Lack of wireless is Nature's way of telling me I should stop staring at my computer and go interact with other people and my environment. -- R
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > Owen Densmore wrote: > >> I'd fire anyone having a company spreadsheet or document on their laptop >> and not in the cloud. Or company email on their computer (POP rather than >> IMAP). It is just too expensive and dangerous. >> > LANL, for example, mandates full disk encryption on hard drives. Hard > drives are cheap. I'd much rather put up with this than not to be able > study a paper that was stranded on an IMAP server. But IMAP or POP is not > the issue, the issue is connected vs. disconnected. Wireless is not > everywhere and where it is available, it is not reliably high bandwidth and > low latency. > Marcus > > >
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