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Tjose of us of a certain age...[^]
It sums up my childhood.
I loved the RM 380Z, and it was Darwinian getting into the computer room.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I also started on a z80. And I could code Bresenham's algorithm without looking it up. Both the line and the circle version.
It doesn't matter that it's not the 70s anymore, you can still become more than just an other copy & paste programmer.
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Ahh, the RM 380Z. How I loved that machine. *nostalgic sigh*
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The 380Z was, for a long time, my 'dream machine'. We had one at school and you could book 20 minute slots during the day. If you were early on Monday, you could book a whole after school session [1 hour max]. It helped that the booking sheet was kept by my form teacher in the form room and our class was the first one into the room each day. I normally had at least one afternoon with the coveted 380Z; even when the Beeb's came in I was faithful.
speramus in juniperus
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I was a BBC man (child/teenager). It was *so* good. BBC Basic @ 2MHz could outstrip QBASIC or whatever nonsense it was running at @ 8Mhz with 640K of RAM.
And then the Archimedes arrived which decimated every competitor. It wasn't possible to be a geek and not adore this machine - it could do so many things previously impossible. And it says something that the Microprocessor lives on even if Acorn doesn't.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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My gf is a developer and she want to buy a new laptop for surfing and development, mostly vs2010 and vs2012. Do you think that surface will be ok for this kind of job or she would better get a normal laptop?
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I think that depends on the power required and things like which keyboard you use.
Might be better off with a decent small ultrabook.
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Surface pro, the dockingstation and an additional Monitor ? i´d recommend that 
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Hi Dave, in that video, the person is using a Surface 2 RT. I don't know what capabilities for .NET programming are available in RT, but I suspect a Surface Pro would be a better choice for someone wanting to program.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Hi Bill,
Yes I was aware that the video was an RT version, I was just showing that once you hook up a screen, keyboard, mouse, hdd you have a very versatile piece of kit. Yes, the Pro would be better.
cheers,
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Menelaos Vergis wrote: My gf is a developer and she want to buy a new laptop
Why don't you let her decide what is a good machine for the kind of development she is doing.
I'd rather be phishing!
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How can you install Visual Studio on a tablet ? Is there a Visual Studio app ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Surface Pro 2 is more than a tablet - it's the one that runs the desktop properly.
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OK, so basically, it is a notebook with touchscreen.
/edit. Good God, $899 ??!!
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Or, an ultrabook as they are now being classified.
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Yes, that is what I meant actually.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Ultrabook is a specific Intel (trademarked) specification is it not?
This means you could still technically have a touchscreen notebook running an AMD processor which is not an Ultrabook.
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That is correct, but for the purposes of specifying what the intent of the device is, Ultrabook is a convenient moniker.
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Tablets are just normal notebooks without hardbound keyboards.
Windows 8 is a hybrid one. With one click you get into the App world and play games and in another click you can come back and work on excel with a crippled UI. 
Just kidding. The Win8 tabs feel good on hand. Some improvements are certainly needed though. For a home user, its a total package of ester eggs & hide n seek game.  My sister gave up on a simple challenge - "Try to shut down my W8 tablet in a minute" the basic options are not straight forward. Of course it's not just for tablets, in all W8 OSes versions in general.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: Tablets are just normal notebooks without hardbound keyboards
Mmmhh... technically, yes, but I cannot install any program on my samsung galaxy, I don't have a file explorer ( what for anyway ?), etcc... I don't think this is possible from an iPad either...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Whatever I said applies only to W8 Device.
Yup android and iOS are for kids who can't handle it safe 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Was just curious, Why do we need to install VS on a tablet ? We can do all the development work at desktop or laptop and then just deploy our app to tablet.
Ranjan.D
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You know, make sure it isn't your boyfriend? Never heard of a female programmer : ) A
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