I actually like to use that as a teaching lesson. I have my friends / family pick out ones they like and then I look at the hardware and tell them why they shouldn't get certain models. I've actually made progress doing this, my sister bought her second notebook recently and knew that intel graphics were completely unacceptable, she also knew that i3 was a horrible CPU, so slowly we can teach the less experienced about hardware. It's our duty as nerds!
I was recently asked this by my friend who is not a power user.
1. Good CPU, i5 or higher!
2. Good Video card, NOT shared memory, if you go for low end on this it will hurt you for the life of the notebook
3. Lots of storage, don't cheap out on the hard disk, there cheap so no reason.
4. Go 17" so you get two hard drive bays and can dedicate one to a boot SSD
5. Good Memory! If the memory isn't high quality turn away and run!
6. Good Wifi chipset, don't screw around with anyone that basically isn't boardcom, you want open drivers
Basically follow my rules and you'll end up with a good notebook. You don't have to be a power user to actually make use of high quality / good parts. The worst thing most notebook buyers do is go out and buy what they can get by with right now. If your going with the cheap option you better be prepared to suffer for the few years a head.
I personally hate Visual Studio, it's a horrible enviroment for any programming that is not Object Oriented. I program a lot of C and ASM and Visual Studio is the last thing I would ever grab. It's overhead, it overbloat and it's just not a very good overall IDE. Gedit + GCC is all you need for C development.
The first step of the chain is most likely in 98.9% of cases under paid labour and children in Asia. So how can I buy it with a clean conscience, well I just ignore where it comes from! I'm buying an end product not then supply chain. I know it's unethical and unmoral to just ignore the issue, but if I thought about it I would own no tech gear.
How much slower would it really have been, one day? Even less? rangeCheck from the sounds of it is a quick sit down, sip coffee, program it up and walk away method. I'm not sure that the act of copying it saved any amount of time that in the true sense of a marketing would matter. If they had copied a method which computed the inverse matrix of an image that then could be used to unlock a phone I would see the point.
Calling rangeCheck into question is like bringing a student to court for using compair() in C, anyone could write it but it's so simple no one does.
Installing Linux doesn't void the warranty even if they say it does. I've sent back my notebook with Linux installed on it and they never said a word. In fact they didn't even format the notebook, they fixed it and returned it and I never had to deal with the fact I put Linux on it. I know they might say that installing Linux on the notebook voids the warranty but there just trying to use scare tactics, I have yet to talk with or find a person who wasn't granted technical service because Linux was installed.
The people who work for the TSA are hardly educated. If you have medical notes explaining the situation and you go against those notes then you acting in place of a doctor, meaning you have better knowledge then the doctor who wrote the letter.
There for this TSA agent assumed the role of a doctor with out being licensed or trained, so he / she should have to bare the full consequence of that action.
Pat down everyone! Just take every single person and give them a full body pat down, they do it at concerts after all. If you can't do the job using technology then do it by hand.
This girl could of been hiding dangerous explosives, she could of been caring coke in her tits, she could of been working with the Taliban to completely corrupt the USA......
This is awesome, at least the project is. Did these brothers really defraud anyone? Think about it, they offered stock advice which caused a change in the stock market, stock brokers do the same thing and there no more accurate. If your going to charge these twins then you need to charge every single broker who has ever lost money by making bad stock picks because in a sense this program did nothing different.
Nice reply, I see where your coming from, but if the US really wants to be secure, why not just improve the system? This kind of reminds me of when your told to use a software that you need to use ten work arounds for every action instead of the company just buying the proper software in the first place.
What the TSA needs is a massive restructuring of there system.
How the hell does that make sense, she finally spoke up that the system is broken and got fired? What should of happened is she got a promotion to overlook proper training and proper system implementation. When people sit back and just ignore what doesn't work nothing gets fixed. Even if it's not a big deal issue you should still stand up and say "Hey I need to know why" or "I think this is wrong", if your wrong then fine but at least you know why your wrong and if your right your really doing your job.
What really bugs me about this is how the US is almost a repressive dictating communist nation when it comes to airport security but then the security is broken!
Basically the lawsuit is because the text books company's don't want to lose massive amounts of profit. Textbooks are the biggest profit business in the worlds, for instance almost every year a new calculus and physic book gets published and for what reason?
Why do I say Big Deal, medical records aren't safe in any kind of form or capacity. I've have 5 different entire sets of medical results lost, misplaced and never found. I've had medical records lost in shipment from one doctor to another. So whats the big deal? The medical industry doesn't give a rats ass to keeping your data safe, losing one medical result is bad enough, losing two is unacceptable and losing 5 is just beyond insane. If doctors, hospitals and front desk personal really cared what happened to your medical documents they would guard them with there life and they don't.
I would like to add that over the last 15 years NONE of the missing results have been found or even traces of the documents, London general even admitted they were sorry after the first time they lost the documents, they didn't give a shit after losing the second and Grand River Hospital in Kitchener Ontario has never once stood up and told me it's there fault for losing the other 3 documents. If you want a great insecure place to put documents and personal information then the medical association is the place for you!
If you want a great low cost way to make sure you don't lose your digital life just buy off-site back up protection. Currently my two main drives which hold everything I would want to keep get backed up in Germany once a week. I think the entire deal costs me something like 15 a month Canadian, not even a value to think twice about.
I actually started a project like this years ago for a college project. We were making an open source game console with the ability to act and preform as a multimedia hub. Of course the profs threw the idea out, it wasn't acceptable for a 3rd year Electronic Engineering Project ( somehow ). It might be a cool to revive what I started with a move forwards. In the design we had it was a Linux based project with a custom distribution.
I think going the FPGA route would be wrong, do you think you would require that much raw power? The other issue with an FPGA is figuring out how to deal with it, well you can throw some soft cores on it like Microbalze ( Xilinx ) or PowerPC and go from there you can also work with it directly in VHDL or Verilog.
I think this is a really interesting project and I think you should totally take it on. As for design I would vote go the Linux path on a standard x86 or maybe PPC setup and run from there. Only pick the FGPA is you want a hard time:-)
The tools don't work on any other browser because who ever is programming them isn't taking the time to make sure there cross browser compatible. Not to cut up your workplace but single browser use apps are a sign of poor programming and poor programmers.
IE is the browser you use when you haven't tried another browser, however once you try Firefox or Chrome then IE gets put away. I'm not going to break down any of the browsers technically but I still say this, in terms of interface design Chrome wins 10 out of 10 times. In terms of ease of use Chrome wins 10 out of 10 times and in terms cross system compatibility Firefox wins 10 out of 10 times. I feel comfortable saying that is IE wasn't bundled with Windows it would be finished as a browser. It's only held on because people don't want to change to a better user experience.
No harm was actually done, this was a case of I don't know what I'm looking at. Accidents happen and in this case I hope as soon as the airport discovered it was a robot all parties were let free with a FULL apology and that is that.
India by far as the most cry babies per population in the world, if not about muhammad eating a hotdog, it's about a picture of a temple or it's about being able to google a picture someone does like etc....
All of India needs to grow up, this is getting out of control, they can't keep calling mom everytime someone looks at them funny or because someone makes a face. If you as a person don't want to use the internet don't use it, other wise leave the rest of the world alone, I'm sick of hearing about some Indian getting pissed off because they act like 5 year olds.
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I actually like to use that as a teaching lesson. I have my friends / family pick out ones they like and then I look at the hardware and tell them why they shouldn't get certain models. I've actually made progress doing this, my sister bought her second notebook recently and knew that intel graphics were completely unacceptable, she also knew that i3 was a horrible CPU, so slowly we can teach the less experienced about hardware. It's our duty as nerds!
I was recently asked this by my friend who is not a power user.
1. Good CPU, i5 or higher!
2. Good Video card, NOT shared memory, if you go for low end on this it will hurt you for the life of the notebook
3. Lots of storage, don't cheap out on the hard disk, there cheap so no reason.
4. Go 17" so you get two hard drive bays and can dedicate one to a boot SSD
5. Good Memory! If the memory isn't high quality turn away and run!
6. Good Wifi chipset, don't screw around with anyone that basically isn't boardcom, you want open drivers
Basically follow my rules and you'll end up with a good notebook. You don't have to be a power user to actually make use of high quality / good parts. The worst thing most notebook buyers do is go out and buy what they can get by with right now. If your going with the cheap option you better be prepared to suffer for the few years a head.
I personally hate Visual Studio, it's a horrible enviroment for any programming that is not Object Oriented. I program a lot of C and ASM and Visual Studio is the last thing I would ever grab. It's overhead, it overbloat and it's just not a very good overall IDE. Gedit + GCC is all you need for C development.
The first step of the chain is most likely in 98.9% of cases under paid labour and children in Asia. So how can I buy it with a clean conscience, well I just ignore where it comes from! I'm buying an end product not then supply chain. I know it's unethical and unmoral to just ignore the issue, but if I thought about it I would own no tech gear.
How much slower would it really have been, one day? Even less? rangeCheck from the sounds of it is a quick sit down, sip coffee, program it up and walk away method. I'm not sure that the act of copying it saved any amount of time that in the true sense of a marketing would matter. If they had copied a method which computed the inverse matrix of an image that then could be used to unlock a phone I would see the point.
Calling rangeCheck into question is like bringing a student to court for using compair() in C, anyone could write it but it's so simple no one does.
So if a fight breaks out during Halloween then everyone is screwed?
Installing Linux doesn't void the warranty even if they say it does. I've sent back my notebook with Linux installed on it and they never said a word. In fact they didn't even format the notebook, they fixed it and returned it and I never had to deal with the fact I put Linux on it. I know they might say that installing Linux on the notebook voids the warranty but there just trying to use scare tactics, I have yet to talk with or find a person who wasn't granted technical service because Linux was installed.
The people who work for the TSA are hardly educated. If you have medical notes explaining the situation and you go against those notes then you acting in place of a doctor, meaning you have better knowledge then the doctor who wrote the letter.
There for this TSA agent assumed the role of a doctor with out being licensed or trained, so he / she should have to bare the full consequence of that action.
Pat down everyone! Just take every single person and give them a full body pat down, they do it at concerts after all. If you can't do the job using technology then do it by hand.
How is this any different then selling a normal notebook and letting the developer run one apt-get to install all the developer tools?
This girl could of been hiding dangerous explosives, she could of been caring coke in her tits, she could of been working with the Taliban to completely corrupt the USA......
Or she could of been a normal 4 year old girl.
This is awesome, at least the project is. Did these brothers really defraud anyone? Think about it, they offered stock advice which caused a change in the stock market, stock brokers do the same thing and there no more accurate. If your going to charge these twins then you need to charge every single broker who has ever lost money by making bad stock picks because in a sense this program did nothing different.
If your that addicted to the new Apple smell I think you need to seek professional help.
Wow I know apple fans are literally crazy about apple products but this is going 10 steps past to far.
Nice reply, I see where your coming from, but if the US really wants to be secure, why not just improve the system? This kind of reminds me of when your told to use a software that you need to use ten work arounds for every action instead of the company just buying the proper software in the first place.
What the TSA needs is a massive restructuring of there system.
How the hell does that make sense, she finally spoke up that the system is broken and got fired? What should of happened is she got a promotion to overlook proper training and proper system implementation. When people sit back and just ignore what doesn't work nothing gets fixed. Even if it's not a big deal issue you should still stand up and say "Hey I need to know why" or "I think this is wrong", if your wrong then fine but at least you know why your wrong and if your right your really doing your job.
What really bugs me about this is how the US is almost a repressive dictating communist nation when it comes to airport security but then the security is broken!
Basically the lawsuit is because the text books company's don't want to lose massive amounts of profit. Textbooks are the biggest profit business in the worlds, for instance almost every year a new calculus and physic book gets published and for what reason?
Why do I say Big Deal, medical records aren't safe in any kind of form or capacity. I've have 5 different entire sets of medical results lost, misplaced and never found. I've had medical records lost in shipment from one doctor to another. So whats the big deal? The medical industry doesn't give a rats ass to keeping your data safe, losing one medical result is bad enough, losing two is unacceptable and losing 5 is just beyond insane. If doctors, hospitals and front desk personal really cared what happened to your medical documents they would guard them with there life and they don't.
I would like to add that over the last 15 years NONE of the missing results have been found or even traces of the documents, London general even admitted they were sorry after the first time they lost the documents, they didn't give a shit after losing the second and Grand River Hospital in Kitchener Ontario has never once stood up and told me it's there fault for losing the other 3 documents. If you want a great insecure place to put documents and personal information then the medical association is the place for you!
If you want a great low cost way to make sure you don't lose your digital life just buy off-site back up protection. Currently my two main drives which hold everything I would want to keep get backed up in Germany once a week. I think the entire deal costs me something like 15 a month Canadian, not even a value to think twice about.
The more Wifi we put into houses the most pollution we add to the 2.4GHz band, by 2016 will it even be possible to add any more devices into it?
I actually started a project like this years ago for a college project. We were making an open source game console with the ability to act and preform as a multimedia hub. Of course the profs threw the idea out, it wasn't acceptable for a 3rd year Electronic Engineering Project ( somehow ). It might be a cool to revive what I started with a move forwards. In the design we had it was a Linux based project with a custom distribution.
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I think going the FPGA route would be wrong, do you think you would require that much raw power? The other issue with an FPGA is figuring out how to deal with it, well you can throw some soft cores on it like Microbalze ( Xilinx ) or PowerPC and go from there you can also work with it directly in VHDL or Verilog.
I think this is a really interesting project and I think you should totally take it on. As for design I would vote go the Linux path on a standard x86 or maybe PPC setup and run from there. Only pick the FGPA is you want a hard time
The tools don't work on any other browser because who ever is programming them isn't taking the time to make sure there cross browser compatible. Not to cut up your workplace but single browser use apps are a sign of poor programming and poor programmers.
IE is the browser you use when you haven't tried another browser, however once you try Firefox or Chrome then IE gets put away. I'm not going to break down any of the browsers technically but I still say this, in terms of interface design Chrome wins 10 out of 10 times. In terms of ease of use Chrome wins 10 out of 10 times and in terms cross system compatibility Firefox wins 10 out of 10 times. I feel comfortable saying that is IE wasn't bundled with Windows it would be finished as a browser. It's only held on because people don't want to change to a better user experience.
No harm was actually done, this was a case of I don't know what I'm looking at. Accidents happen and in this case I hope as soon as the airport discovered it was a robot all parties were let free with a FULL apology and that is that.
India by far as the most cry babies per population in the world, if not about muhammad eating a hotdog, it's about a picture of a temple or it's about being able to google a picture someone does like etc....
All of India needs to grow up, this is getting out of control, they can't keep calling mom everytime someone looks at them funny or because someone makes a face. If you as a person don't want to use the internet don't use it, other wise leave the rest of the world alone, I'm sick of hearing about some Indian getting pissed off because they act like 5 year olds.