[Guinthel]

Specifically looking for some articles or maybe some good websites / blogs about new the software and hardware that comes out these days. While I'm still capable of keeping up with techy lingo, and building my own computer (hopefully for 5.0), all things to do with Hardware, Software, OS's and what not is still a sizable gap in my knowledge, and I seem to do nothing but read about economics, finance and (god forsaken) statistics.

Any good websites anyone can point me too that i might not find via google search's?

[Wrathblood]

I'm seeing a disconnect here. Don't clutter up your brain with useless crap. You're studying business and economics, right? What would comparative advantage tell you to do? That's right. Hire an IT person to do it for you.

[Sobeyet]

Wrathblood, on 28 November 2011 - 12:46 AM, said:

I'm seeing a disconnect here. Don't clutter up your brain with useless crap. You're studying business and economics, right? What would comparative advantage tell you to do? That's right. Hire an IT person to do it for you.

I dunno, I'd agree that most crap is indeed useless, but IT is one of the more dependable industries (especially in this shitty economy). If you want to maximize your ceiling for "success" (in a materialistic sense) Finance is still the way to go, but I'd put IT on the top 3 - Finance / Law / IT in some order (not counting entrepreneurship, I'm thinking more along the lines of typical career paths). It's tough to make 7 figures in IT, but you can make 150k fairly easily (engineer / project manager level) if you're not a complete retard.

Also, unless Gunther is working up some nepotism magic the best chance he has at a job is probably something in entry-level tech support (isn't he an information systems major or something?). Unless you have a connection or some stellar credentials out of undergrad it's a pretty brutal time to start in Finance. Kind of funny to see all the unemployed Stern/Columbia grads loitering at Starbucks - if you went to Pace you were working as a barista already anyway so no diff.

[Len]

Guinthel, on 27 November 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:

Any good websites anyone can point me too that i might not find via google search's?

Ars Technica is my go-to site for these. If you have a question, ask the forums, they are very good at responding.

[Deceax]

My preferred hardware site is http://www.hardocp.com. They are the top dog in my eyes for video card reviews because of their evaluation methods they use. They don't run canned benchmarks for games, they do real world playthroughs to give you a better idea on how a setup will perform.