1/50 as fast by clockrate, and probably 1/200 the performance because of the gains in efficiency made by modern processors. Clock rate isn't everything, else the 3 GHz Pentium 4s would still be among the fastest CPUs available in performance (and they aren't).

I still have a pair of these - one's my offsite backup machine - and they still work well, although the single USB port is becoming a limiting factor.

Other codecs give better audio quality with smaller filesizes (e.g. Ogg Vorbis), but transcoding lossy to lossy makes things even lossier.

Personally, I use FLAC at home and I use MP3 where I have to, and Ogg Vorbis where I can, when file size is more important than audio quality.

Your point may be correct, or it may not be, but I don't want what I want decided by others. Give me lossless - remember, I had it (and still do) with CDs - don't take quality away from me without the option of retaining it.

iTunes still rips CDs for you, although there are better tools for the job.

There's a difference. Floppy disks became obsolete because of lack of storage capacity. CDs are becoming obsolete because music listeners these days value convenience over quality and actually owning their music.

Give us that, and losslessly, and we'll talk.

Copy-protected CDs lack the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo on their packaging, which speaks volumes. It has to be a CD by the standard to display the logo, and copy-protected discs don't meet the standard.

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Less than a month before we know the linux kernel was being patched for this bug.

I absolutely agree there are times when paying someone to do a job has other, non-monetary benefits, ranging from freeing up personal time, quality of the work, ability/knowledge to do the work, etc. These can all be very good reasons to pay someone to do something for you.

This is a really bad way to view things.

I've had people tell me the same thing about why they pay for certain services. Say I make $50/hour. I can paint my own room or pay someone $15/hour to do it. (we'll assume supplies are a fixed price either way, so the only difference is the hourly rate). Let's say it takes 4 hours. Some would say that paying someone $60 to do the job make sense, because in that time I could earn $200, putting me $140 ahead. But that's not necessarily the case. For me to earn that $200, I actually have to be working, not painting my room. So paying someone to do it actually puts me $60 behind.

Same thing for anyone. If he's sitting at the table reading the paper while the coffee brews, he's not reducing his earnings. If he's paying someone to do it for him, he's still not earning anything, and he's paying out of pocket more than it would cost him to do it himself.

Pringles cans are resonant at about 2.4 GHz, so really high UHF. Not the ideal frequencies for TV channels, although if the signal is strong enough, even a paper clip will work.

Yes, Plex runs on Linux (and other OSes - I run my instance in Linux). It's slick.

The antennas haven't changed. Only the contents of the signals have changed.

In fact, old analog antennas still make great TV antennas, as long as your channels haven't shifted from VHF to UHF (as has happened in some markets). Even then the old antenna will still probably work well enough in many circumstances.

The advantage of the HDHomeRun solution, at least with Plex (if not with its own software) is that you get unencrypted feeds recorded on your hard disk. You can do what you want with them - you can generate DVDs or Blu-Ray discs from them, stream them, put them on a flash drive and share them... it's not trapped inside your box.

Diploma mills run like that, but not actual universities.