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he didnt like my jokes, so I banned him

I think you are seeing the birth of internet 2. In the same way we laugh at 1990's websites and spinning email icon graphics, I think we will smirk and smile at the size and impracticalness of these glasses, compared to the wafer thin or even implants will have 10 years later.

I remember seeing a volvo estate being tested a few years ago with a head up display on the windscreen, basically the same technology used if fighter aircraft. Instead of looking down at our vehicle instruments, sat nav, it would be projected in front of us on the windscreen.

But it didn't seem to take off, ('scuse the pun). I guess it was cost.

But this has potential there as well. Blue tooth your car, and you can see the speedo, satnav, stereo, all voice activated and while being able to look ahead. Whether you can concentrate will be a different matter

If you haven't heard of Google Glass, then if you are regular online user and like your gadgets, then prepared to be wowed!

Google Glass - How It Feels

This definitely is the future how I imagine it. Although maybe a bit clunky now, scale this down to be something very lightweight, then this is the device we will all have. Phone, camera, video, satnav, live web access, email.

Be interesting to see what a copper might say if you got pulled for speeding. Sorry officer I was surfing the web

It's not a news story, but a joke....

They stole the toilet... now they have nothing to go on?? Get it?

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Unfortunately, that's the price of fame. Currently an international trial by media.

Assume SA is a similar system to the UK where jurors are picked for the court case. Who won't have heard of this story or already have made their minds up.

He's not looking that convincing on the innocent front (if we have all the facts from the media), but if he is, imagine what he's going through!! He just shot his missus! Career in ruins I would imagine will be a secondary consideration for the time being, till it all sinks in.

I assume SA is like the States then, where home owners can keep loaded weapons at home for self defence? The concept seems very alien to us in the UK, although gun crime seems to slowly creep ever upwards

I don't like swimming either and prefer drinking beer, but is also as relevant as a one legged chicken doing a tight rope walk across the Grand Canyon...

Note to Indizine - removing post counting from general forums seems to have done the trick

erm, I think after 18 months they are hopefully past the research stage!

Time to close this thread me thinks

Don't start me off

Soft ****d nanny state known as the UK...

I think it's 2 different questions. If hosting refers to your website, and is the primary mechanism for you generating revenue, then I'd definitely agree about risk analysis when it came to hosting your site in a cloud environment.

Although it gets better all the time, I personally think there is no substitute for physical dedicated servers, with you being the sole client, in terms of speed and reliability Work out a hypothetical downtime for 24 hours and potential lost revenue, and then do the maths. This should give you your monthly budget.

But this argument loses weight if you are looking at cheap shared hosting or virtual private servers, in which case cloud hosting may be a more viable alternative.

As for cloud and back office stuff, such as mail servers, file servers etc, then definitely, switch off that old tin in the office and take the leap (with a decent backup solution unrelated to the cloud provider )

Security wise will be down to individual providers, and as with all industries, there will be good and bad. Data protection wise shouldn't make any difference to your current practices. If you are required to use SSL or one way encryption on documents, passwords etc, and do currently then this shouldn't be an issue.

The OP was posting in 2011, before Penguin and Panda, but to be honest, I think the statement still stands, as long as you are referring to "non-malicious duplicate content".

From the horses mouth:

We had issues from millions of pages of dup content when Panda was first rolled out, with loads of warning messages in Google Webmaster Tools, but we weren't actually penalised, and once we had carried out corrective action (canonicals and 301's in our case) the messages disappeared.