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What ever happened to those?

And who here was on Altos?

Cloudant and MongoHQ are both pretty good and cost-effective. It would come down to DB preferences -- CouchDB v MongoDB.

I would put my money on Cisco. They have been trying to reinvent themselves as a cloud company and clearly their financials show declining margins on hardware as the market shifts …

Yes. This is also quite common with Arabic and there are a number of online Arabic courses that use Skype (for example) as the means of communication.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech are complete red herrings here. DO is a private company and they are free to agree to whatever they want in their contracts. They don't owe a…

All DO are asking the blog author to do is to just honour the Terms of Service that he himself agreed to. I don't see any controversy here; it is all very simple. Maybe, the blog a…

It is probably true if you consider SoftLayer and the number of websites they host. I think sites hosted by AT&T are also based on IBM Cloud.

Interesting. Who published it prior to Aleph One?

It would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft/Apple moved beyond Google to target IBM.

The orthodox belief you state that Jesus is the same as God is basically equivalent to the Hindu belief that their various gods are just different facets or aspects of God (with a …

Right, however the Pauline creed places Jesus as divine alongside God. This is polytheistic as it has assigned divinity to something/someone other than God alone. And predates the …

Many Christian societies are also polytheistic. The trinity is nothing if not an expression of polytheism.

Neither pornography or booze are prerequisites for startup success. If someone has a predliction for either that they cannot surpress then I suppose this UAE the place for them.

UAE. Free market economy, law and order, easy air travel to anywhere in world via Emirates/Etihad/Qantas, majority of world's people live within +/- four hours of timezone, access …

In general practice, you will find that doctors become less accurate as they get older; whereas in surgery, older doctors generally perform better with less complications. The reas…

Exactly. And let's not forget that Microsoft -- as a corporation -- as no responsibilities other than to make money for its shareholders and, as CEO, Bill Gates had likewise no res…

On your first point about access to education being based on wealth: education and knowledge are products just like any other and cost money to produce. Hence, it is perfectly mora…

Yes but did it occur to him that maybe the only reason such journals exist is because they are commercial enterprises?

It is also a fallacy that they are giving it away. They must be deriving some non-monetary value from doing it else they would not do it since they are free to decide not to publis…

I don't think there is a moral argument for "freeing" existing content since all parties to the "paid journal" business model, including the paper authors, seem to have entered int…

Even if that is true, it doesn't change the fact that when the person's own family and friends are not discussing this matter, it doesn't behoove a stranger (more or less) blogging…

By his own admission, he had only had "dozens" of emails with Jody over a few years and wasn't a close friend. Given Jody's family and close friends haven't spoken on this topic, I…

This seems to me to simply be a gratuitous speculation on Jody's death with no other purpose than to try and generate traffic by appearing to be some sort of brave, dissenting voic…