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rc3.org Daily Archive: 30 July 2001
OUCH!
Truce or dare
eWeek: Truce or dare
Total Cost of Ownership
UserLand: Total Cost of Ownership
Total Cost of Ownership is Total Bullshit.
The important metric is Return On Investment (read more), and not in %, but in absolute terms, $. Just because something costs less to own doesn't mean it's going to make you or your organization more successful.
I believe you get what you pay for. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case in CMS land -- it's well known in the CMS industry that a high sticker price equals high credibility to executives, regardless of quality (few developers are tricked by this but they aren't usually the decision makers). Maybe that's why UserLand is dropping baloney figures, because their industry is so bent they have no choice but to play the game their competitors play.
Update: Jon Roeb responds on his site.
Some feedback regarding pushback
Now's a great time to mention that I really don't like the word pushback. The definition of the word pushback doesn't match the way people (mostly Dave Winer, but I've seen it spread a little) have been using it lately, and secondly, I think the word is confrontational, whereas the word I prefer to see, feedback, is much more respectful, constructive and friendly.
Pushing is rude, Feeding is mmm, mmm good. ;-)
'Code Red' Internet Worm May Hit Again Tuesday
Reuters: 'Code Red' Internet Worm May Hit Again Tuesday
Don't be a Dick. Uninstall Windows today!
More on TCO, and Zope/OpenACS, by Luke
Luke Tymowski, ZopeNewbies: Total Cost of Ownership
You wanna talk TCO? You got it baaaaaby.
The Hunger Site
Shit, it looks like The Hunger Site and associated sites are gone. Damien says they lost their financial backing. :-(
That's very sad.
Surpise of the Century (not)
Wired: MS Amends Icon Concession
AOL's icon can go on the XP desktop as long as the MSN one is there too. I am not surprised one bit. Something has to put MS down, or this is how it will act forever.
Sunday, July 29, 2001
Copyright Reform Process
Government of Canada: Copyright Reform Process
No no no no NOOOOOO!!! It appears they're trying to bring the worst of the DMCA to Canada.
IKEA instinct
I bought a few things for the living room at IKEA today, so I thought it would be appropriate to link to a page full of quotes from Fight Club.
Goodbye massive "entertainment centre" that holds our TV, stereo components, CDs, DVDs and VHS taps (and yucky knick-knacks and faux plants on the top, blech!), which needs a foot of space in front of the wall for cable access.
Hello minimalist KAXÅS stereo stand and TV stand which are much more appropriate for apartment living and don't offer nearly the footprint for accumulating knick-knacks and faux plants. And Hello space-saving JUTIS CD stand that cost a mere $14.95.
As Tyler says, versatile solutions for a modern life.
Saturday, July 28, 2001
Boy Scouts Destroy Dinosaur Tracks
AP: Boy Scouts Destroy Dinosaur Tracks
How could one possibly construct a reasonable punishment for destroying something that has survived 190 million years to be destroy so dishonourably?
What a pathetic act by a pathetic trio.
Talking Moose : Brand This!
Okay, I'm jumping on the bandwagon... the moose is loose and kicking ass.
Talking Moose: Brand This!
Moosey has a great rant about why CNet is going down the drain. (Yes, they suck). But Moosey missed one thing.
When I first got internet access at work in 1995 or 96, I think, I went to NEWS.COM every hour, if I could. They had great stuff there. Stories about technology. I loved it because it wasn't COMPUTERWORLD, the absolutely boring magazine that just loved to feature pictures of "IT managers" wearing their oxygen deprevation devices (ties) talking about why they were going to be spending $50 million dollars on a SAP/JDE/DB2 installation for their corporation. (yawn)
I had to have someone tell me what "IS" and "IT" meant. Everyone loved to call themselves IS, but to me, the label meant you were part of the COMPUTERWORLD tie-wearing-manager clique which I rebelled against.
But NEWS.COM, they were Tech News First. Now NEWS.COM is boring stories about earnings forecasts, earnings results, the result the earnings have had or could have on the price of megacorp X's stock price. I couldn't care less about that boring crap.
That's why I rarely read NEWS.COM anymore. (Is COMPUTERWORLD still in publication?)
