What exactly is "maintaining"? I've spent nothing on "Maintaining" my PC for some six years. And you can buy four PC's for that fee. And you can get a techie at $20 an hour for five hours a month every other month, so call it $500 per year. (Skipping currency games.)
So can we all have a piece of that slush fund?
The government doesn't pay $20 an hour for support, they pay $200 an hour.
I couldn't agree more! And that's why I've owned notebooks as my main system for the past 3-4 years.
However with the price of power these days, a Raspberry Pi is probably the best bang for buck you can get when it comes to power consumption and usability combined. A Raspberry Pi will serve much better as a CarPC or low voltage system than any 2nd hand dual core desktop system, if you have the space and power at home for desktop systems, now worries then.
I've got 4 Pi's waiting at my office, 1 for my RC Car, 1 for my Quadrotor, 1 as HTPC and 1 to play with. Even a tiny desktop, failed-ITX for example, can't really be used on a quadrotor without a whole bunch of major power mods, on the other hand, the Pi is perfect for the task:)
Doesn't anybody buy used computers? I get perfectly usable Core Duo machines from my local thrift store for $25 apiece, and they do a heck of a lot more than a Pi.
True, they weight a lot more, take up a lot more space, and they use a lot more power!
I'm starting to think the people who own nuclear plants shouldn't be the same people who operate them, at least in Japan.
You're tripping mate. Its not like USA and Russia haven't had their own fair share of nuclear fuck ups.
I think Japan, who have been bombed twice and recently had a plant explode, are more educated and informed than most countries, when it comes to the dangers of nuclear power.
I'm Australian and I don't believe the whole process of downloading, construction and possessing should be made illegal. Its completely legal to own an ornamental firearm provided the firing pin has been removed and the weapon is no longer able to fire, and it's legal to possess fake weapons for things like movie props (this includes home made youtube videos) so why should it be illegal to download and print a non-working version of the gun?
I also have no real problem with our gun ownership laws, my main concern is I grew up with guns on rural properties and understand the safety issues which are associated with handling / shooting a weapon, most people under 30 in Australia wouldn't know the first thing about gun safety and the ones who do are generally criminals or military. I can't freely own a handgun but a well funded drug dealer can carry one and afford the lawyer to get them off the charge, it happens over and over, the guns reform did make Australia somewhat safer, but violent crime and homocide rates never went down, people just got stabbed or bunt instead.
One thing, when I go camping and get 100+ km from a main town or hospital I wish I could carry a gun, I would hate to ever use it but would just feel better about having that extra line of defence when I'm out bush, I can think of a few instances where having a gun would have let me humanely kill injured kangaroos and wombats I have seen hit by cars.
I love to modify cars - the last thing I want is the police knowing I'm running a remapped ECU / upgraded turbo's because the cars capable of transmitting data about exhaust gasses and intake pressure. In Australia we get a $500 fine, EPA inspection and need to produce a valid Road Worthy Certificate if we modify our cars too much, even if your modifications make the car safer (bigger brakes, better suspension) or more efficient with reduced emissions.....
Cmon Blizzard, I wanted to slay dragons and orcs, I accepted Pigs and Wolves for the first 40 levels, but now you expect me to play with a bunch of fucking Panda's? Oh yer - D3 can have intercourse with itself.
I quit many times many years ago anyway, for - Age of Conan - Warhammer - Skyrim - Fallout 3 - Civ 5 - Duke 3D (I started drinking heavily after this one) - Real Life Holidays - Work - Vaginas
but overall the Pandas are the last nail in the coffin, you suck Blizzard.
And its the year 2556 in Thailand, what happens if a starship lands there and asks the date, they will think they are in a time distortion, its all very confusing.
Sometimes I wonder if they are just fucking with us for the fun of it, either way I keep going back there...
Oh I see, instead of buying a laptop with HDMI / Gb Network and USB3, I can buy a laptop with a single ThunderBolt port and also buy a whole bunch of adapters or a dock to carry around in my laptop case?
Thunderbolt... ------------------- Voltage : 18v Current : 550ma Pins : Total of 20 6 x Ground Pins 4 x Data (+) 4 x Data (-) 6 x Other stuff Power = 10 watt
USB3.0 (Powered) ----------------------- Voltage : 5v Current : 900ma Pins : Total of 11 3 x Ground 2 x Data (+) 2 x Data (-) 4 x Other Stuff Power = 5 watt
SO basically, they've increase the voltage by 400%, dropped the current by half, added some more wires and made some special new connectors? Oh and given it another name which is $Nature_Scary_Thing . $Electricity_Word to match their previous hipster names? I'm not seeing the big deal here yet...
Odd you say that, as Telstra (our local telco) has an obligation to provide a "phone" to everyone in Australia, even if it requires them installing a satellite dish or PTSN compatible 3G modem in the house at a total loss to the company.
I worked with them and have personally spend 2-3 days trying to troubleshoot a single customers line problem, it wasn't until we pulled up maps we noticed the 3G modem we were using was 42km from the nearest mobile tower and the issue was weather. The tech who installed the node had modified a Yagi and pointed it a the mobile tower on a nice sunny day, and, defying everything thought possible by the hardware manufacturers, managed to get a stable connection and the longest distance most people had ever seen.
Step outside the CBD and major cities in Australia then say Telstra doesn't provide a quality service, when they are the ONLY provider there... I used to be a Telstra hater until I worked for them in rural areas for a short time, the tech's who get out in the bush and provide communications for people are an amazingly talented group of people who will drive a 4x4 in the outback for 12 hours a day, just to fix someone's phone connection.
I love Anonymous Coward, Enjoy your $60k a year job with your "college" degree:)
Yes I look at things from a more simple point of view than more educated people, but its a mostly un-educated Australian that made the Frazier lens and our CSIRO that owns 802.11x. This doesn't come from going into specific detail, this comes from learning step by step and making mistakes and trying things until you find a solution. Virgin Galactic can get people/objects into orbit fairly cheap, they use a method to fly up high then use small rockets to get a lot of weight out of earth's gravity, surely a 20-50kg object can't be hard to get out there, it requires no human life support or anything like that, only basic heating to keep the electrics happy.
I'm a 1980's kid with only year 9 Australian Education, and I think GoPro's would be a cheap alternative if they work in a vacuum.
I think we need a quad-rotor drone with a giant balloon and hydrogen generators, it takes a balloon trip with quad-rotor power most of the way up and uses solar power to harvest hydrogen from the atmosphere, then once the balloon is useless it dumps it and burns hydrogen rockets (with the hydrogen it gathered on the way up) to escape Earth's gravitational pull. Set course for the moon, gather data, then head back to earth using boosters to slow down before re-entering the atmosphere then quad-rotor power to make a safe landing somewhere back on earth.
Repeat process to gather more data... The only things that would need to be replaced are hydrogen generators because (from my knowledge) most metal decays when producing hydrogen and generating electricity from it. Also, the Moon doesn't interest me much, the Kuiper belt on the other hand does, but I'm glad Google are aiming for something I see as possible these days.
Probably not the most popular view, but we don't have enough recorded history to prove this isn't one of earth's normal life cycles over tens of thousands of years, or its the start of an ice age. However, the human population has, without a doubt, made our environment FUBAR, while I don't agree with climate change I do think we really need to think about what we pump into our air and oceans, and how much our planet can really sustain for the future if we keep destroying it the way we do.
The $120 million spent on arguing would be much better used to clean up the mess we've made that's for sure...
This gives me a day off to deal with the food poisoning and diarrhoea I have, probably from all the dodgy Asian street food I ate last night during Chinese New Year.
I am an Australian though and we look for any excuse to drink beer.
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It's only 41 years late...
I'm from Australia :P try again an AUD
For a new Time Lord!
What exactly is "maintaining"? I've spent nothing on "Maintaining" my PC for some six years. And you can buy four PC's for that fee. And you can get a techie at $20 an hour for five hours a month every other month, so call it $500 per year. (Skipping currency games.)
So can we all have a piece of that slush fund?
The government doesn't pay $20 an hour for support, they pay $200 an hour.
I couldn't agree more! And that's why I've owned notebooks as my main system for the past 3-4 years.
However with the price of power these days, a Raspberry Pi is probably the best bang for buck you can get when it comes to power consumption and usability combined. A Raspberry Pi will serve much better as a CarPC or low voltage system than any 2nd hand dual core desktop system, if you have the space and power at home for desktop systems, now worries then.
I've got 4 Pi's waiting at my office, 1 for my RC Car, 1 for my Quadrotor, 1 as HTPC and 1 to play with. Even a tiny desktop, failed-ITX for example, can't really be used on a quadrotor without a whole bunch of major power mods, on the other hand, the Pi is perfect for the task :)
Doesn't anybody buy used computers? I get perfectly usable Core Duo machines from my local thrift store for $25 apiece, and they do a heck of a lot more than a Pi.
True, they weight a lot more, take up a lot more space, and they use a lot more power!
I'm starting to think the people who own nuclear plants shouldn't be the same people who operate them, at least in Japan.
You're tripping mate. Its not like USA and Russia haven't had their own fair share of nuclear fuck ups.
I think Japan, who have been bombed twice and recently had a plant explode, are more educated and informed than most countries, when it comes to the dangers of nuclear power.
I'm Australian and I don't believe the whole process of downloading, construction and possessing should be made illegal. Its completely legal to own an ornamental firearm provided the firing pin has been removed and the weapon is no longer able to fire, and it's legal to possess fake weapons for things like movie props (this includes home made youtube videos) so why should it be illegal to download and print a non-working version of the gun?
I also have no real problem with our gun ownership laws, my main concern is I grew up with guns on rural properties and understand the safety issues which are associated with handling / shooting a weapon, most people under 30 in Australia wouldn't know the first thing about gun safety and the ones who do are generally criminals or military. I can't freely own a handgun but a well funded drug dealer can carry one and afford the lawyer to get them off the charge, it happens over and over, the guns reform did make Australia somewhat safer, but violent crime and homocide rates never went down, people just got stabbed or bunt instead.
One thing, when I go camping and get 100+ km from a main town or hospital I wish I could carry a gun, I would hate to ever use it but would just feel better about having that extra line of defence when I'm out bush, I can think of a few instances where having a gun would have let me humanely kill injured kangaroos and wombats I have seen hit by cars.
The earth has a diameter of 12,000+km, they are 2.4km (about 0.02%) in and getting excited about finds? Dig Deeper...
It's root slash period workspace slash period garbage period.
I love to modify cars - the last thing I want is the police knowing I'm running a remapped ECU / upgraded turbo's because the cars capable of transmitting data about exhaust gasses and intake pressure. In Australia we get a $500 fine, EPA inspection and need to produce a valid Road Worthy Certificate if we modify our cars too much, even if your modifications make the car safer (bigger brakes, better suspension) or more efficient with reduced emissions.....
Cmon Blizzard, I wanted to slay dragons and orcs, I accepted Pigs and Wolves for the first 40 levels, but now you expect me to play with a bunch of fucking Panda's? Oh yer - D3 can have intercourse with itself.
I quit many times many years ago anyway, for
- Age of Conan
- Warhammer
- Skyrim
- Fallout 3
- Civ 5
- Duke 3D (I started drinking heavily after this one)
- Real Life Holidays
- Work
- Vaginas
but overall the Pandas are the last nail in the coffin, you suck Blizzard.
Long Live Warcraft 2.
Thai is a bit weird too...
Moo = Pork (not Cow)
Men = Smells Bad / Foul
And its the year 2556 in Thailand, what happens if a starship lands there and asks the date, they will think they are in a time distortion, its all very confusing.
Sometimes I wonder if they are just fucking with us for the fun of it, either way I keep going back there...
Oh I see, instead of buying a laptop with HDMI / Gb Network and USB3, I can buy a laptop with a single ThunderBolt port and also buy a whole bunch of adapters or a dock to carry around in my laptop case?
Thunderbolt...
-------------------
Voltage : 18v
Current : 550ma
Pins : Total of 20
6 x Ground Pins
4 x Data (+)
4 x Data (-)
6 x Other stuff
Power = 10 watt
USB3.0 (Powered)
-----------------------
Voltage : 5v
Current : 900ma
Pins : Total of 11
3 x Ground
2 x Data (+)
2 x Data (-)
4 x Other Stuff
Power = 5 watt
SO basically, they've increase the voltage by 400%, dropped the current by half, added some more wires and made some special new connectors? Oh and given it another name which is $Nature_Scary_Thing . $Electricity_Word to match their previous hipster names? I'm not seeing the big deal here yet...
Odd you say that, as Telstra (our local telco) has an obligation to provide a "phone" to everyone in Australia, even if it requires them installing a satellite dish or PTSN compatible 3G modem in the house at a total loss to the company.
I worked with them and have personally spend 2-3 days trying to troubleshoot a single customers line problem, it wasn't until we pulled up maps we noticed the 3G modem we were using was 42km from the nearest mobile tower and the issue was weather. The tech who installed the node had modified a Yagi and pointed it a the mobile tower on a nice sunny day, and, defying everything thought possible by the hardware manufacturers, managed to get a stable connection and the longest distance most people had ever seen.
Step outside the CBD and major cities in Australia then say Telstra doesn't provide a quality service, when they are the ONLY provider there... I used to be a Telstra hater until I worked for them in rural areas for a short time, the tech's who get out in the bush and provide communications for people are an amazingly talented group of people who will drive a 4x4 in the outback for 12 hours a day, just to fix someone's phone connection.
I regret moving to vodafone that's for sure.
Probably by being older than you
I love Anonymous Coward, Enjoy your $60k a year job with your "college" degree :)
Yes I look at things from a more simple point of view than more educated people, but its a mostly un-educated Australian that made the Frazier lens and our CSIRO that owns 802.11x. This doesn't come from going into specific detail, this comes from learning step by step and making mistakes and trying things until you find a solution. Virgin Galactic can get people/objects into orbit fairly cheap, they use a method to fly up high then use small rockets to get a lot of weight out of earth's gravity, surely a 20-50kg object can't be hard to get out there, it requires no human life support or anything like that, only basic heating to keep the electrics happy.
Fucking pessimists.....
what about monkeys? they have pretty tough forearms and can just hold each other up
I'm a 1980's kid with only year 9 Australian Education, and I think GoPro's would be a cheap alternative if they work in a vacuum.
I think we need a quad-rotor drone with a giant balloon and hydrogen generators, it takes a balloon trip with quad-rotor power most of the way up and uses solar power to harvest hydrogen from the atmosphere, then once the balloon is useless it dumps it and burns hydrogen rockets (with the hydrogen it gathered on the way up) to escape Earth's gravitational pull. Set course for the moon, gather data, then head back to earth using boosters to slow down before re-entering the atmosphere then quad-rotor power to make a safe landing somewhere back on earth.
Repeat process to gather more data... The only things that would need to be replaced are hydrogen generators because (from my knowledge) most metal decays when producing hydrogen and generating electricity from it. Also, the Moon doesn't interest me much, the Kuiper belt on the other hand does, but I'm glad Google are aiming for something I see as possible these days.
free things don't require a credit card, unless its *only* to verify that you're over 18, then its totally trustworthy!
Probably not the most popular view, but we don't have enough recorded history to prove this isn't one of earth's normal life cycles over tens of thousands of years, or its the start of an ice age. However, the human population has, without a doubt, made our environment FUBAR, while I don't agree with climate change I do think we really need to think about what we pump into our air and oceans, and how much our planet can really sustain for the future if we keep destroying it the way we do.
The $120 million spent on arguing would be much better used to clean up the mess we've made that's for sure...
They have their progress bars sorted perfectly. Great game too!
Lets hope it helps keeps those annoying federal police out of your servers.
This gives me a day off to deal with the food poisoning and diarrhoea I have, probably from all the dodgy Asian street food I ate last night during Chinese New Year.
I am an Australian though and we look for any excuse to drink beer.