Forget bad breath, have the thing detect alcohol on your breath so you know whether or not you're safe to drive and the thing would be a gold mine.
I mean, yes, when you're sloshed obviously you don't drive. But how many times have you been out for dinner and had a drink or two, know you're not tipsy, but still worry what you'd blow if you got pulled over. That's what I mean...
For myself, I've got a computer running iTunes with a big external drive attached for all the media. A couple of Apple TV's scattered around the house make streaming movies shows music and audiobooks a synch. The "Automatically add to itunes" directory is shared, so any other computer can add media to the library for everyone to watch. On top of that, I'd recommend Handbrake for ripping your old DVD's to your library.
The reason i'm pointing out the apple solution is because of the Apple TV's. Admittedly, once I came upon this, I stopped looking for other solutions, so I don't know if there is anything else comparable for streaming media to multiple TV's from a single repository at home, with a simple remote (as opposed to a wireless keyboard or what not... been there, done that, not at all preferable).
If you use any idevices, you can stream from your phone or ipad back up to your TV as well, using the Apple TV. Or from your wifes macbook, supposing she updated to the latest OS.
Commence the Apple bashing now... No, I don't work for them. I'm just pleased with the experience.
More simply, BeOS was never in the category of being (or trying to be) a windows replacement, unless you looked extremely far down the road. That should have been evident by their choice of hardware to run on. The worst threat be posed was to next, as to Mac fans everywhere, they were the leading contender up until Steve jobs walked across the stage.
Netscape and WordPerfect are different stories. and even so, if not for tactics such as making os updates that broke their competitors software or simply integrated it into the operating system, both might still be around today. There was a time that Microsoft really took its gloves off... Like the Microsoft of old would have produced an update that redirected attempts to access google sites elsewhere, or just caused files downloaded with the name "chrome" in them to be hopelessly corrupted...
Critical in that backup generators only last so long, besides which there would be quite a bit of chaos if our power grid went down unexpectedly and for a long period. Best just to head that off.
I'd really be fine with this if it wasn't a spying agency doing this. ; but I guess all the know how is in the nsa's headquarters, so we can't just have a Domestic computer security agency doing this, one with no ties to the intelligence community...
ummm, because it's they're platform? If you don't like that, then sign off and see how many long lost friends find you by email.
Really, how can you have a free profile on the website of a publicly traded company and ask them to justify them attempting to get revenue from you? That's like your boss asking you why you deserve to be paid.
A) Facebook and gogke already know all about you, unless you're meticulous with your cookies and only browse through Tor.
B) you're only a subpoena away from the government getting anytime they want about you, at best.
C) privacy is toast, in other words.
D) does a tine even us google+? Moreso, do any real companies have a presence there?
E) I'd be interested in a truelly neutral study about the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook. I know they're raking in the dollars, but that doesn't mean it's money well spent for companies. I know for myself, I use it, and I have yet to visit any business page intentionally. The ones I have seen, I've backed away from immediately. Unless you're running daily specials, there's just no purpose to building a Facebook presence I don't think. Would you pay any amount of money to garner "likes", for instance?
F)I'd suggest go the "ld fashioned route" of a good web presence, some SEO, and some decent spending on AdWords if you're serious about it. Once you have a couple customers, maybe you think aboutvfacebook or twitterif you think they'll provide you any linkage, recommendations or traffic. But no point in investing any time or energy until you've got the basics covered.
G) don't waste any time worrying about privacy. Again, unless you've been nutty with your countermeasures, your privacy Is already long gone. And if you do manage to set up a business presence and keep it totally detached from your online persona,which lol be hard since you'll use the same browser at worst, or just be using the same ip addresss, personal and business at best, corporate info is only a few clicks away on most states' websites.
I call bull. Companies paid dividends prior to the 2000's, when they didn't get preferential tax treatment. They'll keep paying regardless. Some are busy prepaying dividends to get them to shareho,ders before the 'cliff' but its an absurdity to think they'll stop after.
Likewise, one of the arguments for lower rates on qualified divs is that they're already taxed once at the corporate level, which people note as being 35%. Since hardly any company's Pauy at the 35% rate, I'll call shenanigans on that argument too. I'd prefer to see divs taxed as income, or at best, taxed as income with a credit applied for the rate at which the issuing company paid taxes to the us govt.
Company a earns 100% of its income here, does no creative accounting, pays tax at the the 35% rate. It pays dividends tat could be tax free
Company b runs all its profits through off shore tax havens and ultimately pays the us govt at a rate of 2%. When it pays divs, the shareholder would owe tax at a 33% rate.
It would require more information sharing, and a rolling average would, that would destroy any incentive to invest for the long term. Raise rates, sure. But don't turn long term gains into income.
Yeah, putting all of the organizational files on a 3rd party service where there's no guarantee that they will continue to offer that service, or that the service will be experiencing planned or unplanned downtime when you need access - that seems hardly well advised. Perhaps suggesting a document management system if there are really that many documents. If it's not an overwhelming number, even a couple hundred documents, since you're working free anyways, just invest a day on the weekend and organize the files for the organization. Explain to the guy that you and the other members can't find documents with ease, suggest the solution, and offer to implement it and then hand the reigns back to him if you want to do it without conflict.
Then you're doing it out of the goodness of your heart, and for organizations that don't make a habit of paying their help; there is nothing prohibiting people employed by (or on the board of) a non-profit from being paid a reasonable salary. That's the keyword - reasonable. People can't be paid in excess of what they would earn in the freemarket, and the purpose of the organization can't be (as the IRS would determine it) to serve to enrich an individual or group (or any thing outside of its charitable purpose).
I've worked with several foundations; some work I did out of a sense of charity, other work i did entailed getting paid. Employees, managers and board members alike are all entitled to receive pay if the charity compensates people. If it doesn't that's a different story, then its help is volunteer-based. But there's nothing in the law that says charitys can only accept volunteers.
It the "pros" were already providing service in his town, yes, of course someone who doesn't know the business end shouldn't set up shop and try to compete. But the pros are overlooking his town/community - that's a perfect reason for someone to step up and work to give their neighbors what they're lacking.
iPad doesn't need drivers, it's a different creature. It can print to any AirPrint printer, and that's about it. Also, you can backup your iPad to iCloud, and if something goes drastically wrong, restore from there too (i believe- i haven't had anything go that drastically wrong ever).
I'm curious about your claims in the second paragraph? Is this all from first hand knowledge, developer notes or speculation? From what I'm reading, Windows RT is QUITE locked down, hindering all sorts of things. With Surface Pro on x86, it should be possible to do all that stuff, though. And if MSFT locks it down so much that you can't, well, you can always buy a tablet from any other PC maker once they start ramping up.
Surface Pro seems mildly interesting, the Regular Hobbled Surface, i wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. I'd accept one free, but only to sell it on eBay. Nothing about that version seems of any interest to me, and i can't think that any one on slashdot would find the least bit of use for it. The walled garden is alive and well on it for software developers. Microsoft is the gatekeeper deciding which Flash sites one should be allowed to visit. No capability of running x86 apps (read, every program installed on my computer at work). Seriously, what is there to like about the thing?
CEO's are employed by the board - its the board who has the power to remove the ceo, not the ceo who can purge board members who arent to their liking. The only people who can fire board members are the shareholders.
its more that the smart money, along with all the rest of the money, already own Apple. The people who could make big enough purchases to move the price to the next level are equity mutual funds, but theyre hampered by the fact that month after month, they're facing net cash outflows, as investors continue to pull money out of the market.
THe value of the dow, and more specifically, the value of the companies thaat are its components, has nothing to do with the unemployment rate. Its all to do with earnings of the enterprises, and companies now are more profitable than theyve ever been before. On top of that, theyre holding more cash than theyve ever held before.
For a couple of years now, people have claimed that the stock market recovery is fake, because, they point out, unemployment is still so high. when you look at factors that actually do tie into corporate valuations - earnings ratios being the most important, youd see that fore most the recovery, the market has been valuing companies far too cheaply.
that doesnt help people who are un- or under-employed, but its the truth. Unfortunately for them (and for any of us if we lose our jobs), the fortune 500 is quite happpy to make monstrous profits even without full workforce participation.
For interpretted languages, no big deal so long as they've built the interpretter and DLL's for ARM. I'm more talking about compiled languages (read: most applications)
Surface is going to be a train wreck, I believe. People who have no clue what the difference between ARM and x86 iterations (atom, core, etc) are going to be befuddled that their new Windows device can't run their other windows programs. Then the pro version will come out and people will spot Windows tablets running regular windows apps and be baffled why their surface can't do the same. Windows application developers will have to start deciding whether to target one CPU architecture or the other or both, meaning there will be two app eco systems out there for devices that look the same on the outside. Joe Computer User with his RT sees a new widget on his friends x86 surface and discovers he can't get it. Likewise, the same potentially for x86 users, where maybe a company makes an app that only targets ARM.
This will be a mess. Microsoft made their fortune based on backwards compatibility, and now they're throwing a consumer system out there that lacks that one thing that kept people coming back to them.
Yes, x86 surface seems interesting, but its not here yet. But the ARM version, I'm positive, we'll all look back at it in the same dustheap as the Zune and so many other things.
I can't imagine what Microsoft is thinking. Or, wait, I know what they're thinking - they're moving to emulate apple, rolling out their own hardware and aiming for as high of margins as possible. Really, what can the cost savings be for using ARM over Atom? Will those savings be worth the tons of confused customers they're about to create? I doubt it.
Somewhere in their organization, alarmbells should have been ringing this whole time.
I can't pretend to be interested even in the x86 version, being that outside the office I live a windows free lifestyle (Mac OS, iOS, Ubuntu and, now recently, IRIX). If it gets jailbroken and we can see a linux distro on it, I may get excited. And if some enterprising person manages to get Mac OS to run on the thing.... well, I could imagine retiring my macbook air if the keyboard was usable.
But back to the original thought that spawned this disjointed rant:
What in the world are they thinking? Do the few extra dollars saved by using ARM rather than Atom make sense at all, when most of their customers are going to be blithefully unaware of what a hobbled machine they're going to get? It's not like there are Microsoft Stores all over with cool kids at the genius bar waiting to explain the the RT version won't run a single one of the applications they're used to using, unless it's Microsoft Office.
A lot of people are going to be very disappointed. And not just at their new surfaces, i can imagine a lot of blame being cast at Windows 8 itself for "breaking" their applications. I mean, Windows 8 just comes out, here's Microsoft showcasing surface, one would only assume that surface is their flagship product to demonstrate how cool Windows 8 is.
I guess that'll make all of us happy. Again, unimaginable that Microsoft would do this. Balmer will be lucky to be there next year, I'll tell you that.
Seriously. Considering reinstalling windows on a biweekly basis? For a 12 year old kids world of warcraft PC?
We're not talking trade secrets or even your household finances being in the clear as the result of an insecure PC. The insecure PC, which is behind a router and only has connections to assumed properly secured Linux boxes. Just install a copy of AVG Free and the free version of Malware Bytes and be done with it.
If you still don't think that's secure enough to your liking, buy a copy of DeepFreeze - once the PC is in a good working condition, Deepfreeze will restore it to that condition everytime the machine is restarted, cleansing it of any and all changes since the last restart. Probably a bit overkill as well.
Really, just make sure the rest of your computers are secure and let the kid play. And while you're at it, buy another Windows PC for your other kid to use and get familiar with. They're soon going to need to be familiar with computers besides the ones that you've carefully configured at your house, be it in their schools or in their future workplaces. Unless they're going to be Linux developers or what not, i would say that you're doing them a disservice by not letting them have access to the OS they'll likely use more than any other once they fly from the nest. And yes, part of that is learning what to do when their Windows PC gets a virus or otherwise malfunctions.
Again, shouldn't be any problem - sounds like the rest of your network is secure, so a single machie running amok is still essentially sandboxed off from the being able to harm any other machines on your network.
I work at a small law firm too, and Clio (this is the first time I've heard of it) seems interesting, I feel much safer using software that's been tried and tested -- amicus, worldox and timeslips. My understanding is that you can add web functionality to timeslips so you can access files from an iPad or other mobile device. But they're still in your office under your control. Seems much more the ideal situation that relying on a third party to handle that, not to mention such business issues such as what are clios financial resources like? Will we get to the office one day and get an email saying "were sorry, but we went out of business. Your data is inaccessible." or even "we got bought by xyz corp and in order to turn us profitable, they've cut out some of the security related expenses we'd been incurring". That sort of thing. Pure conjecture, though...
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Forget bad breath, have the thing detect alcohol on your breath so you know whether or not you're safe to drive and the thing would be a gold mine.
I mean, yes, when you're sloshed obviously you don't drive. But how many times have you been out for dinner and had a drink or two, know you're not tipsy, but still worry what you'd blow if you got pulled over. That's what I mean...
For myself, I've got a computer running iTunes with a big external drive attached for all the media. A couple of Apple TV's scattered around the house make streaming movies shows music and audiobooks a synch. The "Automatically add to itunes" directory is shared, so any other computer can add media to the library for everyone to watch. On top of that, I'd recommend Handbrake for ripping your old DVD's to your library.
The reason i'm pointing out the apple solution is because of the Apple TV's. Admittedly, once I came upon this, I stopped looking for other solutions, so I don't know if there is anything else comparable for streaming media to multiple TV's from a single repository at home, with a simple remote (as opposed to a wireless keyboard or what not... been there, done that, not at all preferable).
If you use any idevices, you can stream from your phone or ipad back up to your TV as well, using the Apple TV. Or from your wifes macbook, supposing she updated to the latest OS.
Commence the Apple bashing now... No, I don't work for them. I'm just pleased with the experience.
More simply, BeOS was never in the category of being (or trying to be) a windows replacement, unless you looked extremely far down the road. That should have been evident by their choice of hardware to run on. The worst threat be posed was to next, as to Mac fans everywhere, they were the leading contender up until Steve jobs walked across the stage.
Netscape and WordPerfect are different stories. and even so, if not for tactics such as making os updates that broke their competitors software or simply integrated it into the operating system, both might still be around today. There was a time that Microsoft really took its gloves off... Like the Microsoft of old would have produced an update that redirected attempts to access google sites elsewhere, or just caused files downloaded with the name "chrome" in them to be hopelessly corrupted...
Critical in that backup generators only last so long, besides which there would be quite a bit of chaos if our power grid went down unexpectedly and for a long period. Best just to head that off.
I'd really be fine with this if it wasn't a spying agency doing this. ; but I guess all the know how is in the nsa's headquarters, so we can't just have a
Domestic computer security agency doing this, one with no ties to the intelligence community...
ummm, because it's they're platform? If you don't like that, then sign off and see how many long lost friends find you by email.
Really, how can you have a free profile on the website of a publicly traded company and ask them to justify them attempting to get revenue from you? That's like your boss asking you why you deserve to be paid.
A) Facebook and gogke already know all about you, unless you're meticulous with your cookies and only browse through Tor.
B) you're only a subpoena away from the government getting anytime they want about you, at best.
C) privacy is toast, in other words.
D) does a tine even us google+? Moreso, do any real companies have a presence there?
E) I'd be interested in a truelly neutral study about the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook. I know they're raking in the dollars, but that doesn't mean it's money well spent for companies. I know for myself, I use it, and I have yet to visit any business page intentionally. The ones I have seen, I've backed away from immediately. Unless you're running daily specials, there's just no purpose to building a Facebook presence I don't think. Would you pay any amount of money to garner "likes", for instance?
F)I'd suggest go the "ld fashioned route" of a good web presence, some SEO, and some decent spending on AdWords if you're serious about it. Once you have a couple customers, maybe you think aboutvfacebook or twitterif you think they'll provide you any linkage, recommendations or traffic. But no point in investing any time or energy until you've got the basics covered.
G) don't waste any time worrying about privacy. Again, unless you've been nutty with your countermeasures, your privacy Is already long gone. And if you do manage to set up a business presence and keep it totally detached from your online persona,which lol be hard since you'll use the same browser at worst, or just be using the same ip addresss, personal and business at best, corporate info is only a few clicks away on most states' websites.
But go ahead do your business, it can't hurt!
I call bull. Companies paid dividends prior to the 2000's, when they didn't get preferential tax treatment. They'll keep paying regardless. Some are busy prepaying dividends to get them to shareho,ders before the 'cliff' but its an absurdity to think they'll stop after.
Likewise, one of the arguments for lower rates on qualified divs is that they're already taxed once at the corporate level, which people note as being 35%. Since hardly any company's Pauy at the 35% rate, I'll call shenanigans on that argument too. I'd prefer to see divs taxed as income, or at best, taxed as income with a credit applied for the rate at which the issuing company paid taxes to the us govt.
Company a earns 100% of its income here, does no creative accounting, pays tax at the the 35% rate. It pays dividends tat could be tax free
Company b runs all its profits through off shore tax havens and ultimately pays the us govt at a rate of 2%. When it pays divs, the shareholder would owe tax at a 33% rate.
It would require more information sharing, and a rolling average would, that would destroy any incentive to invest for the long term. Raise rates, sure. But don't turn long term gains into income.
Yeah, putting all of the organizational files on a 3rd party service where there's no guarantee that they will continue to offer that service, or that the service will be experiencing planned or unplanned downtime when you need access - that seems hardly well advised. Perhaps suggesting a document management system if there are really that many documents. If it's not an overwhelming number, even a couple hundred documents, since you're working free anyways, just invest a day on the weekend and organize the files for the organization. Explain to the guy that you and the other members can't find documents with ease, suggest the solution, and offer to implement it and then hand the reigns back to him if you want to do it without conflict.
Then you're doing it out of the goodness of your heart, and for organizations that don't make a habit of paying their help; there is nothing prohibiting people employed by (or on the board of) a non-profit from being paid a reasonable salary. That's the keyword - reasonable. People can't be paid in excess of what they would earn in the freemarket, and the purpose of the organization can't be (as the IRS would determine it) to serve to enrich an individual or group (or any thing outside of its charitable purpose).
I've worked with several foundations; some work I did out of a sense of charity, other work i did entailed getting paid. Employees, managers and board members alike are all entitled to receive pay if the charity compensates people. If it doesn't that's a different story, then its help is volunteer-based. But there's nothing in the law that says charitys can only accept volunteers.
It the "pros" were already providing service in his town, yes, of course someone who doesn't know the business end shouldn't set up shop and try to compete. But the pros are overlooking his town/community - that's a perfect reason for someone to step up and work to give their neighbors what they're lacking.
Wrong. You can't install Windows Store applications on a removable drive.
Forgot, only IE (sans many plug-ins). No Firefox, Chrome or any other browser.
And if you don't want Office? You're forced to sacrifice space for it, and presumably you probably were forced to pay for it as well...
iPad doesn't need drivers, it's a different creature. It can print to any AirPrint printer, and that's about it. Also, you can backup your iPad to iCloud, and if something goes drastically wrong, restore from there too (i believe- i haven't had anything go that drastically wrong ever).
I'm curious about your claims in the second paragraph? Is this all from first hand knowledge, developer notes or speculation? From what I'm reading, Windows RT is QUITE locked down, hindering all sorts of things. With Surface Pro on x86, it should be possible to do all that stuff, though. And if MSFT locks it down so much that you can't, well, you can always buy a tablet from any other PC maker once they start ramping up.
Surface Pro seems mildly interesting, the Regular Hobbled Surface, i wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. I'd accept one free, but only to sell it on eBay. Nothing about that version seems of any interest to me, and i can't think that any one on slashdot would find the least bit of use for it. The walled garden is alive and well on it for software developers. Microsoft is the gatekeeper deciding which Flash sites one should be allowed to visit. No capability of running x86 apps (read, every program installed on my computer at work). Seriously, what is there to like about the thing?
CEO's are employed by the board - its the board who has the power to remove the ceo, not the ceo who can purge board members who arent to their liking. The only people who can fire board members are the shareholders.
"I bet you Apple will be down to 300 in 6 months to a year."
That is a put option.
How much do you care to bet, per share? i would be more than happy to take the otherside of this trade, to be your counterparty..
you understand that makes no sense at all, right?
Jobs died, Wall Street thinks apple will flop, so they make apples stock double and hit all time highs in order to make their sales?
really?
its more that the smart money, along with all the rest of the money, already own Apple. The people who could make big enough purchases to move the price to the next level are equity mutual funds, but theyre hampered by the fact that month after month, they're facing net cash outflows, as investors continue to pull money out of the market.
THe value of the dow, and more specifically, the value of the companies thaat are its components, has nothing to do with the unemployment rate. Its all to do with earnings of the enterprises, and companies now are more profitable than theyve ever been before. On top of that, theyre holding more cash than theyve ever held before.
For a couple of years now, people have claimed that the stock market recovery is fake, because, they point out, unemployment is still so high. when you look at factors that actually do tie into corporate valuations - earnings ratios being the most important, youd see that fore most the recovery, the market has been valuing companies far too cheaply.
that doesnt help people who are un- or under-employed, but its the truth. Unfortunately for them (and for any of us if we lose our jobs), the fortune 500 is quite happpy to make monstrous profits even without full workforce participation.
For interpretted languages, no big deal so long as they've built the interpretter and DLL's for ARM. I'm more talking about compiled languages (read: most applications)
Surface is going to be a train wreck, I believe. People who have no clue what the difference between ARM and x86 iterations (atom, core, etc) are going to be befuddled that their new Windows device can't run their other windows programs. Then the pro version will come out and people will spot Windows tablets running regular windows apps and be baffled why their surface can't do the same. Windows application developers will have to start deciding whether to target one CPU architecture or the other or both, meaning there will be two app eco systems out there for devices that look the same on the outside. Joe Computer User with his RT sees a new widget on his friends x86 surface and discovers he can't get it. Likewise, the same potentially for x86 users, where maybe a company makes an app that only targets ARM.
This will be a mess. Microsoft made their fortune based on backwards compatibility, and now they're throwing a consumer system out there that lacks that one thing that kept people coming back to them.
Yes, x86 surface seems interesting, but its not here yet. But the ARM version, I'm positive, we'll all look back at it in the same dustheap as the Zune and so many other things.
I can't imagine what Microsoft is thinking. Or, wait, I know what they're thinking - they're moving to emulate apple, rolling out their own hardware and aiming for as high of margins as possible. Really, what can the cost savings be for using ARM over Atom? Will those savings be worth the tons of confused customers they're about to create? I doubt it.
Somewhere in their organization, alarmbells should have been ringing this whole time.
I can't pretend to be interested even in the x86 version, being that outside the office I live a windows free lifestyle (Mac OS, iOS, Ubuntu and, now recently, IRIX). If it gets jailbroken and we can see a linux distro on it, I may get excited. And if some enterprising person manages to get Mac OS to run on the thing.... well, I could imagine retiring my macbook air if the keyboard was usable.
But back to the original thought that spawned this disjointed rant:
What in the world are they thinking? Do the few extra dollars saved by using ARM rather than Atom make sense at all, when most of their customers are going to be blithefully unaware of what a hobbled machine they're going to get? It's not like there are Microsoft Stores all over with cool kids at the genius bar waiting to explain the the RT version won't run a single one of the applications they're used to using, unless it's Microsoft Office.
A lot of people are going to be very disappointed. And not just at their new surfaces, i can imagine a lot of blame being cast at Windows 8 itself for "breaking" their applications. I mean, Windows 8 just comes out, here's Microsoft showcasing surface, one would only assume that surface is their flagship product to demonstrate how cool Windows 8 is.
I guess that'll make all of us happy. Again, unimaginable that Microsoft would do this. Balmer will be lucky to be there next year, I'll tell you that.
The original poster misstated. This was the picture frame he was referring to:
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/02/09/09/1958256/old-powerbook--hot-glue--cheap-digital-picture-frame
Seriously. Considering reinstalling windows on a biweekly basis? For a 12 year old kids world of warcraft PC?
We're not talking trade secrets or even your household finances being in the clear as the result of an insecure PC. The insecure PC, which is behind a router and only has connections to assumed properly secured Linux boxes. Just install a copy of AVG Free and the free version of Malware Bytes and be done with it.
If you still don't think that's secure enough to your liking, buy a copy of DeepFreeze - once the PC is in a good working condition, Deepfreeze will restore it to that condition everytime the machine is restarted, cleansing it of any and all changes since the last restart. Probably a bit overkill as well.
Really, just make sure the rest of your computers are secure and let the kid play. And while you're at it, buy another Windows PC for your other kid to use and get familiar with. They're soon going to need to be familiar with computers besides the ones that you've carefully configured at your house, be it in their schools or in their future workplaces. Unless they're going to be Linux developers or what not, i would say that you're doing them a disservice by not letting them have access to the OS they'll likely use more than any other once they fly from the nest. And yes, part of that is learning what to do when their Windows PC gets a virus or otherwise malfunctions.
Again, shouldn't be any problem - sounds like the rest of your network is secure, so a single machie running amok is still essentially sandboxed off from the being able to harm any other machines on your network.
I work at a small law firm too, and Clio (this is the first time I've heard of it) seems interesting, I feel much safer using software that's been tried and tested -- amicus, worldox and timeslips. My understanding is that you can add web functionality to timeslips so you can access files from an iPad or other mobile device. But they're still in your office under your control. Seems much more the ideal situation that relying on a third party to handle that, not to mention such business issues such as what are clios financial resources like? Will we get to the office one day and get an email saying "were sorry, but we went out of business. Your data is inaccessible." or even "we got bought by xyz corp and in order to turn us profitable, they've cut out some of the security related expenses we'd been incurring". That sort of thing. Pure conjecture, though...
How can we study the trajectory when we don't know:
When the asteroid hit?
The earth's position relative to the sun, the other planet, and the rest of the stars in the galaxy at the time of impact.
The direction from which the asteroid hit us.
The size of the asteroid.
For starters....