I know for a fact that no Australian in their right mind would download/update ubuntu, debian and the like from anything other than the ISP provided mirrors, simply because bandwidth is metered, and not cheap. On a 20 or 30 GB/month quota pulling an entire netinst debian desktop down will eat a fair chunk of your month's downloads, but every worthwhile ISP will provide un-quotad local file mirrors.
Australia's unusual with the high cost of international bandwidth I'm sure, but there's still got to be a pretty significant percentage of linux users who never touch a primary mirror, for initial downloads or updates.
mod parent up! The image was published in Australia, and down here we don't have your "right to privacy" that limits use of a person's image. Everyone's fair game.
I honestly don't think that the average user is going to ask, nor blame, the gatekeepers. After all, they're the good guys by definition. The problem is those pesky developers who have let their monthly whitelisting subscription lapse.
Aha! I've been vaguely wondering why TripleJ is so much quieter than every other FM station around here, and it seems you may have just answered my question. Any idea how to measure compression from the consumers end? In any case, it seems they also cover point (b) by constantly playing new music of many genres... considered streaming internet radio before? I'm assuming you're not in Australia to pick up the terrestrial broadcast of course.
Oh yeah, nothing like waiting till 32 to make a life-long commitment and then falling for the first person who seems 'perfect', going in with fuck-all experience so no-one's satisfied, forcing the relationship to work long after it's clear you're different people and eventually divorcing.
Even disregarding the sex issue, the idea that you should wait all your life for the one person and then form a life-long commitment shits me. If you wanted to compete in rally-racing, you wouldn't just jump in and hope. If you want to be a chef, you don't just walk into a resteraunt and start cooking. So why not spend a few years in your youth getting into relationships, practicing getting along with someone else all the time, dealing with another person's random emotions and moods and possibly dealing with the heart break at the end? Not everything has to be forever.
Having said that I'm happily married at 22. But I wouldn't be if I hadn't known a few other people to show me just how special my wife is:).
I remember when HL2 was initially released that there was a new Vampire The Masquerade released with the Source engine
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. That was the game that killed the famous Troika Studios in part due to difficulties involved in developing it with Valve's steam engine, which was under development at the same time.
Whether deliberate or not, it looks like developing a game to compete with someone else's game while licensing their technology may be a fatally flawed idea.
And if they completely, perfectly control output all the way through to the display, hundreds of Taiwanese factories will set up a 120 inch screen, a camera on a tripod and a feed directly from each speaker. Good luck stopping that. I imagine it's not too hard to set up the perfect environment/screen/camera so it's indistinguishable from a direct copy either.
Ah, Malkavians... Not just one of the weirdest moments in gaming, one of the most beautifully written ones. Anyone else ever play the game just for the Malkavian dialogue?
Well, it may be slightly off-topic, but this is probably the best place to ask the question. Installing mythTV, I can't get the tuner to work. It uses the bttv module, but when it loads reports that it uses tuner -1, and only gives video from the composite and s-video inputs. Anyone got any ideas?
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Navajo wasn't used in Europe, because Germany had sent anthropologists to the US to learn native languages, anticipating precisely this scheme.
How did they find that out? Suddenly one of their Navajo communicators started talking with a German accent?
I don't know about datacenters but near where I lived growing up was a small oil refinery, just supplying the needs of a couple of million people, and it had a small three turbine gas-fired plant next to it. Might have something to do with the fact that here in South Australia, gas is reasonably cheap, and it was a long way away from major transmission lines or, for that matter, power plants. Guess economic feasability depends partly on what energy sources are around to supply your power plant. Building a data center next to a river? Hydro's got to start looking better.
Anyone else reminded of Focus, in the novel A Deepness In The Sky by Vernor Vinge? For those who haven't read the book, one of the civilisations has developed a disease that can be manipulated to 'focus' a person, making them completely dedicated to their specialty and loyal to their masters. The book describes the interaction of computer and Focussed, and the abilities it gives to those who have access to the information they provide (perfect analysis, complete contextual information and summarization, translation, etc).
It's an interesting concept, creates almost a cyborg society, and the book delves into the moral questions of whether it's acceptable to reduce a human to the function of a computer. Not to mention it's a good story.
Speaking as another random cleaner/hospitality/worker and slashdot reader; I work where I do because the only IT work I can get into would pay less, have about as much challenge and probably be more frustrating. No-one looks twice at you without some form of qualification, and that takes money (or better yet, about three years full time), neither of which I can spare. Time to code the next UberProject.
God is perfection, heaven == god. An imperfect being cannot be one with God, as God is perfection. The only way a being could be one with God is by being God; perfection.
It's a religious thread, I'm allowed to babble.
There is a reason why science was originally called natural philosophy. The scientific method is just the philosophical method applied to the physical world, where you can get reproducable results.
More to the point, no-one cares. Society is based on specialisation. I don't know the complexities of taxation, or law. I'm probably getting screwed in numerous ways that'd make a lawyer or accountant scream, but I don't care. Sooner or later you have to accept that the world is bigger than you, you'll never know all of it and it really does not matter. The achievement of society is that you get to pay someone else to care.
To be honest, one of the local australian current affairs shows did that to show how little actual work was achieved. They ran it with headlines along the lines of "Criminals! Not being punished properly! Burn them!" and without pointing out that the crimes were largely unpaid fines.
I think that this guy's approach will be most useful to widescale pirating because all it takes is for one person to decrypt a movie and share it with a billion of his closest friends. But the 'regular joe' who just wants to copy his BD-HDs to his hard disk for ease of playback or maybe to cut clips from it for his own home movie won't benefit because chances are, the keys for his particular discs won't be widely known enough for him to find them. Sort of reminds me of the whole serial key situation and sites like serials.ws. Amusing that after all the DRM crap we've gone through, we're back to 'secret' keys to secure software/media. No matter how often they change the disc keys, if it's easy to extract them, people will quickly share them all.
"Manufacturing" images of atrocities. I like that. Because, you know, no atrocities or civilian casualties occured, they simply made it all in photoshop. What is happening is that many more atrocities are being filmed and being released. Some of them filmed by US forces and set to music. Is it a bad thing that we're now informed as to the reality of the situation? Maybe we really should just ignore things like this and let the troops have their fun, it's a stressful situation after all.
You see, there's defense, education, housing, health, social security, silly walks. They're all supposed to get the same. But last year the government spent less on Silly Walks than they did on industrial organisation. We're supposed to get 348 millions pounds a year to cover our entire Silly Walks proposal. Coffee?
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I know for a fact that no Australian in their right mind would download/update ubuntu, debian and the like from anything other than the ISP provided mirrors, simply because bandwidth is metered, and not cheap. On a 20 or 30 GB/month quota pulling an entire netinst debian desktop down will eat a fair chunk of your month's downloads, but every worthwhile ISP will provide un-quotad local file mirrors.
Australia's unusual with the high cost of international bandwidth I'm sure, but there's still got to be a pretty significant percentage of linux users who never touch a primary mirror, for initial downloads or updates.
mod parent up! The image was published in Australia, and down here we don't have your "right to privacy" that limits use of a person's image. Everyone's fair game.
I honestly don't think that the average user is going to ask, nor blame, the gatekeepers. After all, they're the good guys by definition. The problem is those pesky developers who have let their monthly whitelisting subscription lapse.
Aha! I've been vaguely wondering why TripleJ is so much quieter than every other FM station around here, and it seems you may have just answered my question. Any idea how to measure compression from the consumers end? In any case, it seems they also cover point (b) by constantly playing new music of many genres... considered streaming internet radio before? I'm assuming you're not in Australia to pick up the terrestrial broadcast of course.
Oh yeah, nothing like waiting till 32 to make a life-long commitment and then falling for the first person who seems 'perfect', going in with fuck-all experience so no-one's satisfied, forcing the relationship to work long after it's clear you're different people and eventually divorcing. :).
Even disregarding the sex issue, the idea that you should wait all your life for the one person and then form a life-long commitment shits me. If you wanted to compete in rally-racing, you wouldn't just jump in and hope. If you want to be a chef, you don't just walk into a resteraunt and start cooking. So why not spend a few years in your youth getting into relationships, practicing getting along with someone else all the time, dealing with another person's random emotions and moods and possibly dealing with the heart break at the end? Not everything has to be forever.
Having said that I'm happily married at 22. But I wouldn't be if I hadn't known a few other people to show me just how special my wife is
Whether deliberate or not, it looks like developing a game to compete with someone else's game while licensing their technology may be a fatally flawed idea.
And if they completely, perfectly control output all the way through to the display, hundreds of Taiwanese factories will set up a 120 inch screen, a camera on a tripod and a feed directly from each speaker. Good luck stopping that. I imagine it's not too hard to set up the perfect environment/screen/camera so it's indistinguishable from a direct copy either.
Ah, Malkavians... Not just one of the weirdest moments in gaming, one of the most beautifully written ones. Anyone else ever play the game just for the Malkavian dialogue?
Well, it may be slightly off-topic, but this is probably the best place to ask the question. Installing mythTV, I can't get the tuner to work. It uses the bttv module, but when it loads reports that it uses tuner -1, and only gives video from the composite and s-video inputs. Anyone got any ideas?
How did they find that out? Suddenly one of their Navajo communicators started talking with a German accent?
Perhaps you are in fact thinking of Promite? Vegemite is much harsher than Marmite.
I feel compelled to point out the comparatively minor economic benefits of this tunnel when it's compared to the Sydney-Los Angeles Bridge.
I don't know about datacenters but near where I lived growing up was a small oil refinery, just supplying the needs of a couple of million people, and it had a small three turbine gas-fired plant next to it. Might have something to do with the fact that here in South Australia, gas is reasonably cheap, and it was a long way away from major transmission lines or, for that matter, power plants. Guess economic feasability depends partly on what energy sources are around to supply your power plant. Building a data center next to a river? Hydro's got to start looking better.
Anyone else reminded of Focus, in the novel A Deepness In The Sky by Vernor Vinge? For those who haven't read the book, one of the civilisations has developed a disease that can be manipulated to 'focus' a person, making them completely dedicated to their specialty and loyal to their masters. The book describes the interaction of computer and Focussed, and the abilities it gives to those who have access to the information they provide (perfect analysis, complete contextual information and summarization, translation, etc).
It's an interesting concept, creates almost a cyborg society, and the book delves into the moral questions of whether it's acceptable to reduce a human to the function of a computer. Not to mention it's a good story.
Speaking as another random cleaner/hospitality/worker and slashdot reader; I work where I do because the only IT work I can get into would pay less, have about as much challenge and probably be more frustrating. No-one looks twice at you without some form of qualification, and that takes money (or better yet, about three years full time), neither of which I can spare. Time to code the next UberProject.
It's okay, apparently the insightful tone of the post carries it off :)
Interesting? God damn, man, haven't you read Andromeda Strain? That's a -1, Terrifying, not a +1, Interesting!
God is perfection, heaven == god. An imperfect being cannot be one with God, as God is perfection. The only way a being could be one with God is by being God; perfection.
It's a religious thread, I'm allowed to babble.
There is a reason why science was originally called natural philosophy. The scientific method is just the philosophical method applied to the physical world, where you can get reproducable results.
More to the point, no-one cares. Society is based on specialisation. I don't know the complexities of taxation, or law. I'm probably getting screwed in numerous ways that'd make a lawyer or accountant scream, but I don't care. Sooner or later you have to accept that the world is bigger than you, you'll never know all of it and it really does not matter. The achievement of society is that you get to pay someone else to care.
To be honest, one of the local australian current affairs shows did that to show how little actual work was achieved. They ran it with headlines along the lines of "Criminals! Not being punished properly! Burn them!" and without pointing out that the crimes were largely unpaid fines.
"Manufacturing" images of atrocities. I like that. Because, you know, no atrocities or civilian casualties occured, they simply made it all in photoshop. What is happening is that many more atrocities are being filmed and being released. Some of them filmed by US forces and set to music. Is it a bad thing that we're now informed as to the reality of the situation? Maybe we really should just ignore things like this and let the troops have their fun, it's a stressful situation after all.
You see, there's defense, education, housing, health, social security, silly walks. They're all supposed to get the same. But last year the government spent less on Silly Walks than they did on industrial organisation. We're supposed to get 348 millions pounds a year to cover our entire Silly Walks proposal. Coffee?
you misspelt "shills"