Author: Stephen Pickering
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Cosmic Consciousness Vol. II
“The thing that you do finds you more than you find it.” — Conan O’Brien — 30:00 “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman, taken from Max Tegmark’s,…
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Cloud Sites Combined With Cloud Database
I just saw this tweet: Rackspace Cloud Database+Rackspace Cloud Sites=Super Fast and Reliable Solution :)Robert Scoble — LutfarRahman Nirjhar (@nirjhar) March 18, 2013 I’m not sure what it means. Cloud Sites themselves come with their own database, so what’s different about a Cloud Site with a Cloud Database? And if you combine those two, what’s…
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How Much RAM do Rackspace Cloud Sites Have?
As I’ll no longer be able to run RackspaceReseller.com, (that was a dumb name anyway! I had just merely thought of it on a whim a couple years ago) because it uses the Rackspace trademarked name, I’ll be consolidating all my blogging on the subject here, which, you know, for my personality, may be a…
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New Poem: A Natural
“A Natural” I won’t say the things that I have to say, the feelings furrow all alone in the autumn mist, until you finally get up and walk away, and the chills that have eyes blow us their last, snowy, purpley kiss. I cascade over the heights of your frozen, mountaintop world. I skate upon…
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Why Netflix Inc (NFLX) Won’t Raise Prices and What Their Real Endgame Is.
I don’t think Netflix is interested in raising their subscription price or tiered pricing. I think they look at the subscription like Magazines and Newspapers in the pre-digital days looked at subscriptions: a validation of intent and also to show the content creators the legitimacy of their audience. I think Netflix’s endgame is to become…
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Why Netflix Will Become THE Global Distribution Channel for Filmed Art & Entertainment.
(Editor’s note: I wrote this piece originally in response to this article from TheStreet.com: Amazon vs. Netflix: Jeff Bezos Could Squash Reed Hastings Like a Bug) A) I’ve been an HBO subscriber since the 80’s, watched almost everything on it, and “House of Cards” is totally as good as anything that has ever been on…