While I keep my photo's on the internal drive, I have an external drive I use as a backup.
But fire, quakes and thief might cause both the harddrive and backup to be gone so
I also have a Picasa account with google and I pay google $5.00 a year for an extra 20 gigs or something. Picasa provides two things: (1) On site editing and organization of photos (2) Cloud based offsite backup and presentation
With Picasa, I could send you a link and you can view my photos and if my house disappears I can recover my photo's from Google.
I now have three levels of storage, internal drive, external drive and cloud.
It is good to see that government employees are only spending 15 minutes a week in slack time (2004/7763). But, I'm wondering how much of that time is spent waiting on web pages to download. If we provided faster internet connections to the US employees, then perhaps we could cut the slack time down to 7 minutes a week
"What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?" she asked. "What would happen is that you would get the blue bridge of death appearing on your highway in the morning." - Mary Add Davidson Chief Security Officer at Oracle.
If software was built like bridges, we would have a defined starting point and a defined termination point. You could only go from Point A to Point B, or the reverse direction. Spreadsheets could be preloaded with numbers and answer, no need to have user input or calculate the results. Browsers would be designed for presenting one window only, with static text.
There is no need for search engine, because you are only going from Point A to Point B anyway. Your music player would play one song, and it is stored in WAV format. Your job never changes, your bank remains the same, and IBM is the only computer company.
If software was built like bridges, we would not need databases. Databases are used for storage of changing events and a bridge only goes from Point A to Point B. It does not handle changes.
5 Mil is small compared to what was spent by MS to protect user computers from this virus in advance, and much smaller than the money was spent by MS to help out the users who didn't apply the protection beforehand. It's pretty stupid to say this 5 mil would be better spent on development, much more was already was spent that way.
If it were me, I would say anyone who didn't install the patch deserves to have their machine destroyed.
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All of the above.
While I keep my photo's on the internal drive, I have an external drive I use as a backup.
But fire, quakes and thief might cause both the harddrive and backup to be gone so
I also have a Picasa account with google and I pay google $5.00 a year for an extra 20 gigs or something. Picasa provides two things:
(1) On site editing and organization of photos
(2) Cloud based offsite backup and presentation
With Picasa, I could send you a link and you can view my photos and if my house disappears I can recover my photo's from Google.
I now have three levels of storage, internal drive, external drive and cloud.
It is good to see that government employees are only spending 15 minutes a week in slack time (2004/7763). But, I'm wondering how much of that time is spent waiting on web pages to download. If we provided faster internet connections to the US employees, then perhaps we could cut the slack time down to 7 minutes a week
-looking
If software was built like bridges!
"What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?" she asked. "What would happen is that you would get the blue bridge of death appearing on your highway in the morning." - Mary Add Davidson Chief Security Officer at Oracle.
If software was built like bridges, we would have a defined starting point and a defined termination point. You could only go from Point A to Point B, or the reverse direction. Spreadsheets could be preloaded with numbers and answer, no need to have user input or calculate the results. Browsers would be designed for presenting one window only, with static text.
There is no need for search engine, because you are only going from Point A to Point B anyway. Your music player would play one song, and it is stored in WAV format. Your job never changes, your bank remains the same, and IBM is the only computer company.
If software was built like bridges, we would not need databases. Databases are used for storage of changing events and a bridge only goes from Point A to Point B. It does not handle changes.
-rwg
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
5 Mil is small compared to what was spent by MS to protect user computers from this virus in advance, and much smaller than the money was spent by MS to help out the users who didn't apply the protection beforehand. It's pretty stupid to say this 5 mil would be better spent on development, much more was already was spent that way.
If it were me, I would say anyone who didn't install the patch deserves to have their machine destroyed.