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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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