Also think about net neutrality. By telling their customers to watch Viacom channels over the internet, they _still_ get their customers to buy high-speed internet, but can then turn around and bill Viacom for access to their high-speed subscribers (by providing Viacom with "preferred" bandwidth).
Time Warner is essentially trying to turn the current business model on it's head by not only charging content subscribers, but _also_ charging content providers.
For backups, I'd recommend one of the many online services. I used to do backups using a custom shell script, but you really can't beat the online services in terms of ease-of-use. Personally, I use Mozy. It's $55 a year for unlimited storage, but they offer 2GB free (and for a lot of folks, that's really all they need). If you have a lot of computers, you can set up a single account to manage all of them.
As for file sharing, if all you're doing is sharing photos, I'd recommend a site like flickr. For other stuff, dropbox seems to work well.
"Technical flaws"? I think "technical flaws" are the least of their concerns. The whole system has been marred with logical flaws from its inception.
Arguing the system is hampered by database problems is the equivalent of building a car without an engine and then complaining it doesn't run because the tires are the wrong size.
I majored in both Computer Science and Spanish in college. There is *definitely* value in learning a second language whether you ultimately end up using it or not.
Learning a second language will teach you new ways of communicating and help you see the world through the eyes of another culture.
I've known far too many engineers (and researchers) who are incapable of expressing themselves. Anything you can do to improve your communication skills will help not only you, but also the computing field in the long run.
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Also think about net neutrality. By telling their customers to watch Viacom channels over the internet, they _still_ get their customers to buy high-speed internet, but can then turn around and bill Viacom for access to their high-speed subscribers (by providing Viacom with "preferred" bandwidth).
Time Warner is essentially trying to turn the current business model on it's head by not only charging content subscribers, but _also_ charging content providers.
For backups, I'd recommend one of the many online services. I used to do backups using a custom shell script, but you really can't beat the online services in terms of ease-of-use. Personally, I use Mozy. It's $55 a year for unlimited storage, but they offer 2GB free (and for a lot of folks, that's really all they need). If you have a lot of computers, you can set up a single account to manage all of them.
As for file sharing, if all you're doing is sharing photos, I'd recommend a site like flickr. For other stuff, dropbox seems to work well.
"Technical flaws"? I think "technical flaws" are the least of their concerns. The whole system has been marred with logical flaws from its inception.
Arguing the system is hampered by database problems is the equivalent of building a car without an engine and then complaining it doesn't run because the tires are the wrong size.
I majored in both Computer Science and Spanish in college. There is *definitely* value in learning a second language whether you ultimately end up using it or not. Learning a second language will teach you new ways of communicating and help you see the world through the eyes of another culture. I've known far too many engineers (and researchers) who are incapable of expressing themselves. Anything you can do to improve your communication skills will help not only you, but also the computing field in the long run.
Wouldn't this be rather useless when all of those bots are behind only one of the fifty government gateways? Can you say bottleneck? http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/20/1217259