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#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

#38: Wired is always better than wireless. No exceptions.

You only need a gigabit nic, you don't have any special networking needs.  I use a couple RASPBMC boxes in my place, along with a cheap media server I basically frankensteined out of spare parts from servers I had laying around.  I have no lag, no quality issues, and no buffering problems.  Hell, I get better quality from my cheap server than I do from cable lol.  
 
Trust me, you don't need a work horse, you just need it to work.  It's not really doing anything special other than hosting out media.  So your primary concern should be power consumption, and host demand when asked for a file.  

This forum is not a democracy. I set the unrealistic 90% goal so that ultimately it would be my call whether or not to post it. The decision was made by me after reading the posts in this thread, not from the results of the poll.
 
The sob story post about the people who don't want to do that job that has people staring at them was certainly moving, but the flip side of that argument is "Would they actually be better off if they were not employed at all? I guess they decided this was better..." If everyone refused to look at "booth babes" then they'd all be out of jobs, and the (likely fabricated, but certainly realistic) stories above would be about a bunch of people who AREN'T supporting their kids or getting through school by doing a job they're not happy with...
 
All of that said, I'm not some kind of women's rights expert (or so my wife informs me) so rather than make a decision based on arguments about a topic I understand not well enough, I instead focused on the arguments about our identity as a community.
 
If we wanted it to be about ogling girls we could hire girls to stand in front of a camera squishing a video card between their breasts and we could film it. That has never been our style. First and foremost this is a tech channel and a tech forum. There are lots of other sites where you can stare at girls (or guys... or animals for that matter) so it's unnecessary to post it here.