Here in Australia the show had a massive viewing audience. Are you seriously suggesting the company that bought the rights lost revenue because people also downloaded it? I call bullshit because it'd be damn near impossible to get more bums on seats in front of the idiot box for the show.
I'm pretty certain there would have been less of a TV audience if it hadn't been for pirating.
All of which ignores the fact that part of the reason people download the series is so they don't have to try and see the show through the constant barrage of banner (and screen in screen) advertising between the the deafening "advertising breaks". That and trying to maintain continuity of a series scattered over two fucking years with endless "re-schedules" (while they show you shit you wouldn't watch unless were wanting to watch the next instalment at the advertised timeslot.
Don't hurt your back lugging those goal post around when you change tack and claim the yet to be fucking released complete series on disc sales have been hurt.
I don't like Gates anymore than the next guy, but hes not there anymore, or have you heard?
Gates? Son of who?
Oh the guy who started his company with a lot of luck - more "luck" than Gary Kildall anyway (and better due diligence than IBM's legal department). I'm guessing you haven't read Gary Kildall's book - oh wait....
Who modded this up? Dbill, I suggest you look up what a semiconductor is and you'll see the way it works is solid state physics. There's no point throwing around words you do not understand.
Who modded this up? Anonymous, I suggest you look up what semiconductors are and you'll see the way they work is quantum physics. There's no point throwing around words you do not understand.
Yes, but how do you know that MS hasn't inserted a nice big back-door for the spooks?
From a "security" perspective, you'll have to go with an open-source browser -- but even that's not a guarantee.
To be sure, you'll have to compile it yourself from a set of source files that you have gone through with a fine-toothed comb, checking each line for any chance of hidden functionality.
Dear Dick, and other, like minded North Americans. Back at you - with interest. Sooner or later.
Yours sincerely, the rest of the world (your allies for the time being).
The CIA chose Amazon's cloud services over the cheaper tender from IBM. Maybe IBM couldn't demonstrate the experience in IT delivery that Amazon can - or, maybe it's because Amazon plans to deliver everything to consumers (and IBM already has many CIA contracts). Would that mean I should take the Amazon's claims with a big fucking bucket of salt??
Just joking! Only a paranoid would think the CIA has an agenda.
And no, I don't know whether those exemptions will apply. His options are limited - while Russia and China (as distinct from HK) might grant him protection it'd probably be dependant upon him providing information as part of his commitment to the arrangement. I suspect his laptop is clean, brain not so much.
Ecuador is out as joining Assange is putting all your eggs in an unstable basket (Ecuador has the third largest oil reserves in SA - how long before they are "liberated"?). And Iceland while willing would prove difficult to access and the security is debatable as:- it's run by a right-wing government; the economy is weak; while not members of NATO they do have a joint military treaty with the US and the continuing ability to gain access to Iceland and it's communications; Iceland would welcome the US back; Snowden ain't Fisher (and leaking NSA secrets ain't breaking a (minor) economic sanction).
And no - most of their fanbois already own iPhones
Considering that most of the world's population don't own smart phones I'd say Firefox - maybe... it's too early to say. No reason I can think of that Android will fuck up - and it's trivial for Chinese and Korean manufacturers to create lighter versions of it... so the real question is, as the "world" less and less means "Western", is there any real future for iPhones?
Microsoft? Even if Steve "Kiss of Death" Ballmer got a brain transplant from Martians, Microsoft still couldn't produce a phone that a statistically relevant number of people would use if it was given away. Seriously - have you seen the Windows 8 promotions? - The ones they keep emailing me feature a hipster with with a face like a cat's arse and the rest of those idiots with their dumb sunglasses and stupid stripey clothes is the cleverest thing about 8. Even if I repeatedly hadn't try to make myself like the piece of shit laptop, with the steaming pile of wet shit of an OS I got as an "incentive" to sell the crap to clients "at a price you can't beat" - just seeing the promotions would turn me off it.
I'd be surprised if by the end of next year half the phones (mobile or landline) on the planet weren't be running Android?
There are a lot of real world factors not being included in these estimates, but the 10-to-1 ratio here indicates to me that the energies involved are of a comparable scale; if we devoted 10 per cent of arable land to agriculture, we could (with highly efficient processes), conceivably put a sizable dent in our energy usage.
A couple of factors not included (and I appreciate you didn't spend weeks on your figures)
How much petroleum based fuels are used just transporting and refining petroleum based fuels
How much petroleum based fuels are used liberating petroleum rich countries
How much new technology will increase or decrease our liquid fuel usage - including the expected increasing power demands for the "developing" nations
How much decentralised vegetable based fuel production would affect the amount of oil products used for road works
How much of the by-product of petroleum refining is used for fertiliser, chemicals, packaging and how that would compare with by-products of vegetable fuel refining
Not, as the misleading title suggests, the hottest place, just the hottest properly recorded single temperature reading big emphasis on single temperature reading - one reading a day/week/year does not make.
Properly recording temperature isn't simple or intuitive - it's also kind of hard to do in some parts of the world because it's so damn hot.
The hottest place on the planet most years is in the Danakil Desert, which not surprisingly is a bit of a ghost town. Death Valley is about 86 metres below sea level, Danakil is a little lower (about 100m below). Nearby Dallol is the hottest average inhabited place on earth with an average mean of 34.4C and an average max of 41.1C.
Danakil can also be a bit warmer when the volcanoes are active... like some places get warmer when bushfires are raging (51C in parts of Victoria the other year, similar temperatures in some of the Californian fires).
Little of the planets temperatures are measured to the standards quoted in the parent article - so I'd take them with a big pinch of Danakil salt. And "apparent" (to humans) temperatures are a whole 'nuther thing. Shade temperatures don't allow for reflected heat from salt and white sand.
Biggest temperature variations - without a doubt it'd be the Black Hills (USA). Especially considering the extremely short time period involved. Only other place I can think of that comes close to those fast, extreme variations is Charlotte Pass (Australia).
I would say that "Sack of lying shit" is a little overboard.
How about "wrong and recalcitrant" "dissembler", "loose with the truth", "teller of tall tales", "fantasist". You've got the wrong end of offended.
and whether the paywall has been removed had no bearing on my posting, merely that a paywall existed at all.
No paywall - ever. Weasel much (apologies to the furry kind).
don't jump to conclusions
The assertion of a paywall was made - I tested it and found it untrue. I checked that it had never been true. Eat your own dog food
and stick to a productive discussion
Deliberately distorting the truth is what you call "constructive"? What sort of "thing" are you constructing? paywall Would you like me to spoon feed you and show you how Google cache works? Or would you prefer to weasel around with "but that doesn't mean there wasn't one earlier"?
rather than being an armchair quarterback.
Words to live by. Now would be a good time to start. and - that's not me you're describing - but it speaks volumes of you. Hint: not a paywall, never was a paywall.
The greatest derangement is to believe something simply because you wish it to be true.
"release of the draft legislation... would prejudice decision making processes already in train"
Uh, pardon me good Sir, but isn't this practically the entire goal and description of participatory democracy?
Democracy? Either you're not Australian or you're not very well informed (the head of state is the Queen of England and government ministers briefing Americans is not considered traitorous). Seriously - the only "right" enshrined in the Consitution is "free trade between states" and even that has never been the case. Try posting Penthouse magazines to parts of the NT and see what happens. Or cigarettes from one state to another.
The decision making process is "commercial in confidence" - that is, the resale of NBN.
removing the human factor from the system doesn't necessarily mean that things will work better and there will be fewer accidents.
Absolutely. But not for the reasons you suggest.
Removing the human factor means ducks will be writing and testing the software, and hedgehogs will be designing and testing the hardware. Which will lead to such problems as failing to give way to dogs or stupidly using the horn to "warn" kangaroos to stay off the road.
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Don't hurt your back lugging those goal post around when you change tack and claim the yet to be fucking released complete series on disc sales have been hurt.
Fucking Hollywood, mutter, mutter
I don't like Gates anymore than the next guy, but hes not there anymore, or have you heard?
Gates? Son of who?
Oh the guy who started his company with a lot of luck - more "luck" than Gary Kildall anyway (and better due diligence than IBM's legal department). I'm guessing you haven't read Gary Kildall's book - oh wait....
Telstra is currently moving all their customers email hosting to Microsoft.
For our US "allies" - that's Australia's largest ISP.
Man reveals the simple truth about Cloud Computing!
Marketing and Sales hate him.
I wonder is one of his "major" clients enjoys his sense of humour...
Who modded this up? Dbill, I suggest you look up what a semiconductor is and you'll see the way it works is solid state physics. There's no point throwing around words you do not understand.
Who modded this up? Anonymous, I suggest you look up what semiconductors are and you'll see the way they work is quantum physics. There's no point throwing around words you do not understand.
Vowel theft
My fear: The web turning out to be a dream after all and finding myself back in back-office....blah, blah, blah
My dream - a Slashdot not over-run by morons.... Hey!, what the fuck, where did everyone go? (and how come I am not on Slashdot anymore? (Oh wait....)
If you spent hours staring at a Makerbot - the problem is not the device. HINT: how long do you spend staring at your washing on the line?
Yes, but how do you know that MS hasn't inserted a nice big back-door for the spooks? From a "security" perspective, you'll have to go with an open-source browser -- but even that's not a guarantee. To be sure, you'll have to compile it yourself from a set of source files that you have gone through with a fine-toothed comb, checking each line for any chance of hidden functionality.
I know the answer to this one!
Trust Microsoft! Cures cognitive dissonance everytime!
Two words:' Fuck' and 'You!'
Dear Dick, and other, like minded North Americans. Back at you - with interest. Sooner or later. Yours sincerely, the rest of the world (your allies for the time being).
The CIA chose Amazon's cloud services over the cheaper tender from IBM. Maybe IBM couldn't demonstrate the experience in IT delivery that Amazon can - or, maybe it's because Amazon plans to deliver everything to consumers (and IBM already has many CIA contracts). Would that mean I should take the Amazon's claims with a big fucking bucket of salt??
Just joking! Only a paranoid would think the CIA has an agenda.
Honk Kong has an extradition treaty with the US,
Yes. With political exemptions.
And no, I don't know whether those exemptions will apply. His options are limited - while Russia and China (as distinct from HK) might grant him protection it'd probably be dependant upon him providing information as part of his commitment to the arrangement. I suspect his laptop is clean, brain not so much.
Ecuador is out as joining Assange is putting all your eggs in an unstable basket (Ecuador has the third largest oil reserves in SA - how long before they are "liberated"?). And Iceland while willing would prove difficult to access and the security is debatable as:- it's run by a right-wing government; the economy is weak; while not members of NATO they do have a joint military treaty with the US and the continuing ability to gain access to Iceland and it's communications; Iceland would welcome the US back; Snowden ain't Fisher (and leaking NSA secrets ain't breaking a (minor) economic sanction).
Telstra started migrating Bigpuddle customers to Live late last year.
i am hoping ubumtu comes out very strong.
I think you meant to write Ewebuntu.
And no - most of their fanbois already own iPhones
Considering that most of the world's population don't own smart phones I'd say Firefox - maybe... it's too early to say. No reason I can think of that Android will fuck up - and it's trivial for Chinese and Korean manufacturers to create lighter versions of it... so the real question is, as the "world" less and less means "Western", is there any real future for iPhones?
Microsoft? Even if Steve "Kiss of Death" Ballmer got a brain transplant from Martians, Microsoft still couldn't produce a phone that a statistically relevant number of people would use if it was given away. Seriously - have you seen the Windows 8 promotions? - The ones they keep emailing me feature a hipster with with a face like a cat's arse and the rest of those idiots with their dumb sunglasses and stupid stripey clothes is the cleverest thing about 8. Even if I repeatedly hadn't try to make myself like the piece of shit laptop, with the steaming pile of wet shit of an OS I got as an "incentive" to sell the crap to clients "at a price you can't beat" - just seeing the promotions would turn me off it.
I'd be surprised if by the end of next year half the phones (mobile or landline) on the planet weren't be running Android?
There are a lot of real world factors not being included in these estimates, but the 10-to-1 ratio here indicates to me that the energies involved are of a comparable scale; if we devoted 10 per cent of arable land to agriculture, we could (with highly efficient processes), conceivably put a sizable dent in our energy usage.
A couple of factors not included (and I appreciate you didn't spend weeks on your figures)
Because RMS and other GNU maintainers think implementing SecureBoot is hard.
Oh really Einstein? Guess you've already installed Linux on Surface? - that and made the sun rise this morning.
Not, as the misleading title suggests, the hottest place, just the hottest properly recorded single temperature reading
big emphasis on single temperature reading - one reading a day/week/year does not make.
Properly recording temperature isn't simple or intuitive - it's also kind of hard to do in some parts of the world because it's so damn hot.
The hottest place on the planet most years is in the Danakil Desert, which not surprisingly is a bit of a ghost town. Death Valley is about 86 metres below sea level, Danakil is a little lower (about 100m below). Nearby Dallol is the hottest average inhabited place on earth with an average mean of 34.4C and an average max of 41.1C.
Danakil can also be a bit warmer when the volcanoes are active... like some places get warmer when bushfires are raging (51C in parts of Victoria the other year, similar temperatures in some of the Californian fires).
Little of the planets temperatures are measured to the standards quoted in the parent article - so I'd take them with a big pinch of Danakil salt. And "apparent" (to humans) temperatures are a whole 'nuther thing. Shade temperatures don't allow for reflected heat from salt and white sand.
Biggest temperature variations - without a doubt it'd be the Black Hills (USA). Especially considering the extremely short time period involved. Only other place I can think of that comes close to those fast, extreme variations is Charlotte Pass (Australia).
I would say that "Sack of lying shit" is a little overboard.
How about "wrong and recalcitrant" "dissembler", "loose with the truth", "teller of tall tales", "fantasist". You've got the wrong end of offended.
and whether the paywall has been removed had no bearing on my posting, merely that a paywall existed at all.
No paywall - ever. Weasel much (apologies to the furry kind).
don't jump to conclusions
The assertion of a paywall was made - I tested it and found it untrue. I checked that it had never been true.
Eat your own dog food
and stick to a productive discussion
Deliberately distorting the truth is what you call "constructive"? What sort of "thing" are you constructing?
paywall
Would you like me to spoon feed you and show you how Google cache works? Or would you prefer to weasel around with "but that doesn't mean there wasn't one earlier"?
rather than being an armchair quarterback.
Words to live by. Now would be a good time to start.
and - that's not me you're describing - but it speaks volumes of you.
Hint: not a paywall, never was a paywall.
The greatest derangement is to believe something simply because you wish it to be true.
Funny how only three people seem to have checked and noticed there is no paywall - not even in Google's cache.
I just checked and noticed there is no paywall... while running NoScript. When I used a browser with JavaScript enabled, I saw the paywall popup.
A paywall is when you can't proceed beyond it without paying. There is no paywall. Never was a paywall. Period.
"release of the draft legislation... would prejudice decision making processes already in train"
Uh, pardon me good Sir, but isn't this practically the entire goal and description of participatory democracy?
Democracy? Either you're not Australian or you're not very well informed (the head of state is the Queen of England and government ministers briefing Americans is not considered traitorous). Seriously - the only "right" enshrined in the Consitution is "free trade between states" and even that has never been the case. Try posting Penthouse magazines to parts of the NT and see what happens. Or cigarettes from one state to another.
The decision making process is "commercial in confidence" - that is, the resale of NBN.
until everyone is signed up for the National Broadband Network - then we'll tell you what we've done.
Can't get decent software to scan job applications but software to scan internet use will work perfectly.
I have to wonder who at Wikileaks thought that this would be a good idea.
Who rated this interesting? Did they miss the button for "sack of lying shit"?
Funny how only three people seem to have checked and noticed there is no paywall - not even in Google's cache.
there is no dollar sign in there.
And they forgot to remove Mondrian's copyright from the EXIF data.
Define "competent and alert driver"
100+ hours of Need For Speed and 2 points of speed?
removing the human factor from the system doesn't necessarily mean that things will work better and there will be fewer accidents.
Absolutely. But not for the reasons you suggest.
Removing the human factor means ducks will be writing and testing the software, and hedgehogs will be designing and testing the hardware. Which will lead to such problems as failing to give way to dogs or stupidly using the horn to "warn" kangaroos to stay off the road.