How about having the British apologize to everyone who was wronged by their hateful policies in the past?
Is America, with it's American-Indian genocide, or any other country really innocent?
Admitting wrong is great, although I'm not sure how useful it is beyond education (and humbling force to national pride) once the original perpetrators and victims are both gone. Maybe we should focus on the here and now and try to prevent such things from happening again anywhere.
I try not to do this while driving because it's really DUMB. I would estimate I've done it about 30 times over the last 6 months of driving. I don't do it during traffic jam situation or where traffic could decide to halt quickly. I always drive with 3-4 second delay (0...1...2...3...4 style counting not 1...2...3...4 style counting). I hold the phone up in above the steering wheel while typing a couple letters at the time, so I can see brakelights during the one-second typings. I try to mitigate risks as best as I can but sometimes I feel the lack of risk at the time makes a good trade off for how important I feel the text is at the time.
Your text IS NOT important. If you feel your life is that worthless, fine, go offroading in the desert somewhere while texting, or stop doing it and at least respect the lives of the other motorists around you. If the text is that important: here's a novel idea - pull over to the side, preferably a parking lot of some sort, and deal with it, and then get back on the road.
Maybe I'm biased, I grew up without cell phones (not that they weren't around, just not around me) and feel that being always-on/always-connected/whatever is really overrated. Maybe others are hooked into instant-gratification part of it, but it's not the end of the world for me if I can't reach immediately and have to leave a message. I also refuse to be passenger to drivers who take calls while driving too.
The problem isn't the definition, it's that OS's and hardware manufacturers have been using different definitions. If both of them would stick to factors of 1000, there would be no problem. If they all stick to 1024, there would be no problem. The problem is that both definitions are used.
The problem is precisely the definition, or rather that computer people think messing with "mega", "kilo", etc is okay because it's their own niche. Mega is understood as 1,000,000 and kilo as 1,000. I got a CS degree, and I always thought it was stupid how we subverted the meaning. 2^10 aka 1,024 is arbitrary, is in no way 1000 and was chosen purely because it was the closest power of 2 close to 1,000. What if every niche started subverting commonly understood scientific measurements for their own convenience?
We defined bit and byte and the like. Great. We could do that. But we should have left mega and all the prefixes alone. If we weren't happy wit that, go with our own, like 'mebi' series of prefixes has attempted.
Why? It's very similar to what they do when laying radiant heat into the floor (which is very nice btw, over ducted heat, helps with breathing problems).
Also, like a previous comment suggesting, maybe you should look into radiant heat tubing over copper.
during those 3 months until Parliament can scramble together a Save the Children act.
I heard that the FBI kept on relying on parts of the (un)Patriot(ic) Act long after the Supreme Court overturned those same parts of it. Business as usual, carry on.
I think multitasking is detrimental in other ways. When it was a big buzzword and something taught in our studying class (yes, multitasking, as a strategy of getting studying done in your busy life... like in-between stupid timewasters), I just noticed how before when I could think through something like a challenging math problem or concept, even if it was hard to do so, I had to start relying more and more on the back of the book and work the answers backwards. If I tried to think too hard, I went into a mode looking for something else to do as an unconscious and unspoken excuse of "My head hurts, let's do something easier."
Multitasking is sometimes a necessary evil, but companies and schools shouldn't be looking for ways to increase it.
Breathing is one of those few unconscious activities that the conscious side of your brain can take over. Unlike, say, your heart pumping blood (which IIRC your brain controls the rate) but which you can't control.
But when I say:
BREATH!
You can't focus on much else for that split second.
You know this... how? All in all, I think you are much too optimistic about the rate of change. It's not that fast.
Anyway, as to the original question: media is so cheap, store it in multiple formats: one USB external drive, one USB stick, and a DVD-R (archival quality). Also, send yourself it clearly labeled to your email (preferably web-based giant like yahoo or googe or microsoft, not a work one where you can be fired or a home-based service that you may change). If it's too big, RAR it.
Not just for the time capsule, but one good thing about digital media is the explosion in capacity. That means, every five years, you can take your entire previous media collection, and fit it on at most 1/3 of devices (ie turning 3 hard drives into 1). That's also a good point to take the time to back up all the legacy stuff into a new device.
They were still selling 32-bit machines two years ago,
Most processors have been 64bit for many years, despite the OS the machine ships with. The one major exception are most Intel Atoms, which are 32 bit. Even that has to change soon, as 1GB is the minimum for netbooks these days, 2GB going to become standard, and after that, they'll only have one more upgrade cycle before hitting the ram limit.
and people can't reasonably be expected to retire those machines until 2011, and many will still be perfectly useful until 2013 or even 2015 with a few repairs.
And that is why Windows 7 will be the last 32 Microsoft OS. It will last that long, at least on a support basis. 32 bit machines can only access 4GB of RAM theoretically, and the max for XP in reality is around 3GB. 32 bit is a deadend. Going into walmart.com, the minimum I see is 1GB for the cheapest of the cheap systems, standard is 3GB, and several 8GB Ram systems was available for under $750. (Although MS would be smart to make incrememntal upgrades much like Ubuntu and Apple is doing, and not just hotfixes with overly ambitious overhauls every 7 years aka longhorn).
Your machines will be indefinitely usable, but, depending on the niche, desktop software will target desktop hardware like a bellcurve -- and figure the systems are around 5 years old on average. In 2015, that 2010 system will be old to a software seller.
I've read (and saw once) that the Netbooks with Atom processors have issues with having enough processing power to handle HD video. (though basical video played fine) Whats the point of the HDMI video out if it has issues with HD video?
For the people who buy based on feature lists alone. Although, HDMI is a great way to connect A/V devices. Even without HD video.... no mucking with display modes and the like. Also nicely carries sound in one cable. Which is why Apple's mini DVI port on the notebooks are disappointing.
I wonder how ARM will perform on netbooks compared to HD video. Always Innovating has released a netbook built around a beagle-board, but I'm awaiting the multi-core chips (later this year?) I keep hearing how intel has problems packing real power into the atoms (scaling down) while ARM is scaling up nicely.
that any factory or venture in China must be at least 51% domestically owned, such that they always will have the power?
Can't help but think that all these companies are building up their own competition... when China decides the dollar isn't that great anymore and that they've sucked out all the knowledge needed of the US and other 1st world countries to be on par with them.
Not that US companies alone can be blamed, the US consumer, with their rush to the cheapest priced options, by and large, contributed to this cycle.
The problem with the whole street view debate is that it's nothing that isn't seen.... from the street.... by every commuter. But because it's on the internet, it's somehow special now.
I want to just correct myself. That line just isn't dramatic enough and good propaganda need to be set off alarm bells in people's minds. This is better:
At least now Microsoft can't object to Linux sales on the claim people are wiping them to install bootleg Windows - not on an ARM.
Windows Mobile runs on ARM although I'm not sure how many apps are ported to it.
But it's not really worth debating that angle of the point if that is what MS puts forth. It would only validate the smug assertion by Microsoft that Windows is the only OS worth putting on the hard drive. Sort of like how the music industry convinced the Canadian government to put a tax on all CD-Rs (DVDs too?) in their arrogant presumption that people only burned ill-gotten music on them. (Now hopefully Microsoft doesn't go for a hard drive tax in the future in a similiar sense...)
I'm eyeing the 11.6 notebooks, with ~1300x768 resolution, because they are the first workable machines for me (1024x600 res of the 10" just isn't enough although I would buy a smaller one if the resolution was up to par).
Anyway, at these sizes, it's not much cheaper than the cheapest full size notebooks - but it's still a lot easier than lugging around the average 15", has much better battery life than the cheapest notebooks, and with the typical browsing/email most people do, having max processing power isn't the biggest concern although having enough obviously is.
An iBook may have been the exception to some of these observations, but then they are more expensive, and were sleeker than the average plastic clunker.
and via iTunes. Music, movies.... books are just another story telling medium. And figuring digital distribution IS the future, why not?
Too bad about their break with Google over some stupid voice apps... because Google may have been a great partner (ie Google Books) for Apple to catch up to Amazon.
And the upgrade cycle would/is tremendous like the iPods were. Black/white small screen -> B/W big screen -> color screen -> flexible (?) screen -> ???
Right after the 1st generation Kindle, with it's fugly looks, probably would have been the best time to get in. Even now, it wouldn't be bad... the kindle isn't a computer, doesn't have speed, etc. All things Apple could one up for those people that want a book reader and something to browse with and that's it.
They decided that there would be no point to accepting bids because Microsoft was the only vendor who had a product that could meet their needs. They did look at the options, and they decided that Microsoft had no competitors who could meet their criteria.
When your criteria becomes "Microsoft", it's hard to have other vendors, no? It's sort of like putting out the bid out for a new Toyota or chicken but with KFC's blend of 11 secret herbs and spices, and being astonished that only one or two companies can provide it.
That's why governments shoud always operate on open standards for file formats and the like, and that any programs specifically developed for them become OS. Even if they have to operate with propietary software for a time, it provides a roadmap and modularity to go with something else in the future.
Not going to be the next firefox in terms of popularity... but lisp in a box is just nice for getting into lisp/emacs on any platform. Used to be a big learning curve how to set slime, etc. up and all that.
Maybe they should kick out the iPhones browser, since much more naughty things than words can be looked up.
Or maybe should realize that the people using their phones don't need any more handholding than the people who USED to use AOL for internet access. Just because Steve Jobs became a power within Disney doesn't mean the iPhone should be forcing the cute n cuddly Disney experience on its owners.
The 11.6" are an odd variety... of what I have seen so far. In the spring, they upgraded the 10" ones I was looking at from the N270 Atoms to the N280, which could handle HD video but the screens were usually at 1024x600. Just barely big enough for comfortable browsing. Now the Acer Aspire and a few others that I have seen have that 11.6" wide screen that have a really nice ~1300x768 resolution, but the chip is now a Z520, which reportedly stutters when handling HD video.
But the resoluion is still the dreary 1024x600, although being able to take off the body/keyboard completely is the first well done tablet form factor I have seen.
Not far off are Arm's multiple core chips and I assume intel has something like that for atom in the works. Ah, the old upgrade-treadmill is really hitting netbooks bigtime, haven't really had this problem in desktops the last five years.
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Is America, with it's American-Indian genocide, or any other country really innocent?
Admitting wrong is great, although I'm not sure how useful it is beyond education (and humbling force to national pride) once the original perpetrators and victims are both gone. Maybe we should focus on the here and now and try to prevent such things from happening again anywhere.
Your text IS NOT important. If you feel your life is that worthless, fine, go offroading in the desert somewhere while texting, or stop doing it and at least respect the lives of the other motorists around you. If the text is that important: here's a novel idea - pull over to the side, preferably a parking lot of some sort, and deal with it, and then get back on the road.
Maybe I'm biased, I grew up without cell phones (not that they weren't around, just not around me) and feel that being always-on/always-connected/whatever is really overrated. Maybe others are hooked into instant-gratification part of it, but it's not the end of the world for me if I can't reach immediately and have to leave a message. I also refuse to be passenger to drivers who take calls while driving too.
The problem is precisely the definition, or rather that computer people think messing with "mega", "kilo", etc is okay because it's their own niche. Mega is understood as 1,000,000 and kilo as 1,000. I got a CS degree, and I always thought it was stupid how we subverted the meaning. 2^10 aka 1,024 is arbitrary, is in no way 1000 and was chosen purely because it was the closest power of 2 close to 1,000. What if every niche started subverting commonly understood scientific measurements for their own convenience?
We defined bit and byte and the like. Great. We could do that. But we should have left mega and all the prefixes alone. If we weren't happy wit that, go with our own, like 'mebi' series of prefixes has attempted.
Why? It's very similar to what they do when laying radiant heat into the floor (which is very nice btw, over ducted heat, helps with breathing problems).
Also, like a previous comment suggesting, maybe you should look into radiant heat tubing over copper.
during those 3 months until Parliament can scramble together a Save the Children act.
I heard that the FBI kept on relying on parts of the (un)Patriot(ic) Act long after the Supreme Court overturned those same parts of it. Business as usual, carry on.
I think multitasking is detrimental in other ways. When it was a big buzzword and something taught in our studying class (yes, multitasking, as a strategy of getting studying done in your busy life... like in-between stupid timewasters), I just noticed how before when I could think through something like a challenging math problem or concept, even if it was hard to do so, I had to start relying more and more on the back of the book and work the answers backwards. If I tried to think too hard, I went into a mode looking for something else to do as an unconscious and unspoken excuse of "My head hurts, let's do something easier."
Multitasking is sometimes a necessary evil, but companies and schools shouldn't be looking for ways to increase it.
Breathing is one of those few unconscious activities that the conscious side of your brain can take over. Unlike, say, your heart pumping blood (which IIRC your brain controls the rate) but which you can't control.
But when I say:
BREATH!
You can't focus on much else for that split second.
You know this... how? All in all, I think you are much too optimistic about the rate of change. It's not that fast.
Anyway, as to the original question: media is so cheap, store it in multiple formats: one USB external drive, one USB stick, and a DVD-R (archival quality). Also, send yourself it clearly labeled to your email (preferably web-based giant like yahoo or googe or microsoft, not a work one where you can be fired or a home-based service that you may change). If it's too big, RAR it.
Not just for the time capsule, but one good thing about digital media is the explosion in capacity. That means, every five years, you can take your entire previous media collection, and fit it on at most 1/3 of devices (ie turning 3 hard drives into 1). That's also a good point to take the time to back up all the legacy stuff into a new device.
Most processors have been 64bit for many years, despite the OS the machine ships with. The one major exception are most Intel Atoms, which are 32 bit. Even that has to change soon, as 1GB is the minimum for netbooks these days, 2GB going to become standard, and after that, they'll only have one more upgrade cycle before hitting the ram limit.
And that is why Windows 7 will be the last 32 Microsoft OS. It will last that long, at least on a support basis. 32 bit machines can only access 4GB of RAM theoretically, and the max for XP in reality is around 3GB. 32 bit is a deadend. Going into walmart.com, the minimum I see is 1GB for the cheapest of the cheap systems, standard is 3GB, and several 8GB Ram systems was available for under $750. (Although MS would be smart to make incrememntal upgrades much like Ubuntu and Apple is doing, and not just hotfixes with overly ambitious overhauls every 7 years aka longhorn).
Your machines will be indefinitely usable, but, depending on the niche, desktop software will target desktop hardware like a bellcurve -- and figure the systems are around 5 years old on average. In 2015, that 2010 system will be old to a software seller.
For the people who buy based on feature lists alone. Although, HDMI is a great way to connect A/V devices. Even without HD video.... no mucking with display modes and the like. Also nicely carries sound in one cable. Which is why Apple's mini DVI port on the notebooks are disappointing.
I wonder how ARM will perform on netbooks compared to HD video. Always Innovating has released a netbook built around a beagle-board, but I'm awaiting the multi-core chips (later this year?) I keep hearing how intel has problems packing real power into the atoms (scaling down) while ARM is scaling up nicely.
that any factory or venture in China must be at least 51% domestically owned, such that they always will have the power?
Can't help but think that all these companies are building up their own competition... when China decides the dollar isn't that great anymore and that they've sucked out all the knowledge needed of the US and other 1st world countries to be on par with them.
Not that US companies alone can be blamed, the US consumer, with their rush to the cheapest priced options, by and large, contributed to this cycle.
Does doing that often block the tearducts or is the bullshit sufficiently watered down when you cry it out?
The thing is, no one cares about your lawn.
The problem with the whole street view debate is that it's nothing that isn't seen.... from the street.... by every commuter. But because it's on the internet, it's somehow special now.
I want to just correct myself. That line just isn't dramatic enough and good propaganda need to be set off alarm bells in people's minds. This is better:
"They're coming for your internet!"
That is all.
Just tell people "These guys want to restrict your internet to their approved list."
Oh, and don't buy from them:
http://www.riaaradar.com/
"Except for the present incumbent, the President has never inhaled."
The president in the 90s has never inhaled either;)
Windows Mobile runs on ARM although I'm not sure how many apps are ported to it.
But it's not really worth debating that angle of the point if that is what MS puts forth. It would only validate the smug assertion by Microsoft that Windows is the only OS worth putting on the hard drive. Sort of like how the music industry convinced the Canadian government to put a tax on all CD-Rs (DVDs too?) in their arrogant presumption that people only burned ill-gotten music on them. (Now hopefully Microsoft doesn't go for a hard drive tax in the future in a similiar sense...)
I'm eyeing the 11.6 notebooks, with ~1300x768 resolution, because they are the first workable machines for me (1024x600 res of the 10" just isn't enough although I would buy a smaller one if the resolution was up to par).
Anyway, at these sizes, it's not much cheaper than the cheapest full size notebooks - but it's still a lot easier than lugging around the average 15", has much better battery life than the cheapest notebooks, and with the typical browsing/email most people do, having max processing power isn't the biggest concern although having enough obviously is.
An iBook may have been the exception to some of these observations, but then they are more expensive, and were sleeker than the average plastic clunker.
and via iTunes. Music, movies.... books are just another story telling medium. And figuring digital distribution IS the future, why not?
Too bad about their break with Google over some stupid voice apps... because Google may have been a great partner (ie Google Books) for Apple to catch up to Amazon.
And the upgrade cycle would/is tremendous like the iPods were. Black/white small screen -> B/W big screen -> color screen -> flexible (?) screen -> ???
Right after the 1st generation Kindle, with it's fugly looks, probably would have been the best time to get in. Even now, it wouldn't be bad... the kindle isn't a computer, doesn't have speed, etc. All things Apple could one up for those people that want a book reader and something to browse with and that's it.
When your criteria becomes "Microsoft", it's hard to have other vendors, no? It's sort of like putting out the bid out for a new Toyota or chicken but with KFC's blend of 11 secret herbs and spices, and being astonished that only one or two companies can provide it.
That's why governments shoud always operate on open standards for file formats and the like, and that any programs specifically developed for them become OS. Even if they have to operate with propietary software for a time, it provides a roadmap and modularity to go with something else in the future.
Not going to be the next firefox in terms of popularity... but lisp in a box is just nice for getting into lisp/emacs on any platform. Used to be a big learning curve how to set slime, etc. up and all that.
http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/
Maybe they should kick out the iPhones browser, since much more naughty things than words can be looked up.
Or maybe should realize that the people using their phones don't need any more handholding than the people who USED to use AOL for internet access. Just because Steve Jobs became a power within Disney doesn't mean the iPhone should be forcing the cute n cuddly Disney experience on its owners.
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
lately. Since February.
I wish to buy (not have to install) a linux one. But I can't. Just the old models had linux.
(Which is why Asus lost a sale from me.)
The 11.6" are an odd variety... of what I have seen so far. In the spring, they upgraded the 10" ones I was looking at from the N270 Atoms to the N280, which could handle HD video but the screens were usually at 1024x600. Just barely big enough for comfortable browsing. Now the Acer Aspire and a few others that I have seen have that 11.6" wide screen that have a really nice ~1300x768 resolution, but the chip is now a Z520, which reportedly stutters when handling HD video.
Now that Always Innovating's arm-based Tablet/Netbook is out, I'm almost tempted by that instead:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
But the resoluion is still the dreary 1024x600, although being able to take off the body/keyboard completely is the first well done tablet form factor I have seen.
Not far off are Arm's multiple core chips and I assume intel has something like that for atom in the works. Ah, the old upgrade-treadmill is really hitting netbooks bigtime, haven't really had this problem in desktops the last five years.