It certainly is in Australia and I think Canada too.
There's quite a bit of discussion about it on the Massive Attack forums.
Quite a few unhappy people. Me included.
Not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption.
sense of the word as the decision on this matter was a reasoned one.
Sure, some decisions may cause a bit of short term pain for some long term gain but being able to make those decisions is part of what good leadership is about.
I pay $24.95 a month for an unlimited 56K connection from Spin.net.au. I have my machine on permanently. It automagically reconnects and it is "always on". Last month I clocked 10 gigs of downstream traffic. The trickle effect seems to work quite nicely, and $760 worth of traffic for free isn't bad either.
That's all well and good, but if you take that $24.95 a month, add your $20 line rental to it, plus your local call cost every time you automagically reconnect the price starts going up.
Doing 10 gigs of traffic a month is probably more than normal. After getting my ADSL just prior to xmas I'm still getting a handle on my usage but from my estimates my "standard" usage (web browsing, email, newsgroups) seems to weigh in at around a gig a month. That basically gives me 3 gigs left to play with for whatever other purposes take my fancy.
I do need "high bandwidth" but that doesn't mean I need to be using it continuously.
I like to be able to listen to the occasional internet radio broadcast while still using my link for browsing etc (not possible over a modem).
I like to get something quickly when I download it.
It's nice when friends come over that they can just hook into my wireless network and use my connection without causing significant congestion on the link.
My electricity supply is "always on", that doesn't mean I should be charged the same if I leave all my appliances on all day as someone who doesn't.
If people using more than a gig a day are in a minority then it is they who should have to request special pricing from an ISP. There's no reason a majority of people who fit in some 'normal usage' bracket should subsidise extreme users by default.
To me it makes sense for an ISP to offer a broad range of pricing options to consumers but if an ISP wants to go down the "one size fits all" route then it makes sense for the size and cost to fit the majority of users.
The overall monthly cost of broadband here doesn't seem to be prohibitively more expensive here than non-broadband internet. I pay $79.95 a month for a 4 gig plan. Previously I was paying $35 a month plus phone costs for unlimited dial up.
Overall I think I get quite a good deal. I have a static IP so I can run my own little web server without hassle. My ISP runs some gaming servers that don't count towards the bandwidth limit and also host copies of Linux ISOs. Only incoming data counts towards the limit (the ISP says they may have a word in extreme cases).
The 4 gig limit is certainly reachable if you consume a lot of "heavy" media. But even then there's enough to download several hours of video a month and have plenty left for general use. If I hit the limit then I get charged 11c a meg which isn't bad if you just use it for mail and web browsing for the rest of the month.
You are right that high bandwidth applications will become more prevelant over time. Hopefully this will be tempered with new technology (eg improved codecs shrinking video further) as well as bandwidth costs being driven down.
Over all the broadband market in Australia seems quite healthy to me. There seems to be enough players to avert a monopoly situation and with ISPs like the one I use offering contract free broadband hopefully there will be enough fluidity to keep competition strong.
It's just hit their FTP servers. If you've signed up for their announcement newsletter (which you get the option to do during your purchase as I recall) then you'll know as soon as they announce it no doubt.
it's likely he did not know the difference between a customs desk and a Qantas desk, in Germany Luftansa desks are also customs desks:)
Is that supposed to make me think he didn't fabricate the story, or that he fabricated it based on his knowledge of German airports without having been to an Australian one. The difference between Qantas and customs desks are quite clear, one of them has a whacking great Qantas logo on it.
More likely he probably came near a Qantas desk (from what he describes).
Unfortunatly he doesn't say what airport he is clearing customs at so I can't tell you if that's impossible based on my airport knowledge.
He's anonymous. The customs officers have their names inexplicably obscured and the one person who could presumably be contacted for more info who'd be outside any potential "cover up theory" is the German official who is inexplicably not named. No mention of what airport. No mention of what hospital. Not a single verifiable fact in the entire post.
People seem to think tha professional politicians are the only people capable of lying to you for subversive purposes, sadly there's plenty of amateur reality spinners out there.
A "Quantas" desk at customs?
A "victim" being handed back to his pals and a German representative in a bloodied and beaten state?
No corroborating evidence in an airport lined with cameras?
In the unlikely situation that the police did say bugger off lawyers would be climbing all over each other to get their opportunistic heads on TV crying racism. International diplomatic incidents such as the one described do not just disappear, particularly in a country where the media loves to find a racial aspect on any news item.
I'll believe it when I hear about it somewhere with more credibility than an AC on slashdot.
Before I got Redhat 7.3 I was compiling GNOME myself which was interesting and educational at the start but got boring after a while and was certainly time consuming.
It's certainly true that source based distribution mechanisms have improved a great deal since those days but I still think I'd be loath to give up the ease and speed of Red Carpet.
I'm impressed by a lot of the software the GNOME project and cousins have produced and seeing as I don't contribute in any practical sense I'm more than happy to throw Ximian some bucks for Red Carpet Express and maybe some to the GNOME foundation this year too.
So you've got a whacking great picture of an alien and an encoded message which clearly indicates intelligence on the part of it's creators. But having apparently ruled out humans as the likely creators I'm not supposed to think there's an implied alien intelligence behind it? Perhaps it's ghosts?
As I said, regardless of unexplained features, human beings remain the most plausible creators.
Lack of a total explanation for how humans could have done it is not evidence that it was done by something else.
Because for all the things that are unexplained
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The "aliens did it" explanation is still a vastly wilder conclusion to jump to than "people did it".
Any server that doesn't need to be accessed from the public internet in the course of it's normal use should be firewalled off from it. That's just common sense.
It seems to me that the important part of the Xine project is it's ability to play video and the fact that you can put whatever interface you want on the front of it. The Xine project has a GTK front end of their own (which I've not seen). And then there's KXine for KDE and Totem for GNOME2 both of which have (or appear to have in the case of KXine which I have not used) an extremely sane user interface.
Just because the core Xine team might not be particularly interested in building such an interface themselves doesn't make them "fucktards". It just means they work on what interests them and are happy to leave it to others to fill in the gaps.
The RIAA and MPAA, building upon their already close relationship with law enforcement agencies, are lobbying to give armed air marshalls the power to shoot on sight anyone caught engaging in "terrorist activities" such as file sharing and unauthorised humming.
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It certainly is in Australia and I think Canada too. There's quite a bit of discussion about it on the Massive Attack forums. Quite a few unhappy people. Me included.
Anyone eating that clearly isn't contemplating living long enough to have to deal with the food poisoning.
Sure, some decisions may cause a bit of short term pain for some long term gain but being able to make those decisions is part of what good leadership is about.
Doing 10 gigs of traffic a month is probably more than normal. After getting my ADSL just prior to xmas I'm still getting a handle on my usage but from my estimates my "standard" usage (web browsing, email, newsgroups) seems to weigh in at around a gig a month. That basically gives me 3 gigs left to play with for whatever other purposes take my fancy.
I do need "high bandwidth" but that doesn't mean I need to be using it continuously.
I like to be able to listen to the occasional internet radio broadcast while still using my link for browsing etc (not possible over a modem).
I like to get something quickly when I download it.
It's nice when friends come over that they can just hook into my wireless network and use my connection without causing significant congestion on the link.
My electricity supply is "always on", that doesn't mean I should be charged the same if I leave all my appliances on all day as someone who doesn't.
If people using more than a gig a day are in a minority then it is they who should have to request special pricing from an ISP. There's no reason a majority of people who fit in some 'normal usage' bracket should subsidise extreme users by default.
To me it makes sense for an ISP to offer a broad range of pricing options to consumers but if an ISP wants to go down the "one size fits all" route then it makes sense for the size and cost to fit the majority of users.
The overall monthly cost of broadband here doesn't seem to be prohibitively more expensive here than non-broadband internet. I pay $79.95 a month for a 4 gig plan. Previously I was paying $35 a month plus phone costs for unlimited dial up.
Overall I think I get quite a good deal. I have a static IP so I can run my own little web server without hassle. My ISP runs some gaming servers that don't count towards the bandwidth limit and also host copies of Linux ISOs. Only incoming data counts towards the limit (the ISP says they may have a word in extreme cases).
The 4 gig limit is certainly reachable if you consume a lot of "heavy" media. But even then there's enough to download several hours of video a month and have plenty left for general use. If I hit the limit then I get charged 11c a meg which isn't bad if you just use it for mail and web browsing for the rest of the month.
You are right that high bandwidth applications will become more prevelant over time. Hopefully this will be tempered with new technology (eg improved codecs shrinking video further) as well as bandwidth costs being driven down.
Over all the broadband market in Australia seems quite healthy to me. There seems to be enough players to avert a monopoly situation and with ISPs like the one I use offering contract free broadband hopefully there will be enough fluidity to keep competition strong.
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for everyone involved in an collision. Crumple zones are all about energy dissapation. Less kinetic energy means less mangling of your car (and you).
All those laser equipped shuttles and space commandos are bound to get his cheque writing hand nice and warmed up :)
It's just hit their FTP servers. If you've signed up for their announcement newsletter (which you get the option to do during your purchase as I recall) then you'll know as soon as they announce it no doubt.
He's anonymous. The customs officers have their names inexplicably obscured and the one person who could presumably be contacted for more info who'd be outside any potential "cover up theory" is the German official who is inexplicably not named. No mention of what airport. No mention of what hospital. Not a single verifiable fact in the entire post.
People seem to think tha professional politicians are the only people capable of lying to you for subversive purposes, sadly there's plenty of amateur reality spinners out there.
A "Quantas" desk at customs? A "victim" being handed back to his pals and a German representative in a bloodied and beaten state? No corroborating evidence in an airport lined with cameras? In the unlikely situation that the police did say bugger off lawyers would be climbing all over each other to get their opportunistic heads on TV crying racism. International diplomatic incidents such as the one described do not just disappear, particularly in a country where the media loves to find a racial aspect on any news item. I'll believe it when I hear about it somewhere with more credibility than an AC on slashdot.
Gimme a fucking break.
so it doesn't matter.
Before I got Redhat 7.3 I was compiling GNOME myself which was interesting and educational at the start but got boring after a while and was certainly time consuming. It's certainly true that source based distribution mechanisms have improved a great deal since those days but I still think I'd be loath to give up the ease and speed of Red Carpet. I'm impressed by a lot of the software the GNOME project and cousins have produced and seeing as I don't contribute in any practical sense I'm more than happy to throw Ximian some bucks for Red Carpet Express and maybe some to the GNOME foundation this year too.
So you've got a whacking great picture of an alien and an encoded message which clearly indicates intelligence on the part of it's creators. But having apparently ruled out humans as the likely creators I'm not supposed to think there's an implied alien intelligence behind it? Perhaps it's ghosts? As I said, regardless of unexplained features, human beings remain the most plausible creators. Lack of a total explanation for how humans could have done it is not evidence that it was done by something else.
The "aliens did it" explanation is still a vastly wilder conclusion to jump to than "people did it".
Because if they did they'd now that an ACK character is used to acknowledge receipt of a transmission not to request acknowledgement.
Any server that doesn't need to be accessed from the public internet in the course of it's normal use should be firewalled off from it. That's just common sense.
Just because the core Xine team might not be particularly interested in building such an interface themselves doesn't make them "fucktards". It just means they work on what interests them and are happy to leave it to others to fill in the gaps.
I wish I'd thought of that :)
The RIAA and MPAA, building upon their already close relationship with law enforcement agencies, are lobbying to give armed air marshalls the power to shoot on sight anyone caught engaging in "terrorist activities" such as file sharing and unauthorised humming.