It's not a huge slap in the face of anyone. I'm raiding SWP and I could really give a crap about attunement removal - in fact I like it because we can recruit without having to go back and attune people now.
In the end guilds that can't kill Vashj and Kael won't be able to kill Archimonde and Illidan either. You can give them badge gear and unlock the door but once they're inside they are going to end up stuck again after they get past the easier fights.
Furthermore, good luck gearing up your character just running heroics. Even if you could get a full T6-equivalent badge set (you can't) the number of heroics you'd have to run to get that many badges is insane.
The value I've put in to the game isn't defined by the gear I'm wearing - it will all be reset in the next expansion anyway. It's defined by my friends and by the experiences we've shared clearing the 25-man zones. Some noob in Kara + badge gear wiping to Najentus doesn't devalue that in the slightest.
I'm not sure about your guild, but we have plenty of guys who play female toons, including myself, our GM and our top mage. We also have some females who play male toons (although their mains do tend to be female). I'd never assume someone to be male or female based on the sex of their character, and quite frankly I don't know anyone in-game who would.
No, 25 gold in an hour is pretty damned good, even for a max level character.
25 gold an hour is quite frankly crap for a level 70 character in Outland. Go grind for primals with a class suited for farming (e.g. Hunter) and you are pulling in substantially more than that.
The reason it is lower is because by the time they have their toon to level 70 it is banned a short while later. Most of the time they are forced to grind on lower-level mobs in more out of the way locations (Thousand Needles, Hinterlands, Ashara, Felwood, etc.) while leveling a new character. This brings in somewhat less coin, but apparently is still profitable enough.
Even if the money input into a game is the same, the amount of time a person plays is not. The college kid who can spend 70 hours a week playing WoW is -not- equal to the guy with 3 kids and a wife, and 2 jobs. Oddly enough, the very same process that you say makes the game unfair would make the game more fair for him.
I'm the guy with the kids and the wife who plays WoW. I'm never going to be in a high-end raiding guild or a top-ranked arena team. I've accepted that and moved on, while still having fun playing the game and living vicariously through videos downloaded from warcraftmovies.com. The people who buy gold to get epic gear aren't going to be in a high-end raiding guild or a top-ranked arena team either. They are just kidding themselves and helping wreck the server economy in the process.
If the game is so badly designed that it's more fun to pay someone else to do 90% of the playing for you, then I can't help but wonder why people play it at all.
This silly old argument. People don't use gold buying services because the game is fun or is not fun. For the most part, they use them to get something to show off their "e-peen". You can geta nice set of epic gear by:
Endgame raiding
Participating in battlegrounds or arena matches
Getting the materials together to have some epic gear crafted for you (or craft it yourself if you have the profession)
Buy some gold and then buy BoE epic crafted gear from the auction house at ridiculously inflated prices
Most people choose #1,2 or 3 or a combination thereof and have fun doing it. Others choose 4.
Yes, I know there are other reasons to buy gold, but I think most of it falls on people who want to look cool in epic gear idling in Ironforge, flying over Shat in their epic mount, twinking out their low-level alt, etc. but couldn't be bothered to play the game to get it.
WoW has an enconomy. It is a form of free-market economy, where people sell things that they have made or things that they have looted off of mobs for gold. One problem is that the economy is naturally inflationary - there is effectively an unlimited amount of gold out there, and there are are not enough sinks (repair costs, etc.) to curb that inflation. However, this inflation should be somewhat kept in check by the fact that almost all "normal" players are only really going to "farm" so much gold in a given day.
Gold farmers break this. They introduce so much gold in to the system that it leads to rampant inflation, which has a negative impact on the economy. They also sometimes flood the market with items that they have farmed, leading to substantial downward price pressure on some items.
In other words, gold farmers mess with the economy of your server and thereby negatively effect the enjoyment of the game for people who do not buy gold.
The other negative effect gold farming has had is account cracking. Some of these gold farming operations are supplementing their gold intake by putting out keyloggers/trojans and then breaking in to people's accounts and transferring their gold and items out to be subsequently sold to other players. This isn't isolated - anyone who plays the game probably knows someone who has had an account craked and lost everything. In some cases Blizzard can restore everything, but only after several weeks of lost play while they investigate.
So, there are plenty of negative effects. Why else do you think players hate gold farmers and Blizzard bans their accounts by the thousands?
Your first problem is that sale of WoW items is not illegal - it's merely against the terms of service contract you have with the service provider, which is NOT the same thing. Income earned in violation of a contract is still income, and you still have to report and pay taxes on it.
It isn't like the account is your property and the ToS prevents you from selling it. The real-world sale of items or your account in WoW is against the ToS because you don't own the account or the items. Blizzard charges you $15 a month for access to the system, but the account and everything possessed by it (items, gold, etc.) are Blizzard's property. When I "sell" something in the WoW auction house I am simply moving around some bits that are wholly owned by Blizzard and I am not profiting in any way.
it seems logical to me that you'd only be liable for taxes on WoW and other virtual items if you actually sold them for real money
That's right - gold selling companies like IGE, regardless of whether they are violating the ToS - should be taxed. But they're being taxed on the cash they receive from the transaction, which is theirs and has real value, regardless of how it was obtained.
My definition of 'grind' vs 'questing' would be... quest: "Kill 30 specific mobs and return to quest giver to get a large XP bonus and some loot until you level up and move on". Grind: "Sit in the same area and kill anything you come across and hope for loot drops until you level up and move on".
I'd generally agree with this definition, and it has pretty much been proven that for most classes in WoW, questing is faster than grinding. Also, usually Bliz does a decent job of mixing up the kill X mobs quests with other quest types, with some notable exceptions (STV and Nagrand for example).
The only time I've really grinded in WoW is for reputation. In the xpac I'd say things have improved to a certain extent. For some reputation (e.g. Honor Hold, Cenarion Refuge) you don't have to do very much if any grinding to get to revered. For others (e.g. Aldor/Scryer) you are still going to be doing a ton of grinding.
I run Ubuntu at home too, but stop living in fantasy land...
RedHat's activities have aroused quite a lot of suspicion and consternation
Amonst who? You?
RedHat went in for some shady dealings with SCO
BS. Evidence?
fizzled out from the Desktop and Home user segment
The withdrew from that segment because there is very little money there for Linux. There is a big difference between withdrew and "fizzled".
RedHat just doesn't have any mindshare / marketshare on laptops
Who cares? How much money is Ubuntu or anyone else making selling/supporting Linux for laptop installs?
While RedHat has carved out it's own space in the server segment and has cut off Microsoft's top-end, Ubuntu has encroached on the lower end Desktops and the Laptops segments.
Again, evidence of any of this? RedHat is growing and Linux shipments are growing, but they have hardly "cut off" Microsoft in the server market. Ubuntu installs on laptpops or desktops are completely insignificant compared to XP or even OS X.
and don't see that incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money
Let's say, hypothetically, the a friend turned me on to the CBS show The Unit during the last few episodes of the season. I record those on my PVR and watch them, but now I feel like watching the other 10 episodes I missed. What shall I do:
1) Try and find them on summer re-runs? Good luck with that.
2) Download them from CBS or iTunes? Nope, not available.
3) Wait for another year or more until they are released on DVD? No thanks.
4) Grab them from bittorrent and watch them immediately? Yup, easily done.
What the studios have to understand is that I want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it. The technology exists, but legal downloads (from iTunes, etc.) are just starting to become available. When CBS decides to make episodes of The Unit available for legal download or partners with my cable company to make them available from an on-demand service then I'll gladly watch them that way. In the mean time I'm going to avail myself of the only means available to watch what I want - downloaded from bittorrent. Hypothetically.
Oddly, it was the horrible Matrox Mystique video card that signalled the end for SGI. It wasn't the first 3D PC card, but for many people, it was the first one they owned and used. It ran Tomb Raider with 3d acceleration. These kinds of cards created a whole new market for 3D hardware. This board marketbase pumped money into these companies (Matrox, ATI, S3, and soon after, NVidia) very quickly. And this allowed them to advance their hardware rapidly to the point where a well-equipped PC could match the 3D performance of an SGI box.
It should have signalled the beginning of the next era for SGI instead. Key engineers who worked for SGI were later invloved in NVidia, and NVidia licenses key SGI patents. SGI had the people, know-how and technology to become the domainant 3D graphics card manufacturer for the PC, but instead they were killed by this market instead.
Read this and then go read the original mission statement of K5 and look at it now. That is the end result of user-moderated content. Goody for you if you like it, but I want the content on Slashdot to stay the way it has always been.
Amen to this! Please, please - for those of you who weren't around to watch K5's slide from great to completely horrible, listen to Inoshiro. User moderated content isn't going to work, unless it is a combination of user moderation and and editor selection. I don't want content selected by the average of a cross-section of hundreds of thousands of people.
You got it - it basically means that Chevy is selling people a Tahoe or Colorado with square body panels and fake lift hooks for a 20% price premium. This tells you about how many brain cells are posessed by H2/H3 owners like the OP.
Can you quote a reliable source for that? I've read some books that suggest that one of the reasons it was done to get the war over before the Russians invaded Japan. I think that makes sense.
It doesn't make sense that the decision would be taken to "intimidate the Russians". They could have detonated the weapon somewhere uninhabited and still intimidate. That and the fact that it was already very clear at the Yalta/Potsdam conferences that the Russians wouldn't be leaving Eastern Europe any time soon.
They would, however, have agreed to a conditional surrender, which included, for example, keeping their emperor as head of state. Funny thing, they got to have their conditions in the end anyway.
No they didn't. Hirohito was (despite what revisionists like to claim) personally responsible for starting, the conduct of, and the end of the war. He was removed as head of state, but he was allowed to remain in a figurehead role by the American administration becuase they felt that Japan would be easier to govern if he was left in place.
Therefore the bomb was really useless as far as Japan is concerned.
Revisionist BS. The end of the war could have gone down one of two ways - 1) a conditional surrender or 2) forcing an unconditional surrender via bombing or invasion. The Allies weren't intertested in option #1, and they took the route of option #2 that they felt would cause the least number of casualites and that would keep the Russians out of Japan.
It was dropped for other reasons.
Such as? I don't suppose you can offer a credible source.
Your dates for London and Berlin are wrong. The Germans were dropping bombs on London before September.
On top of that, the Luftwaffe started the practice of area ("terror") bombing of cities with Rotterdam much earlier in 1940. They then started area bombing British cities (including London) well before the RAF was area bombing Germany. The RAF didn't speficifially start area bombing until December 1940.
Even if the Luftwaffe hadn't started area bombing I suspect that the RAF would have done so anyway. It was the only way to hit anything at night with 1940s technology, and RAF/Luftwaffe bombers couldn't survive in daytime raids.
A couple of years ago at OLS they had a presentation by someone from Google on their use of Linux in house (this one I think).
At the end of the presentation, he brought up a web page that showed a scrolling list of google queries that were being done in near-real-time. I think it was showing every nth query (every query would have been scrolling too fast to see). He said that they had two versions of this web page - a filtered and an unfiltered one, and he was running unfiltered.
Was it ever funny - people entering some of the craziest X-rated search phrases you could imagine. If he could have left it up I would have stayed there and watched for hours:-)
as opposed to Canada (where it IS (theoretically) possible to recieve US satellite TV with no added satellites)
Theoretically possible, but illegal. That isn't to say that people don't pick up US Satellite feeds here in Canada, but it is illegal and is much more difficult to do that it used to be. The satellites used by Candian broadcasters were launched pretty much specifically for that task - they don't piggyback on US satellites.
also worth noting that Canada's large cities (in general) are much more clustered together (close to American border)
True, but the US/Canada border is something like 9000kms long. I'm guessing the Australian coastline is longer, but Vancouver isn't very close to Toronto either.
That is because it is easy for Canada to piggy back on the US satellites. A satellite that covers the US will also cover a lot of Canada. Our common language makes it easy for us to share shows as well.
Except that we don't piggback on US satellites. For example, the Nimiq satellite that I get my signal from is owned by ExpressVu, my provider, and operated by Telesat. And last time I checked most Australians share that common language.
Canada even has HUGE as it is the population tends to cluster. I think Australia tends to be evenly spread out.
You'd be wrongagain. Like Canada, Autralia's population is concentrated in several big cities.
Anyway, population density shouldn't matter. In Canada, Canadian TV networks buy the redistribution rights for American network programs an then air them here, broadcast over satellite, cable, whatever. We usually get to watch the shows at the same time as they are aired in the US, if not before. How come the Australian TV networks can't do the same thing?
Heh. I'm Canadian, and I remember reading this in 1994. I'm not sure if it was a copy hosted off of your FTP site or not, but I remember pulling it off of a URL from usenet.
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It's not a huge slap in the face of anyone. I'm raiding SWP and I could really give a crap about attunement removal - in fact I like it because we can recruit without having to go back and attune people now.
In the end guilds that can't kill Vashj and Kael won't be able to kill Archimonde and Illidan either. You can give them badge gear and unlock the door but once they're inside they are going to end up stuck again after they get past the easier fights.
Furthermore, good luck gearing up your character just running heroics. Even if you could get a full T6-equivalent badge set (you can't) the number of heroics you'd have to run to get that many badges is insane.
The value I've put in to the game isn't defined by the gear I'm wearing - it will all be reset in the next expansion anyway. It's defined by my friends and by the experiences we've shared clearing the 25-man zones. Some noob in Kara + badge gear wiping to Najentus doesn't devalue that in the slightest.
I'm not sure about your guild, but we have plenty of guys who play female toons, including myself, our GM and our top mage. We also have some females who play male toons (although their mains do tend to be female). I'd never assume someone to be male or female based on the sex of their character, and quite frankly I don't know anyone in-game who would.
No, 25 gold in an hour is pretty damned good, even for a max level character.
25 gold an hour is quite frankly crap for a level 70 character in Outland. Go grind for primals with a class suited for farming (e.g. Hunter) and you are pulling in substantially more than that.
The reason it is lower is because by the time they have their toon to level 70 it is banned a short while later. Most of the time they are forced to grind on lower-level mobs in more out of the way locations (Thousand Needles, Hinterlands, Ashara, Felwood, etc.) while leveling a new character. This brings in somewhat less coin, but apparently is still profitable enough.
Even if the money input into a game is the same, the amount of time a person plays is not. The college kid who can spend 70 hours a week playing WoW is -not- equal to the guy with 3 kids and a wife, and 2 jobs. Oddly enough, the very same process that you say makes the game unfair would make the game more fair for him.
I'm the guy with the kids and the wife who plays WoW. I'm never going to be in a high-end raiding guild or a top-ranked arena team. I've accepted that and moved on, while still having fun playing the game and living vicariously through videos downloaded from warcraftmovies.com. The people who buy gold to get epic gear aren't going to be in a high-end raiding guild or a top-ranked arena team either. They are just kidding themselves and helping wreck the server economy in the process.
If the game is so badly designed that it's more fun to pay someone else to do 90% of the playing for you, then I can't help but wonder why people play it at all.
This silly old argument. People don't use gold buying services because the game is fun or is not fun. For the most part, they use them to get something to show off their "e-peen". You can geta nice set of epic gear by:
Most people choose #1,2 or 3 or a combination thereof and have fun doing it. Others choose 4.
Yes, I know there are other reasons to buy gold, but I think most of it falls on people who want to look cool in epic gear idling in Ironforge, flying over Shat in their epic mount, twinking out their low-level alt, etc. but couldn't be bothered to play the game to get it.
Who, really, is getting hurt by gold-farming?
WoW has an enconomy. It is a form of free-market economy, where people sell things that they have made or things that they have looted off of mobs for gold. One problem is that the economy is naturally inflationary - there is effectively an unlimited amount of gold out there, and there are are not enough sinks (repair costs, etc.) to curb that inflation. However, this inflation should be somewhat kept in check by the fact that almost all "normal" players are only really going to "farm" so much gold in a given day.
Gold farmers break this. They introduce so much gold in to the system that it leads to rampant inflation, which has a negative impact on the economy. They also sometimes flood the market with items that they have farmed, leading to substantial downward price pressure on some items.
In other words, gold farmers mess with the economy of your server and thereby negatively effect the enjoyment of the game for people who do not buy gold.
The other negative effect gold farming has had is account cracking. Some of these gold farming operations are supplementing their gold intake by putting out keyloggers/trojans and then breaking in to people's accounts and transferring their gold and items out to be subsequently sold to other players. This isn't isolated - anyone who plays the game probably knows someone who has had an account craked and lost everything. In some cases Blizzard can restore everything, but only after several weeks of lost play while they investigate.
So, there are plenty of negative effects. Why else do you think players hate gold farmers and Blizzard bans their accounts by the thousands?
This has been fixed for a while - since TBC was released anyway IIRC. Works for heals, buffs, etc.
Your first problem is that sale of WoW items is not illegal - it's merely against the terms of service contract you have with the service provider, which is NOT the same thing. Income earned in violation of a contract is still income, and you still have to report and pay taxes on it.
It isn't like the account is your property and the ToS prevents you from selling it. The real-world sale of items or your account in WoW is against the ToS because you don't own the account or the items. Blizzard charges you $15 a month for access to the system, but the account and everything possessed by it (items, gold, etc.) are Blizzard's property. When I "sell" something in the WoW auction house I am simply moving around some bits that are wholly owned by Blizzard and I am not profiting in any way.
it seems logical to me that you'd only be liable for taxes on WoW and other virtual items if you actually sold them for real money
That's right - gold selling companies like IGE, regardless of whether they are violating the ToS - should be taxed. But they're being taxed on the cash they receive from the transaction, which is theirs and has real value, regardless of how it was obtained.
I'd generally agree with this definition, and it has pretty much been proven that for most classes in WoW, questing is faster than grinding. Also, usually Bliz does a decent job of mixing up the kill X mobs quests with other quest types, with some notable exceptions (STV and Nagrand for example).
The only time I've really grinded in WoW is for reputation. In the xpac I'd say things have improved to a certain extent. For some reputation (e.g. Honor Hold, Cenarion Refuge) you don't have to do very much if any grinding to get to revered. For others (e.g. Aldor/Scryer) you are still going to be doing a ton of grinding.
I run Ubuntu at home too, but stop living in fantasy land...
RedHat's activities have aroused quite a lot of suspicion and consternation
Amonst who? You?
RedHat went in for some shady dealings with SCO
BS. Evidence?
fizzled out from the Desktop and Home user segment
The withdrew from that segment because there is very little money there for Linux. There is a big difference between withdrew and "fizzled".
RedHat just doesn't have any mindshare / marketshare on laptops
Who cares? How much money is Ubuntu or anyone else making selling/supporting Linux for laptop installs?
While RedHat has carved out it's own space in the server segment and has cut off Microsoft's top-end, Ubuntu has encroached on the lower end Desktops and the Laptops segments.
Again, evidence of any of this? RedHat is growing and Linux shipments are growing, but they have hardly "cut off" Microsoft in the server market. Ubuntu installs on laptpops or desktops are completely insignificant compared to XP or even OS X.
and don't see that incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money
Let's say, hypothetically, the a friend turned me on to the CBS show The Unit during the last few episodes of the season. I record those on my PVR and watch them, but now I feel like watching the other 10 episodes I missed. What shall I do:
1) Try and find them on summer re-runs? Good luck with that.
2) Download them from CBS or iTunes? Nope, not available.
3) Wait for another year or more until they are released on DVD? No thanks.
4) Grab them from bittorrent and watch them immediately? Yup, easily done.
What the studios have to understand is that I want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it. The technology exists, but legal downloads (from iTunes, etc.) are just starting to become available. When CBS decides to make episodes of The Unit available for legal download or partners with my cable company to make them available from an on-demand service then I'll gladly watch them that way. In the mean time I'm going to avail myself of the only means available to watch what I want - downloaded from bittorrent. Hypothetically.
You are absolutely correct - if I had mod points I'd give them.
:-)
Plus, Blackberries are mostly manufactured in Waterloo, ON - right next to the R&D facility
Oddly, it was the horrible Matrox Mystique video card that signalled the end for SGI. It wasn't the first 3D PC card, but for many people, it was the first one they owned and used. It ran Tomb Raider with 3d acceleration. These kinds of cards created a whole new market for 3D hardware. This board marketbase pumped money into these companies (Matrox, ATI, S3, and soon after, NVidia) very quickly. And this allowed them to advance their hardware rapidly to the point where a well-equipped PC could match the 3D performance of an SGI box.
It should have signalled the beginning of the next era for SGI instead. Key engineers who worked for SGI were later invloved in NVidia, and NVidia licenses key SGI patents. SGI had the people, know-how and technology to become the domainant 3D graphics card manufacturer for the PC, but instead they were killed by this market instead.
There are several groups like this ... I play BF2 with TOG which is similar in nature - non skills-based, play for fun.
Read this and then go read the original mission statement of K5 and look at it now. That is the end result of user-moderated content. Goody for you if you like it, but I want the content on Slashdot to stay the way it has always been.
Amen to this! Please, please - for those of you who weren't around to watch K5's slide from great to completely horrible, listen to Inoshiro. User moderated content isn't going to work, unless it is a combination of user moderation and and editor selection. I don't want content selected by the average of a cross-section of hundreds of thousands of people.
You got it - it basically means that Chevy is selling people a Tahoe or Colorado with square body panels and fake lift hooks for a 20% price premium. This tells you about how many brain cells are posessed by H2/H3 owners like the OP.
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It was done to intimidate the Russians
Can you quote a reliable source for that? I've read some books that suggest that one of the reasons it was done to get the war over before the Russians invaded Japan. I think that makes sense.
It doesn't make sense that the decision would be taken to "intimidate the Russians". They could have detonated the weapon somewhere uninhabited and still intimidate. That and the fact that it was already very clear at the Yalta/Potsdam conferences that the Russians wouldn't be leaving Eastern Europe any time soon.
They would, however, have agreed to a conditional surrender, which included, for example, keeping their emperor as head of state. Funny thing, they got to have their conditions in the end anyway.
No they didn't. Hirohito was (despite what revisionists like to claim) personally responsible for starting, the conduct of, and the end of the war. He was removed as head of state, but he was allowed to remain in a figurehead role by the American administration becuase they felt that Japan would be easier to govern if he was left in place.
Therefore the bomb was really useless as far as Japan is concerned.
Revisionist BS. The end of the war could have gone down one of two ways - 1) a conditional surrender or 2) forcing an unconditional surrender via bombing or invasion. The Allies weren't intertested in option #1, and they took the route of option #2 that they felt would cause the least number of casualites and that would keep the Russians out of Japan.
It was dropped for other reasons.
Such as? I don't suppose you can offer a credible source.
Your dates for London and Berlin are wrong. The Germans were dropping bombs on London before September.
On top of that, the Luftwaffe started the practice of area ("terror") bombing of cities with Rotterdam much earlier in 1940. They then started area bombing British cities (including London) well before the RAF was area bombing Germany. The RAF didn't speficifially start area bombing until December 1940.
Even if the Luftwaffe hadn't started area bombing I suspect that the RAF would have done so anyway. It was the only way to hit anything at night with 1940s technology, and RAF/Luftwaffe bombers couldn't survive in daytime raids.
Rojo is yet another app that already does this.
A couple of years ago at OLS they had a presentation by someone from Google on their use of Linux in house (this one I think).
At the end of the presentation, he brought up a web page that showed a scrolling list of google queries that were being done in near-real-time. I think it was showing every nth query (every query would have been scrolling too fast to see). He said that they had two versions of this web page - a filtered and an unfiltered one, and he was running unfiltered.
Was it ever funny - people entering some of the craziest X-rated search phrases you could imagine. If he could have left it up I would have stayed there and watched for hours :-)
as opposed to Canada (where it IS (theoretically) possible to recieve US satellite TV with no added satellites)
Theoretically possible, but illegal. That isn't to say that people don't pick up US Satellite feeds here in Canada, but it is illegal and is much more difficult to do that it used to be. The satellites used by Candian broadcasters were launched pretty much specifically for that task - they don't piggyback on US satellites.
also worth noting that Canada's large cities (in general) are much more clustered together (close to American border)
True, but the US/Canada border is something like 9000kms long. I'm guessing the Australian coastline is longer, but Vancouver isn't very close to Toronto either.
That is because it is easy for Canada to piggy back on the US satellites. A satellite that covers the US will also cover a lot of Canada. Our common language makes it easy for us to share shows as well.
Except that we don't piggback on US satellites. For example, the Nimiq satellite that I get my signal from is owned by ExpressVu, my provider, and operated by Telesat. And last time I checked most Australians share that common language.
Canada even has HUGE as it is the population tends to cluster. I think Australia tends to be evenly spread out.
You'd be wrong again. Like Canada, Autralia's population is concentrated in several big cities.
Anyway, population density shouldn't matter. In Canada, Canadian TV networks buy the redistribution rights for American network programs an then air them here, broadcast over satellite, cable, whatever. We usually get to watch the shows at the same time as they are aired in the US, if not before. How come the Australian TV networks can't do the same thing?
Heh. I'm Canadian, and I remember reading this in 1994. I'm not sure if it was a copy hosted off of your FTP site or not, but I remember pulling it off of a URL from usenet.