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1 device per person, per year would probably end up being high (I doubt there are 300 million devices worth treating as sensitive in the U.S.) and would be essentially irrelevant to the environment.
Conservation is a good way to save money, but we need to come up with ways of creating things that don't harm the environment, and ways of dealing with waste in ways that don't harm the environment, and not ways of constantly struggling to do less harm.
Jpegs don't degrade over time. If you go through repeated open->edit->save cycles, there is a degradation in the quality of the image, but if it is just stored as data, it acts like any other data (maybe 'over time' was just awkward phrasing...).
NBC and CBS are far more than TV networks, so it doesn't directly address your point, but presumably, those companies integrated other aspects of the broadcasting business into their operations to save money, not to spend it.
That they provide more eyeballs at a lower price point is a huge aspect of the success that Google has had; I don't know, but I expect that being cheaper is part of those lower prices.
Make sure it is a heat proof safe (I have seen people recommend getting media safes), not just a fire proof safe. Melted circuits are just as bad as charred circuits.
Off site storage of one backup is probably worth it if a fire safe is worth considering.
When things get to the point that Open Office starts culling formats, it is more likely than not that someone in the data recovery field (or some other concerned individual) will build a Linux VM that supports the old version that can deal with those formats.
On the other hand, staying as close to text as possible and using widespread/open formats has present day advantages. (html and such may die, but the idea that there will be no way to look at the file is just silly; somewhat amusingly, a good strategy probably involves rendering svg to a binary format like png, and dumping binary databases to something like csv (if size allows))
Are you certain of the integrity of every bit on those floppy disks? That's a lot different than not having a problem the last time you pulled a file off of one of them.
I tend to agree that a lot of media and storage failures are due to hammer-hands, but why risk it when the companies selling the products are almost universally competing on price.
So start building VM's of operating systems and software that are in use. Archive those. Far from perfect or complete, but it should narrow the scope of the problem a little bit.
As far as personal stuff, I think the best solution is to have 2 or more live copies of all important data and just migrate them to whatever makes the most sense at a given point of time, and then also have backups of stuff. That doesn't work with the question, but there isn't really a cheap answer to the question at this point.
It isn't about affordability, it is about making sense to people.
As much as anything, I have no desire to store and manage 200 discs, just so that I can watch that many movies on demand (or feel good about having them on storage). I don't think it is uncommon to have hundreds of movies on hand, but I'm sure it isn't typical.
I've cured myself of the notion that they won't be available in the future (if anything, content will be more available), which helps with the human tendency to hoard things.
If you don't have any plans to play it back on a 5 foot screen that you sit 8 feet (maybe even closer...) from, it makes the most sense to buy the DVD.
I don't push my computer real hard, but I am probably above the 50th percentile when you start dealing with all the people who use their computers for browsing and card games, and with 2 gigabytes of ram (that's $30 these days), the disk doesn't enter into task switching performance. I wait for things to load into memory now and then, but a big chunk of that wait is because I am too paranoid to turn off my antivirus software.
In addition to the distance, it depends on what part of the rod lifecycle it is in, what the shielding is (you mention being in orbit), and how long you are exposed. That's an awful lot to put into a graph.
Every national carrier offers nationwide, and phones generally have an option not to roam on other networks (which often still costs money, even with nationwide coverage), so you either didn't bother to turn off other network roaming, or you had a regional plan (for a smaller geographic area), that included more minutes for the same price, but charged you a roaming fee if you left that area.
Basically, you are complaining that you didn't understand the agreement that your cell phone was offered under (Maybe I didn't help the situation when I referred to AT&T, but the company that was Cingular is now part of AT&T).
If you had paid attention, you could have gotten the national plan, and then you would have what you asked for (but maybe you would be complaining that you don't get as many minutes as people with a regional plan, I'm not sure).
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So why not start with unformatted text and build from there?
Sure, it might be frustrating some of the time, but good luck convincing me that it is more frustrating than no copy/paste at all.
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He is talking about importing formulas from Word.
I tried it and then stopped trying because it didn't work very well.
1 device per person, per year would probably end up being high (I doubt there are 300 million devices worth treating as sensitive in the U.S.) and would be essentially irrelevant to the environment.
Conservation is a good way to save money, but we need to come up with ways of creating things that don't harm the environment, and ways of dealing with waste in ways that don't harm the environment, and not ways of constantly struggling to do less harm.
Jpegs don't degrade over time. If you go through repeated open->edit->save cycles, there is a degradation in the quality of the image, but if it is just stored as data, it acts like any other data (maybe 'over time' was just awkward phrasing...).
It's amazing how often the reaction to bad government is to try to hide from it, rather than to try to fix it.
I guess there is personal risk, but it doesn't seem a whole lot worse than the risk of living in a world that you think you need to hide from.
Google is ridiculously more profitable than NBC Universal or CBS:
Google: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=GOOG&annual
NBC: http://www.ge.com/ar2007/mda_segop_summary.jsp
CBS: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=CBS&annual
NBC and CBS are far more than TV networks, so it doesn't directly address your point, but presumably, those companies integrated other aspects of the broadcasting business into their operations to save money, not to spend it.
That they provide more eyeballs at a lower price point is a huge aspect of the success that Google has had; I don't know, but I expect that being cheaper is part of those lower prices.
I would guess that it is a licensing issue more than it is an explicit decision to stop supporting the code (but I have no idea).
I guess someone concerned about future format conversions would add Star Office to their VMs.
Make sure it is a heat proof safe (I have seen people recommend getting media safes), not just a fire proof safe. Melted circuits are just as bad as charred circuits.
Off site storage of one backup is probably worth it if a fire safe is worth considering.
When things get to the point that Open Office starts culling formats, it is more likely than not that someone in the data recovery field (or some other concerned individual) will build a Linux VM that supports the old version that can deal with those formats.
Based on that line of reasoning, it might not be easy or cheap to access those formats( http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/File_formats ), but it will almost certainly be possible.
On the other hand, staying as close to text as possible and using widespread/open formats has present day advantages. (html and such may die, but the idea that there will be no way to look at the file is just silly; somewhat amusingly, a good strategy probably involves rendering svg to a binary format like png, and dumping binary databases to something like csv (if size allows))
A lot of people shoot home movies and then become obsessed with preserving the footage. That adds up fast.
It seems that deciding what isn't important is a hard part of backing up.
If you are really serious about it you will; it might be running in a VM though.
Just build a VM and install the last working version of VMware in it.
It will only really be complicated after a few generations.
Are you certain of the integrity of every bit on those floppy disks? That's a lot different than not having a problem the last time you pulled a file off of one of them.
I tend to agree that a lot of media and storage failures are due to hammer-hands, but why risk it when the companies selling the products are almost universally competing on price.
So start building VM's of operating systems and software that are in use. Archive those. Far from perfect or complete, but it should narrow the scope of the problem a little bit.
As far as personal stuff, I think the best solution is to have 2 or more live copies of all important data and just migrate them to whatever makes the most sense at a given point of time, and then also have backups of stuff. That doesn't work with the question, but there isn't really a cheap answer to the question at this point.
It isn't about affordability, it is about making sense to people.
As much as anything, I have no desire to store and manage 200 discs, just so that I can watch that many movies on demand (or feel good about having them on storage). I don't think it is uncommon to have hundreds of movies on hand, but I'm sure it isn't typical.
I've cured myself of the notion that they won't be available in the future (if anything, content will be more available), which helps with the human tendency to hoard things.
200 DVDs is a lot. Most people rent.
(I'm sure it isn't the most, but it is way above typical and average)
If you don't have any plans to play it back on a 5 foot screen that you sit 8 feet (maybe even closer...) from, it makes the most sense to buy the DVD.
I don't push my computer real hard, but I am probably above the 50th percentile when you start dealing with all the people who use their computers for browsing and card games, and with 2 gigabytes of ram (that's $30 these days), the disk doesn't enter into task switching performance. I wait for things to load into memory now and then, but a big chunk of that wait is because I am too paranoid to turn off my antivirus software.
Why would you bother calling someone else a fanboy?
In addition to the distance, it depends on what part of the rod lifecycle it is in, what the shielding is (you mention being in orbit), and how long you are exposed. That's an awful lot to put into a graph.
Maybe there are laws like that in a few places, but it isn't by any means universal.
Because you agreed to it.
Every national carrier offers nationwide, and phones generally have an option not to roam on other networks (which often still costs money, even with nationwide coverage), so you either didn't bother to turn off other network roaming, or you had a regional plan (for a smaller geographic area), that included more minutes for the same price, but charged you a roaming fee if you left that area.
Basically, you are complaining that you didn't understand the agreement that your cell phone was offered under (Maybe I didn't help the situation when I referred to AT&T, but the company that was Cingular is now part of AT&T).
If you had paid attention, you could have gotten the national plan, and then you would have what you asked for (but maybe you would be complaining that you don't get as many minutes as people with a regional plan, I'm not sure).
Just think of all of the units as "thingies". Problem solved.
Or so we assume anyway.