Cloud sync is nothing new. It's just that web-based Email (one of the first 'cloud' services) came to prominence long enough ago that we don't really think of it as a cloud-based service.
As a college student, Dropbox and Evernote have made my life flippin' awesome. I can take notes on any device, mine or borrowed/public, and they're all immediately sync'd and searchable. As for Dropbox, there are only four folders on my desktop: one for each class, and each symbolically linked to Dropbox folders. Every document I create, I immediately save to the appropriate folder, and it is immediately available for view/review/editing on any internet-connected device anywhere.
People aren't going to all of a sudden evolve the ability to troubleshoot a hacked driver for a wireless card, or compile their own printer drivers. The problem with linux is it isn't made for the general (read: ignorant & generally impatient) public. On a side note, this is only really a problem if the goal is widespread home use. Linux's inherent uber-configurable nature is perfect for what people currently use it for.
Saying the World is not ready for Linux is like saying Toddlers aren't ready for rebuilding car engines.
...are more likely to think illogically. If one is not bound by logic, one tends to ignore the odds (by being completely ignorant of them) and think more positively, relying on "luck" and "it could happen". I would imagine one would be happier always thinking there is a chance than thinking the odds are always against them.
I didn't mean precursor in the literal, design-sense, moreso in the overall idea that doing more things at once is more effective than doing one thing at a time faster, which I thought was one of the basic advantages of multiple cpu's. Multiple threads being executed at the same time, you know?
Intel were no doubt developing the core processor back then, or at least researching it, but the delay from idea to reality can be a very long process. The biggest mistake Intel made was assuming the Netburst architecture could be easily ramped up to 5+ Ghz, or that raw Ghz would still be the biggest influence on processing speed. Hyperthreading was a precursor to multicore processors, idea-wise, and hyperthreading has been around for quite a while.
they're both being developed at the same time, with virtually the same goals of "increasing user-friendliness, increasing productivity, and building on what they've already learned from past experience". If there weren't some obvious similarities, I'd be quite surprised. In general, if someone comes up with a really great idea, and you're trying to compete with that person, it probably makes sense to try to copy them vs. trying to do something the opposite (read: less-intuitive) way.
I'd be pretty pissed if, after one car company decided to put a CD player in their car, the rest of the companies tried to pretend it was a crappy idea to do so themselves. Same goes for antilock brakes, better suspension, smarter engine design, etc. Even you linux zealots wouldn't mind some of these features I'm sure (as long as you had to download/configure/compile them, and then only if you wanted to).
With the huge lines/crowds gathering at major airports, wouldn't it be just as easy to kill a large amount of innocent people by blowing stuff up in said airport? I mean, the lines are gathered in places that haven't been checked for explosives yet...
Wouldn't it make sense to keep it the same size so they can still use existing cd cases & so we don't have to buy new CD racks/holders? I mean, what's an extra ~50GB between friends?:p
Yes, the cost to manufacture one physical CD is under a dollar. However, it costs money to record the music (sometimes a hell of a lot of money, like hundreds of dollars an hour x several weeks/months). It also costs money to work with a distributor who gets the CD into stores, and the retail outlets also have to make *some* money on the deal. Not to mention little things like paying the guy who makes the cover-art.
You're complaining about paying $15-20 for a CD that cost between hundreds to hundreds of thousand of dollars, and hundreds to thousands of man-hours to create. There's a hell of a lot of work that goes into every single CD you see in stores. Yet you complain about spending $20?
The problem isn't the fact that it costs $20. The problem is that the companies asking you to pay that much are filled with crooked, money-grubbing assholes who live off of exploiting people with talent (or just good looks). If you're refusing to buy the next CD put out by Sony/Warner Bros., that's fine by me. But there are a hell of a lot of independant labels'/artists' CD's on those racks in stores, and thousands and thousands more in online stores, that are relying on people paying the $10-15 they ask for their CD's.
but would it be so hard to have a "backup to CD" button on any/all email clients? I mean, all it's gotta do is store all of the data from every email in every folder in the user's inbox (be it imap or pop3) into an easy-to-read file structure of some sort (XML?), right? This isn't off-topic; the biggest reason this is "that big of a deal" is because of how incredibly un-intuitive (or, in some cases, down right near impossible) the method of email backup is. Would it really be that difficult to create a universal standard for email?
I think I get what you're saying, but iirc we've "Seen" black holes at least as far away (or as long ago) as this MECO, so the theory that they could exist and now can't, while possibly valid by itself, doesn't stick as an explanation for black holes and MECO's seemingly "co-existing" in some impossible way.
P.S. Slashdot stories this complicated shouldn't be posted until later in the day, I need coffee!
I would think the "stupid" kids would be the ones they're actually catering to. Making stupid kids feel "hip" is the best way to take their money, as the actual* "hip kids" wouldn't shop at walmart anyway. (*in their minds)
Wouldn't it be smarter for Microsoft to assume Vista *will* be hacked at some point, and base their security around how the system reacts to said hacking, than to assume it won't? I mean, with enough time, anything can be hacked, so it is more of a factor of how long/how much effort it will take & what the hacker can do to the hackee's machine. Is there any real reason to let anything coming in from the internet have any sort of direct access whatsoever to a person's machine? And why would you, by default, let any program access the internet/download random crap? For that matter, perhaps giving the user the ability to add keys to ANY PART of the registry with nothing but a double-click isn't such a good idea.
Mod me down if you must, but as a person who has removed (or attempted to remove) hundreds of easily-preventable adware/spyware/virus infections, I do have reasons to vent...
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Cloud sync is nothing new. It's just that web-based Email (one of the first 'cloud' services) came to prominence long enough ago that we don't really think of it as a cloud-based service. As a college student, Dropbox and Evernote have made my life flippin' awesome. I can take notes on any device, mine or borrowed/public, and they're all immediately sync'd and searchable. As for Dropbox, there are only four folders on my desktop: one for each class, and each symbolically linked to Dropbox folders. Every document I create, I immediately save to the appropriate folder, and it is immediately available for view/review/editing on any internet-connected device anywhere.
I just got an image in my head of Bill Gates in a server room with a huge "Mission Accomplished" sign behind him...
We'd better cool it with the jokes before
Hobbit 1 "Oh.. um.. err... are you.. deformed?" Hobbit 2 "Hey, it's small but it's fierce!"
...I do not think it means what you think it means.
People aren't going to all of a sudden evolve the ability to troubleshoot a hacked driver for a wireless card, or compile their own printer drivers. The problem with linux is it isn't made for the general (read: ignorant & generally impatient) public. On a side note, this is only really a problem if the goal is widespread home use. Linux's inherent uber-configurable nature is perfect for what people currently use it for.
Saying the World is not ready for Linux is like saying Toddlers aren't ready for rebuilding car engines.
...are more likely to think illogically. If one is not bound by logic, one tends to ignore the odds (by being completely ignorant of them) and think more positively, relying on "luck" and "it could happen". I would imagine one would be happier always thinking there is a chance than thinking the odds are always against them.
Make it wider than 5 1/4"...
Huh?
*ducks again*
*ducks*
Way to actually click on the link...
great, now I'm hungry.
Oh shit, the sniper got him! You'd better get out of here before
I didn't mean precursor in the literal, design-sense, moreso in the overall idea that doing more things at once is more effective than doing one thing at a time faster, which I thought was one of the basic advantages of multiple cpu's. Multiple threads being executed at the same time, you know?
Intel were no doubt developing the core processor back then, or at least researching it, but the delay from idea to reality can be a very long process. The biggest mistake Intel made was assuming the Netburst architecture could be easily ramped up to 5+ Ghz, or that raw Ghz would still be the biggest influence on processing speed. Hyperthreading was a precursor to multicore processors, idea-wise, and hyperthreading has been around for quite a while.
Just sayin'.
they're both being developed at the same time, with virtually the same goals of "increasing user-friendliness, increasing productivity, and building on what they've already learned from past experience". If there weren't some obvious similarities, I'd be quite surprised. In general, if someone comes up with a really great idea, and you're trying to compete with that person, it probably makes sense to try to copy them vs. trying to do something the opposite (read: less-intuitive) way.
I'd be pretty pissed if, after one car company decided to put a CD player in their car, the rest of the companies tried to pretend it was a crappy idea to do so themselves. Same goes for antilock brakes, better suspension, smarter engine design, etc. Even you linux zealots wouldn't mind some of these features I'm sure (as long as you had to download/configure/compile them, and then only if you wanted to).
With the huge lines/crowds gathering at major airports, wouldn't it be just as easy to kill a large amount of innocent people by blowing stuff up in said airport? I mean, the lines are gathered in places that haven't been checked for explosives yet...
Wouldn't it make sense to keep it the same size so they can still use existing cd cases & so we don't have to buy new CD racks/holders? I mean, what's an extra ~50GB between friends? :p
Yes, the cost to manufacture one physical CD is under a dollar. However, it costs money to record the music (sometimes a hell of a lot of money, like hundreds of dollars an hour x several weeks/months). It also costs money to work with a distributor who gets the CD into stores, and the retail outlets also have to make *some* money on the deal. Not to mention little things like paying the guy who makes the cover-art.
You're complaining about paying $15-20 for a CD that cost between hundreds to hundreds of thousand of dollars, and hundreds to thousands of man-hours to create. There's a hell of a lot of work that goes into every single CD you see in stores. Yet you complain about spending $20?
The problem isn't the fact that it costs $20. The problem is that the companies asking you to pay that much are filled with crooked, money-grubbing assholes who live off of exploiting people with talent (or just good looks). If you're refusing to buy the next CD put out by Sony/Warner Bros., that's fine by me. But there are a hell of a lot of independant labels'/artists' CD's on those racks in stores, and thousands and thousands more in online stores, that are relying on people paying the $10-15 they ask for their CD's.
Insightful? You mean ignorant.
but would it be so hard to have a "backup to CD" button on any/all email clients? I mean, all it's gotta do is store all of the data from every email in every folder in the user's inbox (be it imap or pop3) into an easy-to-read file structure of some sort (XML?), right? This isn't off-topic; the biggest reason this is "that big of a deal" is because of how incredibly un-intuitive (or, in some cases, down right near impossible) the method of email backup is. Would it really be that difficult to create a universal standard for email?
/rant
Don't kid yourself: EVERYTHING Microsoft does is a way to fight Apple (visually, in particular).
I think I get what you're saying, but iirc we've "Seen" black holes at least as far away (or as long ago) as this MECO, so the theory that they could exist and now can't, while possibly valid by itself, doesn't stick as an explanation for black holes and MECO's seemingly "co-existing" in some impossible way.
P.S. Slashdot stories this complicated shouldn't be posted until later in the day, I need coffee!
I would think the "stupid" kids would be the ones they're actually catering to. Making stupid kids feel "hip" is the best way to take their money, as the actual* "hip kids" wouldn't shop at walmart anyway. (*in their minds)
Wouldn't it be smarter for Microsoft to assume Vista *will* be hacked at some point, and base their security around how the system reacts to said hacking, than to assume it won't? I mean, with enough time, anything can be hacked, so it is more of a factor of how long/how much effort it will take & what the hacker can do to the hackee's machine. Is there any real reason to let anything coming in from the internet have any sort of direct access whatsoever to a person's machine? And why would you, by default, let any program access the internet/download random crap? For that matter, perhaps giving the user the ability to add keys to ANY PART of the registry with nothing but a double-click isn't such a good idea. Mod me down if you must, but as a person who has removed (or attempted to remove) hundreds of easily-preventable adware/spyware/virus infections, I do have reasons to vent...