It seems that the motherboard manufacturers are holding out when it comes to incorporating much-needed I/O features. Consider the following:
- USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A and C - Thunderbolt 3 - M.2 Gen 3 x4 - U.2
Unless you are willing to shell out top dollars for the top-of-the line Z170 series boards by Gigabyte or Asus, you can't get those features. It seems that they think that only gamers need these features, and Z170 chipset is all about overclocking.
Intel 200 series boards will start appearing in CES 2017. Hopefully lower-priced / non-OC boards would have these features and new system builders will pair them with a kaby lake cpu anyway. What's the alternative?
In a bizarre turn of events, old USB 3.0 has been renamed USB 3.1 gen 1, and the newfangled USB C can be plain old USB 3.0, 3.1 or Thunderbolt. So now you have cables that look the same, but perform very differently.
As someone said before, it's a niche market. Color accurate work is usually done in a S-IPS / S-PVA panel based display which has been professionally calibrated using a hardware colormeter. If money is no concern, check it the top of the line products by Eizo or the HP Dreamcolor series. At the bottom end (but still quite decent) is the HP LP2475w. However, you'll have to add a hardware colormeter to your budget.
I've seen a lot of posts lately claiming that ATI's superiority is "subjective at best" and nvidia still offers the "Best performance at a certain price level". Now you have it straight from the horse's mouth. What do you say to this?
...you can safely skip the smartphone and mp3 player. All you need is a triband phone for accessing internet via GPRS/EDGE/Whatever in the unlikely situation that you can't get WiFi or LAN access.
A bluetooth GPS+software will get you fantastic navigation capabilities. Need music? Use your laptop.
If you are fanatical about image quality in a compact camera, you can go for this: http://www.sigma-dp1.com/ , or a Leica. Less money? Try the Canon Powershot G9. Can't afford that? STFU and stop whining about image quality.
So here's your shopping list:
1. A laptop that fits your lifestyle 2. A multiband cellphone 3. Bluetooth GPS 4. A compact camera you can afford
Other stuff like headphones, plug adapters and ninja training manual to protect your bling is left as an exercise.
This means fundamentally changing the way people live.
Let's take the case of Bangladesh. We have about 150 million people here, although a large chunk of that figure aren't your potential customers.
Facts:
- All foreign-produced movie DVDs and audio CDs are pirated. Yes. All. You can't legally buy legit copies of this stuff there. - All home / office use software is pirated, unless you're working for a top multinational company. Purchasing a computer implies that it would come loaded with whatever software you prefer. - All games are pirated
The prices are astonishing. It costs about 1 USD for CDs, 2 USD for DVDs. It doesn't matter what's the content.
How do you promote any software when Adobe Photoshop is the default image editor? When a software developer can choose any tool he wants with zero licensing and distribution costs, guess which platform wins out.
People want the best software and want access to the latest music and movies. It's been very low priced since forever. I can't imagine how would anyone go about asking them to change their consumption habits.
No "piracy is theft" argument doesn't work here. People feel that they have the right to rip-off any foreign-produced stuff because those companies are profitable anyway.
Noritsu 2901 has a resolution of 400 dpi, similar to that Durst machine you linked to. Konica R2 also claims to have similar resolutions. IMHO prints from the Noritsu machine seem to be sharper and more natural looking than any Epson print I've ever seen, on any paper. Also, the colors seem to be more natural and it has that "film look". Can you comment on this?
...to raise kids who'd be successful in their lives. I've met a bunch of commercially successful musicians and art directors in the advertising world. They had pretty normal childhood, unlike what you're putting your kids through. They had more or less unrestricted access to everything. They know what it feels like to get drunk, stoned, and actually have a range of experience from good to evil. See, humans are not perfect. If you're creating art, you should be able to experience and communicate a broad range of experiences. That's what separates the mediocre from the absolute best.
A microwave commercial can say "cook faster so you can have time to spend with your family." Yeah, normal shit. But one that says "...so you have the time to sleep more" grabs people's attention. It's a very selfish thing and that's what people can relate to deep inside. Your holier-than-thou attitude may not be able to train your kids to understand that.
That's the advertising industry. In the IT industry, the very best hackers I know have had irregular lives, and lives on caffeine, junk food and loud music. One of the best school teachers I know spends his spare time playing pool in local clubs and doing pot with his friends.
Let's face it, I haven't met anybody who's among the best with a childhood like what you're putting your kids through. Maybe you're growing up your kids as "reasonably good", perfect citizens but we humans aren't meant to be perfect. Of course, some people get derailed but that's Darwinism for you.
I sincerely hope that your kids won't rebel when the time comes. Other wise, we'll just have a reasonably good member of the community, not somebody who shakes the industry.
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It seems that the motherboard manufacturers are holding out when it comes to incorporating much-needed I/O features. Consider the following:
- USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A and C
- Thunderbolt 3
- M.2 Gen 3 x4
- U.2
Unless you are willing to shell out top dollars for the top-of-the line Z170 series boards by Gigabyte or Asus, you can't get those features. It seems that they think that only gamers need these features, and Z170 chipset is all about overclocking.
Intel 200 series boards will start appearing in CES 2017. Hopefully lower-priced / non-OC boards would have these features and new system builders will pair them with a kaby lake cpu anyway. What's the alternative?
In a bizarre turn of events, old USB 3.0 has been renamed USB 3.1 gen 1, and the newfangled USB C can be plain old USB 3.0, 3.1 or Thunderbolt. So now you have cables that look the same, but perform very differently.
Anybody remembers John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory?
If any of you are looking for laptops for serious color accurate work then you might be interested in this article:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/top-5-laptops-for-displaying-color-gamut/2008/10/14/
As someone said before, it's a niche market. Color accurate work is usually done in a S-IPS / S-PVA panel based display which has been professionally calibrated using a hardware colormeter. If money is no concern, check it the top of the line products by Eizo or the HP Dreamcolor series. At the bottom end (but still quite decent) is the HP LP2475w. However, you'll have to add a hardware colormeter to your budget.
I've seen a lot of posts lately claiming that ATI's superiority is "subjective at best" and nvidia still offers the "Best performance at a certain price level". Now you have it straight from the horse's mouth. What do you say to this?
What are you? A Lotus Notes admin? That should count as industrial strength BDSM.
...you can safely skip the smartphone and mp3 player. All you need is a triband phone for accessing internet via GPRS/EDGE/Whatever in the unlikely situation that you can't get WiFi or LAN access.
A bluetooth GPS+software will get you fantastic navigation capabilities. Need music? Use your laptop.
If you are fanatical about image quality in a compact camera, you can go for this: http://www.sigma-dp1.com/ , or a Leica.
Less money? Try the Canon Powershot G9. Can't afford that? STFU and stop whining about image quality.
So here's your shopping list:
1. A laptop that fits your lifestyle
2. A multiband cellphone
3. Bluetooth GPS
4. A compact camera you can afford
Other stuff like headphones, plug adapters and ninja training manual to protect your bling is left as an exercise.
If you get tricked into clicking a goatse link, can you sue for ambush and rape? Some guys are in deep shit then!
Have you considered its effect on the furry community? Deeply disturbing...
This means fundamentally changing the way people live.
Let's take the case of Bangladesh. We have about 150 million people here, although a large chunk of that figure aren't your potential customers.
Facts:
- All foreign-produced movie DVDs and audio CDs are pirated. Yes. All. You can't legally buy legit copies of this stuff there.
- All home / office use software is pirated, unless you're working for a top multinational company. Purchasing a computer implies that it would come loaded with whatever software you prefer.
- All games are pirated
The prices are astonishing. It costs about 1 USD for CDs, 2 USD for DVDs. It doesn't matter what's the content.
How do you promote any software when Adobe Photoshop is the default image editor? When a software developer can choose any tool he wants with zero licensing and distribution costs, guess which platform wins out.
People want the best software and want access to the latest music and movies. It's been very low priced since forever. I can't imagine how would anyone go about asking them to change their consumption habits.
No "piracy is theft" argument doesn't work here. People feel that they have the right to rip-off any foreign-produced stuff because those companies are profitable anyway.
OK, that was not so nice. It guessed that I'm a 30 something woman. I am NOT. This is not the kind of thing you want to hear when you begin your day.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 6/2139244
"It seems your computer R-E-A-L-L-Y wants you to have an enlarged penis. Do you want me to intervene?"
I look forward to it.
Noritsu 2901 has a resolution of 400 dpi, similar to that Durst machine you linked to. Konica R2 also claims to have similar resolutions. IMHO prints from the Noritsu machine seem to be sharper and more natural looking than any Epson print I've ever seen, on any paper. Also, the colors seem to be more natural and it has that "film look". Can you comment on this?
...to raise kids who'd be successful in their lives. I've met a bunch of commercially successful musicians and art directors in the advertising world. They had pretty normal childhood, unlike what you're putting your kids through. They had more or less unrestricted access to everything. They know what it feels like to get drunk, stoned, and actually have a range of experience from good to evil. See, humans are not perfect. If you're creating art, you should be able to experience and communicate a broad range of experiences. That's what separates the mediocre from the absolute best.
A microwave commercial can say "cook faster so you can have time to spend with your family." Yeah, normal shit. But one that says "...so you have the time to sleep more" grabs people's attention. It's a very selfish thing and that's what people can relate to deep inside. Your holier-than-thou attitude may not be able to train your kids to understand that.
That's the advertising industry. In the IT industry, the very best hackers I know have had irregular lives, and lives on caffeine, junk food and loud music. One of the best school teachers I know spends his spare time playing pool in local clubs and doing pot with his friends.
Let's face it, I haven't met anybody who's among the best with a childhood like what you're putting your kids through. Maybe you're growing up your kids as "reasonably good", perfect citizens but we humans aren't meant to be perfect. Of course, some people get derailed but that's Darwinism for you.
I sincerely hope that your kids won't rebel when the time comes. Other wise, we'll just have a reasonably good member of the community, not somebody who shakes the industry.
it's #funfactory. From the very little time I've spent in IRC, this is the place where terrorists are recruited and nurtured.
Slightly OT, but anyone else cleaned out the entire #irckids back in the 90s with OOB packets, or was I the only sadist?
FB.