The Economist is headquartered in London and as the publication's name implies it commonly focusses on the economical impact of any story it reports. They also don't hide the fact that their editorial positions are rooted in classical liberal economics.
Thank you so much for these posts, fpgaminer. They've been extremely helpful to me in framing how these things could be used.
Once upon a time I thought seriously about going in to hardware design. I took a couple different courses in college (over 10 years ago now... sigh) dealing with VHDL and/or verilog and entirely loved it. If not for a chance encounter with web programming during my co-op my career would have been entirely different. With AWS offering this in the cloud if it is not prohibitively expensive I'll be looking in to toying with it and hopefully discovering uses for it in my work.
> If companies just gave me access to a DRM free .avi/.ogv download for a decent price, I would buy the damn movies.
A million times this. The music industry figured out how to sell DRM free music files years ago and ever since then I haven't pirated a single album. If the video entertainment industry would do the same, my torrenting days would be over.