The author of the story has no idea. It is purely driven by ideology.
To compare Australia to Hong Kong, for a start, is sheer perversity. Australia is a huge country with a small population. Hong Kong is very densely populated and small. Guess which one has the cheapest broadband rates?
Telstra is obliged, by law, to give access to all areas of the country, which includes many remote areas with very small populations. The cost of this is enourmous.
It is worth noting the trials of many in the US, with a fully private communications industry. For example, I am constantly amused by Jerry Pournelles trials and tribulations at getting broadband to his house, in the middle of Hollywood.
The local loop is a natural monopoly, unless you are going to put down cable for every new broadband/telephone company. In a country like Australia, the costs could never be justified.
Yes, Telstra is charging too much for broadband, but that is because the government wants it to get it's share price up for a future sale of the rest of the company.
I don't think I am such a bad programmer, but i don't like the MS type riddles. They annoy me in that there is a single, pre-defined answer.
When I am dreaming up a technical solution to a request, I am thinking up something that doesn't have a pre-defined answer.
I have seen plenty of solutions that work, but merely parrot the previous solution and ignore any new possibilities that may have come up since. All that results is that we get bogged down in old technology and methods.
So they mod your question insightful, but leave the original as is. All I can suggest is you got redundant because they just assumed it was a troll. If they were serious, then most of/. should be modded redundant.
Probably 1/2 bluff, but at least they have something to call the bluff with. Expect to see them looking to lower the microsoft price for their site, especially in light of the recent MS price hike.
At least Linux is there, without linux, microsoft wouldn't blink at calling their bluff.
15 to 20 years is not a long time, I remember when it was 15 years to Y2K. It wasn't the disaster that it was beaten up to be, but it did cost a lot of money to remedy.
Encryption is pretty low level stuff, so the ramifications could be large for many systems.
Troll for this. I have suddenly had the same problem. An XP system that was reasonably stable, if very slow to boot up, suddenly blue screens all over the place, with various error message such as IRQL_LESS and something about POOL memory being release twice.
It wouldn't even run in safe mode.
Tried booting it up with the rollback to last stable configuration option, and it appeared to become stable again.
Thought it was a hardware problem it was so bad. Perhaps one of those patches it downloads for you was a dud.
Anyway, Can't say the previous post was a troll based on my own experiences.
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Same with drama, just to make sure, people in american drama often have to explain to the audience what is going on.
There is nothing wrong with good american humour, it just isn't as sophisticated as english humour.
For example, compare british comedy that is copied to the US, like men behaving badly. The US series just didn't work. Fawlty Towers, just didn't work.
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, they will never be copied, americans just couldn't make it work.
Instead, the closest thing would be Thats My Bush, a brilliant show, (when is it coming back), but not at all British humour. Although when I think about it, the joke about the celebration for the 10,000,000 drug bust was using irony as a joke.
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I think we were talking about ironical humour. The simpsons is one of the few american programs to use irony. Most american humour is written on the basis that people have to have the joke explained to them.
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It still makes absolutely no sense at all, but please don't try to explain it, I doubt it ever would make sense.
Sounds like you are rejecting all the best salesmen to me. Thats how they all act.
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Purely 'looks', just like a four cylinder car would look strange with big nose on it to fit a six cylinder engine in it. (Something GM did in Australia to the Vauxhall Viva to create the Torana. It was a very fast car, if you didn't need handling).
In practice, you can always work around the kludge with software, and then don't have the problem of software compatibility, just because the engineer threatened to throw a hissy fit.
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I'm just curious if Intel will take the spare bit that AMD will have to use to indicate the new modes, and then allocate it to something else in the Pentium 5?
I can see that C# has its failings, but they are pretty nit picking type failings compared to C. The use of pointers by itself renders whole programs unreadable unless one wants to spend a long time understanding the implications of every line of code.
To say that implicit type conversion in C is well understood and clear, and that in C# isn't, is just a joke. C has an incredibly complex time converting between types, nade all the more complex because types can vary between underlying machine architectures.
Didn't you listen to Bush about Kyoto, the American way of life is not up for negotiation. You have to keep spending, I am afraid, not saving. That is Un-American, and Un-patriotic.
The thing I find ironic about the Mac ad, is that the strength of Macs is that they are very much the same, it means Apple can ensure a higher consistency of software and hardware.
The problem with the generic PC is its diversity. Keeping such a range of hardware and software reliable is a huge task.
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Which is what this seems to resemble to me. http://vl.fmnet.info/transputer/
EPIC is clearly dead in the water. Intel didn't learn from the 432.
The author of the story has no idea. It is purely driven by ideology.
To compare Australia to Hong Kong, for a start, is sheer perversity. Australia is a huge country with a small population. Hong Kong is very densely populated and small. Guess which one has the cheapest broadband rates?
Telstra is obliged, by law, to give access to all areas of the country, which includes many remote areas with very small populations. The cost of this is enourmous.
It is worth noting the trials of many in the US, with a fully private communications industry. For example, I am constantly amused by Jerry Pournelles trials and tribulations at getting broadband to his house, in the middle of Hollywood.
The local loop is a natural monopoly, unless you are going to put down cable for every new broadband/telephone company. In a country like Australia, the costs could never be justified.
Yes, Telstra is charging too much for broadband, but that is because the government wants it to get it's share price up for a future sale of the rest of the company.
Stupid article.
Within 1 hour.
I could get tabs and indents working great in WP, still can't get them working properly in Word.
I don't think I am such a bad programmer, but i don't like the MS type riddles. They annoy me in that there is a single, pre-defined answer. When I am dreaming up a technical solution to a request, I am thinking up something that doesn't have a pre-defined answer. I have seen plenty of solutions that work, but merely parrot the previous solution and ignore any new possibilities that may have come up since. All that results is that we get bogged down in old technology and methods.
So they mod your question insightful, but leave the original as is. All I can suggest is you got redundant because they just assumed it was a troll. If they were serious, then most of /. should be modded redundant.
Probably 1/2 bluff, but at least they have something to call the bluff with. Expect to see them looking to lower the microsoft price for their site, especially in light of the recent MS price hike. At least Linux is there, without linux, microsoft wouldn't blink at calling their bluff.
Yeah, I know, I really should start putting smilies on my posts at the appropriate times.
15 to 20 years is not a long time, I remember when it was 15 years to Y2K. It wasn't the disaster that it was beaten up to be, but it did cost a lot of money to remedy.
Encryption is pretty low level stuff, so the ramifications could be large for many systems.
Troll for this. I have suddenly had the same problem. An XP system that was reasonably stable, if very slow to boot up, suddenly blue screens all over the place, with various error message such as IRQL_LESS and something about POOL memory being release twice. It wouldn't even run in safe mode. Tried booting it up with the rollback to last stable configuration option, and it appeared to become stable again. Thought it was a hardware problem it was so bad. Perhaps one of those patches it downloads for you was a dud. Anyway, Can't say the previous post was a troll based on my own experiences.
In fact gravity is so weak that I just jumped out of the fortieth floor and landed on my feet quite nicely.
Free, stable, classic, Mac:- Pick any three.
There is nothing wrong with good american humour, it just isn't as sophisticated as english humour.
For example, compare british comedy that is copied to the US, like men behaving badly. The US series just didn't work. Fawlty Towers, just didn't work.
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, they will never be copied, americans just couldn't make it work.
Instead, the closest thing would be Thats My Bush, a brilliant show, (when is it coming back), but not at all British humour. Although when I think about it, the joke about the celebration for the 10,000,000 drug bust was using irony as a joke.
I think we were talking about ironical humour. The simpsons is one of the few american programs to use irony. Most american humour is written on the basis that people have to have the joke explained to them.
It still makes absolutely no sense at all, but please don't try to explain it, I doubt it ever would make sense.
Sounds like you are rejecting all the best salesmen to me. Thats how they all act.
In practice, you can always work around the kludge with software, and then don't have the problem of software compatibility, just because the engineer threatened to throw a hissy fit.
I'm just curious if Intel will take the spare bit that AMD will have to use to indicate the new modes, and then allocate it to something else in the Pentium 5?
To say that implicit type conversion in C is well understood and clear, and that in C# isn't, is just a joke. C has an incredibly complex time converting between types, nade all the more complex because types can vary between underlying machine architectures.
Delphi is an excellent product. So what are C# failings, apart from the learning curve of a new language?
Didn't you listen to Bush about Kyoto, the American way of life is not up for negotiation. You have to keep spending, I am afraid, not saving. That is Un-American, and Un-patriotic.
Oh come on, have you never heard of ME?
The problem with the generic PC is its diversity. Keeping such a range of hardware and software reliable is a huge task.
He doesn't believe 'under God' is a good idea for a secular state.
Cuba has been blockaded long enough.
The drinking age should be lowered to 18.
The US has many good points, but some countries overseas do some things better.
The US is not specially blessed by god.
The blind worship of consumerism can be bad.
There can be problems with the capitalist system.
Tough laws on drugs are not working.
Gun laws are too lax.