Hydroelectricity is an indirect use of solar energy.
To make use of magnetism as a force you would need the force to be moving relative to something else (like a dynamo).
I live in Australia, grew up in rural victoria, even the rural population lives in towns averaging a couple of thousand that are fairly tightly packed around an exchange, the exchanges already have fiber to them.
I'm not suggesting running fiber out to farms, that's the 2% that aren't covered.
Sorry, the ALP policy document seems to indicate that 98% of the population will be covered by the to-be FTTN network, I guess I'll have to go work on my reading comprehension skills because you tell me I'm mistaken.
Note: I consider 98% to be close enough to 'the whole country'
Privatising telstra the government promised that it would increase competition and provide better service, unfortunately the government was stupid enough to allow telstra to keep its monopoly upon the country's infrastructure.
I realise this is what happens when you privatise a monopoly, however the majority of australians will accept the assurances of the 'great economic manager' john winston howard. But the fact that the majority of the population are gullible is not a good reason to let economically essential infrastructure go down the crapper.
As for your tax dollars, what the hell ever, that's what governments do.
*sigh* and in less than 10 years, when your absolute bare minimum quick-fix wimax is once again well BELOW the bare minimum required, you now have to
a) roll out a completely new and better wireless technology (presuming our wireless technologies keep improving at the same rate as broadband consumption)
or
b) roll out almost the same fiber optic lines to what you should have rolled out now.
Actually, the opposition is FTTN for everywhere funded by government money as an investment. (expensive outlay, good return)
The govt's plan is FTTN in the cities funded by the private sector (as they're profitable), and a mish-mash of ADSL2+ and WiMax in the country, in other words outdated and unproven junk. (inexpensive, zero return, no future)
The reason that this proposal has been attacked, is because its way of delivering that 12mbps to the country, is with ADSL2+ and WiMax, instead of any real infrastructure upgrade. Obviously that 12mbps will only be available to those with an apartment on the roof of the telephone exchange itself, or who have access to the unproven WiMax option. The opposition has promised to upgrade the entire country's infrastructure to fibre-to-the-node, unlike the govt which is only willing to encourage private investors to do this in the cities where it is profitable.
Just so you know, both gvim AND plain vim have tabs.
My personal use for that is to bind Ctrl-t to new-tab to be the same as firefox, with f11 and f12 being next and previous tab respectively, Ctrl-tab would be nice but I seem to recall it not working.
And what of the myriad programmers who've spent years using IDE's and text editors, often starting with IDE's, who still prefer vim+gcc+gdb/ddd when writing C?
Oddly enough, I've always been able to type quicker than I can click around with the mouse.
Not saying they have any control over it, saying that I don't like the idea that they could use my work to profit by selling it, see how this copyright thing works?
This is idiotic, you just, quite eloquently, argued RMS's point.
If open source software is unable to be used for DRM schemes (at least how the media companies want), then the DRM schemes cost more to produce, making them less attractive in a business sense.
I'm unaware how you using GPL'd software for a purpose that most of the authors would disagree with is beneficial to the open-source community as a whole.
If you want to make money implementing something like that, fine, be my guest, but don't expect me or anyone else who disagrees with what you're doing to fucking help you.
Can't really blame telstra, a company does that, tries to make money.
Blame the silver-spooners for selling our goddamned infrastructure.
The only thing worse than a public monopoly is a private one, and we don't need multiple networks.
Do you live in Aus? and if you do, how, unlike the rest of the country, are you getting away with not paying the telstra tax?
Here telstra owns the landlines, to use them for ANYTHING you have to pay line rental, the cheapest way to pay line rental is a basic telstra home phone service.
Gotta agree, and besides, if you have a ps2 from last gen you can already use that anyway.
It is interesting that nintendo didn't include it though, there's nothing at all restricting the wii from doing it, except maybe some DeCSS licensing fees?
I'm hanging out for wii homebrew myself, the wii just happens to have the exact capabilities that I want in a media centre by default, a remote, a dvd drive, small, quiet, wireless connection, no noisy hdd, and usb ports if neccessary.
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And how does the water get up there?
Hydroelectricity is an indirect use of solar energy. To make use of magnetism as a force you would need the force to be moving relative to something else (like a dynamo).
It's a FORCE, you can't "tap" it any more than you can tap gravity.
Using firefox 2.0.0.4, whenever I follow the article link it crashes, same with workmate sitting next to me.
Anyone else seeing this?
I live in Australia, grew up in rural victoria, even the rural population lives in towns averaging a couple of thousand that are fairly tightly packed around an exchange, the exchanges already have fiber to them.
I'm not suggesting running fiber out to farms, that's the 2% that aren't covered.
Sorry, the ALP policy document seems to indicate that 98% of the population will be covered by the to-be FTTN network, I guess I'll have to go work on my reading comprehension skills because you tell me I'm mistaken.
t ure_for_australia.pdf
Note: I consider 98% to be close enough to 'the whole country'
http://www.alp.org.au/download/now/a_broadband_fu
Privatising telstra the government promised that it would increase competition and provide better service, unfortunately the government was stupid enough to allow telstra to keep its monopoly upon the country's infrastructure.
I realise this is what happens when you privatise a monopoly, however the majority of australians will accept the assurances of the 'great economic manager' john winston howard.
But the fact that the majority of the population are gullible is not a good reason to let economically essential infrastructure go down the crapper.
As for your tax dollars, what the hell ever, that's what governments do.
*sigh* and in less than 10 years, when your absolute bare minimum quick-fix wimax is once again well BELOW the bare minimum required, you now have to a) roll out a completely new and better wireless technology (presuming our wireless technologies keep improving at the same rate as broadband consumption) or b) roll out almost the same fiber optic lines to what you should have rolled out now.
The amount of farms that get their phone over wireless, even in Aus, is pretty damned insignificant compared to the population living in rural towns.
I'm not saying there shouldn't BE a solution for them, but it's not even a blip when forming a national broadband strategy.
Actually, the opposition is FTTN for everywhere funded by government money as an investment. (expensive outlay, good return)
The govt's plan is FTTN in the cities funded by the private sector (as they're profitable), and a mish-mash of ADSL2+ and WiMax in the country, in other words outdated and unproven junk. (inexpensive, zero return, no future)
Gee, no wonder it's so cheap.
In reply to your signature as well as your post; they built the copper network.
The reason that this proposal has been attacked, is because its way of delivering that 12mbps to the country, is with ADSL2+ and WiMax, instead of any real infrastructure upgrade.
Obviously that 12mbps will only be available to those with an apartment on the roof of the telephone exchange itself, or who have access to the unproven WiMax option.
The opposition has promised to upgrade the entire country's infrastructure to fibre-to-the-node, unlike the govt which is only willing to encourage private investors to do this in the cities where it is profitable.
Just so you know, both gvim AND plain vim have tabs.
My personal use for that is to bind Ctrl-t to new-tab to be the same as firefox, with f11 and f12 being next and previous tab respectively, Ctrl-tab would be nice but I seem to recall it not working.
And what of the myriad programmers who've spent years using IDE's and text editors, often starting with IDE's, who still prefer vim+gcc+gdb/ddd when writing C?
Oddly enough, I've always been able to type quicker than I can click around with the mouse.
Not saying they have any control over it, saying that I don't like the idea that they could use my work to profit by selling it, see how this copyright thing works?
This is idiotic, you just, quite eloquently, argued RMS's point.
If open source software is unable to be used for DRM schemes (at least how the media companies want), then the DRM schemes cost more to produce, making them less attractive in a business sense.
I'm unaware how you using GPL'd software for a purpose that most of the authors would disagree with is beneficial to the open-source community as a whole.
If you want to make money implementing something like that, fine, be my guest, but don't expect me or anyone else who disagrees with what you're doing to fucking help you.
I've only heard of this once, the RMIT business building in melbourne.. I dismissed it as nonsense and so did everyone else once the media got bored.
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You're right, it is a great feature, I love being able to click on and then edit a previously visited URL without having to load a page I don't want.
If that's your only gripe..
As opposed to it being so much easier to change your ISP email if it's hosted with your ISP?
:-)
That comment doesn't make any sense.
Just so you know, the latest versions of Firefox have spell-checking built in
Kinda pointless to say, but I understand and agree with every single thing you said there.
Given the context of the parent... I was referring to Australia.
Not to nitpick, but only a fairly negligible amount of the population has access to cable.
Can't really blame telstra, a company does that, tries to make money.
Blame the silver-spooners for selling our goddamned infrastructure.
The only thing worse than a public monopoly is a private one, and we don't need multiple networks.
Do you live in Aus? and if you do, how, unlike the rest of the country, are you getting away with not paying the telstra tax?
Here telstra owns the landlines, to use them for ANYTHING you have to pay line rental, the cheapest way to pay line rental is a basic telstra home phone service.
Gotta agree, and besides, if you have a ps2 from last gen you can already use that anyway.
It is interesting that nintendo didn't include it though, there's nothing at all restricting the wii from doing it, except maybe some DeCSS licensing fees?
I'm hanging out for wii homebrew myself, the wii just happens to have the exact capabilities that I want in a media centre by default, a remote, a dvd drive, small, quiet, wireless connection, no noisy hdd, and usb ports if neccessary.