Optus' 100Mbps plan is what they call the "Optus Premium Speed Pack". An extra AU$20/mo on almost any Cable plan, plus a new DOCSIS3.0 modem, and you'll be chewing through your monthly quota about 5 times as fast. Then they throttle you.
If you get the more expensive Fusion plans (the 'Unlimited' ones) the throttling speed is 256kbps. They try getting away with that because 256kbps is the minimum speed to technically be 'Broadband'. ACCC, attack!
Aside from the government making money. Applications that get classified as RC wouldn't be affected by any of the RC restrictions.
The biggest restriction is that RC material cannot be sold in brick and mortar stores. iOS Apps aren't.
Inputting my friend's router's MAC address on his site (here) results in a location circle about 3km wide and about 10km away from his house.
Close, but not close enough.
The regulation, issued by the Ministry of Culture on June 22, is said to be part of a nationwide campaign to improve management of the virtual gaming industry and protect the minor from unwholesome content. It applies to all multiplayer role-playing and social networking games.
How does knowing a players name determine if they are a minor or not? It's not like they get something suffixed to their name once they turn 18/21 (select where applicable).
A "proper tablet computer" will probably not exist, at least not in the future, considering it has all the disadvantages of the tablet form factor, and absolutely no advantages. All the tablet PCs prior to the iPad failed to attract consumer attention, because they were really just a gimmick.
As long as Microsoft keeps piling a desktop OS on to a touchscreen-only device, Microsoft can never have a good tablet device. Apple put a touchscreen-only-device OS on a bigger touchscreen-only device, and it's taken off. Android will need to play catch-up in both phones and tablets. I've seen some horrible implementations of Android on phones (usually horrible due to HTC Sense), but no good ones yet. (Droid [X] and Evo 4G aren't available in Australia AFAIK.) I haven't seen any Android tablets yet, but the ones I've seen online seem to be junk hardware with Android thrown on top - that's not going to make for a good user experience.
HP's future with WebOS will be interesting, as like Apple, they will control both the hardware and the software. HP is really the only company that is in any position whatsoever to take on Apple's portable devices market. If they do this right, you may just have your wish - it won't be running Windows 7 (or 8 at the time), though.
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I'm all for a curated Facebook Apps store, I'm sick of the garbage that's on there.
They probably got to it a little like this
It's enterprise-ready. (It + you) isn't.
make equipment that shoots back.
Command+Down works as well.
Optus' 100Mbps plan is what they call the "Optus Premium Speed Pack". An extra AU$20/mo on almost any Cable plan, plus a new DOCSIS3.0 modem, and you'll be chewing through your monthly quota about 5 times as fast. Then they throttle you. If you get the more expensive Fusion plans (the 'Unlimited' ones) the throttling speed is 256kbps. They try getting away with that because 256kbps is the minimum speed to technically be 'Broadband'. ACCC, attack!
430 out of >1,000,000,000,000
Chrome already uses the Keyring... at least it does for me.
Hasn't Australian politics always been a lesser-of-two-evils? I think the Chaser hit the nail on the head: Undecided, Uninspired, Unimpressed
Aside from the government making money. Applications that get classified as RC wouldn't be affected by any of the RC restrictions. The biggest restriction is that RC material cannot be sold in brick and mortar stores. iOS Apps aren't.
... but cake still nowhere in sight.
smartphones, tablets, laptops, digital cameras, and gaming devices.
Gaming devices? Who would put an Xbox, Wii, etc. in a car?
You're doing it wrong.
It doesn't surprise me in the least,
The only software my Uni requires is completely cross-platform because it's Java-based. It also kills my battery life.
If only someone brought Sparkle to Windows...
If you read Matthew Reilly's Seven Ancient Wonders, you would know Australia dominates the globe.
it could fire blue, red and green turtle shells....
Looks more menacing when the stormtroopers appear to have pincers.
Inputting my friend's router's MAC address on his site (here) results in a location circle about 3km wide and about 10km away from his house. Close, but not close enough.
I'm sure Goatse Security is on to it.
when they have WGA/WPA?
If you want to learn Objective-C, the iPhone Application Development course (Stanford) on iTunes U is extremely useful.
The regulation, issued by the Ministry of Culture on June 22, is said to be part of a nationwide campaign to improve management of the virtual gaming industry and protect the minor from unwholesome content. It applies to all multiplayer role-playing and social networking games.
How does knowing a players name determine if they are a minor or not? It's not like they get something suffixed to their name once they turn 18/21 (select where applicable).
A "proper tablet computer" will probably not exist, at least not in the future, considering it has all the disadvantages of the tablet form factor, and absolutely no advantages. All the tablet PCs prior to the iPad failed to attract consumer attention, because they were really just a gimmick. As long as Microsoft keeps piling a desktop OS on to a touchscreen-only device, Microsoft can never have a good tablet device. Apple put a touchscreen-only-device OS on a bigger touchscreen-only device, and it's taken off. Android will need to play catch-up in both phones and tablets. I've seen some horrible implementations of Android on phones (usually horrible due to HTC Sense), but no good ones yet. (Droid [X] and Evo 4G aren't available in Australia AFAIK.) I haven't seen any Android tablets yet, but the ones I've seen online seem to be junk hardware with Android thrown on top - that's not going to make for a good user experience. HP's future with WebOS will be interesting, as like Apple, they will control both the hardware and the software. HP is really the only company that is in any position whatsoever to take on Apple's portable devices market. If they do this right, you may just have your wish - it won't be running Windows 7 (or 8 at the time), though.