>>4188
Here's the best part.
It found nothing for any of my computers.

>>4191
So... what? You just call your ISP up and tell them "yeah dudes nada"?

>>4193
I'll probably do that when I have a free day. They're not bothering me so far, so I'm not terribly concerned yet.

>>3812
Give us a personal review.

>>3814
I'm very bad at headphone reviews, but I'll try to bring up interesting points.

* They're easy to drive, so even if an amp helps, it's not necessary.
* The cable is replaceable. (1/8" Male to 1/4" male, I think)
* They're definitely leagues clearer than cheaper headphones I've owned (Though I wouldn't call the clarity a spectacular jump from most $80+ headphones)
* The headphones themselves sort of make you feel like you're in a room (compared to sounding "in your head"). Things like voices and claps tend to sound "up front", while other stuff sounds far away. It's great for games and movies, but some songs are ruined by it. (But hey, some other songs sound way better. I mean WAY better. Holy shit better.)
* The bass is neutral. Not too heavy, not too light. I'd personally prefer a bit more impact.
* The highs aren't as unbearable as on my Portapros, but it's still pretty bright, and not the sort of headphones you use for relaxing.
* It handles most genres either well, or well enough. Almost as fun as my portapros, but not as much. It's perfect for movies and games, IMO, but only 'almost' perfect for music. Well, even that is kinda harsh. I'd just prefer a bit more bass for times I want exciting music, or a more laid back sound for studying. It's a compromise, and I'd be spoiled to ask for more.

Next thing I'll be looking for is an Orthodynamic headphone. Preferably dark, for studying and drinking alone while masturbating to your pictures on Facebook.

Looking into getting a new pair of earbuds since my old pair I've been using just crapped out. I've heard some good things about the Klipsch IMAGE S4, anyone know of any others that are a good choice that fall under the 100 dollar mark?

>>4170
I guess it's technically feasible, but beancounting still makes an anti-tank rocket more cost-effective than a tank. And I can only imagine that some manner of portable sensor is cheaper than thousands of hexagonal cells to confuse vision.

>>4171
That'd probably offset by the modular design of the system.

The damage from anti-tank systems' are typically concentrated in a small area to best penetrate the armor, so unless the enemy fires a lot of AT weapons or uses a really big IED, they should only need to replace a couple of tiles and maybe the parts of the frame behind it.

When you think about it, the camo tiles actually double as appliqué armor. Of course, there are AT weapons designed to penetrate through double layers of protection now.

>>4171
>beancounting still makes an anti-tank rocket more cost-effective than a tank.

Tanks aren't just used for firepower. Just throwing them at everything is dumb, but they have uses.

>And I can only imagine that some manner of portable sensor is cheaper than thousands of hexagonal cells to confuse vision.

We already have personal infrared camouflage--as in suits that make you hard to see in infrared like regular camo makes you hard to see in regular light. That doesn't really work for things this big, but this stuff can.

If you can maintain stealth while using people and vehicles, suddenly you have a lot more options. Plus, depending on what the tanks have to sacrifice to be able to wear these things, the net effect just in regular night time battle could be a significant gain (even if they're not ambushing you, someone is much harder to attack when you can barely see them).

>>4153
>simply governmental hatred; these things wouldn't be hard to accidentally shoot down, or not so accidentally if they drift into no-fly zones.

Laws do nothing if they're not enforced. Whatever supposedly protects it sound like exactly the kind of thing governments ignore whenever it's convenient. No one they care about will complain. If they don't shoot it down, it'll probably be more a matter of practicality than legality.

What are the odds this is just a distraction for their real solution, which is a lot more boring and mundane?

>>4153
>>Moreover, the issue of piracy itself seems to reflect a need in the customer base, rather than an issue of free speech. That a political party might be founded on the idea of piracy is an interesting notion, but perhaps not one that can exist with current business interests worldwide.

This only has the slightest chance of happening if the fundamentals of consumption imploded.

>>4158
It's kind of like international waters; there aren't technically any laws governing low orbit, just a lot of traffic. Hell, they go high enough and they might have to contend with space junk bringing them down. Still, sometimes laws are rather conveniently ignored.

>>4159
There has been some talk of the need to enact change laws regarding media consumption and reuse. People don't want to be illegal, but they do want their access to media, and they want it within their means. The various recording industry interests have not recorded a marked decrease due to piracy, and many feel that if they could pay for media they like, they would.

You're probably right about the mundane solution though. I thought I heard rumors of a "wandering DNS server" project when all this SOPA stuff started up, but I don't know how theoretically feasible it is.

>>4132
going to guess the AMD, though technically the relative amount of energy is minimal, say less than your refrigerator. It's usage over time and miniscule drain from low power states that kills.

For the time being, anything in the Intel Line is relatively solid and powerful. i5 is still the sweet spot, with Intels' architecture being re-adopted by Apple. There's the possibility of throwing together a hackintosh, or better yet, a virtual mac (or, if Apple was smart, a version of OSx just hands down compatible with Intel PCs). Raw power, stability, mucho D$nero.

AMD has pledged the AM3+ board to be useable by their next few iterations of processors. Bulldozers' shitty initial showing belies the fact that, going forward, the CPU/GPU model will only increase in power. That said, AMD is still the bargain chip company, and the systems feel slightly less stable. If gaming on the cheap is what you're after, AMD represents an interesting choice. But they're trying to compete with ARM processors, the driving force behind all smartphones and tablets now. Which, those are on the rise, but are so far away from actual computers that it's laughable.

I'd ask whether you've budgeted for a video card at this point?

tl;dr
Intel $1000-$1500 us
AMD $600-$1000 us

>>4133
> I'd ask whether you've budgeted for a video card at this point?

Yeah, another 200 bucks max, which means I'll go for a HD 6870 unless I can find a cheap 560 Ti

>>4135
googling, both of those come up as being just around that price range, give or take ~$5. You could mad def do AMD/HD6870 at your current price points. Intel/560Ti you could maybe do, but you're falling out of trusted seller territory a bit if you really try to make it to budget.

This is a complete jump from an old gen system, yah? Factor in what kind of Mobo and RAM you'll go with. Additionally, Consider what OS you're installing. Mobo will have to be compatible with any older harddrives you want to use, unless you wanna set aside like ~$50 for a couple of cheap HD/USB converters, which could come with USB 3.0 now (read write speed still limited by drive itself).

This is the basic schpel

Faggot

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I just got myself a Syma S107. http://syma107.com/

But I already have a problem. The top blades aren't spinning properly. I'm guessing it's the main shaft, because when I turn it on, and give it throttle, all the gears work, but when I turn it off and rotate the blades manually the lower blade gears move but the top ones don't.

>>4030
Actually, it was a quick fix. When I tried to lightly pull out the inner shaft the top just slipped off, like it was 2 different pieces, when it's sold as one piece, so I super glued it and now it works fine. Look at this little beauty fly.

After seeing a scratchbuilt remote control hovercraft in a hobby magazine in a library one day, I have decided that one of my life goals is to build a working scale model of a Svantovit IFV. In scale with one of those 28mm elemental models preferably.

>>4003
What use is a newborn baby?

>>4033
A newborn baby can be used for all sorts of things! It can be a paperweight, or a way of punishing friends by loaning it to them while it's colicky, a tool for picking up women, leverage for revenge or a sympathy gatherer or even an emergency food supply!

>>4035
And the value generally appreciates as it gets older!

I'm taking a course that goes over bioinformatics analysis tools, learning really basic stuff like baby steps in mysql and perl.

And good god. R. I cannot stand R. The documentation is no help for even basic things and the error messages are cryptic with no useful explanation available.

I should come to /tek/ more often. I had no idea this thread was here.

4th year in the computer science major, still feels like I'm making shit up as I go along while waving my hands. I'm not sure if that's how I'm supposed to feel though.
>>4053
>This makes a lot of sense to me. But learning about computer hardware seems like it would be more difficult than learning a programming language

Speaking from my limited experience, which just amounts to a couple of classes, it's not particularly too difficult. I mean, unless you're talking about the engineering perspective. But when you get into stuff like caching, pipe-lining and all that jazz it's not too bad. I mean I had a much easier time understanding that than grasping things like dynamic programming.

But really programming languages are kind of in a similar situation considering you can solve a lot of problems without actually going too in-depth of an understanding of the language. But then again there are people who could go to graduate school and spend years trying to learn the ins-and-outs of a language and still not completely understand it all.

It think it was the BASIC variant that was used in "Learn to Program Basic", though I might have tried out batch files a bit first.
Not sure I know any that well, I know some BASIC, ANSI C, the fact that I do not want to use Java ever, Flash, and now some Lua.
No I do not.
I think a QBasic variant might be good, but so far Lua is nice. Very C-like, but to me it seems a bit easier. Though now that I think of it, I might be able to go back and do better at C, I'm not sure. I ran into a brick wall trying to work with the filesystem the last time I tried C, but it went pretty smoothly in Lua despite the complete I/O model being so similarly to that of C. I think a part of it is that I'm not searching though a pile of libraries for the most simple of tasks. The Programming in Lua Guide has been very useful, at any rate.

There's memory allocated elsewhere (near the chip), usually.

>>4065
I just did that the other day. The keygen wasn't working so I just googled "Photoshop serial key" or something like that and a bunch of youtube videos came up with number in them. I used one of those and it works great.

Using my tax refund windfall, I've purchased a Performance MX Laser mouse. My MX1000, which I've had since it was first released (five...six years?) finally became too much of a hassle--the middle thumb button (which I use for push-to-talk) only responded half the time, the wheel was loose as hell, and I was starting to get response issues. Still works great for generic-use mouse, though.

Only thing I don't like about the MX is the scroll wheel. No horizontal scroll, and the wheel is intentionally loose. Though oddly, the continual spin is somewhat satisfying.

Gotta get used to these different button positions. Also what to use the extra buttons for in TF2...

>that moment when you realise you will never ever have to worry about hard drive space again
>install whatever the fuck i want and never bother uninstalling things i dont use

Well I got Photoshop 7 to run by using Vista compatibility mode, but it crashes if I ever try to use the paint bucket. urrgh

>Photoshop 7
>2011

even thou photoshop 7 is awesome. You are sadly going to have to upgrade. Unless you have 7 pro, you have that windows xp mode thing. Not sure it would wourk thou due to am still on xp pro lol.

>>3988
All current research points to quantum entanglement being a basic property of physical systems, in the same way as spin or charge.

>>3998
Sort of. Peer review and publication works sorta differently for math and physics. ArXiv is a sort of pre-publication open peer review platform that most/all math and physics papers get put on. It wasn't just that they thought their results were weird, that's just the thing that's done.

I love quantum mechanics. It's the closest thing to magic that we have left in the world.

Hell, if you could master the nature of the connection between two objects and synthesize/independently generate that relationship somehow, you could do all sorts of incredible/awful shit.

Is this the "halp" thread? If so, can I join in?

This weird window popped up right after that shitty Windows Update procedure my Aspire does periodically. This was right after an unidentified error message occurred durring updating. I've never seen this window before, and it looks awfully suspicious to me.

tl;dr Suspicious pop-up, how should I proceed?

>>4050
see if you can find out what process that is through the task manager. Google it, and see what exactly it is. Reminds me of an auto updater for a game platform, but find out what exactly it is. CTRL+shift+esc 4 a good time

>>4047
Don't think so. The encoders you named are used through front end programs that streamline the process for the average user. Looks like the MKVTools website has some new aps dealing with MP4 stuff. Hardsubbing you'll have to ask someone who knows more.