I seem to recall a few friends of mine that purchased Wii Fit and that balance board. The balance board was used the day they unwrapped it and now while the wii fit sits in the closet the balance board continues to sit under the TV where it has sat since the day it was unwrapped.

So now Nintendo's strategy is to push Wii Fit again? Is their market the elderly in retirement homes?

Well.. i guess their next move is to release yet another version of Mario...

If you're just working in your basement or making basic recordings/mixings, go with Garageband. Need more features and aren't afraid of paying a bit more look at Logic Pro-X. I like LogicPro for composing music while ProTools is better for editing and mixing.

All of the above have a rich support for plugins.

Conversely you could select Audacity. Runs on windows/linux/mac and is pretty much free. It's a step up from Garageband, depending on exactly what you need to do. Definitely take a look at it.

One could pick their applications based on platform or based upon your requirements/needs of your work.

I chose the latter and went with a mac and LogicPro.

Btw, don't forget to to get good input hardware (mics, converters etc..). Believe it or not, that $30 cable that comes with the game Rocksmith does provide an ok USB interface, not quite as good as the equipment from Line6, but if you're just hacking in the basement for minimal cost, it'll work. With recordings crappy input = crappy output.

I would also spend some time on Homerecording.com browsing/searching their forums. This topic is covered quite a bit there.

Good luck.

Since I'm in San Francisco, I'd like to lease the seat heater function. I'll pay for it from November through end of January and then I want to stop paying for it for the next 9 months.

Likewise, people in New England would probably only want A/C for a few weeks in July/August.

No chance on earth I want to pay $1k to enable seat heaters for something I'll only use a few times a year.

However, for someone in Florida, they should be able to pay a one time fee and get it forever.

I have a phone.
My wife has a phone.
Our son has a phone.

My family then has one computer with three accounts on it.

Sure there are families with multiple computers and one phone, but I doubt that one phone is passed around each day to a different family member. A mobile phone isn't consumed like it was a mobile version of a land line (one line per household).

So instead of selling one device per household with a computer, you sell one device per member of household. A much larger addressable market.

To me I wanted a solution that "just worked" for everyone in the family. That included me not wanting to have to compile anything or modify scripts, and the interface had to look polished hence running VLC isn't a solution for me.

I've got a 2010 mac mini with an external nas hooked up to my TV. I've got over a hundred movies ripped and thousands of mp3s and a few dozen tv shows. I put them into to root folders "Movies", "music" and "TV Shows". I pick the right scanner for each (30 seconds worth of effort). If I wanted I could store the music in iTunes and plex can retrieve it from there.

As long as you've got the files named something useful (I use the movie's name and year of release in the filename rather than "ROTJ.mov"). Only issues are with titles that are a bit out there like concert DVDs, and for those very few I just manually correct it. (5 min of work).

The GUI for plex is optimized for a remote control If you've got the silver apple remote this is perfect (the old white plastic one didn't have enough buttons). Or just use the iphone/android app instead. I do have an IR keyboard if I need to do something on the mac.

I would guess that moving 30-40 passengers via bus uses far less fuel than taking them by boat.

Way to go SF! Save your bus-stops...

We should expect pro-environment Berkley folks to be protesting the pro-bus-stop SF residents...

Citation required on the aspect of treason which requires it to be legal and constitutional.

Article 3 of the US Constitution defines treason as: "levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

I would say leaking how the US gov't is spying or collecting information does give aid and comfort to our enemies.

Ok so a set of replacement wipers costs me $20 at the local autoparts store. I replace my wipers once a year, and if something happens that I need to replace one, in an hour (including driving to the autoparts store) I'm all set. No special training, tools, diagnostic computers, calibrating equipment etc etc.. required.

Now I'm going to install something that when (not if) it breaks will cost me hundreds if not thousands of dollars to fix.

Let McLaren install these in their $1m cars aimed at the rich and famous. It's not like you see Ferraris and Lamborghini's driving in the rain anyhow.

Surely there's a infosec or security group at your company. Let them know. Otherwise, fire a note to your boss and cc'd your second level manager.

Don't have the email be one where you are blaming your boss, but if the security issues are beyond your manager's command and control span, then it's probably under your next level manager/director. Something as simple as "I've noticed some odd security practices taking place within the application... what group is responsible for setting the methodology...?"

Sounds harmless but gets the point across.

So if someone breaks into your house by opening a window and takes nothing, or in your example $.05 ... thats ok?

It was installed on the outside of the building for the same reason you have electrical outlets on the outside of your house.

Is this a tray requiring 100s of connections or 10? Is this in an office environment, or the datacenter? How much time and money do you want to waste, I mean spend, on this?

Either way, take a standard metal lattice cable tray and get it in black. More importantly, make sure the cables are laid out neatly, as in if they all fit on the bottom of the tray, keep them on the bottom, not piled up on each other.

Use fiber trays instead. These are typically troughs. CNC some designs in them and install LEDs inside.

A POTS home requires a phone that needs no on-premises equipment requiring a source of power. Also, POTS is required by law to provide 911 service even if the homeowner isn't paying for any phone service.

Even though I have VOIP (comcast), I have a corded (no batteries needed) POTS phone in case there is an emergency, I can disconnect my VOIP line from the house, and plug in the 20yr old $10 'walmart special' into the wall and call 911.

Sure, a cell is a backup for VOIP, but they both require power to work.

btw, I've never seen a commercial for POTS where they say "Can you hear me now? Good." POTS just works.

How a black bag operation works.

Actually, there is some truth to why Kenyan's are faster than other countries. It is physiology related to how the African body compares to that of the caucasian body. There was a study back in 2010, that looked into this. Note that since 1968, the world record holders in the 100m dash have all been of African descent.

The conclusion drawn by the study was that humans of African (vs Caucasian or Asian) descent have proportionally longer legs compared to their torso, so this gives them a higher center of mass and allows them to run faster, even faster than someone that is taller, but has shorter legs.

Compare this with a swimmer. The ideal swimmer's body is one with proportionally shorter legs and a longer torso since it is the arms that provide the majority of propulsion. This is why you see humans of Caucasian descent have success in swimming.