.]

I think a lot of hardcore gamers would like to have both, and $299 is a price which seems to make that realistic. To quote a close friend of mine, "The price drop was exactly what I was waiting for".

You've never played both.

I refer to things I find unfavorable as "gay", even though I have no ill will towards the gay community and in no way associate gay sexuality with negative connotations.

Its just really ingrained into my vocabulary.

I'm fortunate enough to have gay friends that keep a sense of humor about it...

Look at Kiwi CatTools. Its a couple hundred bucks and supports the management of hundreds of devices via scripted CLI. I use it to manage all of my Cisco devices for config backups, etc. If your org can't spare a couple hundred for this management utility, then you have bigger problems than wifi. Kiwi also does a TON of other neat things, like configuration comparisons side by side.

First and foremost: I own a PS3, an Xbox 360, and a Wii. I love all of them.

My girlfriend loves my Xbox. She bought her own controller that she put stickers on. She's often the one bringing up the idea of playing video games or checking out 1 vs 100.
The draw? She LOVES her Xbox avatar. It seems like every time she comes over she's completely overhauling her outfit. She made an offhand comment about how dressing up her avatar replaces her need to go shopping. Me, on the other hand? I rarely change my avatar. I did give him a monocle a couple of weeks ago; its pretty awesome :- )

But yea, if this stuff doesn't apply to you, don't worry. It isn't meant to. It does, however, bring girlfriends closer to the gaming, which we can all agree is a good thing. Who knew we could learn so much from Nintendo?

This sounds like a destructive version of shoutcast streams I used to listen in on at #prankradio on efnet. That was about 10 years ago, though.

/getoffmylawn

Some of the best things in life are free :- )

Outbound SMS worked and appeared to come from my Google Voice number. My friend replied, and the SMS I recieved did not have his cell number as a sender. It did have my contact entry prefixing his message, though.

Example SMS Body: -John Smith: Hey, I got your text.

Outbound calls using the Blackberry app looked like they were trying to connect but never went through. Maybe the load from the app release is a bit more than they planned on.

I thought the movies were fairly well rendered.

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This tag delivers.

With all due respect, what the hell are you talking about? My BES rollout was one of the most painless deployments I've ever had. It took me the lesser part of an afternoon to get setup, and was so reliable I ended up using my test box for production. It's been running for well over a year and has required essentially no attention. It simply works.

I'd kill for all of my projects to be so smooth.

On the flip side, I recently finished playing Killzone 2, which had a budget of 30 million dollars. I can honestly say it was one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've had, and I can't believe I'm so impressed by a console shooter.

This claim smells funny to me. Can you provide any reference to per LDAP user CAL licensing?

I'm going to assume that your new PBX is a Cisco solution; I am absolutely DYING to know what kind of 1U PBX you were using that required a 6 server Unified Communication Manager farm to replace? Even with Unity (Voicemail) and IPCC (CallCenter) I seriously doubt your claims.

Something along the lines of Unified Communication Manager Express as a module for an integrated service router seems much more fitting for your needs. Who designed your current setup?