Forums > Living in Kunming > Affordable, powerful laptop or desktop Why are people so goddamn full of themselves on these forums. TICexpats, I've been around in the IT world long enough to know that that's simply not true. Can you stop writing abrasive answers into threads that you don't know shit about?
AlexKMG and blobbles: thanks for the advice. I'll look into those hardware marts as soon as I get the money ready. I've built plenty of my own computers before so I think if I can find the right components cheaply, I'll be able to make a nice machine.
However, I was still hoping to get a laptop so I could take it whenever I move homes (I feel this could be a regular thing) and wouldn't have to sell it everytime I travel longer distances. Any ideas there?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Affordable, powerful laptop or desktop I'm looking for a dirt-cheap but powerful laptop or desktop computer to satisfy my guilty pleasure of gaming. I don't care much about the build quality or noise/heat production, as long as the price is low and as long as it can run CIV5, SC2, anno1701 and TF2. Those are all not the very latest of games, so it should be possible.
Back home, 800 euro would buy me a brand-new no-brand computer with the latest specs from a guy who would put them together in the back of his truck. A normal PC with those specs would've cost me 1800 euro. The battery performance was lamentable and the heat and noise production very high. But I used it as a portable workstation rather than a mobile computer, so that was mostly fine.
Any ideas? I'm sure Chinese can pull off something similar? Or are there any good markets in Kunming where I can just buy the components at wholesale price and then put together the computer myself?
Forums > Food & Drink > Restaurants you 'love to hate' 1 you live in the backwaters of china, what do you expect? the best western food with imported ingredients for a lower price? go try mixian and chao cai or go back the place you came from.
2 is it me or is billdan in his enormous rant continually contradicting himself? or is that extreme sarcasm that is lost on me? anyway, your rant was harder for me to get through than one of the delicious pizzas I've had at Barbara's and the box.
3 when it comes to pizza's, Americans and Europeans never agree. I hate papa Joe's even though Americans squirm when it's even just mentioned. Ok, duck for the shitstorm.
Forums > Living in Kunming > "Lazy" English teachers? I meant graduates not students. And we're making 3 times more than such locals.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cycling in Kunming Another tip: I have a hybrid bike with Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres and have yet to have my first flat in 15,000 km. At 50 dollars a piece they are expensive but well worth the investment.
Shangri-la to nowhere: A week on the edge of Tibet
发布者If you crossed Central Asia during summer, I think a luggage this size would be enough for the essentials.
Luggage does not increase with distance. Once you have a tent, sleeping and cooking gear, a change of clothes and some tools, that's it.
Many long-distance riders like to add extra panniers to the front wheel in order to balance their bikes, but with good material and careful planning, this isn't necessary.
A bigger problem is food and water, but you could lose this extra ballast once you're past the barren areas.
Official: Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016
发布者So that's:
Official: "Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016"
not:
Official: Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016
:)
4G/3G connections are possible at high speeds. It all depends on the handover when you move from beacon to beacon. Some providers are particularly bad at it, others better. I remember that I had no problem using mobile internet riding high-speed trains in Germany with Deutsche Telekom, but with O2, the connection would always drop.
Streaming movies over Wifi is very unlikely. Takes up way too much bandwidth and most people who bring their computer will have their own movie collection.
Megatrudge 2014: 400 kilometers across the Gobi
发布者respect Pavel. That's a real bloody challenge!
Land mines and coffee in Wenshan
发布者Because they have no idea where they put them. That's the deal with mines, military don't seem to keep track of where exactly every mine is positioned, especially as some of them are moved around by landslides or other factors.
Elephant poached for ivory in Xishuangbanna
发布者cloudtrapezer you're just saying something. China is actually one of the few countries to enforce a pretty strict wildlife protection policy. Banna is one of the few places where elephant populations are growing instead of dwindling because of this policy, much in contrast with other Asian regions.