Companies such as streamload (www.streamload.com) will allow you to store up to a 1000GB for a fairly compelling price (compared to buying a Buffalo Terrastation or similar).
There is no way on earth (or in hell) to provide three tons of scrap (and the energy needed to move them) to each human on the planet.
Any yet still -- the earth moves.
For example, if you make an emergency call, rescuers can't automatically locate you
If I make an emergency call from my cell, emergency workers can't automatically locate me either. This doesn't make cell phones bad.
Also, it's a lot easier for people to manipulate this technology to make anonymous calls and thereby threaten and harass others.
As opposed to calling people at random with call block? Or from a telephone booth? or from a cell phone with a phone card?
Its been a long while since I read articles in the vein of the "internet is rotting your mind" and "causing people to be addicted"..nice to know that the mindset lives and lurks to deride progress.
I think you are going about it the wrong way..or at least misapprehend what colleges teach. The first two years of your course work is going to be the same as the guy majoring in underwater basket weaving, or worse economics.
If you want to learn about cutting edge tech in a college setting - join a club, go to work at one of the computer labs, take an internship with some tech company but for god sakes don't think you are going to learn anything worthwhile/cool by sitting in a lecture with 150 other people while a graduate student goes over the professors lecture (if you manage to see a professor before your third year in a science based class consider yourself honored).
I've met a lot of smart tech people and with the exception of those educated outside the USA, none of them learnt any of their tech skills as part of a college course.
To quote Wired Magazine:
JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.
The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
All this in violation of Jet Blue's stated privacy policy.
Quicken has apologized to its customers and I can respect that. As an ex-quicken customer (buyer of over 5 years of its financial planner and tax program), I remain unmoved.
There are several companies which have earned my "wrath" through betrayal of trust (Wachovia Bank, America West, Air Tran and Jet Blue Airlines being fairly prominent members on the List). It is inconceivable that I will do business with any of these organizations in the future....and so it goes for Quicken Corp. I have no personal vendetta against the employees of Quicken corporation, but I firmly believe in using my dollars (and the dollars of friends and family) to kill the corporate culture which gave rise to the concept of CD-Dilla.
What can the corporation do to "make it up to me?"..nothing..the trust I had in the corporation is gone, and considering the alternative options available I see no reason to ever pay attention to attempts to restore it.
I hope the corporation can make good use of its 2003 revenue stream, because they have lost at least 40 years of future revenue from myself, my family and friends.
And yes - I'm still pissed.
We used a customized version of Remedy where the user enters his problem via a web interface. The requests are automagically passed to the right department, and assigned to an individual tech.
The tech works on the problem, making notes in the "work log" of the ticket, and finally closes it out.
At this point the user receives an email stating (confirming) his problem is solved, and depending on the department they get the option to fill out a survey to ask how their experience was.
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Companies such as streamload (www.streamload.com) will allow you to store up to a 1000GB for a fairly compelling price (compared to buying a Buffalo Terrastation or similar).
There is no way on earth (or in hell) to provide three tons of scrap (and the energy needed to move them) to each human on the planet. Any yet still -- the earth moves.
For example, if you make an emergency call, rescuers can't automatically locate you
If I make an emergency call from my cell, emergency workers can't automatically locate me either. This doesn't make cell phones bad.
Also, it's a lot easier for people to manipulate this technology to make anonymous calls and thereby threaten and harass others.
As opposed to calling people at random with call block? Or from a telephone booth? or from a cell phone with a phone card? Its been a long while since I read articles in the vein of the "internet is rotting your mind" and "causing people to be addicted"..nice to know that the mindset lives and lurks to deride progress.
I think you are going about it the wrong way..or at least misapprehend what colleges teach. The first two years of your course work is going to be the same as the guy majoring in underwater basket weaving, or worse economics. If you want to learn about cutting edge tech in a college setting - join a club, go to work at one of the computer labs, take an internship with some tech company but for god sakes don't think you are going to learn anything worthwhile/cool by sitting in a lecture with 150 other people while a graduate student goes over the professors lecture (if you manage to see a professor before your third year in a science based class consider yourself honored). I've met a lot of smart tech people and with the exception of those educated outside the USA, none of them learnt any of their tech skills as part of a college course.
To quote Wired Magazine: JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration. The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible. All this in violation of Jet Blue's stated privacy policy.
Quicken has apologized to its customers and I can respect that. As an ex-quicken customer (buyer of over 5 years of its financial planner and tax program), I remain unmoved. There are several companies which have earned my "wrath" through betrayal of trust (Wachovia Bank, America West, Air Tran and Jet Blue Airlines being fairly prominent members on the List). It is inconceivable that I will do business with any of these organizations in the future....and so it goes for Quicken Corp. I have no personal vendetta against the employees of Quicken corporation, but I firmly believe in using my dollars (and the dollars of friends and family) to kill the corporate culture which gave rise to the concept of CD-Dilla. What can the corporation do to "make it up to me?"..nothing..the trust I had in the corporation is gone, and considering the alternative options available I see no reason to ever pay attention to attempts to restore it. I hope the corporation can make good use of its 2003 revenue stream, because they have lost at least 40 years of future revenue from myself, my family and friends. And yes - I'm still pissed.
We used a customized version of Remedy where the user enters his problem via a web interface. The requests are automagically passed to the right department, and assigned to an individual tech. The tech works on the problem, making notes in the "work log" of the ticket, and finally closes it out. At this point the user receives an email stating (confirming) his problem is solved, and depending on the department they get the option to fill out a survey to ask how their experience was.