a $3 coat check might land a $10 in the coat check girl's hands, if she's not a bitch
Wait, you have to pay (and tip) to put stuff in the cloakroom in the USA? Wow. In Australia it's almost always provided as a free service and the staff manning the cloakroom are paid a livable wage.
Also, pay off your credit card. The interest your savings earn is far less than the interest rate you pay on your outstanding debt. You'll have more money to tip with if you do this:P.
The original iPod had a hard disk for storage. Hard disks have moving parts. The flash based ones came much later (and the first generations of those sucked, anyone remember the iPod shuffle?).
I agree that the interface on other players was acceptable, certainly no worse than the iPod. My iRiver from the same era as the original iPod is still going and the interface on that is perfectly fine. What it lacked compared to the iPod was iTunes to sync files and buy mp3s.
Punk is not structurally descended from Classical music. Most classical works will use more than three chords and have much more complicated forms than the verse/chorus. Punk rock is designed to shock and be in your face, but the only classical music style which is designed to shock is expressionism - which isn't in most people's playlists.
Punk is a simplification of regular rock, played faster and louder.
My first thought was that it was for an artwork. I couldn't think of any other application where you would want to write 1s and 0s without going through a controller of some sort.
You should have done the McDonalds manager training, even if you wanted to make a career doing something else. I've heard plenty of people say that it looks good on a CV. It shows that you've got commitment and perseverance.
Bugger, screwed up the html for the link on the previous post. Here's a better post anyway, with the links fixed.
The trials have already been completed. Legislation is coming in the next few months. It's not just Conroy in favour of the filter, but a majority of cabinet. The Liberal party are in favour of censorship of the web in principle, however they disagree with some of the technical points of Conroy's proposal.
Conroy has said repeatedly he supports a mandatory filter. He is cabinet's salesman for it, seeing as the filter falls under his portfolio. If you haven't heard him say it, it's because you're ignorant, not because he hasn't said it.
Senator Conroy says some internet content is simply not suitable in a civilised society.
"It is important that all Australians, particularly young children, are protected from this material," he said.
"The Government believes that parents want assistance to reduce the risk of children being exposed to such material."
Senator Conroy says the new filter rules are not designed to curtail freedom of speech.
"No-one can currently host RC material in Australia. That is the existing situation," he said.
"To strengthen cyber safety this Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcast Services Act to require all ISPs to block material rated refused classification that is hosted on overseas servers and therefore not subject to the existing take-down regime."
I agree that the internet is a public place and putting info on a website counts as publishing it.
With this issue I'm not sure what all the fuss is about anyway. It seems like a storm in a teacup. The NSW government was going to announce the report on Sunday or Monday. The transport minister is just annoyed that SMH scooped him by finding the site on Friday and publishing articles about his report in the Saturday paper. Instead of media outlets just picking up his press release and parroting the spin, the report was held scrutinised by investigative journalists, before he even got a chance to try and spin the announcement.
The transport minister is also shitty that his great report on how he was going to revolutionise everything was torn apart by The Herald. They basically said they heard the same announcement 10 years ago and it still hasn't been implemented yet. They also gave the government a lot of flak over roads getting three times the spending of public transport - in a report that was on the future of public transport and how the state government was investing in it.
I agree with the parent post. In addition, you could have also pointed out that all 4 of the grandparent's suggestions are still in the experimental phase after a good 30 years plus of "clean coal" research. All ideas in the list have failed to be implemented commercially. The whole time the breakthrough has been "just around the corner". "Clean coal" is marketing spin for "Do nothing".
Mod parent down - factually incorrect (I probably got trolled).
1. Computer Models - widely used in all branches of science and engineering. Also we don't have any copies of Earth to study, which makes it hard to conduct hands on experiments. 2. Closed source data sources - This has been covered before on/. not all of them are closed. 3. Closed source algorithms - The algorithms are published in papers, you just need to implement it in your own code if you want to run it. 4. Funding from politicians - So NASA doesn't do real science? How about government funded medical research, not real enough for you? Government funding does not imply bias or lack of hard science. Also there are many more scientist than positions available and they don't do it for the money as the pay is much better working for business (or shilling for big oil).
1. The contents of the note haven't been made public, so we don't know how threatening it really was. My guess on the contents: "I want my left 4 dead 2 you fucking fucker" 2. There is no indication that the police have been involved. If Atkinson was actually scared of the supposed death threats you'd think he would have called the cops. 3. It is currently legal to leave a note under someone's door, even at 2am. 4. He is more at risk from bikie gangs than gamers. SA has some nasty anti-bikie laws that he introduced recently. These laws are a horrible attack on freedom of association, and in theory could be used to rule other groups illegal in the future.
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Wait, you have to pay (and tip) to put stuff in the cloakroom in the USA? Wow. In Australia it's almost always provided as a free service and the staff manning the cloakroom are paid a livable wage.
Also, pay off your credit card. The interest your savings earn is far less than the interest rate you pay on your outstanding debt. You'll have more money to tip with if you do this :P.
He's also claiming that the People's Republic of China isn't a republic. I wonder who the monarch is these days?
Mac users can Command-Click for secondary fire.
The original iPod had a hard disk for storage. Hard disks have moving parts. The flash based ones came much later (and the first generations of those sucked, anyone remember the iPod shuffle?).
I agree that the interface on other players was acceptable, certainly no worse than the iPod. My iRiver from the same era as the original iPod is still going and the interface on that is perfectly fine. What it lacked compared to the iPod was iTunes to sync files and buy mp3s.
You and some of the other posters will enjoy this article. Critics and artists slam works that they 'should' like. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/article6964184.ece
I think you're getting Mozart confused with Strauss? Strauss is responsible for the waltzes. Menuets were the dance of the day for Mozart.
Punk is not structurally descended from Classical music. Most classical works will use more than three chords and have much more complicated forms than the verse/chorus. Punk rock is designed to shock and be in your face, but the only classical music style which is designed to shock is expressionism - which isn't in most people's playlists.
Punk is a simplification of regular rock, played faster and louder.
This is one of the best posts on /. Hats off to you, sir.
My first thought was that it was for an artwork. I couldn't think of any other application where you would want to write 1s and 0s without going through a controller of some sort.
You should have done the McDonalds manager training, even if you wanted to make a career doing something else. I've heard plenty of people say that it looks good on a CV. It shows that you've got commitment and perseverance.
Give kdawson a break. He's just trying to preserve this story for future generations by making a lot of copies.
Hallo, Welt!
And nothing of value was lost.
Just because the government can do something doesn't make it ethical.
Bugger, screwed up the html for the link on the previous post. Here's a better post anyway, with the links fixed.
The trials have already been completed. Legislation is coming in the next few months. It's not just Conroy in favour of the filter, but a majority of cabinet. The Liberal party are in favour of censorship of the web in principle, however they disagree with some of the technical points of Conroy's proposal.
Conroy has said repeatedly he supports a mandatory filter. He is cabinet's salesman for it, seeing as the filter falls under his portfolio. If you haven't heard him say it, it's because you're ignorant, not because he hasn't said it.
Source
Source. Sounds "mandatory" to me.
Legislation is coming in the next few months. It's not just Conroy in favour of the filter, but a majority of cabinet.
You're forgetting all the noise about WorkChoices. That was the deciding issue for a lot of people.
Sort of correct. Coca Cola isn't getting their CO2 from cars or power plants - the two biggest sources of pollution.
http://www.letsgettogether.co.uk/DetailQuestionAnswer/QuestionID=7495
Insightful? More like [Citation needed]. Unsubstantiated claims aren't insightful (in b4 you must be new here).
I agree that the internet is a public place and putting info on a website counts as publishing it.
With this issue I'm not sure what all the fuss is about anyway. It seems like a storm in a teacup. The NSW government was going to announce the report on Sunday or Monday. The transport minister is just annoyed that SMH scooped him by finding the site on Friday and publishing articles about his report in the Saturday paper. Instead of media outlets just picking up his press release and parroting the spin, the report was held scrutinised by investigative journalists, before he even got a chance to try and spin the announcement.
The transport minister is also shitty that his great report on how he was going to revolutionise everything was torn apart by The Herald. They basically said they heard the same announcement 10 years ago and it still hasn't been implemented yet. They also gave the government a lot of flak over roads getting three times the spending of public transport - in a report that was on the future of public transport and how the state government was investing in it.
You're complaining about having to download 2 files instead of 1? In the year 2010? Are you serious?
Native zip handling sucks anyway. 7zip, winzip, winrar et al do a much better job of working with compressed files.
I agree with the parent post. In addition, you could have also pointed out that all 4 of the grandparent's suggestions are still in the experimental phase after a good 30 years plus of "clean coal" research. All ideas in the list have failed to be implemented commercially. The whole time the breakthrough has been "just around the corner". "Clean coal" is marketing spin for "Do nothing".
Mod parent down - factually incorrect (I probably got trolled).
1. Computer Models - widely used in all branches of science and engineering. Also we don't have any copies of Earth to study, which makes it hard to conduct hands on experiments. /. not all of them are closed.
2. Closed source data sources - This has been covered before on
3. Closed source algorithms - The algorithms are published in papers, you just need to implement it in your own code if you want to run it.
4. Funding from politicians - So NASA doesn't do real science? How about government funded medical research, not real enough for you? Government funding does not imply bias or lack of hard science. Also there are many more scientist than positions available and they don't do it for the money as the pay is much better working for business (or shilling for big oil).
I think it's all a load of bullshit.
1. The contents of the note haven't been made public, so we don't know how threatening it really was. My guess on the contents: "I want my left 4 dead 2 you fucking fucker"
2. There is no indication that the police have been involved. If Atkinson was actually scared of the supposed death threats you'd think he would have called the cops.
3. It is currently legal to leave a note under someone's door, even at 2am.
4. He is more at risk from bikie gangs than gamers. SA has some nasty anti-bikie laws that he introduced recently. These laws are a horrible attack on freedom of association, and in theory could be used to rule other groups illegal in the future.