from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mania

Definition of MANIA
1
: excitement manifested by mental and physical hyperactivity, disorganization of behavior, and elevation of mood; specifically : the manic phase of bipolar disorder
2
a : excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm —often used in combination
b : the object of such enthusiasm

So, in conclusion: it's the object of excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm, not the best thing since sliced bread.

To rephrase the headline:

"VMWare realizes that Hyper-V in Server 2012 is now competitive with vSphere in features; lowers prices in an attempt to lose fewer customers."

The plant was asked to comment on this technology, and all it said was: "Oh no, not again."

I speculate that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

It's good that the Japanese have learned to always mount scratch monkeys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey

15 years ago it probably crossed the mind of phone users that a telephone land line should be an inalienable right. Right now, that would seem kind of silly, and another 15 years from now people would be scratching their heads wondering why anyone would have ever made that a law in the first place. So consider how young the Internet is as a specific technology that enables communication, and ask yourself if this proposal really makes any sense or not.

Nuke it from Orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.

Gravity! It's working on a small scale, but that's why it would do that. As a casual observer, i'm pretty sure i've noticed this type of behavior in sand before, it's surprising to me that others haven't. I'm pretty sure that's the same reason why the last few cheerios stick together in the bowl of milk.

...that all it takes is a lame comment here to get an achievement.

I'm lame...

It would have been better on Valentine's day, when it could have saved me $5 at Hallmark.

There is a big difference between a phone that in the cockpit causing a display to flicker and one that is in the passenger portion of the airplane causing problems with the controls or communications. If i kept my old nextel phone close to a radio, it would cause interference, but if the phone was at least a few feet away, it was fine, and none of that interference caused the radio to malfunction, it just caused some clicking noises to be heard.