If you think of it as watching some new Seinfeld show (instead of a commercial), it makes more sense. I chuckled at a few parts, it seemed a little long as it went on without any real plot, but in the end I was entertained.
But very strange that it had no commercial breaks.
Okay, think about it from an IT manager's
perspective. Say I'm an IT manager at a medium-sized bank and the applications we use
are based on Oracle. I'm about the buy a bunch
of machines so I can run Oracle on them. This
is a production environment, so I don't want
to just download some random Linux build without
support -- I need to pick someone who will sell
me real support, with guaranteed response times, etc.
What are my choices? Oracle on reliable hardware
is a huge market for Sun, so that's obviously one choice. Which Linux would I pick? Probably
RedHat to get their support offering. Oh, and
yea, I could always go the Microsoft way.
I don't know, Jonathan's comment doesn't seem
that bizzare to me.
After reading the comments on/. about
Wikipedia, I thought it would be interesting
to see what Wikipedia says about slashdot.
It starts...
Slashdot (frequently abbreviated online as "/.") is a popular technology-oriented weblog, primarily consisting of short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories that support the editor's left wing and anti-american opinions, and provisions for readers to comment on the story.
To say it was inconsiderate for a company to cut a project ignores a basic premise: the company is responsible to the stock holders and that means it is all about costs versus benefits. The history doesn't matter. Working on it for 7 years doesn't matter. The fact that it may be almost ready doesn't matter. If the cost of shipping the product outweighs the benefits, it should be cut. It's not personal, it's business.
Perhaps an offshoot of saying Porn is a testbed, but I've always thought of Porn as
the measure of a viable business plan. Are you
building a technology that can arguably be used
for Porn? If the answer is "yes" then build it!
If not, don't bother.
Okay, I'm also being touch-and-cheek but I
think the Rule of Porn mostly works.
Can you use Google for porn? Yep, must be
a good technology. Can you use faster Internet
access for porn? Yep... and so on.
The "disposable DVD" just suffers from a lack of imagination. I'd buy one if, after the allotted number of uses, it self-destructed with a flourish like the smoking tape on Mission: Impossible. (Yea, okay, I'd probably even buy something I don't want to watch just to see that...)
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If you think of it as watching some new Seinfeld show (instead of a commercial), it makes more sense. I chuckled at a few parts, it seemed a little long as it went on without any real plot, but in the end I was entertained.
But very strange that it had no commercial breaks.
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UNIX make better lovers.
What are my choices? Oracle on reliable hardware is a huge market for Sun, so that's obviously one choice. Which Linux would I pick? Probably RedHat to get their support offering. Oh, and yea, I could always go the Microsoft way.
I don't know, Jonathan's comment doesn't seem that bizzare to me.
"Anti-american," eh? Who knew...
To say it was inconsiderate for a company to
cut a project ignores a basic premise: the
company is responsible to the stock holders
and that means it is all about costs versus
benefits. The history doesn't matter. Working
on it for 7 years doesn't matter. The fact
that it may be almost ready doesn't matter. If
the cost of shipping the product outweighs the
benefits, it should be cut. It's not personal,
it's business.
Okay, I'm also being touch-and-cheek but I think the Rule of Porn mostly works. Can you use Google for porn? Yep, must be a good technology. Can you use faster Internet access for porn? Yep... and so on.
The "disposable DVD" just suffers from a
lack of imagination. I'd buy one if, after
the allotted number of uses, it self-destructed
with a flourish like the smoking tape on
Mission: Impossible. (Yea, okay, I'd probably
even buy something I don't want to watch just to
see that...)