I guess this really does define who has won the space race. When you have to go buy the other guy's space ships to keep flying, you really are conceding defeat.
Not really any different to buying Japanese cars or Chinese cordless drills. They do it better, cheaper and more reliably.
Not meant to be a troll, just a statement of (sad) fact.
Telstra is also Australia's largest company, full stop.
This move has reduced the value of the company by some $2 Billion AUD prior to a full sale.
Not good for shareholders.
Ultimately, not good for customers.
I encourage my staff to send people to voice-mail based on the caller ID presented when it comes to phones.
Face to face I encourage the use of a big "GO AWAY" sign for my staff. This forces these people to me. I use the 'send me the requirements' sign and allocate work on the basis of documented requirements and business priorties.
Of course, if this doesn't work I am not above telling others to 'take a number'....
OS/2 came out at a time when we all wanted something 'not Microsoft', and something which would take advantage of the 80286 PROT mode.
Then, OS/2 was it.
Of course we all looked across at the current state of UN*X at the time. It was miserable, expensive (XENIX) and imature.
So OS/2 was going to be it.
Another Beta vs VHS really. Good guys - 0, Bad guys (M$) - 1.
RIP OS/2
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Found my house in Sydney, Australia.
Very impressed. I can make out my car and our very grubby swimming pool.
Sydney Airport is also there in very hi-res. The city centre isn't, which is strange.
We use Filers for storage at Gigabit speeds. Compared to our SAN/FC evironments, we see much higher CPU utilisation on our Sol 8 boxes, especially when attempting to get to Gigibit speeds.
I would be surprised to see many takers for this scheme here. The IT job market is on the way up in Australia, we actually have a coding skills shortage. If you are thinking of getting involved, please look for a job instead.
Access to this online content is one of the only reasons I keep up my IEEE membership. It's a *lot* of money ($250AU P/A). I would think that the IEEE would suffer greatly when people such as myself fail to renew if this content becomes free.
Working as an architect for a V Large ISP it has been interesting to watch the "peak hour" for email go from 1-2 hours at night (1997) to a flat-line peak period of 8 hours from 9am to 5pm. We have always designed and built for peaks, now the peak is *all day*.
This is a great idea, a real win/win situation. Problem is that in Australia you need a carrier license to do this if you derive any financial benefit from providing carriage to a third party, even if it only cost recovery. I would love to have my neighbours finance an upgrade from 512/128 to 1.5Mb/256kbs.
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Has anyone noticed that the Nat Geo article states that the pictures were actually taken in September 2004???
I guess this really does define who has won the space race. When you have to go buy the other guy's space ships to keep flying, you really are conceding defeat. Not really any different to buying Japanese cars or Chinese cordless drills. They do it better, cheaper and more reliably. Not meant to be a troll, just a statement of (sad) fact.
Really guys.... And in other news, New Orleans gets leveled by a hurricane. Grrrr..
Telstra is also Australia's largest company, full stop. This move has reduced the value of the company by some $2 Billion AUD prior to a full sale. Not good for shareholders. Ultimately, not good for customers.
I encourage my staff to send people to voice-mail based on the caller ID presented when it comes to phones. Face to face I encourage the use of a big "GO AWAY" sign for my staff. This forces these people to me. I use the 'send me the requirements' sign and allocate work on the basis of documented requirements and business priorties. Of course, if this doesn't work I am not above telling others to 'take a number'....
OS/2 came out at a time when we all wanted something 'not Microsoft', and something which would take advantage of the 80286 PROT mode. Then, OS/2 was it. Of course we all looked across at the current state of UN*X at the time. It was miserable, expensive (XENIX) and imature. So OS/2 was going to be it. Another Beta vs VHS really. Good guys - 0, Bad guys (M$) - 1. RIP OS/2
1010001110101010101000101110101110110101011101 001110101010100000111110001001010100101010101001 00111011010101010100111011000111...Do robots dream of electric sheep?
Found my house in Sydney, Australia. Very impressed. I can make out my car and our very grubby swimming pool. Sydney Airport is also there in very hi-res. The city centre isn't, which is strange.
We use Filers for storage at Gigabit speeds. Compared to our SAN/FC evironments, we see much higher CPU utilisation on our Sol 8 boxes, especially when attempting to get to Gigibit speeds.
I would be surprised to see many takers for this scheme here. The IT job market is on the way up in Australia, we actually have a coding skills shortage. If you are thinking of getting involved, please look for a job instead.
Access to this online content is one of the only reasons I keep up my IEEE membership. It's a *lot* of money ($250AU P/A). I would think that the IEEE would suffer greatly when people such as myself fail to renew if this content becomes free.
Democracys generally end up with the politicians they deserve...enough said
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Working as an architect for a V Large ISP it has been interesting to watch the "peak hour" for email go from 1-2 hours at night (1997) to a flat-line peak period of 8 hours from 9am to 5pm. We have always designed and built for peaks, now the peak is *all day*.
This is a great idea, a real win/win situation. Problem is that in Australia you need a carrier license to do this if you derive any financial benefit from providing carriage to a third party, even if it only cost recovery. I would love to have my neighbours finance an upgrade from 512/128 to 1.5Mb/256kbs.
GSM = Cheap!! Not in Australia!! Average cost of calls here is 1c / second!