Have you been to California? The Sierras can be ridiculously treacherous. Personally, I'd sooner put my trust in a computer than I would a Texan who's only seen snow on Wikipedia.
It would be one thing if the mod itself were responsible, the Ouya developers have intentionally crippled the console that without being up-to-date I cannot even start an app/game that has an updated version.
It depends on the sport. I'm a nerdy sports fan (we exist!), I split the cost of the Intarweb add-on for NFL Sunday ticket with a friend of mine who has the complete package. My ISP gets me ESPN3 which has a lot of collegiate sports, TNT is doing free streaming of the NBA playoffs, and if you're a basketball fanatic the NBA has pricey online packages that would still come out to far less than you'd pay for a cable subscription. For everything else I have an amplified antenna in my attic hooked up to a HDHomeRun. About the only thing I'm missing is ESPN, and if there's ever anything truly compelling on that, it's off to my local sports bar for a decent dinner and some beer.
As a government employee who has had their salary reduced with forced furloughs every year, I'd tell you to go to hell...but our budget for all things has already been slashed and I can't afford the bandwidth.
I used to love my Ouya. Now, after installing ClockworkMod I can't update the damned thing, which means whenever I'm hooked up to the WAN I can't play half of the apps that I have installed because I'm not up-to-date on the system firmware. I have to reboot the damned thing without the Ethernet plugged in just to fire up a round of Mega Man II.
As mentioned further below, saving ~$5000/year is possible - maybe throw away that $100/mo TV subscription or something.
Hell, my wife is in her mid 20's and I'm in my early 30's and we manage to squirrel away $28,000 every year on our two salaries (I'm a server admin, she's an engineer). If you're in the right industry and have a modicum of self-restraint it isn't too difficult to save.
They must just be asking a lot of people who are understand math and have a little discipline. A carpenter can become a millionaire by retirement, all you have to do is start saving and keep saving.
I fully intend to be a millionaire by the time I retire, and with inflation that should be enough for a tent and some camping supplies.
Regardless of whether or not 20TB is hording / excessive / inefficient, what it almost certainly is is replaceable. Let's face it, you aren't CERN, most of you data is probably media that you can reacquire with relative ease. It's not being stored because it's irreplaceable it's being stored because it's convenient. A RAID isn't too bad, but add in managing backups and where has that convenience gone? If it costs $10+/month to backup your ripped/downloaded movies, why not just sign up for Netflix?
Just make a list of all the replaceable data (e.g. videos you have the original disc for) you have and then buy an external hard disk / Blurays to back up the rest. If you lose your RAID, well, it'll be annoying to rebuild, but you built it once... (Besides, I doubt you could restore 20TB over residential internet less time!)
Some people have different use cases. A few years back I was visiting a friend in the boonies in Egypt and brought a TB of American movies and music along explicitly for her (she was putting me up for free while I was on a research project). With my 50Mbps connection and 250GB monthly cap, I could recreate the entire shebang in 4-5 months, but with her iffy ISP, she couldn't hope to download everything from me in her government's lifetime.
My experience is the simpler the better. I replaced my 60 year old mother's XP with Xubuntu. I didn't apply much of th eye candy, made sure to install Teamviewer and a cron job to pull security updates once per week. Her only complaint was that her ancient Canon printer wasn't compatible. Five minutes on NewEgg fixed that.
I ran for Congress two years ago at age 29. I won the Democratic primary for my district and ran on a technocratic platform. I'd advise anybody with an IQ over 100 to stay the hell away from politics. It is soul-crushing, the people you meet are loathesome, and since the wide-spread adoption of gerrymandering most elections are foregone conclusions anyway. I lost the election with 40% of the vote, went back to being a full-time server admin and couldn't be happier.
Couldn't you say that about most distractions? Is it safe to converse with a passenger? Is it safe to have the radio on loud, or at all? You'll never be able to eliminate all risks from driving (it is the single most dangerous thing most of us do on a daily basis). Anecdotally, I believe that navigating with an HUD displayed on eyewear or on a windshield is far safer than a 4" LCD screen mounted somewhere on the dash, or a similar screen held in the lap.
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"Fleshlight app" lolol. Did you mean to do that?
Now that's an Android app that would give iOS a run for its money.
Give me another ten years and I'll teach VB...
And in 20 more you'll be teaching macros in Filemaker. But I've heard that the lobotomy required for either skillset is rather painless.
Rinux?
[foxworthy] /.er
If you have a favorite local semiconductor manufacturer, you might be a
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The tough part would be deciding which smart-ass remark I want on my tombstone.
"Don't Look Behind You"
Have you been to California? The Sierras can be ridiculously treacherous. Personally, I'd sooner put my trust in a computer than I would a Texan who's only seen snow on Wikipedia.
If they cast M.C. Chris as anything, I'd probably go on opening night.
It would be one thing if the mod itself were responsible, the Ouya developers have intentionally crippled the console that without being up-to-date I cannot even start an app/game that has an updated version.
It depends on the sport. I'm a nerdy sports fan (we exist!), I split the cost of the Intarweb add-on for NFL Sunday ticket with a friend of mine who has the complete package. My ISP gets me ESPN3 which has a lot of collegiate sports, TNT is doing free streaming of the NBA playoffs, and if you're a basketball fanatic the NBA has pricey online packages that would still come out to far less than you'd pay for a cable subscription. For everything else I have an amplified antenna in my attic hooked up to a HDHomeRun. About the only thing I'm missing is ESPN, and if there's ever anything truly compelling on that, it's off to my local sports bar for a decent dinner and some beer.
As a government employee who has had their salary reduced with forced furloughs every year, I'd tell you to go to hell...but our budget for all things has already been slashed and I can't afford the bandwidth.
I used to love my Ouya. Now, after installing ClockworkMod I can't update the damned thing, which means whenever I'm hooked up to the WAN I can't play half of the apps that I have installed because I'm not up-to-date on the system firmware. I have to reboot the damned thing without the Ethernet plugged in just to fire up a round of Mega Man II.
The biggest problem is that since the Snowden revelations, the tinfoil hat wearers are beginning to sound more and more reasonable.
Seconded for Komodo. At work and home I use it for practically everything, the exception being when I have to spend time in .net land.
I think we are capable of that without the assistance of artificial intelligence.
But are we willing to take that risk?
And that's hard?
As mentioned further below, saving ~$5000/year is possible - maybe throw away that $100/mo TV subscription or something.
Hell, my wife is in her mid 20's and I'm in my early 30's and we manage to squirrel away $28,000 every year on our two salaries (I'm a server admin, she's an engineer). If you're in the right industry and have a modicum of self-restraint it isn't too difficult to save.
They must just be asking a lot of people who are understand math and have a little discipline. A carpenter can become a millionaire by retirement, all you have to do is start saving and keep saving.
I fully intend to be a millionaire by the time I retire, and with inflation that should be enough for a tent and some camping supplies.
Whatever happened to trust? I mean, if you can't believe an anonymous benefactor on the internet, who can you trust?
This is my one-year anniversary. The beauty if marrying an engineer is she didn't bat an eye when I suggested getting married 3/14 at 1:59 PM.
Agreed.
Regardless of whether or not 20TB is hording / excessive / inefficient, what it almost certainly is is replaceable. Let's face it, you aren't CERN, most of you data is probably media that you can reacquire with relative ease. It's not being stored because it's irreplaceable it's being stored because it's convenient. A RAID isn't too bad, but add in managing backups and where has that convenience gone? If it costs $10+/month to backup your ripped/downloaded movies, why not just sign up for Netflix?
Just make a list of all the replaceable data (e.g. videos you have the original disc for) you have and then buy an external hard disk / Blurays to back up the rest. If you lose your RAID, well, it'll be annoying to rebuild, but you built it once... (Besides, I doubt you could restore 20TB over residential internet less time!)
Some people have different use cases. A few years back I was visiting a friend in the boonies in Egypt and brought a TB of American movies and music along explicitly for her (she was putting me up for free while I was on a research project). With my 50Mbps connection and 250GB monthly cap, I could recreate the entire shebang in 4-5 months, but with her iffy ISP, she couldn't hope to download everything from me in her government's lifetime.
Once again a slashdotter is advocating to take away a musician's right to make a prophet.
My experience is the simpler the better. I replaced my 60 year old mother's XP with Xubuntu. I didn't apply much of th eye candy, made sure to install Teamviewer and a cron job to pull security updates once per week. Her only complaint was that her ancient Canon printer wasn't compatible. Five minutes on NewEgg fixed that.
Granted it's been going on for ages, but the most egregious examples are far more recent.
I ran for Congress two years ago at age 29. I won the Democratic primary for my district and ran on a technocratic platform. I'd advise anybody with an IQ over 100 to stay the hell away from politics. It is soul-crushing, the people you meet are loathesome, and since the wide-spread adoption of gerrymandering most elections are foregone conclusions anyway. I lost the election with 40% of the vote, went back to being a full-time server admin and couldn't be happier.
AOKP has App Ops. I'd prefer a more active solution, but it's great for removing GPS and contact requests from flashlight apps.
Couldn't you say that about most distractions? Is it safe to converse with a passenger? Is it safe to have the radio on loud, or at all? You'll never be able to eliminate all risks from driving (it is the single most dangerous thing most of us do on a daily basis). Anecdotally, I believe that navigating with an HUD displayed on eyewear or on a windshield is far safer than a 4" LCD screen mounted somewhere on the dash, or a similar screen held in the lap.