Agreed. I've been picking up core2duo systems for $100 for awhile now on ebay. They're business machines so video is onboard but a $50 video card would make them pretty decent gaming machines, very few if any games require more than two cores.
although I'll be honest, I play games far more often on my iPhone than my PC. I think it's because iPhone games are designed to be started instantly and close just as fast while PC and console seem to want you to sit for a few hours. That was easy at 10, not so easy now with a job and family.
Not only that but the screen's weren't matched: "The second display lacks the more highly reflective coating of its high-end companion, and with 280 NIT brightness (versus 400 on the primary display) and a narrower reproducible gamut, colors definitely don’t pop as much. Never mind annoying backlight bleed coming from both sides of the screen, poor side-to-side viewing angles, and a serious mismatch on black depth (true black is reproduced much lighter and bluer on the secondary display by default). Combined with color discrepancies courtesy of different calibration and profiling (more on that in the next section), power graphics users may well ask, “What’s the point?”"
And what, lug around a laptop, plus a second monitor, power cord and monitor cable? Thanks but no thanks, I'd rather have a laptop that fits in a laptop case. Expensive? Yes. Worth it for the extra space and not having to drag around a second monitor everywhere? God yes, to me at least, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would rather take a $500 laptop and buy a $200 second monitor and drag them both around everywhere.
Can't someone just say they don't have a human operating system, a human service network, plug anything into the human brain (wtf?), or do any massaging (they misspelled messaging in several areas)? Seems like this would be the easiest patent to get around ever.
on the other hand it sounds like a decent syfy story
Actually this hacker "time capsule" sounds a lot like crashplan but far more complicated. Crashplan simply backs up one computer to another. No routers with USB or external hard drives necessary, just two computers with an internet connection and this free software installed and you're done. I use it to backup the laptops to the desktop, haven't had to restore yet but so far so good, it's automated so I don't even notice it running.
SugarSync might be good too but I haven't used them in a few years.
FTFA "Coincidentally, a suspiciously large percentage of Android and BlackBerry owners may be suffering from the same delusion. BlackBerry owners (24%) are almost as confused as iPhone owners since RIM doesn’t currently offer a 4G phone. At least some Android owners could be answering correctly as Android 4G phones like the HTC Evo 4G or Samsung Infuse 4G have been available for some time. If nothing else this large number of “misinformed” phone owners serves to emphasize the fact that consumers are quite confused about 4G."
But it's clear Android and RIM are SOL: "The responses to this question also show Android owners as a loyal group with only 18% saying they would buy or consider buying a new iPhone, 4G or no 4G. On the other hand, BlackBerry owners look like potential defectors with 41% saying they’ll buy a new iPhone, or consider buying one with or without 4G."
Ouch. 18% of Android users defecting to iPhone is considered "loyal"? I guess it is considering 41% of RIM users say they're moving to iPhones.
Bunch of time rebuilding? You mean format and reinstall? Or if it was really bad and MBR was wiped, throwing another 5+ gb (enough for OS) hard drive in there? That's not really "bunch of time". It's clear this guy was an idiot, thankfully most criminals are, smart people are too busy making money legally.
I was in our military fairly recently. Parent is right, it's not prepared. But the problem isn't the equipment, it's that the typical brainy computer hacker isn't interested in military service. Maybe the FBI or CIA would have a better chance of recruiting them, I sure as shit would have rather joined one of those organizations, but they weren't exactly beating down my door begging me to join like the military was.
You want to protect America from cyber criminals? Have the govt give more money to high school computer clubs and make sure the kids know where the money's coming from, maybe even have some young agent with the flashy-but-realistic new car stop by for a round halo 3 or call of duty, or use this guy to recruit, he's doing a great job making the Army look awesome.
Surprised no one else agreed with the Computer Shopper idea. I still have about a dozen of them from the 90s laying around. Every once in awhile I'll dig one up and read about the new "MMX" technology coming out, or how the 3600rpm Bigfoot hard drives compare to 4200 and 5400rpm drives, or the recent substantial drop in CD Recorder prices and how they compare.
Ah those were the days, when we thought computers could do anything, when an extra megabyte of ram or a few more mhz made all the difference. Now we have more ghz and cores than we can shake a stick at, and ram is only $10 per gigabyte.
LOL.... wait, were you joking? Hard to tell sometimes. This was a real project that people would use when it was completed, not some hacked together "press printscreen, ok now open paint, now press ctrl+v, ok now save the file and remember where you saved it, attach to email and send to asdf@asdf.com". My god we would have had to include directions to paint, how to save a file (yes, we've had users not know how to save a file before), how to use email, etc etc etc, it would have never ended!
This isn't about people skills, it's about MBAs telling the engineers how to build a car. The software analogy is correct, managers with no programming background typically think a computer is magic and will make unrealistic requests or ask for things they really don't need but think they do. For example a project i was recently involved with where the manager wanted to plot some points on a map and take a screenshot of google maps. Plotting the points was easy but the screenshot in browser would have been difficult since its javascript and violated Google's TOS. Wasted a lot of time trying to come up with a screenshot solution in browser and finally just explained to the manager it would be easier to store the coordinates and create a link that could place those coordinates back onto the map. Turns out that was perfectly acceptable because they just needed to show the map to a third party, it didn't need to be saved as a screenshot image at all. A programmer would have realized the limitations of javascript and the Google TOs and the project would have been done much faster with the proper directions in the first place.
Put the engineers back in charge and let the MBAs worry about marketing.
"That and... you know... waiting for your bank to approve a 70 cent purchase is likely to get you beaten up for being an ass."
What waiting? Maybe in Europe the approval is slow, but it literally one second for the credit card machines to approve a card in the US. People groan when someone pulls out cash to pay for things because it takes the cashier longer to accept the money and give back change than it does to swipe a card.
Agreed. I have not used my wallet to carry cash in 20 years. Yes, 20 years. My wallet has my drivers license and other various forms of ID, several credit cards, business cards and membership rewards cards like movie theater, etc. I don't foresee all of that vanishing in 3.5 years.
In fact my business only accepts credit cards or electronic checks and I'm still shocked how many customers ask to pay with cash.
Maybe they meant 2025. That seems far more realistic.
"They are idiots, run by the same idiot philosophy which drives eBay - almost no customer service."
Not true anymore. Call Paypal at 1-888-221-1161 and see how long it takes to get a real-live person on the phone. I've never waited more than a minute. Wish I could say the same about my ISP, gas and electric. Even my credit union takes longer to answer.
I've had over 4,000 transactions through Paypal in the past 24 months and only 3 issues, none of them so major that I would stop using them. Did have some issues 10 years ago but they're much better now, probably because they've changed how they operate after several lawsuits.
"If your engineering school doesn't have labs, facilities and such to actually accommodate engineering lab work, your degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
I'm sorry, but are you comparing a lab to the real world? It's not the same... at all.
This is how everyone should be taught:
books --> simulations and/or labs --> real world experience (unpaid job really) ---> graduate & real world paying job
That's medical school, doctors and nurses.
Unfortunately this is how engineers and scientists are taught:
books --> simulation and/or lab ---> graduate & real world paying job
Ouch, graduating without ever really getting real world experience. What works in the lab/simulation doesn't always work so great in the real world. Sure, some get internships while in college but it's not required to graduate, you can receive a PhD in Engineering and never leave the school all 8 years while a MD would have worked thousands of hours across dozens of different locations before receiving their PhD.
My wife is an RN. Before graduating she was required by the state to put in almost 1,000 clinical hours. These clinical hours were part of her classes and a instructor was there to supervise. I think every program should have something similar, as I said it would have been great to get out of the school once in awhile and see how things worked in the real world.
Unpaid internships are also mandatory in the medical field. Every potential nurse and doctor works hundreds of hours in hospitals before they're allowed to graduate. I only wish they did this for engineers and scientists, I would have loved the break from the books to get my hands dirty.
All of the examples in the blog are for graphic design internships, which is completely understandable why companies would choose interns for graphic design because unless you graduated from a top design school it's very easy to say "oh ya, I'm great at graphic design".
Starting to see why no one wants to pay him, I hire web designers all the time and I certainly wouldn't hire him based on what I've seen. Also local web design is a dying breed, you can go online and find someone in China or Middle East that will create entire websites for $50. Sorry but outsourcing is here to stay, web design is not a great field to be looking for a job in.
Some guy bitches about being an intern and it's on the front of/.? WTF? Slow weekend because it's 4th of July weekend in the US? What's next "Calling BS on McD's minimum wage"?
If you don't want to be a unpaid intern... DON'T BE. Very simple solution. People don't choose to be unpaid interns, they HAVE to be because they have zero experience and can't get a paying job. Companies "hiring" unpaid interns choose that route because they've been burned by shitty no-experience-having employees in the past and want to test the waters, but if you're there more than a week and still not getting paid YOU ARE STUPID for staying.
"And it's not your place to decide who a company can and can't do business with, based on your own moral and political views."
Credit card companies have a monopoly, it's like the utility company shutting off your electricity and water because they don't agree with your political stance or moral views.
I'm glad they're suing, only reason Mastercard/Visa should stop accepting is if customers are complaining about fraud. If Mastercard/Visa stopped accepting Wikileaks what's next?
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These are complete core2duo computers for $100. I'm sorry but p4 and Pentium D are ancient and not suitable for modern gaming.
..."why waste your juice on something you need for calls, when there are those ultra cheap emulator portables"
Yet another device to carry around. Thanks but I'll stick with my iPhone, and yes it does have Final Fantasy specifically designed for the touchscreen, or what many call WoW for iPhone (I've played it, it really is WoW)
"Maybe its just me, but I'd rather save my phone for making calls."
Shhh, otherwise we'll have to pull your geek card because you sound like my baby-boomer parents.
Agreed. I've been picking up core2duo systems for $100 for awhile now on ebay. They're business machines so video is onboard but a $50 video card would make them pretty decent gaming machines, very few if any games require more than two cores.
although I'll be honest, I play games far more often on my iPhone than my PC. I think it's because iPhone games are designed to be started instantly and close just as fast while PC and console seem to want you to sit for a few hours. That was easy at 10, not so easy now with a job and family.
"The Thinkpad W700ds had two displays, and that ugly behemoth is no longer sold. "
two displays, but not two monitors. W700ds had a second 10" display that added a worthless 760 pixels of horizontal real estate. I'm use to 1920, what are you suppose to do with an extra 760 pixels? That's not even wide enough to display most webpages!
Not only that but the screen's weren't matched:
"The second display lacks the more highly reflective coating of its high-end companion, and with 280 NIT brightness (versus 400 on the primary display) and a narrower reproducible gamut, colors definitely don’t pop as much. Never mind annoying backlight bleed coming from both sides of the screen, poor side-to-side viewing angles, and a serious mismatch on black depth (true black is reproduced much lighter and bluer on the secondary display by default). Combined with color discrepancies courtesy of different calibration and profiling (more on that in the next section), power graphics users may well ask, “What’s the point?”"
"Buy a second monitor when you arrive there."
And what, lug around a laptop, plus a second monitor, power cord and monitor cable? Thanks but no thanks, I'd rather have a laptop that fits in a laptop case. Expensive? Yes. Worth it for the extra space and not having to drag around a second monitor everywhere? God yes, to me at least, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would rather take a $500 laptop and buy a $200 second monitor and drag them both around everywhere.
Can't someone just say they don't have a human operating system, a human service network, plug anything into the human brain (wtf?), or do any massaging (they misspelled messaging in several areas)? Seems like this would be the easiest patent to get around ever.
on the other hand it sounds like a decent syfy story
here come the trolls saying all americans are crazy. Can't we block foreign IPs from this website? Or at least foreign IPs posting as AC?
Actually this hacker "time capsule" sounds a lot like crashplan but far more complicated. Crashplan simply backs up one computer to another. No routers with USB or external hard drives necessary, just two computers with an internet connection and this free software installed and you're done. I use it to backup the laptops to the desktop, haven't had to restore yet but so far so good, it's automated so I don't even notice it running.
SugarSync might be good too but I haven't used them in a few years.
Actually, according to the survey, RIM and Android owners aren't much better, but the slashdot title should be marked flamebait in an obvious attempt to make iPhone owners look stupid.
FTFA
"Coincidentally, a suspiciously large percentage of Android and BlackBerry owners may be suffering from the same delusion. BlackBerry owners (24%) are almost as confused as iPhone owners since RIM doesn’t currently offer a 4G phone. At least some Android owners could be answering correctly as Android 4G phones like the HTC Evo 4G or Samsung Infuse 4G have been available for some time. If nothing else this large number of “misinformed” phone owners serves to emphasize the fact that consumers are quite confused about 4G."
But it's clear Android and RIM are SOL:
"The responses to this question also show Android owners as a loyal group with only 18% saying they would buy or consider buying a new iPhone, 4G or no 4G. On the other hand, BlackBerry owners look like potential defectors with 41% saying they’ll buy a new iPhone, or consider buying one with or without 4G."
Ouch. 18% of Android users defecting to iPhone is considered "loyal"? I guess it is considering 41% of RIM users say they're moving to iPhones.
Bunch of time rebuilding? You mean format and reinstall? Or if it was really bad and MBR was wiped, throwing another 5+ gb (enough for OS) hard drive in there? That's not really "bunch of time". It's clear this guy was an idiot, thankfully most criminals are, smart people are too busy making money legally.
I was in our military fairly recently. Parent is right, it's not prepared. But the problem isn't the equipment, it's that the typical brainy computer hacker isn't interested in military service. Maybe the FBI or CIA would have a better chance of recruiting them, I sure as shit would have rather joined one of those organizations, but they weren't exactly beating down my door begging me to join like the military was.
You want to protect America from cyber criminals? Have the govt give more money to high school computer clubs and make sure the kids know where the money's coming from, maybe even have some young agent with the flashy-but-realistic new car stop by for a round halo 3 or call of duty, or use this guy to recruit, he's doing a great job making the Army look awesome.
Surprised no one else agreed with the Computer Shopper idea. I still have about a dozen of them from the 90s laying around. Every once in awhile I'll dig one up and read about the new "MMX" technology coming out, or how the 3600rpm Bigfoot hard drives compare to 4200 and 5400rpm drives, or the recent substantial drop in CD Recorder prices and how they compare.
Ah those were the days, when we thought computers could do anything, when an extra megabyte of ram or a few more mhz made all the difference. Now we have more ghz and cores than we can shake a stick at, and ram is only $10 per gigabyte.
Actually I was wondering if riding in a birds stomach is better than being molested by the TSA.
Um... printscreen + paint?
LOL.... wait, were you joking? Hard to tell sometimes. This was a real project that people would use when it was completed, not some hacked together "press printscreen, ok now open paint, now press ctrl+v, ok now save the file and remember where you saved it, attach to email and send to asdf@asdf.com". My god we would have had to include directions to paint, how to save a file (yes, we've had users not know how to save a file before), how to use email, etc etc etc, it would have never ended!
This isn't about people skills, it's about MBAs telling the engineers how to build a car. The software analogy is correct, managers with no programming background typically think a computer is magic and will make unrealistic requests or ask for things they really don't need but think they do. For example a project i was recently involved with where the manager wanted to plot some points on a map and take a screenshot of google maps. Plotting the points was easy but the screenshot in browser would have been difficult since its javascript and violated Google's TOS. Wasted a lot of time trying to come up with a screenshot solution in browser and finally just explained to the manager it would be easier to store the coordinates and create a link that could place those coordinates back onto the map. Turns out that was perfectly acceptable because they just needed to show the map to a third party, it didn't need to be saved as a screenshot image at all. A programmer would have realized the limitations of javascript and the Google TOs and the project would have been done much faster with the proper directions in the first place.
Put the engineers back in charge and let the MBAs worry about marketing.
Looks like Ms. Bonnington is also an EE and teaches ballet.
Yeah but AnnMarie Thomas isn't nearly as attractive as the Christina Bonnington
/. is done with her?
not that I choose videos based on the attractiveness of the woman in the video...
Christina has 68 likes, wonder how many she'll have after
"That and ... you know ... waiting for your bank to approve a 70 cent purchase is likely to get you beaten up for being an ass."
What waiting? Maybe in Europe the approval is slow, but it literally one second for the credit card machines to approve a card in the US. People groan when someone pulls out cash to pay for things because it takes the cashier longer to accept the money and give back change than it does to swipe a card.
So your mom walks around with large wads of cash in her purse? Where is she right now?
Agreed. I have not used my wallet to carry cash in 20 years. Yes, 20 years. My wallet has my drivers license and other various forms of ID, several credit cards, business cards and membership rewards cards like movie theater, etc. I don't foresee all of that vanishing in 3.5 years.
In fact my business only accepts credit cards or electronic checks and I'm still shocked how many customers ask to pay with cash.
Maybe they meant 2025. That seems far more realistic.
"They are idiots, run by the same idiot philosophy which drives eBay - almost no customer service."
Not true anymore. Call Paypal at 1-888-221-1161 and see how long it takes to get a real-live person on the phone. I've never waited more than a minute. Wish I could say the same about my ISP, gas and electric. Even my credit union takes longer to answer.
I've had over 4,000 transactions through Paypal in the past 24 months and only 3 issues, none of them so major that I would stop using them. Did have some issues 10 years ago but they're much better now, probably because they've changed how they operate after several lawsuits.
"If your engineering school doesn't have labs, facilities and such to actually accommodate engineering lab work, your degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
I'm sorry, but are you comparing a lab to the real world? It's not the same... at all.
This is how everyone should be taught:
books --> simulations and/or labs --> real world experience (unpaid job really) ---> graduate & real world paying job
That's medical school, doctors and nurses.
Unfortunately this is how engineers and scientists are taught:
books --> simulation and/or lab ---> graduate & real world paying job
Ouch, graduating without ever really getting real world experience. What works in the lab/simulation doesn't always work so great in the real world. Sure, some get internships while in college but it's not required to graduate, you can receive a PhD in Engineering and never leave the school all 8 years while a MD would have worked thousands of hours across dozens of different locations before receiving their PhD.
My wife is an RN. Before graduating she was required by the state to put in almost 1,000 clinical hours. These clinical hours were part of her classes and a instructor was there to supervise. I think every program should have something similar, as I said it would have been great to get out of the school once in awhile and see how things worked in the real world.
"I had to have an internship for my coursework."
Unpaid internships are also mandatory in the medical field. Every potential nurse and doctor works hundreds of hours in hospitals before they're allowed to graduate. I only wish they did this for engineers and scientists, I would have loved the break from the books to get my hands dirty.
All of the examples in the blog are for graphic design internships, which is completely understandable why companies would choose interns for graphic design because unless you graduated from a top design school it's very easy to say "oh ya, I'm great at graphic design".
I think this guy is a drop-out with no skills and he's whining that he can't find a paying job. I'm sure this blog post will help STEWART CURRY find a great job. First problem, his website is bland and doesn't have any work examples. Second problem: the navigation bar at the bottom doesn't work well with Chrome.
Starting to see why no one wants to pay him, I hire web designers all the time and I certainly wouldn't hire him based on what I've seen. Also local web design is a dying breed, you can go online and find someone in China or Middle East that will create entire websites for $50. Sorry but outsourcing is here to stay, web design is not a great field to be looking for a job in.
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/.? WTF? Slow weekend because it's 4th of July weekend in the US? What's next "Calling BS on McD's minimum wage"?
Some guy bitches about being an intern and it's on the front of
If you don't want to be a unpaid intern... DON'T BE. Very simple solution. People don't choose to be unpaid interns, they HAVE to be because they have zero experience and can't get a paying job. Companies "hiring" unpaid interns choose that route because they've been burned by shitty no-experience-having employees in the past and want to test the waters, but if you're there more than a week and still not getting paid YOU ARE STUPID for staying.
"The only reason you can say that Wikileaks didn't break any US law is that they're not located in the US and aren't under US jurisdiction."
So what you're saying is US laws should apply to the entire world?
"And it's not your place to decide who a company can and can't do business with, based on your own moral and political views."
Credit card companies have a monopoly, it's like the utility company shutting off your electricity and water because they don't agree with your political stance or moral views.
I'm glad they're suing, only reason Mastercard/Visa should stop accepting is if customers are complaining about fraud. If Mastercard/Visa stopped accepting Wikileaks what's next?