So basically they offer a service like lclint only many times more advanced ? What is to say they haven't missed anything?
This is probably a publicity stunt for them although a good one. I think it would be a good idea for them to sell software suites of their product if they don't already.
Still waiting on those flying cars..
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Ever since I was small I've kept hearing that they'll be bringing out flying cars soon, you'd hear it every year over and over again but to no avail. The last report I heard was that they were to expensive to make.
So I'll ask again now as this question has dissapeared from the radar for a few years, are we going to be seeing flying cars soon or what?
His wallet also comes with a plastic tent, opens his wallet, pushes a button and *whala*, an inflatable plastic tent (with it's own air supply) - Go Go Gadget-Biological safe egloo
Well, after working for nearly 10 years in IT, I have been unemployed for 18 months. I love to code, but it looks as though I might be pulling coffees for a while.
Ouch, that's cold. I've been looking for around 6 months. If you told me 3 years ago that I would be working as a nightfiller at the supermarket and will have an Honours degree I would of laughed my arse off and said you're crazy! not me no way. I look back and cannot believe the chances I've missed. I've had an awful lot of bad luck and it just keeps getting worse. I think it's time to leave the dump for greener pastures too.
All I see in the future here is more despair and hard times. This freaking sucks.
I saw a report on Fox News before (dodgy Republican Network) about 500 people with Masters degrees starting to work for free in the hope that there is a small chance it may lead to paid employment.
Anyway, we could probably talk forever. I usually am on irc.freenode.net as zen-x if you want to join, #c #vim. Alot of other Australians on #c too. If I'm not there or very idle stick around, it usually gets interesting anyway.
I hope you didn't think I meant Senator Alston was a political genius, no way in _the world. Brendon Nelson is who I was referring to.
Heh, I'm actually thinking of going to London or something a rather for a year or so. I just finished an Honours degree in Computing Science and can't even find a graduate job. I'm currently nightfilling at the supermarket too.
The Brain Drain will continue. These pompous arses are too busy looking after their friends and themselves. It's the Australia of tommorow that is going to suffer.
Maybe I was slightly out of line with the morons remark.
There are probably only around 20-30% of politicians that are excellent at their job and understand the game well. One such politician that I think (you may not think this now) that plays the game well is Brendon Nelson (I don't even like the Liberals, but I'm being honest here). I think he comes close to a political genius, he is totally on his game, understands and reads people well and can thread an argument extremely well.
The fact is in Australia, and probably in any other democratic country is that we vote for the person/party that is least worst during election time.
I'm afraid that the Liberals will be around for the next 4 years, and that is a very long time, and a very long time for the broadband market to be suffering. I think Australia will go down as missing entirely the broadband boat and done well _not improving the I.T and Telecoms infrastructure. Instead, all the effort is going into biotechnology and experimenting on rats.
The Australian government recently (a day ago) announced that they will be privatising the rest (remaining 51%) of telstra. I wonder if this being on slashdot has anything to do with that?
Anyway, a day before the government's annoucement the senate was going to vote for an enquiry into broadband access in Australia.
Then later on the same day (or the next day) 4 independent senators voted against it (damn bastards, technophobics afraid of technology).
Look at these are two days in Australian politics and think, are Australians governed by morons? Broadband enquiry likely
Maybe now that project page has been/.'d that more people are aware of its demise and may lend a hand to revive it? Either it will get it's 1-2 days of fame and then be forgotten about or there might be a resurgence in working on it again?
What sucks about the legal system is that anyone can make something up and file a law suit against you, and if you don't have the funds to deal with and defend the allegation then you're screwed in court.
The RIAA was probably looking to make an example out of this person(making examples out of people is what they love) and probably got unlucky with this guy. The best weapon that these guys _think they have against activity they don't like is a detterant (making examples out of people for fun and profit). They'll do it again at a time of their choosing, they've got the dough and the legal beagles to screw with you.
Lawyers are like legal hitmen, give them enough money and they'll do anything you want - desperados, got to feed the family.
There is a such thing as a bad song[s]. What we are confronted with when buying an album is typically an album with one or two real good songs with several other recycled or not so good songs (crappy ones). Basically, the artist gets away with selling an album in order for us to buy just those one or two good songs - this isn't fair at all. To summarize, $30 AUD for and album with 1 or 2 songs that we like and N other not so good ones.
OTOH if you buy a single for $5-10 AUD then the 99c + $1 AUD to burn it on cd won't sound fair to them either.
I'm with optus@home, I can't wait to get rid of these rip off merchants, check out their plans -
Lite 550MB $64.95 Standard 3GB $79.95 Pro 5GB $154.95 Ultimate 10GB $305.95
I'm on the Standard 3GB a month for $80AUD - and btw, if you go over the 3GB your cable modem gets throttled down to 28.8kbps! Besides that, if I wanted to go for 5GB a month then that will be $155AUD! WTF is that! an extra 2GB a month and an increase of $70?!
Indeed it is a crisis, and iirc Microsoft warned about the crisis a few years ago, the article was on slashdot.
Don't worry, the country here is run by a bunch of cattle herding farmers who are afraid of technology and large populations. There won't be any incentive to fix the broadband price infrastructure for some time as they believe the internet is a latest craze like the hoola-hoop and yo-yo.
First time I was going to go on a plane I thought that I would be able to leave my mobile on and see what areas I'll pass thru on my mobile screen (showing the name of the area in the zone you're in). It wasn't to be, I had to switch the thing off - I still sat next to the window though.
SCO out to create headaches
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SCO are like North Korea at the moment, exploit the opportunity to create a headache for other people to be bought out and shut up. They're playing the double or nothing game.
iirc the US defence budget is bigger than France, China and Russia's all combined - now think about the proportion of that!
This is going off-topic now, but look at this - WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz
And that's the same guy who came up with the "One Superpower" speech that almost got him fired. What about the American soldiers this guy sent away to be killed to fullfill his own hidden agendas? Don't Americans feel like they have been played for fools?
Also - US finds evidence of WMD at last - buried in a field in Maryland
Err I never said SCO was a respectable UNIX. What is questionable is the timing of all this, why now? Ultimately it goes back to SCO and the situation their in - obviously someone in SCO has said well there might be something to gain by going after linux and had linux not been successful then that suggestion would probably never of been made.
Could this be a silicon Cold War? - IBM and Microsoft, the super powers fighting it with SCO vs Linux. (just hyping it up some more)
The problem with Linux is that it was too sucessful, and still is. In this regard SCO wants to ride on the high of Linux's success by dragging it through the courts. Had Linux not been so successful then SCO wouldn't be in this mess, it is as simple as that.
Call it the Y2880 bug and charge top dollar for consultation fees to make sure that you're ready when it happens. When the dust blows over claim that you did such a good job that everything went smoothly.
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What we want is a water cooler show, because you can discuss it at the water cooler at work. Now, you can just discuss it over your laptop.
So basically they offer a service like lclint only many times more advanced ? What is to say they haven't missed anything?
This is probably a publicity stunt for them although a good one. I think it would be a good idea for them to sell software suites of their product if they don't already.
Ever since I was small I've kept hearing that they'll be bringing out flying cars soon, you'd hear it every year over and over again but to no avail. The last report I heard was that they were to expensive to make.
So I'll ask again now as this question has dissapeared from the radar for a few years, are we going to be seeing flying cars soon or what?
His wallet also comes with a plastic tent, opens his wallet, pushes a button and *whala*, an inflatable plastic tent (with it's own air supply) - Go Go Gadget-Biological safe egloo
I thought Bill Gates got voted off the planet, is he still here?
Well, after working for nearly 10 years in IT, I have been unemployed for 18 months. I love to code, but it looks as though I might be pulling coffees for a while.
Ouch, that's cold. I've been looking for around 6 months. If you told me 3 years ago that I would be working as a nightfiller at the supermarket and will have an Honours degree I would of laughed my arse off and said you're crazy! not me no way. I look back and cannot believe the chances I've missed. I've had an awful lot of bad luck and it just keeps getting worse. I think it's time to leave the dump for greener pastures too.
All I see in the future here is more despair and hard times. This freaking sucks.
I saw a report on Fox News before (dodgy Republican Network) about 500 people with Masters degrees starting to work for free in the hope that there is a small chance it may lead to paid employment.
Anyway, we could probably talk forever. I usually am on irc.freenode.net as zen-x if you want to join, #c #vim. Alot of other Australians on #c too. If I'm not there or very idle stick around, it usually gets interesting anyway.
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I hope you didn't think I meant Senator Alston was a political genius, no way in _the world. Brendon Nelson is who I was referring to.
Heh, I'm actually thinking of going to London or something a rather for a year or so. I just finished an Honours degree in Computing Science and can't even find a graduate job. I'm currently nightfilling at the supermarket too.
The Brain Drain will continue. These pompous arses are too busy looking after their friends and themselves. It's the Australia of tommorow that is going to suffer.
Maybe I was slightly out of line with the morons remark.
There are probably only around 20-30% of politicians that are excellent at their job and understand the game well. One such politician that I think (you may not think this now) that plays the game well is Brendon Nelson (I don't even like the Liberals, but I'm being honest here). I think he comes close to a political genius, he is totally on his game, understands and reads people well and can thread an argument extremely well.
The fact is in Australia, and probably in any other democratic country is that we vote for the person/party that is least worst during election time.
I'm afraid that the Liberals will be around for the next 4 years, and that is a very long time, and a very long time for the broadband market to be suffering. I think Australia will go down as missing entirely the broadband boat and done well _not improving the I.T and Telecoms infrastructure. Instead, all the effort is going into biotechnology and experimenting on rats.
The Australian government recently (a day ago) announced that they will be privatising the rest (remaining 51%) of telstra. I wonder if this being on slashdot has anything to do with that?
Anyway, a day before the government's annoucement the senate was going to vote for an enquiry into broadband access in Australia.
Then later on the same day (or the next day) 4 independent senators voted against it (damn bastards, technophobics afraid of technology).
Look at these are two days in Australian politics and think, are Australians governed by morons?
Broadband enquiry likely
Broadband inquiry killed
New attempt at broadband enquiry
Maybe now that project page has been /.'d that more people are aware of its demise and may lend a hand to revive it? Either it will get it's 1-2 days of fame and then be forgotten about or there might be a resurgence in working on it again?
What sucks about the legal system is that anyone can make something up and file a law suit against you, and if you don't have the funds to deal with and defend the allegation then you're screwed in court.
The RIAA was probably looking to make an example out of this person(making examples out of people is what they love) and probably got unlucky with this guy. The best weapon that these guys _think they have against activity they don't like is a detterant (making examples out of people for fun and profit). They'll do it again at a time of their choosing, they've got the dough and the legal beagles to screw with you.
Lawyers are like legal hitmen, give them enough money and they'll do anything you want - desperados, got to feed the family.
There is a such thing as a bad song[s]. What we are confronted with when buying an album is typically an album with one or two real good songs with several other recycled or not so good songs (crappy ones). Basically, the artist gets away with selling an album in order for us to buy just those one or two good songs - this isn't fair at all. To summarize, $30 AUD for and album with 1 or 2 songs that we like and N other not so good ones.
OTOH if you buy a single for $5-10 AUD then the 99c + $1 AUD to burn it on cd won't sound fair to them either.
Negative?! Oh my God! *crying* Huh? Negatives good?
Sounds like argument from design
I'm with optus@home, I can't wait to get rid of these rip off merchants, check out their plans -
Lite 550MB $64.95
Standard 3GB $79.95
Pro 5GB $154.95
Ultimate 10GB $305.95
I'm on the Standard 3GB a month for $80AUD - and btw, if you go over the 3GB your cable modem gets throttled down to 28.8kbps! Besides that, if I wanted to go for 5GB a month then that will be $155AUD! WTF is that! an extra 2GB a month and an increase of $70?!
Indeed it is a crisis, and iirc Microsoft warned about the crisis a few years ago, the article was on slashdot.
Don't worry, the country here is run by a bunch of cattle herding farmers who are afraid of technology and large populations. There won't be any incentive to fix the broadband price infrastructure for some time as they believe the internet is a latest craze like the hoola-hoop and yo-yo.
Better yet, dl the the show off kazaa and watch it anytime!
Worst offending spammers? Is that the ones who sends 1,000,000 emails to get one reply instead of 100,000 to get one reply?
First time I was going to go on a plane I thought that I would be able to leave my mobile on and see what areas I'll pass thru on my mobile screen (showing the name of the area in the zone you're in). It wasn't to be, I had to switch the thing off - I still sat next to the window though.
SCO are like North Korea at the moment, exploit the opportunity to create a headache for other people to be bought out and shut up. They're playing the double or nothing game.
iirc the US defence budget is bigger than France, China and Russia's all combined - now think about the proportion of that!
This is going off-topic now, but look at this -
WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz
And that's the same guy who came up with the "One Superpower" speech that almost got him fired. What about the American soldiers this guy sent away to be killed to fullfill his own hidden agendas? Don't Americans feel like they have been played for fools?
Also -
US finds evidence of WMD at last - buried in a field in Maryland
Err I never said SCO was a respectable UNIX. What is questionable is the timing of all this, why now? Ultimately it goes back to SCO and the situation their in - obviously someone in SCO has said well there might be something to gain by going after linux and had linux not been successful then that suggestion would probably never of been made.
Could this be a silicon Cold War? - IBM and Microsoft, the super powers fighting it with SCO vs Linux. (just hyping it up some more)
The problem with Linux is that it was too sucessful, and still is. In this regard SCO wants to ride on the high of Linux's success by dragging it through the courts. Had Linux not been so successful then SCO wouldn't be in this mess, it is as simple as that.
Call it the Y2880 bug and charge top dollar for consultation fees to make sure that you're ready when it happens. When the dust blows over claim that you did such a good job that everything went smoothly.
Didn't they already do that in that Bruce Willis movie?
No it hung itself. I gave it a proper burial, under my shoe.