We (the IT department of a regional government org) just got one, a Makerbot, incidentally. It was pretty pricy, about $8,000.

It's currently printing a model of the Willis Tower.

*facepalm*

I'll second a document management. We use Opentext Content Server.

Works well for us - plugins provide seemless use from MS Office.

V-enema: The Act of rapidly going through your voice mail just to get rid of the icon/flashing light.

If you're still reading this:

I think that rsize is way too high. Someone on the XBMC forums scripted copying a large amount of data from mounts with various options. He found the best rsize was 32768.

I've also found if you offload pretty much everything to other devices (thumbnail storage, media database) and run it from USB storage, it can be fairly snappy.

If you're playing high bitrate videos, it's also recommended to use NFS mounts with udp

...has done some decent things for Canada.

Unfortunately some strikes against them are not forcing the cable companies to support BYOD (CableCard) and the mandating of playing a Justin Bieber and/or Drake song every 17 minutes on Canadian pop-music stations.

The Major Sports Leagues offer streaming services, but most of them black out local IPs for both teams, and essentially the whole country for national broadcasts (latter at least on NHL Gamecenter Live)

They even expressly forbid bypassing the blackouts (ie, VPN, proxies, etc) in their TOS.

...it's still my network. I can control what devices can connect, and to who and how they can talk to the outside.

Admittedly though, 99.9% of consumers can't do this, and it may be hard to separate the wanted and unwanted traffic.

Cash for clunkers removed about 700,000 cars from the road. There are about 250,000,0000 vehicles in the US.

I work at a regional government (analogous to county) in western Canada, not a programmer, but in IT. Our programmers start off at about $68,000 per year. The municipal governments are similar (a gentleman's agreement to avoid poaching/hopping ship)

I combined an HDHomeRun, a PS3, PS3 Mediaserver, some "public" listings data, and some coding to make a poor man's TV guide, with channels that are switchable using the DLNA Video options on the PS3.

Making the PS3 the centre of the media system made cord-cutting pass the wife-acceptance-factor.

I'll add, of the three: Pandora, Spotify and Songza, only Songza is [easily] available in Canada.

Consider my setup:

HDHomeRun UDP unicast -> HTTP Stream from a Raspberry PI, which is then available over my (open) Wi-Fi and wired network to all other devices.

Am I broadcasting?

A buddy and I had the game on our playstations, and it was one of the few the supported the Link cable on that system.

Two CRTs placed near each other, two PSXs , two copies of the game and the link cable made for awesome afternoons.

Played and controlled well enough, especially since the dual[analog|shock] hadn't been released yet.

Perhaps someone knowledgeable will see this and answer:

With all the peered Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai, AWS and OpenConnect, how much subscriber traffic actually leaves an ISPs own network?