Everyone is confused about the "cloud" because everyone over-uses the term.

Essentially, the "Cloud" has three main points:
It is a set of infrastructure resources.
It is dynamically provisioned.
It is self-service.

Note that it has nothing to do with whether the resources are internal or external. I run an "internal" cloud at my company.

Way to go, Chip! I always liked that guy...

To be fair, Excel did not support more than 65k rows until Excel 2010.

The United States Treasury currently owns 61% of GM. "Government Motors" is a reference to the government takeover of GM in 2009 when Obama fired then current CEO Frederick Hendersen. http://www.worldcarfans.com/110092228542/gm-may-pay-back-taxpayers-after-ipo

Dell could go after Compellent... very similar to 3PAR. CML stock has almost doubled since the start of the 3PAR acquisition. Compellent has a very similar feature-set to 3PAR arrays and Dell could pick them up for about 750M.

You can choose to look at this compared to a laptop, which would make it "defective" or you could look at this compared to a Kindle, which makes it far superior. I don't want it for

No... the ReadBytes function was just one of the examples... The author has since replaced the ReadBytes example with another called "ReadLogicalDescriptors"

http://www.withinwindows.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/example1.png

Man oh man.. I stepped out to use the bathroom and I missed it... I had been waiting 7.3 billion years for this.

>I am not sure that your analysis of the binary RPC version of MAPI being replaced is actually accurate.

Grandpa AC is correct.. Microsoft is phasing out MAPI entirely and has already replaced it with an open implementation. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204042(EXCHG.140).aspx )

With the advent of Web Services in Exchange 2007 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb408417.aspx ), clients including Outlook are moving to use standard protocols to access Exchange. Outlook 2007 made a huge step towards using HTTP, XML to access Exchange 2007.

Apple's Mail App requires Exchange 2007 because the Mail.app client is using Web Services to access. ( http://images.apple.com/macosx/exchange/docs/MacOSXSL_Exchange.pdf )

First of all... Shut up! You are a bozo!
Second of all... There's no sexism in FOSS...


Did I cover everything?

I wonder how many of Toyota's patents they have violated?

No.. sorry. Too late. Learn to live with it.

BUT HOW DO YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPS? using the shift key seems like a pain...

iTunes update including iPod firmware update should do the trick.

That was the first real battle that Apple lost against the RIAA. Apple threatened to stop selling if the pricing went over 99 cents, but that bluff was called.