More importantly (as a Carbonite customer) what similarly priced services are there? I went with Carbonite over a few other services because at home I happen to have a server that is perceived by the industry to be an 'enterprise' product, meaning I would be charged an 'enterprise' price for using the service. I find this preposterous, considering my backups of music, photos, etc. to be under 100GB--no where near 'enterprise' class backup.
Now, I have never had to do a full backup recovery, but this does make me nervous as a customer. What offsite backup services do you all use?
I'm not sure why you got modded troll here, but that's how I set things up for a lab back in the college days. Any trace of the 'Blue E' was hidden and replaced with the orange fox, its label changed from 'Mozilla Firefox' to 'Internet'. Management became a lot easier from that point forward.
I think a big part of that practice is not just making the information available, but consumable in an easy way. So, if I want to run my own analysis of the data, it ought to be made available in a standard format so as to facilitate those purposes (ie XML and accompanying schema), as opposed to making it only available through HTML or an Excel spreadsheet.
Don't be too hasty in seeing M$' head severed. When evil is destroyed, there is always something to fill its void, and despite your best wishes, I fell pretty safe in saying that it likely wouldn't be Linux.
You're right, all Joe cares about is can he get what he needs to do, done, and can he do it quickly. The GP is just stating that Joe would be happier without the sludge because his OS would be that much more responsive. I took Windows 7 *and* Vista for a tire kicking experience last weekend. I was happy until I got to games and other CPU/GPU activities. Strip out the sludge so they run as well are better than on XP and you'll have me sold, too.
Considering that Wikipedia's own search engine sucks (especially when I am unable to spell unfamiliar terms), yes. I find the Google/Wikipedia combo to be invaluable in finding what I am seeking to learn.
Themes/Skinning. The sooner I can *easily* reskin OpenOffice, the quicker I can drive adoption by skinning it to look very similar to what my users are already accustomed to seeing, *wink* *wink*.
Nothing new here. I remember cleaning out a cabinet in my high school dark room littered with such self portraits. I can imagine that this was nothing new then, either. As long as kids have access to cameras, period, you're going to see these sorts of things. The system needs to get over it.
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. This past election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years.
It will be interesting in Obama's freshman year to see the challenges that confront him, how he'll deal with them, and how the public will react. I think more than anything, Barack will have trouble living up to the image of a 'Cristo Negro de Esquipulas', as many look at him as a messiah of sorts for the nation. That aside, we have a unique moment in history in which we will be asked what it was like when the first African American president was inaugurated, to which we'll reply that it was both exciting and uncertain. Exciting because it seems that we have grown from our bigoted and biased past, but uncertain, not because he's black, but because of the economic and foreign calamities and troubles that have been layed before us.
Yeah, but under their deal, they'd make sure that there was a scarcity of the distribution, meaning, none at all. But that is at the heart of this whole mess, isn't it? IP owners have completely lost control, and to add insult to injury, the ruling to make this a public affair only reaffirms it.
God's Debris, a thought experiment written by Scott Adams [SPOILER ALERT] tries out the idea that as humanity progresses in technology, its omniscience increases. Things eventually come to a point where humanity knows everything that occurs, when it happens, who is involved, et all. Following that line of thought, the whole concept of 'intellectual property' and distribution control kind of dissolve, not because they aren't important, but because of the ubiquity of access to it. The content is absorbed and consumed just as soon as it is exposed or even created.
Remember the line from Sneakers: "No more secrets, Marty."
Long answer: because it's more portable that way. I don't have a fancy-shmancy iPhone where I would have ubiquitous Internet access (but it doesn't matter anyway because it can't run Java or Flash!) so taking RSS feeds on my gadget with me on the run works best. No need for pictures (most of the time), gimme the vanilla information.
The main reason why your DVD never required updates is because Blu-Ray is a trainwreck of a spec that is still in heavy flux, while DVD was finalized and stable by the time players started shipping.
It didn't require updates because in 1995 only 0.4% of the world's population had access to the Internet, and the spec didn't allow for such things as 'upgrades'. It hadn't even entered their minds that people would actively crack the thing. Fast forward ten years later (digitally mind you, we had passed up analog tapes!) and one of the requirements was to be able to update the code used to decrypt the disc in order to combat piracy. The fact that many updates to the specification have already been made is only an ancillary to this motivation.
Games? I'm a TF2 junkie and notice a 10-15fps drop when using Vista (with Aero turned off, even!). That has been the biggest deal breaker for me. I'm running a 7900GS.
Not a MMO, but I really enjoy the Half-Life games because Valve teaches you the various things to do while playing the game. Their philosophy is geared towards teaching players and rewarding them accordingly. I plugged in Twilight Princess for the Wii and found it frustrating that from the outset, I had no idea what all my buttons did.
Chalk up a point for the capitalist 'Cult of Personality'. It's funny how we all point to Stalin, Hilter, Kim Jong Il, etc. as points of failed/failing organizations, but Stevo really highlights how this can be to the detriment of a major corporation, too.
In Texas, they have the idea of farm gas. The diesel has a red dye added and you get it at a much cheaper cost than regular diesel because you aren't driving your F350 or tractor on public roads. The dye is added so that if you're caught with it and are romping around on public roads, then you get fined.
Most people only own the land up to their driveway. From there on, it's usually owned by the city.
Just to clarify, you may own the property up to the sidewalk, but you may still have what is called an easement on your property that gives government and/or utility access to your property. In this case, last mile infrastructure typically have access to your property to perform maintenance and public works such as water, sewer, electrical and telecommunications.
The decision to release buggy software often does not lie in the hands of the developer, but the business paying the developer. In many cases, bugs and vulnerabilities are well known, but a business decision is made to release anyway.
Reminds me of my favorite notepad pseudo-easter egg. Type the words below in a new instance of Notepad, save it, close it, re-open it in Notepad and see what it does...
I imagine that this product is not geared to twitchy eight year old kids, but a bid to capture older generations (35+). First they came out with their memory enhancement games that had broader appeal to non-gamers. This is just another step in that direction.
Don't be too hasty. The Air Force has launched MyBase, a virtual training program for its cadets. The idea is that you can receive some types of training in the virtual world in lieu of reading a manual or something.
The other application spoken of is creating virtual representations of real bases and areas so that an airman can study the layout of a base and 'know' it before he even steps off the airplane. He/She can know where his/her billet, chow hall, etc. without having to actually have been there in real life.
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More importantly (as a Carbonite customer) what similarly priced services are there? I went with Carbonite over a few other services because at home I happen to have a server that is perceived by the industry to be an 'enterprise' product, meaning I would be charged an 'enterprise' price for using the service. I find this preposterous, considering my backups of music, photos, etc. to be under 100GB--no where near 'enterprise' class backup.
Now, I have never had to do a full backup recovery, but this does make me nervous as a customer. What offsite backup services do you all use?
a) Why would you need to do that if Firefox was so perfect?
Because we don't live in a perfect world where getting Windows' updates can be obtained via Firefox.
I'm not sure why you got modded troll here, but that's how I set things up for a lab back in the college days. Any trace of the 'Blue E' was hidden and replaced with the orange fox, its label changed from 'Mozilla Firefox' to 'Internet'. Management became a lot easier from that point forward.
I think a big part of that practice is not just making the information available, but consumable in an easy way. So, if I want to run my own analysis of the data, it ought to be made available in a standard format so as to facilitate those purposes (ie XML and accompanying schema), as opposed to making it only available through HTML or an Excel spreadsheet.
This is a good thing.
Don't be too hasty in seeing M$' head severed. When evil is destroyed, there is always something to fill its void, and despite your best wishes, I fell pretty safe in saying that it likely wouldn't be Linux.
You're right, all Joe cares about is can he get what he needs to do, done, and can he do it quickly. The GP is just stating that Joe would be happier without the sludge because his OS would be that much more responsive. I took Windows 7 *and* Vista for a tire kicking experience last weekend. I was happy until I got to games and other CPU/GPU activities. Strip out the sludge so they run as well are better than on XP and you'll have me sold, too.
Considering that Wikipedia's own search engine sucks (especially when I am unable to spell unfamiliar terms), yes. I find the Google/Wikipedia combo to be invaluable in finding what I am seeking to learn.
Themes/Skinning. The sooner I can *easily* reskin OpenOffice, the quicker I can drive adoption by skinning it to look very similar to what my users are already accustomed to seeing, *wink* *wink*.
Nothing new here. I remember cleaning out a cabinet in my high school dark room littered with such self portraits. I can imagine that this was nothing new then, either. As long as kids have access to cameras, period, you're going to see these sorts of things. The system needs to get over it.
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. This past election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years.
It will be interesting in Obama's freshman year to see the challenges that confront him, how he'll deal with them, and how the public will react. I think more than anything, Barack will have trouble living up to the image of a 'Cristo Negro de Esquipulas', as many look at him as a messiah of sorts for the nation. That aside, we have a unique moment in history in which we will be asked what it was like when the first African American president was inaugurated, to which we'll reply that it was both exciting and uncertain. Exciting because it seems that we have grown from our bigoted and biased past, but uncertain, not because he's black, but because of the economic and foreign calamities and troubles that have been layed before us.
Yeah, but under their deal, they'd make sure that there was a scarcity of the distribution, meaning, none at all. But that is at the heart of this whole mess, isn't it? IP owners have completely lost control, and to add insult to injury, the ruling to make this a public affair only reaffirms it.
God's Debris, a thought experiment written by Scott Adams [SPOILER ALERT] tries out the idea that as humanity progresses in technology, its omniscience increases. Things eventually come to a point where humanity knows everything that occurs, when it happens, who is involved, et all. Following that line of thought, the whole concept of 'intellectual property' and distribution control kind of dissolve, not because they aren't important, but because of the ubiquity of access to it. The content is absorbed and consumed just as soon as it is exposed or even created.
Remember the line from Sneakers: "No more secrets, Marty."
You linked to the real commercial when you could have linked to this much better version of it.
Gracias por todo, Ricardo.
Long answer: because it's more portable that way. I don't have a fancy-shmancy iPhone where I would have ubiquitous Internet access (but it doesn't matter anyway because it can't run Java or Flash!) so taking RSS feeds on my gadget with me on the run works best. No need for pictures (most of the time), gimme the vanilla information.
The main reason why your DVD never required updates is because Blu-Ray is a trainwreck of a spec that is still in heavy flux, while DVD was finalized and stable by the time players started shipping.
It didn't require updates because in 1995 only 0.4% of the world's population had access to the Internet, and the spec didn't allow for such things as 'upgrades'. It hadn't even entered their minds that people would actively crack the thing. Fast forward ten years later (digitally mind you, we had passed up analog tapes!) and one of the requirements was to be able to update the code used to decrypt the disc in order to combat piracy. The fact that many updates to the specification have already been made is only an ancillary to this motivation.
Games? I'm a TF2 junkie and notice a 10-15fps drop when using Vista (with Aero turned off, even!). That has been the biggest deal breaker for me. I'm running a 7900GS.
Not a MMO, but I really enjoy the Half-Life games because Valve teaches you the various things to do while playing the game. Their philosophy is geared towards teaching players and rewarding them accordingly. I plugged in Twilight Princess for the Wii and found it frustrating that from the outset, I had no idea what all my buttons did.
Chalk up a point for the capitalist 'Cult of Personality'. It's funny how we all point to Stalin, Hilter, Kim Jong Il, etc. as points of failed/failing organizations, but Stevo really highlights how this can be to the detriment of a major corporation, too.
In Texas, they have the idea of farm gas. The diesel has a red dye added and you get it at a much cheaper cost than regular diesel because you aren't driving your F350 or tractor on public roads. The dye is added so that if you're caught with it and are romping around on public roads, then you get fined.
Most people only own the land up to their driveway. From there on, it's usually owned by the city.
Just to clarify, you may own the property up to the sidewalk, but you may still have what is called an easement on your property that gives government and/or utility access to your property. In this case, last mile infrastructure typically have access to your property to perform maintenance and public works such as water, sewer, electrical and telecommunications.
The decision to release buggy software often does not lie in the hands of the developer, but the business paying the developer. In many cases, bugs and vulnerabilities are well known, but a business decision is made to release anyway.
I've tried taking it to numerous online translators, and even taking it to Chinese natives but they couldn't make any sense of it either.
Reminds me of my favorite notepad pseudo-easter egg. Type the words below in a new instance of Notepad, save it, close it, re-open it in Notepad and see what it does...
this app can break
I imagine that this product is not geared to twitchy eight year old kids, but a bid to capture older generations (35+). First they came out with their memory enhancement games that had broader appeal to non-gamers. This is just another step in that direction.
'Transparent Software'
The big political term right now is 'transparency', as opposed to 'opaque' politics. The same metaphors could be applied to software.
Don't be too hasty. The Air Force has launched MyBase, a virtual training program for its cadets. The idea is that you can receive some types of training in the virtual world in lieu of reading a manual or something.
The other application spoken of is creating virtual representations of real bases and areas so that an airman can study the layout of a base and 'know' it before he even steps off the airplane. He/She can know where his/her billet, chow hall, etc. without having to actually have been there in real life.
I think it's a great use of my tax dollars.