Wikipedia should figure out all kinds of business ventures to bring in money for further quality improvement...Wikipedia magazine...a dead-tree Wikipedia set, CDs and DVDs...
Other Wikipedia items include:
Shot glasses
Key chains
Baseball caps
Assorted stickers, buttons, and pins
Limited-edition poster
Big foam "#1" hands
The "I contributed to Wikipedia and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" t-shirt
The interesting thing is how "real" tech news sites like news.com don't resort to that crap.
Actually, theyhavebeen. They simply let it be known that the articles are, in fact, gags. Sure, they have real news too, but of course their reporters are paid to report real news because it's their job. Last I heard,/. didn't have any reimbursement system for voluntary story submissions.
It's Friday, it's April Fool's Day, and there appear to be a hell of a lot of us having some fun. So let's all just go with the flow. Everybody mambo!
While I agree that some of these stories aren't necessarily side-splitting, I'd like to note that humor is quite a healthy thing. It's also true that some of us need more health than others.
If you don't have a sense of humor, or at least a sense of lighthearted fun, and can't deal with it just one day a year, then it's a bit of a shame. But a greater shame is the pissing and moaning over the good time some of the rest of us may be having. People are absolutely free to not read gag stories if they so choose.
In consulting situations, I've been looked on with suspicion before, but the people who have done so were new clients that had been burned by others in the past, sometimes several times. So naturally, they were leery of me when I first arrived on the scene. With time and quality work, they come around.
If they had a good enough revenue stream, they wouldn't need any help. The idea behind venture capitalism is that companies with the potential for a good revenue stream receive investment money to see it through. Until recently, Amazon.com hemorrhaged money consistently. Yet investors kept investing (and still do), because they see the potential there.
So the ends justify the means. Let's all just start mugging people and giving the proceeds to charity, then.
I've never used WordPress, so I can't speak to its quality. But if it's really that good, he should be able to drum up funds the old-fashioned way (through venture capital).
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, Slashdot, psychotics and asylums, what's not to understand?
Other Wikipedia items include:
Flamebait? I didn't realize the president of the Stevie Nicks fan club was moderating today. Hmm.
...but a site that offers Stevie Nicks videos for download should be shut down on general principle.
...it's lasted far longer and been far more useful than its Star Trek namesake series. At least NASA can be proud of that.
Perhaps that's why they included the phrase as little as, thus implying the minimum bill amount.
The unlifelike skin sheen and jerky speech patterns have been there since way before 1996. ;)
It's been mentioned...but where are you in relation to the international dateline?
Somewhere in the world, it's still before noon.
How 'bout this one and this one?
The interesting thing is how "real" tech news sites like news.com don't resort to that crap.
/. didn't have any reimbursement system for voluntary story submissions.
Actually, they have been. They simply let it be known that the articles are, in fact, gags. Sure, they have real news too, but of course their reporters are paid to report real news because it's their job. Last I heard,
It's Friday, it's April Fool's Day, and there appear to be a hell of a lot of us having some fun. So let's all just go with the flow. Everybody mambo!
STD = Software Transmitted Disease?
In other words, business as usual for Slashdot.
Ah, but it's a slippery slope we'd be starting on, if we curtailed our April Fooling activities:
- We'd stop getting the day off for Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Halloween would be reduced to a mere 1-hour trick-or-treat window
- Chicken rights advocates would rail against the sweatshop conditions as Easter approaches (much to the consternation of Egg Councils everywhere)
- Next thing you know, we're ignoring SysAdmin Appreciation Day
Where would it end?Hey, whaddaya know? I stand corrected. I must need another Google Gulp to get the wheels back on my brain.
(stole that word I did)
:)
Hmm, English like Yoda you speak.
While I agree that some of these stories aren't necessarily side-splitting, I'd like to note that humor is quite a healthy thing. It's also true that some of us need more health than others.
If you don't have a sense of humor, or at least a sense of lighthearted fun, and can't deal with it just one day a year, then it's a bit of a shame. But a greater shame is the pissing and moaning over the good time some of the rest of us may be having. People are absolutely free to not read gag stories if they so choose.
Perhaps it will. Or even better, increase exponentially every year until it reaches a terabyte.
Maybe they should rename the mag Capitalistic American.
Please don't mod that term -1 Redundant.
The maintenance crew at Area 51 painted the roofs with invisible paint, so you won't see anything.
...they should make him apologize, in person, to everyone affected by the worm.
In consulting situations, I've been looked on with suspicion before, but the people who have done so were new clients that had been burned by others in the past, sometimes several times. So naturally, they were leery of me when I first arrived on the scene. With time and quality work, they come around.
If they had a good enough revenue stream, they wouldn't need any help. The idea behind venture capitalism is that companies with the potential for a good revenue stream receive investment money to see it through. Until recently, Amazon.com hemorrhaged money consistently. Yet investors kept investing (and still do), because they see the potential there.
So the ends justify the means. Let's all just start mugging people and giving the proceeds to charity, then.
I've never used WordPress, so I can't speak to its quality. But if it's really that good, he should be able to drum up funds the old-fashioned way (through venture capital).
There's always the risk that the 80s could come back to haunt us
You mean gaming didn't peak with Qbert?
Or would Linux be running you???
Only in Soviet Russia.