I wonder what will happen to share price when people realize that Google is more-or-less a traditional media company?
Also, I wonder why Google doesn't just hand this "challenge" to its gaggle of geeks and say, "no deadline, no pressure, and you can call it beta if you're afraid to stand behind it."
Oh, I get it now. When YOU win, it's "good strategy"; when I win it's "luck". Shut up and roll. 11? Oh good, that's Illinois Avenue and I have three houses on it.
Step 1: Get the Wizards of the Coast catalog Step 2: Open it to a random page and put your finger down Step 3: Order that
Good case why not to trust "community" services?
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Is this a good case why it's not generally a good idea to put any long-term trust in "community" services like this?
The RBL DNS service and mailing lists will be taken down today (December 18, 2006) and the website will vanish by December 31, 2006.
Thanks - that's not even two weeks notice.
The reasons given tend to be the usual ones - volunteers have been focused on other things in life
More likely, they woke up one day and figured out they were sick of eating Ramen noodles while being taking for a ride by commercial leeches who never kicked back.
A recall actually requires the old product to be returned
Thanks - I needed the laugh.
Beside the Nintendo recall, here are just a couple of other electronic recalls that didn't require the marks, I mean consumers, to return the crappy product.
Update: 12/15 17:07 GMT by Z : I used the right term here in the text, but Edge Online notes that recall is not the right term to use here. Title corrected.
First, I can't say I've even seen a "correction" on SlashDot. Ever. One has to wonder what advertiser threatened to pull what ads to make this near Act of God happen.
Second, it IS a recall. From some actual news sources...
Here's a nice one about how Nintendo's PR stiffs are trying to spin the term "recall" into "replace" headlines (probably to avoid denting holiday sales): http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/876ff8f90a010408 00b24c9aa9c24043/pg0.htm...and it looks like Slashdot is perfectly happy to remain a press release ho.
Particularly cool are the interviews with video game luminaries like Peter Molyneux, Sid Meier, and John Romero.
I don't really care who these people are or what they have to say. They put out some nice games in the past? Fine. Give them their gold watches and early-retirement their asses to make way for some new ideas.
Sid Meier, in particular, seems to be getting "Isaac Asimov-ish" in his old age; putting his name on lower-tier dreck just to collect a check. ("Pirates?")
Were all Slashdotters born yesterday, or just the original poster?
Previously, consumers themselves set the buzz. But lately advertisement firms are stepping up to the plate themselves, seeding the market with buzz that looks independent of the company, but is in fact funded by them.
For Christ's sake, this has been the way the world has worked for thousands of years. (Remember the story about John the Baptist starting the buzz about the "one who comes after"?)
"Consumers" have NEVER "set the buzz." If you think otherwise, I'd like to meet you, because there's a good chance you'll be buying whatever I'm pitching in 3-6 months. (And you'll think it was your idea too.)
It's important to note, however, that our ads are created and managed under the exact same guidelines, principles, practices and algorithms as the ads of any other advertiser.
I think they forgot, "...only we have unlimited play money we can allocate toward each search phrase, so we can ensure Google ads always beat out the paid ads from the unwashed masses."
You don't buy software, you buy the consequence of the software.
Welcome to the industry, Greg Pramanamana. In the great game of IT sales, the men will tell you that it's always been about pitching benefits (what you call "consequences"). What you actually close with doesn't really matter. Over time the deliverables have almost always been a combination of hardware, software and services; the mix may change over time but the mix will change again when someone's pricing model makes the alternatives look attractive again.
Keep track of the amount of time you spend maintaining those changes outside of the upstream distribution. A new major version is released that forces you to spend time patching to keep up to date? That's something that wouldn't happen if you contributed your changes back to the community.
As a manager, I'd also be tempted to solve the "wasting time on custom code" problem by either looking at a commercial package that keeps us out of the custom code business or outsourcing the custom code bits.
Also, sending back to the community isn't always a guarantee that your changes will make it in, or that they will make it in by the time you need it. In that respect open source projects are similar to commercial products: in both cases you are often subject to the whims of leaders who are not your employees.
Seriously, as long as you treat the free code like groundwater and it does what you need, what's the incentive to ever kick back? The ONLY open source projects I give any money too are those that require me to do so to rebundle their stuff into commercial products I profit off of.
Or just allow your email address to be a username
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My personal frustration is sites that don't let you use an email address as a username; an email address is pretty easy to remember.
If you're really worried about a low-security "single sign on" solution (which this article seems to suggest), why not just leverage one of the many cookie schemes advertisers use to track you all over the net? (The end result is the same.)
The fact that they aren't making lots of money is therefore not a failure of a business model, but the fact that they are a non-profit, with perhaps a poorly defined mission, that as a result has difficulty attracting lots of sponsorship money...
Non-profits need business models too, preferably built on the strength of a brand and/or the willingness of profitable businesses to build their own brands through them. For examples, see the United Way (tie-ins w/ the NFL, etc.), the Red Cross (sells blood with markup) and the Komen Foundation (tie-ins with every homemaker product ever invented).
How exactly is Apache leaching off developers other than being a central point where OSS developed code can be found by all?
I think you missed my point: Apache isn't itself the leech. The multibillion dollar oil company that runs Apache all over the place and hasn't ever contributed a cent to the Apache project is.
Little revenue obtained making free software? The single biggest attraction of open source is that as a big corporation, you can leech the efforts of thousands of unpaid but experienced contractors and never once feel the need to give back. (e.g., Thanks Apache!) So...it isn't exactly surprising that OSDL isn't exactly raking in the dough.
any subsequent renewal of the contract will occur 'only if it concludes that the approval will serve the public interest in the continued security and stability of the Internet domain name system
In plain English, "future renewal will depend on the quiet and timely delivery of large quantities of unmarked bills to key decision makers"
Any man who would take on a position at a yarn store, much less a technological position while surrounded by a dozen women, ages 55+ deserves some kind of reward
Oh, c'mon. I think we all know what his "Cocoon-like" reward was.
Fourteenth! (After half an hour on Slashdot). Woot!
Seriously, is this really surprising to anyone? I guess I'd be more interested to know who's pimping the blogger who spends so much valuable free time following this minutiae. (I only wish someone followed FEDERAL requisition contracts with as much interest.)
Google enjoys relative dominance on the Web platform today
"Dominance" is easy as long as you don't intend to charge for it. If Google puts a price on Google's free-as-in-beer service offerings, alternatives will start to look more attractive.
(I don't run Google ad/spyware software (e.g., the Google toolbar) here because I don't like other people's software phoning home; I don't think the "advertising on everything" gambit will work on my dev tools either.)
Also, from the comment on this "innovative" article:
1.DrBacchus said: Yes, these techniques *can* result in performance improvements, but should be put in your main server configuration file, rather than in.htaccess files..htaccess files, by their very nature, cause performance degradation on your website, and so should be avoided whenever possible.
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I wonder what will happen to share price when people realize that Google is more-or-less a traditional media company?
Also, I wonder why Google doesn't just hand this "challenge" to its gaggle of geeks and say, "no deadline, no pressure, and you can call it beta if you're afraid to stand behind it."
Oh, I get it now. When YOU win, it's "good strategy"; when I win it's "luck". Shut up and roll. 11? Oh good, that's Illinois Avenue and I have three houses on it.
Step 1: Get the Wizards of the Coast catalog
Step 2: Open it to a random page and put your finger down
Step 3: Order that
Thanks - that's not even two weeks notice.
More likely, they woke up one day and figured out they were sick of eating Ramen noodles while being taking for a ride by commercial leeches who never kicked back.
Thanks - I needed the laugh.
Beside the Nintendo recall, here are just a couple of other electronic recalls that didn't require the marks, I mean consumers, to return the crappy product.
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml02/02115
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml06/06536
Excellent - my tax`dollars at work again. I know this will benefit myself and my family.
First, I can't say I've even seen a "correction" on SlashDot. Ever. One has to wonder what advertiser threatened to pull what ads to make this near Act of God happen.
Second, it IS a recall. From some actual news sources...
Nintendo recalls Wii straps, DS adapters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
(Shitloads more like it from Google)
http://news.google.com/news?q=wii+recall&num=20&h
Here's a nice one about how Nintendo's PR stiffs are trying to spin the term "recall" into "replace" headlines (probably to avoid denting holiday sales):
http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/876ff8f90a01040
I don't really care who these people are or what they have to say. They put out some nice games in the past? Fine. Give them their gold watches and early-retirement their asses to make way for some new ideas.
Sid Meier, in particular, seems to be getting "Isaac Asimov-ish" in his old age; putting his name on lower-tier dreck just to collect a check. ("Pirates?")
For Christ's sake, this has been the way the world has worked for thousands of years. (Remember the story about John the Baptist starting the buzz about the "one who comes after"?)
"Consumers" have NEVER "set the buzz." If you think otherwise, I'd like to meet you, because there's a good chance you'll be buying whatever I'm pitching in 3-6 months. (And you'll think it was your idea too.)
I wonder how long it will be until Rush is hooked on conotoxin. Any guesses?
(BTW, in case you don't get this, you may not be alone. I'm not even sure "Rush Limbaugh" is still on the air - anyone know for sure?)
I think they forgot, "...only we have unlimited play money we can allocate toward each search phrase, so we can ensure Google ads always beat out the paid ads from the unwashed masses."
Welcome to the industry, Greg Pramanamana. In the great game of IT sales, the men will tell you that it's always been about pitching benefits (what you call "consequences"). What you actually close with doesn't really matter. Over time the deliverables have almost always been a combination of hardware, software and services; the mix may change over time but the mix will change again when someone's pricing model makes the alternatives look attractive again.
As a manager, I'd also be tempted to solve the "wasting time on custom code" problem by either looking at a commercial package that keeps us out of the custom code business or outsourcing the custom code bits.
Also, sending back to the community isn't always a guarantee that your changes will make it in, or that they will make it in by the time you need it. In that respect open source projects are similar to commercial products: in both cases you are often subject to the whims of leaders who are not your employees.
As a company, why would you ever pay?
Seriously, as long as you treat the free code like groundwater and it does what you need, what's the incentive to ever kick back? The ONLY open source projects I give any money too are those that require me to do so to rebundle their stuff into commercial products I profit off of.
My personal frustration is sites that don't let you use an email address as a username; an email address is pretty easy to remember.
If you're really worried about a low-security "single sign on" solution (which this article seems to suggest), why not just leverage one of the many cookie schemes advertisers use to track you all over the net? (The end result is the same.)
Little revenue obtained making free software? The single biggest attraction of open source is that as a big corporation, you can leech the efforts of thousands of unpaid but experienced contractors and never once feel the need to give back. (e.g., Thanks Apache!) So...it isn't exactly surprising that OSDL isn't exactly raking in the dough.
Oh, c'mon. I think we all know what his "Cocoon-like" reward was.
Fourteenth! (After half an hour on Slashdot). Woot!
Seriously, is this really surprising to anyone? I guess I'd be more interested to know who's pimping the blogger who spends so much valuable free time following this minutiae. (I only wish someone followed FEDERAL requisition contracts with as much interest.)
"Dominance" is easy as long as you don't intend to charge for it. If Google puts a price on Google's free-as-in-beer service offerings, alternatives will start to look more attractive.
(I don't run Google ad/spyware software (e.g., the Google toolbar) here because I don't like other people's software phoning home; I don't think the "advertising on everything" gambit will work on my dev tools either.)
Did Google hire the guy?
It's a serious question; some firms actually do hire the black hatters who targetted them.
So using cache control headers is "news", huh?
.htaccess files. .htaccess files, by their very nature, cause performance degradation on your website, and so should be avoided whenever possible.
Also, from the comment on this "innovative" article:
1.DrBacchus said:
Yes, these techniques *can* result in performance improvements, but should be put in your main server configuration file, rather than in