Naty722

I've been using the Bitfenix Prodigy M for the past 2 years almost and it's decent. I got it because it's the smallest mATX case I could find that also supports a fairly tall cooler. Don't worry about air flow or anything. The whole heat rises issue is just theory and it cools fine. The main issue is actually build quality. The handles are actually made of very cheap, hard, sharp plastic, that I actually don't really trust with the weight of the case. The case actually wobbles back and forth because of the plastic. The side panels also aren't quite perfectly fit. All in all, it just feels a tad janky. But otherwise it functions completely fine. Cable management isn't too dreadful for such a small case, and temps are always great. The other cases that people suggest are just too big for me and defeat the whole purpose of going mATX. I want a small, silent workstation. I was hoping Silverstone would make a followup to the SG04 since that's even smaller and Silverstone has great build quality, but they've never made another case like that. Silverstone has a number of solid small cases though so you should take a look at their selection.

A 5820k with a decent video card might be nice just for future use of your components. 4930k is the end of the 2011 socket, so don't go that route. The next few -E processors will likely use 2011-v3 so you'll be able to use your motherboard and RAM setup if you want to upgrade. However, you're not going to see that massive of a performance improvement over something like a 4790k, so keep that in mind. Nothing is going to run AE smoothly once you start putting a lot of effects on, so don't fret over that. You don't need a crazy video card, just a decent enough one for Premiere to handle accelerated effects in real time. Definitely get 32GB of RAM though. After Effects will gladly take it all.

What kind of video editing are we talking about? Just basic editing, or some visual effects, 3d modeling? Most people just mean very basic editing when they say they want to make a computer for video work and honestly an i7 is more than enough for those purposes. 16GB of RAM is plenty and going for something higher end hardly gives any benefit. I do some fairly intense visual effects work and I still wonder if getting a 4930k was worth it, as the software really can't take full advantage of it. Usually rendering uses all the cores but at a measly 30%-40% usage. If you're doing some visual effects like After Effects, 32GB of RAM might be worth it, but DDR4 vs DDR3 is negligible. Only if you're actually doing some 3D modeling and animation would I suggest a 6 core or higher. Or if you have money to burn and might as well just get the best you can get.

You aren't returning anything from average() is the problem. You just have return at the end. You need return total / len(numbers)

No idea, the tool worked beautifully for me. Very convenient. You checked 32 vs 64 bit right?

Since we're discussing web frameworks and languages, I'd highly recommend Ruby on Rails. Honestly, php is very restrictive, not to mention overly verbose. For example, the code you posted would probably just be a few lines for the form, and one line to save to the database. The fact that you have to actually write any sql at all is somewhat jarring for me, working with rails for so long. Rails can be a little confusing, but it really is flexible and incredibly elegant. As Ciccioo mentioned, doing everything in javascript with node.js is also looking like the future. Web technologies are moving incredibly fast and honestly, learning with something ancient like php is unnecessarily keeping you back and in the past.

You are in fact changing the shutter speed. Technically, the value is 1 divided by the number you see. So at the beginning your shutter speed is 1/2 a second. This means your cameras shutter is open for a half second for the image which is actually quite a long time, so it ends up being very bright. The -/+ is the actual exposure. 0 is considered a "correct" exposure. That is a normal amount of light in your image. Decreasing it means your image will overall be darker and the opposite for increasing value. I suggest you do some research on the Exposure Triangle to learn the basics of photography. Something like this should be a good start: http://digital-photography-school.com/learning-exposure-in-digital-photography/

Wow, surprised no one knows about this. Don't worry, @yourdad165 this frustrates a lot of people. Basically, they took out H.264 in After Effects' Render Queue since CC 2014. If you want to know why, read here: http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/06/adobe-media-encoder-h-264-mpeg-2-wmv-after-effects.html. I personally wouldn't use H.264 through Quicktime. You still end up with an .mov as it's just encoding into the Quicktime format still. You have 2 other options: 1. Use Media Encoder. Honestly, this is the preferred way. It does feel a little janky, but the renderer's much better and you can work while you render. This is what Adobe will tell you to do. 2. Link to Premiere and export from there. This is even more janky, but since the typical workflow is to be working on a master project in premiere and link to AE comps, you can just render them through Premiere. Thing is, this is technically the same as option 1 as they use the same rendering system. You used to be able to show 'deprecated' formats like H.264 but they've removed that now too. So I suggest getting used to Media Encoder.

Some confusion in here: Premiere is for editing, that is, cutting clips, organizing them, making your video as a whole. After Effects is for visual effects, so you take an individual clip you've cut up in Premiere, and then you apply effects to it. This can, quite literally, be anything, from some simple color correction, to generating particles, to animating a drawing. The confusion comes from the fact that Premiere also has some effects. In fact, many overlap between the two programs. I would say as a rule of thumb, if you want to generate anything new (so stuff you can't film), remove something from your footage, or animate something, then you need to use after effects. Some of the best tutorials for After Effects can be found at videocopilot.net. It can seem a little overwhelming, but just look for some effect you want to learn and get going. You'll start to pick it up over time. Of course, if you need any specific help, I can help you as well. Been doing the video editing and effects for several years now. Got a few skills under my belt.

Take a look at the Lenovo W series: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/ The quadro really helps for AutoCAD and other professional products. I have a friend who has the old 200 series with a K1000 or something old in it, but it still outperforms modern laptops just because of the quadro. You can also upgrade to much higher end cpus than you normally can on most laptops, which can be crucial for this kind of work. The W series is just really nice and actually quite a good deal for one of the few professional gpu laptop options out there. Also note the thunderbolt port which can also be great for that kind of work. I would highly suggest it.

This is pretty useful I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock Broadwell is a die shrink, and thus a tick. It just released for laptops and you'll find it in the new Dell XPS 13 and anything else that released since CES this year (technically came out last year but few notable laptops used it). Being a die shrink, it's main benefit is less power draw and heat output, making it much more ideal for laptops and ultrabooks. To go along with that line of thinking was also a much bigger emphasis on integrated graphics, since it's for machines without dedicated graphics. It has not released for desktops yet. And it's not looking like it will really add much for desktops either with the emphasis on less power draw. Skylake is a new architecture, and thus a tock. It was supposed to come out this year, but with the delay of Broadwell, who knows. The new architectures (ie Sandy Bridge, Haswell) are usually when there is an increase in speed, if at all, so it would probably be your best bet for a good upgrade. As everyone has said, the 2500k is really good though. Try to get better cooling to overclock it more, and you'll really not be missing out on anything these newer processors offer. Nothing mind blowing has really come out, unless you're at the very high end with the -e line, such as 8-core Haswell-e.

First thing I checked but everything looks fine. Not sure if I should just hope everything is ok and it's a Windows 10 thing or if I should try and get a new drive...

So a few weeks ago, my boot drive randomly died and I had to RMA it and was sent a new one. Since I had to do a new windows installation anyway, I thought I'd go ahead and install the Windows 10 preview. Everything is great except for my mass storage hard drive. It very often is not detected when I boot up. After a few restarts, it eventually is though, and then everything works great, so it seems like it still works and all the data is fine. It's not too big of a deal since I usually leave my computer on anyway (and going to sleep seems to work fine), but when I have to restart due to updates, it's kind of a pain to have to keep restarting to get my drive to work. And other people use this computer and I'd rather not confuse them as they suddenly get messages from OneDrive and Dropbox that the location can't be found. I was just wondering if anyone had ever seen this or maybe it's just a Windows 10 thing. I have all the data backed up so I'm thinking of reformatting and seeing if that fixes it, but I'd much rather avoid all that hassle if I can though. It's a WD 3TB Red drive.

I've been looking for the smallest mATX for awhile as well, and honestly I don't think it gets much smaller than this if you want to have a full length graphics card. The Silverstone SG04B-F is an old model (not even on their website anymore), but it really is about as small as you can get for mATX and still have a high end graphics card. They have another even smaller (shallower) one, but you won't be able to get a large graphics card in it. I've been thinking about getting this case before it completely disappears, but it's pricey, and you'll have to go with a low profile CPU cooler, so I'm still not sure if I'll be going for it or waiting for something better in the future.

Er, you choose where it exports to. In the Export Media window, for Output Name, when you click it, you browse to where you want to save it and the name of the file.