Maybe in Congress.. but I had been using the Internet for 9 years by the time he made that stupid remark and the Web had already taken off long before he did a damn thing to "promote" it. He shouldn't take credit for something that was clearly out of his control all along. At best, he educated Congress that this thing was happening and they needed to be aware of it.. but he had no influence over how it got to where it was we he made teh stupid remark, nor did he influence where it was headed. I was there to see the Internet created.. don't tell me or anyone else that saw it evolved that any politician played any role in what it is today.
You can't create something effective that is everything to everyone. It really is best to carve out your niche and stay in it. This is exactly what Fliky is doing and it is very wise. To do otherwise will only cause problems in the long run for both users and advertisers paying Flikr.
The important part is that to weekly burn and mail a bunch of disks takes a bunch of time you're not accounting for,
Let's not bring in "my time" since you don't know how I might solve that so it isn't a factor at all.
I think the real problem here is that people do not acknowledge how poor magnetic media is at preserving data. It's very error prone and as bit densities increase the problem gets worse.
I do employ an external HD for short term backups, while I store long term on DVD-R.. knowing that some will fail. But this way I do get incremental backups at a lower cost per GB. I have roughly 50GB that must be stored. But the important part is there are too many ways around the other costs you're trying to say are deal breakers when they are not. Keep it to the media.... I bring my archives to work. I come here five days a week. No additional shipping or effort required. When I go to the inlaws I grab the latest and leave a copy there. Again, no additional cost or effort required.
I've been maintaining this large archive for about 8 years. It's not a new thing and trusting hard drives is a grave error if you care about your data.
The only place I somewhat disagree.. or have a different opinion/view is with data backup. I agree, DVD's completely suck, but so do hard drives for other reasons. Neither medium is great for long term storage. However, hard drives really don't have great capacity for data backup. DVDs aren't great either but there is a difference. DVDs are extremely cheap media these days. I have about 50GB of data that is extremely important to me that I'd like to maintain incremental backups. I've thought of ripping out 10+ DVD-Rs once a month and sending them to my families for safe keeping (in case of theft or fire). Sure, many will croak in time but my thinking is that one of those bastards will have the files that I might have clobbered. Magnetic media is not good archival at all. They do have archival quality DVD-Rs but they are way to expensive for incemental backups like I'm considering.
It seems that even though the density of optical media is far superior to any other form of data backup available, that magnetic tape solutions are still the most reliable and cost effective. WTF is up with that?
So... my point is that there is a nitch they could shoot for. As people's digital photo collections grow with increasing threfts from viral activity and user error, the need for large scale data backup will only grow. Even if they don't want us to actually be able to use this great media for enjoying the new Hollywood rollout, there's another market just waiting to be tapped that most people don't even know they need or want yet. I think it will take time for people to truly appreciate the need for backups of our important data. We tend to trust that single desktop, single OS, and single hard drive way too much. An ad campaign with the truths of these risks would be an effective way to market these products. But I doubt they'll go for thar market because to be honest... most people will prefer the risk over the increased cost and hassle. Then whine about it when their OS or single hard disk fails.
Security is not guaranteed, even if they were to secure the ID cards. Just by issuing them and requiring their use you already significantly reduce the issues. If a criminal of any type (sexual or whatever) was so determined to try to crack the RFID cards, having the encrypted will just force them to find another hole in the system... or circumvent the system entirely.
You cannot guarantee anything. YOu can only reduce the probability of it happenings.. but as you approach very high tolerance, the costs go up enormously for very little benefit.
It's a choice.. higher tuitition to support better security, or some fairly reasonable security at low cost to you? There's no wrong answer.. but it's a choice you have to make.
...a cutting-edge operating system that isn't even out of beta!
and we all know that once Vista gets out of Release Candidate 432789789473 that it will just reach what Beta was once intended to represent. Heck.. with WinXP it really didn't reach Beta until SP1 and SP2 brought it into full release.
Obviously you don't know much about the fabrication process and the challenges of creating chips with the speeds they currently perform at.
It's OK to be ignorant, but don't assume that everything always boils down to some mega corp not giving a ratts ass about anything. Our chips are not wasteful. They are as fast as they can be for the available technologies that we have.
That may be, but the REAL problem is that email was never designed to prevent its users from shitting into the communal water supply."
You both just said the same thing. Your *opposing* argument is not opposing at all. Even IF we had a new protocol, there still would be mass marketers out there trying to abuse it. You don't get telemarketers calling you at home? People knocking at your door at least once a week. SPAMS to your pager? Leaflets left on your car when you're buying groceries? Why do you feel that eMail should be any different? The REAL problem is scumbags that have no concept of when to STOP getting in our face.
A new protocol will help greatly, but it won't stop the REAL problem which is people shitting in communal waters. BUT... you both are right, just don't act like this is such a one sided thing and that the tech is "Dead". The tech certainly isnt' dead, or no one would be using email at all. Since email usage is still growing, I think eMail is very far from dead.
NASA's budget has been cut to nothing, yet our federal budget has been bloating out. We need to overhaul the federal government, remove all of the entitle BS, and get the government back to what it's supposed to be to the county. That is, if we want to be able to do these great things for mankind like NASA once was for... in theory.
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There's nothing more to learn on the Moon
New technologies to do it faster, better, and cheaper is a very good thing to learn. If we can do it on the budget that NASA has today.. that is an awesome achievement that will produce lots of great technology not only for future NASA missions, but also to further science which has a direct positive affect on everyone's lives.
Here comes the predictible velcro and Tang rebuttles.....
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Really? I didn't know it was that much then. Another prior post of mine is in error.
What was a $2B program then would be quite a bit more than that today. We can do it, but do you want to pay for it? Especially since it's not just the straight increase in the dollars over the years, but also all of the new legal implications.
There go the insults again without trying to talk about the topic. Don't have any depth to yuor knowledge?
I'm not talking about how our government works. i'm talking about a commune as the word communism is defined. We have communes here in this country by a group's free will. These are fine, because they are of free will and in small groups will most certainly be effective because there is mutual respect in a small group. The communism I'm referring to is the very same thing, but forcibly applied to our labor structure. There are no benefits for hard work, and not penalties for poor work. The spoils are shared among all regardless of any tangible measure other than one head gets one share. This is communism.
But instead of talking about the topic you'd rather go as low as the typical political hate everything people do when they'd rather just hate.. then discuss. Feel free to think I'm stupid because I'm discussing this, instead of resorting to personal insults to show how smart I am....
That's a two way street. In my industry there are companies that lay off because a certainly project isn't convenient anymore, while another project is in desparate need. They just dump the whole lot while still hiring. I will not even apply to them even though they have very interesting work.
I am sticking with a company that tries really hard to keep its talent even when they should be laying off. My wife and I want to move to another state for a different lifestyle. There are places we will not go because of job stability in the region.
This is the land of opportunity. Not the land of guaranteed pay income. You have the opportunity to be a complete waste and failure if that's what you aspire to be. Why do so many expect it to freedom at everyone else's expense?
How in the world does any owner of a profittable company make it communistic? I think you're confusing the board of directors and share holders. Your beef is with the board.
You would completely change your mind if you were a small business owner.. or even hired people to do considerable work on your home. Think about how you'd react if you hired someone to do extensive construction on your home, one employee kept mucking things up, and when you tried to fire that person, they staged a walk out to keep him employed? Now you're forced to pay for some jackass that screws up all the time.. or suffer not getting any work done at all. Oh.. and the law says you signed a contract so you can't just find another pool of laborers. You wouldn't be too happy.
It's a two way street. Don't complain about jobs being shifted overseas for cheaper labor, while tying the hands of our companies that are trying to be successful.
Perhaps you should look up the definition of communism.
Why are you trying to be insulting? I've never understood why some people have to resort to insults instead of talking about the topic. Are you concerned you don't have a basis to stand on? Is insulting the only way for you to feel good about yourself?
Labor unions don't fit it. Labor Unions are collective bargaining organizations that use the power of the collective to increase the leverage of the employees to be on a level playing field
and that leads to....? COMMUNISM!
Remove motivation, flatten salaries to be based on years of experience, remove ability to excel... what do you have? COMMUNISM. What don't you have? Productivity or efficiency? What does that lead you with? A failed business model. Which results in? Failure of the company.. Just like our auto industry. But yeah.. it's all the CEO's fault.
So? Your investment and choices in life are not your company's responsibility to deal with.
You're not worth every penney- you're worth the $2.50/hr your job can be done in India for.
It's better to loose *some* jobs than to have the entire company collapse like the auto industry is collapsing to foreign competition. Which would you have? A small lay off, or a complete plant closing? pick your poison.
I choose opportunity over communism. If you can't remain employeed, then you shouldn't be digging yourself into massive debt and expecting someone else to deal with your poor choices.
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Maybe in Congress.. but I had been using the Internet for 9 years by the time he made that stupid remark and the Web had already taken off long before he did a damn thing to "promote" it. He shouldn't take credit for something that was clearly out of his control all along. At best, he educated Congress that this thing was happening and they needed to be aware of it.. but he had no influence over how it got to where it was we he made teh stupid remark, nor did he influence where it was headed. I was there to see the Internet created.. don't tell me or anyone else that saw it evolved that any politician played any role in what it is today.
That's the problem/beauty of these sorts of things. The more people try to label something as bad, the more people want it. Totally awesome.
A quote from your URL: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
And this action of his came long *after* the Internet already existed.
You can't create something effective that is everything to everyone. It really is best to carve out your niche and stay in it. This is exactly what Fliky is doing and it is very wise. To do otherwise will only cause problems in the long run for both users and advertisers paying Flikr.
Scott
Watch too much 24.
If it can trap green house gasses too, I'd love to have a pair of underwear made of this stuff so I can fart all day long and not bother anyone.
Jeez man.. don't post that stuff without telling us it's not cool for viewing while at work!
I expected something comical...
Isn't step 1 "Steal underpants"?
The important part is that to weekly burn and mail a bunch of disks takes a bunch of time you're not accounting for,
Let's not bring in "my time" since you don't know how I might solve that so it isn't a factor at all.
I think the real problem here is that people do not acknowledge how poor magnetic media is at preserving data. It's very error prone and as bit densities increase the problem gets worse.
I do employ an external HD for short term backups, while I store long term on DVD-R.. knowing that some will fail. But this way I do get incremental backups at a lower cost per GB. I have roughly 50GB that must be stored. But the important part is there are too many ways around the other costs you're trying to say are deal breakers when they are not. Keep it to the media.... I bring my archives to work. I come here five days a week. No additional shipping or effort required. When I go to the inlaws I grab the latest and leave a copy there. Again, no additional cost or effort required.
I've been maintaining this large archive for about 8 years. It's not a new thing and trusting hard drives is a grave error if you care about your data.
Good write up and well thought out.
The only place I somewhat disagree.. or have a different opinion/view is with data backup. I agree, DVD's completely suck, but so do hard drives for other reasons. Neither medium is great for long term storage. However, hard drives really don't have great capacity for data backup. DVDs aren't great either but there is a difference. DVDs are extremely cheap media these days. I have about 50GB of data that is extremely important to me that I'd like to maintain incremental backups. I've thought of ripping out 10+ DVD-Rs once a month and sending them to my families for safe keeping (in case of theft or fire). Sure, many will croak in time but my thinking is that one of those bastards will have the files that I might have clobbered. Magnetic media is not good archival at all. They do have archival quality DVD-Rs but they are way to expensive for incemental backups like I'm considering.
It seems that even though the density of optical media is far superior to any other form of data backup available, that magnetic tape solutions are still the most reliable and cost effective. WTF is up with that?
So... my point is that there is a nitch they could shoot for. As people's digital photo collections grow with increasing threfts from viral activity and user error, the need for large scale data backup will only grow. Even if they don't want us to actually be able to use this great media for enjoying the new Hollywood rollout, there's another market just waiting to be tapped that most people don't even know they need or want yet. I think it will take time for people to truly appreciate the need for backups of our important data. We tend to trust that single desktop, single OS, and single hard drive way too much. An ad campaign with the truths of these risks would be an effective way to market these products. But I doubt they'll go for thar market because to be honest... most people will prefer the risk over the increased cost and hassle. Then whine about it when their OS or single hard disk fails.
Security is not guaranteed, even if they were to secure the ID cards. Just by issuing them and requiring their use you already significantly reduce the issues. If a criminal of any type (sexual or whatever) was so determined to try to crack the RFID cards, having the encrypted will just force them to find another hole in the system... or circumvent the system entirely.
You cannot guarantee anything. YOu can only reduce the probability of it happenings.. but as you approach very high tolerance, the costs go up enormously for very little benefit.
It's a choice.. higher tuitition to support better security, or some fairly reasonable security at low cost to you? There's no wrong answer.. but it's a choice you have to make.
...a cutting-edge operating system that isn't even out of beta!
and we all know that once Vista gets out of Release Candidate 432789789473 that it will just reach what Beta was once intended to represent. Heck.. with WinXP it really didn't reach Beta until SP1 and SP2 brought it into full release.
Obviously you don't know much about the fabrication process and the challenges of creating chips with the speeds they currently perform at.
It's OK to be ignorant, but don't assume that everything always boils down to some mega corp not giving a ratts ass about anything. Our chips are not wasteful. They are as fast as they can be for the available technologies that we have.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.micro soft.com/windowsvista/
:-)
Looks like they have a bit more work to do before they can roll out the Windows Vista [website].
That may be, but the REAL problem is that email was never designed to prevent its users from shitting into the communal water supply."
You both just said the same thing. Your *opposing* argument is not opposing at all. Even IF we had a new protocol, there still would be mass marketers out there trying to abuse it. You don't get telemarketers calling you at home? People knocking at your door at least once a week. SPAMS to your pager? Leaflets left on your car when you're buying groceries? Why do you feel that eMail should be any different? The REAL problem is scumbags that have no concept of when to STOP getting in our face.
A new protocol will help greatly, but it won't stop the REAL problem which is people shitting in communal waters. BUT... you both are right, just don't act like this is such a one sided thing and that the tech is "Dead". The tech certainly isnt' dead, or no one would be using email at all. Since email usage is still growing, I think eMail is very far from dead.
Scott
It was a rhetorical question.
NASA's budget has been cut to nothing, yet our federal budget has been bloating out. We need to overhaul the federal government, remove all of the entitle BS, and get the government back to what it's supposed to be to the county. That is, if we want to be able to do these great things for mankind like NASA once was for... in theory.
There's nothing more to learn on the Moon
New technologies to do it faster, better, and cheaper is a very good thing to learn. If we can do it on the budget that NASA has today.. that is an awesome achievement that will produce lots of great technology not only for future NASA missions, but also to further science which has a direct positive affect on everyone's lives.
Here comes the predictible velcro and Tang rebuttles.....
Really? I didn't know it was that much then. Another prior post of mine is in error.
$$$
What was a $2B program then would be quite a bit more than that today. We can do it, but do you want to pay for it? Especially since it's not just the straight increase in the dollars over the years, but also all of the new legal implications.
There go the insults again without trying to talk about the topic. Don't have any depth to yuor knowledge?
I'm not talking about how our government works. i'm talking about a commune as the word communism is defined. We have communes here in this country by a group's free will. These are fine, because they are of free will and in small groups will most certainly be effective because there is mutual respect in a small group. The communism I'm referring to is the very same thing, but forcibly applied to our labor structure. There are no benefits for hard work, and not penalties for poor work. The spoils are shared among all regardless of any tangible measure other than one head gets one share. This is communism.
But instead of talking about the topic you'd rather go as low as the typical political hate everything people do when they'd rather just hate.. then discuss. Feel free to think I'm stupid because I'm discussing this, instead of resorting to personal insults to show how smart I am....
That's a two way street. In my industry there are companies that lay off because a certainly project isn't convenient anymore, while another project is in desparate need. They just dump the whole lot while still hiring. I will not even apply to them even though they have very interesting work.
I am sticking with a company that tries really hard to keep its talent even when they should be laying off. My wife and I want to move to another state for a different lifestyle. There are places we will not go because of job stability in the region.
This is the land of opportunity. Not the land of guaranteed pay income. You have the opportunity to be a complete waste and failure if that's what you aspire to be. Why do so many expect it to freedom at everyone else's expense?
How in the world does any owner of a profittable company make it communistic? I think you're confusing the board of directors and share holders. Your beef is with the board.
You would completely change your mind if you were a small business owner.. or even hired people to do considerable work on your home. Think about how you'd react if you hired someone to do extensive construction on your home, one employee kept mucking things up, and when you tried to fire that person, they staged a walk out to keep him employed? Now you're forced to pay for some jackass that screws up all the time.. or suffer not getting any work done at all. Oh.. and the law says you signed a contract so you can't just find another pool of laborers. You wouldn't be too happy.
It's a two way street. Don't complain about jobs being shifted overseas for cheaper labor, while tying the hands of our companies that are trying to be successful.
If it wasn't relevant, he shouldn't have brought it up.
Perhaps you should look up the definition of communism.
Why are you trying to be insulting? I've never understood why some people have to resort to insults instead of talking about the topic. Are you concerned you don't have a basis to stand on? Is insulting the only way for you to feel good about yourself?
Labor unions don't fit it. Labor Unions are collective bargaining organizations that use the power of the collective to increase the leverage of the employees to be on a level playing field
and that leads to....? COMMUNISM!
Remove motivation, flatten salaries to be based on years of experience, remove ability to excel... what do you have? COMMUNISM. What don't you have? Productivity or efficiency? What does that lead you with? A failed business model. Which results in? Failure of the company.. Just like our auto industry. But yeah.. it's all the CEO's fault.
I've got a mortgage and a family to pay for.
So? Your investment and choices in life are not your company's responsibility to deal with.
You're not worth every penney- you're worth the $2.50/hr your job can be done in India for.
It's better to loose *some* jobs than to have the entire company collapse like the auto industry is collapsing to foreign competition. Which would you have? A small lay off, or a complete plant closing? pick your poison.
I choose opportunity over communism. If you can't remain employeed, then you shouldn't be digging yourself into massive debt and expecting someone else to deal with your poor choices.