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I'm currently in the process of deploying a 2012 server for a new client.-Stoic Joker (October 29, 2012, 12:05 PM)
- although they could have picked a nicer color palette. 
Ballmer's face...it's so perfect for his personality.-superboyac (October 29, 2012, 10:23 AM)
Also, if you are on dreamspark, you have had access to Server 2012 since late August-Josh (October 29, 2012, 08:36 AM)
what is DreamSpark?
DreamSpark is a Microsoft Program that supports technical education by providing access to Microsoft software for learning, teaching and research purposes.
DreamSpark is simple: it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and designer tools at no cost so that students can chase their dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on their career.
DreamSpark helps educators teach the latest technologies and experiment in research. Microsoft knows that to make learning more motivating, relevant, and engaging for today's students requires a diverse set of resources. DreamSpark gives educators the resources to ensure their classrooms always have the latest technologies to challenges, motivate, and keep students engaged in new ways.
DreamSpark is also a subscription for Academic Institutions: it provides a cost-effective way to put Microsoft developer tools, platforms and servers in labs and classrooms, and on their students’ and faculty’s computers for learning and research purposes. It reduces lab costs and teaching budgets.
Windows Server 2012 represents a trend that has been happening since Windows Server 2008, a rapid pace of innovation. For many businesses, Windows 8 on the desktop might require careful planning in regards to deployment. With Windows Server 2012, it’s a different story, deploying Windows Server 2012 not only guarantees immediate productivity gains but significant value by bringing businesses the benefits of the Cloud while maintaining the assurance in on premises deployment that Administrators still depend on and prefer. Windows Server 2012 redefines scalability, a buzz word that you heard a lot more than a decade ago when Windows 2000 Server was launched. Windows Server 2012 really provides opportunities for businesses to not only consolidate on physical hardware investments, but eventually take their entire datacenter to the cloud using services such as Windows Azure. Private Clouds is a significant theme of this release and when you look at the features like Hyper-V Switch, Hyper-V Replica, Dynamic Memory improvements you sense this is a release built from the ground up for a new era in computing. Windows Server 2012 should be a breath of fresh air in many datacenters and if you have not investigated this release, you should start now.
Pro’s
Significant support in cloud computing.
Improvements in automation and deployment
Faster deployment of VMs in addition to management
Hyper-V features such as Replica and Hyper-V Switch
Improved Dynamic Memory support.
Active Directory Recycle Bin UI improvements for restoring objects
Enhanced Remote Management Tools for easier management of multiple servers
IIS 8 CPU utilization management and optimization options for websites.
Cons
Powershell 2.5 and .Net Framework 3.5 features do not work.
Metro interface might take some adjustment, especially navigation.
More clicks required than necessary for simple task.
Hmm..."Two attorneys for a prominent law firm" I see.
Not exactly the most disinterested of parties to be sounding the alarm are they?-40hz (October 28, 2012, 09:30 PM)
Problem. Reaction. Solution. The Hegelian Dialectic in action.-Renegade (October 28, 2012, 09:43 PM)
@40Hz: I totally dig where you're coming from, and would abstain as well if I weren't so into what it means in the larger picture. Yes, I've read the FSF's take on it, and even hammered on a few of my own points a few times, but what this means is more than just a few more registrations at the Linux counter. Can't explain it really, but I feel this is going to be big...-Edvard (October 28, 2012, 11:22 PM)
I've updated the game pages and edit and add pages along with a alphabet filter. What do you think?
Personally I think it looks 100x better than the previous interface.
Also 40hz I really appreciate your help, its really made a massive difference to the site-gameaddict20 (October 28, 2012, 06:36 PM)
) acknowledge being inspired at an early age by these little tales. Not a bad thing when you think about the real technology and innovations many of them were responsible for bringing into this world. Be interesting to see if the generation growing up on Harry Potter and "young fantasy" novels will be inspired to do the same. (If not I guess they can always become wizards. Or maybe hook up with a really cool werewolf, or hottie vampire, and go have adventures battling flesh-eating zombies or something...)Heh, knew that was gonna happen, but I'll hang on for the ride.-TaoPhoenix (October 27, 2012, 10:01 AM)
As a 12 second guess
So if I put my evil hat on
Even worse- I found out the domain the ads were coming from, and added them as rules. They *still* are not blocked, even when I make them as simple as possible. That would seem to mean that ABP has exceptions built-in the extension.-wraith808 (October 27, 2012, 01:35 PM)
I've changed the menu system and added a suggestion to search, what do you think? Improvement?
(May have to clear cache)-gameaddict20 (October 27, 2012, 12:29 PM)
...this is a move towards a hybrid OS rather than a move to close the total OS...-wraith808 (October 27, 2012, 12:14 PM)
... it was the inception for a lot of people placing intentions on the company that might just not be there.
Because to build your own software from the ground up for large tasks is beyond most individuals, would take a life time and cost a fortune.-Carol Haynes (October 27, 2012, 03:32 AM)
Okay, I'll cash in one of my goodwill points on this one.-TaoPhoenix (October 27, 2012, 03:59 AM)
My bet is that they saw an even more disastrous loophole lurking if they ruled the other way, and you know that it only takes one bad ruling with a legal shark waiting to find something truly nasty to perpetrate.-TaoPhoenix (October 27, 2012, 03:59 AM)
By now many of you have seen the articles on the atrocious Connecticut State Supreme Court decision to overturn the conviction of Richard Fourtin, the man accused of raping a physically disabled woman. In a 4-3 ruling, they decided that the victim, a woman with cerebral palsy who can barely move, cannot speak, and is severely mentally disabled, did not put up enough of a fight to indicate that the sex that occurred was not consensual.
This is a difficult thing to write about in a rational manner without things deteriorating into incoherent swearing and calling down the wrath of ancient, forgotten gods against the justices who voted to overturn this conviction. I am the parent of an autistic child who at the age of five, is barely verbal and incapable of communicating simple facts about what happened in kindergarten that day. This crime, and the subsequent ruling to overturn the conviction, is the stuff of my nightmares and those of anyone who has a loved one with a serious disability.
If the reason for overturning this conviction came in the form of new forensic evidence exonerating Fourtin or some other new information that cast doubt on his involvement or something along those lines, it would simply be justice served. But the reason that the justices gave for overturning the conviction was that the victim did not qualify under the law as “physically helpless.”
That’s right. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
If you feel like reading the ruling opinion, you can. It spends several pages dissecting the legalistic definition of “physically helpless” and apparently, being completely nonverbal (relying on grunting and occasional use of a communication board), and having an extremely limited ability to move due to cerebral palsy, does not, in these judges’ minds, qualify as “physically helpless” because she could have screeched, bitten, kicked, or scratched to communicate that she did not want sex. These are the same justices, by the way, who sat through four days of the victim’s laborious testimony watching her slowly and painfully use her one working finger to respond to questions with her communication board. They watched this testimony and concluded she could have really put up more of a fight.
‘‘It is apparent that the physical helplessness contemplated by the statute requires more than a disease causing physical paralysis.’’
...towards the build-your-own-tablet way.-superboyac (October 26, 2012, 04:39 PM)
I'm interested in this approach -- one thing that has me wondering of the potential success though is whether / how much of the hardware will be accessible/usable...I'm assuming here that the approach taken would be to reuse existing tablet hardware -- not physically assembling a tablet from scratch (though that sounds cool, not sure how feasible that is).-ewemoa (October 26, 2012, 07:09 PM)
The obvious workaround is to simply divide up the big companies into smaller ones, because then they wouldn't be as likely to be Fortune 500. But as a side effect, their amount of pooled wealth and political sway would be greatly reduced on top of the encouraged competition.-SeraphimLabs (October 26, 2012, 03:59 PM)
System Restore has saved me more times than I can count; I have nothing but positive things to say about it (and have heard nothing but positive things).-wraith808 (October 26, 2012, 11:59 AM)
+1-cyberdiva (October 26, 2012, 04:07 PM)