Totally depends on your skill levels in meshing the brains together and fabrication. There is not enough information in your post to determine either, but based on the tone I am getting your best bet is money, and for the features you want with the durability just to survive the terrain while carrying a small load, it aint going to be cheap.
Off the top of my head maybe model aircraft with telepresence would be the best mix.
They continued their terminal biz for another 20 years and got into thin clients in the 2000's. They were smart enough to get out of the "me too" IBM clone market, right as everyone and their mother was bleeding out cash to stay up to date and fail (386 maybe 486 era, never saw a wyse 486 myself, but we still have a wyse 386 controlling an even older robotic line at work which I get to fix now and then as I am apparently the only one around dumb enough to say "heh I was a computer tech back when those things were new")
All your useless toys with be obsolete in a year, and your wife's going to love having to thumb through an iPad and fire up an app to flush the toilet. Invest your money on things that actually improve your home's value and efficiency.
here is your headline... "Nerd has not bee out of the basement for too long, thinks that they have to pay a minimum of 70 bucks a month to get a shit phone that dies in 4 hours"
I had a similar time with blank cd's, "oh I am going right by best buy, I will just get some there", I thought, walked in, cd burners isle 2, blank cd's isle 79, and you can forget about staff... the only way to get their attention is to start fiddling with a 3,000$ laptop... then they freaking teleport to you, where you can then ask where is their 10$ product hidden.
screw them, if I cant buy it at the local ma-pa shop, or walmart I go online, best-buy does not exist in my universe
ok genius, lets see you change every single bad thing for what? damn near half a million workers, retrain management and make it all work without cutting productivity... overnight...
I will be awaiting your perfect solution in the morning, I wake up at 6AM CST
for fucks sake, I work for an American company supplying OEM electronics for American factories, with a team of about 60 people over 2 shifts, and running 10 prototype boards though 4 pick-n-place machines and their solder ovens took an hour of negotiation with 2 managers and lots of tip-toes to insure that we would not disrupt production or any other disruption to the human / robotic "machine".
Just your question of "why would it take any time" tells me the nearest you have ever been to mass production is flipping burgers, and shit, I am just some dude working (engineering) at a place putting out just under 10,000 units a day, I dont even want to imagine the nightmares of getting something non-standard done at a place that plops out 10,000,000 + units a day.
um no, crap software started the homebrew and laughable piracy scenes, really, seriously, honestly is there even one game on PSP that is worth your time or trouble to pirate? every single one of them is a bad port, hell some even from the PS1 library (see the simpsons games) running higher resolution.
I know plenty of people who bought those things on day one, couldnt install a USB stick into their computer and you want to know what they did with the PSP... sold them, gave them away, or used them as dust collectors, thats how I got mine, a buddy said "eh its a chunk of crap, bad controls and shit games" then I talked him out of it for helping him move.
In all the years I have owned it, I have downloaded a handful of games, why? because I was sick and fucking tired of forking out 40 bucks for a shit game, just to get it home and find out it wasnt worth wiping my ass on, and then taking it back and being offered 6 bucks for it on trade. I have never kept a game I downloaded, but bought 3.
1) wine is only sold in liquor stores, and they are closed on sunday, so you cant buy wine on sunday, but you can buy 2 cases of beer at walmart 2) you cant buy liquor or wine from a liquor store on sunday, but restaurants and bars are allowed to
ok ill bite, why is a metal box being hurled though the air a shp then? it doesn't fucking float, its not traveling on water, it doesn't have propellers sails or a rudder...
protecting against piracy in this day and age, is more harmful than pirating
Its not that they were not aware, they were under severe pressure to fight a never ending loosing battle by management overlords who would rather stab their mother in the tit, rather than spend a buck figuring out how to do it right
I keep looking at it as, more expensive media that I have to ask the company permission to use, more expensive player... yea I know there are some cheap BR players, but DVD players are disposable now, and if I actually want to notice the difference I got to buy a new TV, 30$ a meter cables and etc...
why? so I can notice that they covered a pimple up on an actors face with makeup, big fucking deal.
dont need quality? need impact for carbon copy paperwork? need to print crap on a preprinted form with no word file to align against? need to print 1000 pages a day on a 5$ ribbon? You aint going to get that with laser... and its funny an OKI Data in its highest speed can barf out a page of text for far less money and a little less time than a modern laser
sometimes we forget, not everything is a life altering presentation... sometimes we just need shit on paper in mass.
the mac was always a better buy, unless you wanted a 2500$ computer that did the same things as a 199$ SEGA Genesis
even back in the day (watch computer chronicles) Amiga struggled with what you actually did with the computer... multitasking OS awesome, now this game shows off the sound and graphics, and this game blah blah blah. They really never did have a super strong selling point to the computer user, it was just another home computer with limited software, tons of games, some niche uses at the same time mac was dominating the desktop publishing and workstation scene, and x86 was dominating the "its ugly but its doing a great job" scene.
course things would change drastically, atari and amiga vanished, apple tried to fill that home void that they once held with horrible results (reason why our second computer was a pc and not apple, cause they treated us like we were stupid with their per store modeling and somewhat random pricing) , and the x86 platform seemed to fill in all its holes all at once.
hell by the time amiga died you could pick up a pretty cheap PC with more horsepower, better sound and graphics, color inkjet printer and a fat monitor and 15 years of backwards compatibility.
there is no such thing as a real amiga with a power pc cpu
you could get a 3rd party accelerator card after commodore died, hell I dont even think PPC was available until a year or 2 after Amiga vanished, or you could get some bastardized 4 grand hacked up IBM motherboard with chip emulation in software in the early 2000's but Amiga never left the Motorola 68k arena from the factory
so what your saying is, that I the consumer can pay for this because someone made a financial plan and didn't bother to fucking update it since 1958, or I as a taxpayer can pay for this because someone made a financial plan and didn't bother to fucking update it since 1958?
how about the shit for brains that ran the places, pay for their incompetence out of their own? Like I would if I set a retirement plan in stone and expected the entire world to not change a single bit in 50 years?
I wouldn't want Joe Sixpack screaming at me for a replacement after dismantling his 500$ + toy on the living-room carpet following a 5 picture teardown and a couple paragraphs on google written by kids who got a similar device on flebay for 40$ and replaced the glass.
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Totally depends on your skill levels in meshing the brains together and fabrication. There is not enough information in your post to determine either, but based on the tone I am getting your best bet is money, and for the features you want with the durability just to survive the terrain while carrying a small load, it aint going to be cheap.
Off the top of my head maybe model aircraft with telepresence would be the best mix.
They continued their terminal biz for another 20 years and got into thin clients in the 2000's. They were smart enough to get out of the "me too" IBM clone market, right as everyone and their mother was bleeding out cash to stay up to date and fail (386 maybe 486 era, never saw a wyse 486 myself, but we still have a wyse 386 controlling an even older robotic line at work which I get to fix now and then as I am apparently the only one around dumb enough to say "heh I was a computer tech back when those things were new")
All your useless toys with be obsolete in a year, and your wife's going to love having to thumb through an iPad and fire up an app to flush the toilet. Invest your money on things that actually improve your home's value and efficiency.
luckily there isnt really THAT much that needs to be archived, everything else just gets shuffled to the NAS
no shit, where is the story?
here is your headline ... "Nerd has not bee out of the basement for too long, thinks that they have to pay a minimum of 70 bucks a month to get a shit phone that dies in 4 hours"
I had a similar time with blank cd's, "oh I am going right by best buy, I will just get some there", I thought, walked in, cd burners isle 2, blank cd's isle 79, and you can forget about staff ... the only way to get their attention is to start fiddling with a 3,000$ laptop ... then they freaking teleport to you, where you can then ask where is their 10$ product hidden.
screw them, if I cant buy it at the local ma-pa shop, or walmart I go online, best-buy does not exist in my universe
ok genius, lets see you change every single bad thing for what? damn near half a million workers, retrain management and make it all work without cutting productivity... overnight...
I will be awaiting your perfect solution in the morning, I wake up at 6AM CST
for fucks sake, I work for an American company supplying OEM electronics for American factories, with a team of about 60 people over 2 shifts, and running 10 prototype boards though 4 pick-n-place machines and their solder ovens took an hour of negotiation with 2 managers and lots of tip-toes to insure that we would not disrupt production or any other disruption to the human / robotic "machine".
Just your question of "why would it take any time" tells me the nearest you have ever been to mass production is flipping burgers, and shit, I am just some dude working (engineering) at a place putting out just under 10,000 units a day, I dont even want to imagine the nightmares of getting something non-standard done at a place that plops out 10,000,000 + units a day.
um no, crap software started the homebrew and laughable piracy scenes, really, seriously, honestly is there even one game on PSP that is worth your time or trouble to pirate? every single one of them is a bad port, hell some even from the PS1 library (see the simpsons games) running higher resolution.
I know plenty of people who bought those things on day one, couldnt install a USB stick into their computer and you want to know what they did with the PSP ... sold them, gave them away, or used them as dust collectors, thats how I got mine, a buddy said "eh its a chunk of crap, bad controls and shit games" then I talked him out of it for helping him move.
In all the years I have owned it, I have downloaded a handful of games, why? because I was sick and fucking tired of forking out 40 bucks for a shit game, just to get it home and find out it wasnt worth wiping my ass on, and then taking it back and being offered 6 bucks for it on trade. I have never kept a game I downloaded, but bought 3.
hey buddy, what the fuck is your problem with 70,159,21 people!
wine is not allowed to be sold in grocery stores here, the only place that can legally sell it is liquor stores
Tennessee has this, its dumb in 2 ways
1) wine is only sold in liquor stores, and they are closed on sunday, so you cant buy wine on sunday, but you can buy 2 cases of beer at walmart
2) you cant buy liquor or wine from a liquor store on sunday, but restaurants and bars are allowed to
The more these things aggravate the average consumer, the better the chances of something being done about it.
Nothing like a government probe in your i
ok ill bite, why is a metal box being hurled though the air a shp then? it doesn't fucking float, its not traveling on water, it doesn't have propellers sails or a rudder ...
protecting against piracy in this day and age, is more harmful than pirating
Its not that they were not aware, they were under severe pressure to fight a never ending loosing battle by management overlords who would rather stab their mother in the tit, rather than spend a buck figuring out how to do it right
I keep looking at it as, more expensive media that I have to ask the company permission to use, more expensive player ... yea I know there are some cheap BR players, but DVD players are disposable now, and if I actually want to notice the difference I got to buy a new TV, 30$ a meter cables and etc...
why? so I can notice that they covered a pimple up on an actors face with makeup, big fucking deal.
dont need quality? need impact for carbon copy paperwork? need to print crap on a preprinted form with no word file to align against? need to print 1000 pages a day on a 5$ ribbon? ... and its funny an OKI Data in its highest speed can barf out a page of text for far less money and a little less time than a modern laser
You aint going to get that with laser
sometimes we forget, not everything is a life altering presentation ... sometimes we just need shit on paper in mass.
the mac was always a better buy, unless you wanted a 2500$ computer that did the same things as a 199$ SEGA Genesis
even back in the day (watch computer chronicles) Amiga struggled with what you actually did with the computer ... multitasking OS awesome, now this game shows off the sound and graphics, and this game blah blah blah. They really never did have a super strong selling point to the computer user, it was just another home computer with limited software, tons of games, some niche uses at the same time mac was dominating the desktop publishing and workstation scene, and x86 was dominating the "its ugly but its doing a great job" scene.
course things would change drastically, atari and amiga vanished, apple tried to fill that home void that they once held with horrible results (reason why our second computer was a pc and not apple, cause they treated us like we were stupid with their per store modeling and somewhat random pricing) , and the x86 platform seemed to fill in all its holes all at once.
hell by the time amiga died you could pick up a pretty cheap PC with more horsepower, better sound and graphics, color inkjet printer and a fat monitor and 15 years of backwards compatibility.
there is no such thing as a real amiga with a power pc cpu
you could get a 3rd party accelerator card after commodore died, hell I dont even think PPC was available until a year or 2 after Amiga vanished, or you could get some bastardized 4 grand hacked up IBM motherboard with chip emulation in software in the early 2000's but Amiga never left the Motorola 68k arena from the factory
so what your saying is, that I the consumer can pay for this because someone made a financial plan and didn't bother to fucking update it since 1958, or I as a taxpayer can pay for this because someone made a financial plan and didn't bother to fucking update it since 1958?
how about the shit for brains that ran the places, pay for their incompetence out of their own? Like I would if I set a retirement plan in stone and expected the entire world to not change a single bit in 50 years?
works great on XP, vista and 7 it shuts off damn near everything and is not all that stable for me
so, you got yourself into a contract where you pay for a non existent product, I like your way of thinking
http://www.walmart.com/cp/Walmart-MoneyCard/1073524?fromPageCatId=5433&catNavId=5433
walk into walmart, put money on card, pay 3 bucks for a reload fee (and a 3$ monthly maintenance fee)
my car insurance company (direct general) has the same setup with no fees for customers
you have been able to get them at walmart (among many other places) for the better part of a decade
I wouldn't want Joe Sixpack screaming at me for a replacement after dismantling his 500$ + toy on the living-room carpet following a 5 picture teardown and a couple paragraphs on google written by kids who got a similar device on flebay for 40$ and replaced the glass.