jasonellis

As someone who jumps between PHP, JavaScript, Python, and a tiny bit of Ruby, I have been using IntelliJ so that I don't have to buy and upgrade multiple IDEs each year. I really miss the simplified project management of the specialized IDEs. I would gladly pay $149/year for their "All Products" package (maybe even the $199).

Unfortunately, there are a few dealbreakers with their proposed model that will have me re-evaluating my development environment:

1) Losing the grandfathered pricing if my subscription lapses. I can swallow paying $149/year for the All Products and would do so, but I don't want to feel like a hostage where I'm stuck paying more if I take a month off of using the IDE.

2) $149/year is pretty reasonable, $199/year a little tougher to swallow, $249/year is a no-go.

3) As mentioned, I made a $200 investment in an IntelliJ license with the expectation that I would upgrade each year at $100. Now I'm forced to convert my existing perpetual license into a subscription where I'm held hostage to keep the lower price or I lose access to my product if I cancel the subscription after converting the license.

4) Losing access to the software if my subscription lapses. If the prices were more reasonable (like those of the grandfathered prices, but permanent without the hostage situation) then I could deal with the fact that I need to pay to play. But I feel like we're paying a premium price (albeit for good products). I like the idea others have floated of getting a perpetual license after having paid for a full year subscription.

The wall plate is only needed if your drywall is already has a large cutout. When I took my old thermostat off the hole was small enough that I just painted around it and was able to mount the Nest without the mounting plate. I agree, it doesn't look quite as good with the mounting plate.

As many others may be discovering today, the Free App of the Day is gone and all free apps are moved to "Amazon Underground". According to Amazon, these are special editions of apps that don't even include in-app purchases. Their statement says they worked out an arrangement with developers to pay them per-minute the app is used and Amazon picks up that charge.This is a separate section on Amazon.com and requires a separate Android app.

link: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=nav_shopall_adr_banjo?ie=UTF8&no...

More information on how they made the apps free: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016...

Edit: to add more information as discovered.

Yes, it's the same in the US. ISPs provide a modem/router combo and charge like $7 a month for it. The disadvantage is that the router portion of the unit is usually very poor. AT&T is still giving out modem/router combos that us 802.11b/g, not even n, much less ac. Purchasing a separate router lets you use better wifi technology as well as enable useful features like QoS settings that aren't available on the ISP-provided hardware.

Adding an opt-in method of installing the Chrome extension during installation = Hey thanks! This is really convenient and helpful!

Bundling the extension by default during installation = Really?! Are you kidding?! This extension isn't vital to the Dropbox experience and is only useful to a small subset of users. If you tell users this extension exists, those who want the functionality will gladly install it. I hope you're at least bundling a 1.0 version when this build is released since the version on the Chrome store says it's BETA version 0.9.7.

MacBook Pro (mine), MacBook Air (wife's). Both backup important data to CrashPlan's servers and also use the CrashPlan app to backup everything to my home server.

The home server is running Windows 8.1 with SSD for OS drive, a 2TB drive with other data (movies, tv shows, photos, home videos, downloadeds, dropbox, etc). Four more drives of various sizes and models (gradually moving to 3TB+ WD Reds) are pooled together using DriveBender with duplication. This drive pool is where the local CrashPlan backups are stored, as well as occasional full disk images before OS upgrades. The server's own OS and data drives are also backed up to the drive pool with CrashPlan and to CrashPlan Central

All home photos and videos are also backed up to Google+ Photos. All documents are scanned, stored in Evernote, and shredded.

All of the computer backup is automated.

The photo backup is automatic, but organization takes my intervention. My phone and my wife's both upload 2048x2048 images to our Google accounts. They also backup full res images to my Dropbox. Once a month or so, I transfer the full res images to the home server and upload any good ones (of our son) to Google+ in full res to share with our families.

Document backup is a pain in the ass. I just collect a bunch of mail and documents on my desk and every so often I use my Fujitsu ScanSnap to scan it all and it automatically uploads to Evernote. Sometimes I label them by date, but I've been to lazy to do that lately, they get thrown in an archive notebook and I rely on search.

I think this pretty well follows the 3-2-1 rule.

I don't think that's correct. You can get the base $1999 model and upgrade to 512GB for $300. Not cheap, but doesn't include the processor upgrade.