I remember prices for tickets were like $12-$16 or so in Australia and New Zealand per adult. And that's before you even add in the stupid overpriced cost of popcorn and coke, etc.
Combined with the fact there's very good movies coming out anymore, whats the honest point? I can see why movie theatres/cinema's are going broke.
What I want to know is.. when are they going to send a rover or lander which can test for biology? Like the viking landers from the 70s.. since then they've completely avoided sending any biology experiments to mars... despite finding water and other organic chemicals?
And yes, as someone else pointed out, why not make use of economics of scale and make multiple identical rovers and send them to multiple different places on the planet? It worked for Spirit and Opportunity, and instead of wasting so much money designing and building a new rover from scratch every time, build a more modular one and send many of them... even 1 every few years if 2 at once is too expensive. Modular so different experiences can be swapped in or out thus creating slightly different configurations or upgraded models ?
Why design and build from scratch every time and not just design a reliable base model, a lot like the Soyuz, and just slowly evolve it over time or fly it in slightly different configurations? I know a Soyuz capsule is nothing like a mars rover, but a soyuz capsule is human rated and still cheaper than a freaking rover. The same concepts could be applied.
I don't think there's any intelligent code running the elevators in my building.
I live in a 14 floor apartment building. I frequently come home in the evenings to see both elevators just chilling idle on the 14th floor....
It makes me want tear my hair out.
The elevators in the high rises I work in don't seem to have these problems. The building I specificlaly work in most of the time has 6 elevators though so its less of an issue though.
I have to say. I don't understand what all the bitching is about.
I ordered mine from farnell (elements24 now?) a few days ago. I live in New Zealand. New-bumfuck-Zealand. Nothing ever arrives here quickly as we're literally in the middle of nowhere. And guess what? I got it next day. And they didn't even charge my credit card until a day AFTER I got it.
It actually came from New South Wales, Australia. Apparantly they have 100s and 100s in stock. Maybe there are shortages elsewhere, I don't know, but Aussies and Kiwis should have no trouble getting theirs.
So far i've had fun playing with mine. Its just headless (plugged only into ethernet and power) and i've been playing with it over ssh. I'm thinking about what home automation I can hook up to it. Also thinking of buying the PiFace, and addon board that buffers the gpios, provides relays and contacts and more.
Have fun and stop bitching about something that - honestly - is the price of a meal at a restaurant for 2. Or only 1 at a fancy restaurant.:)
Panderen, which started out as an easter egg joke in Warcraft 3 somehow got turned into a full blown expansions in WoW, because, honestly, blizzard has totally ran out of ideas at this point....
Also, I don't know what its like in the US, but in New Zealand and in the UK you can buy leasehold properties (as opposed to freehold properties that you are aware of.)
In those cases, you buy the "house" and ONLY the "house". ie, what is built upon the land. And you pay rent (which is reviewed every 7 years or so) for the land.
The crux of this, is, it allows you to buy a nicer house in a much nicer area than you could ever possibly afford.
And one day you can buy the land of the owner, too, if you so please.
I just don't understand. There's been a stream of voting machine stores on and off on slashdot for the last couple years.
We have netbanking. And ATMs. Both reliable. And used by the financial industry for gods sake.
We have ATMs all over the world. They seem to do fine, without any major issues. AND THEY HOLD AND DISPENSE CASH FOR GODS SAKE.
What is so special about designing and manufacturing voting machines ? Why does every voting machine ever built seem to have serious issues and allow you to put in fake votes, or miscount votes, or whatever?
Imagine if you could do this with an ATM, and get extra cash out and the ATM had no idea you did it?
What exactly is it about voting machines that makes it so hard compared to ATMs and every other electronic security device on the planet??! I just don't fucking get it, I'm sorry.
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very few* good movies coming out anymore.
I haven't gone to the movies in years.
I remember prices for tickets were like $12-$16 or so in Australia and New Zealand per adult. And that's before you even add in the stupid overpriced cost of popcorn and coke, etc.
Combined with the fact there's very good movies coming out anymore, whats the honest point? I can see why movie theatres/cinema's are going broke.
I installed the .deb on my stock standard Ubuntu 12.10 system.
It installed fine. I ran it. It came up and started updating itself fine.
It installed said updates.
And now it dies with Segmentation fault, core dumped.
This is why linux fails on the desktop, sigh...
And this really truly is a stock standard 12.10 ubuntu system barely used :/
What I want to know is.. when are they going to send a rover or lander which can test for biology? Like the viking landers from the 70s.. since then they've completely avoided sending any biology experiments to mars... despite finding water and other organic chemicals?
And yes, as someone else pointed out, why not make use of economics of scale and make multiple identical rovers and send them to multiple different places on the planet? It worked for Spirit and Opportunity, and instead of wasting so much money designing and building a new rover from scratch every time, build a more modular one and send many of them... even 1 every few years if 2 at once is too expensive. Modular so different experiences can be swapped in or out thus creating slightly different configurations or upgraded models ?
Why design and build from scratch every time and not just design a reliable base model, a lot like the Soyuz, and just slowly evolve it over time or fly it in slightly different configurations? I know a Soyuz capsule is nothing like a mars rover, but a soyuz capsule is human rated and still cheaper than a freaking rover. The same concepts could be applied.
What's crazy is that women still chase after alpha male guys - and in fact - guys exactly like these - instead of intelligent geeks...
Go figure?
I don't think there's any intelligent code running the elevators in my building.
I live in a 14 floor apartment building. I frequently come home in the evenings to see both elevators just chilling idle on the 14th floor....
It makes me want tear my hair out.
The elevators in the high rises I work in don't seem to have these problems. The building I specificlaly work in most of the time has 6 elevators though so its less of an issue though.
That is pretty standard, we have those in New Zealand which is a pissy tiny little country.
I have to say. I don't understand what all the bitching is about.
I ordered mine from farnell (elements24 now?) a few days ago. I live in New Zealand. New-bumfuck-Zealand. Nothing ever arrives here quickly as we're literally in the middle of nowhere. And guess what? I got it next day. And they didn't even charge my credit card until a day AFTER I got it.
It actually came from New South Wales, Australia. Apparantly they have 100s and 100s in stock. Maybe there are shortages elsewhere, I don't know, but Aussies and Kiwis should have no trouble getting theirs.
So far i've had fun playing with mine. Its just headless (plugged only into ethernet and power) and i've been playing with it over ssh. I'm thinking about what home automation I can hook up to it. Also thinking of buying the PiFace, and addon board that buffers the gpios, provides relays and contacts and more.
Have fun and stop bitching about something that - honestly - is the price of a meal at a restaurant for 2. Or only 1 at a fancy restaurant. :)
I believe coal miners can earn over $100k in Australia.
(And the AUD is worth more than the USD.)
Mining is HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE in Australia.
Remember folks, visiting New "Middle Earth" Zealand is all fun and games until a Ringwraith shows up in your hotel room.
Psssh. Nonsense. That kind of stuff never happens here.
Not that often, anyway.
I thought NZ Currency was minted in Australia.
For the longest time NZ had the exact same coins as Australia.
Where are you going?
Australia? New Zealand? Somewhere else? :)
Australia is consistently near the top of all Quality of Life and other measurements, along with Canada and New Zealand.
Here is the latest:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-14/melbourne-remains-worlds-most-liveable-city/4198294
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_Index
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
Do a bit of research and make sure you find the best place to live, not just for yourself but your family, your kids futures and their kids.
Disclaimer: I was born in Australia and moved to New Zealand.
loyal* not local! argh! Must learn to proofread :)
I've been a local Mozilla user forever.
I used Mozilla years before Firefox existed. Eventually Phoenix was spawned and it was renamed and eventually became Firefox.
I used Firefox up until version 6, and the rapid release schedule turned me off.
So a 10+ year firefox user gone... and I imagine it will continue to lose users with this stupid crap they pulled.
*rolls eyes*
Panderen, which started out as an easter egg joke in Warcraft 3 somehow got turned into a full blown expansions in WoW, because, honestly, blizzard has totally ran out of ideas at this point....
Dupe.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village
To be fair, its more than a day or two. But only 2 weeks ago.
Houses generally ARE only worth about $100k.
Its the land that costs so much money.
Also, I don't know what its like in the US, but in New Zealand and in the UK you can buy leasehold properties (as opposed to freehold properties that you are aware of.)
In those cases, you buy the "house" and ONLY the "house". ie, what is built upon the land. And you pay rent (which is reviewed every 7 years or so) for the land.
The crux of this, is, it allows you to buy a nicer house in a much nicer area than you could ever possibly afford.
And one day you can buy the land of the owner, too, if you so please.
KeePass?
Works on Windows, Linux, OSX, iPhone, Android, and more.
You can even store the password database on the cloud if you wanted...
Yeahhhh well. There's always that, I suppose.
I just don't understand. There's been a stream of voting machine stores on and off on slashdot for the last couple years.
We have netbanking. And ATMs. Both reliable. And used by the financial industry for gods sake.
We have ATMs all over the world. They seem to do fine, without any major issues. AND THEY HOLD AND DISPENSE CASH FOR GODS SAKE.
What is so special about designing and manufacturing voting machines ? Why does every voting machine ever built seem to have serious issues and allow you to put in fake votes, or miscount votes, or whatever?
Imagine if you could do this with an ATM, and get extra cash out and the ATM had no idea you did it?
What exactly is it about voting machines that makes it so hard compared to ATMs and every other electronic security device on the planet??! I just don't fucking get it, I'm sorry.
I'm glad I left Australia.
Now I just have to pick up Citizenship somewhere else so I can revoke my Australian Citizenship.
What a joke Australia has become.
How is ChromeOS really all that different to say Android 4.0 running on Tablets?
I guess it supports multiple windows, not just maximised only.... but is it really that different otherwise?
In Auckland you just call a towing company. They come, collect the car free of charge.
The owner then has to pay like $250+ to get their car back.
Pretty much everyone here learns very quickly not to park in someone elses car park....
Auckland, New Zealand has a very very high number of Prius Taxi's, too.
Fuel is also ridiculously expensive here, at NZ$2.20/L. (My quick calculation says that's about US$6.85/US Gallon)