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If websites were people (YouTube’s is surprisingly accurate) - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Amarnath Prabhakar, Akash Sharma, Bryan Lee and 175 other people liked this
Where's Microsoft?
- Jesse Stay
stats say that teens dont twit so i guess twitter is a little off.
- ugurarcan
Not invited, Jesse.
- Louis Gray
jesse, microsoft is facebook's middle name.
- Bahriye
Twitter is really pale. Are they saying they never leave the house cause they are too busy tweeting? haha
- Shevonne
Where's FriendFeed?
- AJ Batac
in Facebook :(
- Zee.
OH. Yeah. I forgot. :'(
- AJ Batac
how about twitter? seems accurate too:)) where is FF?
- Mycaptain
ff is in the right pocket of facebook
- Bahriye
I'm convinced some mental asylum somewhere uses YouTube as anger therapy for its most disturbed and sociopathic patients.
- Chris Baskind
Expected Twitter to be a marketing social media expert. FF should be a hand puppet with Facebook's hand up its ass.
- Rodfather
LOL ROdfather!
- WorldofHiglet
WAAAAOOWW, Rodfather!
- Joe Silence is not dead
Lol +1 Chris
- Zee.
Aww Google looks kind of mean and disapproving : (
- Jess Lee
Google should have been searching something :))
- Turgay Dogan
deviantArt's the only girl?
- TonyRetrobot
I would think MySpace would be a teen chick
- Outsanity & Kate + Hate
Twitter should be Miley Cyrus
- Alejandro
Twitter should be an adult with gadgets in every pocket.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Or a can of spam, lol
- Outsanity & Kate + Hate
I'm already in love with DeviantArt
- Arash Nightwatcher
the source: http://elontirien.deviantart.com/art...
- Daniel Sims
ah, thanks Daniel
- Zee.
The interwebs sure are pale.
- cecily
Version 2: http://imgur.com/7mBO6.png
- Tanath
nice Tanath
- Zee.
I don't see 4chan. Probably for the best :p
- CannonGod
They would probably just have the V for Vendetta mask.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
@Neal: Epic Fail Guy! :D
- CannonGod
While I like the artwork and sentiment, the characters are really accurate. MySpace are moms and kids, Twitter is 30+, ok the YouTube guy looks about right assuming he's a commenter :-)
- DaveDelaney.ME
I particularly like Google's.
- Hunt
from iPhone
and here's digg, reddit, and 4chan http://imgur.com/7mBO6.png
- ian kennedy
Now taking bets on how many times 7mBO6.png gets posted here. =)
- Andrew C
Cecily, that was my comment as well. Very white and very skinny.
- Louis Gray
first time google looks sexy...well, kinda...
- Kamamiya
i hear they are making the cartoon for adult swim. spoiler alert: myspace gets killed halfway into the first season.
- jack
Funny.
- Rick Cogley
Google's wearing a *tie*?? Clearly they haven't hung around engineering much.
- Aaron D'Souza
Cool. I want to see the story that inspired the art.
- Michael Leggett
that was good 1.
- nishu
this is awesome. very good work!
- Logan Lindquist
Love the photos. Nice job...
- Mitchell Tsai
@Aaron - maybe the artist's conception of Google is about the ad sales, not the engineering.
- Andrew C
@Andrew: Wow. In that case, we have some seriously grumpy-looking sales folks. :)
- Aaron D'Souza
F***ing authorities clamp down on f***ing tourists - http://www.metro.co.uk/weird...
Eric Logan, Mac Sharp, ramin and 10 other people liked this
"The tiny rural hamlet has been plagued by visitors filming themselves in sexually explicit positions with the name 'F***ing' in the background."
- bcultral
from Bookmarklet
I bet it's a fucking nice place really.
- Rob Sellen :o)
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Appetite, SciFi/Fantasy novels, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
LongBox aims to be iTunes for comic books - http://download.cnet.com/8301-20...
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Seth Greenblatt, Haldun Uraz, metalerik and 7 other people liked this
"Not only will it allow users to read and manage their comics from their desktops and mobile devices, but it will also come with access to an online store so that readers can purchase their books directly. Starting at $0.99 per issue, the LongBox store will have one major factor that differentiate it from the iTunes model, says Hoseley. "Along with buying an incentivized 12-issue subscription for $10, publishers can and will provide discount coupons for print versions if [the reader] subscribes to the LongBox version.""
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Google Wave Open to 100,000 Users on Sept 30. Pick Me! Pick Me! http://www.nowpublic.com/culture...
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Well, I just spilled a box of Nerds all over the carpet. The good news is that they're very easy to see, being neon colored and all.
Josh Haley, Daryl Milne, Dominique Lemieux and 12 other people liked this
Still gonna eat them?
- Dave Friedel
I'd suck em up quick smart .... yum
- Peter Konnecke
I ate the ones that landed on the desk and keyboard.
- Veronica
I'll take the rest. I'm hungry. Unless...
- Dave Friedel
There's a huge box of that in the office. It always looks full.
- Rodfather
The rest are laying in what may as well be a cat-hair rug.
- Veronica
No I was thinking of a run to the 24hr dunk down the street. I'm seriously hungry.
- Dave Friedel
Keep the hairy nerds.
- Dave Friedel
that's what she said?
- Veronica
thwaaahh ... thwt thwt ... furballs ... yuck
- Peter Konnecke
These kick ass... http://www.candyforallages.com/nost_ca...
- Dave Friedel
You could eBay the hairy nerds. Somebody would buy them.
- Dave Friedel
I think eating Nerds on carpet would be 100% safe. Nerds don't attract dirt. They would be a repellent.
- Louis Gray
I'm with Veronica on this one. Nerds lost in cat carpet are lost forever. Such a shame. :(
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*ge-ting hung-ryyy...*
- Micah Wittman
Ooooo. Japanese cat candy. http://www.jbox.com/PRODUCT...
- Dave Friedel
Poor wasted nerds :(
- Fee501st
Are you talking about the candy, or me and my friends on a Sat night?
- Dave Friedel
The candy. at least you guys having a good time!
- Fee501st
My favorite thing about FriendFeed is that I go to bed and then come back, and people are still talking about the Nerds :)
- Veronica
As if we have anything better to do. :P
- Eric Geller
V: I think that's because we are them -_-
- Fee501st
The Nerd Incident of 2009 will doubtless still be discussed in August.
- Stephen Mack
Box of Nerds? What are those?
- Car Camper
from Alert Thingy
The Nerd-Valdez Update: Clean up efforts are underway but the extent of the damage is still unknown. Initial estimates put expected death tolls of indigenous species at 1200.
- Geoff Schultz
CarCamper http://www.candy.org/nerdsva...
- Fee501st
(Douchy British voice) "I was vacuuming at home one week-end when my vacuum started to glow."
- The Griff
It's not like I'm trolling this thread. Astra does it for me. ;)
- Dave Friedel
Modern life for the active computer user.
jim235, Edo Yudhistira, Rohit and 123 other people liked this
Yeah, that's about right, except we need a Commute panel showing dude playing on his iPhone in the bus/train/plane.
- Internet's Tad
I write software in my sleep during the busiest facets of my project; and they work in the morning
- RAPatton
RAP- done that myself once or twice :) Creepy.
- Roberto Bonini
Me too, but the software I write in my sleep usually just does stupid stuff that we don't really need. :)
- Internet's Tad
I don't know what's freakier, the fact that you write code in your sleep or the fact that you remember it when you wake up.
- Alex Scoble
Sad but it's true!
- Dru Kelly
i was dreaming about new features in feedly last night...but they aren't there this morning.
- Trent Olson
Trent: if you share with us some of those dreams, we will try to look into making them reality :-) Have a great sunday!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
thanks Edwin! to be honest, they weren't very good anyway! you've already implemented my "exclude websites from using mini bar" idea, for which i'm hugely thankful...
- Trent Olson
Great Joefy, that is ME!
- John Stringfellow
sort of me, except my workouts 5 days a week for my chiseled body ;o)
- sofarsoShawn
that is definitely me.....
- cris
yup thats my life, how depressing
- sean percival
Haha it's my boyfriend and his friends!
- Brandy Lea
I admit, I have FF'ed in my dreams.
- Carmen
seen this before.... years ago... made me laugh then and still does..gotta admit it almost rings true!
- Rob Sellen :o)
maybe that's why I wake up at 3 am.
- @CrystalinaB
thats me .
- johnpiercy
Searching for something has led me past this post. Was going to press the "like" button and realized I already did. So this is my second "like".
- Sarah Peterman
This is definitely true for me. I sometimes think about programs I'm working on in my sleep too.
- Mike Child
Jess Lee's Artwork - http://picasaweb.google.com/jesskah...
HealingBrush, Tony Meyer, Daryl Milne and 24 other people liked this
Beautiful!
- Shevonne
wow! she rocks! loving the 2nd and 3rd ones.
- vijay
Oh, thank you! : )
- Jess Lee
I wish I could draw like that.... or at all, really! Great work!
- Veronica
Jess, these are amazing. Many have detail that doesn't appear until they're almost full screen. Love the robot hummingbird.
- Daniel Dulitz
Hunch.com needs to integrate with Facebook Connect. This would be huge on Facebook. (and annoying!)
godisprofitable and Daryl Milne liked this
agreed
- Daryl Milne
Monty Python: The Argument Clinic http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Pete Delucchi, Bob M. Montgomery, Alex Scrivener and 30 other people liked this
lol - I haven't seen Monty Python stuff for quite a while!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
That's not The Argument Clinic.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Yes it is
- CW™
No it isn't.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Yes it is
- Jeff P. Henderson
No, I'm afraid it isn't.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Oh, most surely it is!
- Jeff P. Henderson
It certainly is not.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I do believe it is.
- Jeff P. Henderson
You are mistaken.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
No I'm not.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Sorry, you are.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
It's not really an argument, is it?
- WorldofHiglet
I could be arguing in my spare time.
- Mike Smith
I don't think so.
- Jeff P. Henderson
"It's not much of a *cheese* shop, is it? "Finest in the district, sir." "Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, pray!"
- edythe
polly, i looooove that sketch.
- Zach Landes
tell me about it!
- edythe
For those who dig python, the entire series is available via Netflix Watch Instantly.
- Scott Ohlemacher
Warning: Do not post your email address publicly on Twitter. Spammers are harvesting them: http://blogs.zdnet.com/securit...
Jorge Cunha, Thomas Power, Daryl Milne and 4 other people liked this
OK, I'm ready for the swine flu!
Snipergirl, Aaron Draczynski, Brent - Long Live Rock and 135 other people liked this
Either that, or I'm ready for some cosplay as The Shadow.
- Steven Perez
dude. that is an epic The Shadow cosplay.
- mjc
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of cilantro-lovers? STEVEN PEREZ KNOWS.
- ha3rvey (doink doink)
@mjc + 1
- Mo Kargas
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LIES IN THE HEARTS OF CILANTRO-HATERS? THE DYSP KNOWS!
- Steven Perez
Hahhahahahahha!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
dont tell me that you are naked underneath that!!!
- Gerald Neo
No, but I nearly suffocated. How the hell does the Shadow fight anyone when he's too busy trying to breathe?
- Steven Perez
from IM
HAH!
- holly
Evildoers beware!
- Steven Perez
Umm, you kind of look like the Grim Reaper, more ready for unlucky victims of swine flu. :)
- jcunwired
But I don't have a scythe. Just a sonic screwdriver. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Where in the World is Steve Perez?
- Rodfather
Hanging out with Carmen Sandiego. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
You are the terror that flaps in the night. :)
- Morton Fox
I see V for Vendetta myself. Totally hardcore!
- Helen Sventitsky
OOooooooooh, I am so getting one of those masks now. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Terror that faps in the night"?!? ... OH, FLAPS!
- Steven Perez
from IM
I never did get that Dark Man movie.
- Jason Toney
I did. Rip-off city.
- Steven Perez
from IM
digging the Shades, SP.
- nouhad
The Shadow is always stylish, nouhad. :D
- Steven Perez
it is black mage.
- Snipergirl
Actually, he's my cousin. And does he hate his outfit. All black in Houston summers? Yikes! :D
- Steven Perez
lol!!! indeed, you are very well protected!
- Michael
Take care! ;-)
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
Is this the new "Swine Flu" MEME ? :)
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Yes. I blame Rochelle and Penguin. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
OK, now I want to get an old gas mask & dress as the Sandman.
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
hahah!~
- Carlos Ayala
If I had a gas mask, my swine flu entry would be titled ARE YOU MY MUMMY?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Bwah ha ha ha ha!! Well, there's that, too. ("The DYSP Dances")
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Not in that outfit, he doesn't. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Only the STEVEN knows.. mmmuuuhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa"
- CW™
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
go-go-gadget cilantro
- Alfredo
Or the Audition for Darkman II
- Jesse Newhart
Itty bitty swine flu germs will land on the brim of the hat. Lose the brim.
- John E. Bredehoft
NO WAI. I dipped the hat in Tamiflu. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hot.!
- i ♥ derrick #bellymeme
Yes, it was. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hawt!! then lol
- i ♥ derrick #bellymeme
Ah, in that case: *blushblushblush* Thank you, Caroline. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
it's ok i have a weird stalker fetish.........apparently...
- i ♥ derrick #bellymeme
Really? *ahem* I C U THRU YUR BLINDZ. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
You look more like either The Shadow or The Invisible Man.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Oooooh, does this mean Claude Rains will play me in the movie SWINE FLU: THE REVENGE OF THE INVISIBLE MAN? Cuz that would be teh awesomesauce. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
LOL :P
- Anna Haro
ha ha! you're out of your mind
- Cee Bee
FINALLY!!! Someone noticed! :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
No, we've always known, we were just too kind to say out loud. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So the Shadow isn't the only one who knows?!? Well, that's a bummer. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kaia will never find me while I'm wearing this disguise. :D
- Steven Perez
Steven, Hellen Keller could find you wearing that disguise. ;)
- Alex Scoble
NO WAI! I'm the Shadow, bee-yotches! No one sees me ... UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE!!! MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
...you look like one of those scurry dudes from "Dark City"-- Sleep! Now!
- .LAG liked that
Ooooooh, I forgot about the Strangers! But then, I can't have any water. :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
They should totally add the Stephen "The Shadow" Perez character to Team Fortress 2...he totally fits in.
- Alex Scoble
+50 Liberal arguing skills, +100 Awesomesauce, -10 Skills with the ladies. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
What would your three weapons be? You need a primary ranged, backup ranged and a melee weapon.
- Alex Scoble
Hmmmmm, ... primary ranged - sonic screwdriver; backup ranged - BFG9000 (because why go small?); melee - size 13 boot, just like in DOOM. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
You forgot your V for Vendetta mask, lad. o:
- George William
The FedEx guy forgot to drop mine off, so I had to get one special ordered for my big head. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hey it's Porco Rosso - http://www.onlineghibli.com/porco_r...
- Toby Graham
:))
- Shandiz
LOL that is great
- Kimberly Randall
sprinkles.... - http://oystersandchampagne.tumblr.com/post...
Pat Hawks, ·[▪_▪]·, Fedor Karpelevitch and 70 other people liked this
Ravers.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHOA
- Mike Nayyar
Ew. It looks like she's covered in maggots.
- Anika
mm tss, mm tss, mm tss, mm tss, mm tss, mm tss, mm tss, mm tss.......
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I hope she comes with a calorie label.
- Dawn
creepy
- cooper
No Anika, I think she looks cool. I know someone who would just love this. I have to make sure she NEVER sees this picture. <Ratz! Now it's in my FaceBook stream> -:- < Notice how I can talk just like @Oprah now? > ++Goal! Live4Soccer you post some neat stuff.
- Chris Loft
yummy
- Kyle Weller
L4S: It took me a sec then LOL. Nice!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I'm just curious how far the sprinkles go.
- CAJ, somewhere else
@Alan :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I am creeped out a bit by this image.
- Yolanda
tasty
- CJPhoto
yummy yummy.. now I need too taste !!
- Peter Dawson
having done this once, and ONLY with my lips, i have respect for the amount of work this took....and i wonder what they (she, if it's a self portrait) used to make them stick!!!
- carlotta fancypants
do they make a cream to clear that up :)
- (jeff)isageek
@fancypants.... Ummmm, honey? High Frutose Corn Syrup? Hahahha
- Live4Emma (L4S)
@jeff, I'd answer that but then I would lose my FCC license.....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
i like colorfull girl :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
whoa!
- JA Castillo
8O
- David Cook
hmmm sprinkles.
- Diego Barros
i wanna li-li-li-lick you from your head to your toes!
- MicahBear78
I would so wear this to a rave
- Joe Dawson
This interview with the Twitter co-founders is hilarious! - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
kuchin, Jan Friman, Desiree Diva Hickson and 8 other people liked this
Was she being seirous or is she just trollin?
- Mark
I wonder....
- Ben Parr
I find it interesting that she would prefer to die painfully via obscure torture rather than open a twitter account. I mean, I was a skeptic at first glance but...
- Patrick Boegel
I liked the interview, even if Dowd's tone was a tad frivolous. The answers from Biz and Evan were pretty down to earth.
- Benin
Abstruse Goose » The String Theory Landscape - http://abstrusegoose.com/137
Daryl Milne and The Bohemian Penguin liked this
Talking with Niall Kennedy today he noted that because of cloud computing every programmer will know how much their code costs. Implications:
Nicholas James, Bill Romanos, Alfredo and 55 other people liked this
1. Programmers will be incented to remove processor time from their programs.
- Robert Scoble
2. New tools (sorta like Visual Studio) will evolve that will tell the programmer the cost per server DLL or compiled bundle. Imagine a tool that, after you compiled your code, would say "with 100,000 users this code will cost you $497 of Rackspace time, $535 of Amazon EC2 time, $524 of GoGrid time."
- Robert Scoble
More economic incentive to hire good programmers!
- Dean Clark
And with EzChip and Netlogic those apps will run faster than desktop apps! here we go into the future!
- Stephen Pickering
3. Employers will hire people who can write more efficent code, because it'll be in their best interests to do so. This is a huge change from today, where programmers are incented to "get it done" and not care so much about processor time.
- Robert Scoble
1a. Not really - developers will continue developing. This item refers to folks who make deployment decisions.
- Internet's Tad
Stephen and Dean: exactly!
- Robert Scoble
Process control and synchronization will become more important than load balancing.
- Brian Roy
2a. This in turn will cause fierce competition and will lower prices.
- Internet's Tad
Your second point is very interesting indeed. For subscription based services you can really pin-point cost vs. price and adjust dynamically/automatically when the code changes (especially in a cost +) scenario.
- Christopher
as far as web based stuff goes a more immediate realization is the bandwidth costs associated w/ images and other static file downloads. web guys n gals are now paying attention to client side caching, gzipping and all that good stuff that reduces bandwidth and overall # of http requests
- Arin
Tad: I disagree. Because EC2 and other cloud systems will charge for processor time (and other systems will charge for bandwidth amount) employers will start putting much more pressure on programmers to remove those costs from their code.
- Robert Scoble
This isn't just about deployment. Software authors writing code for sale will have to justify their footprint and bandwidth efficiency.
- Patrick Pushor
3a. I'll believe it when I see it. Even when shown all of the advantages of agile and test driven development most CTOs continue to view it with scorn. As long as non-technical managers are driving the bus there will never be enough focus on quality of code.
- Internet's Tad
Niall was also saying that programmers will choose between available code (Wordpress plugins, for instance) based on how much processor time they take. Word will get around that XYZ plugin does basically the same thing as ABC plugin but does it in 20% less processor time, which will reduce cost.
- Robert Scoble
Tad: when the CTO is seeing the credit card statement from cloud computing every month they'll start looking into it. They might be lazy, but if the tools present cost per component these things will change, and change quickly. Especially if the economy remains as crappy as it is today.
- Robert Scoble
It'll still be a race to see who can put what out the first. Regardless of cost or quality, many time the guy first out of the gate wins. As long as you're first you can always go back and fix things later... Or so most of the development managers I've known seem to think.
- Internet's Tad
I think there may be a large amount of work going into profiling and optimizing frameworks/apps, but most developers won't worry about "processor" time. We'll write the code and then there'll be a bigger emphasis on clearing up bottlenecks, etc. Biggest change might just be in best practices.
- Internet's Tad
Let me clarify - the biggest single waste of processing cycles is processes running with nothing to do. Being able to dynamically allocate and retire "processing units" by controlling which processes are running when and were is the 80%. Code optimization is the 20%. No argument it will become an issue, but really efficient code idling is a far bigger waste than code with 4% wasted processor time.
- Brian Roy
++ Brian
- Internet's Tad
Virtualization will get more attention with cloud computing models in the future. Virtualization will enable organizations to create virtual instances designed to dynamically isolate processes and services so systems can inter-operate with minimal impacts when 1 process hangs or gets saturated. This way we can shape our systems to align hardware, code and processes to optimal fit
- Susan Beebe
I had a post on this a while back Cloud Programming Directly Feeds Cost Allocation Back into Software Design (http://highscalability.com/links...). The optimizations will be different for different clouds. For Amazon the goal is drive load to the CPU (http://highscalability.com/strateg...). Other clouds will no doubt favor other optimizations.
- Todd Hoff
Right Susan. I've also read that virtualization in the cloud will also make services much more robust because if one data center or even service provider (ex. EC2) bites the dust, it'll be possible to relatively seamlessly switch to another. Virtualization on the cloud is very exciting.
- Internet's Tad
Toddh - great point. I assumed an on/off virtual CPU like Amazon - which would mean the goal is high CPU utilization. If the model is % load based or how much CPU you actually use the model is very different.
- Brian Roy
Tad I think you're right and those coming out of the universities need to start listening to their Instructors ( I was an Instructor) on taking the time for best practices. Most coder wannabes at least in the U I taught at wanted to "get in and get er done". Very impatient.
- Melanie Reed
... and they can come to learn what impact they are having on the state of the climate - and the planet as a whole
- James Pearce
This is really nothing new -- mainframe developers could also have a sense of how much their code cost.
- Michael Lee
I wonder if it would provide incentives to tier access to CPU heavy functionalities when the load starts to scale up. With few users, you want to attract users, so you offer everything you have, but as you get more users, to make sure that you can manage your cost increase, you need the additional users to be more CPU efficient, so maybe you will not let them access the more CPU hungry functionalities...
- Antoine Bertier
+1 Michael, in fact it goes back to time sharing days....
- Antoine Bertier
Cloud computing is time-sharing or load sharing, or load balancing. We haven't thought about it enough as a concept. See Brad Templeton's talk at #BIL
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
Michael: one difference, though. Lots of programmer friends of mine have Cloud Computing accounts at Amazon, Gogrid, or Rackspace and are writing and uploading code there. I was just at Gogrid and got a demo and their cost report is in your face. You know exactly how much is being charged to your credit cards. Back in the mainframe days the costs of those things were so high only the biggest corporations could afford them and no one had credit cards back then. The feedback loop is much faster.
- Robert Scoble
software development / programming cost depends on cost of communication, it's 80/20 not aiming at the 2nd performance or energy percentile. though, tuning specialization could emerge due to selling to the uninformed - without ever breaking even...
- wolf hesse
I finally posted more detailed thoughts on the current cloud computing landscape and ways we might measure code efficiency and cost in the future. http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog... http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog...
- Niall Kennedy
programmers and arch designers that can produce results that have a high perceived value and a low resource use (cpu, bandwidth, storage) will be rewarded. this may not result in better experiences for the user, tho.
- MikeAmundsen
Its not because of cloud computing, its because of a recent trend in accountability. But I like your point, Scoble.
- Aaron deMello
For business applications, MVC-like platforms (JBoss, CakePHP, RoR) will win in the end with cloud computing. Since they support pattern expansion they are very efficient, the prerequisite for cloud computing. The programmers themselves don't matter that much in this case, analysts and architects do however. On the contrary, writing computational intensive code (e.g. C++) will require the BEST people. Those who know their algorithms will thrive.
- Kris
Basically it comes down to this: machines should work; people should think. Something that IBM has called the Pollyanna principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Kris
I agree with Robert in that CTO's might start thinking differently when they get that bill every month from Rackspace (or whoever), but in a grand scheme of things I don't think anything will be "really" done about programmers code and the processing power that it uses. If that was really the case, we'd all start programming in C again... or even Assembly!
- Daniel Marashlian
i suspect that providers will learn that CTOs are looking to shave costs. as a counter-measure, providers will sell 'blocks' of CPU/Bandwidth/Storage ala fixed cell phone plans. they'll capture the 'monthly remainder' as extra profit. some will offer 'roll-overs' to soothe CTOs. the ones that offer totally metered pricing will be shouted down by the FUD of 'runaway' monthly costs touted by the packagers. oh yeah, the pkg price magically matches the cost of your own hardwr/maint costs.CTOs will like that
- MikeAmundsen
Business and marketing is always going to drive development, that's why 80% of software is never released. Even if it is released, functionality is always going to be #1 on the priority list. Testing, Bugs, UI, and especially performance are always last on the list. That's why a formal education in Computer Science is going to be more critical then ever in the years to come. All of those secondary pieces in the software development cycle need to be woven into the developers DNA.
- Daniel Marashlian
This really is full circle to the 70's and 80's again. One problem that I can see impacting on how competative the space could be is with the ease on how people can simply move supplier. If you have a service that involves data creation and handling (your customer CRM for example), how easy would it be to port that data across to a competing cloud based service for whatever reason (costs, disagreements, change in business)? I know what's involved on the inhouse side and would be similar in many respects.
- alphaxion
YES for democracy! RT @juhasaarinen RT @MsBehaviour #Blackout News!!! NZ Govt delays #S92 until 29th March. If no agreement, will suspend.
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What ya saying? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
First Ever Permanent WordPress Tattoo - http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009...
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Wow.
- Mona Nomura
that's devotion.
- Bren, Photophobe
dedication
- andy brudtkuhl
i mean - i love WordPress... but not nearly that much
- andy brudtkuhl
it looks too "cartoony"
- Cee Bee
BREAKING: Facebook Reverts to Previous Terms of Service ( http://mashable.com/2009... )
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that was like a 24-hour wedgie
- Pat Kitano
hopefully they won't try to spring that on us again.
- Angela P.
im amazed they responded so quickly
- Alekkus
K9 schematic - http://www.laninapolilla.es/%c2%a1l...
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Hardly! ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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=')
- mohammadk
You can tell by looking in his eyes ;)
- Shevonne
Kittehs are alway plotting to kill something.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
woooooooow , look what he's staring at ... cuttie....
- Viva Vida
two words: munch & kin!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Oh no! Run! The kitten will kill us! Ruuun!
- Dread Pirate PJ
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New Simpsons opener in widescreen format - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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They finally made the switch to being broadcast in HD.
- Derrick
Comics - Explosm.net - http://www.explosm.net/comics...
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doh
- ♥patricia♥
Miro HD Video Player | Free internet tv and video podcast player. - http://www.getmiro.com/
Ralph Reijs, Joe Pierce, Tanath and 22 other people liked this
2.0 is out. Very nice BT client/video player.
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
Quite slow on older machines, and memory hungry. Video player isn't champion of compatibility. But nice concept.
- bnoise
I've always steered clear of BitTorrent until now. JP (@jobsworth) floated Miro 2.0 across my screen yesterday and I am already hooked. All I want to do now is find an easy way to move .avi files to my Apple TV (at the core of my multimedia system at home) and I will be even happier man.
- Conor Ogle
Miro is a big part of my DIY home theater set-up
- Robert Hafer
I've been a Miro fan for a while, but have to admit I haven't used it much lately. It seems like a relic from the era where we needed to actually download video-- everything is flash streaming these days.
- Ross M Karchner
Flash streaming doesn't make for a good big screen experience, IMO
- Robert Hafer
But HD streaming is coming.
- bnoise
However, if you don't need Miro but you like the resume playback feature, give a try to SMPlayer. Better than VLC. </OT>
- bnoise
Been using Miro for quite a while now. After loading XBMC on an Xbox, I still let Miro do the downloading and use the Xbox as a media extender. Haven't tried the new URL capability to stream Hulu yet though. Might get me back to viewing from Miro more.
- Ken Pruett
Checking it out. Going to see what's up with this player.
- Paul Wade
looking forward to 2.0, I use Miro almost every day :)
- Daryl Milne
Been using the standard Miro for a while and it is pretty good. so will try the new one
- Stephen Dean
Seems Cool, but it does not work on my PC; I used HULU.com once. My goal is to make a HTPC and use streaming video to watch on my TV.
- Justin
Miro *is* my TV and I'm lovin' the 2.0 version.
- Michael Sauers
from twhirl
Why use Miro if I have itunes?
- Kfir Pravda
@Kfir one reason is not to use DRM-ed stuff.
- Opensource Obscure
@Kifir BitTorrent
- Michael Sauers
from twhirl
I have no problem with BitTorrent, but what I want to know is if Miro's BitTorrent is up-and-running whenever Miro is. IOW, does just having Miro open mean I'm participating in BT? Does that question make sense? I don't want to be streaming content OUT without knowing that I'm doing that.
- Joey Gibson
grrr I can't use MIRO it crashes everytime I open it..for torrents I use VUZE, I used to use Utorrent, which I think is actually a bit faster, but VUZE there are more fun thing to play with...btw is that really you LEO LAPORTE...remember watching you on TECHTV..Call4Help and Screensaver were my fav shows!
- Justin
11 Percent of Adults Now Use Status Updates - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Microsoft Office Project - http://wakoopa.com/softwar...
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