Posts by DocNo

...how Apple helped to destroy the music business.

Bwhaha - the music business was doing fine self destructing on their own. Napster and file sharing had them by the balls and then some. Being able to buy individual songs literally saved purchased music and the music industry wouldn't have been able to ever settle on that model on their own.

Personally I'd love to see the TV and movie industries carry on and not adapt. Lots of crap would die a lot faster if not artificially propped up by the system.

Whether Apple is the one or not, the models around TV and movies are changing. Whether or not it's a net gain for the consumer is yet to be seen. Net neutrality will have more to do with where things settle then anything else at this point.

No surprise

Look, everyone piles everything on AWS East because it's the cheapest (or among the cheapest) of their datacenters.

It's the cheapest because it's the oldest.

It's not hard to do the math. Or it shouldn't be. It just proves that people really do stink at assessing risk.

Also as others have pointed out, it's not Amazons fault that applications fail when they have an eventual outage - it's why Amazon (and other cloud providers) have multiple data centers that are geographically dispersed. It's up to appliction owners/users to design redundancy into their applications. Indeed AWS makes it easier and far more accessable to everyone to build proper geo-diverse disaster recovery into their applications that has ever been possible before. Technology and functionality previously available only to the biggest organizations is now accessable to just about everyone.

People just don't want to pay for it, deluding themselves that it will never happen to them. Surprise!