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Be careful what you purchase and read some performance reviews before you do. At work we have a few of the 4 TB Buffalo Linkstations ($1000 units) and they can't push more than 20 MB/s over gigabit. The other Buffalo device I have used (one of their home-oriented ones, a 250 gb drive) was also slow as mud.
I will compliment Buffalo on their software. They have a ton of options and settings that I'm not used to seeing in a consumer-friendly model.
I find it harder and harder to pay attention to what Dvorak has to say. It seems like he has some outlandish thing to report on every week and none of them are really based in more than his own view of things.
Dvorak is more like The Inquirer or something now - comedy and/or sketchy news.
I really think the approach for magazines and internet vs. television is different. On TV you're pretty much gauranteed to lose 9 minutes of time for every 21 minutes of actual programming. Yeah, you can get up to get a drink or something during that time but for the most part you're stuck watching annoying ads. Online I can skip past ads for the most part, as I can in magazines.
I think the key there is option: online I can skip the ads so I don't mind them but I have the option to view them. On TV I can't do that, which is why I don't watch TV anymore, I download. I used to use Yahoo for searching, then Google realized that no on wanted all of the extra ad crap Yahoo had for a simple search so the plain Google site run out. If online ads start becoming more mandatory and less optional I may start using adblockers or simply browsing different sites with less ads.
A big reason I like Google a lot more - google.com has like 30 words total, and one image to load. Nothing extra that I don't need. Yes, it offers maps, email, and things that Yahoo does, but it doesn't clutter its search page with them.
Until Yahoo can change that it won't convert me.
In our high school teachers have computers to store grades, print out grades, and send in attendance reports to our main office.
In my four years of high school I've never seen computers getting in the way of learning, we have always used them to help. In Calculus classes we've used solvers and in an Ecology class STELLA models and both of those have helped, not hurt.
When I first saw the mini I thought that it had tons of potential as a HTPC as well, but then you realize that it only has a headphone out port by default and nothing like RCA out. No built in surround sound? They had to cut costs somewhere, but this would have been a great inclusion. Also, it's true that HDTV is great, but most of us out there are still using regular TVs with RCA inputs.
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Be careful what you purchase and read some performance reviews before you do. At work we have a few of the 4 TB Buffalo Linkstations ($1000 units) and they can't push more than 20 MB/s over gigabit. The other Buffalo device I have used (one of their home-oriented ones, a 250 gb drive) was also slow as mud. I will compliment Buffalo on their software. They have a ton of options and settings that I'm not used to seeing in a consumer-friendly model.
I find it harder and harder to pay attention to what Dvorak has to say. It seems like he has some outlandish thing to report on every week and none of them are really based in more than his own view of things.
Dvorak is more like The Inquirer or something now - comedy and/or sketchy news.
I really think the approach for magazines and internet vs. television is different. On TV you're pretty much gauranteed to lose 9 minutes of time for every 21 minutes of actual programming. Yeah, you can get up to get a drink or something during that time but for the most part you're stuck watching annoying ads. Online I can skip past ads for the most part, as I can in magazines. I think the key there is option: online I can skip the ads so I don't mind them but I have the option to view them. On TV I can't do that, which is why I don't watch TV anymore, I download. I used to use Yahoo for searching, then Google realized that no on wanted all of the extra ad crap Yahoo had for a simple search so the plain Google site run out. If online ads start becoming more mandatory and less optional I may start using adblockers or simply browsing different sites with less ads.
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So...he expects to really get things going in his field by moving from Caltech...to Louisiana... Do they even have computer there yet?
A big reason I like Google a lot more - google.com has like 30 words total, and one image to load. Nothing extra that I don't need. Yes, it offers maps, email, and things that Yahoo does, but it doesn't clutter its search page with them. Until Yahoo can change that it won't convert me.
In our high school teachers have computers to store grades, print out grades, and send in attendance reports to our main office. In my four years of high school I've never seen computers getting in the way of learning, we have always used them to help. In Calculus classes we've used solvers and in an Ecology class STELLA models and both of those have helped, not hurt.
When I first saw the mini I thought that it had tons of potential as a HTPC as well, but then you realize that it only has a headphone out port by default and nothing like RCA out. No built in surround sound? They had to cut costs somewhere, but this would have been a great inclusion. Also, it's true that HDTV is great, but most of us out there are still using regular TVs with RCA inputs.