I use Wells Fargo, Business Account. When I started the account I asked them to waive the account minimum fee and that's the only way they were going to get my business and they waived it. There have been times when I had a low account balance and they didn't charge me anything. When you are opening the account it pays to understands these charges and negotiate with them they usually listen.

Isn't it premature to call it a Standard? Apple may have pushed Intel to work on it but getting it adopted as a standard is gonna take time.

You are referring to the wrong definition of "standard". The article is referring to a "technical standard", not an "industry standard".

edit: unless you just mean that the approval process for the standard will take time.

That's what I meant. Unless it gets approved as a standard it's not going to be widespread.

Hmmm, when did that ever stop Apple before? 3.5" floppies and FireWire come to mind. :) At this point though, if Apple uses it, it is a standard. Touch screen smarphones come to mind! :)

I use Grooveshark and I agree that the autoplay is very naive compared to Pandora. A better autoplay algorithm will definitely help but it is hard give you feedback unless we know what you are trying to do with the new algorithm. Currently, correct me if am wrong, your algorithm for recommendation is heavily biased toward genre. It is really hard to discover new songs that I like with it and that's when I fall back to Pandora.

The original algorithm uses a mix of strategies to select songs. Its more or less hand picked. One thing that makes Grooveshark special is that it is all user-submitted content which is terrific from a selection and discovery point of view but an unwieldly problem from a data point of view. Note that our library stands somewhere around 6 million songs compared to Pandora's 600,000 so generating recs has to be done at great scale. The way in which users interact with our site is fundamentally different as well because you can add any mix of songs to your queue at any period in time.

I like how you and vaksel gave diametrically opposed suggestions...poor Chris.

Haha you'd be surprised by how many people love the current autoplay despite it's drawbacks. I have a feeling we're not hearing from the people who don't like it because they end up going to Pandora for better recs. I think it's a problem we can solve though. By our next product launch we'll have the logic in place to make both user groups happy.

heyprudhvi, seems like you are new here please read the guidelines. I had to flag this. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Actually they will be helping Microsoft run their Office Online App on IE6 which is not on the list of supported browsers but Safari is, which is webkit based. So they may end up giving an incentive for IE6 users not to upgrade but just install this plugin.

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Have you used them for business cards before? It looks like they have the same thing going that every other printer I've seen does - it's all glossy cards in full color print on crap stock.

I'd kind of prefer a place that specializes in business cards so that I don't feel like I'm carrying around a bunch of magazine inserts.

Actually I have used them for business cards. You don't have to get the glossy cards, we didn't. We didn't use any of their templates but created our own and the results were good. The only issue was shipping, it takes a while. Also they don't do weekend shipping.

You can sync your iPod, unless it is iPod touch or an iPhone, using Winamp (http://blog.winamp.com/2009/03/11/how-to-manage-music-in-ipo...)

With shipping calculation there is usually two options you can use FedEx or UPS provided standard size boxes or you can use your own boxes. The latter option is what you are looking at for your problem. The bare minimum information you need about the shipping item is weight. FedEx and UPS both return your rates if you give their API the weight and addresses.

As for calculating the number boxes you will need to do that based on how your warehouse is gonna ship these products. This is the hardest part. Most people usually maintain the dimensions of the actual product. Based on this and how you plan to ship them you will need to figure the number of boxes. The shipping rates that you have negotiated with UPS/FedEx is usually a little lower than what the user will see, so this more often than not should cover your extra costs that you may incur.

Although calculating the number of boxes and their dimension is a little involved it gives you more accuracy. Which is better for you and your customer.

There is no official support for Linux, you will need to use moonlight. Until 3.0 font rendering was a major issue, hence NYTimes switched Adobe Air. Creating a stand alone app is harder compared to Air wasn't even possible in Silverlight 2. It still doesn't have printing capabilities even in version 3.

The bright spot of using Silverlight is the programming language, you can code in C# or F#. But considering that you will need to host the solution on a Windows makes it a more expensive to scale. That probably drives away a lot of startups.

Vi on Unix and Visual Studio on Windows (with Vim bindings). Vi and Visual Studio have one thing in common that makes them great, the customization. Developers are very picky when it comes to the tools they want to use. We like it to work in a certain way. Every good developer I know has his own customizations that pretty much is unique to him or her.