Achitecturally they're meant to be the business at shifting jobs to other processors, not just those on the same die.
makes you wonder why sony wanted these for standalone consumer devices but the on-the-fly clustering opportunities should be very attractvie to a lot of IT shops.
If the vendor is in Australia they have to state GST inclusive.
It's really simple.
The IT industry in this country thought they could ignore the law when it first came in but even those thick skulls eventually realised they were breaking the law.
Incidentally I got some discounts around that time by demanding they stick by advertised prices (and pay the GST).
Basically the Government can sign any treaty they like, but to have any effect in Australia it has to legislate those effects. (I think you might have been implying that)
Regulation (subordinate legislation) is useless because:
a) it can only be made under an existing Act giving power to a Minister to make Regulations in that matter
b) it can be disallowed in the Senate within 14 sitting days of the making of the Regulation
Basically if it's controversial then it's easier to legislate than it is to regulate.
OK, I relaise that very few people understand Australian Parliamentary procedure (including whoever posted this)
This is a Private Senator's Bill which means it is going no-where in our system.
Even more irrelevant is it's introduction by the Australian Democrats, a fringe party in the process of disapearing completely.
(proving that having progressive ideas about computers is no guarantor of electoral success)
Very, very rarely a Government will look at a Private Bill, say "hey that's a good idea" and then re-introduce it as a Government Bill (yes, about three years ago a PMB was passed into law but it was notable for being an exception).
That's the day for headline stories on Slashdot.
Even if the proposals in the Bill are workable (enough spyware is made by companies operating in Australia to have some enforceable merit) the Bill itself is not likely to become Law.
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Looking around I can count 4 servers which shipped with windows and are running linux or bsd.
I see no windows servers.
How about Obi Wan forgetting there is a daughter?
But all this can be resolved...
Why did Obi Wan jut disapear when whacked by a light saber?
Everyone else falls into bits.
My theory is that he died at some point in the intervening 20 years.
The Obi Wan in Ep IV is a spectre with a poor recollection of events prior to his death.
Go see it.
If you liked the original three (which were all turkeys in a classical movie sense) you'll have a blast.
they'll need to work on the heat issues in a big way if it's going to fit into any apple form factor.
that'll be your ps3 + sony linux kit...
Achitecturally they're meant to be the business at shifting jobs to other processors, not just those on the same die.
makes you wonder why sony wanted these for standalone consumer devices but the on-the-fly clustering opportunities should be very attractvie to a lot of IT shops.
i'd love to
depends how long you're willing to wait.
in 4 years time i imagine you'd get it for the inflation adjusted equivalent.
I wouldn't be surprised if linux wasn't the first thing they booted on it when they were working it up.
It was for the Power5.
Sony shipped the linux kit for the ps2 to do exactly the same thing.
I don't think they'll mind at all.
If the vendor is in Australia they have to state GST inclusive.
It's really simple.
The IT industry in this country thought they could ignore the law when it first came in but even those thick skulls eventually realised they were breaking the law.
Incidentally I got some discounts around that time by demanding they stick by advertised prices (and pay the GST).
it's the RSS, the readers, and the mp3 players that make it special.
from a user point of view:
- add the feeds you like
- plug ipod into computer in the morning
- get new content automagically.
simple yes, should have thought of it years ago? maybe.
dial up users will not get the same net experience as broadband
deal with it and move on.
having said that, with patience and wget most podcasts should be achievable.
use perlpodder and let it background the whole thing, enjoy stuff as it arrives.
never believe any costing out of the recording industry. The recording industry makes ALL it's money out of burying costs within costs.
gross cash value of CD sales doesn't account for the net after reproduction and distribution have been paid for.
It's possible that they "are" being honest in their depiction of the numbers.
but it would be the first time.
Yep I realise you get at best three years.
We've got a swap-out program.
Because we use them we never see what the worse alternatives might do.
Having said that I run a webserver with friends that we keep on domestic power and it's reliability has been pretty good.
I still maintain that UPS are godawful technology.
I've had more late night call outs caused by Borked UPS's than I have by screwy power.
I'll grant you I live in a city with very, very regular power (Canberra).
I still hate UPS makers.
"all members of both houses of parliament are required to vote on party lines."
Actually only ALP members are "required"
But to face this monolithic block the rest of the Parliament has over the years calcified into a monolithic block of its own.
Very few Lower House members have the personal following to risk losing their official pre-selection.
In the upper house it's even worse where the parties can assign the flow of preferences within each state.
So you're right in practice but the theory is a little different.
And our "Right Wing" Liberal party supports abortion, opposes the death penalty, and are real nuts for gun control.
But the times they are a changing, cultural conservatism is on the march and the churches are filling up fast.
Foreign Affairs explain Treaty-Making here.
Basically the Government can sign any treaty they like, but to have any effect in Australia it has to legislate those effects. (I think you might have been implying that)
Regulation (subordinate legislation) is useless because:
a) it can only be made under an existing Act giving power to a Minister to make Regulations in that matter
b) it can be disallowed in the Senate within 14 sitting days of the making of the Regulation
Basically if it's controversial then it's easier to legislate than it is to regulate.
Well you'd want that kind of punishment to be reserved for sentencing, after the due process of a trial and a finding beyond reasonable doubt.
OK, I relaise that very few people understand Australian Parliamentary procedure (including whoever posted this)
This is a Private Senator's Bill which means it is going no-where in our system.
Even more irrelevant is it's introduction by the Australian Democrats, a fringe party in the process of disapearing completely.
(proving that having progressive ideas about computers is no guarantor of electoral success)
Very, very rarely a Government will look at a Private Bill, say "hey that's a good idea" and then re-introduce it as a Government Bill (yes, about three years ago a PMB was passed into law but it was notable for being an exception).
That's the day for headline stories on Slashdot.
Even if the proposals in the Bill are workable (enough spyware is made by companies operating in Australia to have some enforceable merit) the Bill itself is not likely to become Law.
I didn't get this karma by being generally abusive.
But I have to say I've thoroughly enjoyed it this time.
I didn't enjoy the more complex parts of LOTR when I was nine either.
But that was because I wasn't smart enough to appreciate it, and I accept that was a failing of mine at the time (albeit an understandable failing).
People who are too thick to understand what Tolkien was doing, and then attempt to ascribe the problem to the author, really tick me off.
IMHO they deserve a great deal of public ridicule and it's been a pleasure to contribute it this time.
When the insist on going on about it once begins to imagine so.
"pretty heavy and boring for people with no interest in long lists of geneology/etc"
Cry-babies with ADD you mean?
to the cultural atheists of the world anyone who believes in the resurrection is a "fundamentalist"
beyond that, anyone who modifies their behaviour due to religious teaching is a "fundamentalist"