Guys... It's not that hard to get a small business loan of $25,000, if you present to the bank that you have the know-how (and a business degree would help). Plus from the TFA of a related story...

In other words, this is $25,000 that they would be normally paying anyway.

This is why clustering is ABSOLUTELY necessary for as large a company as Authorize.net. As parent said, putting all your eggs in one basket is a stupid idea...

I wonder how many companies will switch to PayPal after this...

I honestly would like to see a good, bi-partisan healthcare plan come to the table.

However, if you actually think that the socialized healthcare systems in "every other developed country" work fine, then you should try going to France, where most have to be placed on year-long waitlists for a simple surgery.

Also, if you think that Medicaid provides remotely good healthcare, then you obviously have not talked to any doctors about it; Medicaid forces doctors to only accept 22% of a charged payment, and to write off the rest. So, if an orthopedic performed an $1,100 knee replacement, he'd only receive about $250, and wouldn't get anymore. And if that orthopedic happened to be a specialist in knee replacements, then the patient would also have to see a general orthopedic to get a referral, costing the patient unnecessary time. Many doctors have actually stopped accepting Medicare/Medicaid patients.

I think that I would honestly like to see changes made in the copyright law dealing with prescription drugs... When drug companies patent a drug (which usually happens as research just begins), they have 18 years to finish researching/developing the drug (usually takes 10-11 years), get it approved by the FDA (1-2 years, depending on what the drug cures), mass produce it, market it, and try to make a profit on it in the remaining time that they have. After the 18 years is up, the generic pharmaceuticals step in and make cheaper versions of the drug, virtually eliminating all hope for more profit on it.
Extending the copyrights for these would allow the companies to market the drugs longer and charge a lesser price on them, giving them a bigger chance at making a profit on the drug.

Overall, just remember that healthcare is a business and an industry, and costs a lot of money to run and operate. If the government wants to see an even bigger expansion on their current biggest expense (Medicare), they need to have the financial backing for it. Frankly, with the economy tanking, massively increasing our debt will not help matters almost any.

Although its not the government that directly controls the TLD, they still operate under regulations and orders provided to them by the IEDR. They could refute the orders, but they'd risk losing their mandate/contract.

I noticed on some of the comments on the site that there was a vast difference of opinion between the actual songwriters and, for example, the chief exec of Making Music...

Um.... servers are so damned complicated because they are entirely customizable (kinda like Linux, but running Windows). Servers and server software have never been marketed to the general public, only to IT nerds who actually know how to customize it to what they need it to do. Thus, servers aren't made to be easy, nor can they be easy.

Many webmasters out there use ASP and ASP.NET for their websites. It is a workable platform that many major websites use as an alternative to PHP. However, you cannot run this on a Linux server, as ASP and the .NET framework were both made by Microsoft.

The other product that you can't run on a Linux server is ColdFusion. Although this has a much smaller client list, this will not run on Linux.

Some people even choose to use Windows servers just so they can resell the bandwidth at a much higher rate; most charge $10/month higher on Windows than on Linux, saying that the higher cost is a result of the Windows licensing fees. Over time, that can lead to a much higher profit margin with Windows than with Linux.

Thus, it is not altogether disturbing to use Windows for your web server. It really just depends on what you do with it.

Windows server is only $800 for a 5-client license... and $960 for a 10-client license. This is expensive by most OS standards (even OSX Server is only $500 for a 10-client license), but its still only a small fraction of the total cost of the computer, $16K.

Nice anti-MS joke, but technically, it's off the mark.

Microsoft is just grabbing the opportunity to train more devs and IT in advanced Microsoft products. After all, this is what ensures that companies use these products; that way, the companies don't have to pay for training.

They also use this tactic with student/academia discounts, also.... (MSDNAA, anyone?)

Personally, I've never had a problem with Adobe Reader on any platform, and this site seems to be blatantly against it.
I just don't see the need to have a directory of PDF readers. It's easy enough to Google "open source PDF readers." There just aren't enough of them to justify a directory.