It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy
From a Times.com article on the hackers behind BitTorrent, Gnutella and libdvdcss - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,2032304_2032746_2032903,00.html
MrRumblefish
Re:Having a launched product is hard
on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @11:00PM (#2030523)
I agree that it does sound unnatural but I still would say it conveys the meaning better. The more correct version you wrote seems to loose the idea of struggle (to me at least).
Re:Having a launched product is hard
on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @09:26PM (#2030342)
I personally prefer the more literal translation. I think it keeps the sense of a struggle and achievement as you described.
Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:48AM (#1975286)
Yes I've set one domain up and atm it's via API only.
They do provide scripts that take care of most of the work but ther is still more involved than a web front end.
For example you make changes in batches of records, and they can be create or delete. So to change an IP in an A record you make an XML document with both a delete request and a create request with the new value then poll the API for a sat us of in-sync.
Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
on Monday December 06, 2010 @12:44AM (#1974103)
My mistake - you are correct.
Its a shame - it would be nice for them to throw in a the first billion!
Re:Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
on Monday December 06, 2010 @12:38AM (#1974085)
The pricing is $1/zone and 1 billion (!!) queries per month.
Which seems quite good for a globally hosted DNS service.
Only potential limitations are that its listed as "beta" and that as far as I can tell you have to use the scripts in the Route 53 developer tools (or write your own) to manipulate the zone and do the initial set up.
Re:Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances
on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:10AM (#1965254)
Somehow I doubt they had this plan "on standby" in case of some controversy.
On topic - This combined with the free year of a micro instance will allow you to put a proof of concept together for only the cost of your time.
Re:Apple Passes PetroChina to Become World's Second Largest Stock
on Thursday September 23, 2010 @09:07PM (#1722193)
Stocks are (usually) bought based on future earnings potential. So for an oil company, whilst oil is needed, it is unlikely to suddenly make a huge profit over the other oil companies and instead will provide relatively safe long term returns.
So its price reflects this both good and bad stability.
On the other hand Apple has a track record of coming up with almost totally new markets which it can dominate and take the lions share of the profit, or find a niche to exploit in an existing market - ala iPhone. So it's price is speculating that they can keep finding these huge new profits in addition to the huge profits they already make.
tl;dr Apple is like a giant profit finding machine.