This has nothing to do with them thinking IE6 is secure, or that Chrome is evil. It is simply easier to continue offering support for the browser that your web site was built for compatibility with. It would cost them money to revisit their web site HTML etc. to make sure it actually works with standards compliant browsers (CSS box model anyone?) or even just to check that it works well enough. How could they afford their executive bonuses if they spend money on servicing customers?
I think you will find that life insurance policies rarely cover death from "war or war-like activities", which is why the State typically has to support those injured in these activities.
How is it that submitting a "sentence" like that claim would attract a fail mark in an English essay but is actively encouraged in a field dominated by supposedly educated people?
I don't know the specifics but I'd start by looking at whether the digitisation, filtering and encoding/compression of the acoustic signal by the mobile phone system preserves the frequency, amplitude and phase information used by an acoustic modem. (I think 300 baud modems made use of frequency shifting only.)
Then you could try to design a physical coupler that will interface with the utterly non-standard collection of shapes and sizes present in mobile phone handsets and still exclude sufficient external noise to work reliably.
Thanks for the rant. At the next election I suggest you take a longer look at the ballot paper for the House of Representatives. You will quickly observe that you, in fact, vote for a person to represent your electorate. What's more, you also vote for other individuals to represent your electorate in order of preference. If you don't make use of that individual to represent you, regardless of their party affiliation, then it is you, Sir, with the moronic twist on our democracy.
I am 43 and a tertiary qualified digital systems engineer and astronomer. I was 'techy' and using the nascent Internet before you were a twinkle in someone's eye. This is not about not understanding the technology, it is about being at different places in life and having different needs of information. My needs are mainly professional. There's no useful amount of engineering or astronomy information that can be imparted in 140 characters, so that channel is of limited use to me professionally. I also see the trend toward instant, fragmented communication in workplaces as having a negative impact on project management... it is very easy to lose important pieces of information in a morass of messages.
I understand the technology of SMS, Twitter etc. but I don't place much value on the social need to be incessantly connected with the inanity of everyone else's life (I have enough of that for myself). I understand that there are people of my decrepit vintage who do not understand the technology and also those who have a need to feel like they are valued through social interactions. I cannot pretend to speak for them all.
"Most people that don't like xxxxx just don't understand it" is a very typical viewpoint of the young, regardless of generation or century. It is also typical to believe that people with different priorities/ages/backgrounds are somehow inferior or qualify for instant dismissal as 'too old to understand'. In 2030 you might understand that you are, in fact, not special. You will also have seen more fads come and go than you can imagine: Twitter may well be one of them.
Was VLC incorporating code supplied by AOL under a copyright licence or is AOL trying to overextend copyright to cover any implementation? I did RTFA but I'm none the wiser. Unfortunately, the licence PDF is now a 404 page.
2/ The conservatives and Liberal democrats do a deal, and make a joint platform. This is the only one that has got any possiblity of lasting. The tricky part is as the 3rd Party the Liberal Democrats want some form of proportial representation (which would double their seats in parlament). The conservatives don't want that at all. They like the current system. I don't know what is going to happen here. I guess the Lib Dems will blink "for the good of the coutry", and a deal will be done.
If two parties can arbitrarily change the number of seats they hold in parliament then democracy is dead and elections are pointless. They will be arguing over a proportion of (or particular) ministerial positions in the coalition government. This is a common event in Australian politics where "right-wing" governments are typically two-party coalitions, and "left-wing" governments are single-party (but nonetheless coalitions of internal factions).
Yes, they are. I imagine pet owners and people shipping wine or live seafood might be a bit disappointed if their cargo was exposed to -55 deg C and low air pressure for hours.
Once you get out of the "envelope" category (less than 500g and 20mm thick) postage rates take a hike. No concessions from Aust Post based on the type of content, just a weight/package volume/distance formula. Taking the same content with the smallest, suitable, readily available PostPak box the postage goes from $2.75 to $11.80 packaging excluded. A smaller box might reduce this a little but I haven't found a ready supply in small volumes.
Don't get me wrong, the majority of our mail arrives intact and we accept a few losses. I just wonder at the mechanics of breaking the disc.
CDs survive summertime closed car temperatures (i.e. 60+ Celsius) repeatedly without breaking. Repeated dropping on an edge could do it but the impact would have to smash through the surrounding manual first, retain sufficient energy to break the CDROM, and not damage either the manual or envelope. Both options seem unlikely.
I am amazed at the sheer skill displayed by postal services in breaking CDROMs. Australia Post has broken the last couple I have mailed. The disc is in a paper sleeve glued to the inside of a 10mm thick A4 paper manual inside a heavy paper "Toughbag" envelope. The envelopes and manual arrive with no outward signs of distress but the CDROM has been broken cleanly in two. One went to the far side of the country, but the other only a few suburbs away.
You can grab a bare CD and bend it in half without physically breaking it... it takes compressive force on the fold before the CD shatters. How this happens in transit without damaging the containing envelopes beats me.
... and keeping hunting for the link on each successive page that will let you continue without creating a PayPal account. PayPal go to great lengths to coerce people into signing up for an account by making it seem compulsory and making these buttons the obvious ones.
I presume CSIRO has given the US royalty free use of the patent. What's that? They haven't? Ahh well there you go then.
Why the hell should the US, home of gross over-extension of "intellectual property" "rights", expect this to be free (if indeed any patent right still exists)?
The distance between printer and consumer is not particularly relevant unless you have an insular view that considers that outside the contiguous 48 should be labelled "Here Be Dragons". Here's a tip, convert your own presses.
On the compatibility issue. Much effort was put into making the notes, plastic though they are, behave well in existing machinery with just minor tweaks to pick up tensioning and the like. I don't recall any mass replacement of ATMs coinciding with release of the polymer notes (cira 1990) and, if memory serves, the same machine might offer paper $20s and polymer $10.
On the volume issue... Note Printing Australia has printed notes for small nations that cannot justify maintaining a local treasury printer. I'm sure that they, amongst others, will be looking at tendering to print 1000 million 10Rs notes for the Reserve bank of India.
http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Tenders/PDFs/PNPQB130410.pdf
In a certain secure environment I worked in there was a complete ban on use of the USB ports. We could have paid a bazillion dollars to have machines delivered without USB ports, spent many hours investigating bullet-proof ways to stop the USB ports from functioning in the OS, or simply fill the connectors with two-part epoxy. In the end the KISS principle ruled - epoxy and simple software tweaks on the off chance someone managed to free a port.:)
It is, in the same way that Australia was treated as an extension of the USA during the "negotiation" of last "free" trade agreement between our nations. The result? Australia ended up with a DMCA-wannabe and extended copyright terms or lost other trade items. I particularly like the "Australia's IP laws will be substantially harmonised with the world’s largest intellectual property market, and a global leader in innovation and creative products." arse-kissing exercise. I'm sure that any Canada-EU equivalent will contain similar gems in English and French!
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This has nothing to do with them thinking IE6 is secure, or that Chrome is evil. It is simply easier to continue offering support for the browser that your web site was built for compatibility with. It would cost them money to revisit their web site HTML etc. to make sure it actually works with standards compliant browsers (CSS box model anyone?) or even just to check that it works well enough. How could they afford their executive bonuses if they spend money on servicing customers?
I think you will find that life insurance policies rarely cover death from "war or war-like activities", which is why the State typically has to support those injured in these activities.
How is it that submitting a "sentence" like that claim would attract a fail mark in an English essay but is actively encouraged in a field dominated by supposedly educated people?
I don't know the specifics but I'd start by looking at whether the digitisation, filtering and encoding/compression of the acoustic signal by the mobile phone system preserves the frequency, amplitude and phase information used by an acoustic modem. (I think 300 baud modems made use of frequency shifting only.)
Then you could try to design a physical coupler that will interface with the utterly non-standard collection of shapes and sizes present in mobile phone handsets and still exclude sufficient external noise to work reliably.
Thanks for the rant. At the next election I suggest you take a longer look at the ballot paper for the House of Representatives. You will quickly observe that you, in fact, vote for a person to represent your electorate. What's more, you also vote for other individuals to represent your electorate in order of preference. If you don't make use of that individual to represent you, regardless of their party affiliation, then it is you, Sir, with the moronic twist on our democracy.
I am 43 and a tertiary qualified digital systems engineer and astronomer. I was 'techy' and using the nascent Internet before you were a twinkle in someone's eye. This is not about not understanding the technology, it is about being at different places in life and having different needs of information. My needs are mainly professional. There's no useful amount of engineering or astronomy information that can be imparted in 140 characters, so that channel is of limited use to me professionally. I also see the trend toward instant, fragmented communication in workplaces as having a negative impact on project management... it is very easy to lose important pieces of information in a morass of messages.
I understand the technology of SMS, Twitter etc. but I don't place much value on the social need to be incessantly connected with the inanity of everyone else's life (I have enough of that for myself). I understand that there are people of my decrepit vintage who do not understand the technology and also those who have a need to feel like they are valued through social interactions. I cannot pretend to speak for them all.
"Most people that don't like xxxxx just don't understand it" is a very typical viewpoint of the young, regardless of generation or century. It is also typical to believe that people with different priorities/ages/backgrounds are somehow inferior or qualify for instant dismissal as 'too old to understand'. In 2030 you might understand that you are, in fact, not special. You will also have seen more fads come and go than you can imagine: Twitter may well be one of them.
Watch it! I resemble that comment!
Was VLC incorporating code supplied by AOL under a copyright licence or is AOL trying to overextend copyright to cover any implementation? I did RTFA but I'm none the wiser. Unfortunately, the licence PDF is now a 404 page.
Never seen them both in the same room ;)
Clearly you don't know that either! Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC is the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
One could say that "format shifting" taxation is perfectly legal.
Don't Even Need The Arrest...
How long before a swab is required to cross the border?
2/ The conservatives and Liberal democrats do a deal, and make a joint platform. This is the only one that has got any possiblity of lasting. The tricky part is as the 3rd Party the Liberal Democrats want some form of proportial representation (which would double their seats in parlament). The conservatives don't want that at all. They like the current system. I don't know what is going to happen here. I guess the Lib Dems will blink "for the good of the coutry", and a deal will be done.
If two parties can arbitrarily change the number of seats they hold in parliament then democracy is dead and elections are pointless. They will be arguing over a proportion of (or particular) ministerial positions in the coalition government. This is a common event in Australian politics where "right-wing" governments are typically two-party coalitions, and "left-wing" governments are single-party (but nonetheless coalitions of internal factions).
You mean like this?
Try adding a 460g A4 manual in that DVD mailer :)
Yes, they are. I imagine pet owners and people shipping wine or live seafood might be a bit disappointed if their cargo was exposed to -55 deg C and low air pressure for hours.
Once you get out of the "envelope" category (less than 500g and 20mm thick) postage rates take a hike. No concessions from Aust Post based on the type of content, just a weight/package volume/distance formula. Taking the same content with the smallest, suitable, readily available PostPak box the postage goes from $2.75 to $11.80 packaging excluded. A smaller box might reduce this a little but I haven't found a ready supply in small volumes.
Don't get me wrong, the majority of our mail arrives intact and we accept a few losses. I just wonder at the mechanics of breaking the disc.
When I'm just mailing a CD alone that is what I use. Never had these broken.
CDs survive summertime closed car temperatures (i.e. 60+ Celsius) repeatedly without breaking. Repeated dropping on an edge could do it but the impact would have to smash through the surrounding manual first, retain sufficient energy to break the CDROM, and not damage either the manual or envelope. Both options seem unlikely.
I am amazed at the sheer skill displayed by postal services in breaking CDROMs. Australia Post has broken the last couple I have mailed. The disc is in a paper sleeve glued to the inside of a 10mm thick A4 paper manual inside a heavy paper "Toughbag" envelope. The envelopes and manual arrive with no outward signs of distress but the CDROM has been broken cleanly in two. One went to the far side of the country, but the other only a few suburbs away.
You can grab a bare CD and bend it in half without physically breaking it... it takes compressive force on the fold before the CD shatters. How this happens in transit without damaging the containing envelopes beats me.
... and keeping hunting for the link on each successive page that will let you continue without creating a PayPal account. PayPal go to great lengths to coerce people into signing up for an account by making it seem compulsory and making these buttons the obvious ones.
I presume CSIRO has given the US royalty free use of the patent. What's that? They haven't? Ahh well there you go then.
Why the hell should the US, home of gross over-extension of "intellectual property" "rights", expect this to be free (if indeed any patent right still exists)?
The distance between printer and consumer is not particularly relevant unless you have an insular view that considers that outside the contiguous 48 should be labelled "Here Be Dragons". Here's a tip, convert your own presses.
On the compatibility issue. Much effort was put into making the notes, plastic though they are, behave well in existing machinery with just minor tweaks to pick up tensioning and the like. I don't recall any mass replacement of ATMs coinciding with release of the polymer notes (cira 1990) and, if memory serves, the same machine might offer paper $20s and polymer $10.
On the volume issue... Note Printing Australia has printed notes for small nations that cannot justify maintaining a local treasury printer. I'm sure that they, amongst others, will be looking at tendering to print 1000 million 10Rs notes for the Reserve bank of India. http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Tenders/PDFs/PNPQB130410.pdf
In a certain secure environment I worked in there was a complete ban on use of the USB ports. We could have paid a bazillion dollars to have machines delivered without USB ports, spent many hours investigating bullet-proof ways to stop the USB ports from functioning in the OS, or simply fill the connectors with two-part epoxy. In the end the KISS principle ruled - epoxy and simple software tweaks on the off chance someone managed to free a port. :)
It's Australian Department of Defence you insensitive clods.
It is, in the same way that Australia was treated as an extension of the USA during the "negotiation" of last "free" trade agreement between our nations. The result? Australia ended up with a DMCA-wannabe and extended copyright terms or lost other trade items. I particularly like the "Australia's IP laws will be substantially harmonised with the world’s largest intellectual property market, and a global leader in innovation and creative products." arse-kissing exercise. I'm sure that any Canada-EU equivalent will contain similar gems in English and French!
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us_fta/outcomes/08_intellectual_property.html