There's already something that'll store your 250GB, and you already suggested it, external usb/firewire drives.
If you are going to buy a consumer hard drive, why not buy two of them and have one back the other up? Why would someone buy a 750GB consumer drive and then spend $20k for backup hardware to backup that drive? It's quicker and cheaper to use a disk-based solution.
If you use tapes, think to yourself, "if I had a failure, how would " recover?"
Also keep in mind, if (when) you have a failure and your tape drive fails, do you have another tape drive to restore the data? Probably not. I bet you got tons of IDE or USB/Firewire ports though. Tape drives have been EOL'ed thousands of times during the lifespan of the IDE interface. Therefore, you should ALWAYS be able to find an IDE interface or adapter, but finding an obscure, 1992 tape drive that hasn't been manufactured since 1998 will be a little more difficult.
Moral of the story: Dump the tape, and welcome to the 21st century.
good thing the internet and business are not directly related. The internet was around before business took over, and it'll be around if the businesses decide free advertising isn't worth it.
Of course, when the government decides to tax anything that's downloaded, it'll be the end of everything.
The problem is the large telco companies have already been granted a regional monopoly over the physical lines, therefore, the government has already said you HAVE to buy service from these guys if you want to connect. It's the same way with the cable companies and their city-contracted exclusive agreements. Other providers are excluded from being able to put lines in, and so that gives the cable companies a monopoly on the availability.
Try to go buy phone service from a company that was not a Bell. They are all consolidating again. Verizon, Cingular, AT&T, SBC, BellSouth; They are all Bells.
Sounds like google needs to just light some of their dark fiber and say good bye to all of these old-school monopoly telephone companies.
I wonder who will be hurt more by google running their own network. I know i don't use AT&T or Verizon, but I do use google many, many times each day. I CHOOSE to use google. If I use AT&T or Verizon, it's only because i have to (there's no other option).
I would like to see MS really try to enforce this, and then have the partner back out of the Windows licensing agreement. If there was one large computer maker that would make this happen and install linux only, they'd have a niche market that would probably grow. (Gateway, you listening?)
Why hasn't some greasy lawyer tried to bring up some charges against the RIAA? There's gotta be a suitcase full of cash for any lawyer that brings the RIAA to their knees.
...of the same bull crap. You can only view msn.com so long before you figure out how to change your default website. There's also lots of sites being advertised on TV, which pulls people away from the "old" standard websites.
You are obviously not the normal user. The normal user clicks on every banner ad, installs all programs that prompt them, and presses "ok" on every dialog box that pops up.
Try it out. Install a test machine with no updates and browse the web a little. Go to a gaming site and click around a little bit. Make sure to use Internet Explorer the whole time.
You'll figure out what the problem is soon enough. Common sense has no place on the average internet user's computer.
Why even have a limit on TLDs? The technical reasons listed in that RFC sound like laziness to me. If someone wants to register "thisisjohnsdomain", I say, more power to John.
The only justification for no new TLDs is the headache for someone to be able to manage them in DNS. Again, that's all laziness.
The benefits of letting anyone register anything far outweigh the negatives. If you could type in "microsoft" in the address bar and get to microsoft's website without having to be forwarded there by wildcard dns, it's win-win for everyone. The whole reason to have the.com,.net,.org , etc hierarchy is outdated and not even enforced.
If you have internet-based customers that get services from you that require DNS, you better turn on recursion or those will be some pissed off customers.
using your analogy, if microsoft made Oldsmobiles, and then decided to start also making decent car stereos, you can bet each Oldsmobile would have a Microsoft car stereo.
It doesn't matter if it's good or not, if they replace MSPaint with Paint.net, all the better. Will it kill photoshop? Nope, but I bet quite a few amateur graphics people would purchase Paint.net if it wasn't $1000.
Oh, and people used your same argument when Microsoft made the XBox and look where it's at now.
I must be old or missing the point, but I don't see why anyone would want to boot Windows on a Mac. Yeah Yeah Yeah, i know about the hardware change and it's significance, but I don't see why anyone would care to run Windows XP on overpriced intel hardware.
Storing analog on tape is slow and if you want to review a tape, better hope you have a spare tape player. If not, you will have to suspend your recording to review a tape.
Storing digital, on the other hand, gives you the ability to easily review past recordings without affecting the current recording. It also allows you to record multiple streams on the same medium in full resolution.
I wonder if they are going to have built-in searching within Vista, local and internet-based searching. This would leverage them the ability to basically map every file on every machine running Vista, just like GoogleDesktop, and then be able to search remote computers for specific files or words within the files.
I forsee a very large peer-to-peer network built from these file databases combined with some extra network code to allow for transferring.
If not, hey, someone do it real fast in open source before it gets patented. Use the new bittorrent code and encrypt the data.
Maybe, but the electronics in them aren't the type of electronics you'd find in Radio Shack. There's not much else besides a voltage regulator, a multi-position switch, and a power toggle (if you have one with the burst).
oh, and a motor, but good luck finding one of those at Radio Shack that would fit inside the blender and would work at the required voltage/amperage.
that's my point, they might have some of the parts, but you'd be better finding a real electronics store that specializes in selling only bare electronics.
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There's already something that'll store your 250GB, and you already suggested it, external usb/firewire drives.
If you are going to buy a consumer hard drive, why not buy two of them and have one back the other up? Why would someone buy a 750GB consumer drive and then spend $20k for backup hardware to backup that drive? It's quicker and cheaper to use a disk-based solution.
If you use tapes, think to yourself, "if I had a failure, how would " recover?"
Also keep in mind, if (when) you have a failure and your tape drive fails, do you have another tape drive to restore the data? Probably not. I bet you got tons of IDE or USB/Firewire ports though. Tape drives have been EOL'ed thousands of times during the lifespan of the IDE interface. Therefore, you should ALWAYS be able to find an IDE interface or adapter, but finding an obscure, 1992 tape drive that hasn't been manufactured since 1998 will be a little more difficult.
Moral of the story: Dump the tape, and welcome to the 21st century.
good thing the internet and business are not directly related. The internet was around before business took over, and it'll be around if the businesses decide free advertising isn't worth it.
Of course, when the government decides to tax anything that's downloaded, it'll be the end of everything.
Whatever the Dems are voting for, the Repubs vote against, and vice versa.
Also, the phone companies have LOTS of money and have been at this game a LONG time. They know which hand to grease.
The problem is the large telco companies have already been granted a regional monopoly over the physical lines, therefore, the government has already said you HAVE to buy service from these guys if you want to connect. It's the same way with the cable companies and their city-contracted exclusive agreements. Other providers are excluded from being able to put lines in, and so that gives the cable companies a monopoly on the availability.
Try to go buy phone service from a company that was not a Bell. They are all consolidating again. Verizon, Cingular, AT&T, SBC, BellSouth; They are all Bells.
Sounds like google needs to just light some of their dark fiber and say good bye to all of these old-school monopoly telephone companies.
I wonder who will be hurt more by google running their own network. I know i don't use AT&T or Verizon, but I do use google many, many times each day. I CHOOSE to use google. If I use AT&T or Verizon, it's only because i have to (there's no other option).
I would like to see MS really try to enforce this, and then have the partner back out of the Windows licensing agreement. If there was one large computer maker that would make this happen and install linux only, they'd have a niche market that would probably grow. (Gateway, you listening?)
Why hasn't some greasy lawyer tried to bring up some charges against the RIAA? There's gotta be a suitcase full of cash for any lawyer that brings the RIAA to their knees.
...of the same bull crap. You can only view msn.com so long before you figure out how to change your default website. There's also lots of sites being advertised on TV, which pulls people away from the "old" standard websites.
and no, i didn't RTFA.
You are obviously not the normal user. The normal user clicks on every banner ad, installs all programs that prompt them, and presses "ok" on every dialog box that pops up.
Try it out. Install a test machine with no updates and browse the web a little. Go to a gaming site and click around a little bit. Make sure to use Internet Explorer the whole time.
You'll figure out what the problem is soon enough. Common sense has no place on the average internet user's computer.
Why even have a limit on TLDs? The technical reasons listed in that RFC sound like laziness to me. If someone wants to register "thisisjohnsdomain", I say, more power to John.
.com, .net, .org , etc hierarchy is outdated and not even enforced.
The only justification for no new TLDs is the headache for someone to be able to manage them in DNS. Again, that's all laziness.
The benefits of letting anyone register anything far outweigh the negatives. If you could type in "microsoft" in the address bar and get to microsoft's website without having to be forwarded there by wildcard dns, it's win-win for everyone. The whole reason to have the
What a better way to teach democracy than to sell one computer to one village and let one guy become the wealthy/ruling class.
sounds like every sandwich shop i've ever been to.
you roll over too fast.
let customers behind your firewall for dns?
What kind of network are you running?
If you have internet-based customers that get services from you that require DNS, you better turn on recursion or those will be some pissed off customers.
I'm going back to NNTP, FTP, and gopher.
See ya on the flip side
It does to Star Trek fans.
using your analogy, if microsoft made Oldsmobiles, and then decided to start also making decent car stereos, you can bet each Oldsmobile would have a Microsoft car stereo.
It doesn't matter if it's good or not, if they replace MSPaint with Paint.net, all the better. Will it kill photoshop? Nope, but I bet quite a few amateur graphics people would purchase Paint.net if it wasn't $1000.
Oh, and people used your same argument when Microsoft made the XBox and look where it's at now.
Obviously, I mean, look at Microsoft's low market value! They know nothing about putting their products to market and selling the hell out of them.
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I must be old or missing the point, but I don't see why anyone would want to boot Windows on a Mac. Yeah Yeah Yeah, i know about the hardware change and it's significance, but I don't see why anyone would care to run Windows XP on overpriced intel hardware.
What's the point?
Another difference is the storage medium.
Storing analog on tape is slow and if you want to review a tape, better hope you have a spare tape player. If not, you will have to suspend your recording to review a tape.
Storing digital, on the other hand, gives you the ability to easily review past recordings without affecting the current recording. It also allows you to record multiple streams on the same medium in full resolution.
moderation is boring. ....
:)
so is meta-moderation.
encrypt it and forget about the security concerns.
First person to make an easy GDrive encrypt plugin wins!
I wonder if they are going to have built-in searching within Vista, local and internet-based searching. This would leverage them the ability to basically map every file on every machine running Vista, just like GoogleDesktop, and then be able to search remote computers for specific files or words within the files.
I forsee a very large peer-to-peer network built from these file databases combined with some extra network code to allow for transferring.
If not, hey, someone do it real fast in open source before it gets patented. Use the new bittorrent code and encrypt the data.
Maybe, but the electronics in them aren't the type of electronics you'd find in Radio Shack. There's not much else besides a voltage regulator, a multi-position switch, and a power toggle (if you have one with the burst).
oh, and a motor, but good luck finding one of those at Radio Shack that would fit inside the blender and would work at the required voltage/amperage.
that's my point, they might have some of the parts, but you'd be better finding a real electronics store that specializes in selling only bare electronics.
I understand your point, but there's almost nothing in a blender to fix with parts from Radio Shack.