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    2008 HSC School Rankings

    they do scrape the smartest (or hardest working/most willing to be tutored) kids off the top of the cohort at the end of year 6... it would be a bit hard for them not to come first
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    Help with buying a laptop please

    oh soz, i thought the + in the specs was referring to WXGA (AND) colourshine, rather than WXGA+ yeah ur right... 1440*900 is fairly decent; i thought it was 1366*768
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    Macbook-like laptop, but not a macbook..

    mac mouses have more than one button; same as the touchpad
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    Help with buying a laptop please

    this has shit resolution (same as a 13" display) - so you wont see anything more despite its extra 2.1"
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    Internet speeds

    lol ur right at least my second letter is ok
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    we are too fat to work, pity us

    I don't buy this fat gene bullshit... go back 30 years and no one was fat. They had the same genes though. The gov should stop throwing cash at these people, and make it conditional on attending sport classes or something (similar to the Aboriginal welfare which is tied to compulsory school...
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    External monitor?

    id be slightly cautious about going for a full HD monitor... the macbook may become sluggish at times as it struggles to process the graphics required for such a high res display - especially if you have integrated graphics
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    Internet speeds

    Half the figures in this thread are quoted in kb/s, and the other half in kB/s. 1 kB = 8 kb. For me, download speed depends on the source, but it ranges from 50kB/s to 1mB/s (400kbps - 8mbps)
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    Help with buying a laptop please

    Portability and gaming don't go together at all - you will really struggle to find a laptop with a decent graphics card with a screen smaller than 15" Also, GPUs take lots of battery as other ppl have said - you wont get more than 2 hours out of your laptop So you'll have to make a decision as...
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    Leaked blacklist proves the Internet censorship scheme a farce

    lol wikileaks is down... what a surprise
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    Pope claims condoms aggravate AIDS

    Soz its really hard to find the original article that I read atm, since all the search results relate to the recent words of the pope. But, I did find this which mentions the following:
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    TAB on good friday

    if someone wants to gamble on good friday, good on them but they certainly shouldn't expect to be given a public holiday on that day at the same time
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    Pope claims condoms aggravate AIDS

    can i just put it out there that the vast majority of catholics in Australia and around the world support the use of contraception, despite the official doctrines coming out of the vatican in fact catholic nuns have been a major distributor of contraceptives in Africa in recent years please...
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    How long do you predict until Blu-Ray will 'take over'?

    A 700MB DVD rip has already proved to be sufficient quality for the masses
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    Job Help Please Help

    start at woolies, youll get $6+ - probably a worse job however mate, your 15 and you have no experience... if you ever want to move up in the workforce you're going to need to stick it out until you get along well with the manager enough to get a good reference
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    How long do you predict until Blu-Ray will 'take over'?

    VHS to DVD was a HUGE shift... way better quality, no degradation over time, smaller, surround sound DVD to Blu-ray is unremarkable. The only advantage is a better picture. Before DVDs came in, entertainment was limited to the lounge room. Now, everyone watches DVDs in the car, on their...
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    first phone, please help

    NB with iphone- the best applications rely on having high speed wireless internet whenever you want to use them (maps, safari, email, youtube... as well as the 1000s of 3rd party ones that do everything you could ever dream of) but it does have the ipod functionality, which is really useful for...
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    Dell Inspiron 1520

    Your computer has a wireless card (it can join a local network, where the internet signal has already been translated for the computer) However, a wireless modem is different - it is a device which translates 3G/HSDPA signals from the mobile phone network for the computer The second type has a...
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    Laptops: DO's & DONT'S

    lol at people using torrents for individual songs... what a waste of time
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    job with no payslips?

    if you're worried, declare the income... the gov will be more than happy to take the tax
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