Just about everything, but unfortunately does not include ChromeOS. Rather than converting to some other tool I'm holding out that a ChromeOS version will come along some day soon, and for the moment, since I don't take my Chromebook outside of my home I'm ok to just RDP to my main PC and use it there.
I read it the same, and wondered how they could tell if people were dressed or not. And what constituted dressed, and whether there were different behaviours based on the state of dress. Do people surf the internet differently if completely naked compared to just wearing socks on their feet?
Everything that's important to you may fit in only 1GB and that's great, but for other people it's not so easy.
For my daughters first birthday I burnt a collection of videos to DVD that i thought where worth while and sent it up to her grandparents to enjoy. This isn't HD or anything just 640x480 captured with my camera. That was the highlights of the last year i had to narrow down for them to get it in to just 4GB.
Then there's the photos.
It'd be a shame to lose all that, and as the article says, it's a problem to keep it forever.
My mum said my daughters snarly face looks like my younger brother when he was her age, so she got out the slide, scanned it in and emailed it to me. That's because the slide has survived for 25 years in relatively good condition.
They don't have slides of my snarly face at that age because cyclone tracey ripped the roof off their home and covered everything they owned in water and filth in Christmas '74.
How will I be able to preserve images and videos of my daughters childhood since it won't fit on a 1GB USB?
It may not be an issue for you, but for anyone that would like to preserve some of their memories it will be, it's got nothing to do with 'Real Life' vs nerdity.
This is nothing to do with Australian Government security checks of staff - it is a beat up over nothing. Private enterprise will now be covered by law when they scan employee emails to reject attachments. They won't need a signed statement showing consent, they can just do it to protect their networks.
When I worked for a federal government department, my emails were blocked if they had any attachments or if it looked like it was unsuitable for work or if it was flagged as spam or chain mail. All employers should be permitted to do this to protect their networks.
I wish privacy advocates hadn't jump on this like they have, but I imagine it is more to do with the way the media framed the question.
In the same section he complains about package ratings. I'm a new ubuntu user after becoming fed up with Vista. I'd tried linux as my desktop probably 10 years ago but it never lasted. I'm guessing i'm close to the target market, and i think the rating system is awesome.
From the FTA:
However, why users should be interested in a package's popularity when they are looking to meet a specific need is puzzling -- the tool was originally designed to help Debian developers know what to include on a basic installation CD. Nor are the results particularly useful, since packages installed by default naturally have a higher rating. At any rate, the only way to judge how useful a package might be is to use it yourself.
I don't know which applications to use, i know i need something for torrents, type torrent in add/remove, and pick the highest rated. How else is someone with no idea about which application is "best" going to know which to install? Am i meant to install every one and see if it meets my exact needs? No, i'm going to install one rated 5 star and hope it does what i need, and move on to another if it doesn't. The ratings gives me that basic guidance and it's made the ubuntu desktop very useable.
If you are resident in australia for tax purposes then all your income is taxable by the ATO even if you earnt part or all of it on the moon. If the moon has reciprocal tax agreement with the ATO then the income may be ignored, but you certainly need to declare all income unless they tell you otherwise.
Note: i know it probably doesn't need to be said but i'll say it anyway, i'm not an accountant or tax officer and i'm not giving you financial advice.
I'd not played any Mario's when i first tried GGS, which i quickly thought was one of the best game ever. It certainly played better than the mario it cloned.
Censoring streaming video on the internet is a geek issue. That's why it's a news item on this geek site. In the future it may have broader appeal, but right now the only people that are going to try and stop it are those with commercial interest, freedom extremists and geeks:-)
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. The real solution is to stand up to them.
Can you give me one example where that's worked because of the standing up, not just as a coincidence (USA lifting of export restrictions on encryption)?
My experience is when geeks stand up for a cause they are lucky if 1 non-IT reporter turns up.
You can continue to fight losing battles all you want, re-direction seems like a better option to me. You can paint that as 'giving away a little freedom' but Channel 10 being as censored on the net as they are on the TV doesn't affect my freedoms at all. Censoring of all video available for download in Australia does!
Yes, sure, i know what the placards say, when they finally come to take away my freedoms there will be no one to stand up for me, but there already isn't. I only have the ones i have left because they haven't come for them yet.
I'm not buying it. Where's the "trade-off"? Why do you need to censor any streams at all? How would censoring TV stations' web sites help to ensure that other web sites don't get censored?
Here's my proposal: Don't censor the net. Let channels 10, 7, and Nine, and everyone else, stream whatever they like to Australians. Keep the existing restrictions for TV broadcasting. Doesn't that sound like a better deal?
We have a conservative government, an election coming up, "too many journalists and not enough news", and with this kind of attention on it you think the internet is going to escape unscathed? Our government just recently finished a review of rating categories for movies and decided Australian adults shouldn't be playing R rated computer games!
Extending the broadcast license to all content produced by broadcast license holder means something has been done about controlling the filth on the net and protecting the children, without having actually done anything. "We" have failed miserably at blocking stupid moves by our government in the past, i think "we" are better off encouraging them in a different direction with an easy option that has fewer real effects.
When the time comes I'll be happy to go stand and be counted at The-Net-Is-Not-TV anti-censorship protests, as fruitless as these will be, but i just think there's easier ways to have the same affect.
Free to air Television broadcasts in Australia are already heavily censored, just like they are in the US. The issue here is that a television station has been pushing the envelope with sex and obscenity in prime time viewing with the shows they broadcast, and now the show which is available 'live' on the net has gone even further and people have had enough of it.
I do NOT want the web censored, which is why i'm happy to see commercial broadcasters, the tiny minority of firms in australia that have been given public airwaves as a gift (and digital tv benefits too), have the reponsibility to adhear to basic broadcast standards (censorship) no matter the medium they peddle their crud.
I'm all for porn, free speech and the like, in fact i'm a huge user, but if you have a commerical broadcast license to use our airwaves you should have the onus put on you to ensure all you produce and distribute is suitable to all of the public, or suitably labelled.
This is a simple way to stop Channel 10 net-broadcasting their rubbish, and lets every other company in the world except Channel 10, 7 and Nine broadcast whatever they like on the net to Australians. You may call that censorship if you want, but to me censoring a couple of commercial businesses and not censoring everyone else is a pretty good trade-off.
I think it's a lot simpler than they suggest here, but they are looking at it wrong. If you have a broadcast license (or whatever the equivalent is) then whether you send video content out over the internet, mobile phones, or TV frequencies, you should be held accountable to broadcast standards no matter the medium.
If you don't have a broadcast license you should be able to do whatever you want with your webcam.
Television has a lot of power. Setting up a webcam in my kitchen isn't going to draw hundreds of thousands of viewers, but when a TV station comes along and does it, with all the promotion and hoo-ha that goes with it, then people will watch it. Their web broadcast should be covered by the same standards as their TV broadcasts.
I believe the ACT tightened its laws in the last fortnight so that 16&17yo's can't do porn any more, it will be classified RC.
I bevieve the NT (the only other jurisdiction where X is legal) has already done this, so porn containing 18 is no longer legal in Australia - mind you, it is already classified RC by plenty of other means, i've heard that a granny dressing as a school girl gets you an RC in Australia since it's considered that the porn contains images of a minor or someone trying to appear as a minor.
no speed limits on open road, but the police can still charge you with reckless driving if they think you are going to fast... Fortunately, 160-180 in a 6 isn't too fast.
Every state and territory in Australia has mandatory helmet laws, a part from the Northern Territory, where adults can decide not to wear them if they don't want.
That's right, adults can decide. Unbelievable really.
I just got that from the click-thru agreement I had to acknowledge before the download. Surely there couldn't be anything that overrides the power of click-thru-legalese?
It can only be used internally, so you can't use it in situations where you may have been able to get away with the hardware restrictions on a small external site or (i guess) distributed to clients as part of your product.
1. USE OF PROGRAMS. You may install and use the Programs solely for your internal business purposes by your employees, agents and contractors. The Programs may not be transferred, distributed, sold, assigned, sublicensed or otherwise conveyed (whether by operation of law or otherwise) to another party without Sybase's prior written consent.
That's why I said it will be a problem once we have secure computing. Cheats are as good as they need to be. But once we have the promised secure computing platform the cheats, which these days are seperate programs running along side or interfering with the actual game, won't be able to interfere with the game so will be useless.
Cheats will then have to run on a second computer and interface back with the original computer over the normal controls, like this project does. That way any guarantee of non-interferance that a secure computing platform provides for a game is overridden.
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Once secure computing hits town, this will be the next generation of cheats.
It may be cute seeing a second computer play Tetris now, but so was the first time someone had a bot improve their aiming in Quake.
I've read speculation before that equipment like this would probably eventually be used to cheat on systems like Xbox Live - It's a bit too soon for that, but in the years to come this could very well be the way cheating is done.
a mate at work loves driver 2 and GTA3 on his ps2. The purchases are justified cause he's got a dance mat and Britney and 'the whole family love playing it'. The kids are also big fans of the new Harry Potter game.
You may think it's only casual gamers buying the crap, but sometimes it's a cover for serious gamers.
Richard Alston, in the article, claims that Australian broadband on a 'purchasing power' basis is better value than broadband in the UK.
As someone that's been a consumer of broadband in both countries my view is that what he's saying is a crock of shit.
While in Australia using Telstra's 100meg internal limit on cable, then on their 'unlimited' cable, then on their 'unlimited' ADSL then on their 3gig cap i found the broadband experience to be horrible - Constantly worried about what you are doing, making sure you aren't breaking stupid rules, feelig restricted in what you can and can't do.. mind you this is referred to as Telstra's 'Freedom Plans'.
I've now been using British Telecom's ADSL for over 6 months. I have no complaints and feel it is brilliant. I could be m,mistaken, there may be far superior broadband offering in the UK and else where in the world, but I spent too long in Australia on 'broadband' to have any complaints about BT's offerings.
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was wondering why that wasn't included. Thought the user-authentication process would be considered a positive.
Just about everything, but unfortunately does not include ChromeOS. Rather than converting to some other tool I'm holding out that a ChromeOS version will come along some day soon, and for the moment, since I don't take my Chromebook outside of my home I'm ok to just RDP to my main PC and use it there.
I read it the same, and wondered how they could tell if people were dressed or not. And what constituted dressed, and whether there were different behaviours based on the state of dress. Do people surf the internet differently if completely naked compared to just wearing socks on their feet?
The world needs to know!
For my daughters first birthday I burnt a collection of videos to DVD that i thought where worth while and sent it up to her grandparents to enjoy. This isn't HD or anything just 640x480 captured with my camera. That was the highlights of the last year i had to narrow down for them to get it in to just 4GB.
Then there's the photos.
It'd be a shame to lose all that, and as the article says, it's a problem to keep it forever.
My mum said my daughters snarly face looks like my younger brother when he was her age, so she got out the slide, scanned it in and emailed it to me. That's because the slide has survived for 25 years in relatively good condition.
They don't have slides of my snarly face at that age because cyclone tracey ripped the roof off their home and covered everything they owned in water and filth in Christmas '74.
How will I be able to preserve images and videos of my daughters childhood since it won't fit on a 1GB USB?
It may not be an issue for you, but for anyone that would like to preserve some of their memories it will be, it's got nothing to do with 'Real Life' vs nerdity.
This is nothing to do with Australian Government security checks of staff - it is a beat up over nothing. Private enterprise will now be covered by law when they scan employee emails to reject attachments. They won't need a signed statement showing consent, they can just do it to protect their networks.
When I worked for a federal government department, my emails were blocked if they had any attachments or if it looked like it was unsuitable for work or if it was flagged as spam or chain mail. All employers should be permitted to do this to protect their networks.
I wish privacy advocates hadn't jump on this like they have, but I imagine it is more to do with the way the media framed the question.
After someone recommended unticking him as a poster in the options his stories never bored me again.
I completely forgot about him and that his posts would annoy me - Sure i didn't have to read them, and once that box was unticked i never did again.
If you are resident in australia for tax purposes then all your income is taxable by the ATO even if you earnt part or all of it on the moon. If the moon has reciprocal tax agreement with the ATO then the income may be ignored, but you certainly need to declare all income unless they tell you otherwise.
Note: i know it probably doesn't need to be said but i'll say it anyway, i'm not an accountant or tax officer and i'm not giving you financial advice.
I'd not played any Mario's when i first tried GGS, which i quickly thought was one of the best game ever. It certainly played better than the mario it cloned.
Wizball was awesome. Probably the most fun non-sport co-op game there has ever been. Two player wizball on wii is a must!
Censoring streaming video on the internet is a geek issue. That's why it's a news item on this geek site. In the future it may have broader appeal, but right now the only people that are going to try and stop it are those with commercial interest, freedom extremists and geeks :-)
My experience is when geeks stand up for a cause they are lucky if 1 non-IT reporter turns up.
You can continue to fight losing battles all you want, re-direction seems like a better option to me. You can paint that as 'giving away a little freedom' but Channel 10 being as censored on the net as they are on the TV doesn't affect my freedoms at all. Censoring of all video available for download in Australia does!
Yes, sure, i know what the placards say, when they finally come to take away my freedoms there will be no one to stand up for me, but there already isn't. I only have the ones i have left because they haven't come for them yet.
We have a conservative government, an election coming up, "too many journalists and not enough news", and with this kind of attention on it you think the internet is going to escape unscathed? Our government just recently finished a review of rating categories for movies and decided Australian adults shouldn't be playing R rated computer games!
Extending the broadcast license to all content produced by broadcast license holder means something has been done about controlling the filth on the net and protecting the children, without having actually done anything. "We" have failed miserably at blocking stupid moves by our government in the past, i think "we" are better off encouraging them in a different direction with an easy option that has fewer real effects.
When the time comes I'll be happy to go stand and be counted at The-Net-Is-Not-TV anti-censorship protests, as fruitless as these will be, but i just think there's easier ways to have the same affect.
Free to air Television broadcasts in Australia are already heavily censored, just like they are in the US. The issue here is that a television station has been pushing the envelope with sex and obscenity in prime time viewing with the shows they broadcast, and now the show which is available 'live' on the net has gone even further and people have had enough of it.
I do NOT want the web censored, which is why i'm happy to see commercial broadcasters, the tiny minority of firms in australia that have been given public airwaves as a gift (and digital tv benefits too), have the reponsibility to adhear to basic broadcast standards (censorship) no matter the medium they peddle their crud.
I'm all for porn, free speech and the like, in fact i'm a huge user, but if you have a commerical broadcast license to use our airwaves you should have the onus put on you to ensure all you produce and distribute is suitable to all of the public, or suitably labelled.
This is a simple way to stop Channel 10 net-broadcasting their rubbish, and lets every other company in the world except Channel 10, 7 and Nine broadcast whatever they like on the net to Australians. You may call that censorship if you want, but to me censoring a couple of commercial businesses and not censoring everyone else is a pretty good trade-off.
If you don't have a broadcast license you should be able to do whatever you want with your webcam. Television has a lot of power. Setting up a webcam in my kitchen isn't going to draw hundreds of thousands of viewers, but when a TV station comes along and does it, with all the promotion and hoo-ha that goes with it, then people will watch it. Their web broadcast should be covered by the same standards as their TV broadcasts.
I bevieve the NT (the only other jurisdiction where X is legal) has already done this, so porn containing 18 is no longer legal in Australia - mind you, it is already classified RC by plenty of other means, i've heard that a granny dressing as a school girl gets you an RC in Australia since it's considered that the porn contains images of a minor or someone trying to appear as a minor.
no speed limits on open road, but the police can still charge you with reckless driving if they think you are going to fast... Fortunately, 160-180 in a 6 isn't too fast.
Every state and territory in Australia has mandatory helmet laws, a part from the Northern Territory, where adults can decide not to wear them if they don't want. That's right, adults can decide. Unbelievable really.
I just got that from the click-thru agreement I had to acknowledge before the download. Surely there couldn't be anything that overrides the power of click-thru-legalese?
XBMC doesn't play entire dvds, you have to select each vob file after the last one ends.
Cheats will then have to run on a second computer and interface back with the original computer over the normal controls, like this project does. That way any guarantee of non-interferance that a secure computing platform provides for a game is overridden.
It may be cute seeing a second computer play Tetris now, but so was the first time someone had a bot improve their aiming in Quake.
I've read speculation before that equipment like this would probably eventually be used to cheat on systems like Xbox Live - It's a bit too soon for that, but in the years to come this could very well be the way cheating is done.
a mate at work loves driver 2 and GTA3 on his ps2. The purchases are justified cause he's got a dance mat and Britney and 'the whole family love playing it'. The kids are also big fans of the new Harry Potter game.
You may think it's only casual gamers buying the crap, but sometimes it's a cover for serious gamers.
I think you missed my point.
Richard Alston, in the article, claims that Australian broadband on a 'purchasing power' basis is better value than broadband in the UK.
As someone that's been a consumer of broadband in both countries my view is that what he's saying is a crock of shit.
While in Australia using Telstra's 100meg internal limit on cable, then on their 'unlimited' cable, then on their 'unlimited' ADSL then on their 3gig cap i found the broadband experience to be horrible - Constantly worried about what you are doing, making sure you aren't breaking stupid rules, feelig restricted in what you can and can't do.. mind you this is referred to as Telstra's 'Freedom Plans'.
I've now been using British Telecom's ADSL for over 6 months. I have no complaints and feel it is brilliant. I could be m,mistaken, there may be far superior broadband offering in the UK and else where in the world, but I spent too long in Australia on 'broadband' to have any complaints about BT's offerings.