...how this lady chirps for one particular piece of equipment. Who paid her ?
I'm not suspicious at all. Occam's razor leads me to believe that she just likes it more than lugging around expensive single subject text books. Most of the time, things are really just that simple.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about email systems.
I am guessing that there are strict restrictions on using external email to relay school information.
After all do you want your information on your childs health, disciplinary issues, grades, concerns over abuse, etc etc. to be stored on googles mail server? I sure as hell dont.
I trust my anonymity with Google more than with a B-grade IT worker at a school district. Imagine 2 possible scenarios:
1. Google does something with my email data i don't like.
2. A disgruntled IT worker at the school district sells my email data for drug money.
#2 is far more likely.
Must be a conspiracy set up by Amazon to get people to pay for vast amounts of compute time. Why now allow people to purchase copies of the data on hard disk or tape. 5 billion pages, at 100K each (high estimate perhaps) is 500 TB. If you zip it, you could probably get it down to 10 TB if you compress it with a good algorithm. Not "that much" if this is the kind of research you are interested in.
How much would that tape and tape drive or hard disk cost you to get started? How would that cost compare with the initial 750 hours of free compute time on EC2?
From Mainichi Daily News
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday the detection of radioactive xenon at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant, indicating recent nuclear fission, was not the result of a sustained nuclear chain reaction known as a criticality, as feared, but a case of "spontaneous" fission.
Do you believe any explanation from Tokyo Electric at this point? They have told enough lies about Fukushima that I now assume they are lying every time they open their mouths. Has this been verified by an independent 3rd party?
The small percentage of people who have found true success will tell you to use donations. For everyone for whom that didn't work, I have no idea. Perhaps paid support or extras?
How about if I withhold my software until you pay me? The free market will set the price. Is that OK?
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