And Apple designs their products such that they are owned and controlled completely by Apple even after you've bought them from Apple. You consider that a good design?
Okay, I'll bite. You have a point regarding the iPhone, but how is an Apple computer owned or controlled by Apple after purchase? Nothing stops you from installing whatever applications or operating system(s) you want.
We don't lock things cause we don't need to. Also because we realise that it's pointless to lock stuff. If somebody really wants to take something, there's nothing you can do to stop them. That reality scares some people.
Sounds to me like you need to
1) go visit outside your apartment/city/state/country more,
May I suggest the same? Go outside and take a few deep breaths.
2) stop believing that a single news report indicates a crime spree,
Did I say anything of the sort?
3) stop making wide, sweeping generalisations about millions of people you've never met.
Perhaps you could stop making wide, sweeping generalisations about me.
...and leaving notes warning people of the dangers involved with leaving their vehicles unsecured.
What? People don't know this in Australia? I mean if it came to become a campaign the problem must have been of significant magnitude. I'm not trying to flamebait here but back to my question: people don't know this in Australia?
No, people don't know this in Queensland. Queensland is our answer to both Florida and Alabama.
Just remember that we're living in a country that wants to ban Tylenol because some people damage their livers.
Is your reading comprehension really that bad, or are you deliberately twisting the facts? The other FA clearly refers to medications that combine acetaminophen/paracetamol with other drugs.
I don't know if it's different where you are, but where I live cyclists can legally ride two abreast ('for no reason'), and a third cyclist is permitted to overtake. My experience of riding on roads is that unless you move to the middle of the lane, ignorant/lazy drivers will try to squeeze past with the smallest of margins instead of overtaking properly with enough room to spare.
Roads belong to the public, not just motorists. If you can't wait a minute or two to overtake you should leave earlier.
... is not being spammed with 200 goddamn "Mafia Wars" requests every time I log in. Seriously, Facebook is slowly approaching MySpace levels of obnoxiousness... and it hasn't gotten better as Facebook started trying to "out-Twitter" Twitter. I used to log in multiple times a day... now I only log in once a week or so to clean up all the annoying notifications. Zuckerberg should have sold back when the economy was booming and his company wasn't facing exposure as a mere fad.
Facebook Purity will clean up the main page. And you can block applications and/or application invites from particular people as desired. You know, where it says "Block this application | Ignore all invitations from this friend" under every single one of those requests?
No Shit. And the guy just gets fricking weirder and weirder as the years roll on. By now I'm sure everyone has seen him eating toe cheese on stage, and THIS is the guy you want to listen to on the direction of Linux? Really?
If a guy can eat his own earwax and become Prime Minister of Australia, I don't see what's quite so bad about eating toe cheese.
But as GP put it (in one of the best posts I've ever seen on slashdot), the students are in school to work on their learning, not to watch sports, investigate alternative lifestyles, or do anything else like that.
It's all very well to say that, but while the students are in school working on their learning, they're also turning into pubescent little adults, some of whom will have a very personal need to know about what you flippantly dismiss as 'alternative lifestyles'. If they can't get that information at home, where can they get it?
We don't see ourselves as the definitive authority on how a place should be called.
I should hope so. As far as Australia goes, geotagging photos on Flickr is a frustrating process. When it doesn't get the suburb right, and you click "See other nearby options", you'll be presented with a random list of other suburbs and municipalities, none of which are anywhere near the actual location. It's atrocious.
Remember, Internet Explorer 8.0 is coming probably around March-April 2009. Once that comes out expect IE marketshare to increase again, mostly because there are so many corporate internal applications tied to IE that switching to Firefox, Chrome or Safari is not an option, especially with today's poor economy.
Your argument doesn't make sense. You're saying that IE marketshare will increase when IE8 is released, because corporate applications are tied to IE. IE8 marketshare can only increase from people upgrading from earlier versions of IE, or switching from alternate browsers. The first one will not increase total IE marketshare, since it's only one IE version to another. And the second one, well, if corporate applications are tied to IE, how did they stop using IE in the first place?
Oh, and for added hilarity, did you know that you have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits received from the government? Typically you don't.. because benefits are so low that it puts you under the tax free threshold.. but if you're unemployed for 6 months and employed for the remaining 6 months of a financial year, your combined incoming (benefits+salary) is taxed.. and you'll pay sales tax either way, and import taxes and luxury tax. Double, triple, quadruple taxes.. the ATO has no shame.
If you are concerned that your taxable income might be over the tax-free threshold, you can ask Centrelink to withhold a portion of your benefit to pay to the tax office (just like an employer would, except you can choose the proportion). At the end of the financial year, you will get it back in your tax return if any or all of it is left over.
What "Australia" are you living in?
5gig would be an entry level account, not a "typical" one. 20 gig would be a low end one.
I have a 50 gig plan from TPG. I haven't paid more for internet for as long as I can remember and year after year my bandwidth cap has increased in a way that has been more than sufficient for increased usage.
I'd love to live in your Australia.
In the Australia I live in, the only ADSL2 provider at my exchange is Telstra, so instead of 50Gb for A$49.99 at ADSL2 speed, I'm getting 35Gb for $44.95 at a measly 512kbit/s. To get 50Gb ADSL2, I'd have to spend over A$100 per month.
Funny, I always got "Do you think money grows on trees?" which is a terribly strange question to ask a child with no concept of where money DOES come from. You eventually learn the correct answer is "no", but you still have no idea WHY the answer is "no".
Hang on, isn't American money still made of paper?
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In Australia this wouldn't be permitted under the broadcasters or advertisers code of conduct.
Are you serious?
Foxtel, Optus TV, and Austar already carry Fox News on their basic packages.
And Apple designs their products such that they are owned and controlled completely by Apple even after you've bought them from Apple. You consider that a good design?
Okay, I'll bite. You have a point regarding the iPhone, but how is an Apple computer owned or controlled by Apple after purchase? Nothing stops you from installing whatever applications or operating system(s) you want.
If they would also make Jedi an official religion like in Australia (IIRC)
Not quite. Religious freedom is protected in our constitution (s116), and as such we have no official religions, mainstream or otherwise.
Go fuck yourself you pompous prick.
Get over yourself, touchy. It's a joke.
We don't lock things cause we don't need to. Also because we realise that it's pointless to lock stuff. If somebody really wants to take something, there's nothing you can do to stop them. That reality scares some people.
Sounds to me like you need to
1) go visit outside your apartment/city/state/country more,
May I suggest the same? Go outside and take a few deep breaths.
2) stop believing that a single news report indicates a crime spree,
Did I say anything of the sort?
3) stop making wide, sweeping generalisations about millions of people you've never met.
Perhaps you could stop making wide, sweeping generalisations about me.
...and leaving notes warning people of the dangers involved with leaving their vehicles unsecured.
What? People don't know this in Australia? I mean if it came to become a campaign the problem must have been of significant magnitude. I'm not trying to flamebait here but back to my question: people don't know this in Australia?
No, people don't know this in Queensland. Queensland is our answer to both Florida and Alabama.
Just remember that we're living in a country that wants to ban Tylenol because some people damage their livers.
Is your reading comprehension really that bad, or are you deliberately twisting the facts? The other FA clearly refers to medications that combine acetaminophen/paracetamol with other drugs.
I don't know if it's different where you are, but where I live cyclists can legally ride two abreast ('for no reason'), and a third cyclist is permitted to overtake. My experience of riding on roads is that unless you move to the middle of the lane, ignorant/lazy drivers will try to squeeze past with the smallest of margins instead of overtaking properly with enough room to spare.
Roads belong to the public, not just motorists. If you can't wait a minute or two to overtake you should leave earlier.
... is not being spammed with 200 goddamn "Mafia Wars" requests every time I log in. Seriously, Facebook is slowly approaching MySpace levels of obnoxiousness... and it hasn't gotten better as Facebook started trying to "out-Twitter" Twitter. I used to log in multiple times a day... now I only log in once a week or so to clean up all the annoying notifications. Zuckerberg should have sold back when the economy was booming and his company wasn't facing exposure as a mere fad.
Facebook Purity will clean up the main page. And you can block applications and/or application invites from particular people as desired. You know, where it says "Block this application | Ignore all invitations from this friend" under every single one of those requests?
No Shit. And the guy just gets fricking weirder and weirder as the years roll on. By now I'm sure everyone has seen him eating toe cheese on stage, and THIS is the guy you want to listen to on the direction of Linux? Really?
If a guy can eat his own earwax and become Prime Minister of Australia, I don't see what's quite so bad about eating toe cheese.
Only on Slashdot would this be modded +5 Insightful.
How many other websites have the same moderation categories as Slashdot?
This is why Westminster-style governments should never have a senate majority.
But as GP put it (in one of the best posts I've ever seen on slashdot), the students are in school to work on their learning, not to watch sports, investigate alternative lifestyles, or do anything else like that.
It's all very well to say that, but while the students are in school working on their learning, they're also turning into pubescent little adults, some of whom will have a very personal need to know about what you flippantly dismiss as 'alternative lifestyles'. If they can't get that information at home, where can they get it?
We don't see ourselves as the definitive authority on how a place should be called.
I should hope so. As far as Australia goes, geotagging photos on Flickr is a frustrating process. When it doesn't get the suburb right, and you click "See other nearby options", you'll be presented with a random list of other suburbs and municipalities, none of which are anywhere near the actual location. It's atrocious.
"A download like Heart's 34-year-old song Barracuda...."
I bought this song when it was released. Thanks for making me feel old.
You know, some of us weren't even alive in that decade.
I can't be the only one thinking of the Bachelor Chow ads on Futurama, right?
Doesn't Australia have a constitutional document guaranteeing freedom of speech?
No.
Remember, Internet Explorer 8.0 is coming probably around March-April 2009. Once that comes out expect IE marketshare to increase again, mostly because there are so many corporate internal applications tied to IE that switching to Firefox, Chrome or Safari is not an option, especially with today's poor economy.
Your argument doesn't make sense. You're saying that IE marketshare will increase when IE8 is released, because corporate applications are tied to IE. IE8 marketshare can only increase from people upgrading from earlier versions of IE, or switching from alternate browsers. The first one will not increase total IE marketshare, since it's only one IE version to another. And the second one, well, if corporate applications are tied to IE, how did they stop using IE in the first place?
Oh, and for added hilarity, did you know that you have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits received from the government? Typically you don't.. because benefits are so low that it puts you under the tax free threshold.. but if you're unemployed for 6 months and employed for the remaining 6 months of a financial year, your combined incoming (benefits+salary) is taxed.. and you'll pay sales tax either way, and import taxes and luxury tax. Double, triple, quadruple taxes.. the ATO has no shame.
If you are concerned that your taxable income might be over the tax-free threshold, you can ask Centrelink to withhold a portion of your benefit to pay to the tax office (just like an employer would, except you can choose the proportion). At the end of the financial year, you will get it back in your tax return if any or all of it is left over.
Elevating free speech over other rights is a part of American ideology
Yes, they even have special zones to practice it in!
All around translates to pana and sound translates to sound.
Sound translates to sound? Genius!
What "Australia" are you living in?
5gig would be an entry level account, not a "typical" one. 20 gig would be a low end one.
I have a 50 gig plan from TPG. I haven't paid more for internet for as long as I can remember and year after year my bandwidth cap has increased in a way that has been more than sufficient for increased usage.
I'd love to live in your Australia.
In the Australia I live in, the only ADSL2 provider at my exchange is Telstra, so instead of 50Gb for A$49.99 at ADSL2 speed, I'm getting 35Gb for $44.95 at a measly 512kbit/s. To get 50Gb ADSL2, I'd have to spend over A$100 per month.
Or you could just buy some newer hard drives out there with high ariel density.
So how many mermaids can they fit into a hard drive these days?
Funny, I always got "Do you think money grows on trees?" which is a terribly strange question to ask a child with no concept of where money DOES come from. You eventually learn the correct answer is "no", but you still have no idea WHY the answer is "no".
Hang on, isn't American money still made of paper?
Those are the upstream speeds. Downstream is the number before the slash.
It's a clbuttic mistake.