Adaptive, you should give pacific.net.au a try (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer who dislikes telstra), I use them 512/128 for about $80/mth.
I have no idea why a residential customer would complain about only getting 1 gig per day!
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I wonder how long will it be until these companies will specifically restrict US users from downloading the product? in the same way (in that you will have to agree prior to download) that the US bars places like Afghanistan, Iraq etc. from downloading certain products.
I also wonder, if they lose the case, how exactly does the US govt go about shutting them down?
I've had very good experiences with phpwebhosting.com and highly recommend them.
basically whatever you want in terms of disk space, data transfer, subdomains, domain aliases, databases etc. for ~$10/mth, they only host 125 (from memory) sites on each box and update to latest version of php regularly.
other people I have recommended them to have also had no problems with them...
I'm planning to get a box at serverbeach (someone has already posted about serverbeach), mainly because I need a dedicated box...
You are correct, plenty of boats with lead can plane given the right conditions, the AC boats will not plane they have no area to plane on and there is too much drag, a boat such as mumm 30 and similar boats are designed to plane, they would plane much easier without the lead.
The iceboats have been ahead of sailing boats for decades, obviously in speed, though also in how they use the wind, would be great fun to try it sometime, though living in Australia limits the opportunities to go ice sailing;)
there is a way to go into the future though... the AC yachts are leadmines
boats which are as heavy as the AC yachts will always be restricted by their waterline length as to how fast they can go, to go substantially quicker you need to get rid of the lead!
boats such as skiffs and foilers will have no trouble beating the AC boats, they'd absolutely slaughter them for less than the cost for one of those mainsails mentioned in the article. Unfortunately the rules will never change to allow interesting boats to race, why would a team that has just won suddenly decide to give away all the advantage they have?
if it was to change to interesting boats (see above) then we could all visualise the forces involved and think up our own cool ways of minimising the drag, increasing the righting moment etc.
One design racing is definately not about money and technology. It is the only part of the sport where the best sailor wins.
I also find it by far the most enjoyable, it's a very good feeling knowing that you have won because you sailed the best, it's also good to know that the only reason you lost was because you made more mistakes than the boat that won.
I should also point out that some of the keelboat one design classes (Farr40 etc) are also chequebook sailing, there are just limits as to what you can spend the most money on (sails, crew etc)... some of the budgets that they've had racing here in Aus are pretty unbelievable!
If you want some very enjoyable racing, you can't go past one design skiff racing.
the area in the city they are planning is mostly made up of offices (mon-fri 9am-5pm)
I think the biggest problems they'll cause is for some buses and trains stopping at martin place.
beats me how they are going to stop fans from looking at a chopper flying 600ft+ above the ground, they are some pretty massive walls they'll have to build.
From about year 1 to year 7 (I'm 24 now) I went to a waldorf school (they are known as steiner schools here in Australia), and never really used a computer till around year 10 when I had to do some cad for my design and tech class, from memory we didn't have a computer at home until I was in year 11 (my parents are still hopeless with computers so definately weren't techies).
Going to a steiner school certainly didn't hold me back as a programmer (current job though I want to get back outdoors a bit more), it also probably made me more inquisitive about constructing things and pulling things to bits to figure out how they worked, both real things and computer things.
I really enjoyed going to a steiner school, we learnt a hell of a lot about the bush, art (not as in art history, more about doing stuff ourselves) and sports, mostly as enjoyment rather than competition (eg going bushwalking, swimming in the river etc.), though we did of course play soccer at lunch, the lack of competitive sports as part of the curiculum hasn't held me back at all when it comes to sports (I compete in sailing on an international level).
because of the totally different method of learning I had a bit of a shock going into a public school halfway through year 7 and coming across algebra and strict timetables etc.
something which I'm not sure if it's because of the school I went to or what, though I very rarely play games on the computer, never really have, always use it for making things or learning rather than as a form of entertainment.
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the wiki that cocoon uses works very well...
Adaptive, you should give pacific.net.au a try (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer who dislikes telstra), I use them 512/128 for about $80/mth.
I have no idea why a residential customer would complain about only getting 1 gig per day!
I wonder how long will it be until these companies will specifically restrict US users from downloading the product? in the same way (in that you will have to agree prior to download) that the US bars places like Afghanistan, Iraq etc. from downloading certain products.
I also wonder, if they lose the case, how exactly does the US govt go about shutting them down?
I've had very good experiences with phpwebhosting.com and highly recommend them.
basically whatever you want in terms of disk space, data transfer, subdomains, domain aliases, databases etc. for ~$10/mth, they only host 125 (from memory) sites on each box and update to latest version of php regularly.
other people I have recommended them to have also had no problems with them...
I'm planning to get a box at serverbeach (someone has already posted about serverbeach), mainly because I need a dedicated box...
great idea, though I find it very hard to believe that the spammers would read let alone conform to the license.
you have a lot of friends don't you ;-)
I find gaim is great, tried jabber for a while and yes the gateways are a bit sus...
haven't had any problems with gaim at all
You are correct, plenty of boats with lead can plane given the right conditions, the AC boats will not plane they have no area to plane on and there is too much drag, a boat such as mumm 30 and similar boats are designed to plane, they would plane much easier without the lead.
;)
The iceboats have been ahead of sailing boats for decades, obviously in speed, though also in how they use the wind, would be great fun to try it sometime, though living in Australia limits the opportunities to go ice sailing
boats which are as heavy as the AC yachts will always be restricted by their waterline length as to how fast they can go, to go substantially quicker you need to get rid of the lead!
boats such as skiffs and foilers will have no trouble beating the AC boats, they'd absolutely slaughter them for less than the cost for one of those mainsails mentioned in the article. Unfortunately the rules will never change to allow interesting boats to race, why would a team that has just won suddenly decide to give away all the advantage they have?
if it was to change to interesting boats (see above) then we could all visualise the forces involved and think up our own cool ways of minimising the drag, increasing the righting moment etc.
One design racing is definately not about money and technology. It is the only part of the sport where the best sailor wins. I also find it by far the most enjoyable, it's a very good feeling knowing that you have won because you sailed the best, it's also good to know that the only reason you lost was because you made more mistakes than the boat that won. I should also point out that some of the keelboat one design classes (Farr40 etc) are also chequebook sailing, there are just limits as to what you can spend the most money on (sails, crew etc)... some of the budgets that they've had racing here in Aus are pretty unbelievable! If you want some very enjoyable racing, you can't go past one design skiff racing.
the area in the city they are planning is mostly made up of offices (mon-fri 9am-5pm)
I think the biggest problems they'll cause is for some buses and trains stopping at martin place.
beats me how they are going to stop fans from looking at a chopper flying 600ft+ above the ground, they are some pretty massive walls they'll have to build.
From about year 1 to year 7 (I'm 24 now) I went to a waldorf school (they are known as steiner schools here in Australia), and never really used a computer till around year 10 when I had to do some cad for my design and tech class, from memory we didn't have a computer at home until I was in year 11 (my parents are still hopeless with computers so definately weren't techies).
Going to a steiner school certainly didn't hold me back as a programmer (current job though I want to get back outdoors a bit more), it also probably made me more inquisitive about constructing things and pulling things to bits to figure out how they worked, both real things and computer things.
I really enjoyed going to a steiner school, we learnt a hell of a lot about the bush, art (not as in art history, more about doing stuff ourselves) and sports, mostly as enjoyment rather than competition (eg going bushwalking, swimming in the river etc.), though we did of course play soccer at lunch, the lack of competitive sports as part of the curiculum hasn't held me back at all when it comes to sports (I compete in sailing on an international level).
because of the totally different method of learning I had a bit of a shock going into a public school halfway through year 7 and coming across algebra and strict timetables etc.
something which I'm not sure if it's because of the school I went to or what, though I very rarely play games on the computer, never really have, always use it for making things or learning rather than as a form of entertainment.