sure but it's always better to have much bigger original image to work with than smaller...high quality digital raw images and high quality film scans allows you to work with huge resolution, large colour range, light (dynamic) range, you have much more space for cropping if needed...post processing large video is much easier than small videos, that's why resulting fullHD image is so sharp and looks much better than HD image...but you need very good source - great example is Planet Earth series, imho fullHD looks just awful - that's because of poor source image - it misses sharpness and there's lots of aberration on the image, on the other hand Life series has excellent image quality in fullHD, clear and very sharp image, really worth watching in fullHD...
HD is great, fullHD is even better. if you have small display, you won't notice any difference. film scans before getting on blu-ray go through lots of processing after compression, so fullHD film is always sharper and has more details than HD film.
i dont know where do you live and whats your school system like, but for example very good friend of mine turned 29 this year and he's going to graduate with me (I'm 21...tommorow...)...it's similiar case, because after high school he went to UK to earn some money and went to uni when he came back...and he done it...i guess its just up to you - how much time are you willing to sacrifice...its only about time and your lazyness, i can see it on hundreds of other students in my major - you will not pass exams not because you're stupid but because you're too lazy to open the book and read something. and external studies can make it a bit easier - don't know about your school system, but external students in here visit schools just once a week and then they just have to do exams....but they got to pay for it, daily is for free in here
as I said - for those who are using aurora or nightly(in menu -help - about you can switch developer channel to beta/aurora/release...aurora is daily release, but it is a bit older than nightly, beta is weekly i think, releases are final versions
Aurora is currently in version 6.0a2, beta 5.0something
btw I didnt make a typo, you can try it but I would doubt about it because this feature is present only since 6.0a1
if someone's using the aurora or nightly channel, there's new option in about:config that allows you to use standard font rendering while using directwrite hardware acceleration (that means awesomeness = no ugly fonts anymore)
search for gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode and swich to value "2" - or you can also try values 3 and 4, maybe for someone it will be better, but 2 is same rendering as GDI
it's difficult question - first of all, it's not so cheap in entire slovakia, only in my region because my ISP antik c&c provides connection only in my city + wifi connection in around villages. also it's not actually fiber to the home, it's just so-called FTTB (to the building) - optic fiber terminates at gigabit switches in each block, from there it's just ordinary 100mbit UTP. and what makes it so cheap? well, I have actually no idea, most probably it's tactics of my ISP - they provide triple play over 64Mbit internet, free 50 minutes voip calls world-wide and digital tv streaming for free (but their set to box is for 99€), all this for 17,92€ and they provide connection for over 10 years (connection was 64Kbit then), so it's just their success of providing fast connection for tens of thousands of customers - they can afford these prices...oh and there's no FUP nor port limits