A single 3TB external USB3 drive should address your needs nicely.
Just unplug it when not actually using it (to protect against power surges, lightning, etc) so it can be considered a backup[1].
I acknowledge the unplugging/replugging thing can be a pain if you need it frequently. What I'd really like to see is a hard switch of some kind that can physically interrupt both the power and USB lines to a device. It wouldn't need to cut the mains power, just the 12V/5V after the transformer, but would still need to give enough separation to prevent arcing in the event of a lightning strike.
[1] Recall that an online backup is no backup at all.
Yes, that's exactly the word Elop should have used, right after the entire company (except the crooked board of directors) and customer base shouted, "YouGo!".
Have you done a diffraction test on your LED bulbs to see their spectral components (holding a CD at the correct angle to the light source will do it)? My beef with CFLs is that their spectra are rather narrow, and this is confirmed with the above CD test, where one can see 3-5 distinct images of the bulb in different colours, rather than a continuous stripe going from red through violet.
I'd love to replace my CFLs with their weird colour and unreliable ballasts but am still a bit shy to move to LED.
How about a contract that specifically prohibits entrusting all your sensitive information to a third party whos primary business is advertising and owes you nothing?
By looking at the Windows 8 Metro interface, it's clear that Microsoft thinks this is a post-PC world. Of course they're delusional.
With Microsoft effectively abandoning the corporate desktop (and Apple never taking it seriously in the first place) this is a perfect opportunity for a Linux distribution to gear up a release targetted at corporate PCs.
Good grief, have things really gotten that bad in the US? Where I live the police are actually helpful. One example - we had some property vandalised, and the then anonymous vandal had left some evidence behind. One call to the police and they came by, lifted prints, etc and were able to use the evidence to track down and arrest the perp, who later confessed and was ordered by court to pay for the damaged property.
Now I could have just let it go, but then I would have been without my stuff and unable to afford to have it repaired.
Now I have some questions for you - if the situation is so messed up in your country, will you continue to accept that as status quo? If so, do you realise that you are advocating a slide towards effective anarchy? If you don't accept the current situation, what are you going to do about it?
What's pointless is any further debate about moving to 20MHz samples at 64 bits when music distribution has a much more serious (and actually real) problem. So much of our music is being destroyedbeyondrecovery before it even leaves the production desk.
No music I produce will succumb to this trick, ever. Perhaps that's why I don't get as much radio play these days.
Please move aside and let those of us that want to figure out things to do with it enjoy our moment where a computer that is pretty open source from the ground up gets its moment in the sun.
I would be considerably more interested in the Raspberry Pi if it were actually an open architecture.
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As an ebook reading person I agree with much of what you have recently posted, except one point stuck out: The cloud.
Relying on your data being stored "in the cloud", which really means some other guy's computers, should never be considered reliable storage. What happens when Apple goes under (don't laugh, stranger things have happened) or Amazon have a 'glitch' or just decide to pull the plug?
I keep my library on an SD card in my Sharp Zaurus, and make regular archival backups to my desktop computer, with regular offsite backups on physical media.
Lawns are for walking on, in that it is reasonable to expect to be able to walk on grass and get at most yelled at by some guy in a rocking chair on his porch.
Cleaning alcohol is exactly that, for cleaning not drinking. It says so right on the bottle. Have you really thought through what would happen if modern cleaning alcohol was not denatured, and the price left unchanged? I'm not sure that you have.
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^ This.
Remember, kids, so long as you uphold the two-party system you are voting for more of the same.
Consequently, and somewhat ironically, you are also throwing your vote away much more than those who vote for other parties.
Umm, no. The main point of ABS is to stop you more quickly by forcibly releasing the brakes when a lockup is detected.
+5 for pimping The Cloud, even after it's been explicitly ruled out?
*shakes head*
Perhaps you have a 2Gbps Internet connection with no data cap and no privacy concerns, but some of us are not so privileged.
A single 3TB external USB3 drive should address your needs nicely.
Just unplug it when not actually using it (to protect against power surges, lightning, etc) so it can be considered a backup[1].
I acknowledge the unplugging/replugging thing can be a pain if you need it frequently. What I'd really like to see is a hard switch of some kind that can physically interrupt both the power and USB lines to a device. It wouldn't need to cut the mains power, just the 12V/5V after the transformer, but would still need to give enough separation to prevent arcing in the event of a lightning strike.
[1] Recall that an online backup is no backup at all.
Wait, now I'm confused.
Are you saying that you would *want* hardware controlled by the PRC government in your core network infrastructure?
Do you live in China?
In a word: MeeGo.
Yes, that's exactly the word Elop should have used, right after the entire company (except the crooked board of directors) and customer base shouted, "YouGo!".
It's a meme. There is nothing more to understand.
Unfortunately a lot of modern electronics are poorly fabricated, often caused by using horrible lead-free solder.
Because why should only one or two joints be dull when they all can be?
Do your videos randomly get 30-second un-skippable advertisements placed in front of them as well?
I can put up with ad banners on pages (I don't use ad-blockers) but forcing them into the media stream, well, it's just evil.
Maybe not, but it will still be under copyright.
No, they're PR.
NASA needs to make stuff look and sound as cool as possible at the moment.
Can these be used to "unprint" those pesky yellow dot patterns in colour laser printers?
I'm genuinely interested in this.
Have you done a diffraction test on your LED bulbs to see their spectral components (holding a CD at the correct angle to the light source will do it)? My beef with CFLs is that their spectra are rather narrow, and this is confirmed with the above CD test, where one can see 3-5 distinct images of the bulb in different colours, rather than a continuous stripe going from red through violet.
I'd love to replace my CFLs with their weird colour and unreliable ballasts but am still a bit shy to move to LED.
How about a contract that specifically prohibits entrusting all your sensitive information to a third party whos primary business is advertising and owes you nothing?
Ah, so you're a Fedora man then!
By looking at the Windows 8 Metro interface, it's clear that Microsoft thinks this is a post-PC world. Of course they're delusional.
With Microsoft effectively abandoning the corporate desktop (and Apple never taking it seriously in the first place) this is a perfect opportunity for a Linux distribution to gear up a release targetted at corporate PCs.
Good grief, have things really gotten that bad in the US? Where I live the police are actually helpful. One example - we had some property vandalised, and the then anonymous vandal had left some evidence behind. One call to the police and they came by, lifted prints, etc and were able to use the evidence to track down and arrest the perp, who later confessed and was ordered by court to pay for the damaged property.
Now I could have just let it go, but then I would have been without my stuff and unable to afford to have it repaired.
Now I have some questions for you - if the situation is so messed up in your country, will you continue to accept that as status quo? If so, do you realise that you are advocating a slide towards effective anarchy? If you don't accept the current situation, what are you going to do about it?
It's a crime. A crime that comments like this haven't been modded up to +5. What's wrong with /. these days?
What's pointless is any further debate about moving to 20MHz samples at 64 bits when music distribution has a much more serious (and actually real) problem. So much of our music is being destroyed beyond recovery before it even leaves the production desk.
No music I produce will succumb to this trick, ever. Perhaps that's why I don't get as much radio play these days.
Please move aside and let those of us that want to figure out things to do with it enjoy our moment where a computer that is pretty open source from the ground up gets its moment in the sun.
Oh if that were so.
I would be considerably more interested in the Raspberry Pi if it were actually an open architecture.
As an ebook reading person I agree with much of what you have recently posted, except one point stuck out:
The cloud.
Relying on your data being stored "in the cloud", which really means some other guy's computers, should never be considered reliable storage. What happens when Apple goes under (don't laugh, stranger things have happened) or Amazon have a 'glitch' or just decide to pull the plug?
I keep my library on an SD card in my Sharp Zaurus, and make regular archival backups to my desktop computer, with regular offsite backups on physical media.
These silly clowns. I expect this article will quickly fill with examples of prior art. Here's another one:
Looks at digiKam.
Looks at patent application.
Looks back at digiKam.
Folds arms.
Misrepresentation.
Lawns are for walking on, in that it is reasonable to expect to be able to walk on grass and get at most yelled at by some guy in a rocking chair on his porch.
Cleaning alcohol is exactly that, for cleaning not drinking. It says so right on the bottle. Have you really thought through what would happen if modern cleaning alcohol was not denatured, and the price left unchanged? I'm not sure that you have.
Well "we" kind of asked for exactly this, by insisting on a two-party system.