Because... traditionally there is more social pressure on the husband to bring the money home. Perhaps this could play a small role in the equation, no?

+1 for Ubiquiti Unifi. I run the controller on my Macbook, the APs are spread across several locations and some locations have several. Roaming is seemless, quality and features are impressive and they are dirt cheap. 3 packs are 250$, that comes to about 85$ / AP. The controller is included and there is no license to pay or recurring fees.

Replying to undo bad mod.

I think that idiot is the prime minister of Canada...

Don't know about you but my phone can usually find me within 6 to 10 meters.

Dunkin Donuts?

If Australia is anything like Canada, I'm betting it's a mobile operator doing it. Here they charge 25c per incoming message out of bundle.
1. Write a script to send 100 000 death threats left and right.
2. ...
3. 25 000$ profit!

I don't know about you but my mobile phone carrier keeps records of exactly when I place phone calls, how long I stay on the line, and even who I call! Can you believe these guys??

Oh no, quick: someone is WRONG on the internet!

I'm not sure they should worry so much about the shift to 48fps.
If anything it's a great excuse for another re-release of all their past work.

"And now, for the first time ever in Smooth D(tm), Bambi. Completely remastered and more life-like than ever."

I hear they immediately sent out 1,299 apology emails.

For what it's worth XenClient is exactly what you need, though it requires a Citrix infrastructure at work so it might not work out. But you'd have an hypervisor on the laptop with two VMs, Work and Home. Work is loaded by IT and sync'd with XenDesktop, and Home is loaded by you and you control everything on it. Complete isolation of both images.

This came out last week. It is based on a survey of 1000 tablet owners in Canada only. I'd say within 2-3% margin of error it sounds about right. I'm in Canada and we have sold a lot of PlayBooks, mostly to people who would have liked an iPad but couldn't justify the 400$ more it cost.

Sadly no. I use Citrix Receiver but that requires the Citrix architecture in the background. Other than that no gems yet I'm afraid. The platform and hardware are nice, just waiting on the apps...

You're looking at it wrong. They didn't cripple it to sell more phones, they developped the product when they still had good market share in the mobile world and wanted to sell PlayBooks into existing BlackBerry accounts. It was a way to bypass IT having to manage another device and piggyback on the already-approved BlackBerries in enterprise (think FIPS approval, etc). They did not expect then that nobody would want BlackBerry devices anymore, and that it would be a major handicap to the PlayBook to not be able to function as a standalone device.
Short-sighted yes, malicious tactic I think not.