The Kordia solution is going to be a load of crap. I was referring to the Pacific Fiber Cable, which is privately owned, with the intent of reducing bandwidth prices so NZ businesses can make use of the internet properly. National have completely screwed up the purpose (IMO) of SEOs - to control market prices without government intervention (or subsidy).
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/7143 - an article on the PFC, can't remember where I first heard about it.
Another thing that could work is being able to have more than one car registered on a set of plates, and making it easier to change the plates over. That way, you can only have on car on the road at a time.
New Zealand does just that on all cars being sold at dealers that were made after 2000 and have the information available (NZ has lots of used imports from Japan, so the fuel consumption isn't always published).
Actually, internet filtering is up and running. Vodafone and quite a few smaller ISPs use it. Orcon and Slingshot have told the filter to get lost, Telstra is planning on using it, and Telecom are undecided.
Far more important news for NZ is the second company that has been started to create another link. The Southern Cross Cable has shit loads of capacity, but as there is no competition, they charge too much and we all tiny caps.
Next on my list of things to fix is the string of stupid internet control systems that people are trying to put in, like the (currently optional) internet filter and the guilty upon accusation copyright law.
Then we need some decent free content, like Hulu and Spotify. Sure, MediaWorks and TVNZ have their streaming sites, but the content is months old before it airs here, which goes to show they are still working on an old business model, where NZ is very detached from the rest of the world.
Once they fix the above, fiber to the home will be most welcome. Then we can deal with the fact there are no requirements for structured cabling in new homes, so most people have no way of actually connecting to fiber.
Actually, unless BP pay up for all the costs they have incurred, (including Government time) ALL of the US will be affected, by having their tax money spent on it
Not only will pirates find ways to circumvent the the enforcement, ISPs will too.
It costs the ISPs money to track all this data, they aren't getting paid for it, and customers will either have no opinion or be extremely against the monitoring. Lots of ISPs are willing annoy their customers if it increases their profits, but I have never heard of an ISP (or any company) that likes having to pay to reduce customer satisfaction.
The ex-lease boxes were Optiplex, so they were corporate grade machines. I suspect that as hard drives can be replaced without driver changes, they are exempt from the no-changes requirement.
Optical drives are similar, I had two Dell Latitude D600s that both had combo drives, one was NEC and the other something else that I can't remember.
Having owned more than 5 Dells, and worked on many ex-lease Dell boxes that were given to my school, I can say that Dell just give you the drive that is cheapest on the day, not a specific brand.
iPad a failure?
1 million units sold (can't remember the source, so not sure how reliable the number is) is hardly a failure. Sure, it has little appeal to people that want to be able to tweak it, but that doesn't mean it is a bad product.
Personally, I won't consider an iPad or similar until there is a way to have IMs showing at the same time as a web browser, not just application switching.
The use of 'an' with h is very common, though incorrect. From what I understand, it is because some accents do not pronounce the h on 'historic' so 'a historic event' is 'an (h)istoric event' for these people (correctly), then people that do pronounce the h started to use 'an' with 'historic' (incorrectly), and it spread to other words like a disease.
Using 'an' with 'historic' when pronouncing the h is almost acceptable, anyone using it with any other word where the h is pronounced should be banned from using the English language.
Touché. I hated that, but my mouse broke shortly after getting my MBP, so I ended up only having a touchpad for a while, and now I either click on the X or use Cmd+W. I still use middle click on Windows, it has just ended up as one of the things I do differently on Mac OS without really noticing (like switching Cmd and Ctrl).
What 'normal controls' doesn't Safari have? I hate it not having a reopen the last tab function, but other than that, it is all really standard.
The main reason I don't use Firefox or Chrome on Mac is that I really hate having the tab close button on the right side, it should be on the left, to match all the other Mac OS software. IMO non-standard close buttons are far more non standard than any of the Safari quirks.
Though, grannies are probably very likely to ring up a family member or the company they bought the machine off, thanks to IE looking completely different from what it did on their old computer. For the easiest upgrade from IE6, I usually would use Firefox with the wrong desktop icon, they can find it to use, and the slight difference in icons is usually not a problem.
Much to my amazement, by far the biggest problem I find users have is going from "Favorites" in IE to "Bookmarks" in pretty well everything else. That and the slightly different wording in context menus to save linked files.
Quality of applications? You used CS4 on a Mac? It's appallingly slow, I use VirtualBox with XP and run CS4 on that which is much, much faster. When I need more power than provided by the VM, I walk across the room to my gaming PC with Win7.
NT4 was recent?!?
All NT based Windows version since 4.0 (maybe earlier, 4 is the oldest I have experience with) use Ctrl+Shift+Esc for Task Manager and Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up the menu, with the exception of XP with fast user switching enabled.
My '98 Toyota Camry (Australian made) turns off the headlights when you turn the ignition out of 'On' and open the drivers door. I have found the same in Japanese built Toyotas. It's a little bit of a nuisance because if I turn the engine off to wait for someone, I have to open the door or switch off the lights (no DRLs in New Zealand, and I like to have my lights on whenever I'm on the road).
I forgot to say in my comment that it was how firefighter shifts work for firefighters in New Zealand and it's not necessarily how it's done in other countries. When there is a very large fire or a big storm, off-call firefighters may be brought in, but other than that, it's shift work.
Firefighters) run shifts, they are only ever on call when they are at the station, which they have two 12 hour day shifts, two 12 hour night shifts, and then 4 days off. Pretty fair working conditions if you ask me. No 40 hours in at the station, and then an expectation that they will get up at 3 o'clock in the morning cos Mrs Jones' left a candle burning and the cat knocked it over.
Maybe Mr Lawyer need's to check who he is comparing with before he accidentally agrees that 24/7 is unfair.
I'm on Telecoms 15GB plan, and it costs $20 a GB to go over which is a pile of crap, but my mum still uses her xtra email address and doesn't have a contact list so she can tell people she has a new email address on her own domain. Though for $59/month (thats $20/month less than now) I can get 15GB with no limit 1am to 7am, which would be nice as I can just set my torrents for then. The other reason I haven't switched is that I don't think Telecom is giving ADSL2 access to other ISPs, so I would be stuck with 6-8Mbps, and I don't think I could handle that.
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The Kordia solution is going to be a load of crap. I was referring to the Pacific Fiber Cable, which is privately owned, with the intent of reducing bandwidth prices so NZ businesses can make use of the internet properly. National have completely screwed up the purpose (IMO) of SEOs - to control market prices without government intervention (or subsidy).
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/7143 - an article on the PFC, can't remember where I first heard about it.
Another thing that could work is being able to have more than one car registered on a set of plates, and making it easier to change the plates over. That way, you can only have on car on the road at a time.
Umm... replacing a car that does 10MPG with one that does 20MPG will save 5000 gallons of gas over the next 100,000 miles.
Replacing a car that does 33MPG with a car that does 50MPG will save ~1000 gallons of gas over the next 100,000 miles.
The first one saves the most gas. Your confusion proves the point perfectly.
New Zealand does just that on all cars being sold at dealers that were made after 2000 and have the information available (NZ has lots of used imports from Japan, so the fuel consumption isn't always published).
See here
Actually, internet filtering is up and running. Vodafone and quite a few smaller ISPs use it. Orcon and Slingshot have told the filter to get lost, Telstra is planning on using it, and Telecom are undecided.
http://internetnz.net.nz/our-work/openness/internet-filtering
Far more important news for NZ is the second company that has been started to create another link. The Southern Cross Cable has shit loads of capacity, but as there is no competition, they charge too much and we all tiny caps.
Next on my list of things to fix is the string of stupid internet control systems that people are trying to put in, like the (currently optional) internet filter and the guilty upon accusation copyright law.
Then we need some decent free content, like Hulu and Spotify. Sure, MediaWorks and TVNZ have their streaming sites, but the content is months old before it airs here, which goes to show they are still working on an old business model, where NZ is very detached from the rest of the world.
Once they fix the above, fiber to the home will be most welcome. Then we can deal with the fact there are no requirements for structured cabling in new homes, so most people have no way of actually connecting to fiber.
Actually, unless BP pay up for all the costs they have incurred, (including Government time) ALL of the US will be affected, by having their tax money spent on it
Not only will pirates find ways to circumvent the the enforcement, ISPs will too.
It costs the ISPs money to track all this data, they aren't getting paid for it, and customers will either have no opinion or be extremely against the monitoring. Lots of ISPs are willing annoy their customers if it increases their profits, but I have never heard of an ISP (or any company) that likes having to pay to reduce customer satisfaction.
The ex-lease boxes were Optiplex, so they were corporate grade machines. I suspect that as hard drives can be replaced without driver changes, they are exempt from the no-changes requirement.
Optical drives are similar, I had two Dell Latitude D600s that both had combo drives, one was NEC and the other something else that I can't remember.
Having owned more than 5 Dells, and worked on many ex-lease Dell boxes that were given to my school, I can say that Dell just give you the drive that is cheapest on the day, not a specific brand.
iPad a failure? 1 million units sold (can't remember the source, so not sure how reliable the number is) is hardly a failure. Sure, it has little appeal to people that want to be able to tweak it, but that doesn't mean it is a bad product.
Personally, I won't consider an iPad or similar until there is a way to have IMs showing at the same time as a web browser, not just application switching.
The use of 'an' with h is very common, though incorrect. From what I understand, it is because some accents do not pronounce the h on 'historic' so 'a historic event' is 'an (h)istoric event' for these people (correctly), then people that do pronounce the h started to use 'an' with 'historic' (incorrectly), and it spread to other words like a disease.
Using 'an' with 'historic' when pronouncing the h is almost acceptable, anyone using it with any other word where the h is pronounced should be banned from using the English language.
Touché. I hated that, but my mouse broke shortly after getting my MBP, so I ended up only having a touchpad for a while, and now I either click on the X or use Cmd+W.
I still use middle click on Windows, it has just ended up as one of the things I do differently on Mac OS without really noticing (like switching Cmd and Ctrl).
What 'normal controls' doesn't Safari have? I hate it not having a reopen the last tab function, but other than that, it is all really standard. The main reason I don't use Firefox or Chrome on Mac is that I really hate having the tab close button on the right side, it should be on the left, to match all the other Mac OS software. IMO non-standard close buttons are far more non standard than any of the Safari quirks.
That button is to switch OD off, not on. Overdrive is on by default, though some cars turn it on till the engine is warm.
So if you found out one of your employees was a member of the KKK, you'd keep him on the payroll?
If he's a good worker, no.
Just because you're not a good worker doesn't mean you should fire everyone that is as soon as you have an excuse
Though, grannies are probably very likely to ring up a family member or the company they bought the machine off, thanks to IE looking completely different from what it did on their old computer. For the easiest upgrade from IE6, I usually would use Firefox with the wrong desktop icon, they can find it to use, and the slight difference in icons is usually not a problem. Much to my amazement, by far the biggest problem I find users have is going from "Favorites" in IE to "Bookmarks" in pretty well everything else. That and the slightly different wording in context menus to save linked files.
Quality of applications? You used CS4 on a Mac? It's appallingly slow, I use VirtualBox with XP and run CS4 on that which is much, much faster. When I need more power than provided by the VM, I walk across the room to my gaming PC with Win7.
NT4 was recent?!? All NT based Windows version since 4.0 (maybe earlier, 4 is the oldest I have experience with) use Ctrl+Shift+Esc for Task Manager and Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up the menu, with the exception of XP with fast user switching enabled.
My '98 Toyota Camry (Australian made) turns off the headlights when you turn the ignition out of 'On' and open the drivers door. I have found the same in Japanese built Toyotas. It's a little bit of a nuisance because if I turn the engine off to wait for someone, I have to open the door or switch off the lights (no DRLs in New Zealand, and I like to have my lights on whenever I'm on the road).
Based on my experiences, most hybrids have "Power" buttons, which cycle between Off, Accessory and On.
I forgot to say in my comment that it was how firefighter shifts work for firefighters in New Zealand and it's not necessarily how it's done in other countries. When there is a very large fire or a big storm, off-call firefighters may be brought in, but other than that, it's shift work.
Firefighters) run shifts, they are only ever on call when they are at the station, which they have two 12 hour day shifts, two 12 hour night shifts, and then 4 days off. Pretty fair working conditions if you ask me. No 40 hours in at the station, and then an expectation that they will get up at 3 o'clock in the morning cos Mrs Jones' left a candle burning and the cat knocked it over. Maybe Mr Lawyer need's to check who he is comparing with before he accidentally agrees that 24/7 is unfair.
I'm on Telecoms 15GB plan, and it costs $20 a GB to go over which is a pile of crap, but my mum still uses her xtra email address and doesn't have a contact list so she can tell people she has a new email address on her own domain. Though for $59/month (thats $20/month less than now) I can get 15GB with no limit 1am to 7am, which would be nice as I can just set my torrents for then. The other reason I haven't switched is that I don't think Telecom is giving ADSL2 access to other ISPs, so I would be stuck with 6-8Mbps, and I don't think I could handle that.
Netgear use 192.168.1.1, as do lots of cheap store brand routers.