Hoarding is mostly a problem when it causes some sort of harm. Usually this harm manifests as danger (keeping lots of old paper around can be a fire hazard) or space issues (not having enough room for all of your stuff.) In the digital world, there are two main dangers to hoarding: ediscovery and running out of space.
The latter is almost completely irrelevant in the context of e-mail. E-mail messages are so tiny and hard drives are so large that it's ludicrous to be concerned over them. A liberal estimate of my lifetime of e-mail is a little over half a gigabyte. Even the smallest (new) USB flash drives would hold that with room to spare.
The former is more of a concern, but I think that the vast majority of people will never have to worry about it.
I find that Maildir works better than mbox for my purposes. Roughly all of the same pros, plus: 4) Doesn't require locking your entire mailbox to modify one message. 5) Resistant to file/inode corruption (will likely only corrupt one message instead of several.) 6) Can essentially use shell tools to copy individual messages.
One thing that's neat to do with maildir mailboxes is to search using grep+xargs and copy the messages you find into a new maildir mailbox (named, perhaps, searchresults). Then you have a handy mailbox populated with your search results. I imagine one could even do this using procmail, so that you could populate the mailbox remotely.
mairix is good, but it has some warts and it is not under development anymore. Among other things, it can run out of memory, has problems with parsing certain multipart messages, and can't search for an IP address (or any other string with dot-separated tokens.)
It's about the best I've found, but I wish someone would pick up development and fix some of the issues. As time goes on, bit-rot is going to set in and mairix will get less and less useful.
Lots of people have been suggesting gmail, and that's great for some. There are some significant limitations/constraints, though.
1) I use the common "business identifier@vanitydomain.com" trick to help identify who is selling my e-mail address. Gmail has plus-addressing, which works reasonably well, however it is imperfect. Some spammers know about plus-addressing, and strip the plus.
Google Apps for Domains would work, except that you're pretty limited in the number of addresses you can use without paying exorbitant (for these purposes) fees.
2) Forwarding mail to Google destroys valuable header information. Redirecting mail can cause it to get blocked by the spam filter (sometimes so badly that it doesn't even make it into your spam folder.) So even keeping your own mail server and just bouncing everything up there isn't a viable solution.
3) Having Google pop mail from your server is probably the most workable technical solution, but then Google has your password. Also, there are size limitations, in case you happen to have large attachments that you need to preserve.
The OP may not have any of these issues, in which case Gmail is a great choice. Unfortunately, I'm looking for the same thing (searchability) and Gmail won't work for me.
A long time ago (back when 60GB PS3s were still on the shelves) I tried this out. I found the experience to be lackluster, particularly since rewinding didn't work at all on transcoded streams. I ended up taking the PS3 back. Has this issue been resolved yet?
If you're a consumer you're almost certainly doing this. Unless you bought your home outright, only shop at local farmer's markets, sew your own clothes, and don't purchase any entertainment to speak of.
MS, while making some really annoying calls, and more than a few questionable ones, hasn't really harmed me, or anyone I know nearly as much as Sony.
I think it's more a conflict of interest than most of what MS does
I think this is only because Microsoft has become a de facto standard on the desktop, and because people have short memories. Had Microsoft behaved ethically in the 90s, the PC landscape would look very different (and would likely be better.)
The wierd thing is, why can't Google pull an Apple? The iPhone gets updates from Apple, leaving out the carrier middleman, even if the user is paying a contract on the iPhone.
Because Android is an open platform. The carriers take Android, mold it to fit their needs, and put it on their phones. Google, or rather the Open Handset Alliance, doesn't have any say on it. That's how carriers can get away with modifying the source of the Hotspot app to only work if the customer pays extra.
This is the downside to GPLv2. The Tivoization loophole means that carriers can do this, release the source, and you still can't (necessarily) modify the source and put it on your phone.
Google started taking steps to address some of this by moving more of their apps to the app store, but you still have issues with system libraries and the kernel. Without root, an app can't update these.
Probably the fact that the AppleTV requires a external computer to get its media from, and that computer has to run iTunes (which won't import/play most pirated media--and even if you coerce it into doing so, the AppleTV won't play it.) WDTV/O!Play both take media from a locally connected hard drive, and play pretty much anything you throw at them.
It's a shame, really. I've ripped my entire DVD collection to a format that is unsupported by iTunes, which might matter if I even had a Windows/Mac running 24/7 from which to draw the content. The WDTV interface just sucks. It's a horrible experience. The O!Play doesn't look much better (I declined to buy one to try it out after the terrible WDTV experience.) Apple really shines at making user interfaces, but without samba streaming and support for high-profile h.264, AppleTV holds no interest for me.
Worse, really, is if 22 minutes shows cost the same as 44 minute shows.
That said, 2 hours a day sounds like a lot. I pay about $60/mo total for my cable TV, but I bet I watch 6 hours per week. If Apple gets all of the shows I watch, rental prices would be worth it even if it's $0.99 across the board. If it's anything less for 22 minute shows, it's an even bigger win. Drop cable and save at least $12/mo? Definitely.
I think it could be fine for catching up on shows you've missed, assuming the shows come to rental the day after they air. Hulu's usually a week behind. Of course, DVRs completely screw up the picture and make things like "catching up" almost pointless.
Apple needs to be dealing in volume. $10 for an entire 22 episode season rental, where the timer is per episode and doesn't start until you begin watching it. That way they get better revenue (people paying for entire seasons instead of individual episodes) and they aren't completely ripping you off on the price. Better still, give an option to pay the difference and buy the season if you decide that you like the show. They'd probably get more sales that way, as consumers already have a sunk cost.
I know, but the 3gs is still on sale, and for half the price of the cheapest iPhone4. And without the attenuation issues:)
Since the flaw on the iP4 is remediated by a case...I saw no reason to buy a year-old product instead of the new one.
And this is really the reason that it's not as big a deal as lots of people made it out to be. I still think it's a terrible flaw that should have been caught before it was released, but it shouldn't be a dealbreaker for most people. The main complaint I would have had is that the case should have come with the phone--which Apple is doing at least for another month.
"But when Steve said "You're holding it wrong", the preponderance of iPhone 4 owners said "Yes! YES! I am holding it wrong! It's my fault! Thank you sir, may I have another?""
type bullshit around here.
All but the absolute "Steve Jobs is God" wackjobs realize that Apple humped the dog HARD on the antenna design of the iPhone4.
I agree. It's cool to hate Apple.
iPhone vs. Android is very much a subjective issue. There are reasons to buy or avoid either, depending upon your needs. Personally, I have a hard time deciding between them (having used a Moto Droid and an iPhone.) In either case, I'm giving something up to get other features.
With Google, most of what you give up is the great cloud support. With Apple, most of what you give up is sovereignty over what you can install. In my case, I want a native Google Voice app that integrates as well as it does on Android.
I had a iP3g, and the fucker lacked some features I needed that are present in the iP4. So I bought one.
What features? Unless you needed the front-facing camera, the 3GS using iOS4 will work just as well as the iPhone4. The feature differences between the two are fluff--almost certainly nothing that would be required for the job. Unless you have very niche needs (filming HD video, 802.11n, handheld gyroscope) the 3GS would have worked, and wouldn't have the attenuation issue that the iPhone4 has.
I would also think that as iOS is moved to higher power machines, xcode or something like would also be made available to code on these machines. Running the emulator for iOS is necessary for the moment. At some point the devices will be powerful enough to allow software development in situ. The iPad almost could run a graphics based IDE with a set of fixed routines.
I can't imagine coding on what is essentially a single-tasking device. I can't imagine sitting at a desk and using a touchscreen over a mouse. And I don't think I'm alone. There would need to be significant changes to iOS for it to be a decent coding platform--not the least of which would be an easy way to make it dual-screen (documentation/reference on one screen, Xcode on the other.)
Of course, the primary advantage of gold is that it's rare. For all intents and purposes, there's a finite supply, though there is still gold in the ground which we haven't gotten to yet (so the usable supply can increase finitely.) They can print paper money pretty infinitely, which honestly makes it unsuitable for savings and investment if you want real stability. Of course, all that's in theory. In practice, the price of gold has been dropping since a peak in the early eighties.
For its practical uses, gold should not be at the price that it's at. But it's the longest-standing investment strategy in human history, and I guess that counts for something.
Haven't you been paying attention? The supply of helium on earth is finite, and helium that we use escapes into space. Once it's gone, it's gone. So if the any entity dumps it onto the market, they're essentially throwing away a non-renewable resource forever.
Fix that for you. So why does it matter that it's the government, again?
What's happening here is that there is a store of He the extraction/storage of which has already been paid for, and which is not intended to be restocked. Usually when something like that happens, it goes for a bargain rate.
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Hoarding is mostly a problem when it causes some sort of harm. Usually this harm manifests as danger (keeping lots of old paper around can be a fire hazard) or space issues (not having enough room for all of your stuff.) In the digital world, there are two main dangers to hoarding: ediscovery and running out of space.
The latter is almost completely irrelevant in the context of e-mail. E-mail messages are so tiny and hard drives are so large that it's ludicrous to be concerned over them. A liberal estimate of my lifetime of e-mail is a little over half a gigabyte. Even the smallest (new) USB flash drives would hold that with room to spare.
The former is more of a concern, but I think that the vast majority of people will never have to worry about it.
I find that Maildir works better than mbox for my purposes. Roughly all of the same pros, plus:
4) Doesn't require locking your entire mailbox to modify one message.
5) Resistant to file/inode corruption (will likely only corrupt one message instead of several.)
6) Can essentially use shell tools to copy individual messages.
One thing that's neat to do with maildir mailboxes is to search using grep+xargs and copy the messages you find into a new maildir mailbox (named, perhaps, searchresults). Then you have a handy mailbox populated with your search results. I imagine one could even do this using procmail, so that you could populate the mailbox remotely.
mairix is good, but it has some warts and it is not under development anymore. Among other things, it can run out of memory, has problems with parsing certain multipart messages, and can't search for an IP address (or any other string with dot-separated tokens.)
It's about the best I've found, but I wish someone would pick up development and fix some of the issues. As time goes on, bit-rot is going to set in and mairix will get less and less useful.
Lots of people have been suggesting gmail, and that's great for some. There are some significant limitations/constraints, though.
1) I use the common "business identifier@vanitydomain.com" trick to help identify who is selling my e-mail address. Gmail has plus-addressing, which works reasonably well, however it is imperfect. Some spammers know about plus-addressing, and strip the plus.
Google Apps for Domains would work, except that you're pretty limited in the number of addresses you can use without paying exorbitant (for these purposes) fees.
2) Forwarding mail to Google destroys valuable header information. Redirecting mail can cause it to get blocked by the spam filter (sometimes so badly that it doesn't even make it into your spam folder.) So even keeping your own mail server and just bouncing everything up there isn't a viable solution.
3) Having Google pop mail from your server is probably the most workable technical solution, but then Google has your password. Also, there are size limitations, in case you happen to have large attachments that you need to preserve.
The OP may not have any of these issues, in which case Gmail is a great choice. Unfortunately, I'm looking for the same thing (searchability) and Gmail won't work for me.
However, mairix works reasonably well.
Good to know, thanks. I'll look into some options.
A long time ago (back when 60GB PS3s were still on the shelves) I tried this out. I found the experience to be lackluster, particularly since rewinding didn't work at all on transcoded streams. I ended up taking the PS3 back. Has this issue been resolved yet?
Me, too, to a point. But if iOS user's lack of Flash causes more web developers to embrace non-crappy standards, I'm okay with that.
Right. Backups. I guess that's really what "this" is.
Well, I do want to play backups. And I have the legal right to make them, and to use them instead of my regular media.
If you're a consumer you're almost certainly doing this. Unless you bought your home outright, only shop at local farmer's markets, sew your own clothes, and don't purchase any entertainment to speak of.
MS, while making some really annoying calls, and more than a few questionable ones, hasn't really harmed me, or anyone I know nearly as much as Sony.
I think it's more a conflict of interest than most of what MS does
I think this is only because Microsoft has become a de facto standard on the desktop, and because people have short memories. Had Microsoft behaved ethically in the 90s, the PC landscape would look very different (and would likely be better.)
Wow, all three replies to the grandparent completely missed the point/joke.
The wierd thing is, why can't Google pull an Apple? The iPhone gets updates from Apple, leaving out the carrier middleman, even if the user is paying a contract on the iPhone.
Because Android is an open platform. The carriers take Android, mold it to fit their needs, and put it on their phones. Google, or rather the Open Handset Alliance, doesn't have any say on it. That's how carriers can get away with modifying the source of the Hotspot app to only work if the customer pays extra.
This is the downside to GPLv2. The Tivoization loophole means that carriers can do this, release the source, and you still can't (necessarily) modify the source and put it on your phone.
Google started taking steps to address some of this by moving more of their apps to the app store, but you still have issues with system libraries and the kernel. Without root, an app can't update these.
Probably the fact that the AppleTV requires a external computer to get its media from, and that computer has to run iTunes (which won't import/play most pirated media--and even if you coerce it into doing so, the AppleTV won't play it.) WDTV/O!Play both take media from a locally connected hard drive, and play pretty much anything you throw at them.
It's a shame, really. I've ripped my entire DVD collection to a format that is unsupported by iTunes, which might matter if I even had a Windows/Mac running 24/7 from which to draw the content. The WDTV interface just sucks. It's a horrible experience. The O!Play doesn't look much better (I declined to buy one to try it out after the terrible WDTV experience.) Apple really shines at making user interfaces, but without samba streaming and support for high-profile h.264, AppleTV holds no interest for me.
I did this on my netbook, but it made it really hard to type.
Worse, really, is if 22 minutes shows cost the same as 44 minute shows.
That said, 2 hours a day sounds like a lot. I pay about $60/mo total for my cable TV, but I bet I watch 6 hours per week. If Apple gets all of the shows I watch, rental prices would be worth it even if it's $0.99 across the board. If it's anything less for 22 minute shows, it's an even bigger win. Drop cable and save at least $12/mo? Definitely.
I think it could be fine for catching up on shows you've missed, assuming the shows come to rental the day after they air. Hulu's usually a week behind. Of course, DVRs completely screw up the picture and make things like "catching up" almost pointless.
Apple needs to be dealing in volume. $10 for an entire 22 episode season rental, where the timer is per episode and doesn't start until you begin watching it. That way they get better revenue (people paying for entire seasons instead of individual episodes) and they aren't completely ripping you off on the price. Better still, give an option to pay the difference and buy the season if you decide that you like the show. They'd probably get more sales that way, as consumers already have a sunk cost.
I didn't have a 3gs, but an old-school 3g.
I know, but the 3gs is still on sale, and for half the price of the cheapest iPhone4. And without the attenuation issues :)
Since the flaw on the iP4 is remediated by a case...I saw no reason to buy a year-old product instead of the new one.
And this is really the reason that it's not as big a deal as lots of people made it out to be. I still think it's a terrible flaw that should have been caught before it was released, but it shouldn't be a dealbreaker for most people. The main complaint I would have had is that the case should have come with the phone--which Apple is doing at least for another month.
Sorry, but I'm getting fucking sick of the:
"But when Steve said "You're holding it wrong", the preponderance of iPhone 4 owners said "Yes! YES! I am holding it wrong! It's my fault! Thank you sir, may I have another?""
type bullshit around here.
All but the absolute "Steve Jobs is God" wackjobs realize that Apple humped the dog HARD on the antenna design of the iPhone4.
I agree. It's cool to hate Apple.
iPhone vs. Android is very much a subjective issue. There are reasons to buy or avoid either, depending upon your needs. Personally, I have a hard time deciding between them (having used a Moto Droid and an iPhone.) In either case, I'm giving something up to get other features.
With Google, most of what you give up is the great cloud support. With Apple, most of what you give up is sovereignty over what you can install. In my case, I want a native Google Voice app that integrates as well as it does on Android.
I had a iP3g, and the fucker lacked some features I needed that are present in the iP4. So I bought one.
What features? Unless you needed the front-facing camera, the 3GS using iOS4 will work just as well as the iPhone4. The feature differences between the two are fluff--almost certainly nothing that would be required for the job. Unless you have very niche needs (filming HD video, 802.11n, handheld gyroscope) the 3GS would have worked, and wouldn't have the attenuation issue that the iPhone4 has.
I would also think that as iOS is moved to higher power machines, xcode or something like would also be made available to code on these machines. Running the emulator for iOS is necessary for the moment. At some point the devices will be powerful enough to allow software development in situ. The iPad almost could run a graphics based IDE with a set of fixed routines.
I can't imagine coding on what is essentially a single-tasking device. I can't imagine sitting at a desk and using a touchscreen over a mouse. And I don't think I'm alone. There would need to be significant changes to iOS for it to be a decent coding platform--not the least of which would be an easy way to make it dual-screen (documentation/reference on one screen, Xcode on the other.)
Be careful there--you're spreading FUD:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1760910&cid=33313684
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1760910&cid=33313876
Honestly, I pictured it like this: &
Of course, the primary advantage of gold is that it's rare. For all intents and purposes, there's a finite supply, though there is still gold in the ground which we haven't gotten to yet (so the usable supply can increase finitely.) They can print paper money pretty infinitely, which honestly makes it unsuitable for savings and investment if you want real stability. Of course, all that's in theory. In practice, the price of gold has been dropping since a peak in the early eighties.
For its practical uses, gold should not be at the price that it's at. But it's the longest-standing investment strategy in human history, and I guess that counts for something.
Haven't you been paying attention? The supply of helium on earth is finite, and helium that we use escapes into space. Once it's gone, it's gone. So if the any entity dumps it onto the market, they're essentially throwing away a non-renewable resource forever.
Fix that for you. So why does it matter that it's the government, again?
What's happening here is that there is a store of He the extraction/storage of which has already been paid for, and which is not intended to be restocked. Usually when something like that happens, it goes for a bargain rate.
Why? The market will sort itself out. Just like it does everywhere else.
False dichotomy. Try again.