Where's the +6 modifier when you need it?

If you go with one provider to support Internet for the whole building, you're locked in.

Getting each apartment wired and then just letting the ISPs fight it out in the basement closet where the patch cables terminate is much safer.

You do NOT want to run your own severs in the basement.

You MAY want to mandate that individual apartments not have dish antennas sticking out their windows.

At home, I have a secured wifi network and an unsecured internet-only network. Been this way since we moved in a year ago.

Wasn't a big deal, and just described it to my tech-naive wife. She was quite upset, worried that people would (1) hack into our local network or (2)steal our internet.

It took me a little convincing (and her agreeing to trust me in the matter) that it's a good thing to have an open wifi access point so we never have to tell visitors our password. Also, due to the several layers of security, anyone able to break into our LAN would not be stopped by any security I could reasonably put up. (Our closest neighbor is a couple acres away, there are no MS Windows clients on my LAN, all software is quite up to date, and the only ports open on the computers are for ssh and apache2.)

Layer security. And don't worry about the black hats unless you are either a company or make serious enemies.

Actually, it's much worse than that:

This is the 0.1% fucking the rest of the 1%. And that I do have problems with. Was with a friend on Friday morning who makes enough to be in the top 1% (I think that refers to >$370K or so). He didn't quite have enough in investments in order to get in on the FB IPO. So we watched it in real time, from the delayed opening to a couple hour into trading.

The following morning he was so glad he didn't have the amount necessary to be in the IPO.

(His investment bank's website said he needed to have half a million in investments with them to get in on the action. He was under the line by ~$50K).

My guess is that long term investors would look towards companies that have been on the stock market more than a single day.

Short term speculators can buy and sell the same shares 50 times a minute if they want. Who cares what it does in a day. That's like eons for those people.

FB stock IPO wasn't for the masses.

LOL.

Can imagine someone getting the screen and seeing black bars on the two sides to fix the aspect ratio.

Everyone (well, every dev at least) wants more vertical real estate.

Can't someone make up a laptop with a screen that can rotate 90 degrees?

Imagine a 9:16 screen to write on. Screw devs, that would sell to anyone that has to write on the road.

Err... Not in this case.

I see him at work everyday. Last week he mentioned how he had watched a movie on it that I had put on my system just a week earlier. (I set his system up to rsync my video collection every night. That way he gets more free videos and I get an off-sight backup for free. :)

As for Control4, it's great when I want to pipe a radio station to various rooms, and things like that.

But editing a playlist of my home mp3 collection just sucks. Hopefully they'll update the software or I find a better way of doing it (like dedicating an iPod to it).

Just built a "smart home".

It has thermostats which can be programmed, whole-house audio that can be adjusted on a per-room basis, control of by ADT security system, and control of a couple lights.

I don't see anything else that really matters. And I agree about the lights. More of a novelty than anything else. I set them up to turn on and off when I'm on vacation, but I could have done the same thing with a couple $5 outlet timers.

Not cheap, by the way. I used Control4, if it makes a difference.

Let me count in mine:
2 iPhones
1 iPad
2 HTPCs running OpenElec (Linux)
1 MacBook
1 Desktop (Ubuntu 10.04)

So:
3 iOS
1 Mac OS X
3 Linux

More telling: My neighbor wanted me to set up a HTPC after he saw mine in action. It's running OpenElec (Linux). I installed it 5 months ago and he hasn't called for tech support since.