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Originally posted by billyboy
y como se dice esa frase en espanol? :)

The only clue i have of US schools is from TV and film - Class of '84? Not just property at risk.

I think British kids taking their laptop to school would get the crap kicked out of them for being pretentious. Its still strange to see students at the university with laptop bags. A different stage of the "civilisation" cycle I guess.
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i hate laptop bags. they scream "Hey, something expensive is in here, steal me!!!"

i prefer to have a backpack formed laptop bag or throw them in sleeves and into the backpack. :)
 
Originally posted by tazo
lemme try:

es tristisimo cuando los coses de los estudiantes no es mejor que otros.

its really sad when the things of the students is not better then others?

thats as close as I can get it billyboy :D :D
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Keep up the thread, and your studies :)

The limit of your second language is the limit of the mastery of your native tongue! Concordance, concordance, concordance - things (plural subject) ARE not better than others. "LAS COSAS" is a plural subject and needs a plural verb.

I asked a dumb-sounding question today to which I still don't know the answer. I offered to record a disc of Spanish dialogue for a teacher. He has a mini discman and asked if I could record onto one of his widgy discs. A bit taken by surprise I asked, "Can I load mini-discs into my computer?" neglecting to say it is a slot drive Powerbook?
"Course you can, mate." eyes rolling.

I guess dropping one onto one of those dinosaur black plastic PC contraption trays there is no harm done, but...

I dont want to find out by trial and error. Does anyone know if it will drop onto the spindle or whatever magical device is inside the PB and work as normal, or will it fall down a hole and get stuck - and then I am stuck?
 
Originally posted by billyboy
Keep up the thread, and your studies :)

The limit of your second language is the limit of the mastery of your native tongue! Concordance, concordance, concordance - things (plural subject) ARE not better than others. "LAS COSAS" is a plural subject and needs a plural verb.
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I don't know if that is an insult or not. :confused: I was on the bus today, and a kid from Oaxaca, Mexico, a real mexican, lol, and I had a conversation. He said that I speak spanish pretty well. :)

So that was pretty cool.
.-tazo
 
Originally posted by tazo
I don't know if that is an insult or not. :confused: I was on the bus today, and a kid from Oaxaca, Mexico, a real mexican, lol, and I had a conversation. He said that I speak spanish pretty well. :)

So that was pretty cool.
.-tazo
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-I've been waiting for this.

Hey Tazo, TOPIC!


Haaaaaahahahahahaha!

I kill me... :D
 
Originally posted by billyboy
Keep up the thread, and your studies :)
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"Can I load mini-discs into my computer?" neglecting to say it is a slot drive Powerbook?
"Course you can, mate." eyes rolling.

I guess dropping one onto one of those dinosaur black plastic PC contraption trays there is no harm done, but...

I dont want to find out by trial and error. Does anyone know if it will drop onto the spindle or whatever magical device is inside the PB and work as normal, or will it fall down a hole and get stuck - and then I am stuck?
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ouch..not good. don't try it. ;)
 
Originally posted by Ryan1524
ouch..not good. don't try it. ;)
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Thanks, I wont. I'll give him a full size disc and send him to the computer room to try his luck downsizing it on a PC. Could always trim the CD with some snippers I guess.

Hey Tazo, no insult meant in the least. Just observation. "You youngsters and grammar, I dont know! :D

At the end of the day, if you can communicate with your mate from Mexico, that's the main thing and by far the most rewarding aspect of language learning. Unfortunately those grammar nazis who mark exam papers dont care you are a well-rounded guy with friends all over the globe.
 
Originally posted by billyboy
A bit taken by surprise I asked, "Can I load mini-discs into my computer?" neglecting to say it is a slot drive Powerbook?
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The slot loading drives cannot take non-circular discs. In addition:

"The PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet), PowerBook G4 (DVI), PowerBook G4 (1GHz/867MHz), PowerBook G4 (12-inch) and PowerBook G4 (17-inch) computers will not accept an 80 mm round disc."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58641
 
Induhvidual: "I like the normal laptops better because the ones that I can afford to buy are thicker and heavier. Doesn't that mean there's more neat stuff inside?"

:rolleyes:
 
the IT guy at my work told me that if I tried to connect to the wireless internet here at work, using my iBook with an Airport card, I'd have to install drivers and stuff. A few minutes later I just turned on my computer, it detected the network and I was on - with.. ahem... nothing installed.
 
Originally posted by sethwerkheiser
the IT guy at my work told me that if I tried to connect to the wireless internet here at work, using my iBook with an Airport card, I'd have to install drivers and stuff. A few minutes later I just turned on my computer, it detected the network and I was on - with.. ahem... nothing installed.
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I really hope you rubbed it in. Did you?
 
Originally posted by arogge
Induhvidual: "I like the normal laptops better because the ones that I can afford to buy are thicker and heavier. Doesn't that mean there's more neat stuff inside?"

:rolleyes:
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dear. god.

I was having a conversation with someone earlier today and he was like, "i don't like macs because their like stupid". I asked him what he meant by stupid, and he was like, the only mac they sell is a crt. he thought the g3 imac was the only apple :( I directed him to apple.com/store, where he could purchase others like it, notebooks, LCD displays, and other great stuff. He shut up when he saw the powerbook :)

he is like, how come there so much? I said because they are made better; then I made the honda, BMW analogy.
 
Originally posted by arogge
The slot loading drives cannot take non-circular discs. In addition:

"The PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet), PowerBook G4 (DVI), PowerBook G4 (1GHz/867MHz), PowerBook G4 (12-inch) and PowerBook G4 (17-inch) computers will not accept an 80 mm round disc."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58641
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there was this 'adapter' for 80mm discs to fit those smaller ones into sony slot loading CD players few years ago. maybe you'll be able to use the small discs if you can find those.

as for trimming the edges of a disc to make it fit. don't. have you heard about cds exploding in drives becasue there are cracks or imperfections on them? discs are spinned very very fast and if it's not balanced properly, it might explode from of the centrifugal force.
 
Originally posted by arogge
Induhvidual: "I like the normal laptops better because the ones that I can afford to buy are thicker and heavier. Doesn't that mean there's more neat stuff inside?"

:rolleyes:
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auch :D
 
My PowerBook is virtually-silent when it's sitting idle or doing basic tasks. Many "normal" laptops running Windows are very noisy. When comparing the PowerBook to a Dell laptop while doing nothing except typing and listening to the Dell laptop's cooling fans:

Induhvidual: "I can hear my computer working, but I can't hear your laptop. That means I have a bigger engine in my CPU. Why do you like Apple if they have small engines?"

:confused: :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by arogge
My PowerBook is virtually-silent when it's sitting idle or doing basic tasks. Many "normal" laptops running Windows are very noisy. When comparing the PowerBook to a Dell laptop while doing nothing except typing and listening to the Dell laptop's cooling fans:

Induhvidual: "I can hear my computer working, but I can't hear your laptop. That means I have a bigger engine in my CPU. Why do you like Apple if they have small engines?"

:confused: :rolleyes:
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you should have been like, "mine's on whisper mode. it uses a secret sonic cloaking technology developed at langley for engines that would be so loud as to exacerbate the discovery of agents using their laptops in unsecure locations. eat that, PC dope!"
 
Originally posted by Shadowfax
you should have been like, "mine's on whisper mode. it uses a secret sonic cloaking technology developed at langley for engines that would be so loud as to exacerbate the discovery of agents using their laptops in unsecure locations. eat that, PC dope!"
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-Haaaaaah!

I'm stealing that.
 
Originally posted by Shadowfax
heh. but seriously, didn't MS buy some of their stock awhile back?
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-Shadowfax

Yes, in 1997 MS bought 150m of nonvoting stock. Some people point to this and say that MS saved Apple, but 150m is not really that much a percentage of the total outstanding share value of that time.

I think MS has since divested of this however.
 
Originally posted by arogge
The slot loading drives cannot take non-circular discs. In addition:

"The PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet), PowerBook G4 (DVI), PowerBook G4 (1GHz/867MHz), PowerBook G4 (12-inch) and PowerBook G4 (17-inch) computers will not accept an 80 mm round disc."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58641
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From my own trial, (and what a stupid trial it was), my old iMac DV SE Slot Loading would accept the 80 mm disk and also eject them. Now, I wouldn't try again (I must have been on something), because it took a lot of "convincing" for the CD to eject.

Edit: I didn't realize that the slot loading iMacs would accept 80 mm disks. Oh well, maybe it wasn't as stupid as I thought. Definitely won't try it on my Powerbook.
 
Originally posted by patrick0brien
-Shadowfax

Yes, in 1997 MS bought 150m of nonvoting stock. Some people point to this and say that MS saved Apple, but 150m is not really that much a percentage of the total outstanding share value of that time.

I think MS has since divested of this however.
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yeah, i didn't think it was much of anything, but i was just thinking it could cause a misconception. just saying, that question isn't as out of the blue as some of the others here, where you are just left to ask, "where the hell did they even get that idea? that doesn't remotely connect to anything!"
 
Originally posted by tazo
dear. god.

I was having a conversation with someone earlier today and he was like, "i don't like macs because their like stupid". I asked him what he meant by stupid, and he was like, the only mac they sell is a crt. he thought the g3 imac was the only apple :( I directed him to apple.com/store, where he could purchase others like it, notebooks, LCD displays, and other great stuff. He shut up when he saw the powerbook :)

he is like, how come there so much? I said because they are made better; then I made the honda, BMW analogy.
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I'm not sure that Honda/BMW is a great analogy to make. Hondas last forever. They are great cars. By your analogy, the Honda should be the Apple, but Hondas cost less than BMWs.

Now, Ford/BMW might work. Better yet, in my opinion, Ford/Toyota...
 
Originally posted by Ryan1524
... discs are spinned very very fast and if it's not balanced properly, it might explode from of the centrifugal force.
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Uh, there's no such thing as centrifugal force. They would explode due to centripedal acceleration...
 
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