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Invest in yourself that money to start hearing. It wil help you get a job easier and may improve your relationship your wife due to clearer comunication although it's not clear if that's a problem :) Back in 1982 I spent about $US5,000 on at the time a top of the line non PC computer for the work I was involved in. To put that into perspective my house which I bought around the time cost about $US28,000.

A great working example to answer the question and to provide a good sample of ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Cisco / VMware has done some work in this space, abeit it is a Cisco / VMware solution.... The Nexus 1000V basically provides an overlay to the virtual networking stack from VMware and places it into an appliance with a Cisco CLI. It can then be hooked into the usual Cisco management suspects. The solution makes sense because it also gives back control of the network aspects back to netops, instead of the server ops/virtual ops... http://www.vmware.com/products/cisco-nexus-1000V/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable-car_disaster

You mean, it doesn't involve chair throwing!?

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No.

We use SharePoint in a large enterprise although its pretty good at mashing together websites - unfortunately its really poor at search. I think Search 4.0 may improve the situation, but its nowhere near Yahoo, Google or other search technology. Technology doesn't solve all problems, I'd say this said company needs to focus on strengthening business process and implementing some user awareness programs.

Did Apple mention which respective countries and carriers will support tethering?

What a load of hogwash.

If USA were truly pro-free speech they would of permitted the implementation of .sex and .xxx namespaces.

Its nothing to do with what I think about porn, it has a practical use that allows people to quickly identify with the subject matter and to allow software to classify it as so.

The conservative government simply did not want this to happen, and they have successfully lobbied hard to stop these practical namespaces to be implemented.

Creating an Internet wasteland of "filth" may have some merit, but I highly doubt it will lead to an increase in people watching it. Most large, modern cities have "saucy" areas, but just because they are there doesn't mean every citizen visits everyday.

I still believe this process needs to be apolitical as noted, without government intervention - its the only way. I do not accept that the US has a higher ground than other forward thinking countries in this matter.

Grown up. Sure you shouldn't use Excel to store data that is supposed to be mission critical, highly available, maintain strong integrity etc but to perform quick and dirty dataset analysis its a very effective tool. And no, I don't believe even MS Access fits the category to trust important information - it shares the same mechanism as Excel to I use it mainly for doing onsite analysis, and to share this information with my customers without the need for them to install anything else. Its portable in the sense that anyone with Office can look at my data, charts and reports easily. It IS the right tool for the right job, for what I use it for.