Microsoft has been making some inroads with Hyper-V with mid-size businesses that are already 100% Windows environments - especially ones that haven't quite started down the virtualization path. Their licensing is attractive to these smaller companies, compared to VMware (at least the higher-end vSphere offerings). And it's Microsoft, which they're already comfortable with.

VMware destroys Hyper-V in just about every possible way at the enterprise level, but mid-size companies often don't need all the bells and whistles that vSphere offers, even as cool as they are.

Doh. Just realized I wasn't logged in and posted that as Anon. Link in sig is below:

From the article:

I'm sold. If there's anything I fear more while in my personal sub than sharks with head-mounted-lasers, it's hired squids wielding sledgehammers.

Also those homeless sperms whales that approach your sub at the intersection and want to squeegee your front porthole for spare change are annoying too.

I had no idea I was self-aware.

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I'd imagine his name might have had a small amount of impact on his popularity.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

It sounds like this guy is just upset that technology has progressed to the point where we don't need to pay out the nose for some high-priced UNIX consultant to spend 3 days troubleshooting an issue that can be fixed in minutes or hours.

Just because you might learn more by spending days chasing down an issue instead of using your available tools to quickly redeploy the server and get the business back up and running, doesn't make that the correct decision. If you really want dig into the root cause, clone the broken VM off and research it after you get a fresh one deployed from template.

Don't freak out that there's now an opening in the corona. Freak out when a celestial lime slice gets wedged it.

Not quite. The photographer holds the copyright. People in the pictures have a right to publicity, but its considered separate from the actual copyright on the photo. Like in the Virgin Mobile case, they legally had the copyright but did not have consent from the model, aka "right to publicity".

Funny, I thought the law was quite clear about needing explicit permission to use one's likeness for advertising. I believe it's referred to as personality rights, or more specifically in the US, right to publicity. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit for invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness and/or violation of the right of publicity.

Though I'm sure FB is already prepared to update its terms of use to allow this kind of use, no doubt by dangling useless "Facebook credits" in front of the users to get them to sign...

(IANAL, but have worked enough with commercial photography to know you always need a release for this kind of use in advertising)

Sony didn't take it over, they were always in charge of SWG from the start. But in 2005 they got a bad case of WoW-envy and decided that ~200,000 subs wasn't enough, since Blizzard had over a million by that point. So they completely redesigned the whole game in a misguided attempt to turn it more WoW-like and simplistic. This change was thrust on the entire player base without any warning whatsoever. Literally, you logged in the next day and it was no longer the game you were playing the night before, and all your hard work was rendered worthless.

They shed at least 75% of their subs within months, and somehow still limp along to this day with a few thousand die-hards who won't leave. It was a real-life example of the fable of the dog carrying a bone and seeing his own reflection in the water.

In my personal experience, the FTC's Do Not Call list has actually worked pretty well. I used to get considerable numbers of telemarketing calls every night, but about 6 months after adding all my numbers to the list, they've almost completely stopped. And on the very, very rare occasion that I do get one, a quick mention that this number is on the Federal Do Not Call list sends them into a near panic state, scrambling to hang up.

Empire Fulton Ferry Park is right down the street from where I live. There's only so many places it could be hid.

I think I need to fire up my spare laptop with a LiveCD and find it.

For science

I'm not going to talk heavily about whether or not Windows Phone 7 is a good consumer phone. Only time will tell what kind of market adoption it will have verses the iPhone, Android, and Blackberries already present in the market.

I will, however, bemoan the complete lack of enterprise-ready features. Support for Exchange and and Office are good, but it's still a step backward from Windows Mobile 6.5. There's no support for 3rd party or enterprise apps. No mention of tethering or security certificates. Enterprise features such as have been promised at a future date, but I need a enterprise ready phone now. Maybe the Windows mobile 6.5 platform can be stretched to cover this need another year or two. But at this point, they're very little reason not to accept the reduced set of enterprise features and move to Android or the iPhone.

In its rush to grab a chunk of the consumer market, Microsoft may lose what market it had in the enterprise world.