Memory in the tech world, particularly tech journalism, is non-existent. I first ran an OS off a thumb drive years ago - the only reason I didn't do it regularly was that USB ports were not ubiquitous. Before that I ran an OS off a CD with a thumb drive for data. Heck, I started with personal computing with an OS on a 5.25" 360K floppy (as an aside, it takes just as long to compile a program now as it did back then with a dual floppy setup - one of the constants of the computing world).
There's a reason we who live in the computing world long enough become jaded at the re-invention of old, sometimes failed, concepts. Partly that trend is offset by the rediscovery of technology that worked better than its fashionable replacement. Partly that trend is amusing - I don't know how many grand, unified military logistics systems I've watched fail and we're on about the fifth iteration of AI. Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov<mailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov> SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov<mailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov<mailto:dopa...@doe.ic.gov> (send NIPR reminder) On Sep 8, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: Anyone have a theory about how this is supposed to change the world forever more than running some other Linux distribution off a $7.00 USB drive? Or running ChromeOS off a USB drives? That's been done for years. -- rec -- On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net<mailto:o...@backspaces.net>> wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 7:19 PM, George Duncan <gtdun...@gmail.com<mailto:gtdun...@gmail.com>> wrote: Remember what Mark Twain said: “It is not what you don’t know that harms you, it is what you know for certain—and it just ain’t true!” Also .. it is what you don't know that you don't know! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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