1) MLB.tv experimented with a local area only package here in San Diego last year. $20 / mo for just the Padres. 2) Rather than that, I simply used one of my VPS' in another region to create an SSH tunnel through which to route the MLB.tv signal. They use your IP, not your billing address, to determine access.
My co-founder has a meeting this week with a group named Liberty Capital (http://www.liberty-capitalfunding.com/). They offer money with future invoices as collateral.Right now, my team needs cash. We're pretty savvy (thanks to the HN contingent!), and still early enough where we need cash to get ramen profitable. My first thought on this was, "SCAM" -- but is using future invoices as...
Not particularly uplifting; the idea is that you HAVE to give in to other people's base instincts, or else you must retreat from life. It's really just an adaptation on an Atlas Shrugged type theme.
All,I've got a particular interest in database scaling. I'm familiar with the standard techniques taken by web2.0 companies/ facebook/ myspace / etc. However, I'm curious what the big boys, like the major credit card companies, do. Or bank ATM networks -- what kind of scaling do they have so that they can keep everything sync'd in realtime?When you read scaling stories (I'm thinking about a...