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I'm sad RackSpace chose to market this effort under the term "Open Stack".

A number of us in the open web community have used that term to a great extent to talk about OpenID + OAuth + Portable Contacts + Open Social (http://therealmccrea.com/2008/09/19/joseph-smarr-at-web-20-o...)

Admittedly the initiative has lost momentum (for many reasons and factors) but things are still out there. This just creates confusion and branding collision.

I notice RackSpace is pushing a "TM" on their OpenStack branding, which calls into issue anyone using the term for it's prior and original meaning.
The difficulty with making it larger than nanoscale is that the centripetal acceleration becomes very great, which makes holding a large rotor together tricky; you need very strong materials. Actually, I did the calculations, and for visible light, it isn't even feasible at the nanoscale.

The centripetal acceleration of the rim of a rotor of radius r is rω². Rotating at 600THz (i.e. 600 trillion rotations per second), ω = 600T2π/s ≈ 3.8 × 10¹⁵/s. If your radius is 1mm, then your acceleration is about 1.4 × 10²⁷ G. The smallest rotor you can make out of atoms is probably around 0.1nm, which reduces the acceleration to only about 1.4 × 10²⁰ G. If your rotor was, say, an orthohydrogen H₂ molecule, with a distance between the nuclei of about 62pm, and thus a radius of about 31pm, the acceleration is about 4.5 × 10¹⁹ G, which would be a weight of about 74 micrograms pulling on that single covalent bond. The nuclei would be whirling around the covalent electron cloud that bound them together at about 11.7 kilometers per second, and each of them would have about 1.13 × 10⁻¹⁷ J of kinetic energy. Unfortunately, hydrogen's ionization energy is about 2.2 × 10⁻¹⁸ J, so that's about five times as much energy as you'd need to rip the molecule apart. I think. It could work out in the infrared, maybe. You'd just need a way to get the molecule started spinning.

So I guess you'd have to make your rotor a lot smaller than a diatomic molecule, or a lot stronger than a mere covalent bond.

Generally a 60Hz generator must spin at 360rpm or slower to generate 60Hz.
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You have a very odd view of history. Thrones have not been passed down based on any predefined rules. Who could have predefined them anyway?. Thrones were faught over in wars, endless scheming, forced and tactical marriage, etc. Europe was devastated again and again for no better reason than some wacko royal trying to expand his power or go to heaven by slaughtering other peoples.

And no, they do not exist to keep democracy in check. They existed long before democracy and had to be removed from absolute power by force in most cases and by threatening force in others. If anything, democracy was introduced to keep the royals in check.

These clans together with their clerical stooges and armed thugs have wasted the world's resources for their own eccentric, self serving and unproductive endeavors for thousands of years.

And those constitutional monarchs, which are admittedly rather harmless, are not a counter weight to failures of TV-show democracy either. Quite the contrary. They are themselves the material for endless media gossip. Managing their own reputation is what they do all their lives. Keeping the monarchy going, that's all they do and that's all they have ever done.

Ah, yes, and sometimes they write strange letters to ministers about organic farming, alternative medicine or their private history Disney style architectural preferences.
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Unsurprisingly, using residentially-zoned space for commercial purposes is profitable. Don't most full-time bed-and-breakfasts have to get licensed? (I'm assuming that making $4,500/month implies being nearly full-time; maybe I'm wrong.)

To me, this seems fine when rare. So let's say I rent out a room once a month or something along those lines - no big deal. If I'm treating it like a real b-n-b, though, it seems like I'm engaged in some real commerce that is probably regulated. Presumably Airbnb behaves agnostically on this issue, allowing the responsibility to fall to the property owner?

I'm delighted for the specific homeowners being discussed here, but concerned about the general case.
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I think there's books written on just answering your question, I'll try and hit the highlights. To give you some background, my biz partners and I started our consulting firm as a side job in college, then when we graduated and basically said to ourselves "why the hell not? it's been working so far." The first 6 months or so were the hardest as we figured out what bootstrapping a full-time business meant, as compared to moonlighting from your dorm room. For example, paying your employees first means your monthly paycheck may need to wait until that next invoice is paid in a few weeks. Within 2 years our rates had increased by 5x (and not from $5->$25 either), there were 10 of us, 2.5 offices, a non-profit in Peru and we got all of our business through client referrals. However, I was also very stressed and constantly working

Overall:
Honestly, technical skill is only half of doing good freelancing. Even more so as you become successful and find that you're doing more managing than technical work. And obviously, technical skill is the foundation of your freelance ability. Still, let's assume you have good technical skills.

If there's one thing I wish I'd learned much more about early on in my consulting firm, it is how to manage your client's expectations along the entire way- from quote -> negotiation -> project -> deliverables. I don't have any horror stories, but I feel like that was the biggest squeaky wheel as we were getting started. That, and don't worry about looking too professional. You won't be, it'll probably show in ways you don't know, and instead treat as much as you can as a learning experience rather than trying to hide your lack of knowledge. However, watch out for predatory clients who confuse naivete with lack of business expertise and try to take advantage of you or tell you "how things are done"... to their advantage.

1. Clients do expect a certain level of expertise, but your rate, portfolio and past referrals should go a long ways in setting your client's expectations. Specs, even highly technical ones imo, are a fickle thing in freelance work- a phrase I've repeatedly heard from very successful freelancers is "under-sell, over deliver." But that's just one approach.

2. To be honest, there are many freelancers/firms who are not honest about their rates/development process/billable hours and they still pay the bills. On the flip side, my biz partners and I try to run our firm by the Golden Rule* and it's worked exceptionally well for us.

3. Yes, that is a good general rule, but you should decide early on if you want to do speculative work or not (different from pro bono work). Many firms feel that speculative work is damaging unless you are just starting out and need to establish a portfolio/set of client referrals (in which case, you're still being "compensated" with something of value, just not cash...). Also, you may find that you're willing to work at different rates for different clients.

Hope that helps!
It seems like they switch from manual to autonomous once they're at altitude: http://www.makanipower.com/technology/control (page 2)
I get the impression that a lot of people wouldn't have been satisfied with anything less than Jobs admitting that the iPhone 4 has been a total disaster, getting down on his knees begging forgiveness for Apple's success, and tearfully crying out "My life is a sham!" before committing seppuku.
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>There is nothing intuitive about the OS

Could you elaborate on this?
I'm sorry, we didn't think the two communities would cause confusion. Almost everything you can name something these days will cause a "name collision" of sort. The infrastructure and application folks are pretty separated and so are the concepts so hopefully the context in which it is used will make it clear. Detail wise, the OpenID + OAuth... is "Open Stack" and this should be used only as "OpenStack".
That would all be impressive if this was 2006, unfortunately, they are largely copying the iPhone with just a different graphic design theme. It is symptomatic of bigger problems in Microsoft's innovation lag.
No, that's not his proposal. The 401 message (which is what he meant to say) is what prompts the browser to display the popup box in the first place. The idea would be that if you provide a custom form there, the browser displays your custom form (in the browser window) in place of the default popup.

Then all you need to add is a couple of Javascript methods to allow that custom form to set the HTTP Auth parameters and retry (you could even use a special form target for that, if you wanted to, avoiding Javascript entirely).
We decided to invite the competition over to have a few beers with us. Now we use the relationship with them to fuel our own competitive streak and to enhance team cohesion. Just so as long you keep focusing on your own customers, and solving problems your own way, it works.
New York can go fuck itself. It's insulting to the people that in a time of economic turmoil the politicians are still taking big fat campaign checks from the hoteliers and passing arbitrary bullshit laws that dick people over who are trying to make ends meet. Who the fuck do they think are to even suggest they can come into my home and tell me how "sanitary" it is?

Sorry for the rant, but this is industry after industry, entrepreneurs like AirBNB try to create efficiency and wealth and the establishment comes along and buys off politicians to eliminate the competition.

Democrats hate corporations, Republicans hate the government. Or maybe they just pit us against each other while they all laugh their way to the bank.
Have you attended any planning hearings in your town?
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Mounted the iPod, grepped around some semi-promising looking files and couldn't find anything really :\

Perhaps you could try making a dummy Google account and setting up the iPhone contacts sync in iTunes - then view the contacts within GMail. IIRC, that didn't require me to use the pin code but it may have required that the phone be synced with it's "parent" copy of iTunes.

Best of luck, sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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The reason why they are so large is because the power harvested by a windmill goes up with the square of the rotor diameter

Doesn't the Makani wings get around this issue by equivalent to a turbine with a massive wingspan and a wingtip that generates power, but without the rest of the structure?
Not sure why the Parent was downvoted. These are some legitimate questions. Cities regulate the areas in which business can occur, tax businesses differently than individuals and have regulations on food and hospitality for health and safety reasons. As the parent says most of the time this will slip through as "letting a mate stay the night" but at $4500 a month we are in a different ballgame.

Incidentally airbnb have great PR
I wonder how the apps are going to play out. XNA is used for the games and there are plenty of shops out there creating for xbox. It looks like porting existing XNA games to the phone will be fairly straightforward. I'm expecting Windows Phone 7 to be a big player in handheld gaming because of XNA/Xbox.

I'm primarily a .Net/Silverlight dev myself so I'm biased but the core development experience is better than Apple/Google IMHO. They do need to get off their asses and release more controls (like the pivot) or they aren't going to have standardized UI across apps.
If someone gets sick because your last airbnb "customer" contaminated a room or because you didn't realise you served some out of date chicken you haven't signed any legal waiver to my knowledge.
Airbnb is amazing at PR. See their interviews for examples, but in general they've got a wonderful sense for spotting a narrative the media cares about and inserting themselves into it.
I'm a bit confused about what Steve Blank was asking. Was he asking potential users if they'd use the service right away if it was free? What does this question prove exactly? I'm thinking, if they were targeted in the dry test, they'll probably say yes. So I'm not sure if there's more to this question than was posted, if anyone knows please reply.
I guess I tend to group that with the other missing fourth option, "hope everyone saves for retirement". I agree that yes, ideally, people would all find some way to take care of themselves for retirement, whether out of savings, or with family, or some other method. But empirically, in modern societies a lot of elderly end up penniless and alone, so the question is what we do about that.
The outer third of the blades account for roughly 60% of the total power generated by a windmill, the 'massive wingspan' would have to be normal to the direction of the wind, in order to say more about what Makani does or does not do there would have to be a lot more design data available than there is now.

Windmills with 'just the tips' have been proposed and constructed, there are some good reasons to include the blade all the way to the root. Part of that is to stem vibration, also to help with rotor start-up and low wind conditions.
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If you feel strongly about this, you might want to read Cato regarding licensing for e.g. cosmetologists and taxi drivers. It is the same story -- pretexts about the public safety justify anti-competition laws, whose effects are felt mostly by poor would-be entrepreneurs and the communities who they can't legally service.
Bingo! Such logic is supposed to live in the stylesheets with the design.
A "private cloud". I've been thinking about a set-up that would allow this. As Google seems to own more and more of my life, granted, with my approval, I've been growing uncomfortable with the idea. But can you beat continued uptime, ever-improving UI, smooth integration across various tools... All that for free (at least in $$$)?
So really, what's the difference between this and, say, cocaine? The effects seem pretty similar to me.
No. May I ask, out of ignorance, why that is relevant? I suspect it's not just a "You're not doing anything about it so you have no right to complain," sort of thing and actually something much more relevant to the conversation, like "If you went, you'd see that the deck is stacked against mom-and-pop shops" or something like that. However, I can't guess what you're thinking and would like to know more.
Can anyone name this fallacy, where your evidence is that people have been complaining about the same thing for a long time, so complaining is merely the status quo and there isn't a real issue?

I know we all enjoy quotes from ancient Greece about how children "these days" are disrespectful, and yet regardless of what you think about the topic, this is a stinker of an argument. You can employ it in the same way to say, for example, that political discourse only seems to be less civil than it was any number of years ago.
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Oh, cool, thanks. I also just learned that {source} is short for {source: source}. That's something else missing from the docs, I believe.
Okay I don't know much about Cloud Computing but can anyone tell how is going to help someone like me who has one or two blogs with some web hosting company.

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Now, I am in no liberty to answer this, so I will paraphrase what a local record company owner has said.

"Years ago, I used to watch competitors go down and celebrate. Now, they're dropping like flies, and we all need to fight to stay open"

Now, his situations pretty specific, but I think what he's saying is that without competition, you are left alone and vulnerable.Competition is healthy and necessary, so you shouldn't hate them. You should even help them if they're in trouble.
The taxi thing seems totally like a pretext, but cosmetologists engage in a lot of quasi-medical stuff that seems reasonable to regulate. Perhaps I'm mostly thinking of spas and their ilk, and honestly I'm probably mostly just thinking about the rise in community-acquired MRSA (which, to be fair, has not been shown to be driven by cosmetological practices at this point).
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I did web design (but no application development) all though high school and college, part time, at from $7 to $15/hr. I got a CS degree, did freelance PHP web development for one client for a year, lived with my parents (don't remember my rate... probably something depressing like $25/hr). Then I went to grad school, got a masters and a couple years of Ph.D. Then I dropped out and screwed around and bootstrapped a startup (great portfolio piece) for two years.

All the while I've been eating up as much web development knowledge as possible, and hacking on silly side projects.

A month ago I put myself on the market as a Rails developer and within a few days landed a $75/hr 20hr/wk job. No one I quoted that rate to blinked an eye. The folks I'm working for are very happy with my work.

Just one data point.
I would be very surprised. I do know that both Intel and ATI chips support it in texture hardware.

See this, for example:

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How about non-profits? We're focusing on using web and mobile technology to help microfinance institutions extend loans to youth.
I have always understood what he is pitching. It is you who do not understand what I am "pitching". Its unfortunate you could not see my original intent. I am not using the "Mad men" clip as a fool proof template to be used in conference rooms across the nation. I was simply trying to share some of Draper's fictional talents with others who have like interests. The clip shows a pitch with passion, emotion, personal connection, and knowledge of product. I feel these elements are worth noting if you have any entrepreneurial interests. I advise you think a little longer before responding to any more posts. Its alright, it happens to the best of them.
Yeah, you're not the only one, but we seem pretty few and far between.
I agree everyone can't do it, but it does seem to be pretty common already, so quite a few people are doing it. Go to a grocery store at, say, 10am on a weekday during the school year, and the cashiers are mostly old (at least around here).
Well Cobb stated that when he and his wife woke up from their limbo, he stated that they woke up young again, like they lived an entire life. That's what I'm referring to because that's not thinking you did something but an experience.
You should also check out Ganeti: http://code.google.com/p/ganeti

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Well, well. I'm not sure about this. The reason he was sad that his competitors were going away is because it was evidence that his market was collapsing. I'm sure he would have been just fine with it if he was absorbing all the business his competitors had been doing and the overall size of the market was flat or expanding.

In many ways, your competitors are what's standing in the way of your success. You can tell yourself that you are trying to outdo yourself, but I don't think that Tiger Woods' primary motivation on the course is beating his last score. Beating another person is more deeply rooted in the human psyche.

Now, there are really only two paths to growth for a company: grow the market, or take share from your competitors. Even growing the market is normally in some sense taking business from other players in your segment. For example, if you grow a music business some of that is probably going to eat into other forms of entertainment. Witness the rise of the video games industry. And in many cases, the path to expanding the market is unclear or you do not have the skill to execute it, so the only thing left is to take business away from your competitors.

It's possible you could do that while still bearing them personal good-will. But I suspect that the human brain is going to experience a lot of cognitive dissonance in trying to say that on the one hand you like the people but on the other hand you're fine with hurting them or even putting them out of business. This is probably true even with the rationalization that you're doing what's best for the customer (which is not always true).

IMO you have a real problem when your employees stop emotionally disliking your competitors on average. That means that their products are so much better than yours that they overcome the natural distaste for "the enemy" or, even more reptilian, "the man who wants to eat the food that I want to eat." (That's why I think Google doesn't have much hope in the social space, because internally there's very little ill-will towards Facebook or Twitter. Apple is more of a contest.)
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Froyo only being available for the N1 was what ended up pushing me over the edge on actually buying it.
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