The summary completely messed up. First, I'm not sure where the 90% comes from, but from these OECD figures 14 million out of 48 million South Koreans have broadband (~3.4 to 1) compared to 3.9 million Australians out of 20 million (~5.1 to 1). So around a third of individuals in South Koreans are broadband subscribers (which could work out to 90% of households), while only one in five in Australia are.
The fact is, you won't see 2 million extra subscribers with this upgrade, which is what Australia would need to match Korea with the above figures. It's just political spin to get marginal seats in the upcoming elections. What you will see is everyone with their farcical 1.5mbs connections get a whopping 10-12mbs boost, slowly crawling closer to a fraction of Korea's 100mbs connections - its not broadband, its a freakin LAN!
How did this come about in Korea? Oh yeah, a government with foresight and vision, not just empty promises. Neither Howard or Rudd inspire me with any confidence in their vision for broadband. I hope that all that will end up happening is Optus and Elders will go ahead do it and the government just beats Telstra into compliance.
1G = the speed of acceleration needed = the gravity on earth. He doesn't mean it will stay on earth, just that it will need to accelerate/decelerate at 9.8m/s.
Don't forget the Roosevelt Corollary where the US extendeds those powers to become the de-facto world police.
"Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
Hang on, let me check... Chronic wrongdoing -tick-, impotence loosening ties of civilized society -tick-, in America -tick-... for the good of America the world must exercise its international police powers and save you all from yourselves!
I suppose we should scrap the OLPC project too, as they are looking for governmental backing, and the places they are slated to release them seem fairly low on active open source developers.
The prospect that the government would screw this up is unfounded and ridiculous. You don't need to contribute to the FreeBSD project to know how to install and run the OS. You don't need to export your support network at all.
In fact, you don't know any of the specs of this machine, yet you assume it will just be used to pirate Windows. Well guess what? That's exactly what's happening on the ground today, and any project to put Linux as a default platform will cut into that market, reducing piracy as well as reducing dependence on proprietary formats.
So what. If Nintendo made similar tools available, you'd be vendor locked to them. Supporting homebrew for your products is far from equivalent to the MS mantra 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish'. XNA is a step in the right direction, but $99USD yearly fees destroy its homebrew credibility. Still, it's already far more fully featured for making a game than what Sony or Nintendo have to offer. When XNA drops its fees, Sony opens up the architecture and Nintendo chime in then we will see a truly powerful amateur market emerge. Until then, it will remain at a fraction of its potential.
I hate to say it, how can anyone differentiate FREE DINNER as any different to FREE IPOD or FREE HOLIDAY or any of the other thousands of FREE xxx spam that people receive? Perhaps you should ditch the contest and just offer useful information so as not to get tagged spam.
Why should the end user care what license the software was developed under? Well I guess free publicity for the GPL doesn't hurt, but that can be done without the full text of the GPL. There is no reason for companies to disclose any licenses they are parties to during development unless that is one of the terms of the license.
The only real benefit of finishing high school is not getting stereotyped by morons like the OP. Myself, I dropped out of high school and started working at 15, as a Lotus Notes developer and network admin. Some people need institutionalized teaching, others find it far too limiting and stifling. If you need an institution to learn something, you really haven't learned anything.
Mystery men also began life as a comic book, the Flaming Carrot, which was also somewhat of a parody. The protagonist, the Flaming Carrot himself didn't make it to the movie, and they messed with the characters like the movies tend to.
Both plotlines seem quite different to CoH though, and there seems to be endless room in Hollywood for more comic-book spinoffs. I don't doubt we'll see something there. Hey, it's gotta be better than Doom: The Movie, right?
That sounds like a much better way for Intel to achieve goals of fast feedback etc. considering that nowadays I'd assume the vast majority of GCC invocations will occur on Intel chips. Features like automagic parallelisation they could keep for themselves, which would keep their own compilers' status intact. All that said, the GCC developers are usually up with or ahead of other compilers in terms of features, and will sail along perfectly well without direct Intel support.
In other words, Intel could utilize GCC for gain, while GCC probably couldn't care less if Intel joins the party.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the anthropic principle yet, which while concerned with the emergence of conscious lifeforms we know as humans can also be used to explain the origins of the universe.
Basically, mathematics is the language we use to describe nature. Different mathematical systems are built upon axioms, or self-evident truths. There is no way to prove the truth of an axiom, yet it is pointless to deny it because it makes the rest of the mathematics meaningless. By assuming truth, we come up with useful guidelines and rules that describe nature.
In a similar vein, if we accept these axioms of the theorems of the physical universe, these fundamental equations, their truth lies purely in their utility. These laws exist because we exist, because the universe exists. Why the universe exists is irrelevant to the usefulness of these theorems, and it seems it is something we will never be able to seek the truth of.
In this regard, mathematics and science is a religion based on faith and belief in the truthfulness of basic axioms. It is futile to examine the truth of these, for there is no context to examine them in.
Did I say basically back there? Whoops.. well I hope my point was clear.
I don't quite understand.. did you mean 'very quickly'?
I kid, I kid. Seriously, us nerds are too pedantic. I don't think there was a single reader of the article that didn't get the full and correct meaning from your words, incorrect as they might have been. Lighten up fellas.
Until I read this story and did some googling I had not known that there were two levels of Aero. Working out how to get further in oblivion is a higher priority.
Sounds like you are already on level two of the path to oblivion.
I'm consistently surprised at how little this sentiment is expressed. I loathe them both, and never saw why anyone would have a religious devotion to either of them.
Indeed, the prospect of bribery is so ingrained it doesn't need to be discussed. Obviously the Aussies were expecting payola, in fact it is so obvious they didn't even mention it when asked.
Indeed. Not a misspelling, but a deliberate usurping of our beloved binary prefix names into (eugh) decimal. It'll be a cold day in hell before I refer to a 'kibibyte' or any of those other monstrosities that defy all rational explanation except one, that they were designed by committee. Probably Sirius Cybernetics corp.
I'm not at all surprised at the quality of the so-called amateur hacker tools over the commercial offerings. Case in point is Backorifice, an amazingly useful tool back in the day for anyone trying to admin an MS setup. Obfuscating later forensic analysis has been around since Ceasars ROT13. I for one am glad the wild west style frontier still exists in cyberspace, where the amateurs consistently outperform the professionals. It shows we have barely explored this space, much less settled here.
It seems the blacklist would work perfectly if nationalcity.com.userpro.io, or just userpro.io was blocked. The startling thing about those numbers is the huge gaps, though I doubt they are sequential, it seems the reports are few and far between. The best reason to avoid blacklists is the fact they are always behind the times, no matter how often you update them. Your hardline approach seems valid, if there was a 'secure transaction' setting client side that disabled scripting then validated certificates and analyzed form fields, phishing would need some sort of infection to compromise someones system, shifting the problem back to the antivirus domain. It isn't in any way a perfect solution, but could resolve quite a lot of issues.
Sure previewing mixes on cheap equipment happens, but it's more of a once off quality control check than a setup used daily. The compression phenomenon seems to have its roots in vinyl, where the first ~30% of the record could have a fatter, deeper groove, so often the first couple of tracks were beefed up. When CD tech came around, there were no limits as to which tracks you could do this to, so they did it to them all. Least that's how I heard it.
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The fact is, you won't see 2 million extra subscribers with this upgrade, which is what Australia would need to match Korea with the above figures. It's just political spin to get marginal seats in the upcoming elections. What you will see is everyone with their farcical 1.5mbs connections get a whopping 10-12mbs boost, slowly crawling closer to a fraction of Korea's 100mbs connections - its not broadband, its a freakin LAN!
How did this come about in Korea? Oh yeah, a government with foresight and vision, not just empty promises. Neither Howard or Rudd inspire me with any confidence in their vision for broadband. I hope that all that will end up happening is Optus and Elders will go ahead do it and the government just beats Telstra into compliance.
Err.. the rest of you yanks are great blokes though! *ducks*
1G = the speed of acceleration needed = the gravity on earth. He doesn't mean it will stay on earth, just that it will need to accelerate/decelerate at 9.8m/s.
So I guess the existence of SELinux confirms my suspicions - the USA has been infiltrated by Communists!
"Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
Hang on, let me check... Chronic wrongdoing -tick-, impotence loosening ties of civilized society -tick-, in America -tick-... for the good of America the world must exercise its international police powers and save you all from yourselves!
I'd be more worried about the Chinese side than Chavez, but yeah it's more than a remote possibility.
The prospect that the government would screw this up is unfounded and ridiculous. You don't need to contribute to the FreeBSD project to know how to install and run the OS. You don't need to export your support network at all.
In fact, you don't know any of the specs of this machine, yet you assume it will just be used to pirate Windows. Well guess what? That's exactly what's happening on the ground today, and any project to put Linux as a default platform will cut into that market, reducing piracy as well as reducing dependence on proprietary formats.
So what. If Nintendo made similar tools available, you'd be vendor locked to them. Supporting homebrew for your products is far from equivalent to the MS mantra 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish'. XNA is a step in the right direction, but $99USD yearly fees destroy its homebrew credibility. Still, it's already far more fully featured for making a game than what Sony or Nintendo have to offer. When XNA drops its fees, Sony opens up the architecture and Nintendo chime in then we will see a truly powerful amateur market emerge. Until then, it will remain at a fraction of its potential.
I hate to say it, how can anyone differentiate FREE DINNER as any different to FREE IPOD or FREE HOLIDAY or any of the other thousands of FREE xxx spam that people receive? Perhaps you should ditch the contest and just offer useful information so as not to get tagged spam.
Why should the end user care what license the software was developed under? Well I guess free publicity for the GPL doesn't hurt, but that can be done without the full text of the GPL. There is no reason for companies to disclose any licenses they are parties to during development unless that is one of the terms of the license.
The only real benefit of finishing high school is not getting stereotyped by morons like the OP. Myself, I dropped out of high school and started working at 15, as a Lotus Notes developer and network admin. Some people need institutionalized teaching, others find it far too limiting and stifling. If you need an institution to learn something, you really haven't learned anything.
Both plotlines seem quite different to CoH though, and there seems to be endless room in Hollywood for more comic-book spinoffs. I don't doubt we'll see something there. Hey, it's gotta be better than Doom: The Movie, right?
In other words, Intel could utilize GCC for gain, while GCC probably couldn't care less if Intel joins the party.
Basically, mathematics is the language we use to describe nature. Different mathematical systems are built upon axioms, or self-evident truths. There is no way to prove the truth of an axiom, yet it is pointless to deny it because it makes the rest of the mathematics meaningless. By assuming truth, we come up with useful guidelines and rules that describe nature.
In a similar vein, if we accept these axioms of the theorems of the physical universe, these fundamental equations, their truth lies purely in their utility. These laws exist because we exist, because the universe exists. Why the universe exists is irrelevant to the usefulness of these theorems, and it seems it is something we will never be able to seek the truth of.
In this regard, mathematics and science is a religion based on faith and belief in the truthfulness of basic axioms. It is futile to examine the truth of these, for there is no context to examine them in.
Did I say basically back there? Whoops.. well I hope my point was clear.
I kid, I kid. Seriously, us nerds are too pedantic. I don't think there was a single reader of the article that didn't get the full and correct meaning from your words, incorrect as they might have been. Lighten up fellas.
Would you put a trainee pilot at the controls of a 747 or a Cessna?
Sounds like you are already on level two of the path to oblivion.
I'm consistently surprised at how little this sentiment is expressed. I loathe them both, and never saw why anyone would have a religious devotion to either of them.
Indeed, the prospect of bribery is so ingrained it doesn't need to be discussed. Obviously the Aussies were expecting payola, in fact it is so obvious they didn't even mention it when asked.
Well not to mention the first party crap they might break by having the browser so closely integrated into the OS.
Indeed. Not a misspelling, but a deliberate usurping of our beloved binary prefix names into (eugh) decimal. It'll be a cold day in hell before I refer to a 'kibibyte' or any of those other monstrosities that defy all rational explanation except one, that they were designed by committee. Probably Sirius Cybernetics corp.
I'm not at all surprised at the quality of the so-called amateur hacker tools over the commercial offerings. Case in point is Backorifice, an amazingly useful tool back in the day for anyone trying to admin an MS setup. Obfuscating later forensic analysis has been around since Ceasars ROT13. I for one am glad the wild west style frontier still exists in cyberspace, where the amateurs consistently outperform the professionals. It shows we have barely explored this space, much less settled here.
It seems the blacklist would work perfectly if nationalcity.com.userpro.io, or just userpro.io was blocked. The startling thing about those numbers is the huge gaps, though I doubt they are sequential, it seems the reports are few and far between. The best reason to avoid blacklists is the fact they are always behind the times, no matter how often you update them. Your hardline approach seems valid, if there was a 'secure transaction' setting client side that disabled scripting then validated certificates and analyzed form fields, phishing would need some sort of infection to compromise someones system, shifting the problem back to the antivirus domain. It isn't in any way a perfect solution, but could resolve quite a lot of issues.
Sure previewing mixes on cheap equipment happens, but it's more of a once off quality control check than a setup used daily. The compression phenomenon seems to have its roots in vinyl, where the first ~30% of the record could have a fatter, deeper groove, so often the first couple of tracks were beefed up. When CD tech came around, there were no limits as to which tracks you could do this to, so they did it to them all. Least that's how I heard it.