The notebook computer business has gone from strength to strength recently. It looks like the poor suppliers are also up against problems that could cause delays. I think the unfortunate thing for manufacturers is that it doesn’t look like anything will stop this demand for laptop computers. It’s a quick changing industry that is witnessing new trends all the time.
Gaming notebooks have recently been inviting a lot of attention. I feel gaming notebooks have never been at such low prices. You can hunt down some extremely good bargains out there that will get you playing games. Playing games on notebooks is indeed a reality now with the breakthroughs in technology. Even more indredible these days I feel is how sleek the designs are becoming especially when you think about much speed is in them. Hardcore gamers will always like their desktop gaming rigs for power and rightly so but it’s the usability notebooks provide that makes people settle on frame rates. I feel gaming notebooks are always exciting to hear about because they are constantly testing the boundaries on mobile technology.
Although the market share is governed by brands selling via retail channels I feel the direct channel and custom built notebooks will always be here. I feel the parts are more respectable and perform more stable. By being able to choose exactly what you need you can even keep on to some money in some cases. Premade laptops are targeted at people who have like minded requirements and that is probably not you right? This is exactly why custom notebooks are here. The support given by custom builders is also more personal in my opinon. To a couple of consumers this is very important.
It will fascinating to see what next. So far it looks as though budget portables are the in thing. I didn’t feel anyone thought they would be such a big success. If a brand puts together a laptop that has a big screen but is also light at a competitive market price point I feel it would be a huge success. I guess you could say these notebooks are already around if you’re ready to pay the premium. Guessing from what is going on it looks like we will start seeing ultra light gaming systems. Companies are always searching to distinguish themselves in this tough market so that keeps things improving.
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We are seeing many top colleges and universities implementing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV Programs along with their newest robotic engineering schools. One of the latest trends in UAV design is to make these new aerial vehicles very small perhaps ypu have indeed seen the trend I am discussing? What is driving this new industry is the science and of course business, together these two factors tend to drive the technology and of course the military and Department of Homeland Security buying. All these groups must work seamlessly together. Innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers must be on the same page for a new concept or emerging technology of any type to work.
If you have been watching there are sub sector growing trends within the UAV community, for instance blimp technologies, new materials for dirigibles, inflatable wings, etc and they are definitely an important direction in which those designing UAVs, MAV and Micro organic replica MAVs, must be thinking. If you go online at Google Images and search you will see some ideas. I myself have had concepts the Blimp type technologies and concepts, as well as submersible UAV-AUV combos? Both will be needed for military and commercial applications in the future.
For those graduate students designing and engineering prototypes; I suppose money issues could be an issue, as development money is needed to live and still work; plus materials, sensors and equipment are very costly and will hamper both student and school budgets, but Indeed there are ways to get such things done working with sponsors and industry.
What many of these students really need is a monthly paycheck for two-years and $120,000 for parts and materials it sounds to build their prototypes. There are ways to do this through government grants however most include an unfortunate level of disgusting bureaucracy. I have never understood why Government Agencies do not understand how much bang for the buck they can get by assisting small entrepreneurs in such things. And what these entrepreneurs can give back in return as they grow their companies, both for military and those technologies they are given permission for and allowed to pursue with commercial transfer of such technology. This indeed also assists large defense contractors with a steady influx of new ideas, concepts and things to sell the government, develop and add to their own research and development divisions. Many larger companies look to find these smaller companies to buy and integrate which can be beneficial for both the entrepreneur and the mega-corporation.
Any engineer worth their salt must agree that DARPA is a very smart group to get involved with. If you want someone to review your design and concept, I would tell them to send in a paper, drawings and digital pictures to DARPA and they would be willing to do so. They would be glad to exercise their brightest minds and they love such challenges. So may find yourself with a “proof of concept” solicitation if it is good enough.
If you are an engineer, grad student or tinkerer with a small company and prototype of such a workable concept and are looking for DARPA to fund you they are looking for bleeding edge technologies and such things, if you can write it up as a scientific paper, plans and design and send it, perhaps a short video and some digital pictures, you may find yourself in a good spot, or better yet a contestant in the Next Big DARPA Type Challenge, you should be thinking about that.
“Lance Winslow” – Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/
The changes in the earth magnetic field away from the 7.8 cycle rhythm that it has been for a long time is something that may be a result of the things man has done to the Earth. It is more likely part of the cyclical nature of the sun’s effect on the Earth but we must keep an open mind. I used to think there was some possibility that the reason the Mammoths in the northern climes had buttercups inside their fast frozen mouths had to do with a pole shift of a physical nature. I do not think that is the case anymore. I present these thoughts for your careful consideration.
Faraday didn’t need to see his soul in order to know it existed, but he wanted the rest of the world to know it existed. He and his Sandemanian cohorts practiced a personal meditative relationship with God/Goddess/It/The Force, which is most appropriate in my humble opinion. The extent to which our brain wavelengths can evolve or be altered is a subject of much research at present. I hear that Hank Wesselmann who was a researcher on the team that discovered Lucy has a very different brain state that gurus and healers can not easily achieve or maintain as long as he does. Some people think we are about to evolve or adapt to the collective mind state and I surely hope it happens quickly. The Quaker or Shaker non-ritualistic approach is very much like the Sandemanians who most people will never learn about. They are social activists who value real knowledge and use love as a guiding force in their lives – other than ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon.
I think one of the carriers of ‘World Mind’ information is the Earth Energy Grid. Can I prove it? Can I weigh wisdom? Will we ever reach the point of being able to manifest a new paradigm if we insist we must see everything? I am a skeptic and I advocate questioning rather than using faith – but at some point we can decide on the higher probability and work with what can achieve results even if we do not fully understand it. The earth energy affects our genes and allows a certain feedback mechanism that can be useful. I will probably never fully grasp enough of these things to make a significant contribution to the science of soul, but I wish I had been born knowing what I know now. The books just weren’t available and the research is largely new. It is an exciting era and the opportunity to GROW has never been greater.
“Scientists have long known that certain minerals in molten rock, as they cool, become magnetized by the Earth’s magnetic field, and are aligned with the planet’s north and south magnetic poles. When the lava hardens, its magnetic field becomes permanent, and points north like a compass needle. A good compass needle can be locked in place with the turn of a screw. Likewise the hardened rock: unless the rock is moved or melted down, its magnetic field should point north forever.
One common kind of hardened lava is the black rock called basalt. Oddly enough, since the turn of the century, outcrops of basalt had been discovered here and there with their magnetic fields pointing in the wrong directions. Two Britishers, Patrick Blackett and S. Keith Runcorn, systematically testing basalt compass needles across North America and Europe found that rocks of different ages pointed off toward different spots on the horizon, like witnesses who disagree. To explain this, Blackett and Runcorn suggested at first that the poles, then that the rocks, and the continents they rest on, had wandered too.” (6)
Could we be so wise as to admit the ancients might have known how to place the megaliths in Neolithic times so that a form of computer self-powering macrochip was created? Magnetometer readings show the same wavelength or cycles thereof in the megaliths and the Great Pyramid. Could the Great Pyramid and its earlier smaller capstone model have been the CPU or central processing unit in league with an attuned priesthood? Was there ever a crustal shift? There is drift in the continental and tectonic movements as well as rising earth when the glaciers retreat that is going on to the present day. It takes thousands of years for the earth’s crust to rebound from miles of glacier ice on top of it.
“At first, the researchers assumed that these reversals would prove to have occurred regularly, every million years or so, regular as the ticks of a clock. And indeed, Cox recalls wryly, their first data seemed to fit this pattern. (‘I think that it’s always true that if you don’t have very much data, it will fit your theory.’) But then they began to find reversals that had lasted a mere 100,000 years. For a while thereafter they said the ticking is slightly irregular, but at last they had to acknowledge that it is totally irregular, random. ‘For me, this was a very frustrating experience,’ Cox says. ‘Scientists always like to find some very simple, regular pattern in nature. You’re always looking for order. And the odd kind of order we found was almost perfect disorder.’ Two decades ago, Allan Cox and Brent Dalrymple proved that the Earth’s magnetic field can flip-flop, its north and south magnetic poles suddenly reversing. This has happened nine times in the past four million years, and it may happen again quite soon. The discovery led to a momentous change in the way we view the Earth….
What is more, if the sea floor has spread, the oceans must have grown, the continents must have moved. Wegener, it seemed was right too. Virtually overnight, confirmed ‘fixists’ became ‘mobilists’ and ‘drifters’. Wegener’s theory had been tooted off the stage because he could not explain what forces move the continents. By the late 1960s, it was ’still’ unclear what propelled all this motion, but the evidence for the motion itself was inescapable. New converts cited what is sometimes called Ayer’s law: ‘What ‘has’ happened, ‘can’ happen.’ Earth scientists old and young had to adapt themselves to Wegener’s vision of a restless and driven globe.” (7)
Jim Bowles has a mathematical formula for rotational bending that might explain some of the ways that the Earth Energy Grid alters the inertia or gravity forces which would keep things stationary. There is a lot left to learn about all these things. Unfortunately Jim is proud of his formula and thinks it supports Hapgood and the sudden crustal shift theory. The astrological insights to how Earth, Moon, Sun and Water affects us from the moment of conception have a lot more validity than most modern academics will allow but not as much as scholars thought a couple of centuries ago perhaps.
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Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
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It is not always who you know, but what you know. That is why obtaining Microsoft certification can be a valuable asset to your career. Of course, it does depend on what career path you want to take as to whether you want to get either MCSE training or MCP training or anything else for that matter. So what do those abbreviations MCSE and MCP stand for anyway?
MCP stands for Microsoft Certified Professional and MCSE is an abbreviation for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. What exactly does having a Microsoft certification mean anyway? We know that it looks good on a resume and opens new doors in your career. Did you know that being certifiable – in Microsoft anyway – sometimes will also boost your pay? Experience counts for a lot, but having a Microsoft certification or two does not hurt either!
So what does it take to be and MCP or MCSE? Lots of studying! The MCP courses and MCP exams are geared toward a more rounded technical professional. Candidates for MCP must pass one current certification test from Microsoft. Passing one of the exams demonstrates that the candidate has a consistent level of technical expertise.
With the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer path, there are MCSE boot camps that help prepare candidates for the MCSE exams. These MCSE boot camps are intense classes often packed into a full two week period instead of the traditional weekly MCSE training classes in preparation for the MCSE exams. This path is more involved. MCSE certification is standard in the IT field and prepares you for anything from the design of a system’s infrastructure to analyzing the company’s needs before implementing a design.
Unlike those individuals who take the MCP training to prepare for MCP exams, students of MCSE have a course of study that is more intense. Instead of one test to prepare for, they have seven tests that they are required to pass to get their Microsoft certification. Yikes! Seven! They have five main exams to take as well as two electives. The five required MCSE exams are broken down into four operating system exams and one design exam. The two electives typically deal with other issues in design and implementation not covered in the five core tests.
After learning a few basics, it is easy to see that the MCP or Microsoft Certified Professional is really just a stepping stone to bigger and greater things in the world of Microsoft certification. The individuals who go for the MCP have a leg up on those peers who have no technical experience. They will have a better grasp on technical issues and usually stay a step ahead of trends. The MCSE is more specialized and appeals to the techno geek with a penchant for design and implementation. They like knowing how stuff works. So market yourself and become certifiable!
James Croydon, Microsoft Certified Professional and MCSE Certification Online advisor – focusing on MCSE Courses Online and Boot Camp MCSE
Wireless networking is simple in theory: just install a wireless network adapter in each computer and forget about drilling holes and running cable. When you deal with equipment based on the 802.11b (or Wi-Fi) standard, unfortunately, the reality often falls short of claimed specifications. Your wireless network will have a limited range – you’ve probably experienced a decrease in speed at a certain distance from an access point. That’s why you must adjust the location and configuration of your wireless setup to obtain the best possible performance, range, and reliability. Follow expert advice and your connection will be faster across longer distances–and you’ll have fewer dropped connections.
Pick the best location: The farther your wireless networked computer is from a wireless access point–and the greater the number of solid objects that stand in the way–the slower your connection will be. To optimize your network’s speed and range, position your wireless access point at least a few feet above the floor and away from metal objects, particularly large appliances like refrigerators. Though most manuals for networking products tell you to position the access point in the middle of the coverage area, it’s often better to identify the locations where you expect to use a computer and put the access point where it will be in a direct line of sight (or close to it) to as many of those places as possible.
Don’t waste time worrying about “dead spots” if no one is likely to use a computer there. Once your wireless network is up and running, even slight changes in your wireless network card’s position (say, a shift in the orientation of your laptop as you recline on the couch) may dramatically improve throughput or even restore a dropped connection.
For larger areas–or areas with many obstructions–your only option may be to shell out the cash for multiple access points. If you go this route, you’ll find that wireless setup is easy: Simply make sure that the access points have identical settings. Virtually all wireless network adapters support “roaming”: In areas where access point coverage overlaps, the adapter will latch on to the strongest signal.
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Gone are the days when you would have been laughed at if you walked into an all-night LAN party carrying your trusty laptop and expecting to hang with the giant computer towers standing at everyone’s feet. The gaming laptop computers of today sport huge, crisp LCD screens, cutting-edge video cards and full-size keyboards. Not only can these gaming laptop computers hang with the standard clunky computer tower, but they can also be ordered fully custom to meet the exact specifications of any gamer.
Since there are so many customizable components in these laptops, a standard practice has been to create what some call a “system builder.” This is the page where you get to add and subtract components through drop-down menus in order to create the best gaming laptop computer for your needs and your budget. This type of page can be overwhelming to someone just starting the gaming laptop shopping process, but it is very manageable if you take it just one component at a time.
The Gaming Laptop GPU
This is the heart of a gaming laptop computer. The GPU – graphics processing unit – is a component that will make or break your gaming experience. If your GPU isn’t up to snuff, your games won’t play.
Without getting into specific models since they change all the time, the key is that the graphics card not share resources with the computer. A gaming laptop video card must have its own memory on board. Generally speaking, standard off-the-shelf laptops will not have this feature. The two current makers of laptop video cards are nVIDIA and ATI.
Without the Screen, You Don’t Have Much
What good is a gaming laptop without a screen that can actually render your games? Now certainly, you can connect an external monitor, but if you can’t actually play on your gaming laptop without that external monitor, then your laptop isn’t all that mobile.
While the technology and terminology for LCDs (liquid crystal displays) could take up an entire article in itself, there are a few key points to keep in mind when choosing from available LCD options for your new gaming laptop computer: native resolution, aspect ratio, rise and fall time, contrast, viewing angle, and size.
Native Resolution. The native resolution is simply the setting at which your screen will render the clearest images. Since games are constantly in motion, slightly soft edges may not bother most gamers, but keep in mind that while this is your gaming laptop, you will likely also use it for other things like surfing the Internet. If the resolution isn’t comfortable, you aren’t going to enjoy using it.
Aspect Ratio. As you probably know, a movie theater screen and a TV screen have different proportions. Likewise, there are widescreen format gaming laptops and there are laptops that have a standard aspect ratio – like that of a TV. A widescreen format gaming laptop has advantages and disadvantages. Many games today do not have a widescreen mode. This means that the game may stretch across the screen and become distorted or you may run it with black bars that fill in the sides. There are ways to get around this, but if you want an out of the box perfect experience, the widescreen format may not be for you.
That said, a widescreen LCD does offer plenty of screen real estate for web surfing and other type of computer activities, and a game played in a wide format setting offers an expansive field of view. For this reason, there are some very loyal widescreen-loving gamers out there.
Do your best to find a balance between current and future technology and what your computer habits are beyond gaming. Even with its limitations, the widescreen format is found on most of the best gaming laptop computers.
Rise and Fall. The phrase ‘rise and fall time’ is used to describe how fast the LCD can respond to changes. In the past, LCDs have been plagued with the inability to render images as fast as computer games can spit them out. This presents a major problem for laptop gamers because if they can’t see the images properly, they can’t play the game properly. This lag can mean the difference between playing to win and barely playing.
Fortunately, gaming laptop LCDs have come a long way and they are only getting better. While once it was impossible to game on a laptop screen, the gaming laptop LCDs of today offer 25 milliseconds or less rise and fall time while generally off-the-shelf laptops have 40 milliseconds or less rise and fall time.
Contrast. If a gaming laptop LCD has poor contrast, that means that the black areas aren’t quite as black as they should be and the white areas aren’t quite as white. This is important to a laptop gamer because you have to see the game properly – as it was intended to be seen – in order to compete effectively. Look for a contrast ratio of 400:1 or higher in a custom gaming laptop computer.
Viewing Angle. This is an often-overlooked LCD feature, but it must be considered if you are building a gaming laptop computer. Many high quality LCDs on the market are difficult to see clearly at any angle other than straight on and at the right height. This can be a big drawback to gaming on a LCD screen because a screen with poor viewing angles won’t allow others to watch the screen as you play and also hurts your view when doing something as simple as adjusting your seating, which can require you to then adjust to position of your laptop screen to see it properly again.
But gaming on a laptop does not mean that you are doomed to have poor viewing angles. There are LCDs on the market that have amazing viewing angles – up to 120 degrees. These screens not only allow gaming onlookers, but they also allow you to use that giant, crisp screen to do things like play movies and even make presentations.
Size. In a gaming laptop computer, size is everything. Most gaming laptops are large, robust pieces of electronics. Having a machine of this stature means you also get to have a large screen. The best gaming laptop computer LCD screens out there are at least 15 inches. A crowd favorite is a 17 inch widescreen (even with the challenges that widescreens present). Largr 19 inch laptop screens are just starting to be talked about with consumers expecting to see 19 inch or even large models on the market in the near future.
The best way to really get a feel for what laptop LCDs are all about is to take a trip to a local box store and play with the LCDs on the display laptops while keeping in mind what you have read here. While these laptops are not custom gaming laptops, you can see what the sizes really look like, what different resolutions look like, and what the viewing angles truly are so you can start to develop your own preferences.
The RAM – What Type and How Much?
The RAM (random access memory) found in laptops is called SODIMM (small outline dual inline memory module). The RAM is responsible for your processing power. If you are shopping for a custom gaming laptop, you will generally be offered DDR2 RAM with the choice of how much you want in your computer. Most high-end games being released today need 1GB of RAM for optimum, lag-free game play. Some people are going with 2GB to ensure that they can run multiple applications along with the game and not experience any slow down in response time. This is a large investment and you want to be able to use this gaming laptop for some time in the future. Most custom laptops are user upgradeable, but this should be left up to professionals.
The CPU – Not Just Mobile Technology
The CPUs (central processing units) found in many custom gaming laptops are identical to those found in desktops. These chips require a great deal of cooling power, which in turn can make your laptop louder than light weight, lower power ultra portables when the fans kick on and it can become somewhat warm to the touch. Don’t be alarmed by this – it is normal. And with these desktop processors comes screaming power! Don’t waste your money on the latest CPU release that likely has an inflated price tag (and that price will likely come down before long). Stick with a current CPU speed that is offered by a reputable custom gaming laptop reseller, and you really can’t go wrong.
The Gaming Laptop Hard Drive
This is the final component to consider when building a gaming laptop. Laptop hard drives come in a variety of speeds and capacities ranging from 4200 to 7200 RPMs and 40 to over 100 GBs. For the most part, this is user preference. Whenever possible, go for a 7200 RPM hard drive, but if you need a capacity not offered in this speed, it’s okay to go for the 5400 RPM drive. Take a look at your current computer, and buy your capacity based on this. Also keep in mind that with many custom gaming laptop manufacturers, you have the ability to upgrade or add another hard drive at a later date.
At the end of the day, gaming laptop computers are all about power. Don’t expect a twelve-pound notebook with a desktop processor, numerous fans, a giant heatsink, and independent video card to last on battery power all that long. But do make sure to enjoy the jawdrops that you’ll get as you walk into your regular LAN party location with your new, screaming-fast gaming laptop computer. Crack that puppy open, fire it up, and stand clear of the drool as you take on your favorite game with fellow gamers gathered around to take in the action. Gaming is not just for desktops anymore!
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Technology is continually advancing allowing us to run our businesses better faster and cheaper than ever before. Quite often technology can be daunting to say the least. Technology is such a huge and diverse area. The following guidelines will help you take advantage of the latest advancements.
Look for ways of implementing new technologies that are relatively low risk. This will allow you to evaluate their effectiveness without tying yourself into a long term commitment and expense. It is quite common for companies to offer their products to you for a free trial period so that you can test and evaluate the product. Make use of this free trial and spend some time to evaluate the product to see if it will meet your requirements.
Don’t be afraid of using Technology, its there as a tool to help you improve the way you do things and should not be thought of as a barrier to getting things done. The best Technology companies will design their products to be as user friendly as possible and will provide support to you as you implement their products.
Make use of internet based technologies. Where possible utilize technologies that do not require you to install and manage complicated software and hardware. This allows you to concentrate on learning and using the technology in your business rather than worrying about installing and maintaining it. The latest version of software is always available to you without requiring any upgrades to your computers. And the software will be accessible to you wherever you are in the world providing you have a computer and an internet connection.
Take the time to learn how to use new technology. Time spent learning and understanding exactly what can be done with new and existing technology will pay off many times over. Most modern software has extensive help documentation and tutorial information. Use this information to get the most out of your investment.
Focus on introducing technologies that will make it easier for your staff to do their jobs and interact together. Don’t get caught up in the hype of the latest and greatest technology. Technology should be viewed as a business tool like any other and should be able to justify its cost with quantifiable results and a return on the investment to your business.
It can also be useful to invest in the services of specialized Technology Consultants who will be able to guide you through the process of identifying, evaluating and implementing new technologies in your business.
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Justin Woolich has been involved with the Development of Innovative Business Software for over 12 years. He is passionate about assisting Businesses with Software for Business Development.
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Presently many individuals believe that the world is figuratively shrinking rather quickly on a global scale. The progression of technology towards a greater degree of interconnectedness is, in essence, bringing the world closer together. Large businesses can basically operate much more efficiently and can reach a more extensive market via the present trend towards globalization. This time-space divergence does have a remarkable upside yet it is not without its share of problems. Many argue that the process of globalization brought about by the progression of technology is not truly a “global” process and one can easily observe the inherent disparity.
Small businesses, which lack the capital and consequently the ability to expand rapidly, often suffer and meet their demise at the hands of larger monopolizing companies. While there are businesses in place at the present attempting to alleviate some of the stress placed of these small businesses via loans and the like, it is sometimes not enough. The larger corporations just have the upper hand when it comes to expanding their consumer base and essentially making themselves more marketable. Unfortunately for smaller businesses the ability of these transnational companies to use technology to their favor and capitalize on the degree of interconnectedness that is attainable at the present puts them at an inconvenience and makes it rather difficult for them to succeed.
Many places in the world simply do not have the financial stability with which to implement technological systems to allow for globalization. These developing countries, in many cases, have enough trouble just trying to feed their population and as such experiencing the level of interconnectedness shared amongst developed nations is out of the question. This unfortunate situation increases the gap between these richer and poorer nations and essentially creates this disparity, hence why many argue that globalization really is not a universal concept.
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