manaox2 Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Who do trust to have better ability to protect your data, some integral Windows firewall or a server farm that has a vested interest in keeping your data secure? I'd wager my home computer is 10x more vulnerable than most cloud setups so unless you're keeping your data on a dark network you're kidding yourself thinking it's "safe". I mean I limit the amount I spread my information around as much as possible. Server farms make a more attractive target to me to harvest data then my PC, if I had data I wanted to remain secure I would keep it on external storage and never connect it to a computer that was accessing a network making sure to clean up any temporary storage as much as possible (ramdisk helps). The external storage would be kept protected like I keep all my important documents. I honestly do trust myself to protect my data more then a business. Its a sad world to me when some encryption is made illegal just because its too hard to break IMO. Apple did everything right here from a hardware perspective to me except for IO options, I'm impressed that Microsoft doesn't catch on more. A SSD with an optimized OS and processor and 1GB RAM is a killer machine to fit in a small package. People complain so much about CPU speed of netbooks. 1.6Ghz with a decent chipset and cache is fast enough that unless your doing encoding or really serious decoding, maybe some extreme flash video or gaming, its rarely the bottleneck IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 then they'll just hire a girl in black to get the information out of you dustyThey're welcome to try. To 'They' -- I like Asians and redheads. (wink wink, nudge nudge) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Something something suck him dry something something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrice Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 They're welcome to try. To 'They' -- I like Asians and redheads. (wink wink, nudge nudge) Don't we all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomana Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I want one. Have no use for one. Will I remain practical and grounded and not get it? Will I start inventing reasons to need one? What kind of reasons will I invent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. I?ve been... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I really like that article. But, argh, fuck me to be an old world generation X ultimately doomed computer enthusiast. The very definition of a computer points that any computer can do the work of another given enough time and the instructions. I never thought the future of computers would be to limit it to make it easier or easier to keep stable, but it makes sense that the general user would rather do more general tasks with less even if that means sacrifices overall. I also really like his suggestions on how it could improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 vicki, I think the ipad is a perfect solution for 95%+ of your needs, if not more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomana Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 vicki, I think the ipad is a perfect solution for 95%+ of your needs, if not more. That's a pretty good reason, and since I have no idea why, I like it even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrice Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 (edited) Another good article: stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. I?ve been... Edit: Opps, didn't see blessing's post. Edited January 31, 2010 by thrice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. I?ve been... Heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Interesting bit of content on the ebook front. Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight - Charlie's Diary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Also , best (non) iPad report so far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Wife and I enjoyed that very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 I have a lot of ideas about the ipad I'm going to put together in something approaching a magazine article I think. If it goes well, I might even submit it somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Also , best (non) iPad report so far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 'Stretch, whilst your return to form is welcome, have you noticed any short term memory issues Hint: http://www.head-case.org/forums/off-topic/1198-slow-forum-410.html#post321243 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 He was just cross-posting it for those of us who didn't read that. Yeah, that's the ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 (edited) Nah, he was just cross-eyed at the time. Oops. Edited February 1, 2010 by Hopstretch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrice Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Interesting bit of content on the ebook front. Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight - Charlie's Diary Good article... I would also encourage people to follow the link at the bottom to the other author's article... it goes into even more detail about the cost of producing a book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Amazon Accepts Macmillan’s Demand for Higher E-Book Prices - NYTimes.com Damn ipad. I rather enjoyed the $9.99 price tag for Kindle new releases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Amazon Accepts Macmillan’s Demand for Higher E-Book Prices - NYTimes.com Damn ipad. I rather enjoyed the $9.99 price tag for Kindle new releases. I agree, the ipad sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 i personally think $9.99 is ridiculously high. i sure won't buy ebooks for $15. Agreed. I expect we will see this price point erode very quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloaudio Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Is there enough demand for the price to come down quickly? Reading that article above it didn't sound like the eBook market is that large (I guess the market is expected to grow). Edit: I realize with the Nook, Kindle, iPhone Apps and now iPad the players in the market expect the demand to go up. I've never used an eBook reader because I hate reading large documents on a laptop screen so the thought of reading a whole book on a screan doesn't appeal to me. I plan on buying an iPad but bot for the eBook reading possibilities. I guess I'll give it shot though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Apple has competing imperatives here. They make their money selling devices, so they're usually in the biz of driving content prices down, as that makes the devices more attractive. With the iPad, though, the first order of business is to get as much content onto it as possible, hence you see them actually helping the providers fatten their margins here. As soon as the platform is fully established, that worm will turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postjack Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/technology/companies/01amazonweb.html]Amazon Accepts Macmillan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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