With the way the broadband industry is in Australia and the way that the Australian government here still regards broadband as only a "fanciful" thing, it is no wonder that a telco like Telstra can survive.
We really have no choice. For instance, I used to live in a newly established estate, but because the developers did not design it with trenches, we could not get broadband cable.
As for ADSL, Telstra is selling it wholesale (it owns most of the exchanges) to competition at or higher then it sells to customers... how's that for competition.
Sent to the Australian attorney general. I suggest you do the same if you live in Australia.
Dear Minister,
In November of last year, I subscribed to a mailing list on the internet.
The mailing list required my email, full name and physical address. The mailing list was for the company Lindows.com at (http://www.lindows.com). This company produces a operating system product similar to Microsoft Windows, but it can run both Linux(another platform) and windows based applications. Lindows.com is now involved in a lawsuit with Microsoft over the trademark "Lindows". Microsoft claim it causes confusion with their product.
I subscribed after viewing their privacy statement, which stated clearly that information would not be passed onto third parties.
On the 11 January 2002, at a hearing on the lawsuit between Lindows.com and Microsoft, in the discovery stage, the judge presiding on the case, order Lindows.com to pass their full mailing list (10's of thousands of users from Australia and the world) onto Microsoft. more info here http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php
Now I ask you sir, are any Australian privacy laws or international agreements being broken by the action of this judge? My name, email and physical address are now in the hands of Microsoft, to do as they will, for commercial reasons or otherwise and to onsell and sublicense to other, maybe non-legitimate companies, like gambling providers. Please answer.
SO what if they are using VB? VB is good for small utility apps. Oh okay, you would write it using MFC and it would take you 3 times as long and look crap. Top stuff.
What's missing from this discussion? Drivers and dodgy software. Windows, unfortunately suffers from some of the worst drivers on earth, written quickly and in a sloppy fashion, because the code is not public and written without super peer review like in the linux comunity.
Windows 95, 98 et al, have little or no tolerance for faulty drivers or hardware. You hardware goes down, the OS will go with it.
There's no point saying "I run win98 and it never crashes". It really depends on how much stuff you install and the quality of it.
Does this seem like much of a suprise if the OS is running WINE. WINE can run IE and Office Apps. WineX can run DirectX games and new games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein...
Yeah but if you have every been to that ride and read the information sign it says something like "When in operation, the Tower of Terror ride uses twice the amount of power that the entire park uses in one day."
Without getting too emoptional about the obvious issue, don't you think the comment made has some validity at least in the sense that the US always 'feels' it has to be the world leader?
The death of thousands of people like the WTC is a tragedy, the death of one person is bad enough.
But what the US needs to understand is that countries consist of communities, communities consist of people. People who are concerned about their life and prosperity.
Now your country doesn't comply with some US agreement. Exports are restricted, you lose your job at the paper mill and your family goes hungry. Maybe your daughter or son die of some disease because you can't afford surgery/medicine. You grow to hate the US.
Think about it. It's happened before. It's very easy to make these type of comments when you don't have to see the effect of US policies on other countries.
Don't you just love it when people write inflammatory scientific papers about how quantum computing is impossible with today's technology and then pop onto the forum to defend it... Truely sad.
E-Paper does not contantly refresh and is not LCD based. If there is no charge the image is not destroyed.
It would be infact very cheap to produce, seeing that the paper is just inpregnated with beads half black and on the other side white. They just spin from side to side. They then stay that way until a charge is used.
The E-Ink/E-Paper concept works on the fact that you run a charge through the circuitry and the pages hold that state once they have been typeset. Removing the charge does not destroy the image.
The E-Paper is comprised on half white/black beads that spin from white to black.
Therefore there is no need to refresh the picture unless you are doing an animation.
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Does anybody here know if this type of equipment is harmful, in terms of radiation or exposure to the transmitted beam?
Something that small that can transmit at 2Mbits/sec must be quite powerful. What is the tranmission carrier? Microwave?
With the way the broadband industry is in Australia and the way that the Australian government here still regards broadband as only a "fanciful" thing, it is no wonder that a telco like Telstra can survive.
We really have no choice. For instance, I used to live in a newly established estate, but because the developers did not design it with trenches, we could not get broadband cable.
As for ADSL, Telstra is selling it wholesale (it owns most of the exchanges) to competition at or higher then it sells to customers... how's that for competition.
I'm still paranoid about it spilling over components. Now if it only shipped with a can of fluorant :)
Sent to the Australian attorney general. I suggest you do the same if you live in Australia.
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Dear Minister,
In November of last year, I subscribed to a mailing list on the internet.
The mailing list required my email, full name and physical address. The mailing list was for the company Lindows.com at (http://www.lindows.com). This company produces a operating system product similar to Microsoft Windows, but it can run both Linux(another platform) and windows based applications. Lindows.com is now involved in a lawsuit with Microsoft over the trademark "Lindows". Microsoft claim it causes confusion with their product.
I subscribed after viewing their privacy statement, which stated clearly that information would not be passed onto third parties.
On the 11 January 2002, at a hearing on the lawsuit between Lindows.com and Microsoft, in the discovery stage, the judge presiding on the case, order Lindows.com to pass their full mailing list (10's of thousands of users from Australia and the world) onto Microsoft. more info here http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.ph
Now I ask you sir, are any Australian privacy laws or international agreements being broken by the action of this judge? My name, email and physical address are now in the hands of Microsoft, to do as they will, for commercial reasons or otherwise and to onsell and sublicense to other, maybe non-legitimate companies, like gambling providers. Please answer.
Best Regards,
Thomas Mayer
SO what if they are using VB? VB is good for small utility apps. Oh okay, you would write it using MFC and it would take you 3 times as long and look crap. Top stuff.
Not over a modem? Why not? Surely there is nothing more extra to transmit. And your are using a fat client don't forget.
It's still x, y and z for the co-ordinates and vx, vy and vz for vectors. They might include voice chat, but that's seldom used today.
Are you some kind of bottom feeding scum sucking geek hater or something.
Or have too many or all of your articles be rejected, that why you're anon??
It amazes me how far technology has come since the first telescopes.
Today these telescopes look into the past, a visual form of time travel.
What's missing from this discussion? Drivers and dodgy software. Windows, unfortunately suffers from some of the worst drivers on earth, written quickly and in a sloppy fashion, because the code is not public and written without super peer review like in the linux comunity.
Windows 95, 98 et al, have little or no tolerance for faulty drivers or hardware. You hardware goes down, the OS will go with it.
There's no point saying "I run win98 and it never crashes". It really depends on how much stuff you install and the quality of it.
This is just Linux running a theme, with WINE running the apps. They are not running natively... this is KDE... get it? Got it? GOOOOOOOD!
Does this seem like much of a suprise if the OS is running WINE. WINE can run IE and Office Apps. WineX can run DirectX games and new games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein...
Yeah but if you have every been to that ride and read the information sign it says something like "When in operation, the Tower of Terror ride uses twice the amount of power that the entire park uses in one day."
;)
Very efficient
Without getting too emoptional about the obvious issue, don't you think the comment made has some validity at least in the sense that the US always 'feels' it has to be the world leader?
The death of thousands of people like the WTC is a tragedy, the death of one person is bad enough.
But what the US needs to understand is that countries consist of communities, communities consist of people. People who are concerned about their life and prosperity.
Now your country doesn't comply with some US agreement. Exports are restricted, you lose your job at the paper mill and your family goes hungry. Maybe your daughter or son die of some disease because you can't afford surgery/medicine. You grow to hate the US.
Think about it. It's happened before. It's very easy to make these type of comments when you don't have to see the effect of US policies on other countries.
How is this a troll post?
There once was a little troll,
The troll was big and round,
He rubbed his hands together with glee,
His constant typing was a sound!
He schemed,
He scanned,
He found,
An article on slashdot,
No one else was around,
So he type how DARE you steal copyrighted material,
How dare you!
This and that,
But the little troll forgot one thing,
And that is that all trolls are rats
Yeah and I submit a story about GTA III getting banned in Australia and it get's rejected. Fantastic work Slashdot crew.
Oh dear, looks like we left the door open to /. and a 12 year old pimply win98 user popped in.
Grow up dickhead.
Don't you just love it when people write inflammatory scientific papers about how quantum computing is impossible with today's technology and then pop onto the forum to defend it... Truely sad.
I also had my post rejected :( I thought it was a breaking story.
E-Paper does not contantly refresh and is not LCD based. If there is no charge the image is not destroyed.
It would be infact very cheap to produce, seeing that the paper is just inpregnated with beads half black and on the other side white. They just spin from side to side. They then stay that way until a charge is used.
The E-Ink/E-Paper concept works on the fact that you run a charge through the circuitry and the pages hold that state once they have been typeset. Removing the charge does not destroy the image.
The E-Paper is comprised on half white/black beads that spin from white to black.
Therefore there is no need to refresh the picture unless you are doing an animation.