I have a group of friends that we do exactly this. we all pay for a super duper cable subscription at my buddy's house that has ungodly high Internet bandwidth. I have 4 HD Homerun Cablecard boxes there and a MythTV box. it records TV shows that everyone likes and then we use dropbox to auto send them to all of the group's XBMC playback boxes. a simple script allows the separate people to each have their own dropbox share so they have control. each XBMC has a script that moves the show out of the the dropbox share so we can get away with free accounts.
Works great, 20 of us get Ala Carte TV shows with commercials auto stripped out (gotta love MythTV) and we each pay $5.00 a month to cover the cable bill. Plus it's not streaming so if internet is down you have the shows on your local box. So technology wise it's better than anything that Netflix or the others have.
Honestly if they did shows "ala-carte" things would be different. I would GLADLY pay for TV shows I like Fox cancels Almost Human and replaces it with another cop show that has a lower average IQ rating so it will work better for the typical FOX viewer.
IF shows were Ala-Carte I could give my money directly to the show creators. Betting Firefly would be brought back to life in a heartbeat if FOX did not want to let that IP rot and Die.
They had to put cameras on LA cops because they were acting like street gang thugs, Has the London police lost the professionalism that was world renown and are now acting like thugs as well?
When did you live off of that? because even just 5 years ago it was a lot cheaper for the poor.
Right now in a fricking trailer park Lot rent is on average $450 a month. and that is of you OWN the trailer, if you are renting the trailer that is another $400-$600 on top of the lot rent. Plus Heat, electric, and water are bills on top of those, God help you if you are in a 1970's shithold trailer that will cost $450 a month to heat in the winter.
So JUST for a place to legally live. $450+$400 for the trailer you are renting, $225 for heat in the winter means $100 on average for heating, $50 for electricity a month, and $15 a month for water, you dont need to bathe more than 1X a week. $1015 ALONE for a legal place to live and sleep. so you have a whopping $395 a month for food and expenses to get to and from work. So let''s take the bus, because nobody can legally afford a car on those wages. $120 a month for bus fare, You have a Massive $275 a month for food, clothing, and work expenses. Hope you dont get sick because you cant afford the romneycare that the country was forced to have. Even with the subsidies for being poor making only $10 an hour you have to pay $200 a month, that is not in your budget.
So lets look at real clothing costs. Shopping goodwill or second hand stores, You can afford a $10.00 used pair of pants and a $10.00 used shirt each month to replace those that wear out, Oh we have to do laundry! $15 a week at the laundrymat for a single load of laundry, plus $4.00 to get there and back. so we now have $236 and we still have not bought any food. Granted scumbag rich people will say "just eat ramen" yeah if you want to die, Through the roof sodium and nutritionally empty ramen is a good replacement for a single meal daily, but you need protein and other things. Realistically a good CHEAP eating properly is about $8.00 a day. IF you are ok with letting your health slide, you can do it for $6.00 a day. so let's go there. $6.00 a day for 30 days (yes you have to eat on weekends) $180 for food so we are down to $56.00 for the month for extravagant luxury items like razor blades to shave, soap, shampoo, deodorant, Oh hope you don't have a cold or the flu because you work minimum wage so the owner will fire your ass if you call in sick, so you need over the counter meds So there is $30 for that month, you could save money by searching your neighbors trash for used razer blades.
So what do I have left over $26.00 a month for go insane with! where as reality is that $26 is consumed by fees for cashing my paycheck at a check cashing place or worse the debit card scam that the employer forced the worker into. Those things take fees for every single transaction, so that $26 is gone at the end of the month.
Looking at what I calculated from what I see is costs today..... Damn why dont more people live high on the hog like that? And If I'm lucky I can get a room mate that will steal food from me or might pay the rent on time... Then I'm really high on the hog living the luxury lifestyle!
"make money" as in become rock star rich? yes, and That is a good thing. Sorry to burst people's bubbles but programming and game development is not the lottery, you dont get a big payout.
Make money as in cover your costs and turn a modest profit? that is more reasonable, and if these Indie people are going into business without a business plan and fully researching the market as well as costs and other financials as well as research as to their lower price to sell at as well as what price that will not scare people away from their game.
If you are an indie company and think you ca get $60 for your game you are insane, $16.00 to $29.00 for a professional quality game (as in better than the buggy untested crap from bioware) is easily achieved as can be seen by the success of a lot of indie games out there.
But if a developer thinks they will get rich or start living the 6 digit income levels? They need to stop now and work on something else, as they have zero clue as what it's like to sell software let alone games.
90% of comcast customers are held hostage, they CANT GO ANYWHERE ELSE for internet. This is what happens when you have a government sponsored and allowed monopoly.
Instead of getting a replacement key for $12.99 now it will cost you $350 for a second key.
The Govt needs to step in and tell them that the MAX cost to customers can not exceed $40 for the transponder and PROGRAMMING fees together.
Honda rips people off with their keyless system $100 programming fee for their tech to spend less than 5 minutes with the tool plugged into my odb-II port.
the Republicans are richer than the Democrats. The Democrats are disorganized housecats. The Republicans tend to be more organized and directed towards a single broadly defined goal.
Both sides will fuck over the poor (bottom 80%) in a heartbeat to make their Corporate masters happy.
He is an extremely rich person that wants the poor watched. All rich people think this way. Keep those grubby poor people away from my money. And yes you Making $80K a year, you are one of the "grubby poor" to these people.
their fault for not paying him more, I have heard the bullshit line from employers before...
VP of engineering:"We cant afford to lose you" Me: "Ok, they are offering me XXX you give me XXX*20% and I'll stay" VP of engineering:" We cant afford that" Me: "So it seems you CAN afford to lose me, as you refuse to pay me what I am worth."
Sheep do just fine in bitter evil cold and 120 degree summers. Certain long hair breeds of goats as well. Problem is a lot of the long hair cows have been bread away to the easy to care for short hair. and there are chicken breeds that do fine.
Lastly pigs, just start with wild pigs instead of the naked ones we have that only exist for easy cleaning.
Rabbits are also very hearty and are perfect livestock.
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Look up MythTV, Xbmcuntu, how to use dropbox under linux.
All phones probably use the same salt so it's a backdoor it also means that someone out there will find that backdoor.
"Then cable will die."
I am sorry, but I just do not see a down side to this.
I have a group of friends that we do exactly this. we all pay for a super duper cable subscription at my buddy's house that has ungodly high Internet bandwidth. I have 4 HD Homerun Cablecard boxes there and a MythTV box. it records TV shows that everyone likes and then we use dropbox to auto send them to all of the group's XBMC playback boxes. a simple script allows the separate people to each have their own dropbox share so they have control. each XBMC has a script that moves the show out of the the dropbox share so we can get away with free accounts.
Works great, 20 of us get Ala Carte TV shows with commercials auto stripped out (gotta love MythTV) and we each pay $5.00 a month to cover the cable bill.
Plus it's not streaming so if internet is down you have the shows on your local box. So technology wise it's better than anything that Netflix or the others have.
Honestly if they did shows "ala-carte" things would be different. I would GLADLY pay for TV shows I like Fox cancels Almost Human and replaces it with another cop show that has a lower average IQ rating so it will work better for the typical FOX viewer.
IF shows were Ala-Carte I could give my money directly to the show creators. Betting Firefly would be brought back to life in a heartbeat if FOX did not want to let that IP rot and Die.
They had to put cameras on LA cops because they were acting like street gang thugs, Has the London police lost the professionalism that was world renown and are now acting like thugs as well?
I use a telecope for dealing with relatives. I could never handle them up close.
using ipV6 also protects you from NSA snooping as none of their software is capable of ipV6
Simple feed the children LEAD. IT will suppress the fear triggers and make them far more hostile.
If you want to build the perfect warrior, then just do what the romans and the vikings did. Lead dosing.
I'll give them a freebie.
Anyone that has the address 127.0.0.1 on their computer is a thief and you can bill them right now.
When did you live off of that? because even just 5 years ago it was a lot cheaper for the poor.
Right now in a fricking trailer park Lot rent is on average $450 a month. and that is of you OWN the trailer, if you are renting the trailer that is another $400-$600 on top of the lot rent. Plus Heat, electric, and water are bills on top of those, God help you if you are in a 1970's shithold trailer that will cost $450 a month to heat in the winter.
So JUST for a place to legally live. $450+$400 for the trailer you are renting, $225 for heat in the winter means $100 on average for heating, $50 for electricity a month, and $15 a month for water, you dont need to bathe more than 1X a week.
$1015 ALONE for a legal place to live and sleep. so you have a whopping $395 a month for food and expenses to get to and from work. So let''s take the bus, because nobody can legally afford a car on those wages. $120 a month for bus fare, You have a Massive $275 a month for food, clothing, and work expenses. Hope you dont get sick because you cant afford the romneycare that the country was forced to have. Even with the subsidies for being poor making only $10 an hour you have to pay $200 a month, that is not in your budget.
So lets look at real clothing costs. Shopping goodwill or second hand stores, You can afford a $10.00 used pair of pants and a $10.00 used shirt each month to replace those that wear out, Oh we have to do laundry! $15 a week at the laundrymat for a single load of laundry, plus $4.00 to get there and back. so we now have $236 and we still have not bought any food. Granted scumbag rich people will say "just eat ramen" yeah if you want to die, Through the roof sodium and nutritionally empty ramen is a good replacement for a single meal daily, but you need protein and other things. Realistically a good CHEAP eating properly is about $8.00 a day. IF you are ok with letting your health slide, you can do it for $6.00 a day. so let's go there. $6.00 a day for 30 days (yes you have to eat on weekends) $180 for food so we are down to $56.00 for the month for extravagant luxury items like razor blades to shave, soap, shampoo, deodorant, Oh hope you don't have a cold or the flu because you work minimum wage so the owner will fire your ass if you call in sick, so you need over the counter meds So there is $30 for that month, you could save money by searching your neighbors trash for used razer blades.
So what do I have left over $26.00 a month for go insane with! where as reality is that $26 is consumed by fees for cashing my paycheck at a check cashing place or worse the debit card scam that the employer forced the worker into. Those things take fees for every single transaction, so that $26 is gone at the end of the month.
Looking at what I calculated from what I see is costs today..... Damn why dont more people live high on the hog like that? And If I'm lucky I can get a room mate that will steal food from me or might pay the rent on time... Then I'm really high on the hog living the luxury lifestyle!
"make money" as in become rock star rich? yes, and That is a good thing. Sorry to burst people's bubbles but programming and game development is not the lottery, you dont get a big payout.
Make money as in cover your costs and turn a modest profit? that is more reasonable, and if these Indie people are going into business without a business plan and fully researching the market as well as costs and other financials as well as research as to their lower price to sell at as well as what price that will not scare people away from their game.
If you are an indie company and think you ca get $60 for your game you are insane, $16.00 to $29.00 for a professional quality game (as in better than the buggy untested crap from bioware) is easily achieved as can be seen by the success of a lot of indie games out there.
But if a developer thinks they will get rich or start living the 6 digit income levels? They need to stop now and work on something else, as they have zero clue as what it's like to sell software let alone games.
Absolutely! Shadowrun Returns, Kerbal Space program, etc... The indie games scene is starting to overtake the "AAA" games in quality and enjoyment.
MOST ISP's are running on gear that is over 12 years old or older. they refuse to upgrade it even by extreme 10 year standards.
You are correct. Our internet here is an utter joke from end to end.
90% of comcast customers are held hostage, they CANT GO ANYWHERE ELSE for internet.
This is what happens when you have a government sponsored and allowed monopoly.
Wrong. Just bought a BMW key last week for a 2003 K1200LT. $4.99 for the key, I bought 3 of them.
Dealers are worthless for that kind of stuff, they did not even test they just replaced it at his cost.
NEVER EVER let a dealer touch your car, they only hire incompetent idiots for their service department.
Instead of getting a replacement key for $12.99 now it will cost you $350 for a second key.
The Govt needs to step in and tell them that the MAX cost to customers can not exceed $40 for the transponder and PROGRAMMING fees together.
Honda rips people off with their keyless system $100 programming fee for their tech to spend less than 5 minutes with the tool plugged into my odb-II port.
GM wants in on the rip off action now as well.
Pick any two? Problem is some of them are all three at the same time.
Yes.
the Republicans are richer than the Democrats. The Democrats are disorganized housecats. The Republicans tend to be more organized and directed towards a single broadly defined goal.
Both sides will fuck over the poor (bottom 80%) in a heartbeat to make their Corporate masters happy.
He is an extremely rich person that wants the poor watched. All rich people think this way. Keep those grubby poor people away from my money. And yes you Making $80K a year, you are one of the "grubby poor" to these people.
their fault for not paying him more, I have heard the bullshit line from employers before...
VP of engineering :"We cant afford to lose you"
Me: "Ok, they are offering me XXX you give me XXX*20% and I'll stay"
VP of engineering:" We cant afford that"
Me: "So it seems you CAN afford to lose me, as you refuse to pay me what I am worth."
Zenimax has already stated that John took no code or documents with him.
Sheep do just fine in bitter evil cold and 120 degree summers. Certain long hair breeds of goats as well.
Problem is a lot of the long hair cows have been bread away to the easy to care for short hair. and there are chicken breeds that do fine.
Lastly pigs, just start with wild pigs instead of the naked ones we have that only exist for easy cleaning.
Rabbits are also very hearty and are perfect livestock.