I stream from my basement. Buy the discs (or, more recently, rent them from Redbox or borrow them from the library) and rip them. A NAS in the basement holds everything, and xbmc on computers in the livingroom and bedroom for the streaming.
Total cost $1000. Being able to stream whatever movie I own within 15 seconds of turning the TV on? Priceless.
Best part? The NAS accepts ssh connections from outside the home. I have a similar setup in a friend's house and my parents, both of which do a 'rsync over ssh' every time they turn the system on (with logs stored on my NAS so I know the syncs are occurring). Now I get distributed remote mirrors and they get streaming from their basements.
#2 - Connected devices can have interesting power management solutions. It's not just adjusting the home temperature when it figures out no one's going to be home for 8 hours. What about adjusting when the fridge uses the most power during times when electricity is the cheapest? Or sending you a text message if the motion detectors go off but your car is not in the driveway/garage? Or have lights go on just after dusk (regardless of time of year) and go out at a random time between 10 and 11pm (unless motion suggests people are home)?
The upfront cost of these devices are a bit more. To be absorbed by early adopters, of course. But when the prices come down and the kinks straightened out, they can be quite useful.
OnTopic: My neighbor showed me the app he had on his phone to monitor his pool. It allowed him to monitor temperature, pH, turn the filter and heater on, etc. The installer gave it a default 4 digit passcode, which was apparently the same four digit passcode that every other installation had. Since the ID number of the pool was adjustable, my neighbor joked that he would sometimes log into random people's pools and flash their pool lights (and had others do it to him as well). Fortunately no one's raised the pool temperature to 90 degrees or something like that (yet).
What they should have done is lease or sell the boxes to their subscribers and charge a monthly service fee to keep their boxes from being attacked by viruses, etc.
That way they can't be sued for anything but installing commodity software at the owner's request.
It's a scam and they're liars. It's really as clear and un-subtle as that. When they deliver a review unit, the expectation is that it will be representative of the products that end users will by buying.
More and more I only believe Consumer Reports. They don't accept donated items for review. They purchase their own from a normal middleman to make sure what they get is what a normal person would get.
That being said, it's remarkable they're still in business.
duh. MS is leading the way to a place where you carry you computer all the time and just drop it into a cradle when you need a bigger screen. Something that works for well over 80% of the populace. I'm not a fan, but the iPad would be horrible to do that with. With it's in ability to shop more then 1 window at a time.
And I own an iPad, and I like it.
Actually it would be fantastically good with a slight tweeking of the iOS UI. All you do is detect that the device is hooked into a keyboard dock and show the running tasks bar at all times. Unplug it from the dock and the tasks bar disappears.
It's an awesome sight, and then the Japanese government was told that the U.S. had another thousand bombs of the same caliber.
The Japanese command crunched the numbers and saw that it would exterminate their race. More importantly, it showed them unequivocally that the Japanese were inferior to U.S. firepower and technological prowess.
Only works when the last working version isn't broken.
Want an example? Get an original iPad and install Google+. The version that installs won't let you get past the login screen. It's that last version that's compatible with the original iPad.
Steps: 1 - Get a RAID similar to your main storage to use as backup. 2 - Put the second RAID in a relative's house, where you can get access to it. 3 - Have this backup run an rsync over ssh once a week/month, pointing at your main storage array.
With proper ssh key exchange set up ahead of time and using an ssh username and port that are non-obvious (with ssh on your main system only allowing known keys and not username/password combinations), you'll do pretty well against everyone except a malignant government entity.
It wasn't nearly this bad. I hate to say it, but I really am looking to leave and not come back. Still looking for the right alternative. Hope Bruce Perens steps up...
No one comes to/. to read the stories. They come to read the comments and take part in the conversation which is tangentially associated with the article.
A solid comment system is what people come for. With moderation and metamoderation and scores and everything that goes with it. (For instance: being able to hide everything below a score of 3 and adding a +1 modifier to everything Interesting)
And you screwed the comment part of it. Why would you think anyone would like it?
Unhappy with the new site design? Kick them where it hurts. Block advertising.
Up until now I always allowed slashdot to show me ads. I've been reading the site pretty much daily for over a decade (this is my second UID).
I just disabled advertisements. Why let them profit off of me?
If this becomes permanent, I just will have to find something else to read. I've grown up and looking more towards investment forums now, anyway. (giving a shout out to bogleheads - http://www.bogleheads.org/foru... )
Oddly enough, not one story on slashdot in the last couple days about Beta. So, of course, we discuss it in every other story on the site.
I tried it again today and if you think the article and comments sections are horrible, you should see the user profile section.
We cannot see how many replies a comment we had written has received. I find this an important tool to answer questions I have (just look at some of my previous comments) about the topic at hand.
Why couldn't they have just adjusted the style sheet a bit and let everything else stay the same? If they wanted to open up another site, they could have just done that and left/. alone. The domain name can't be *that* lucrative for them.
I'm not one to curse, so all I can say is 'Fuck Slashdot Beta'.
I don't want to see which comments are insightful or funny or informative.
I have a treshold and use that to decide what to read. If I want to give extra importance to funny, I can set that up in the site preference as a +1 or +2.
Why are you breaking something that was working fine?
Also, get rid of all the images. This is a sight for adults, not teenagers.
Slashdot Mirror
I stream from my basement. Buy the discs (or, more recently, rent them from Redbox or borrow them from the library) and rip them. A NAS in the basement holds everything, and xbmc on computers in the livingroom and bedroom for the streaming.
Total cost $1000. Being able to stream whatever movie I own within 15 seconds of turning the TV on? Priceless.
Best part? The NAS accepts ssh connections from outside the home. I have a similar setup in a friend's house and my parents, both of which do a 'rsync over ssh' every time they turn the system on (with logs stored on my NAS so I know the syncs are occurring). Now I get distributed remote mirrors and they get streaming from their basements.
#1 - You're not that interesting.
#2 - Connected devices can have interesting power management solutions. It's not just adjusting the home temperature when it figures out no one's going to be home for 8 hours. What about adjusting when the fridge uses the most power during times when electricity is the cheapest? Or sending you a text message if the motion detectors go off but your car is not in the driveway/garage? Or have lights go on just after dusk (regardless of time of year) and go out at a random time between 10 and 11pm (unless motion suggests people are home)?
The upfront cost of these devices are a bit more. To be absorbed by early adopters, of course. But when the prices come down and the kinks straightened out, they can be quite useful.
OnTopic: My neighbor showed me the app he had on his phone to monitor his pool. It allowed him to monitor temperature, pH, turn the filter and heater on, etc. The installer gave it a default 4 digit passcode, which was apparently the same four digit passcode that every other installation had. Since the ID number of the pool was adjustable, my neighbor joked that he would sometimes log into random people's pools and flash their pool lights (and had others do it to him as well). Fortunately no one's raised the pool temperature to 90 degrees or something like that (yet).
Presumably he'll get some sort of mandatory time in front of a psychiatrist to make sure he's fit for active duty.
What they should have done is lease or sell the boxes to their subscribers and charge a monthly service fee to keep their boxes from being attacked by viruses, etc.
That way they can't be sued for anything but installing commodity software at the owner's request.
It's a scam and they're liars. It's really as clear and un-subtle as that. When they deliver a review unit, the expectation is that it will be representative of the products that end users will by buying.
More and more I only believe Consumer Reports. They don't accept donated items for review. They purchase their own from a normal middleman to make sure what they get is what a normal person would get.
That being said, it's remarkable they're still in business.
duh.
MS is leading the way to a place where you carry you computer all the time and just drop it into a cradle when you need a bigger screen.
Something that works for well over 80% of the populace.
I'm not a fan, but the iPad would be horrible to do that with. With it's in ability to shop more then 1 window at a time.
And I own an iPad, and I like it.
Actually it would be fantastically good with a slight tweeking of the iOS UI. All you do is detect that the device is hooked into a keyboard dock and show the running tasks bar at all times. Unplug it from the dock and the tasks bar disappears.
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that Wayland 1.5 was an alpha release. Presumably it will be complete when it hits 1.0?
It's an awesome sight, and then the Japanese government was told that the U.S. had another thousand bombs of the same caliber.
The Japanese command crunched the numbers and saw that it would exterminate their race. More importantly, it showed them unequivocally that the Japanese were inferior to U.S. firepower and technological prowess.
Only works when the last working version isn't broken.
Want an example? Get an original iPad and install Google+. The version that installs won't let you get past the login screen. It's that last version that's compatible with the original iPad.
Steps:
1 - Get a RAID similar to your main storage to use as backup.
2 - Put the second RAID in a relative's house, where you can get access to it.
3 - Have this backup run an rsync over ssh once a week/month, pointing at your main storage array.
With proper ssh key exchange set up ahead of time and using an ssh username and port that are non-obvious (with ssh on your main system only allowing known keys and not username/password combinations), you'll do pretty well against everyone except a malignant government entity.
If I had to give up my privacy for a free lunch I would run the other way. And I'm sure he would have if he had a choice.
That choice was taken from him by a tabloid journalist. (I don't care who printed the story. It was tabloid journalism at it's worst.)
So I'm not the only one who's ears perked up when they thought they heard about the Cardassians show? :-)
Oddly enough, this comment could be about ReactOS Beta, which has been promised for years now.
Though I'm personally confident that the ReactOS Beta would be more welcolm among the /. community (aka, the "audience") than Slashdot Beta.
I think it's a mtter of 'you reap what you sow'.
The Dice folks felt that the majority of the readers don't comment, so comments aren't that important.
What they failed to recognize is that the commenters are the community that drove the site all these years.
Most of us were there.
It wasn't nearly this bad. I hate to say it, but I really am looking to leave and not come back. Still looking for the right alternative. Hope Bruce Perens steps up...
Please resurrect. Give it a commenting system based on slashcode. Advertise it in your signature.
We'll show up. Maybe we'll even give you some money.
We have nowhere else to go.
To make it more clear:
No one comes to /. to read the stories. They come to read the comments and take part in the conversation which is tangentially associated with the article.
A solid comment system is what people come for. With moderation and metamoderation and scores and everything that goes with it. (For instance: being able to hide everything below a score of 3 and adding a +1 modifier to everything Interesting)
And you screwed the comment part of it. Why would you think anyone would like it?
Unhappy with the new site design? Kick them where it hurts. Block advertising.
Up until now I always allowed slashdot to show me ads. I've been reading the site pretty much daily for over a decade (this is my second UID).
I just disabled advertisements. Why let them profit off of me?
If this becomes permanent, I just will have to find something else to read. I've grown up and looking more towards investment forums now, anyway. (giving a shout out to bogleheads - http://www.bogleheads.org/foru... )
Oddly enough, not one story on slashdot in the last couple days about Beta. So, of course, we discuss it in every other story on the site.
I tried it again today and if you think the article and comments sections are horrible, you should see the user profile section.
We cannot see how many replies a comment we had written has received. I find this an important tool to answer questions I have (just look at some of my previous comments) about the topic at hand.
Why couldn't they have just adjusted the style sheet a bit and let everything else stay the same? If they wanted to open up another site, they could have just done that and left /. alone. The domain name can't be *that* lucrative for them.
I'm not one to curse, so all I can say is 'Fuck Slashdot Beta'.
I don't want to see which comments are insightful or funny or informative.
I have a treshold and use that to decide what to read. If I want to give extra importance to funny, I can set that up in the site preference as a +1 or +2.
Why are you breaking something that was working fine?
Also, get rid of all the images. This is a sight for adults, not teenagers.
Someone, please fork /. already.
You'll get a boatload of people willing to jump this ship as soon as the new Beta is the only allowed version here.
Host some google ads on it and ask people to turn off adblock for the site. Maybe solicit some friends to cohost for bandwith reasons...
Anyone want to host a new /.?
Seriously. Slashcode is still out there. A few developers could polish it up and post a story here to announce the new site.
Any reason this hasn't happened yet?
I just recommended a laserjet multifunction printer to my dad (he was burning through ink in am inkjet and his scanner was getting flakey under OS X).
What should I recommend people in the future? Particularly the Linux/OS X crowd? Or am I just jumping a little too early?
(I'm a little nervous as the installation process for my Laserjet m1217 on Linux Mint involves downloading a proprietary blob from HP.)
Why would they even care about your name? They're not the NSA.
They can pinpoint your demographic. That's enough for them.
Tesla cars apparently come with adapters to use other chargers.