Another observation I've wondered about for years. Our country forged a nation from one coast to another and beyond.

Other countries (civilizations) have done similar but some, the ones we are...

Before the laptop comes:

Need to be able to read first

Need to eat before reading

Need to have shelter and clothes before reading

Need some type of economy to support eating and shelter...

I hope they did not do the following computation on one of those $100 laptops, else there will be big problems down the road:

" Of the worlds total population of...

I vote for the "pee in a cup" process. That's how one of my kids is earning money while going to college. Collecting samples (and no its not glamorous work...

Hmmm, an armed body guard for each DBA? Would they be hired to protect the DBA or the data? I would suspect the data which means the DBA was expendable...

I wonder if there were chalk marks on those tapes

Now think about all the video tapes out there storing information on them

My splicing time was also to repair audio tape that had become "crinkled" due to all the common problems of the time.

Cassettes stuck, tape wrapped around a post, dirty driver...

My 8 track tapes still work

As long as I don't loose the splice kit!

I wonder if that splicer will work on my DAT...

"Ice Road Truckers"

That's located south of us.  Up here that is considered a drivers training course for those that come up here from the lower 48.

Amusement park bumper cars are...

You people all sound like you choose to drive on one side of the line or other!

Up here in the Great North, land...

Yep.  We use that server every fall hunt.  When the external rubber belt that turns the disk on the harddrive begins to fail, it squeals just like a cow moose...

Back in the old days, one was taught to have a good manual system in place before converting to a computer based system.

Still applies today.

Recently, we went through an e-mail...

My post is not a shameless plug. I'll leave that to the shameless among us.

I'd say go for both days. In fact, fly out on the 26th with your family...

Ha! I have done the same thing. Sometimes you just can't fix it after hours because you need 3rd party support that is only available during "normal" hours. Better down...

I would concur with drnetworks comments.

We are a small shop (<50 users) so volume licensing is not a possibility or financially realistic.

Another topic to go with this is the...