My company, which is quite straight-laced, has a very short email retention policy. Email in your Outlook client is only accessible for 30 days before it gets put into some kind of backup system, where it only has another month or two before it's gone forever.
You can search the backups with a special tool, but it is too painful to do frequently.
You are not allowed to create PST files or otherwise store email locally, in any format. Doing so is a firing offense.
Now, I don't know what they do with the data on the server once it's lost to me. I'm sure they are complying with the law. But they have designed an email system that prevents you from using it as personal long-term storage, as you'd do with your private Gmail account. I always assumed this had to be for liability reasons. It sure is inconvenient, though.
I am usually the last person plugging anything from Microsoft, but look at the Surface tablets. They are full Windows 8 devices with an active Wacom digitizer. Writing and sketching on a Surface is eerily smooth and natural-feeling. The screen is 208 ppi, which is not super high, but may be good enough. (You can also trivially pan/zoom your workspace.)
It may not be what you need, but if sketching notes is one of your big use cases, it's worth a look.
Or, it may still be in the devices, I don't know, I don't have one. I just remembered there was a big stink about it when they announced the feature years ago.
> But how plausibly can a car judge whether keeping me and my 2 year old infant alive is more or less important than the unknown occupants of another car?
Obviously, your car will need to be made aware of everyone's social graph so that it can weigh the value of all lives involved.
Just kidding!... kind of. I can see this being a headline some years from now.
I spent a few minutes looking at the linked site, and searching, and could not find the answer to that question. There were some promising-looking links to freedomboxfoundation.org but the site was not responding.
Either I need to turn in my geek card, or more likely, someone needs to turn in their web content editor card.
Your AT&T story reminds me of my own bad experiences with that carrier. I've been on a pre-paid carrier for a long time now and find I much prefer it.
My bill is completely predictable, and best of all, my phone company doesn't have access to any of my billing information. They can't just decide to charge me a mystery fee, or otherwise screw up the billing.
It's great and I will never go back to post-paid and contracts.
It does seem obvious, and I'm on your side, but consider the mindset of the other side. There are people, a *lot* of people, who consider using almost any kind of recreational drugs to be deeply immoral.
Their concerns are not born of the violence of the drug business, but the chemical itself. If you miracled up a pot plant from another dimension and used it in perfect isolation, they'd still consider that act to be immoral and worth society's effort to stamp out.
You're not going to win the day with arguments of practicality. The pro-legalization forces have to beat both the folks who think that the War on Drugs is an important ethical position, and the folks who benefit from the growing police state that the War on Drugs sponsors.
I have a Nexus 7. Both the 2012 and 2013 versions will get wiped if unlocked. If I find that I really do need to root, I will, but it's enough of an inconvenience that I haven't done it yet.
> The reason we pay so much for health care is because the recipient doesn't know and/or doesn't care how much it costs, namely because they don't pay for it. Likewise, they don't shop around.
It's hard to shop around when in some cases they can't even tell you the costs.
I had to go to the ER for a bad cut. As they were stitching me up, the finance person came in with a clipboard to have me sign things. I asked, "how much is all this going to cost?" She laughed--laughed!--and said I'd find out in a few months.
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Relevant non-XKCD comic:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthe...
My company, which is quite straight-laced, has a very short email retention policy. Email in your Outlook client is only accessible for 30 days before it gets put into some kind of backup system, where it only has another month or two before it's gone forever.
You can search the backups with a special tool, but it is too painful to do frequently.
You are not allowed to create PST files or otherwise store email locally, in any format. Doing so is a firing offense.
Now, I don't know what they do with the data on the server once it's lost to me. I'm sure they are complying with the law. But they have designed an email system that prevents you from using it as personal long-term storage, as you'd do with your private Gmail account. I always assumed this had to be for liability reasons. It sure is inconvenient, though.
When someone on the street asks me to sign a petition, the answer is always no. It doesn't matter how worthy the stated cause is:
- Free, nutritious school lunches for whales
- Not grinding minorities into paste at the border
- Municipal high-speed internet
You don't know what you are really signing until you read the fine print, and the fine print under the fine print.
I am usually the last person plugging anything from Microsoft, but look at the Surface tablets. They are full Windows 8 devices with an active Wacom digitizer. Writing and sketching on a Surface is eerily smooth and natural-feeling. The screen is 208 ppi, which is not super high, but may be good enough. (You can also trivially pan/zoom your workspace.)
It may not be what you need, but if sketching notes is one of your big use cases, it's worth a look.
Kindle had text-to-speech but it may have been killed off by copyright matters:
http://www.fastcompany.com/116...
Or, it may still be in the devices, I don't know, I don't have one. I just remembered there was a big stink about it when they announced the feature years ago.
Thank you, Senator.
> But how plausibly can a car judge whether keeping me and my 2 year old infant alive is more or less important than the unknown occupants of another car?
Obviously, your car will need to be made aware of everyone's social graph so that it can weigh the value of all lives involved.
Just kidding! ... kind of. I can see this being a headline some years from now.
I took a look at their site, and it seems like their technology is too good to be true... it's Star Trek class.
http://georesonance.com/
I spent a few minutes looking at the linked site, and searching, and could not find the answer to that question. There were some promising-looking links to freedomboxfoundation.org but the site was not responding.
Either I need to turn in my geek card, or more likely, someone needs to turn in their web content editor card.
I had exactly the same idea the other day. I'm surprised that this doesn't exist yet, in some form or another.
If you get one but are not a developer, is there anything you can enjoy with it yet?
Your AT&T story reminds me of my own bad experiences with that carrier. I've been on a pre-paid carrier for a long time now and find I much prefer it.
My bill is completely predictable, and best of all, my phone company doesn't have access to any of my billing information. They can't just decide to charge me a mystery fee, or otherwise screw up the billing.
It's great and I will never go back to post-paid and contracts.
How did I not know about this firmware project? Thanks for posting that!
WDTV is fantastic... sometimes, even computer guys don't want another computer around.
"THAT IS TOO MUCH VERMOUTH."
It does seem obvious, and I'm on your side, but consider the mindset of the other side. There are people, a *lot* of people, who consider using almost any kind of recreational drugs to be deeply immoral.
Their concerns are not born of the violence of the drug business, but the chemical itself. If you miracled up a pot plant from another dimension and used it in perfect isolation, they'd still consider that act to be immoral and worth society's effort to stamp out.
You're not going to win the day with arguments of practicality. The pro-legalization forces have to beat both the folks who think that the War on Drugs is an important ethical position, and the folks who benefit from the growing police state that the War on Drugs sponsors.
They should have named Classic Shell "Tron" instead, because it fights for the User.
I have a Nexus 7. Both the 2012 and 2013 versions will get wiped if unlocked. If I find that I really do need to root, I will, but it's enough of an inconvenience that I haven't done it yet.
At least there's a nice tool for it:
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
It would be nice if I could unlock/root my device without wiping it at least.
This is a great article that discusses the physics behind energy storage, and why hydrocarbons are so hard to beat in some areas.
http://www.thebulletin.org/limits-energy-storage-technology
> The reason we pay so much for health care is because the recipient doesn't know and/or doesn't care how much it costs, namely because they don't pay for it. Likewise, they don't shop around.
It's hard to shop around when in some cases they can't even tell you the costs.
I had to go to the ER for a bad cut. As they were stitching me up, the finance person came in with a clipboard to have me sign things. I asked, "how much is all this going to cost?" She laughed--laughed!--and said I'd find out in a few months.
I looked up "horse ebooks" on Twitter and I assure you, it still isn't interesting.
Don't just say, "go to the library," give us something to work with if you are familiar with the topic.
You can use a USB drive via a USB on-the-go cable and a few bucks of software. It's not perfect but it gets me by.
We've already institutionalized "no joke" zones at airports. Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time before there are more such restrictions.
> should stick to my video collection and watch 20+ year old movies only
Your proposal is acceptable!