Ok, yes if you save it in the cloud then you data will at some point will be save on some sort of storage medium, most likely a magnetic hard drive(s).
However for normal consumer usage. 1tb is more then enough, and it has been that way for a long time, because most of the data that we consume is on the cloud and in general while it is on the cloud the data is more optimized. For example, if you are to backup all your applications, on the cloud normally there would be one copy for thousands of users, and redundant data would be better optimized, such as with a differential data backup vs what we did in the past is a full backup even if you didn't change anything in years.
This is part of the reason why Cloud services can give you these big storage amounts for much less then you can get your own drive. The companies putting money in magnetic storage, I hope they are not targeting the consumer market for those. Because I think the heyday of selling big drives to everyone is over, especially when people get a new system with a fast NVME drive. Because having a fast snappy PC is much more important for many people then just having gigs of data available but not touched.
There needs to be a point where the screen resolution is high enough where any improvement wouldn't add to the experience. Where then we could use the ever increasing bandwidth for more useful data, vs sending pixels that we will not see.
And today's and yesterday's (Pick any reasonably complex software) is a hellstew of bugs and bad design.
As a consumer you need to find the product that sucks less for what you will be doing the most of. But when you design software and its scope of use will expand, the more doors are open where you need to either break architecture causing bugs, or try to use the existing architecture in different ways causing a bad design.
We can all look at a completed product find its problems and come up with a solution that may have made it better, but often such solution would probably put a damper on the other guys change they would want to see.
Computers are not smart, but they are relentless. an 8 year old can add numbers together, but a computer can add numbers together for days on end, much faster then a person can, because it doesn't get board, or care about its existence, you can take the CPU fan off the CPU, and it will add numbers until it is burned out.
Today's AI systems are just big probability and correlation calculators, where the Math to do this has been around for centuries, just that with large data sets it become exponentially more complex to process. Today's computers following Moors law have grown to a point where it can handle big enough data sets over a long period of time, where it can find patterns and correlations that most humans will just get tired of doing.
The human brain is actually really good at correlations that is why when we see an Apple, we know it is an Apple, even if it is a different color, at a different location, shaped slightly differently, or even at a different orientation. However we are good at processing a 3d world, but giving big sets of 2d Data. not so much, so the computer can handle it better.
Now for Mining, our Correlation brain with experience, can give an experience minor a gut feeling on where to dig, he will be able to figure this out much faster then today's fastest computers.
I worked for a company that bought out an other company including all its IP. The owner of the bought out company quit (because he didn't realize when you get bought out, you are no longer in command of such company). Being fed up he used his money he got from the purchase to start his own company. Then he used the software he wrote for the previous company which we now own. We sued him, we won.
Now if he had written a new program then he would be OK. But the software that we bought the rights too. Thus he went bankrupt, and we got all our money back that was the cost of the company to be purchased.
Just because you made it, doesn't make it yours. If you sell it, or get paid to build it for someone else, it belongs to them not you, they paid you for it, so it is no longer yours.
What is yours though, is the experience gained in making it, so you will be on good footing to make something new, possibly better.
While Android was in development before iOS. When Apple released the iPhone, Google had to go back and completely rejigger its OS to meet demand of the Gesture based OS.
Before the iPhone, Gesture were a Gimmick, and often they were way to hard for people to remember, so they resorted to pressing buttons. Android OS was meant to go against Blackberry with devices with full keyboards and physical pointing devices. Apple when they released the iPhone actually put the smart phone market on a 2 year gap where they had to rethink and rebuild everything.
History has often shown us in terms of products, the best product is rarely the one that wins the standard. But the one that is more accessible.
Back in the 1980s for Desktop PC you probably couldn't beat an Amiga in terms of technology and price. However the IBM PC Compatible desktop won, because with a hacked BIOS it was easy to make a fully compatible system, and sell many units all PC Compatible, with a larger selection software titles, from teams of developers who used these PC from work, and wrote software on them after hours.
For a lot of people music is a background thing. Today Internet WiFi signals are stronger then most Radio Signals especially inside a building, plus they will already have a YouTube compatible device on them most of the time.
It is just more convenient especially if you are not expecting a lot.
About every 40-50 years worries about machines will take our jobs. Unlike the last half century ago they are so much more advanced and this time they will be able to do it.
What seems to happen isn't that they take jobs, but change them.
The Amazon store with no cashier. For most retail stores that I have seen there are rarely just Cashier only jobs. They will be doing stocking, cleaning, customer help. So while each Amazon store would need less employees, with the increased profit margin the store can open more locations and in general higher more employees.
Back before small businesses had computers. There was often at least one person who was in charge of paychecks. Where over the week they would calculate the number of hours they have worked. Now this is nearly automatic, however the company now has 2 people in the back office now, where they are now able to deal with Human Resource issues. Because the company freed up a labor intensive job, the person could be put into doing work towards company growth, and company growth will often reach a point where more jobs are brought in.
For most people how many of them really care for the physical media. As a kid of the 1990's. Most people had a CD Library. But a lot of them basically tossed away their jewel cases. and Put their CD's in a binder. There was a disconnect between the normal people who wanted the music, and people who wanted the album, with the art and physical media. The record industry was really targeted towards the people who wanted the album, so the majority of the people were paying extra for some plastic, and paper that they would toss away.
Still today the Record company doesn't really realize that some people may only want the music, and their value add has not value to them. Streaming is a cheap and easy way to go, even with all its flaws. Some people like music, but they don't love all aspects of it.
That is what they said 22 years ago. When the likes of Oracle, and IBM started to put their support behind Linux. Linux's popularity is strongly related to the big companies who are standing behind it and supporting it. Today it is nearly impossible to try to go at it alone. Think of BeOS and NeXT. It is a two way partnership where the popularity (and general name recognition) of the big businesses supports the OS, while the big business gets a team of developers who are willing to give them support for low cost, the OS also gets a team of developers from these companies willing to do a lot of support work, while the big companies get their priorities, prioritized.
It would smell like soil. Other then a few microorganisms most life is build on the death of other. Even plants needs soil to grow in that is from decayed plant and animal matter. Some plants such as the Venus fly trap need to catch insects because they don't have enough nutrients in its natural soil.
Part of the problem is that there are so many forces that will disadvantage a company for doing the right thing. A company doesn't grow with having a big Money Bin, that is just sitting there. The most successful company tries to put every dollar gain back into the system to grow the company and expand further. Unfortunately the progressive tax structure slows growth of a company, by in essence taking money it could be reinvesting it and forcing it to be liquid, for a period of time so it can be paid in taxes. So even before you pay the taxes there is expense on having the money ready to be paid.
So if a company was to be a good citizen it would be a competitive disadvantage to one who bends the rules.
The biggest problem isn't the tax percentage, but the fact there are holes built into the system to give the bigger company ways around it.
Unlike other forms of security. Biometrics requires a targeted attack, vs a generalized attack. So overall you are probably more protected because you are really not that special enough to require someone to go into extra means to copy your bio-metrics for you to hack in.
I have an iPhone with Apples face reader. Compared to the fingerprint reader is is six on one side and half a dozen on the other. It is annoying that I need to be looking directly at the phone for it to respond. However the fingerprint reader likes to fail when my hands are sweaty at the gym, or the button has gotten dirty.
There are many things that are perfectly safe which when we find out what is happening sounds dangerous. There are also a lot of things that we think are as safe is actually quite dangerous.
The most risky thing I tend to do every day is my daily commute. Over the past 10 years with this particular commute, I have gotten into one accident which no one was hurt except for my car and my bank wallet. (a Prius will take more damage then a Hummer does on impact) However every day, I put myself in a ton of metal, powered by electricity and controlled explosions of gasoline. hurtling myself at speed of about 65 miles per hour. With other people doing the same thing as well. But I do this daily.
It isn't so much about the device, it is about the Software service infrastructure behind it. Companies are not doing the IBM Mistake which allowed Microsoft to Dominate the PC Market. They are being careful who they license too and have stricter guidelines on who and what can use their software and their section of the cloud.
Back in the late 1980's I could be a White Box PC maker and compete against the likes of Gateway and Dell. I would just need to get all the Case, Power supply, motherboard, CPU, Graphics board, IO Controller Board, Drives... And slap in a $60 MS DOS Install. I would be able to put them all together. Add 20% to my expenses and still be competitive in price with the big boys.
Today. I can make the device. However I will need to negotiate with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple to see If I can access their cloud to use the service. Being that I want to make money off making a product competing against their own, it will not be cheap, and I wouldn't be able to make profit off of it.
Sorry I was trying to illustrate two points. 1. Poor leadership is the cause of the problem, not tax rates. 2. States are actually more diverse then what Cable News lets on.
The topic was stating that it was because of the Democrats and High Taxes was the cause. However those are not the major factor.
I think for a lot of people wouldn't have a problem, if you used your credit card. The GIMP sucks. But Photoshop is too expensive for average Joe - non professional Image manipulator, who may need a bit more features then Paint.net but will not be using day to day. Paying 50+ dollars per month for a program that you may use once every few weeks just isn't worth it.
Back in them old days of the early 2000's I was able to get legit copy of Photoshop from a third party for about $300 then every 4 years or so I bought the upgrade for a few hundred dollars. The reason why I got the upgrade wasn't for the actual new features, but because it now supported the newer hardware better. Updated OS, 64bit. In general architectural changes that allowed me to process bigger pictures faster.
These Eastern Cities that have these Mass Transit systems, are actually still thriving vibrant cities. It is more of an issue of poor leadership where everyone put off doing maintenance and putting a smaller amount of money into fixes and upgrades, and just put it off for the next administration, until it reaches a point it is impossible to fix.
The supposedly Blue states, like NY have had a GOP controlled leadership up the board. Normally you will only get consistently blue votes for US Senate and Presidential Votes, but when it is broken down to districts, there is much more GOP control. and the GOP doesn't want to spend money on anything. Thinking that if they don't spend the money they won't gain more expenses. Which only lasts for a short period of time.
The high taxes in these blue states, is due to them having a number of highly consecrated population centers, which needs more government services to keep the people safe and prosperous.
I havn't really found an email client for PC that I really like. Oddly enough email from my Phone is much easier then via the PC most of the time. Takes less time to load up and emails render correctly, and send out. Currently I will actually opt for the Web Interface over the actual application.
I use wireless charging mostly doe to the fact that I don’t damage my cable and connector. Over the past 22 years of cell phones. The first one I replaced because of a cracked screen. The second one was because the charging connector on the phone got corroded. The third one the charging cord broke and couldn’t get a compatible charging cord anymore. The forth one went threw the wash The fifth one (the original iphone) actually still works but just outdated. The sixth one charging connector was loose and failing home button The seventh one the battery failed to keep its charge. And I am on my eighth phone now.
The cable charging is the weak spot on the phone for almost all make and models.
Sometimes technology flops, then after time it becomes something really useful.
How many people got Windows CE Smart Phones back in the early 2000's or Palm Pilots. But they never really caught on. However after time, some hardware improvements new approach to software, and sometime a developer willing to give that feature a bit more effort then just a Gee Wiz take a look at that in CES effect.
Is it that they don't want to go into the fields, or society tells them they shouldn't go into that field.
Back in college we had a small number of Women Computer Science Students. And they mentioned that their other women peers would actually put them down for choosing such a major.
They were just as good as any of the other students, but the biggest problem is society told them what they should be doing.
Also as of note, I work with a lot of older Computer Scientists, many of them over the age 55 seem to a larger percentage of woman. As computer science use to be considered Womans work back a few generations ago.
The problem is there are getting too many competitors in the middle class market. Where it use to be just Samsung, we have Google, Ericson, LG... All jumping into that market too.
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Ok, yes if you save it in the cloud then you data will at some point will be save on some sort of storage medium, most likely a magnetic hard drive(s).
However for normal consumer usage. 1tb is more then enough, and it has been that way for a long time, because most of the data that we consume is on the cloud and in general while it is on the cloud the data is more optimized. For example, if you are to backup all your applications, on the cloud normally there would be one copy for thousands of users, and redundant data would be better optimized, such as with a differential data backup vs what we did in the past is a full backup even if you didn't change anything in years.
This is part of the reason why Cloud services can give you these big storage amounts for much less then you can get your own drive.
The companies putting money in magnetic storage, I hope they are not targeting the consumer market for those. Because I think the heyday of selling big drives to everyone is over, especially when people get a new system with a fast NVME drive. Because having a fast snappy PC is much more important for many people then just having gigs of data available but not touched.
There needs to be a point where the screen resolution is high enough where any improvement wouldn't add to the experience. Where then we could use the ever increasing bandwidth for more useful data, vs sending pixels that we will not see.
And today's and yesterday's (Pick any reasonably complex software) is a hellstew of bugs and bad design.
As a consumer you need to find the product that sucks less for what you will be doing the most of.
But when you design software and its scope of use will expand, the more doors are open where you need to either break architecture causing bugs, or try to use the existing architecture in different ways causing a bad design.
We can all look at a completed product find its problems and come up with a solution that may have made it better, but often such solution would probably put a damper on the other guys change they would want to see.
Computers are not smart, but they are relentless. an 8 year old can add numbers together, but a computer can add numbers together for days on end, much faster then a person can, because it doesn't get board, or care about its existence, you can take the CPU fan off the CPU, and it will add numbers until it is burned out.
Today's AI systems are just big probability and correlation calculators, where the Math to do this has been around for centuries, just that with large data sets it become exponentially more complex to process. Today's computers following Moors law have grown to a point where it can handle big enough data sets over a long period of time, where it can find patterns and correlations that most humans will just get tired of doing.
The human brain is actually really good at correlations that is why when we see an Apple, we know it is an Apple, even if it is a different color, at a different location, shaped slightly differently, or even at a different orientation. However we are good at processing a 3d world, but giving big sets of 2d Data. not so much, so the computer can handle it better.
Now for Mining, our Correlation brain with experience, can give an experience minor a gut feeling on where to dig, he will be able to figure this out much faster then today's fastest computers.
I worked for a company that bought out an other company including all its IP. The owner of the bought out company quit (because he didn't realize when you get bought out, you are no longer in command of such company). Being fed up he used his money he got from the purchase to start his own company. Then he used the software he wrote for the previous company which we now own. We sued him, we won.
Now if he had written a new program then he would be OK. But the software that we bought the rights too. Thus he went bankrupt, and we got all our money back that was the cost of the company to be purchased.
Just because you made it, doesn't make it yours. If you sell it, or get paid to build it for someone else, it belongs to them not you, they paid you for it, so it is no longer yours.
What is yours though, is the experience gained in making it, so you will be on good footing to make something new, possibly better.
While Android was in development before iOS. When Apple released the iPhone, Google had to go back and completely rejigger its OS to meet demand of the Gesture based OS.
Before the iPhone, Gesture were a Gimmick, and often they were way to hard for people to remember, so they resorted to pressing buttons. Android OS was meant to go against Blackberry with devices with full keyboards and physical pointing devices. Apple when they released the iPhone actually put the smart phone market on a 2 year gap where they had to rethink and rebuild everything.
History has often shown us in terms of products, the best product is rarely the one that wins the standard. But the one that is more accessible.
Back in the 1980s for Desktop PC you probably couldn't beat an Amiga in terms of technology and price. However the IBM PC Compatible desktop won, because with a hacked BIOS it was easy to make a fully compatible system, and sell many units all PC Compatible, with a larger selection software titles, from teams of developers who used these PC from work, and wrote software on them after hours.
For a lot of people music is a background thing. Today Internet WiFi signals are stronger then most Radio Signals especially inside a building, plus they will already have a YouTube compatible device on them most of the time.
It is just more convenient especially if you are not expecting a lot.
About every 40-50 years worries about machines will take our jobs. Unlike the last half century ago they are so much more advanced and this time they will be able to do it.
What seems to happen isn't that they take jobs, but change them.
The Amazon store with no cashier. For most retail stores that I have seen there are rarely just Cashier only jobs. They will be doing stocking, cleaning, customer help. So while each Amazon store would need less employees, with the increased profit margin the store can open more locations and in general higher more employees.
Back before small businesses had computers. There was often at least one person who was in charge of paychecks. Where over the week they would calculate the number of hours they have worked. Now this is nearly automatic, however the company now has 2 people in the back office now, where they are now able to deal with Human Resource issues. Because the company freed up a labor intensive job, the person could be put into doing work towards company growth, and company growth will often reach a point where more jobs are brought in.
For most people how many of them really care for the physical media.
As a kid of the 1990's. Most people had a CD Library. But a lot of them basically tossed away their jewel cases. and Put their CD's in a binder.
There was a disconnect between the normal people who wanted the music, and people who wanted the album, with the art and physical media.
The record industry was really targeted towards the people who wanted the album, so the majority of the people were paying extra for some plastic, and paper that they would toss away.
Still today the Record company doesn't really realize that some people may only want the music, and their value add has not value to them. Streaming is a cheap and easy way to go, even with all its flaws. Some people like music, but they don't love all aspects of it.
That is what they said 22 years ago. When the likes of Oracle, and IBM started to put their support behind Linux.
Linux's popularity is strongly related to the big companies who are standing behind it and supporting it.
Today it is nearly impossible to try to go at it alone.
Think of BeOS and NeXT. It is a two way partnership where the popularity (and general name recognition) of the big businesses supports the OS, while the big business gets a team of developers who are willing to give them support for low cost, the OS also gets a team of developers from these companies willing to do a lot of support work, while the big companies get their priorities, prioritized.
It would smell like soil.
Other then a few microorganisms most life is build on the death of other.
Even plants needs soil to grow in that is from decayed plant and animal matter. Some plants such as the Venus fly trap need to catch insects because they don't have enough nutrients in its natural soil.
Part of the problem is that there are so many forces that will disadvantage a company for doing the right thing. A company doesn't grow with having a big Money Bin, that is just sitting there. The most successful company tries to put every dollar gain back into the system to grow the company and expand further. Unfortunately the progressive tax structure slows growth of a company, by in essence taking money it could be reinvesting it and forcing it to be liquid, for a period of time so it can be paid in taxes. So even before you pay the taxes there is expense on having the money ready to be paid.
So if a company was to be a good citizen it would be a competitive disadvantage to one who bends the rules.
The biggest problem isn't the tax percentage, but the fact there are holes built into the system to give the bigger company ways around it.
Unlike other forms of security. Biometrics requires a targeted attack, vs a generalized attack.
So overall you are probably more protected because you are really not that special enough to require someone to go into extra means to copy your bio-metrics for you to hack in.
I have an iPhone with Apples face reader. Compared to the fingerprint reader is is six on one side and half a dozen on the other.
It is annoying that I need to be looking directly at the phone for it to respond. However the fingerprint reader likes to fail when my hands are sweaty at the gym, or the button has gotten dirty.
There are many things that are perfectly safe which when we find out what is happening sounds dangerous. There are also a lot of things that we think are as safe is actually quite dangerous.
The most risky thing I tend to do every day is my daily commute. Over the past 10 years with this particular commute, I have gotten into one accident which no one was hurt except for my car and my bank wallet. (a Prius will take more damage then a Hummer does on impact)
However every day, I put myself in a ton of metal, powered by electricity and controlled explosions of gasoline. hurtling myself at speed of about 65 miles per hour. With other people doing the same thing as well. But I do this daily.
It isn't so much about the device, it is about the Software service infrastructure behind it.
Companies are not doing the IBM Mistake which allowed Microsoft to Dominate the PC Market. They are being careful who they license too and have stricter guidelines on who and what can use their software and their section of the cloud.
Back in the late 1980's I could be a White Box PC maker and compete against the likes of Gateway and Dell. I would just need to get all the Case, Power supply, motherboard, CPU, Graphics board, IO Controller Board, Drives... And slap in a $60 MS DOS Install. I would be able to put them all together. Add 20% to my expenses and still be competitive in price with the big boys.
Today. I can make the device. However I will need to negotiate with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple to see If I can access their cloud to use the service. Being that I want to make money off making a product competing against their own, it will not be cheap, and I wouldn't be able to make profit off of it.
Sorry I was trying to illustrate two points.
1. Poor leadership is the cause of the problem, not tax rates.
2. States are actually more diverse then what Cable News lets on.
The topic was stating that it was because of the Democrats and High Taxes was the cause. However those are not the major factor.
I think for a lot of people wouldn't have a problem, if you used your credit card. The GIMP sucks. But Photoshop is too expensive for average Joe - non professional Image manipulator, who may need a bit more features then Paint.net but will not be using day to day. Paying 50+ dollars per month for a program that you may use once every few weeks just isn't worth it.
Back in them old days of the early 2000's I was able to get legit copy of Photoshop from a third party for about $300 then every 4 years or so I bought the upgrade for a few hundred dollars. The reason why I got the upgrade wasn't for the actual new features, but because it now supported the newer hardware better. Updated OS, 64bit. In general architectural changes that allowed me to process bigger pictures faster.
These Eastern Cities that have these Mass Transit systems, are actually still thriving vibrant cities. It is more of an issue of poor leadership where everyone put off doing maintenance and putting a smaller amount of money into fixes and upgrades, and just put it off for the next administration, until it reaches a point it is impossible to fix.
The supposedly Blue states, like NY have had a GOP controlled leadership up the board. Normally you will only get consistently blue votes for US Senate and Presidential Votes, but when it is broken down to districts, there is much more GOP control. and the GOP doesn't want to spend money on anything. Thinking that if they don't spend the money they won't gain more expenses. Which only lasts for a short period of time.
The high taxes in these blue states, is due to them having a number of highly consecrated population centers, which needs more government services to keep the people safe and prosperous.
I havn't really found an email client for PC that I really like. Oddly enough email from my Phone is much easier then via the PC most of the time. Takes less time to load up and emails render correctly, and send out. Currently I will actually opt for the Web Interface over the actual application.
I use wireless charging mostly doe to the fact that I don’t damage my cable and connector.
Over the past 22 years of cell phones.
The first one I replaced because of a cracked screen.
The second one was because the charging connector on the phone got corroded.
The third one the charging cord broke and couldn’t get a compatible charging cord anymore.
The forth one went threw the wash
The fifth one (the original iphone) actually still works but just outdated.
The sixth one charging connector was loose and failing home button
The seventh one the battery failed to keep its charge.
And I am on my eighth phone now.
The cable charging is the weak spot on the phone for almost all make and models.
How much of your brain can be replaced by parts until you are just a simulation of yourself
Sometimes technology flops, then after time it becomes something really useful.
How many people got Windows CE Smart Phones back in the early 2000's or Palm Pilots. But they never really caught on. However after time, some hardware improvements new approach to software, and sometime a developer willing to give that feature a bit more effort then just a Gee Wiz take a look at that in CES effect.
Is it that they don't want to go into the fields, or society tells them they shouldn't go into that field.
Back in college we had a small number of Women Computer Science Students. And they mentioned that their other women peers would actually put them down for choosing such a major.
They were just as good as any of the other students, but the biggest problem is society told them what they should be doing.
Also as of note, I work with a lot of older Computer Scientists, many of them over the age 55 seem to a larger percentage of woman. As computer science use to be considered Womans work back a few generations ago.
The problem is there are getting too many competitors in the middle class market. Where it use to be just Samsung, we have Google, Ericson, LG... All jumping into that market too.