Since your major partition is HFS+, I recommend DiskWarrior (http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/). I've used it professionally for over ten years, and it still does the best job at finding, fixing, and reporting corrupted files on HFS disks.
Nokia was doomed several years ago. They ridiculed Apple while they failed to streamline Symbian app development, while they failed to research and develop touch-screen mobiles, while they failed to build a proper app store that was easy to use, while they failed to build.
Making a deal with Microsoft was just an act of desperation. They were already bleeding profusely from the consequences of all their dumb-ass decisions made around 2005-2007 when mobile internet was beginning to take off. The Ovi store could have been launched in 2005-2006 with over-the-air app downloads. Had Nokia remained on the leading edge and focused on making their products better from a consumer-point-of-view, then Apple would have had a much harder job in invading the mobile phone market.
But Nokia was not focused. Apple and Google had them for lunch.
I read these books, too, when I was a boy. Readers should be prepared for the racial, sexual, and social attitudes of 1930's America, though.
Amen.
And: Excellent developers require excellent leadership to perform well! Without excellent leadership (that understand what system development is, how to separate the wheat from the chaff and how to organize system development), the effort of developers will go to waste.
The magic happens only when excellent developers are managed well.
I grew up in Silicon Valley. I will be 59 at the end of this month. I'm an African-American male who has worked his way up in the tech industry from a computer operator to the owner/operator of his own tech consulting firm and "beyond"...
The industry here is the closest thing to a meritocracy I've ever experienced. If you're an entrepreneur worth exploiting here, you will be exploited. Anyone with a good idea can get a hearing as long as they know how to present it to the right people in the right way. I can honestly say that the stakes here are too high for racism to interfere.
My experience was that I was competing against kids whose parents were among the pioneers in the industry. Most black kids were excluded from college by economic circumstance as well as bias when I was growing up. Kids whose parents worked for nascent enterprises like Intel and HP and Fairchild and Apple had--and still have--a leg up on everyone else. The children of BSEE's have more of a chance to become BSEE's than the children of carpenters or dock workers. That's just the way of the world. But I had a knack for the industry, and I got in on merit... and luck.
My son is one of the few kids in our area--black or white--who had an internet connection in his home by the late-eighties. He was one of the few kids in our neighborhood who had a personal computer at his disposal. He didn't nerd out, but he had the opportunity if he'd wanted to pursue it. That's the biggest factor in this; if your parents are nerdy, it's likely you'll be nerdy, too. The lack of access to college among Black Americans before the Civil Rights Movement was probably the single most formidable impediment to the fostering of significant numbers of Black Tech Entrepreneurs. If your parents don't know Avogadro from an avocado, it's unlikely you will either--no matter what color you are.
The current political attitude toward funding education makes it likely that things will stay that way unless people demand change.
Jobs wasn't a very nice person. Not only do I understand peoples' dislike of the guy, I share it.
Oh please. Of course, I've never met Steve Jobs, but still: Sure he was a very demanding boss and unscrupulous strategist, but that would not automatically make him a bad person in all aspects of life (unless you consider moneymaking and bossing all there is to life)
Oh bullcrap. There are plenty of us slashdotters who use Apple, and we vary from pleased users to Apple fanatics.
Anyhow, you are completely missing the main point: However much you may or may not choose to dislike Steve Jobs, his company has always been pushing towards making computing grandma-friendly.
On the other hand, FOSS software sadly focuses too much on the feedback from the already-clued-in people. That way, we've created a separate reality in which we thrive - but only until we encounter that other reality. The dreaded user who just don't get it!
Automatic offsite backup services like Crashplan, Mozy, Carbonite etc ensures your data will survive both media failure, theft and fire. You may also choose to keep a local copy of your media, because downloading hundreds of gigs over the net takes a while. But: I'd first put my money into one of these providers, and if I felt I still have too much money then I'd consider a NAS/Time Capsule kinda solution as a supplement.
And never, ever, ever exclusively store data you care about on DVDs and external hard drives.
For the first time in history, our pictures and videos can live forever - completely without quality degradation. It's amazing. And it's disappointing how few people take opportunity of this.
(Of course, you should take care to double-check your new computer can play back whatever media formats you have used - and convert if necessary. )
That's actually quite interesting. If "tablets" are found/ruled to be a separate market from computers and phones, then maybe Apple can be ruled a monopolist and therefore be ordered to open up their product.
Hah. They'll be subject to evolution, so that'll only last for a while.
Signed,
Megatron
Adrenaline is not about stress. Adrenaline is more about panic.
But yes, your statement is correct: Stress is debilitating to the body. Being in a permanent state of stress means your body tries to put on weight, your state of mind is not easy-going like it when you're not stressed, your immune system is affected etc etc. (Also, there is good stress and bad stress. The stress you impose on yourself is not too harmful, which is why many highly driven people enjoy excellent health)
There really should be no problem
That there is a problem wiping a machine is a serious security issue. There are a myriad ways which different kinds of malware use to hide themselves and bounce back up after surviving a round of security scanning. The malware itself is continuously self-updating.
If I were to engineer a package system, all files within a package (program) would be checksummed, and the list of checksummed would be PKI-signed in order to prevent the malware from hiding its misdeeds by altering the checksums. Of course, this has been done several times in Linux-land. Microsoft has Windows 8 coming up. Let's hope they finally fix their design.
FW is indeed a niche product, primarily used for disks for Macs and upper-end audio hardware. Meanwhile, USB2 is used for pretty much everything. TB - while cool - does not seem poised to challenge USB3 which offers sufficient performance for most uses and back-compatibility with previous products. And there is no good reason why sjobs would not include USB3 - it's relatively inexpensive by now. Why not have both?
The base config is pretty OK priced. There are some gotchas, though:
Yes, I sorta regret getting that iMac a few years ago.
Back on topic:
I see a good business model in becoming a certified Mac shop and offering corporate service deals (tech support + physical service). Slowly but surely, the walls are being torn down as applications are becoming web applications. HTML5 may make the OS completely irrelevant in a few year's time.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
