My Aussie gamer friends are all on Internode, so there must be a reason.;)
I believe their ping is quite low to North America. (Something like 220ms for L4D - BigPond is apparently 250+ ms, in addition to their caps being horribly low)
My understanding: Internode is great if you are a gamer or need lots of support. TPG is great if you are not a gamer, don't need support, and don't want to pay more than the minimum.
I'm with TPG because they are cheap, fast enough, and it would cost me about 60% more to go with Internode and get the same monthly download limits (I am on 70GB a month + another 60 GB during "offpeak" times - for AU$50 a month). Cannot see the point of changing.
From time to time, TPG significantly increase the monthly download limit for the $50/month plan. That has kept me happy as the family's usage has increased (i.e. streaming video).
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
It isn't any better the other way around: two sheep and a wolf voting on what's for dinner.
You don't care how much of a majority the sheep have, you know that the wolf will eat them anyway.
And THAT is democracy: the voters vote, and the corporations subvert both the voters (guess who own all the media?) and the government (guess who funds all the politicians?)
I work in an organisation of less than 50 staff. We have an IT section which reports to the director for corporate services. That director also looks after Accounts.
The organisation helps the public. Accounts and IT help the organisation. That's why it is called "corporate services". No matter what line of business - medical, real estate, legal, retail, etc - some needs exist in any organisation of significant size: they need to pay their bills and they need their computers and networks and data backups running smoothly.
So IT is usually a corporate service, unless you are a university (farm out the job to the Computer Science faculty) or maybe a smallish software company (let your computer geeks play with the network etc as well as write code).
I'll go along with that argument, as long as we can throw politicians in jail any time there is some economic disturbance that impacts the population. After all, they should be able to accurately predict and prevent such things.
No, that's when you throw the economists in jail.
You throw the politicians in jail when they wrongly forecast their chances at the next election.
What is also usually missing from at least the summaries of these articles is that most of these things are based on already implemented existing laws in either Europe, the UK, Canada or the USA
May I borrow your time machine?
What he meant to say was: "Today Australia, yesterday the world!"
If the owner leaves the WiFi access point unsecured and the DHCP server gives to my the network config info needed, then I consider this as the owners permission to use his network: my computer asked if it can join the network, the DHCP server (configured by the owner) said yes, here are the details.
If the owner of a car leaves the door unlocked, and the glove box opens when I press the button, then I consider this the owners permission to use whatever is in there (money, keys, GPS,...)
"Larceny, officer? What do you mean? The glove box said it was alright to take the contents."
Or how about "No, I'm not going to buy my kid a POS Mac."? I'm sure at least one Windows or Linux adminstrator's child goes to high school there.
Don't you think a Windows administrator would be very happy to know that they can put their feet up when they come home from work and don't have to administer their kid's computers as well?
That's why it is better to be a Linux administrator. There are far more people you don't have to help.
"I'm sorry, I don't run Windows. My PC never has that problem you mentioned, so I don't know how to fix it. Perhaps you should talk to a Windows administrator."
Back in the Stone Age, it appears that agriculture spread by copying, rather more than by the agriculturalists taking over the lands of the hunter gatherers.
The population of Europe today is about 85% descended from the original hunter gatherers, and only about 15% from the agriculturalists migrating in with their new technology from the Middle East.
So one of the most fundamental technological revolutions seems to have taken place largely by copying (without the restrictions imposed by patents and copyright).
The CSIRO is an independent government-owned technology research body - a bit like (say) NASA is in the US.
The money isn't lining the pockets of some uber-squillionaire with a Lear jet, it will be funding a very worthwhile agency that can churn out even better research.
Yeah, I would like it to be free too, but at least it is going to one of the more worthy technological causes.
A. The Bible is true. B. The Bible states that the earth was created 6,000 years ago. C. Science states that the earth came into existence over 4 billion years ago.
An inconsistent triad. You can resolve it by rejecting A - the Bible is false. Or you can resolve it by rejecting B - the Bible does not present the creation of the earth 6,000 years ago as a historical, physical fact. Or you can reject C - science is false.
An awful lot of the argument acts as though A and C are the only effective alternatives. But B goes back at least to 400 AD, when it was stated by 2 leading theologians of that time (St Augustine and St Jerome).
Sadly, neither the pastors nor the scientists usually have the knowledge or inclination to explain B to most people, so the people continue to pursue either A or C (the solutions of fundamentalist religion and fundamentalist science).
The problem is principle, even if I use totally clean-room reverse-engineering without even taking one look at their patents, I still am guilty of patent violations, how?
Among copyright, patent, and trademark, only copyright cares about the pedigree of any copy. Patents and trademarks can be infringed whether you have had any contact with covered goods or not.
You gave a legal answer to a moral question: which means you didn't answer the question.
The grandparent poster was drawing attention to the fact that patent law fails to take account one salient fact: if I can implement a working solution without knowing the patent, then the patent is not innovative enough to be worthy of patenting.
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the quote in question states that one and only one of the children is a boy born on Tuesday.
The quote is, and I quote:
"I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?"
Please point, click or otherwise indicate the word "only" in that quote.
My Aussie gamer friends are all on Internode, so there must be a reason. ;)
I believe their ping is quite low to North America. (Something like 220ms for L4D - BigPond is apparently 250+ ms, in addition to their caps being horribly low)
My understanding: Internode is great if you are a gamer or need lots of support. TPG is great if you are not a gamer, don't need support, and don't want to pay more than the minimum.
I'm with TPG because they are cheap, fast enough, and it would cost me about 60% more to go with Internode and get the same monthly download limits (I am on 70GB a month + another 60 GB during "offpeak" times - for AU$50 a month). Cannot see the point of changing.
From time to time, TPG significantly increase the monthly download limit for the $50/month plan. That has kept me happy as the family's usage has increased (i.e. streaming video).
Just so long as she doesn't talk. What is it with that awful, awful, awful accent?
It is called "doesn't sound like an intellectual", which will go down rather well in Australia.
Unlike Pauline Hanson, Gillard is very bright - a partner in a law firm - but doesn't come across as an upper class egghead.
And why don't the Saudis add themselves to that grid?
The Chinese could tap into Taklamakan,
the US surely has some spare desert to make useful.
And what about us in Australia?
Ah, we have 4 of the top 20 deserts by land area. And 5 if you include the biggest desert of them all: Antarctica.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_deserts_by_area
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
It isn't any better the other way around: two sheep and a wolf voting on what's for dinner.
You don't care how much of a majority the sheep have, you know that the wolf will eat them anyway.
And THAT is democracy: the voters vote, and the corporations subvert both the voters (guess who own all the media?) and the government (guess who funds all the politicians?)
Will they let us see everything that politicians do?
Or is this surveillance all one-way?
I work in an organisation of less than 50 staff. We have an IT section which reports to the director for corporate services. That director also looks after Accounts.
The organisation helps the public. Accounts and IT help the organisation. That's why it is called "corporate services". No matter what line of business - medical, real estate, legal, retail, etc - some needs exist in any organisation of significant size: they need to pay their bills and they need their computers and networks and data backups running smoothly.
So IT is usually a corporate service, unless you are a university (farm out the job to the Computer Science faculty) or maybe a smallish software company (let your computer geeks play with the network etc as well as write code).
A lot of sites are nothing more than naked bodies. I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).
I wish people would stop confusing the two, because they are not the same.
When I look at it, it is tasteful erotic art.
When you look at it, it is common porn.
When he looks at it, it is filthy disgusting exploitation.
Yep, not the same at all.
I'll go along with that argument, as long as we can throw politicians in jail any time there is some economic disturbance that impacts the population. After all, they should be able to accurately predict and prevent such things.
No, that's when you throw the economists in jail.
You throw the politicians in jail when they wrongly forecast their chances at the next election.
Today Australia, tomorrow the world!
Previously:
What is also usually missing from at least the summaries of these articles is that most of these things are based on already implemented existing laws in either Europe, the UK, Canada or the USA
May I borrow your time machine?
What he meant to say was: "Today Australia, yesterday the world!"
Wake me up when they have destroyed each other.
If the owner leaves the WiFi access point unsecured and the DHCP server gives to my the network config info needed, then I consider this as the owners permission to use his network: my computer asked if it can join the network, the DHCP server (configured by the owner) said yes, here are the details.
If the owner of a car leaves the door unlocked, and the glove box opens when I press the button, then I consider this the owners permission to use whatever is in there (money, keys, GPS, ...)
"Larceny, officer? What do you mean? The glove box said it was alright to take the contents."
Or how about "No, I'm not going to buy my kid a POS Mac."? I'm sure at least one Windows or Linux adminstrator's child goes to high school there.
Don't you think a Windows administrator would be very happy to know that they can put their feet up when they come home from work and don't have to administer their kid's computers as well?
That's why it is better to be a Linux administrator. There are far more people you don't have to help.
"I'm sorry, I don't run Windows. My PC never has that problem you mentioned, so I don't know how to fix it. Perhaps you should talk to a Windows administrator."
Back in the Stone Age, it appears that agriculture spread by copying, rather more than by the agriculturalists taking over the lands of the hunter gatherers.
The population of Europe today is about 85% descended from the original hunter gatherers, and only about 15% from the agriculturalists migrating in with their new technology from the Middle East.
So one of the most fundamental technological revolutions seems to have taken place largely by copying (without the restrictions imposed by patents and copyright).
That is how the human race progressed.
It would be interesting to see some research actually showing whether you can improve your multitasking skills.
Sex change?
The CSIRO is an independent government-owned technology research body - a bit like (say) NASA is in the US.
The money isn't lining the pockets of some uber-squillionaire with a Lear jet, it will be funding a very worthwhile agency that can churn out even better research.
Yeah, I would like it to be free too, but at least it is going to one of the more worthy technological causes.
when Microsoft releases new version of the OS, you are usually out of luck.
That is true on the desktop too.
I meant "the rejection of A, B, C" in the last paragraphs.
I think rejecting B is the interesting solution, and rejecting A or C are the fundamentalist solutions.
The problem can be stated this way:
A. The Bible is true.
B. The Bible states that the earth was created 6,000 years ago.
C. Science states that the earth came into existence over 4 billion years ago.
An inconsistent triad. You can resolve it by rejecting A - the Bible is false. Or you can resolve it by rejecting B - the Bible does not present the creation of the earth 6,000 years ago as a historical, physical fact. Or you can reject C - science is false.
An awful lot of the argument acts as though A and C are the only effective alternatives. But B goes back at least to 400 AD, when it was stated by 2 leading theologians of that time (St Augustine and St Jerome).
Sadly, neither the pastors nor the scientists usually have the knowledge or inclination to explain B to most people, so the people continue to pursue either A or C (the solutions of fundamentalist religion and fundamentalist science).
The problem is principle, even if I use totally clean-room reverse-engineering without even taking one look at their patents, I still am guilty of patent violations, how?
Among copyright, patent, and trademark, only copyright cares about the pedigree of any copy. Patents and trademarks can be infringed whether you have had any contact with covered goods or not.
You gave a legal answer to a moral question: which means you didn't answer the question.
The grandparent poster was drawing attention to the fact that patent law fails to take account one salient fact: if I can implement a working solution without knowing the patent, then the patent is not innovative enough to be worthy of patenting.
Obligatory "halfalogue" on the phone:
A: "Hello... ...
That's good...
That's good...
That's bad...
That's good...
That's bad...
That's good...
Bye"
B: "What was that call all about?"
A: "Oh, we were sorting eggs."
-- Would you take a position as Steve "Tyrant" Jobs' fashion consultant if it meant Apple would open up the app store?
That's easy. I could write a program to do that!
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Ah, Mr Jobs. Try the black skivvy - I am sure you will like it.\n");
return 0;
}
And it wasn't the United States.
Yeah, but Australians don't like to brag.
and (4) country and western music.
That by itself would justify giving Texas back.
However, we're also removing Newton, who's still way more important...after all, without his work most of our military advances wouldn't happen.
So you're saying it's not all bad?