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Originally meant to be fireworks... ... though it blew the door off the Chemistry lab. Using a magnetron to figure out how electrons behave was pretty fun though.

A lot of news topics end up being political discussions due to their nature, there's not a lot of threads being started in either forum, so having two separate ones isn't all that necessary in my opinion.

Yeah don't complain about school until you get to university. I've got 17 lab projects, 5 tests and 6 exams coming up the next two months. Guess I should finally go to Digital logic though. Never been to a single lecture. Whops.

Don't do anything without an obvious gain to yourself. You either get paid, get experience or some other useful thing for your work. Since last Tuesday until this week's Monday I was helping organize a LAN Party (Biggest one in the Baltics with over 500+ participants daily and over 10k euros and 20k euro worth of gear as prizes). I've slept around 25 hours as a result since then, my entire body is killing me right now. I wired up all the electricity and set up the internet for the LAN. (configured 36 switches myself and they're all different... fuck~) After it all ended and we needed to clean up. Of the 50 or so volunteers that were there mostly playing and sometimes rarely doing any work, only 6 stuck out to help clean up after the thing. To give you a feeling of how big the entire thing was: (there were 3 other rooms as well, though not nearly as big) Everything you see there, excluding the stage, had to be all packed up and loaded onto a truck (took us 9 trips to get it all back). What you don't see is the miles of fucking cables running around everywhere. The 36 switches that took nearly 24h to configure, the server that took ages to config, the power cables that run along everywhere, the fiber wire that is around a mile long that we duct taped and hoped no one would fucking touch it because it'd cut the entire internet off, all the prizes and computers in the rooms and blablabla. And guess what, while we were working our asses off trying to clean up and pack shit up. There were people at home who were thinking about what to wear to the afterparty. So fuck them thoroughly in the arse. I guess I do have bragging right that we coordinated the biggest lan, a lan that had the most people in all of it's 15 years of existence, though that's it. People were actually angry with us (the ones that didn't help) that we took so long and it cost us around 200 euros more for the truck and other stuff. Don't do shit you don't get something back from. God knows I am not doing this again for a half assed "Thanks".

Certain kinds of cider are really good, but I rarely drink them because they're either very light (low alcohol %'tage) or because you can't mix them with anything without spewing it all out afterwards. Desperados as a beer is really, really good. 5.9% alcohol and has a nice tequila like taste. It's strong and goes down really well. Grimbergen's great. Only the darker ones though. I generally tend not to drink stronger drinks, though if I do then it's some kind of vodka that has no taste, smell or burning feeling as it goes down. Or expensive whiskey/bourbon, though that's rare cuz it's fucking expensive eh.

no one agrees on anything.

You can load 'applets' into a SIM card (without your knowledge what so ever, can't check either unless you do an annoying workaround) that can track any event a phone does. Like anything you write in on the keyboard for example~ It can also be mass loaded onto SIM cards by a baseband (which emergency SMS thingies use, not really SMS but whatever~) So yeah. Privacy huh. (hint: want privacy? don't use a SIM card. Goodluck!)

Software Engineer that's looking to be a Software Architect.

I want your opinion on what today's education lacks, especially from the tech side. Would you prefer to leave books behind and use tablets as an alternative? Any other changes that you'd like to see in the classroom?

And a lot of people would disagree with you. You're not the only one that collects data you know. @frosty Never did I say that every programmer uses a Macbook, however a majority of them do. You can go to tech conferences and see for yourself, Macbooks are insanely over-represented there.

To actually compile iOS or Cocoa apps you have to have OS X. You could build a Hackintosh, but I remember a team in the same office building did that, said fuck it, and just used a old Mac that compiled everything in a few hours instead. The reason why programmers prefer OS X and Apple products in general is because: A lot of applications for programming are built for the OS. Unix OS It allows you to develop for any platform Their laptops just work well

@Four I had a 5 eur microphone and it was completely fine. Headset mics tend to break very often, which is why I get headsets that don't have them. They're useless. Get something like canyon cnr-mic02n which costs 5-6$ and try it out. You could probably literally go to any tech store and get them too. I used a similar one (was even cheaper) and it was great. Thing took a lot of pain and coffee too (whops) and lasted me a couple of years. Honestly, I just don't see a reason to get something better, unless you do video's or something.

Guess professional programmers and webdevs aren't know-how. Wouldn't have figured that heh.

This is a great idea.

Yes, now add a bunch of playermodels and itll be even more.

Aryan

Seems like a rather interesting topic, with the news coming out about UK Trident failure, in which the missile veered off towards the US coast. (whoops) Anyways, here's a list: Minuteman III First deployed in the 70's, generally carries ~3x475 kT (W87 warhead). Rockets are three-stage solid-fuel. The missile itself can deploy chaff as countermeasures, though I don't think the MIRV's (the 3 warheads) can alter their flight paths greatly. Missile itself does have the ability to slightly alter course as a countermeasure. It's weight is around 35 tons. UGM-133 Trident II Much newer than the Minuteman, started service in the 90's. It can fire 9-12 MIRV's that can maneuver as part of their countermeasures. Warheads are W88 or W76. Both are 100 kT. The missile itselfs weights around 59 tons. It's not really an ICBM (it's a SLBM) though still thought I'd put it in here. R-36 "Satan" Thing really lives up to it's name. It has many variants, though the current one carries 10x 750 kT MIRV's with an undisclosed amount of decoys, chaff and other penetration aids. (I think it has a bunch of fake warheads attached to it too for maximum "fuck you"). Originally the missile had a single warhead that was 18-25 MT. So for example if you drop one of Washington the entire city would've disappeared. People would be suffering from 3rd degree burns in Baltimore. It's weight is 209 tons. RS-28 Sarmat also known as SATAN-2 As people, apparently, really like to fuck with one another and find the best ways to kill others. Someone thought up of this thing. No one really knows how much it weighs, but it's probably about the same as the R-36 or even rivals that. It can do 24 MIRV's plus a bunch of decoys and fakes. It's maximum throw weight is 10 tons so the missile could deliver a 50 MT charge. Remember what the 25 MT did? The 50 MT charge's fireball alone would encompass Washington entirely. Also the fact that the delivery size is 1/3rd of Minuteman's entire weight is pretty fucked up too.

Took like 30 minutes and we paid 20 eur to fix it when ours got cut by the cat.

Except that's not true? Can't have those due to carriers, not due to hardware constraints. They've been also working on a neutral carrier-free sim. Besides, many people who get dual-sims primarily get it to save money. Apple isn't targeted towards such an audience. First of all, they've even dropped the headphone jack due to space constraints. I can't imagine them putting an SD-card reader there with all the stuff they already have in there. Secondly, the fuck do you need one? I understand the need for them when 512 MB was nearly impossible to grasp, but when you have 32 GB as the starting option (and 128 GB as the next best one) I can hardly understand the need for more space. I've had a phone with 64 GB of storage space and have never been able to fill it up, except when I literally used my phone as a USB stick to carry movies. Thirdly, here's an answer on Quora: iPhone 7 is waterproof and the iPhone 6s was kinda waterproof (held up well in water, but wasn't officially waterproof). In regards to other hardware, iPhones have basically all the best you can have. Their batteries last longest (in regards to cycle count), the read/write speeds on their phones are insane, their processors are very low power, don't heat up that much and are optimized with the software insanely well. Nearly all their components are the best you can get for a phone at the time they release it.

It's not "Mac OS", it's OS X, which runs on most Apple products. (even iOS is somewhat based on it) Windows is also optimized in an entirely different way. Apple doesn't make gaming software or hardware. Hilariously, the best Windows laptop in 2013 was a MacBook Pro 13".

The last one looks pretty good, the price is OK too. Thanks!

Thank you for the suggestions. Though I probably should've specified that I do not play any games at all. I don't need something that's meant for gaming (or what they call power-using I guess) I don't really need a gaming mouse & especially not one for 60+ eur, I just want a decent-ish mouse that works well. The thing is I won't be using it that much. I nearly never use a mouse when I programm, I use keyboard shortcuts because that's much faster than point & click.

A Mac keyboard is a little bit different from a windows one: By the way, I actually found a rather cheap (35 eur) Apple wired keyboard. It's new and all so Ill be using that. (no compatibility issues and it's as near what I am used to as possible) Oh and Ill be working in an office. With other people. Don't want the keyboard to make ungodly amounts of noise.

It's getting quite tedious to program applications on a 13" Macbook pro screen. It's enough for university and other misc stuff, though programming stuff that has a GUI is definitely a pain. As I am creating a new StartUp and moving to an office, I decided to buy a screen that I could use in addition to the laptops own one. Or perhaps just buy two screens and use the laptop as a portable computer. Anyways, what I need is: A big screen that supports MacBooks and preferably connects with a Thunderbolt connection and not HDMI. A keyboard with the OS X buttons (maybe I should just buy the Apple's one, thoughts?) A mouse that's compatible with OS X, though something that's relatively cheap Because I've recently got a new car, I am on quite a budget right now. So I would everything to be quite affordable. Up to 250 eur. Though any suggestions regardless of the price as still welcome. Perhaps you have something that you really like? Would like to hear that too! Thanks.

Depends on how you're going to wear it. First one looks good, though imo it would look pretty bad on official clothes. (black suit, blue suit and so on) It would probably look good on casual suits though. ^ on second thought, the glass on that thing looks shit. Fourth one is the best one if you're going for a classical look.