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Can't sell the thing if there's no buyers. Why'd someone buy a BTC at such high value is really beyond me and when it falls, not a lot of people are going to buy it at the high values at that time (especially if the trend if 80 degree down line)

It'll go up and up and up until the hype about it goes down. Then a bunch of people will see the slowdown and will try to cash in, crashing the entire thing to the ground. Or some idiotic news about China closing all exchanges or whatnot and the value will half. The way people see it 1 BTC = 17k $ is pretty wrong too. You don't actually have a 17k USD. What you have is a Bitcoin. Can you get someone to pay for it at 17 k USD? Good for you. If not, well, all you have is a Bitcoin. Can you buy something with it? No? Well bad for you

Give me a photo of you and it'll probably unlock on that. It just uses the camera to determine whether it's you or not, so it's incredibly easy to fake that. More RAM is an absolute gimmick. I can absolutely guarantee you that the phone isn't going to be using all of it at any given time due to either software constraints or hardware limits. It's just there to be another big, meaningless number. Everything else is preference. The reason why it's cheaper is: The support for OnePlus phones is absolutely abhorrent. My phone was completely fine (I got a OnePlus One), although a couple of friends had dead-on-arrival phones or problems with the screen matrix and they had to go back and fourth (for nearly 2 months as shipping and re-shipping takes time) to get their issues fixed. Can't even get your money back as they have to figure out whether it wasn't you who broke the phone. Few other friends had broken iPhones from the store, went back to the store and they changed them without much talk. The quality on OnePlus phones is quite bad. Overall, it's a decent phone, but there's minor defects that you notice overtime and certain parts break very quickly regardless of how you treasure it. The back on the phone was really nice... until I used it for around a year or two, the thing is now full of random scratches and the material is nothing like it used to be. The battery is pretty terrible as well compared to the one in iPhones. Initially, it might last you a longer time than one in an iPhone, but after you go through somewhere around 500 battery cycles, it's going to feel... I wake up at 6AM, barely use the phone until around 8AM and with minimal use, when I get back home around 4-6PM, the phone is pretty much dead. There's no brand stores for OnePlus phones. Might not seem like a big deal, until you realize that if you have some sort of issue with it. All the parts will have to come from warehouses in China. Not sure if it's the same in the US though... The warranty is absolute shitee. Can read more about that on the internet. The software is relatively decent for an Android phone. But after they broke up with Cyanogen, Oxygen OS is absolutely shit. It has lots of bugs, freezes up a lot randomly, features don't work like they're supposed to. Besides, they've completely cut the support of my OnePlus One. It doesn't even update properly so I am either stuck with a very old version that's full of security loopholes or I have to download some university guy's ROM that he's half assedly created for a computer science project... They don't retain their value whatsoever. I bought my OnePlus One for around 350 EUR, it's worth around 50-100 EUR now and no one's going to buy it. It's only a 3 year old phone. It's a decent phone overall, especially if you compare it to Samsung ones as they're absolute crap. They're a living meme amongst my friends and I haven't seen anyone buy the newer Samsung phones, because they've already ruined their image. Overall it depends on how you're going to use it and for how long you're going to use it. If you plan on getting a new one in two years, than getting a cheaper phone is quite a better idea, than buying an expensive one.. Unless you can sell it at a good price.

What they've implemented hasn't been done on phones before. Ever looked into how they actually tell people apart from one another? It's not a case of scanning a picture. They use a much more complicated system and it's, in fact, quite innovative. The OS is either very much loved for how sleek and well designed it is, or it's hated for the lack of personalization within it. It's more of a implementation issue rather than a lack-of-features one, so you either live with it or don't buy an iPhone.

Anything made by Razer is most likely going to suck quality wise. Not to mention that their support is absolutely awful as said by many, many people who used their products. If you have enough money to buy an iPhone X, then go for that. It'll have good support, very good software behind it and its price is going to keep high if you'll want to sell it to someone. So you'll lose relatively very little money even if you decide to change your phone to the next iPhone or something else. However, if you don't want to spend that much on a phone, get something cheaper. OnePlus is a decent choice, wouldn't go for Samsung phones as they're generally very overpriced for what they offer and their products often lack the proper attention towards the software that they use, not to mention that they aren't really that cheaper. Google Pixel phones are pretty nice too. (though not really cheaper) All other brands have so many phones, of which some are pretty shit, others are good but it also depends so it's very hard to suggest something. To everyone ranting about iPhone having no innovation. The hell would you call the FaceScanner that they did? The pretty much entire concept change regarding how you use the phone with the loss of a physical home button and so on. Innovation isn't changing your design (that is globally liked by people). It's using different new technologies. Pretty much neither of the competition does that in a much better way than Apple. Besides, what functionality does iPhones lack compared to other brands that wouldn't in one way or another screw around with security?

Aren't RAM prices way up there? (well they're definitely higher than they used to be) Of course having 16GB of it is going to be better, but for most things you'll be completely fine with 8GB. Pretty sure you can also upgrade that later on anyways, without having to buy the whole 16GB, so it's not that big of a deal. It mostly depends on what you're going to do and how you're going to do it. If you'll have chrome open with a gazillion tabs, record yourself playing whilst playing a resource intensive game - then you'll likely need the extra memory. Otherwise - not really.

You guys know that the links you post don't really provide solid technical information? There's plenty of cheaper Chinese 1080Ti clones, that on paper look the same, but I doubt you'd buy them. Similar shit goes on in phones as well. It all depends on how you're going to use the device and for how long you're going to be using it.

PUBG runs like shit because it isn't optimized as there's absolutely nothing there that would need to make a lot of calculations. My guess is that they didn't really structure their code for it all that well... Getting a better CPU to run that is kinda silly, because it quite likely won't make much of a difference unless it's unplayable now.a Might've overlooked things, but isn't the 1050Ti only a year old? Get a newer i5 processor and if you have 16GB ram, wait until production rams up because the prices are quite insane now. You should have an SSD by now really.

Android just doesn't have the same feeling or smoothness to it all really.

Sounds like a software issue if it's not there constantly really. They'll fix the bugs out.

Anyone program in it? Heard a lot of hype around it at a conference and I am thinking of trying it out. Any suggestions of ideas on what I can do?

Kinda the reason you'd want to put some sort of protective case on the thing or risk shattering your wallet.

Well to be fair, most modern ultrabooks are going to handle anything your colleague throws at you. The only issue being is whether the applications are going to be primarily written for Windows, OS X or Linux. I am currently sitting on a Macbook Pro and it's been doing very nicely regarding anything the university throws at it. Frankly I've learned quite more than just using the applications that they "require" you to use. For example, most of the past course required us to use Visual Studio. Quite obviously, as Visual Studio is written by Microsoft for their own implementation of C#, I wasn't really able to use it. However, Jet Brains Rider worked rather nicely and I skirted around using purely stuff from .NET that wouldn't work without Microsofts implementation of it. There were also cases when I had to use legacy software that was written for Windows. Like an emulator for x86 8086 Intel for Assembly. I used GAS (first tried NASM) and compiled by binaries and used Vim as an editor for it. It was slightly harder to debug, but in the end I learned more about the syntax. Now, even so, you can very easily virtualize a copy of Windows or Linux or even OS X on practically any device, if it has the sufficient memory and CPU requirements. I'd really suggest that you get some sort of Dell Ultrabook that doesn't really have a graphics card unless you're going to do a lot of stuff related to graphic design or video editing, because it'll be quite tough for them to be able to run that. (they will, though it'll lag a little) But if you're not studying that, there's no reason for you to buy a laptop for a single course or two. You can always get around it. If you want good performance and a very high quality laptop. Go for an older Macbook Pro 13" or the newer one without the touch display for the function keys. It'll cost you a lot, but it'll last you a good 9h+ if you're programming or just browsing stuff around. It's very light, powerful and quick. It's also OS X, so the terminal is something that you're going to get in love with very quickly. That said, if you do not want to pay somewhere around 1500-1700$ for a machine. You can go the Dell route, get an ultrabook with around 256-512 SSD, scrap Windows altogether and use Linux as your primary OS. You can virtualize Windows if there's a great need to do so. It also has shell and it'll help you along quite nicely, being able to install stuff with a single line of code. Before that, do go to a store and try out how the keyboard and touchpad feels. I don't carry around any peripherals with me, because that'd be quite annoying and I personally do not advise that you use a mouse when programming (that impedes your code writing really) and a good touchpad is all the difference. Frankly, as I've said, you want something that can last you a good portion of the day so you don't have to carry bulky chargers around with you and preferably you don't want something very big and heavy. It'll be annoying to carry that thing around. By the way, I very much advise against using Visual Studio. When you're a programmer that will work in a .NET environment. Go for it! Best tool for that. Though when you're learning how to develop stuff, using an IDE that has so many features and makes you program in a specific way is going to give you bad habits that you'll later have trouble getting rid of. Jet Brains products are also something magical. They support a lot of stuff and they all have IntelliSense. It's something that you should be using from now until there's a better product out. End of discussion. If a lecturer tells you it does too much of your work for you. Tell him to sod off and remind him that most IDE's have a autistic broken counterpart of it and writing stuff like Getters and Setters and getting a hundred out of context methods being throw at you, when most of them don't even return what you need, isn't going to make a better programmer. I know this is getting out of the scope of what you've asked. But if you want to become a good programmer. Either buy "Clean Code" by Uncle Bob (it's a book) or buy the video versions of it by the guy. It's something that my employer forced me to watch (I would have anyways, he even paid for all of them) and I cannot be ever more grateful to him. Some of it might be beyond you right now, but giving an hour of your time everyday and going through his videos is going to make you a much better programmer that's mindful of the way he writes code.

What kind of IDE are you going to use and what kind of courses and software are you going to be using at university? A few suggestions of my own for the IDE's: (anything that Jet Brains makes really https://www.jetbrains.com/) C++: CLion Java: InteliJ C#: Rider / VisualStudio Php: PhpStorm Jet Brains stuff is free for students as well. Other than that I'd suggest you get Vim and possibly ditch Windows OS if at all possible.

It's either playing games or having an enjoyable laptop to carry around. @Zaraki Plus, playing games on a laptop is quite a shitty experience. Should also decide whether you want to learn programming or play games.

You really don't need an i7 for programming and absolutely anything can run C++. It's a language that's been out there since the 80's. Now, it depends on what you prefer. What kind of qualities you like other others. From my experience, you're going to want: At the very least 6-9 hours of battery life Lightweight SSD's A decent keyboard and trackpad (don't need mouses to program really) Dells are generally pretty nice.

Don't really see a good reason to change to this if you have a iPhone 7 or 6s.

How's the site going to decrypt the data you're sending it? Site still has to access the thing somehow.

When you're on public wi-fi networks do make sure that secure websites (like Steam-gamers) has the "HTTPS://" & "Secure" written next to the address. Otherwise it's quite likely that all of your stuff can be read by someone sitting on the network using a WPA2 exploit. Example: (if this is what you see, you're pretty safe!) You can read about the exploit here: krackattacks.com This exploit fucks around with router firmware and an implementation bug. Not sure if it can be patched through a OS update. Just something most people should know and check, especially if they use the same password for many things or post personal data to that website. Not sure if this is the right place to post this, if @Caution thinks it's worthy of "Tech talks" do move it there. Thank you

Might actually use it now. I do like Chrome's autofill though.

Works fine.

So someone waltzed into the base and just stole the laptop? The hell?

Two and a half years later, I still got the phone. It still lasts me somewhat well (however the battery is notably worse off) It still supports the latest apps and apart from some ROM glitches (due to me mostly) is nearly lag free. I really do suggest buying these phones. They're great.

You know you're kinda looking for friends whilst putting out requirements on what they have to be? Here's a question for ya, why should anyone want YOU to be their friend, or as you say it "part of the group"? What kind of redeeming qualities/quirks do you have? You're going about it in a roundabout way.

It's already illegal to publish one's private information on the internet without the person's consent. It's all fun and games until someone gets sued and has to pay settlements. In other words, until the people involved get some sort of punishment, be it a perm ban from a community they participate in actively, or financial loss, they're not going to stop. In their minds it's ok, remember, fun and games, right?