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  1. In Australia, the seasons are defined by grouping the calendar months.
    • Spring - the three transition months September, October and November.
    • Summer - the three hottest months December, January and February.
    • Autumn - the transition months March, April and May.
    • Winter - the three coldest months June, July and August.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/...

  2. Re:Genius on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interestingly, the number of teaspoons to tablespoons is different in in different countries and era of the cookbook.
    The standard Australian tablespoon is 20ml, 4 teaspoons, but that we get mostly chinese made stuff now tablespoons are now mostly 15ml. The standard tablespoon in India used by 25ml.
    Just a sample: Beware of the Tablespoon

  3. Re:Lowest prices? on The 'Radio Network of Things' Can Cut Electric Bills (Video) · · Score: 2
    Around here we have two rates, peak and off-peak there is also an option for a third shoulder rate depending on the account type you choose. We have off-peak options on our hot water tanks so that they only heat during the cheap rates.

    Been like this for decades.

  4. Re:68k has no MMU; how can Linux run? on Linux On a Motorola 68000 Solder-less Breadboard · · Score: 1
    From the project page linux-on-a-motorola-68000-solder-less-breadboard

    I chose to use uClinux, a Linux distribution designed for microcontrollers and other low-end hardware, particularly CPUs without an MMU and that can’t support virtual memory.

  5. Re:Ekornes Stressless on Ask Slashdot: What Recliner For a Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    If you have an unlimited budget then you might consider one of these...

    http://www.ekornes.com/us/stressless-recliners

    Awesome chairs and if you poke around on the site you will find a laptop-specific table.

    That's what I'm using right now. There are attachable side tables and laptop stands that go with them.

    When we were looking for a replacement lounge setting we spent a few days trying out everything around town. These were the only thing that we both felt comfortable in and had the flexibility for TV watching, being able swivel to face each other and use a laptop. They also great for naps.

  6. Re:NTSC TVs? on UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse · · Score: 1

    It's probably why Benson was exporting British TVs to Africa. I'm fairly sure US TVs end up south of the border.

  7. Re:The headline is juicy, but hides a real problem on UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse · · Score: 3

    I would definitely take a working 20 year old TV if I had no hope of getting one any other way. It's all about "what can I afford".

    These TVs are waste because they are not digital, the countries they are going to are probably a long way from going digital.

  8. So it's like this one on A Quadcopter Development Platform (Video) · · Score: 1
    Turnigy Micro-X.
    It's designed to be hacked, has 6050 MPU and 328P Atmel processor and built-in DSM2 receiver. It comes with the open source multiwii software, I'm sure the other arduino based ones work just as well.

    The nRF24 sounds neat.

  9. Re:But you already can get good cheap phones... on Why Cheap Smartphones Are Going To Upset the Industry · · Score: 1

    You're right, they don't to spy when they can just buy the data from the local spies.

  10. Re: 00000000 just as secure as 73618357 on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    that is why real duress codes are based on your own code, usual just add 1.

  11. Re:Teleoperating rovers on NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon · · Score: 3, Informative

    The L2 point is even further away from the moon than the Earth is (on average around 4-5 times further) ..

    L2 is closer to the Moon that the Earth is to the Moon. Lagrange Points of the Earth-Moon System

  12. Re:Teleoperating rovers on NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon · · Score: 2

    Isn't the JWST supposed to park there?

    No, James Webb Space Telescope will be at Sun-Earth L2 we're talking about Earth-Moon L2 here.

  13. Re:Taïkonaut on Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut · · Score: 2

    The term taikonaut is used by some English-language news media organizations for professional space travelers from China. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikonaut#Chinese

  14. Re:Okay, and? on Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut · · Score: 2

    Congrats on joining the few members of the "50 mile high club", but I'll be a lot more impressed when the chinese get those people into a stable earth orbit and then return, not just breathe the thin air and then fall back... regardless of the sexual organs present in the cockpit. -_-

    So is 10 days not a stable enough orbit for you :) from the report: The crew will stay in space for more than 10 days, during which time they will perform scientific experiments and the country’s first manual space docking — a complicated procedure that brings two vessels together in high-speed orbit.

  15. Re:South Africa on New Zealand Joins Aussie Bid For Vast Radio Telescope Array · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but they are talking about the region.

    "With the central core of the SKA located in this south-western part of the country the remote antenna stations would be located on easterly and northerly log spirals up to 3000 km away (Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Madagascar Mauritius, Kenya and Ghana)." skatelescope.org

  16. What about BOS on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    When I started working as a programmer there was someone there who was still supporting BOS
    The OS was written in COBOL was well as the applications it ran.

  17. Re:Women on An Interplanetary Laser Communications System · · Score: 1

    With luck the Martian females are easier to talk to :)

  18. Re:If we are just now experimenting with this..... on An Interplanetary Laser Communications System · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is why some are looking for lasers

  19. Re:I didn't know.... on Tyrannosaurus Rex Relative Had Feathers · · Score: 1

    Google is your friend 1 meter = 39.3700787 inch

  20. Re:Forgot one on 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, my team are working on something that should fix that problem in short order.

  21. Re:Interesting list... on 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species · · Score: 5, Informative

    For places where cats are not normal, like Australia and other islands, cats have caused a huge amount of damage to the native fauna. Cats are wiping out small animals and birds, either through predation or through competition.

  22. Re:people suck. on Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Acording to the Electronic Frontiers Australia taping TV shows is not allowed as there is no "fair use". Though there is "fair dealing", which includes the right to copy for research or study, criticism or review, news reporting or legal advice and judicial proceedings.

  23. Re:all criminals on First Americans May Have Been Australian · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The British had been transporting their criminals to the American colonies way before they had start to do so to Australia. It was the result of Independence that caused Britain to start using Australia.

  24. Re:I for one... on SETI Finds Interesting Signal · · Score: 1

    but, do they taste like chicken. Mmmm, chicken.

  25. More then colour on Color Me Productive · · Score: 1

    it's the access to /. at work that lowers productivity.