SQL Server on Amazon Web Services starts at $0.629 per hour, for about $15.10 per day. That comes out to be about $5,500.00 per year.

http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

Slightly OT, but California is doing a great thing. I used to be IT Director for a company which did environmental testing of gas stations for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. All states (some better than others) follow California's environmental need. CARB, the California Air Resources Board, has done more to ensure gas stations (at least) don't do nasty things like spill gasoline into the water table any more, and have good vapor recovery systems in place than any other entity I can think of. They're sort of the opposite of the schill filled and lobbyist group, the PEI. If you want to see a news story about a virtual environment I designed showing how VR systems work for training our new employees (yes, in Second Life, I know ), I've got it up here: http://www.peregrinesalon.com/blog/2007/02/wfmz-feature-crompcos-innovation-in-virtual-worlds/

Cheers.

I'm hardly a fan, but geez, why don't you just start legislating taste? I sense a bit of jealousy in your egotistical, self-serving post as well.

...that everything is causing autism in children. Shit, I'm probably autistic. And please, that microwave does NOT belong there.

There's a campaign that was start to Knight Alan Turing, which would be an appropriate honor bestowed by the government which treated him so horrifically. More information is available here:

http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=1704 ...or just Google it. If it were to happen a year from today, that would be wonderfully appropriate, though I doubt Turing would care too much about a number stuck in base 10.

Can't wait for the due process... I've been wondering how the "I Did It For the Lulz!" defense would hold up in a court of law for years!

...of these freeloaders coming to our shores from the ocean who don't even speak English! They don't pay any taxes either!

SciFi/SyFy has being going downhill since Bonnie Hammer took over over CEO in 2001. They never gave a Babylon 5 series a real chance, interfering with the one pilot they did attempt. Add on to that the whole fiasco of promising two seasons to Farscape before pulling a bait and switch, followed up by bringing in Shannon Frickin' Doherty to do that godawful Scare Tactics, and the writing has been on the wall for some time.

Now she's on to killing NBC Universal. How people like this keep getting more chances after abject failures is beyond me.

Time to kill it, not fund it.

Apparently you missed this memo... Blackberry Enterprise Server Express is now free, but yes, still only supports Exchange and Domino. Not my cup of tea, but yeah, it is free now:

http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/business/server/express/

With UIs, beauty always ends up being in the eye - and fingers / thumbs - of the beholder. I love my Blackberry phone, and yes, I've tried iPhone (but not an Android yet).

That said, I won't touch the PlayBook with a 10000ms ping.

So you can not get your email, calendar, and contacts, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Booya!

Hardly a Microsoft fan, but two seconds of Googling would have gotten you here (or any number of other sources):

http://www.windowsphoneapplist.com/stats/

...you think this tidbit from the article might have been included in the teaser. Lojack for laptops, encryption and passwords should be required for any company or academic laptop containing sensitive information.

{crypt} has only ever supported eight characters. I've run into this on older Solaris systems for years. Move up to {ssha} already.

http://randomaxe.comicgenesis.com/d/20010725.html

That is all.