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by _suoiruc 14y ago
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 (predictably): the
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
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 not, apart from their p
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
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
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
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 paying Dropbox user, wha
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up. That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
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 always as smart as t
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by _suoiruc 14y ago
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 user should gather u