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The monopoly and the resulting lack of cost efficient broadband would be easier to take if some people... had at least made some money out of it.
Maybe for you. Maybe for everyone who bought shares.
But for the people who actually use Telstra it would not have been any easier to take at all.
Frankly even if broadband was perfect I would be somewhat worried that the Government is selling Telstra off for a value of only $45 Billion or so.
Thats only $2500 per Australian.
You could not even lay copper to each person's door for that amount of money let alone the rest of the infrastructure.
Check out this democrat's pdf (different to US democrats) for plenty of other good reasons why selling our goose that lays the golden egg is a bad idea.
Telstra are the perfect example of why monopolies are bad.
They've taken every new technology that has come and instead of saying "How can we sell this to people and make a profit" they say "How can we exploit this and make as large a profit as we can."
I had ADSL with Telstra.
It was capped (bad) but I could live with that. Until they slammed me.
Short story:
I had the three gig cap. It cost $90 AUD/month for three gigs.
I went over one month (my bad) and used around 9 gigs (when I discovered file sharing). The bill I recieved however was for over $1200 AUD.
To sumamrise:
1st 3 gigs - Charge $90.
Each 3 gig block after that cost me $550 AUD.
At the time it was _not_possible_ to get a greater cap then 3 gigs - so if you wanted ten gigs to download that was what you paid.
Dunno about the processors - I dont see any reason why you'd need a power of two for them. Perhaps we've got two arrays of 2^7 processors with a controller processor each (=128+1 *2 = 258)
But I suspect as far as the ram goes that the 258 gigs is 256 - but counting 1k as 1000 instead of 1024. (or possibly 1M as 10^6 instead of 1048576)
Haven't you noticed the difference between what a vendor says is the size of a HDD compared to how many gigs you actually get when you put it in your PC?
Right now there's a plethora of essentially incompatible ebook formats, and this format 'babel' is hampering the growth of the ebook industry.
Yup - just like there's a plethora of essentially incompatible word processing formats - hampering the growth of the office/word processing market.
But the industry doesn't matter to one player - only their market share does.
The only way to really win this sort of thing is to persuade all (or at least most) consumers to boycott products that deliberately break compatability with standards.
2) Says they're OK to use provided:
a) They comply with the same Dod policies for equivilant Off the Shelf software
b) They're comply with the requirements defined by the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Secuirty policy.
c) They're configured as per DoD approved security configurations from http://iase.disa.mil and http://www.nsa.gov.
d) You dont break any licenses.
....make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider."
Except it's not really like that is it?
OSS is not a toddler - it's tends to be just as mature as proprietry equivilants.
And the reason for my comments--I get so incredibly tired of people saying things like you do. "Oh americans only care about themselves".. "American hates the poor".. or in reverse.. "cheese eating surrender monkeys".. "europe is all socialist wackos"
Or how about under the British/American legals codes, anything not forbidden by law is allowed. Under the French/Continental codes, anything not expressively allowed is forbidde
Look Moridineas - I really don't see how you can say that I am "petty and wrong" and "just trying to be deliberately insulting" and then in the same thread make innaccurate and insulting comments about the difference between the French/Contintental & Anglo/US legal systems - one of the most important facets of life for the citizens of a particular country.
My original comment Presuming you're American, you would use feet, pounds, find metric too complicated, etc, etc - so probably wont care if it does. was a gentle poke at US recalcitrants. Go and read about the history of the metric system in the US and you will see what I meant.
Over 335 million unique RealPlayer/RealOne Player registrations have been received by RealNetworks.
At least 300 million of them were me doing sould1@foo.bar, sould2@foo.bar, sould3@foo.bar,.... sould300000000@foo.bar 'cause I couldn't remember what I'd registered as last time I'd needed to watch a realplayer movie, before deleting the binaries 'cause it's a buggy, reminderware, bloated heap o' shite!
I can't reveal its identity for this precise reason.
Yes - there is a mole in the base S.I. units - but I can't tell you it's name. Its been on a secret long term sleeper mission - to liberate the S.I. units and term them into "Freedom Units"
Why exactly does it have to be measured annually......Anyone care to enlighten me?
It doesn't exactly have to be measured. They just do that to check it's still right. Go read about the history of the Systeme International the NIST site and the definition of a kilogram at the same place
But essentially, its part of a way of ensuring that the measuring units Scientists use around the world are the same, not slightly different.
For instance, anyone around the world can reproduce (in a well equipped lab anyway) the definition for time (The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom).
There are only 7 base SI units (meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, and candela) from which many more units are derived. Hence, if kilo is out/changing many of these are changing too.
and why should I care if it detoritates?
Presuming you're American, you would use feet, pounds, find metric too complicated, etc, etc - so probably wont care if it does.
In page 33, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following subsection:
"(2) No equipment may be approved for the purposes of subsection (1) unless a full technical description of the said equipment (including all source code and information regarding independent testing and verification relating thereto) has been laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving a draft of the order approving the said equipment has been passed by each such House.".
Having lost the-----
Ms O. Mitchell: Is that the amendment we were discussing?
Acting Chairman:No, we were discussing the section. We were discussing section 35 and are now at section 36.
Looks like a slap. Smells like a slap. Probably a slap
You say: Hopefully (I am too cynical to say "presumably") the source will be made available on the pruchase of the full system.
and also: it is a custom Windows embedded, and the database is a modified Access one
So...you hope the source to Win CE & Access will be released to the general public hey?
Occam's razor is not "the explaination that requires the fewest ad-hoc assumptions is the most likely to be correct (as it has the fewest places to break)."
Its actually "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily."
One of the philisophical conclusions you can take Occam's razor to is "when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better."
I've just found this document - which appears to be the minutes of an Irish government selection commmittee debating the merits (amongst other things, search for neda) of this system.
Interesting quote: "The integrity of the electoral process will be assured for both the electorate and candidates"
Not all of the electorate it would seem.
Further on in the document [emphasis mine] "(2) No equipment may be approved for the purposes of subsection (1) unless a full technical description of the said equipment (including all source code and information regarding independent testing and verification relating thereto) has been laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving a draft of the order approving the said equipment has been passed by each such House.".
Intesting hey?
Thats just one of the committee's opinion - and it looks like they got slapped down - but if I was Irish, I'd be finding out who this Mr Gilmore was & voting for him.
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According to this guy, artists only get 10%-12% of the cost of the CD.
And thats after paying for promotion. Depressing stuff.
Or maybe they realised that the current crop of PDAs don't have enough grunt to do Voice recognition.
You never heard of a throat mic/earphones?
Nobody considered simple voice recognition?
to buy my thc-free marjiuana before.
But now I'm not so sure.
The winlin link from the article mentions quite a few cost benefits:
shrug. Adspeak.
More importantly (and they also mention this) - you can use it to ease your users from (expensive) windows to (cheap) linux.
We evaluated Citrix and discovered the opposite.
Citrix doesn't give you the wealth of linux tools + an eventual end to windependence.
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Sounds cool
Maybe for you. Maybe for everyone who bought shares.
But for the people who actually use Telstra it would not have been any easier to take at all.
Frankly even if broadband was perfect I would be somewhat worried that the Government is selling Telstra off for a value of only $45 Billion or so.
Thats only $2500 per Australian.
You could not even lay copper to each person's door for that amount of money let alone the rest of the infrastructure.
Check out this democrat's pdf (different to US democrats) for plenty of other good reasons why selling our goose that lays the golden egg is a bad idea.
Telstra are the perfect example of why monopolies are bad.
They've taken every new technology that has come and instead of saying "How can we sell this to people and make a profit" they say "How can we exploit this and make as large a profit as we can."
I had ADSL with Telstra.
It was capped (bad) but I could live with that. Until they slammed me.
Short story:
I had the three gig cap. It cost $90 AUD/month for three gigs.
I went over one month (my bad) and used around 9 gigs (when I discovered file sharing). The bill I recieved however was for over $1200 AUD.
To sumamrise:
1st 3 gigs - Charge $90.
Each 3 gig block after that cost me $550 AUD.
At the time it was _not_possible_ to get a greater cap then 3 gigs - so if you wanted ten gigs to download that was what you paid.
Exploitation?
Yes.
They are scum and deserve to be broken up.
Dunno about the processors - I dont see any reason why you'd need a power of two for them. Perhaps we've got two arrays of 2^7 processors with a controller processor each (=128+1 *2 = 258)
But I suspect as far as the ram goes that the 258 gigs is 256 - but counting 1k as 1000 instead of 1024. (or possibly 1M as 10^6 instead of 1048576)
Haven't you noticed the difference between what a vendor says is the size of a HDD compared to how many gigs you actually get when you put it in your PC?
Yup - just like there's a plethora of essentially incompatible word processing formats - hampering the growth of the office/word processing market.
But the industry doesn't matter to one player - only their market share does.
The only way to really win this sort of thing is to persuade all (or at least most) consumers to boycott products that deliberately break compatability with standards.
But how likely is that to happen?
Gawd!
It aint that hard.
Basically:
1) It defines OSS & GPL
2) Says they're OK to use provided:
a) They comply with the same Dod policies for equivilant Off the Shelf software
b) They're comply with the requirements defined by the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Secuirty policy.
c) They're configured as per DoD approved security configurations from http://iase.disa.mil and http://www.nsa.gov.
d) You dont break any licenses.
Thats all!
Sorry.
That document you linked to is dated Janurary, 2000, not may 2003.
It also does not mention the GPL.
....make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider."
Except it's not really like that is it?
OSS is not a toddler - it's tends to be just as mature as proprietry equivilants.
So it should be covered by similar guidlines.
Which is all memo says really.
I presume you're a troll.
;op
1) You wink and smile too much.
2) You have a big nose
And the reason for my comments--I get so incredibly tired of people saying things like you do. "Oh americans only care about themselves" .. "American hates the poor" .. or in reverse.. "cheese eating surrender monkeys" .. "europe is all socialist wackos"
Or how about under the British/American legals codes, anything not forbidden by law is allowed. Under the French/Continental codes, anything not expressively allowed is forbidde
Look Moridineas - I really don't see how you can say that I am "petty and wrong" and "just trying to be deliberately insulting" and then in the same thread make innaccurate and insulting comments about the difference between the French/Contintental & Anglo/US legal systems - one of the most important facets of life for the citizens of a particular country.
My original comment Presuming you're American, you would use feet, pounds, find metric too complicated, etc, etc - so probably wont care if it does. was a gentle poke at US recalcitrants. Go and read about the history of the metric system in the US and you will see what I meant.
And I GUESSED he was European
You guessed incorrectly.
BTW.
I dont see the huge difference you do between curlyg saying you "thought" I'm European and you "GUESSING" I'm European.
Nonsense.
According to RIAA, the other 40% is used by students using all other available protocols to download copyrighted material.
Well. I'm sure MS will have plenty of documention from before SCO bought up the whole IP thaaang.
Thats interesting in enough itself really...
Kinda works under wine too
At least 300 million of them were me doing sould1@foo.bar, sould2@foo.bar, sould3@foo.bar,
I can't reveal its identity for this precise reason.
Yes - there is a mole in the base S.I. units - but I can't tell you it's name. Its been on a secret long term sleeper mission - to liberate the S.I. units and term them into "Freedom Units"
It doesn't exactly have to be measured. They just do that to check it's still right. Go read about the history of the Systeme International the NIST site and the definition of a kilogram at the same place
But essentially, its part of a way of ensuring that the measuring units Scientists use around the world are the same, not slightly different.
For instance, anyone around the world can reproduce (in a well equipped lab anyway) the definition for time (The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom).
There are only 7 base SI units (meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, and candela) from which many more units are derived. Hence, if kilo is out/changing many of these are changing too.
and why should I care if it detoritates?
Presuming you're American, you would use feet, pounds, find metric too complicated, etc, etc - so probably wont care if it does.
No, they didn't get slapped down.
:No, we were discussing the section. We were discussing section 35 and are now at section 36.
Quoting from the article I linked before:
Mr. Gilmore: I move amendment No. 39:
In page 33, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following subsection:
"(2) No equipment may be approved for the purposes of subsection (1) unless a full technical description of the said equipment (including all source code and information regarding independent testing and verification relating thereto) has been laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving a draft of the order approving the said equipment has been passed by each such House.".
Having lost the-----
Ms O. Mitchell: Is that the amendment we were discussing?
Acting Chairman
Looks like a slap. Smells like a slap. Probably a slap
You say:
Hopefully (I am too cynical to say "presumably") the source will be made available on the pruchase of the full system.
and also:
it is a custom Windows embedded, and the database is a modified Access one
So...you hope the source to Win CE & Access will be released to the general public hey?
I agree completely with your reasoning.
But
Occam's razor is not "the explaination that requires the fewest ad-hoc assumptions is the most likely to be correct (as it has the fewest places to break)."
Its actually "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily."
One of the philisophical conclusions you can take Occam's razor to is "when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better."
But that aint actually the razor itself.
I've just found this document - which appears to be the minutes of an Irish government selection commmittee debating the merits (amongst other things, search for neda) of this system.
Interesting quote: "The integrity of the electoral process will be assured for both the electorate and candidates"
Not all of the electorate it would seem.
Further on in the document
[emphasis mine]
"(2) No equipment may be approved for the purposes of subsection (1) unless a full technical description of the said equipment (including all source code and information regarding independent testing and verification relating thereto) has been laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving a draft of the order approving the said equipment has been passed by each such House.".
Intesting hey?
Thats just one of the committee's opinion - and it looks like they got slapped down - but if I was Irish, I'd be finding out who this Mr Gilmore was & voting for him.