Less than 24 hours after my last final, my sleep schedule is already nocturnal.

Sure. If it's not too much of a hassle, just try to take some detailed shots of the traces, colors of the resistors and, if possible, the labels on the capacitors.
I was actually thinking about talking to an acquaintance who works as an electrical engineer for Lockheed Martin about parts. Although they outsource a lot of their components, I would assume the kinds of caps and resistors they stick into an F-16 are just a wee-bit step above the stuff you'd pick up at a local electronics hobby shop. Particularly because resistors introduce a lot of noise into the signal of a circuit as they get warmer and the aerospace industry has a low tolerance for cheap or obtrusive components.

Your last final passed? Sounds awesome! Hope it went well!

You should ask copyhat tho, I tell ya.

Found an awesome android software to make gifs with the camera, though I have some... framerate issues.

"N. Korean citizen left a comment on your profile"

So, how are you doing?

Decent, have two finals this weekend, then the semester's done with.

How're you?

Gaming, music, enjoying the internets and whatnot.
So, i'm good.

Any work or are ya done with class for summer?

Nah, just highschool stuffs. Currently on a 5-day break.

I take it you get out late May / early June?

I'd love to get the ost, but it's only available in lossy digital download last I checked.
Also I have no mones.

So... you don't like yello?

I don't think I've listened to enough of them to form an objective opinion.

Want some rips?

Sure, throw me what you consider their better works.

Don't expect it immediately... moved my reaction folder to dropbox and it says "uploading... 20 hours left"

I have two cd's, of which the other one is better, I'll just upload that.

How you been anyways, Dansky?

programming project failed spectacularly, but still has good salvageable bits.
Luckily I did so well in the course, that the project will hardly put a dent in my grade and the professor is very forgiving of project mishaps because his motto for coding is "Fail fast, Fail Often, Fail Early."

Last final is this monday, then the semester's over.
Also found out that I did much better last semester in most of my classes than I thought (except Calc III, the only class I did bad in, I failed it)

So pretty good. How about yourself?

Nice to hear you're doing well man!

What was that project about?

School's ok, though math I had to retake to get it barely through, I'm a complete mathtard. Pretty much every subject except except business communications where I have to send one offer lying on my desktop, is completed and I'll have extra courses as a base for next year when I complete these. So ok, at least.

The project could be anything programming related. The professor offered students to "routes" to end the semester; do C++ assignments or a project or both. I tried for both, but ultimately put more emphasis on C++ since the project was for students who didn't wish to continue learning coding.
This was about all I got done (more info in description):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Wf8n6FMYY&hd=1

You probably already know this, but math isn't nearly as important for business as most people think. My mom has a degree in business wherein she had to learn a bunch of high-level math. In 20+ years as a deli manager, she's never needed to use any more than basic arithmetic.

Take in as much book-learnins as you can.

Mfw watching the demo

Ahh... yes, I believe you told me something about this earlier.

That's exactly why I don't give a fuck, I just want to pass it. We have books but we barely use them, our teacher has made us custom courses to our web thingy.

Excel for the win!

I gotta go to bed, cya later my friend! <3

Good night, and good luck with your studies!

hola

How have you been?

good, been a wee bit busy working on a programming project for the end of the semester, but besides that not much is going on.

How are you?

Doing good.

What's the project about?

The project can be anything programming related.
I'm making a game using blender's internal game engine, but it uses a newtonian physics engine; it's a racing game and the first track is mobius. Can't seems to figure out to make the craft "stick" to the track.

Awesome.

Well, It's been a pain so far, but every little inch of progress is exhilarating.

It'll be worth it in the end.

I gotta go anyways.

See ya later.

Later!

youtu.be/KJvHfGKm8e8

>smartphones
>phones
>no longer represented by it's communicative ability but it's frivolous feature sets.

AND DUUUUUUUDE I WON'T BUY THE NEW MODEL BECAUSE IT'S ONLY DUAL CORE SO THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT FRAME LAG WHEN YOU OPEN THE MENU WHILE USING THE OH SO COOL LIVE WALLPAPERS AND RUNNING ALL THAT BLOATWARE AND RE-RE GUI ZOMG

Fuck I hate the fights about some goddamn phones and their os' on tech blogs, how childish can you be?

Goinnabed, laters Dan the man

>"If you don't know what certain technology does, you generally don't need it 99% of the time"
>live wallpapers kill battery like no tomorrow
>lol, 133t h@x0rs custom ROMs
"but my iPhone 4 is sooooo old!

Have six year old phone, wouldn't trade it for any modern smartphone.

Nighty night, try not to get urself killed.

No, Bowman

Bauman

They know... they know better than we do...

>tfw feel when surname is so stupid-easy to enunciate you'd have to be a complete dunce to mispronounce it.

Also, I was going to share this with you later but since you're here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6fai3lxpr1rj9b9/blackout.mp3
It's a live radio version of blackout. I like the strings in this version better than the studio mix.

Freezer

I don't think I actually dare... I haven't paid for it yet, I might get the Cambridge Audio Azur 651A instead.

It was actually a DOA machine to begin with, I know that "third time was the charm" for the xonar too, but seriously...?

Whatever floats your boat. Been really busy lately with a programming project and friends nagging me to play tf2 to work on designing a dac. The amp would be the most difficult part since that's mostly analog electronics. So whatever you decide to order, could you be a pal and crack it open, take some good quality pics of the circuitry and send them my way? Would be much appreciated. If taking the cover off voids the warranty, then don't do it.

Asus' customer support is notoriously horrible. Their products are usually top notch but you're essentially depending on that quality for longevity; may God have mercy on your soul if you have to work with Asus' customer support.
You should've returned it directly to the retailer where they're usually forced to give you an entirely new unit all together, not a reburbished or repackaged one from a scrap pile like Asus' "replacement" parts.
Most western companies have thankfully figured out that screwing over customers is a really bad idea (save a few exceptions), too bad this is a difficult concept for eastern companies to grasp.

That should be possible.

Sigh... I was the retailer, I got new units at both times, never contacted asus, dealt with the finnish asus distributor also known as... "Also".

The first service on the nad happened in four days and all interaction was handled via phone, which took one phonecall of five minutes. I might keep it, it's an awesomely spec'd amp, I'll just see it it works after this time. It still sucks to have a product four weeks old that's already been fixed...

Three new units dead? That's not a good sign.
I heard rumors that Asus is beginning to cheap out on parts and sell on name alone, hopefully that's not the case but isn't impossible. Similar thing happened with one of their popular X58 motherboards where the early ones sold performed really well for a long time, but later ones were often doa's, performed badly or died after a few weeks.

It works fine now!

I burned it a bit this time, didn't use it as heavily as before, not sure if that was it but if it works on bikes it will have to do on dacs!

bikes? dacs? wah?

Nevermind bruh

You have a car?

nope, don't even have a license. total walk-fag.

Aww...

How is your life going anyway?

Probably gonna change major to computer science and get a degree of sorts in programming.
For the most part, I've been pretty miserable the past year while in engineering track. The unfortunate thing is, after transferring universities and having the intent on switching majors, it may take up to four more years to get the credits needed to graduate. I've made it this far without having to take out any loans, but I don't know if I could possibly go another four years without student loans. Don't wanna graduate with a fucking mortgage's worth of debt.

Also, my mom will be retiring next fall and selling the house, so I'll have to find a place to live in the meantime and won't be able to return for summers or holiday.

How about you?

You have been diagnosed with growing up.

You're a smart guy, I'm confident you'll get your shit together on time.

Don't you think it's a good thing to be finally able to move out, to your own crib?

Moving out isn't the problem, I'd love to have my own place.
The problem is that the housing crisis was one of the biggest factors that contributed to the global economic crash. Nowadays trying to get financed is extremely difficult (my brother has a friend with a stable $50,000/yr job and can't get financing for a home), rent in Colorado is relatively high compared to most places for a basic apartment, especially the tech areas in and around Denver.
At this point it's more feasible to buy a freight shipping container and furnish it into a small living space.

Weren't you moving abroad? Or is that after studies?

Rents are around 450-900€ per 60-80m^2 here, my sis has a nice place for 570€ a month, in the city where I'm planning on moving too, maybe.

I'd happily accommodate you, if I had my own crib by then.

Srs, man. I'll be lonely as turd.

Could be after or during, since scandanavian countries have figured out education's important and by making it easier for people learn fuck-all it's an investment in the economy; continuing studies in Sweden or Finland isn't out of the question. The problem would be learning a new language in a short amount of time.

Hell, I could make do with 45m^2. My apartment for college is about 20m^2 plus 20m^2 shared space for $900 a month per tenant. fucking rip-off

Also the fact that the US has shit-tier big-brother internet and every other news story is the government trying to pass some bullshit law that only throws gas on the fire.
No, seriously, some kid committed suicide recently because he was gonna get charged a felony for breaking the Terms of Service in his school's library. A law maker proposed a bill that can't make violations of ToS agreements legal offenses in his memory.
Of course when this bill reached congress, the dipshits warped it to make ToS violations to be even more rash legal offenses than they are now, which defeats the purpose altogether.
'merica

Thought you never wanted monitors.
Anyway, here,have this. There's a good chapter on sound/hearing as well as wave properties.
forwardsweep.tonidoid.com/urlq41va2
All I know about acoustics is that chambers with as few parallel sides as possible will produce the best response, hence why many string instruments have a peculiar curvy shape to their bodies.

"the time the waves take to reach the listening point"
That sounds completely pointless. Generously speaking, the variation of speed of sound based on temp, air pressure or humidity for different climates would be about ten percent at the very most. Assuming you're standing two meters away from these things, that's less then one millisecond difference between two climate extrema.
/objective skepticism.

I've heard a few adam, behringer and dynaudio monitors, didn't really like them. Saying I didn't like actives because of those would be like "I don't like metal because avenged sevenfold".

I also don't like how actives are mainly built so that only one speaker has an amp and the other one is passive, genelec's have their own amp per speaker.

If the calibration took about 5 minutes and corrected the response of our listening room significantly, what's there not to like? There was only a 2,1cm difference between the speakers which according to software resulted in 0,8db differences in certain frequencies. I doubt you'd be so sceptic if you would've heard and seen the calibration.

No, I mean when I've mentioned monitors in the past, you said you weren't interested in monitors, regardless of what technology they're using, simply just cause.

Besides, I'm not saying the calibration is a waste of time (in fact, the chapter on sound in the book I sent you has a lot of good information of placement of sound sources for best resonance for particular frequencies), I'm saying it's pointless to tell me "the time the waves take to reach the listening point" because
1.) That can be calculated by hand based on air pressure, temperature, and humidity
2.) The above value does not not vary enough with climate extrema to make a difference to be relevant
3.) Publishing that as a spec with monitors would be like Canon selling a camera telling you how long it takes a light wave from an object to reach the lens even though see 1 and 2.

I'm not skeptical of fine-tuning audio equipment for the best response (I think you'd enjoy some of my uni's recording rooms in the music building, the audio playback is unbelievable and why I would plan on eventually getting krk's since that's what they use).
Using metrics to find the best monitor placement for optimized listening experience is believable, but saying the speed of sound makes enough of a difference to said calibration just looks like snake-oil marketing.
It's fairly common for companies to add useless/pointless specs to their product to make them look more appealing whether or not it makes a difference in the performance.

Yeah, well the word "monitors" is a bit tricky here, of course I'm not interested in them because I don't have a studio, active speakers are another thing but I haven't found a decent competitor in that range aside this brand, and I'm not the only one with this opinion.

It's not really a mentionable spec, he just used it as a little detail to showcase how goddamn nitty-gritty and all covering precise the calibration is.

I'm still convinced that the especially the behringer truth series or any kef, genelec or dynaudio's could beat the krk's, though they have an attractively low price (partially because they're not real actives)

Where I live surge protectors are built in to the house as per city/state housing codes. And even if they weren't, most of our local infrastructure has been versatile/reliable enough such that voltage spikes are very rare, making surge protectors somewhat irrelevant.

If you want to protect sensitive electronics, I believe most UPS' have built-in surge protectors and are designed for computers.

Yeah, well, enjoy your low output power, bitch!

I'll just get the supra bunch, it'll cost a ~160€, but if it'll help protecht 4000€ electronics, who cares?

And the main thing being protected isn't the measly computer.

jenving.se/?p=loradset

jenving.se/?p=m-block

The second ones from both, I could also think about getting another power cord for the amp and meybe my pc.

Also, met an interesting problem in usb audio, the dac picks up noise from the pc when you move around your mouse, scroll down etc.

http://www.firestone-audio.eu/shop/products/allproductslisted/greenkey.php

Output power can be easily increased by installing a better fuse in the breaker box, don't even need an electrician to do it. Not like it matters since newer parts are more efficient.

Funny you should say that since most surge protectors are designed with digital electronics in mind, not just "measly" computers.

Modern chipsets will usually have a single controller for every few USB ports. Having multiple devices on a single controller can result in them generating interference with eachother, it's usually harmless and negligible but for sensitive stuff it's noticeable. That being said, there's nothing wrong with a usb noise isolator, but try playing with the plug configurations before dropping 60€ on a device you may not need. You may need to consult your manual for info on which ports are handled by the chipset or handled by an extra controller on the motherboard.

The supra ones sure aren't since they're best known for their hdmi and analog interconnects. When I say measly I mean my own computer, it's not enough of a reason alone for me to get a usp, but of course there are people with heavier and more important builds that absolutely need to work at all times, mine kinda doesn't.

I'll have to try that out, although I was just trying it out in the first place so I probably wouldn't get the green key in the first place. As you may guess I don't have a lot of use for a usb dac.

The Firestone USB key lineup would make great laptop accessories though, although I've been planning on getting a nuforce airdac for future laptop use, or a meridian explorer kind of travel friendly dac with a headphone output.

"Audioquest Carbon USB 2.0" 119€ ,75m

"AudioQuest Cinnamon USB 2.0" 59€ ,75m

"AudioQuest Forest USB 2.0" 29€ ,75m

Same fucking cable with different brading, and the carbon has a white gold plating on the connectors...

People say education's expensive, try ignorance.
At one point in time there were some hilarious reviews for some hard drives on Newegg that cost $9500 (large rack of enterprise drives).

Three of the reviews were characters from startrek explaining how these drives vastly improved the starship computer's performance lol.

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60498207/CFF-YTV.rar

Have random a cappella.

Also thought the furai and me412 were neat, so what, big woop, wanna fight about it?

>acappella
>only a couple songs are acappella
u wot m8?

That feel when you realize those cars are like 5 years old already, six to be exact, didn't they also remain as concepts?

70's muricans and 80's japanese cars are my faves, germans also have always made good, and classy looking cars.

Furai isn't that ugly.

It's acappella nigger.

Is it just me or does Rob Swire look just a bit like linus?

Eh, inaerodynamic matchboxes.

a cappella [ɑː kəˈpɛlə]
adj & adv
(Music / Classical Music) Music without instrumental accompaniment
Pretty sure most of those songs used drums or some of percussive instrument for the beat.

Yeah kinda, maybe without the small goatee.

U just mad becuz you're an engineer and purl harbor and stuff

"Erityisesti erilaisten lyömäsoitinten jäljittely ihmisäänellä ja ns. beatboxing yhdistetään usein Club for Five -ryhmään."

"Especially imitating different percussions by voice also called "beatboxing" is often associated with the group" - Wikipedia

Rob Swire is my man crush, one of them...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ7NrApups8
Could've fooled me.
Though it is technically acappella, it interferes with the traditional notion of what acappella is; just singing. If I search for acappella, I'm looking purely for singing like choir, gregorian chants, or edited vocal tracks, not singing with imitated instruments. There's already plenty of good music with real instruments for that.

mancrush because of his work or his looks?

lol

Well, the question is, did you even like the music? They were all covers as you might have noticed.

Works, looks (not the best, but still good) and his voice.

If we just ask for looks, Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds. How about you?

Only recognized a few of the songs, had a sneaking suspicion the rest were also covers.
It was alright, but I had higher hopes for it because when you said acappella, I wasn't expecting beatboxes or imitated instruments.

Looks: Keanu Reeves (don't judge me)
Work: Burt Rutan, Chuck Yeager

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Keanu doesn't even look bad, dude.

You sure about the last ones dude, I said "crush" not someone who you admire.

Well, I can't judge if you like them a bit older...

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Nah, when they were young.
I also like Marilyn Monroe. . . as she was, not as a corpse currently.

Let's make it a bit, gayer... if all the men in this universe offered you sex and all that stuff right now, who would you accept it from?

Johnny Depp or Keanu.

Ahh, yes Johnny Depp!

You don't like talking about sexual stuff?

Just one of my favorite reaction images that I so rarely get to use.

Mostly because Kevin Heart is an awesome comedian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggAjqk2Bc3M

pretty funny indeed.

"knocked them both down"

Oh god lol

what's up
i heard you know physics

not much, beginning to suspect my old roommate stole one of my cooking pans.

More or less.

tie him up to a chair and burn all his cooking pans while he watches

could you help me a bit with electricity?

Is it elecrostatics, magnetics, or circuits?

all of the three

in that case, any help I'll attempt to provide comes without warranty.

alright, rethinking of it i'll just handle it myself

Good luck!
Try not to get urself killed.

thanks
i'll do that

Apparently an immersive game means having dirt smudges on the lens because we all know how often we need to use wiper blades with windshield fluid on our eyes to remove dust and hwut-not.

Personally, I think that one of the first things that game devs need to learn is realistic human bodies, movement and anatomy

u wot m8?

over internet or local lan?

Preferably internet, which one would work better?

Well dropbox is the best way to sync stuff over internet. If you only need to sync files between two computers on a home network, then get a NAS and throw your files on that.

Guess it's dropbox then, though I wonder how long it'll take uploading 100gb+ of music...

If you can, you might be able to pick up an Nvidia Geforce 660 ti on sale for that price (trying to account for exchange rate and import tax), if can't find one, then a non-ti 660 will do fine.

You could also consider getting an AMD radeon 7850; however, if you plan on buying a second card to pair in the future, Nvidia's SLI tends to perform better than AMD's crossfireX for multiple card configurations.

If you want decent performance and to save a little money, go for a Geforce 650 ti Boost or a Radeon 7790. These cards are cheaper, but have excellent price/performance ratios and will work with up to one other similar card for multicard pairing.

I think I was looking at that AMD one (one of my friends bought it new and loves it), I have a suprisingly bad ATI Radeon HD 6670 2GB Graphics Card. I might see if I can overclock it some more.

Yeah, AMD cards tend to be more overclocking-friendly, just don't overvolt it too much.

I know, I need to check the limit and if I remember correctly they have a fail safe which I don't know how to override to stop burn outs.

llaser?
lloser?
wat?

Just enjoying the last of my spring holiday.

Closet

There's a huge battle laser pointing across the road outside my wall to the neighbours house in case he tries some funny biz.

Isn't there easter holiday where you study, I wouldn't wonder if not though, here spring break was two weeks ago.

Yeah easter is celebrated, but it's on the weekend when most people are off anyway.

Most schools set their own week off for spring at random weeks in May; shame they can't all agree on one week or I could've spent it with my sister, just been playin' tf2 instead.

My sis was spending the night here at ours too, I managed to seel my subwoofer (didn't had a long life in my use lol) and center speaker to his fiance.

I've been doing nothing as well.

Another stupid thing that happens soon, summertime. Something that the germans invented to get an extra lighted hour in the evening to "save energy", still used in the 21st century.

Never been able to see the importance of a center speaker for audio, but that's just me.

Sounds like the euro-version of daylight-savings, but for summer. Only a fool think they could cut a foot off a blanket, staple it to the other end and think they have a longer blanket.

This is off-topic, but is it possible for people to gain finnish citizenship, through working, living there (owning property), or taking standard tests for citizenship (like language, history, etc)?
'Cause there's been some serious bullshit going on the us gov right now (shit will be hitting the fan soon enough) and I've been contemplating moving to europe; possibly London, Baden-Baden, or anywhere in Finland.

Why do you think I sold it? It'd be good in a 5,1 setup where it helps to center the front zone sounds, useless and actually bad for music.

Yeah, exactly...

Creating new topics is never bad.

Yes it is, my muslim friend is a finnish citizen, moved here as a refugee from Chechnya, you could look to it more around the web tho.

Think about where you move around here to move, the prices for accommodation vary pretty largely.

It'd be cool to meat if you ever came here.

Well, the order I listed the locations is order of preference:
London, no language barrier (few people told me I'd fit in well there, not sure though)
Baden-Baden, already have a strong foundation in german language; beautiful friendly town.
Finland, your government run by trained monkeys paid off by corporations (as far as I can tell). But finnish as a written language scares me: too many umlauts, seriously what gives?

Seems logical.

Our goverment is fuked and okay at the same time, it does its job.

Not that many umlauts really, just the grammar is hard.

Had a chat in finnish with a canadian friend that lived here before, it seems that our language is easy to forget.,

www.funnyjunk.com/user/therealthunderlane/3275#3275

I dunno, german has a really finnicky grammar syntax, but most scandinavian dialects are tier two languages (last I remember), so maybe the grammar would be difficult to learn.
It just looks totally alien for someone whose only familiar with romance languages.

I'm still confident I could teach you.

Maybe, maybe not. Could be fun.

Off topic again but do you, by chance, know of any good books to study for a crash-course in music theory? Figure you might be a good person to ask maybe perhaps kinda sorta.

Sadly, no idea at all, not even sure what you mean.

I'm going to bed, cya later Dan, love you. <3

Good night! sleep well.

Same here. As efficient as cycling is, walking is more relaxing and gives you more time to seclude yourself in thought and listen to music.

No customers, just other employees and work-orders. (Though, I've had an IT-related job that had to deal with customers and sometimes the customer can get very annoying).
Well like I said, get a butt-load of certifications/degrees and you can land such a job for around 60000 a year give or take. If you do a good enough job and keep things running stably and smoothly you'll paid a nice salary just to make sure servers remain plugged in.

Spot on! Cept on the cold days, perhaps it woulda been easier to cycle. But more often than not it's always nicer to walk.

Mhm, I said this once and I'll say it again. Perfect work conditions! I have never had the experience with dealing with customers, but I really don't want to. I just fear having a single stupid person who I'm supposed to help/serve and they cause a huge problem. Which is why I'd rather work behind the scenes. much better that way.
But over all, it all actually sounds rather neat, would be enough to keep me happy.
Also, I'ma hit the sack, it's almost 9 and I'm super tired. Goodnight/afternoon for now! (Silly timezones)

Yeah. . . customers are scary creatures, much like boogymen or the WBC.

Good night and good luck!

Ha, I gotta say, I love the compassion.. A lot.
No idea how you got it so accurate.

I also didn't die thankfully.

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And then brbrbrbrbrbbrb.

How about you?

Huh, that's exactly what you said last time, I guess much hasn't changed then.
Either way, I'm glad to hear it!

And I'm doing pretty swell! Finish college in about two months, quite looking forward to it!

I don't live a particularly fascinating life (figured out how to cajigure an enterprise network switch, if that means anything to you). I really should talk to you more; find out your interests and what not so conversations wouldn't be so dull.

That's awesome, man. What're you getting a degree in?

I have to answers to that, yes and no. Isn't a switch kinda like a hub but just doesn't send the data to all the machines on the network? Besides, I can't say it's that dull. Compared to what I do, it is kinda fascinating.
Perhaps so. Although I'ma have to ask, do yah remember me much? www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2793270/FJ/4155595#4155595

And it's just a IT diploma, level 2, if that means much to you... not sure what they refer
to it as where ever you are.
Can't say I've learned too much on this course either.

yeah, pretty much.

But of course, you rolled rubbadubdubs for my soul. Though I apologize for not really talking to you more often.

Have no idea what a level 2 diploma is, or if it's only relevant to IT so you'll need to elaborate. Here, the highest level of IT education you can get is a an associate's (degree if that means anything to you). Some technicians will distinguish themselves by getting many associates' and certifications because only having one degree or a couple of certifications doesn't make you too valuable in the american job market.

Huh, can't believe I was actually right with that.

Ha, I couldn't even remember what it was about, just was sat in my favorites for some reason. And no need to apologize, I'm a pretty dull person my self, so I can't imagine it'd be too much fun stopping by anyway X3

Yeah no kinda wat.
I know some of these words...
Well, basically on this course we've covered very basic stuff, pretty much stuff most people actually know too. It's a rather basic course, mainly covered web design (Well, hardly), networking, hardware and databases. All of it is so basic though, it's almost pointless really...

I sent ya a friend request in steam, maybe there's a game we both play or not.

So pretty much not anything more than what you can find out on wikipedia? Still not sure what databases are or what they do given how much I fiddle with computers.

Yay! The more friends the merrier! :D
And there seems to be a few being 6 X3

Exactly that! It's all super basic, I've probably learned more though self studies than anything.
You know, that honestly surprised me, based on how much I've stalked know about you, I thought you'd know a fair bit about em, you seem to be quite a knowledgeable fellow.

Well alrighty then, perhaps we'll meet in coop play somewhere.

Still though, it's nice that schools will offer these courses so that people who are clueless but interested have a place to start.
Eh, I'm more computer hardware and digital electronics (and a little macroeconomics); know very little about much else.

Perhaps so. And on a somewhat maybe slightly relative note, would you like JC2?
I have a couple of copies of it in my inv, because well, I do.

kinda yes somewhat. You meant college, right?
There is actually a course for even more less informed, which is somehow even more basic. Not sure how that's possible compared to what I've been taught.
This all sounds rather interesting, (I have no idea in hell what macroeconomics are)

Kinda irrelevant, yet I'm curious, how many years have you been breathing?

Sure, I'd much appreciate it. I don't game much because usually there's shiny new hardware or music that gets to my disposable income before games and I'm too much of a moralfag to pirate games.

Yeah some. Colleges that teach mostly IT stuff are called technical schools here in the States (not sure about anywhere else) and are much less stringent on admissions with lower tuition than universities.
Macroeconomics is just the branch of economics that studies how governments and countries interact economically as well as how laws and policies affect things; as opposed to micro, which is how cities and individual stores/companies operate economically.

19.75 years, give or take.

Okie dokie lokie! I'm kinda the same with pirating, but it's more of the fact that I'm lazy, and would rather just fork out money than putting effort into pirating. Also much easier in every aspect too.

I had no idea of that. Either I live under a rock, or just nobody here calls it by those names. I have no idea. But yes, for the most part. Much cheaper. Actually here, college is free till you're 18. For once I'm glad to still be youngish.

Huh, I don't know anything about economics on it's own, let alone any of that. I'm not a clever man. However, it all seems very... intellectual.

I feel as if these questions are either weird, or too common, but either way, I hope you don't mind.
Doing much with life at the moment? Traveling, job, education, anything?

Well, as Gabe Newell said, piracy is an issue of pricing and distribution, not because people are inherently pricks.
I'd pirate an EA game, because I don't want to have to pay $60 for a game on their shitty distribution service, but they don't have games worth pirating anyway.

>college is free until you're 18
EVEN PUBLIC SCHOOL HERE STILL HAS MANY FEES FOR POINTLESS SHIT TO THE EXTENT IT'S NOT EVEN FREE. EXPLOIT THE HELL OUT OF THAT SHIT WHILE YOU CAN

Economics (micro or macro, but preferably the latter) is a very practical knowledge set to have and it's useful to just about anyone, regardless of what your intended career is. Dunno how you would like it, but I personally found it very interesting and fun to learn.

On spring holiday, no job, in college majoring in math because fucked if I know what to do with my life. How about you? Any intent for internships, continuing education?

That actually makes a fair bit of sense. I often pay for many games no matter how bad they are, except for anything not on steam. I really really hate origin. Used it to play BF3, I just didn't like it.

Kinda feel like I should try that, although I'm not too sure, as I'll explain in a moment.

Mhm, I'm not 100% about it, it does sound like something that'd be handy and useful and make me a smarter person and and. However it has numbers and shit... They scare me.

Well, at least it's something I guess ^^ I'm sure you'll know what to do eventually, showering often helps with these thoughts. Trust me, I'm a science.
And isn't a internship like an apprenticeship or something? Darn all these words I don't know, I need to move out from this rock. But yes, if it is, I plan to get something like an apprenticeship, get my life started and what not. I would stay on at college, but I wanna start earning (Even a small amount) Of money and say it's honest cash.

There isn't as much math to economics as you might think. It's mostly recognizing patterns and seeing how one industry impacts another. There is some math, yes, but not much more than just simple geometry, arithmetic and a wee bit of algebra.
That being said, it's a relatively easy subject to take in school (provided you're not extremely lazy) but something that would be hard to learn independently.

Apprenticeship and internship may mean the same thing (dunno for sure though, but let's assume they do for now). They're great for experience and more importantly learning, but not all pay.
Good internship/apprenticeship experience will go further in the job market than outstanding marks in education, but good marks will usually mean a better paying apprenticeship (at least from what I've been told). Either way, you can only gain from working an apprenticeship, so you should definitely go for it.

And thank you very much for the game!

Huh, that I didn't know. I had no idea it was like that at all, I thought it was simply sitting behind a calculator and crunching numbers. Perhaps I should've taken something like that.

Exactly, and that's what I hope to achieve from it, knowledge. Not just of the subject, but actually how work life is, having never worked a real day in my life too.
Summed it up pretty well, and my marks in education weren't to bad, I like to think.
Got a C in all science, maths and English, which was kinda a surprise to me. Even though y'know, it's not that great, still goodish.

And no problem!

That isn't bad. Though I probably don't need to tell you that competition would be fierce for an apprenticeship (at least they are in the States), so be prepared to do a lot of running around for interviews and hwut-not.

Also, (this'll sound like common sense, but I'll say it anyway) make sure you can actually get to your apprenticeship location before you bother applying.
I once made the horrible mistake of applying (and getting) an internship opportunity at a lockheed martin facility which would've been awesome, but had to cancel because I couldn't commute there. ;_;
had to settle, working in an IT office at a tech school

That much I do know, and I'm okayish with that. It'll be worth it in the end I guess, that should be enough to motivate me. Besides being motivated enough already.

Hehe, that's one of my main concerns, gota wait a while before I can drive, and I'm kinda very iffy about public transport, so if anything I'ma look for something within a 2 hour walk away.
And that sounds kind sucks that you couldn't actually go to what you got, although at least you did end up with something.
Actually, working in a place like that would be perfect for someone like my self ^^

You could also use a bike or a skateboard to get around, how much does it snow where you live?
I say "settle" but it actually wasn't bad. It was never a boring old routine, met interesting people too. Some days were extremely light, others were pretty busy.

Hey! That's a logical idea, no logic allowed! I'd possibly consider cycling if it really needed it, but I simply love walking. Pretty much my favorite way to get from A to B
Doesn't snow much at all really, it's England, always Rainy. Always.

Sounding even better! Almost perfect. It's really somewhere like that I wanna start. Doesn't sound too troublesome, no whiny customers (So it'd be logical to guess) And most of all, it's an office. What more could one ask for?

I was going to suggest the yoga, but you seemed to have a strong disposition against touchscreens much less hybrid tablet/netbooks. The yoga would be fine, but since it's running an x86 processor, don't expect a particularly great battery life.

Dewd.

They all have them anyways.

Meh, even 4 hours would be more than enough.

If 4 hours is enough, then go for it. My tablet and phone have spoiled me so now I'm used to ludicrously excellent battery life.

I most probably will, sent an offer request about it. At least ibm lenovo should mean quality, right?

And the only 'drawback' is the screen, which I'm not that sad about at all.

AND DUUUDE, IT COMES IN ORANGE.

Never owned/used a lenovo product, no idea.
Screen isn't too bad, especially for a tablet.
It'll match your concorde cartridge

I've heard so damn much good of them.

Oh, so do all the review say, though the res is lower than the competition.

I have a om10, gonna get a 2mred soon

Well, you'll have to report in on your experiences with it should you decide to get one.
Personally, I think anything more than 1366x768 is overkill for a tablet. I've also heard that high resolution tablets tend to have not fantastic battery life (dunno if that's true or not, but it seems like it would make sense).

2jargon4me

I will, I've pretty much made my mind about it, even 1499€ would be k but I'll see if I'll get it via business for like 1300€

Yeah, and like I'll see shit.

Though as you probably can guess, getting it has become harder for me now :P

You just stick into your computer and other jargon.

Yeah! Fuck mothernature, we'll put two cricket-sized headphones in a shoebox! >_>

Not really impressed with the vivotab either, just the first ultrabook that came to mind when you asked.

You can go for the Dell if you want, but I would advise against. Dell has never been good in the consumer market either with their support or their technology. (though their enterprise-level stuff is fucking legendary)

Of course!

It still has some annoyances like the fact that it's a hybrid tablet, do not want, and the smaller size.

You never explained what you had against touchscreens anyway.

I can imagine the s7 being a working machine, but the extra thickness of the hardware in the screen, the weight and the fact that you'll probably have to plug shit to the screen part annoys me, and it can't be good for the build quality.

Though... the pricing on the xps 12 isn't as attractive as the article stated. The model with i5, 8gb(1333#cutcorners4bieber) ram, 256gb ssd and stuff is 1519€

If I'd settle for the smaller 11,6" s7, I'd get an i7, 4gb ram, 256gb ssd for 1599€ and a... uuh, oh whut? The 13,3" is the same price? Weird...

If it's using a glass screen, it'll be just fine. "you'll probably have to plug shit to the screen" lolwut
Weight isn't a specification of the ultrabook standard, but it's not like a whopping 14" could get too heavy anyways.

Unless you're doing heavily threaded applications, you don't need an i7. What exactly would you be using an ultrabook for?

I thought that since the screen is a standalone machine, some of the connections would be innit, but that was a retarded thought...

I'd buy the very full office for it and use it at work and school, and for entertainment at home when I'm too lazy to use the pc, so I guess the i5's would do, I have that in my pc anyways. It's just that the i5 models have the tiny 128 gb ssd... and I'm not as much of a cloudfag as you. I don't even think that 200€ is much of a upgrade in price with those specs after we've passed the 1,2k mark anyway.

Unless the screen is completely detachable, all of the connections and hardware will be in/on the base.

If that's the case, make sure you can find something with good capacity now, cause ultrabooks aren't as upgrade-friendly as traditional notebooks, especially for hdd space. Most use a less-common thinner formfactor drive and some use proprietary storage.

Well, what about the combinations of an i5 with 8 gigs of 1333 versus i7 with 4gb of 1600? because those are the biggest differences at the moment.

The difference in performance between 1333 and 1600 isn't all that noticeable.
However, the 8GB is probably (gonna stress the word 'probably') running in dual channel mode whereas the 4GB is most likely running in single channel mode.
Dual Channel 1333 > Single Channel 1600.
For the most part, the only major difference between and i5 and an i7 is threads. The i7 is hyper threaded (extra thread for every core) and the i5 isn't.

So basically what you just said made my decision even harder and the devices more even.

has i7 and probably worse memory vs. has i5 and probably better memory

Wallet says meh

Feel says acer

Some weird sense says dell

I've trusted my feel before, and up to this day it has been victorious.

Well like I said, unless you're doing heavily threaded shit, then the i7 will make no difference to you over the i5.

Also, I've had people tell me acer laptops are crap, I've never personally had problems with them, so if you get the acer you may or may not have problems.

You tell me now?

Apple MacBook Air 13" 256 GB SSD Intel Core i5 1,8ghz 4 GB 1600mhz ddr3 1429€

HURR MACS ARE SO EXPENSUH. I've never really understood why people think they're that expensive, compared to the real competition like the s7, they're ok, even cheap'ish.

You know... would it be, totally retarded to get that one instead...?

Ultrabooks: fake Macbooks with Win8, that's just abooot it. Cheap ultrabooks cut corners, better fully-featured ones are more akin, both in cost and feel, to a Macbook.

They're only expensive because you can get a bulky, ugly, heavy laptop for less that has approximately similar hardware.

That's just it, I like a very movable laptop, and the slight benefits of windows freedom would be appreciated.

Why can't laptops be like phones and make new standards as a part of their overall technological evolution?

The ones with the most performance are slim and pretty by default, shit, even the entry midrange products are pretty usable these days.

The dell is ugly as hell...

#capitalism

Fuck you asus zenbook for probably being the best and most expensive option.

. . .
#capitalism.

at this point you might as well pick up a cheap tablet w/ keyboard and remote into a windows computer.