That's a really good point, as someone who has been using windows since 3.1, I'm worried that the change will be a little too big for me, with something like this I could buy one and if I couldn't get on with mac then I would always have the option of putting windows on it.
I'm up for it... if someone will give me the £1700 for the mac i want, it really is a good return for you, you'll get to know whether you can effectively downgrade a mac just by instaling software.
In England we're having similar problems with the digital switch-over, whilst still having to deal with miss management of the whole mess and the possibility of having to pay a lot more for TV licences... all for something which isn't worth while, we should have (like the US should) set a date at around 2015 to move straight to HDTV, by that time most TV's will be able to show it anyway... not doing so will just make another annoying switchover in the future
Whilst he didn't say it; I will. Use windows. Its not that bad really, functionality is pretty good, its now pretty reliable and everything works for it really easily. I also have SUSE 9.1 on my computer but it just takes so much effort to get things to work on it. If you, like me, have used Windows for years then although it might not be technically easier to use you know how it works and that makes it the logical choice. There is no point in just not using windows because it is an M$ product when for most people its just easier... anything for a quiet life.
Before mine went with the whole topic it got mod'd down to "0" for being "offtopic"... I'm new here, should I have ignored the fact that they had coppied and pasted from the "Old Stories" section... or should they re-name it to "old... and future topics"
If you can get the page to load the results are actually pretty impressive... he could have put the money he saved into a better server, but I assume he just likes to be thrifty... all I need to do to get this incredibly cheap lense now is to buy a crazily expensive camera... D'oh!
I fail to see how this is in any way "Christian-bashing" I was just stating what I saw as fact. I am a Christian and evidently i have a different interpretation of the nature of religion than what you do, but it seems harsh to call me stupid. I neither said that I agreed or disagreed with their tactic, nor did I say that having children believe in God is a bad thing, I want my children to, I just think that they should do so because they understand why Jesus and God (if you can separate the two) did what they did, and not because a talking lion told them to.
The film would have taken that money even if the effects were terrible; because people have chosen to see Christian messages in it. All you need to do to rake it in is make a film that rich people think will make their kids love jesus more and its gold.
It seems that no one on ebay is willing to say they are selling "broken lcd monitors"... if only the people who are trying rip people off hadn't just been honest they might have had a sale. Despite having no technical experience in the field, I figue the worst that can happen is a few shocks/deadly gas, if i let those worries bother me i'd never leave the house... the second my current monitor breaks... bring it on!
"Yahoo beat all other sites with 24.9 million unique visitors."
what supprised my here was how few people went to the site in a month, there must be at least 300,000,000 different people with net connections, why was the winner so low?... and also, why were the websites which topped the list so boring? lets get http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/ to the top!
back in my day when we wanted to see round corners we held up a little mirror and looked, these cameras would be very difficult to get somewhere completely useful, and even if you could the person who was going to shoot at you could just move. It seems you would need the ability to move the viewable image to follow them like with.... a mirror?
Whilst I see the logic behind hiring companies like this; I don't think it would do anything to prevent piracy, at best it will make people who want to download films etc. spend longer doing it if they get a bad one, but it doesn't take that much effort to get another copy. It ends up being a way for companies to lose even more money and nothing more.
It seems that the older you are, the more money you have, and the older you are the less likely you are to change anything on your computer because you're worried that it will be taken over by elves or something (although not worried enough about spyware to use firefox). Ergo money makes you not use google.
it wouldn't even have to run windows, just something like notepad would do, which is to say some really simple word processor, my phone has that, i'm sure they can get it into one of these
I thought the whole point of these laptops was for people in far poorer countries who could not possibly hope to afford anything remotely as good as these anyway... I can hardly see people living in Brazilean shanty-towns saying "this laptop can't hash files fast enough"... Besides I'd buy one just because they sound impossible to destroy and it would be good to take to uni and have kicking around in my bag; I'd only need notepad anyway.
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That's a really good point, as someone who has been using windows since 3.1, I'm worried that the change will be a little too big for me, with something like this I could buy one and if I couldn't get on with mac then I would always have the option of putting windows on it.
I'm up for it... if someone will give me the £1700 for the mac i want, it really is a good return for you, you'll get to know whether you can effectively downgrade a mac just by instaling software.
we are the knights who say Ni!
Oh, sorry, wrong python
In England we're having similar problems with the digital switch-over, whilst still having to deal with miss management of the whole mess and the possibility of having to pay a lot more for TV licences... all for something which isn't worth while, we should have (like the US should) set a date at around 2015 to move straight to HDTV, by that time most TV's will be able to show it anyway... not doing so will just make another annoying switchover in the future
Whilst he didn't say it; I will. Use windows. Its not that bad really, functionality is pretty good, its now pretty reliable and everything works for it really easily. I also have SUSE 9.1 on my computer but it just takes so much effort to get things to work on it. If you, like me, have used Windows for years then although it might not be technically easier to use you know how it works and that makes it the logical choice. There is no point in just not using windows because it is an M$ product when for most people its just easier... anything for a quiet life.
Before mine went with the whole topic it got mod'd down to "0" for being "offtopic"... I'm new here, should I have ignored the fact that they had coppied and pasted from the "Old Stories" section... or should they re-name it to "old... and future topics"
If you can get the page to load the results are actually pretty impressive... he could have put the money he saved into a better server, but I assume he just likes to be thrifty... all I need to do to get this incredibly cheap lense now is to buy a crazily expensive camera... D'oh!
I fail to see how this is in any way "Christian-bashing" I was just stating what I saw as fact. I am a Christian and evidently i have a different interpretation of the nature of religion than what you do, but it seems harsh to call me stupid. I neither said that I agreed or disagreed with their tactic, nor did I say that having children believe in God is a bad thing, I want my children to, I just think that they should do so because they understand why Jesus and God (if you can separate the two) did what they did, and not because a talking lion told them to.
The film would have taken that money even if the effects were terrible; because people have chosen to see Christian messages in it. All you need to do to rake it in is make a film that rich people think will make their kids love jesus more and its gold.
It seems that no one on ebay is willing to say they are selling "broken lcd monitors"... if only the people who are trying rip people off hadn't just been honest they might have had a sale. Despite having no technical experience in the field, I figue the worst that can happen is a few shocks/deadly gas, if i let those worries bother me i'd never leave the house... the second my current monitor breaks... bring it on!
"Yahoo beat all other sites with 24.9 million unique visitors." what supprised my here was how few people went to the site in a month, there must be at least 300,000,000 different people with net connections, why was the winner so low?... and also, why were the websites which topped the list so boring? lets get http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/ to the top!
back in my day when we wanted to see round corners we held up a little mirror and looked, these cameras would be very difficult to get somewhere completely useful, and even if you could the person who was going to shoot at you could just move. It seems you would need the ability to move the viewable image to follow them like with.... a mirror?
Will this stop my dead cat from voting 43 times in the election again?... I know it has rights but it keeps voting republican...
Whilst I see the logic behind hiring companies like this; I don't think it would do anything to prevent piracy, at best it will make people who want to download films etc. spend longer doing it if they get a bad one, but it doesn't take that much effort to get another copy. It ends up being a way for companies to lose even more money and nothing more.
It seems that the older you are, the more money you have, and the older you are the less likely you are to change anything on your computer because you're worried that it will be taken over by elves or something (although not worried enough about spyware to use firefox). Ergo money makes you not use google.
it wouldn't even have to run windows, just something like notepad would do, which is to say some really simple word processor, my phone has that, i'm sure they can get it into one of these
I thought the whole point of these laptops was for people in far poorer countries who could not possibly hope to afford anything remotely as good as these anyway... I can hardly see people living in Brazilean shanty-towns saying "this laptop can't hash files fast enough"... Besides I'd buy one just because they sound impossible to destroy and it would be good to take to uni and have kicking around in my bag; I'd only need notepad anyway.
they are now testing on humans...