Ever heard the saying "people are promoted to the level of their own incompetence"?
Yes, and its not just a saying, its called the Peter Principle. And according to Wikipedia, the official quote is: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." I would have to agree with original beware comment. I also feel this quote from the Wikipedia article is also meaningful in this context and provides some additional insight:
"The employee's incompetence is not necessarily exposed as a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult -- simply, that job is different from the job in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different work skills, which the employee usually does not possess. For example, a factory worker's excellence in his job can earn him promotion to manager, at which point the skills that earned him his promotion no longer apply to his job."
One product, WatchGuard's Linux AV tool, caught fewer than 6 percent of the viruses sent to it. "We're not exactly sure what the problem with WatchGuard is," says Morris. "The test was set up the same way for all of the vendors."
This number quoted by the original poster missed the section in bold, it was technically < 6%, which could mean either 0 or 1 virus (funny how everything always works out to binary in some way or another:). My question would be which is it? Either way, my system would be compromised by either 24 or 25 viruses -- neither of which is a good scenario especially in regards to well-known viruses (according to the article no 0-day exploits were accepted).
Or Informative, your choice. I could use a little Karmapickmeup. A little injection bawlz if you will.
Oh...and farming gold? Anything goes as an (MMO)RPG these days I guess.
I think what's more insightful would be the introduction of a +5 Rich option (even just for April Fool's). Why have a karma injection without an additional cash injection (personally, I could use both:)? They always said two was better than one.
Once we Get CowboyNeal out of the crawlspace(Slashdot Poll) I bet this will become an option in the very near future. CowboyNeal's life goal after becoming free from the crawlspace is to found his own corporation. Yes, this definitely sounds like an option!
Google will be forced to pay $32,600 for each day it displayed the links of the plaintiffs.
That's awfully close to a nerd number: 2 to the power of 15 = $32,768 [1]. We are talking about computers here, and there's nothing computers like more then binary numbers! Maybe the court was being generous by choosing a slightly lower number. What do you think Google will do with that *extra* $168 dollars a day they are not being charged?
[1] For the fun of it, I used Google Calculator to give the proof, and yes the Caret symbol is really a bitwise operator but not according to Google Calculator. I suppose one could say that Google is guilty of "Bitwise Violation" also...but that's for another article;)
PHP does not give you a pretty library with prepared statements, parameter binding, and such. There's a nice DB and MDB2 package available on PEAR, but PHP doesn't ship with those. It ships with the compile option --with-mysql.
Perl ships with a fair amount of stuff. It ships with a package named DBI. You can do things like $rv = $sth->execute(@bind_values);. The documentation on it starts off with a convenient set of good examples which go like
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT foo, bar FROM table WHERE baz=?");
$sth->execute( $baz );
PHP 5.2 ships with PDO (PHP Data Objects) extension which can run with your example code provided you load the extension in your php.ini (yes, I know its a setting that is not done by default, but that argument doesn't hold water with PHP 5 anymore). PDO also supports the prepared statements and parameter bindings of which you speak, and along similar lines, you can also do transactions. You should be clear about which version of PHP your referring to as PHP 4.4 is no longer considered the main release and also has not been updated since August while PHP 5 was last updated in November.
Though I can still agree that not all the choices made in the development were the best. AFAIK, every language has human developers and humans are not perfect, but we do do the best we can and have to continually aim to improve ourselves and the work we create.
These energy-saving bulbs use 75% less electricity than incandescents and produce far less greenhouse gas to manufacture and use
Don't let the marketing fool you, I don't see any comparison with LED bulbs. This is probably because they know there is none.
The retailer is determined to push energy-saving light bulbs with the help of some unlikely partners.
Even when you factor in that LED lights cost a little more to buy, don't you actually save more money on your power bill and have longer lasting bulbs if you use LED lights? LED bulbs such as the ones shown here claim to be able to use the same light socket. In addition to the useful facts listed on the page here's another tidbit directly from the page:
National Energy Savings:
If every U.S. household replaced just one standard 60 watt bulb with a CC Vivid LED bulb, we could save 24,184,400,000 watts or 24,184.4 mega (million) watts per day.
National savings information based on 103,000,000 households with an average use of 4 hrs per day per house. Based on gross watts.
I just ran the test on 1.5.0.7 and I am not affected.
Somehow Firefox 1.5.0.8 seems to allow this exploit also. Are you sure 1.5.0.7 isn't vulnerable? If so, then wow I guess things went backwards between the two releases.
maybe it doesn't work the same on ubuntu
Although this could actually be why, I ran the test on a Windows XP Pro machine. If this only happens on Windows (though I don't know this for certain) chances are it might not be the Firefox team's fault after all. Interesting that 1passwd appears to have released a new version of their password manager little over a week ago before this exploit became publically known. Mac users might like the OS X keychain integration.
Maybe Clippy was the first one to join this social network, or a key member of the support team? This could indeed be the new job Microsoft has been talking about! In fact, he might even give advice on how to properly decorate your profile page and introduce you to the new features offered by the service! If this is the case just hope there's a way to turn it off if you don't like it...
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I'd say gaining complexity is perhaps the definition of evolution, perhaps even including bloat and complexity (even biological systems aren't immune. Lots of complex animals have useless bits left over weighing them down. Appendix, etc).
I agree with most of your other argument but you are flat wrong when you say the appendix is a "useless bit". By some very elementary research it can be seen that the human appendix, for example, is not vestigal and certainly seen to play a part in the immune system. In fact, the appendix can also be found useful for reconstructive surgery. If it has to be removed so be it, but do not classify it as useless just because some biology textbook says so, as research such as above has already been conducted to show that it is useful.
I think the argument is better made that GUIs have evolved too much for their own good. I wonder what would happen if you launched NT 4's explorer.exe in WinXP.... I think i'm gonna go try it...
Let us know the results you find and I hope you don't have anything vital that's not backuped on the machine before attempting your experiment.
Purchasers will also get a free copy of Adobe (ADBE) Premier Elements 2.0 video editing software.
If you buy this multimedia computer (AKA not a phone) will it be able to run this software (as you would assume since its bundled)? Alas, apparently this does not replace your othercomputer that requires at least 4 GB of disk space. I suppose if someone figured out how to run DirectX 9 on this multimedia computer...
Proof that the offshoring is an overexagerated issue? Look at average salaries of graduates. They may not be as high as you want them, but compared with any other fields they are consistently towards the top. Even now, with so much media attention focusing on the downturn in the tech economy, I doubt you would receive very much sympathy for having to receive a starting salary of over 51k. (Starting Salaries) [cnn.com]
That is for 2005, this is for 2006. As an additional note, Computer Science pays less then 51k (2% less then 2005, $50,046). I suppose that comment is no longer directly true for said graduates since this February.
Cappella: They first tried to work out a merger five years ago, but finally, at long last, it's come to fruition.
From article: Close to 9,000 jobs, or about 10% of the companies' workforce will lose their jobs as a result of the merger.
If I was a marketing person I would definitely try to side-step this fact, unless I sugar-coated it by saying how this makes the company more efficient.
How come with all this cuteness you guys still aren't celebrating the cutest thing of all, Hello Kitty?
Is the pink going to go away when April Fools Day wears off in all time zones? Because I'm really enjoying this pink. It's so much better than that silly green was!
You should have been smart like me and taken a screenshot picture so you could remember for a good long time that one April 1st when Slashdot main site was entirely pink. Obviously its not going to be that way for ever, preserve the weird April 1st feeling for a long time to come. With an image viewer I can see "Hello Kitty" anytime of day. BTW, at time of this posting, my time zone is still April 1st.
I'm still waiting for Starcraft 2. Blizzard is definitely doing an injustice to Starcraft. On the Warcraft side we have three complete games released and then a World of Warcraft.
Starcraft, on the other hand, has one game with supposed, but not officially announced plans for Starcraft 2. As the link above states Blizzard has officially even registered Starcraft2.com and be found in a basic WHOIS search (rumour or not, the domain is owned by them). Now they plan to jump to a World of Starcraft release. Somehow I almost wonder if this is itself a April Fool's Day joke. It will be interesting to see what would happen if Starcraft 2 eventually is eventually released after World of Starcraft. Anyone else curious as to how this would play out?
I agree from my own experience. In fact, I find files (or discs) that either work strange or not at all on other media players (such as Windows Media Player or WinAMP) run just (or very close to) perfect on VLC. The capability to play VCD, SVCD, DVD, DVD (with menues) was a feature that I also found make the player even more flexible.
Does anyone here have experience with VLC for running your own streaming server? Also, anyone know if they are going to add capability to play RealPlayer files? I find RealPlayer as a major bloatware and RealAlternative (no offense, just from my experience) looks too much like (and as featured limited as) the original media player in Windows 95/98. For a good reference here's a full table of all features available on all the various Operating Systems that VLC works with. Very good product and highly recommended!
These are programmers building great technology to help their peers to build software to solve customer problems.
Let's face it, the Open Source Model is more focused on meeting the needs of its user community for the sake of the community. In contrast, the closed-source for-profit model typically works on the basis of, "Is this good for company? Will this help us sell more product?". When your concerned 100% about the community your mentality behind development is far more focused on the solution and how the product can be improved, with no extra baggage like the requirement of turning a profit by giving focus on things that would simply sell a product (the changes in closed-source could be good or bad, since the focus is a sell not product improvement). I know it's been said before but it can not be overstated, for-profit companies can easily disappear and no promise that any sort of support is available in the future. The Open Source Model is so flexible that as long as people still use the software it can still be improved and developed. Essentially it's quite hard when using Open Source to lose any time investment (unless the software was that poorly used to begin with), while with closed-source model you can lose both time and money when the company that provided you the product disappears as well as the product support to never re-surface again.
In Open Source there is little room for added restrictions now and later that would require another license for using the software, while for-profit will always say the EULA is subject to change and can later lock you into paying continually more. The real gold in the Open Source Model is the flexibility it gives in use of the software. The protection from a lot of the stupid restrictions (i.e. paying based on number of concurrent users of the software) that we see in closed-source software almost practically pays you back in peace of mind and saves people from features in closed-source software that are specifically designed to lock you into their products.
Fortunately, no-one's noticed that I got the energy wrong... It's out by a factor of 10^3 because I used m=1 in E=mc^2, which is, of course, a kilogram, not a gram.
D'oh.
Yeah, but that's assumed. How many people say "I am not a lawyer" (IANAL) when they give legal advice, especially over the internet?! Besides, you should be happy you didn't say you were a Physics Major:) No one believes those emails that mention Nigeria anyways.
In fact, however, Sun is still in beta with this CPU program and not set to launch a publicly available utility computing system for weeks...It seems hard to believe that Sun would pass on the opportunity to dangle such a user in front of the press if it existed given that we're 14 months away from the utility computing launch date...The company promises us such a day is coming sooner than later and that it will have plenty of customers to name in the near future. Still, given that it took a year to push the program to a beta, one wonders how long an actual living, breathing utility center will take.
I also must agree with anyone here who mentioned that you need to pick up customers during the development of the project and not just assume they'll come from no where. If you have at least one customer then they'll do far better publicity for you then thousands of dollars worth of marketing ever will. Sun might have a big name but that doesn't immediately get people jumping to their project. You don't dictate to people what they *should* do you make them think that using your product was *their* idea and that your just there to fulfill the customers requirements.
That certainly sucks CmdrTaco. In Warcraft 3 I use the name Localhost which I thought was funny that no one else had attempted to create before. If they do ban my name, I'd know for sure they'd have banned a lot of people's names (I mean what's wrong with mine?!) and then perhaps we should all group together against the powers that be! Anyone else with me on this?
The Full Description is available. Haha, I really get a kick out of the section titled Read the Source, Luke. Then there's quotes such as, In the web server space, Microsoft's complete denial of the Open Source phenomenon is almost amusing. The Apache web server has, at the time of writing, more than 50% of the web serving market according the Netcraft survey ( http://www.netcraft.com/survey). When you look at advertisements for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) you see them tout that they own over half the market in web serving--over half the commercial server market, that is. from the Introduction of the original. This is something I'll definitely be reading and adding to my Bookmarks Toolbar Folder!
I think that Wikipedia is a great service. The people behind it should be compensated for time, effort, hardware and bandwidth. I have no problem with advertisements to fund this. I mean, it is better than paying for a subscription!
Yours is a comment that is unaware of the following:
Six servers are now being hosted in France as squids, with another eleven in the Netherlands, and a further 23 in South Korea donated by Yahoo. The hosting and bandwidth have been donated.About Wikimedia (Emphasis mine). They clearly note that hardware is the major expense and that they only have two people on staff. When you say people behind it don't forget all the volunteers that don't even get a cent from the project and the efforts and countless hours they pour in for the community. Monetary incentive shouldn't be assumed.
Also note that this is still quite shortly after Wikimedia has received very close to $200,000 in donations and that this announcement is just over a month after the drive I would question exactly what was the purpose if the drive. Articles still exist on Wikimedia that state the following For the time being, we want the Wikimedia projects to remain free of advertisements.About Wikimedia.
Before anyone goes over-board either way please remember the content posted on Wikipedia, something like this can get blown way out of proportion, The prominence of any links to the service on Wikipedia will be left entirely up to the community. This is not a pay-for-placement deal. This respect for the community is absolutely insisted upon by both Bob Rosenschein of Answers.com and Jimbo Wales.1-Click Answers. Let's just wait and see if this is left up entirely to the community.
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Ever heard the saying "people are promoted to the level of their own incompetence"?
Yes, and its not just a saying, its called the Peter Principle. And according to Wikipedia, the official quote is: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." I would have to agree with original beware comment. I also feel this quote from the Wikipedia article is also meaningful in this context and provides some additional insight:
"The employee's incompetence is not necessarily exposed as a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult -- simply, that job is different from the job in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different work skills, which the employee usually does not possess. For example, a factory worker's excellence in his job can earn him promotion to manager, at which point the skills that earned him his promotion no longer apply to his job."
One product, WatchGuard's Linux AV tool, caught fewer than 6 percent of the viruses sent to it. "We're not exactly sure what the problem with WatchGuard is," says Morris. "The test was set up the same way for all of the vendors."
:). My question would be which is it? Either way, my system would be compromised by either 24 or 25 viruses -- neither of which is a good scenario especially in regards to well-known viruses (according to the article no 0-day exploits were accepted).
This number quoted by the original poster missed the section in bold, it was technically < 6%, which could mean either 0 or 1 virus (funny how everything always works out to binary in some way or another
That wouldn't be "Gates", would it?
Considering this is politics, that could actually be Bill Clinton.
Since Hillary is planning to enter the 2008 Election there could actually be some truth to this (time will tell).
amd call for cars in two categories that are capable of 100 MPG in tests to be run in 2009.
AMD calls for cars that are capable of 100 MPG? Meanwhile, I call for AMD to design a processor that is capable of 100 GHz by 2009.
Or Informative, your choice. I could use a little Karmapickmeup. A little injection bawlz if you will.
:)? They always said two was better than one.
Oh...and farming gold? Anything goes as an (MMO)RPG these days I guess.
I think what's more insightful would be the introduction of a +5 Rich option (even just for April Fool's). Why have a karma injection without an additional cash injection (personally, I could use both
Cowboy Neal Corp? That's always an option...
coming to a poll near you?
Once we Get CowboyNeal out of the crawlspace (Slashdot Poll) I bet this will become an option in the very near future. CowboyNeal's life goal after becoming free from the crawlspace is to found his own corporation. Yes, this definitely sounds like an option!
Apparently they're hiding now. I get a "Page cannot be found" on the MPAA blog...
;-)
You sure it wasn't just slashdotted? That's happened before...on many an occasion
Google will be forced to pay $32,600 for each day it displayed the links of the plaintiffs.
;)
That's awfully close to a nerd number: 2 to the power of 15 = $32,768 [1]. We are talking about computers here, and there's nothing computers like more then binary numbers! Maybe the court was being generous by choosing a slightly lower number. What do you think Google will do with that *extra* $168 dollars a day they are not being charged?
[1] For the fun of it, I used Google Calculator to give the proof, and yes the Caret symbol is really a bitwise operator but not according to Google Calculator. I suppose one could say that Google is guilty of "Bitwise Violation" also...but that's for another article
PHP does not give you a pretty library with prepared statements, parameter binding, and such. There's a nice DB and MDB2 package available on PEAR, but PHP doesn't ship with those. It ships with the compile option --with-mysql.
Perl ships with a fair amount of stuff. It ships with a package named DBI. You can do things like $rv = $sth->execute(@bind_values);. The documentation on it starts off with a convenient set of good examples which go like
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT foo, bar FROM table WHERE baz=?"); $sth->execute( $baz );
PHP 5.2 ships with PDO (PHP Data Objects) extension which can run with your example code provided you load the extension in your php.ini (yes, I know its a setting that is not done by default, but that argument doesn't hold water with PHP 5 anymore). PDO also supports the prepared statements and parameter bindings of which you speak, and along similar lines, you can also do transactions. You should be clear about which version of PHP your referring to as PHP 4.4 is no longer considered the main release and also has not been updated since August while PHP 5 was last updated in November.
Though I can still agree that not all the choices made in the development were the best. AFAIK, every language has human developers and humans are not perfect, but we do do the best we can and have to continually aim to improve ourselves and the work we create.
These energy-saving bulbs use 75% less electricity than incandescents and produce far less greenhouse gas to manufacture and use
Don't let the marketing fool you, I don't see any comparison with LED bulbs. This is probably because they know there is none.
The retailer is determined to push energy-saving light bulbs with the help of some unlikely partners.
Even when you factor in that LED lights cost a little more to buy, don't you actually save more money on your power bill and have longer lasting bulbs if you use LED lights? LED bulbs such as the ones shown here claim to be able to use the same light socket. In addition to the useful facts listed on the page here's another tidbit directly from the page:
National Energy Savings:
If every U.S. household replaced just one standard 60 watt bulb with a CC Vivid LED bulb, we could save 24,184,400,000 watts or 24,184.4 mega (million) watts per day.
National savings information based on 103,000,000 households with an average use of 4 hrs per day per house. Based on gross watts.
I just ran the test on 1.5.0.7 and I am not affected.
Somehow Firefox 1.5.0.8 seems to allow this exploit also. Are you sure 1.5.0.7 isn't vulnerable? If so, then wow I guess things went backwards between the two releases.
maybe it doesn't work the same on ubuntu
Although this could actually be why, I ran the test on a Windows XP Pro machine. If this only happens on Windows (though I don't know this for certain) chances are it might not be the Firefox team's fault after all. Interesting that 1passwd appears to have released a new version of their password manager little over a week ago before this exploit became publically known. Mac users might like the OS X keychain integration.
Maybe Clippy was the first one to join this social network, or a key member of the support team? This could indeed be the new job Microsoft has been talking about! In fact, he might even give advice on how to properly decorate your profile page and introduce you to the new features offered by the service! If this is the case just hope there's a way to turn it off if you don't like it...
I'd say gaining complexity is perhaps the definition of evolution, perhaps even including bloat and complexity (even biological systems aren't immune. Lots of complex animals have useless bits left over weighing them down. Appendix, etc).
I agree with most of your other argument but you are flat wrong when you say the appendix is a "useless bit". By some very elementary research it can be seen that the human appendix, for example, is not vestigal and certainly seen to play a part in the immune system. In fact, the appendix can also be found useful for reconstructive surgery. If it has to be removed so be it, but do not classify it as useless just because some biology textbook says so, as research such as above has already been conducted to show that it is useful.
I think the argument is better made that GUIs have evolved too much for their own good. I wonder what would happen if you launched NT 4's explorer.exe in WinXP.... I think i'm gonna go try it...
Let us know the results you find and I hope you don't have anything vital that's not backuped on the machine before attempting your experiment.
Purchasers will also get a free copy of Adobe (ADBE) Premier Elements 2.0 video editing software.
If you buy this multimedia computer (AKA not a phone) will it be able to run this software (as you would assume since its bundled)? Alas, apparently this does not replace your other computer that requires at least 4 GB of disk space. I suppose if someone figured out how to run DirectX 9 on this multimedia computer...
Proof that the offshoring is an overexagerated issue? Look at average salaries of graduates. They may not be as high as you want them, but compared with any other fields they are consistently towards the top. Even now, with so much media attention focusing on the downturn in the tech economy, I doubt you would receive very much sympathy for having to receive a starting salary of over 51k. (Starting Salaries) [cnn.com]
That is for 2005, this is for 2006. As an additional note, Computer Science pays less then 51k (2% less then 2005, $50,046). I suppose that comment is no longer directly true for said graduates since this February.
Cappella: They first tried to work out a merger five years ago, but finally, at long last, it's come to fruition.
From article: Close to 9,000 jobs, or about 10% of the companies' workforce will lose their jobs as a result of the merger.
If I was a marketing person I would definitely try to side-step this fact, unless I sugar-coated it by saying how this makes the company more efficient.
How come with all this cuteness you guys still aren't celebrating the cutest thing of all, Hello Kitty?
Is the pink going to go away when April Fools Day wears off in all time zones? Because I'm really enjoying this pink. It's so much better than that silly green was!
You should have been smart like me and taken a screenshot picture so you could remember for a good long time that one April 1st when Slashdot main site was entirely pink. Obviously its not going to be that way for ever, preserve the weird April 1st feeling for a long time to come. With an image viewer I can see "Hello Kitty" anytime of day. BTW, at time of this posting, my time zone is still April 1st.
I'm still waiting for Starcraft 2. Blizzard is definitely doing an injustice to Starcraft. On the Warcraft side we have three complete games released and then a World of Warcraft.
Starcraft, on the other hand, has one game with supposed, but not officially announced plans for Starcraft 2. As the link above states Blizzard has officially even registered Starcraft2.com and be found in a basic WHOIS search (rumour or not, the domain is owned by them). Now they plan to jump to a World of Starcraft release. Somehow I almost wonder if this is itself a April Fool's Day joke. It will be interesting to see what would happen if Starcraft 2 eventually is eventually released after World of Starcraft. Anyone else curious as to how this would play out?
Always been one of my favorites on any platform.
I agree from my own experience. In fact, I find files (or discs) that either work strange or not at all on other media players (such as Windows Media Player or WinAMP) run just (or very close to) perfect on VLC. The capability to play VCD, SVCD, DVD, DVD (with menues) was a feature that I also found make the player even more flexible.
Does anyone here have experience with VLC for running your own streaming server? Also, anyone know if they are going to add capability to play RealPlayer files? I find RealPlayer as a major bloatware and RealAlternative (no offense, just from my experience) looks too much like (and as featured limited as) the original media player in Windows 95/98. For a good reference here's a full table of all features available on all the various Operating Systems that VLC works with. Very good product and highly recommended!
These are programmers building great technology to help their peers to build software to solve customer problems.
Let's face it, the Open Source Model is more focused on meeting the needs of its user community for the sake of the community. In contrast, the closed-source for-profit model typically works on the basis of, "Is this good for company? Will this help us sell more product?". When your concerned 100% about the community your mentality behind development is far more focused on the solution and how the product can be improved, with no extra baggage like the requirement of turning a profit by giving focus on things that would simply sell a product (the changes in closed-source could be good or bad, since the focus is a sell not product improvement). I know it's been said before but it can not be overstated, for-profit companies can easily disappear and no promise that any sort of support is available in the future. The Open Source Model is so flexible that as long as people still use the software it can still be improved and developed. Essentially it's quite hard when using Open Source to lose any time investment (unless the software was that poorly used to begin with), while with closed-source model you can lose both time and money when the company that provided you the product disappears as well as the product support to never re-surface again.
In Open Source there is little room for added restrictions now and later that would require another license for using the software, while for-profit will always say the EULA is subject to change and can later lock you into paying continually more. The real gold in the Open Source Model is the flexibility it gives in use of the software. The protection from a lot of the stupid restrictions (i.e. paying based on number of concurrent users of the software) that we see in closed-source software almost practically pays you back in peace of mind and saves people from features in closed-source software that are specifically designed to lock you into their products.
Fortunately, no-one's noticed that I got the energy wrong... It's out by a factor of 10^3 because I used m=1 in E=mc^2, which is, of course, a kilogram, not a gram.
:) No one believes those emails that mention Nigeria anyways.
D'oh.
Yeah, but that's assumed. How many people say "I am not a lawyer" (IANAL) when they give legal advice, especially over the internet?! Besides, you should be happy you didn't say you were a Physics Major
In fact, however, Sun is still in beta with this CPU program and not set to launch a publicly available utility computing system for weeks...It seems hard to believe that Sun would pass on the opportunity to dangle such a user in front of the press if it existed given that we're 14 months away from the utility computing launch date...The company promises us such a day is coming sooner than later and that it will have plenty of customers to name in the near future. Still, given that it took a year to push the program to a beta, one wonders how long an actual living, breathing utility center will take.
I also must agree with anyone here who mentioned that you need to pick up customers during the development of the project and not just assume they'll come from no where. If you have at least one customer then they'll do far better publicity for you then thousands of dollars worth of marketing ever will. Sun might have a big name but that doesn't immediately get people jumping to their project. You don't dictate to people what they *should* do you make them think that using your product was *their* idea and that your just there to fulfill the customers requirements.
That certainly sucks CmdrTaco. In Warcraft 3 I use the name Localhost which I thought was funny that no one else had attempted to create before. If they do ban my name, I'd know for sure they'd have banned a lot of people's names (I mean what's wrong with mine?!) and then perhaps we should all group together against the powers that be! Anyone else with me on this?
The Full Description is available. Haha, I really get a kick out of the section titled Read the Source, Luke. Then there's quotes such as, In the web server space, Microsoft's complete denial of the Open Source phenomenon is almost amusing. The Apache web server has, at the time of writing, more than 50% of the web serving market according the Netcraft survey ( http://www.netcraft.com/survey). When you look at advertisements for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) you see them tout that they own over half the market in web serving--over half the commercial server market, that is. from the Introduction of the original. This is something I'll definitely be reading and adding to my Bookmarks Toolbar Folder!
I think that Wikipedia is a great service. The people behind it should be compensated for time, effort, hardware and bandwidth. I have no problem with advertisements to fund this. I mean, it is better than paying for a subscription!
Yours is a comment that is unaware of the following:
Six servers are now being hosted in France as squids, with another eleven in the Netherlands, and a further 23 in South Korea donated by Yahoo. The hosting and bandwidth have been donated. About Wikimedia (Emphasis mine). They clearly note that hardware is the major expense and that they only have two people on staff. When you say people behind it don't forget all the volunteers that don't even get a cent from the project and the efforts and countless hours they pour in for the community. Monetary incentive shouldn't be assumed.
Also note that this is still quite shortly after Wikimedia has received very close to $200,000 in donations and that this announcement is just over a month after the drive I would question exactly what was the purpose if the drive. Articles still exist on Wikimedia that state the following For the time being, we want the Wikimedia projects to remain free of advertisements. About Wikimedia.
Before anyone goes over-board either way please remember the content posted on Wikipedia, something like this can get blown way out of proportion, The prominence of any links to the service on Wikipedia will be left entirely up to the community. This is not a pay-for-placement deal. This respect for the community is absolutely insisted upon by both Bob Rosenschein of Answers.com and Jimbo Wales. 1-Click Answers. Let's just wait and see if this is left up entirely to the community.