Everyone's reality is slightly different. In mine, your view is delusional - I've had a much higher failure rate with HP laptops, desktops and servers in production than Dell or IBM/Lenovo. In the last 5 years, I've made 6 calls to Dell and 4 of them were for DOA equipment, versus 17 calls to HP - one critical fault with a production server (covered by a 24x7x4 support contract) took them 4 days to fix, meaning that an entire office had no systems access whatsoever for 4 days...
I'm firmly of the opinion that some games need to be played on a console, and others need to be played on a PC. Porting one type of game to another platform means that the end result is the ported platform is a poor imitation of the original.
For an Australian venue to serve alcohol without serving food, they need to provide licensed security guards. Some stupid amendment made to the liquor licensing act requires it.
This is Australia we are talking about. Government funded Medicare can't be denied to you because of your lifestyle, even if you smoke 3 packs and drink 2 slabs a day. Private health insurance can be, but only if you declare it.
One of the bars close to my house actually does this. The reason they are doing it is to identify troublemakers after a big brawl has occurred. The sad thing is, if you turn up with a passport instead of a drivers license, it won't fit through their little scanner, so you won't have your details recorded, and legally they cannot refuse you entry.
Is it sad that I worked all that out over a pint or two?
Ironic seeing as in the DPS (Dreaded Private Sector) workers love free training as we can ask for more money, get a free lunch and a 3-5 day semi-holiday (when was the last training session you had that went past 4 PM).
I've never had a private sector employer send me on a training course, or even reimburse me for one i've sent myself on. And on the note of training sessions going past 4pm, the Novell, VMware and EMC courses I've been on over the last 4 years have all gone past 5pm on several days.
Chris is right, at the government department I just left, installing apps wasn't an option, but we did at least provide firefox and IEtab for the users. but even still, most of them used IE anyway, due to compatibility with external department's websites. the grapevine has told me that the department is going to be moving all servers away from Novell SLES10/11 and OES2 to Microsoft software in a cost-reduction exercise... looks like I got out just in time!
i find the facebook ads hilarious. my profile says i'm married, yet i'm getting ads all the time for dating websites. if i look at a single, female friend's profile, i get an ad for "save your marriage now"...
Even scarier is when it suggests you become friends with your ex... or worse, the guy that your ex cheated on you with. Or that sociopath who tried to kill you back in school.
Australia agrees with you and would kindly like you to inform Telstra, Optus and all the other telco's of how horribly antiquated their billing practices are. We've been yelling this at them for years but they just don't listen...
I can't see ever wanting mobile TV, even if it was free, since watching TV while moving isn't terribly pleasant, and for the most part, isn't practical (while driving, walking, etc.).
So... the two hours a day I (and several hundred thousand others here in Melbourne) sit on the train going to and from work aren't applicable? Admittedly I download the tv-shows and load them onto my smartphone of choice prior to getting on the train each day, but I guarantee I'm not the only one doing this. I've seen people watching TV on their phones/laptops/portable DVD players on a daily basis for the last three years. Sure it's not streamed, but there is a demand for it.
Now give me my GigE to my home, where there is no wireless signal from the mobile networks so I can continue to do this instead of using the crappy ADSL2 technology I currently have:P
How do you arrive at that conclusion from the statement "personally be happy to get 0.03GB/sec"? All we're saying is, if you can get the gear in the ground for 43 million that's a great deal and a better idea than Tony Abbot's dumb proposal. 100Mbit? Gigabit? Sure why not. Anything to get the bottleneck away from my welcome mat.
/s/million/billion
I have limited ADSL2 options in my area, sync speed is around 12mbps, actual throughput is about 1.1MB/sec (limited to 100GB of downloads per month). To step up to Gigabit would be fantastic - to take Abbott's proposal (which he has admitted he doesn't understand) means I have no chance of getting an improved speed whatsoever.
Bud Light? I'm yet to see that in any bottle shop here in Australia, and frankly, you can keep that crappy beer. We have so many amazing beers over here but I'm guessing you only know of Foster's... which is the shit we export because no one here will drink it. As for 24, watched half of one episode and got bored.
You do realise that the Sarah Jane Adventures is a show with a target audience of primary school children? My kids love it, and unlike the full episodes of Dr Who, it doesn't give my youngest child nightmares.
Not all music is the same, you must have really shitty radio stations. Try streaming TripleJ from Australia.
Just as a couple of examples, check out Melbourne band Voltera, and (can't say where they're from, but the lead singer, Jeff Martin, formerly of canadian band The Tea Party is now based in Perth) The Armada. Incredible, original music with real instruments, none of this (c)rap, and amazing live performers.
Can anyone provide any info on how this is going to work with regard to virtual environments? After all, there has been a rather large push toward virtualizing everything in the datacenter, and about the only physical server we have left in our server is the Fax/SMS server, the ISDN card and GSM module for which could not be virtualised...
You must've gone to a small private school then. The one I went to was the largest in the state - funnily enough the guys who beat the living crapfuck out of me all ended up in the bottom 10% of the class by final year. Most of them were a foot taller than me in junior high and some of them were a foot and a half taller by the end of it - i finally grew to 5'7 from 5'0 in my first year of uni. Turns out that all-organic, horrid tasting diet mum insisted on me eating wasn't doing me any good whatsoever.
disclaimer: i'm in Australia, and jocks are fucking cunts globally.
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I hope you mean 1TB drives. Otherwise I'd be very surprised if you could have 3 different movies stored on there...
One of them even started to cry..
Good times :)
It seems you and I have a lot in common! Ahh the good old days, when the school computer labs were there to be stuffed with. :)
Everyone's reality is slightly different. In mine, your view is delusional - I've had a much higher failure rate with HP laptops, desktops and servers in production than Dell or IBM/Lenovo. In the last 5 years, I've made 6 calls to Dell and 4 of them were for DOA equipment, versus 17 calls to HP - one critical fault with a production server (covered by a 24x7x4 support contract) took them 4 days to fix, meaning that an entire office had no systems access whatsoever for 4 days...
following your line of thinking... so if the really hot secretary you hired won't blow you, you can fire her?
I'm firmly of the opinion that some games need to be played on a console, and others need to be played on a PC. Porting one type of game to another platform means that the end result is the ported platform is a poor imitation of the original.
For an Australian venue to serve alcohol without serving food, they need to provide licensed security guards. Some stupid amendment made to the liquor licensing act requires it.
This is Australia we are talking about. Government funded Medicare can't be denied to you because of your lifestyle, even if you smoke 3 packs and drink 2 slabs a day. Private health insurance can be, but only if you declare it.
One of the bars close to my house actually does this. The reason they are doing it is to identify troublemakers after a big brawl has occurred. The sad thing is, if you turn up with a passport instead of a drivers license, it won't fit through their little scanner, so you won't have your details recorded, and legally they cannot refuse you entry.
Is it sad that I worked all that out over a pint or two?
Ironic seeing as in the DPS (Dreaded Private Sector) workers love free training as we can ask for more money, get a free lunch and a 3-5 day semi-holiday (when was the last training session you had that went past 4 PM).
I've never had a private sector employer send me on a training course, or even reimburse me for one i've sent myself on. And on the note of training sessions going past 4pm, the Novell, VMware and EMC courses I've been on over the last 4 years have all gone past 5pm on several days.
Chris is right, at the government department I just left, installing apps wasn't an option, but we did at least provide firefox and IEtab for the users. but even still, most of them used IE anyway, due to compatibility with external department's websites. the grapevine has told me that the department is going to be moving all servers away from Novell SLES10/11 and OES2 to Microsoft software in a cost-reduction exercise... looks like I got out just in time!
i find the facebook ads hilarious. my profile says i'm married, yet i'm getting ads all the time for dating websites. if i look at a single, female friend's profile, i get an ad for "save your marriage now"...
Even scarier is when it suggests you become friends with your ex... or worse, the guy that your ex cheated on you with. Or that sociopath who tried to kill you back in school.
worst. game. ever.
Yes it is... while NASA spent $1 million developing a pen that works in zero-g, the Russians used a pencil!!!
Australia agrees with you and would kindly like you to inform Telstra, Optus and all the other telco's of how horribly antiquated their billing practices are. We've been yelling this at them for years but they just don't listen...
So true, gameplay is far more important than graphics.
I can't see ever wanting mobile TV, even if it was free, since watching TV while moving isn't terribly pleasant, and for the most part, isn't practical (while driving, walking, etc.).
So... the two hours a day I (and several hundred thousand others here in Melbourne) sit on the train going to and from work aren't applicable? Admittedly I download the tv-shows and load them onto my smartphone of choice prior to getting on the train each day, but I guarantee I'm not the only one doing this. I've seen people watching TV on their phones/laptops/portable DVD players on a daily basis for the last three years. Sure it's not streamed, but there is a demand for it.
Now give me my GigE to my home, where there is no wireless signal from the mobile networks so I can continue to do this instead of using the crappy ADSL2 technology I currently have :P
How do you arrive at that conclusion from the statement "personally be happy to get 0.03GB/sec"? All we're saying is, if you can get the gear in the ground for 43 million that's a great deal and a better idea than Tony Abbot's dumb proposal. 100Mbit? Gigabit? Sure why not. Anything to get the bottleneck away from my welcome mat.
I have limited ADSL2 options in my area, sync speed is around 12mbps, actual throughput is about 1.1MB/sec (limited to 100GB of downloads per month). To step up to Gigabit would be fantastic - to take Abbott's proposal (which he has admitted he doesn't understand) means I have no chance of getting an improved speed whatsoever.
you say that now, but have you actually been in a sexless marriage?
Back the Australian Sex Party, then the Greens.
Sadly, the rest of your post rings true... :(
Couldn't be worse than that Sara Jane thing.
You do realise that the Sarah Jane Adventures is a show with a target audience of primary school children? My kids love it, and unlike the full episodes of Dr Who, it doesn't give my youngest child nightmares.
Just as a couple of examples, check out Melbourne band Voltera, and (can't say where they're from, but the lead singer, Jeff Martin, formerly of canadian band The Tea Party is now based in Perth) The Armada. Incredible, original music with real instruments, none of this (c)rap, and amazing live performers.
Can anyone provide any info on how this is going to work with regard to virtual environments? After all, there has been a rather large push toward virtualizing everything in the datacenter, and about the only physical server we have left in our server is the Fax/SMS server, the ISDN card and GSM module for which could not be virtualised...
disclaimer: i'm in Australia, and jocks are fucking cunts globally.
for love of all thing good, pure, and fuck it, all those things evil and malevolent, someone mod this up!!!