The same can be said for Win8. Once you know all of the tricks and only use the tile screen as a "full-screen start menu with updating icons" and just start typing when it's up to find stuff, it's really not bad.

The Win8.1 tweaks more or less "fix" all of those issues for the complainers, but I've been happy with it since it was just Win8.

This was my thought. I can say that I rarely re-watch a DVD.....but also buy fewer these days. I rent from Redbox for new releases. That one DVD is probably viewed on the order of 10 times in the first two weeks of release. Probably 25 times over the shelf-life of the movie. Is that enough to justify it?

Methane as generator fuel? Gotta do something with all of those burrito by-products.

I'm pretty sure the ruling came down about a year ago that you were free to make a personal use copy of any sort (in the US....other countries have their own rules).

Your math assumes only a single device consuming that data. My house has multiple users including some cord cutting and what not. I'm not claiming to peg my network 100% of the time, but there have been times during peak demand that my measly little cable modem can't keep up.

You could give Gargoyle a try......
http://www.gargoyle-router.com...

If you only want to code for 25 hours a week, just join a large company. You'll be in meetings for 25 hours a week and have to work 50 hour weeks to get all of your work done....... :)

This is my biggest gripe with open source. You *SHOULD* be concerned whether the format changes or not. All of these different versions of similar products fracture the landscape which hampers the adoption. Just like there are too many Linux distros for Linux to ever win, too many Office products will keep adoption numbers lower than they could be.

While I don't condone it, people in the Finance/Accounting departments have made complete applications in Excel. Then, they throw it over the wall to I/T and say "turn this into a web app for us -- it should take, what, two or three days?"

But again, I've seen plenty of complex spreadsheets that use way more functionality than I as a developer would ever use.

And MS Access will upsize decently enough to SQL Server when you Access database outgrows the limits of Access (and I don't really mean the file size limits).

I already code as both a job and a hobby. I'm in the same boat -- when I retire, I'll still code. The difference will be what I work on.....and if I need cash, I can always pick up short-term gigs.

I expect to be a millionaire at some point in my life....but 1) I expect it to be because I've saved over the years and 2) by the time I have $1M or more, it won't be the same as having $1M today. I don't necessarily expect it to be my salary or that I've sold "the next big thing" to Facebook.

And a million monkeys will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare

Open source is no more (or less) perfect that closed source at a fundamental level. Bugs are introduced in both. The difference is that once found, open source has more eyes looking to try to fix it.

The notes at the bottom said to use [URL: blah blah blah] to auto link a URL (angle brackets instead of square brackets). That's what I tried. I know standard HTML.....I just didn't try it.

Sorry. I suck at Slashdot's markup.

Text version of the link (or autoformatted, whichever) http://picturedefense.blogspot...