The problem with this tactic is that manufacturers will change their manufacturing methodology over time. An extremely well-reviewed model can be replaced later in its product life by a worse version that retains the same exact model number. If you go to NewEgg and Amazon and look at hard drive reviews for the best drives, then look at only the more recent reviews, you may see a big drop in the average rating for some models. Bait and switch. So, be careful!

I read recently that the BackBlaze stats are skewed and almost useless.

I almost never use the live feeds, so I would happily trade that feature for a box the size of a VHS tape that performs better the rest of the time.

$240 on the lower end right now. I've been tracking them lately.

I can totally agree with these sentiments. My first computer was a Commodore 64. Since then, I've been chasing the performance dragon, upgrading to a new computer every couple years. C128, Amiga, XT, 286, 386, 486, Athlon, P60, P2, P3, P4, P5... up until my last two computers.

My previous PC was a Core2Duo e6600 (circa 2006) and its performance was great and then still good. Had it for 5 years. I assembled my current desktop, a Core i7 2600k, in mid 2011. I've upgraded the video card (I'm a gamer) a couple times, and I was starting to feel a little performance pinch about 12-18 months ago, so I upgraded my OS drive to a 512GB SSD. I'm back to having zero performance problems except when fast traveling in Fallout 4 (my games drive is a mechanical hard drive.)

I've been considering another upgrade... but only if I can get M.2/NVMe and DDR4. I'm hoping that all of the announcements we heard months ago about new faster, affordable storage will pan out. Based on the hype, I'm hoping to get a few blazing TB of disk space for what mechanicals cost right now... but I won't hold my breath.

5 days is a long time to hold one's breath...

One I've been seeing more lately that you can add to that list is "LED light."

Instead of treating this like a full time job, people could be "whenever" deliverers, and be informed by Amazon when a delivery is "on the way" to somewhere they're already going. If you live, work, or recreate near a distribution point, Amazon pops up a text notification and says "Do you want this contract?" sort of like Uber I guess.

Next up: the TXT, NFO, INI, and CSV programming languages!

What does the number of CSS projects have to do with the number of HTML projects? There's no reason their numbers should correlate to each other at all on GitHub, especially considering neither is a programming language.

Or in a hybrid platter/XP3 or SSD/XP3 drive, like platter/SSD hybrid drives now.

I find myself swaying and doing slight turns constantly, so I'm always in motion. It looks kind of funny, but it keeps me flexible and keeps my circulation up.

I got some cheap pine from Lowe's and attached it to an old desk surface I had in the garage with clunky cross braces cut from the same pine. I basically just made a long rectangle for each leg and screwed them to the surface. I propped it up on old yearbooks when I realized it was a little short. It's a little ghetto, but it works. Monitors are cheap these days; $150 will get you a decent 24" screen.

I have a home gym with a treadmill as well and made a desktop for it for under $40. I followed these directions, basically: http://www.dowerchin.com/2012/01/23/diy-treadmill-desk-under-50-no-tools-required/

I have an old PC hooked up to a 50" LCD in the home gym. You could just stick a laptop on the tread-desk if you wanted, or just read a book while you walk/jog/run on it. I have a keyboard and mouse that I can use fine at 1-2mph, but over that and I just watch video because typing and mousing gets a little difficult.

On a typical day, I'll switch on and off between the standing and sitting desks every hour or so, and hit the treadmill once or twice during the day for like an hour or two. I really should use the treadmill more.

If an event like this were to happen "near" us in astronomical terms, and we were in the (very, very large) path of lethal radiation, we would simply be exterminated. Bruce Willis could not save us.

The ideal learning environment:

- computerized
- allows a child to proceed at their own pace, faster or slower; the computer quizzes them periodically to see if they've absorbed the material instead of forcing them to sit down and do homework for x hours a night. quizzes encompass a rolling random subset of material to guarantee long-term absorption of knowledge, with no judgments for needing to be refreshed on older material.
- allows a child to learn about what interests them, within reason: "You've already spent x hours on subject A, you should spend more time with subject B and C."
- has a human proctor to help out if they have problems that the computer can't handle
- has experts on call for Skyping or whatnot, whether individual or group
- gamified testing to hold a child's interest (e.g. an RPG that requires solving riddles
- hands-on labs at all age and grade levels to help make clear why they're learning the material, how it can be both useful and fun
- professionally-produced videos instead of making teachers give the same boring lectures over and over, forgetting things sometimes, misspeaking, etc.
- grade levels should be per-field of study, allowing a child to be at various stages of development for any field (Math 6, Language 8, History 5, etc.)
- alternate physical education between fitness (jogging or running, swimming, strength) and play (games) with private showers