It's the poor who end up in the outer suburbs of the urban sprawl in Sydney, while the wealthy are moving in yuppifying the formerlly working class slums of the inner-city. Of course this is more a trend than an out-right rule, but's it's a trend that's been going on since the 70's
It's gotten to the point that 1 bedroom single level row houses in Glebe are worth over AU$500,000, while 2 storey terrace houses in Paddington are worth over AU$2,000,000. Yet in the 70's when the former rent controlled slum terraces of the Coopers family 99 year leases in Paddo & Ultimo were sold off, they only went for between AU$5000 & AU$20,000 each.
This real estate boom spread outwards into the suburbs eventually too, making the inner-west suburbs like Haberfield boom, as trendies from the inner-dity settle down to have a child &/or dog. Things have gotten to the point that many young couples have moved to commuter/satellite towns on the Central Coast, Illawarra & Blue Montains, rather than live in the outer-western suburbs of Sydney's urban sprawl.
As architectually Intel's Yamhill is no more a copy of AMD's Hammer than the K7's a copy of the P6.
Just because they use the same instruction set doesn't mean these 2 X86-64 chips are anymore related to each other than the Transmeta Crusue chip is related to the Pentium. Mind you the 2 different X86-64 CISC on RISC designs are probably going to be more related to each other than some X86 CISC on VLIW design, or whatever the Transmeta is)
It was a 686 chip with embedded logic chipset (memory controller, Floppy/IDE controllers, Serial/parrallel/PS2, etc, etc), video chipset & Audio. The concept was to make really super cheap Pentium clone systems as nothing would be need on the motherboard but a propietry CPU socket, a RAM slot, the drive connectors, the backplane connectors & the BIOS flashchip.
Only problem, Cyrix (& then National Semi, which bought Cyrix) were having even more trouble ramping these babies up to speed than their MIIs (basically just a 686 on a smaller process core with MMX added), by which time they weren't competetive with contemporaneous desktop chip releases anyway.
Well National Semi ended up selling Cyrix to VIA, but they kept the MediaGX for themselves, as it complimented their embedded chips business & the 'Cyrix MediaGX' became known as the 'National Semiconductor GeodeX86'. It then formed a family within National Semi's embedded line & there was a push for it in the Network/Web Appliance scene. National Semi even started a new dept that developed it's own family of Network/Web Appliances for it, for 3rd party developers to market.
Well guess what, about 6 months ago AMD purchased the Geode & the National Semi Information Appliance (IA) unit, taking it's 120 odd employees with it.
Remember PC Chips motherboards (like their Super 7 boards with double the L2 cache of just about everyone else), they had a reputation of high returns (hence they mostly now trade under another name, ECS), well they sold a number of Socket 7, Super 7, Slot 1 & Socket 370 boards with embedded Video cards.
The Videochip gave the appearance of a extra Northbridge, complete with a tiny heatsink just like a Northbridge heatsink, while they useally had 2 Video RAM chips on the board that looked just like cache chips on earlier boards. As FSB speeds increased to the 100mhz to 133mhz level they eventually stopped adding the 2 embedded video RAM chips & started to tax the main memory instead.
Apparently the board's firewall is based on a modified Linux kernal in the firmware that boot's a embedded processor before the bios finishes loading & WinXP's bootloader start's running.
For example neither Telstra or Optus cable broadband will work with it enabled. Well that is unless both have upgraded their cable systems over the last 6 months, or MS has since patched out that problem.
Fact is nothing beats tick-the-box hand counted ballots, as in 'tick the box next to the candidate of your choice' (or 'number the boxes in order of preferance', in regards preferential elections).
Then one just orginises for the election to occure on Saturday so thousands of public servents & teachers are available all weekend to get some good penalty rate dosh counting votes. Ontop of which it means thousand of party voluenteers are also available to hand scrutineer the count (IOW, in regards the US, each hand counter has a democrat & GOP scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders)
This is the way it's done in most countries, without any problems, including Australia, & there's no reason it shouldn't scale up to the US. Afterall scale wise a US election would be no different than Oz, New Zealand, Canada, the UK & half a dozen other European countries all having their general elections together on the same day.
Here in Oz it's rare for us not to know who's won by Saturday night, or the end of the weekend at the latest. Usraelly the number of seats that are undecided by monday can be counted on one hand.
Fact is the only reason the US uses their boody stupid machines is because they vote on Tuesday for some stupid reason & it's cheaper, but they just arn't as good.
Especially when every 2nd county or state uses different types of bloody machines, meaning a almost infinit variety of weird ballot styles & machine interfaces.
It's almost as if the US govt wants having about the lowest voter turnout in the western world. Get rid of the machines & replace them with simple hand counted 'tick the box' paper ballots & I bet the turnout increases at least 10%, then change the vote to saturday & I bet turnout increases at least another 10%.
They only represent the unionised employees in that group.
For example here in New South Wales the Railway union signed a agreement in which they'd always give so many days notice before a strike & in exchange employees would get a industrial accord allowance.
Well guess what, only unionised employees the industrial accord allowance, the logic being is that the union doesn't represent the un-unionised employees, so it's up to them to sign their own individual industrial accords before they can get the extra allowance (about double the union fee, meaning we in effect got paid to be in the union).
Also my brother works in a place where only the unionised employees get all the special awards & allowances they bargined for over the years, while the non-unionised employees don't. You see it's only the new employees that belong to the industry union that know not to sign the AWA (Australian workplace agreement), in which give up their right to awards & allowances. They know enough to say they lost their form or left it at their girlfriends & will sign it when they pick it up or get a new form, or they just return it amongst the other forms, filled in but unsigned, because once one starts actually working, one can't get sacked for not filling out an AWA
Although how healthy it is on a AA or B cell is anyone's guess.
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However Acrobat takes forever to load. Plus if one is browsing with multiple pages open, Acrobat useally locks up if one opens' multiple Acrobat pages.
Afterall who doesn't have old unused letterhead paper from their old employers lying arround? Not me I always make sure I have plenty.
One just signs it in the name of a manager that's no longer employed there, using a date when he was there. So on the infinitesimally small chance that they actually ring up & check, things will still appear above board.
Traditionally beer made in New South Wales could only be made from 5 ingredients - water, barley, hops, yeast & sugar. About 30 years ago 'barley' was replaced by 'grain' on the list. Sugar was on the list (ontop of the sugar in malted barley), because it decreases limitations on the brewer, plus up until about a hundred years ago, Australian brewers normally bottle conditioned their beer with a secondary fermentation by adding a teaspoon of cane sugar during bottling. Of the traditional regional brewers I think only Cooper's still does this, as opposed to simply bottling under pressurisation, which brings up a limitation of the ingredient list.
If one was to use gas to pressurise canned/bottled beer or to pump keg beer, it would have to be CO2 that was tapped by the brewery as a by-product of the brewing process & was thus also made from those same 5 ingredients, such brewer produced CO2 is thus commonly known as beer gas.
This created all sorts of problems when Guiness started appearing on tap in Oz during the late 70's. You see Australian pubs didn't have hand pumps (that aerated ales with nitrogen enriched air for a creamy head), meaning Guiness on tap had to be pressurised by gas containing a CO2/Nitrogen mixture, yet nitrogen was not a by-product of the manufacture of beer using the 5 allowed ingredients (water, barley, yeast, hops, sugar). So the govt had to legislate a amendment to the liquor act permiting the gassing of beer with gasses other than beer gas. It was also arround time that 'barley' was replaced with simply 'grain' in the permisable ingredients list, so more varied beers could be made.
Considering the disproportionate fixed costs in the Telco business, it would cost just 1c a minute if a firm had the economies of scale that comes with 99.9% of the market.
Take the cell phone business, whether a nationwide firm has 30% of the market or 90% of the markets, relatively speaking the costs arn't that different.
This is where govt utility monopolies are the go (like Singapore Telecom), one gets the economies of scale of a monopoly, but without the private shareholder pressure to maximise returns, plus the politicians put their re-elections at risk if phone calls go up to much in price.
Any corporation that had a near monopoly position would be doing a dis-service to their shareholders if they didn't take advantage of their near monopoly position in every way possible.
Fact is business is 'war by other means' & the whole point of a market economy is for those with a comparative advantage to use it to get ahead - having a near monopoly is a comparive advantage.
BTW in industries with disproportionatly high fixed costs, the best way of cutting costs in the economies of scale of a monopoly. Of course I'm not saying that is or is not the case in regards software development, I'm just pointing out that monopolies arn't always bad for customers. Public Utilities that have disproportionatly high fixed costs, like electricity, gas, telco, water & sewage utilities will always be most efficient with 100% of the market. Which is why govt monopolies are best in these fields.
& would pay them off concurrently by spending a weekend in Jail every year (serving out the highest fine serves out the lot)
Then some stupid blood fine defaulter with a Yugoslav name went & got comatosed by a lifer, so the NSW govt got rid of the pauper's alternative & now cancels peoples drivers licenses & car regos if they don't pay their fines.
Still makes no differance - my license was cancelled about 10 years ago & I haven't re-registed my car since, but I still drive. Actually driving unlicensed/unregisted has improved my traffic compliance no end - in 10 years I only got done driving once & that was driving a mate's car that actually looked unregisted, & at 2AM at that. Served me right I spose by letting a free shot tempt me against my better judgement.
BTW it's been over a year & I haven't paid those fines either..........fuck em I say.
From what I remember, IBM released to the public domain their CHRP/PReP motherboard & PPC Northbridge designs a couple of years ago, leading to a number of Asian manufacturers releasing complete PPC referance boards with prices approaching the PowerPC Mac clones days. For example I think the think the MIA referance board evolved from IBM releasing their referance board to the public domain.
Anyway even if I'm wrong about the Northbridges (I'm just going by what I can recall from the Slashdot thread, etc that was on this subject a couple of years ago), if the platform has been opened to the public domain, there's nothing stopping others from making Northbridges. Plus there's no requirement to go through the expence & time to reverse engineer them. Afterall MAI's Articia PowerPC northbridge does exist (& apparently the bugs are now getting sorted)
Anyway what's stopping people from using Moto or Apple northbridges, let alone MAI's new revisions? Afterall I think Eyetech's Amiga.One boards are simply just MAI referance board designs. Terra Soft also uses MAI referance board designs in some of their products too. & of course there's the Genesi Pegasos II, apparently the cheapest new ATX PowerPC mainboard available today (embedded boards & diverted Apple spares boards are cheaper but niether are ATX) which also has Genesi's new [I]"April2"[/I] chip that they claim fixes MAI's [I]Articia[/I] northbridge bugs.
Mind you, fully assembled Pegasos G4 systems do work out about 15% dearer than undiscounted Apple sytems in Oz, plus they come with a slower G4 chip, so yes they are more expensive. But I think this comes down to the lack of X86 style economies of scale & the lack of X86 style hardware vender competition, more than the cost of some IBM Northbridge. I've also heard it is possible to install Mac OS9/X on the Eyetech & Pegasos boards, maybe via Linux though
No one I know with Windows XP has ever had a Windows XP Box. Maybe because everyone I know that has Windows XP has the corpfiles edition on CDR/CDRW. Actually not everyone, I know someone who brought a hacked SP1 pirate copy back from Asia.
H'mm I wonder if the popularity of Linux distributions would pickup if MS was to make their hardware activation bulletproof?
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It's the poor who end up in the outer suburbs of the urban sprawl in Sydney, while the wealthy are moving in yuppifying the formerlly working class slums of the inner-city. Of course this is more a trend than an out-right rule, but's it's a trend that's been going on since the 70's
It's gotten to the point that 1 bedroom single level row houses in Glebe are worth over AU$500,000, while 2 storey terrace houses in Paddington are worth over AU$2,000,000. Yet in the 70's when the former rent controlled slum terraces of the Coopers family 99 year leases in Paddo & Ultimo were sold off, they only went for between AU$5000 & AU$20,000 each.
This real estate boom spread outwards into the suburbs eventually too, making the inner-west suburbs like Haberfield boom, as trendies from the inner-dity settle down to have a child &/or dog. Things have gotten to the point that many young couples have moved to commuter/satellite towns on the Central Coast, Illawarra & Blue Montains, rather than live in the outer-western suburbs of Sydney's urban sprawl.
Who helped teach 2 award academy award winning DOPs, & he reckons the French were the 1st to develop practical movie picture technology.
As architectually Intel's Yamhill is no more a copy of AMD's Hammer than the K7's a copy of the P6.
Just because they use the same instruction set doesn't mean these 2 X86-64 chips are anymore related to each other than the Transmeta Crusue chip is related to the Pentium. Mind you the 2 different X86-64 CISC on RISC designs are probably going to be more related to each other than some X86 CISC on VLIW design, or whatever the Transmeta is)
It was a 686 chip with embedded logic chipset (memory controller, Floppy/IDE controllers, Serial/parrallel/PS2, etc, etc), video chipset & Audio. The concept was to make really super cheap Pentium clone systems as nothing would be need on the motherboard but a propietry CPU socket, a RAM slot, the drive connectors, the backplane connectors & the BIOS flashchip.
Only problem, Cyrix (& then National Semi, which bought Cyrix) were having even more trouble ramping these babies up to speed than their MIIs (basically just a 686 on a smaller process core with MMX added), by which time they weren't competetive with contemporaneous desktop chip releases anyway.
Well National Semi ended up selling Cyrix to VIA, but they kept the MediaGX for themselves, as it complimented their embedded chips business & the 'Cyrix MediaGX' became known as the 'National Semiconductor GeodeX86'. It then formed a family within National Semi's embedded line & there was a push for it in the Network/Web Appliance scene. National Semi even started a new dept that developed it's own family of Network/Web Appliances for it, for 3rd party developers to market.
Well guess what, about 6 months ago AMD purchased the Geode & the National Semi Information Appliance (IA) unit, taking it's 120 odd employees with it.
Remember PC Chips motherboards (like their Super 7 boards with double the L2 cache of just about everyone else), they had a reputation of high returns (hence they mostly now trade under another name, ECS), well they sold a number of Socket 7, Super 7, Slot 1 & Socket 370 boards with embedded Video cards.
The Videochip gave the appearance of a extra Northbridge, complete with a tiny heatsink just like a Northbridge heatsink, while they useally had 2 Video RAM chips on the board that looked just like cache chips on earlier boards. As FSB speeds increased to the 100mhz to 133mhz level they eventually stopped adding the 2 embedded video RAM chips & started to tax the main memory instead.
Not MS's Window XP default firewall.
Apparently the board's firewall is based on a modified Linux kernal in the firmware that boot's a embedded processor before the bios finishes loading & WinXP's bootloader start's running.
Actually I think he's talking about the motherboard's embedded firewall, not the bloody MS one.
From my experiance most say to turn it off.
For example neither Telstra or Optus cable broadband will work with it enabled. Well that is unless both have upgraded their cable systems over the last 6 months, or MS has since patched out that problem.
Ever heard of the BIOS?
From my experiance one's useally able to turn off all the unused motherboard crap in the BIOS.
Fact is nothing beats tick-the-box hand counted ballots, as in 'tick the box next to the candidate of your choice' (or 'number the boxes in order of preferance', in regards preferential elections).
Then one just orginises for the election to occure on Saturday so thousands of public servents & teachers are available all weekend to get some good penalty rate dosh counting votes. Ontop of which it means thousand of party voluenteers are also available to hand scrutineer the count (IOW, in regards the US, each hand counter has a democrat & GOP scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders)
This is the way it's done in most countries, without any problems, including Australia, & there's no reason it shouldn't scale up to the US. Afterall scale wise a US election would be no different than Oz, New Zealand, Canada, the UK & half a dozen other European countries all having their general elections together on the same day.
Here in Oz it's rare for us not to know who's won by Saturday night, or the end of the weekend at the latest. Usraelly the number of seats that are undecided by monday can be counted on one hand.
Fact is the only reason the US uses their boody stupid machines is because they vote on Tuesday for some stupid reason & it's cheaper, but they just arn't as good.
Especially when every 2nd county or state uses different types of bloody machines, meaning a almost infinit variety of weird ballot styles & machine interfaces.
It's almost as if the US govt wants having about the lowest voter turnout in the western world. Get rid of the machines & replace them with simple hand counted 'tick the box' paper ballots & I bet the turnout increases at least 10%, then change the vote to saturday & I bet turnout increases at least another 10%.
I didn't know that about the US
They only represent the unionised employees in that group.
For example here in New South Wales the Railway union signed a agreement in which they'd always give so many days notice before a strike & in exchange employees would get a industrial accord allowance.
Well guess what, only unionised employees the industrial accord allowance, the logic being is that the union doesn't represent the un-unionised employees, so it's up to them to sign their own individual industrial accords before they can get the extra allowance (about double the union fee, meaning we in effect got paid to be in the union).
Also my brother works in a place where only the unionised employees get all the special awards & allowances they bargined for over the years, while the non-unionised employees don't. You see it's only the new employees that belong to the industry union that know not to sign the AWA (Australian workplace agreement), in which give up their right to awards & allowances. They know enough to say they lost their form or left it at their girlfriends & will sign it when they pick it up or get a new form, or they just return it amongst the other forms, filled in but unsigned, because once one starts actually working, one can't get sacked for not filling out an AWA
As there's still nothing to stop a worker joining a union regardless.
One just arcs them to a bloody car battery
Although how healthy it is on a AA or B cell is anyone's guess.
However Acrobat takes forever to load. Plus if one is browsing with multiple pages open, Acrobat useally locks up if one opens' multiple Acrobat pages.
Workers don't vote to not orginise.
Fact is there's absolutelly nothing non-orginised workers can do about a companion joining a union, so why would a vote make any difference?
Afterall who doesn't have old unused letterhead paper from their old employers lying arround? Not me I always make sure I have plenty.
One just signs it in the name of a manager that's no longer employed there, using a date when he was there. So on the infinitesimally small chance that they actually ring up & check, things will still appear above board.
Traditionally beer made in New South Wales could only be made from 5 ingredients - water, barley, hops, yeast & sugar. About 30 years ago 'barley' was replaced by 'grain' on the list. Sugar was on the list (ontop of the sugar in malted barley), because it decreases limitations on the brewer, plus up until about a hundred years ago, Australian brewers normally bottle conditioned their beer with a secondary fermentation by adding a teaspoon of cane sugar during bottling. Of the traditional regional brewers I think only Cooper's still does this, as opposed to simply bottling under pressurisation, which brings up a limitation of the ingredient list.
If one was to use gas to pressurise canned/bottled beer or to pump keg beer, it would have to be CO2 that was tapped by the brewery as a by-product of the brewing process & was thus also made from those same 5 ingredients, such brewer produced CO2 is thus commonly known as beer gas.
This created all sorts of problems when Guiness started appearing on tap in Oz during the late 70's. You see Australian pubs didn't have hand pumps (that aerated ales with nitrogen enriched air for a creamy head), meaning Guiness on tap had to be pressurised by gas containing a CO2/Nitrogen mixture, yet nitrogen was not a by-product of the manufacture of beer using the 5 allowed ingredients (water, barley, yeast, hops, sugar). So the govt had to legislate a amendment to the liquor act permiting the gassing of beer with gasses other than beer gas. It was also arround time that 'barley' was replaced with simply 'grain' in the permisable ingredients list, so more varied beers could be made.
Considering the disproportionate fixed costs in the Telco business, it would cost just 1c a minute if a firm had the economies of scale that comes with 99.9% of the market.
Take the cell phone business, whether a nationwide firm has 30% of the market or 90% of the markets, relatively speaking the costs arn't that different.
This is where govt utility monopolies are the go (like Singapore Telecom), one gets the economies of scale of a monopoly, but without the private shareholder pressure to maximise returns, plus the politicians put their re-elections at risk if phone calls go up to much in price.
Any corporation that had a near monopoly position would be doing a dis-service to their shareholders if they didn't take advantage of their near monopoly position in every way possible.
Fact is business is 'war by other means' & the whole point of a market economy is for those with a comparative advantage to use it to get ahead - having a near monopoly is a comparive advantage.
BTW in industries with disproportionatly high fixed costs, the best way of cutting costs in the economies of scale of a monopoly. Of course I'm not saying that is or is not the case in regards software development, I'm just pointing out that monopolies arn't always bad for customers. Public Utilities that have disproportionatly high fixed costs, like electricity, gas, telco, water & sewage utilities will always be most efficient with 100% of the market. Which is why govt monopolies are best in these fields.
& would pay them off concurrently by spending a weekend in Jail every year (serving out the highest fine serves out the lot)
Then some stupid blood fine defaulter with a Yugoslav name went & got comatosed by a lifer, so the NSW govt got rid of the pauper's alternative & now cancels peoples drivers licenses & car regos if they don't pay their fines.
Still makes no differance - my license was cancelled about 10 years ago & I haven't re-registed my car since, but I still drive. Actually driving unlicensed/unregisted has improved my traffic compliance no end - in 10 years I only got done driving once & that was driving a mate's car that actually looked unregisted, & at 2AM at that. Served me right I spose by letting a free shot tempt me against my better judgement.
BTW it's been over a year & I haven't paid those fines either..........fuck em I say.
From what I remember, IBM released to the public domain their CHRP/PReP motherboard & PPC Northbridge designs a couple of years ago, leading to a number of Asian manufacturers releasing complete PPC referance boards with prices approaching the PowerPC Mac clones days. For example I think the think the MIA referance board evolved from IBM releasing their referance board to the public domain.
Anyway even if I'm wrong about the Northbridges (I'm just going by what I can recall from the Slashdot thread, etc that was on this subject a couple of years ago), if the platform has been opened to the public domain, there's nothing stopping others from making Northbridges. Plus there's no requirement to go through the expence & time to reverse engineer them. Afterall MAI's Articia PowerPC northbridge does exist (& apparently the bugs are now getting sorted)
Anyway what's stopping people from using Moto or Apple northbridges, let alone MAI's new revisions? Afterall I think Eyetech's Amiga.One boards are simply just MAI referance board designs. Terra Soft also uses MAI referance board designs in some of their products too. & of course there's the Genesi Pegasos II, apparently the cheapest new ATX PowerPC mainboard available today (embedded boards & diverted Apple spares boards are cheaper but niether are ATX) which also has Genesi's new [I]"April2"[/I] chip that they claim fixes MAI's [I]Articia[/I] northbridge bugs.
Mind you, fully assembled Pegasos G4 systems do work out about 15% dearer than undiscounted Apple sytems in Oz, plus they come with a slower G4 chip, so yes they are more expensive. But I think this comes down to the lack of X86 style economies of scale & the lack of X86 style hardware vender competition, more than the cost of some IBM Northbridge. I've also heard it is possible to install Mac OS9/X on the Eyetech & Pegasos boards, maybe via Linux though
The low end ones are 7 to 14 Watts, the higher end ones are 18 to 26 Watts.
So obviously amps are coming into play here, well unless the watts are being upped simply by increasing voltage.
No one I know with Windows XP has ever had a Windows XP Box. Maybe because everyone I know that has Windows XP has the corpfiles edition on CDR/CDRW. Actually not everyone, I know someone who brought a hacked SP1 pirate copy back from Asia.
H'mm I wonder if the popularity of Linux distributions would pickup if MS was to make their hardware activation bulletproof?