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Will any of these charge from the USB cable? would like to carry less cables and charge from the laptop. Will look at all these - thanks again...

6300 does not charge from the USB cable.

I have a 6300 and it is now by spare phone. Its great, but the only thing I would say is it eaisly gets scratched if don't have some sort of case for it. Even in a case, the metal battery cover on mine got a big scratch mark across it!

Check out

Rose Marie Academy or

The Village International Education Centre

Both are equipped to deal with kids who are just failing for various reasons.

English, of whatever variety, is a living language and is continually enriched from a multitude of sources and we wouldn't really want it any other way. However, there is one particular word from the 'American' version that I don't 'enjoy' and that really grates with me. This is the word 'gotten' - aarrrgggghhhhh!!!! Is this, in fact, a word at all? Just doesn't seem right, somehow!

I believe "gotten" is but one example of an older English word which went over to the US with the early settlers, and then fell out of use in the UK. It is the irregular past participle of "get" in Middle English (rather like "write/written").

One other similar example of a word falling out of use is "Fall" meaning "Autumn". It replaced "Harvest" as the name of that season around the 16th century (as more people migrated to cities?), and is a contraction of "the fall of the year" - its nothing to do with leaves falling off trees apparently. I think "Autumn" replaced it in British English as it was considered fashionable to adopt expressions coming from French - in this case "Automne".

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I've always thought that the schools have been doing a great disservice to my 15 year old son by only using microsoft products in the school and only teaching him how to use microsoft programs. He has come to believe that microsoft and computers are interchangable words, same as kleenex and tissue. I recently got another computer and installed linux just to show him that there are alternatives and different ways of doing things. I guess we have very different ideas on what big wide world the schools should be preparing our kids for.

And when your students leave school to be faced with the great big world of Microsoft? Are you preparing your students for the big wide world or indulging your own prejudices?

Good point - AND, given that most people will only get as far as Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations and DTP, Open Office and MS Office are mutually intuitive. Many other packages exist for multi-OS environments too.

I work in a CM school where we are thinking of making a gradual move over to Linux, largely due to the expense of properly licensing proprietary software, but also to show the students that Microsoft is not the only way...

We have very good technical support with our main tech guy being willing to learn new skills in order to make the change. We are thinking of going with Edubuntu. My machine will be made dual boot first of all to enable me to do some initial testing, as I use a wide variety of software on a regular basis.

My key question is what is the likelihood of getting Edubuntu to run properly on the wide variety of PCs that we have in school? They range from brand new, down to a few 5 or 6 year old machines. Are we being too ambitious or is this kind of large scale switch, done gradually, really feasible?

Also, what about running some specialist educational programs that have only been written for Windows XP on a Linux system? Is Wine the best option?

Any advice greatly appreciated. Open Source forever!

KIS Kesinee International School in BKK were planning to do this a couple of years ago, for similar reasons. I'm not sure if they went ahead with the plan. You might like to contact them - http://www.kis.ac.th

Who was talking about tourism ? Failure at what ? You sure you responded to the correct post ? Maybe English happens to be just your second language , judging by the apparent lack of understanding you have displayed .

Actually the whole thread is supposed to be about tourism . . . . . . . . .

. . . and another one which annoys me is "I could care less", when they mean "I couldn't care less". "I could care less" is just plain nonsense.

God, I sound like a grumpy old man here . . . . . .

On another forum, I read a posting about a mobile phone, and the OP said "surfing the 'net on this phone is insane!!" To this day, I've no idea whether he meant it was very good or very bad (hmm - but bad means good, right?)

One of the few I do like is "diddley squat". No idea where it comes from, but it sound good!

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how about the word troll does that sound like anyone YOU know. Why even "go there" oops "my bad"

. . . and there's another one "my bad" - my bad what? where the hel_l did that come from?

I've been using Comodo for about eighteen months now, and never had any problems with it. The popups get less and less as the software "learns" your modus operandi. Much better than previous ones I've tried (Zone Alarm/Kerio).

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So when you go to a National Park/Building in the UK which costs about $50....will it be fair to charge a Thai national $500....THEY ARE NOT ENGLISH AS SIMPLE AS THAT SO MAKE THEM PAY 10 TIMES AS MUCH"of course not"...it dosnt belong to them...it belongs to tax paying U.K. citezens...Bah Bah Bah

In Australia/U.S/Europe or anywhere else I can gaurantee that you would not say the same.....Windsor Castle $60 for U.K resident....its OK then that anyone else pays $600...rubbish & you know it.

Citezenship/race its all the same....basically you are saying that anywhere you go in the world everything should be cheaper for the nationals of that country......be fair...if thats the case in Thailand, why not everywhere else, after all other people would only be guests in that country..SIMPLE AS THAT

My original post was meant in jest...my kids are half Thai & I questioned how much should they pay as the look on the girls face when I asked was priceless I can tell you....Its wrong & it should be stopped>>>>>

Interesting analogy and example. Normal admission to Windsor Castle is 14.80 pounds, but discounted to 13.30 for people 65 years and older, and 8.50 for those under 17. Families (2 adults and 3 under 17) can get in for 38.10. One could scream about discriminatory pricing in favor of the old guy that drives up in his Bentley, or the husband, wife and 3 kids that get in for less than a guy and his girlfriend. What do you suppose the logic behind these pricing tiers is? Don't hear anyone complaining about that, though.

One of the mistakes that many foreigners in Thailand make is that they try to overlay their system of government, beliefs, practices and culture onto that of their hosts. If they were successful in driving some of these changes, you'd probably no longer recognize the country.

But, since the point of "you couldn't get away with this in the West" was brought up, consider the following...

The economics are totally different in SE Asia as compared to the West. Let's say that the farang is charged 200 baht against the Thai's charge of 20 baht to enter a national park. So that makes the farang's entrance fee roughly equivalent to a Big Mac, Fries and a Coke at McDonalds. Not bad value for the money. Now, assume in the West, an admission fee is $5 for citizens, and $50 for non-citizens (same 1:10 ratio). $50 per person is not chump change for the vast majority of tourists. Suddenly, the perceived value has shifted to the point where no foreigner would pay it, which translates to significant lost revenue. Bad business move.

How about University tuition? Its a very common practice in the West to charge foreign students significantly higher tuition fees. Especially in government-funded systems (such as state universities in the US), where the tuition can be 4x more.

Want to go fishing in the US? If you're not a citizen and not established as a permanent resident (green card), you'll pay more for your fishing license in every state.

As for US national parks - there are all sorts of dual-pricing schemes based upon age. For example, if you're 62 or older, you can buy an annual pass for $10 that allows you enter any national park for free, and get a 50% discount on everything else. Why would that be? Perhaps some perception of the "ability to pay" of this group of people?

These "senior citizen" discount programs are widespread in the West in both the public and private sectors. All are presumably based upon profiling - some assumption of the ability to pay (or not pay) the "standard" rate, which is exactly what some people in this thread are complaining about. Only difference is that the assumption is based upon age, and not citizenship. Is it ok to discriminate based upon age, but not citizenship? Who do you suppose makes up for any shortfall of revenue due to these discounts?

So, to be completely fair, let's abolish the dual-pricing scheme in Thailand. While we're at it, let's abolish the age-based discounts and subsidies, along with the non-resident upcharges that are so common in the West. Oh, and let's bring the fees that Thais pay for visas to visit western countries into line with what westerners pay for their Thai visas.

Good response. Certainly British universities charge a lot more for foreigners!!

I've never had any trouble having my Thai driving licence accepted as 'Thai ID' in the national parks = pay Thai price.

Same for me - never had a problem.

Hi all,

We are thinking of loading our Toyota fortuner and head off form Khon Kean to Hui in VN Via Mukdahan,

the car is fully paid for with all books and documentations on hand as well as visas as this can be a important factor

for any hassle free trip,

our question is it possible to do this trip as we plan and cross to Laos and than to VN without any problems?

Any contribution will help,

Thx,

Laos I guess would be OK, but I'm not sure. I imagine that Thai cars cross the bridge at Nong Khai, Mukdahan and other places.

A friend of mine worked in HCMC in Viet Nam about three years ago, and told me that during that time a group of people from Thailand wanted to drive through Viet Nam to China (it was some sort of 'charity' event). He read a newspaper report which said that, as right-hand drive cars are illegal in Viet Nam, they were required to have a police escort all the way through the country. . . . .

Worth checking with Embassy, I think.

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HI

Was it still about 25.000?? cant check, iam offshore

24,900 I think, yes.

Saw it today in Pattaya at Tuk-Com.

Pity I bought the Tocco only a month ago . . . . .

Upgraded to 3.0.1 about a month ago, and, to be honest, I've always thought it was faster than version 2. Haven't done any actual tests - just a gut feeling . . . .

yes i meant illogical.

in thailand you don't get permanent residency nor thai nationality just by getting a spouse so the foreigner can't get a thai passeport based on those facts.

Read the OPs post. He's saying his lawyer has told him that there is a change . . . . . .

this is exactly what i was saying

So, if that what you were saying, its not "unlogic" at all.

By the way, I think you mean "illogical".

Not as bad as the first time I went to Viet Nam (HCMC) and watched a dubbed movie there. One woman was doing the voices of ALL the characters in the movie, including the men!!!

<br />I'm a Danish guy applying for residency, been married here for 8 years with Thai, we have one daughter, have work permit and one year visa for 5 years with out any upholds<br />My company's lawyer handle the case and to day I got a mail from them which also informed below<br /><br /><font color="#FF0000">According to the new nationality act, if Khun X has registered his marriage with his wife for more than 2 years and have children he can apply for Thai passport without having to apply permanent residence first. I understand that his wife is Thai. Previously Thai passport applicant must hold permanent residence first before he can apply for Thai passport.</font><br /><br />Would like to know idf that mean you change nationality or will you have the right to keep 2 passports and duo nationality?<br /><br /><br />Cheers<br />Dankan<br />

looks unlogic, thai passeport is for thai nationnal...

NHJ,

A Thai passport is for someone who has Thai nationality by birth, or becomes a naturalized Thai by the various (but difficult) means available.

To answer the OP, in my opinion and experience most of the Indians in Bangkok are Thai born and have been established here for a considerable time.

I've asked Thai-Indian kids at my school, who have Thai passports, and they mainly say that they and their parents were born in Thailand. Its their grandparents, or in some cases, great-grandparents who migrated here.

Not if you have ever been to Italy or France.

or Spain . . . .

The old story the embassy will help you is cr*p. I have / had friends who work at a few different ambassies and they don't do much except notify someone at home for you if its possible and you cooperate (many times no one at home and/or no one wants to help) or provide the usual support if you are arrested or in detention.

They do not help down-and-outers / beggers etc.

What if you want to get home, no money, visa run out etc? Will they help you sort out transport if you promise to pay them back?

I heard that it work this way (for the Brits - don't know about others), but I don't actually know if its true. If your friends/relatives deposit the necessary amount of money at the Foreign Office in London, then the Embassy will give you the Baht equivalent here.

Bit of a cheek. Why should I be forced to change my family name to some meaningless name invented by a paper pusher? Wonder if there are any other countries doing this?

Yes - If you become a Japanese citizen, as someone I know did, you are required to take a Japanese name.