To the surprise of no one, corporate users are utilizing cloud services without first following corporate procedures. From AllThingsD:
Rackspace’s survey found that nearly half of those in the survey — 43 percent to be exact — said they were aware of these “rogue IT” situations, where employees take it upon themselves to spin up a cloud service without first getting the boss’ permission, or setting up an account through the usual corporate processes.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. I am sure much of the bureaucracy littered throughout company policies was added with good intentions, but it’s unacceptable when you have to wait weeks to use a service for just a few hours. It makes me wonder if the policies became this bad because—while new steps were being added—no one ever took a step back and asked “why?”.
Alex (xyzzy), a Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, has posted a concise progress report about his efforts porting Haiku to the x86_64 architecture.
Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.
From The Next Web:
[…] According to comScore, Facebook is shedding monthly unique users in the United States. Users located in the States are more monetizable than users in other locales, making them more important on a 1:1 basis, from a revenue perspective.
This makes me wonder how Facebook will use its deep treasure trove of user data to raise more revenue.
Smashing Magazine posted an article on how to take advantage of Powerful New CSS- and Javascript Techniques. The outline follows:
- CSS Transitions and Animations
- Useful and Practical CSS Techniques
- CSS Typography and Text Techniques
- CSS Navigation Menus and Hover Effects
- Visual Techniques With CSS
It’s rather extensive, so expect to spend more than 5-minutes skimming it
Interesting findings by the Electric Power Research Institute:
The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.
By comparison, a 60-watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.61, a desktop PC adds up to $28.21 and a refrigerator runs you $65.72.
Now if Apple can only get it to charge in minutes rather than hours.
