Nor to anyone who currently get free Amazon shipping via a family member who is a member of Amazon Prime. The free video only applies to the single Amazon Prime member account:
"Prime instant videos require an Amazon Prime membership and are not included with the free shipping benefits provided by Amazon Mom, Amazon Student, or if you are a guest of an Amazon Prime member. To watch Prime instant videos, sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership at http://www.amazon.com/primevideos. If you are a member of Amazon Mom and sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership, you will lose any additional months of Amazon Prime shipping benefits you may have earned."
If you'd tried to write it all yourself from scratch from the beginning you'd still be coding and you wouldn't have gotten the feedback about what needs to change as quickly. Prototype quickly then optimize later.
Read through the minutes (warning PDF) to get a summary.
Motion #4: Move that the HSSG adopt the following objectives in replacement of existing HSSG objectives:
o Support full-duplex operation only o Preserve the 802.3 / Ethernet frame format utilizing the 802.3 MAC o Preserve minimum and maximum FrameSize of current 802.3 standard o Support a BER better than or equal to 10-12 at the MAC/PLS service interface o Provide appropriate support for OTN o Support a MAC data rate of 40 Gb/s o Provide Physical Layer specifications which support 40 Gb/s operation over: - at least 100m on OM3 MMF - at least 10m over a copper cable assembly - at least 1m over a backplane o Support a MAC data rate of 100 Gb/s o Provide Physical Layer specifications which support 100 Gb/s operation over: - at least 40km on SMF - at least 10km on SMF - at least 100m on OM3 MMF - at least 10m over a copper cable assembly
I used a beta version of the product and really enjoyed it. I thought it was at its best in a "digital party" social scene. It's a lot of fun snapping pictures at a party and having them immediately uploaded where they can be displayed on a big screen and shared with everyone.
The version I tested could be configured (using a computer app while the SD is mounted) to automatically upload to Flickr, Phanfare or a long list of other photo sharing sites. I believe they also had a version that would upload to your PC but I wasn't testing that.
Setup for the card was done using a PC. The camera is oblivious to the WiFi capabilities. On the plus side the card can be configured to connect to any of the networks that your computer knows about. On the negative side, I think you need the computer to add new networks.
Unlike the HP garage, which behind a reasonably cute house in a reasonably cute neighborhood (and HP has put up the money to buy and restore the house and garage), Shockley Semi was in a very unremarkable building. It's great to have a landmark sign there but do you really need to preserve the cheap building?
NO. 1000 SITE OF INVENTION OF THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY PRACTICABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - At this site in 1959, Dr. Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation invented the first integrated circuit that could be produced commercially. Based on 'planar' technology, an earlier Fairchild breakthrough, Noyce's invention consisted of a complete electronic circuit inside a small silicon chip. His innovation helped revolutionize 'Silicon Valley's' semicondutor electronics industry, and brought profound change to the lives of people everywhere. Location: 844 E Charleston Rd, Palo Alto
It's also in a pretty unremarkable building.
Just a few blocks from the HP garage is another interesting site:
NO. 836 PIONEER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LABORATORY - This is the original site of the laboratory and factory of Federal Telegraph Company, founded in 1909 by Cyril F. Elwell. Here, Dr. Lee de Forest, inventor of the three-element radio vacuum tube, devised the first vacuum tube amplifier and oscillator in 1911-13. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age. Location: In sidewalk, SE corner of Channing Ave and Emerson St, Palo Alto
That building is already long gone. Unless there's something remarkable about the building or you have a sympathetic property owner, I say let progress march on.
Although it sounds very grand when whole countries or states or cities make a lot of noise about switching to open source software, if you follow them to the conclusion it always seems to work out the same: they end up sticking with Microsoft. I suspect that Microsoft comes in a makes them a sweet deal (maybe they'll open the source code a little, maybe they'll drop the price) and in the end they stick with Microsoft. As more and more groups do this, I think it's just part of the negotiation.
"We've already established what you are, ma'am. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Key quote being "had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product". I don't know if this link will work for everyone, since it's a search result link, but doing a search on the nytimes.com main page for "enderle" turns up this as the first result.
An article in Business Day on Tuesday described a decision by Microsoft to offer movies and episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live online service in the United States.
The article quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, discussing the features that set Xbox Live service apart and its position in the market.
But the article did not note that Mr. Enderle had Microsoft as a client, a fact later pointed out by a reader. Mr. Enderle does consulting work for several of Microsoft's product groups, though not for the one developing the Xbox; still, had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product.
I think the bigger part of this story is that TiVo wants to change their privacy policy to collect more demagraphic info about what you're doing. i.e. your clicks won't be so anonymous any more. From the NYTimes article about this:
For now, TiVo will not be able to tell advertisers anything about the demographics of the audience it measures. The privacy policy of the service allows it to gather data about viewing habits, but not any personal information. Mr. Juenger [TiVo VP of Audience Research] said TiVo hoped to find a way to change that by the end of the year.
The current TiVo Privacy Policy says repeatedly that all the data collected is anonymous. I guess that will have to change.
In the end it's all about money. TiVo needs to make more money. They're trying to do more with the watching data they already collect. And they want to collect more data to make it more valuable.
Fusion reactions take place in the vat because clusters of bubbles form and then violently collapse, explains nuclear engineer and team leader Rusi P. Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. A neutron or another energetic particle triggers a bubble to form in a low-pressure trough of the ultrasound waves, he says. Then, high pressure from the wave crushes the orb to an enormous density and temperature that fuse some atomic nuclei of the bubble's gas.
Not EPROM, DRAM. You're thinking of the September and October 1983 issues of Byte. Steve Ciarcia wrote about using a DRAM as cheap CCD substitute. I had a subscription at the time and I remember the article talking about popping the lid off of a DRAM. But a Google search (see below) says he was talking about a special DRAM from Micron with a clear window. I dunno, maybe popping the lid off the DRAM was from a different article. That was long ago. I couldn't find the actual article but the following gives a lot of the details:
If you believe the meter running on the above web page, it ran through 1000 songs in 112 seconds. At that rate they give out the 100,000 song prize every 3 hours 6 minutes 40 seconds. However that also means they're 61.425 days away from giving away the grand prize.
Didn't Katrina shut the university down? Did you transfer somewhere else? I would think there's something to be said for continuity. You should think about transfering.
Furthermore, the article says:
The university will focus its undergraduate, professional and doctoral programs and research in areas where it has attained, or has the potential to achieve, world-class excellence. It will suspend admission to those programs that do not meet these criteria.
i.e. if your program is one of the ones being cut then the university doesn't feel you were getting a very good education to begin with. Again, perhaps a transfer is the right answer.
Finally, I agree with the others about getting the degree then studying more. I delayed my degree by one year and got a masters and bachelors in the same year. Do any employers care? No. They just want to know how many years since your bachelors. That determines where you fall on the salary curve for the rest of your life. If you delay your degree by one year, you'll get paid slightly less every year.
Water vapour has always been the #1 greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide isn't even in the top 20. How you get to the conclusion that it must have started with a gas with a very weak effect is beyond me.
I'll concede that I was posting quickly. But I quote from TFA: "This is potentially a positive feedback mechanism which could increase the impact of greenhouse gases such as CO2."
It doesn't really matter which is the #1 greenhouse gas when the system is in equilibrium. What matters is what you add to the system to change the equilibrium. The point of the article is that adding weak greenhouse gases can get the temperature rising a bit which affects the equilibrium of water vapor which has a positive feedback effect.
Again from TFA:...the natural greenhouse effect - without which the world would be considerably colder - is largely down to atmospheric water vapour.
Because human activities change its concentrations very little, it is generally not mentioned in discussions of modern-day greenhouse warming.
But climate scientists have been aware for decades that mechanisms involving water vapour could amplify temperature increases, and have attempted to model these effects in computer simulations.
Researchers sceptical about projections of human-induced climate change base their criticism partly on what they see as flawed simulations of water vapour and clouds.
Warming starts with CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Warmer climate means more evaporated water in the atmosphere. Guess what? Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas. So climate gets warmer. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
This isn't a story that undermines or changes the prevailing scientific view. This may allow some fine tuning of the models. Some skeptics had argued with the results of the models because they didn't believe the contribution of water vapor. This may force them to reevaluate their view. (Yeah right).
ImageIO LibSystem Mail QuickDraw Ruby SecurityAgent securityd
Hmm. A security update that touches the ImageIO library?
p.s. before you flame/mod me into oblivion, I'm a happy Mac OS X user. Yes, Windows has way more bugs and a much worse security record. Is OS X invulnerable? No.
Visual Studio and Microsoft tools force you to adopt programming techniques designed around implementation speed, not understanding or quality.
So VS makes implementation easier. Does that lead to sucky code? No. It just lowers the bar so that sucky coders can knock something out.
Here are some guys who compare a GUI design using VS to Mac OS X. Executive summary: VS does well in polish, although after some tool development on the Mac side it holds its own:
They've said in the past that the next big step in search is searching databases that other people own. This would seem to be the interface to make that possible. i.e. rather than web crawling to attempt to harvest data, they have people push it to them. Sidesteps the copyright and robots.txt problem. If you want your data to be searchable then you push it to Google.
H1-B holders have less experience
on
The H-1B Swindle
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· Score: 2, Informative
You can only hold an H1-B visa for 6 years (3 years plus 1 renewal). After that you either get a green card or go home. The "job titles" compared (e.g. Programmer/analyst) are sufficiently general that they seem to be comparing H1-B holders right out of school with little expereience, to more senior people. It makes sense that the less experienced people get paid less.
that it captures a post boot image into flash and will flush it out if you change something in the core os or hardware
I agree. That sounds like the most likely use. But I don't see why you'd worry about corruption. It needn't be any more susceptible to corruption than the memory image of a running system or the buffer cache. [Insert Windows jab here.] If it's under complete OS control then the OS knows when it needs to be flushed. Even in the face of a virus [insert another Windows jab here] flash memory is hard to write to so it's less likely to be corrupted than the image in memory.
I think you're right that this is the beginning of the end. The affiliates should be nervous and perhaps a little cranky since they were left of the negotiations. But in the short term the grandparent post is right: all the free press could do nothing but help the affiliates.
As of today, the TV (by which I mean broadcast, cable, satellite) plus TiVo (how can anyone live without TiVo?!) is a much nicer distribution system. But that's only because of the details. My family watches enough TV that it's cheaper for us to pay a flat rate DirecTV bill than to pay a la carte $1.99/show.
I spent $20 the first day it was available to download a few episodes just to try it out. My overall take: quality was not so hot: 320x240 resolution. An hour commercial free (~40 minutes) is about 200 MB for a bit rate of 660 kbps. DirecTV gives you about 1GB/hour or 2.2 Mbps. However when I played it back full screen on my laptop it wasn't terrible.
After a few years of polishing it could be a reasonable way to watch TV *IF* the prices drop or they offer volume/flat rate pricing, subscriptions w/ background download, etc. etc.
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Nor to anyone who currently get free Amazon shipping via a family member who is a member of Amazon Prime. The free video only applies to the single Amazon Prime member account:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200572880
"Prime instant videos require an Amazon Prime membership and are not included with the free shipping benefits provided by Amazon Mom, Amazon Student, or if you are a guest of an Amazon Prime member. To watch Prime instant videos, sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership at http://www.amazon.com/primevideos. If you are a member of Amazon Mom and sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership, you will lose any additional months of Amazon Prime shipping benefits you may have earned."
Amazon video on demand:
http://www.amazon.com/Video-On-Demand/b/ref=&node=16261631
Subset of "Prime Eligible" movies that Amazon will stream free to Prime members today (2153 results):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_al_bw_srch?rh=n%3A16261631%2Cp_85%3A1&page=1&rw_html_to_wsrp=1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1G4XGFTBQHGKXW5S6ZP3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1288998822&pf_rd_i=16261631
If you'd tried to write it all yourself from scratch from the beginning you'd still be coding and you wouldn't have gotten the feedback about what needs to change as quickly. Prototype quickly then optimize later.
Bike to work. (Make living close enough to bike a priority.)
Possibly another way to jailbreak your iPhone or install Linux on your iPod.
If you want all the gory details rather than a copy of a summary of a summary, here is a link to all the presentations at the meeting.
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http://www.ieee802.org/3/hssg/public/july07/index
Read through the minutes (warning PDF) to get a summary.
Motion #4: Move that the HSSG adopt the following objectives in replacement of
existing HSSG objectives:
o Support full-duplex operation only
o Preserve the 802.3 / Ethernet frame format utilizing the 802.3 MAC
o Preserve minimum and maximum FrameSize of current 802.3 standard
o Support a BER better than or equal to 10-12 at the MAC/PLS service interface
o Provide appropriate support for OTN
o Support a MAC data rate of 40 Gb/s
o Provide Physical Layer specifications which support 40 Gb/s operation over:
- at least 100m on OM3 MMF
- at least 10m over a copper cable assembly
- at least 1m over a backplane
o Support a MAC data rate of 100 Gb/s
o Provide Physical Layer specifications which support 100 Gb/s operation over:
- at least 40km on SMF
- at least 10km on SMF
- at least 100m on OM3 MMF
- at least 10m over a copper cable assembly
I used a beta version of the product and really enjoyed it. I thought it was at its best in a "digital party" social scene. It's a lot of fun snapping pictures at a party and having them immediately uploaded where they can be displayed on a big screen and shared with everyone.
The version I tested could be configured (using a computer app while the SD is mounted) to automatically upload to Flickr, Phanfare or a long list of other photo sharing sites. I believe they also had a version that would upload to your PC but I wasn't testing that.
Setup for the card was done using a PC. The camera is oblivious to the WiFi capabilities. On the plus side the card can be configured to connect to any of the networks that your computer knows about. On the negative side, I think you need the computer to add new networks.
Unlike the HP garage, which behind a reasonably cute house in a reasonably cute neighborhood (and HP has put up the money to buy and restore the house and garage), Shockley Semi was in a very unremarkable building. It's great to have a landmark sign there but do you really need to preserve the cheap building?
Just a few blocks away is another notable site:
http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21522
NO. 1000 SITE OF INVENTION OF THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY PRACTICABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - At this site in 1959, Dr. Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation invented the first integrated circuit that could be produced commercially. Based on 'planar' technology, an earlier Fairchild breakthrough, Noyce's invention consisted of a complete electronic circuit inside a small silicon chip. His innovation helped revolutionize 'Silicon Valley's' semicondutor electronics industry, and brought profound change to the lives of people everywhere.
Location: 844 E Charleston Rd, Palo Alto
It's also in a pretty unremarkable building.
Just a few blocks from the HP garage is another interesting site:
NO. 836 PIONEER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LABORATORY - This is the original site of the laboratory and factory of Federal Telegraph Company, founded in 1909 by Cyril F. Elwell. Here, Dr. Lee de Forest, inventor of the three-element radio vacuum tube, devised the first vacuum tube amplifier and oscillator in 1911-13. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age.
Location: In sidewalk, SE corner of Channing Ave and Emerson St, Palo Alto
That building is already long gone. Unless there's something remarkable about the building or you have a sympathetic property owner, I say let progress march on.
Although it sounds very grand when whole countries or states or cities make a lot of noise about switching to open source software, if you follow them to the conclusion it always seems to work out the same: they end up sticking with Microsoft. I suspect that Microsoft comes in a makes them a sweet deal (maybe they'll open the source code a little, maybe they'll drop the price) and in the end they stick with Microsoft. As more and more groups do this, I think it's just part of the negotiation.
"We've already established what you are, ma'am. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Key quote being "had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product". I don't know if this link will work for everyone, since it's a search result link, but doing a search on the nytimes.com main page for "enderle" turns up this as the first result.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=99
Editors' Note
Published: November 10, 2006
An article in Business Day on Tuesday described a decision by Microsoft to offer movies and episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live online service in the United States.
The article quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, discussing the features that set Xbox Live service apart and its position in the market.
But the article did not note that Mr. Enderle had Microsoft as a client, a fact later pointed out by a reader. Mr. Enderle does consulting work for several of Microsoft's product groups, though not for the one developing the Xbox; still, had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product.
I think the bigger part of this story is that TiVo wants to change their privacy policy to collect more demagraphic info about what you're doing. i.e. your clicks won't be so anonymous any more. From the NYTimes article about this:
For now, TiVo will not be able to tell advertisers anything about the demographics of the audience it measures. The privacy policy of the service allows it to gather data about viewing habits, but not any personal information. Mr. Juenger [TiVo VP of Audience Research] said TiVo hoped to find a way to change that by the end of the year.
The current TiVo Privacy Policy says repeatedly that all the data collected is anonymous. I guess that will have to change.
In the end it's all about money. TiVo needs to make more money. They're trying to do more with the watching data they already collect. And they want to collect more data to make it more valuable.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060121/fob7. asp
Fusion reactions take place in the vat because clusters of bubbles form and then violently collapse, explains nuclear engineer and team leader Rusi P. Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. A neutron or another energetic particle triggers a bubble to form in a low-pressure trough of the ultrasound waves, he says. Then, high pressure from the wave crushes the orb to an enormous density and temperature that fuse some atomic nuclei of the bubble's gas.
Not EPROM, DRAM. You're thinking of the September and October 1983 issues of Byte. Steve Ciarcia wrote about using a DRAM as cheap CCD substitute. I had a subscription at the time and I remember the article talking about popping the lid off of a DRAM. But a Google search (see below) says he was talking about a special DRAM from Micron with a clear window. I dunno, maybe popping the lid off the DRAM was from a different article. That was long ago. I couldn't find the actual article but the following gives a lot of the details:
http://members.tripod.com/RoBoJRR/techcorner.htm
If you believe the meter running on the above web page, it ran through 1000 songs in 112 seconds. At that rate they give out the 100,000 song prize every 3 hours 6 minutes 40 seconds. However that also means they're 61.425 days away from giving away the grand prize.
Didn't Katrina shut the university down? Did you transfer somewhere else? I would think there's something to be said for continuity. You should think about transfering.
Furthermore, the article says:
The university will focus its undergraduate, professional and doctoral programs and research in areas where it has attained, or has the potential to achieve, world-class excellence. It will suspend admission to those programs that do not meet these criteria.
i.e. if your program is one of the ones being cut then the university doesn't feel you were getting a very good education to begin with. Again, perhaps a transfer is the right answer.
Finally, I agree with the others about getting the degree then studying more. I delayed my degree by one year and got a masters and bachelors in the same year. Do any employers care? No. They just want to know how many years since your bachelors. That determines where you fall on the salary curve for the rest of your life. If you delay your degree by one year, you'll get paid slightly less every year.
Water vapour has always been the #1 greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide isn't even in the top 20. How you get to the conclusion that it must have started with a gas with a very weak effect is beyond me.
...the natural greenhouse effect - without which the world would be considerably colder - is largely down to atmospheric water vapour.
I'll concede that I was posting quickly. But I quote from TFA: "This is potentially a positive feedback mechanism which could increase the impact of greenhouse gases such as CO2."
It doesn't really matter which is the #1 greenhouse gas when the system is in equilibrium. What matters is what you add to the system to change the equilibrium. The point of the article is that adding weak greenhouse gases can get the temperature rising a bit which affects the equilibrium of water vapor which has a positive feedback effect.
Again from TFA:
Because human activities change its concentrations very little, it is generally not mentioned in discussions of modern-day greenhouse warming.
But climate scientists have been aware for decades that mechanisms involving water vapour could amplify temperature increases, and have attempted to model these effects in computer simulations.
From TFA:
Researchers sceptical about projections of human-induced climate change base their criticism partly on what they see as flawed simulations of water vapour and clouds.
Warming starts with CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Warmer climate means more evaporated water in the atmosphere. Guess what? Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas. So climate gets warmer. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
This isn't a story that undermines or changes the prevailing scientific view. This may allow some fine tuning of the models. Some skeptics had argued with the results of the models because they didn't believe the contribution of water vapor. This may force them to reevaluate their view. (Yeah right).
You're confusing exploits with vulnerabilities. There have been plenty of vulnerabilities or haven't you been following all the security updates?
List of security updates for Mac OS X
Take for example Security Update 2005-008
This update includes the following components:
ImageIO
LibSystem
Mail
QuickDraw
Ruby
SecurityAgent
securityd
Hmm. A security update that touches the ImageIO library?
p.s. before you flame/mod me into oblivion, I'm a happy Mac OS X user. Yes, Windows has way more bugs and a much worse security record. Is OS X invulnerable? No.
Visual Studio and Microsoft tools force you to adopt programming techniques designed around implementation speed, not understanding or quality.
p ment/
So VS makes implementation easier. Does that lead to sucky code? No. It just lowers the bar so that sucky coders can knock something out.
Here are some guys who compare a GUI design using VS to Mac OS X. Executive summary: VS does well in polish, although after some tool development on the Mac side it holds its own:
http://blog.phanfare.com/2005/10/mac-vs-pc-develo
They've said in the past that the next big step in search is searching databases that other people own. This would seem to be the interface to make that possible. i.e. rather than web crawling to attempt to harvest data, they have people push it to them. Sidesteps the copyright and robots.txt problem. If you want your data to be searchable then you push it to Google.
You can only hold an H1-B visa for 6 years (3 years plus 1 renewal). After that you either get a green card or go home. The "job titles" compared (e.g. Programmer/analyst) are sufficiently general that they seem to be comparing H1-B holders right out of school with little expereience, to more senior people. It makes sense that the less experienced people get paid less.
that it captures a post boot image into flash and will flush it out if you change something in the core os or hardware
I agree. That sounds like the most likely use. But I don't see why you'd worry about corruption. It needn't be any more susceptible to corruption than the memory image of a running system or the buffer cache. [Insert Windows jab here.] If it's under complete OS control then the OS knows when it needs to be flushed. Even in the face of a virus [insert another Windows jab here] flash memory is hard to write to so it's less likely to be corrupted than the image in memory.
I think you're right that this is the beginning of the end. The affiliates should be nervous and perhaps a little cranky since they were left of the negotiations. But in the short term the grandparent post is right: all the free press could do nothing but help the affiliates.
As of today, the TV (by which I mean broadcast, cable, satellite) plus TiVo (how can anyone live without TiVo?!) is a much nicer distribution system. But that's only because of the details. My family watches enough TV that it's cheaper for us to pay a flat rate DirecTV bill than to pay a la carte $1.99/show.
I spent $20 the first day it was available to download a few episodes just to try it out. My overall take: quality was not so hot: 320x240 resolution. An hour commercial free (~40 minutes) is about 200 MB for a bit rate of 660 kbps. DirecTV gives you about 1GB/hour or 2.2 Mbps. However when I played it back full screen on my laptop it wasn't terrible.
After a few years of polishing it could be a reasonable way to watch TV *IF* the prices drop or they offer volume/flat rate pricing, subscriptions w/ background download, etc. etc.