But despite piracy being a service problem, i still get quite frustrated with the DRM of steam (especially with australian internet connections), the only company to do it right is GOG, gaben shouldn't get much credit for it at all, he just talked the talk without walking the walk.
Well the aussie gumberment did sign ACTA, what's most surprising is, there have been large protests in europe over ACTA, yet, it breezed through here in skipville pretty much without a mention in the media (mind you, it was agreed to before the protests in europe)
I've got a SGS1 i9000, my carrier only goes up to 2.3.3, so there's no more updates without manually updating in a warranty breaking sort of way. The bug is where the SoC won't go into idle state, so the phone can be in your pocket, while the SoC is more or less active, and the battery will go from full to flat in about 5-6 hours like that. The only way you can tell it's happening is the battery goes flat quicker than normal. I think i'll just go and whinge under warranty, because it's really unreliable, some apps will trigger it almost everytime.
What astounds me, is my android phone has a battery bug, since august last year, and noone cares, i'm not getting any updates. At least all the noise apple gets compels them to resolve the problem.
I think this is an interesting post, because i have been thinking that a lot of countries with spy agencies are going to be stumbling across all sorts of valuable information, and in a nutshell, some of it can easily help an economy or help a country technologically advance. I have no doubt, that the spy agencies do some industrial espionage, and some companies get the benefit of that information.
That's true, the NSW greens don't even hide the fact that they're socialists, the rest of the greens in general are hell bent on just taking over, and pushing a left agenda. If they ever get any real power, all they'll do is consolidate it, and become authoritarian, because they already treat themselves as authorities even though they're minority, and plateaued at ~10% of the vote.
Problem is, will everyone have a UPS? Maybe people who can't live without interwebs for a few seconds will get a UPS, but vast majority of people won't, and they won't be contactable. I think the copper network has its advantages, you can't gloss over the impracticality of the copper network being a lot more reliable than a fibre network. I have never had the phone not work. I've had plenty of problems with voip, and numerous internet outtages due to ISP's, but never ever was the copper network not working.
Do you honestly expect Telstra not to try and screw up the NBN.
Well, telstra is selling the copper network to the NBN, so who knows, telstra is going to make a packet at the taxpayers expense. I personally think there's merit in maintaining the copper network, only because, it doesn't switch off in a blackout, but i suppose, with the prevalance of mobiles, it's probably much of a muchness.
Capitalism is when one man exploits another man, socialism is the other way around
I'm from a polish background, and i particularly despise hearing from people like the AC OP who yearn for their old system, yet somehow, find themselves in what they consider to be the worst place. Ironic huh. Fact of the matter is, lots of people benefited under communism (sad thing is that they were actively benefiting from the poverty and exploitation of others), when the cracks in the eastern block was starting to show in the 70's, lots of communists started to bail to capitalist countries, taking a fair bit of wealth with them, which may sound ironic, but in reality, they were supporters of communism, because it was economically beneficial to them, they went to capitalist countries, because it would be economically beneficial to them.
The fact of the matter is, socialism is a scourge, but it will take 3-4 generations before the countries that were inflicted will be able to overcome the damage, maybe even more. The bottom line is, I'm always incredibly wary of anyone who's desired system involves everyone to conform to that system. I'm very sceptical that it's an acceptable system when people need to be subdued by force, the history of communism is as despicable as it can get, there was no leaving, it was illegal to leave.
Second: Some countries (maybe not Hungary) have special papers used in their currency. (little blue and red threads in US, other special plastics used in Australia, etc). You don't want tons of this stuff roaming around for counterfeiters to pick up for free off of the back of a truck.
You wouldn't want to burn aussie money though, it's actually worth something now.
Funny, our Aussie dollar is worth more than the US dollar, and has been for a while. That reminds me, gotta start importing crap that's too expensive over here. In any case i get the feeling inflating you currency is moreso to put your country in a competitive position against others.
I was trying to be ironic (the brits were right, irony is lost on americans), just like the OP, ban CP and it will all go away, so i merely extended that, ban drugs and all the problems associated with them will go away, which clearly has not been the case, it exacerbates the problem, same thing with guns, when you have oppressive firearm laws, you just look at NYC, Chicago and Washington DC (which afaik has relaxed its laws recently), they have very oppressive laws but when you look at statistics for places with higher rates of firearm ownership, there's somewhat less violent crime.
I own firearms, and I think anyone who thinks that people shouldn't have firearms because they can kill is quite plainly, a victim of left wing propaganda, the evidence just doesn't support their claims, and their attempts are always at public disarmament not solving any problem, so I can only conclude that they are ideologically against firearm ownership because it's a potential force in their way. My point is, banning things usually doesn't work, it's a vicious attempt by idiots and politicians to be seen to be doing something rather than actually doing anything.
Broken sword on the wii worked surprisingly well, i was quite impressed. Wiimote for point and click is perfectly fine in my opinion, whereas the controllers, and realistically, even the kinect aren't all that brilliant on xbox and ps3.
The wiimote actually works quite well as a pointer, i think something like it would probably somewhat better than kinect, which i personally find somewhat unpolished.
That sounds ridiculous, because, would i be able to get a renault with a ferrari engine? Why should i be forced to buy a car bundled with a plain vanilla renault diesel engine if i can get a ferrari v12 crammed in (hypothetically speaking). Like would i literally have a complete bill of materials for something like a car where i can pick and choose what i want and don't want? Would i get spare parts prices with the refunds?
You could argue, that without windows, the computer won't have drivers, and hence there's no warranty since they can't guarantee third party software, until they decide to support other OS's. So using a "blank hdd" is not necessary.
It would be terribly ironic if the links in the post went to said malware sites. Getting more and more happier that i don't use facebook anyway. The problem i have though, a lot of malware is obvious that it's malware, usually by disabling you from doing certain things, like viewing hidden files, or even letting you run process explorer (which has helped me overcome virus' in the past, enough so that i could backup stuff and reinstall the OS) but what i'm worried about are the virus' which don't show themselves, considering the bad virus' i've gotten in the past have ranged from suspect sites, to trusted sites that became hacked and had the malware loaded on.
The last federal election in Australia had something like 16,000 discrepancies, the problem in Aus, is that you aren't require to prove your identity to vote, you do need to identify yourself, but that only means stating your name and address, so that you get crossed off the list, but each electorate has many polling booths, each with many lists, so the same person can vote numerous times, and even though the electoral office will eventually see that, they can't prove whether it was that actual person who went to vote a number of times, pretty much unless they admit it.
Having worked at elections, i would argue that people should be required to prove who they are to vote, but i would be strongly against any electronic system for voting, as i think the old fashioned ballot paper does its job, and while open to some error, is somewhat harder to fabricate, the ballots are there, they all have different scribbles on them, and if any totals go pear shaped, the ballots can always be recounted, again, having worked at the elections, i can say with full confidence that Australian election are not rigged, even though 16,000 discrepancies, that's across 150 electorates all around 80,000 voters in size, and i do think something should be done to reduce the cases of electoral fraud, however, on the whole, voter sentiment ultimately wins as the fraud is only ever a problem in marginal seats, and both sides in the two party system do it, so they kind of cancel each other out. Close results usually mean that there's less than 1,000 votes between the two preferred candidates.
That's more or less how it happens here in Australia, which has compulsory attendance, turnout rates end up being above 90%, except for the extended period of voting, here it's only ever a single day from 8am to 6pm. With compulsory attendance, we do have laws which compel employers to release workers to go to vote but they just about always select a saturday and since there is a need to process so many individuals, schools, church halls, public halls, hospitals, pretty much any government or building voluntarily offered is used for voting.
well clearly, if people are going to see movies more and more, they aren't charging enough. It is slowly coming out that these mammoth industries are being protected from having to compete in a new technological paradigm, where they're no longer the gatekeepers, and their business model is dictating what consumers consume, and that business model is failing now, and governments are trying to protect it.
Right, so the gangs are importing heaps and heaps of drugs, and evading detections, yet, bringing in illegal firearms seems to be a difficulty for them. The gangs have no shortage of illegal firearms. There have been a few factories producing weapons, but a lot of them, i would presume come through the same avenues that drugs do.
That's true, the snow here is bad, and expensive, it quite often is better to go off the new zealand for a ski trip, as you'll end up paying less, and have decent snow fields.
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Tooooooooooooooooo laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate (in my best james brown voice)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
We (used loosely) have already signed
But despite piracy being a service problem, i still get quite frustrated with the DRM of steam (especially with australian internet connections), the only company to do it right is GOG, gaben shouldn't get much credit for it at all, he just talked the talk without walking the walk.
Well the aussie gumberment did sign ACTA, what's most surprising is, there have been large protests in europe over ACTA, yet, it breezed through here in skipville pretty much without a mention in the media (mind you, it was agreed to before the protests in europe)
I've got a SGS1 i9000, my carrier only goes up to 2.3.3, so there's no more updates without manually updating in a warranty breaking sort of way. The bug is where the SoC won't go into idle state, so the phone can be in your pocket, while the SoC is more or less active, and the battery will go from full to flat in about 5-6 hours like that. The only way you can tell it's happening is the battery goes flat quicker than normal. I think i'll just go and whinge under warranty, because it's really unreliable, some apps will trigger it almost everytime.
What astounds me, is my android phone has a battery bug, since august last year, and noone cares, i'm not getting any updates. At least all the noise apple gets compels them to resolve the problem.
I think this is an interesting post, because i have been thinking that a lot of countries with spy agencies are going to be stumbling across all sorts of valuable information, and in a nutshell, some of it can easily help an economy or help a country technologically advance. I have no doubt, that the spy agencies do some industrial espionage, and some companies get the benefit of that information.
That's true, the NSW greens don't even hide the fact that they're socialists, the rest of the greens in general are hell bent on just taking over, and pushing a left agenda. If they ever get any real power, all they'll do is consolidate it, and become authoritarian, because they already treat themselves as authorities even though they're minority, and plateaued at ~10% of the vote.
Problem is, will everyone have a UPS? Maybe people who can't live without interwebs for a few seconds will get a UPS, but vast majority of people won't, and they won't be contactable. I think the copper network has its advantages, you can't gloss over the impracticality of the copper network being a lot more reliable than a fibre network. I have never had the phone not work. I've had plenty of problems with voip, and numerous internet outtages due to ISP's, but never ever was the copper network not working.
Do you honestly expect Telstra not to try and screw up the NBN.
Well, telstra is selling the copper network to the NBN, so who knows, telstra is going to make a packet at the taxpayers expense. I personally think there's merit in maintaining the copper network, only because, it doesn't switch off in a blackout, but i suppose, with the prevalance of mobiles, it's probably much of a muchness.
Capitalism is when one man exploits another man, socialism is the other way around
I'm from a polish background, and i particularly despise hearing from people like the AC OP who yearn for their old system, yet somehow, find themselves in what they consider to be the worst place. Ironic huh. Fact of the matter is, lots of people benefited under communism (sad thing is that they were actively benefiting from the poverty and exploitation of others), when the cracks in the eastern block was starting to show in the 70's, lots of communists started to bail to capitalist countries, taking a fair bit of wealth with them, which may sound ironic, but in reality, they were supporters of communism, because it was economically beneficial to them, they went to capitalist countries, because it would be economically beneficial to them.
The fact of the matter is, socialism is a scourge, but it will take 3-4 generations before the countries that were inflicted will be able to overcome the damage, maybe even more. The bottom line is, I'm always incredibly wary of anyone who's desired system involves everyone to conform to that system. I'm very sceptical that it's an acceptable system when people need to be subdued by force, the history of communism is as despicable as it can get, there was no leaving, it was illegal to leave.
Second: Some countries (maybe not Hungary) have special papers used in their currency. (little blue and red threads in US, other special plastics used in Australia, etc). You don't want tons of this stuff roaming around for counterfeiters to pick up for free off of the back of a truck.
You wouldn't want to burn aussie money though, it's actually worth something now.
Funny, our Aussie dollar is worth more than the US dollar, and has been for a while. That reminds me, gotta start importing crap that's too expensive over here. In any case i get the feeling inflating you currency is moreso to put your country in a competitive position against others.
I was trying to be ironic (the brits were right, irony is lost on americans), just like the OP, ban CP and it will all go away, so i merely extended that, ban drugs and all the problems associated with them will go away, which clearly has not been the case, it exacerbates the problem, same thing with guns, when you have oppressive firearm laws, you just look at NYC, Chicago and Washington DC (which afaik has relaxed its laws recently), they have very oppressive laws but when you look at statistics for places with higher rates of firearm ownership, there's somewhat less violent crime.
I own firearms, and I think anyone who thinks that people shouldn't have firearms because they can kill is quite plainly, a victim of left wing propaganda, the evidence just doesn't support their claims, and their attempts are always at public disarmament not solving any problem, so I can only conclude that they are ideologically against firearm ownership because it's a potential force in their way. My point is, banning things usually doesn't work, it's a vicious attempt by idiots and politicians to be seen to be doing something rather than actually doing anything.
and drugs, don't forget to ban drugs, guns too.
Broken sword on the wii worked surprisingly well, i was quite impressed. Wiimote for point and click is perfectly fine in my opinion, whereas the controllers, and realistically, even the kinect aren't all that brilliant on xbox and ps3.
The wiimote actually works quite well as a pointer, i think something like it would probably somewhat better than kinect, which i personally find somewhat unpolished.
That sounds ridiculous, because, would i be able to get a renault with a ferrari engine? Why should i be forced to buy a car bundled with a plain vanilla renault diesel engine if i can get a ferrari v12 crammed in (hypothetically speaking). Like would i literally have a complete bill of materials for something like a car where i can pick and choose what i want and don't want? Would i get spare parts prices with the refunds?
You could argue, that without windows, the computer won't have drivers, and hence there's no warranty since they can't guarantee third party software, until they decide to support other OS's. So using a "blank hdd" is not necessary.
It would be terribly ironic if the links in the post went to said malware sites. Getting more and more happier that i don't use facebook anyway. The problem i have though, a lot of malware is obvious that it's malware, usually by disabling you from doing certain things, like viewing hidden files, or even letting you run process explorer (which has helped me overcome virus' in the past, enough so that i could backup stuff and reinstall the OS) but what i'm worried about are the virus' which don't show themselves, considering the bad virus' i've gotten in the past have ranged from suspect sites, to trusted sites that became hacked and had the malware loaded on.
The last federal election in Australia had something like 16,000 discrepancies, the problem in Aus, is that you aren't require to prove your identity to vote, you do need to identify yourself, but that only means stating your name and address, so that you get crossed off the list, but each electorate has many polling booths, each with many lists, so the same person can vote numerous times, and even though the electoral office will eventually see that, they can't prove whether it was that actual person who went to vote a number of times, pretty much unless they admit it.
Having worked at elections, i would argue that people should be required to prove who they are to vote, but i would be strongly against any electronic system for voting, as i think the old fashioned ballot paper does its job, and while open to some error, is somewhat harder to fabricate, the ballots are there, they all have different scribbles on them, and if any totals go pear shaped, the ballots can always be recounted, again, having worked at the elections, i can say with full confidence that Australian election are not rigged, even though 16,000 discrepancies, that's across 150 electorates all around 80,000 voters in size, and i do think something should be done to reduce the cases of electoral fraud, however, on the whole, voter sentiment ultimately wins as the fraud is only ever a problem in marginal seats, and both sides in the two party system do it, so they kind of cancel each other out. Close results usually mean that there's less than 1,000 votes between the two preferred candidates.
That's more or less how it happens here in Australia, which has compulsory attendance, turnout rates end up being above 90%, except for the extended period of voting, here it's only ever a single day from 8am to 6pm. With compulsory attendance, we do have laws which compel employers to release workers to go to vote but they just about always select a saturday and since there is a need to process so many individuals, schools, church halls, public halls, hospitals, pretty much any government or building voluntarily offered is used for voting.
well clearly, if people are going to see movies more and more, they aren't charging enough. It is slowly coming out that these mammoth industries are being protected from having to compete in a new technological paradigm, where they're no longer the gatekeepers, and their business model is dictating what consumers consume, and that business model is failing now, and governments are trying to protect it.
Right, so the gangs are importing heaps and heaps of drugs, and evading detections, yet, bringing in illegal firearms seems to be a difficulty for them. The gangs have no shortage of illegal firearms. There have been a few factories producing weapons, but a lot of them, i would presume come through the same avenues that drugs do.
yea, i might finally have a good reason to own a .416 rigby and a 4 bore
That's true, the snow here is bad, and expensive, it quite often is better to go off the new zealand for a ski trip, as you'll end up paying less, and have decent snow fields.