I am living in the false security of thinking that my google services aren't too intertwined. I don't like that my gmail address is also the same as my youtube username.
Google+ to my knowledge sets a single name across all Google services. I don't like that. I also don't like the shitty name policy they had for a while, must be full, real name (sorry but fuck that shit)
I think Google+ has the potential to be vastly more invasive and evil than facebook, simply based on them knowing who you are on search, maps, youtube, blogger and so on,....... Not cool.
I've closed my facebook account and I don't plan to open a Google account.
Yes, they are doing that badly. The bulldozer was a giant dissapointment. They have nothing on the table for the desktop crowd. At almost all price points it's silly to buy AMD at this time unfortunately. Especially for heat / power usage etc.
"might give Intel a run for their money" I'm sorry to inform you but you're a little (lot) out of the loop on the current state of Intel and AMD processors available. I'm sure most people here don't want to hear this but the little guy is well and truly down on the ground being kicked in the stomach.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these CPU's at 5ghz would barely compete with Intels current top shelf items, let alone 4ghz.
To my knowledge NBNCo is rolling out their own new fibre system to places which are not currently cabled for fibre. Including the original Tasmanian trial etc.
Telstra has their own fibre network which must be near 10 years old, using their own concentrator (correct term?) and their own modems. This older system is still of course fibre based (well to the street, I don't believe it is to the door)
If I recall, the Govt / NBNCo are trying to take a shortcut on wiring places up by using Telstras existing Bigpond infrastructure in locations they've already cabled up with fibre. I can only wildly speculate here but I'm pretty sure it's fibre to the street, not to the house. There would be significantly less fibre laid then 'proper' NBN installs.
So basically I'm guessing anyone put on the "Telstra version" of the NBN is basically just getting Telstra Bigpond cable, at new NBN prices and I (guess?) with all the speed caps removed for the modems. I'm also going to guess, for the sake of saving even more money, rather than issue a mini UPS / replacement modem with VOIP built in (basically what NBN customers get) Telstra can't be bothered replacing this equipment and that explains the rule to stick with copper (likely free / subsidised) once the deal is agreed to. I mean logically there's no reason "Telstra Fibre" (cable) customers couldn't just use a new, standardised piece of equipment which offers full VOIP, Battery backup and a highish quality modem which delivers decent (although sub fibre) speeds
This information is absoloute speculation but something along the lines of what I think is going on, if this is not the case and someone has a better clue (very likely) let me know where I went wrong. Regardless, I suspect money is the culprit behind this one and saving a hell of a lot of digging up places.
Mod this guy straight up - I also got stung on a similar issue on Android using "Remote RDP Lite" - about 10 months ago, I could have as many entries as I like, now I can have 1.
Since I continue to update the application, it's actually kept my configuration file from the old version and let me have all the entries but I can't create more. If I delete one to make another, I can't do that either.
Basically I want to now locate the config file and hand tune the thing myself. It's bullshit:/
Is there an encryption system available where if you put in a specifically bad password it damages the data forever? I have no interest in kiddie porn but I sure as shit don't agree with people forcing me to decrypt.
I even think the screen on the iphone 4 is over rated (not to say it isn't brilliant) it's just that the iphone 3 / 3gs was so terrible. If you pull out an 800x480 4.3" Android from Samsung, HTC / Whomever, it still looks a damn sight better than an iphone 3 and only marginally worse than the iphone 4.
I also own a HP Touchpad (1024x768) I believe and 24 and 30" monitors and I've got to say, I do think what they are doing is fantastic for the industry. I'm not sure we needed 4x the pixels (but for their sake, it's simply logical based on software scaling) I will say it'll be good to see higher resolutions across the industry in general though
I'm fairly content with the resolution of the 24" monitor I'm typing this on and the 30" next to it. Honestly if they went up no more than 30% I don't think I'd be able to see a difference beyond that, it's simply a case of diminishing returns (regardless, this move by apple will promote higher resolutions industry wide)
I'm also fairly content with my 800x480 display on my phone - again, 30% more is about all I think I need to be honest, more diminishing returns beyond that. My HP Touchpad could DEFINITELY do with a higher res though, I'd like to see at least 50% more pixels on the thing. Probably the lowest DPI item I own.
Finally, the loungeroom : my television, I hear people clamouring about higher than 1080p resolutions. Personally, I simply don't think it's needed at all. We all sit at least 6' from TV's generally. I'm sitting 6' from a 50" and it's only 720p. I'm more than content with the display. I can only speculate if I owned a true 1080p display I wouldn't desire any more resolution.
What this is going to do for us all though is ensure that in the next 5 to 10 years, resolution of displays will no longer be a problem. The standard will be exceptionally fine by then. Then what we need is better blacks, better movement, 3D without glasses (if possible) higher refresh rates, better colours. It will be nice to finally see resolution simply not be something to worry about. So, reluctantly - thank you Apple. Now stop suing people and being cocks otherwise...
I drank my last one then and haven't touched it since. I know some people it's ok for, however like most drugs they affect people in different ways.
Some drinkers get merry, happy and have a good time, others want to beat people up. Coffee makes me an addict, takes my energy away, wrecks my sleeping patterns and is generally not a good thing to go near.
I have weak jasmine tea now, awesome drink, much better - can sip at it all day from a thermos as if I'm in a Vietnamese resteraunt.
This is a technical site for geeks and nerds, we simply don't need to cover that side of the story, it's been done elsewhere. The reality is, as nerds this is the important part to us. You can say we're emotionless or cruel or some other such word but those are the facts, it's a technical site, with technical news. If you want coverage of the other impact you need to look elsewhere.
"Australia is set to update the age rating system for video games, adding a new 18+ category which should allow for the more violent games to be sold in the country"
While it's good they are fixing a stupid problem, no one BUYS games here anymore, everyone I know is all over international mailing services. Where I can buy games overseas at HALF the cost they are here - and that's not from Asia either, I'm talking US / UK releases of the games. PS3 is region free (thank you Sony for something smart) and X360 AU is compible with UK releases. Plus Steam - when they do rip us off here (normally other publishers, not Valve) we get our US friends to gift them to us at a sensible price and pay them back via paypal.
My "google services" are already too easy to tie together, I'm under the impression whatever my google+ account name is set to, applies to all my google services.
I don't want my blogger / youtube / gmail / god knows what else I have all tied together. I know they are now, yes and in some ways, it's really convienient but damn I wish I had seperated some of the accounts or used a different name at times. I don't need them closer tied.
Facebook is / was a time sink, I gave it up and genuinely don't miss it, I'm surprised to say that - I'm not just being "look at me, look how reslient and progressive I am" - I just genuinely don't miss all the bullshit that comes with it. I don't need more of it with G+
Regardless, it's things like this which makes Wikileaks absoloutely a very very important web site for the entire internet. I'm very glad this information has been revealed.
Slashdot Mirror
but guys, you pissed away a good oppourtunity to post some SJ pics
Like this!
https://www.google.com/search?q=scarlett%20johansen&hl=en&biw=1272&bih=843&sei=L-NOT5vSFoWuiQeU7onDCw&tbm=isch
Also the potential of mentioning floatation devices too, oh for shame :(
I am living in the false security of thinking that my google services aren't too intertwined. I don't like that my gmail address is also the same as my youtube username.
Google+ to my knowledge sets a single name across all Google services. I don't like that. I also don't like the shitty name policy they had for a while, must be full, real name (sorry but fuck that shit)
I think Google+ has the potential to be vastly more invasive and evil than facebook, simply based on them knowing who you are on search, maps, youtube, blogger and so on,....... Not cool.
I've closed my facebook account and I don't plan to open a Google account.
Yes, they are doing that badly. The bulldozer was a giant dissapointment. They have nothing on the table for the desktop crowd. At almost all price points it's silly to buy AMD at this time unfortunately. Especially for heat / power usage etc.
"might give Intel a run for their money"
I'm sorry to inform you but you're a little (lot) out of the loop on the current state of Intel and AMD processors available. I'm sure most people here don't want to hear this but the little guy is well and truly down on the ground being kicked in the stomach.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these CPU's at 5ghz would barely compete with Intels current top shelf items, let alone 4ghz.
To my knowledge NBNCo is rolling out their own new fibre system to places which are not currently cabled for fibre. Including the original Tasmanian trial etc.
Telstra has their own fibre network which must be near 10 years old, using their own concentrator (correct term?) and their own modems. This older system is still of course fibre based (well to the street, I don't believe it is to the door)
If I recall, the Govt / NBNCo are trying to take a shortcut on wiring places up by using Telstras existing Bigpond infrastructure in locations they've already cabled up with fibre. I can only wildly speculate here but I'm pretty sure it's fibre to the street, not to the house. There would be significantly less fibre laid then 'proper' NBN installs.
So, seeing as the fibre doesn't come all the way to the house, they can't use the standard NBNCo equipment.
http://www.nbnco.com.au/assets/images/hi-res/truck-02-hi-res.JPG (4.5mb)
So basically I'm guessing anyone put on the "Telstra version" of the NBN is basically just getting Telstra Bigpond cable, at new NBN prices and I (guess?) with all the speed caps removed for the modems.
I'm also going to guess, for the sake of saving even more money, rather than issue a mini UPS / replacement modem with VOIP built in (basically what NBN customers get) Telstra can't be bothered replacing this equipment and that explains the rule to stick with copper (likely free / subsidised) once the deal is agreed to.
I mean logically there's no reason "Telstra Fibre" (cable) customers couldn't just use a new, standardised piece of equipment which offers full VOIP, Battery backup and a highish quality modem which delivers decent (although sub fibre) speeds
This information is absoloute speculation but something along the lines of what I think is going on, if this is not the case and someone has a better clue (very likely) let me know where I went wrong. Regardless, I suspect money is the culprit behind this one and saving a hell of a lot of digging up places.
http://www.thereviewcrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/roberto_jpg.jpg
Mod this guy straight up - I also got stung on a similar issue on Android using "Remote RDP Lite" - about 10 months ago, I could have as many entries as I like, now I can have 1.
Since I continue to update the application, it's actually kept my configuration file from the old version and let me have all the entries but I can't create more. If I delete one to make another, I can't do that either.
Basically I want to now locate the config file and hand tune the thing myself. It's bullshit :/
Is there an encryption system available where if you put in a specifically bad password it damages the data forever?
I have no interest in kiddie porn but I sure as shit don't agree with people forcing me to decrypt.
Why is ipredator apparently so good? I thought any encrypted VPN would achieve the same results?
Ex iphone owner (had 3 of them, never again)
I even think the screen on the iphone 4 is over rated (not to say it isn't brilliant) it's just that the iphone 3 / 3gs was so terrible. If you pull out an 800x480 4.3" Android from Samsung, HTC / Whomever, it still looks a damn sight better than an iphone 3 and only marginally worse than the iphone 4.
I also own a HP Touchpad (1024x768) I believe and 24 and 30" monitors and I've got to say, I do think what they are doing is fantastic for the industry. I'm not sure we needed 4x the pixels (but for their sake, it's simply logical based on software scaling) I will say it'll be good to see higher resolutions across the industry in general though
I'm fairly content with the resolution of the 24" monitor I'm typing this on and the 30" next to it. Honestly if they went up no more than 30% I don't think I'd be able to see a difference beyond that, it's simply a case of diminishing returns (regardless, this move by apple will promote higher resolutions industry wide)
I'm also fairly content with my 800x480 display on my phone - again, 30% more is about all I think I need to be honest, more diminishing returns beyond that. My HP Touchpad could DEFINITELY do with a higher res though, I'd like to see at least 50% more pixels on the thing. Probably the lowest DPI item I own.
Finally, the loungeroom : my television, I hear people clamouring about higher than 1080p resolutions. Personally, I simply don't think it's needed at all. We all sit at least 6' from TV's generally. I'm sitting 6' from a 50" and it's only 720p. I'm more than content with the display. I can only speculate if I owned a true 1080p display I wouldn't desire any more resolution.
What this is going to do for us all though is ensure that in the next 5 to 10 years, resolution of displays will no longer be a problem. The standard will be exceptionally fine by then. Then what we need is better blacks, better movement, 3D without glasses (if possible) higher refresh rates, better colours. It will be nice to finally see resolution simply not be something to worry about.
So, reluctantly - thank you Apple. Now stop suing people and being cocks otherwise...
I drank my last one then and haven't touched it since. I know some people it's ok for, however like most drugs they affect people in different ways.
Some drinkers get merry, happy and have a good time, others want to beat people up.
Coffee makes me an addict, takes my energy away, wrecks my sleeping patterns and is generally not a good thing to go near.
I have weak jasmine tea now, awesome drink, much better - can sip at it all day from a thermos as if I'm in a Vietnamese resteraunt.
Look at Iran now, what religion do they follow?
The place is already set back a century.
This is a technical site for geeks and nerds, we simply don't need to cover that side of the story, it's been done elsewhere. The reality is, as nerds this is the important part to us. You can say we're emotionless or cruel or some other such word but those are the facts, it's a technical site, with technical news. If you want coverage of the other impact you need to look elsewhere.
No.
I just spent 90 minutes reading about aircraft on wikipedia!
He's trying a soft approach to win back some of the mac converts he lost, who are statistically more likely to get aids,.............
Sigh, fucking punctuation cutting shit out on this site.
My opening sentence had the following words after the quotes.
"for approximately 90 to 130$ US"..........
"Australia is set to update the age rating system for video games, adding a new 18+ category which should allow for the more violent games to be sold in the country"
While it's good they are fixing a stupid problem, no one BUYS games here anymore, everyone I know is all over international mailing services. Where I can buy games overseas at HALF the cost they are here - and that's not from Asia either, I'm talking US / UK releases of the games. PS3 is region free (thank you Sony for something smart) and X360 AU is compible with UK releases. Plus Steam - when they do rip us off here (normally other publishers, not Valve) we get our US friends to gift them to us at a sensible price and pay them back via paypal.
My "google services" are already too easy to tie together, I'm under the impression whatever my google+ account name is set to, applies to all my google services.
I don't want my blogger / youtube / gmail / god knows what else I have all tied together.
I know they are now, yes and in some ways, it's really convienient but damn I wish I had seperated some of the accounts or used a different name at times. I don't need them closer tied.
Facebook is / was a time sink, I gave it up and genuinely don't miss it, I'm surprised to say that - I'm not just being "look at me, look how reslient and progressive I am" - I just genuinely don't miss all the bullshit that comes with it. I don't need more of it with G+
Regardless, it's things like this which makes Wikileaks absoloutely a very very important web site for the entire internet. I'm very glad this information has been revealed.
This is not surprising in the slightest.
Looks like greater than less than are cut also, lovely! :/
It was an ALT-3 (loveheart) symbol :/ I should've opted for 3
but goddamn do news posts like this make me â(TM)¥ my Galaxy S2, I owned 3 iphones, never again - EVER.
I'll wait for BrowserID v9 in 6 months