I was thinking about Apple's "cut". I usually buy iTunes cards from a retail shop when they are on special: often $30 for 2x$20 cards or $40 for a $50 card. Who is eating this "shortfall"? The cards themselves are not free, the shop can't be making a loss, so how much would Apple actually make from these cards? If I then buy an app for $40, the developer gets $28, so there isn't much available in the $2 difference!
Here in Australia it jumps by 15-20 cents a litre EVERY WEEK, but then drops by a few cents every day, roughly the same peaks and troughs. At the moment it's 153.9c/L here for ULP-91, at the current peak.:(
My 2 year old recognises the golden arches and a few other "naughty" food companies: he calls most of them "hamburger". But I have the skill to say "no" to him. Usually.
The Opposition is pretty much opposed to everything the Government does. Then if they get to power, they make tweaks, and if it fails they blame the previous government or if it succeeds it was because of the tweaks. This is true of both sides of politics and most projects.
Who actually wants Tony Abbott as PM anyway? No-one! Don't vote for the LNP!
Since they are not spending tax-payers money proper, if they wanted to use the money going to NBNco for something else it would have to go to something "private" like a pay-to-use (ie private) hospital, toll roads, private schools, etc - somewhere the government will get a direct return on the investment.
And some of the "50 lines to the home capability" is to highlight the (supposed) benefits, as when was the last time you needed more than 10 lines in your home? A family of 4 each on a 12-way call? That's their goal?
Isn't TFA talking about business plans? Some businesses will need 50+ lines and this is not targeted at home users.
The standard NBN connection comes with 150kbps of TC1 data, which is really for one line. There are speed tiers so that you can get 100Mbit/sec "best effort" or 150kbps "guaranteed". If they had to guarantee 100Mbps then it would cost a bit more than $38/month for the port (IMSMR).
Wouldn't the different ONTs work on different frequencies? So the "switch" at the "CO" would have to be backwards compatible, I guess like most (A)DSLAMs these days can support ADSL, ADSL2 and ADSL2+. (When I first got ADSL2+ I only had an old ADSL modem which connected well, until I got around to getting a new shiny ADSL2+ modem)
There has been a lot of talk about the current 2.5GPON will be upgraded to 10GPON and then 40GPON without much fuss. 40 Gbit/s between 16-32 users ought to be enough.
My wife's grandmother recently died at 92 - she was the youngest of thirteen children (one didn't survive being into childhood so twelve). That kind of size was common back then, IME at least. (As an aside, all six of her brothers were either killed in the war or came back and never had kids so that family name died)
We planned on only having two kids but our second pregnancy was twins so we have contributed to more overpopulation...
Indeed. Might as well report Daring Fireball's statistic. 14% of his visitors are from Windows (as IE only runs on Windows it's clear much less than 14% of his visitors run IE) http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/07/03/ios-6-9to5mac
It's also noteworthy that the idiot we have a Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is planning to have his mandatory Internet filter block all RC content
He's gone quiet on the internet filter lately, since he's realised that it has been detracting from his good idea (The NBN) but the filter was only for child pornography and real illegal things. Not that I don't disagree it could have been expanded in the future - I don't agree with any kind of government filtering - but "blocking all RC content" would be completely impossible, since the block list would be bigger than the Great Firewall of China! And with the NBN fully operational the block list would actually be harder to implement/justify.
And our company was quoted at over $2000/month for 2mbps. Yes TWO MEGABITS for TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. And we'd have to sign a 36 month contract or pay over $10,000 in installation.
I remember Trumpet Winsock (you know, the software that actually let you get online with Windows 3.1x) was written in Australia, and they didn't localise for the US market. There was an item in its help page addressing complaints about the "misspelling" of "dialler".:-)
Oh and we paid through the nose for an Adobe Connect license (for a client): turns out it doesn't support timezones +1000 or above. WTF!?! The extra money they charge is utter and pure greed, nothing more. They don't use it for anything like actual testing in the target market.
Lol I took my 386 online in 1998 with a 2400bps modem. It was great with mIRC! I remember using opera (from a computer magazine cover cd) as it was much better at slow modem and CPU speeds. Though by then it had 8MB ram and 180MB of hdd space. I still have a ppt zip drive which worked surprisingly well.
It didn't take me long to buy a 33.6k modem and I bought a 486 second hand with a RS232 port that could actually run at those speeds. It was also about then when my ISP would refuse to accept a 2400bps connection... I also remember some Linux distros taking 30 seconds to start pppd and others being instant. Hmm...
I've made plenty of VoIP calls over 3G without problems. That and normal mobile calls: backup plan right there!
I have had faults on my phone before. Once the voice wouldn't work but ADSL did. I called the telco to report the on VoIP! The poor indian didn't quite understand how I could make a phone call from a "landline" in my house, when I was reporting a fault saying it was out.
I have power, phone and hfc cable on the poles in my street. No HV power though. There "should" be enough insulation on the hfc/pots to withstand contact of the 415v lines; the cable also has protectors to stop stray voltages. But then I lived 28 years before moving into a house with an above ground phone line.
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I write "new" programs in perl every day. Often it's just a -e from the command line, to do some Q&D text-processing, but they are new!
Probably someone not used to the old-fangled inches and foot and just chucking quotey symbols on the end of a number.
The only thing I'm thinking of is "Stonehenge!"
I was thinking about Apple's "cut". I usually buy iTunes cards from a retail shop when they are on special: often $30 for 2x$20 cards or $40 for a $50 card. Who is eating this "shortfall"? The cards themselves are not free, the shop can't be making a loss, so how much would Apple actually make from these cards? If I then buy an app for $40, the developer gets $28, so there isn't much available in the $2 difference!
Two years? We switched in the 1970s around here, well before I was born.
Here in Australia it jumps by 15-20 cents a litre EVERY WEEK, but then drops by a few cents every day, roughly the same peaks and troughs. At the moment it's 153.9c/L here for ULP-91, at the current peak. :(
Power company tried to screw over Microsoft ("they have lots of money, they should just pay more money").
However, Microsoft didn't get to where they are by writing lots of checks.
My 2 year old recognises the golden arches and a few other "naughty" food companies: he calls most of them "hamburger". But I have the skill to say "no" to him. Usually.
The Opposition is pretty much opposed to everything the Government does. Then if they get to power, they make tweaks, and if it fails they blame the previous government or if it succeeds it was because of the tweaks. This is true of both sides of politics and most projects.
Who actually wants Tony Abbott as PM anyway? No-one! Don't vote for the LNP!
But not via DLNA like other devices!
Mummy's kisses fixes my toddler's owies. All better!
Since they are not spending tax-payers money proper, if they wanted to use the money going to NBNco for something else it would have to go to something "private" like a pay-to-use (ie private) hospital, toll roads, private schools, etc - somewhere the government will get a direct return on the investment.
And some of the "50 lines to the home capability" is to highlight the (supposed) benefits, as when was the last time you needed more than 10 lines in your home? A family of 4 each on a 12-way call? That's their goal?
Isn't TFA talking about business plans? Some businesses will need 50+ lines and this is not targeted at home users.
The standard NBN connection comes with 150kbps of TC1 data, which is really for one line. There are speed tiers so that you can get 100Mbit/sec "best effort" or 150kbps "guaranteed". If they had to guarantee 100Mbps then it would cost a bit more than $38/month for the port (IMSMR).
Wouldn't the different ONTs work on different frequencies? So the "switch" at the "CO" would have to be backwards compatible, I guess like most (A)DSLAMs these days can support ADSL, ADSL2 and ADSL2+. (When I first got ADSL2+ I only had an old ADSL modem which connected well, until I got around to getting a new shiny ADSL2+ modem)
There has been a lot of talk about the current 2.5GPON will be upgraded to 10GPON and then 40GPON without much fuss. 40 Gbit/s between 16-32 users ought to be enough.
My sleepy lectures weren't wasting time after all.
My wife's grandmother recently died at 92 - she was the youngest of thirteen children (one didn't survive being into childhood so twelve). That kind of size was common back then, IME at least. (As an aside, all six of her brothers were either killed in the war or came back and never had kids so that family name died)
We planned on only having two kids but our second pregnancy was twins so we have contributed to more overpopulation...
Indeed. Might as well report Daring Fireball's statistic. 14% of his visitors are from Windows (as IE only runs on Windows it's clear much less than 14% of his visitors run IE) http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/07/03/ios-6-9to5mac
It's also noteworthy that the idiot we have a Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is planning to have his mandatory Internet filter block all RC content
He's gone quiet on the internet filter lately, since he's realised that it has been detracting from his good idea (The NBN) but the filter was only for child pornography and real illegal things. Not that I don't disagree it could have been expanded in the future - I don't agree with any kind of government filtering - but "blocking all RC content" would be completely impossible, since the block list would be bigger than the Great Firewall of China! And with the NBN fully operational the block list would actually be harder to implement/justify.
And our company was quoted at over $2000/month for 2mbps. Yes TWO MEGABITS for TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. And we'd have to sign a 36 month contract or pay over $10,000 in installation.
I remember Trumpet Winsock (you know, the software that actually let you get online with Windows 3.1x) was written in Australia, and they didn't localise for the US market. There was an item in its help page addressing complaints about the "misspelling" of "dialler". :-)
Oh and we paid through the nose for an Adobe Connect license (for a client): turns out it doesn't support timezones +1000 or above. WTF!?! The extra money they charge is utter and pure greed, nothing more. They don't use it for anything like actual testing in the target market.
All the VK* people would have missed the day due to the 18th being yesterday. This article "Posted by samzenpus on 04:10 AM -- Thursday April 19 2012"
The rates will still be a lot less than international roaming, which can be tens of dollars per megabyte!
Lol I took my 386 online in 1998 with a 2400bps modem. It was great with mIRC! I remember using opera (from a computer magazine cover cd) as it was much better at slow modem and CPU speeds. Though by then it had 8MB ram and 180MB of hdd space. I still have a ppt zip drive which worked surprisingly well.
It didn't take me long to buy a 33.6k modem and I bought a 486 second hand with a RS232 port that could actually run at those speeds. It was also about then when my ISP would refuse to accept a 2400bps connection... I also remember some Linux distros taking 30 seconds to start pppd and others being instant. Hmm...
I know you are trolling but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JgFqFVpCjs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–2011_Queensland_floods
I've made plenty of VoIP calls over 3G without problems. That and normal mobile calls: backup plan right there!
I have had faults on my phone before. Once the voice wouldn't work but ADSL did. I called the telco to report the on VoIP! The poor indian didn't quite understand how I could make a phone call from a "landline" in my house, when I was reporting a fault saying it was out.
I have power, phone and hfc cable on the poles in my street. No HV power though. There "should" be enough insulation on the hfc/pots to withstand contact of the 415v lines; the cable also has protectors to stop stray voltages. But then I lived 28 years before moving into a house with an above ground phone line.