We just did a 3 year reserve on a few instances, it makes the cost about 1/3 the price of their on demand. Sure the cost on paper is still a bit more than dedicated for hardware alone but the chances of hardware failure, internet outages, etc has a way higher chance than AWS going out. We ran servers internally for years and switched to AWS 3 years ago, we would never go back to running internally again.
Basically I think it boils down like this - small to medium sized businesses "cloud computing" is probably more viable. When you start getting to large businesses and corporations it may be more viable to run internally.

AWS has been a blessing for our company. It is WAY cheaper and way more reliable than running something in house. We have 5 servers running that ends up being only a little more than what we were paying to run 2 servers internally (factoring in time to manage hardware, outages etc). We had way more outages running locally than we do with amazon. We do have quite a few "short" projects that is great for spinning up a server for a couple months then killing it

possibly, and while i haven't read much into that project is 200k even going to come close to making fusion a reality? Seems like 200k would be a drop in a 10000 litre bucket.

I lost the list, but off the top of my head the pros and cons were more based off of personal coding style than anything else. But a few things I found better with Symfony was namespacing(Yii didn't have any), the majority of the components being modular so you can pick and choose what you want, the OOP was a lot better (Yii was actually doing eval in some of their base components), Yii was using ActiveRecord. I had others but can't remember them anymore... I only played with each for about a week when I came up with my list so it is far from exhaustive.

and apparently I don't know how to use the quote feature.

[quote]Also, how the fuck did that fuckhead spammer BillTheEngineer get to post zillions of copies of his spam, all at 16:04, while us regular users have to wait 5 minutes?[/quote]
He actually posted it in 20 different languages but Skype automatically translated them all to English for us...

I was tasked to find a framework for our development team to work. I tried 1/2 a dozen frameworks spending a couple days each. Ones I tried were Zend, Yii, CodeIgnitor, Symfony 2, Larval and one other that I can't remember at the moment.

Out of those I narrowed it down to Yii and Symfony. I then spent another couple days cloning one of our small projects in both frameworks to see which ended up being a better code base. I showed both projects to the team and said developing I found Symfony more complicated to get up and running, however once I did I found it much more enjoyable to use than Yii. I also presented a pro and con list that I came up with after using each for a week and presented that as welel.
Every other developer agreed and we have been using Symfony since. Symfony actually almost makes it hard to write bad code. And makes you go out of your way to actually write SQL injection code. The documentation is also fantastic which I find a lot of the other frameworks lacking severely with. We do not regret going with Symfony. The only thing we have an issue is with batch processing which I cannot using the ORM component since it cannot handle tens of thousands of objects quickly

He is referring to this south park episode "HumanCentipad"
http://vimeo.com/24782590 fast forward to 7:00 and watch for 2 minutes and you will get the gist.

Chances are it was true at that time, however like you said 9 years is a LONG time and the code, server infrastructure, and network probably doesn't even come close to resembling what it was 10 years ago

Something this major would have to be routed through legal. This is not a quick nor easy process. Second, I assume they would also need to get it translated into various language, again not quick nor easy.

I work in a small office (8 employees) and the thermostat is actually in my office so I have full control! Of course people keep coming in to try and fiddle with it, but as soon as they leave I just reset it back t what it was. I just don't understand, we leave it at 23-24 in the winter and 25-27 in the summer. THe problem is that the building and HVAC system is extremely old so the offices at the end of the run are never at good temperatures. in the winter they way to cold and summer way to hot. IN the winter they actually just run space heaters and in the summer keep blinds shut.

Seriously? I am an idiot for not knowing how to code for linux? I guess that makes you an idiot from not knowing how to code a missile guidance system for the DOD, or not knowing how to build your own CPU from scratch.

I was taught something similar. You takes notes, then later on you make notes of your notes, then notes of your notes of your notes, keep going on until you only have a bulleted list of topics, and just by looking at each bulleted item should be able to remember anything
Who knows if it worked or not, my most effective method of "studying" was cramming hours before the exam.

You are an idiot. You are saying "one can" like it is as easy as baking a cake. I would love to replace windows with ubuntu or mint or something for all my gaming needs, but I wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to even start coding a feature for linux. This is some pretty specialized stuff. Sure you position it one way "Linux is empowering it's user base", where someone else sees it as "Linux doesn't give a fuck about anything.
Screw users. if they want something they can do it themselves.

Also, it isn't like windows is a walled garden like IOS, you can develop drivers, software, etc for it as well. Sure maybe you can't modify the kernel (easily), but at least Microsoft provides tons of tools to change windows behaviour.

Why does it seem like every time there is a "major breakthrough" or new format that offers "massive stoarge", when it actually materilizes it is way less storage then advertised? I thought when Bluray was announced it was suppose to feature up to 250GB, and I remember reading an article years ago that Pioneer created a 500GB disk.

And what about all the major breakthroughs in hdd that I hear about every other year, yet space seems to be going up at a fairly slow but consistent pace.

Must either be a) marketing gimmick, or b) might as well increase incrementally to milk the most money out of people