I think Computer Science is interesting, and you have many opportunities…but is international competition (i.e. from China and India) hurting your chances?

I am not considering any of the Computer Sciences or Information Technology courses because I’ll end up starving here in Australia.

I wish you all the best for your last year of college.

For me though, the killer feature of Parallels is that although Parallels gives Windows 7 1 GB of RAM to work with, Activity Monitor shows prl_vm_app as using only 568.7 MB (while Task Manager reports using 490 MB). With VMWare Fusion, the process takes up all the 1 GB it is given, whether or not the VM is actually using up that much RAM.

FWIW I don’t think calling someone a twat constitutes cyber-bullying (although obviously I’m biased) but if I’d repeatedly made remarks then that *would* be. I am careful about it – e.g. I didn’t ever correct a certain person’s lies in their blog entry about me because I didn’t want to be seen as harassing them. It’s just not worth it. *shrug*

I recall my dad giving away our really expensive Nikon SLR not so long ago just because we got a cheap digital camera and film, of course, starting becoming obsolete. I think I read somewhere about how you can use SLR filters for DSLR cameras, provided you bought some sort of attachment. I wonder if you could do the reverse.

Meanwhile, I just want to tell you that I’ll be busy studying from now until around November.

Which VM would do best for a slower machine running productivity apps rather than games? I’m running the latest Macbook Air, which tops out at 2GHZ duo and 2GB Ram. I don’t plan on doing any graphics work besides basic maps (GIS) and Microsoft Office. I’d do boot camp, but the clunky file-sharing options with that seem prohibitive.

Any advice?

Don