After heat, internet is #1 need in the modern age.
Spoken like someone who's never had to worry about having their fundamental survival needs met. You're assuming that every person in America already has the basics and that just isn't true.
Water, food, and shelter come way before internet. Also heating your shelter, preserving your food, and preparing your food. That'd usually be done with electricity but that requires more expenditures of greater priority than internet. Fridge, electric heater, electric stove. Still don't have hot water yet, tho. It wasn't very long ago that it was common to rent a "cold water flat" where you heated water on the stove. So your next splurge will be a water heater.
Those are the things poor people worry about. I can remember a time when my dad lived in a barn. If the internet had existed back then, getting a computer and going online would have been waaaaay down on the to-do list. It looked more like:
Get a room in a house with a floor. And running water. HOT running water. And heat. And a fridge. Put food in fridge. Get a phone. (Today's version of the internet, I suppose.)
Communication's way down the list of fundamentals.
The solution is for the people/groups with kickstarter projects to suspend operations until the problem is fixed properly. You can't fight dick moves with dick moves without becoming a dick. Kickstarter's policy of punishing the victim is absurd and it shouldn't take much to point them in the right direction.
Why would this be a problem? The farther away their "cloud" is, the worse the performance. There's enough of a performance hit just trying to cram all that data through a company's entartube without stretching that tube many thousands of miles for no good reason.
McCarthy has blood on her hands. She used her celebrity status to influence a generation of easily-swayed women to put their babies at risk. The madness would have gone nowhere without her help because the vapid 20-somethings never would have known about that "study" without the hype created by McCarthy. She became the mouthpiece of madness.
I'll bet they'd be in an even better position if they were in countries/cultures where they didn't have to worry about being stoned to death and could drive themselves to meetings. But that's just me.
And the gubmint gets to level fines that would be illegal for anyone else. Had a friend who was a few months late sending off state taxes of $113. Got a penalty/interest bill for $107. Wish I was joking. Try and put a 95% penalty into a promissory note and watch how fast it gets laughed out of court.
I didn't want to manage anyone. I wanted to quit but was the only person in the company capable of performing a boring job required by a significant percentage of the projects that came through the company. I claimed I wanted to take a vacation so they gave me some part-timers who needed more hours to train up to cover my job while I was gone. I thought my job couldn't suck more but then I started managing people doing the job I wanted to quit. So, yeah, I considered it to be annoying crap.:)
But it did give me an appreciation for management and an understanding of the role managers are supposed to play.
They're not all totally useless. I accidentally became one for a while and didn't realize it until a friend pointed it out. I griped that I'd been busting my ass all week juggling work schedules, project priorities, placating clients, liaising between subcontractors and government agencies, ensuring that my group had enough work to keep them busy, handling exceptions, training, etc. but I hadn't produced anything. "Dude, you're a manger."
A good manager does the annoying crap that's necessary to keep his/her group running smoothly.
Take pictures that show model numbers and serial numbers. Keep a list of serial numbers. Keep receipts. Register the devices with the manufacturer as additional proof of ownership. I'm sure your insurance agent told you this when you set up the policy.
A surveillance system would have done nothing to prove the value of what you lost. On video, a $6000 laptop looks exactly the same as a $350 laptop.
As to the surveillance system, there are a number of consumer systems available at a reasonable price. Anywhere from a single camera up to 16-camera systems. $400-500 will buy you a ready-to-roll 8 camera system with DVR and remote monitoring, including iphone/android phone video feed. Not pro-quality stuff but decent. Just make sure you post "This area is under video surveillance" signs at the entrances.
I don't think I'd bother with a monitored alarm system, though I'd certainly consider one that makes a lot of noise and flashes a lot of strobes. The fact that a system is monitored isn't what deters theft. It's the noise and attention that is drawn to the scene that chases them off.
I don't see why. I've happily purchased most of my camera equipment from them in the last year because they've matched prices of [reputable] NYC camera shops like Adorama and B&H and I have the stuff in my hands immediately with no worries about grey-market or return hassles. They're the first B&M in a long time to grasp that it's better to haggle and make $50 on a $1500 completed sale than make $0 on a $2100 sale that doesn't happen.
And, before someone derps in with, "But the sun's location changes in winter and summer", I'm aware of that. It's a band. The limits of that band will give the information necessary to determine where the shadows will be throughout the year.
You can science the answer. The sun tracks the same path every year without change (in the time frame you're dealing with) so you can determine exactly where it will be and determine where the shadows will fall on your roof.
It takes 2-5 minutes. Hardly ridiculous. I usually told people 15 minutes unless I had to request the tape from off-site storage. Plenty of time to finish my coffee, wrap up my current task, etc. If I did half a dozen restores in a year, that was a busy year for restores. If you're restoring single files from tape on a regular basis, someone's doing it very, very wrong.
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You weren't poor. You were inconvenienced during an emergency. Like comparing apples and elephants.
After heat, internet is #1 need in the modern age.
Spoken like someone who's never had to worry about having their fundamental survival needs met. You're assuming that every person in America already has the basics and that just isn't true.
Water, food, and shelter come way before internet. Also heating your shelter, preserving your food, and preparing your food. That'd usually be done with electricity but that requires more expenditures of greater priority than internet. Fridge, electric heater, electric stove. Still don't have hot water yet, tho. It wasn't very long ago that it was common to rent a "cold water flat" where you heated water on the stove. So your next splurge will be a water heater.
Those are the things poor people worry about. I can remember a time when my dad lived in a barn. If the internet had existed back then, getting a computer and going online would have been waaaaay down on the to-do list. It looked more like:
Get a room in a house with a floor.
And running water.
HOT running water.
And heat.
And a fridge.
Put food in fridge.
Get a phone. (Today's version of the internet, I suppose.)
Communication's way down the list of fundamentals.
I can't be the only person who remembers Stimpy's Happy Helmet.
The solution is for the people/groups with kickstarter projects to suspend operations until the problem is fixed properly. You can't fight dick moves with dick moves without becoming a dick. Kickstarter's policy of punishing the victim is absurd and it shouldn't take much to point them in the right direction.
You read my post back-asswards. I'll rephrase for you.
Why is it a problem that Australians want to keep their data in Australia?
WHAT HAPPENS IF IT RAINS??
Grab your gun and bring the cat in.
Why would this be a problem? The farther away their "cloud" is, the worse the performance. There's enough of a performance hit just trying to cram all that data through a company's entartube without stretching that tube many thousands of miles for no good reason.
McCarthy has blood on her hands. She used her celebrity status to influence a generation of easily-swayed women to put their babies at risk. The madness would have gone nowhere without her help because the vapid 20-somethings never would have known about that "study" without the hype created by McCarthy. She became the mouthpiece of madness.
Sorry, the established threshold is clearly 60%. Every time.
I'll bet they'd be in an even better position if they were in countries/cultures where they didn't have to worry about being stoned to death and could drive themselves to meetings. But that's just me.
I'll bet if you dip the stump in superglue, it'll seal it up pretty good.
And the gubmint gets to level fines that would be illegal for anyone else. Had a friend who was a few months late sending off state taxes of $113. Got a penalty/interest bill for $107. Wish I was joking. Try and put a 95% penalty into a promissory note and watch how fast it gets laughed out of court.
I think 1040EZ is up to $100k individual or combined this year.
Man, poor people get all the breaks.
Bad kitty! That's my Pot Pi! No! You're a bad kitty!
I didn't want to manage anyone. I wanted to quit but was the only person in the company capable of performing a boring job required by a significant percentage of the projects that came through the company. I claimed I wanted to take a vacation so they gave me some part-timers who needed more hours to train up to cover my job while I was gone. I thought my job couldn't suck more but then I started managing people doing the job I wanted to quit. So, yeah, I considered it to be annoying crap. :)
But it did give me an appreciation for management and an understanding of the role managers are supposed to play.
They're not all totally useless. I accidentally became one for a while and didn't realize it until a friend pointed it out. I griped that I'd been busting my ass all week juggling work schedules, project priorities, placating clients, liaising between subcontractors and government agencies, ensuring that my group had enough work to keep them busy, handling exceptions, training, etc. but I hadn't produced anything. "Dude, you're a manger."
A good manager does the annoying crap that's necessary to keep his/her group running smoothly.
Have they fixed that whole "kilogram standard losing mass" thing yet?
First, DOCUMENT YOUR POSSESSIONS!!!
Take pictures that show model numbers and serial numbers. Keep a list of serial numbers. Keep receipts. Register the devices with the manufacturer as additional proof of ownership. I'm sure your insurance agent told you this when you set up the policy.
A surveillance system would have done nothing to prove the value of what you lost. On video, a $6000 laptop looks exactly the same as a $350 laptop.
As to the surveillance system, there are a number of consumer systems available at a reasonable price. Anywhere from a single camera up to 16-camera systems. $400-500 will buy you a ready-to-roll 8 camera system with DVR and remote monitoring, including iphone/android phone video feed. Not pro-quality stuff but decent. Just make sure you post "This area is under video surveillance" signs at the entrances.
I don't think I'd bother with a monitored alarm system, though I'd certainly consider one that makes a lot of noise and flashes a lot of strobes. The fact that a system is monitored isn't what deters theft. It's the noise and attention that is drawn to the scene that chases them off.
I don't see why. I've happily purchased most of my camera equipment from them in the last year because they've matched prices of [reputable] NYC camera shops like Adorama and B&H and I have the stuff in my hands immediately with no worries about grey-market or return hassles. They're the first B&M in a long time to grasp that it's better to haggle and make $50 on a $1500 completed sale than make $0 on a $2100 sale that doesn't happen.
You are NOT supposed to reuse them.
LOLWUT?
And, before someone derps in with, "But the sun's location changes in winter and summer", I'm aware of that. It's a band. The limits of that band will give the information necessary to determine where the shadows will be throughout the year.
You can science the answer. The sun tracks the same path every year without change (in the time frame you're dealing with) so you can determine exactly where it will be and determine where the shadows will fall on your roof.
It takes 2-5 minutes. Hardly ridiculous. I usually told people 15 minutes unless I had to request the tape from off-site storage. Plenty of time to finish my coffee, wrap up my current task, etc. If I did half a dozen restores in a year, that was a busy year for restores. If you're restoring single files from tape on a regular basis, someone's doing it very, very wrong.
Bingo. Traps and delts would be on fire after a few hours of moderate use. Probably less time.