The fact that Australia lacks good broadband simply comes down to an exercise in geography. As a new zealander (to put it bluntly) the country is simply too bloody big, with too few people. Telstra was originally created because the australian goverment basically had to mortgage the country to raise the finace to build telephone lines over a continent the size of the US with 1/100 of the population.
Upgrading all these lines, many of which are so old that they give pityful adsl speeds is a mega task, not to mention the cost of laying fiber and coax everywhere to serve a very limited user group.
The big question is why microsoft is bitching about this. I thought they had invested large sums in satellite broadband. Althought sat broadband isn't the ideal solution, it would be far easier to roll out across Australia than adsl. Instead of moaning about the situation, gates and co could launch a new broadband bird and start laughing all the way to the bank
Given that you are probably gifted with good computer skillz, the best course of action would probably be to contribute to linuxdoc project, for free, while using your skillz to get a good computing job that pays well.
This gives both maximum benefit to yourself and to the linux community
good point
The main problem with people cooking food is that they don't cook at the right temp. Digital thermometer would solve this problem. After all, cooking food is just a complicated chemical equation
Coming from new zealand I doubt even if the police could hack into your computer, that they would be able to. Our Police force can barely afford computers, let alone use them to fight crime
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all very nice to know when your fat ass suffers a heart attack
I would think that the 8 gig harddrive *is* for holding that piece of shit OS called windows. I don't think it would be that hard to take out the harddrive, format it with ext2 and stick linux on it. I am guessing that it will probably be incased in something to make this difficult, if not impossible without breaking the xbox
I'm not sure that more games development for linux is a good thing, as it would detract away from the strengths of linux i.e non propertar, stable and open souce. Without these strengths, linux has failed and is just another has been. Linux is barely ready for the desktop, let alone a powerful games machine
Every slashdotter should contribute 1 dollar. Then we can hire linus some hot chicks.Think about how his sex life must have suffered
"Sorry baby, no sex tonight, I gotta write some drivers"
Its the least we can do for our heroe
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The fact that Australia lacks good broadband simply comes down to an exercise in geography. As a new zealander (to put it bluntly) the country is simply too bloody big, with too few people. Telstra was originally created because the australian goverment basically had to mortgage the country to raise the finace to build telephone lines over a continent the size of the US with 1/100 of the population.
Upgrading all these lines, many of which are so old that they give pityful adsl speeds is a mega task, not to mention the cost of laying fiber and coax everywhere to serve a very limited user group.
The big question is why microsoft is bitching about this. I thought they had invested large sums in satellite broadband. Althought sat broadband isn't the ideal solution, it would be far easier to roll out across Australia than adsl. Instead of moaning about the situation, gates and co could launch a new broadband bird and start laughing all the way to the bank
This gives both maximum benefit to yourself and to the linux community
good point
The main problem with people cooking food is that they don't cook at the right temp. Digital thermometer would solve this problem. After all, cooking food is just a complicated chemical equation
"a particle moves in a striaght line with v= 2t find the distance when t = 2" ?
Please do not think u are special for doing basic math dumbfuck
Why don't they change it to humanshit.com. Then they can sit on the can all day, eat, read comics and shit.
Coming from new zealand I doubt even if the police could hack into your computer, that they would be able to.
Our Police force can barely afford computers, let alone use them to fight crime
all very nice to know when your fat ass suffers a heart attack
I hope the linux rep *confronted* them with a 2 barrel shotgun and some vampyre stakes
hmm ian u seem to noe alot about linus' wife
I would think that the 8 gig harddrive *is* for holding that piece of shit OS called windows. I don't think it would be that hard to take out the harddrive, format it with ext2 and stick linux on it. I am guessing that it will probably be incased in something to make this difficult, if not impossible without breaking the xbox
I'm not sure that more games development for linux is a good thing, as it would detract away from the strengths of linux i.e non propertar, stable and open souce. Without these strengths, linux has failed and is just another has been. Linux is barely ready for the desktop, let alone a powerful games machine
Every slashdotter should contribute 1 dollar. Then we can hire linus some hot chicks.Think about how his sex life must have suffered
"Sorry baby, no sex tonight, I gotta write some drivers"
Its the least we can do for our heroe
just use gimp it is button 4 button exactly like photoshop and free
Greatest % internet saturation in the world
A real kind of football (rugby) where all those pads and helmets are banned and there is no stoppages
Clean Air
Ruled by women
Unique software houses
Low crime
A MP in paralement who smokes pot in the debating chamber and wheres a hemp suit. Go figure
I wish for 2.4 final release
dump that in the bin with flying cars
And I thought that the union of the church and state was evil
Maybe AOL should jump on the bandwagon
Then we can hav the father son and steve case
Im sure there is a gene for that