Do you have any idea how much we pay for broadband here in NZ??? ie $70 for 1 gig traffic per month (both ways) or half that for a 5 gig International limit capped at 128k.
Unfortunately at those prices it makes installing off the net not a viable option for most users.
Living in New Zealand and having bought online a lot of times, the killer for us is finding something that's say a bargain at $90 in US dollars and then having to paying another $50 for UPS, which effectively takes the price right up there. Why don't more e-Merchants offer an option of slow boat international shipping rather than, for us outside the US, the expensive options of just Fedex or UPS?
These buses look great but...
2 problems.
1) We're in New Zealand - big freight cost
2) The vehicles would have to changed from Left hand drive to Right hand drive to be registered. - really big cost.
The classroom layout looks very tidy though - certainly some good ideas here.
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The budget isn't huge - in the order of about $20K US, the bus they're looking at is a full size Isuzu bus. The terrain could be pretty rough in parts (we're talking South Otago in New Zealand here). There's some pictures here http://www.catlins-nz.com/. If the budget will allow I'd really like to use LCD flat screens as I figure they'll last longer with no tubes etc and offer a much smaller footprint. I'm strongly tempted to have some sort of thin client setup for ease of maintenance. Win2k Term services is an option *shudder* I know, but unfortunately Windows/Word/Excel etc is what most of them will be running at home. Although the area is very rural, a lot of farmers and rural workers in the area have PC's. The idea is to teach the basics, and also more specialist classes on demand. A lot of these people just don't have time to enroll in courses in urban areas, but there is a general degree of excitement about the mobile classroom. Hope this helps... Paul
Haven't seen the movie yet, I've got tickets for Monday. We live in Dunedin, NZ which is not far from Central Otago where they shot quite a few of the scenes and a few friends of mine worked as extras as "wild men". One made the comment that even though they paid them, fed em and put them up for three days to do the shoot he couldn't believe that he was getting paid for this as he had so much fun. Supposedly when they were rushing into mock villages to commit mayhem, large amounts of poultry were let go to make feathers fly around and provide noise - The catchcry before every shoot was "Release the chickens!"
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Do you have any idea how much we pay for broadband here in NZ??? ie $70 for 1 gig traffic per month (both ways) or half that for a 5 gig International limit capped at 128k.
Unfortunately at those prices it makes installing off the net not a viable option for most users.
Living in New Zealand and having bought online a lot of times, the killer for us is finding something that's say a bargain at $90 in US dollars and then having to paying another $50 for UPS, which effectively takes the price right up there. Why don't more e-Merchants offer an option of slow boat international shipping rather than, for us outside the US, the expensive options of just Fedex or UPS?
These buses look great but...
2 problems.
1) We're in New Zealand - big freight cost
2) The vehicles would have to changed from Left hand drive to Right hand drive to be registered. - really big cost.
The classroom layout looks very tidy though - certainly some good ideas here.
The budget isn't huge - in the order of about $20K US, the bus they're looking at is a full size Isuzu bus. The terrain could be pretty rough in parts (we're talking South Otago in New Zealand here). There's some pictures here http://www.catlins-nz.com/. If the budget will allow I'd really like to use LCD flat screens as I figure they'll last longer with no tubes etc and offer a much smaller footprint. I'm strongly tempted to have some sort of thin client setup for ease of maintenance. Win2k Term services is an option *shudder* I know, but unfortunately Windows/Word/Excel etc is what most of them will be running at home. Although the area is very rural, a lot of farmers and rural workers in the area have PC's. The idea is to teach the basics, and also more specialist classes on demand. A lot of these people just don't have time to enroll in courses in urban areas, but there is a general degree of excitement about the mobile classroom. Hope this helps ... Paul
Haven't seen the movie yet, I've got tickets for Monday. We live in Dunedin, NZ which is not far from Central Otago where they shot quite a few of the scenes and a few friends of mine worked as extras as "wild men". One made the comment that even though they paid them, fed em and put them up for three days to do the shoot he couldn't believe that he was getting paid for this as he had so much fun. Supposedly when they were rushing into mock villages to commit mayhem, large amounts of poultry were let go to make feathers fly around and provide noise - The catchcry before every shoot was "Release the chickens!"
This could appeal to the greenies unless of course the soybeans were the product of genetic modification.
"Would you like standard or mutant fuel sir?"
If I could do this to my old jap bike and use a different type of fuel it would add a whole new meaning to the term "riceburner"
Why yhe hell would I want to have my daytime in the dark, so its more convenient to you?
Don't try and bring us kiwis into this - we've got our own stupid laws to deal with, and they're just debating on some more... watch this space
I submitted this but /. wouldn't publish. Try this - only for the lonely...
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