Piece of Crap by Neil Young.

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Just buy it over the internet. I get mine mailed to my house for less than the cost of a store purchase, and the selection is massive. It's not as cheap as when the were able to grey import it (Australia), but it's still strangely cheaper to have it sent from china than for me to pick it up and ask a store clerk to sell it to me ^-^

Streaming really only makes sense to me for disposable music, like modern pop music. You know the stuff. The candy sweet radio friendly tunes that are auto-tuned to hell and EQ'd and processed to sound just like a previously successful pop song. The stuff you can hear a few times then want to turn off the radio if it comes on again. I don't listen to that sort of music, it bores me, so I don't bother with a streaming account.

I'm the sort of person who still buys albums, albeit on CD these days. I only buy the ones from artists which I think have a long shelf life and a lot of re-playability. I like the fact that I can toss on an album I've had for almost 30 years and just listen to it again, without needing an internet connection or a current subscription. I like that I get to hear the 'b-sides', the tracks which don't get promoted or aren't considered good enough for radio / streaming highlighting. I actually enjoy many of those tracks far more than the one or two that are there to sell the album. If an artist can't place 6-10 good tracks on a record, then I'm not really interested in hearing what they have to say.

I rip all my CDs to lossless FLAC, iTunes, and MP3 at the same time, then store the archive quality FLACs on my media server. ITunes can't play back FLAC, so I basically don't use it any more, preferring XBMC to get the job done.

I have about 350 albums now that I own and can playback whenever and wherever I choose without needing an internet connection or the permission of some greedy corporation who lock my playback down to only work on their hardware (I'm looking at you Apple!).

I've been collecting music for about 30 years now and still have access to every track I bought (bar the early stuff on LP). If I subscribed to a service for 30 years, all I'd have at the end is the sense of regret I couldn't listen to any music any more, despite the thousands I had spent on it over the years. That's approximately $5400 at today's rates, about the same as I pay for close to 380 albums. The cost is about the same, but if I stopped collecting today, I'd still have 350 albums to listen to.

Since this appears every second week on a medical procedural show it actually is mainstream.

I used to burn through a new keyboard pretty much every year. Similar results for the mouse, maybe 18 months on those. The new Corsair M95 I have has already outlasted any of those old ones and feels like it will last for a decade. Even if I get a sticky key, I can just replace that one key instead of tossing the whole thing in the rubbish.

Seconded this. The indestructibility is prized as much as the harshness of the key-presses. You will prise the Model-M from a fan's cold dead hands...and it will still likely work just fine ^^

I grew up on a mix of Model-M, terminal keyboards, and various budget keyboards on cheap consumer machines. I did really love the Model-M when I had young hands, but these days are far more used to a lighter touch keyboard that requires a lot less force.

I use a Cherry MX Red now. It's a nice compromise for me, since I game a fair amount (although most of that is handled by a G13 + mouse instead) and programme software as my main uses. My fingers know when to stop pressing, and I love the light yet reliable feel of the keys. I'm no longer hammering my fingers into a hard surface at the end of each stroke so my RSI and aches and pains are much relieved.

In the end, keyboard choice seems very personal to me.

All of which are completely rife with corruption and scandal.

You don't put felons in charge of highly sensitive and potentially high value data. You can talk all you like about being reformed, but there is now a massive trust issue surrounding your behaviour and anything you say.

I use Lastpass. I get it to auto-generate random 16+ character passwords with a mix of alpha, numeric, upper / lower and special chars. The passwords are totally impossible to remember. Each password is totally unique to the site. I Then let it log me into everything after I give it my very long, easy to remember pass-phrase.

XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/

Let her watch Adventure Time. Princess Bubblegum is both a princess with a castle and servants *and* a really super-smart scientist. There's your role model right there.

I swear, the "articles" are getting more idiotic every year. This stuff is of the level you'd expect on one of those 'Top x About y' sites.

Which girl was the positive portrayal? The ditsy airhead who fell in love with an obvious creep about 20 seconds after meeting him, or the ice queen bitch who shut everyone out of her life and went on to live alone in an ice castle. Lucky that ice cutter (prince) guy was there to help the ditsy one or they never would have even made it to the castle.

Sure, these princesses aren't as completely helpless as a whole bunch of other Disney princesses, but they're certainly also not empowered woman providing a good role model.

I foresee a dark future of lonely princesses spinning code in the top of a locked tower, waiting for their Prince Charming to come along and save it.

Why don't you just rotate a 16:9 monitor into portrait orientation, or better yet a 16:10 portrait would be both tall and wide, just like you asked for.

But we'll need a new shuttle design for transporting equipment back and forth, with a cool, American sounding name like....lambs, pheasants...no wait, Eagles!

It'd make a great place to dump all our old nuclear waste!