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I just found out 10minutes ago that I had a SCHI essay due in for 5pm today. Ah well... :lol:
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Agh! I entirely forgot about a plan to meet a friend today :frown: She was stood there waiting for me in the cold :facepalm:
Craghyrax
Agh! I entirely forgot about a plan to meet a friend today :frown: She was stood there waiting for me in the cold :facepalm:

Something similar has happened to me, where a girl had texted to meet me outside Trinity, but the text didn't come through to my phone for over an hour. She was waiting in the cold for over 15mins before she left
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It could be lupus
Something similar has happened to me, where a girl had texted to meet me outside Trinity, but the text didn't come through to my phone for over an hour. She was waiting in the cold for over 15mins before she left

Ah. Although there it is really her fault. I never expect people to meet me if I haven't first ascertained that they understood that I wanted to see them and confirmed they could make the time.
It could be lupus
I wish I was at home now to play Modern Warfare 2 :sad:


snap. i know what i'll be doing this christmas.
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Tyrotoxism
...i know what i'll be doing this christmas.

So do I :shot:

:work:
Tyrotoxism
snap. i know what i'll be doing this christmas.

I heard its incredibly naff.
Craghyrax
So do I :shot:

:work:


killing yourself and being forced to finish your dissertation in purgatory?

Blaah
I heard its incredibly naff.


meh. i'll just sell it to some bloodthirsty 13 year old gamer after i've completed it in a day and hopefully the profit will more than account for the chance of any net disutility. i know it's not an optimal outcome but from experience i have a reasonable chance of extracting a consumer surplus, and therefore my decision is rational.
Tyrotoxism
meh. i'll just sell it to some bloodthirsty 13 year old gamer after i've completed it in a day and hopefully the profit will more than account for the chan...:blah:


Aren't you supposed to be somewhere? :giggle:
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Tyrotoxism
killing yourself and being forced to finish your dissertation in purgatory?

That's the one :awesome:
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Tyrotoxism
meh. i'll just sell it to some bloodthirsty 13 year old gamer after i've completed it in a day


Huh? Surely the whole point is the multiplayer...
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You should get one of these. Seriously, it was worth shelling out a little bit extra for a laptop that actually works. My old laptop after 6 months took ten minutes to turn on and couldn't run more than a couple of Firefox windows and Microsoft Word at the same time. By the time I got rid of it, when it was two years old, it took at least half an hour to turn on and would crash even if I only had Firefox open. By contrast, at the moment I have about 30 Firefox windows, Apple mail, iTunes, iCal, Preview, iPhoto, MS Word, MS Excel and Skype working, and it's not even flinching :love:


Hmm, tbh that's more likely due to it having a load of crapware and malware clogging it up than anything else. Some cleaning up would have been a much cheaper solution than buying a new one.
Tom
Huh? Surely the whole point is the multiplayer...


you make a good point.

ukdragon37
Aren't you supposed to be somewhere? :giggle:


not until 11.
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Scipio90
Hmm, tbh that's more likely due to it having a load of crapware and malware clogging it up than anything else. Some cleaning up would have been a much cheaper solution than buying a new one.


Fair point, but for those people who actually can't be bothered with technical stuff, I can see why it would be worth paying the premium for them.
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Fair point, but for those people who actually can't be bothered with technical stuff, I can see why it would be worth paying the premium for them.


It's a hell of a premium, though. You wouldn't buy a top-of-the-range racing bike because the chain on your old bike needed changing, even if you knew nothing about bikes you'd get someone to do it for you.
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Scipio90
Hmm, tbh that's more likely due to it having a load of crapware and malware clogging it up than anything else. Some cleaning up would have been a much cheaper solution than buying a new one.

That's what I was thinking.
Although people say that macs are less prone to bugs, so maybe they don't get clogged up so much?
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They're just a more controlled environment really. Windows computers do just get clogged up with all sorts of random crap if you don't pay attention...Apple take a lot more control over the Mac 'experience' so you do get something that works a bit more smoothly. The penalty you pay is that they are a lot less customisable, a lot more expensive, and some things just aren't available for them at all.

And of course a lot of windows PCs are sold with hardware too slow to ever run them well, while Apple have a minimum specification for their cheapest (relative term) computers which does give a reasonable minimum of performance with their software.


I personally still feel it's a ripoff - my boss has just spent £2.5k on a mac pro which is way outperformed by the PC I've built myself (total cost of components over the years <£1000), and while OSX has a few neat tricks (like a backup utility that just works, without any thought,, a sleep mode that *works* (he hasn't actually restarted it in two months - try that with a windows PC!), and a tendency to never actually *crash*, just to kill individual programs when necessary), it's also bloody annoying to use in a great many ways.
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Craghyrax
That's what I was thinking.
Although people say that macs are less prone to bugs, so maybe they don't get clogged up so much?

Macs are much less prone to viruses/bugs and don't get clogged up so easily. I'm not a technical whizz or anything but my mac still runs as fast as when I bought it, whereas my old Dell laptop would clog up with crap after just a few days (internet cache, saved history, old programme files etc..).
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Tom
some things just aren't available for them at all.

Hmm, any examples? With parallels/boot-camp nothing is excluded from running on a mac.
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Scipio90
Although a mac probably is easier for a non-tech person to keep clean, the kind of person who would open a file called "naked_pictures.exe" is at risk whatever platform they're on, so switching doesn't really replace education.

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