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The more independent-minded [libertarians] will occasionally come up with a liberalish or fair-minded idea or two, but this is purely for display, not for ever doing anything about if to do so would run the risk of a higher rate of capital gains tax.
…[From D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else ]
The more independent-minded [libertarians] will occasionally come up with a liberalish or fair-minded idea or two, but this is purely for display, not for ever doing anything about if to do so would run the risk of a higher rate of capital gains tax.
The ideological core of Chicago-style libertarianism has two planks.
1. Vote Republican.
2. That’s it.
[From D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else]
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I have to assume this is referring to something I have not got …. Any iPhone or iPod Touch owners have an answer?
I have to assume this is referring to something I have not got.
Is backing up different from sync-ing? I have to assume so. Any iPhone or iPod Touch owners have an answer?
The Automotive X PRIZE will invite teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy.
…I’d like to see it broadened to include something more than just personal transportation, so it includes vehicles and technologies that move goods and large groups of people safely and economically.
I thought it was all about spaceships.
People love their cars. They are vital links to our jobs, our community, ourselves. For everything we love about them, cars are chained to the most severe global crises of our time: oil dependence and climate change. We aim to break this deadlock through the most radical approach to innovation yet – the X PRIZE. The Automotive X PRIZE will invite teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy. This will be a race for the ages, with major publicity and a big sack of cash waiting for the champion, and perhaps our future hanging in the balance. [From Automotive X PRIZE]
I’d like to see it broadened to include something more than just personal transportation, so it includes vehicles and technologies that move goods and large groups of people safely and economically. Some of the technology is there as are some of the needed markets, but a good catalyst to connect the two might be some kind of challenge or competition.
I like the idea of what Box.net is doing here.
I like the idea of what Box.net is doing here.
As we worked through the mess — no updates had been applied since April and the built-in firewall was turned off — it was suggested that there a lot of people in similar straits. At some point it was determined that the time zone issues were the result of a dead battery, so the battery was replaced, but installed backwards, so the clock never kept time between daily reboots.
A long computer cleanup session, incomplete as it is, yielded a possible business idea. The friend I was helping (he’s over 80) has a Windows PC with the usual encrustations of cruft and malware. AdAware found 213 things it felt didn’t like, and I would expect a lot more performance from a 2 GHz CPU. And of course backups are filed under good intentions, desired but undone. So it’s well and truly gummed up.
As we worked through the mess — no updates had been applied since April and the built-in firewall was turned off — it was suggested that there a lot of people in similar straits. At some point it was determined that the time zone issues were the result of a dead battery, so the battery was replaced, but installed backwards, so the clock never kept time between daily reboots. Entropy, the overwhelming amounts of crap applied when these machines are built, and Windows’ inconsistent user interface all conspire against even younger more supple minds: an octogenarian is at a disadvantage. If someone were to stop by regularly and a. decruft and otherwise clean up a system, and b. take a backup, either leaving it there or taking it offsite (or both), it could be a useful service.
The hard parts are knowing what to charge (by hour, flat rate, or a combination) and how to make a case for the service. I suspect a lot of folks could use it, but would they mistake this is a chance to get free training/instruction/application installs?
The backups could be burned to disk or if the details could be worked out, copied offsite programmatically. A big swath of disk at DreamHost or somewhere wouldn’t cost all that much. Yes, there are services like Mozy but people just don’t want to bother. Even making a simple backup — copy a folder to the CD and burn it — was foiled by the software’s inability to use multiple discs. Tell someone they need to figure out how to fit their backups into a 667 Mb container and they’ll just throw up their hands and say ‘to hell with it.’
This could be just the thing for a person of limited free time and a large but not infinite store of patience. Suggestions?