Actually I'm from Australia and I guess Australia is in the Euro, Asian and African market as well.....wait isn't that the REST of the WORLD!!
Anyway I was waiting for my friend to pick me up in his tiny car(which he bought after he traded in his fuel guzzler(v6 commodore Aussies out there)), and nearly every car that went past was small, there were only a couple of SUVs(like 1 in 10 or so). It was weird, i mentioned it to my friend when he picked me up and hes said everyone's buying small cars these days(I guess someone forgot to send the memo to me). I wonder if there are any stats about this?
when I read Multi-playform i thought oh cool, but its really just console and PCs? ok so then I read PC....what does that mean, does it run on linux? or bsd...... wish they'd stop calling Windows games PC games..... i call b***s***!
Yes but I was refering to the practice of "small group of conspirators who view the population as sheep to be fleeced for their own benefit" that is something that has been around a lot longer than there has been a definition for it!
but iTunes sucks.... there's heaps of album sorting and organising programs out there that don't put all your songs and things in weird places(note that might have changed, i haven't used it in years)
I've had lots of laptops over the years, IBM, DELL, HP and hibernation worked on none of them.... Windows XP, 2000 and 98.... so I don't know what versions you had...
I switched to Linux because I bought Windows XP 64-bit and it was totally useless... nothing worked.
I've never had any driver issues at all since the move, played lots of games(UT, quake's, Enemy Territory to name a few).
Sure i've had to fix some things but nowhere near as much as window... regedit anyone, updating anti-virus... spam...
As to nothing to replace 3d studio...errr blender... there are heaps of other ones....
My wife even uses it on her, for messaging, web browsing and skype(which she installed and setup when i wasn't there).
Its a problem only if you want to play the newest games... most of my friends have wii's, ps2's or ps3's for games. I have a ps2, and sometimes play nexuiz, freeciv or freecol. I haven't run windows at all for a quite a few years now, and I have 4 computers(laptop, desktop, media pc, file server).
We do the same in outback Australia, it costs about $500AUD(about $350USD I think) its a fanless embedded pc with 500mhz processor and 256 mb ram, 2g cf flash card and runs like a dream!:D that's not including UPS though, but it uses about 3 to 5W at 12V DC so there would be a few options. But that said there are a lot of companies doing similar things that cost a fortune!
really you enjoyed the US version of the office.... god it was so bad it almost made me cry.... That said I like quite a lot of american shows, but they killed the office
mine, is weird, it started brining back the wrong parts of files, so you copy a file there, when you try to read it all you get is part of the file and part of another file on the drive. its been formated a couple of times now, and still does it.
Damn I'm gutted about this, I was planning to buy one of these, the usb controler is the killer hardware bit was the best, not to mention the open source nature.
I've lived in China and I can say that is not the case, BUT that said it helps if you have friends in the government but not every company has them, and certainly not generals... as there would have to be a hell of a lot of them.
America had several advantages, a larger number of people united by one language and culture with open borders for a longer time.
That's what I thought till i got there and tried to order some take away food and they couldn't understand a word of English I said, seriously when I'm in China(they all speak a bit of English, at said fast food places) I can order food much more easily at a macdonalds or kfc than in America... weird.
I'll also point out that I've tried in a few cities! all seemed to speak Spanish(no 100% sure but it sounded like it)!
I'm a native English speaker btw.
Sorry but how does this work? "Graphene has a surface area of 2,630 square meters, almost the area of a football field, per gram of material" so its actually the size of a football field?
I hate to rain on your parade but
"What is more useful is the fastest maximum operating speed (MOR) of ANY segment of any high speed rail line, currently 350 km/h (217 mph), a record held by China. It is Beijingâ"Tianjin Intercity Rail which links Beijing to neighbouring Tianjin (117 km in 30 minutes). They have hit speeds of 394 km/h in tests, although they will only run at 350 km/h during normal operation. That rail line went into operation on August 1, 2008.[8]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
You forget that China's rail system is hugely over crowded(yes I have traveled on it in peak and non-peak times, and no I'm not Chinese) and they need more capacity, one way to do that is to have faster trains, faster trains mean you can have more of them or at least more departure times.
I also beg to differ about profits, the Chinese are very aware of profit and loss, sure the Olympics was a bit of a money sink, but it also stimulates the economy(not only immediately but also ongoing) so its not a total sink.
China already has at several high speed rail lines, so its nothing too new(some are already faster than the commercial ones in Europe), this one is just planned to be faster, also from the Shanghai Pudong airport they have a maglev train(the only commercial one in the world I believe), that was going to be the train between Shanghai and Bejing, but just the power needed was massive, lets not get started on how much the rest of it would cost.
"What is more useful is the fastest maximum operating speed (MOR) of ANY segment of any high speed rail line, currently 350 km/h (217 mph), a record held by China."
PS I'm not Chinese!:D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
I think he was meaning that by using some of their software you might be locked in, ie if you ever want to open your files again you need their software.
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Thats actually exactly what I thought as well....Make sure you reboot it nightly just in case.... lol
Actually I'm from Australia and I guess Australia is in the Euro, Asian and African market as well.....wait isn't that the REST of the WORLD!! Anyway I was waiting for my friend to pick me up in his tiny car(which he bought after he traded in his fuel guzzler(v6 commodore Aussies out there)), and nearly every car that went past was small, there were only a couple of SUVs(like 1 in 10 or so). It was weird, i mentioned it to my friend when he picked me up and hes said everyone's buying small cars these days(I guess someone forgot to send the memo to me). I wonder if there are any stats about this?
when I read Multi-playform i thought oh cool, but its really just console and PCs? ok so then I read PC....what does that mean, does it run on linux? or bsd...... wish they'd stop calling Windows games PC games..... i call b***s***!
Yes but I was refering to the practice of "small group of conspirators who view the population as sheep to be fleeced for their own benefit" that is something that has been around a lot longer than there has been a definition for it!
but iTunes sucks.... there's heaps of album sorting and organising programs out there that don't put all your songs and things in weird places(note that might have changed, i haven't used it in years)
I'm pretty sure you can, cause I had a similar thing with sound... right click on the volume control and select preferences... then select the device.
I've had lots of laptops over the years, IBM, DELL, HP and hibernation worked on none of them.... Windows XP, 2000 and 98.... so I don't know what versions you had... I switched to Linux because I bought Windows XP 64-bit and it was totally useless... nothing worked. I've never had any driver issues at all since the move, played lots of games(UT, quake's, Enemy Territory to name a few). Sure i've had to fix some things but nowhere near as much as window... regedit anyone, updating anti-virus... spam... As to nothing to replace 3d studio ...errr blender... there are heaps of other ones....
My wife even uses it on her, for messaging, web browsing and skype(which she installed and setup when i wasn't there).
What.....Capitalism as a concept maybe but in practice its been around a long long time
daoc was(is?) the best all others were boring for me.... never lasted more than a few weeks with others, stayed playing for a few years with daoc! :D
Its a problem only if you want to play the newest games... most of my friends have wii's, ps2's or ps3's for games. I have a ps2, and sometimes play nexuiz, freeciv or freecol. I haven't run windows at all for a quite a few years now, and I have 4 computers(laptop, desktop, media pc, file server).
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oh I forgot to say use a few of these! :D also you could use bigger drives etc.
We do the same in outback Australia, it costs about $500AUD(about $350USD I think) its a fanless embedded pc with 500mhz processor and 256 mb ram, 2g cf flash card and runs like a dream! :D that's not including UPS though, but it uses about 3 to 5W at 12V DC so there would be a few options. But that said there are a lot of companies doing similar things that cost a fortune!
really you enjoyed the US version of the office.... god it was so bad it almost made me cry.... That said I like quite a lot of american shows, but they killed the office
mine, is weird, it started brining back the wrong parts of files, so you copy a file there, when you try to read it all you get is part of the file and part of another file on the drive. its been formated a couple of times now, and still does it.
What they don't have to brake when going around corners... wait I think they do! :D
Damn I'm gutted about this, I was planning to buy one of these, the usb controler is the killer hardware bit was the best, not to mention the open source nature.
I've lived in China and I can say that is not the case, BUT that said it helps if you have friends in the government but not every company has them, and certainly not generals... as there would have to be a hell of a lot of them.
America had several advantages, a larger number of people united by one language and culture with open borders for a longer time.
That's what I thought till i got there and tried to order some take away food and they couldn't understand a word of English I said, seriously when I'm in China(they all speak a bit of English, at said fast food places) I can order food much more easily at a macdonalds or kfc than in America... weird. I'll also point out that I've tried in a few cities! all seemed to speak Spanish(no 100% sure but it sounded like it)! I'm a native English speaker btw.
Sorry but how does this work? "Graphene has a surface area of 2,630 square meters, almost the area of a football field, per gram of material" so its actually the size of a football field?
I'd like to point out that the Chinese developed the touch screens that your using on your iPhones etc for writing their characters.
I hate to rain on your parade but "What is more useful is the fastest maximum operating speed (MOR) of ANY segment of any high speed rail line, currently 350 km/h (217 mph), a record held by China. It is Beijingâ"Tianjin Intercity Rail which links Beijing to neighbouring Tianjin (117 km in 30 minutes). They have hit speeds of 394 km/h in tests, although they will only run at 350 km/h during normal operation. That rail line went into operation on August 1, 2008.[8]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
You forget that China's rail system is hugely over crowded(yes I have traveled on it in peak and non-peak times, and no I'm not Chinese) and they need more capacity, one way to do that is to have faster trains, faster trains mean you can have more of them or at least more departure times. I also beg to differ about profits, the Chinese are very aware of profit and loss, sure the Olympics was a bit of a money sink, but it also stimulates the economy(not only immediately but also ongoing) so its not a total sink.
China already has at several high speed rail lines, so its nothing too new(some are already faster than the commercial ones in Europe), this one is just planned to be faster, also from the Shanghai Pudong airport they have a maglev train(the only commercial one in the world I believe), that was going to be the train between Shanghai and Bejing, but just the power needed was massive, lets not get started on how much the rest of it would cost. "What is more useful is the fastest maximum operating speed (MOR) of ANY segment of any high speed rail line, currently 350 km/h (217 mph), a record held by China." PS I'm not Chinese! :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
I think he was meaning that by using some of their software you might be locked in, ie if you ever want to open your files again you need their software.