joekicker

Most tech malls (Tukcom for example) and lots of other malls have kiosks selling small step-downs for about 300 baht, big ones for about 800 and up.

Quite right, but any neato PC like the OP wants, it will be a free Windows upgrade in October anyhow. edit I guess I should say, since bigmick is in Thailand, it'll be a free upgrade if he gets an actual genuine Vista in the first place. Otherwise, the upgrade will cost him 150 baht. .

Nice looking machine at that price!! Worth a note that 2GB of memory on that Mac is probably worth 4GB or more on Windows. Only problem, assuming the machine itself is excellent, might be the hard drive, 250GB not all that big for graphics guys. You can always store stuff on an external with a firewire (mmmm, Firewire is Good) but I wouldn't want to have to work on it. .

Do hands on. Get 4GB of memory minimum. Get 500BG disk minimum. But go hands on and get a machine that "feels nice". Unfortunately, all tech is outdated quickly, heh. The week after you buy, a new one WILL be available and your's will be 10 per cent discounted. Don't sweat that. Get something you can use NOW. Get the salesman to show you a heavy-duty graphics program actually working on the actual machine, at LEAST Photoshop. Figure... oh, maybe 45,000 and up.

Yes, but the big problem is cheese. Thailand doesn't have cheese, and imported food of any kind is very expensive - so pizza is expensive. The cheaper the pizza, the more inferior the cheese. Down at the bottom rung like in your photo, the guy is using cheese tossed together from powdered milk in some Bangkok or Chon Buri factory and even then you wouldn't make a sandwich out of it.

A lot of people seem to agree with you except that they stipulate the best Italian pizza in the world is in Pattaya. You agree with that? .

In other words, every restaurant and every stall has great pizza and there is no such thing as a bad pizza in Pattaya, kind of like Pad Thai. It's great coming upon the gourmet section of the forum unexpectedly.

Of course. And in England, never eat anything but English food, right?.

Yeah. You don't get one in Thailand for sure. Pattaya? hmmmm, maybe best I've had is Pan Pan. It used to be halfway up (also halfway down) the hill to Jomtien, now they have two or three branches, one not too far from Lotus as I recall. Bangkok, best pizza hands down is Madrid on Patpong. I kind of like the Bella Pizza version too. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Everyone told you do NOT unzip anything. After the download is totally complete. Point Winrar at the first-numbered RAR file ONLY. Hit enter. It will offer to make a full-length movie for you. Tell it to extract. Sometimes the filename extension goes ra0 ra1 ra2 sometimes they go rar ra1, etc The first one, find it and do the above.

Obviously for the money it's good value, but I think it's also fairly new and not in the front of the brain yet. I've done the flying-east route several times, back in the Pan-Am days and after that, and it's no fun. I think in actual miles it 's not all that different but I always got there totally knackered in a way that flying west never did. I've never done it directly through the Mideast (had some stopover flights there, though), which might be better than stopping in Europe, because it's a much longer leg to start, and shorter to finish??? That part's attractive. That Dubai sked is enticingly like a direct flight to Narita, and then into Bangkok - very similar in-flight leg times actually. Pakistan used to be a fairly popular flight out of New York to Thailand with the main stop in Karachi after Europe, but that was, oh, the 80s. .

If you don't have Winrar or don't want to use a pirated version, download 7Zip or Peazip, both free and EXCELLENT programs. Whether Winrar or one of these two, point it to the first, number one or whatever-it's-called RAR in your downloaded directory, and it will join them all into one movie.

I have to disagree with the tone of this, except for the "maverick" part, and I don't buy that either, since he's just feeding off the public teat and obviously fearful he might have to go out and actually work instead of getting paid to play a boy's game. Like all political mavericks, he's a guy with no job and an opinion, where "an" is singular. These people have one extremely fun speech, which they make - and then make again - and make and make, and they are way more boring than other politicians, who are always changing and contradicting themselves. The problem with mavericks is they're also anal-obsessive, one-issue people. This week, Hannan has been a bit of a darling of the US right, who incorporated him into the anti-Obama plans. But he's just a useful idiot - you can only use him once, then he's just another bore ranting on about how the NHS is terrible and Americans don't want that sort of thing. Well, yes, actually they don't, so Hannan is interesting first time, a crank thereafter preaching a single point to an increasingly bored audience that wants fresh meat. He has a US counterpart, Ron Paul, a libertarian bore with one speech and so predictable he makes Gordon Brown look intellectual and interestiing. Thailand has a similar guy who goes on hunger strikes to make his point. Yawn.

Bridges are no more than a few thousand baht at the most. Under no circs go above 5,000 for a one-toother and that would be very expensive to me. There is no shortage of recommendations for Pattaya dentists that I won't argue with because I live in Bangkok.

Government pump subsidies start today, so I'm sure the price will be reduced immediately, right? Right?

Good one. Better, get a card from the hotel, and make sure it has the name and address in Thai. Then you only have to remember where you put the card, heh. One iron-clad rule I'm surprised was not mentioned: Do NOT make plans beyond your first 10 minutes. Even then, they'll likely go up in smoke. .

Absolutely right!!! If you are doing it yourself, HELL NO, NO WAY!! Even if your company is doing it and removing 90 per cent of the agro, you are way, WAY better having a Thai car. Thailand exports cars to Australia, not vice versa. There's really not a single advantage to having your regular, Ozzie car in Thailand. .

You can kill a lot in 30 minutes, too!! But it's just a freaking movie ferpetesake, don't take it so literally next time!!!

Oh fer... TECHNICALLY Thais usually write it as one word. But technically, Thais write it in Thai, too. บ้านฉาง But technically, we're writing transliterated English. Technically, in Thai, it's something like Chang Town, but that's technically, in a different language.

I know what you mean, but that price might make some think, "hey all the seats land at the same time". A little (really a LITTLE) discomfort for quite a bit of money back. I've always done okay with China, although I haven't flown them for several years. Within Asia they are quick, no-nonsense efficient, on time, etc. Overseas trips can be a bit uncomfortable, they tend towards the, er, budget-saving seat sizes. .

Works okay for me the last couple of days.

Up to you of course, but I were you, I'd be doing everything possible to NOT be advertising sex tours anywhere, any time in Thailand. The media absolutely loves this stuff, and all of a sudden one morning you're likely to have one hell of a lot more advertising that you really wanted - if you catch my drift.

Probably the fastest browser, the problem being there are no features like ad-blocking. It works as advertised, and I use it every day. If you only want to read websites, it's right up there with the best.

I think you have a huge blind spot, not at all unusual, though. It has many names from slavery to the very PC human trafficking, but it goes on EVERYWHERE. And if it's not going on in your small town, drive over to the next one to see it. And I absolutely reject that most/nearly all the gals in the western-oriented Pattaya bars are any example at all. But the sex industry in Thailand has lots and lots of examples, especially the foreign (Chinese, Lao, even Thai-citizen hilltribe as well as many "real" Thai) girls. Probably not in Pattaya but (as I say) just take a ride down the road and see the room and house maids, the fishermen, the shirt-makers, the brothel girls.... and their kids. And that's in Thailand. No matter where you are in this globalised world, the indentured worker and the close-to-slave and the HORRIBLY treated workers can quite easily be found. Unless you think it's only in those other countries, not this one, then you won't find any except in those (fill in the stereotype) countries. .

Taiwan has a constantly expanding, very heavy demand for *kindergarten* teachers and the like to do English. You can *really* prosper, teaching kids up to about 10. A member of my family actually started out as a sort of Thaiesque on-the-road teacher and now owns his own school and lots of other things I can't afford.