How does one do hair?

Searching around in the forums, I could not find an answer, so…

How do you make hair? I noticed in the material it shows hair strands…

Also in the searches, I see some particle effects work, (fat chance- my computer can’t do animation) as do curves, and the new hair system coming out…

Can someone give me the scoop on how this stuff works?

Thanks.

This thread has one approach :

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=109989

Here’s another .
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=116854&highlight=hair

Search for “hair” in subject line only , there’s lots of threads.

Mike