I got a CubieBoard from CubieBoard.org specifically because it came with more RAM and had a faster CPU. So seems RPi is responding well and trying to grow their market.
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However, if they lose money, then the book value will drop some more. Only if the company failed utterly and then returned the money to the shareholders (not likely) would it be "safe" to focus on book value.
The fear of autism shows people are in fact paying attention; whether vaccines "cause it" of course is really the question...
I don't know how many servers they would have needed in 2007 to provide the services they sold, but surely now they could consolidate all those users onto 1/4 the machines?
What is this negative press costing them?
E.g. Lavon Affair (Israeli attempts to plant bombs and blame them on Muslim Brotherhood), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#As_pretexts_for_war and so forth.
Reliability is the greatest feature you can offer, as a downed service can't be used by anyone.
EDIT: I will expand on this a bit.
First, the real question you need to know, is, who owns the building your servers will be in? Lots of people claiming to have datacenters are actually renting from someone else, or even sub-leasing from somewhere else, putting you 2 places away from the owner. As much as possible, get into a situation where your monthly payments go directly to the true datacenter owner.
Second, what about the network? Rather than engage in a lot of hand-waving, just find out who they are directly connected to.
Third, do they have both UPS and diesel genset backup for your power? If you are able to physically visit the place, have them show you the physical stuff.
Ignore the "Tier" datacenter and "SAS70" crap, Tier X != reliability and SAS70 is a load of BS (CPAs trying to soak up some consulting dollars - yes, an SAS70 report can only be prepared by a CPA firm...)
The key take-away is: no one at Citi went to jail for fraud.
What you may be talking about is the use (I call it property tax) tax that some states wish to levy on property that comes into the state and remains in the state. I agree, there would be no difference between items regardless of their origin in such a case.
Sure, you can buy it in little pieces, and sure, it is managed, but really!
As well, it wouldn't matter, because the price differences on most items would still be a lot more than the sales tax. No one would go online if the only difference was 6% or 8% sales tax. We are talking 20-30% differences in some cases.
Reasons:
-- I usually need them ASAP, -- figure they have not been drop-kicked to my door, and
-- I was told by a friend of mine that BB pays extra to have better quality drives (all drive manufacturers use statistical methods to determine the quality of a batch - the highest quality is sold for more). He is in a position to know, as he has worked for several large drive makers at a top level job(though not as high as VP level).
AWS would have found this, and been able to fix it in a timely fashion, if they did the same (the genset lasted for 10 minutes under load before failing).
FDR (via his maternal grandfather Warren Delano).
There are others who also became President, (starts with a B) who are alleged to have been heavily involved while in a secretive government position.