Lag is dependent on the size of the data you're sending too - a ping measures the time for one packet to make the round trip, but it's not all that often that one packet is all you need to send.
Even if we go on your figures and estimates, a 25 - 50% drop is something I'll gladly take. I'm currently in an industry where dropping response times from 43ms to 27ms matters, so another 5 to 10 off that provided by the government would be fricking sweet.
Exactly what I was about to say - all well and good that we can chuck bytes at each other fast, but we're constrained by the puny pipes out of the country to the US (shared with 3 million in NZ), Japan and Singapore.
OTOH, lag on Australian servers should be non-existant - that's got to be incentive to host locally. Not bad for my future employment prospects.
The list was obtained by Wikileaks from internet filtering software that parents can opt to install on their computers. ACMA provides its list of prohibited sites to these software developers for inclusion in their products.
There is the clinching detail. It was obtained from filtering software. As such I suspect that its actually a super set. Containing everything that the official list contains and then some other stuff which isn't on the official list but has been added by the software vendor, perhaps based on reports from their users.
Conroy admitted himself that some of the more controversial items (the dentist, the canteen, the anti-abortion site, the euthanasia site) were on the ACMA list in any case. No-one's saying that the list is completely whacked, just that it contains some items which should be there, with no recourse to getting it lifted.
Furthermore, one point I've thought of afterwards - the problem with the blacklist is that it's got to be distributed to ISPs in order for them to block it - which invariably means future leaks are also inevitable.
Senator Conroy and ACMA initially tried to discredit Wikileaks by saying the leaked blacklist was about double the size of ACMA's list. However, they admitted that both lists shared "some common URLs".
Wikileaks said the disparity was due to the fact that the leaked list was from August last year and contained a number of older URLs that had since been removed by ACMA.
It quickly followed up by leaking a second version of the blacklist, dated March 18 this year, that is approximately the same size as the ACMA list and contains many of the same seemingly innocuous websites.
And the clever part about how they got the list?
The list was obtained by Wikileaks from internet filtering software that parents can opt to install on their computers. ACMA provides its list of prohibited sites to these software developers for inclusion in their products.
My HP Pavilion dv5 1139tx has more or less equivalent hardware to the MBP, but when I checked online the MBP cost ~A$4000 whereas the dv5 cost ~$2100
That unfortunately is due to the exorbitant rip-off that Apple continues to perpetuate in virtually all markets outside America, and that applies across the product range, especially so for iPods (and before anyone claims higher costs of operation, this is in Australia, not Europe, where it's pretty much the same cost as the States to run a business).
Apple seems to always adjust their prices as the Australian dollar hit bottom - this time around US$0.62 per AUD - I bought mine at the top of the exchange rate, when the MBP was AU$2700 for the US$2000 model and the exchange rate was around US$0.95 per, but there'd be no adjustment. At the time, the equivalent Dell was $2500, so I gladly paid for a laptop 1kg lighter, 2cm slimmer and without Vista.
I remember when it was only 20 years away, around 1960.
Can we get a source on that? A lot of people have claimed similar figures without anything concrete backing it up.
GP sounds like it's got some real sources and figures backing it up, but unless you're citing a scientist of some description and not a sci-fi writer, that's nonsense without a base.
We dislike the RIAA because they use questionable tactics...
Add to that... I dislike the RIAA because I don't believe they represent the Artists as much they they'd like us to think. Their members are most notably Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal.
That's because it's the Recording Industry Association of America, not the Recording Artists Association of America.
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Prior to the 1920s heart disease as we know it now was almost unknown. Find a graph of its rise and it begins in the early 20th century, peaking in the 50s.
You could say much the same thing about longevity, only that seems to be peaking about now - the whole point here is that it becomes a problem later in life, which a hundred years ago wasn't such a big issue, given low life expectancy.
people are "lazy" aka efficient and use the least effort that they can do with. If you give them something simpler, they will dumb down to that level.
or if you want to look at it another way: people will need to devote less brain cycles to wrestling with the OS and just get on with getting their work done so they can go outside.
I guess that's not a familiar concept on/., though.
Dude, seriously, if you are on that long of a flight, you should take some time to relax, have a few drinks and take a nap. Nobody should be expected to "work" on a plane the whole time. Unless if you are a chronic workaholic with no life, you should not be working through the flight and your employer should understand that.
New York - Sydney or London - Sydney is a good 20 hour flight (trust me, I've done it too many times to care for). A "few drinks and a nap" isn't exactly something you can knock off a whole day in the air with. Let's say you work 5, 6 hours - wifi off, low brightness, minimum disk spin, you can manage that on the batteries now. Then you take a break, but can't find anything of note on the entertainment system to watch - so decide to pull out a DVD or a movie already on your drive, since this thing is 17in after all. With a fixed battery, you're bound by the remaining time - with a swappable battery, you get another 4 hours out of it.
I think the point here is that had apple put the effort into making swappable batteries that gave you 6 hours, say, that would be better than a fixed battery that lasts 8.
Not taking away the acheivement of getting 8 freaking hours out of a 17in laptop, but the flexibility of swappable batteries is a more useful feature than the longer timespan.
Yep, AC hits the nail on the head here... if 21 million is allegedly 3 in 4 German bank accounts, then there's only 28 million accounts in Germany and the remaining 82,369,552 Germans (minus the 14% under 15, say) obviously keep their cash in their mattresses.
... another RIA platform. Only this one doesn't have a userbase yet and I don't think it'll have one to speak of in the near future; it is Windows and Mac OS only
thousands of years of asian fire breathing dragon myth
trademark nullified
It's not a patent. Or copyright. It's a trademark - a unique identifier used by a business to sell products. Appropriating cultural themes and packaging them for sale sounds to me like enough to warrant trademark, as long as you make the mark your own.
I'm going on wiki here (sorry), but it has the following to say about register-ability:
In most systems, a trademark will be registrable if it is able to distinguish the goods or services of a party, will not confuse consumers about the relationship between one party and another, and will not otherwise deceive consumers with respect to the qualities of the product.
Toho here would be contending that Godzilla is distinct enough to be a trademark - and presumably Mozilla is distinct in its own right such that they anticipate a challenge falling through.
Interestingly though, wiki also mentions maintaining rights -
Trademarks rights must be maintained through actual lawful use of the trademark. These rights will cease if a mark is not actively used for a period of time, normally 5 years in most jurisdictions.
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Latency != Lag.
Lag is dependent on the size of the data you're sending too - a ping measures the time for one packet to make the round trip, but it's not all that often that one packet is all you need to send.
Even if we go on your figures and estimates, a 25 - 50% drop is something I'll gladly take. I'm currently in an industry where dropping response times from 43ms to 27ms matters, so another 5 to 10 off that provided by the government would be fricking sweet.
Exactly what I was about to say - all well and good that we can chuck bytes at each other fast, but we're constrained by the puny pipes out of the country to the US (shared with 3 million in NZ), Japan and Singapore.
OTOH, lag on Australian servers should be non-existant - that's got to be incentive to host locally. Not bad for my future employment prospects.
The list was obtained by Wikileaks from internet filtering software that parents can opt to install on their computers. ACMA provides its list of prohibited sites to these software developers for inclusion in their products.
There is the clinching detail. It was obtained from filtering software. As such I suspect that its actually a super set. Containing everything that the official list contains and then some other stuff which isn't on the official list but has been added by the software vendor, perhaps based on reports from their users.
Conroy admitted himself that some of the more controversial items (the dentist, the canteen, the anti-abortion site, the euthanasia site) were on the ACMA list in any case. No-one's saying that the list is completely whacked, just that it contains some items which should be there, with no recourse to getting it lifted.
Furthermore, one point I've thought of afterwards - the problem with the blacklist is that it's got to be distributed to ISPs in order for them to block it - which invariably means future leaks are also inevitable.
That might appear to be the case because initially it wasn't:
Senator Conroy and ACMA initially tried to discredit Wikileaks by saying the leaked blacklist was about double the size of ACMA's list. However, they admitted that both lists shared "some common URLs".
Wikileaks said the disparity was due to the fact that the leaked list was from August last year and contained a number of older URLs that had since been removed by ACMA.
It quickly followed up by leaking a second version of the blacklist, dated March 18 this year, that is approximately the same size as the ACMA list and contains many of the same seemingly innocuous websites.
And the clever part about how they got the list?
The list was obtained by Wikileaks from internet filtering software that parents can opt to install on their computers. ACMA provides its list of prohibited sites to these software developers for inclusion in their products.
My HP Pavilion dv5 1139tx has more or less equivalent hardware to the MBP, but when I checked online the MBP cost ~A$4000 whereas the dv5 cost ~$2100
That unfortunately is due to the exorbitant rip-off that Apple continues to perpetuate in virtually all markets outside America, and that applies across the product range, especially so for iPods (and before anyone claims higher costs of operation, this is in Australia, not Europe, where it's pretty much the same cost as the States to run a business).
Apple seems to always adjust their prices as the Australian dollar hit bottom - this time around US$0.62 per AUD - I bought mine at the top of the exchange rate, when the MBP was AU$2700 for the US$2000 model and the exchange rate was around US$0.95 per, but there'd be no adjustment. At the time, the equivalent Dell was $2500, so I gladly paid for a laptop 1kg lighter, 2cm slimmer and without Vista.
I'd rather leave the mosquitoes alone.
As long as they leave me & my family alone, I'll leave them alone too. Until that day, it's on.
I remember when it was only 20 years away, around 1960.
Can we get a source on that? A lot of people have claimed similar figures without anything concrete backing it up.
GP sounds like it's got some real sources and figures backing it up, but unless you're citing a scientist of some description and not a sci-fi writer, that's nonsense without a base.
We dislike the RIAA because they use questionable tactics...
Add to that... I dislike the RIAA because I don't believe they represent the Artists as much they they'd like us to think. Their members are most notably Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal.
That's because it's the Recording Industry Association of America, not the Recording Artists Association of America.
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I'm just curious how many of the mods ranking this came close to understanding it.
LuTze is the name of my first portable backup drive, and Lobsang is the latest one :)
Prior to the 1920s heart disease as we know it now was almost unknown. Find a graph of its rise and it begins in the early 20th century, peaking in the 50s.
You could say much the same thing about longevity, only that seems to be peaking about now - the whole point here is that it becomes a problem later in life, which a hundred years ago wasn't such a big issue, given low life expectancy.
Why is this flamebait? See http://openarena.ws/
people are "lazy" aka efficient and use the least effort that they can do with. If you give them something simpler, they will dumb down to that level.
or if you want to look at it another way: people will need to devote less brain cycles to wrestling with the OS and just get on with getting their work done so they can go outside.
I guess that's not a familiar concept on /., though.
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Why the fuck is MSFT reinventing the wheel again? :(
Licensing fees. And also because it is, after all, Microsoft.
Or two.
Dude, seriously, if you are on that long of a flight, you should take some time to relax, have a few drinks and take a nap. Nobody should be expected to "work" on a plane the whole time. Unless if you are a chronic workaholic with no life, you should not be working through the flight and your employer should understand that.
New York - Sydney or London - Sydney is a good 20 hour flight (trust me, I've done it too many times to care for). A "few drinks and a nap" isn't exactly something you can knock off a whole day in the air with. Let's say you work 5, 6 hours - wifi off, low brightness, minimum disk spin, you can manage that on the batteries now. Then you take a break, but can't find anything of note on the entertainment system to watch - so decide to pull out a DVD or a movie already on your drive, since this thing is 17in after all. With a fixed battery, you're bound by the remaining time - with a swappable battery, you get another 4 hours out of it.
I think the point here is that had apple put the effort into making swappable batteries that gave you 6 hours, say, that would be better than a fixed battery that lasts 8.
Not taking away the acheivement of getting 8 freaking hours out of a 17in laptop, but the flexibility of swappable batteries is a more useful feature than the longer timespan.
... there will be no $2.50 tracks
Not violent enough.
Whoosh!
Yep, AC hits the nail on the head here... if 21 million is allegedly 3 in 4 German bank accounts, then there's only 28 million accounts in Germany and the remaining 82,369,552 Germans (minus the 14% under 15, say) obviously keep their cash in their mattresses.
Apologies, better link at the source -
... another RIA platform. Only this one doesn't have a userbase yet and I don't think it'll have one to speak of in the near future; it is Windows and Mac OS only
so it's got a potential user-base of approximately 98.8% of web clients?
prior art:
thousands of years of asian fire breathing dragon myth
trademark nullified
It's not a patent. Or copyright. It's a trademark - a unique identifier used by a business to sell products. Appropriating cultural themes and packaging them for sale sounds to me like enough to warrant trademark, as long as you make the mark your own.
I'm going on wiki here (sorry), but it has the following to say about register-ability:
In most systems, a trademark will be registrable if it is able to distinguish the goods or services of a party, will not confuse consumers about the relationship between one party and another, and will not otherwise deceive consumers with respect to the qualities of the product.
Toho here would be contending that Godzilla is distinct enough to be a trademark - and presumably Mozilla is distinct in its own right such that they anticipate a challenge falling through.
Interestingly though, wiki also mentions maintaining rights -
Trademarks rights must be maintained through actual lawful use of the trademark. These rights will cease if a mark is not actively used for a period of time, normally 5 years in most jurisdictions.
Hmm, when was the last Godzilla movie? :)
I think AC... [isn't] afraid of anything.
I don't think you know what "Coward" means.
Pluses for no hostile natives, though.
... that we know of.
Point taken sir! :)
(though truth be told, I resisted registration for a long time, to the detriment of an early UID)