zmonteca's comments

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: Designer/Writer Selling Everything She Owns

Lame.

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: Designer/Writer Selling Everything She Owns

Lame.

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: Cash-Strapped State Schools Being Forced to Privatize

Interesting. I'm not sure I see the benefit to the students? Won't this cause tuition costs to go even higher?

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which login method do you use?

We used a combination of Cake Auth

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How are GoDaddy SSL certificate's so cheap?

Yeah, we're in the market and it almost seems to good to be true.

Any experience with the EV certs?

IMHO, this seems like it might be a good way to add user confidence if you're going the route of a lessor market brand.

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: Get Hacker News on IM, Email, SMS or the web

Very nice. I could see this going both ways: horribly annoying and inundating (recall twitter updates via IM); an awesome way to stay on top of everything that flows these channels.

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut

In undergrad we had an intel prototype version of this (can't remember the exact name). It pretty much ruled because it was ~1998 and nothing even close to it existed (i.e. small and lightweight laptops). We couldn't figure out why a market didn't exist for the product either. Apparently after a fully functional prototype, Intel couldn't find a market for it either. Still puzzles to me.

Then big issues in the device then were lack of flash and lack of power. They claim those have been resolved. We shall see.

Will a device like this become ubiquitous? I can see it finding a home in the kitchen, next to the bed or on the coffee table. The key here is making it lightweight and not delicate. I'm thinking something more in between a TOUGHBOOK and a MacBook. Something you can drop in the kitchen and throw on the couch and have the kids play with. Perhaps, with a aim of $200 that doesn't even matter.

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops

In terms of merchants, who can you say has been the best and easiest to do deal with?

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops

That's great to know!

zmonteca | 17 years ago | on: New Google Chrome Beta

Totally worthless. Out of beta and no Mac? C'mon guys!