Did you I have met some Americans who didnt believe me when I told them the US used to get convicts. They literally could not accept it.
The Brits are just annoyed. They thought they were send the worst people to the worst place. Looking at it now, they realise they sent them to the best place - only to come back and kick their arse at everything.
Do what most professors at my old sydney uni did, write their own text book. I only had text books in 1st yr. After that they wrote their own notes and had a reading list for books in the library (multiple copies - plus a closed reserve - always available).
I guess it comes down to how lazy the professor is or not.
Of course you are forgetting phone numbe portability where you can keep your own number. You can in UK and Australia. Want to switch contract or provider but dont want the problem of an old number, well keep your old number.
I had this thought once while listening to MP3s on the train. I was thinking wouldnt it be cool if you could do a search of people around you and get any songs they might have. It would be the same with cars. Sitting in traffic, you may as well look around and see what your neighbour car has on offer. Just get songs as you need them. It would rock.
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Why dont they just seal of the pilots from the passenger space. Then when there is a terrorist attack, simply release a gas. Just enough to knock out everyone within a short period of time.
Pilots land the plane. Police arrest drunk and groggy nuttos.
I guess the choice of gas would be important in terms of dosage. But im sure there would be something which is non-harmful but incapacitating.
Chemists? Doctors out there?
As long as you search for gas masks, can probably detect the chemicals in them. And make sure the oxygen things dont pop down.
They should send them to China, a few PS2 games might improve their reflexes so they wont accidently crash those pesky MIG's of their's. Of cours assuming it was their fault...
I wondering if the cook the cards in the free game. So when you are "practicing" it seems like you win, they suck you in, and take your money on the real game.
I know that you can send SMS from Australia to the UK and Singapore, because I have done it. It costs the same as sending an SMS within Australia, i.e 20c. Pity it costs the British counterpart 30p back!
Cam
When you offer a product you can compete on three
properties. Price, Quality and Convenience. So if you product is cheaper, better and easy to get than your competitors you will win. Obviously firms might just be better, or easier to get, you dont have to compete on all three.
The problem with this model is you are not guaranteed proper quality. Why should I pay to get MP3's that may or may not be good? Why should I have to pay to spend my time searching around trying a few downloads to get a good MP3. When it was free, the cost to the consumer was the time spent finding good MP'3.
Now I am going to get mighy pissed off doing the same plus having the right to pay to do it. This is a problem on two levels. When the service was free people would leave their napster clients on all the time. Thus the amount of MP3's available to share was large. The problem now will be people might only leave their clients open when they are looking or stuff, so the total number of MP3's available will fall. If its a subscription based service, thats even worse, because who here is going to subscribe to EVERY month of the year. I would rather subscribe maybe once every other month of the year, and go nuts downloading stuff so i save money. So basically you should expect to get less files shared. Which is a deterent to using the service in the first place. Napster will find it difficult to gain from the previous network externalities is enjoyed when the service was free.
Basically they have to design a model where NAPSTER serves the files. I know its not P2P, but without doing that they cannot guarantee quality or convience. I would happily pay to go to a central server, knowing all the songs will be there, all in various qualities, and all be available when I want them. Suddenly Im not paying for the right to go and find MP3's but im also paying for the improved quality and convience in finding them.
So basically, unless you pay the users as well in a P2P app, to provide bandwidth , hard space etc, it will fail miserably.
How awesome is it that with opensource, within two minutes of a new program, you can check out what is under the hood. I had to see what they were using for the CSS encryption. They are using a library called libcss-0.1.0
The MPAA has no chance, check out the README:
This source package does two things.
a) It contains code to perform the css authentication protocol,allowing locked sectors on the DVD disc to be accessed.This also allows us to read the disc key and title keys.
b) It contains an implementation of the css decryption algorithm,so that we can watch DVD's.
How about IT oursourcers? Currently they produce nothing except support. They set up large corporations Windows boxes, administer them etc. Wouldnt it be feasible for a establised outsourcer to write GPL software cos they earn so much in support? Currently most of the oursourcers are contractally in bed with M$ anyhow, but once a few start using GPL software to cut costs and increase profit. These people have an incentive to use GPL software, and thus as an industry the outsourcers will collaborate on commodity type sofware.
Just do a yahoo search and youll find robert elz is spread through heaps of newsgroups. Seems like he is a NETBSD user, and is pretty deep in all things to do with the internet plumbing. Seems pretty helpful too.
This is where it shows corporations are two-faced and hypocritical. One one hand they preach the virtues of globalisation, the free movement of resources that become their inputs. The free movement of products that become their revenue stream. However, they dont want consumers to experience the good parts of globalisation. Consumers should not be allowed to be segregated into different markets so these film companies can charge higher prices. This is where the WTO should step in since it is clearly a limit to globalisation, of course the WTO represents who now?
All we need now is a fast browser on linux, then ill just plug this thing into my lounge room and network thru my wall. Surfing the web should be done in the comfort of a lounge chair i think...
Im a Telstra BPA customer, and the reason they say for the limit is that it is trying to stop the 10% of people who use 35% of the network. Now that basically means they are saying 90% of us use less than 3GB a month.
A further problem was we had this trial where you got traffic lights based on your consumption (red - excessive, yellow - large but ok , green - normal). I have had people posting in the local linux newsgroup saying that they wree doing 7GB a month and they were getting green lights. The thing was these lights were determined by what everyone else used, so they means basically everyone was around 7GB. Now we get cut by more than what the normal use was.
It is clear this exercise is just to cut corners by allowing more users to sign up and they can shirk on upgrading the network.
I have also heard that they have the ADSL routing setup stupidly so all traffic routes internally through Melbourne, then back to where it came from! Seems like they cause their own problems.
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Did you I have met some Americans who didnt believe me when I told them the US used to get convicts. They literally could not accept it.
The Brits are just annoyed. They thought they were send the worst people to the worst place. Looking at it now, they realise they sent them to the best place - only to come back and kick their arse at everything.
Do what most professors at my old sydney uni did, write their own text book. I only had text books in 1st yr. After that they wrote their own notes and had a reading list for books in the library (multiple copies - plus a closed reserve - always available).
I guess it comes down to how lazy the professor is or not.
Never bought a text for next 2 years.
Of course you are forgetting phone numbe portability where you can keep your own number. You can in UK and Australia. Want to switch contract or provider but dont want the problem of an old number, well keep your old number.
Cameron
If you go here to see video...really cool footage.
2 07 30pm_rocket.ram
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/07/30/video/200
So does that mean we can all look forward to
Scott Scramjet and his Australian Eagles!
Actually it wasnt bugs bunny, it was elmer fudd. Elmer thought they were eating his sheep.
Cam.
When was the last time there was a x.3 release? I am disappointed, I was expecting version 8 by now...it musnt be as good as they thought!
Except they used it. So if they use evil and risky open source software why did they do it?
Let me guess the ad would go like this:
"Newly refurbised place. Finished Dec 31 1999. Never been used."
I had this thought once while listening to MP3s on the train. I was thinking wouldnt it be cool if you could do a search of people around you and get any songs they might have. It would be the same with cars. Sitting in traffic, you may as well look around and see what your neighbour car has on offer. Just get songs as you need them. It would rock.
I remember the standard school test for hydrogen was when ignited there was a popping sound. Why? cos its pretty damn explosive.
The next time I fly a plane and I hear a popping sound I hope its my ears and not the fuel!
Freedom isnt free.
Why dont they just seal of the pilots from the passenger space. Then when there is a terrorist attack, simply release a gas. Just enough to knock out everyone within a short period of time.
Pilots land the plane. Police arrest drunk and groggy nuttos.
I guess the choice of gas would be important in terms of dosage. But im sure there would be something which is non-harmful but incapacitating.
Chemists? Doctors out there?
As long as you search for gas masks, can probably detect the chemicals in them. And make sure the oxygen things dont pop down.
As long as they teach about fair use it is not a problem. That way it's easier for the "young" to realise how stupid DMCA-style laws are.
They should send them to China, a few PS2 games might improve their reflexes so they wont accidently crash those pesky MIG's of their's. Of cours assuming it was their fault...
I wondering if the cook the cards in the free game. So when you are "practicing" it seems like you win, they suck you in, and take your money on the real game.
I know that you can send SMS from Australia to the UK and Singapore, because I have done it. It costs the same as sending an SMS within Australia, i.e 20c. Pity it costs the British counterpart 30p back! Cam
When you offer a product you can compete on three properties. Price, Quality and Convenience. So if you product is cheaper, better and easy to get than your competitors you will win. Obviously firms might just be better, or easier to get, you dont have to compete on all three.
The problem with this model is you are not guaranteed proper quality. Why should I pay to get MP3's that may or may not be good? Why should I have to pay to spend my time searching around trying a few downloads to get a good MP3. When it was free, the cost to the consumer was the time spent finding good MP'3.
Now I am going to get mighy pissed off doing the same plus having the right to pay to do it. This is a problem on two levels. When the service was free people would leave their napster clients on all the time. Thus the amount of MP3's available to share was large. The problem now will be people might only leave their clients open when they are looking or stuff, so the total number of MP3's available will fall. If its a subscription based service, thats even worse, because who here is going to subscribe to EVERY month of the year. I would rather subscribe maybe once every other month of the year, and go nuts downloading stuff so i save money. So basically you should expect to get less files shared. Which is a deterent to using the service in the first place. Napster will find it difficult to gain from the previous network externalities is enjoyed when the service was free.
Basically they have to design a model where NAPSTER serves the files. I know its not P2P, but without doing that they cannot guarantee quality or convience. I would happily pay to go to a central server, knowing all the songs will be there, all in various qualities, and all be available when I want them. Suddenly Im not paying for the right to go and find MP3's but im also paying for the improved quality and convience in finding them.
So basically, unless you pay the users as well in a P2P app, to provide bandwidth , hard space etc, it will fail miserably.
How awesome is it that with opensource, within two minutes of a new program, you can check out what is under the hood. I had to see what they were using for the CSS encryption. They are using a library called libcss-0.1.0 The MPAA has no chance, check out the README:
This source package does two things. a) It contains code to perform the css authentication protocol,allowing locked sectors on the DVD disc to be accessed.This also allows us to read the disc key and title keys. b) It contains an implementation of the css decryption algorithm,so that we can watch DVD's.
All we want to do is watch a DVD.
How about IT oursourcers? Currently they produce nothing except support. They set up large corporations Windows boxes, administer them etc. Wouldnt it be feasible for a establised outsourcer to write GPL software cos they earn so much in support? Currently most of the oursourcers are contractally in bed with M$ anyhow, but once a few start using GPL software to cut costs and increase profit. These people have an incentive to use GPL software, and thus as an industry the outsourcers will collaborate on commodity type sofware.
I think all the huge animals evolved into Americans. Check out this survey : http://www.theonion.com/onion3722/surgeon_general. html
Just do a yahoo search and youll find robert elz is spread through heaps of newsgroups. Seems like he is a NETBSD user, and is pretty deep in all things to do with the internet plumbing. Seems pretty helpful too.
This is where it shows corporations are two-faced and hypocritical. One one hand they preach the virtues of globalisation, the free movement of resources that become their inputs. The free movement of products that become their revenue stream. However, they dont want consumers to experience the good parts of globalisation. Consumers should not be allowed to be segregated into different markets so these film companies can charge higher prices. This is where the WTO should step in since it is clearly a limit to globalisation, of course the WTO represents who now?
All we need now is a fast browser on linux, then ill just plug this thing into my lounge room and network thru my wall. Surfing the web should be done in the comfort of a lounge chair i think...
Im a Telstra BPA customer, and the reason they say for the limit is that it is trying to stop the 10% of people who use 35% of the network. Now that basically means they are saying 90% of us use less than 3GB a month.
A further problem was we had this trial where you got traffic lights based on your consumption (red - excessive, yellow - large but ok , green - normal). I have had people posting in the local linux newsgroup saying that they wree doing 7GB a month and they were getting green lights. The thing was these lights were determined by what everyone else used, so they means basically everyone was around 7GB. Now we get cut by more than what the normal use was.
It is clear this exercise is just to cut corners by allowing more users to sign up and they can shirk on upgrading the network.
I have also heard that they have the ADSL routing setup stupidly so all traffic routes internally through Melbourne, then back to where it came from! Seems like they cause their own problems.