Yes, but this is Gordon Brown's Labour Party. The electorate didn't learn or don't remember what Labour did to the economy in the 1970s when they reduced the UK to third world status, the so called Sick Man of Europe. I sure hope that the remedy isn't another bout of Thatcherism, but wouldn't be surprised if it's just as painful fixing the mess Labour have made again.
I don't think price necessarily is the delineating factor, although in general it follows age. I remembered sometime between 2000 and 2005 that Lagavulin jumped from about $50 to over 90 in Toronto, mostly because it became very popular. I think the most import factor is age. I don't particularly like anything over 20 or 22 years as it loses its character and becomes far too mellow and bland. People buying old malts are fools. Anybody being be caught be this scam doesn't know whisk(e)y, and deserves to be parted from their money.
Microsoft are using Akamai. Don't speculate, look at the URL in the Download Manager file that comes from the MSDN site, or look at the connections Download Manager has open during the download.
It's called Content Delivery Network, and in this case, Microsoft are using Akamai. Bandwidth shouldn't be a problem. I'm downloading Win 7 right now. People need to get a life... so what if they can't download at this very moment an RC of an unreleased OS? This isn't story isn't news; move on.
Yeah, I call bullshit on this. Just crap tabloid journalism using sensationalism to attract readers.
I imagine that if MSFT do this that it will be properly integrated and fairly transparent to the end-user, just as WoW is in previous versions of Windows. Any patching and security issues will be included as Windows 7 patches.
Myspace has been very good for checking out a friend's recommendation before buying a CD. The samples bands put up are way better than the 30s clips from Amazon.com. The rest is just wasted bandwidth. Facebook is very good for keeping in touch with people in other ways, if you have a set of friends that use it like that and aren't mindlessly throwing sheep at you, etc.
A better analogy is the Open University in the UK. Until a couple of years ago their lectures were broadcast nationally on BBC2, and hence available free to everybody. Of course, people would still need to travel for stuff that couldn't be done remotely.
Maybe the person submitting the story doesn't speak English as a first language. The word "nation" for instance means different things in other cultures. The French have a concept of civic nation, which caused a lot of grief and misunderstanding in Canada where some people in Quebec wanted recognition of their nation.
The weather is only an impediment if you let it. I cycle all year round in Toronto, generally from -25 to + 35C. The only thing that stops me are the larger snow storms, and I get back out there as soon as I can. I sold my car a year ago, after barely using it for the three previous years. Life is better.
I was paying almost half that with Teksavvy when I lived in Toronto (up to last year). I was on the "premium" plan, which gave me 100GB/mo. I can't remember what the charge was for exceeding that, but it was reasonable. Their other non-premuum plan had unlimited usage, but used transit/peer connections or something that weren't as good (i.e. higher or variable latency).
In Australia, if you have DSL but not ADSL2+, many people have 384kbs upstream or less (yes, I'm one of them), which is just ridiculous. I haven't had upstream that slow for 9 years (limited to 320kbs back then due to the Nortel platform Bell was using before they switched to regular G.DMT), and it's amazing how much difference it makes. That coupled with poor performance in Sydney where I'm routed across the Pacific makes it pretty sluggish at times. Maybe a different ISP would be better, but oh, you get locked in to contracts here too, making it expensive to change. Kevin Rudd would be better spending the $2,000/person on things other than the last mile, as that's not really the main problem.
Exercise too. I moved from Denver (300+ days of sunshine per year) to just up the road from you in London. I think the first winter we had three months of grey overcast skies, which I found very tough. The second winter was still, but not so bad. Then I moved a little further up to Toronto which wasn't as grey. I've always found the winters there far easier though, which I think is more to do with me cycling and running all year around. If you get out in the winter properly, the winter isn't as bad. And those occasional days of low wind but brilliant sunshine when you can run by the lake with light reflecting of white snow and blue water, in light clothing even if it's below -10, are really really uplifting.
Have you considered that perhaps there's a difference between people who stay in one place all their lives, and those that migrate to somewhere else? I'd never go back to where I'm from, even though I know people who are happy there, and it's supposed to be one of the better parts of the country to live in. Except for the ones who've taken charge of their lives (a minority), they all seem to make mountains out of molehills over issues that I think are non-starters these days.
As somebody's who taken charge of your life and moved somewhere else, you've already proven a different mindset to those back where you came from. Furthermore, you're probably meeting people more akin to your current mindset, so your world is already an easier or different place to cope with.
There's something to be said for troubles being internal and relocating with you. But when you relocate, you have to build your life up again and sometimes you learn new behaviours or break out of bad habits or ruts. You're definitely more open to change when you move environments, which I think is key to a healthy life. Those who resist change or try to control it are doomed to struggle and perhaps unhappiness.
I still don't understand why you advocate replacing the OS on a system that's obviously more than five years, and for one that isn't compatible with apps that are already on the system. Debian aside, the Linux distros have historically been dreadful at maintaining long-term support for their releases. This is something that Microsoft beats the distros on hands-down - how many distros provide security updates to a release that's 10 years old? Even Debian doesn't, although some volunteers try to keep it going beyond the supported date, if you have the time and want to take on the responsibility. The constant stream of upgrades was one of the reasons I ditched Linux after supporting it strongly for many years starting around 1994. As for Firefox, version three is sluggish and a memory hog on modern high-end hardware, so I see little reason to run it on an older system.
It's pretty retarded and dumb to insist that I pay for a new operating system for a computer that is running fine and might not run the newer software as well. Microsoft is still supporting Win2K Pro, and will issue security patches until 13 July 2010. And why would I want to switch to Ubuntu if I'm using Win2K? That's dumbest suggestion I've heard for a long time.
Depending on what you're trying to do, you can often use VMWare. I had multiple foreign language versions of Win9x in virtual machines. Great for me as I have a single laptop, work from home living anywhere from 2,500-9,000 miles from the office, and move around a lot to deal with that working from home business.
Of course, we finally dropped Win9x because it was costing too much to support, and it was long after Microsoft had stopped supporting it.
I think you're confusing Windows Update with Automatic Update. The latter has a separate client UI, the former is definitely in still in IE in all OSes prior to Vista, and in Vista is probably using it embedded in Control Panel.
You're forgetting history... and I'd argue it's not even long enough ago to be even considered history yet. I watched the live broadcast of Colin Powell's presentation to the UN. This was about WMD and the imminent threat of their use. The whole liberation and democracy BS came about after the invasion when it was realised there were no WMDs and the politician's realised they had to cover their arses.
This is true. I worked from home starting in 1999, and had incandescents burning out several times per month in my office. 50 cent bulbs or cheaper, go figure. I switched them in 2000 for some Philips Marathon bulbs at $15 or $20 each. One of them was still going strong when I left it in my apartment when I moved out last year. On the other hand, some of the cheap CF bulbs I bought from Canadian Tire didn't even last six months, in places where I wasn't using them nearly as much. Maybe those old Philips bulbs didn't save me money in the long run, but they saved me a lot of hassle with replacements.
Seems to me that the bottleneck is the inter-continental links. My line hasn't been upgraded to ADSL2+, yet I occasionally see 600+KB/s downloads in Firefox when I hit a local server (or maybe a CDN like Akamai with local content), but rarely more than 150KB/s for most things, and frequently slower. Reach.com in Sydney seems to have latency problems with some of my connections before it even crosses the Pacific to California. Grrr. I'd bet most people in Australia who already having throughput problems are not bottlenecked by the last mile.
It's also costing $2,000 per person (far higher per tax payer)... it seems this kind of money could be better spent.
Just because the law doesn't prohibit your actions doesn't mean I can't try to make it hard for you if I don't like it. I'm not breaking the law either, and perfectly within my rights. You'll have to make a decision about whether the effort to achieve your goal is worth it or not. You don't operate in a vacuum, and have to tolerate what other people want too, even if there are no applicable laws.
The problems moving from XP to Vista are probably less significant than those moving from 98 to 2000 or XP. Yet the media treated one OS favourably, and the other not. I'm sure this situation wouldn't have occurred if the media were more positive about Vista. I'm also sure that Windows 7 will get nicer treatment, and people will make more of an effort to upgrade, even though XP to Win 7 is probably more work than XP to Vista. Personally I have few issues with Vista, and quite like it, except for the thrashing the hard drive far too frequently.
No, that depends on your locale settings. The date of the post is "01/04/09 6:28" for me (I'm in Melbourne, currently GMT+11).
Smashing Media GmbH i.Gr is a German company, which means the story was posted at 31/3/09 21:28 CEST. Seems reasonable to post in the evening the day before.
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Yes, but this is Gordon Brown's Labour Party. The electorate didn't learn or don't remember what Labour did to the economy in the 1970s when they reduced the UK to third world status, the so called Sick Man of Europe. I sure hope that the remedy isn't another bout of Thatcherism, but wouldn't be surprised if it's just as painful fixing the mess Labour have made again.
I don't think price necessarily is the delineating factor, although in general it follows age. I remembered sometime between 2000 and 2005 that Lagavulin jumped from about $50 to over 90 in Toronto, mostly because it became very popular. I think the most import factor is age. I don't particularly like anything over 20 or 22 years as it loses its character and becomes far too mellow and bland. People buying old malts are fools. Anybody being be caught be this scam doesn't know whisk(e)y, and deserves to be parted from their money.
Microsoft are using Akamai. Don't speculate, look at the URL in the Download Manager file that comes from the MSDN site, or look at the connections Download Manager has open during the download.
It's called Content Delivery Network, and in this case, Microsoft are using Akamai. Bandwidth shouldn't be a problem. I'm downloading Win 7 right now. People need to get a life... so what if they can't download at this very moment an RC of an unreleased OS? This isn't story isn't news; move on.
Yeah, I call bullshit on this. Just crap tabloid journalism using sensationalism to attract readers.
I imagine that if MSFT do this that it will be properly integrated and fairly transparent to the end-user, just as WoW is in previous versions of Windows. Any patching and security issues will be included as Windows 7 patches.
Blu-ray disc is supposed to be able to scale up to 300GB too.
Myspace has been very good for checking out a friend's recommendation before buying a CD. The samples bands put up are way better than the 30s clips from Amazon.com. The rest is just wasted bandwidth. Facebook is very good for keeping in touch with people in other ways, if you have a set of friends that use it like that and aren't mindlessly throwing sheep at you, etc.
A better analogy is the Open University in the UK. Until a couple of years ago their lectures were broadcast nationally on BBC2, and hence available free to everybody. Of course, people would still need to travel for stuff that couldn't be done remotely.
If you publicly embarrass any employer on your own time, you will likely face disciplinary action. Telstra is hardly unique when it comes to this.
Maybe the person submitting the story doesn't speak English as a first language. The word "nation" for instance means different things in other cultures. The French have a concept of civic nation, which caused a lot of grief and misunderstanding in Canada where some people in Quebec wanted recognition of their nation.
The weather is only an impediment if you let it. I cycle all year round in Toronto, generally from -25 to + 35C. The only thing that stops me are the larger snow storms, and I get back out there as soon as I can. I sold my car a year ago, after barely using it for the three previous years. Life is better.
Why? Although Canada is huge, it's a very urban country. Something like 7 or 8 million of the 32 million people live in the Toronto-Niagara region.
I was paying almost half that with Teksavvy when I lived in Toronto (up to last year). I was on the "premium" plan, which gave me 100GB/mo. I can't remember what the charge was for exceeding that, but it was reasonable. Their other non-premuum plan had unlimited usage, but used transit/peer connections or something that weren't as good (i.e. higher or variable latency).
In Australia, if you have DSL but not ADSL2+, many people have 384kbs upstream or less (yes, I'm one of them), which is just ridiculous. I haven't had upstream that slow for 9 years (limited to 320kbs back then due to the Nortel platform Bell was using before they switched to regular G.DMT), and it's amazing how much difference it makes. That coupled with poor performance in Sydney where I'm routed across the Pacific makes it pretty sluggish at times. Maybe a different ISP would be better, but oh, you get locked in to contracts here too, making it expensive to change. Kevin Rudd would be better spending the $2,000/person on things other than the last mile, as that's not really the main problem.
Exercise too. I moved from Denver (300+ days of sunshine per year) to just up the road from you in London. I think the first winter we had three months of grey overcast skies, which I found very tough. The second winter was still, but not so bad. Then I moved a little further up to Toronto which wasn't as grey. I've always found the winters there far easier though, which I think is more to do with me cycling and running all year around. If you get out in the winter properly, the winter isn't as bad. And those occasional days of low wind but brilliant sunshine when you can run by the lake with light reflecting of white snow and blue water, in light clothing even if it's below -10, are really really uplifting.
Have you considered that perhaps there's a difference between people who stay in one place all their lives, and those that migrate to somewhere else? I'd never go back to where I'm from, even though I know people who are happy there, and it's supposed to be one of the better parts of the country to live in. Except for the ones who've taken charge of their lives (a minority), they all seem to make mountains out of molehills over issues that I think are non-starters these days.
As somebody's who taken charge of your life and moved somewhere else, you've already proven a different mindset to those back where you came from. Furthermore, you're probably meeting people more akin to your current mindset, so your world is already an easier or different place to cope with.
There's something to be said for troubles being internal and relocating with you. But when you relocate, you have to build your life up again and sometimes you learn new behaviours or break out of bad habits or ruts. You're definitely more open to change when you move environments, which I think is key to a healthy life. Those who resist change or try to control it are doomed to struggle and perhaps unhappiness.
I still don't understand why you advocate replacing the OS on a system that's obviously more than five years, and for one that isn't compatible with apps that are already on the system. Debian aside, the Linux distros have historically been dreadful at maintaining long-term support for their releases. This is something that Microsoft beats the distros on hands-down - how many distros provide security updates to a release that's 10 years old? Even Debian doesn't, although some volunteers try to keep it going beyond the supported date, if you have the time and want to take on the responsibility. The constant stream of upgrades was one of the reasons I ditched Linux after supporting it strongly for many years starting around 1994. As for Firefox, version three is sluggish and a memory hog on modern high-end hardware, so I see little reason to run it on an older system.
It's pretty retarded and dumb to insist that I pay for a new operating system for a computer that is running fine and might not run the newer software as well. Microsoft is still supporting Win2K Pro, and will issue security patches until 13 July 2010. And why would I want to switch to Ubuntu if I'm using Win2K? That's dumbest suggestion I've heard for a long time.
Depending on what you're trying to do, you can often use VMWare. I had multiple foreign language versions of Win9x in virtual machines. Great for me as I have a single laptop, work from home living anywhere from 2,500-9,000 miles from the office, and move around a lot to deal with that working from home business.
Of course, we finally dropped Win9x because it was costing too much to support, and it was long after Microsoft had stopped supporting it.
I think you're confusing Windows Update with Automatic Update. The latter has a separate client UI, the former is definitely in still in IE in all OSes prior to Vista, and in Vista is probably using it embedded in Control Panel.
You're forgetting history... and I'd argue it's not even long enough ago to be even considered history yet. I watched the live broadcast of Colin Powell's presentation to the UN. This was about WMD and the imminent threat of their use. The whole liberation and democracy BS came about after the invasion when it was realised there were no WMDs and the politician's realised they had to cover their arses.
This is true. I worked from home starting in 1999, and had incandescents burning out several times per month in my office. 50 cent bulbs or cheaper, go figure. I switched them in 2000 for some Philips Marathon bulbs at $15 or $20 each. One of them was still going strong when I left it in my apartment when I moved out last year. On the other hand, some of the cheap CF bulbs I bought from Canadian Tire didn't even last six months, in places where I wasn't using them nearly as much. Maybe those old Philips bulbs didn't save me money in the long run, but they saved me a lot of hassle with replacements.
Seems to me that the bottleneck is the inter-continental links. My line hasn't been upgraded to ADSL2+, yet I occasionally see 600+KB/s downloads in Firefox when I hit a local server (or maybe a CDN like Akamai with local content), but rarely more than 150KB/s for most things, and frequently slower. Reach.com in Sydney seems to have latency problems with some of my connections before it even crosses the Pacific to California. Grrr. I'd bet most people in Australia who already having throughput problems are not bottlenecked by the last mile.
It's also costing $2,000 per person (far higher per tax payer)... it seems this kind of money could be better spent.
Just because the law doesn't prohibit your actions doesn't mean I can't try to make it hard for you if I don't like it. I'm not breaking the law either, and perfectly within my rights. You'll have to make a decision about whether the effort to achieve your goal is worth it or not. You don't operate in a vacuum, and have to tolerate what other people want too, even if there are no applicable laws.
The problems moving from XP to Vista are probably less significant than those moving from 98 to 2000 or XP. Yet the media treated one OS favourably, and the other not. I'm sure this situation wouldn't have occurred if the media were more positive about Vista. I'm also sure that Windows 7 will get nicer treatment, and people will make more of an effort to upgrade, even though XP to Win 7 is probably more work than XP to Vista. Personally I have few issues with Vista, and quite like it, except for the thrashing the hard drive far too frequently.
No, that depends on your locale settings. The date of the post is "01/04/09 6:28" for me (I'm in Melbourne, currently GMT+11).
Smashing Media GmbH i.Gr is a German company, which means the story was posted at 31/3/09 21:28 CEST. Seems reasonable to post in the evening the day before.