Most lower cost providers still charge by the minute.

ref: B.A ... R.B.A. (obscure references, it was the mid/late 90's)

It does seem a little silly though, that it's fine we eat it. Hell, some people brush their teeth with it. But "Oh no, don't use the substitute in an emergency!".

Makes *me* feel like a youngster.

You can kind of game them on data, SMS and voice to keep your costs near zero.

Granted, certainly not for everyone but there is nothing less expensive and coverage in the States is fine.

As a long time SQA/HQA eng, this is an awesome question. I've been around a lot of blocks. New build. Broken. Here's another one. Broken. My Golden Rule? Stay until it works. I'd so much rather have a good build than something slapped together. It wastes everyone's time.

I had the (shall I say it) honor of working directly with Vint Cerf at MCI back in the early 90's, part of the triad or more that formed the earliest foundations. We had some interesting conversations.

Yet.

When I looked at Magento it was a sieve peppered with .50 caliber holes. I passed.

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these.

The downside is, Signal is buggy (not security wise) on older android releases. And that's where an awful lot of people such as myself are.

-jim

I'm taking that with large grains of salt, soon to be extricated as kidney stones.

"In fact, with Chrome's regular additions and changes, developers have to keep up to ensure they are taking advantage of everything available. "

Uh, no. You don't. The page you developed yesterday (or in 2000) should display just the same if you did it right in the first place. If not it's the browsers fault, not yours for "not keeping up". It's a fucking web browser.

Good luck targeting all the US phones which for the most part, have FM disabled. Still, I hate the core idea of this. Yeah, it's coming, but the concept is still annoying. I've already seen Bladerunner.

VBR isn't rocket science, and not new. Great that they're using it. GPU transcoding is really helping these days.