Im an Australian living in London and suffered under Australia's broadband reigme for many years before moving here (during the days of the 100meg per month 'external' caps on telstra for example as well as during the introduction of their 3gig cap)
While a lot of slashdot readers won't appreciate this, I read that article over my £29 unlimited broadband connection. That's not cheap for England, nor is it unusual.
To even start to pretend that Australia's broadband is better than what is available in England is a load of rubbish. For less than the price of a full-priced computer game or a full priced DVD i have unlimited broadband. The same price in Australia gives me access to a continually failing service with a 3gig cap. If i want to download more than 3gig on the major provider i'm looking at a bill four times the monthly cost. Pretending that 'purchasing power' has something to do with the perceived value of broadband is a load of rubbish. Not only is the broadband deal in England far superior than in Australia on a 'purchasing power' basis but it's far better when just doing a direct currency conversion.
If you are connecting to live you are using your login details. To get your login details you gave them a valid credit card. At the moment they are banning modded machines but allowing you, the account holder, to transfer your details to another 'unmodded' xbox and connect.
If you start geting machines blacklisted I guess they'll just close your account. Then you'll have to purchase another Live kit.
But how can government's be represented fairly? Should every government have equal say, or should it be based on the number of users, or number of sites operated by a government's citizens?
The good thing about giving End-Users control, despite the possibility of it turning un-wieldly, is that it's End-Users who are affected.
If 'major interest groups' already ignore it and refuse to pay it, how does a change of plan affect us? So, it's not democratic or representative, but 'major interest groups' were already ignoring it anyway. It seems it can just go on being as undemocratic and self serving as it likes... with little affect.
We may critisize the yanks for the americanisation of our world especially for spreading their crap tv, fast food and pop music to all 'corners of the globe', but i'm just SO glad they haven't contaminated Australia with that.... yet.
People aren't just pirating crap quality tiny caps.
A 200meg VCD of a 'half hour' SouthPark episode will look just as good when viewed on your 32" television through your DVD player as the original episode would look when viewed on your 32" television but over your cable tv connection.
The only difference is once you've finished watching the VCD you downloaded off the net you can watch it again, rewind/fastforward, and there's no adverts.
While a lot of the stuff traded on morpheus may be crap quality, there are plenty of VCD/SVCD caps of TV shows that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference over cable tv, assuming that there is some deterioration in quality.
It's not just cartoons like southpark that look good. The VCDs I've seen of Sex&TheCity look better on my TV than the free to air broadcasts we get here in Australia, and i can see NO DIFFERENCE over the DVD of season 1 & 2 that I have seen. But maybe that's just me.
Or maybe they feel that businesses would be prepared to pay to access a reliable national 'wireless' network rather than having to rely on drips-and-drabs access depending on how good the free wireless community network is in the town you happen to be in at the moment.
Why is this a slashdot story? It's rubbish! Have you read it, here's some of the juvenile going's on:
"Amanaman presents one of the more interesting phenomenons in the Star Wars universe, that being creatures that cannot possibly exist. Because I created the theory on evolution, and yes I did, I can tell you...anything with arms this ridiculously long would've been wiped into extinction years ago. Amanaman can't possibly do anything - much less the alleged 'headhunting'...."
Seems appropriate for some starwars freaks site, but not Slashdot.
When you alter nature it has negative effects on something... its benefits just need to be weighed against the negatives.
Millions of people may have to move, but it is obviously of some benefit or wouldn't be being built. Like moving people off an island and declaring it deserted so it can be used as a US military base, damning some other river somewhere, or knocking weeks off travel time by building a canal.. it causes big trouble for some people but benefits so many more.
I don't see how this dam can be equated to the Taliban blowing up budhist statues.
In 1992 I puzzled at how I would ever fill my newly purchased 210 meg harddrive - I didn't even know they came that large!
The data you consume just gets larger and at the same time your tidying up gets slacker. Sooner than you believed possible you are out of space. You may think that we've reached a limit where you can have more space than you could possibly ever need, but time will prove you wrong:-)
There were some nice piccies there. Three and eight were the ones I was desperately trying to grab as the site disappeared off the net.. oh well, guess i'll just try again in a few days.
Ensuring 'Office for Linux' just worked right is the problem. Enforcing performance/functionality on a recalcitrant company is very difficult. When the first version behaves nothing like the latest version of Office for Windows the OS would be blamed... 'well if Linux supported this new MS Buzzword Technology then we could make them run the same, but without it the best we can do is Word for Windows v1 equivalency.'
And their (lack of) sale figures from the crippled version of Office for Linux would probably be used to show that Linux is a flop and that Open Source is really all about 'piracy' and getting things for free.
I think it's great that your teachers a paid reasonably. In Australia they have difficulty attracting and retaining good quality primary and secondary school teachers as the pay is so poor and the profession is given so little respect as a result - as a teacher you are better off doing a few 'computer courses' and finding a bludgey IT job, or actually just about any other job except nursing, than you are remaining as a teacher.
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While a lot of slashdot readers won't appreciate this, I read that article over my £29 unlimited broadband connection. That's not cheap for England, nor is it unusual.
To even start to pretend that Australia's broadband is better than what is available in England is a load of rubbish. For less than the price of a full-priced computer game or a full priced DVD i have unlimited broadband. The same price in Australia gives me access to a continually failing service with a 3gig cap. If i want to download more than 3gig on the major provider i'm looking at a bill four times the monthly cost. Pretending that 'purchasing power' has something to do with the perceived value of broadband is a load of rubbish. Not only is the broadband deal in England far superior than in Australia on a 'purchasing power' basis but it's far better when just doing a direct currency conversion.
If you start geting machines blacklisted I guess they'll just close your account. Then you'll have to purchase another Live kit.
And if you didn't know that you are sorely missing out.. I rewatched this movie the other weekend - it IS a classic!
Of course, that's against the law, so I'm not recommending you do that, just saying that it's affordable and NZ games work on AU psx2s.
Sex & Violence, in general, are a no-go, not just for games, as far as the OFLC is concerned.
But how can government's be represented fairly? Should every government have equal say, or should it be based on the number of users, or number of sites operated by a government's citizens? The good thing about giving End-Users control, despite the possibility of it turning un-wieldly, is that it's End-Users who are affected.
If 'major interest groups' already ignore it and refuse to pay it, how does a change of plan affect us? So, it's not democratic or representative, but 'major interest groups' were already ignoring it anyway. It seems it can just go on being as undemocratic and self serving as it likes... with little affect.
We may critisize the yanks for the americanisation of our world especially for spreading their crap tv, fast food and pop music to all 'corners of the globe', but i'm just SO glad they haven't contaminated Australia with that.... yet.
People aren't just pirating crap quality tiny caps.
A 200meg VCD of a 'half hour' SouthPark episode will look just as good when viewed on your 32" television through your DVD player as the original episode would look when viewed on your 32" television but over your cable tv connection.
The only difference is once you've finished watching the VCD you downloaded off the net you can watch it again, rewind/fastforward, and there's no adverts.
While a lot of the stuff traded on morpheus may be crap quality, there are plenty of VCD/SVCD caps of TV shows that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference over cable tv, assuming that there is some deterioration in quality.
It's not just cartoons like southpark that look good. The VCDs I've seen of Sex&TheCity look better on my TV than the free to air broadcasts we get here in Australia, and i can see NO DIFFERENCE over the DVD of season 1 & 2 that I have seen. But maybe that's just me.
Or maybe they feel that businesses would be prepared to pay to access a reliable national 'wireless' network rather than having to rely on drips-and-drabs access depending on how good the free wireless community network is in the town you happen to be in at the moment.
I bet they meant "... said sources invovled in the negotiations." :-)
Rat Race M 15+ (SEXUAL REFERENCES, ADULT THEMES) Date of Classification 9 August 2001
OCEAN'S ELEVEN Film (35 mm) Classification M 15+ (LOW LEVEL COARSE LANGUAGE) Duration 116 minute(s) Date of Classification 27 November 2001
Both of which were found on the OFLC's ratings database
Why is this a slashdot story? It's rubbish! Have you read it, here's some of the juvenile going's on: "Amanaman presents one of the more interesting phenomenons in the Star Wars universe, that being creatures that cannot possibly exist. Because I created the theory on evolution, and yes I did, I can tell you...anything with arms this ridiculously long would've been wiped into extinction years ago. Amanaman can't possibly do anything - much less the alleged 'headhunting'...." Seems appropriate for some starwars freaks site, but not Slashdot.
When you alter nature it has negative effects on something... its benefits just need to be weighed against the negatives.
Millions of people may have to move, but it is obviously of some benefit or wouldn't be being built. Like moving people off an island and declaring it deserted so it can be used as a US military base, damning some other river somewhere, or knocking weeks off travel time by building a canal.. it causes big trouble for some people but benefits so many more.
I don't see how this dam can be equated to the Taliban blowing up budhist statues.
The data you consume just gets larger and at the same time your tidying up gets slacker. Sooner than you believed possible you are out of space. You may think that we've reached a limit where you can have more space than you could possibly ever need, but time will prove you wrong :-)
Yeah, it's me.
OMG your sig is real.. shame Microsoft, shame. What a perfect example of why a country would want to move to a more secure OS.
Could a non-Finish European please confirm or deny that the fact that Linus Torvalds is a native of Finland is a 'rallying point' for Europeans?
"Another rallying point for Europeans is the fact that Linus Torvalds, the programmer known as the father of Linux, is a native of Finland."
That really does sound like a load of rubbish to me!
There were some nice piccies there. Three and eight were the ones I was desperately trying to grab as the site disappeared off the net.. oh well, guess i'll just try again in a few days.
Ensuring 'Office for Linux' just worked right is the problem. Enforcing performance/functionality on a recalcitrant company is very difficult. When the first version behaves nothing like the latest version of Office for Windows the OS would be blamed... 'well if Linux supported this new MS Buzzword Technology then we could make them run the same, but without it the best we can do is Word for Windows v1 equivalency.'
And their (lack of) sale figures from the crippled version of Office for Linux would probably be used to show that Linux is a flop and that Open Source is really all about 'piracy' and getting things for free.
I think it's great that your teachers a paid reasonably. In Australia they have difficulty attracting and retaining good quality primary and secondary school teachers as the pay is so poor and the profession is given so little respect as a result - as a teacher you are better off doing a few 'computer courses' and finding a bludgey IT job, or actually just about any other job except nursing, than you are remaining as a teacher.