Most of the CDs you buy aren't anywhere near full, either. Rip and re-burn one, then hold the clone up to the light and see. Unless it's got extra digital content, the commercial CDs are rarely more than 1/3-1/2 full.
For example "Thick as a Brick" - the full version - is a 43-minute song. Yes, one song. That's the entire album, on an 80-minute medium.
You should be able to get over 4000 typical high-bitrate Ogg tracks onto a dual-layer DVD. You could probably fit the entire music industry into a carryall.
I sometimes wonder if he bothers to read conflicting evidence. His articles all sing the same song, are universal in their denial - and damning-with-faint-praise is as close as he gets to "balance".
MS's market is worth about (raises pinky) one beeeellion dollars a month, so stopping a 1% drop in that is worth $10 million a month to them, short-term.
Have a look at her pictures, then think about this:
"Parry often says that trying to describe her is like the parable of the six blind men trying to describe an elephant."
I'm not into abuse, but I haven't seen anyone so utterly lacking in self-awareness for a very long time. Well, possibly excepting Mr Rob "Red Laptop! Rrrrrm.... rmmmmm...!" Enderle.
Both Katies are being made victims (how ironic) by the lawyers, who are acting like stereotypes rather than human beings. Katie2.com may be the story of an innocent girl being victimised by lawyers over the Internet.
The only barrier to more widespread adoption of solar is the cost.
The initial estimate for a system that worked was about ten Iraqs. At the end of that, you'd not only have grid solar power for less than current prices but also a working space industry.
On one hand, prices have gone up, on the other, technology has improved. On the gripping hand, if Michael Laine has his way, that cost will plummet in the next decade or two.
Weird, but there you have it. Labor == political party, labour == work. No, I don't understand it either.
We also have the Liberals (who are more conservative than Labor), smaller parties in the Democrats and the Greens, and assorted independents.
It was more interesting when One Nation were a force in politics. I'd vote for the fish-and-chip lady in a heartbeat even if only to ruffle the others' feathers.
They literally force you to give them the equipment for free and pay the monthly maintenence charge for it.
Not to mention that you carry the entire insurance risk etc. My point exactly. Nevertheless, in terms of "pathetic" someone like Optus ought to be well able to wear it.
Have you ever priced a commercial Optus connection? They can afford to give away DSLAMs.
I've had several commercial customers connect through Optus ADSL into Optus DSLAMs, and the retail data prices are insane. Nearly as bad as Telstra. They even charge full price for data routed between adjacent devices on the same rack.
The reason people are occasionally willing to pay those prices is exemplified by an ADSL link which a customer of mine had through Optus as a backup for their primary ISP (iiNet at the time, never again): it never went down. I mean never. They had it in place for over a year, and once it was installed it never even disconnected, let alone went down long enough to drop traffic.
With some, it's not very noticeable (I surmise that they spend a lot of time "inside their own heads" so Win4Lin doesn't get a foot in the performance door), for others it's startling.
...but I once had a customer forget "unforgettable".
The lass was a walking blonde joke. Quite bright once she had everything assembled in her head, and very efficient at what she did, but if she ever got rattled it all went out the window.
I've had to deal with a few of them, and they've been that way since the days of CP/M 1.4. They must have had the same crew, or at least team leader, passionfingering their internal and PC software offerings for at least 25 years. Change the version of anything, just about down to changing the colour of the interface, and it dies. Generally silently. The installers also had a bad habit of blindly trashing whatever other DLLs were present.
They did this. They used it to their advantage by subverting it.
It's taken... how many years for Western Australia's largest ISP to be able to roll out its own DSLAMs into a few core exchanges? Up to that point, the only real in-the-exchange competition here was a few pathetic efforts from giants like Optus, plus literally a handful of exchanges with RequestDSL DSLAMs in them.
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...it's what they _do_. Read Terry Pratchett's "Soul Music" for a giggle.
...across the TOC. Oh, well. (-:
Most of the CDs you buy aren't anywhere near full, either. Rip and re-burn one, then hold the clone up to the light and see. Unless it's got extra digital content, the commercial CDs are rarely more than 1/3-1/2 full.
For example "Thick as a Brick" - the full version - is a 43-minute song. Yes, one song. That's the entire album, on an 80-minute medium.
You should be able to get over 4000 typical high-bitrate Ogg tracks onto a dual-layer DVD. You could probably fit the entire music industry into a carryall.
</sarcasm> Translation: BFHD, who needs it?
...we have our own methods for dealing with line-crossers.
Cockroaches? (-:
I quite enjoyed the Linspire Flash ad, even if their actual setup (running as root? morons!) sucks.
I sometimes wonder if he bothers to read conflicting evidence. His articles all sing the same song, are universal in their denial - and damning-with-faint-praise is as close as he gets to "balance".
MS's market is worth about (raises pinky) one beeeellion dollars a month, so stopping a 1% drop in that is worth $10 million a month to them, short-term.
We need more mod categories. (-:
That would explain a lot. (-:
The justice in that is beyond reproach. (-:
Both Katies are being made victims (how ironic) by the lawyers, who are acting like stereotypes rather than human beings. Katie2.com may be the story of an innocent girl being victimised by lawyers over the Internet.
On one hand, prices have gone up, on the other, technology has improved. On the gripping hand, if Michael Laine has his way, that cost will plummet in the next decade or two.
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of MS-Windows 95 AKA Project Chicago. Does that count for anything?
They did the day some idiot trained on Microsoft software used the World Trade Center towers as runway markers.
Weird, but there you have it. Labor == political party, labour == work. No, I don't understand it either.
We also have the Liberals (who are more conservative than Labor), smaller parties in the Democrats and the Greens, and assorted independents.
It was more interesting when One Nation were a force in politics. I'd vote for the fish-and-chip lady in a heartbeat even if only to ruffle the others' feathers.
Have you ever priced a commercial Optus connection? They can afford to give away DSLAMs.
I've had several commercial customers connect through Optus ADSL into Optus DSLAMs, and the retail data prices are insane. Nearly as bad as Telstra. They even charge full price for data routed between adjacent devices on the same rack.
The reason people are occasionally willing to pay those prices is exemplified by an ADSL link which a customer of mine had through Optus as a backup for their primary ISP (iiNet at the time, never again): it never went down. I mean never. They had it in place for over a year, and once it was installed it never even disconnected, let alone went down long enough to drop traffic.
With some, it's not very noticeable (I surmise that they spend a lot of time "inside their own heads" so Win4Lin doesn't get a foot in the performance door), for others it's startling.
...but I once had a customer forget "unforgettable".
The lass was a walking blonde joke. Quite bright once she had everything assembled in her head, and very efficient at what she did, but if she ever got rattled it all went out the window.
I've had to deal with a few of them, and they've been that way since the days of CP/M 1.4. They must have had the same crew, or at least team leader, passionfingering their internal and PC software offerings for at least 25 years. Change the version of anything, just about down to changing the colour of the interface, and it dies. Generally silently. The installers also had a bad habit of blindly trashing whatever other DLLs were present.
As I said, no text.
It's more likely that their internal billing system screwed up again and disconnected them.
They did this. They used it to their advantage by subverting it.
It's taken... how many years for Western Australia's largest ISP to be able to roll out its own DSLAMs into a few core exchanges? Up to that point, the only real in-the-exchange competition here was a few pathetic efforts from giants like Optus, plus literally a handful of exchanges with RequestDSL DSLAMs in them.