I disagree, the quality difference between a great sound chipset like the Xoner or the X-fi and a standard Realtek mother board included chip is pretty drastic. If I'm going to drop thousands on a notebook I have to make sure the components are up to par with the price, for the cost of a current Mac Book Pro or even Mac Book I fully expect there to be a high quality sound chip on the mother board, it's the difference between me buying the computer and leaving it on the desk.
As for imedance on the audio driver, any great pair of head phones can easily have an input impedance in the hundreds of ohm's, meaning most low ever and some standard drivers just can't power them. For instance a HD650 by Sennheiser has a norminal imedance of 300 Ohm's which some players and even sound cards can't driver. The HD650 isn't the most amazing, over the top head phone but is a great head phone. If I'm going to buy a $300 audio player then I full expect it to drive an equally expensive pair of head phones. These are questions that an Apple in store employee should be able to answer for me.
As for not being there target market, I can buy small special batch products that include everything I want at a large price, however if I can also get them in a normal consumer device then I'm sold. This is one of the things I want any tech or sale persons to be able to tell me, I don't care if I'm at future shop, best buy or an Apple store, the employee needs to know the product.
I've used Perforce which is by far the biggest pile of all. SVN was okay but has some strange issues that are just bone headed. CVS wasn't bad but again has it's own little issues. GIT just seems to work and work like I want it to, with no extra's that don't add to the software. GIT is exactly what it is says it is, it's a SCM that works. So far out of the ones I've used it's the only to really stick to that.
What? Your actually trying to claim that most sound chips are equal, that is shocking. If I'm going to sink $2000 into a notebook I want to make sure it comes with a first rate sound chip, something like a X-fi by Creative or a Xonar Xense. This is something a Mac worker should know, it's important and can be the difference between selling me a notebook and having me walk out.
Now on the matter of hard drives, if I want to replace the hard disk in my iPod I need to replace it with a very particular model and size, this is something a Mac employee should be able to tell me. So hard disks aren't equal, at least with Apple they use a system where the drives can't be interchanged easily and it's a really bad design.
So it doesn't matter if no one else asks the question, they should still know the answer, other wise there job can be replaced by google.
GIT is the best SCM software I've personally used. I fully support this move, there is no point on wasting money when you can a better version for free.
Who cares! I have yet to visit an Apple store where they answer my Mac and Apple related questions. When I see an Apple store I basically see a big box full of morons who are under trained and under qualified for a job. For instance one of my questions had to do with the audio chipset used in the new Mac book line up, not a hard question for someone who works at Apple but a very important question for someone considering what notebook to buy next. Other questions I've asked have had to do with audio driver impudence, type of hard drives support in devices and others. In all cases I get the same answer, "I don't know, were not trained with that kind of information", or in other words, "Were the dumb face of a tech company who doesn't care".
Well when you buy a computer that has a 500 GB HDD in it how much space do you really get for yourself, after windows, software, apps and overhead you might get 450 GB actual free space
I disagree, a desktop should be more then able to handle that kind of load. A desktop is an expandable computer and if your not going to take advantage of that then you don't need one. However to get back to my original point, this is why you can't blur the lines. Find me a tablet that can do this job and I'll bow down, until then I remain correct. A tablet can't replace a computer.
Sure, sorry I don't want to come to off insulting:-). The Freeduino is a free or mostly free version of the Arduino, just built with off the self parts and can be prototyped on a bread board.
http://www.freeduino.org/about.html
Has some examples of the boards you can design and build. Now I'm assuming you know what a breadboard or prototype board is so I'll skip that. To sample chips you can literally go to a site like Maxim or National Semi Conductor and request one or several chips for free, these are called samples. You can actually go to Atmel and sample the microcontroller from them, you can go to Maxim and sample the RS-232 or USB chip from them and etc... By using sampling you can get most / all of these chips for free and then it's literally a case of laying out the design on a breadboard.
The reason I pitched the idea this way to you is that you actually get a decent amount of experience in electronics building the micro-controller system and by using a breadboard you get a great expansion area to test and design new circuits. It's also simple to move this design over to a PCB if you really want to and there are tons of guides on that.
I just finished a degree program in Telecommunications Engineering where my final project was a FPGA based Genre Music Detection Real Time System with Autonomous Functionality. The project required TONS of resources both physically and computationally. The entire project was designed through Matlab and used System Generator from Xilinx to do all the Matlab -> VHDL conversion.
My point is that this system was only able to run on bleeding edge desktop computers with massive amounts of processing power and tons of Ram. I attempted running this on several notebooks and all of them just couldn't handle the load. Notebooks are great for most jobs but like you said, there are some jobs they can't handle and I never like being in the situation I can't handle a job.
Laptops really suck at very heavy computational processing. Desktops still hold the top of the hill when it comes to being the device you want for doing extreme computing. Laptops are great for simple development or social updating, maybe some media but past that you really need to move up to a desktop. Tablets have even less power then notebooks so unless your only writing a document and watching a movie, your out of luck. It would be great to blur the lines but were still at least 10 years out from it happening.
When I can run Matlab at full power on a tablet at the same time as transcoding a video and doing a folding computation then I'll give the tablet a computer rating.
Great! We now have tablets that have 100+GB of Storage, my question is who really cares? There are really three camps when it comes to computers, the mobile ( aka tablets ), The portable ( aka laptops / ultrabooks ) and Desktop Computing. Who wants to blur the lines? I don't see a real case where I want to use my playbook or iPad as my laptop, in the same way I would NEVER expect my laptop to act in the same capacity as my desktop. Each stage has a certain power level in terms of computation ability and they don't blur well at all, I simply can't do the same work across them and I'm okay with that. So now that we have 100+GB tablets who cares? I still can't use my tablet for what I can use my laptop for and I can't use my laptop for what I use my desktop for.
This is low even for Microsoft. It's not the PC builders who are at fault, if Microsoft released a new OS that takes advantage of features most PC's don't have then it's 100% there fault. This would be like Linus blaming PC builders for the reason Linux isn't the number 1 desktop OS. Basically Microsoft designed a new OS that wasn't planned out well, didn't fit in the current market and wasn't needed and is mad that people aren't going to upgrade. Given the performance of the Microsoft in the last 15 years it's not surprising. Me, Vista and 8 now all settle as major failures for Operating Systems, It's no wonder people don't want to upgrade.
It doesn't matter because by the context of the article and the post they just quote Asian, it therefore doesn't matter her race and hence does not matter where she was born it should be offensive for her.
Your completely right but it's to bad the middle east can't figure out they aren't the center of the world. They think when something offends them that we should all take up arms and define them. I think they act like children trying to play country and failing at it badly.
Fair enough but you have to admit that they do take this out of context WAY to often. You set your drink down on a table they will call you out for being insulting to the Muslim faith.
'It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
I have an Asian girl friend and she can't find anything offensive about this lego set. She showed it to her parents and they didn't see any issue with it and even her grandparents didn't see the issue. So as for it containing racial and prejudice against Asians, well not so much. Just because some people are to sensitive to everyday life doesn't make something offensive, it just makes them to sensitive to live the real world. Clearly someone or some small group got over worked up for no reason ( Like everyone over there does ) and hence we have a racist lego set.
Okay but your still missing the point that I never said anything along those lines, I'm still completely confused on how your getting that meaning out of what I wrote. How ever I'll give you another chance to explain but this time using some guidance one how to find the information.
Women aren't meat. - Please find where i called the female gender meat or another high protein based medium for consumption
Women aren't things - Along the same line please quote the line where I said women are things.
They are fully functional, distinct human beings complete with rights - Please show me the quoted line where I said women don't have rights and should live as slaves or find me an exact line that will show where I completely pointed out the lack of rights I think women should have.
If the law allows a woman to legally walk done the street buck naked, she has the right to do so without you attacking her because you refuse to put your libido on a short leash - Again a complete wrong assumption as I never mentioned my libido, I never said if I see a naked or seductively dressed woman I would pull out my dick and show her a lesson. I never said anything ever remotely hinting at the fact that if I saw a woman naked I would attack her and I certainly never said or hinted at the fact I would act inappropriately.
A woman's choice of social presentation is not a pass on your ability to function in a social manner - And for the last time you can't find me saying that I would act on this because I wouldn't, it is still in misconduct for anyone to put themselves in a situation where they want to get a reaction which they know can cause someone discomfort.
Now next time you post back how about you put one second into considering how your going to respond, what you've clearly shown is that you have no comprehension on how to understand or interpret the English language. You've made clearly wrong assumptions about the contents of what I said and taken everything completely out of context to the extreme. So how about you fucking connect the dots of your seriously mentally disabled head and figure out what I said and how to read it.
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I disagree, the quality difference between a great sound chipset like the Xoner or the X-fi and a standard Realtek mother board included chip is pretty drastic. If I'm going to drop thousands on a notebook I have to make sure the components are up to par with the price, for the cost of a current Mac Book Pro or even Mac Book I fully expect there to be a high quality sound chip on the mother board, it's the difference between me buying the computer and leaving it on the desk.
As for imedance on the audio driver, any great pair of head phones can easily have an input impedance in the hundreds of ohm's, meaning most low ever and some standard drivers just can't power them. For instance a HD650 by Sennheiser has a norminal imedance of 300 Ohm's which some players and even sound cards can't driver. The HD650 isn't the most amazing, over the top head phone but is a great head phone. If I'm going to buy a $300 audio player then I full expect it to drive an equally expensive pair of head phones. These are questions that an Apple in store employee should be able to answer for me.
As for not being there target market, I can buy small special batch products that include everything I want at a large price, however if I can also get them in a normal consumer device then I'm sold. This is one of the things I want any tech or sale persons to be able to tell me, I don't care if I'm at future shop, best buy or an Apple store, the employee needs to know the product.
I've used Perforce which is by far the biggest pile of all. SVN was okay but has some strange issues that are just bone headed. CVS wasn't bad but again has it's own little issues. GIT just seems to work and work like I want it to, with no extra's that don't add to the software. GIT is exactly what it is says it is, it's a SCM that works. So far out of the ones I've used it's the only to really stick to that.
What? Your actually trying to claim that most sound chips are equal, that is shocking. If I'm going to sink $2000 into a notebook I want to make sure it comes with a first rate sound chip, something like a X-fi by Creative or a Xonar Xense. This is something a Mac worker should know, it's important and can be the difference between selling me a notebook and having me walk out.
Now on the matter of hard drives, if I want to replace the hard disk in my iPod I need to replace it with a very particular model and size, this is something a Mac employee should be able to tell me. So hard disks aren't equal, at least with Apple they use a system where the drives can't be interchanged easily and it's a really bad design.
So it doesn't matter if no one else asks the question, they should still know the answer, other wise there job can be replaced by google.
GIT is the best SCM software I've personally used. I fully support this move, there is no point on wasting money when you can a better version for free.
Who cares! I have yet to visit an Apple store where they answer my Mac and Apple related questions. When I see an Apple store I basically see a big box full of morons who are under trained and under qualified for a job. For instance one of my questions had to do with the audio chipset used in the new Mac book line up, not a hard question for someone who works at Apple but a very important question for someone considering what notebook to buy next. Other questions I've asked have had to do with audio driver impudence, type of hard drives support in devices and others. In all cases I get the same answer, "I don't know, were not trained with that kind of information", or in other words, "Were the dumb face of a tech company who doesn't care".
What would of happened if these were men rather them women.
Well when you buy a computer that has a 500 GB HDD in it how much space do you really get for yourself, after windows, software, apps and overhead you might get 450 GB actual free space
I disagree, a desktop should be more then able to handle that kind of load. A desktop is an expandable computer and if your not going to take advantage of that then you don't need one. However to get back to my original point, this is why you can't blur the lines. Find me a tablet that can do this job and I'll bow down, until then I remain correct. A tablet can't replace a computer.
Sure, sorry I don't want to come to off insulting :-). The Freeduino is a free or mostly free version of the Arduino, just built with off the self parts and can be prototyped on a bread board.
http://www.freeduino.org/about.html
Has some examples of the boards you can design and build. Now I'm assuming you know what a breadboard or prototype board is so I'll skip that. To sample chips you can literally go to a site like Maxim or National Semi Conductor and request one or several chips for free, these are called samples. You can actually go to Atmel and sample the microcontroller from them, you can go to Maxim and sample the RS-232 or USB chip from them and etc... By using sampling you can get most / all of these chips for free and then it's literally a case of laying out the design on a breadboard.
This is a very good guide: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Standalone and for more circuits or ideas you can always visit this site: http://www.freeduino.org/
The reason I pitched the idea this way to you is that you actually get a decent amount of experience in electronics building the micro-controller system and by using a breadboard you get a great expansion area to test and design new circuits. It's also simple to move this design over to a PCB if you really want to and there are tons of guides on that.
Cheers and I hope this helps you!
I just finished a degree program in Telecommunications Engineering where my final project was a FPGA based Genre Music Detection Real Time System with Autonomous Functionality. The project required TONS of resources both physically and computationally. The entire project was designed through Matlab and used System Generator from Xilinx to do all the Matlab -> VHDL conversion.
My point is that this system was only able to run on bleeding edge desktop computers with massive amounts of processing power and tons of Ram. I attempted running this on several notebooks and all of them just couldn't handle the load. Notebooks are great for most jobs but like you said, there are some jobs they can't handle and I never like being in the situation I can't handle a job.
I agree with your point!
Laptops really suck at very heavy computational processing. Desktops still hold the top of the hill when it comes to being the device you want for doing extreme computing. Laptops are great for simple development or social updating, maybe some media but past that you really need to move up to a desktop. Tablets have even less power then notebooks so unless your only writing a document and watching a movie, your out of luck. It would be great to blur the lines but were still at least 10 years out from it happening.
When I can run Matlab at full power on a tablet at the same time as transcoding a video and doing a folding computation then I'll give the tablet a computer rating.
Great! We now have tablets that have 100+GB of Storage, my question is who really cares? There are really three camps when it comes to computers, the mobile ( aka tablets ), The portable ( aka laptops / ultrabooks ) and Desktop Computing. Who wants to blur the lines? I don't see a real case where I want to use my playbook or iPad as my laptop, in the same way I would NEVER expect my laptop to act in the same capacity as my desktop. Each stage has a certain power level in terms of computation ability and they don't blur well at all, I simply can't do the same work across them and I'm okay with that. So now that we have 100+GB tablets who cares? I still can't use my tablet for what I can use my laptop for and I can't use my laptop for what I use my desktop for.
Get a bread board and sample the IC's you need to make the freeduino. It's a great learning experience and will give you a great prototyping platform.
Unix, C, An Assembler, X, C++, WIndows ( Only the original ), The first terminal etc...
This is low even for Microsoft. It's not the PC builders who are at fault, if Microsoft released a new OS that takes advantage of features most PC's don't have then it's 100% there fault. This would be like Linus blaming PC builders for the reason Linux isn't the number 1 desktop OS. Basically Microsoft designed a new OS that wasn't planned out well, didn't fit in the current market and wasn't needed and is mad that people aren't going to upgrade. Given the performance of the Microsoft in the last 15 years it's not surprising. Me, Vista and 8 now all settle as major failures for Operating Systems, It's no wonder people don't want to upgrade.
I agree with you fully.
It doesn't matter because by the context of the article and the post they just quote Asian, it therefore doesn't matter her race and hence does not matter where she was born it should be offensive for her.
I did accidently do that and I didn't mean to.
Your completely right but it's to bad the middle east can't figure out they aren't the center of the world. They think when something offends them that we should all take up arms and define them. I think they act like children trying to play country and failing at it badly.
Fair enough but you have to admit that they do take this out of context WAY to often. You set your drink down on a table they will call you out for being insulting to the Muslim faith.
'It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
I have an Asian girl friend and she can't find anything offensive about this lego set. She showed it to her parents and they didn't see any issue with it and even her grandparents didn't see the issue. So as for it containing racial and prejudice against Asians, well not so much. Just because some people are to sensitive to everyday life doesn't make something offensive, it just makes them to sensitive to live the real world. Clearly someone or some small group got over worked up for no reason ( Like everyone over there does ) and hence we have a racist lego set.
Okay but your still missing the point that I never said anything along those lines, I'm still completely confused on how your getting that meaning out of what I wrote. How ever I'll give you another chance to explain but this time using some guidance one how to find the information.
Women aren't meat. - Please find where i called the female gender meat or another high protein based medium for consumption
Women aren't things - Along the same line please quote the line where I said women are things.
They are fully functional, distinct human beings complete with rights - Please show me the quoted line where I said women don't have rights and should live as slaves or find me an exact line that will show where I completely pointed out the lack of rights I think women should have.
If the law allows a woman to legally walk done the street buck naked, she has the right to do so without you attacking her because you refuse to put your libido on a short leash - Again a complete wrong assumption as I never mentioned my libido, I never said if I see a naked or seductively dressed woman I would pull out my dick and show her a lesson. I never said anything ever remotely hinting at the fact that if I saw a woman naked I would attack her and I certainly never said or hinted at the fact I would act inappropriately.
A woman's choice of social presentation is not a pass on your ability to function in a social manner - And for the last time you can't find me saying that I would act on this because I wouldn't, it is still in misconduct for anyone to put themselves in a situation where they want to get a reaction which they know can cause someone discomfort.
Now next time you post back how about you put one second into considering how your going to respond, what you've clearly shown is that you have no comprehension on how to understand or interpret the English language. You've made clearly wrong assumptions about the contents of what I said and taken everything completely out of context to the extreme. So how about you fucking connect the dots of your seriously mentally disabled head and figure out what I said and how to read it.
This isn't a formal proof read essay or document, it's a quick post.