Computer gaming is nowhere near as bad. If you can wait 6months you get the game for 75% off+. There are plenty of games with large single player modes and I have yet to play a single game where I had to pay to play multi-player
Unless your only playing MMO's almost nothing you said about PC gaming actually applies
except his (IMHO utterly horrible) animals track copied about 3 other tracks. Electronic music in general would completely dissappear since everyone takes little bits and pieces from everyone else. House(funky especially) has been my goto genre for 15 years or more now, but they really just cant sue each other or they would all go down in flames. Hell 1/3 of all songs relesed in the past 5 years could be taken down by eric prydz for sampling his pryda snare hit straight from his track (it would be a straight look n feel type of thing), good thing he said he doesnt particularly care, he's just annoyed
Except he does license (at least the vast majority) of the tracks he 'sings' over, same goes for flo-rida. Having been to a pitbull concert(the woman dragged me there but it was actually fun) was like listening to the past 10 years of electronic music all over again. Every single one of his tracks was some popular-mildly popular house track that had been released in the previous 10-15 years. Same goes for all of flo-rida's songs. I looked them up a while back though and both of them generally pay royalties/licenses/credit/whatever since even though the majority of people out there wont recognize the tracks, they are basically taking all of them as-is to rap on top of
I get that, I mean that is what the U's are designed for. My issue with them, more the manufacturers, is that they are putting U's in non-ultrabook form factors. The only way to get non-U anymore is to buy a 'gaming' laptop which usually costs 2-3x as much as a laptop used to cost with the same processor
Also the games being cheaper on a PC is a huge factor if your looking at it from a gaming/price stand point. If your willing to wait 6mo you can have the same title on PC for 10-15$ or even less vs. still paying 50-60 for a console version. After a few games the price difference in hardware between a console and pc vanishes. then your left with what is still a vast cheap library of games and a piece of hardware that is incrementally upgradable
That is 3x the performance of these U series processors. It even matches my 2600k. However since the U's are much cheaper, and as stated in the summary, most users wont even know the difference since all they do is surf and watch movies
The thing that has pissed me off about the ultrabook push is that since the processors for them are cheaper than non-U processors manufacturers started putting them in almost all laptops, not just ultrabooks. The common consumer is not aware, they have no idea what the U designation on the processor means. For them though it can mean half the performance of a non-U spec'd proc.
I was attempting to buy a laptop during this transition a few years ago and eventually gave up when I could find only one out there that was still in my price range that wasnt a non-U anymore. Over the period of a month or two every manufacturer transitioned all of their models to U processors, halving the performance but at the same price, same case, same ram, etc just to feed their bottom line. Now I only see non-U's in gaming and higher priced models
The other issue that they may be facing is that they are not in control of the text to speech aspect. There are a couple vendors out there that provide this functionality, nuance being one of the large players, and most of them work in this manner with some sort of xml/json and a binary blob of the pcm data. If the vendor they are using does not support encrypted data on the server end, then there isnt much samsung can do besides going and finding one that does
big +1 to enhanced steam, adds so many useful features and allows you to remove the cruft
Its a shame steam shafted the dev, they invited him to come talk with them about features, enhancements, etc, and then basically jacked all his ideas and implemented his features 2 years after he did it and refused to offer him a job even when he was struggling to make ends meet
The good thing about this outlook app, it must interface differently than adding an exchange account in ios or android through the normal means. This app does not require any sort of locking on your end or allow your company to erase your device. I just swapped out all my email clients on my nexus5 and ipad for the outlook app first because of that, but also IMHO it works so much better then the ios mail or gmail integration
Ive done it, plenty of times. Which is one of the reasons steam shut down gifting games from russia (along with the whole currency drop thing). There were plenty of reputable russians out there, so you didnt have to deal with dodgy key sites, who would sell you the game for the russian price with a small mark up on their end. They are completely legit in the instances where games were not region locked which used to be the vast majority. Its how I got the latest civ game for 60% off for a pre-order. Russian prices are usually vastly lower than the USA pricing, i.e. GTA V is 30$ there, the latest COD was 15$ at one point
the only time its not legit is when you are required to use a vpn in order to activate your game since you are violating the TOS at that point. But to have a region non-locked game gifted to you is no way against the TOS. The reputable sellers wont sell you those games anyway since it impacts their business as well. Since you are getting the game gifted the chances of a bad key also go way down, its already in their inventory and most likely purchased directly from the store
As another reply said, go look at nuuvem, as long as a game isnt region locked to brazil (their country of origin) they have no problems selling you a game, which is usually at a vast discount because there are no issues with it, the key could from from the USA, UK, it doesnt matter, its all from the same pool at that point.
The thing I never understood is that these are supposed to be geared to ultrabooks. However any laptop these days that are inexpensive are also using these U series processors, and they arent slim by any means. A few years ago when I was looking for a new laptop I found that between many manufacturers series revisions they switched from the HQ processors to the U processors, yet still charged the same amount on the laptop for much lower performance. You could find basically the same 2 models across a year when they made the switch at the same price.
Since the U's also now show up in all the cheap laptops and you can only find the HQ's in higher priced laptops anymore that just tells me that they cost alot less. Manufacturers realized most consumers arent concerned about specs and just buy what ever is in their price range regardless and could charge the same amount. So the U's allowed them higher profit margins without much reduction in purchases.
At that point I just gave up on the whole laptop thing after buying one of the remaining toshiba's that had an i7-HQ series proc in it for ~600 and had twice the performance of the newer model. Once I had to swap it out three times for static discharge issues from a non-user replaceable battery I threw in the towel on laptops
So many people I work with have their work email on their devices. They are always surprised when I dont have my email or calendar on my phone and every time I tell that that until the office wants to pay for my service they will not have their information on my personal device. Why they are willing to do it I have no idea
You can turn that off, I havent seen a tv yet that didnt have interpolation as an option the user could turn off. Sometimes they give it some gimmicky name though
Its also greatly waning in the house/trance/etc genres. Most of them at this point just carry usb sticks since the club standard players all have usb ports. Less to lose, less to carry, easier to keep backups
Yea Ive had some dev's say that, and then those exact same devs turn around and do that exact thing. I.e. ticket to ride. The IAP's for android and steam activate together based on your TTR account, the iOS does not. However their game smallworld2 had IAP from another bundle (just like TTR) that activated based on game account and so activated on all products.
One thing I wish more devs would do is the universal IAP unlock. I have a couple games that have this and its awesome. Instead of having to buy the game outright on apple/android store, you get the free version. Then log in to your games account from android/ios/web/pc/whatever version you have, pay for the IAP to unlock the full version which then gets associated to your game account, and your done. Now you have the full version available on any platform
Any time I see that option on a game/app even if Im slightly interested in it it almost becomes an insta-buy just to support them
The one question I have on the insurance situation is when an autonomous car causes an accident who is fault? The manufacturer or the owner? Since the owner was not in command of the vehicle I would think it would be the manufacturer.
So then take the auto-auto scenario to its end conclusion, no one drivers manually ever anymore and the manufacturer is always the one at fault. It may take 50 years from the intro of the auto/manual version, but it would come eventually. At which point auto insurance would be out of business. Surely the insurance industry would be apposed to something they know would eventually put them out of business
I tell young people, unless you really really really love engineering and programming, you'll have a much better future in medicine - and a longer one at that.
Why bust your ass 60+ hours a week for $80K per year -if that - and have your job sent overseas to India when you could be making as much working 36 hours a week as a nurse practioner - over $100K when you get about 4 years of experience.
The STE part of STEM sucks unless you absolutely cannot do anything else because of love or lack of talent. It's too much work and stress for too little rewards.
That really just depends on where you get a job. There are plenty of jobs out there that dont require you to do 60+ hours a week. In general I work 40-42.5, as do most of the people i work with (except the ones who think they are doing an awesome job working 50-60 when really you just have to clean up their crap later)
The 60+ only applies if you go to a place and feel pressured to do 60 because for some reason all the other employees have been duped in to thinking thats the norm, or they are fresh out of college and have heard all these stories, so thats what they think they have to do until they learn better after a year that thats just stupid
Here in Australia you're talking $300-400 to cross the country. And that's a cheap flight.
Thats what it is in the US as well. Cheapest I see for a flight from NYC to LA in mid october time frame is 350, tack on your baggage fees and your at 400. They have been going up over the past couple years as well. I used to be able to find a denver->las vegas flight for 100$ roundtrip pretty easily, these days the cheapest you'll find is 200$ for the same time period
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Computer gaming is nowhere near as bad. If you can wait 6months you get the game for 75% off+. There are plenty of games with large single player modes and I have yet to play a single game where I had to pay to play multi-player
Unless your only playing MMO's almost nothing you said about PC gaming actually applies
except his (IMHO utterly horrible) animals track copied about 3 other tracks. Electronic music in general would completely dissappear since everyone takes little bits and pieces from everyone else. House(funky especially) has been my goto genre for 15 years or more now, but they really just cant sue each other or they would all go down in flames. Hell 1/3 of all songs relesed in the past 5 years could be taken down by eric prydz for sampling his pryda snare hit straight from his track (it would be a straight look n feel type of thing), good thing he said he doesnt particularly care, he's just annoyed
Except he does license (at least the vast majority) of the tracks he 'sings' over, same goes for flo-rida. Having been to a pitbull concert(the woman dragged me there but it was actually fun) was like listening to the past 10 years of electronic music all over again. Every single one of his tracks was some popular-mildly popular house track that had been released in the previous 10-15 years. Same goes for all of flo-rida's songs. I looked them up a while back though and both of them generally pay royalties/licenses/credit/whatever since even though the majority of people out there wont recognize the tracks, they are basically taking all of them as-is to rap on top of
I get that, I mean that is what the U's are designed for. My issue with them, more the manufacturers, is that they are putting U's in non-ultrabook form factors. The only way to get non-U anymore is to buy a 'gaming' laptop which usually costs 2-3x as much as a laptop used to cost with the same processor
This
Also the games being cheaper on a PC is a huge factor if your looking at it from a gaming/price stand point. If your willing to wait 6mo you can have the same title on PC for 10-15$ or even less vs. still paying 50-60 for a console version. After a few games the price difference in hardware between a console and pc vanishes. then your left with what is still a vast cheap library of games and a piece of hardware that is incrementally upgradable
but it doesnt have to be like this, its because the manufacturers have been pushing the ultrabook class cpus into everything because they are cheap.
for example, you used to be able to get this processor in a 600-700$ laptop
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cp...
That is 3x the performance of these U series processors. It even matches my 2600k. However since the U's are much cheaper, and as stated in the summary, most users wont even know the difference since all they do is surf and watch movies
Its an embedded system, 3gb is not uncommon in the embedded space, especially when you are trying to hit a certain BOM price point
The thing that has pissed me off about the ultrabook push is that since the processors for them are cheaper than non-U processors manufacturers started putting them in almost all laptops, not just ultrabooks. The common consumer is not aware, they have no idea what the U designation on the processor means. For them though it can mean half the performance of a non-U spec'd proc.
I was attempting to buy a laptop during this transition a few years ago and eventually gave up when I could find only one out there that was still in my price range that wasnt a non-U anymore. Over the period of a month or two every manufacturer transitioned all of their models to U processors, halving the performance but at the same price, same case, same ram, etc just to feed their bottom line. Now I only see non-U's in gaming and higher priced models
The other issue that they may be facing is that they are not in control of the text to speech aspect. There are a couple vendors out there that provide this functionality, nuance being one of the large players, and most of them work in this manner with some sort of xml/json and a binary blob of the pcm data. If the vendor they are using does not support encrypted data on the server end, then there isnt much samsung can do besides going and finding one that does
big +1 to enhanced steam, adds so many useful features and allows you to remove the cruft
Its a shame steam shafted the dev, they invited him to come talk with them about features, enhancements, etc, and then basically jacked all his ideas and implemented his features 2 years after he did it and refused to offer him a job even when he was struggling to make ends meet
The good thing about this outlook app, it must interface differently than adding an exchange account in ios or android through the normal means. This app does not require any sort of locking on your end or allow your company to erase your device. I just swapped out all my email clients on my nexus5 and ipad for the outlook app first because of that, but also IMHO it works so much better then the ios mail or gmail integration
Ive done it, plenty of times. Which is one of the reasons steam shut down gifting games from russia (along with the whole currency drop thing). There were plenty of reputable russians out there, so you didnt have to deal with dodgy key sites, who would sell you the game for the russian price with a small mark up on their end. They are completely legit in the instances where games were not region locked which used to be the vast majority. Its how I got the latest civ game for 60% off for a pre-order. Russian prices are usually vastly lower than the USA pricing, i.e. GTA V is 30$ there, the latest COD was 15$ at one point
the only time its not legit is when you are required to use a vpn in order to activate your game since you are violating the TOS at that point. But to have a region non-locked game gifted to you is no way against the TOS. The reputable sellers wont sell you those games anyway since it impacts their business as well. Since you are getting the game gifted the chances of a bad key also go way down, its already in their inventory and most likely purchased directly from the store
As another reply said, go look at nuuvem, as long as a game isnt region locked to brazil (their country of origin) they have no problems selling you a game, which is usually at a vast discount because there are no issues with it, the key could from from the USA, UK, it doesnt matter, its all from the same pool at that point.
it was the jerk and the opti-grab
The thing I never understood is that these are supposed to be geared to ultrabooks. However any laptop these days that are inexpensive are also using these U series processors, and they arent slim by any means. A few years ago when I was looking for a new laptop I found that between many manufacturers series revisions they switched from the HQ processors to the U processors, yet still charged the same amount on the laptop for much lower performance. You could find basically the same 2 models across a year when they made the switch at the same price.
Since the U's also now show up in all the cheap laptops and you can only find the HQ's in higher priced laptops anymore that just tells me that they cost alot less. Manufacturers realized most consumers arent concerned about specs and just buy what ever is in their price range regardless and could charge the same amount. So the U's allowed them higher profit margins without much reduction in purchases.
At that point I just gave up on the whole laptop thing after buying one of the remaining toshiba's that had an i7-HQ series proc in it for ~600 and had twice the performance of the newer model. Once I had to swap it out three times for static discharge issues from a non-user replaceable battery I threw in the towel on laptops
+1
So many people I work with have their work email on their devices. They are always surprised when I dont have my email or calendar on my phone and every time I tell that that until the office wants to pay for my service they will not have their information on my personal device. Why they are willing to do it I have no idea
You can turn that off, I havent seen a tv yet that didnt have interpolation as an option the user could turn off. Sometimes they give it some gimmicky name though
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The strobe was/is useful for mixing since you can tell at a glance generally how much faster or slower one is moving vs another
Its also greatly waning in the house/trance/etc genres. Most of them at this point just carry usb sticks since the club standard players all have usb ports. Less to lose, less to carry, easier to keep backups
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Plus they are only going to make one master, They arent going to make a less-compressed version just for the tiny percentage of vinyl purchasers
Yea Ive had some dev's say that, and then those exact same devs turn around and do that exact thing. I.e. ticket to ride. The IAP's for android and steam activate together based on your TTR account, the iOS does not. However their game smallworld2 had IAP from another bundle (just like TTR) that activated based on game account and so activated on all products.
One thing I wish more devs would do is the universal IAP unlock. I have a couple games that have this and its awesome. Instead of having to buy the game outright on apple/android store, you get the free version. Then log in to your games account from android/ios/web/pc/whatever version you have, pay for the IAP to unlock the full version which then gets associated to your game account, and your done. Now you have the full version available on any platform
Any time I see that option on a game/app even if Im slightly interested in it it almost becomes an insta-buy just to support them
Fucking Magnets! How do they work?
The one question I have on the insurance situation is when an autonomous car causes an accident who is fault? The manufacturer or the owner? Since the owner was not in command of the vehicle I would think it would be the manufacturer.
So then take the auto-auto scenario to its end conclusion, no one drivers manually ever anymore and the manufacturer is always the one at fault. It may take 50 years from the intro of the auto/manual version, but it would come eventually. At which point auto insurance would be out of business. Surely the insurance industry would be apposed to something they know would eventually put them out of business
I tell young people, unless you really really really love engineering and programming, you'll have a much better future in medicine - and a longer one at that.
Why bust your ass 60+ hours a week for $80K per year -if that - and have your job sent overseas to India when you could be making as much working 36 hours a week as a nurse practioner - over $100K when you get about 4 years of experience.
The STE part of STEM sucks unless you absolutely cannot do anything else because of love or lack of talent. It's too much work and stress for too little rewards.
That really just depends on where you get a job. There are plenty of jobs out there that dont require you to do 60+ hours a week. In general I work 40-42.5, as do most of the people i work with (except the ones who think they are doing an awesome job working 50-60 when really you just have to clean up their crap later)
The 60+ only applies if you go to a place and feel pressured to do 60 because for some reason all the other employees have been duped in to thinking thats the norm, or they are fresh out of college and have heard all these stories, so thats what they think they have to do until they learn better after a year that thats just stupid
US has had BS cheap airfares for decades.
Here in Australia you're talking $300-400 to cross the country. And that's a cheap flight.
Thats what it is in the US as well. Cheapest I see for a flight from NYC to LA in mid october time frame is 350, tack on your baggage fees and your at 400. They have been going up over the past couple years as well. I used to be able to find a denver->las vegas flight for 100$ roundtrip pretty easily, these days the cheapest you'll find is 200$ for the same time period