@tok3ninja: As a side note, have you ever seen a baby hummingtbird? They are only about the size of a bumblebee. The first time I encountered one in my yard, we just stared at each other for a long time, and I am not sure who was more amazed.
@zeco: I am just over the lake in Cleveland, so unless you are very far north, they should still be around. Try putting out a hummingbird feeder early next summer (heavy sugar water). If they know they have a food supply, they will come back by your place every year.
Oh yes, the CYBER COMMAND is going to orchestrate security between hundreds of separate companies working with DOZENS of giant military corporate groups spread across DOZENS of countries around the world.
This sure sounds promising. America: best. military. spending. ever.
I don't know. It only takes one data security person to show his hot blonde girlfriend the inner workings of the cyber security system, without knowing that she is a robot infiltrator. Then before you know it, they nuke Caprica, er... I mean Earth and we are reduced to wandering the galaxy in search of a new planet to call home. Like I tell you every week, "they have a plan".
I would have loved to have the inflatable scud missile launcher at my 9th birthday. That way I could have scared the shit out of Jonny Caplione, when he convinced all the cool kids to come to his party across the street.
Not that I remember feeling completely destroyed or anything.
Can someone clarify for me what the advantage (today) of small portable drives (or using say an iPhone App to turn your iPhone into a drive) is over simply emailing a document to yourself?
Certainly if you are moving a large number of files at one time, I get it, but other than that, I keep feeling like I'm missing something.
@92BuickLeSabre: I carry a 4GB flash drive around for computer support tasks with a couple dozen utilities. Also I keep a copy of school assignments on a drive; much easier to manage all the assignments with a file tree structure (especially for my programming class where I have other dependent files in the same folder). Would be damn near impossible for me to do without a flash drive - certainly more time consuming and frustrating.
If we're talking one document that needs to get from A to B, then yeah, email might work fine. With what you're saying, you want to go practically disc-less and have an iOS.
@92BuickLeSabre: USB drives can be turned into boot-keys in case your OS gets all horked up. USB drives work even when your internet access doesn't. USB drives will plug into my camera (well, more specifically, my camera's SD cards will transform into USB drives). USB drives offer faster transfer rates than your average internet connection. USB drives can handle larger files than many e-mail services will allow. You don't have to worry about someone hacking into your USB drive. You don't have to worry about accidentally deleting the wrong version of the file, or inadvertantly forwarding it to someone who shouldn't be receiving it. And most importantly, my e-mail doesn't have a Batman logo on it. At least not that I've been able to locate...
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This sure sounds promising. America: best. military. spending. ever.
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Not that I remember feeling completely destroyed or anything.
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Yeah. It was the traitor.exe virus.
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Certainly if you are moving a large number of files at one time, I get it, but other than that, I keep feeling like I'm missing something.
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If we're talking one document that needs to get from A to B, then yeah, email might work fine. With what you're saying, you want to go practically disc-less and have an iOS.
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USB drives can be turned into boot-keys in case your OS gets all horked up. USB drives work even when your internet access doesn't. USB drives will plug into my camera (well, more specifically, my camera's SD cards will transform into USB drives). USB drives offer faster transfer rates than your average internet connection. USB drives can handle larger files than many e-mail services will allow. You don't have to worry about someone hacking into your USB drive. You don't have to worry about accidentally deleting the wrong version of the file, or inadvertantly forwarding it to someone who shouldn't be receiving it. And most importantly, my e-mail doesn't have a Batman logo on it. At least not that I've been able to locate...
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Sounds like us.
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