$75M over two years is compensation of 75 engineers in the SV
(not even taking into account opportunity cost - this 75 folks could innovate and bring more revenue)
Some businesses are not about innovation, some businesses are about margins. Personal cloud storage is that business - people shop around and buy on cost.
I use OneDrive because it's free with Ms Office, which I need anyway, and their 'family plan' pricing is great. I decide cloud storage for like 5 accounts, backups of family photos, etc.
That is in spite of the fact that dropbox is miles better, and has extra features - they dont move the needle.
Or maybe the workload of using their own infrastructure was lower, and scales well, that the savings could go towards having 75 extra people who could innovate instead of not having them.
I had QC25, $300, needs fucking piece of paper to be put into ear cup to work. Bose is a rip off. Just look into this vid - 40000 views of how and where to put piece of paper into your $300 headphones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYva0hOW0Q
The description says that he slept while wearing the headphones so I suppose damage should not be that surprising. Since when 40k YouTube videos became the gold standard for anything?
I was one of the group which said Bose are overpriced but my work has open office layout and it gets really loud. Manager agreed to expense the noise canceling headphone and I must say QC25 are great noise canceling/dampening and VERY comfortable and light. Earlier I could not keep headphones on for longer hours but I have no issues with QC. Also they work great on the planes.
I own the QC25's and I can say they work just fine without me having to install a piece of paper in the cup.
The video you linked to is a repair video, but your comment implies that a new set taken off the shelf don't work unless you install paper, two different things entirely.
I haven't yet had an issue with the QC25s except that they do seem to cause noise fatigue a lot quicker than non-noise cancelling headphones. I cannot explain that; just my experience. But the noise cancelling is very good.
Never had the headphones, but somebody gave me a pair of desktop speakers and I've been very disappointed. They sounds "as if" they are awesome, that is pack a lot of bass into a little box, but the sound comes out over-bassed and muffled. I play a lot of roots-reggae and I can hear the bass real well, but everything else is very hard to make out. So what Bose seems to be good at is marketing and tricking the customer into saying "wooow".
Are there any _noise cancelling_ headphones that also sound well? I have no idea, but it seems that it is fundamentally incompatible.
I have Superlux hd668b - I think they were like $40 USD, and they sound definitely better than QC25. But... they are not noise cancelling, they look derp and press on my ears. Actually majority of quality headphones appear to have awful designs with curled cables and thick bands that makes people look at you.
The noise canceling is amazing, but Bose's quality control could use some improvement: I've had my QC25's replaced twice over the last year, both times due to the same issue: folding them up for storage strains the cable going between the speakers, and at some point it breaks. Two out of three people I know with the same headphones have had exactly the same issue.
This total BS. Joint graves and monuments to young soldiers killed in Afghanistan in almost every city is a good reminder about how "effective" USSR was at international politics.
"It was regular war zone with dozens other planes shoot down"
with dozens of Ukrainian planes shoot down. (who shot them? where did they got weapons for that? where did they got skills for that?)
"Ukraine army shoot down civil airliner with 90 people on board just a few years ago" How many planes (korean planes to be specific) were shot down by USSR (that includes Russia)
I meant difference not about the fact that somebody shot the plane, but the difference in reaction.
Why Russia blocked tribunal? What about all that clowning around investigation, throwing a new weird version about accident (what about the version that goes about frozen bodies or version about shooting down the plane by Ukrainian Su-25 that can't reach that altitude? All of this went through Russian state TV channels and other state people (Investigation Committee etc.)
In fact connection in Ukraine is much better than even in US. I have 60 mbs at home and pay 15$/month without any traffic limit (no throttling too). For $20 you can get 100mbs. In most major cities you have an access to several providers so you can choose what works better for you. The ping to SF is 200ms. Upload download speed to SF is 4mbs/6mbs. Upload is faster.
In the city where I live (Donetsk) public areas are covered with free wifi service.
Read the article's disclaimer:) I think even if you'll have all possible things setup super-correctly and you'll put word `viagra` into the Subject field - nothing will help you.
Would be interesting to get a perspective from whoever manages email for Pfizer corporate. How many spam filters out there must they have to battle against to get their legitimate email about Viagara through?
I haven't worked with external emails providers. For now we are sending around 100-150k emails/day and we are using postfix as MTA.
Regarding server side rejects - again reading postfix logs can save you from such things. As an example recently we started seeing that we can't deliver a lot of emails to orange.fr, and the worst - if send just one email it always was accepted but when we sent bulk newsletter we had a lot of rejections - the reason was quite simple we've got rejected because of high frequency so we just had to throttle postfix on per domain basis.
I think I might have to set up postfix and do some experimenting. One of the strangest things I've seen is that some domains are rejecting emails with links to our site in them, but will accept them if the links are removed (plain text or HTML).
I swear, someone could make a good living handling this for companies looking to handle transactional email internally.
So either it's not $75m or it was a bad idea.