The premise is great "minimum support times need to be written in stone, say a minimum of 5 years of updates from time of sale and any company that refuses to honor the support time should be forced to open up the device and hand over the driver code so another OS can be loaded that is patched." But we all know that the percentage of the "general masses" that would actually do something about their antiquated device would be in the 15% range, probably 5%.
I beg to differ on the saving money arguement... The vast majority of the time, my price comparisons don't even need to account for Sales Tax.
I'm a Techie and to keep my electronics / gadget desires satisfied Amazon / NewEgg / MonoPrice / Etc... beat the local alternatives on base price. Nevermind accounting for sales Tax. I don't expect that taxing Internet sales will have any material impact on my online purchasing habits.
I can picture it now...
Mark Zuckerberg dressed like a jedi, waving his hand... "don't be concerned with those pictures, those are no longer pictures you have any rights to..."
Arguably, I'd say the only one that's really proven itself over the long term is solar; as the Earth is essentially a closed system with only solar energy as an input, it's proven that there is amply "enough" input solar energy falling on half of the globe at any given time to drive that system.
Agree that solar (with appropriate means of storage) is probably the most viable.
But disagree with your statement that the Earth is a closed system. The only input may be solar energy, but there certainly is an output in radiating heat / energy into space. The net must be pretty close to zero, though I imagine it oscilates positive to negative over time (say on the frequency of the ice ages...)
When DFW/IAH gets shutdown the ripples will be national, good luck finding a flight anywhere.
Sorry, but not everything revolves around Texas...
I flew regularly on business for just over a decade and the only time I flew in/out of Texas was when that was my destination.
Seriously why can't we all just ratchet down the rhetoric about a dozen notches and have a bit more rational conversation... (especially in our political discussions)!
Yes, absolutely. Backing up to the cloud implies that you have the originals NOT in the cloud. In this case it appears many people are in shock and awe that the ONLY COPY OF THEIR FILES IN EXISTENCE is no longer available.
There is a difference between backing up to the cloud and storing your sole copy of a file there...
Backups should still exist, whether the originals be at home / work or in the cloud.
It goes well beyond JUST THE PEOPLE WHO DIE...
The traffic delays, wasted fuel, frustrated people, road rage, etc... impacts of distracted driving are a pretty significant effect as well. From my ~15 years of commuting, I'm convinced that highway congestion would be reduced by 10-20% if all the morons on the road were actually paying attention to the road rather than talking, texting, reading, eating, shaving or applying makeup / mascara (the last one boggles my mind - why would ANYONE put a pointy object near their eye while driving.../shudder).
Recording doesn't capture what may be written on the board / projected on a screen. It also wouldn't do well for technical classes with long, cumbersome / detailed formula.
Might work well for literature or history type classes though.
However, IMO the biggest reason not to attempt to record the content is it's not easily searchable / scanable. Unless you spend a large amount of time post-lecture and/or note-taking, then the recorded content isn't very useful later, unless you plan to re-listen to the lectures in their entirety.
Agree on really liking Evernote. I can't say how good it would be for taking class notes without a keyboard, but I find that the more I use it, the more uses I find for it.
Agreed. When talking about earthquakes in the relative middle of the continental US, you can't compare much based on the recent history of frakking... The geology timescale is much, much longer than our attention spans...
Yes, and which was the technologically better platform, VHS or Beta...???
Whether they are better than the competition or not, they have scored a huge coup by bringing a product to market that is very very good in the niche that it is designed to operate and thusly gained a crap-ton of recognition for it. And once again they are driving change in the landscape.
I believe Woz made the world better too.
But I believe that Jobs had a larger and longer term impact
While you may think that Apple didn't affect "the masses". Even though they had 10% market share, you can't argue that Apple didn't affect MS Windows (for the better), and did over the decades have a pretty significant effect on desktop computing for "the masses".
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The premise is great "minimum support times need to be written in stone, say a minimum of 5 years of updates from time of sale and any company that refuses to honor the support time should be forced to open up the device and hand over the driver code so another OS can be loaded that is patched." But we all know that the percentage of the "general masses" that would actually do something about their antiquated device would be in the 15% range, probably 5%.
I beg to differ on the saving money arguement... The vast majority of the time, my price comparisons don't even need to account for Sales Tax. I'm a Techie and to keep my electronics / gadget desires satisfied Amazon / NewEgg / MonoPrice / Etc... beat the local alternatives on base price. Nevermind accounting for sales Tax. I don't expect that taxing Internet sales will have any material impact on my online purchasing habits.
I can picture it now... Mark Zuckerberg dressed like a jedi, waving his hand... "don't be concerned with those pictures, those are no longer pictures you have any rights to..."
I would call it "RAID-5 for WiFi" Or how about RAID-Fi... :-)
Arguably, I'd say the only one that's really proven itself over the long term is solar; as the Earth is essentially a closed system with only solar energy as an input, it's proven that there is amply "enough" input solar energy falling on half of the globe at any given time to drive that system.
Agree that solar (with appropriate means of storage) is probably the most viable. But disagree with your statement that the Earth is a closed system. The only input may be solar energy, but there certainly is an output in radiating heat / energy into space. The net must be pretty close to zero, though I imagine it oscilates positive to negative over time (say on the frequency of the ice ages...)
But our attention span is only about 15 minut.... squirrel...!!!
When DFW/IAH gets shutdown the ripples will be national, good luck finding a flight anywhere.
Sorry, but not everything revolves around Texas... I flew regularly on business for just over a decade and the only time I flew in/out of Texas was when that was my destination. Seriously why can't we all just ratchet down the rhetoric about a dozen notches and have a bit more rational conversation... (especially in our political discussions)!
LOL... On what plant / alien world is furlongs/fortnight a relevant or commonly used measure of velocity?
Yes, absolutely. Backing up to the cloud implies that you have the originals NOT in the cloud. In this case it appears many people are in shock and awe that the ONLY COPY OF THEIR FILES IN EXISTENCE is no longer available.
There is a difference between backing up to the cloud and storing your sole copy of a file there...
Backups should still exist, whether the originals be at home / work or in the cloud.
It goes well beyond JUST THE PEOPLE WHO DIE... The traffic delays, wasted fuel, frustrated people, road rage, etc... impacts of distracted driving are a pretty significant effect as well. From my ~15 years of commuting, I'm convinced that highway congestion would be reduced by 10-20% if all the morons on the road were actually paying attention to the road rather than talking, texting, reading, eating, shaving or applying makeup / mascara (the last one boggles my mind - why would ANYONE put a pointy object near their eye while driving... /shudder).
Recording doesn't capture what may be written on the board / projected on a screen. It also wouldn't do well for technical classes with long, cumbersome / detailed formula. Might work well for literature or history type classes though. However, IMO the biggest reason not to attempt to record the content is it's not easily searchable / scanable. Unless you spend a large amount of time post-lecture and/or note-taking, then the recorded content isn't very useful later, unless you plan to re-listen to the lectures in their entirety.
Agree on really liking Evernote. I can't say how good it would be for taking class notes without a keyboard, but I find that the more I use it, the more uses I find for it.
Agreed. When talking about earthquakes in the relative middle of the continental US, you can't compare much based on the recent history of frakking... The geology timescale is much, much longer than our attention spans...
Yes, and which was the technologically better platform, VHS or Beta...??? Whether they are better than the competition or not, they have scored a huge coup by bringing a product to market that is very very good in the niche that it is designed to operate and thusly gained a crap-ton of recognition for it. And once again they are driving change in the landscape.
They probably would if he asked, but he probably doesn't ask.
I believe Woz made the world better too. But I believe that Jobs had a larger and longer term impact While you may think that Apple didn't affect "the masses". Even though they had 10% market share, you can't argue that Apple didn't affect MS Windows (for the better), and did over the decades have a pretty significant effect on desktop computing for "the masses".