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I was wondering why someone hadn't done this. It's a bit of dangerous press. If the car breaks down, or runs out of battery for some reason, that's not going to look good. Bit of a gamble.

Saw Github was down earlier. Now Bitbucket is down too.

Cloudinary does that. We used it for a bit but ultimately decided to roll our own. Their service worked great though. We've tried a bunch of options since hosting on Heroku makes large scale image processing a chore. Cloudinary was best of the bunch.

Is there something extra that makes this different than Cloudinary or Blitline?

The disc is just storage now. You put it in, install it to the xbox, and then it activates to your Live ID. Then the disc is useless and you can give it to anyone you want. When they install it, it's not activated to their account, so they have to buy it. Owning the disc doesn't mean you own the game, you're just buying the storage and an activation at retail. Though I'm not sure how that initial activation is going to work.. will be interested to find out.

They can probably make more with ads and the new fee to disable said ads.

Or that customers don't like grandiose updates anymore and expect a continuous stream of small innovations.

I was enjoying this viewpoint until all the f bombs. I'm just as guilty in day to day conversation but this opinion would be way stronger if it dropped the arbitrary tone. Just a thought. I hadn't thought of the marketplace effects of no fees. They're kinda stunting the growth.

Oh wow, never knew about that. That's very helpful thanks.

"2X dynos have 1024MB of RAM and double the CPU share."

Have you checked out Elastic Beanstalk yet? http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

Any thoughts on that. It offers a Heroku'esque deploy.

Then why isn't everyone doing it? And if it does become all about 'the money' then that's great, whatever gets large companies on-board with being as environmentally responsible as possible can only be a good thing..

The faster it becomes a no-brainer decision the better.

I understand that. We're in the same boat. We have to use PayPal because it's what our customers want. But it's up to the business / organizer to minimize the risk, same as it's PayPal's job to minimize theirs. Could split processing between merchants, attempt to get authorization for capturing at a later date, etc.

Great book by the way, just picked it up yesterday.

It's not a conference issue:

https://www.paypal-businesscenter.com/content/presale-policy...

How is this related to just conferences? PayPal doesn't have an anti-conference agenda.. There seems to be two things that set PayPal off.

1) Small volume to huge volume in a matter of days. 2) Taking payments for something happening in the future.

Story after story about both of these scenarios.

It seems obvious at this point that PayPal is not a good processor for things like pre-sales or events. It may be annoying but it's a liability for them and they do what they need to minimize it.

PayPal may be attractive because it's quick to setup but it seems easier for people to get in touch with a proper merchant account provider, discuss what you'll be selling ahead of time so they're prepared, and not get your funds frozen.

Update:

For anyone who is interested, here is PayPal's policy on pre-sales.

https://www.paypal-businesscenter.com/content/presale-policy...

So you're essentially saying that the people in the WFH program have given up because it's not inspiring work. And Mayer canning that program to cut the dead weight is bad because it gets rid of them?

She's trying to shift the culture over there and it's going to be hard to do that with a bunch of people outside the main HQ, especially when they aren't actually doing anything.

Another way to look at it might be that employees who work from home, who aren't exactly feeling inspired, feel re-energized being on the main campus again and get a new spark for doing great work. Lot's of spin, lot's of angles.

I'd give her a bit more time before raising the pitchforks.

It sounds as though they are keeping the routing but giving users more info about it so they can make better decisions when designing their apps for the platform.

They create emulators on the server side and stream the games to whatever architecture is running the client. It's one of the main reasons they purchased Gaikai.

Heroku is a bit of a black hole with this kind of stuff. They shrugged off the legitimate concerns of a 20k/month customer. I certainly appreciate them publicizing the issue and starting a conversation.

Someone from Heroku really needs to weigh in on this.

Sync used to be part of the paid plans. They've made it free now.

It's always a shame stories like this get so much attention. Lots of 'PayPal is evil' comments. A completely one sided 'I'm so innocent I didn't understand' perspective. All companies have issues once in awhile. I get that people are especially sensitive with PayPal because they deal with money and are huge. But come on. If you at all expect to be making more than even a few hundred dollars a month there's an onus on the 'victim' to read up on what they're doing and set things up in an appropriate manner. This situation sucks but it'd be nice if there was a balanced view on it and more helpful dialogue than 'Never use them! Go to court!'

I think the lesson learned in all of these cases is don't leave tons of money sitting in your PayPal account. Link it to a bank account, turn on auto-sweep, and don't amass a huge balance that ultimately seems rather suspicious (whether it is or not doesn't matter).

They don't seem to honor unsubscribe requests as the mails keep coming.

I find that rather annoying too. Every other click it seems to be asking me to login to my Google account. Kind of makes me wonder why they are so insistent.. Good way to get data for local ads?

You guys might want to change the verbiage, I thought it said per employee but you're right it says per employer. Still seems weird to say 25 per employer per month, especially when that seems to be the standard fee structure for most other services - http://wavepayroll.com/pricing/

Wave's solution sounded good, until the part where they mention for automated tax deposits it's an extra 25/user so it becomes the same prices as most other providers.

An index of movies, shows, apps, etc.. for download from Usenet servers. Similar to The Pirate Bay.

Unfortunately very few people will be comparing it against a MBA and other 'ultra'books as MS seems intent on positioning it as a tablet that you can do work on. And compared to other tablets in the market, it seems a bit absurd. They're going to have to do an amazing marketing job to separate the two products into their proper categories, but considering they look the same, and sport the same features I imagine they're not going to succeed.

The new version is a ground up rewrite..