Bob- Happy Nw Yr! What a decade so far. Cubs winning the series, and who would have predicted that the Mayan calendar was really right? Glad I loaded up on all the MSFT back in '10. Are you going to visit your wife's grave next week for the 6th anniversary? kthx!
I agree. I bought a Droid recently, and without trying to give it a shameless plug (I'm sure iphone is similar) I was amazed at how well it served my purposes when away from my computer. I don't feel any need at all for a netbook now. And, it fits in my pocket and makes phone calls...
But it sure seems like they're getting more and more of my personal information lately. What I search for, where I surf to, with my Droid where I navigate to, my e-mails, my documents. WOW.
The dial-up network was extended to areas that otherwise would never have been profitable to build by placing an adder on long distance charges and putting that money into a Universal Service Fund, whiched help offset the up-front costs of serving rural areas.
Doing something similar for broadband in this day and age would bring howls of rage.
I suspect there are some parts of the country which just are not serviceable without some type of large footprint (cheap) wireless solution. (My parents also happen to live in one, in rural Michigan). Perhaps this is where the white space parts of the recently freed analog TV spectrum will help.
I asked the salesperson point blank if 'unlimited' meant unlimited, and if that means there is 0% chance of me ever seeing an overage charge regardless of how much I use the phone. He insisted that unlimited truly means unlimited, that there was no cap. I'm not sure whether he was uninformed and believed what he was saying, or whether he was just a good liar. I didn't read the fine print in the contract.
Narimanov and Kildishev reasoned that it should be possible to build a device that makes light curve inwards towards its centre in a similar way. They calculated that this could be done by a cylindrical structure consisting of a central core surrounded by a shell of concentric rings.
Superficially, sounds kind of like a Fresnel lens.
You need to separate yourself (as a/. reader) from the other 99.8% of the population. Backing things up locally is economical, practical, logical, and (here's the kicker) requires some knowledge and dedication.
What is the draw of the online backup service? Do you remember the the chicken roaster that Ron Popeil (sp?) used to sell? It wasn't the machine that made the sale. It was his tagline: "Set it, and forget it!"
Most average people aren't going to set up RAID arrays or Syncback or install additional hard drives into their system to hold the family vacation photos.
It sounds like you have your shit together. And for that, I applaud you. But I suspect that 20 years from now, we'll be hearing all about the pictures, songs, documents, whatever, that were lost when "our computer died."
So I agree with your post. I just think that by equating your own circumstance (knowledgeable computer user correctly locally backing up important data, vulnerable only to a fire, flood, etc) to my Auntie Em (someone told her the digital cameras are the shit, just download all the important pictures to your hard drive) is not adequate.
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One of the guys I work with used to be a "penetration tester"
Boy, you set the ball on the tee, now it's time for someone to hit it out of the park!
Or does the USA just have a higher percentage?
If only I had mod points....
Bob- Happy Nw Yr! What a decade so far. Cubs winning the series, and who would have predicted that the Mayan calendar was really right? Glad I loaded up on all the MSFT back in '10. Are you going to visit your wife's grave next week for the 6th anniversary? kthx!
This was discussed previously on http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/2119201/China-Considering-Cuts-In-Rare-Earth-Metal-Exports
:)
If you hurry up and copy/paste a few comments from there, you may be able to get a cheap +5 Informative.
I agree. I bought a Droid recently, and without trying to give it a shameless plug (I'm sure iphone is similar) I was amazed at how well it served my purposes when away from my computer. I don't feel any need at all for a netbook now. And, it fits in my pocket and makes phone calls...
Then I'm going to file a patent on the process of performing miracles.
There has been some evidence that the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia nearly wiped out Homo Sapiens and contributed to a genetic bottleneck.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JD011652.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
I'll bet you the Predator could see through it.
I guess it's cheaper to sacrifice 5% of revenue than to have to undertake a network upgrade.
This mentality is part of why the U.S. lags so much in broadband.
But it sure seems like they're getting more and more of my personal information lately. What I search for, where I surf to, with my Droid where I navigate to, my e-mails, my documents. WOW.
The dial-up network was extended to areas that otherwise would never have been profitable to build by placing an adder on long distance charges and putting that money into a Universal Service Fund, whiched help offset the up-front costs of serving rural areas. Doing something similar for broadband in this day and age would bring howls of rage. I suspect there are some parts of the country which just are not serviceable without some type of large footprint (cheap) wireless solution. (My parents also happen to live in one, in rural Michigan). Perhaps this is where the white space parts of the recently freed analog TV spectrum will help.
So would this have saved that guy's ass who spent $1M in electricity running SETI@Home on the school's computers?
Perhaps a clandestine kidnapping mission is in order. The unknown kidnappers could then mysteriously release Mr. Atkinson inside the United States.
Moreover, I would not purchase any product made by a company that produces this device. With a few compatriots, we'll solve this problem.
You can use this site to get an estimate.
I asked the salesperson point blank if 'unlimited' meant unlimited, and if that means there is 0% chance of me ever seeing an overage charge regardless of how much I use the phone. He insisted that unlimited truly means unlimited, that there was no cap. I'm not sure whether he was uninformed and believed what he was saying, or whether he was just a good liar. I didn't read the fine print in the contract.
Of course, it couldn't be commercial...it'd have to be homebrew. ;)
A variant of ye olde perpetual motion machine.
Chernobyl is not cosmic radiation.
Narimanov and Kildishev reasoned that it should be possible to build a device that makes light curve inwards towards its centre in a similar way. They calculated that this could be done by a cylindrical structure consisting of a central core surrounded by a shell of concentric rings.
Superficially, sounds kind of like a Fresnel lens.
You need to separate yourself (as a /. reader) from the other 99.8% of the population. Backing things up locally is economical, practical, logical, and (here's the kicker) requires some knowledge and dedication.
What is the draw of the online backup service? Do you remember the the chicken roaster that Ron Popeil (sp?) used to sell? It wasn't the machine that made the sale. It was his tagline: "Set it, and forget it!"
Most average people aren't going to set up RAID arrays or Syncback or install additional hard drives into their system to hold the family vacation photos.
It sounds like you have your shit together. And for that, I applaud you. But I suspect that 20 years from now, we'll be hearing all about the pictures, songs, documents, whatever, that were lost when "our computer died." So I agree with your post. I just think that by equating your own circumstance (knowledgeable computer user correctly locally backing up important data, vulnerable only to a fire, flood, etc) to my Auntie Em (someone told her the digital cameras are the shit, just download all the important pictures to your hard drive) is not adequate.
I guess when the big dog nearly falls for the scam himself, resources magically get devoted to the case.
Apparently those are some pretty big football fields.
I currently have mod points, and nearly modded you flamebait just to piss you off, but decided not to. Hey, they're too precious to waste! ;)