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I have a great job right now - putting together a recommendation for a new laptop for me. It needs to be able to do 4 hours of REAL work, not this "light use fluff", have high res, enough space for multiple versions of VS, and a VM or two, and be portable.
I have my eyes on the 512Gb SSD version of this:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/yoga/yoga-2-pro/[^]
Any other recommendations? As I'm the main GUI writer in the small company I work for, I want to have touch and hi-dpi on one of my machines, just to make sure our software will play nicely with them - and I miss my laptop from 5 years ago that had 1900 x 10something...
The price of the Yoga above is making my boss wince a little, but not refuse, so no $3000 swiss made gold plated ones please...
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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It doesn't look like it has touch, which is a point against - not a deal breaker though. I'll see if it's available here for my list.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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It does have touch....
Does the second word in the opening title not give it away, or the whole section on the touch capabilitites....
The touch Ultrabook™ with stunning...
Incredible
Touch
Technology with a human touch
Zenbook UX301 is wonderfully tactile, but that goes well beyond just the feel of its sleek, smooth and durable glass design. Windows 8 is designed with touch in mind and a dedicated ASUS Human Computer Interface team help make it even more intuitive to use with features like a responsive multi-touch display, and a large touch pad with multi-touch support. The backlit keyboard with automatic brightness control also means you'll always have a clear view of the keys, so you can stay productive, even in complete darkness. So whichever way you like to work, Zenbook UX301 has you covered.
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That'll teach me to not just immediately press the "specs" button, and scroll down instead.
Defo on the investigate list then.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Is there a place where a programmer can find side programming jobs? I thought that is what sologig.com used to be but it doesnt appear to be that way now.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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Thanks, I will check these out.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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I actually find a fair amount of work on Craigslist. In each city there are Computer Jobs and Computer Gigs sections.
Jobs is full time & short term stuff, while Gigs seems to be quick work.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Thanks, I will check these out.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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I hear Mickey D's* is hiring.
*McDonald's
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Ugh, sounds awful. It would do in a pinch but I am not there yet. 
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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Thanks for the feedback. I am looking for some extra money and would hate to go get work at some random place for x number of hours a week when I have skills that I can put to use that compliment what I already do day to day.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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From the news:
<quote>Dark matter is currently one of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos — an invisible substance thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe. The scientific consensus right now is that dark matter is composed of a new type of particle, one that interacts very weakly at best with all the known forces of the universe, except gravity.
I know where to look. It usually sits on a sofa, can watch reality and casting shows the entire day and can produce a telephone bill near the budget of an African state. It gains mass by devouring enough buiscuits to feed the same country and can only be prevented from completely folding space-time around itself by implying that it ts fat.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Dark Matter is one of those things that are used instead of saying "I don't know" -- some people have so much ego in place of intelligence that those words cannot come out of their mouths.
"Oh, our current calculations show that there should be more mass in the universe, but we can't see it, and we don't think we've got our calculations wrong, so, rather than admit that we could in any way be wrong, just tell everyone that there's a bunch of Dark Matter, and try to make it sound as sciencey-whyencey as possible."
Of course, if there is even one black hole in the universe, then the total mass of the universe shoots up to infinite, so the only problem is that there aren't any black holes -- but no-one will admit that those calculations could be wrong, either.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wrong, and wrong.
- if it were just one calculation then your argument might have legs, but there are several independent observations and calculations that only make sense if dark matter exists. See here for more explanation.
- No black hole has to have infinite mass (why would it?).
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Billy-T wrote: if it were just one calculation then your argument might have legs, but there are several independent observations and calculations that only make sense if dark matter exists.
But, strangely, none of them agree on how much.
Really strange, that.
I'm not saying that non-reflective bodies/objects (even the term "Dark Matter" is stupid) are not floating around, but it's being used as the scapegoat for inadequacies in quality of work. It's one of the quick-fixes du jour.
Billy-T wrote: No black hole has to have infinite mass (why would it?)
Forgive me for being light in detail of such matters in a forum for those who code.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Dark Matter is one of those things that are used instead of saying "I don't know"
There is 'God' for that.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I agree with you about 'dark matter' and particularly 'dark energy' which is just a nicer way of wording 'fudge factor'. (Dark matter is essentially matter that we can't observe, and just being non-luminous and spread thinly would work for that, so it's reasonable as an idea if not in the amounts needed to make the numbers work.)
You're wrong about black holes though, on both counts. There's no reason that a black hole would have an infinite mass – it may have an infinitely dense singularity at the centre but it's infinitesimally small, and the rest of the hole is just matter, albeit in highly stressed forms. And there is good evidence to suggest something very massive at the centre of our galaxy (orbital velocities and gravitational lensing), as well as several others, along with a mechanism for how black holes can form. I'd like to know what you're basing 'there aren't any black holes' on.
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BobJanova wrote: I'd like to know what you're basing 'there aren't any black holes' on.
Hooke's Law.
It doesn't matter how pretty your numerical derivations are, there's always a point at which they stop working.
Neutron stars? No problem.
Black holes? Don't be ridiculous; do some serious work.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So you're basing your understanding of relativistic cosmology on a piece of classical mechanics?
Hmm.
It's widely acknowledged that we don't understand what happens at a singularity because at that single point the equations break down. That's not relevant to any of the rest of a hole though.
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