I have a long, random password for every site, it is never the same.
I have a long pass phrase that unlocks the encrypted records of said passwords.
For most sites (most are not important) I make one note in my encrypted records and then make firefox remember them from there on out (long pass phrase for firefox master password keeper, too).
For online banks I remember something weird and arbitrary.
I couldn't comment on anything specific to lights, but I can comment as a web user. Sometimes it's the little things... I was a bit jarred by your website being so dark. The menu buttons were hard to find (hard being a relative term here, of course) because there was a lack of contrast. And then the news page shocks the system again by being bright white. On the blog page, the menu buttons go away (but they do not on any other page).
Usability things aside, am I guessing correctly that you are intentionally making the site very dark in order to say something about the light industry? I don't quite get it... on a gut level I would have expected something crisp and beautiful maybe, in order to match the product (something maybe like http://www.betterplace.com )
I liked that talk -- but I've read that infant mortality rates are a misleading indicator and I really want to know what Mr. Rosling think about the subject. The U.S. brings far more at risk kids into the world and so the statistic is deflated. Because those at risk kids are way more likely to die in the first year (instead of in the womb).
Another factor to consider is that people of african descent tend to have more low birthweight babies than other groups. Low birthweight babies die more, regardless of the medical system. African descended people are common in the US, Brazil and Caribbean, but not so much in Europe.
But it isn't really a fault of the medical system or development process, just genetic/hereditary bad luck.
I'd suggest the trend lines on his charts are more meaningful than individual bubbles.
Really? From research I have done in the past, I never noticed any discrepancy in infant mortality between African Americans and white Americans in the United States.
Remember where you learned this? I'd be interested to learn more.
Ummm, not so much. France at least has loads of people of African descent - I would think the percentage must be around about the same as that for the US, just by eyeballing what I see on the street in Paris, Marseille, Lille etc.
transfer out:
Amazon: $0.17-$0.22/GB, simpleCDN $0.09/GB
transfer in:
Amazon: something, simpleCDN: nothing
requests:
Both: $0.01/10k requests
So yeah, you might save a few pennies on bandwidth, but SimpleCDN would kill you on storage it seems.
They do seem to offer another product that they call "SimpleCDN S3+", that I assume is their equivilant of S3, since the prices are about the same. Is that what you were comparing?
Uh... at the risk of repeating myself... are you sure you're reading the right pricing chart?
According to SimpleCDN's website, their S3+ service is not a content deliver network. It has US and EU locations, just like S3. So sure, it's cheaper than S3, but the thing they offer that competes with CloudPoint is potentially bit more expensive than CloudPoint, depending on the disposition of your content.
And I think you missed the part where you don't get charged for moving things around between S3 and CloudPoint. And the part where you can set your caching however you like, just like you would for any file you serve from a traditional webserver.
We trialed SimpleCDN in some simple cases for files I've had on it, and the performance was pretty bad as measured by Pingdom across the world. I love the idea and wanted them to be good, but it simply couldn't perform for us and always seemed to be serving from some place in the central U.S.
Maybe they've gotten better in the past few months, but they didn't do much for us except for give us a reliable alternative hosting location. The performance never seemed to improve worldwide-- almost as if they don't have many edge servers.
the difference is that cloudfront is backed by Amazon. So this means 2 things: a) it won't be going out of business any time soon b) if AWS goes down, usually so will the main amazon site. So you'll have hundreds of techies working to fix your issue.
Its mostly a trust issue...everyone heard of akamai, everyone heard of limelight, everyone heard of AWS.
AWS is a separate wing from the Amazon site, they buy their own servers and datacenters. There have already been numerous S3 and EC2 outages.
You won't get any support at AWS unless you pay for a premium contract. And, unlike SimpleCDN, there is no SLA with CloudFront yet.
While everyone has indeed heard of AWS, they are not in the same category yet with Akamai and Limelight just because they released a CDN product.
In each case, for the sake of a discount solution, you are probably sacrificing reliability, bulletproof contracts/SLAs, and a TON of presence locations vs. something like Akamai.
I like my brands just as much as anyone, but I think you're taking just as much chances with SimpleCDN vs. CloudFront. And with SimpleCDN you get better prices and an SLA that offers refunds for outages (which is better than nothing).
It's too bad that "flu" is often used for many things besides influenza, most notably the stomach flu which usually lasts 24 hours. That's way more common than influenza. I run across a lot of people that even think the "flu shot" is for those kinds of flus...
