The media you store your data on will be unreadable and the file formats indecipherable. I have some really old wedding photographs of my great great grandparents from the time when photography was quite new. (1890) I seriously doubt, that very many, if any, computer files, including pictures will be readable in the year 2120 by whatever technology if any, that is available then. If you want to preserve any pictures or other worthwhile data for posterity, better print them on archive quality paper and store that in a suitable environment.
So as new storage technologies and file formats arrive, no one will make copies of their stuff to the new format? So all that data stored on magnetic tape has been lost? Same for floppy diskettes? No one ever thought to copy it? Sorry, but that's just ludicrous.
let's not forget that Tesla was also responsible for selecting 60hz as the standard frequency for Westinghouse's AC system, a frequency still in use in the vast majority of Western electricity today.
Here's another point: Which candidate should you vote for - one that you THINK may lie to you in the future or one that you KNOW is lying to you? Seems a no-brainer to me.
Exactly. That's why Kerry's refusal to release medical records and his... oh, wait. Never mind....
I just tested this out. By the time I connected to 3-4 other nodes I was getting dozens of hits for Metallica, Led Zeppelin, etc. Yeah, it's a pretty bare-bones interface at this point, but since it is truly anonymous via encryption (and you can set the key bits quite high!) the link between your random 'virtual address' and your actual IP address will never be discoverable, not to mention the data packets themselves traveling over the net in encrypted form. Quick, someone develop a user-friendly GUI for this thing!
We're off copper too, just 2 cell phones. Charter supposedly switched me over to their Pipeline service. My cable modem spent most of the weekend out of sync too. As of this morning it is now synced up, but I couldn't reach a DHCP server on my first few tries.
FYI, if you end up using satellite for internet just be aware that pay-per-view and TiVO features are problematic without a land line. TiVO won't work at all and pay-per-view is much more expensive if you have to call in to activate movies....with DirecTV any way....
I guess it took me about 5 swipes to determine that the CueCat was nothing more than a slightly-more convenient way to see ads...
I HATE ads! I certainly understand their place in a capitalistic society, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go out of my way to look at them.
I cleaned up my home office over the weekend and now have a pile of 3 of the little critters (1 from Wired, 2 from CompUSA which were thrust at me by the cashier). I have an urge to put them on eBay...:o)
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...But I suspect that 20 years from now...
The media you store your data on will be unreadable and the file formats indecipherable. I have some really old wedding photographs of my great great grandparents from the time when photography was quite new. (1890) I seriously doubt, that very many, if any, computer files, including pictures will be readable in the year 2120 by whatever technology if any, that is available then. If you want to preserve any pictures or other worthwhile data for posterity, better print them on archive quality paper and store that in a suitable environment.
So as new storage technologies and file formats arrive, no one will make copies of their stuff to the new format? So all that data stored on magnetic tape has been lost? Same for floppy diskettes? No one ever thought to copy it? Sorry, but that's just ludicrous.
let's not forget that Tesla was also responsible for selecting 60hz as the standard frequency for Westinghouse's AC system, a frequency still in use in the vast majority of Western electricity today.
Exactly. That's why Kerry's refusal to release medical records and his ... oh, wait. Never mind....
I just tested this out. By the time I connected to 3-4 other nodes I was getting dozens of hits for Metallica, Led Zeppelin, etc. Yeah, it's a pretty bare-bones interface at this point, but since it is truly anonymous via encryption (and you can set the key bits quite high!) the link between your random 'virtual address' and your actual IP address will never be discoverable, not to mention the data packets themselves traveling over the net in encrypted form. Quick, someone develop a user-friendly GUI for this thing!
We're off copper too, just 2 cell phones. Charter supposedly switched me over to their Pipeline service. My cable modem spent most of the weekend out of sync too. As of this morning it is now synced up, but I couldn't reach a DHCP server on my first few tries.
FYI, if you end up using satellite for internet just be aware that pay-per-view and TiVO features are problematic without a land line. TiVO won't work at all and pay-per-view is much more expensive if you have to call in to activate movies....with DirecTV any way....
I guess it took me about 5 swipes to determine that the CueCat was nothing more than a slightly-more convenient way to see ads... I HATE ads! I certainly understand their place in a capitalistic society, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go out of my way to look at them. I cleaned up my home office over the weekend and now have a pile of 3 of the little critters (1 from Wired, 2 from CompUSA which were thrust at me by the cashier). I have an urge to put them on eBay... :o)