I don't have any statistics (and the stats mentioned in the summary didn't sound too right) but from what I see here, people generally never use cash. You just see people using EFTPOS everywhere they go, for any small trivial amount.
Line up to get food somewhere, and every person infront of you pays using EFTPOS.
I go many many months without ever carrying a single bill or coin on me, and most people around me seem to be the same.
You see little fruit and vege vendors sitting on the side of roads, even out in the country. And they all accept EFTPOS.
But there's no difference between a smart phone and tablet. One just has a bigger screen, and that's it. Obviously talking about 3g tablets, and ignoring the ipad which is artificially gimped to stop you from using it to send/recv text messages and calls without jailbreaking it. Android tablets are just big screen phones.
The American food industry is entirely based on an over abundance of dirt cheap corn.
You also have cheap (and often illegal) Mexican workers.
You also have some of the lowest (or THE lowest?) wages in the western world, where the only way people can get by is on tips. (tipping is a completely unheard of concept most other places, especially in AU/NZ where I am from).
All those factors, combined with cheap gas prices is why American food prices (and prices in general) are so cheap.
There may also be other factors I haven't considered.
Here in New Zealand it's $2.10 NZD per litre and has been as high as $2.26 per litre. I'm too lazy to do the currency conversion but pretty sure that's even higher than what the Europeans pay.
So yeah. *plays small violin for the Americans*
Personally, I can't wait till food prices in America reach the levels it does in Australia/New Zealand/Europe/Rest of the World. Everything costs twice as much, if not more.
You guys have it SO DAMN GOOD and have no appreciation for it. Pretty sure your ridiculously cheap prices across the board are going to be unsustainable over the long term.
Does this mean we need to organise more blackouts?
I'd like to see google actually blackout properly, like wikipedia did....
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Plenty of netbooks connect to 3G.
My HP mini 5102 does, for example.
And it has 8+ hrs of battery life. And it runs Windows 7 so I still get Office, and all my other native windows apps (including ones I need for my job, like vSphere Client.)
The Black Friday fires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world, and certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of land affected. Almost 20,000 km (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burnt, 71 people died, several towns were entirely destroyed.
I'm sorry, I'm quite confused. 3g data is 3g data, whether its on the kindle or on a phone. And if you're in another country, both the 3g kindle and your phone are on data roaming.
How is it suddenly not data roaming based on what device your sim is in? o.o
As an Australian, I still don't understand why you have to pay when someone calls you..... that is just such a weird bizzare foreign concept it literally makes my head explode.
Firefox 4, 5, and 6 were piles of overbloated resource hogging pieces of SHIT.
I've been using Mozilla from before the firefox days, hell I even used firefox before it was called firefox (remember phoenix anyone?), but firefox truly has gone the bloated route now.
Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6.
I've personally switched to Chrome everywhere, and looking at getting the entire office at work switched from Firefox to Chrome as well (the rapid release cycle of Firefox is nuts, its more rapid than even Chrome and the browser only gets worse with each new release anyway.)
On one mission you play as an inside CIA agent whom has infiltrated a terrorist inner circle who go on a shooting spree at an Airport. You get to mow down endless Civilians. Though the mission is skipable. And you actually succeed in the mission, even if you don't shoot anyone and just let your compadres do all the civilian killing.
FreeBSD had always ran Linux binaries faster than Linux. Interesting that this may still be the case.
Point, though, that the 'Linux Emulator' in FreeBSD isn't really an Emulator. FreeBSD runs Linux binaries natively. The so called 'Linux Emulator' just provides Linux syscall capabilities to the FreeBSD kernel.
And of course, Linux libc and other libraries need to be provided (which the linux binary was linked against), and probably linux's/proc is also needed to satisfy various linux binaries. But its by no means an 'emulator', is just provides the services a Linux executable expects.
Firefox 4, 5, and 6 were piles of overbloated resource hogging pieces of SHIT.
Firefox 7? Too little too late, my friend.
I've been using Mozilla from before the firefox days, hell I even used firefox before it was called firefox (remember phoenix anyone?), but firefox truly has gone the bloated route now.
Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6.
I've personally switched to Chrome everywhere, and looking at getting the entire office at work switched from Firefox to Chrome as well (the rapid release cycle of Firefox is nuts, its more rapid than even Chrome and the browser only gets worse with each new release anyway.)
While lots of people hate PayPal for various reasons, they have one thing that is really slick: The ability to use your cellphone as a FOB. Everyone has a cell phone these days, and if you set it up, PayPal will text your phone with a secondary authentication code when you login with your password. So even if someone gets your password, unless they also have your cell phone, they still can't login. Why every bank doesn't have this security feature is beyond me.
Both my banks do.... CBA in Australia, and ASB in New Zealand.
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Here in New Zealand we're pretty cashless too.
I don't have any statistics (and the stats mentioned in the summary didn't sound too right) but from what I see here, people generally never use cash. You just see people using EFTPOS everywhere they go, for any small trivial amount.
Line up to get food somewhere, and every person infront of you pays using EFTPOS.
I go many many months without ever carrying a single bill or coin on me, and most people around me seem to be the same.
You see little fruit and vege vendors sitting on the side of roads, even out in the country. And they all accept EFTPOS.
So yeah. We're pretty cashless in New Zealand.
But there's no difference between a smart phone and tablet. One just has a bigger screen, and that's it. Obviously talking about 3g tablets, and ignoring the ipad which is artificially gimped to stop you from using it to send/recv text messages and calls without jailbreaking it. Android tablets are just big screen phones.
People screaming about the start button are, imho, idiots.
Honestly? Fuck you.
What Microsoft has done to Windows 8 is abysmal.
I used to use facebook since the early days.
But then I deleted it. My google+, facebook, all gone.
Got sick of the privacy issues, having my personal information being sold for money (while I get NO benefit from it), and now THIS ....
I really wish Bill Gates let Apple die...
I don't believe its entirely due to gas prices.
The American food industry is entirely based on an over abundance of dirt cheap corn.
You also have cheap (and often illegal) Mexican workers.
You also have some of the lowest (or THE lowest?) wages in the western world, where the only way people can get by is on tips. (tipping is a completely unheard of concept most other places, especially in AU/NZ where I am from).
All those factors, combined with cheap gas prices is why American food prices (and prices in general) are so cheap.
There may also be other factors I haven't considered.
Here in New Zealand it's $2.10 NZD per litre and has been as high as $2.26 per litre. I'm too lazy to do the currency conversion but pretty sure that's even higher than what the Europeans pay.
So yeah. *plays small violin for the Americans*
Personally, I can't wait till food prices in America reach the levels it does in Australia/New Zealand/Europe/Rest of the World. Everything costs twice as much, if not more.
You guys have it SO DAMN GOOD and have no appreciation for it. Pretty sure your ridiculously cheap prices across the board are going to be unsustainable over the long term.
What I find disappointing is the negative way the media in New Zealand is portraying Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz.
NZ police acted on US request for help
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780138
They raided him with freaking helicopters!! :
Police complete Dotcom search
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780142
Dotcom birthday party targeted
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780321
Dotcom's lavish life of parties and luxury
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780514
Dotcom 'extreme' flight risk - Crown
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780553
Dotcom case 'not open and shut'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10781113
What I find disturbing is the negative way the media in New Zealand is portraying Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz.
NZ police acted on US request for help
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780138
They raided him with freaking helicopters!! :
Police complete Dotcom search
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780142
Dotcom birthday party targeted
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780321
Dotcom's lavish life of parties and luxury
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780514
Dotcom 'extreme' flight risk - Crown
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780553
Dotcom case 'not open and shut'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10781113
Does this mean we need to organise more blackouts?
I'd like to see google actually blackout properly, like wikipedia did....
Plenty of netbooks connect to 3G.
My HP mini 5102 does, for example.
And it has 8+ hrs of battery life. And it runs Windows 7 so I still get Office, and all my other native windows apps (including ones I need for my job, like vSphere Client.)
Lets try again, shall we?
Original iPhone: iPhone 1,1
iPhone 3G: iPhone 2,1
iPhone 3GS: iPhone 2,2
iPhone 4: iPhone 3,1 (its really the 3!)
iPhone 4S: iPhone 3,2
iPhone 5: iPhone 4,1 ??
You guys need to have some respect and stop calling it Black Friday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1939)
The Black Friday fires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world, and certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of land affected. Almost 20,000 km (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burnt, 71 people died, several towns were entirely destroyed.
How the hell does that work ?
And can't you put the kindle's sim into your phone then ?
I'm sorry, I'm quite confused. 3g data is 3g data, whether its on the kindle or on a phone. And if you're in another country, both the 3g kindle and your phone are on data roaming.
How is it suddenly not data roaming based on what device your sim is in? o.o
We should be breeding this trait RIGHT NOW.
As an Australian, I still don't understand why you have to pay when someone calls you ..... that is just such a weird bizzare foreign concept it literally makes my head explode.
You PAY when someone else CALLS YOU?
WHAT THE HELL ??
Agreed. This whole 'programming' or 'CS' is not IT seems foreign to me.
Like I posted before...
Firefox 4, 5, and 6 were piles of overbloated resource hogging pieces of SHIT.
I've been using Mozilla from before the firefox days, hell I even used firefox before it was called firefox (remember phoenix anyone?), but firefox truly has gone the bloated route now.
Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6.
I've personally switched to Chrome everywhere, and looking at getting the entire office at work switched from Firefox to Chrome as well (the rapid release cycle of Firefox is nuts, its more rapid than even Chrome and the browser only gets worse with each new release anyway.)
Dunno. I've been on slashdot forever.
I get mod points all the time. Like really often. For years now. I and when I do, I always get 15 at a time.
I really have no idea why....
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 anyone?
On one mission you play as an inside CIA agent whom has infiltrated a terrorist inner circle who go on a shooting spree at an Airport. You get to mow down endless Civilians. Though the mission is skipable. And you actually succeed in the mission, even if you don't shoot anyone and just let your compadres do all the civilian killing.
See for more details: http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/No_Russian
FreeBSD had always ran Linux binaries faster than Linux. Interesting that this may still be the case.
Point, though, that the 'Linux Emulator' in FreeBSD isn't really an Emulator. FreeBSD runs Linux binaries natively. The so called 'Linux Emulator' just provides Linux syscall capabilities to the FreeBSD kernel.
And of course, Linux libc and other libraries need to be provided (which the linux binary was linked against), and probably linux's /proc is also needed to satisfy various linux binaries. But its by no means an 'emulator', is just provides the services a Linux executable expects.
You can buy parts for these lasers even cheaper.
Just the Laser Diode, or with a laser module all prewired ready to go.
ie: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1W-445nm-Blue-Laser-Module-W-Flexdrive-Aixiz-Glass-/180707971676?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1308d25c#ht_31219wt_1139
Firefox 4, 5, and 6 were piles of overbloated resource hogging pieces of SHIT.
Firefox 7? Too little too late, my friend.
I've been using Mozilla from before the firefox days, hell I even used firefox before it was called firefox (remember phoenix anyone?), but firefox truly has gone the bloated route now.
Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6.
I've personally switched to Chrome everywhere, and looking at getting the entire office at work switched from Firefox to Chrome as well (the rapid release cycle of Firefox is nuts, its more rapid than even Chrome and the browser only gets worse with each new release anyway.)
While lots of people hate PayPal for various reasons, they have one thing that is really slick: The ability to use your cellphone as a FOB. Everyone has a cell phone these days, and if you set it up, PayPal will text your phone with a secondary authentication code when you login with your password. So even if someone gets your password, unless they also have your cell phone, they still can't login. Why every bank doesn't have this security feature is beyond me.
Both my banks do.... CBA in Australia, and ASB in New Zealand.
US Banks don't do it?