What about Freecad? Best I can tell it works fine on RPi.

I'm in a very similar situation. My son and I are perfectly happy with Google Fi with our Nexus 5x phones. My daughter wanted an iphone, wife needed better coverage (she spends a lot of time in areas that are only served by AT&T). I bought my daughter a $150 iPhone 5C at Walmart, wife a $150 Asus phone on Amazon, and they're both on Walmart Straight Talk with bills at around $45 each per month. Not quite a cheap as Google Fi, but they've got what they want.

I've got a Sager Clevo gaming notebook with an 860M, and there's nothing to hate about it. It lasts a long time on a charge. It plays most games at their highest res. It runs Linux great. It's light, with an SSD for the OS drive. It runs two external monitors when I'm using it for work. It has no DVD, so it's lightweight. It doesn't run the Nvidia card when I'm not playing 3d games (uses the onboard Intel graphics). This GTX980 on a Clevo would likely have all those same benefits. You folks trash talking gaming notebooks are nuts.

Never take programming or programming-career advice from someone who doesn't know that Java and JavaScript are completely different languages.

I spend my days coding webapps in vim on a widescreen portrait, the browser in a widescreen landscape, and usually a 3rd monitor to the side with email and chat windows. I can fit over 100 lines of code on the portrait monitor. The future is now, man.

Would it be proper for the judge to demand passwords to the FB accounts of the pertinent employees of the Honeybaked Ham Co.? Wouldn't access to their accounts be equally valuable for deciding the case? Why is the female plaintiff the only one subject to turning over access to all FB communications?

Where's the love for Bill Joy? Vim is great and all, as are all the ports of vi, the plugins that give vi functionality to eclipse, firefox, etc... But really, isn't Bill the real hero here?

I use in in windows via cygwin, I use it on every linux server, desktop, and laptop I work on. I use it on my phone. I use it on my tablet. Vi's focus on dual modes, and no mouse, is just wonderful.

Thanks for vi Bill!

I don't think anyone begrudges Ubuntu taking advantage of a perfectly acceptable revenue model. That's not the problem here.

The problem is that Ubuntu is shipping a modified version of Firefox instead of the default Firefox shipped by Mozilla. Sure, both Ubuntu and Debian ship patched versions of just about every package they include in the repository. But the overwhelming majority of those patches don't noticeably effect the user experience.

Firefox, on the other hand, is pretty much the #1 most important part of the user experience in Ubuntu. It's the application most people are going to use more than anything else. In fact, after Ubuntu is installed, the user will probably spend more time interacting with Firefox than with all the rest of Ubuntu combined. It's not inaccurate to say it's a Firefox machine, as opposed to an Ubuntu or Linux machine.

Since Firefox is the most important part of the user experience, the users don't want Firefox changed in any way. They want the default Firefox as shipped by Mozilla. They don't want the named changed to Shiretoko or IceWeasel. They don't want the icons changed. They don't want weird extensions that change behaviour. They also don't want updates to come from Ubuntu repositories, as they do for every other package. They want the newest version of Firefox from Mozilla at the exact moment that Mozilla ships it.

I understand the reasoning behind Ubuntu and Debians policies, but I think it is obvious that Firefox trumps Ubuntu. They should make a special exception for it. Just ship the raw Firefox as released by Mozilla. Don't modify it in any way whatsoever. The world is just getting more browser centric. The operating system is just the code that talks between the browser and the hardware. You can do anything you want to the OS, but don't touch the browser or you'll lose all the users you worked so hard to gain.

Think about Sudoku for a second. Let's say you never played it before. Someone gives you a board and the rules. The first step you have is to figure out how to solve it. Eventually you develop an algorithm that can solve any sudoku. Once you have developed this algorithm, sudoku is no longer an intellectual exercise. It is no longer a matter of solving a problem, but merely executing an algorithm. It becomes manual labor. Likewise, if someone gives you the algorithm, you can bypass the first part entirely.

An MMO is very similar. In the beginning you don't know what to do. You have to learn the game and solve problems. Many of the rules of the game are hidden or secret. Thus, it can take awhile. However, eventually, you learn it. You know exactly what to press in order to do the maximum damage per unit time in any given situation with any given character. You don't even need to learn this, either. Someone can just tell you.

At some point you switch from developing an algorithm to executing an algorithm. You switch from developing a solution to executing a known solution. You switch from skill to knowledge.

This is why there is such an attraction tïo eurogames like Puerto Rico, Agricola, Caylus, Power Grid, Tigris and Euphrates, etc. These games tend to have little to no randomness, so they aren't games of chance. They are complex enough that it is very difficult to solve them, though perhaps not as complex as Go. They also have a significant theme and other elements that make them more "fun" than a game like Go or Chess.

Even so, many eurogames are solvable. We have a shelf full of games, but we only actually play about half of them. For the other half, everyone already knows the algorithm for optimal play. When we play with each other, it becomes a perfect Nash equilibrium. When we play with anyone else who hasn't solved the game, they are completely crushed.

The answer is to never play a game you have solved, and never play games that are easily solvable.

you need to do a little more research on rsync, ssh, cygwin, public/private keys, etc... a rsync+ssh solution does everything you are asking for. cross platform. encrypted. partial-file changes are efficient. easily scheduled.

i have setup exactly what you're wanting several times, on a variety of platforms with rsync and ssh.

Many open source projects fail to succeed because everyone working on them is a developer. They design the software to meet their own personal needs. Thus we get projects like the Gimp which does not meet the needs of any artist I have ever known.

However, when it comes to making development tools, who better to know the needs of the end user than other developers? When it comes to software that is used by developers, open source will always be king. Look where the real successes in open source are right now. Most of it is in libraries and frameworks like django, rails, and jquery. These are things made by developers to make developing easier.

Open source will always own that market.