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Hmm, here I though my son was a euphemism for my wife got mad and threw x at me. 
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How old is your son?
My son knows that I will not replace anything he owns, if he is constantly careless with it. He is currently saving up for his own x-box. 
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He'll be 7 in 3 weeks.
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Don't let him hold the Birthday Cake.
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I really understand this, especially after my episode with a hot water tank last week! 
I'm sitting here now looking at my step-son's laptop which he asked me to look at...something wrong with the screen since he used the top of the screen like a handle to move it...of course he doesn't know where the adapter is. After a few weeks I finally find an adapter that will work with it and finally see that the display is completely whacked and appears to have cracks under the surface. And how do we punish reward him for his destructive behavior? The replacement was an iPad. In the meantime, I'm still working on a 6 year old laptop.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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All that, plus things are crappily made these days.
My laptop is a Toshiba from a dozen years ago. Works fine. Never a problem to be seen.
My wife is on her third laptop since 2007...they keep "dying". HP -> Dell -> Toshiba.
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You know what? I do have a brother in law and a motherboard that...
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GenJerDan wrote: Replaced the LCD in my son's Acer tablet that he dropped: everything looks like a photo negative now.
Reverse the polarity. 
I'm not joking either. LCD cables use differential signaling, connect them backwards and your 0's will become 1's and vice versa. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's connected with a ribbon cable. Not sure if the contacts are exposed on both sides, or if there's enough wiggle room to twist it around. 
But I'll check.
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hmmmm, misaligned in the connector and off by one? I'd've expected that to be a total not work though.
Tiny connectors are hell. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dunno. Misaligned shouldn't be able to happen, the way it is shaped.
It's probably something like a change between model builds. I'll have to try to find some pinouts for various editions and see if there was a change that could account for it.
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The link below is a 2 hour live class (CSCI-33 Programming Microsoft .NET) at Harvard Extension School. You can literally sit in on a Professor teaching a C# class at Harvard.
 And they wonder why no one majors in Computer Science. It's no mystery.
http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2015/01/14310/L01/index_H264SingleHighBandwidth-16x9.shtml[^]
The web technology related to the lecture is very cool. You can skip around to different sections of the lecture very easily. Check it out. Skip ahead to Hour 01:00:00 where he talks about actual code GetTime() method and see what you think.
I don't know. I guess the web has just jaded me, because the class feels soo slooooow.
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If learning a language had been this slow back in 1981 I'd probably be doing something else by now.
Whether or not that's a bad thing is a different question
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: If learning a language had been this slow back in 1981
It's just amazing that school moves this slowly. You can read an article on this an get much better, in depth information. Thanks for replying. I wonderd if others would feel the same way about the video / teaching method.
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newton.saber wrote: It's just amazing that school moves this slowly. You can read an article on this an get much better, in depth information.
Back in my day, we bought learn to program anything in 21 days books. So just think, that professor has to stretch out all that information into a full semester while not looking foolish.
I'm questioning whether I'll ever send my kids to college or not... seriously... for what I do, I don't think I need a degree (although the HR folks tend to think it is required).
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Pualee wrote: that professor has to stretch out all that information into a full semester while not looking foolish.
I think you've perfectly summarized the situation. You could almost go one level deeper and say,
"Parents send children to school to get educated, but public education has been so slow that now University has to go slow for the _average_ learner. Plus, parents would not pay all those 10s and 100s of thousands of dollars for University if you could get a degree in only 1 year. That'd feel like a rip-off. " 
And so -- the solution -- the professor drags on. 
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He's probably getting paid by the hour 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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When I worked at the University in Jordan, we had a white-hat hacker come in to give a lecture. He had an hour and spent the 30 mins just introducing himself and his list of qualifications. He still allowed himself 15 mins Q&A time. I've never seen a lecturer in the UK introduce himself in this way over and above his (and they were all "he"s) name and contact details. Perhaps this is a US thing - "here are my credentials and here is why you should listen to me" kind of thing??
Anyway, the actual content was 15 mins long, and this consisted of running a tool he'd downloaded. One of the most disappointing sessions I've ever attended.
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Our company had a "popular" e-magazine writer come in to teach us how to improve our code and coding practices. His training consisted of “...in my book I explain insert method here in more detail, which is available at IamSuperSmart_BuyMyBooks.com"
The best part is, any of the information I thought was useful wasn’t considered because of cost or for being too difficult to implement.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: training consisted of “...in my book I explain insert method here in more detail
That's the way it often goes. Sometimes I marvel that anyone learns anything at any time from any of those things. Maybe they don't. It's a big industry though, so I guess money is being made and that's more important than learning. 
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Keith Barrow wrote: One of the most disappointing sessions I've ever attended.
Yes, it happens a lot with presenters. They just don't know how to focus. Fortunately I think TED talks are helping to show people a lot of great info can be given quickly and effectively.
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Education in the West has been dumbed down to such an extent that this is probably all that the typical student can assimilate. On the bright side, Western students have terrific self esteem. 
Rumour has it that this is not the case in Japan, China, or India. Were I in my twenties, I would be very worried.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Rumour has it that this is not the case in Japan, China, or India.
In India it's been that way as long as I can remember (50+ years). The bottom line is, if you don't cut it, you flunk. Flunk too many times and you're kicked out of your educational institution - be it school or university. You get credit for excelling, but no points for "participating". One learns at a very young age that you get out of life what you put in. And I think that's a very valuable lesson.
From my interactions with other foreign grad students in the US, I believe it's the same in China and Japan.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: The bottom line is, if you don't cut it, you flunk.
It used to be this way in Western countries, too. Anyone here read Kiplings' Gods of the Copybook Headings (especially the last verses)?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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IMHO, it still is in good educational institutions. BTW, the video if from a Harvard Extension course, not Harvard's standard CS degree program. Although I'm partial to MIT - their CS program rocks hugely. Here's[^] their version of CS 101 (jumped to clock time 16:15). 
/ravi
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