Yes, I realise that - but I still would have thought (nothing to base this one - just my preconceptions) that Firewire was inherently slower than ATA; that it would introduce additional overheads and is a less efficient transfer mechanism.
The fact that Firewire with a fast drive is better than ATA with a slow drive is interesting. It also makes me wonder where the break-even point is: i.e. would ATA with a 5400 rpm drive still be slower than a 7200 rpm drive with Firewire, etc. I find the whole question very interesting.
So... basically this article is saying that fast drives are faster than slow drives
Well, when you put it like that it seems kind of obvious. But the real equation this article is pointing out is that fast drive + firewire > slow drive + ATA
Also, this isn't actually new. iTunes 4.7 and maybe earlier would also import.mov, and.mpg files (and maybe.avi as well? I can't remember). Anyway, it would import them to the library but wouldn't play the video - so it doesn't sound as though anything has changed on that front.
As a small business developer, I would love this sort of thing.
Except that they're talking about doing it as a Work for the Dole project, which carries the requirement that it must be with a not for profit/community organisation, for the very reason that it's meant to not put someone else out of a job.
Centrelink is supposed to try and find you a position that matches your interests and skills
Common misperception here - all Centrelink really does is administer welfare payments. Services like putting you in an interesting Work for the Dole program or helping you find a job are done by other service providers, mainly Community Work Coordinators or Job Network members respectively.
My issue is not so much that I can't make it to a LUG - I could, except that I don't run Linux. But the way I can best help is not by going to a LUG where nobody from this project is involved, but by getting in touch directly with the instigators and offering advice and help. In fact, I'm already emailing back and forth with the guy behind this, so God is in His Heaven, all's right with the world.
I know that you're being funny, but in all seriousness the way to do it would probably be get it set up as a Work for the Dole project, by becoming a WftD sponsor. For it to satisfy requirements for Mutual Obligation in its own right - that would be more complex and it would pretty much need to be an official Government programme.
The other way to get ahead would be to apply for the project to apply for resources (i.e. money) through the Employment Innovation Fund. If it was accepted there, it would be a quick way of getting some official Government recognition and money behind it. Overall, it would go a long way if it could show that it had a training component as well as just extra experience for people who already know how to code.
I work in the Government Department that manages that Mutual Obligation policy and the main programmes around it. But I'm just an average public servant with an interest in IT - not a programmer or IT professional.
Since they're ask for help from people who are experienced in dealing with our Department, maybe this is a way I can properly contribute to an OSS project for the first time.
And the Central markets are the bets in Australia, if not the biggest. And hey - you can get Citilan reception in the T-Bar and Lucias (great Italian cafe) in the markets. Fantastic!
iiNet are a public company with lots of capital behind them, therefore lots of money to roll out new equipment across Australia. I believe they are the largest telco/ISP in AUstralia behind Telstra and Optus.
Secondly, Internode/Agile were the first to roll out ADSL2+ at all - and I don't think any other ISP has yet enabled ADSL2+ on an exchange. So, while iiNet has made a wide deployment and are offering ADSL2 with 8mbps connection speeds, Internode/Agile are expanding at the pace they can and have ADSL2+ with up to 24mbps connection speeds on some exchanges.
I think all ISPs in Australia bitch about Telstra, but both iiNet and Internode are getting on with the job and they're both moving at the speed that their business model allows.
XP's files and settings transfer wizard, since 2001.
Actually, that's completely different - and briefcase (mentioned below) is differetn as well. iSync synchronises contacts, calendars, bookmarks and various other things. You primarily use it to synchronise your Mac with a PDA, movile phone, online.Mac account etc, but via.Mac you can use it to synchronise all those things between two Macs. The other beauty is that it's a one button sync with all the devices mentioned - so as long as they are all plugged in when you click the button to start the process, then everything gets the same up to date version - and it checks all the sources to make sure that it has the most recent version. It's a very, very useful feature.
NATO isn't going to contribute any troops to stabilize Iraq, and neither will any country in the foreseeable future.
Except that the Australian government just committed to send an unspecified number of additional troops. And the UK, Japan and a few other countries are still in there as well. While I agree with your sentiments, it pays to get the facts right
Saying, "just buy a new copy" is all well and nice in retrospect, but doesn't help this guy since he hass already bought a used copy. Also, the question, as posed, was not about how he could play the game but about whether Blizzard are ignoring/breaking the terms of their own EULA. It's a much bigger question than just "buy a new copy"
Australia seems to have weather very similar to North America
Well, there's nowhere as cold as New England, but Northern Australia would get as hot as Florida. And both countries have sizable deserts (although Australia has a greater proportion of desert).
I've never lived in Melbourne, but I love visiting there. It's a wonderful city.
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Actually, if you RTFA, the author appears to be an Apple fan; I quote: "Thomas Hormby is a high school student in Nashville, Tennessee. He maintains two Mac history websites, http://www.mlagazine.com and http://www.macreate.net."
So, it's not so much Apple bashing (although the editorial by-line does make it appear that way) as much as it is a look at some of the ideas that flopped: some were very good ideas not well implemented, others were just ahead of their time, and some were jsut bad ideas (e.g. Word 6.0 for Mac from Microsoft). Oh yeah, not every comment in there is against Apple - some of them are about Apple-related products.
But, most importantly, what tasks can you, as a user, do with a $500 PC that you can't with the $500 Mac?
Play games, maybe? Ok, I know there are games for the Mac, so I'll clarify and say, games such as Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and 90% of games that get released for Windows. (Disclaimer: I'm a Mac fan, but keep a Windows desktop for gaming)
but it'd be nice if I could patch Granny's Mac over SSH.
You can. ssh in, then: softwareupdate -l to list available updates. softwareupdate -i [name of package] to install the one you want. reboot (or shutdown -r) to reboot.
Yes - I have seen the 15 Minute Hamley, by Tom Stoppard. It's also (more or less) part of his play "Dogg's Hamlet", and is pretty much recreated in the (not Stoppard) play "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)".
Anyway, I certianly wouldn't call it an atrocity, and it was a pleasure seeing it in all these forms. As a parody, it's fantastic and hilrious - not to mention that the concept of taking the longest Shakespeare play, which normally runs for about 4 hours, and delivering it in 15 minutes in such a way that the audience understands not only the plot but many of the key issues, is very interesting as well.
Even in Australia, it is only relatively recently that the Commonwealth became the main collector of taxes. Like the US, Australia's constitution was primarily intended to protect the authority/power of the State's and limit the powers of the Federal Government. However, as time progressed, the power of the Federal Government grew and that of the state's diminshed, particularly when the Federal Government took responsibility for income tax from the States post-WW2.
Overall, the hierarchy of power is not as clear as you indicate. For example, look at education - primarily a state responsibility, but the Federal Government now controls universities and allocates funding for private schools as well. The lines of responsibility are not always clear-cut.
I have installed each incremental upgrade on my Powerbook, 10.3.5 and now 10.3.6, and the older Intellimouse drivers still work fine. I can still use the scroll wheel and the forward/back buttons on the side still work as well - and this is with an original Intellimouse Explorer V1.
However, I discovered that 10.3.6 'breaks' the process of adding a networked printer attached to a Windows box. With 10.3.6, when you browse to add a printer via Windows Networking, nothing shows up. There are workarounds, but you'd have to go searching for the answer. An average user would probably be stuck.
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Yes, I realise that - but I still would have thought (nothing to base this one - just my preconceptions) that Firewire was inherently slower than ATA; that it would introduce additional overheads and is a less efficient transfer mechanism. The fact that Firewire with a fast drive is better than ATA with a slow drive is interesting. It also makes me wonder where the break-even point is: i.e. would ATA with a 5400 rpm drive still be slower than a 7200 rpm drive with Firewire, etc. I find the whole question very interesting.
So... basically this article is saying that fast drives are faster than slow drives
Well, when you put it like that it seems kind of obvious. But the real equation this article is pointing out is that
fast drive + firewire > slow drive + ATA
I find that quite interesting.
Also, this isn't actually new. iTunes 4.7 and maybe earlier would also import .mov, and .mpg files (and maybe .avi as well? I can't remember). Anyway, it would import them to the library but wouldn't play the video - so it doesn't sound as though anything has changed on that front.
Could work - maybe you could email the guy running this and check with him?
As a small business developer, I would love this sort of thing.
Except that they're talking about doing it as a Work for the Dole project, which carries the requirement that it must be with a not for profit/community organisation, for the very reason that it's meant to not put someone else out of a job.
Centrelink is supposed to try and find you a position that matches your interests and skills
Common misperception here - all Centrelink really does is administer welfare payments. Services like putting you in an interesting Work for the Dole program or helping you find a job are done by other service providers, mainly Community Work Coordinators or Job Network members respectively.
My issue is not so much that I can't make it to a LUG - I could, except that I don't run Linux. But the way I can best help is not by going to a LUG where nobody from this project is involved, but by getting in touch directly with the instigators and offering advice and help. In fact, I'm already emailing back and forth with the guy behind this, so God is in His Heaven, all's right with the world.
The next meeting is on Friday, May 27 from 6:00pm to 9:30pm at the University of Technology, Broadway, Sydney.
Hmmm, a three hour drive for one meeting? I think I'll email instead - if I still lived in Sydney then I may have considered it.
I know that you're being funny, but in all seriousness the way to do it would probably be get it set up as a Work for the Dole project, by becoming a WftD sponsor. For it to satisfy requirements for Mutual Obligation in its own right - that would be more complex and it would pretty much need to be an official Government programme.
The other way to get ahead would be to apply for the project to apply for resources (i.e. money) through the Employment Innovation Fund. If it was accepted there, it would be a quick way of getting some official Government recognition and money behind it. Overall, it would go a long way if it could show that it had a training component as well as just extra experience for people who already know how to code.
I work in the Government Department that manages that Mutual Obligation policy and the main programmes around it. But I'm just an average public servant with an interest in IT - not a programmer or IT professional.
Since they're ask for help from people who are experienced in dealing with our Department, maybe this is a way I can properly contribute to an OSS project for the first time.
And the Central markets are the bets in Australia, if not the biggest. And hey - you can get Citilan reception in the T-Bar and Lucias (great Italian cafe) in the markets. Fantastic!
iiNet are a public company with lots of capital behind them, therefore lots of money to roll out new equipment across Australia. I believe they are the largest telco/ISP in AUstralia behind Telstra and Optus. Secondly, Internode/Agile were the first to roll out ADSL2+ at all - and I don't think any other ISP has yet enabled ADSL2+ on an exchange. So, while iiNet has made a wide deployment and are offering ADSL2 with 8mbps connection speeds, Internode/Agile are expanding at the pace they can and have ADSL2+ with up to 24mbps connection speeds on some exchanges. I think all ISPs in Australia bitch about Telstra, but both iiNet and Internode are getting on with the job and they're both moving at the speed that their business model allows.
But, but, but - he obviously does like it, because he's including it in the next Mac OS!
XP's files and settings transfer wizard, since 2001.
Actually, that's completely different - and briefcase (mentioned below) is differetn as well. iSync synchronises contacts, calendars, bookmarks and various other things. You primarily use it to synchronise your Mac with a PDA, movile phone, online .Mac account etc, but via .Mac you can use it to synchronise all those things between two Macs. The other beauty is that it's a one button sync with all the devices mentioned - so as long as they are all plugged in when you click the button to start the process, then everything gets the same up to date version - and it checks all the sources to make sure that it has the most recent version. It's a very, very useful feature.
NATO isn't going to contribute any troops to stabilize Iraq, and neither will any country in the foreseeable future.
Except that the Australian government just committed to send an unspecified number of additional troops. And the UK, Japan and a few other countries are still in there as well. While I agree with your sentiments, it pays to get the facts right
Saying, "just buy a new copy" is all well and nice in retrospect, but doesn't help this guy since he hass already bought a used copy. Also, the question, as posed, was not about how he could play the game but about whether Blizzard are ignoring/breaking the terms of their own EULA.
It's a much bigger question than just "buy a new copy"
Australia seems to have weather very similar to North America
Well, there's nowhere as cold as New England, but Northern Australia would get as hot as Florida. And both countries have sizable deserts (although Australia has a greater proportion of desert).
I've never lived in Melbourne, but I love visiting there. It's a wonderful city.
Actually, if you RTFA, the author appears to be an Apple fan; I quote:
"Thomas Hormby is a high school student in Nashville, Tennessee. He maintains two Mac history websites, http://www.mlagazine.com and http://www.macreate.net."
So, it's not so much Apple bashing (although the editorial by-line does make it appear that way) as much as it is a look at some of the ideas that flopped: some were very good ideas not well implemented, others were just ahead of their time, and some were jsut bad ideas (e.g. Word 6.0 for Mac from Microsoft). Oh yeah, not every comment in there is against Apple - some of them are about Apple-related products.
But, most importantly, what tasks can you, as a user, do with a $500 PC that you can't with the $500 Mac?
Play games, maybe?
Ok, I know there are games for the Mac, so I'll clarify and say, games such as Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and 90% of games that get released for Windows. (Disclaimer: I'm a Mac fan, but keep a Windows desktop for gaming)
I agree - much easier. Thanks for that tip
but it'd be nice if I could patch Granny's Mac over SSH.
You can.
ssh in, then:
softwareupdate -l to list available updates.
softwareupdate -i [name of package] to install the one you want.
reboot (or shutdown -r) to reboot.
when you consider that the top 5% of Americans pay over 50% of all the taxes
Isn't that because the top 5% of Americans hold 90% of the country's wealth?
Yes - I have seen the 15 Minute Hamley, by Tom Stoppard. It's also (more or less) part of his play "Dogg's Hamlet", and is pretty much recreated in the (not Stoppard) play "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)".
Anyway, I certianly wouldn't call it an atrocity, and it was a pleasure seeing it in all these forms. As a parody, it's fantastic and hilrious - not to mention that the concept of taking the longest Shakespeare play, which normally runs for about 4 hours, and delivering it in 15 minutes in such a way that the audience understands not only the plot but many of the key issues, is very interesting as well.
Even in Australia, it is only relatively recently that the Commonwealth became the main collector of taxes. Like the US, Australia's constitution was primarily intended to protect the authority/power of the State's and limit the powers of the Federal Government. However, as time progressed, the power of the Federal Government grew and that of the state's diminshed, particularly when the Federal Government took responsibility for income tax from the States post-WW2.
Overall, the hierarchy of power is not as clear as you indicate. For example, look at education - primarily a state responsibility, but the Federal Government now controls universities and allocates funding for private schools as well. The lines of responsibility are not always clear-cut.
I have installed each incremental upgrade on my Powerbook, 10.3.5 and now 10.3.6, and the older Intellimouse drivers still work fine. I can still use the scroll wheel and the forward/back buttons on the side still work as well - and this is with an original Intellimouse Explorer V1.
However, I discovered that 10.3.6 'breaks' the process of adding a networked printer attached to a Windows box. With 10.3.6, when you browse to add a printer via Windows Networking, nothing shows up. There are workarounds, but you'd have to go searching for the answer. An average user would probably be stuck.