I used to have a plan when I had girlfriends out of town, but I've since switched to prepay just with the thousand texts for ten bucks. Apparently there will be an iphone prepay option.
Where in the constitution is the right to file share?
Constitutional law isn't my field, but saying file sharing is a subset of freedom of speech seems like a stretch.
I do agree though: this is closing the barn door after the horse gets out. I don't know about the constitution, we don't have one in NZ. But I do know I actually do have the right to share files for encryption research under the copyright new technologies amendment act. In my country, for my purpose, filesharing is a true part of free speech.
In NZ, you can get the ASUS eee laptop for $500. It runs linux, or for $600, Win XP. However, I got a new ACER laptop for NZ$1200. Runs Vista home prem, like half the speed of my old G5 1.8Ghz iMac with 10.4.11 It's a AMD X64 Dual Core 1.9Ghz with 2 gig ram, 160 gig HD, 256MB dedicated card with 256 MB stolen from main ram and a DVD DL writer. I should note that NZ $1200 is about US$800. Oh, it also came with MS office 2007 home. I got it mainly because I need a portable that's affordable and it runs Java quicker than the intel laptops at the same price do. Plus, I like 15" widescreen more than 14" widescreen.
Now, if someone could tell me how vista turned off the anti-virus in norton internet security 2008? I'm used to running macs, so this is the first time I've used anti-virus software.
Smokers are sick more than obese people. I'm fatter than my obese brother. But my brother is "obese" due to his muscle mass being high, he's joining the aussie army as an officer next month. As far as productivity goes, I can work over 12 hours a day for 13 days straight. I only get a cold once a season. I spend NZ$24 on medicine a year. That's about the same as a week's worth of electricity in winter. Mainly because my medicine is subsidised to cost just $3 per type per prescription. It saves the hospital the cost of a month in hospital every year, so I guess they make up on the cost of near free to use medicine.
SUVs in cities are stupid, unless you like unsafe cars. As far as global warming goes, my country will have longer summers when I'm retired and might have a little less rain in a few eastern areas. Perhaps we'll pipe water long distance? And as far as paying for poor choices made by other people, that's why NZ isn't fighting in Iraq. It's why the next government is trying to do pretty much the same as the current administration and really mean there is no difference between the major parties.
You forget that allowing smoking in a business establishment forces non-smoking employees to put up with hundreds of carcinogens against their will. Plus the fact that smoking causes so many cancers that even the most idiotic smoker would realise that there is no market for health insurance on smokers. Personally, I would regulate smoking by only making it available to people by pre-paid insurance cards. Each purchase of tobbaco should reduce your annual insurance coverage by the cost of the tobbaco. That would encourage responsibility towards smoking.
Prior art, Hell Pizzas in New Zealand have always given free stuff to you depending on how long you wait. Best thing is when they go to the address, arrive late at your address and you only have to pay the delivery fee.
Dude, you americans are getting royally screwed over for healthcare. In New Zealand, most medicine is subsidised, along with medical services. Only thing that can cost big money is private medical care, which you only bother with if you can't wait too long on a public waiting list.
Oh, one of those pathetic agnostics. Make up your mind, if you have the courage to do so. Either there is no god, gods or other such imaginary friends which no sane adult hears from; or, there is a god, gods or other things which nobody has ever been able to prove exists outside their skull.
You sir, have failed in both belief and disbelief. Which makes you a special kind of loser, special in the same way that retarded people are called special. All agnostics are fucking idiots who can't chose between rational thought and what some insane fuckwit came up with, the most famous one I can think of is the New Zealand Prime Minister.
Think about this, if god exists, then why the fuck does it never answer prayers? Why is there no world peace? The answer is simple, god doesn't exist. Therefore your selfish desires go unanswered when you pray.
All of this is mere primary school logic, which I reasoned out when a friends parents took me to a fucked up fundamentalist church when I stayed over at his place. If you want a balanced and fair reason why atheism is the only rational choice against dumb, blind and retarded faith; then you should read the god delusion or see the root of all evil dvd. All an agnostic is, is someone who can't even tell if they have an imaginary friend or not.
As for proof that god doesn't exist, I've had a accident where I had been technically dead for a moment. There is no afterlife, no heaven, no hell, no nirvana, no valhalla, nothing but darkness. So I therefore have to say the evidence is strongly against the whole point of religion, which is usually "Do good things in this life and you will be rewarded in the next."
What I believe is that you should feel free to do what is good for you and others, by your own free will and not because some asshat said if you don't, you'll go to hell.
Atheism isn't a religion because nobody has ever been able to scientifically prove that it is bullshit. Religion, whichever one you may think to be the one true religion, the one that all others are inferior to, has never been able to prove anything more than mass insanity.
I think the book you're looking for is "the god delusion" by richard dawkins. Or, if you're just time-pressed, the DVD "root of all evil" by richard dawkins.
You should at least consider if there is any evidence for this imaginary friend in the sky you claim to have. I've never heard anyone over the age of 6 claim to have an imaginary friend, let alone base their entire life on what their imaginary friend says.
Are you still going to claim religion is provably true?
A percentage of your lifetime earnings? That smacks of communism, simplistic and evil. I prefer the new zealand system, where citizen students pay 25% of the actual cost, taxpayers the rest and foreign students pay true 100% cost. Also the loans are interest free, so it gives you a lifetime to repay. Plus it usually works out to total a year's salary if you get living costs too. (under 25 or "rich" parents) Only med students, BA students and student politicians complain.
I haven't had a single virus since changing over to the mac platform in 1990. I find the mac developer environment to have improved since they started shipping developer tools with OS X.
I've used every major operating system since 1980, with the exceptions of sun solaris, atari TOS, IBM AIX.
It is, in theory possible to get a virus on a mac, if you are dealing with people dumb enough to install active X or download custom programs from porn/gambling sites or the like.
Apple are the good guys, good in quality that is. However, I have yet to migrate up to 10.5 as I fear it is relatively unstable still. I would appreciate it if they could get onto Java 1.6 soon, I think that might be covered in my courses.
PS, I'll send you an email soon from my actual email account soon.
Only at 12? I started at 4, learnt to read and do basic maths from the computer screen. You show yourself to be a mere ignoramus in most parts of your posts, I can only assume it stems from your late start in computers.
Maybe he wants people who can do fourier functions or laplace transforms. Or other maths that are useful for cryptographic functions. I would say exactly what, but I want to keep a lid on my cryptographic project details until I find a thesis topic. A major part of signal processing at banks is also in the attempt to determine trends in trading cycles, you still find banks trying to figure out exchange rates and predict what will happen in the short-term to maximise profit.
So what you're saying is that you prefer idiots who might get viruses, which leads to interesting things if they do homework... Apple is part open, part closed. The kernel and underlying OS is pure BSD, the GUI is closed source. I view using Apple as compared to MS as an indication of reliability, I want a computer that just doesn't crash. I could not give a damn about the way apple treats developers, as long as I can develop Java code on my macs, I don't care.
As someone who has studied parts of a few degrees (yet to complete due to illness), I can say that the biggest waste of my time was software engineering, not maths or computer science or languages. (I didn't study media, as I have a family business in media.) I can create, in Java (far quicker and more reliably than hacking a version in C++ for each platform), operating systems, databases with built-in intelligent sorting, game servers, peer to peer MMO games, P2P encryption networks, secure webservers, etc.
I claim nonsense to your idea that you can't do an operating system in Java. You are merely confusing mainstream operating systems with the language used to write it. In effect you are trying to say that if an essay hasn't been translated yet into another language, it can't be. This idea is patently false, it's as bad as calling linux a real system just because it uses C and C++. (No, this isn't a flame of linux.)
Also, you claim that CompSci grads aren't smart. What happens when you ask their IQ and it turns out to be 20 points higher than yours? Which would only make them about 120 or so, which isn't that smart, but is far better than your average 100 IQ. Also evident is your lack of statistical knowledge, 50% of an interview sample not wanting to perform at that level is in accordance with the bell curve. Another point, which shows why you are the lowly headhunter and not the head being hunted.:-) I find that your short-sighted "insights" are not going to serve anyone at the banks you recruit for well. You need to get some balance.
Having studied Software Engineering years ago at CIT, I was not impressed by the concentration on embedded software, it was mainly of use to the few people who saw a future in writing software for traffic lights, etc. It would have been nice if they had some allowance for Java, but they didn't. I've only used the hardware design stuff I learnt twice, for a wireless network coder project and a neural net process. Needless to say, I would prefer that Java be used on low level hardware, as it can easily be controlled and has excellent networking tools.
Actually, TelstraClear is the most preferred phone company in Wellington and Christchurch, where it has a great cable network. TelstraClear is the reason why Telecom charges less for phone lines in Wellington and Christchurch.
However, I do agree that Telstra in Australia and Telecom in NZ both are monopolies in dire need of reform and proper laws.
Excellent, I would love to have this set up near a couple of cathedrals in my town. I would love to say "This is God. Microsoft is in league with Satan."
Or, even better, aim it at the entrance to the ministry of information interception. (Hi there!) "You are underpaid. You are being watched. You don't have the best tech."
If I could get it at the Justice ministry, I would have it say : "What happened to victims rights? Why do criminals have more rights than victims?"
Finally, I would like some pointed at the parliament : "This government doesn't believe in freedom."
So I'd like a dozen sonic advertising speakers. Cool bananas!
Who said anything about windows mobile or sybian? Last party I went to, a java ME developer was showing off his new phone, it was twice the size of my old one. The only reason it was a brick was the full keyboard that slid out, but still it wasn't fitting in his pocket that well... I can't think of a single person I know who wants an iPhone, not even amongst the dozens of developers I know.
Why exactly should it cost you to receive calls? Isn't that a case of the phone company charging twice for a phone call? Surely the person who makes the call should be the only one who pays for it? (Unless of course, its to a 0800 which is a receiver pays line.)
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I used to have a plan when I had girlfriends out of town, but I've since switched to prepay just with the thousand texts for ten bucks.
Apparently there will be an iphone prepay option.
iPhone will work with prepay, at least on vodafone in the rest of the world.
Constitutional law isn't my field, but saying file sharing is a subset of freedom of speech seems like a stretch.
I do agree though: this is closing the barn door after the horse gets out. I don't know about the constitution, we don't have one in NZ.
But I do know I actually do have the right to share files for encryption research under the copyright new technologies amendment act.
In my country, for my purpose, filesharing is a true part of free speech.
In NZ, you can get the ASUS eee laptop for $500. It runs linux, or for $600, Win XP.
However, I got a new ACER laptop for NZ$1200. Runs Vista home prem, like half the speed of my old G5 1.8Ghz iMac with 10.4.11
It's a AMD X64 Dual Core 1.9Ghz with 2 gig ram, 160 gig HD, 256MB dedicated card with 256 MB stolen from main ram and a DVD DL writer.
I should note that NZ $1200 is about US$800. Oh, it also came with MS office 2007 home.
I got it mainly because I need a portable that's affordable and it runs Java quicker than the intel laptops at the same price do.
Plus, I like 15" widescreen more than 14" widescreen.
Now, if someone could tell me how vista turned off the anti-virus in norton internet security 2008?
I'm used to running macs, so this is the first time I've used anti-virus software.
Smokers are sick more than obese people. I'm fatter than my obese brother. But my brother is "obese" due to his muscle mass being high, he's joining the aussie army as an officer next month. As far as productivity goes, I can work over 12 hours a day for 13 days straight. I only get a cold once a season.
I spend NZ$24 on medicine a year. That's about the same as a week's worth of electricity in winter. Mainly because my medicine is subsidised to cost just $3 per type per prescription. It saves the hospital the cost of a month in hospital every year, so I guess they make up on the cost of near free to use medicine.
SUVs in cities are stupid, unless you like unsafe cars.
As far as global warming goes, my country will have longer summers when I'm retired and might have a little less rain in a few eastern areas. Perhaps we'll pipe water long distance?
And as far as paying for poor choices made by other people, that's why NZ isn't fighting in Iraq. It's why the next government is trying to do pretty much the same as the current administration and really mean there is no difference between the major parties.
You forget that allowing smoking in a business establishment forces non-smoking employees to put up with hundreds of carcinogens against their will.
Plus the fact that smoking causes so many cancers that even the most idiotic smoker would realise that there is no market for health insurance on smokers.
Personally, I would regulate smoking by only making it available to people by pre-paid insurance cards. Each purchase of tobbaco should reduce your annual insurance coverage by the cost of the tobbaco. That would encourage responsibility towards smoking.
Prior art, Hell Pizzas in New Zealand have always given free stuff to you depending on how long you wait.
Best thing is when they go to the address, arrive late at your address and you only have to pay the delivery fee.
Dude, you americans are getting royally screwed over for healthcare.
In New Zealand, most medicine is subsidised, along with medical services.
Only thing that can cost big money is private medical care,
which you only bother with if you can't wait too long on a public waiting list.
I had an idea for porno password almost 7 years ago. Why not click on the right picture sequence, in the right areas as your password?
Correct, you can consider 3.0.7 to be stable, as that was on test server a few months ago.
They are currently working on 3.3.7 in test server.
Oh, one of those pathetic agnostics. Make up your mind, if you have the courage to do so.
Either there is no god, gods or other such imaginary friends which no sane adult hears from; or,
there is a god, gods or other things which nobody has ever been able to prove exists outside their skull.
You sir, have failed in both belief and disbelief. Which makes you a special kind of loser, special in the same way that retarded people are called special.
All agnostics are fucking idiots who can't chose between rational thought and what some insane fuckwit came up with, the most famous one I can think of is the New Zealand Prime Minister.
Think about this, if god exists, then why the fuck does it never answer prayers? Why is there no world peace?
The answer is simple, god doesn't exist. Therefore your selfish desires go unanswered when you pray.
All of this is mere primary school logic, which I reasoned out when a friends parents took me to a fucked up fundamentalist church when I stayed over at his place.
If you want a balanced and fair reason why atheism is the only rational choice against dumb, blind and retarded faith; then you should read the god delusion or see the root of all evil dvd.
All an agnostic is, is someone who can't even tell if they have an imaginary friend or not.
As for proof that god doesn't exist, I've had a accident where I had been technically dead for a moment.
There is no afterlife, no heaven, no hell, no nirvana, no valhalla, nothing but darkness.
So I therefore have to say the evidence is strongly against the whole point of religion, which is usually
"Do good things in this life and you will be rewarded in the next."
What I believe is that you should feel free to do what is good for you and others, by your own free will and not because some asshat said if you don't, you'll go to hell.
Atheism isn't a religion because nobody has ever been able to scientifically prove that it is bullshit.
Religion, whichever one you may think to be the one true religion, the one that all others are inferior to, has never been able to prove anything more than mass insanity.
I think the book you're looking for is "the god delusion" by richard dawkins. Or, if you're just time-pressed, the DVD "root of all evil" by richard dawkins.
You should at least consider if there is any evidence for this imaginary friend in the sky you claim to have.
I've never heard anyone over the age of 6 claim to have an imaginary friend, let alone base their entire life on what their imaginary friend says.
Are you still going to claim religion is provably true?
A percentage of your lifetime earnings? That smacks of communism, simplistic and evil.
I prefer the new zealand system, where citizen students pay 25% of the actual cost, taxpayers the rest and foreign students pay true 100% cost.
Also the loans are interest free, so it gives you a lifetime to repay.
Plus it usually works out to total a year's salary if you get living costs too. (under 25 or "rich" parents)
Only med students, BA students and student politicians complain.
I haven't had a single virus since changing over to the mac platform in 1990.
I find the mac developer environment to have improved since they started shipping developer tools with OS X.
I've used every major operating system since 1980, with the exceptions of sun solaris, atari TOS, IBM AIX.
It is, in theory possible to get a virus on a mac, if you are dealing with people dumb enough to install active X or
download custom programs from porn/gambling sites or the like.
Apple are the good guys, good in quality that is. However, I have yet to migrate up to 10.5 as I fear it is relatively unstable still.
I would appreciate it if they could get onto Java 1.6 soon, I think that might be covered in my courses.
PS, I'll send you an email soon from my actual email account soon.
Only at 12? I started at 4, learnt to read and do basic maths from the computer screen.
You show yourself to be a mere ignoramus in most parts of your posts, I can only assume it stems from your late start in computers.
Maybe he wants people who can do fourier functions or laplace transforms. Or other maths that are useful for cryptographic functions.
I would say exactly what, but I want to keep a lid on my cryptographic project details until I find a thesis topic.
A major part of signal processing at banks is also in the attempt to determine trends in trading cycles, you still find banks trying to figure out exchange rates and predict what will happen in the short-term to maximise profit.
So what you're saying is that you prefer idiots who might get viruses, which leads to interesting things if they do homework...
Apple is part open, part closed. The kernel and underlying OS is pure BSD, the GUI is closed source.
I view using Apple as compared to MS as an indication of reliability, I want a computer that just doesn't crash.
I could not give a damn about the way apple treats developers, as long as I can develop Java code on my macs, I don't care.
As someone who has studied parts of a few degrees (yet to complete due to illness), I can say that the biggest waste of my time was software engineering, not maths or computer science or languages. (I didn't study media, as I have a family business in media.)
:-)
I can create, in Java (far quicker and more reliably than hacking a version in C++ for each platform), operating systems, databases with built-in intelligent sorting, game servers, peer to peer MMO games, P2P encryption networks, secure webservers, etc.
I claim nonsense to your idea that you can't do an operating system in Java. You are merely confusing mainstream operating systems with the language used to write it. In effect you are trying to say that if an essay hasn't been translated yet into another language, it can't be.
This idea is patently false, it's as bad as calling linux a real system just because it uses C and C++. (No, this isn't a flame of linux.)
Also, you claim that CompSci grads aren't smart. What happens when you ask their IQ and it turns out to be 20 points higher than yours?
Which would only make them about 120 or so, which isn't that smart, but is far better than your average 100 IQ.
Also evident is your lack of statistical knowledge, 50% of an interview sample not wanting to perform at that level is in accordance with the bell curve. Another point, which shows why you are the lowly headhunter and not the head being hunted.
I find that your short-sighted "insights" are not going to serve anyone at the banks you recruit for well. You need to get some balance.
Having studied Software Engineering years ago at CIT, I was not impressed by the concentration on embedded software, it was mainly of use to the few people who saw a future in writing software for traffic lights, etc.
It would have been nice if they had some allowance for Java, but they didn't.
I've only used the hardware design stuff I learnt twice, for a wireless network coder project and a neural net process.
Needless to say, I would prefer that Java be used on low level hardware, as it can easily be controlled and has excellent networking tools.
Why not just save the bother of being in the store, and send it by txt first?
Subway do this in NZ, it works well.
Actually, TelstraClear is the most preferred phone company in Wellington and Christchurch, where it has a great cable network.
TelstraClear is the reason why Telecom charges less for phone lines in Wellington and Christchurch.
However, I do agree that Telstra in Australia and Telecom in NZ both are monopolies in dire need of reform and proper laws.
Yes, the average aussie is a complete and utter idiot. Just look at how long they kept John Howard in government. :P
Excellent, I would love to have this set up near a couple of cathedrals in my town.
I would love to say "This is God. Microsoft is in league with Satan."
Or, even better, aim it at the entrance to the ministry of information interception. (Hi there!)
"You are underpaid. You are being watched. You don't have the best tech."
If I could get it at the Justice ministry, I would have it say :
"What happened to victims rights? Why do criminals have more rights than victims?"
Finally, I would like some pointed at the parliament :
"This government doesn't believe in freedom."
So I'd like a dozen sonic advertising speakers. Cool bananas!
Who said anything about windows mobile or sybian? Last party I went to, a java ME developer was showing off his new phone, it was twice the size of my old one.
The only reason it was a brick was the full keyboard that slid out, but still it wasn't fitting in his pocket that well...
I can't think of a single person I know who wants an iPhone, not even amongst the dozens of developers I know.
Why exactly should it cost you to receive calls? Isn't that a case of the phone company charging twice for a phone call? Surely the person who makes the call should be the only one who pays for it? (Unless of course, its to a 0800 which is a receiver pays line.)