On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:11:47 +0100, Stephen wrote:

>> People change over time, though - obviously.  I may well get to that
>> point myself.
>>
> You may indeed when new challenges arrive.

Indeed.  Douglas Adams had a theory about that:

"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary 
and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's 
invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting 
and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything 
invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

I'm now 43 (as of a couple weeks ago) - I think the ages aren't 
necessarily set in stone, but in principle, this makes sense.  You 
eventually get to the point where keeping up is too much of a bother, and 
things were "always" better "back in the old days". :)

>> 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!

One of a couple things my parents did when I was a kid that drove me 
crazy. Another was deciding when the one TV programme I wanted to watch 
that day was on that *that* was the time I needed to be told to go clean 
my room/take out the trash/whatever. 30 or 60 minutes later wasn't good 
enough, it had to be done *right then*.

Before we had a VCR, it was even worse.

>>> 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...

LOL

>>>> 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.

Indeed.

Jim

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