Nice way to conflate terms for a sensational headline. What a bogus metric. A good chunk of that "stored data" is junk. Probably most of it. Not to mention duplication. (Duplication? I told you not to mention duplication:-)
I'm an American, and I detest some, maybe even many, Americans for much the same reasons that the rest of the world does. But we're not all like that - imagine how disgusted and embarrassed we are about some of the crap done in the name of the US?
I avidly read Byte back in the day. There was actually a period in the early 80's when it was part of my job! That and Creative Computing, InfoWorld, Datamation, and a few others.
But why bring it back now? It was what it was, yes, with Tinney's artwork, and Circuit Cellar, and Pournelle (what a blowhard!).
I really looked forward to each new issue back then, but please, let it R.I.P.
No kidding. My ISP, with whom I've been doing business for 15 years, decided without any input from customers to outsource their email to gmail. My email address is the same as ever, but it's done through gmail. I sent a complaint, never got an answer.
I don't have a great feeling about Google, but I have a very bad feeling about Facebook. I actually made an account just to see what it was all about, and after a couple of weeks pulled the plug - just too busy, and creepy. I have an actual life, and feel no need to create some faux "community" of people I vaguely know or who vaguely know people that I vaguely know.
But I have no choice with my email, and it pisses me off.
The crypto museum is very worth a visit if you're ever in the area. I went down to the DC area last year to visit my brother (ex-DARPA project manager), and he had the museum on our itinerary. I was thinking OK, whatever. It turned out to be very interesting and engaging. They have the history of cryptography presented very nicely, with lots of actual artifacts and machines. Including an actual Enigma that you can use. As you move along the displays the panels above have newspaper headlines and such from the appropriate time period to really bring it home.
Anyway, I was surprised how interesting and informative it was. Plus, just on the other side of the razor-wire fence and check-point, is the black cube-like NSA building... somehow it adds spice to the whole thing. I do highly recommend it...
I agree with gstoddart. After years of using Windows 2000 (I skipped XP - it added nothing that I needed), I bought a new computer with Vista SP1 on it. I had zero problems with it. I kind of liked it. But I upgraded to Windows 7 when it came out, which I think is even better.
Granted, I came into Vista at SP1 on decent hardware, but I think a lot of the negative press was just piling on by people who never even tried it, or were just looking to be provocative (i.e., trolling).
I read many outlight lies about it from various Mac and Linux fanbois, just like I read many outright lies about Linux from Mac and Windows fanbois.
Humans are living organisms, not well-understood machines. We are also ecosystems. The relationship between us and our microflora is part of the deal. You can't just eliminate it, nor is there any need or benefit in doing so if you could.
The notion that trying to understand this vital relationship and working with it is somehow "cowardly" or an abdication of progress is absurd. It is an important step forward for medicine and biology, a recognition of another level of complexity.
This post and your previous one make you out to be some kind of control freak. Do you want to be a sterilized brain in a vat? Or maybe you'd rather download yourself into a robot body. Or maybe you're just trolling for reactions.
"Imagine, 50 years from now, a kid goes up to the attic and sees a Kindle with a cracked screen, broken navigation keys, and a dead battery. It is junk. Imagine the same kid in the attic uncovering boxes full of books, dozens of them, with pictures, diagrams, stories, plans, photos, etc. Which is the better outcome?"
Beautiful! I was that kid in the attic, back in the 60's. What a world was revealed...
I think one reason for "engineers" to be ranking up there in the ol' terrorism hall of fame (among others posited here) is that it is likely that they have spent some time studying in the US or some other Western country. They then see for themselves the banality and decadence of the consumerist "lifestyle", and are recruitable when they get back home.
"What will really sell is an electric car that can take a family of 4 with luggage 300 miles and charge in less then 5 minutes, and is comparably priced to current gas models. "
I have it on good authority that when the Pink Unicorn Fleet (now in orbit around Earth) lands on the White House lawn tomorrow afternoon, they are going to divulge the secret of making just such a car. Right after they explain how to make controlled fusion work.
First off, anyone who keeps incriminating material on a work computer is ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray.
I do keep a series of rather personal and private journals on my home computer, password-protected. There is some stuff that I've written there that's not meant for anyone else to see, ever.
Other than that, I don't think anyone would be too interested in the vast collection of stuff on my computer - some of which has followed me from computer to computer since CP/M days...
Actually, some of it might be of historical interest
... when I visited my brother (he lives in Arlington, VA) last year he insisted we visit the museum. I said "sure, why not". I was really glad we did. Lots of great history there, and lots of hardware, too. As a previous poster said, you are able to and encouraged to play with an Enigma machine. Great photos and artifacts and whatnot. I was surprised just how interesting and informative it was - highly recommended to anyone visiting the area.
Of course businesses try to create a lower-cost product, and sell it at a higher price. But then they end up selling stuff that they know full well is defective.
Yes, everyone does it, and always has. This is not an indication that it's OK. It's an indication that there's something rotten at the core.
Let's face it, all corporations are deceitful sacks of s**t. That's the norm for business these days. Presumably it wasn't always like this, but nowadays it's the way it is. Lie, cheat, spin, whatever it takes. If that doesn't work, pretend ignorance and innocence going into the lawsuit. This is modern capitalism.
You are free to patronize another merchant besides Apple. Honestly, you don't need to have an Apple i-Thingy. But if you think you do, be prepared to be controlled.
... that can handle just about anything. I had a very large historical map/timeline (maybe 1m x 2m) scanned by a professional service, and they did a very good job. This was years ago. I would think you could find someone in your part of the world to do it.
I also posted here to say that I think your project is a very worthy one. Good luck!
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Nice way to conflate terms for a sensational headline. What a bogus metric. A good chunk of that "stored data" is junk. Probably most of it. Not to mention duplication. (Duplication? I told you not to mention duplication :-)
Fuck Apple, and fuck Steve Jobs.
I'm an American, and I detest some, maybe even many, Americans for much the same reasons that the rest of the world does. But we're not all like that - imagine how disgusted and embarrassed we are about some of the crap done in the name of the US?
I avidly read Byte back in the day. There was actually a period in the early 80's when it was part of my job! That and Creative Computing, InfoWorld, Datamation, and a few others.
But why bring it back now? It was what it was, yes, with Tinney's artwork, and Circuit Cellar, and Pournelle (what a blowhard!).
I really looked forward to each new issue back then, but please, let it R.I.P.
Well said, Pojut.
You are not forced to use Facebook at all.
No kidding. My ISP, with whom I've been doing business for 15 years, decided without any input from customers to outsource their email to gmail. My email address is the same as ever, but it's done through gmail. I sent a complaint, never got an answer.
I don't have a great feeling about Google, but I have a very bad feeling about Facebook. I actually made an account just to see what it was all about, and after a couple of weeks pulled the plug - just too busy, and creepy. I have an actual life, and feel no need to create some faux "community" of people I vaguely know or who vaguely know people that I vaguely know.
But I have no choice with my email, and it pisses me off.
When will people realize that corporate commerce is based on deceit. Who the hell is surprised that MS is cooking the books?
The crypto museum is very worth a visit if you're ever in the area. I went down to the DC area last year to visit my brother (ex-DARPA project manager), and he had the museum on our itinerary. I was thinking OK, whatever. It turned out to be very interesting and engaging. They have the history of cryptography presented very nicely, with lots of actual artifacts and machines. Including an actual Enigma that you can use. As you move along the displays the panels above have newspaper headlines and such from the appropriate time period to really bring it home.
Anyway, I was surprised how interesting and informative it was. Plus, just on the other side of the razor-wire fence and check-point, is the black cube-like NSA building... somehow it adds spice to the whole thing. I do highly recommend it...
I agree with gstoddart. After years of using Windows 2000 (I skipped XP - it added nothing that I needed), I bought a new computer with Vista SP1 on it. I had zero problems with it. I kind of liked it. But I upgraded to Windows 7 when it came out, which I think is even better.
Granted, I came into Vista at SP1 on decent hardware, but I think a lot of the negative press was just piling on by people who never even tried it, or were just looking to be provocative (i.e., trolling).
I read many outlight lies about it from various Mac and Linux fanbois, just like I read many outright lies about Linux from Mac and Windows fanbois.
Oh well.
Prune,
Humans are living organisms, not well-understood machines. We are also ecosystems. The relationship between us and our microflora is part of the deal. You can't just eliminate it, nor is there any need or benefit in doing so if you could.
The notion that trying to understand this vital relationship and working with it is somehow "cowardly" or an abdication of progress is absurd. It is an important step forward for medicine and biology, a recognition of another level of complexity.
This post and your previous one make you out to be some kind of control freak. Do you want to be a sterilized brain in a vat? Or maybe you'd rather download yourself into a robot body.
Or maybe you're just trolling for reactions.
"Imagine, 50 years from now, a kid goes up to the attic and sees a Kindle with a cracked screen, broken navigation keys, and a dead battery. It is junk. Imagine the same kid in the attic uncovering boxes full of books, dozens of them, with pictures, diagrams, stories, plans, photos, etc. Which is the better outcome?"
Beautiful! I was that kid in the attic, back in the 60's. What a world was revealed...
I think one reason for "engineers" to be ranking up there in the ol' terrorism hall of fame (among others posited here) is that it is likely that they have spent some time studying in the US or some other Western country. They then see for themselves the banality and decadence of the consumerist "lifestyle", and are recruitable when they get back home.
I'm with $RANDOMLUSER.
This is evil, pure and simple.
"I fail to see how this leads to profit"
You fail to see? Have you looked at Exxon-Mobil's balance sheet lately? It most certainly leads to profit, and obscene ones at that.
"What will really sell is an electric car that can take a family of 4 with luggage 300 miles and charge in less then 5 minutes, and is comparably priced to current gas models. "
I have it on good authority that when the Pink Unicorn Fleet (now in orbit around Earth) lands on the White House lawn tomorrow afternoon, they are going to divulge the secret of making just such a car. Right after they explain how to make controlled fusion work.
... and you'll have nothing to worry about :-)
I keed, I keed!
First off, anyone who keeps incriminating material on a work computer is ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray.
I do keep a series of rather personal and private journals on my home computer, password-protected. There is some stuff that I've written there that's not meant for anyone else to see, ever.
Other than that, I don't think anyone would be too interested in the vast collection of stuff on my computer - some of which has followed me from computer to computer since CP/M days...
Actually, some of it might be of historical interest
If the Pink Unicorn Fleet lands on the White House lawn, we'll have fusion power and peace on Earth forever. Until then, not so much.
... when I visited my brother (he lives in Arlington, VA) last year he insisted we visit the museum. I said "sure, why not". I was really glad we did. Lots of great history there, and lots of hardware, too. As a previous poster said, you are able to and encouraged to play with an Enigma machine. Great photos and artifacts and whatnot. I was surprised just how interesting and informative it was - highly recommended to anyone visiting the area.
Of course businesses try to create a lower-cost product, and sell it at a higher price. But then they end up selling stuff that they know full well is defective.
Yes, everyone does it, and always has. This is not an indication that it's OK. It's an indication that there's something rotten at the core.
Let's face it, all corporations are deceitful sacks of s**t. That's the norm for business these days. Presumably it wasn't always like this, but nowadays it's the way it is. Lie, cheat, spin, whatever it takes. If that doesn't work, pretend ignorance and innocence going into the lawsuit. This is modern capitalism.
You are free to patronize another merchant besides Apple. Honestly, you don't need to have an Apple i-Thingy. But if you think you do, be prepared to be controlled.
"Dollars are votes. We the People hold power to bankrupt corporations out of existence. No such power exists over Gov't."
No, dollars are not votes. We the People have no power to bankrupt corporations, and you are delusional if you think that.
However, we do have real power over Gov't - it's called actual votes.
Of course, the real problem is the power that the corporations have over Gov't.
The idea of dollars as votes is extremely un-democratic.
Yes, it's the fault of government. Too much regulation.
My god, you honestly think that this "accident" happened because BP thought their ass would be covered by the government? If so, you are delusional.
As far as the public being "punished" by paying higher prices, it's not punishment, it's reasonable pricing.
Though I'm not sure you can put a reasonable price on what is unfolding in the Gulf right now.
... that can handle just about anything. I had a very large historical map/timeline (maybe 1m x 2m) scanned by a professional service, and they did a very good job. This was years ago. I would think you could find someone in your part of the world to do it.
I also posted here to say that I think your project is a very worthy one. Good luck!