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.

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.

CNN hadn't picked it up? I guess no one had tweeted about it yet.

Or, you could read the article, where he mentions his suggestion to the brass to buy Google in the late 90s, and Yahoo's complete disinterest in doing so because they considered the search business to be mostly irrelevant.

Really, though, the same could be said of any company that size and age. Very large companies nearly always, over time, develop into unwieldy mega-bureaucracies, comprised of individual fiefdoms solely concerned about their own headcount and perceived influence. They become microcosms of nations. They have well-defined class structures, their own culture, sometimes even their own currency internally.

Replacing Ballmer isn't going to change any of that. A new CEO might excite the board and top investors a little, perhaps shuffle some HR/management policies around a little. But in the end, the same issues that are inherent in being a company of that size are still going to be there.

If aliens were to observe us and read nothing but YouTube comments, they'd probably assume humans are non-sentient.

Economy of Scale

The mass-produced Model S is expected to price in at BMW and Audi levels.

Gartner also recently claimed that by 2012, 20% of enterprises (not just "companies" in general, but Enterprises) will hold NO IT assets anymore, as everything will be cloud-based. Wonder which Cloud Computing vendor payed good money for that "prediction".

Personally, I miss Slot 1. So easy to upgrade/replace processors. Just a little bit too bulky, though...

Or, you know, you could get an actual Scrabble board, and not have to spend a couple thousand dollars to play to play a $20 game with three friends. You can even flick the tiles at the board, if you want. For free!

CompTIA certs only impress people who don't know anything, and are helpful to get you through the HR screening by pasting it on your resume.

That accurately describes most college IT degrees, actually.

Well, their brand was pretty tarnished in the enterprise market when they just decided to abandon their (fairly popular) product lines because they didn't want to have to try and compete with Cisco.

Interestingly, most all of their advances in server technology are directly descended from Compaq.

IMO, keeping the ProLiant line was the one single smart thing that HP did after the Compaq acquisition.