On 15/09/2013 10:13 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:09:36 +0100, Stephen wrote:

>
> People change over time, though - obviously.  I may well get to that
> point myself.
>

You may indeed when new challenges arrive.

>
> I don't remember those days, but I do remember entering BASIC programs
> from Dragon magazine to generate characters for D&D.  We didn't have a
> cassette drive or disk drive at first, so if I wanted to run the program,
> I had to enter it by hand.  That meant the computer stayed on more than
> it probably needed to be, and on more than one occasion, my parents
> turned it off without realizing that they'd caused a day's worth of data
> entry to be lost.
>

Groan!


>>
>> Why is that a standard?
>
> Because it's small and lightweight, and generally (I hear) has good
> battery life.
>

That makes sense.

>> Anyway I will look into it, I don't want to spend a fortune for
>> something that will run Blender, I can't see me seriously using Pov on
>> it for a while.
>
> That's part of the tradeoff these days, I think - you can have small and
> lightweight, or you can have power.  Granted, the power in the smaller
> systems is increasing. :)
>

I know that but I don't want it to be so. :-)
If I keep wishing then maybe...

>>> I'm actually a little surprised that Apple hasn't sued them yet.
>>>
>> They have probably got enough on their plate atm.
>
> *snortlaugh* like that ever stopped them. ;)
>

Lawsuit ping pong.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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