two words: Coca-Cola

hmm about removing those LEDs, is the camera infrared/UV sensitive? you might be able to replace the LED with infrared ones for night vision.

Well, we'll just see how well it's done. If you can pick 'em up at e-Bay for half price within 3-6 months it has failed. If not it does fill a need for the buyers.

tl;dr

Just looking at that text... I now understand how the ALL CAPS phenomenon was born... Al Gore started it!

Interesting and very valid observation. I think it can be mitigated by 1 thing: having an unfiltered out stream on your firewall, but a throttled in stream. That way he can't complain about the network being slow (it isn't if you copy a file over), only saving to the coworkers system will take a very long time.

I voted for this too, but that's just because everyone is shouting in their cell phones because I have 2 servers running on the bench beside me... When they stop calling the calm will return :P

That depends on the amount of entropy gathered by the system.

Well my chocolate Logitech keyboard _does_ have one.

So there!

hmmm seems you're not much of a reliable oracle then?

how long will it be in beta?

A more interesting point is that they released the source code, thereby implicitly making the statement that the GPL is valid and enforcable.

and don't forget that virtualization as a technology is very _very_ old... Computer bronze age if you will. One of my UNIX instructors did his thesis on virtual machines on mainframes in the early 70s (he pioneered this in the Netherlands). Short translated abstract from this link:

H.J. Thomassen graduated in 1974 on the subject of "Virtual Machines" and wrote his programs on this machine (PDP 11/45, ed.)

The linked site is the Dutch computer heritage site.

IBM is probably using their Lotus product internally so they are not tied to the Microsoft Office suite (but tied to their own proprietary stuff). So those retraining costs for them are nil because there is nothing to retrain for (well maybe for Visio).