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.
Wild mushroom season arrives with a friendly warning
发布者The World Agroforestry Centre's East and Central Asia office has published a book "Mushrooms for Trees and People", subtitled "A field guide to useful mushrooms of the Mekong region". It describes the use and edibility of many mushroom species in Yunnan and can be downloaded for free through us (humidtropics.cgiar.org/[...]
A book review was done by Gokunming in 2014:
www.gokunming.com/[...]
National park system in the works for China
发布者巫家壩 is much more likely to be translated as the basin on the land of the Wu family, cfr. 石家莊 (not the house of a family of stones),張家口 (not a stretched house estuary).
That said, I recently walked the old silk road from the Nu river (Baihualing 百花嶺) to Tengchong. This is also a protected national park and the trail is well-marked in English and Chinese, and has many litter bins along the way. There's room for improvement, but it beats anything I've walked so far.
Report: Chinese cities falling far short of air pollution standards
发布者Beware that the author is probably using the Chinese AQI. It being an index, it is a relatively arbitrary figure compared to the absolute value of PM2.5 particles in microgrammes per cubic metre!
The American AQI standard would rate the concentrations with a much higher index score (also implying much higher health risks)!
Province nervously monitoring forest fire season
发布者they also release a chemical in the soil, killing competing plants. In combination with their water-sucking properties, this leads to even more aridity.
What does one do when one spots a forest fire? I saw several starting on my road trip near Lijiang in February, but saw no police station to report it to. Whom do I call?
Urban managers throw block party, no one attends
发布者tits! You had me until I read the comments