I use the element hider extension a lot to manually hide the advertisement divs on the websites that I visit.

So website designers are going to have to randomize the div IDs or something so that next time I revisit the page the advertisement elements aren't hidden anymore.

I got a receiver with Audyssey Dynamic Volume years ago and haven't had a problem. It normalizes the volume automatically and works very well.

Not that I have seen. It maxes my 5Mbit upload and my downloads are 15-20Mbit.

Well, BackBlaze is another similar backup company who is far more public about their costs and operations. I think they have said their customer break-even point is around 3-4TB. So if most customers have far less than that, then a few can have far more and it all works out.

http://www.wired.com/insights/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/backblaze-cost.png

Not all cloud storage is expensive. It's only $4 a month for unlimited backups to CrashPlan.

They also do checksums and versioning and can be set to never remove deleted files from the backup.

I have 12.8TB backed up to them and it's been working great.

Other than that, ZFS can't be beat. I use that as well.

Because perhaps for some people it doesn't cost more.

I know for me on AT&T I would have to pay $350 to get a Nexus 5, or I can pay $200 to get an iPhone 5s. The plan is the same $50/mo I pay either way.

"Ever seen a remote desktop tool that's fast/efficient enough to play back video?"

Yes...

Microsoft's own Remote Desktop (with RemoteFx) and also third party program called Splashtop can both play back video smoothly remotely for me.

My plan currently costs me $50/mo (my share of a 5-line family-plan). $60/mo for the first line and $10 per line. So 5 lines is $100 for the minutes or $20 per person. Then $30 for the data plan. Also have a global discount of 15% applied to the account through my employer which basically cancels out all the extra taxes and fees so it's very close to $50/mo in total cost per user of the family plan.

So it's technically $1200 over 2 years. I still have my unlimited LTE data too. I do not want to switch because T-Mobile is a worse service. Slower speeds, much less LTE available, higher latency, worse overall reception.

Also, I sell off my phone every year for about $300 and then buy the newest iPhone for $200 again. So I pocket back an extra $100 a year in the process due to the high resale value of iPhones. I am in the somewhat uncommon position where I can get a fully subsidized discount every year.

So for me each year essentially looks like this.

Buy $200 phone.
Use 12mo of service for $600.
Sell phone for $300.
End the year at a cost of $500.
Repeat.

I have done this for 5 years in a row now, so my total cost has been:
$1000 in buying 5 phones.
$3000 in 5 years of service.
-$1200 in selling 4 of the phones (I have to hold onto the last one of course)

So I'm at $2800 of total cost in 5 years and had the luxury of always having the latest phone hardware each year and an unlimited data plan to use it a lot.

But it's not double the price for an iPhone for me for example. My carrier is AT&T. AT&T does NOT sell the Nexus 5. So I have to buy one for $350 from Google. On the flip side I just bought an iPhone 5s for $199.

A phone is not a simple gadget like an mp3 player, the wireless plan and service vastly change what it costs to buy and keep using any given phone.

Yeah, they have used Ext-JS for awhiel now, but HTML-5 support and features is new in DSM 3.2
http://www.synology.com/dsm/index.php

I have a DS1010+ 5-bay model and absolutely love it. It's got 10TB in it right now but I may replace the drives with 3TB models eventually. With a dual-core 1.6GHz atom and 1GB DDR2 ram it easily reads and writes at 100+MB/s via a RAID5 array on my simple home gigabit network.

Also the new NAS' that are Intel-based can run most CLI linux servers and programs which is great. You may need to add more RAM if you run lots of heavy servers or have lots of concurrent users but most have spare ram slots.

The best thing I find about Synology is their every updating and cutting edge Web GUI. They are already using HTML-5 features to support things like dragging and dropping files right into your web-browser to upload files to the NAS remotely.

Well, Crashplan is unlimited space and bandwidth for $2.72 per month. Backblaze is another service that is $5 per month for unlimited storage and bandwidth.

What's so special about google music compared to something like grooveshark?

I could already upload all my music to grooveshark and listen to it from any computer and there is also a mobile app for devices that don't support flash like the iPhone and iPad.

What makes grooveshark better than google music IMO is that with grooveshark you don't even need to upload much of your music because it's already all there since you essentially have access to everyone's uploaded tracks. But you can still upload your own if they don't already exist.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=500+gigabytes+per+hour+in+megabytes+per+second

I still pay $50 a month total for my iPhone and still have unlimited 3G data being with ATT.

Now with the acquisition I have even more towers to cover me for the voice and 2G data end since T-mo towers are compatible with this.