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Oooo... such a calm reply. What's wrong with you? 
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Saw his profile and understood this was his first post. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Others where less patient - he's gone...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The post was harmless, and the poster was obviously new to this place. If we keep driving away people like this, I wonder if that's for good.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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It's not good at all. There does seem to be a trigger happy tendency - worse still, they seem to like to fire both barrels and remove both the post and the account.
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I want to buy an android tablet for The Boy(TM)'s birthday.
Cheap is good.
Mainly will be used for playing games online (so needs to run flash) and watching videos (so I guess reasonable wifi and graphics)
I think a 7-9 inch would be about right - but happy to listen to other recommendations.
The Wife saw an Amicroe 9" on special, which looked like it was OK - but I never heard of them and really know little or nothing about the android market - so I throw myself on your mercy.
Tell me what to buy.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I want to buy an android tablet for The Boy(TM)'s birthday.
I bought the wife and kids a Google Nexus 7 for Christmas 2012, they have had no dramas with it so far. All love it and they now come with a full HD screen.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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_Maxxx_ wrote: so needs to run flash
That will be a problem:
1. AFAIK Adboe does not support Flash on Android anymore. You can't just install it, you need to find and old version and browser that still support it.
2. Cheap tablets are often incompatible and games fail to run (not only online, but also native apps). Specification seems to be OK, but games just don't start or have unacceptable framerate.
I've tried it. My son was very unhappy with cheap tablet that can't run half of games. I had to replace it with Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.0 7". He is happy now
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My eight year old niece has a Tesco Hudl and loves it
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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+1 gets my vote too. Around Christmas time Tesco were doing 4*club card voucher deal on electricals, with that and my Wife's staff discount it only cost us £24, superb value.
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A little expensive to buy from Tesco and ship to Aus, though 
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I have a better idea , buy him a mountain bike
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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He has a mountain bike. And a BMX. Three skateboards, two or three scooters, his own skatepark (well, four or five ramps) and spends much of his free time playing outside with his friends, or down the beach surfing or body-boarding, or playing soccer.
So rather than being a smarmy git, why not answer the question or just don't respond at all ?
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Because we live in a culture when a 2 year old has a ipad or similar (and yes i know a guy with 2 children buying for each of them ipads )
I believe that the ipad is not a good gift for a child yes its shiny and it can do many things like for example cheat in school. You are giving him a great example and opportunity. But what actually he can do with it which really matters to him and showing off is not a valid answer. Does he really needs it ?
I wrote my answer only to suggest a better gift(in my opinion) and it was with no intention to tell you what to do. I just replied topic and in any case it was not written with squinty look and/or a superior smile on my face and i don't even know what git means.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: Because we live in a culture when a 2 year old has a ipad or similar
My son will be 11
Argonia wrote: I believe that the ipad is not a good gift for a child
I disagree
Argonia wrote: its shiny and it can do many things
So is a BMX bike
Argonia wrote: cheat in school.
He's not allowed any electronic equipment at his school - and in schools where devices are allowed they're not used for 'cheating' - often they use them for giving out resources such as course notes, videos etc. which is actually far more cost effective than providing copies for each child, and much harder for the children to misplace.
Argonia wrote: But what actually he can do with it which really matters to him
He can play games. That matters to him
He can use it to look things up on the internet (for example, he just built himself a crossbow following instructions found on youtube)
He can us it to skype his relatives who live overseas.
He can use it to video himself and his friends at the skatepark.
etc.
All that really matters to him'
Argonia wrote: showing off is not a valid answer.
Why not? Kids like to show off! If he got a new bike, new skateboard, new anything, one of the things he is going to do with it is show off - that's what kids do!
Argonia wrote: Does he really needs it ?
Need? No of course not. Does he need a mountain bike, skateboard, trampoline, swimming pool, trip to the movies, lollies, nice clothes etc.?
Argonia wrote: I wrote my answer only to suggest a better gift(in my opinion)
I was having a particularly bad day, yesterday, and you took the brunt of my frustration at work, for which I apologise.
However, I am sick and tired of people online not actually answering a question - your answer was typical of many a Q&A answer.
Q. I want to do X - can someone help me out with the code?
A. You shouldn't do X you should do Y it's better/faster/etc.
Whereas the better answer would be
Are you
sure you want to do X, as Y would be better and faster, but if you want to do X then you can do it like this...
Argonia wrote: i don't even know what git means
Here[^]
the definition reads a little harsher than I used it, though!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: He has a mountain bike. And a BMX. Three skateboards, two or three scooters, his own skatepark (well, four or five ramps) and spends much of his free time playing outside with his friends, or down the beach surfing or body-boarding, or playing soccer.
rather than being a smarmy git, why not answer the question or just don't respond at all ?
Possibly because he wanted to warn you that all of that's gonna get completely ignored once he gets his tablet. That's pretty much what happened when my sister's ex gave one to his kid (he's 9). He also used to spend a lot of time playing cards and traditional board games with his grandparents--now his attitude is pretty much to hell with them, unless he forgets to bring it.
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I bought my brother an HP Slate 7. Lovely little device. He put it in a draw to mature for a few years while he sends his 10 year old PC out to be 'repaired' by the local 'little man in the shop'.
That will save him from upgrading windows for almost a month.
You can lead a twit to a tablet, but in the end they really should have had the mountain bike. 
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Here[^].
Like it?
And the first person to guess how I made this gets an upvote.
EDIT: I used The Powder Toy[^] to create this.
I used FIRW to create the color and had the game in persistent mode.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: how I made this
You dropped your new box of colour toner cartridges onto the carpet.
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Funny, but no. It is CG.
Still, you get an upvote for making me laugh.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Cool! Some kind of fractal generator?
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Fed your cat food color and chili?
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