Do you read carefully? When I asked if I missed anything I was referring to anything besides the arguable "value add". My apologies if that was not clear. But the value add is precisely what you focused on, and argued…
Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.
So basically it's the same as rsync and a little scripting, but without commands and scriptability? I don't use Dropbox so I'm curious. I'd like to know if they're offering something to paying customers that S3 does…
I used to suffer with Cygwin. It is really slow to work with if you are used to native UNIX. I never seriously tried this but I'm curious if it works: http://www.suacommunity.com/tool_warehouse.htm
Perhaps you could expand on that? If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3? I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the…
No connection. Two separate points: 1. A prediction that FB will be acquired 2. A suggestion about the importance of email addresses, both for you, the FB user, and for FB. Hypothetical: You need to contact one or more…
This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up. That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.
Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
I know these folks are well-meaning but I find these constant "warnings" to be insulting. What people really need to be aware of is that the folks making decisions of how the internet should run, "the experts", are not…
I think MS will acquire FB. The FB social network will die, in time, but it's still the world's largest email address list, plus all sorts of personal information that can be used to insidiously coax consumers. Every FB…
Do you read carefully? When I asked if I missed anything I was referring to anything besides the arguable "value add". My apologies if that was not clear. But the value add is precisely what you focused on, and argued…
Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.
So basically it's the same as rsync and a little scripting, but without commands and scriptability? I don't use Dropbox so I'm curious. I'd like to know if they're offering something to paying customers that S3 does…
I used to suffer with Cygwin. It is really slow to work with if you are used to native UNIX. I never seriously tried this but I'm curious if it works: http://www.suacommunity.com/tool_warehouse.htm
Perhaps you could expand on that? If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3? I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the…
No connection. Two separate points: 1. A prediction that FB will be acquired 2. A suggestion about the importance of email addresses, both for you, the FB user, and for FB. Hypothetical: You need to contact one or more…
This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up. That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.
Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
I know these folks are well-meaning but I find these constant "warnings" to be insulting. What people really need to be aware of is that the folks making decisions of how the internet should run, "the experts", are not…
I think MS will acquire FB. The FB social network will die, in time, but it's still the world's largest email address list, plus all sorts of personal information that can be used to insidiously coax consumers. Every FB…