Posts by Justin Thomas 7 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2009
"Angry Birds is an advertising-supported app, so the developer lost nothing by agreeing to Amazon's terms."
The version that was given away was the paid, advertising-free version (that was previously not available on the Android Market); I took advantage of that promotion due to that fact (otherwise it would have been kind of pointless).
In most decent sized companies, there is a distinction made between Datacenter Operations (i.e., those who manage physical servers and plan accordingly) and System Administrators (i.e., the folks who manage the operating systems and above). As someone with some experience managing both company-owned servers and cloud hosted infrastructure, I can confidently say that the overall experiences (as a sysadmin) are very similar. Cloud hosting only solves the physical challenge; all the requirements of managing the OS and applications remain the same. From that perspective, having a solid DCO capability provided by the cloud at their back is a real boon for sysadmins.
M experience is based on Amazon's EC2; ymmv.
Some Americans are amazed that our British cousins don't can't seem to grasp that a route that a car drives along, a route that electronic packets travel over, and a route cut in a piece of wood are conceptually the same thing.
The choice to pronounce it rowter or rooter is just style. I'll stick with rowter so that my Australian friends don't get the wrong idea.
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