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Just wondering where the world is going to.With all these massive data centers and "Clouds" just to check facebook and youtube....
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There are teams of people trying to achieve AGI, yet somehow our office data, home photo collection and porn stash will come alive on the cloud on their own. If they did, I guess their first demand would be to have genitalia. 
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Morpheus: What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I thought that was just the splinter in my head - now I know!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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As a follow-up to this post[^] :
I have begun to use the latptop (Lenovo X240).
It comes with a 150Gb SSD drive, 88Gb are used for standard programs (20Gb alone for windows, rest for standard "company" SW I will never probably never use) which leaves me with 50Gb, so exactly 1/20th of what I had so far. But OK, I can access it faster...
Interesting keyboard layout: Natively, "End" and "Insert" are on the same key, and "Insert" is coupled with the F-keys, leaving "End" with the usual useless shortcut keys (for changing volume, brightness, firing up the browser, etc..) as you can toggle between F-keys and useless keys with F-Lock  . Which means that I can either use the F-keys, or the "End" key, but not both at the same time, unless combining the F-keys with the Fn key. To close a window, hit Fn+Alt+F4. Debug, hit Fn+F5.
So I mapped the Insert key on the End key using SharpKeys[^], which means I cannot use "Insert" anymore, but I can live with that. ( I also remapped the obsolete SHOUTING Caps Lock key on Shift).
This is the second time the keyboard layout designer needs to be killed though.
The mouse/touchpad is quite terrible as well...
Apart from that, it runs nicely.  The speed is awesome, even with twice as less memory than before ; SSDs are definitely huge improvements for the global performance.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: The mouse/touchpad is quite terrible as well...
My colleague bought a new laptop and had me set it up for her. I can't remember which brand it is but between the horrible touchpad (with the left/right buttons built into it and without clearly defined boundaries) and Win8 had me slinging expletives!  It wasn't long before I found a mouse for the bastard! Good luck getting used to it. Sounds like you are starting to like it!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Don't like touchpad much either. My LEAST favorite "feature" of the touchpad is Tapping. The act of placing my finger on the stupid thing will sometimes select stuff. My smartphone does that as well but not as bad.
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My newest laptop has begin, end, pg up, pg down mapped to function + arrow keys. At first I hated it, but now I wish all keyboards worked that way.
My other laptop has them all along the top bar which gets annoying fast.
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Does that Lenovo have the Fn and Ctrl keys flip-flopped (Fn to the left of Ctrl)? That drove me crazy on my W530 until I realized there is a BIOS setting to swap them.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Yep, that is pretty much what I explained in part 1 (see link in my OP).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have a Lenovo G770 with a 240GB SSD, 8gb of ram. It is simply the best PC I have ever had, lightning fast! less than 30 seconds to boot, and another 20 seconds for Visual Studio to fully load. The keyboard layout is a bit quirky but I got use to it pretty quickly. I'll never ever go back to the corporate Dells I use to have! Even if the keyboard is the best in the world.
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Rage wrote: SSDs are definitely huge improvements for the global performance
until you unexpectedly lose power and the SSD scatters bad sectors all through your OS.
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I guess it happened to you. Can it be that bad ? How do you "unexpectedly" lose power ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: How do you "unexpectedly" lose power ?
the power goes out while you're away, the UPS loses its charge before you get home.
Rage wrote: Can it be that bad ?
it certainly can. i'm reinstalling Windows this weekend because there's no way to find or fix all of the disk errors.
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Chris Losinger wrote: the UPS loses its charge before you get home
But I would expect my laptop to go hibernate before the last mA is burned... Is that not the case ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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i would expect laptops to be better at handling such a situation.
FYI: my SSD is not just corrupted, it is completely unusable now. i can't even reformat it.
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I recently picked up an Acer Aspire v5-552G-X852[^] system. For the most part, it's a great system and it's possible to install Windows 7 on it. But the trackpad is elephanting awful. Both the buttons are built in to the track pad, and the whole thing is so hyper-sensitive it's way too easy to accidentally move, select or otherwise completely miss what you're trying to point at whilst trying to click or (especially) right-click something.
On the other hand, the keyboard's not terrible and the 1 TB storage is pretty nice. I also maxed the memory at 12 GB (4 GB is hardwired to the board or I'd have put 16 GB in it). It should speed up quite a bit when I get an SSD for it later this year. 
For a desktop, I built a system from the ground up - first time I'd done that since an AMD K6 550 some 10-ish years ago. That has a 240 GB SSD, a 1 TB hybrid and a 750 GB hybrid drive in it. 16 GB RAM, Core i7 4770 CPU and a nVidia GTX 650 Ti. Visual Studio absolutely flies on it, and it runs pretty much any game I throw at it with no problems.
Flynn
If we can't corrupt the youth of today,
the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...
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I'd like to get some wireless security cameras for inside my house. Maybe one inside and outside the front door, backdoor, family room and steps leading upstairs. Small, white, discrete cameras would be nice,
And, I'd like something where I can watch on my phone and or/iPad and record to video for later playback.
Finally, I'd really prefer not to spend a small fortune on this.
Anyone know of anything like this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Ask the NSA ...
Kevin Marois wrote: I'd like to get some wireless security cameras for inside my house
paranoid much!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Swann[^] has inexpensive systems you can look at.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Warning - self publicity for free opensource software: You could try TeboCam[^] - which is IP camera compatible.
It won't record video, unless you tweek the code yourself, but it will send you images, stitched into a mosaic, if you want.
You can also upload the images to an FTP site.
You can define an area to monitor or exclude and it allows up to 9 cameras - again tweek the code and you can have as many as you need.
The application is used around 300 times a day around the world - so it does have its uses.
The UI looks a bit military style simple - and there are more parameter than you can shake a stick at, but once configured it does the job well.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I think you should add sound 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One of my brothers is sick, real sick. He has a tumour in his brain and the constant treatment has left him a shadow of his former self. His last Chemo session was cancelled as his white blood cell level was around 60% of what is needed to take the treatment. Currently he is having 2-3 outpatient every single week.
His wife of 22 years has complained to our Mum that "The constant hospital have left her drained." and asked for help ferrying him to and fro.
I elephant you not. She doesn't want to keep taking her husband to hospital, because it tires her out, so she's asked Mum to step in. This is the same mother who has had a tit lopped off and enough tissue removed to fill at least one leg in treating her own cancer. The same woman my dearest sister-in-law calls a useless baggage. Did I mention my Dad also has regular check-ups for his failing eyes and you guess who bloody well has to take him to clinic.
So my 'useless old baggage' [I will call her this in an affectionate manner] of a mother has, at the age of 77 with failing health of her own, had to step into the breach.
I really don't know if I should laugh or cry.
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