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These 10 degrees are pretty much tickets to the middle class in 2017: https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/jobs-making-money/career/jobs-with-an-associates-degree/

This does touch on a point I missed. It's not terribly hard to make it look easy to get a cheap degree that will let you find a job that not only pays well but also has healthy demand. Unfortunately people often pick the wrong degrees. In my previous post I spent more effort on trying to explain not everyone needs a degree at all. Like many (not all) of listed here: http://www.lifehack.org/articl...

Point is, people need to get better at picking realistic careers.

This is known as the Sunk Cost Fallacy. (Hint: That money is already gone.)

Sunk Cost Fallacy
How the Sunk Cost Fallacy Makes You Act Stupid
Sunk Cost

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

said someone who is wiser than you

But if I were learning to fly a spaceship, the first question out of my mouth would be "what all could kill me?"

Almost everything. The question I hear astronauts apparently ask is "what is going to kill me next?" It seems to be about 90%+ of their training. Trying to figure out all the ways they can die and how to mitigate the chances of it actually happening.

a bog-standard usb/spdif dongle that I own and use from time to time won't work on win7/64. no driver on earth for it. 32bit, yes. 64, no.

So to keep a $30 USB audio dongle working, you plan to forgo all the advantages that come with more than 4GB of RAM?

And you realize, of course, that within the next year or two you'll start seeing more "can't live without it" software no longer releasing 32bit builds?


throwing away working hardware is a sin.

Ever heard of the Sunk Cost fallacy?

Why We Remember What We Write.

I find this to be true - somewhat. But when I have to memorize things, I have to write it down and have written drills to remember it for a test.

Then I forget it all after the test.

I still don't know why some instructors insist on having their students memorize shit that's only going to be forgotten right after.

It may be the feature, along with clicktoflash, that moves me to safari.

clicktoflash has an equivalent for firefox and chrome called flashblock. However, the placeholder graphic for clicktoflash I find much better than the one for flashblock.

clicktoflash flashblock

"I don't buy the handwriting being better for memory. "

You don't have to "buy" it, it's true

About a century ago. 1894 according to Wikipedia. With a patent in 1897. Good to know that Edison's megalomania only held us back for a century.

For a (assumed) Christian, you sure LIE A LOT...

Carbon Copy Cloner. FREE. Been around for nearly a DECADE. Not only does it "Ghost" your drive ( GHOST IS NOT A FREE APP BTW!), but the backups can be BOOTABLE.

Don't blame Apple for your inability to do 5 seconds of research to find the solution.

And you can blame Disk Utility's inability to write to an NTFS drive on Microsoft (who REFUSES to document NTFS), not Apple!!! BTW, Disk Utility has PERFECT NTFS READ support. But you don't mention THAT, either (of course).

You call HFS+ "Proprietary", and then have the temerity to mention NTFS as if it's some sort of Open Standard?!?!? Hahahahahaha!!!!! Of course, if you were being honest (instead of just trolling), you'd admit that that limitation is neatly overcome by the (FREE!) MacFUSE userspace NTFS filesystem read/WRITE support.

And when Snow Leopard (Server, at least) debuts with FULL ZFS support...

And oh, BTW, if you had been running the DEAD-SIMPLE (And QUITE unique!!!) Time Machine, you wouldn't have had ANY of all this. And the price of Time Machine? Oh, that's right, it's INCLUDED IN THE OS!!!

So now WHO's the IDIOT again?

Thought so.

Isn't that what was said about MySpace and Facebook before people started getting fired?

For blogging about what an asshole their boss is, typically. Or for posting pics of yourself involved in questionable activities. Yes, that will get you fired. One has a harder time claiming "privacy violation" when you willing post incriminating information about yourself to a public forum. Honestly, I'd call that a lack of judgment rather than a lack of privacy.

I'd call the current blog/MySpace craze a different fetish: A desire to share the most intimate details of your life with the entire world. Pretty much the opposite of a privacy fetish, if you ask me.

Is a DNA sequence/medical record in the same realm as this? Maybe, maybe not. I don't think I would have volunteered.

Have you tried MACFuse for NTFS? Never used it myself so I don't know how well it works, though.

Fail alot and learn from your failures.

Here is a nice post on the topic:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-fail-at-practically-anything.html

After reading it, I first thought that it would be about "how to chat with yourself".

The best part of YouTube is that you can save any video and watch it later (ie: without an internet connection). I expect most of the readers here already know how to do this.

By default OS X only has ready-only NTFS support, but there is a Read-Write plugin (ntfs-3g) available as a plugin for MacFUSE:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

Here is a set of instructions to get it working, it mentions much older versions, but the idea is the same:

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-r ead-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.h tml

Can't you use this trick to download the video completely?