Was that the only bad thing your boss said?

In some organizations, if your boss can't find anything wrong with you, HR rules will state they have to find a nit to pick, no matter how minor; otherwise, you end up being perceived as having no growth potential, and (oddly enough) are more expendable than the employee who is just coasting by.

Or simply wear the same clothes to attack / burgle at least one other location that might use a similar spray.

In other words, what happens when the original layer is obscured by multiple, overlapping layers from some other site? Or, just as bad, if the layers mix, producing a chemical similar to, but sufficiently different from, the original layers?

You're missing two exceptions: when it's an iPod, or when it's an iPhone 4 that was purchased factory unlocked directly from Apple.

Either way, neither Apple nor a telco is subsidizing the purchase.

They, along with the electronics manufacturers, are hoping their marketing has convinced or will convince you to buy into 3D.

If more people show interest in paying extra to watch 3D versions of 2D movies, those same consumers might show interest in paying extra for the 3D extras on Blu-ray discs, for 3D-capable TVs, etc.

And, using word-of-mouth, they hope fanatical consumers will convert at least a percentage of the skeptics. The more converted skeptics, the faster the growth.

My guess would be 2-partition (as in, two virtual partitions on a single physical server).

Consider that, nowadays, most servers connect to some sort of network. If, during installation, something during the process impacts another server (incorrect network port settings, duplicate IP address, etc.), you may need to partially roll back the installation.

In other words, a backout plan.

This also is amongst the reasons why, at many larger organisations, you need an approved change/work order in order to enable a network port on a server-connected switch; if an improperly configured server is connected to an all-ready-enabled switch port, and (for example) a switch misconfiguration combined with the server misconfiguration causes excessive network traffic or routing issues upstream (what if the server misconfiguration included someone installing gated? Hey, I've seen worse happen), the network admin won't need to be paged; they're all ready there, due to the work order.

Could you please name one pro-level DSLR that has moved to only SD. Or are you referring to dual-slot (SD + CF) camera bodies?

With simpler (and, I'm guessing, less expensive) less expensive electronics. Most CF-to-SATA adapters I've run across tend to be less expensive (and more robust) than the equivalent SD-to-SATA adapters. I'd have to guess that this is due to the simpler electronics on-board the CF-to-SATA adapters.

Oh, and really, a CF card isn't really that much wider than an SD card (Apple certainly could have compromised with a CF-SD-combo slot; narrower than an ExpressCard slot, but better suited for the professional digital photographer market).

I take it your Canada doesn't include the Greater Toronto Area? (hint: Highway 407, parts of the Highway 410 extension and, until recently, most of Highway 427; and, they don't get repaired anywhere near once per year)

Funny, you don't look like Tori Amos. lol.

...And it was runnable on much lesser hardware. Attempting to run a graphically superior game is painful when you're getting frame rates below 5 per second.

The industry *still* operates this way. Ever attempted to have an independent repair shop perform an OBD-II diagnostic test on a higher-end automobile?

Oh sure, there's nothing preventing the independent shop from retrieving the codes from an OBD-II tool, but without the necessary manuafacturer documentation, good luck determining what the codes mean.

Tim Hortons has locations in parts of New York State (especially around Buffalo) and (if memory serves) Virginia.

Of course they can't; you'll only deal with a Canadian custom agent if you're coming into Canada. The Canadian government is not responsible for policing entry into the US, the same as the US is not responsible for policing entry into Canada.

Just a small nit to pick. The iSeries product line is mini computers, not mainframe; that would fall under the zSeries brand.

Parts of this also exist in their pSeries (Unix-class) product line. If I experience a serious adapter error in a management-console-connected server, a call will be dispatched to IBM. It won't be as fast as for their iSeries or zSeries products (or their enterprise-class storage systems, such as the DS8300), but it'll typically result in an under-24-hours resolution time (manually dispatched, however).

Oh, and our local Solaris admins freak out when they discover that, even on our older hardware (some of which is older than five years), I can do things such as replace a failed fiber channel adapter online, without our end users even noticing that I've done anything.

Not sure about IBM US, but whenever you call for Canadian support, it most definitely routes through one of a few Canadian call centres (typically Markham, Ontario, if you're in the Greater Toronto Area; calls also get routed to support personnel in BC and Montreal).

Kill the hardware that's common to both the iSeries and pSeries (and I'm not certain how much of the hardware also is shared with the zSeries)? Doubtful.

Oh, and they'd have to be complete idiots to get rid of their "lessons learned from our mainframe heritage" PowerVM hardware/software/hypervisor offering. I've not found a truly competing offering from any other company (HP's isn't anywhere close, and Sun's is getting there, but still has a lot of growing to do).

Probably the latter. I've been looking at this for the past couple of weeks, and cannot think of anything that IBM need from Sun.

Well, maybe the StorageTEK line, but even that's a direct competitor to most of IBM's physical and virtual tape storage solutions.

You mean, aside from the thousands of employees IBM all ready has laid off over the past month?