Wow, a r34 gtr vspec, and in purple as well. You are living my dream (except for the purple, much more of a white car person). Must of cost you some serious dosh though.

^Ah the terrible trolling.

Nice buy with the 2000 wrx, manual I hope

Yea manual ofc. 6-speed manual at that.

Hoping no issues on it. The guy took it pretty well through all its ranges, so nothing obvious should be wrong with it atleast. Cars in pretty average condition cosmetically, but some weeks of TLC should hopefully get it up to scratch.

Just got insurance for $70 a month, so seems like things are off to a good start atleast. (Since i was paying $50 on my skyline which was nonturbo)

Quote from swindle: March 15, 2014, 10:25:10 am

Basically

http://www.wd.com/en/products/network/networkstorage/

Or a NAS, or whatever. Call it whatever.

I call it destroyed in a fire, fucked in water and without RAID (most of the time) covering your ass. She ain't no enterprise drive neither.

I don't consider setting up a secure remote connection to be difficult so I may be in the minority there. For the average user I would consider the effort required to set up and manage a 1TB cloud drive to be about the same as setting up teamviewer. Because there are so many services too it means you have to workaround some apps. You may weigh that against having to carry a pen drive with teamviewer portable on it, but then I carry one anyway. But then teamviewer isn't really integrated. To be honest the whole app integration thing barely works anyway (in my experience)

As for redundancy, I would say your chances of having a catastrophic failure within 1 year are really really low, 10 years fairly high but still not definite. at a rate of $120 a year I think one could reasonably gamble that their drive isn't going to fail in the first year, but then purchase a new disk drive in the second year and run this as redundancy. At this point you might consider carrying on this routine replacing the nth drive with a newer one each year, maybe 2 years? So now you just have to not burn your house down.

With my model though you pay 2*n for data (If I want a file then I must upload it from home, then download it somewhere else for every transfer), with your model it would be n+1 (upload it once then download it n number of times). However if like me you have a stupidly huge data cap and VDSL then it may not concern.

But having a 2 local drives, does not protect against localized issues. i.e. someone steals your pc, fire steals your pc, power surge steals your pc.

Quote from toofast: March 13, 2014, 07:07:41 pm

Just watching that video, I feel stupid for not having it installed before hand. No idea how I will remember all those hotkeys though.

EDIT: Does suck that it doesn't support express visual studio. Only have non express of 2010, and have switched to 2013 VS to use they online cloud thing.

Yeah don't use express, it's balls. Obtain a license to VS2012 or VS2013, and use those :>

Is it really balls. Have flicked between the two versions quite a bit, and I rarely find features I use specific to the studio edition. I mean I noticed just recently that 2012 express (for some reason i have 2010 Studio and 2013 express at home, and 2012 express at work) doesn't let you select where you want to build it (in terms of release and debug), but thats hardly a game breaker for me.

Regardless did some searching at work, and was able to get our VS2013 key from msdn. So time to switch.

Good point on the msdn tutorials. Completely forgot about them, and mainly reference the main msdn help (which is a bit hit and miss with examples). Will look over them when I have a chance.

In regards to SO, I reference that a lot in regards to trying to find out specific issues, but often run into the same problem as mentioned above, with an overload of information. Not to mention there is always the issue of how the question will be phrased.

Cheers for the offer of help, will definitely take you up on it sometime.

Also found this goldmine during my searching today.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c/9035

Don't think I would otherwise ever learn about stuff like the ?? operator, and would do it the slower way.

Mainly used for gaming and watching stuff, I could fit a 27" screen on my desk but as I sit about 70cm-1m away from my current monitor so they may be too big?, but would be great for watching stuff from the couch about 5m away.

In the same boat here. Got 2 24" and a 22" and thinking of moving to 27" for my main one. But not sure if it will be oversized for how close i sit.

Quote from Bounty Hunter: February 17, 2014, 02:05:34 pm

I drive an mx5

Never have I searched for the ban button so quickly

I just assumed he was borrowing his sisters/gfs car.

I play when I get time. Originally addicted to HoN but I have a whole bunch of people I know who play DotA so I'm trying to get back into it. Level 13 is hard to get though!

Sounds like me. And now i am trying to convince my other friend to stop playing hon, to play more dota2.

Also added you pop.

Quote from Lias: January 29, 2014, 08:24:40 am

http://evilasahobby.com/2014/01/18/kickstander-only-around-a-third-of-kickstarted-video-game-projects-fully-deliver-to-their-backers/

Pretty good reason to consider Kickstarter projects as a lottery. Don't expect to see a return, and if you do, be happy.

You are looking at it slightly wrong. This is not a lottery, and not really pre-ordering a product. It is small scale venture capital investment to fund a business. The whole point of kickstarter is to enable small firms to obtain funding at an early stage from fans, rather than having to convince VC firms, banks or large game developers.  They will almost certainly need further injections of funding from those sources, but once they have the product underway then its much easier.

But overall most new business ventures fail.  In something as speculative as media, I think 1/3 getting made would be a pretty good strike rate. Peter Theil made a shitload of money investing VC money in Facebook at an early stage.  But for every startup that made money, I bet he funded 10 that didn't.  (Wikipedia gives a list of 23, not counting his investment in Xero...)

So, view your money as a speculative investment with a 1/3 chance of paying off.

I think its also a case of being smart with the projects. I found electronics projects generally deliver (if not at a much later date), because they usually have a working prototype and have actually put the time into how to build the production models (often they even have a few prod ones made up, and just need money for dies etc). Furthermore anyone looking to make big runs often works in the electronics industry themselves and knows exactly how to get stuff to market/have the knowledge of how to do it.

In contrast games seem to have a fairly bad streak because people underestimate how hard it is to make a game. And from what i have read (read a lot of the why kickstarter project x failed), people don't know how to manage money for things like this. There's no 10k invoice to pay a manufacturer for parts, so people spend it on stuff like promo gear, or flying people places etc. Then realize they are short of money to pay for things they need to complete the project.

I play this. EnjoyTheSauce on steam. Haven't finished my placement games yet.

toofast on steam here.

Still on my placement as well. Gotta say they are a lot more fast paced then normal games. Been getting some pretty average teams though, with a lot of games starting with us massively behind due to one lane failing bad, then slowly trying to pull it back but losing. I probably been trying a bit too hard, and failing to dominate mid, but i am really hoping these losses atleast turn up more even games.

What type of engineering though?

Electronics, Mechatronics or Computer Systems.

I might go if the weather holds up. Should be a good game, India are generally slow starters on tours, so they might be firing by then.