You know, all of these are just glorified shells on top of the command-line tool, dd.

You could just learn dd and save yourself some money.

dd isn't for everybody. I had for example no idea how I could get features such as scheduling and archiving of backups with dd.

Sure, if you know're a shell, dd etc. guy, CCC might not be for you.

OMG.. Hilarious.

I suppose everyone's entitled to their opinion. If you want no options, no changes, conformity, and lack of features, then I suggest you scoot yer butt over to the iPhone camp.

Otherwise, how about you just choose a middle-of-the-road android device with no mods, or jailbreak and re-install your own device with vanilla android.

I happen to like my HTC One/X and it's unique user interface. It kicks the crap out of my wife's iPhone 4 in every way possible.

Cheers

Sounds like a rather clever way of getting a bunch of people to enter their itunes login/password as they test this crap out.

You should ask yourself why the developer went AWOL (and no, I am not the developer) (all of these questions are for you, and probably not suitable for discussion here)

Was it you? Are you overbearing? controlling? Did you incessantly email, call, or text them? Did you insult them, perhaps even without knowing it? Did you give them an endless list of requirements? Did you give them a list of bugs without fail cases to reproduce? (Many developers will not debug something without steps to reproduce the issue).

Was the pay sub-par for the work being done? Was there an equity promise that wasn't fulfilled? Was there something on YOUR part that you didn't do that you said you would?

Many developers are introverts and will NOT get in someone's face about things that should have been done. They will just walk away. If you get a good developer, it's going to fall on you, the BOSS, to make sure you follow through on your promises and keep them happy.

Cheers!

Thanks for the response!

He had personal and financial issues. The pay was cash + profit share. When the cash was fulfilled he had to make ends meet because the profit share was negligible. He was a good developer and a good guy and I don't blame him for going AWOL.

I also am a fountain of ideas, and I've found that this is caused by burn out. My solution is to go do something completely different, that you wouldn't normally do, for a week or so.

Many times I've found that new ideas on a new heightened level start flowing due to the distraction.

True. Sometimes they're asleep. :)

For beginners, Python is not what I'd suggest.

I like javascript for beginners.

It's not tightly typed, meaning you can experiment with variables of different types without worrying about what types they currently are. It's very fast, browser based (mostly), and it's really easy to learn.

Additionally, you can learn regular scripting (non procedural), procedural (where you define the functions and call them as needed), and object oriented paradigms (I like Class.js for this).

You can use tools like CodeRun (http://coderun.com/) to write and test code online without needing any OS based tools.

Finally, it's probably the most documented language on the planet because it's so widely used.

Hm, okay. Can Javascript do things like user accounts? Perhaps through a .js library? I have had the idea that Javascript is more for the client-side of sites rather than the backend, but maybe I'm wrong.

While I won't mention the brand (because I happen to like it), I was once told by a similar support rep that they wouldn't honor the warranty after I installed Linux on it.

Yeah.

I took the drive back to Fry's and simply said "it doesn't work on my machine", and they replaced it.

You're talking specifically about liquid fluoride thorium reactors. Other types of thorium (or thorium-uranium mix) reactors exist, and are in commercial use now. Canada's CANDU reactors, for example, can run on thorium.