She declined to intervene. Kerr sacked Whitlam, Whitlam got on the phone to Buckingham Palace to "advise" HM to terminate Kerr's commission (i.e. sack him), HM (via her advisors) declined to have anything to do with it. I don't think she even ended up speaking to Whitlam. The generally acknowledged position was that HM felt that it was a matter for Australians, IOW "I'm not going to get dragged into this, sort it out yourselves".
While there is much to admire in the models of other countries, I prefer to keep heads of state and heads of government as separate people. We've been served pretty well by our current system, I don't want it changed for some vague ideal of republicanism (republicanism is great in theory, but I haven't seen much practical success lately).
I don't really know enough about Windows process scheduling, but the basic concept of compartmentalising various process types isn't new.
The level of control in minicomputer and mainframe operating systems is astonishing when viewed from the Windows/Linux/Apple world.
My favourite OS for control of user processes was OS400/IBM i. 90* priority levels, batch/spool/compile processes were automatically lower priority than interactive sessions, etc, etc
* there were actually 100 levels but the highest 10 were reserved for system processes.
40 years a smoker (and I enjoyed it), quit cold turkey 4 years ago - that's not a "short-term chemical dependency". I did some self-reflection, and decided it was time to stop.
Some can do it, others need help. If you *want* to give up, you will.
Up-mixing stereo into 5.1 is a job for professionals, not an algorithm, although I'd like to try it.
Also, professionals will tell you to record multi-channel in the first place, and not try to fake it later.
Mind you, it would be nice to have a way to do it, even it was cheating, e.g. send voice frequencies to a dialogue horn, low frequencies to the woofer, copy a subset of L+R into centre, etc
We receive movie trailers in stereo, but the projection system is set up for 6.1 - it would be nice to have a way to fake L+R into multi-channel, even if just to fill the centre a bit.
As always, you get what pay for. RED gear is highly regarded by professionals.
And, as someone upthread mentioned, cheaper than the established brands. Arri, Aaton, high-end Sony, Panasonic, and Canon models, all carry prices you'd call obscene.
Until you see the results, then you achieve enlightenment.
"a fork of systemd, banning the current systemd creators from participating in it, and trimming it to size. If a service doesn't quite fit systemd, work on systemd until it fits, don't rewrite it!"
That's not a bad idea - meanwhile, Poettering's response (presumably): "Systemd is working as expected. This is a flaw in {bind/whatever}. Bug closed."
The grid ends 600 metres up the road. the last quote to get to to my place was AUD$33K for single-phase, *excluding* tree-clearing costs - so imagine the reaction from my neighbours were I to propose cutting down a bunch of trees in the street......
Back on topic - ~26 degrees south latitude, ~9kWh/day consumption, no A/C (temperate climate, but seriously tempted to put in some A/C, last summer was HOT, it'll take a few extra PV panels to run it, 2.5kW panels on the roof, 5.5 kVA petrol genny backup (it also runs the clothes dryer when necessary), and 1320ah lead-acid batteries. Wood-burning stove for heat, cooking and hot water, 45KG bottle gas for backup.
"general purpose OS" - that's the nub of the issue. Why, in a multi-billion pound/dollar project would you not have your own OS?
Even a cut-down, customised version of Windows has to be better than XP+Norton antivirus (or whatever has been used). MS can do this, remember the original XBox? Wasn't it supposed to be running a cut-down version of W2K?
"Hey, Microsoft, we need a custom version of Windows. It needs printing, networking, {list of needs}, and it doesn't need {list of components that provide attack vectors}. It needs to run on business-grade and mil-spec hardware. How much?"
also:
"Hey RedHat, we need a customised OS. It needs {list} and it doesn't need {list}. It needs to run on business-grade and mil-spec hardware. We'll talk to (vendor) about drivers. How much?"
I realise that's a simplistic view, but what are the priorities for the UK govt? Is it worth pursuing a custom solution, or do they accept the risk of a consumer-grade OS + layered-on security?
It bears repeating - speeding and red light cameras in Australia are contracted by STATE, not local govt.
They're also operated under strict regulations. If I was issued a ticket for crossing a stop line while under yellow, and took it to court, and won, then the hammer would come down on those responsible. I'm sorry that circumstances are worse in the USA, but that's not what we're talking about, here.
Also, the cameras are programmed to take a series of photos, to prove that you kept going, and didn't make an effort to stop, because they won't issue a ticket if the photos show that you went over the line, but stopped straight away, e.g. your rear wheels never crossed the line, or similar.
We tend to have this this called "a fair go" in Australia, and it means you generally get treated as a human being by the courts.
Speeding and red light cameras in Australia are run/contracted by state governments, not local councils - but your basic position re: revenue is correct. These things are law enforcement by proxy, supposedly freeing police to tackle real crime, but not really. They're all about the money.
As another poster mentioned, it will only take one person to take his/her ticket to court, and the case found in favour of the defendant, for all the tickets to be dropped. I'd like to see the contract's terms - especially the penalty clauses and termination triggers.
This isn't america - Australia appoints magistrates and judges, we don't elect them, so they tend to be apolitical, so our courts don't automatically side with the govt, or its officials.
I doubt that -"Victoria's Police Minister was "openly furious" with the private camera operator,"
usually means "you WILL fix this, and you will NOT bill us for it, or we'll exercise our rights to terminate the contract". There are (from the summary) two other companies with speed/red light camera contracts, who I'm sure will be eager to take on the additional revenue-raisers.
"Consider hosting in your own nation, with your own local brands and their much stronger data protection."
That's almost exactly what I've recently told a customer who asked advice about web hosts. Sure, the el cheapo operations look attractive, until you find out where the servers are actually located.
Qatar or UAE? I don't think so. Sydney or Melbourne are just fine, thanks. I'd prefer to deal with my own country's rules.
Start, run, services.msc Scroll to Windows Updates Right-click, stop Right-click, properties Select startup type, choose 'disabled', apply OK, close
Happy now? Don't even need to reboot. Wow, didn't even need a command prompt to make that happen (although you could it that way if want to).
You can visit wsusoffline once a month or so - at *your* convenience, to download and install updates. BTW, you should donate a dollar or three to the site if you find it useful (not my site, just a happy user).
FWIW, mint and ubuntu also nag (albeit politely, and without forced reboots*).
* you can find the reboot trigger in Window's 'Scheduled tasks' and change the parameters, including when to reboot.
All good thoughts, but they weren't hit with file-encrypting ransomware, they were hit by people who illegally copied new episodes of a show and threatened to leak said shows if ransom wasn't paid.
This isn't cable - it's one of the three major broadcast TV networks in Oz.
We have similar problems with cable/satellite providers - "package" subscriptions vs. a la carte, and while Netflix provides a good service reasonably priced, it has nowhere near the content of Netflix in the USofA.
Ten, Seven, and Nine have all been struggling for years. Nine made a strategic deal with Microsoft (NineMSN) which hasn't really paid off, Seven made a strategic deal with Yahoo (Y7), which, well, you see where we're headed.
Ten had a couple of 'big' shows, but they were reality shows - Big Brother, and Master Chef, a cooking show. There's only so much of that crap that anyone can take, even avid fans - it gets stale very quickly. The rest of the content is 99% crap. The execs at all of those networks have shown that they just can't break out of the the broadcast model - "We have the content, you'll watch it when we decide and you'll watch as much advertising as we can pile on, damn the awkward breaks in a show's tension, and we don't want you recording it to watch later, because then you can skip the ads, and it wrecks the ratings surveys, on which we base our advertising rates."
Broadcast networks should have seen the invitable when VCRs became popular, but no, they had to cling to obsolete business models.
Ten will be sold to some overseas investment corporation, and might survive, but unless it changes its thinking substantially, it'll be gone inside a decade. So will the others.
Just put your magenta ink cartridge in the yellow's slot, although some cartridge chips might trigger a "wrong colour in slot #3" warning.
Instead of water, then, mix all the colours up - pour out half the ink from each cartridge, then pour the magenta into yellow, the yellow into cyan, and the cyan into magenta.
Oh, wait. The operator is trying to be surreptitious.
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She declined to intervene. Kerr sacked Whitlam, Whitlam got on the phone to Buckingham Palace to "advise" HM to terminate Kerr's commission (i.e. sack him), HM (via her advisors) declined to have anything to do with it. I don't think she even ended up speaking to Whitlam. The generally acknowledged position was that HM felt that it was a matter for Australians, IOW "I'm not going to get dragged into this, sort it out yourselves".
While there is much to admire in the models of other countries, I prefer to keep heads of state and heads of government as separate people. We've been served pretty well by our current system, I don't want it changed for some vague ideal of republicanism (republicanism is great in theory, but I haven't seen much practical success lately).
I don't really know enough about Windows process scheduling, but the basic concept of compartmentalising various process types isn't new.
The level of control in minicomputer and mainframe operating systems is astonishing when viewed from the Windows/Linux/Apple world.
My favourite OS for control of user processes was OS400/IBM i. 90* priority levels, batch/spool/compile processes were automatically lower priority than interactive sessions, etc, etc
* there were actually 100 levels but the highest 10 were reserved for system processes.
40 years a smoker (and I enjoyed it), quit cold turkey 4 years ago - that's not a "short-term chemical dependency". I did some self-reflection, and decided it was time to stop.
Some can do it, others need help. If you *want* to give up, you will.
Up-mixing stereo into 5.1 is a job for professionals, not an algorithm, although I'd like to try it.
Also, professionals will tell you to record multi-channel in the first place, and not try to fake it later.
Mind you, it would be nice to have a way to do it, even it was cheating, e.g. send voice frequencies to a dialogue horn, low frequencies to the woofer, copy a subset of L+R into centre, etc
We receive movie trailers in stereo, but the projection system is set up for 6.1 - it would be nice to have a way to fake L+R into multi-channel, even if just to fill the centre a bit.
As always, you get what pay for. RED gear is highly regarded by professionals.
And, as someone upthread mentioned, cheaper than the established brands. Arri, Aaton, high-end Sony, Panasonic, and Canon models, all carry prices you'd call obscene.
Until you see the results, then you achieve enlightenment.
"a fork of systemd, banning the current systemd creators from participating in it, and trimming it to size. If a service doesn't quite fit systemd, work on systemd until it fits, don't rewrite it!"
That's not a bad idea - meanwhile, Poettering's response (presumably): "Systemd is working as expected. This is a flaw in {bind/whatever}. Bug closed."
Convincing work to buy the Microsoft "bible" and slowly working my way through the interrupt listings......
That would be me :-)
The grid ends 600 metres up the road. the last quote to get to to my place was AUD$33K for single-phase, *excluding* tree-clearing costs - so imagine the reaction from my neighbours were I to propose cutting down a bunch of trees in the street......
Back on topic - ~26 degrees south latitude, ~9kWh/day consumption, no A/C (temperate climate, but seriously tempted to put in some A/C, last summer was HOT, it'll take a few extra PV panels to run it, 2.5kW panels on the roof, 5.5 kVA petrol genny backup (it also runs the clothes dryer when necessary), and 1320ah lead-acid batteries. Wood-burning stove for heat, cooking and hot water, 45KG bottle gas for backup.
"general purpose OS" - that's the nub of the issue. Why, in a multi-billion pound/dollar project would you not have your own OS?
Even a cut-down, customised version of Windows has to be better than XP+Norton antivirus (or whatever has been used). MS can do this, remember the original XBox? Wasn't it supposed to be running a cut-down version of W2K?
"Hey, Microsoft, we need a custom version of Windows. It needs printing, networking, {list of needs}, and it doesn't need {list of components that provide attack vectors}. It needs to run on business-grade and mil-spec hardware. How much?"
also:
"Hey RedHat, we need a customised OS. It needs {list} and it doesn't need {list}. It needs to run on business-grade and mil-spec hardware. We'll talk to (vendor) about drivers. How much?"
I realise that's a simplistic view, but what are the priorities for the UK govt? Is it worth pursuing a custom solution, or do they accept the risk of a consumer-grade OS + layered-on security?
Eh, who won the Falklands conflict?
It bears repeating - speeding and red light cameras in Australia are contracted by STATE, not local govt.
They're also operated under strict regulations. If I was issued a ticket for crossing a stop line while under yellow, and took it to court, and won, then the hammer would come down on those responsible. I'm sorry that circumstances are worse in the USA, but that's not what we're talking about, here.
Also, the cameras are programmed to take a series of photos, to prove that you kept going, and didn't make an effort to stop, because they won't issue a ticket if the photos show that you went over the line, but stopped straight away, e.g. your rear wheels never crossed the line, or similar.
We tend to have this this called "a fair go" in Australia, and it means you generally get treated as a human being by the courts.
Speeding and red light cameras in Australia are run/contracted by state governments, not local councils - but your basic position re: revenue is correct. These things are law enforcement by proxy, supposedly freeing police to tackle real crime, but not really. They're all about the money.
As another poster mentioned, it will only take one person to take his/her ticket to court, and the case found in favour of the defendant, for all the tickets to be dropped. I'd like to see the contract's terms - especially the penalty clauses and termination triggers.
This isn't america - Australia appoints magistrates and judges, we don't elect them, so they tend to be apolitical, so our courts don't automatically side with the govt, or its officials.
I doubt that -"Victoria's Police Minister was "openly furious" with the private camera operator,"
usually means "you WILL fix this, and you will NOT bill us for it, or we'll exercise our rights to terminate the contract". There are (from the summary) two other companies with speed/red light camera contracts, who I'm sure will be eager to take on the additional revenue-raisers.
"Consider hosting in your own nation, with your own local brands and their much stronger data protection."
That's almost exactly what I've recently told a customer who asked advice about web hosts. Sure, the el cheapo operations look attractive, until you find out where the servers are actually located.
Qatar or UAE? I don't think so. Sydney or Melbourne are just fine, thanks. I'd prefer to deal with my own country's rules.
Start, run, services.msc
Scroll to Windows Updates
Right-click, stop
Right-click, properties
Select startup type, choose 'disabled', apply
OK, close
Happy now? Don't even need to reboot. Wow, didn't even need a command prompt to make that happen (although you could it that way if want to).
You can visit wsusoffline once a month or so - at *your* convenience, to download and install updates. BTW, you should donate a dollar or three to the site if you find it useful (not my site, just a happy user).
FWIW, mint and ubuntu also nag (albeit politely, and without forced reboots*).
* you can find the reboot trigger in Window's 'Scheduled tasks' and change the parameters, including when to reboot.
More to the point, closed source products from Samsung appear to trying to hide stuff like this:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
Just why, in the light of the VW et al diesel emissions testing scandal, do manufacturers continue to act like we trust them?
Oh, right, because consumers continue to buy their products.
Buy a "commercial display" and plug your choice of media processor into it, e.g. a laptop with a media-focussed linux distro.
All good thoughts, but they weren't hit with file-encrypting ransomware, they were hit by people who illegally copied new episodes of a show and threatened to leak said shows if ransom wasn't paid.
When dropbox fixes its "large file dropped at 90%" problem, I might consider using it again.
3 operating systems, 3 browsers, 2 locations.
This isn't cable - it's one of the three major broadcast TV networks in Oz.
We have similar problems with cable/satellite providers - "package" subscriptions vs. a la carte, and while Netflix provides a good service reasonably priced, it has nowhere near the content of Netflix in the USofA.
Ten, Seven, and Nine have all been struggling for years. Nine made a strategic deal with Microsoft (NineMSN) which hasn't really paid off, Seven made a strategic deal with Yahoo (Y7), which, well, you see where we're headed.
Ten had a couple of 'big' shows, but they were reality shows - Big Brother, and Master Chef, a cooking show. There's only so much of that crap that anyone can take, even avid fans - it gets stale very quickly. The rest of the content is 99% crap. The execs at all of those networks have shown that they just can't break out of the the broadcast model - "We have the content, you'll watch it when we decide and you'll watch as much advertising as we can pile on, damn the awkward breaks in a show's tension, and we don't want you recording it to watch later, because then you can skip the ads, and it wrecks the ratings surveys, on which we base our advertising rates."
Broadcast networks should have seen the invitable when VCRs became popular, but no, they had to cling to obsolete business models.
Ten will be sold to some overseas investment corporation, and might survive, but unless it changes its thinking substantially, it'll be gone inside a decade. So will the others.
See also: Madonna. Quite a nice-sounding voice in her natural range, but sounds like like a cat in pain when she tries to reach a higher register.
Lego still allows the user to exercise their own creativity. You might buy a Star Destroyer kit, but you can build other things with it.
Just put your magenta ink cartridge in the yellow's slot, although some cartridge chips might trigger a "wrong colour in slot #3" warning.
Instead of water, then, mix all the colours up - pour out half the ink from each cartridge, then pour the magenta into yellow, the yellow into cyan, and the cyan into magenta.
Oh, wait. The operator is trying to be surreptitious.
You don't understand much about copyright, do you?