The point here, from my reading of the article, is actually to open VOIP to competition.
In an unregulated VOIP market smaller services that distinguish on other than price may be forced out of business by the larger companies predatory pricing. Analogy in Australia with our near monopoly telecom trying to predatory price out smaller ISP's by charging their customers less than what they charged the competitors.
Regulation is not by definition bad. Competition promoting , monopoly reducing regulations are good.
Of course the fact that AOL does this randomly to other isp's on a regular basis then refuses to answer calls or take action is of course not a reason to do the same to them but it is damn satisfying.
For a company that spams the world with their CD's and auto install of their crap they should not really complain to much.
I sit here in Australia reading this and am thanking the great atheist in the sky, I'm a born again atheist, that this is less evident here in Australia.
However then I rember that the great unwashed elected someone, John Howard PM of Australia , to government based on the ramblings of the religious right. They are now pushing to treat refugees more humanely if they convert to Christianity.
I have now come to the conclusion that there are aliens on earth and in general they comprise the right wing fundamentalist religious of the world, (muslim, christian, hindu, sikh, jewish and save me from the horror even buddhists....), and wonder what the world is coming to.
When people who have trouble walking and talking within approximately the same time span decide and overthrow governments this world is headed for destruction. What I can't understand is how the moderate people have let this happen and then remember Germany, South Africa, USSR....
It's a way of enforcing crop rotation as that would have been shown to be the most efficient, more crops and less land degradation.
Without modern fertilisers mixing seeds in the one bed, paddock (Most ifleds back then were quite small) etc would lead to reduced crops and land damage.
When you think of religion as a way of delivering practical information to dumbarses then it almost makes sense.
....It enforces good style in that there is no "goto" statement, a big problem with BASIC.....
There are times when GOTO is the bees knees. Breaking loops with an error springs to mind.
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they feel it's necessary to insert "adult" asides to keep the parents amused.
H'mm not sure how old your kids are but I think the concept is called multi - layering. It has something for every age group.
My kids from 2 to 20 loved Shrek and so did my wife and I. We all liked it for different reasons. The 10 year old loved the rescue the Princess and love wins in the end theme, the 13 yr old loved the double entnedrs and the film take off etc etc etc.
Companies like Dreamworld worked out, blatant comercialism I know but there ya go, that by making movies attractive to adults then they are more likely to take the kids or allow them to go.
Now if we were to talk about cat in the hat I think whoever made that went slightly to far in the adult direction.
The base assumption in this article that Tilly just does this stuff is a tad out there.
Tilly has had say 60 years of learning and working in her environment. She may have taken 5 or 10 or 20... years to be in command and comfortable with her environment and comfortable with the pardigm proposed.
To assume that she picked up the environment fresh is off the track.
The corollary is is that when Tilly is presented with a control panel, ie banks phase out tellers and want her to solely use an ATM, then there is a period of confusion and relearning before the previous feeling of being in command and comfortable re-asserts itself.
Tilly would be likely to be far quicker in regaining lost confidence in a graphical teller environment than one where she has to type a list of commands from memory the structure of which changes based on what she did immediately before don't you think.
It really is dangerous making analogies from assumptions basedon comparing apples and cupcakes.
I know a guy who died because he was wearing a seat-belt in a car crash.
From experience attending crash scenes I have never seen this. The crash, assuming it happened, must have been in an open car without rollbars but then generally if it was that old it wouldn't have seat belts.
From extensive studies in Australia the facts are clear. Seatbelts save many more lives than being unrestrained.
If you've ever seen a car on fire (which happens all the time), it is obviously a very dangerous situation, but it ain't no bomb. People get this idea from movies, to the point where they never reflect upon the plausibility of the whole thing.
The only way I can think of for a car to explode is for the fuel tank to be completely demolished during a crash in such a way that none of the fuel ignites
Not entirely true. Can't do the physics but from personal observation a car with low levels of fuel, which means the petrol tank is vapor filled after a puncture, can, very occasionally explode. I've seen it twice in non LPG accidents personally. 18 years as an Ambulance Paramedic in NSW, Australia to set up the credentials.
Perhaps it would be better stated as CARS DON'T USUALLY EXPLODE.
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Rear-end collision? You gain relative velocity towards your seat, no problem.
Again from 18 years as a Paramedic the initial movement is backwards but as the car decelerates your initial velocity returns which , untethered, ends you with your chest on the wheel and your head on something hard. View crash dummie footage and you'll see just this. Likewise for the other scenarios.
Again with train wrecks people in Australia have survived a train wreck both buckled up and unbuckled, buckled more prevalent as it is a legal requirement to wear seatbelts. However I have seen people thrown out of a relatively intact car as gravity and open windows tend to make things work unexpectedly.
This evidence is eyewitness reports only. I personally have seen all this and more.
Using the 99 US cents that Apple's iTunes service charges for songs, the 1000 songs on the computer had a commercial value of around $990. If the students had stolen a car worth $990 would the DPP be recommending jail time? If they had stolen $990 worth of CDs during a house burglary is there a realistic chance that they would face jail for their first offence?
Depends on the colour of their skin and whether they live in the Northern Territory, territory of Australia, who seem to love sending black kids to jail for stealing $2 worth of biscuits.
What matters to me is that M$ is unquestionably an innovation obstacle, as it attempts continuously to impose proprietary standards by using its de facto OS monopoly.
With the browser there was an argument but in the end for people like me who started as Netscape protagonists but gave up after 4 when it became an absolute piece of crap MS won cause it was superior.
Wrt to Media Player MS is still fighting a losing battle. Almost everyone I know has Media Player, Real Networks and Quicktime installed because they each give benefits over the other. My kids use RN and winamp over media player. I use media player cause it gets through the firewall and the others are spyware.
In the SQL I have used, Oracle, Sybase , Progress to name a few a null ruins number arithmetic just as badly as it does a string.
Each database handle the results of a number / null differently. Some allow you to predefine the variable and the math will return a zero and some will return a null.
Null division is annoying but 0 division is sometimes catastrophic.
One wonders whether this guy actually plays a 62 Necro?
Yes VI, aka Sony but I'm old fashioned, have their issues but then again name a company that doesn't. However, unlike the said Necro who wouldn't have made 62 without buying the most recent expansion a month or so ago, I and most of my friends and acquaintainces still find the game fun if you go against the crowd and play it like it is supposed to be played, ie dungeons and new zones rather than the Kunark express, a power levellers route to the top. By going the non PL route you get to use and develop the skills that Dolalin says are non existant.
The correspondent forgot to mention that the new expansion has been almost universally praised due to the increased high end non raid content and the introduction of a teleport system addressing one of the games biggest time sinks. Also the changes to the UI of late and the removal of Hell levels has refreshed the game significantly.
Dolalin Bonewielder berates the timesinks in everquest as the bain of a good game. In fact the timesinks, if not used to excess as they used to be, are what makes the game immersive and so much fun. In the past travelling and the time required to recover corpses have been a major problem which with graveyards and the teleport system have been addressed.
Call me odd but games like DAOC which removed the time sink to a greater extent were shunned because the feeling of immersiveness was lost and it then became an expensive version of Diablo or the like.
Whilst I know of people addicted to the game I also know many that balance their time online and invariably the people I know who no longer find the game fun have stopped playing. So I think Dolalin Bonewielder could have tried some balance rather than the demolition job posted.
Wolja Sarchasm: The gap between the creator of sarchastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.
PS I'm not a VAK or VI employee. Aussies don't get the chance to play either of those roles due to the constant patches in our prime time.
So I would also have to use Word/Excel with the latest patches, simply for compatibility with my own manager, etc.
Ah diddums. Heaven forbid a corporation make software decisions based on compatibilty so people aren't wasting time trying to read and edit group files.
Another example - I've seen job ads where the employer requests that you email your resume in Word97 (or whatever) format.
Heaven forfend that I as an employer want a standard application method so that instead of dealing with unreadable text resumes I can spend the time working out who is best for a job. Just cause your resume is ugly doesn't mean you are suited for a job that requires communication abilities.
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The point here, from my reading of the article, is actually to open VOIP to competition.
In an unregulated VOIP market smaller services that distinguish on other than price may be forced out of business by the larger companies predatory pricing. Analogy in Australia with our near monopoly telecom trying to predatory price out smaller ISP's by charging their customers less than what they charged the competitors.
Regulation is not by definition bad. Competition promoting , monopoly reducing regulations are good.
Of course the fact that AOL does this randomly to other isp's on a regular basis then refuses to answer calls or take action is of course not a reason to do the same to them but it is damn satisfying.
For a company that spams the world with their CD's and auto install of their crap they should not really complain to much.
I sit here in Australia reading this and am thanking the great atheist in the sky, I'm a born again atheist, that this is less evident here in Australia.
....
However then I rember that the great unwashed elected someone, John Howard PM of Australia , to government based on the ramblings of the religious right. They are now pushing to treat refugees more humanely if they convert to Christianity.
I have now come to the conclusion that there are aliens on earth and in general they comprise the right wing fundamentalist religious of the world, (muslim, christian, hindu, sikh, jewish and save me from the horror even buddhists....), and wonder what the world is coming to.
When people who have trouble walking and talking within approximately the same time span decide and overthrow governments this world is headed for destruction. What I can't understand is how the moderate people have let this happen and then remember Germany, South Africa, USSR
It's a way of enforcing crop rotation as that would have been shown to be the most efficient, more crops and less land degradation.
Without modern fertilisers mixing seeds in the one bed, paddock (Most ifleds back then were quite small) etc would lead to reduced crops and land damage.
When you think of religion as a way of delivering practical information to dumbarses then it almost makes sense.
There are times when GOTO is the bees knees. Breaking loops with an error springs to mind.
H'mm not sure how old your kids are but I think the concept is called multi - layering. It has something for every age group.
My kids from 2 to 20 loved Shrek and so did my wife and I. We all liked it for different reasons. The 10 year old loved the rescue the Princess and love wins in the end theme, the 13 yr old loved the double entnedrs and the film take off etc etc etc.
Companies like Dreamworld worked out, blatant comercialism I know but there ya go, that by making movies attractive to adults then they are more likely to take the kids or allow them to go.
Now if we were to talk about cat in the hat I think whoever made that went slightly to far in the adult direction.
Wolja
The base assumption in this article that Tilly just does this stuff is a tad out there.
Tilly has had say 60 years of learning and working in her environment. She may have taken 5 or 10 or 20... years to be in command and comfortable with her environment and comfortable with the pardigm proposed.
To assume that she picked up the environment fresh is off the track.
The corollary is is that when Tilly is presented with a control panel, ie banks phase out tellers and want her to solely use an ATM, then there is a period of confusion and relearning before the previous feeling of being in command and comfortable re-asserts itself.
Tilly would be likely to be far quicker in regaining lost confidence in a graphical teller environment than one where she has to type a list of commands from memory the structure of which changes based on what she did immediately before don't you think.
It really is dangerous making analogies from assumptions basedon comparing apples and cupcakes.
Wolj
From experience attending crash scenes I have never seen this. The crash, assuming it happened, must have been in an open car without rollbars but then generally if it was that old it wouldn't have seat belts.
From extensive studies in Australia the facts are clear. Seatbelts save many more lives than being unrestrained.
Just a few google responces to "seatbelts safety australia"
Death-defying designs for car safety
Seatbelts & Restraints the facts
1.
Not entirely true. Can't do the physics but from personal observation a car with low levels of fuel, which means the petrol tank is vapor filled after a puncture, can, very occasionally explode. I've seen it twice in non LPG accidents personally. 18 years as an Ambulance Paramedic in NSW, Australia to set up the credentials.
Perhaps it would be better stated as CARS DON'T USUALLY EXPLODE.
2.
Again from 18 years as a Paramedic the initial movement is backwards but as the car decelerates your initial velocity returns which , untethered, ends you with your chest on the wheel and your head on something hard. View crash dummie footage and you'll see just this. Likewise for the other scenarios.
Again with train wrecks people in Australia have survived a train wreck both buckled up and unbuckled, buckled more prevalent as it is a legal requirement to wear seatbelts. However I have seen people thrown out of a relatively intact car as gravity and open windows tend to make things work unexpectedly.
This evidence is eyewitness reports only. I personally have seen all this and more.
Wolj
Depends on the colour of their skin and whether they live in the Northern Territory, territory of Australia, who seem to love sending black kids to jail for stealing $2 worth of biscuits.
Wolj
Oh for gawd's sake.
What matters to me is that M$ is unquestionably an innovation obstacle, as it attempts continuously to impose proprietary standards by using its de facto OS monopoly.
With the browser there was an argument but in the end for people like me who started as Netscape protagonists but gave up after 4 when it became an absolute piece of crap MS won cause it was superior.
Wrt to Media Player MS is still fighting a losing battle. Almost everyone I know has Media Player, Real Networks and Quicktime installed because they each give benefits over the other. My kids use RN and winamp over media player. I use media player cause it gets through the firewall and the others are spyware.
Get a life and repent from fanatacism.
Wolj
In the SQL I have used, Oracle, Sybase , Progress to name a few a null ruins number arithmetic just as badly as it does a string.
Each database handle the results of a number / null differently. Some allow you to predefine the variable and the math will return a zero and some will return a null.
Null division is annoying but 0 division is sometimes catastrophic.
Wolj
One wonders whether this guy actually plays a 62 Necro?
Yes VI, aka Sony but I'm old fashioned, have their issues but then again name a company that doesn't. However, unlike the said Necro who wouldn't have made 62 without buying the most recent expansion a month or so ago, I and most of my friends and acquaintainces still find the game fun if you go against the crowd and play it like it is supposed to be played, ie dungeons and new zones rather than the Kunark express, a power levellers route to the top. By going the non PL route you get to use and develop the skills that Dolalin says are non existant.
The correspondent forgot to mention that the new expansion has been almost universally praised due to the increased high end non raid content and the introduction of a teleport system addressing one of the games biggest time sinks. Also the changes to the UI of late and the removal of Hell levels has refreshed the game significantly.
Dolalin Bonewielder berates the timesinks in everquest as the bain of a good game. In fact the timesinks, if not used to excess as they used to be, are what makes the game immersive and so much fun. In the past travelling and the time required to recover corpses have been a major problem which with graveyards and the teleport system have been addressed.
Call me odd but games like DAOC which removed the time sink to a greater extent were shunned because the feeling of immersiveness was lost and it then became an expensive version of Diablo or the like.
Whilst I know of people addicted to the game I also know many that balance their time online and invariably the people I know who no longer find the game fun have stopped playing. So I think Dolalin Bonewielder could have tried some balance rather than the demolition job posted.
Wolja
Sarchasm: The gap between the creator of sarchastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.
PS I'm not a VAK or VI employee. Aussies don't get the chance to play either of those roles due to the constant patches in our prime time.
Ah diddums. Heaven forbid a corporation make software decisions based on compatibilty so people aren't wasting time trying to read and edit group files.
Heaven forfend that I as an employer want a standard application method so that instead of dealing with unreadable text resumes I can spend the time working out who is best for a job. Just cause your resume is ugly doesn't mean you are suited for a job that requires communication abilities.
Some people just have NFI.
Wolja