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[citation][nom]shreeharsha[/nom]Dear Webmaster (of Tom's Hardware)My RSS is not working, I am redirected to a page & informed to send email to webmaster@tomshardware.com, but it's bouncing back to my gmail account.Regards.[/citation]
[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]A lot of parts aren't made in China or at least aren't made only in China. For example, Japan makes most of the high quality capacitors and similar parts for many parts of the computer including the good motherboards and video cards. A lot of DRAM is made outside of China. The list does go on. It doesn't go on as long as the list of things made in China, but it does go on pretty long.At least Bulldozer steamrolls Netburst.Yes, because actually understanding what the computer is doing is worthy of hating it. Simpler is only better for people who are too lazy to do it the fast way. Command line is still the fastest way to do things on a computer even like two decades after we got common GUIs (if you count Windows 3.11 and prior as the early common GUIs) for people who know how to use it. In fact, command line still sees common usage by a lot of people for this reason (among other reasons too, but still).Programming skill isn't a necessary thing even for using command line, but it helps. I still remember a little BASIC myself and even have some QBASIC programs that I wrote and occasionally use. Writing small programs is very easy and doesn't even take much thought. For example, most of the little things I write could be written by anyone with even a day or two of reading a few of the many tutorials on the internet. You could literally write small but useful programs just by looking up a tutorial and spending a few minutes or hours reading and practicing. For example, I have some programs that generate random keyboard characters (I just had to see how quickly I could write three completely different methods for accomplishing this) and some that do other things.[/citation]
Look at what you said. A few hours of reading and a few more of practicing. Who wants to do that to learn how to make a computer do basic tasks??? If that is your hobby or desired vocation then I see why you should invest in learning the ins and outs of it.
Those kinda comments just reinforce that leet culture in computing. Its as if you have to have some baseline level of technical skill to be allowed to have a computer or at the very least own one without ridicule.
I don't have much tech skill (build my own rigs, install os, little basics like that) but my lack of skill should not make me any less worthy of having a computer than a person who does all the tasks you're talking about.
I took computer course as a freshman to meet the state computer requirement and It was an intro to programming course and it was horrible. We had to do things starting from the basic 'hello world" to more complex things.
I got an A- in the class but it was still the worst course I ever took. I can't imagine wanting to deal with that just for a little more functionality/customization from my os. You may like the long convoluted approach to computing and that's fine but some of us just want it to work and not have to know why.
[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]A lot of parts aren't made in China or at least aren't made only in China. For example, Japan makes most of the high quality capacitors and similar parts for many parts of the computer including the good motherboards and video cards. A lot of DRAM is made outside of China. The list does go on. It doesn't go on as long as the list of things made in China, but it does go on pretty long.At least Bulldozer steamrolls Netburst.Yes, because actually understanding what the computer is doing is worthy of hating it. Simpler is only better for people who are too lazy to do it the fast way. Command line is still the fastest way to do things on a computer even like two decades after we got common GUIs (if you count Windows 3.11 and prior as the early common GUIs) for people who know how to use it. In fact, command line still sees common usage by a lot of people for this reason (among other reasons too, but still).Programming skill isn't a necessary thing even for using command line, but it helps. I still remember a little BASIC myself and even have some QBASIC programs that I wrote and occasionally use. Writing small programs is very easy and doesn't even take much thought. For example, most of the little things I write could be written by anyone with even a day or two of reading a few of the many tutorials on the internet. You could literally write small but useful programs just by looking up a tutorial and spending a few minutes or hours reading and practicing. For example, I have some programs that generate random keyboard characters (I just had to see how quickly I could write three completely different methods for accomplishing this) and some that do other things.[/citation]
Look at what you said. A few hours of reading and a few more of practicing. Who wants to do that to learn how to make a computer do basic tasks??? If that is your hobby or desired vocation then I see why you should invest in learning the ins and outs of it.
Those kinda comments just reinforce that leet culture in computing. Its as if you have to have some baseline level of technical skill to be allowed to have a computer or at the very least own one without ridicule.
I don't have much tech skill (build my own rigs, install os, little basics like that) but my lack of skill should not make me any less worthy of having a computer than a person who does all the tasks you're talking about.
I took computer course as a freshman to meet the state computer requirement and It was an intro to programming course and it was horrible. We had to do things starting from the basic 'hello world" to more complex things.
I got an A- in the class but it was still the worst course I ever took. I can't imagine wanting to deal with that just for a little more functionality/customization from my os. You may like the long convoluted approach to computing and that's fine but some of us just want it to work and not have to know why.
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