I found out by trial and error that trying to read my smartphone on a bus ride makes me queasy. Never happened before on a bus, a plane, a boat, a car, not even the roller coaster. Not going to even try this (besides, the 3d effect needs 2 good eyes).
As I pointed out directly under my post, the word "liquid" does not occur anywhere in the article. It was added by whoever submitted the summary. And no, water can be in gaseous, liquid, or solid states.
The idea behind separate monitors is to physically put the unimportant stuff all on one. This way, you're not constantly moving, exposing, and hiding content.
Did you actually do a search? VGA is still big on new laptops (with all the room and weight they shaved off from dumping the optical drives, they can afford to leave it there).
Put in a second hard drive - most take them. Make sure they can stay cool, and they'll do the job. A computer is a computer and todays laptops beat the crap out of the machines we were using a decade ago - and this will always be true. Whatever is top-of-the-line today will be thought of as crap down the road. And yet it does the job. "Good enough" computing is here to stay.
It's not an atom, and on a price-performance scale, it beats out an i7 or i5. Also, celerons end pentiums were around long before atom, so they are not "rebadged atoms".
Those of us who did serious development and machines with what now seem like impossible constraints laugh at the pissing contests people engage in over their computers. Then again, we never need those "here let me fix that for you" bloated IDEs.
We don't need an overwhelming number of people who are curious about programming. And we don't need to set all those kids up to think that they are learning a useful skill, when the odds of them benefiting are lower than ever.
Basic science is not covered all that well at the primary level, and too much of it is just optional at the secondary level. Solving a problem on a computer is much simpler than solving it in real life. On a computer, it compiles or it doesn't. I runs or it crashes. It gives valid or invalid results. In real life, you can have all your ducks in a row, but that doesn't mean your solution, no matter how good, how common-sense, will be accepted, or if it is, that it will work. The real world is not binary - it's messy, because you're dealing with people and the environment can change too quickly to respond (remember the tsunami that took out most hard disk production in Malaysia, causing a global shortage of hard drives? A major recession? A stock market crash? Competitor (or your boss) wiping your job out? No amount of playing around with computers in school is going to help them deal with this).
You probably only need that much hardware because you're using Java, instead of a real programming language like C. A desktop replacement laptop is normally operated in dual-screen mode, with a much bigger monitor plugged into it (26" in my case). I used to run dual 26" screens from a desktop, but this is quieter and has the advantage of a built-in UPS.
No, because I already thought of his idea a couple of decades ago, and abandoned it as stupid because it's damn stupid. People are not going to take someone with that name seriously. He might as well have reinvigorated the Rhino or Lemon parties.
Nowadays, neither price nor brand means anything - there are bad batches from everyone. A $100 quad core windows tablet with 32 gig internal ram and an sd slot (max 128 gig) would have done fine. I was surprised at how well they work.
Declined votes are separated but no count is kept of them. Spoiled ballots are counted. Easy way to spoil your ballot and not prevent one of the counters to mark it with a pencil lead under the fingernail (yes, it's happened) is to cross them ALL off. Added benefit, no matter who wins, you can tell them you voted for them:-)
It's not illegal - the government issued him a new birth certificate and other documents that identify him thus. This gives him the right to use that name in public, including elections.
Little-known fact - In Canadian Federal politics, you can use a nickname that people know you by as your first name on the ballot.
Beat by a mile long ago. No name change required. Ran in the 80's under my 'The Other Party' banner "Are you going to vote for the guys that are there now or the other party:-) , and if I ever run again it might be under "Politically Independent Members of Parliament" (PIMP). Works in french too - "Parti Indépendant des Membres du Parlement" The slogan would be "Forget about pimping your ride... this is more important."
Bought mine on sale at the local pharmacy. 8 gigs, nice screen, quad core 1.88 - 2.0 ghz, etc. $401 and change (including the recycling fee but not tax).
Generally refers to a laptop that has the speed, storage and usability of a desktop computer. It implies a large screen and tactile keyboard, although such external peripherals may be plugged into a portable computer of any size. See laptop.
Any field can trigger curiosity. If that weren't the case, we'd still be living in trees and caves. Imagine how curious (and drunk) the first person to eat lobster had to be?
If only there were something that could solve that problem. Oh, wait, there is. They're called wheelie bags and you can load a lot more crap in them than you can in one or two laptop bags. Extra cables, a small hub or switch, clipboard, notes, pens and pencils and white markers (how many times do you go to use a whiteboard at a site and the markers are dry?). Even your phone charger and laptop-to-phone cable. Medicines. And of course some snacks.
How many brand new laptops are being sold using Skylake cpus? Almost none. So there are tons of modern new laptops that have vga-out. So yes, in that respect many modern laptops are like mine in that they have hdmi and vga ports.
if you're distributing someone else's stuff without proper permission (which you can ONLY get from the license, on the copyright holder's terms.
This is an outright falsehood. You can legally use and distribute copyrighted material without permission from the copyright owner. There are several loopholes that anyone on this site should pop into any slashdot user's head with only a second's thought. Come on, you can do it. Or if you can't, go to the copyright office and read up on the exceptions:-)
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If you had bothered to read the article. it's already been done elsewhere successfully.
I found out by trial and error that trying to read my smartphone on a bus ride makes me queasy. Never happened before on a bus, a plane, a boat, a car, not even the roller coaster. Not going to even try this (besides, the 3d effect needs 2 good eyes).
As I pointed out directly under my post, the word "liquid" does not occur anywhere in the article. It was added by whoever submitted the summary. And no, water can be in gaseous, liquid, or solid states.
The idea behind separate monitors is to physically put the unimportant stuff all on one. This way, you're not constantly moving, exposing, and hiding content.
And before anyone gets on my case, the word "liquid" is nowhere to be found in the original article.
Read the article - much of it is buried under frozen methane, nitrogen, etc.
From the summary:
planet's frozen surface liquid is water, rather than methane, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen as originally posited.
Dump the word liquid. It's both stupid and wrong.
Did you actually do a search? VGA is still big on new laptops (with all the room and weight they shaved off from dumping the optical drives, they can afford to leave it there).
Put in a second hard drive - most take them. Make sure they can stay cool, and they'll do the job. A computer is a computer and todays laptops beat the crap out of the machines we were using a decade ago - and this will always be true. Whatever is top-of-the-line today will be thought of as crap down the road. And yet it does the job. "Good enough" computing is here to stay.
It's not an atom, and on a price-performance scale, it beats out an i7 or i5. Also, celerons end pentiums were around long before atom, so they are not "rebadged atoms".
Those of us who did serious development and machines with what now seem like impossible constraints laugh at the pissing contests people engage in over their computers. Then again, we never need those "here let me fix that for you" bloated IDEs.
We don't need an overwhelming number of people who are curious about programming. And we don't need to set all those kids up to think that they are learning a useful skill, when the odds of them benefiting are lower than ever.
Basic science is not covered all that well at the primary level, and too much of it is just optional at the secondary level. Solving a problem on a computer is much simpler than solving it in real life. On a computer, it compiles or it doesn't. I runs or it crashes. It gives valid or invalid results. In real life, you can have all your ducks in a row, but that doesn't mean your solution, no matter how good, how common-sense, will be accepted, or if it is, that it will work. The real world is not binary - it's messy, because you're dealing with people and the environment can change too quickly to respond (remember the tsunami that took out most hard disk production in Malaysia, causing a global shortage of hard drives? A major recession? A stock market crash? Competitor (or your boss) wiping your job out? No amount of playing around with computers in school is going to help them deal with this).
You probably only need that much hardware because you're using Java, instead of a real programming language like C. A desktop replacement laptop is normally operated in dual-screen mode, with a much bigger monitor plugged into it (26" in my case). I used to run dual 26" screens from a desktop, but this is quieter and has the advantage of a built-in UPS.
No, because I already thought of his idea a couple of decades ago, and abandoned it as stupid because it's damn stupid. People are not going to take someone with that name seriously. He might as well have reinvigorated the Rhino or Lemon parties.
Nowadays, neither price nor brand means anything - there are bad batches from everyone. A $100 quad core windows tablet with 32 gig internal ram and an sd slot (max 128 gig) would have done fine. I was surprised at how well they work.
Declined votes are separated but no count is kept of them. Spoiled ballots are counted. Easy way to spoil your ballot and not prevent one of the counters to mark it with a pencil lead under the fingernail (yes, it's happened) is to cross them ALL off. Added benefit, no matter who wins, you can tell them you voted for them :-)
Little-known fact - In Canadian Federal politics, you can use a nickname that people know you by as your first name on the ballot.
Beat by a mile long ago. No name change required. Ran in the 80's under my 'The Other Party' banner "Are you going to vote for the guys that are there now or the other party :-) , and if I ever run again it might be under "Politically Independent Members of Parliament" (PIMP). Works in french too - "Parti Indépendant des Membres du Parlement" The slogan would be "Forget about pimping your ride ... this is more important."
Bought mine on sale at the local pharmacy. 8 gigs, nice screen, quad core 1.88 - 2.0 ghz, etc. $401 and change (including the recycling fee but not tax).
It's not always convenient to have a desktop or a desktop replacement, which is why laptops exist in the first place.
Laptops are desktop replacements.
Definition of: desktop replacement
desktop replacement
Generally refers to a laptop that has the speed, storage and usability of a desktop computer. It implies a large screen and tactile keyboard, although such external peripherals may be plugged into a portable computer of any size. See laptop.
Any field can trigger curiosity. If that weren't the case, we'd still be living in trees and caves. Imagine how curious (and drunk) the first person to eat lobster had to be?
If only there were something that could solve that problem. Oh, wait, there is. They're called wheelie bags and you can load a lot more crap in them than you can in one or two laptop bags. Extra cables, a small hub or switch, clipboard, notes, pens and pencils and white markers (how many times do you go to use a whiteboard at a site and the markers are dry?). Even your phone charger and laptop-to-phone cable. Medicines. And of course some snacks.
How many brand new laptops are being sold using Skylake cpus? Almost none. So there are tons of modern new laptops that have vga-out. So yes, in that respect many modern laptops are like mine in that they have hdmi and vga ports.
if you're distributing someone else's stuff without proper permission (which you can ONLY get from the license, on the copyright holder's terms.
This is an outright falsehood. You can legally use and distribute copyrighted material without permission from the copyright owner. There are several loopholes that anyone on this site should pop into any slashdot user's head with only a second's thought. Come on, you can do it. Or if you can't, go to the copyright office and read up on the exceptions :-)
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Not American, so you assume wrong :-)