![]() The question is what kinds of changes does it cause, and how much do those changes matter?" As Anna Wexler, an assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, put it: "Of course it causes changes. While these technologies are still in their infancy, they've been around long enough for researchers to increasingly get a sense of how neural implants interact with our minds. Other researchers have been looking into using BCIs to restore lost senses and control prosthetic limbs, among other applications. Last edit at 05:41PM by dan steinberg.Musk's company is far from the only group working on brain-computer interfaces, or systems to facilitate direct communication between human brains and external computers. Also, the couple of tech support questions I had were answered with much more knowledge and appropriate answers, you could tell they were actually reading your email and not just blindly pasting stock answers that did not take into account the data points you sent them.Įdited 1 time(s). Consumes absolutely no system resources, it uploaded twice the amount of data in half the time of carbonite (no throttling) and it preserves at least more of the mac metadata. They never would listen to me that it would happen even when no backup was occurring, and just kept insisting that it's normal for an online backup to consume 90% of a 2.2gHZ dual CPU.ģ-Finally, the one I am settled on now is Backblaze, and so far so good, I am really liking it. In general their tech support was very bad, you would get emails back that made it very obvious they had not really read the details of your problem in any way. They had me send them system logs, re-install the software, and they had me configure it to not back up certain temp files (a far cry from "install it and forget about it). Many, many rounds of email and phone support could not solve the issue. Looking on the internet, this was an issue others ran into, and which they claimed they fixed in a new software version a couple of months ago, after a year of the mac edition being on the market. This would occur even when it was not backing anything up. The laptop's fan would go on full throttle, machine would get hot, battery would drain way faster, and the machine would slow to a crawl. ![]() That could be problematic in certain contextsĬ-The true deal breaker, the presence of the software on my machine would, on a very regular basis, randomly consume 90% of the machine's CPU according to activity monitor, from something called the "carbonite daemon". ![]() However, I stopped using them because:Ī) I didn't want to have to start thinking about how the price would go up, eventually past $5 per month, as I amass more photos and music over timeī-Their backup and restore software was fairly complicated and was the type of thing you could tell an engineer wrote the interface for, not thinking about normal consumersĬarbonite: I tried them next but never made past the free trial for 3 reasons:Ī-They massively throttled the upload bandwidth, no matter how I set the software, so that my 40 gigs of backup took a good 3.5 weeks, frustrating when I have a nice solid 4mb upload speed and it was not using a fraction of that to do the initial backup.ī-Their software was not preserving certain mac metadata, including the creation and modification dates of files, meaning if I ever had to do a full restore, all file creation/mod dates would be reset to the date/time of the restore. Jungledisk: I initially tried them because their price per gig model let you store an amount higher than the "5 gigs free" of some companies, but was less than the other companies' $5 per month if you just had 10-15 gigs of stuff. Here's a quick comparison in case it helps anyone out: It was always forgetting to do scheduled backups, and/or making me manually remind it back up new files that were created on a computer and put in folders marked for backup. ![]() I recently was trying out some online backup services because Mozy never worked reliably for me on my Intel macbook.
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