And yet, none of the ones you listed have 1920x1200. Yes it's a bit of a nit to complain about the extra 120 pixels of height, but that's more than 10% less. My reason for complaining, is that all three of these lines had WUXGA at the end of last year, and now none of them do. It's not like I'm looking for the $600 piece of crap to have a good screen. I'm currently using a W500 (the predecessor to the linked W510). I'd just rather things move forward, rather than backward. Hopefully in a few years, I'll be able to replace this latop with one with a 2560x1600 resolution.
I got myself a 15" laptop with a 1920x1200 screen, and the sharpness is beautiful. Set it at 150% DPI and you really don't see the pixels anymore. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to find a 15" laptop with more than 720p.
I liked the ones that came with a red filter that you had to hold over a paper with a bunch of seeming gibberish to reveal the secret codes. It's like getting a computer game AND a fun spy toy at the same time...
Interestingly, there are OCR engines that are specifically designed for searching text. If you are OCRing to get text output, you need to make a decision on the final result for each character (often getting e and c or L, l, 1, ! and | mixed up). The search oriented OCR can maintain ambiguous interpretations and allow much more complete searches (trading fewer false negatives for potentially more false positives). The one I'm thinking of offhand is OneNote's image handling - you drop an image into the notebook and all the text in the image becomes searchable. I don't know of any open-source equivalents, but I'm sure there's something, or at least something that can be modified.
0% is bad, but in most universities, plagiarism is much worse. One 0% on an assignment will disappear into the vast quantity of work you end up doing over your career. One plagiarism incident sits on your record, and can result in getting kicked out of school.
If you look at most undergrad code, you'll find that coding standards mean nothing to them, and that, while there are only a few ways to solve a problem correctly, there are a huge number of ways to solve it incorrectly. When a group of assignments gets flagged, and you find out that the code has exactly the same structure, and was handed in by three people who sit next to each other in class you get suspicious. When all three have exactly the same typos preventing the assignment from compiling, then there's not much worry about false positives.
The HU Book Store was also the actor with the responsibility of determining if the person using the card was really you. They have the option of verifying your signature, or even asking for id. I know several stores that now require photo id if you want to use a credit card purchase of more than $100. Of course there are also several store that have decided that they're willing to accept any losses and don't even require a signature for purchases under $25. Of the three parties: you, VISA, and the merchant, the merchant has the best chance to catch something wrong, and the best chance to do something malicious if they do not bear the burden of the risk.
My credit card gives me 1% every time I use it, and my bank charges me for each debit card use after 25 uses. Having 1% back on cycling debt adds up real fast, and cycling through debt (always paying it off in time) pumps up your credit rating.
Given that I have 0 liablility on my credit card, (a no-fee card that pays me back 1% of every purchase) I almost never have any cash on me. If I lose my wallet / get mugged, I just call can cancel the card and get a replacement in two days. I've lost my wallet twice in the last 10 years - the second time I had someone use my credit card before I noticed it was gone and had it canceled. It took less than 5 minutes for me to cancel the card and get the excess charges refunded - they asked me when the last time I used the card was, listed off a couple of new charges that weren't me, I told them those weren't me, they said "Ok" and sent me a new card. My debit card is protected by a PIN so I've never had that used by anyone, but otherwise, it's the same process.
Lenovos's new ThinkPad lineup has launched with a refresh to the T, W, and ThinkPad Edge. As expected, the T series and W both feature Core i7 processors, as does the 13" X201. The 15 and 17 models come with a choice of i5 or i7. Memory ranges from 2GB to an available 16GB with an optional upgrade. Additionally, the new line may include dozens of different screen options: Glossy, Glossy with Anti-Glare, Matte, all available in a variety of resolutions, as well as a dual-screen option on the W701 laptop. A second person familiar with the matter adds that at least some models will support dual 128Gb Solid State Drive (Flash) storage.
And now I feel like a shill just for writing that up, so I'll skip HP, Dell, and Compaq.
My experience is going to be different that the iPad tablet experience, since I'm working with both stylus and touch - the stylus has a right-click button on the side. But as to your questions:
Adjusting the volume is one touch to bring up the volume applet, and one to set/mute/unmute the volume. I've never had an issue hitting it with my finger (although I primarily use the stylus). Third party apps tend to vary in their usefulness, but at least I have the option of using any windows-based third party apps. WPF-based apps tend to be more touch-friendly, but a good number of gestures work in any app, by sending mouse or keyboard signals if touch/ink are not explicitly handled. Right click is triggered either by touch and hold, or touch and tap with another finger (or the right click button on the stylus).
My only source of complain is running full screen games that require a keyboard. The tablet input panel doesn't cooperate with old DirectX games that can't run in a window. (To play Starcraft, I had to plug in a keyboard to type in a username.)
Word 2007 with the ribbon is very usable with a stylus, although if I'm going to be doing a serious amount of typing I usually sit at my desktop to use a real keyboard.
they won't take the year needed to create the custom software required to make a touch based device useful
Except that with Windows 7, Microsoft has already released a very usable multitouch OS. I doesn't have the novelty factor of the iPhone OS, but it's got all the little gestures and whatnot. The spacing between buttons actually changes when you're using touch vs. when your using a mouse or a stylus. You can take a look at the touch support here.
I've been using a tablet pc from motion computing for almost half a year now and it's great! The handwriting recognition is impressive, and once it's been trained for a while, is amazing. It can read my writing - I can't even do that. Admittedly its three times the price of an iPad, but it's actually usable. If I were to buy an iPad, it would just sit around being unused. I can read fine sunlight, so I can use it anywhere. It's a full computer, so I can install OneNote, or whatever I feel like. Oh, and I can write my own software for it.
There are philosophies that would hold the two ideas as identical.
But those philosophies are only held by people with too much magnetic stimulation.
I am a bit confused about his correlation disclaimer. Is he saying it's possible that people who had the less judgmental morality caused the magnetism? Or that some external factor caused them to become more judgmental and more likely to get their brains magnetized? It seems to me that unless they were lazy and didn't do any proper controls (which would be trivial in this case - just don't turn on the machine), that applying magnetism cause the moral swing. But then, maybe that's why I didn't go to MIT. Perhaps someone can elucidate what I'm missing.
I'll second motion computing. I've got an older M1400 model, and the thing is rock solid. I let my 2 and 4 year olds play with it, without fear of them dropping it, or breaking it. The model I have isn't sealed, but it looks like the J3400 is. Everything is passively cooled, so other the the HD, there are no moving parts, and getting an SSD drive should solve that bit.
As the child of a color-blind dad, I think the worst part is getting all the various shades of brown, red and green play-dough mixed up into one nasty brown color all the time. Eventually we stopped letting him get near it. Although reflecting back, that may have just been his way of getting us to clean up ourselves....
It is possible to educate kids about dangers without leaving access to that "danger" uncontrolled. Personally, I like to teach my kids to swim, AND lock the gate to the pool when it's unsupervised. It keeps really young kids out (who haven't yet learned to swim), and it's a discouragement to elementary-age kids to help them "remember" the rules, and the older kids know where the key is. I teach my kids not to talk to strangers, but that doesn't mean I'll leave my 4-year old alone in the mall (or playing on the internet).
The issue is not getting the programmer to use this library or that library, but to get the programmer to do speculative pre-calculations with all the unused cores. Picture viewers do this already - while I'm looking at one picture, load up the next one, so that when I advance, it's almost instantaneous. If you're in a spot where the user can choose N possible outcomes, start out processing the most likely choices before they make the decision and discard the results you don't care about once the user makes the choice.
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Oh, and the Anonymous Cowards... I see you, I see you and your reflections in the Moon.
Except that the mirror on the moon is a retroreflector, meaning you only see yourself. You've just outed yourself as Anonymous Coward!
And yet, none of the ones you listed have 1920x1200. Yes it's a bit of a nit to complain about the extra 120 pixels of height, but that's more than 10% less. My reason for complaining, is that all three of these lines had WUXGA at the end of last year, and now none of them do. It's not like I'm looking for the $600 piece of crap to have a good screen. I'm currently using a W500 (the predecessor to the linked W510). I'd just rather things move forward, rather than backward. Hopefully in a few years, I'll be able to replace this latop with one with a 2560x1600 resolution.
I got myself a 15" laptop with a 1920x1200 screen, and the sharpness is beautiful. Set it at 150% DPI and you really don't see the pixels anymore. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to find a 15" laptop with more than 720p.
I liked the ones that came with a red filter that you had to hold over a paper with a bunch of seeming gibberish to reveal the secret codes. It's like getting a computer game AND a fun spy toy at the same time...
Interestingly, there are OCR engines that are specifically designed for searching text. If you are OCRing to get text output, you need to make a decision on the final result for each character (often getting e and c or L, l, 1, ! and | mixed up). The search oriented OCR can maintain ambiguous interpretations and allow much more complete searches (trading fewer false negatives for potentially more false positives). The one I'm thinking of offhand is OneNote's image handling - you drop an image into the notebook and all the text in the image becomes searchable. I don't know of any open-source equivalents, but I'm sure there's something, or at least something that can be modified.
And then you could add in some a GUI platform to let you present information in graphical windows say, and call it Windows Presentation Foundation.
0% is bad, but in most universities, plagiarism is much worse. One 0% on an assignment will disappear into the vast quantity of work you end up doing over your career. One plagiarism incident sits on your record, and can result in getting kicked out of school.
As a former TA, my favourite is when they turn files with the name changed, but neglect to change the student id number.
If you look at most undergrad code, you'll find that coding standards mean nothing to them, and that, while there are only a few ways to solve a problem correctly, there are a huge number of ways to solve it incorrectly. When a group of assignments gets flagged, and you find out that the code has exactly the same structure, and was handed in by three people who sit next to each other in class you get suspicious. When all three have exactly the same typos preventing the assignment from compiling, then there's not much worry about false positives.
No, I think that's a US thing only. My debit card can only be used with a PIN.
You've clearly never seen TimeCube.com them.
But on the other hand, by using your credit card often (and paying it off), your credit rating gets a boost.
The HU Book Store was also the actor with the responsibility of determining if the person using the card was really you. They have the option of verifying your signature, or even asking for id. I know several stores that now require photo id if you want to use a credit card purchase of more than $100. Of course there are also several store that have decided that they're willing to accept any losses and don't even require a signature for purchases under $25. Of the three parties: you, VISA, and the merchant, the merchant has the best chance to catch something wrong, and the best chance to do something malicious if they do not bear the burden of the risk.
My credit card gives me 1% every time I use it, and my bank charges me for each debit card use after 25 uses. Having 1% back on cycling debt adds up real fast, and cycling through debt (always paying it off in time) pumps up your credit rating.
Given that I have 0 liablility on my credit card, (a no-fee card that pays me back 1% of every purchase) I almost never have any cash on me. If I lose my wallet / get mugged, I just call can cancel the card and get a replacement in two days. I've lost my wallet twice in the last 10 years - the second time I had someone use my credit card before I noticed it was gone and had it canceled. It took less than 5 minutes for me to cancel the card and get the excess charges refunded - they asked me when the last time I used the card was, listed off a couple of new charges that weren't me, I told them those weren't me, they said "Ok" and sent me a new card. My debit card is protected by a PIN so I've never had that used by anyone, but otherwise, it's the same process.
Lenovos's new ThinkPad lineup has launched with a refresh to the T, W, and ThinkPad Edge. As expected, the T series and W both feature Core i7 processors, as does the 13" X201. The 15 and 17 models come with a choice of i5 or i7. Memory ranges from 2GB to an available 16GB with an optional upgrade. Additionally, the new line may include dozens of different screen options: Glossy, Glossy with Anti-Glare, Matte, all available in a variety of resolutions, as well as a dual-screen option on the W701 laptop. A second person familiar with the matter adds that at least some models will support dual 128Gb Solid State Drive (Flash) storage.
And now I feel like a shill just for writing that up, so I'll skip HP, Dell, and Compaq.
It's all the cocaine on the money that's just numbing their hands first.
My experience is going to be different that the iPad tablet experience, since I'm working with both stylus and touch - the stylus has a right-click button on the side. But as to your questions:
Adjusting the volume is one touch to bring up the volume applet, and one to set/mute/unmute the volume. I've never had an issue hitting it with my finger (although I primarily use the stylus). Third party apps tend to vary in their usefulness, but at least I have the option of using any windows-based third party apps. WPF-based apps tend to be more touch-friendly, but a good number of gestures work in any app, by sending mouse or keyboard signals if touch/ink are not explicitly handled. Right click is triggered either by touch and hold, or touch and tap with another finger (or the right click button on the stylus).
My only source of complain is running full screen games that require a keyboard. The tablet input panel doesn't cooperate with old DirectX games that can't run in a window. (To play Starcraft, I had to plug in a keyboard to type in a username.)
Word 2007 with the ribbon is very usable with a stylus, although if I'm going to be doing a serious amount of typing I usually sit at my desktop to use a real keyboard.
they won't take the year needed to create the custom software required to make a touch based device useful
Except that with Windows 7, Microsoft has already released a very usable multitouch OS. I doesn't have the novelty factor of the iPhone OS, but it's got all the little gestures and whatnot. The spacing between buttons actually changes when you're using touch vs. when your using a mouse or a stylus. You can take a look at the touch support here.
I've been using a tablet pc from motion computing for almost half a year now and it's great! The handwriting recognition is impressive, and once it's been trained for a while, is amazing. It can read my writing - I can't even do that. Admittedly its three times the price of an iPad, but it's actually usable. If I were to buy an iPad, it would just sit around being unused. I can read fine sunlight, so I can use it anywhere. It's a full computer, so I can install OneNote, or whatever I feel like. Oh, and I can write my own software for it.
There are philosophies that would hold the two ideas as identical.
But those philosophies are only held by people with too much magnetic stimulation.
I am a bit confused about his correlation disclaimer. Is he saying it's possible that people who had the less judgmental morality caused the magnetism? Or that some external factor caused them to become more judgmental and more likely to get their brains magnetized? It seems to me that unless they were lazy and didn't do any proper controls (which would be trivial in this case - just don't turn on the machine), that applying magnetism cause the moral swing. But then, maybe that's why I didn't go to MIT. Perhaps someone can elucidate what I'm missing.
I'll second motion computing. I've got an older M1400 model, and the thing is rock solid. I let my 2 and 4 year olds play with it, without fear of them dropping it, or breaking it. The model I have isn't sealed, but it looks like the J3400 is. Everything is passively cooled, so other the the HD, there are no moving parts, and getting an SSD drive should solve that bit.
As the child of a color-blind dad, I think the worst part is getting all the various shades of brown, red and green play-dough mixed up into one nasty brown color all the time. Eventually we stopped letting him get near it. Although reflecting back, that may have just been his way of getting us to clean up ourselves....
It is possible to educate kids about dangers without leaving access to that "danger" uncontrolled. Personally, I like to teach my kids to swim, AND lock the gate to the pool when it's unsupervised. It keeps really young kids out (who haven't yet learned to swim), and it's a discouragement to elementary-age kids to help them "remember" the rules, and the older kids know where the key is. I teach my kids not to talk to strangers, but that doesn't mean I'll leave my 4-year old alone in the mall (or playing on the internet).
Which is why they started selling the Elements line for $100 aimed at the home user market.
The issue is not getting the programmer to use this library or that library, but to get the programmer to do speculative pre-calculations with all the unused cores. Picture viewers do this already - while I'm looking at one picture, load up the next one, so that when I advance, it's almost instantaneous. If you're in a spot where the user can choose N possible outcomes, start out processing the most likely choices before they make the decision and discard the results you don't care about once the user makes the choice.