The standard works, its the cheapo implementations that do not. Just like with everything...

Then get a better controller and/or better drivers.

Uhm..all of those problems are attributed to crappy controllers. Spend more than $10 on an eSATA controller (or use a bracket to convert an internal SATA port to eSATA) and all of those issues go away.

I was referring more to support in the browser, not the server.

Forcing SSL makes any hardware endpoint compression/optimization tools pretty much useless (Look at Riverbed products). You also put more of a strain on anything with smaller MTUs (VPN tunnels, PPPoE, dialup [Yes, it still exists]) or with higher latency (client in China, satellite users).

Additionally, you need one IP address per https website you want to host. This isn't an issue with IPv6 (Yay IPv6) or when using a webserver/client that can use Host headers before the SSL transaction (which all older browsers do NOT support). The main problem is that not everyone has a metric 'shitton' of IPv4 addresses and the software isn't wide spread enough to reliably host multiple SSL websites on a single IP with vhosts.

Now, there are some other circumstances that people will state that isn't really valid IMO. Some people will state that SSL certs cost money. I recently purchased a handful of wildcard certs from StartSSL for $20 (IIRC). The only thing that cost money was the identity check and even that was pretty painless. I highly recommend them for small/medium businesses or individuals. Their root certs are in iOS, Android, RHEL as far back as I cared to check (RHEL 4), Windows, Ubuntu, etc. </slashvertisement>

Low end cards already have that ability. I play games on my aging laptop that has a 8600M GT flawlessly at 1920x1200. "1080p" isn't that impressive of a resolution for PC games.

I have. That was just an attempt at humor.

No, only one in training.

Except until this very last hardware refresh, you were buying a DUAL CORE i7 in the Macbook Pro when one could easily get a QUAD CORE i7 in other manufacturer's laptops. Also, the graphics card that tends to get put in to Macs are typically mid range at best. So..no, the feature set isn't about the same amount of money.

I, unfortunately, still have to admin AIX 4 and 5 servers. No RIP for SMIT in my life.. :/

Depending on the language, you may be required to do this. I know I need to do this when doing Windows + C++/Qt development.

That's why I recently switched from Pandora to Last.Fm, personally.

Not really. You see, I was going by the summary of the article which implies that Volez was in a wreck with Bea. It also says that Bea was updating to Facebook the same time that Volez called 911. It's not that far of a stretch to assume there was ONE accident, not two (without reading the full article).

I assume the phone call was made AFTER the wreck. If she updated at the same time as the 911 call, wouldn't the update also be AFTER the wreck?

This is, of course, assuming that the person making the call isn't psychic and made the call before the wreck.

I, for one, welcome our new IBM ant overlords...well, as long as they don't make me use/admin Lotus Notes again.