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It comes with the network ;-)

Yes, that's exactly the problem.

- There is no upload bandwidth and we still acuiqre most of our backupable data offline (via cameras, HDs, etc.)

- I am sure Chrome OS will make online acquired data backupable in a push button way.

Given these two obvious points, I don't see the reason why that blog post was written. Not to mention they forgot to mention S3, and others you mention.

May be Amazon will make Kindle 3.0 a netbook and compete with Google?

I like the cancellation policy idea. Give the best options for both you and your customers. Just make it a push button cancellation.

How competitive is your market? Would your product rank in the,say, top 3? If we know the answers then, I believe, we can have a better discussion.

Amazon is the next gen's ConEdison/PSEG is something to note as well. Would have been interesting to look at how the strategy of being #1 in book sales and introducing Kindle at the right time to handle the transition to e-books came about. The amount of forethought is intriguing.

Saving time, surely a good result. Pre-clearing passengers, not so much of a good idea to achieve that result.

I am sorry but the idea was a stupid one to begin with.

After 4 years in operation in what seems to be one the markets where customers had real pain and willing to pay for painless travel (and a monopoly?) they still needed credit to operate?

IMHO: I highly recommend "Zen" for anyone's reading list.

Thanks for the info. This seems like a good option. Any ideas on chairs?

Our product relies on novel algorithms. That's our "secret sauce," if you will. We publish the algorithms we develop on peer reviewed conferences and journals. There have been improvements made to our work by others and we encourage that. What prevents our competitors from copying our work and reaping the rewards? So patents seems to be a necessary evil from our perspective. It's not the patents that we shall fault it's the patent holders.

A black box captures human perspective of extreme conditions. Telemetry, flight control, and maintenance data is more than enough to figure out what happened to an aircraft. But, they don't tell why it happened? Data in a black box answers a critical question: "Is it human error?"

Having said that, your question does resonate well with me too. How much data does a black box store that we can't send it over satellite (or even to other aircraft nearby-- think of a distributed storage) in real-time or near real-time? The purpose of such distribution is purely redundancy. I haven't seen any concrete numbers or engineering barriers against this idea, yet.

One simple albeit temporary fix: Make H1Bs independent of sponsoring employer. Give those people freedom to float around like the rest of us and see how things turn out.

My guess is employers will have to start treating H1Bs as they treat others and that should change the economics on them to reduce H1B abuse.

I am a bit confused by the table. "bdb_btree 14.3/s " means 14.3 records per second? Is that the correct interpretation?

Have a feeling P=NP will implode the allure surrounding algorithms, optimization, and computer science in general. :)

P != NP

Forget the database. Figure out: - What data you have? (I think you know this). - How it will be accessed?

Then, figure out what's the best way to store the data so that access (includes, read/writes) is efficient. Essentially, at this point you're trying to figure out what's the most efficient way to organize the data.

Then, think of where to store this organization. You may end up using more than one type of database for that matter but at least at this point you can ask more pointed questions like: "Hey, anyone knows the best way to store long/lats?" Or "Hey, anyone knows the best way to store tags for 10billions objects?" etc.

I don't know whether it is a reading issue. It might be a write issue, however. Flash can only allow so many write-cycles, and thrashing is a good way to guarantee flash running out of write-cycles.

Not that I am aware of, but an iPhone app would be a great addition.

BBC BASIC on Acron -> DOS -> Windows -> BSD, VAX/VMS -> Windows 95 -> Linux/Windows 2K -> OS X (2006).

I have used them at various points in my life where the priorities are different. Of the experiences I have had, I can compare OS X, with Linux and Win 2K equally well (with Dell Hardware). I am a happy Apple customer now with occasional (mostly minor) complaints but I have always had complaints. [Should mention that I did try XP and Vista but didn't like the vibe of those OS]

What's with the self-assigned IPs on Linksys routers!? is my current complaint. Yet to find an answer but often a reboot of the router solves the problem.

I use Zotero with Minefield (Firefox). Works fine for me.

I did a similar estimate using bunch of download sites and Google Keyword Tool/Trends. The hardest part, from my experience, is not the estimation of market size (people who need a product) but how many of them will actually turn into paying customers (people who want _your_ product).

Especially if your market has free alternatives.