Look for 'Power toggles' ( https://play.google.com/store/...) . That is what I use on my nexus 5. It asks for camera permission for the flashlight, and alert window, and root for running root cmds which has no effect on non-rooted phones. It gives you a bunch of toggles, I leave mine in the main top drop down. One of which is a flashlight toggle. So you dont even need an app with this, plus lets you toggle about 30-40 other things
I dont know if Id dismiss mips out of hand. Thats what we were taught as well, and since most projects for CmpE/EE were based on avr and pic controllers and they run mips, it worked out just fine since we got to put them to use on real hardware. Plus my current job is using mips, though we are transitioning to ARM this year, at least mips is close enough that its not a huge deal
Every time I drive through my denver neighborhood and see those lawns I think 'well that looks nice, but what a waste'. I water mine just enough to not have it completely die and piss of the neighbors, which equates to about 30min total for front+back(10min front+5min side+15min back) 3 times a week. Yet I always hear people at work talking about how much their water bill is and everything they do to their lawn and I just think........stop, no one is forcing you to do that but yourself. Who are you really in competition with and does it matter?
I wouldnt say its harder than a manual labor job, but depending on course of study it can be way harder than a real job. If your doing a STEM degree pretty much everyone I have ever talked to all agreed that real life was way easier then college. No late nights till 4am to get projects done to determine if you have to retake an entire class for another 6mo, no pressure of tests, reading through 3-5 classes worth of notes and homework trying to understand all the complicated subject matter every day, blah blah blah all the school stuff.
A job from a stem degree, you go in, do your 9-5, and leave (that is if you've chosen well, or maybe you really like what you do and want to work later which is fine to). IMHO its way less stress, way better hours, and you get great money for it instead of shelling out money
Also having properly coded drivers unlike the SB/Realtek shit out there provides you with a much better cpu load. You can easily go from using 20% load even while idle with a consumer card down to 1-5% idle with a load of vsts
There are tons. The main issue with SB/Asus/Realtek/Etc is their completely and utterly shit drivers. Depending on what you need look for any of the actual audio interfaces out there like ones made by native instruments, steinberg. motu, focusrite, etc etc ones made for music production (id avoid maudio, they are like the bargain basement of production tools for driver support). They live and die by their drivers and latency and support and usually have much better dacs than the big commercial boys
It really depends on how many ins/outs(and what type) you need as to what to look for
Its not really that much more complicated. I do cross dev at work, but at home I had a crossdev setup for a handheld gaming machine we were porting linux to up and running in under 30min. Its really not that hard to just specify a target on a different host. This is all gcc as well, you dont need money for good embedded tools
Not every engineering school is like that though. At Purdue for most math and science AP credits they still require you to take their own placement test during an orientation weekend. They flat out tell you during the physics one that maybe one kid a year will actually score high enough to opt out of the first physics class......so good luck. I got no credit for my AP CS class because they just didnt consider it equivalent to anything in their first year engineering curriculum, maybe if I would have been going as a CS major and not CmpE it may have bought me something
then let them find MIPS or ARM or whatever-fad-arch-is-current so they too can appreciate the design of x86.
Mips and arm as fads? You do realize mips has been around almost as long as x86 has, and is still widely used. People all too often forget that the majority of devices out there are not full fledged computers, they are embedded devices, to which mips and arm own the space. This is exactly why mips is still widely taught in colleges as it is readily accessible, open, and still used in the industry. It also gives a good foundation to build on when looking at other ISAs
Are you in the same region as those surveyed? These are all in NYC where you have to have a wage like this to even come close to affording a tiny apartment. The same pay in iowa would have you living in a pretty large house, its all relative. Same would go for california tech jobs, so the majority of people filling out these surveys are going to be where the majority of these tech workers live (NYC and california) so obviously they are going to appear inflated to anyone living outside of those areas
And as I said, we have a rail system, plenty of people live and work downtown and can walk to work. If they want to they can take the rail system which for most people ends up being a 10-40min ride depending on distance. I think your just stuck in this mentality that NYC is the only place where you never need a car to live when in fact it can be done in many major cities. I have friends in denver who get by just fine without a car. This is all without paying exorbitant NYC rents
Ill take living 15min(drive) outside of a big city, with use of rail to get into the city within 25min, having a 15min commute to work, and then being able to take my car out to the mountains for some of the best skiing, boarding, and hiking in the world within a 1-1.5hr drive. All the while being able to own a 4/2.5 house for half as much as the rent of a studio apt in nyc
But I guess if all you can see is 'cheapskate hillbilly' out of all that then I feel sorry for you
And also we have a rail system here as well, not as extensive as a much larger city obviously, but if your commuting downtown or to the south it works well for that
good luck with your subway in SV, or perhaps you just need reading comprehension lessons. Obviously NYC's mass transit is miles ahead of most other cities, and SF's as well. Im not about to spend an hour or 2 in mass transit or traffic hell when I can have my nice 15min commute and not waste 15 hours of my life a week in commuting
Another +1 to this. Same with chase. I pay no banking fees. The only fee I do pay to them is a yearly 25$ for my credit card and thats only because I have one that earns points with cash back, so I make back that 25$ in 2-4 weeks and the rest of the year get ~50$ back a month. Of course if you dont keep your CC balance cleared out it can easily negate that, but of course that could happen with a CC through anyone
This would be my guess as well. I was one of those who got a CmpE degree, 8 years ago. Its sort of half EE half CS, but the CS part focuses more on embedded systems. So most of the work I did was either VHDL or C/ASM on microcontrollers. I took some electives that were more traditionally software focused like operating systems, networks, and software engineering. We did cover the basics of EE and the digital part with gates and some more analog stuff with designing amps with transistors and such, but no power (besides the basics covered in circuit analysis 1-2. There was also the beginnings of some dsp type stuff with the signals and systems class
So yea, its like a half n half with a focus on digital
To add to this, steam doesnt force its drm on any publisher/game creator that doesnt want it. There are plenty of games for purchase on steam that use absolutely no drm, once downloaded you can go to their install dir and run the game executable without steam running just fine. At that point its just another distribution service
Ive never had an issue with the htc software and in some ways it is better than the samsung one. HTC is vastly superior in its contacts handling. My GF has a galaxy s3 and she still sometimes wishes she went for a evo4glte or htc one because the samsung software has limits on contacts linking, randomly creates new contacts, doesnt properly sync across accounts, all sorts of niggles when it comes to that area. The HTC side however has never had any issues Ive seen
Just because a religion follows some text does not mean that is how it is followed among its followers nor thats how its taught to kids being brought up that way. I was brought up jewish, but reform, and even starting 20 years ago when I was in sunday school it was never taught as a 'we are right, everyone else is wrong, convert them' (though Ive never seen that as a tenant of any form of judaism). To all the schools/synagogues I went to it was all up to the person, it was never foisted upon them that they really and truly must believe in a god.
To go along with that all the old testament stories were treated far more as fables and were up for interpretation in sunday school and in service as a way to understand ones own life and as moral stories to think about for various situations. At this point judaism basically accepts that it was all written by mere men and treats them as such, but that does not mean no value can be gleaned from the study of the stories.
That being said I am an atheist, but being brought up in a way to analyze religious teachings as just a moral framework was definitely not detrimental (not that I dont think I couldnt have figured it out on my own or really needed it) but I can see how it might be useful to those that need it
hope they do a better job than the tv manufacturers do then. I have 2 in my office from 2 different manufacturers, an LG and a Vizio, and they both use the same IR codes and respond to each others remotes
There is one more, specific use cases that amd does not handle well that nvidia does
Built a nice system about 2 years ago based on a 6850. Great price/performance and was pretty happy with it. However their multi-monitor performance leaves a lot to be desired. First you have to use a janky adapter in order to properly use 3 outputs due to the way their DACs are structured on the cards, even though you have 4 total outputs on the card you have to use a DP->HDMI/DVI adapter to run 3 separate monitors. This is not mentioned anywhere except random internet forums.
Once you get that all setup then you have to deal with their 'master' clock. You have to specify one monitor as a master monitor which drivers the clock and refresh rate. Even if you have all the monitors set to the same resolution and refresh you get tearing/sync issues on the non-master monitor. I have 2 monitors on a desk and then run hdmi to a projector that mirrors the first monitor. It was pretty easy to see which ever was set to master did not have tearing and the ones that werent did.
So a few months back switched to nvidia. No adapters needed, no tearing/sync issues, no master clock. Everything worked perfect out of the box
Theres plenty of benefits over physical media, whether these are worth it to you or not is up to the person:
-no physical media to lose, I cant count the number of games I've lost in moves over the years -also no lost keys to go along with the first one -no tedious installs, pick all the games you want and let it download/install, when its done everything is ready to go -no updating, all updates are handled automatically -dlc (if you consider that a benefit, could 50/50 on that one) -a built in online community for every game, direct access to game forums and the like -much cheaper prices than physical media, you can get 5-10 games for the price of one physical game if you time it right
except this isnt factored in when purchasing steam keys, you get a key, you redeem it in seconds, same as buying it directly from Steam.
Starting with their past winter sales steam has very much sucked compared to just about every other game retailer out there, greenman, gamersgate, amazon are among just a few who sold games (Steam keys) at much larger discounts than steam even came close to during their sales.
because your looking at steam prices, and non-sale ones at that. The vast majority of AAA titles can be had a few months later for half the price or less. Just look at the latest hitman, released in november and by february you could get it for 10$
Same goes for borderlands 2, picked it up for 10$, along with skyrim
It takes years for a drop that much in a console title
I hate it when they dont mention if these wage comparisons are adjusted based on cost of living. If I were a tard I would have accepted an offer in california a long time ago, but then again like alot of engineers Im not and understand that a 10% raise of my current salary means Im losing money by going to california
Its also odd that some new engineers dont understand this. We have interviewed and given out offers to software engineers who came back and either turned it down or had a ridiculously high counter offer for an engineer 1 position all because they were given a high offer out of a company in california
Really? I remember when applying for jobs during the last few years of college, many companies wouldnt even talk to you if you had less than a 3.0. It was the first step to get past and a microsoft or google wouldnt touch a sub 3.5 with a 10ft pole.
Now that Ive been in my current job for a while an am up to a senior engineer and interviewing people, GPA still definitely comes up. However as someone who had a slightly below 3.0 I know that GPA doesnt really mean much since a 3.8 from one engineering school could equal a 2.8 from another. Something I try to remind my managers of all the time when they are comparing one engineering grad from a known good engineering university in the USA to a student with an engineering degree from a school they dont know anything about from another country
So while I agree it really shouldnt factor in much to a decision, it is most definitely still widely used by companies when talking to a fresh grad
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Look for 'Power toggles' ( https://play.google.com/store/...) . That is what I use on my nexus 5. It asks for camera permission for the flashlight, and alert window, and root for running root cmds which has no effect on non-rooted phones. It gives you a bunch of toggles, I leave mine in the main top drop down. One of which is a flashlight toggle. So you dont even need an app with this, plus lets you toggle about 30-40 other things
I dont know if Id dismiss mips out of hand. Thats what we were taught as well, and since most projects for CmpE/EE were based on avr and pic controllers and they run mips, it worked out just fine since we got to put them to use on real hardware. Plus my current job is using mips, though we are transitioning to ARM this year, at least mips is close enough that its not a huge deal
+1
Every time I drive through my denver neighborhood and see those lawns I think 'well that looks nice, but what a waste'. I water mine just enough to not have it completely die and piss of the neighbors, which equates to about 30min total for front+back(10min front+5min side+15min back) 3 times a week. Yet I always hear people at work talking about how much their water bill is and everything they do to their lawn and I just think........stop, no one is forcing you to do that but yourself. Who are you really in competition with and does it matter?
I wouldnt say its harder than a manual labor job, but depending on course of study it can be way harder than a real job. If your doing a STEM degree pretty much everyone I have ever talked to all agreed that real life was way easier then college. No late nights till 4am to get projects done to determine if you have to retake an entire class for another 6mo, no pressure of tests, reading through 3-5 classes worth of notes and homework trying to understand all the complicated subject matter every day, blah blah blah all the school stuff.
A job from a stem degree, you go in, do your 9-5, and leave (that is if you've chosen well, or maybe you really like what you do and want to work later which is fine to). IMHO its way less stress, way better hours, and you get great money for it instead of shelling out money
^This
Also having properly coded drivers unlike the SB/Realtek shit out there provides you with a much better cpu load. You can easily go from using 20% load even while idle with a consumer card down to 1-5% idle with a load of vsts
There are tons. The main issue with SB/Asus/Realtek/Etc is their completely and utterly shit drivers. Depending on what you need look for any of the actual audio interfaces out there like ones made by native instruments, steinberg. motu, focusrite, etc etc ones made for music production (id avoid maudio, they are like the bargain basement of production tools for driver support). They live and die by their drivers and latency and support and usually have much better dacs than the big commercial boys
It really depends on how many ins/outs(and what type) you need as to what to look for
Its not really that much more complicated. I do cross dev at work, but at home I had a crossdev setup for a handheld gaming machine we were porting linux to up and running in under 30min. Its really not that hard to just specify a target on a different host. This is all gcc as well, you dont need money for good embedded tools
Not every engineering school is like that though. At Purdue for most math and science AP credits they still require you to take their own placement test during an orientation weekend. They flat out tell you during the physics one that maybe one kid a year will actually score high enough to opt out of the first physics class......so good luck. I got no credit for my AP CS class because they just didnt consider it equivalent to anything in their first year engineering curriculum, maybe if I would have been going as a CS major and not CmpE it may have bought me something
then let them find MIPS or ARM or whatever-fad-arch-is-current so they too can appreciate the design of x86.
Mips and arm as fads? You do realize mips has been around almost as long as x86 has, and is still widely used. People all too often forget that the majority of devices out there are not full fledged computers, they are embedded devices, to which mips and arm own the space. This is exactly why mips is still widely taught in colleges as it is readily accessible, open, and still used in the industry. It also gives a good foundation to build on when looking at other ISAs
Are you in the same region as those surveyed? These are all in NYC where you have to have a wage like this to even come close to affording a tiny apartment. The same pay in iowa would have you living in a pretty large house, its all relative. Same would go for california tech jobs, so the majority of people filling out these surveys are going to be where the majority of these tech workers live (NYC and california) so obviously they are going to appear inflated to anyone living outside of those areas
And as I said, we have a rail system, plenty of people live and work downtown and can walk to work. If they want to they can take the rail system which for most people ends up being a 10-40min ride depending on distance. I think your just stuck in this mentality that NYC is the only place where you never need a car to live when in fact it can be done in many major cities. I have friends in denver who get by just fine without a car. This is all without paying exorbitant NYC rents
Ill take living 15min(drive) outside of a big city, with use of rail to get into the city within 25min, having a 15min commute to work, and then being able to take my car out to the mountains for some of the best skiing, boarding, and hiking in the world within a 1-1.5hr drive. All the while being able to own a 4/2.5 house for half as much as the rent of a studio apt in nyc
But I guess if all you can see is 'cheapskate hillbilly' out of all that then I feel sorry for you
And also we have a rail system here as well, not as extensive as a much larger city obviously, but if your commuting downtown or to the south it works well for that
Except
1) denver is democrat leaning, especially the city itself
2) http://www.bloombergview.com/a...
good luck with your subway in SV, or perhaps you just need reading comprehension lessons. Obviously NYC's mass transit is miles ahead of most other cities, and SF's as well. Im not about to spend an hour or 2 in mass transit or traffic hell when I can have my nice 15min commute and not waste 15 hours of my life a week in commuting
Another +1 to this. Same with chase. I pay no banking fees. The only fee I do pay to them is a yearly 25$ for my credit card and thats only because I have one that earns points with cash back, so I make back that 25$ in 2-4 weeks and the rest of the year get ~50$ back a month. Of course if you dont keep your CC balance cleared out it can easily negate that, but of course that could happen with a CC through anyone
This would be my guess as well. I was one of those who got a CmpE degree, 8 years ago. Its sort of half EE half CS, but the CS part focuses more on embedded systems. So most of the work I did was either VHDL or C/ASM on microcontrollers. I took some electives that were more traditionally software focused like operating systems, networks, and software engineering. We did cover the basics of EE and the digital part with gates and some more analog stuff with designing amps with transistors and such, but no power (besides the basics covered in circuit analysis 1-2. There was also the beginnings of some dsp type stuff with the signals and systems class
So yea, its like a half n half with a focus on digital
To add to this, steam doesnt force its drm on any publisher/game creator that doesnt want it. There are plenty of games for purchase on steam that use absolutely no drm, once downloaded you can go to their install dir and run the game executable without steam running just fine. At that point its just another distribution service
Ive never had an issue with the htc software and in some ways it is better than the samsung one. HTC is vastly superior in its contacts handling. My GF has a galaxy s3 and she still sometimes wishes she went for a evo4glte or htc one because the samsung software has limits on contacts linking, randomly creates new contacts, doesnt properly sync across accounts, all sorts of niggles when it comes to that area. The HTC side however has never had any issues Ive seen
Just because a religion follows some text does not mean that is how it is followed among its followers nor thats how its taught to kids being brought up that way. I was brought up jewish, but reform, and even starting 20 years ago when I was in sunday school it was never taught as a 'we are right, everyone else is wrong, convert them' (though Ive never seen that as a tenant of any form of judaism). To all the schools/synagogues I went to it was all up to the person, it was never foisted upon them that they really and truly must believe in a god.
To go along with that all the old testament stories were treated far more as fables and were up for interpretation in sunday school and in service as a way to understand ones own life and as moral stories to think about for various situations. At this point judaism basically accepts that it was all written by mere men and treats them as such, but that does not mean no value can be gleaned from the study of the stories.
That being said I am an atheist, but being brought up in a way to analyze religious teachings as just a moral framework was definitely not detrimental (not that I dont think I couldnt have figured it out on my own or really needed it) but I can see how it might be useful to those that need it
hope they do a better job than the tv manufacturers do then. I have 2 in my office from 2 different manufacturers, an LG and a Vizio, and they both use the same IR codes and respond to each others remotes
There is one more, specific use cases that amd does not handle well that nvidia does
Built a nice system about 2 years ago based on a 6850. Great price/performance and was pretty happy with it. However their multi-monitor performance leaves a lot to be desired. First you have to use a janky adapter in order to properly use 3 outputs due to the way their DACs are structured on the cards, even though you have 4 total outputs on the card you have to use a DP->HDMI/DVI adapter to run 3 separate monitors. This is not mentioned anywhere except random internet forums.
Once you get that all setup then you have to deal with their 'master' clock. You have to specify one monitor as a master monitor which drivers the clock and refresh rate. Even if you have all the monitors set to the same resolution and refresh you get tearing/sync issues on the non-master monitor. I have 2 monitors on a desk and then run hdmi to a projector that mirrors the first monitor. It was pretty easy to see which ever was set to master did not have tearing and the ones that werent did.
So a few months back switched to nvidia. No adapters needed, no tearing/sync issues, no master clock. Everything worked perfect out of the box
Theres plenty of benefits over physical media, whether these are worth it to you or not is up to the person:
-no physical media to lose, I cant count the number of games I've lost in moves over the years
-also no lost keys to go along with the first one
-no tedious installs, pick all the games you want and let it download/install, when its done everything is ready to go
-no updating, all updates are handled automatically
-dlc (if you consider that a benefit, could 50/50 on that one)
-a built in online community for every game, direct access to game forums and the like
-much cheaper prices than physical media, you can get 5-10 games for the price of one physical game if you time it right
except this isnt factored in when purchasing steam keys, you get a key, you redeem it in seconds, same as buying it directly from Steam.
Starting with their past winter sales steam has very much sucked compared to just about every other game retailer out there, greenman, gamersgate, amazon are among just a few who sold games (Steam keys) at much larger discounts than steam even came close to during their sales.
because your looking at steam prices, and non-sale ones at that. The vast majority of AAA titles can be had a few months later for half the price or less. Just look at the latest hitman, released in november and by february you could get it for 10$
Same goes for borderlands 2, picked it up for 10$, along with skyrim
It takes years for a drop that much in a console title
This
I hate it when they dont mention if these wage comparisons are adjusted based on cost of living. If I were a tard I would have accepted an offer in california a long time ago, but then again like alot of engineers Im not and understand that a 10% raise of my current salary means Im losing money by going to california
Its also odd that some new engineers dont understand this. We have interviewed and given out offers to software engineers who came back and either turned it down or had a ridiculously high counter offer for an engineer 1 position all because they were given a high offer out of a company in california
Really? I remember when applying for jobs during the last few years of college, many companies wouldnt even talk to you if you had less than a 3.0. It was the first step to get past and a microsoft or google wouldnt touch a sub 3.5 with a 10ft pole.
Now that Ive been in my current job for a while an am up to a senior engineer and interviewing people, GPA still definitely comes up. However as someone who had a slightly below 3.0 I know that GPA doesnt really mean much since a 3.8 from one engineering school could equal a 2.8 from another. Something I try to remind my managers of all the time when they are comparing one engineering grad from a known good engineering university in the USA to a student with an engineering degree from a school they dont know anything about from another country
So while I agree it really shouldnt factor in much to a decision, it is most definitely still widely used by companies when talking to a fresh grad