And now they sue somebody cause a word they use looks like one of the names of their characters. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
Even stupider is the fact that they don't even stick to their own names: in the English translations (at least the ones in Australia, which I imagine are the same as the British ones), for example, the chief is Vitalstatistix (i.e. Vital statistics).
Or the fact that too many people (in at least Australia) these days call * an asterix. (Though whether this can affect a German/French trademark case I do not know.)
Furthermore, 'to google' isn't a verb like 'to hoover' is, unless the people who use the latter aren't telling me something.
'To google' means 'to search the web using Google'. 'To hoover' means 'to vacuum-clean'. You could hoover a room with with a Sanyo vacuum cleaner, but you couldn't google for 'conlang' with Alta-Vista.
IBM never released the package for free (short of betas back in the early '90s), and now I believe it costs a fortune to get a copy... if you can get it at all.
A (full) copy of OS/2 Warp 4 was included for free (or for the cover price, depending on whether you bought the mag normally or not) on the cover CD of the July 2000 issue of Australian Personal Computer.
I could never get it to work.
If someone can find it in their local library (if that's legal) or wants to buy a back issue of the mag, good luck to you.
And furthermore, WTF are you talking about "innocent until proven guilty"? THEY HAVE BEEN PROVEN GUILTY, IN COURT, MORE THAN ONCE!
I steal from Joe Bloggs a couple of times. I'm arrested, tried and found guilty. Because in this hypothetical scenario, I'm in the Northern Territory, I go to prison. I get released.
John Smith gets murdered. Should I get arrested and thrown into jail straight away, or should I still have a trial? You're innocent until proven guilty every time, regardless of prior convictions.
so do we have any proof that if a human baby is given no "input", they will grow up to be intelligent?
They'll certainly develop a language when not given any; take a look at Nicaraguan Sign Language (or the fact that language exists fullstop). Also, I understand somewhen and somewhere two babies were kept in isolation with minimal adult contact and also developed a language. I find it to be unlikely you can have language without intelligence.
So yes, human beings are intelligent. ALICE isn't.
As for the pricing - it is comparable to what I was paying in the US last year. Half those prices and you get around USD$50-$60.
Yes, but you also have to halve the income. $A100 is the same percentage of an average income of an Australian as $US100 is of an American.
I don't know why these whirlpool guys love to complain soo much - we have other providers to switch to - if you don't like their pricing then don't choose Telstra. I had only one provider for broadband while living in MA, USA and I'm glad I've moved back here where I do have some choice.
Okay, what're the choices? Pretend you live in a new suburb, so you're on a RIM. No ADSL. And because it's a new suburb, there's no overhead cables, so no O@H. You're left with a three gig cap or beyond possibilities. Telstra ought to have a responsibility to provide Australians with an affordable broadband option, after all they have a monopoly in many areas and the government owns half of them.
I understand it's the lack of density and lack of competition. Optus@Home (formerly part-owned by Excite@Home) doesn't cable very many places at all, least of all new areas... (See my rant above.)
Satellite access is even worse than cable/ADSL. Nowhere near affordable (something like $A400/month for the three gig cap for two-way satellite from Telstra, I think). And the ping times are useless for gamers.
Umm.... the only one for Linux I know of is bURL (and one made by someone who hasn't distributed it with the same features as bURL). I'm currently working on one using GNUstep (so maybe it'll run on OSX if I'm lucky). At this stage, it'll just be a graphical version with bURL's features, but maybe eventually I'll add some more features.
(What's currently stopping me is that I don't know OPENSTEP very well and have little idea how I can open a connection. Thank god for MacOSX's developers' site!)
How about one that emailed the owner of the computer about holes, giving them ideas on how to fix it, rather then fixing it itself? Now, that wouldn't actually have to break into the computer, would it? Or would it?
I doubt there are any crimes on the net that don't have at least something happening in the real world, so if you had to do something like that, then you simply have the government(s) of the relevant countr(y|ies)/state(s)/province(s) etc. catch the people for whatever real-world crime they've committed.
Of course, you still have to get the space to grow it, get the seeds/seedlings/cuttings from somewhere, the fertiliser... The list goes on. You do need to buy/barter/trade stuff, unless people going to give you stuff for free, or you'll steal stuff.
Yes, well although 'innovation is accellerating [vomit] further and faster than ever before in the history of civilization', it wouldn't have been able to had the previous inventions not been invented. We haven't made anything new from scratch recently, that's the point.
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And now they sue somebody cause a word they use looks like one of the names of their characters. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
Even stupider is the fact that they don't even stick to their own names: in the English translations (at least the ones in Australia, which I imagine are the same as the British ones), for example, the chief is Vitalstatistix (i.e. Vital statistics).
Or the fact that too many people (in at least Australia) these days call * an asterix. (Though whether this can affect a German/French trademark case I do not know.)
Anyone can build something according to a design. Not anyone can make that design.
I wouldn't think it out of place in "USA Today"
Oo... I dunno.. The Age is a Melburnian paper... which makes it Australian.
which was 'news' in 2001!
So it's right on schedule for slashdot then? (Unless it's a FreeBSD release, in which case it's three years late.)
Furthermore, 'to google' isn't a verb like 'to hoover' is, unless the people who use the latter aren't telling me something.
'To google' means 'to search the web using Google'. 'To hoover' means 'to vacuum-clean'. You could hoover a room with with a Sanyo vacuum cleaner, but you couldn't google for 'conlang' with Alta-Vista.
IBM never released the package for free (short of betas back in the early '90s), and now I believe it costs a fortune to get a copy... if you can get it at all.
A (full) copy of OS/2 Warp 4 was included for free (or for the cover price, depending on whether you bought the mag normally or not) on the cover CD of the July 2000 issue of Australian Personal Computer.
I could never get it to work.
If someone can find it in their local library (if that's legal) or wants to buy a back issue of the mag, good luck to you.
And furthermore, WTF are you talking about "innocent until proven guilty"? THEY HAVE BEEN PROVEN GUILTY, IN COURT, MORE THAN ONCE!
I steal from Joe Bloggs a couple of times. I'm arrested, tried and found guilty. Because in this hypothetical scenario, I'm in the Northern Territory, I go to prison. I get released.
John Smith gets murdered. Should I get arrested and thrown into jail straight away, or should I still have a trial? You're innocent until proven guilty every time, regardless of prior convictions.
so do we have any proof that if a human baby is given no "input", they will grow up to be intelligent?
They'll certainly develop a language when not given any; take a look at Nicaraguan Sign Language (or the fact that language exists fullstop). Also, I understand somewhen and somewhere two babies were kept in isolation with minimal adult contact and also developed a language. I find it to be unlikely you can have language without intelligence.
So yes, human beings are intelligent. ALICE isn't.
For those of you who don't speak IPA, this means it almost rhymes with 'toeless', and begins with a sound similar to the English word 'owe'.
/o:/ is better represented by 'awe' in many dialects, including Australian English. Especially before L's. So 'aweless'.
Just continuing the line of thought...
The sound
And the upside e is or ə. I love unicode.
As for the pricing - it is comparable to what I was paying in the US last year. Half those prices and you get around USD$50-$60. Yes, but you also have to halve the income. $A100 is the same percentage of an average income of an Australian as $US100 is of an American.
I don't know why these whirlpool guys love to complain soo much - we have other providers to switch to - if you don't like their pricing then don't choose Telstra. I had only one provider for broadband while living in MA, USA and I'm glad I've moved back here where I do have some choice.
Okay, what're the choices? Pretend you live in a new suburb, so you're on a RIM. No ADSL. And because it's a new suburb, there's no overhead cables, so no O@H. You're left with a three gig cap or beyond possibilities. Telstra ought to have a responsibility to provide Australians with an affordable broadband option, after all they have a monopoly in many areas and the government owns half of them.
I'm on cable.
I'm on the three gigabyte plan.
I don't require much speed.
I avoid at all costs going above three gigabytes because I know who'll kill me.
My parents aren't especially pleased with the price increase. This extra fifteen dollars might see the end of our broadband connection.
Well, it's all bad for me, and my case is not unique.
Argh! Third time lucky maybe.
Yes, silly me, I meant units/flats/town houses etc. Don't I feel silly?
I understand it's the lack of density and lack of competition. Optus@Home (formerly part-owned by Excite@Home) doesn't cable very many places at all, least of all new areas... (See my rant above.)
Satellite access is even worse than cable/ADSL. Nowhere near affordable (something like $A400/month for the three gig cap for two-way satellite from Telstra, I think). And the ping times are useless for gamers.
Umm.... the only one for Linux I know of is bURL (and one made by someone who hasn't distributed it with the same features as bURL). I'm currently working on one using GNUstep (so maybe it'll run on OSX if I'm lucky). At this stage, it'll just be a graphical version with bURL's features, but maybe eventually I'll add some more features.
(What's currently stopping me is that I don't know OPENSTEP very well and have little idea how I can open a connection. Thank god for MacOSX's developers' site!)
Covered! You're funny.
Optus@Home do not cable underground. Optus@Home do not cable houses. Optus@Home aren't cabling new people in at least parts of Qld.
That is the most billiant marketing idea in the world. I gotta get me some dickheads!
Your proposed 'Yahoo Serious,' for Yahoo Serious' trademark posseses punctuation, too.
Incidentally, such famous Americans as Donald Duck were named after the Aussie legend. And Dick Smith makes food, if that's yet to be mentioned.
.au) ;)
Tristan, wondering if he'll lose his email addy over this (note the
How about one that emailed the owner of the computer about holes, giving them ideas on how to fix it, rather then fixing it itself? Now, that wouldn't actually have to break into the computer, would it? Or would it?
Intel-based architecture on an OS? How do you arrange that?
But I do agree with what you mean
I doubt there are any crimes on the net that don't have at least something happening in the real world, so if you had to do something like that, then you simply have the government(s) of the relevant countr(y|ies)/state(s)/province(s) etc. catch the people for whatever real-world crime they've committed.
Of course, you still have to get the space to grow it, get the seeds/seedlings/cuttings from somewhere, the fertiliser... The list goes on.
You do need to buy/barter/trade stuff, unless people going to give you stuff for free, or you'll steal stuff.
Yes, well although 'innovation is accellerating [vomit] further and faster than ever before in the history of civilization', it wouldn't have been able to had the previous inventions not been invented. We haven't made anything new from scratch recently, that's the point.
can it change fount yet? Thats why I hate Notepad pre 98.
I disaprove of black holes too. Just think: if I were to go into one, I'd be stuck!