mlsstl wrote: > While that's possible, keep in mind that millions of people have email > service supplied free by Google, Yahoo, MSN and the like. These people > are completely dependent on the willingness of the carrier involved to > keep the lights on. The same thing is true of most of the other products > and services we use in modern life -- we are completely dependent on > others for continued availability. > > I try to reserve my worries for larger catastrophes, such as a high > altitude EMP stike....
..and of course i keep local copies of my mail :D But those services can be replaced , you don't usually have to ditch the hardware involved , but this is the trend free general purpose computing is soon to be dead too. we can also wait for the technological (AI) singularity , but UE has delayed that by some years thankyou ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio