This doesn't matter much.. most home users have only one account on their computer, and is often set to automatically login... what do you need root privileges for when you can execute as a user, and access all the user's data. What would be needed would be separate data stores protected per application, per user... This isn't the case in windows, linux, or osx.
I have a friend who's work requirement is a phone without a camera... Blackberry has a model that fits the need... I think it's something that should be an option on more phones.
It's not a "web host" even.. it's simply a virtual machine run-time environment. You setup the OS, and configure it... Amazon does not... they provide storage facilities that can be used to backup to, and even mount to your host OS. Also, many virtual machine, or virtual host providers don't necessarily provide backup solutions.
Yeah, before the online streaming,I'd cancelled my account with them. Only sent an email every 3+ months, not two a week like some (Hi dell). No hassles, no deluge of spam. Compare that to trying to drop one of three radios on XM, took thrree calls into a 45+ minute hold queue, two dropped calls, by the time I was done, cancelled them all... No XM/Serious ever again.
In some level of fairness, the bandwidth to Netflix is to far fewer locations, where Netflix can move their data to have better bandwidth... ISPs run cable/infrastructure throughout major cities... Bit of a difference.
Heh, the last ubuntu I ran as my host OS was 10.04 iirc, and it had the intel gfx regression (couldn't even muster the massive overhead of frozen bubble or youtube...
As to the cost... my time is fairly precious to me... I work a *LOT* and so what free time I have, I don't spend much goofing around. Dropbox will do LAN syncing as well, when two machines are in the same LAN. As to security/privacy... anything I care about is encrypted inside my dropbox directory. Even rsync + detection service/scripts would be more pain than it's worth... I actively use Linux, Windows and OSX so Dropbox is about the best fit for my use I've found.
Also, having an offsite/online backup has value as well.
I don't know that that is even so clearly true.. I can start a new web project in VS and have it running locally in under a minute... this is simply not true of eclipse and any web dev. Same goes for zipping up the source tree, having a friend unzip, and opening the project/solution file... in Eclipse you generally have to setup/change your workspace to load a new project... revising your ant scripts can be a pain imho as well. There are some niceties in Eclipse over VS, but hardly a clear win.
Agreed, however, that is the case for most environments... I wish MS had resisted the Alt.Net community a bit more. Not that I don't welcome MS being responsive to the developer community, I just find a lot of their actions had the effect of reducing independent progress, even when tied to their platform. I still don't have a server infrastructure for asp.net (mvc or not) for mono that's compelling enough to not just buy a web edition server license of Windows with IIS. Part of it is cost, I do know I've patched both prototype and jQuery in the past and upstreamed the fixes... can't really do that wit closed source.
Agreed... I've always disliked it because most of the extensions are globally accessible, inconsistently named and implemented from each other, usually in favor of closer ties to underlying libraries over consistent conventions in the platform. People bitched about the MS-IE and Netscape API differences in the v4 days... imagine half of one and half of the other cut up haphazardly and thrown into one soup pot and distilled down, then half-baked with too much flower... that's PHP.
I live in the southwestern U.S. so most of the power here is hydro, solar, or nuclear... I really don't get the use of coal, which is terribly inefficient for power generation.
I live in Arizona, and still don't get the argument... if you are using well water, or otherwise isolated, sure... but in general water evaporates, becomes clouds and rains/snows back down again... Used for cooling, like in nuclear plants, it isn't tainted, lost or otherwise removed from the planet, just evaporated. Now split for hydrogen use, that's a different story slightly.
I think this would depend entirely on the materials used for the air filters and the source(s) of electricity used... I don't consider outright disposal, or landfill of paper products harmful to the environment... trees are a renewable resource.
In all fairness, I'd be happy if half of Federal taxes went to the military... If that amount was less than 1/4 of current spendig, and therest of the federal gov't cut accordingly.
Agreed, really wouldn't want to further a Hulu, vs ABC.com, vs CBS, etc with each only selling a given subset of products... I really wouldn't mind paying even $50 a month if I could just watch whatever I want, whenever I want... another $50 to do it without commercials... Right now with the satellite/cable bundling it's that much or more, without the on demand for everything...
I have to agree there, I also don't think that Sony would sell off it's stake in the media companies, and don't think Google can outweigh Sony on that regard. I do think Google could probably buy out a few of the smaller labels, and offer better incentives to new artists, as well as artists going off contract. Buying and leveraging MGM (though movies & tv more than music) would be a good business decision as well, since a lot of music licensing winds up tied up in negotiations with the movie industry.
And the malware that "bad guy" has on your computer could *never* do something maliciously and permanently corrupting your "profile"... not to mention the government would *never* violate your civil liberties or impersonate your identity with this system.
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This doesn't matter much.. most home users have only one account on their computer, and is often set to automatically login... what do you need root privileges for when you can execute as a user, and access all the user's data. What would be needed would be separate data stores protected per application, per user... This isn't the case in windows, linux, or osx.
Now the firewall won't let me out, and I can't get to corporate email, or work... what should I do now?
I have a friend who's work requirement is a phone without a camera... Blackberry has a model that fits the need... I think it's something that should be an option on more phones.
It's not a "web host" even.. it's simply a virtual machine run-time environment. You setup the OS, and configure it... Amazon does not... they provide storage facilities that can be used to backup to, and even mount to your host OS. Also, many virtual machine, or virtual host providers don't necessarily provide backup solutions.
Yeah, before the online streaming,I'd cancelled my account with them. Only sent an email every 3+ months, not two a week like some (Hi dell). No hassles, no deluge of spam. Compare that to trying to drop one of three radios on XM, took thrree calls into a 45+ minute hold queue, two dropped calls, by the time I was done, cancelled them all... No XM/Serious ever again.
In some level of fairness, the bandwidth to Netflix is to far fewer locations, where Netflix can move their data to have better bandwidth... ISPs run cable/infrastructure throughout major cities... Bit of a difference.
Well, whenever chrome starts it updates iirc... so that would be a hard isue to have with chrome, unless it's unpatched in stable.
Heh, the last ubuntu I ran as my host OS was 10.04 iirc, and it had the intel gfx regression (couldn't even muster the massive overhead of frozen bubble or youtube...
As to the cost... my time is fairly precious to me... I work a *LOT* and so what free time I have, I don't spend much goofing around. Dropbox will do LAN syncing as well, when two machines are in the same LAN. As to security/privacy... anything I care about is encrypted inside my dropbox directory. Even rsync + detection service/scripts would be more pain than it's worth... I actively use Linux, Windows and OSX so Dropbox is about the best fit for my use I've found. Also, having an offsite/online backup has value as well.
Dropbox is without cost to me... BYO would cost me.
Dropbox + truecrypt FTW!
I don't know that that is even so clearly true.. I can start a new web project in VS and have it running locally in under a minute... this is simply not true of eclipse and any web dev. Same goes for zipping up the source tree, having a friend unzip, and opening the project/solution file... in Eclipse you generally have to setup/change your workspace to load a new project... revising your ant scripts can be a pain imho as well. There are some niceties in Eclipse over VS, but hardly a clear win.
Agreed, however, that is the case for most environments... I wish MS had resisted the Alt.Net community a bit more. Not that I don't welcome MS being responsive to the developer community, I just find a lot of their actions had the effect of reducing independent progress, even when tied to their platform. I still don't have a server infrastructure for asp.net (mvc or not) for mono that's compelling enough to not just buy a web edition server license of Windows with IIS. Part of it is cost, I do know I've patched both prototype and jQuery in the past and upstreamed the fixes... can't really do that wit closed source.
Agreed... I've always disliked it because most of the extensions are globally accessible, inconsistently named and implemented from each other, usually in favor of closer ties to underlying libraries over consistent conventions in the platform. People bitched about the MS-IE and Netscape API differences in the v4 days... imagine half of one and half of the other cut up haphazardly and thrown into one soup pot and distilled down, then half-baked with too much flower... that's PHP.
I live in the southwestern U.S. so most of the power here is hydro, solar, or nuclear... I really don't get the use of coal, which is terribly inefficient for power generation.
I live in Arizona, and still don't get the argument... if you are using well water, or otherwise isolated, sure... but in general water evaporates, becomes clouds and rains/snows back down again... Used for cooling, like in nuclear plants, it isn't tainted, lost or otherwise removed from the planet, just evaporated. Now split for hydrogen use, that's a different story slightly.
I think this would depend entirely on the materials used for the air filters and the source(s) of electricity used... I don't consider outright disposal, or landfill of paper products harmful to the environment... trees are a renewable resource.
I always think of Lucha Libre myself, which is probably worse...
In all fairness, I'd be happy if half of Federal taxes went to the military... If that amount was less than 1/4 of current spendig, and therest of the federal gov't cut accordingly.
I don't think it would be possible for them to buy out the majors... I don't think Sony would sell for starters.
Agreed, really wouldn't want to further a Hulu, vs ABC.com, vs CBS, etc with each only selling a given subset of products... I really wouldn't mind paying even $50 a month if I could just watch whatever I want, whenever I want... another $50 to do it without commercials... Right now with the satellite/cable bundling it's that much or more, without the on demand for everything...
I have to agree there, I also don't think that Sony would sell off it's stake in the media companies, and don't think Google can outweigh Sony on that regard. I do think Google could probably buy out a few of the smaller labels, and offer better incentives to new artists, as well as artists going off contract. Buying and leveraging MGM (though movies & tv more than music) would be a good business decision as well, since a lot of music licensing winds up tied up in negotiations with the movie industry.
I mean if you are at ground-level and climbing 90 degrees is straight up or down... maybe 45 degrees? just a nitpick like the spelling/gramer nazis.
And the malware that "bad guy" has on your computer could *never* do something maliciously and permanently corrupting your "profile" ... not to mention the government would *never* violate your civil liberties or impersonate your identity with this system.
see: keyloggers