I can't believe you wrote so much while saying so little, how about some dates, models and specs. If you bought an underpowered thinkpad it's your own damn fault, cause almost every model has about 5 different cpu options. My 5 year old x220s still kicks ass due to it's desktop processor, and battery life is better than any mac due to it's 9 cell battery option (you should check it out it's available for most models). Also i said you didn't need to spend $2000. The comment above mine seemed to think the only option was a $2000 apple, my thinkpad option was 900 and filled all of the desired specs of mr jakooistra.
good job at saying screw oranges, go eat an apple. I was only showing a good computer that meets the criteria of the story (everything he asked for is there). If you want light weight, thin, and small the thinkpad x1 carbon comes in at 3 pounds and packs more horsepower.
Sure the keyboard isn't as nice to type on as my x220, but it's just as good if not better than the macbook and it's still spill proof. Plus since it's for a woman she may appreciate the aesthetics.
Your comment sure makes it sound like you wont get a good computer unless you put down 2 grand on an apple. Personally I would recommend lenovo, the thinkpad series is tough, customisable, good support, good warranty, good specs, and a much more tolerable price. For example the new thinkpad edge e530 with the new 3rd generation intel ivybrdige cpu i7-3612QM (22 freaking nm), 2gb nvidia graphics card, up to 16gb of ram, 15.6 inch screen at 1600x900, optical drive, win 7 64 bit, all for only $899 of the australian lenovo site (strangely i couldn't see a ssd option which they almost always do, but the op could set that up himself for $250). It's more than capable of whatever gets thrown at it and you have 1100 dollars left.
I was talking about the decision they 'the scientist' made to use stereo cameras on the rover destined for the moon instead of a laser range finder. Also as Im sure they have tested their system on earth (they aren’t going to wait till 2014 to see if the cameras work) so the rover has been used in the past tense.
I'm sorry for not explaining my question in greater detail, i assumed any one that could answer my question would know what i was on about due to the huge troubles associated with putting the mapping tech anywhere but the rover (if it was on earth then you would have to broadcast the map back to the rover essentially being in the same position as if it was non autonomous).
I do have plans for finger print or wifi authentication electronic locks on my house and car, but I'm not there yet, and till then I'll have to take my keys when I leave the house. If I'm only going out for an hour or two on a bike ride, or out for lunch I don't care if I get a call, however i would like to know the time. The watch is undeniably a lot more convenient than a phone, you just twist the wrist verse reach into a pocket flip it the right side up and turn on the screen followed by the reverse procedure, the phone is hard to secure in some pants, the bulk and weight is annoying, and the phone is possibly broken if i say come of my bike (far too often lately), or get caught in the rain/fall in the river (i've got a waterproof case but it's a terrible pain).
Personally I'd like to see the samsung flexible oled screens in watch phone with good speech recognition; then (and when i perfect the key-less house hold) i can go out all day with nothing in my pockets (never have to wonder if i have forgotten something and no more locking myself out of the house) and still have the joys of the internet on hand.
Maybe not those of us addicted to a mobile phone but some of us like the idea of being able to leave home with only your keys in your pocket, even if you do miss an old school friend you havn't seen in years change his facebook status. If you do want to carry a phone aswell but just want to check the time or see if an sms is important, you can skip the rifeling though your pockets with a smart watch like the pebble or somthing.
Then again this could of been blown way out of proportion and it was a vigilante without a hope in hell of doing anything, or even simple internet virus.
This sounds a bit more sophisticated than your average ddos ers. You need specially designed worms to go after control systems, and once its in there its no use just doing random stuff or breaking it; you need to change the right values just enough to disrupt production but not enough to be noticed (otherwise they just replace the $50 chip), or try to cause a massive explosion by going after some vital pieces of equipment and disabling all safety stops (while appearing normal to the human operators). Not saying some mad scientist hacker engineer couldn't do it on there own, but Israel and america are much more likely culprits (they have better access to companies providing Iran's equipment) and after the hacking of the US drone while over Iran i'm thinking its the world police.
It works out in the consumers favour because your not going to need to replace the batteries every 10 years, even if you don't get that couple of extra volts for the first year. But i doubt the big companies will do that for a while at least not untill life span goes up or price goes down. http://www.betterplace.com.au/ is setting up a battery rental/recharging business.
Your reading far too much into my comment. What has more likely happened is my blunt view of the situation is conflicting with you're own narrow minded perspective in which you long for my approval of the shiny new ithing you just bought. Not receiving the respect and admiration you think you deserve for purchasing apple, scared you have been fooled with hype, you lash out with weak ego defences.
Your not going to get anything pre-built ready to fly cheap (thousands of dollars), but if you build your own with arduino from a site like http://diydrones.com/, it becomes a lot more feasible (just choose an rc vehicle and follow the guide).
How do you come to that conclusion? Some people like to be told what to like (arguably apples strongest card, you don't have to think about specs you just buy the next Iversion) and some people like to fiqure it out for themselves and weigh up the options from multiple companies. Every one that dosen't join a cult dosn't feel left out of the cult (they are gratefull for not giving all their money and possesions to a clown with charisma and working for free in a compound) even if they point out that the cult is telling people what to like.
Like it or not he made a huge amount of money telling certain types of people what to like. So much money in fact that he has influenced many other tech companies and their products for better or worse. Personally I don't like the man, or what he did one bit, but i do respect his power to lead a cult and make coin.
but it has been said several more times above both of us. I wish there was a better way to search comments than reading each one or randomly ctrl F the way i would say it.
If pi goes on forever and never repeats then all music could be found some where in its endless randomness. I had an idea for quick communication of long messages based on two people knowing pi to a large enough decimal, you just say use the xth decimal to the yth decimal and covert the integers to ASCII.
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I can't believe you wrote so much while saying so little, how about some dates, models and specs. If you bought an underpowered thinkpad it's your own damn fault, cause almost every model has about 5 different cpu options. My 5 year old x220s still kicks ass due to it's desktop processor, and battery life is better than any mac due to it's 9 cell battery option (you should check it out it's available for most models). Also i said you didn't need to spend $2000. The comment above mine seemed to think the only option was a $2000 apple, my thinkpad option was 900 and filled all of the desired specs of mr jakooistra.
good job at saying screw oranges, go eat an apple. I was only showing a good computer that meets the criteria of the story (everything he asked for is there). If you want light weight, thin, and small the thinkpad x1 carbon comes in at 3 pounds and packs more horsepower.
Sure the keyboard isn't as nice to type on as my x220, but it's just as good if not better than the macbook and it's still spill proof. Plus since it's for a woman she may appreciate the aesthetics.
Your comment sure makes it sound like you wont get a good computer unless you put down 2 grand on an apple. Personally I would recommend lenovo, the thinkpad series is tough, customisable, good support, good warranty, good specs, and a much more tolerable price. For example the new thinkpad edge e530 with the new 3rd generation intel ivybrdige cpu i7-3612QM (22 freaking nm), 2gb nvidia graphics card, up to 16gb of ram, 15.6 inch screen at 1600x900, optical drive, win 7 64 bit, all for only $899 of the australian lenovo site (strangely i couldn't see a ssd option which they almost always do, but the op could set that up himself for $250). It's more than capable of whatever gets thrown at it and you have 1100 dollars left.
I was talking about the decision they 'the scientist' made to use stereo cameras on the rover destined for the moon instead of a laser range finder. Also as Im sure they have tested their system on earth (they aren’t going to wait till 2014 to see if the cameras work) so the rover has been used in the past tense.
I'm sorry for not explaining my question in greater detail, i assumed any one that could answer my question would know what i was on about due to the huge troubles associated with putting the mapping tech anywhere but the rover (if it was on earth then you would have to broadcast the map back to the rover essentially being in the same position as if it was non autonomous).
But the robot is already built.
oh yes, you are probably right.
How come they didn't just use a laser range finder to create a 3d map of the terrain around the robot?
I do have plans for finger print or wifi authentication electronic locks on my house and car, but I'm not there yet, and till then I'll have to take my keys when I leave the house. If I'm only going out for an hour or two on a bike ride, or out for lunch I don't care if I get a call, however i would like to know the time. The watch is undeniably a lot more convenient than a phone, you just twist the wrist verse reach into a pocket flip it the right side up and turn on the screen followed by the reverse procedure, the phone is hard to secure in some pants, the bulk and weight is annoying, and the phone is possibly broken if i say come of my bike (far too often lately), or get caught in the rain/fall in the river (i've got a waterproof case but it's a terrible pain).
Personally I'd like to see the samsung flexible oled screens in watch phone with good speech recognition; then (and when i perfect the key-less house hold) i can go out all day with nothing in my pockets (never have to wonder if i have forgotten something and no more locking myself out of the house) and still have the joys of the internet on hand.
Maybe not those of us addicted to a mobile phone but some of us like the idea of being able to leave home with only your keys in your pocket, even if you do miss an old school friend you havn't seen in years change his facebook status. If you do want to carry a phone aswell but just want to check the time or see if an sms is important, you can skip the rifeling though your pockets with a smart watch like the pebble or somthing.
Exactly, you can't judge the deal until windows 8 is out in full swing. Build a kinect into a phone with a x86 chip and I'll buy one.
Then again this could of been blown way out of proportion and it was a vigilante without a hope in hell of doing anything, or even simple internet virus.
This sounds a bit more sophisticated than your average ddos ers. You need specially designed worms to go after control systems, and once its in there its no use just doing random stuff or breaking it; you need to change the right values just enough to disrupt production but not enough to be noticed (otherwise they just replace the $50 chip), or try to cause a massive explosion by going after some vital pieces of equipment and disabling all safety stops (while appearing normal to the human operators). Not saying some mad scientist hacker engineer couldn't do it on there own, but Israel and america are much more likely culprits (they have better access to companies providing Iran's equipment) and after the hacking of the US drone while over Iran i'm thinking its the world police.
So they are going to put tech sanctions on england?
It works out in the consumers favour because your not going to need to replace the batteries every 10 years, even if you don't get that couple of extra volts for the first year. But i doubt the big companies will do that for a while at least not untill life span goes up or price goes down. http://www.betterplace.com.au/ is setting up a battery rental/recharging business.
Your reading far too much into my comment. What has more likely happened is my blunt view of the situation is conflicting with you're own narrow minded perspective in which you long for my approval of the shiny new ithing you just bought. Not receiving the respect and admiration you think you deserve for purchasing apple, scared you have been fooled with hype, you lash out with weak ego defences.
Your not going to get anything pre-built ready to fly cheap (thousands of dollars), but if you build your own with arduino from a site like http://diydrones.com/, it becomes a lot more feasible (just choose an rc vehicle and follow the guide).
How do you come to that conclusion? Some people like to be told what to like (arguably apples strongest card, you don't have to think about specs you just buy the next Iversion) and some people like to fiqure it out for themselves and weigh up the options from multiple companies. Every one that dosen't join a cult dosn't feel left out of the cult (they are gratefull for not giving all their money and possesions to a clown with charisma and working for free in a compound) even if they point out that the cult is telling people what to like.
I respect the power and loyalty he was able to command, but that doesn't mean I like how he used it (just like with steve jobs).
Like it or not he made a huge amount of money telling certain types of people what to like. So much money in fact that he has influenced many other tech companies and their products for better or worse. Personally I don't like the man, or what he did one bit, but i do respect his power to lead a cult and make coin.
good point.
but it has been said several more times above both of us. I wish there was a better way to search comments than reading each one or randomly ctrl F the way i would say it.
Interesting.
Honestly when i started writing my comment directly bellow, yours wasn't there.
If pi goes on forever and never repeats then all music could be found some where in its endless randomness. I had an idea for quick communication of long messages based on two people knowing pi to a large enough decimal, you just say use the xth decimal to the yth decimal and covert the integers to ASCII.