I hear you... hopefully someone will add the feature of being able to have it sync with your desktop. Sort of like the iPhone, Mobile Me, and Back to my Mac. If I could sync my mail with my desktop Mail client; play music from my Library; and access all my photos & documents... then I'd sign up happily. I also would be much happier if my data was encrypted while it transited it's way through the net.
My feeling is that after the disaster that was the Bush Administration the brand name of " Libertarianism" came into vogue... so there are a lot of folks running around calling themselves Libertarians when they actually are not.
It's not immediately clear to me that an Entourage going crazy with the cognito virus while managing my mundane tasks and access global information networks would be substantially worse than what's going on now with me & my ISP.
There is a pretty good Anime named "Ergo Proxy". The main character Re-l Mayer, has a folding e-folio like device with translucent screens which I have coveted since I saw the series.
As a long time Mac user, I completely agree with you. I have long thought Apple did not take security seriously or at least did not devote the resources they should on security matters. Worse, I absolutely do not want to go through a decade of painful and annoying security problems (like the windows users went through) before Apple begins to put real effort into security.
On Snow Leopard, I've told everyone in my family to ignore Snow Leopard until some convenient time after Christmas or so. There's not much in it for regular users and I am not aware of a single application that really leverages the new technology found in Snow Leopard... so there's no rush upgrading.
Oh... one last thing: Wasn't OpenBSD doing this long before windows?
On a more serious note, Nature Magazine has had several very interesting articles on economic & climatic modeling in the past few months... but I'm sure all of them are behind the Nature.com pay wall.
Don't sweat it. Y'all can always do what we're doing in Austria: Buy power from another, poorer, country which has a Nuclear Power plant on our border. See we don't have nuclear power in our country!
In Atlanta, Ga I was pulled out of the line for an airport security, threatened and subjected to scrutiny which can only be characterized as "harassment"... for making this exact comment.
Not that I really have a dog in this hunt but I think the comparison of colloquial English and computer communication protocols is an extremely poor one. Perhaps legal English would make for a better but still imperfect comparison... and that certainly has a long history of regulation, negotiation, contractual agreement.
A few weeks / months ago, Nature Magazine had a small series of articles on gigantic data-sets, data mining, and the new studies based on meta investigations of those data-sets. So when I read this article I read in that context. So I had assumed that most people needing to store a few petabytes have most the infrastructure (power, personnel, polices) you are describing... only they are facing budget shortfalls. I think that shortfall could be the motivating factor to employ these things.
Though truthfully, I don't have petabyte requirements, so I have no real idea.
I started with iNode and UPC bought iNode. I think maybe they still use the "iNode" name for their DSL offerings?? So anyway I have the largest DSL package, with the VoIP package. I hate them and I wish they would die in a fire.
I would like to use 24e and get glassfiber. They are laying out a lot of fiber in Graz as (I think) they somehow related to the Grazer Stadtwerke... but alas the property managers of my house have no interest in making this happen, despite the fiber being within 50 meters of the house. Other than that I have no recommendations.
That trusted editor bit is going to become very "interesting". Frequently I go to Wikipedia to figure out who the people are in American political news and what they have purportedly done or said in the past. A large percentage of these figures have militant gate keepers who use their knowledge of the rules of the Wikipedia system to prevent other people from adding new events which reflect poorly on the person on question. Like say, they appeared on the Daily Show and made a fool of themselves and clip made its way to youtube.
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I have had to testify about this sort thing in a patent lawsuit. The other side had cooked up all sorts of wild confabulations using my lab notebooks.
they did talk up HTML 5
I find it pretty pathetic that comments which misscharacterize things mentioned in the article or in the various links are so highly moderated.
I hear you... hopefully someone will add the feature of being able to have it sync with your desktop. Sort of like the iPhone, Mobile Me, and Back to my Mac. If I could sync my mail with my desktop Mail client; play music from my Library; and access all my photos & documents... then I'd sign up happily. I also would be much happier if my data was encrypted while it transited it's way through the net.
Google isn't pointing this at desktops or workstation. They've said specifically it's for netbooks and smartbooks.
My feeling is that after the disaster that was the Bush Administration the brand name of " Libertarianism" came into vogue... so there are a lot of folks running around calling themselves Libertarians when they actually are not.
I'd love to see public canings for malfeasance and misconduct.
This is factually wrong. Ocean going transport represents a significant portion of all pollutions, including green house gasses.
It's not immediately clear to me that an Entourage going crazy with the cognito virus while managing my mundane tasks and access global information networks would be substantially worse than what's going on now with me & my ISP.
There is a pretty good Anime named "Ergo Proxy". The main character Re-l Mayer, has a folding e-folio like device with translucent screens which I have coveted since I saw the series.
Oh... and the sound track is pretty good too.
As a long time Mac user, I completely agree with you. I have long thought Apple did not take security seriously or at least did not devote the resources they should on security matters. Worse, I absolutely do not want to go through a decade of painful and annoying security problems (like the windows users went through) before Apple begins to put real effort into security.
On Snow Leopard, I've told everyone in my family to ignore Snow Leopard until some convenient time after Christmas or so. There's not much in it for regular users and I am not aware of a single application that really leverages the new technology found in Snow Leopard... so there's no rush upgrading.
Oh... one last thing: Wasn't OpenBSD doing this long before windows?
No. Remember they're talking about Wall Street.
On a more serious note, Nature Magazine has had several very interesting articles on economic & climatic modeling in the past few months... but I'm sure all of them are behind the Nature.com pay wall.
Don't sweat it. Y'all can always do what we're doing in Austria: Buy power from another, poorer, country which has a Nuclear Power plant on our border. See we don't have nuclear power in our country!
In Atlanta, Ga I was pulled out of the line for an airport security, threatened and subjected to scrutiny which can only be characterized as "harassment"... for making this exact comment.
no. we've had a variant but lesser hell for years. Which has led to a series of cargo cult like maintenance procedures for Mac OS.
Not that I really have a dog in this hunt but I think the comparison of colloquial English and computer communication protocols is an extremely poor one. Perhaps legal English would make for a better but still imperfect comparison... and that certainly has a long history of regulation, negotiation, contractual agreement.
Perhaps, it's just that the European Commission is just slightly less beholden to corporations than their counterparts in the US.
As far as I can tell their slowness to sign on to other corporatist things coming from the US has been a pretty good thing.
A few weeks / months ago, Nature Magazine had a small series of articles on gigantic data-sets, data mining, and the new studies based on meta investigations of those data-sets. So when I read this article I read in that context. So I had assumed that most people needing to store a few petabytes have most the infrastructure (power, personnel, polices) you are describing... only they are facing budget shortfalls. I think that shortfall could be the motivating factor to employ these things.
Though truthfully, I don't have petabyte requirements, so I have no real idea.
Someone explained to me a good way which required 3 wireless routers...
I've long since forgotten what he said... pity that.
I started with iNode and UPC bought iNode. I think maybe they still use the "iNode" name for their DSL offerings?? So anyway I have the largest DSL package, with the VoIP package. I hate them and I wish they would die in a fire.
I would like to use 24e and get glassfiber. They are laying out a lot of fiber in Graz as (I think) they somehow related to the Grazer Stadtwerke... but alas the property managers of my house have no interest in making this happen, despite the fiber being within 50 meters of the house. Other than that I have no recommendations.
That trusted editor bit is going to become very "interesting". Frequently I go to Wikipedia to figure out who the people are in American political news and what they have purportedly done or said in the past. A large percentage of these figures have militant gate keepers who use their knowledge of the rules of the Wikipedia system to prevent other people from adding new events which reflect poorly on the person on question. Like say, they appeared on the Daily Show and made a fool of themselves and clip made its way to youtube.
I use UPC in Austria. I don't think this is anything new. They been fucking with my bandwidth for ages.
The best thing I can think to say about this is:
Burn-in is a severe problem with any currently manufactured Plasma Television (apologies to those with Sigs turned off).
I am awaiting for someone to make use of a processor metaphor... after all the car metaphors this is least we can do.
Man, that should really be a huge black mark against someone's credit rating.
People were saying that about the US starting in about November 2001... and look how well that worked.