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.
Infrastructure money continues to pour into Kunming
发布者I believe that being part of WTO means that you cannot tax the hell out of private cars.
Look at Vietnam: a two-wheeled paradise until WTO forces them to lower tax on imported cars, which means everyone is going to start driving their cars which means that paradise is going to hell in a handbasket.
So don't blame China alone - blame all members of WTO, the car-producing ones first.
Kunming's former party boss charged with corruption
发布者Well here's nothing shocking.
People involved in major (and seemingly unnecessary) construction projects often have dirt on their hands.
- The metro, gobbling up eight years of the city's annual revenue, is IMHO unnecessary (reducing car culture, or an above-ground or elevated bus system would be wiser), slow (elevated systems are faster to build) and expensive (elevated systems are cheaper to build), and even somewhat dangerous (the city is largely built on a mire).
- Changshui, while certainly a better-looking and more modern airport, has been a headache for pretty much anyone. Wujiaba didn't have nearly as many fog issues and transport to the city centre was convenient. Changshui's metro connection hasn't been finished for years.
- My Chinese colleagues say that everyone knows that tree planting is _the_ preferred way to engage in corruption these days. Something about the fluctuating price and the maintenance costs. I'll ask again tomorrow.
Three massive projects that are expensive, only partially necessary, badly planned and where it's easy to use construction delays and unexpected costs as a smokescreen for a wad of cash here and there.
www.worldofnonging.com/2013/11/kunming-in-deep-metro-woes/
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者Large-scale farming is by no means the answer. The burning of trash is usually because there's no adequate trash collection service. The burning of rice stalks is a problem but not because they don't rotate crops (you don't rotate crops with rice afaik). There would be alternatives to rice stalk burning, as below paper suggests:
www.ijesd.org/papers/318-M00040.pdf
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者The YouTube version has (fledgling) Chinglish subtitles.
England's Prince William in China, to visit Yunnan
发布者I thought I'd read that Xishuangbanna is the only native elephant land where populations are actually growing, due to China's protection measures - not true anymore?