Non union employees get the benefits of the unions collective bargaining, but don't have to pay dues.

The only thing taken out of my check other than taxes and such, is my $5 a week donation to United Way, and I decided to donate that.

Maybe your union stewards are a bit more aggressive than ours, or maybe it works differently in different states, but so far I haven't been pressured into joining the union at all.

In all honesty, getting insurance for part time work is great, and the 4 hour workout every night has helped me lose 30 pounds. It isn't a bad job at all in my opinion.

It was a good idea to cancel it, at least now, microsoft can watch and learn, and claim it was far more awesome than it would have been......

Now, there is no way the ipad is better than courier because no one can compare the two....

In another 6 months, if microsoft makes their new tablet, and it ends up being courier based, and fixes a bunch of possible problems with the courier, THEN microsoft has a chance at taking a decent chunk of the new tablet market.

If it is going to be an ipad killer, it had better actually be up to the task.

How many ipod killers were there? And yet, it was the iphone/ipod touch that killed the traditional ipod.

If someone else would have done something similar, it could have succeeded, and REALLY been the ipod killer. The fact that no one did, and no one has, and no one really has a chance in hell at doing so at this point unless they come up with something even better, continues to give apple the market.

And yeah, I had an ipod shuffle, and a 30gb ipod, now I've got an iphone 3G and an ipad. The shuffle gets no use, and the 30gig ipod gets very very little use these days.

If you had filesharing enabled, you can try connecting using AFP and the IP address, or if you had remote access/ssh enabled, you could try that. The problem in both of these cases is that in all likelyhood your laptop is going to be connecting to something via DHCP and will be behind NAT.

Yeah, I love my X8DTH-6F.... its a beast. Pair of E5520's on it. Made a great upgrade from Q6600.

Now if only I had the SSD's and LSI cards to go with it...... LOL

Actually, I'd settle for OSX drivers for the LSI 2008 and the intel 82576... Oh well, maybe soon.

twin 1u with infiniband at that... (Possibly even the 40Gb/s version)

Good idea really, as the 1u Twin/2Utwin2 form factors will likely be around quite a while, and supermicro makes nice kit.

Unrelated:
For home use, set the bios on superquiet, and even the wife doesn't complain about the noise. (With SC743TQ-865B + X8DTH-6F)