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Only a mass exodus of Windows users. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, it would only be from market forces. My observation was that Microsoft are leveraging their hegemony to create this wholly-owned digital delivery channel (I agree with Gutman's conclusion). This may be a brilliant strategic manu

Good for pest control, too. )

Um, it's a historical docudrama. Can't really defy predictability when history is already set ...

Well, OSX is just Apple's GUI on a Linux distro. But I agree, Apple must be licking their lips here. I was thinking more about the countries around the world who aren't particularly happy about having their infrastructure run by a US company (Microsoft).

With five interconnected PCs you aren't going to have a huge demand (depending on your mother-in-law's business, of course: if she manages five pay-per-view video sites, then that might change things a little ... :D ) on the network. I know someone who is perfect to answer this question: *casts summon Fenghuang* Big hardrive capacity (try RAID1 or better, RAID5 if the information is really important), you can do RAID1 with two disks, say: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB. RAID5 allows you to hot-swap a disk in the array should it fail, but also needs at least three disks to start, so you can use a couple of smaller drives, like the Samsung Spinpoint T133. Critical storage behooves you to have a good archive procedure, too. Don't forget some way to back it all up, and to have it performed (and a copy of the backups kept in a fireproof safe, offsite, preferably). Tape is cheapest. DVDs can be a big pain (CDs are worse). Apart from that, lots of RAM will help (though not more than 4GB, unless you are using Windows XP 64 bit). Make sure you tweak Windows to concentrate on file serving, rather than the foreground applications, too. Good network connectivity is important, too. As for your question about internet connectivity, it doesn't sound too promising. Cable, DSL and satellite are about the only alternatives to dialup (I'm assuming you don't want a microwave line-of-sight link ), so perhaps she can get Sky or similar? Otherwise it's dialup.

I don't own an iPod as I don't listen to music.

Oh, I forgot informal sports, too. I used to go waterskiing every weekend; best way to blow away the hangover is being dragged behind a boat at 60mph. ) Also did a couple of weeks of snow-skiing (annual ski trips of a week each), though the snowfall in Australia is lamentable. Also, I lived on the beach for most of my life, so I used to go surfing almost daily. Never quite had the stamina to go life-saving on Sunday mornings at 7am, though, like my nephews are.

Yeah, one man's clich

You are pretending that the little girl will grow, her mind learning and adapting to a changed body. Her mind will not change, so her body needn't.

Hey! What's with the dangling adjective? Perfectly what?

So preventing a tumour from traversing "it's [sic] natural growth cycle" is an "unnatural" change, too, then? She will continue to have the body she already has. Hence, "no change".

Ditto, but THERE ARE NO PEOPLE! At all. Why are these car-creatures shaped in such a way to take human-shaped passengers when none exist. That's just silly.

OEM is always cheaper. Or you could buy it second hand (google or eBay). The Home edition is an inferior product, by the way.

That sounds completely ludicrous.

Sounds a lot like Space Rangers 2 ... which also has Infocom-type text adventures as well as mech RTS minigames ... "

... And there are no humans.

Interesting statement about the average age of a torrenter ...

Ah! *smacks head* I always end up shooting it into orbit after I get annoyed trying to get a hoop ... "

:D I'm glad someone else decided to try that too. That thing is a killer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where did you get the rollermine?

Just read an interesting update on STALKER ... seems it is on track and it sounds very Falloutish.

For once, you're wrong. I'm 5'6" and a terrible swimmer. :D I struggled like hell for that swimming merit badge in my Scouting days. My wife used to be a lifeguard and she loves poking fun at my aquatic shortcomings. Good luck getting back into lifting. I have to say, nothing is harder than starting weightlifting again after a few years off. It's embarrassing to realize how much strength you've lost. And then the soreness sets in on that second day and you think, "good Lord, why am I doing this to myself?" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've been back weight-training for over eight months (took most of December off due to a persistent cold that just wouldn't go away: I thought I'd beaten in in the first few days but wound up with a secondary infection), and I am very familiar with the fitness / pain threshold, don't worry.

And a hardware vocation, with big tools? :D

They'll need a good supply of energy, then ... like Iraq. "

I usually run for 20 minutes. I was never really good at any of the sports I played, but I did work really hard in the weight room - which was the reason I could even hold my own at those other sports. I won my weight class (156-165 lbs.) at a few powerlifting meets back in high school. I'd stay with the leaders in the bench press and deadlift, and then I'd kill them in the squat. I was able to bench 100 pounds over my body weight and I could squat 400 pounds! But alas, I couldn't bench press OPG (OverPoweredGodzilla). That guy was a pimp. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have a light frame (it's taken me decades to put on any weight; I'm about a stone heavier than I was in highschool) so running doesn't feel uncomfortable. I was always running, though; my father used to say I would be a long-distance runner as I was continually running for long periods as a (very young) child. It's certainly true I have more slow-twitch muscles: I don't run particularly far, I just don't stop. Sounds like you might be taller / bigger framed than average. You might like water-polo as a sport (seriously). I'm just getting back into weight-training, though: I didn't go near a dumbbell for over five years until about six months ago (though I have been pumping iron since I was fifteen). Consequently I am just back to benchpressing my own weight (for sets, not as a total maximum).

*Superdense objects famously end up as black holes, depending on whether they transcend their Schwartzchild radius and are above their Chandrasekhar limit; otherwise they might just end up as white dwarf or neutron stars.