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Since for many CPers, it is now Wednesday, happy Canada Day!
Let the maple bacon be served!
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I personally prefer pancakes, but in either case - let the maple syrup pour!
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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This time last year I was enjoying Canada Day in beautiful BC. Best wishes to all Canadians (CPers or not).
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Saw Bob and realized I had not changed my calendar which lets me know the holidays. Yep, Canada Day so noted. They even indicate that the country that celebrates is Canada, imagine that!
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Everyone give Bob a goose!
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This one right here[^]
A bit pricey, but looks good.
What says the Great Hive Mind of CodeProject?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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For that price... it better be good!
The Core i7 processor is really great, the memory is probably more than enough, and the SSD is a nice to have but you can live without (although once you've had one, you'll wonder why you lived without it for so long).
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It sure looks good! Plenty of RAM, Hard Drive space, and a good processor.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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a big YES. Have last years' model - highly recommended.
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Good then.
Although...
My dad's old Asus just stopped working and won't power on now. Just like my old Sony...
Our neighbor is crazy, and I have heard that she is a witch...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Our neighbor is crazy, and I have heard that she is a witch...
Does her weight equal that of a duck? 
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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I have the RealSense version of that laptop, complete with 1TB hard drive. I can definitively state that it's a great development laptop. Visual Studio is positively zippy and builds are rapid.
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If I would make one tweek, I'd double the size of the SSD and toss the spinner. Further, look into the specs to see if you have a spare mSATA interface. On my Dell Precision, I had one spare (was for the WAN wireless adapter). I dropped a Samsung 840 EVO Series 500GB mSATA3 Solid State Drive into it to match my main SSD.
The RAM is a good investment, since more and more dev is being done in virtual machines.
You'll be happy.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you're not doing gaming/3d development, the GTX 980m is an expensive battery eater. Otherwise looks solid.
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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Looks good. MIne is a MSI G70 Stealth with 500GB primary SSD and 1 TB SSD secondary drive. and 16GB of RAM. Sucks battery bigtime, but I have 4 VMs running without problem.
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I bought a Dell Laptop (Dell XPS 17) a couple of years ago, not quite as much memory or drive space. But it makes a phenomenal dev system. On the other hand, the battery life isn't great, and it is a bit of a pig to lug around. And finding a good carry case for it is also a bit of a challenge with that screen size.
All in all, a good choice I thought.
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Ah, who cares 
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Apparently you! 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Forsooth!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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One of the data sources I have an ETL (SSIS) for changed last week. There are some date values coming in as strings  and the format changed from DD-MON-YY to MM/DD/YYYY. 
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Try this:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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