Wealth builds wealth. Sure you could spend now but invest some of that money and the returns later in life can be shockingly good. Savings are like a snowball headed downhill... it gets bigger under its own momentum. Even if my wife and I stopped putting in money into our 401k what is there now would still grow into…

Horrible story about two dickheads who commit grand larceny and apparently get away with it. Had I been in Vanderjagt's position, I would have pressed charges immediately.

As an OS, Android is better. As an ecosystem Apple pulls ahead. Which company has better services, Google by a mile. Android is really missing the quantity of quality phone/tablet apps that Apple has.

Overkill much?

The easiest choice is picking a FULLY routed VPN service. Many services only do partial routing which may not include Torrent or proxy which requires some setup. Fully routed VPN systems are usually install, run and ALL of that computers internet traffic is then routed securely through a VPN. Also keep in mind a VPN…

VPN services essentially hide your IP which is part of anonymous browsing. The other part is getting a browser that doesn't do any tracking like IE or Chrome. I suggest SRWare's Iron which is essentially Chrome with several tracking features removed.

Oddly requiring formal uniform attire every day would be less stressful at least on the decision making process.

One of the most important reasons to buy and more importantly own a home is that it is a protected asset (in most states). This is particularly important as a person ages or has children since a medical crisis can easily bankrupt even a well off family. Many financial "experts" may not consider a home an investment…

This is not accurate. IT shops looking to cut their budgets have been looking at LibreOffice and the like for the last few years. Most that stay on Office frequently do so for Outlook. If a company isn't using Exchange, Office is WAY over priced. At over $300 per PC in most cases, Office is an incredibly expensive per…

It is not so cut and dry any longer. That 100k over a long payment cycle is going to be more like 200k and that assumes the rate is locked. Then factor in that a college degree no longer guarantees a well paying job or a job at all. Then there is the 4+ years spent in college not making any money that a non-college…

I am sure a Plex app that uses the Cast API is not far off.

I doubt initially but looks like someone could write an app that uses the Cast API to make it happen.

People had the same conversations about radio, air conditioning, refrigeration, TV, internet, compass, etc. Do you NEED those things? No. Does not having them make you a better person? No. Having a smartphone is an option not a mandatory life sentence of forced online usage or an assault on your intelligence. It does…

New games! New games back then were often genre creators: Wizardry, SSI Gamess, MULE, Civilization and dozens of others. Sure games today are far better in terms of eye candy and detail but they all have a been there done that feel on some level. Even the first time I typed commands into Zork... it blew my mind. That…

Put money back each month because stuff is always going to be breaking: fridge here, dishwasher there, ac problem somewhere, etc. At the beginning of each year, figure out what should be replaced before it breaks and budget that as well. Appliance upgrades, roof, heat/air, etc basically anything with a moving part or…

Cut a roll in half so that the tube pops out. The put it in two ziplock freezer bags. Light, easy to pack, just as element proof and precut to avoid waste.

There is no doubt that some careers do better with a graduate degree but many rely more on experience than education and the longer a person is out of school the more true this becomes. There are only a handful that care a decade later. That extra couple years loosing money versus making money is a big hole to dig out…

I still write and compile code in Delphi 7 from 2002. Won't win oldest program but that is a pretty stale compiler for something that is used almost everyday.

How Total Commander doesn't make these lists I will never know. This style file/archive/FTP manager has been around since the 80s and is still superior to pretty much all other file managers out there. If you work with files or archives all day, do yourself a favor and try it out.

Both these chairs have a 12 year replace just about anything warranty. I applaud a bargain but for something a lot of people use nearly everyday for hours on end, worth the money for an incredible chair guaranteed to last 12 years. My Aeron has 1000 of hours of use and nearly 2 decades of service. Cheap chairs rarely…