I'd like to point out that ADSL2+ isn't available on all exchanges for all ISPs.
We currently have ADSL(1) with 8/1 and a 30Gb peak/40Gb off peak plan that we really like, but our ISP doesn't have ADSL2+ available at our exchange. I keep checking periodically, and unless I wanted to change to Telstra (no thanks) it's not an option.
I don't recall the film being released down here, though if it was, it was only a very small number of screens. Chances are it's yet another example of Aussies downloading content not yet available in this market because Hollywood still thinks it's a good idea to do regional staggered releases in these days of digital 'prints'.
You might be interested in the Shades of Grey series [1] by Jasper Fforde. Society is split based on what segments of the colour spectrum people can see and how strongly they can detect those colours. Ability to see certain colurs is partially hereditary (a blue breeds with a red and will get a purple), but there is no guarentee as the the quality of the vision from generation to generation.
[1] for a given value of series, the author has stated that it will be a trilogy, but currently only the first book is available. Given he has over half a dozen titles in print, it is likely he will follow through on the rest in time.
The first 18 months or so that my husband and I were at our current addres, we used to get debt collectors showing up on the doorstep for the previous occupant.
We've been there 10 years now, and I still get mail for him. I used to send it back RTS - not known at this address, but they keep sending it.
Oddly enough, when the postal service started in the UK, the receiver did pay for the postage, because it was uinknown until it was delivered what the total 'cost' would be.
The Royal Mail cetralised the service and sold post cards and post stamps with an average cost for sending mail over agreed distances and of agreed weights. I got a book about it last christmas, it was odd but somewhat amusing.
Hope that you die middle aged in a manner that doesn't damage the skin, then get it tanned and either stretched and mountted or stuffed for long term retention. your grandchildren will thank you for your forethought.
I've been showing my mother how to scan photos because she have family photos that go back nearly 100 years. she has family journals dating back to the 1850's with irreplaceable information about the goldrush in Ballarat recorded while it was happening.
If pop culture is deemed important enough to preserve, then the hive mind will keep it safe. but we're talking about personal family records here which may not be considered important by anyone outside of your clan, and the poeple it will mean the most to may not have even been born yet.
Part of this will depend on the actual 'print' technology. The old black and white prints were probably silver-halide preciptate which is pretty stable. The colour prints will be using different technologies, up to and including dyes which are suspended in a substrate. Some colour technologies are more stable than others - polaroids are an example of an unstable image, with many showing degredation after a very short period of time of UV exposure.
Lots of digital print shops are using dye sublimation printing, which used to have the image stability of polaroids. When these printers were first introduced for print proofing (to replace the expensive chemical proofing sytems) the prints were only considered to be a reasonable colour proof for a metter of days, maybe a couple of weeks, before the UV fade meant they were no longer an accurate enough print for colour matching.
I notice lots of people are talking about media, but no one seems to have mentioned file formats yet. I'd stick to jpeg for the photos, I'm not sure about the videos, avi or mpeg maybe. save tham at the highest possible resolution for the source file.
iBooks supports the standard epub format, so you are not restricted to soley buying books through the Apple iTunes store to load books onto your iPad/iPhone and read them using iBooks.
The only thing I'd be inclined to add to iBooks is a 'reading list' tracker so that you can mark what you have read recently/are currently reading as a short cut if you have moved off the book from the main library listing.
Note that scientists aren't saying that sunscreen is bad for humans, what they are saying is the current formulation of sunscreens are typically partially water soluble and in solution they are bad for coral.
They are investigating other options which are more environmentally friendly.
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Even with the internet, I bet they still can't bowl or catch.
I'd like to point out that ADSL2+ isn't available on all exchanges for all ISPs.
We currently have ADSL(1) with 8/1 and a 30Gb peak/40Gb off peak plan that we really like, but our ISP doesn't have ADSL2+ available at our exchange. I keep checking periodically, and unless I wanted to change to Telstra (no thanks) it's not an option.
We've always been at war with Oceania.
;p
All the more amusing because I'm in a WoW guild called Oceania.
Hrm... I should have RTFA, the film was Kill the Irishman
I don't recall the film being released down here, though if it was, it was only a very small number of screens. Chances are it's yet another example of Aussies downloading content not yet available in this market because Hollywood still thinks it's a good idea to do regional staggered releases in these days of digital 'prints'.
If over 9,000 people downloaded it, maybe it's worth a watch. Gimmie a sec to fire up NZB.
*Checks the calendar* Yup, spring. Though the OP could argue that they were confused by the start of DLS down here.
Demonic water - that must explain all the beer...
You might be interested in the Shades of Grey series [1] by Jasper Fforde. Society is split based on what segments of the colour spectrum people can see and how strongly they can detect those colours. Ability to see certain colurs is partially hereditary (a blue breeds with a red and will get a purple), but there is no guarentee as the the quality of the vision from generation to generation.
[1] for a given value of series, the author has stated that it will be a trilogy, but currently only the first book is available. Given he has over half a dozen titles in print, it is likely he will follow through on the rest in time.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
I think it was season 3 of the IT Crowd that addressed this issue.
The first 18 months or so that my husband and I were at our current addres, we used to get debt collectors showing up on the doorstep for the previous occupant.
We've been there 10 years now, and I still get mail for him. I used to send it back RTS - not known at this address, but they keep sending it.
Oddly enough, when the postal service started in the UK, the receiver did pay for the postage, because it was uinknown until it was delivered what the total 'cost' would be.
The Royal Mail cetralised the service and sold post cards and post stamps with an average cost for sending mail over agreed distances and of agreed weights. I got a book about it last christmas, it was odd but somewhat amusing.
Hope that you die middle aged in a manner that doesn't damage the skin, then get it tanned and either stretched and mountted or stuffed for long term retention. your grandchildren will thank you for your forethought.
In many cases, it's UV exposure as much, if not more, than the air/moisture explosure doing the worst damage.
I've been showing my mother how to scan photos because she have family photos that go back nearly 100 years. she has family journals dating back to the 1850's with irreplaceable information about the goldrush in Ballarat recorded while it was happening.
If pop culture is deemed important enough to preserve, then the hive mind will keep it safe. but we're talking about personal family records here which may not be considered important by anyone outside of your clan, and the poeple it will mean the most to may not have even been born yet.
Part of this will depend on the actual 'print' technology. The old black and white prints were probably silver-halide preciptate which is pretty stable. The colour prints will be using different technologies, up to and including dyes which are suspended in a substrate. Some colour technologies are more stable than others - polaroids are an example of an unstable image, with many showing degredation after a very short period of time of UV exposure.
Lots of digital print shops are using dye sublimation printing, which used to have the image stability of polaroids. When these printers were first introduced for print proofing (to replace the expensive chemical proofing sytems) the prints were only considered to be a reasonable colour proof for a metter of days, maybe a couple of weeks, before the UV fade meant they were no longer an accurate enough print for colour matching.
I notice lots of people are talking about media, but no one seems to have mentioned file formats yet. I'd stick to jpeg for the photos, I'm not sure about the videos, avi or mpeg maybe. save tham at the highest possible resolution for the source file.
It's because we're awesome. What's not to love.
I thought they'd invented the chilli pepper sandwich...
The hot vegetable referred to in this article is called a "chilli pepper" in Australian grocery stores and supermarkets.
What Americans refer to as a "bell pepper" we call "capsicum".
Don't you mean: "Aren't these sports programs ads?" Given the amount of branding the average sports person wears during competition.
Elvis was a female pop idol?
I was going to ask if it was intended to be a challenge, I'm sure my husband would give it a go if asked.
Given his tendency to fast forward through credits, he could probably shave another couple of minute per episode and do it a little bit faster still.
iBooks supports the standard epub format, so you are not restricted to soley buying books through the Apple iTunes store to load books onto your iPad/iPhone and read them using iBooks.
The only thing I'd be inclined to add to iBooks is a 'reading list' tracker so that you can mark what you have read recently/are currently reading as a short cut if you have moved off the book from the main library listing.
I own an iPad and in the 4 months I have had it I have read over 80 books on it (including 69 Agatha Christies).
I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but do you seriously believe that no tablet users use them to read books?
Note that scientists aren't saying that sunscreen is bad for humans, what they are saying is the current formulation of sunscreens are typically partially water soluble and in solution they are bad for coral.
They are investigating other options which are more environmentally friendly.
ICC was longer than 12 months :(