d2viant
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Comment · 15 years ago
You're right in your point about backups. These cloud services present quite a problem in the sense that they're structured to accommodate massive amounts of data. Often times this data is generated within the service itself with no means provided to extract it. So even if the user wanted to be responsible for backing up their data it's often times impossible. Moreover, even if the user wanted to AND had the means to do it, it could be a massive amount of data to sync up -- more than your average user is going to take the time to do.
Comment · 15 years ago
"The Cove" (http://www.thecovemovie.com)
I had no idea what it was about when I flipped it on, but it's a great hacker movie. The guy who trained Flipper is trying to save some dolphins from being killed in Japan, so he teams up with some folks from Industrial Light and Magic to rig a secret cove with all kinds of spying equipment to catch the guys doing it. Really interesting.
Comment · 16 years ago
In a sense, yes, but that's mainly on the books and it depends on which interest rate you're referring to. You're right, much of the bailout money was used to cushion the capital accounts of these institutions. However, banks are businesses too and at the moment happen to be making tremendous profits, much of it due to the spreads they're getting on the low lending rate from the Feds.
Comment · 16 years ago
If I got an extra $100 or so on my paycheck, it would have very little economic utility. It would just be added to my pile of savings.
Nonsense. That's great that you'd save the $100, but even if you do that it still has economic utility, presuming you're putting it into a bank account. It then gets lent out to businesses or reinvested into the economy. The bank isn't sitting on a giant pile of money.
Comment · 16 years ago
It probably had more to do with the lessons learned from the Tunisia situation.
Comment · 16 years ago
What happens if you get acquired by Google? Do they still make you go through the interview process?
Comment · 16 years ago
Where else would you like them to send it?
Comment · 16 years ago
Yes, that's what the "Scrum of Scrums" idea is meant to solve, in exactly that way:
http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/2009/08/scrum-of-scru...
Comment · 16 years ago
I hear about this happening all the time, but what amazes me is that people actually get caught. Days and weeks after the incident. If you're thousands of feet in the air, sure you can get a generally vicinity of where it's coming from on the ground...but how then do authorities actually track it down? Presumably the person is long gone...
Comment · 16 years ago
That's essentially what bootstrapping is. How do you define it?
Comment · 16 years ago
I made the lucky mistake with Pluggio of not charging from day one. Not because I didn’t want to – but because I didn’t have the payment stuff setup and I was too lazy to do it before launch.
Sorry, but laziness isn't a compelling enough reason not to charge for your application.
Comment · 16 years ago
No joke. As far as I can tell there really is no reward.
You get "invited" to D.C. to attend a reception where you have to present your app to a commission. Your app then gets featured on the FCC website. You have to pay your own way there for all of that and can then get reimbursed by the FCC...up to $500 per person.
What exactly is the incentive?