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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1640 on: May 05, 2011, 10:07:43 AM »

I could see the value of some leds in the back with a slider.  So you can turn on a backlight for extreme darkness situations, and retain the utility of e-ink the rest of the time.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1641 on: May 05, 2011, 10:33:11 AM »

Lottel, TA, you understand that e-Ink has some fundamentally different properties than LCD screens. A backlight works great for LCD screens. Not so much for e-Ink.

As to me being a jerk complaining about precise word usage:
Your scheme is stupid and already been done

To my chagrin.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1642 on: May 05, 2011, 11:10:16 AM »


Hey Dolph, take a memo in your Newton: Beat up Classic.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1643 on: May 05, 2011, 08:28:32 PM »

Eating sunchips in the middle of a movie.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1644 on: May 05, 2011, 08:58:09 PM »

Backlit may have been the wrong word. Frontlit would be better.
I know all about e-ink and that.
 Just the wrong lighting term.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1645 on: May 05, 2011, 09:19:40 PM »

All kvetching aside, if you're all asking why the Kindle doesn't have a low-power edge light, the answer is probably because that would kill their NEVER CHARGE THIS SHIT EVER bullet point.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1646 on: May 06, 2011, 03:33:56 PM »

Also the Kindle may not have a frontlit solution built in, but there are plenty of after-market products for it.


They're called lamps.

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1647 on: May 06, 2011, 04:24:16 PM »

Relevant: Glow in the dark plants. I'm in the market for them.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1648 on: May 08, 2011, 01:45:41 PM »

Dear Microsoft: Fuck you guys for not building Wi-Fi into the original Xbox360. Fuck you for making the 360 wireless adapter a hundred dollars. Fuck you for making the Slim model completely and utterly incompatible with the original's accessories -- in particular its hard drive. And especially fuck you for selling only two versions of the Slim: the one with 250 GB, and the one with only four. And a side Fuck You to Best Buy for not carrying any original model accessories.

And a preemptive Fuck You to anyone who even thinks about giving me any fucking shit over this.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1649 on: May 08, 2011, 03:06:22 PM »

Does that campaign of expletives mean you purchased a slim?
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1650 on: May 08, 2011, 03:17:01 PM »

BUT YOU CAN PLAY ONLINE. HAHAHAHahahmmmmm
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1651 on: May 08, 2011, 03:22:03 PM »

No. I almost did, were it not for the fact that the version within my immediate financial grasp had shit for memory space.

So I went over to Walmart instead and bought a third-party adapter. Works just fine so far.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1652 on: May 08, 2011, 03:45:16 PM »

The good news is they tightened their grip on HD standards enough that you can get some cheap addon HDs from China or whatever.

http://www.amazon.com/250G-Hard-Disk-Drive-Microsoft/dp/B004GX4864/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1304898204&sr=8-6

If you're shrewd enough you can save money by buying the damn thing in parts instead of paying $350-$400 for the whole 250gb/Kinect setup.

...are people still making Kinect games?  It seems like MS came out with this amazing peripheral and the entire industry glanced over and said "eh".
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1653 on: May 11, 2011, 09:33:35 AM »

The word "sanction," while cool, has too many definitions.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1654 on: May 12, 2011, 05:48:46 PM »

Employers who look for Computer Scientists when they really want Software Engineers, and less commonly vice versa.  Comp Sci has been genericized to the point where people who should know better think it just refers to programmers with a degree, but seriously they're completely different disciplines.

I'll give you a hint: one is science, and the other is engineering.

This is not propulsion systems development people.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1655 on: May 12, 2011, 06:05:26 PM »

Some universities still only have degrees in CS and not in programming/software engineering.
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« Reply #1656 on: May 12, 2011, 06:12:31 PM »

Both of my programmer friends have Computer Science degrees.  One of them has a Master's in Computer Science.  They are both straight-up programmers and have never been or pretended to be anything else.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1657 on: May 12, 2011, 06:13:24 PM »

Some universities cross list those things.
Cornell has CS, and CIS? The addition of information to computers makes it a different science!

Also I'm a software engineer with a degree in psychology. This does not usually make prospective employers enthusiastic about hiring me.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1658 on: May 12, 2011, 06:28:56 PM »

It's kind of a bullshit distinction.

Of the shit CS students have to take:
  • Torturous things that a software engineer won't need and most other students don't have to take:
    • 8+ math classes (2-4 calculus, 2 discrete math, statistics, linear algebra | bad high school ? remedial shit like trig/college algebra too)
    • 2 chem or physics classes
  • Things SW engineering and CS majors will both have to take:
    • Software Engineering (practices)
    • Programming (school's choice of language) 3 courses
    • Programming in some bullshit language the school used to use before switching to JAVA/Python/whatever, so you can take courses with their old faculty who don't like using the new official language
    • Programming in assembly, because FUCK YOU THIS IS A STACK AND YOU WILL ONLY LEARN TO APPRECIATE YOUR HIGH LEVEL FAGGOT TOOLS AFTER EXPERIENCING TRUE PAIN
    • Network bullshit / Parallel computing
    • "Databases" (Read: SQL + super basic relational algebra. Not a fucking thing about CAP theorem or NoSQL systems.)
  • CS courses that a SW eng student has enough background to take anyway
    • Compiler Theory and/or Languages theory
    • Operating Systems
    • Algorithms
  • Things CS student theoretically has enough background to take, that SW Eng doesn't.
    • A.I. (req stats)
    • Machine Learning (req stats)
    • Other electives involving calculus and stats, which aren't common (for undergraduates).

I left out some courses that computer engineering cocksuckers fucked the cs department into, like digital logic and computer architecture. They could be good, if they're like, "here is how the getAndSet() works and by the way you can use it for sneaky ninja bullshit in multiprocessor programming," but as it's taught here, it's "GET FUCKING BURIED IN DOCUMENTATION."

I omitted a bunch of other classes (e.g. technical writing/business comm.) because they're essentially utter bullshit.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1659 on: May 12, 2011, 07:18:55 PM »

Aw, smashing the shit out of your own stack isn't that crushing... The first 1000 times.
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