If I had mod points, you'd be going up. Despite the fact that it was a funny post, you've made a rather good point. Somebody mod the parent Insightful, please.
Normally I'd agree with all the people saying that this is not a big deal, citing "it's a competitive product, etc." Now, that's a fair point...at least it would be if Telstra's plans were not so shockingly bad. As Australia's biggest and most well known ISP/telecom company, they have a huge proportion of Australia's internet users. What a great deal of them don't realise is how much they're being shafted.
My plan: 256/64K (down/up), 12BG download limit, shaped to 64K. AUD60/month (Which would be somewhere between US45-50, I think)
Not my choice, a family member chose the plan, I wouldn't have been so idiotic. Oh, and did I mention the 24-month contract? Yep, if you cancel your plan, you still pay for the full 24 months after signing the contract.
Consider this vs competing ISPs who offer twice the speed and bandwidth for half the price.
For some other plans with limits, the bastards charge 15c/MB (Which is roughly $150/GB). Imagine you are one of those poor people who were sucked in by Telstra's omnipresence and huge T.V. marketing campaign. OpenOffice is not small, and Telstra's servers are a place where you can get unlimited downloads. You'd be pretty pissed too if they pulled it.
Firefox has never crashed on me on the YouTube website, but I've found that it completely rapes my CPU, even when I'm not watching a video. (Slackware 12)
"Open source" meaning "access to the source code" is a total misconception...much like people take "free software" to mean "gratis software" when it really means "libre software".
Try actually reading the Open Source Definition before making idiotic comments.
It's either that, or it's the same women going for multiple guys...
What I find hilarious is all the comments bagging out men, claiming x% of them lie on surveys and how its increased that number...but effectively, the higher the percentage of men kissers, the more credible the men seem...
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As far as I am aware, that clause only appears on some versions of FrontPage 2002:
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/21/1438251.shtml
Or giving documents to the people you trust, even.
Um, who the hell modded the parent troll?
If I had mod points, you'd be going up. Despite the fact that it was a funny post, you've made a rather good point. Somebody mod the parent Insightful, please.
Normally I'd agree with all the people saying that this is not a big deal, citing "it's a competitive product, etc."
Now, that's a fair point...at least it would be if Telstra's plans were not so shockingly bad. As Australia's biggest and most well known ISP/telecom company, they have a huge proportion of Australia's internet users. What a great deal of them don't realise is how much they're being shafted.
My plan:
256/64K (down/up), 12BG download limit, shaped to 64K.
AUD60/month (Which would be somewhere between US45-50, I think)
Not my choice, a family member chose the plan, I wouldn't have been so idiotic. Oh, and did I mention the 24-month contract? Yep, if you cancel your plan, you still pay for the full 24 months after signing the contract.
Consider this vs competing ISPs who offer twice the speed and bandwidth for half the price.
For some other plans with limits, the bastards charge 15c/MB (Which is roughly $150/GB). Imagine you are one of those poor people who were sucked in by Telstra's omnipresence and huge T.V. marketing campaign. OpenOffice is not small, and Telstra's servers are a place where you can get unlimited downloads. You'd be pretty pissed too if they pulled it.
Firefox has never crashed on me on the YouTube website, but I've found that it completely rapes my CPU, even when I'm not watching a video. (Slackware 12)
Wrong.
"Open source" meaning "access to the source code" is a total misconception...much like people take "free software" to mean "gratis software" when it really means "libre software".
Try actually reading the Open Source Definition before making idiotic comments.
It's either that, or it's the same women going for multiple guys... What I find hilarious is all the comments bagging out men, claiming x% of them lie on surveys and how its increased that number...but effectively, the higher the percentage of men kissers, the more credible the men seem...
GNU Coreutils is released under the full GPL, not the LGPL. In fact, the latest version is already released under the GPLv3.
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/