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In response to agile most likely.

As someone who did a computer science degree, it's honestly depressing to see how many low quality "tech schools" and "bootcamps" there are that chew through peoples wallets then hand them the most wage-slavey jobs that the tech industry has to offer. I really have a sense of just how bad the scam is now. Never mind the horrific blobs of technical debt these coders end up creating because they are all too gungho on being a "hyper-productive silicon valley geniuses." In reality they work out of some remote office in the midwest for $36000 of which 20% of that is actually going to the recruiters that got them the **** job in the first place, and often times are more in debt than if they went to a decent community college. As someone that just got through the ringer of the modern state university system, I feel like I ran across an open field in ww1 and managed to get to the tree line with only some flesh wounds. Which is to say I barely navigated that battlefield. It wasn't the difficulty of the courses, it was the whole financial affair just to carve out the opportunity to attend. The amount of people I see permanently ruined for not being on the right professional track is absolutely depressing. These people will not be able to afford anything in life without taking on more debt, and could have been very well off if they worked their current jobs since straight out of high school. What's worst is many of them, have had their bitterness ideological co-opted by their program of studies while in school, and it's apparently not the schools fault in their eyes for getting them into these deep waters. I still think Universities are the best place to learn if you take the programs seriously and stick to the classical subjects and hard skills / sciences, but man are they also used to create a dis-empowered skilled working class.

Operation Flashpoint, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Isn't MicroLED supposed to just surpass OLED tech anyways?

People are afraid if they strike they will struggle to find work again, especially when it's on record with a federal work record. It's easier when it's a private/public company that you say **** off to. The feds employ a **** load of people and it's often people struggling to find compensation from a profit-minded business owner. I can understand people wanting to wait things out, in theory the shutdown could end any day now... right? Probably not but they don't want to get stuck in a worse situation is my guess.

The Z series was indeed terrible value. It was the luxury ultrabook line, and you were mostly paying for the privilege of having Sony's product designers go ham. I remember a much worse Z costed way money than my fairly decked out S 15 at the time. Looking a bit harder, it looks like the Dell G7 15 2019 is basically what I want out of a laptop feature wise, but I want that in a thin and light non-gaming form-factor. Something between the G7 and XPS 15 would be great. Maybe the XPS refresh this summer will be worth it, but I think it will still have the 3/4 keyboard, awful glossy touch display, and ****ty coil whine audio.

Desktops, especially costumes, are always better bang compared to a highly tailored laptop. I have the 2012 SVS15 Vaio which had a base price around $899. I then specced it up to $1250 pre-tax. Same price as my 2008 gaming rig (Core 2 Duo 3.33 E8600 Wolfdale w/ 9800 GTX+.) The laptop was about on par, better at times since it had more and faster ram, and a Direct X 11 compatible gpu. More cores too. Desktop obviously better with CPU intensive games like Crysis or Civ since not much threaded anyways around that time. Thing is, to get what this laptop offered in any other make, it would have been $1800 at the time and they were heavy and thicker and non-IPS. The same specced MacBook pro was pushing $3000 at the time. I literally could not believe the deal that Sony was offering with these things. I still think my IPS screen is better than what most laptops offer today, and OLEDs haven't exactly rolled out to laptops yet.

Is it just me or is the current landscape of laptops pretty awful. Especially as someone who plans to throw linux on as my primary partition. I just can't find anything comparable to what Vaios used to be. Where are my laptops with full keyboards, large track pad, 15 inch "bezel-less" non-touch non-glare IPS (or now OLED) screens with 1080p resolution (for battery), dedicated GPU that can fall back in the integrated GPU for further battery savings. A laptop that manages to be thin and well ventilated but not extreme to the extent it trims away remaining battery space. More laptops need to be built with magnesium alloy like the Vaios were. My Vaio also has a CD drive and Disc-based Laptop HDD. Now with those M2 SSDs, and forgoing the CD drive, I don't get why we can't have a 20 hour batter 15 inch laptop in the similar form factor as then thinnest "2012" laptops would have been. Especially with the more efficient CPUs/GPUs that we have now.

Not Tomi Lahren?

As I said on another forum, it's like the media was tripping all over themselves and each other trying to get the stoiry out before getting the full facts for sure. @sonicmage: You don't even see the flags with a cross on it that they're talking about, and funny linking to RT, a known Communist site, heh. That's part of it, the other part is that the full story often never gets told. Either because they've expended people's interests, or people already made up their minds and to present contrary evidence would malign themselves to too many, and we all know they rely on selling advertisements. Follow up are only done if it still fits the narrative of the outlets bias, otherwise errata if published at all is discreetly stashed on some corner of their website. As opposed to being boldly published as a story of its own.

He may actually get MAGA super-powers now that he's a victim and survivor of an onslaught of LEFTIST MEDIA™. Maybe we'll see him campaigning opposite of David Hogg one day. Most misreporting here seemed a result of partial information, not necessarily intentional misreporting as Tim suggests. Not that 24/7 news reporting is good, it's usually a travesty of information dissemination. I usually think Tim has pretty good character but he does have a bone to pick with the "culture wars" as he calls it. Anyways, the Black Hebrew Israelites are lunatics, and Trump supporters are idiots. At the end of the day you have a school sending it's students to partake in a political rally against woman's choice to abort.

Not bad, also I had no idea these things were so small. Is that mostly due to being on a smaller die?

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I think a lot of Pixar's movies feel really tight and concise. Basically everything up to Ratatouille was, then with Wall-E and UP they sort of fell off tonally. Then all the sequels started hitting. Which I don't think were necessarily padded, just sort of rehashes on a theme, or more exploration to a worlds internal logic. Dory get's caught again, Monsters learn their trade, Toys get donated. You get the idea. Since then I think Inside Out, Coco, and The Incredibles 2 have all been top notch works. Brave was weaker than I would've liked, and I straight skipped The Good Dino and Cars 3 (cars 2 was trash.)

I teared up in Lion King 3D. Twice.

http://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/kasparov-all-trump-s-big-decisions-are-connected-to-putin-s-interests-1428852291763 Garry Kasparov: All Trump's 'big decisions' are 'connected to Putin's interests'

T This is a Take-Two production. Likely Obsidian has a QA budget and will hire a small group of play testers.

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The beginning of UP is fantastic, but it's later kid-centric humor and action plot has made it one of my least favorite Pixar films overall. Yeah, probably should have been a short.