I had a few more famous people in mind, maybe their opinion might mean something. History of authors and their typewriters is a fun subject.
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First author to use typewriter was Samuel Clemens, or so he boasted of his Remington No. 2. Arthur C. Clarke ditched his in the 1982 for WordStar on a IBM XT with 5MB hard drive.
Except the fax was invented even earlier, 1843 by Scottish physicist Alexander Bain. It had a light-sensitive element on pendulum for sending on telegraph line, and printer for receiving.
Doesn't need to be huge, just have large radius. closed pod on one end of diameter and counterweight on the other, for example. I don't get motion sickness on the carnival ride that spins people in cylinder while floor drops, and that's a small radius.
Those forms are required by various governments of planet earth, that have typewriter repair infrastructure in place. There are typewriter repair shops and parts and supplies available globally. Your reasoning is faulty, the typewriter will live on for decades, likely past our death.
check out the uranium hexafluoride plants / storage areas sometime. They're in casks, thousands of them out in the weather, and corroding. Upon exposure to water in the air, all kinds of fun happens.
been there done that, but there are tricks of the trade for correcting without a casually visible trace (solvents such as benzene also used by crooks for "check-washing")
Typewriters still have at least two important uses. One is for filling out duplicate/triplicate/quadruple pressure-sensitive forms that have to be done in either pen or typewriter (I had to do some a couple years back for a foreign government as part of immigration of relative).
The other important use is that some famous writers love them rather than computers for whatever reason, some authors that slashdotters like might be some of those people.
there's more to it than that, with Amazon we had cascading failures starting from one part of the cloud that then took out others because of the cloud architecture. If I co-locate my own servers at various providers I'm not at risk for that.
Someday your encryption algorithm will be broken, perhaps sooner than you think. I keep my data in my grubby mitts, so to speak, even though at multiple locations
mainframe are cool, but you could have the same issues with it if you don't have replicated storage and hosts elsewhere.
Any modern Unix, OpenVMS, Linux, BSD, MacOSX, System I, OS/400, old OS/2, old Netware, MS-DOS can be put onto storage replicated offset with automatic failover.
hard to do in the context of an artist like Shakespeare or Milton
You might be surprised to know that works and suspected works by those authors are still being discovered, as well as writings of contemporaries. To say PhD's in anything but science, engineering and mathematics are worthwhile is indicative of an incredibly ignorant and narrow-minded world view. Just as one example, to understand relationships of people and groups of people is becoming ever more important as we invent new communication systems. Dealing with this will draw upon fields of history, religion, anthropology, sociology and politics.
In the past a PhD was also expected to have a very broad, well-rounded, liberal arts education in addition to a specialization.
a Ringworld would need the planetary matter of a Neptune and 23,000 years of total solar output to spin up to 1G.....bad budget issue for our aliens, they'd do something simpler like many solar powered rotating space stations.
That "somehow" has been proven impossible, information can't be transmitted faster than that or things like perpetual motion (maxwell's demon via altering past choices) and violation of casualty (killing your mother in the past) would be possible.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.amazon.com/Olivetti-Linea-98-Manual-Typewriter/dp/B004URUOB4
New ones, Both Kinds, still made and sold, electric and manual.
Still being made and sold by the biggest office supply stores, for example: http://www.officemax.com/catalog/search.jsp?freeText=typewriter&search.x=0&search.y=0
want a new manual typewriter, click here:
http://www.amazon.com/Olivetti-Linea-98-Manual-Typewriter/dp/B004URUOB4
I had a few more famous people in mind, maybe their opinion might mean something. History of authors and their typewriters is a fun subject.
,
First author to use typewriter was Samuel Clemens, or so he boasted of his Remington No. 2. Arthur C. Clarke ditched his in the 1982 for WordStar on a IBM XT with 5MB hard drive.
the GRiDPad by GRiD Systems Corporation beats that, introduced in 1989. it ran MS-DOS.
Except the fax was invented even earlier, 1843 by Scottish physicist Alexander Bain. It had a light-sensitive element on pendulum for sending on telegraph line, and printer for receiving.
Doesn't need to be huge, just have large radius. closed pod on one end of diameter and counterweight on the other, for example. I don't get motion sickness on the carnival ride that spins people in cylinder while floor drops, and that's a small radius.
Those forms are required by various governments of planet earth, that have typewriter repair infrastructure in place. There are typewriter repair shops and parts and supplies available globally. Your reasoning is faulty, the typewriter will live on for decades, likely past our death.
check out the uranium hexafluoride plants / storage areas sometime. They're in casks, thousands of them out in the weather, and corroding. Upon exposure to water in the air, all kinds of fun happens.
been there done that, but there are tricks of the trade for correcting without a casually visible trace (solvents such as benzene also used by crooks for "check-washing")
the 24 pins of my epson LQ1500 look even better, it's been in a closet at my parent's house for 24 years.
cool! ever fix Magnetic Tape Selectric or Magnetic Card Selectric?
Typewriters still have at least two important uses. One is for filling out duplicate/triplicate/quadruple pressure-sensitive forms that have to be done in either pen or typewriter (I had to do some a couple years back for a foreign government as part of immigration of relative).
The other important use is that some famous writers love them rather than computers for whatever reason, some authors that slashdotters like might be some of those people.
256 bit AES was shown just over a year ago to have structural weaknesses that render it potentially crackable, better not take the bet.
http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/374.pdf
The next news you here on the subject will be someone who has implemented actual crack.
since sugars and now proteins can be made into biofuels, have you tried the jack-shacks and porn theaters for raw material?
you can offsource the cost onto parents and guardians, wait to harvest them when they're ripe
if you go for the lazy unmotivated rebellious ones, the parents will thank you
there's more to it than that, with Amazon we had cascading failures starting from one part of the cloud that then took out others because of the cloud architecture. If I co-locate my own servers at various providers I'm not at risk for that.
bullshit, data showing up in the wrong hands years later can get you sued, even something as simple as list of client email addresses.
Someday your encryption algorithm will be broken, perhaps sooner than you think. I keep my data in my grubby mitts, so to speak, even though at multiple locations
mainframe are cool, but you could have the same issues with it if you don't have replicated storage and hosts elsewhere. Any modern Unix, OpenVMS, Linux, BSD, MacOSX, System I, OS/400, old OS/2, old Netware, MS-DOS can be put onto storage replicated offset with automatic failover.
The impact of african-americans upon music (including choreography) was and is like the Tsar bomb and Spunik was to the cold war, HUGE.
hard to do in the context of an artist like Shakespeare or Milton
You might be surprised to know that works and suspected works by those authors are still being discovered, as well as writings of contemporaries. To say PhD's in anything but science, engineering and mathematics are worthwhile is indicative of an incredibly ignorant and narrow-minded world view. Just as one example, to understand relationships of people and groups of people is becoming ever more important as we invent new communication systems. Dealing with this will draw upon fields of history, religion, anthropology, sociology and politics.
In the past a PhD was also expected to have a very broad, well-rounded, liberal arts education in addition to a specialization.
Our fission reactors make anti-neutrinos as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamioka_Liquid_Scintillator_Antineutrino_Detector
a Ringworld would need the planetary matter of a Neptune and 23,000 years of total solar output to spin up to 1G.....bad budget issue for our aliens, they'd do something simpler like many solar powered rotating space stations.
That "somehow" has been proven impossible, information can't be transmitted faster than that or things like perpetual motion (maxwell's demon via altering past choices) and violation of casualty (killing your mother in the past) would be possible.
Did you read your whole article? Potential solutions are discussed, it's just a solvable engineering problem.