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The first time I ran:

   time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
   hello world

   real	0m0.221s
   user	0m0.005s
   sys	0m0.006s

subsequent times:

   time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
   hello world

   real	0m0.008s
   user	0m0.005s
   sys	0m0.003s
 

So, I guess he ran ruby first followed by topaz and ended up with those results

Don't have any opening to fill in beans or by mistake water, Get beans in a sealed container, sealed with cardboard at the bottom, which the machine can penetrate. Another solution is to connect bean jar through a pipe to bigger source of beans similar to how water is sourced. The bean source is maintained by a dedicated person. If they cannot learn how at use it,restrict access thats the way to go!

Can you share any numbers? How long did it take to encode a 30 minute HD clip?

Data transfer in to S3 is free. First 1GB/month transfer out is free,after that it is 0.12GB for the next 10TB. These rates would apply if you store your video on S3 and use another service like zencoder too. The transfer between EC2 and S3 in same region is free though.

Yes, they do,they use the cluster compute instances:http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/07/23/first-look-at-google-com... I doubt if amazon is going to use them.

Zencoder recently came out with live transcoding. Its only a transcoding service, but I guess using brightcove you can stream live videos. AWS has only announced file base transcoding.

I am also curious about the how fast the AWS service will be. Zencoder is pretty fast. http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/10/18/zencoder-benchmarked-2x-...

Zencoder charges double the normal rate for HD videos, so it is $0.04 for HD

AWS only supports MP4, zencoder supports a whole host of them,significant being TS files for HTTP Live streaming needed by IOS devices.