Trackpad. How is the trackpad on this one? I keep buying Apple HW for my Windows as every time I try new PC, trackpad experience doesn't yield itself to the change. Period.
I presume this is because you actually click the trackpad rather than turn on tap-to-click. Gotta turn on that tap-to-click. It doesn't take too long for my wrist to start hurting whenever I used someone's MB without tap to click.
XPS 15 and 13 have (one of the) best trackpads on windows. I finally understand how people live without mouse. Apparently not the same as mac, but the closest experience available.
IBM/Lenovo always had great trackpads for the "Thinkpad" line, and the nipple/clit was always my favorite pointing device, I actually missing it as typing this on an MBP15.
Try a recent premium dell (precision/xps) s I think you will find them OK. I can't tell any major difference between my 2014 precision M3300 and my 2011 Macbook Pro trackpads at least.
FPGA newbie here; How does this relate to toolsets that Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics and others make for chip design? Would you use tools from these companies to design VHDL / Verilog for the 'FPGAs as a service' or is this at all related?
Those tools are very close to silicium level design tools.
I guess the smartest application of FPGAs on EC2 would be for FPGA design tools, they are incredibly slow.
I am totally bothered by noise in the bars. Or the fact that you go to sports bar, but you cannot hear the audio. I was thinking of building on Pi something that would plug to TVs audio output, and then broadcast that to local Wifi in the bar. So that smartphone that's connected to same wifi could receive the audio and you could listen to it on your smartphone. Turns out there is someone already doing it: http://www.limeonair.com
Like a hearing aid induction loop (a transmitter that plugs in to a venues mono-out and [I gather] transmits on a frequency for specially hearing aids).
