Most bashing here is ideologically driven and the bashers don't need real points to argue when they've already decided what the one true path is and who isn't on it.
I'd say business will pick up a lot of the bill, because they're willing to pay more for premium service that doesn't actually cost that much more to provide. Even with the costs of the premium services, the NBN will still be a great deal for businesses compared to the cost of getting similar services now.
Actually, "very high population" density in a few coastal cities isn't quite right either. Australian cities and the more modern cities in the USA are sprawled and oriented around suburban life in a way that the older European and Japanese cities (that really do have a very high population density) aren't. .
How would you even know you were a leader if you didn't look at the other plans first? If you ignore the lessons other nations have learned on what works and what doesn't then you won't lead anything.
We've had over a teraflop of single precision available to consumers in graphics card form for a few years now; the newly released ATI 5870 actually has more than double that in a single chip. Soon the 5870 x2 (with double the performance again) will be out and you'll be able to have multiple of those in one PC.
If they standardized the power supply, then you could build it into the wall in the same way we already have standardized high voltage AC power (well, standard for a particular region). In fact, there is enough room on most wall socket panels that you could add something similar to a USB connector on them.
Next time you need medical or dental care, visit the guy who does it out of the back of his panel van. I'm sure his self learned knowledge of health care is as top notch as his hygiene methods.
Not to mention that the Australian system also pays students fortnightly payments if they're in a position to not be able to afford shelter and food while studying. Note that there is no long term obligation attached to that money (you don't have to pay it back).
$20k to $30k sounds about right for a the average undergrad who isn't full fee paying. For most undergrad degrees where the students qualified through one of the standard mechanisms (and isn't an international student), the government still pays a good 2/3rds of the cost.
It doesn't say that they saved the traffic, only that they drew from it. I'd imagine what they have is a higher level set of statistics based on usage data for 256 exabytes worth of traffic and not the actual bits representing say, the cybersex you had that you wouldn't want any one else to know about.
If governments invest tax money wisely, then they get a return on that investment and we have to pay less taxes (and the next piece of technology can be developed). It's not like these corporations aren't making money off the wireless technology someone else developed.
Besides which, of these large corporations, how many are Australian? How do Australians benefit from more of their money flowing out of the country for technology they paid to develop?
Before making blanket statements about every country, you should check every country in the world. Here in Australia you would have to be earning ~$270,000 of taxable income (and not have any private health cover) to be paying $10,000 dollars for your public healthcare. The federal government maximum levy for health is 2.5% and that provides for 67% of public healthcare spending (and covers citizens, spouses, children and permanent residents).
Needless to say, your average person pays less than that as do most people earning $270,000 because they have private insurance. I'm sure if a sparsely populated country of ex-cons can manage that, then other countries can and are.
What you get for this includes free or subsidized trips to a GP (depending on which GP you want to go to, you have full choice) as well as free public hospital care, unless you choose to be a private patient at a public hospital. Being a private patient gives you more choices and allows you to hire any doctor you want (you're still subsidized 75% of the cost up to a cap as a private patient in a public hospital). It also includes subsidized price controlled medication and subsidized/free access to specialist private practice (including mental health professionals). What it doesn't include is full dental cover (although you can be treated by a public dentist, most are private).
Not only that, we provide reciprocal free health care to citizen of countries we have an agreement with and they provide it to us. So in many countries in Europe, you still have public coverage as an Australian (as they do here).
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Most bashing here is ideologically driven and the bashers don't need real points to argue when they've already decided what the one true path is and who isn't on it.
I'd say business will pick up a lot of the bill, because they're willing to pay more for premium service that doesn't actually cost that much more to provide. Even with the costs of the premium services, the NBN will still be a great deal for businesses compared to the cost of getting similar services now.
Actually, "very high population" density in a few coastal cities isn't quite right either. Australian cities and the more modern cities in the USA are sprawled and oriented around suburban life in a way that the older European and Japanese cities (that really do have a very high population density) aren't. .
How would you even know you were a leader if you didn't look at the other plans first? If you ignore the lessons other nations have learned on what works and what doesn't then you won't lead anything.
You know that's just going to encourage the theft of nuclear warheads.
We've had over a teraflop of single precision available to consumers in graphics card form for a few years now; the newly released ATI 5870 actually has more than double that in a single chip. Soon the 5870 x2 (with double the performance again) will be out and you'll be able to have multiple of those in one PC.
If they standardized the power supply, then you could build it into the wall in the same way we already have standardized high voltage AC power (well, standard for a particular region). In fact, there is enough room on most wall socket panels that you could add something similar to a USB connector on them.
Next time you need medical or dental care, visit the guy who does it out of the back of his panel van. I'm sure his self learned knowledge of health care is as top notch as his hygiene methods.
Not to mention that the Australian system also pays students fortnightly payments if they're in a position to not be able to afford shelter and food while studying. Note that there is no long term obligation attached to that money (you don't have to pay it back).
$20k to $30k sounds about right for a the average undergrad who isn't full fee paying. For most undergrad degrees where the students qualified through one of the standard mechanisms (and isn't an international student), the government still pays a good 2/3rds of the cost.
Well, if you know it's Mr Wang that tried to hack you, I imagine there would be some mechanism for blocking Mr Wang.
Still it's not cool to Wang-block people.
It doesn't say that they saved the traffic, only that they drew from it. I'd imagine what they have is a higher level set of statistics based on usage data for 256 exabytes worth of traffic and not the actual bits representing say, the cybersex you had that you wouldn't want any one else to know about.
Most of which are headquartered in Ireland (etc) for tax purposes.
The casino doesn't like the way you play, so they're taking their ball and going home.
If governments invest tax money wisely, then they get a return on that investment and we have to pay less taxes (and the next piece of technology can be developed). It's not like these corporations aren't making money off the wireless technology someone else developed.
Besides which, of these large corporations, how many are Australian? How do Australians benefit from more of their money flowing out of the country for technology they paid to develop?
Before making blanket statements about every country, you should check every country in the world. Here in Australia you would have to be earning ~$270,000 of taxable income (and not have any private health cover) to be paying $10,000 dollars for your public healthcare. The federal government maximum levy for health is 2.5% and that provides for 67% of public healthcare spending (and covers citizens, spouses, children and permanent residents).
Needless to say, your average person pays less than that as do most people earning $270,000 because they have private insurance. I'm sure if a sparsely populated country of ex-cons can manage that, then other countries can and are.
What you get for this includes free or subsidized trips to a GP (depending on which GP you want to go to, you have full choice) as well as free public hospital care, unless you choose to be a private patient at a public hospital. Being a private patient gives you more choices and allows you to hire any doctor you want (you're still subsidized 75% of the cost up to a cap as a private patient in a public hospital). It also includes subsidized price controlled medication and subsidized/free access to specialist private practice (including mental health professionals). What it doesn't include is full dental cover (although you can be treated by a public dentist, most are private).
Not only that, we provide reciprocal free health care to citizen of countries we have an agreement with and they provide it to us. So in many countries in Europe, you still have public coverage as an Australian (as they do here).
To the faithful any catastrophe appears to be caused by a lack of faith (particularly in other people).
In some countries the governments do other things well too, like providing affordable healthcare and good education.
Yes, but "it" was a small child.
Your TV doesn't need UWB, they have a separate box that receives UWB and turns it into HDMI for you to plug into your TV.
People are still using multi-layer perceptrons for that? Guess if you've got CPU power to burn...
If you had heard them, you would know sleeping on a Melbourne tram is pretty much impossible.
They already have that, it's called schizophrenia.
ISPs are getting people to pay subscription fees to view Rupert's content! Either they should pay Rupert or block access to all his pages entirely!
It's actually the Attorney General I believe Frogbert was referring to.