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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 09:39:55
Message: <47e125bb$1@news.povray.org>
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> Doesn't your camera have a firewire socket?
My still image camera can film videos too;
but my actual *video* camera uses 8mm tapes...
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Right. Well to me, if the prices have different numbers of *digits* in
>> them, they're pretty damn far apart! ;-)
>
> That's why they sell stuff for $999 instead of $1000.
Yeah, I noticed that...
any *idea* how many 1p coins I now own??
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> OK, hold on a sec...
>> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132273
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> Nice. Ebuyer is now bookmarked.
Good boy. ;-)
I do almost all my shopping with ebuyer, unless I really *need*
something right this second. Then it has to be Maplin, because you can
walk in and buy stuff immediately rather than wait 4 days for it to be
posted to you.
>> They sell *one* product that cheap - the MiniMac. (And that's the
>> starting price.) Everything else is way more expensive.
>
> Well, it starts at 399 actually but that doesn't alter your point!
>>> What about a screen? Keyboard?
>> What about them? I already own those things, so I don't need to buy
>> any more...
>
> But Apple don't sell DIY bits. So it's a bit unfair to compare with that
> scenario. "I already own a MacBook* so I don't need to buy one. Free!"
I don't see your point?
> *Haha, I typed McBook by mistake the first time, how crap a laptop would
> that be. Although, you'd probably get a drink and fries with it...
LMAO!
Would using it make you fat and stupid?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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scott wrote:
> I have a 1.9 Astra at the moment and I hate it (I didn't have any choice
> in the matter). I can't wait until I get the replacement.
IIRC I had a Vaxhuall Astra (or was it a Vectra?) as a curtasy car once.
It drove like a brick, unless you press the little "SPORT" button. And
then it drives like a dodgem car. o_O Neither is much fun...
>> I doubt it - the "luxury cars" they show you on Top Gear all cost a
>
> They are getting on for supercars, like Aston Martins, Porsches and
> Ferraris, certainly not family cars.
Well yeah - they're luxury cars, and have a price tag to match.
> I'm talking about cars like a BMW
> 320, Audi A4 etc, Mercedes C Class, all would be looked upon as a luxury
> family car and cost about 25k
If that's the case, why do all the people driving them act like they own
the entire road network then? I always thought that the BMW drivers'
massive superiority complex comes from the fact that the car costs as
much as a small house...
Similarly, I was under the impression that a Mercedes is so expensive
that only rock stars can actually afford to buy one.
> (compared to say a basic Ford Mondeo or
> Peugeot 407 which can be had for around 15000 pounds).
I wouldn't drive a Ford if you paid me. I have no idea what a Peugeot
407 is, but it sounds much more inviting...
> You can even get a brand new Porsche for 33k.
Seriously?
Heh, good thing my dad doesn't have 33k! ;-)
> Oh yeh, I wasn't disputing whether it was a good deal or not, just that
> you can buy a perfectly decent brand new car for under 10k, a basic
> family car for 15k, and a fast luxury family car for 25k.
Well, I guess at 10k it might as well be 10,000k - either way I don't
have that kind of money - but I find your statements extremely
surprising. Cars contain *metal*, and metal is very expensive. Cars
require extensive safety testing, and that's expensive. And few people
make cars, so they can charge the earth for them. Why *wouldn't* they be
expensive?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:11:34
Message: <47e12d26@news.povray.org>
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Invisible wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> Right. Well to me, if the prices have different numbers of *digits*
>>> in them, they're pretty damn far apart! ;-)
>>
>> That's why they sell stuff for $999 instead of $1000.
>
> Yeah, I noticed that...
>
> any *idea* how many 1p coins I now own??
Enough to buy an Apple computer or a second-hand car? ;-)
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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:22:46
Message: <47e12fc6@news.povray.org>
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Invisible wrote:
> I do almost all my shopping with ebuyer, unless I really *need*
> something right this second. Then it has to be Maplin, because you can
> walk in and buy stuff immediately rather than wait 4 days for it to be
> posted to you.
I will continue to shop around, I'll just include ebuyer too from now on. :)
>> But Apple don't sell DIY bits. So it's a bit unfair to compare with
>> that scenario. "I already own a MacBook* so I don't need to buy one.
>> Free!"
>
> I don't see your point?
Facetious comment. No real point, except that the reason you think Macs
are expensive appears to be that you only ever buy PCs on a DIY basis.
Very sensible, by the way. :)
>> *Haha, I typed McBook by mistake the first time, how crap a laptop
>> would that be. Although, you'd probably get a drink and fries with it...
>
> LMAO!
>
> Would using it make you fat and stupid?
Hmm, I don't know. If it did, presumably you'd blame your glands.
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:23:47
Message: <47e13003$1@news.povray.org>
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> any *idea* how many 1p coins I now own??
Everything in supermarkets and such are .99, but they add up, and when
you end up paying those $267.32 with a credit card, you don't get any
change back anyway :) Small shops all have "rounded" prices.
It has been some years since I last saw a 1c coin.
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>> have any *idea* how many 1p coins I now own??
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> Enough to buy an Apple computer or a second-hand car? ;-)
Hint: NO!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:45:40
Message: <47e13524$1@news.povray.org>
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Invisible wrote:
>>> have any *idea* how many 1p coins I now own??
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>> Enough to buy an Apple computer or a second-hand car? ;-)
>
> Hint: NO!
*chuckle chuckle*
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:48:42
Message: <47e135da$1@news.povray.org>
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Invisible wrote:
> It even claims to have RAID. (But I wouldn't trust
> that as far as I could throw it!)
I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at
work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge)
has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the
BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The
others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you
have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it?
What's "hot" about that?
BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration
on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-) At least then I wouldn't have to walk
someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration"
when they put in a new disk for us.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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