The prices quoted on the Telstra website are in Aussie dollars, not US dollars. So an SMS costing 25 cents is 25 Aussie cents, which is about 15 US cents.
Don't forget this is in Australian dollars - this morning 1 Aussie dollar was worth just over 61 US cents.
As for supporting Australian businesses, I'd love to support a Telstra rival - Telstra owns the exchanges that all the other ISP's have to get access to, and charges high rates for access so no other ISP can undercut them with their broadband.
Why not find a Kinkos/Snap/whatever printing place, or use a friends printer (even if you have to buy them a beer as payment)? It's not always convenient but it sounds like the more efficient option for you.
Assuming you are in a decent sized city in the US you should be able to find one nearby, maybe on a university campus, in a shopping center, or near a business district.
Loyalty works both ways. I think some of the children on slashdot forget that.
Yes, loyalty must work both ways if its going to be effective. But there are far more employees loyal to their company than companies loyal to their employees. Being loyal to a small business, where individual efforts are noticed, is very different to a large corporation where you are just another number in the HR database. The big corps threw out their loyalty policies long ago.
A few posters here have suggested Canadian diamonds as being free of the badness associated with deBeers. I suggest Australian diamonds. The Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia produces some of the best diamonds in the world, sells them cheaper than deBeers and its workers are extremely well paid.
The.au govt has intervened on at least one occasion that I know of to prevent deBeers from buying Argyle, as they are somewhat of a threat to their monopoly.
At Microsoft's sprawling Redmond, Wash. complex, the word "slowdown" is being openly discussed, casting a chill over the world's largest software company.
Well maybe if they didn't force a new OS/office suite/server suite down everyones throats every couple of years, which has twice the crap that no one wants built in, and is twice the cost of the previous version, maybe the slowdown wouldn't be so severe.
NTFS is a copy of HPFS, with a few extra things thrown in there. Microsoft got hold of it when they were working with IBM on OS2. So all the good work is IBM's, not MS's.
Maybe MS is being all friendly and releasing this for FreeBSD, in part, as a way of saying "in return for all your networking code that we use, have some of this common language code"?
Granted its not very likely, but it might be a factor in the larger scheme of things.
Its not that we think we will be overrun by immigrants, its that we are sick of ILLEGAL immigrants. There are massive amounts of them coming over here illegally, expecting food, shelter, satellite internet, sporting facilities and swimming pools. Oh yes, for free please.
I'm not being sarcastic - the Port Hedland Detention Centre (place of riots a little while ago) is near my parents house in Port Hedland. The manager lives four doors up from them and occasionally stops by to chat. One of the previous managers was beaten to death in a stairwell by someone that tried to illegally enter the country - but no, that was covered up very well. We can't have that in the news.
Not all of the illegals are genuine refugees - some of them are quite wealthy. One was caught last year with $5000AU of gold on his person. That person could easily have afforded a plane ticket and a passport.
Immigrants are welcome here, as long as they enter the country legally and abide by local laws. If an immigrant has no respect for our immigration laws, why would they respect any other laws?
For those of you that don't know, cane toads were introduced in.au to eat pests that were destroying crops. Instead of eating the pests, they multiplied and are now as big a problem as the rabbits.
We aren't allowed to do anything anymore - everything thats any fun at all has been banned by authorities. TV is crap, its not safe to go outside because of guns and air pollution, even going for a drive might get us killed. So we stay at home and play a few games, for something to do... and get called addicts?
I quite like Kawa - my university uses it to teach Java to first year CS students. It is a simple program that is good to learn with. I use it for all my Java coding, because I just want a lightweight, simple IDE - no bloated fancy features for me.
In Australia, Maggi is one of the two biggest brands of sauces - there are large advertising campaigns, and every supermarket stocks them. Everyone here knows what Maggi gravy is.
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The prices quoted on the Telstra website are in Aussie dollars, not US dollars. So an SMS costing 25 cents is 25 Aussie cents, which is about 15 US cents.
Don't forget this is in Australian dollars - this morning 1 Aussie dollar was worth just over 61 US cents.
As for supporting Australian businesses, I'd love to support a Telstra rival - Telstra owns the exchanges that all the other ISP's have to get access to, and charges high rates for access so no other ISP can undercut them with their broadband.
Why not find a Kinkos/Snap/whatever printing place, or use a friends printer (even if you have to buy them a beer as payment)? It's not always convenient but it sounds like the more efficient option for you.
Assuming you are in a decent sized city in the US you should be able to find one nearby, maybe on a university campus, in a shopping center, or near a business district.
Maybe that has more to do with only ever having sex with one person? They don't have any better or worse sex to compare their current sex with.
If you asked non Christians who had only slept with one person, I'm sure you'd get higher rates of satisfaction in that segment of people as well.
Yes, loyalty must work both ways if its going to be effective. But there are far more employees loyal to their company than companies loyal to their employees. Being loyal to a small business, where individual efforts are noticed, is very different to a large corporation where you are just another number in the HR database. The big corps threw out their loyalty policies long ago.
A few posters here have suggested Canadian diamonds as being free of the badness associated with deBeers. I suggest Australian diamonds. The Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia produces some of the best diamonds in the world, sells them cheaper than deBeers and its workers are extremely well paid.
.au govt has intervened on at least one occasion that I know of to prevent deBeers from buying Argyle, as they are somewhat of a threat to their monopoly.
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At Microsoft's sprawling Redmond, Wash. complex, the word "slowdown" is being openly discussed, casting a chill over the world's largest software company.
Well maybe if they didn't force a new OS/office suite/server suite down everyones throats every couple of years, which has twice the crap that no one wants built in, and is twice the cost of the previous version, maybe the slowdown wouldn't be so severe.
That was some excellent thinking with the broadcast packet. You probably learned more from that half hour than you did the whole semester at school :)
NTFS is a copy of HPFS, with a few extra things thrown in there. Microsoft got hold of it when they were working with IBM on OS2. So all the good work is IBM's, not MS's.
That doesn't stop it being good though.
Maybe MS is being all friendly and releasing this for FreeBSD, in part, as a way of saying "in return for all your networking code that we use, have some of this common language code"?
Granted its not very likely, but it might be a factor in the larger scheme of things.
At my university, in the engineering labs theft like this is a huge problem. People even steal the balls out of mice.
In the CS labs, its much less of a problem. Why? Because there are big, very obvious cameras.
Its not that we think we will be overrun by immigrants, its that we are sick of ILLEGAL immigrants. There are massive amounts of them coming over here illegally, expecting food, shelter, satellite internet, sporting facilities and swimming pools. Oh yes, for free please.
I'm not being sarcastic - the Port Hedland Detention Centre (place of riots a little while ago) is near my parents house in Port Hedland. The manager lives four doors up from them and occasionally stops by to chat. One of the previous managers was beaten to death in a stairwell by someone that tried to illegally enter the country - but no, that was covered up very well. We can't have that in the news.
Not all of the illegals are genuine refugees - some of them are quite wealthy. One was caught last year with $5000AU of gold on his person. That person could easily have afforded a plane ticket and a passport.
Immigrants are welcome here, as long as they enter the country legally and abide by local laws. If an immigrant has no respect for our immigration laws, why would they respect any other laws?
...the people who will be developing the software ie. the dev team?
Surely they will prefer to do things in a language they prefer rather than do what the boss says.
They might even say they want to do some parts of the project in one language and some parts in another.
100 Mbps to your block?!?!
In Australia we don't have that much coming into the entire country.
Thanks for pointing that out, I was about to ask why they would bother with two IDE channels when they can only fit one hard disk in it.
The Babelfish was a Douglas Adams creation, not Gene Roddenberry. It is a fish that goes in your ear, read up on it.
These guys are always large-scale pirates -- often serious guys with guns -- and they know the rules of the piracy game.
These guys have guns, and you're worried about how many burnt CD's they have?
Priorities man, priorities.
Why transport them to .au, and put them in a foreign environment where they may not survive?
Surely it would be smarter (and cheaper) to put a reserve in Africa and just keep the bloody poachers out.
Don't forget the cane toads :(
.au to eat pests that were destroying crops. Instead of eating the pests, they multiplied and are now as big a problem as the rabbits.
For those of you that don't know, cane toads were introduced in
We aren't allowed to do anything anymore - everything thats any fun at all has been banned by authorities. TV is crap, its not safe to go outside because of guns and air pollution, even going for a drive might get us killed. So we stay at home and play a few games, for something to do... and get called addicts?
Gimme a break.
Thanks :)
...must be the reason people exclude Jon Katz in their viewing preferences. What a bunch of shit.
I'm off to tick that little box myself now. I bet its getting a lot of hits today.
I quite like Kawa - my university uses it to teach Java to first year CS students. It is a simple program that is good to learn with. I use it for all my Java coding, because I just want a lightweight, simple IDE - no bloated fancy features for me.
In Australia, Maggi is one of the two biggest brands of sauces - there are large advertising campaigns, and every supermarket stocks them. Everyone here knows what Maggi gravy is.
WINE was made because Linux users needed Windows apps, why can't Mozilla or Konqueror be made to impersonate IE's functionality?
Browsers and other linux internet tools will adapt to allow the use of Microsofts internet. We will not be kept out of it.