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How I learned to stop worrying and love REST - Mike Mayo

by karlcow

By following the REST style, I would have saved myself either A) having to alter my iOS code and resubmit to the store, or B) time spent researching alternate caching methods and implementing them in Rails. As it stands, my partially-RESTful API is going to cost me (and possibly the client) more time before we can call the project finished.

December 2011

Adaptive Images in HTML

by sbrothier & 4 others
Adaptive Images detects your visitor's screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page's embeded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed. It is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques. Why? Because your site is being increasingly viewed on smaller, slower, low bandwidth devices. On those devices your desktop-centric images load slowly, cause UI lag, and cost you and your visitors un-necessary bandwidth and money. Adaptive Images fixes that.

Cambodia Tuk-Tuk Drivers Hit a Bump | News | Khmer-English

by karlcow

While demand is sinking, costs for tuk-tuk drivers continue. Sambath has recently invested in a new tuk-tuk and motor, that cost him close to $2,000. Drivers are also required to pay the government $5 annually to renew their operating licences.According to Sambath, living expenses in Siem Reap have risen, especially in the areas of housing and food, making it more difficult for the working class to make ends meet. He said more than a third of drivers' salaries go to room rentals, as most of them come from villages in search of better job opportunities in Siem Reap.

November 2011

ATA Airlines

by manue
Vols low cost États-Unis

About us | Raspberry Pi

by karlcow

We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.

October 2011

September 2011

Nanode - Network Application Node

by karlcow

Nanode is an open source Arduino-like board that has in-built web connectivity. It is a low cost platform for creative development of web connected ideas.

RMPrepUSB

by cascamorto (via)
Partition and format your USB drive and make it bootable with RMPrepUSB (a Windows utility) RMPrepUSB and RMPartUSB are freeware utilities for private use only - no registration is required, and all versions are unlimited versions and do not contain any adware or viruses. Please do not distribute these utilities without the authors permission as these utilities are not 'copyright free', 'free software', 'Open Source' or 'Open Licence' products, but are products which are made available for private use at zero cost. Commercial use (i.e. selling it or included it in another product) and distribution is forbidden and you need to contact RM for licensing costs if you wish to include or re-distribute it as part of a commercial solution. Email: support@rm.com for licence enquiries. Please note: No licence is required for the internal use of RMPrepUSB by technicians/engineers within a company. Portable: RMPrepUSB is portable and does not need to be installed, but it does write some settings to the Registry when you exit the application. These settings are removed from the Registry when you uninstall RMPrepUSB.

July 2011

The right price for digital music. - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine

by karlcow

Here's how it would work: Songs would be priced strictly on demand. The more people who download the latest Eminem single, the higher the price will go. The same is true in reverse—the fewer people who buy a song, the lower the price goes. Music prices would oscillate like stocks on Nasdaq, with the current cost pegged to up-to-the-second changes in the number of downloads. In essence, this is a pure free-market solution—the market alone would determine price.

C'est un peu le système de pinboard mais sans la décente.

USB based GPIB controller

by JJL (via)
# Low-cost GPIB controller # Controls up to 14 instruments # USB Plug-and-Play # LabVIEW drivers

June 2011

May 2011

Outsourcing Statistics 2011

by personmark
Running an internet business alone is neither simple nor practical. Sooner or later there will have to be some help needed from experts who can be hired on a regular basis or from internet outsourcing companies which main focus is to give out help for others at a fraction of the usual cost. The need to outsource the different tasks are usually spearheaded by the need to have more time to do other things that need more attention, the need for someone better equipped to handle things like writing, web design, programming and maintenance, and even marketing promotions. Outsourcing the tasks to those who have more experience in these fields may not be painless, but it is definitely more practical. The first thing to do is to really find out what are those tasks that need to be accomplished in the least amount of time possible without costing too much stress on the wallet. Truthfully, some of these outsourcing companies may be expensive, but then, hiring a regular employee with half the skills will cost more because of the duties the employer has to give in exchange. Of course there are pros and cons to everything, especially in outsourcing. There are simply too many complaints written about the services these providers give and yet there are even more written articles on benefits that hiring companies have experienced. Some simply won’t even consider thinking of other options than outsourcing for they find that the benefits definitely outweigh the negative feedbacks. For one thing, outsourcing companies will only assign those who are trained to do specific tasks and usually never over rate themselves. This eliminates the time wasted on having to spend for the training of a new employee to get used to the system and having to spend on equipment to make the whole system work. Outsourcing companies are already fully equipped with the hardware, software and the gray matter. When it comes to highly skilled tasks like accounting, web design, programming and others, these outsourcing companies already have within their coffers their own staff with the necessary skills and they simply assign them over. The getting-to-know stage is limited to a few days up to a week, definitely a shorter amount of time than when hiring someone in office. Hiring and assigning of tasks are also done with ease and as the outsourcing companies rely on their volume and exchange of work, they are most likely never late in submitting their finished work. Eventually, the contractual work is easier on everyone in both accomplishing tasks and cost effectiveness. Working with these offshore companies means that one has to always contend with language, cultural, time schedule and other barriers. It is always best to make arrangements for the time to make communication and submission of accomplished tasks. Because these outsourcing companies are based in countries that depend on the monetary exchange rates, they are also most likely to offer up the least amount of rates. These rates are the considerations that have to be examined, if the rates are lower compared to other companies, they are most likely not the good companies that most are relying on. There are a lot of fly-by-night companies that are overrated and only hire under-skilled personnel.

C3 - The World in 3D

by gregg
C3 Technologies’ unique blend of seamless 3D content from a bird’s eye view to the street creates a truly immersive experience for both consumer and commercial applications. Whether performing a local search online, researching real estate, planning a visit to a popular tourist destination, photorealistic 3D will reduce the cost for planning projects and add to the end user satisfaction when browsing C3’s world of 3D.

iOS Apps: PocketMoney LITE – Checkbook

by alamat & 1 other (via)
PocketMoney gives you the most features, at the least cost, in an effective user interface. Find out why AppAdvice.com says: “The app is easy to use that in fact, it is fast-becoming my most-used app on my iPad.”

April 2011

Helvetimail - josef richter

by sbrothier
Maintaining Helvetimail is not easy, because Google's CSS is a mess and keeps changing. It demands more time than I am able to regularly devote. I've never meant to make Helvetimal a paid upgrade. But now I would like to kindly ask you for even a tiny donation, so that I can spend a few more hours/days on Helvetimal, fix what's still unfixed, maybe prepare an iPad version, etc. Please note this is not to make me rich, but just to cover at least a part of the time cost needed to maintain Helvetimal. The economic downturn makes me do more work for less money, so spare time for hobbies like Helvetimail is scarce. Thank you very much!

Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors : NPR

by karlcow

One of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA, which installed them in the space Shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.

the need for a product vs the cost of its production

March 2011

DNS Prefetching Implications - Pinkbike.com

by karlcow & 1 other

DNS prefetching I thought it was a great idea and assumed it was an optimization that had absolutely no negative issues. I did not fully understand the mechanics and impact that it may cause on an organization. If 350 million queries cost $1600/month, then saving a few billion queries per month starts to be something to consider carefully.

Make: Online | Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?

by karlcow

Hackerspaces usually revolve around everyone paying the rent (part of the membership, the largest cost of a space) and shared costs. It’s not really possible to estimate the average cost to get one started, but it’s usually whatever the rent is for a year in your local area for a pretty good-sized location.

Library as places for hacking litterature?

February 2011

LAUNCH Conference - Blog - LAUNCH002: What I Learned from Zuckerberg's Mistakes

by karlcow

Then it really hit me: Developer-driven startups always produce product faster.This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook!

The cost of social glue. Accepting mistakes will happen and take care of them when they happen or avoiding as much as possible the mistakes by a requirement document in advance.

NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device

by karlcow

NoteSlate is low cost tablet device with true one colour display, real paper look design, long life battery (180h !), together with very handy usage and very simple and helpful interface for pen and paper.

Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent

by karlcow

The purpose of this project is to show how the entire 172 public facing

websites that are earmarked for deletion have been copied, archived,

distributed and republished online - independently - for the price of a

cup of Starbucks coffee (around $3.99).

The cost is not in the technical infrastructure but in the social infrastructure management

January 2011

NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device

by Spone & 2 others
NoteSlate is low cost tablet device with true one colour display, real paper look design, long life battery (180h !), together with very handy usage and very simple and helpful interface for pen and paper. This easy, compact and portable gadget is used anywhere you want to make any notes, drafts, sketches, any ideas for future reference. Paper for everyone! Write a note and check it later, save it, or delete it. Maybe send it after. Just one colour is enough to express the basics. Keep your life simple. You will love it. For $99.

The Hidden Cost of Free: Problems with the Personal Data Economy | Blog | design mind

by François Hodierne

But, of course, many of these services are not free at all. Users pay for them with their personal data, whether they know it or not. And at some point in time, the bill will come due. But, like Jeff’s truffles debacle, what remains unknown is the price.

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