You seem intentionally dense or perhaps just another fanboi. As has been pointed out to you. This is all about misleading advertising. The standards are irrelevent, As is whether it is WiFI+4G because that is what they chose to name it is also completely irrelevent. Every Company is subject to the laws of the countries they do business in. How would you feel if an Australian phone company started selling 4g phones in the US and you brought one only to find it only works on Australian networks?. The ACCC in Australia is strict but extremely even handed, these laws apply as strictly to Australian companies as it does to US ones, many Australian companies have run afoul of them too, I only find it sad that you seem to think that a government organisation that actually works for the consumer interests is a bad thing, companies using small print and excuses to excuse lies in adverts while acceptable overseas is NOT acceptable here. .
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/815335
Apple Advertises it as a 4G Ipad. In Australia your advertising cannot be MISLEADING. Australia has 4G networks therefore according to the laws if a person could be mislead into believing that the ipad 4G access will work in Australia then they are breaking the laws. This is not about international standards or any of that bullshit, it is purely about consumer protection. If you advertise in Australia your product does X then it bloody well better do X in Australia, not in some foreign country. If Apple don't want to change there advertising then they should live with the consequences of their actions as they have blatantly broken the law even though they were warned BEFORE the ipad was released that they would need to change their advertising.
There are a set of acknowledged frequencies the majority of the world uses for 4g, apple DOESN'T work with them. They are not just in trouble in Australia for this, they are having legal and regulatory trouble all over the world for it. Australia has just been more direct by prosectuing them for misleading advertising, and rightly so.
Actually you have it backwards. There is a 4G standard definition for the rest of the world, then there is the US/Canada. Australia is not the odd one out here.
Because only Apple's 4g devices don't actually work on 4g networks in Australia. While you may not have coverage for 4g, if you go to an area that has it at least the 4G phones you buy will work, The ipad will not.
There is this cool thing called internet search. For example there is one called google.com, another called bing.com or even yahoo.com. Obviously you have never heard of any of them as if you had typed in facebook privacy violations you would have gotten page after page of results.
ONLY a few hundred miles. lets do some quick maths. lets say those lazy searchers did search out to a 200 mile radius. So that gives us a search area of approximately 125 thousand square miles. Still think it is ONLY a few hundred miles and the searchers simply sucked?
When I did my computer science degree some 20 odd years ago a great deal of it was maths and many of the classes that were compulsory were the same ones the maths students were doing, I was good at maths so it never bothered me but it caused many a computer science student to drop out or fail, Has that changed significantly now?
This could have a lot to do with the type of people willing to actually answer phone poll questions. Personally I would tell them I am too busy or just hang up. I know the US is full of more religious zealots than most of the world but those numbers seem a little ridiculous even for the US,
They don't have to pay off anyone and it is not an artificial limitation. XP is limited to DirectX 9 (10 and onwards had some fundamental architecture changes that would have required major changes to XP which were not made and will never be made). Game developers want to use the latest graphics effects, therefore the Vista+ requirement, this will only get more and more prevalent, XP is dieing as a gaming OS, especially on the new release front.
I live in Australia and download it instead of watching on foxtel. I have a subscription but why wait for it to air in inferior SD quality when I can download a HD copy and have it a week earlier, be allowed to watch it in any room rather than be restricted by the foxtel box to one TV and also watch it in my own time. Convenience and quality make it worth the 10 seconds of effort required to download it.
Sorry that still fails. They supplied the tires, the OEM took the air out of them and replaced it with something liquid and smelly. MS are charging to put back the original air. Really the price seems about right, not so low that it is undercutting all the small stores that offer a similar service and not so high as to make it unaffordable for those that don't want to find the more affordable options to save 30-40 bucks. Shops locally here provide the same service for Macs and for Linux too, my sister recently paid to have her Macbook reinstalled as it was getting to the point of unusuable, seems all systems suffer from crapware rott nowadays.
At the moment a maggot invested week old corpse of a Kangaroo could poll better than the labor party so that really is hardly a suprise. For that matter a maggot infested dead Kangaroo probably would smell better than the labor party too.
Even with IGP's intels stuff gets obliterated. No need to take anyones word for it on here though, just go and look at the benchmarks on places like tomshardware. Intel still has the better CPU but AMD are really leveraging their one strong point here and that is superior graphics chip performance. Still don't think it will be enough to give AMd the overall edge though.
Actually you more than likely end up working LONGER to afford the game in Australia. Australia has more expensive EVERYTHING not just games. paying for things like rent and food and transportation in Australia cost significantly more than the rest of the world. Do you actually think when food outlets are paying staff $20 an hour they still charge the same prices as the US????
PS: Voluntary administration is basically the step before liquidation/bankruptcy. An external entity is appointed to basically look over the books of the company on behalf of the creditors and then decide what is the best way forward to salvage the creditors money. options could include selling the company, breaking it up or simply liquidation
Game is one of the larger video game stores and online retailers in Australia. Realistically though I am not suprised they are going broke, it is far easier and many times cheaper to buy on the web from overseas for far less than any of the aussie retailers. places like play asia make stores like Game irrelevant. www.game.com.au
The problem is the ipad DOESN'T work on most LTE networks at all, just those in the US and Canada, Australia for instance has an LTE network but the ipad is incompatible.
I don't pirate Blu-rays or DVD's, I actually purchase any that I want. (I have a couple of hundred at least). However an additional 20 seconds of forced notices at the front will certainly encourage me to rethink my approach. If you want to educate me, don't try and do it by pissing me off or I will most definitely take the opposite view of what your trying to push.
They aren't just a software company. They have a huge amount of online services which consist of a large number of datacenters and hundreds of thousands of servers around the world. not to mention all their offices and services staff.
I twould think that in many cases having windows would come in cheaper. There may be a microsoft tax, but the crapware tax refund usually more than covers the cost in many oems.
I would agree with you if google was actually paying local taxes, the whole point of the article is they DON'T, they funnel money through tax havens to avoid paying tax on locally earned money in countries such as Australia and the US. Str
While perhaps a little over the top, he is dead right. Elderscrolls has always been a PC based game where the console ports had to make some serious compromises in dumbing the experience down. would much rather see no console version to hold the game back.
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You seem intentionally dense or perhaps just another fanboi. As has been pointed out to you. This is all about misleading advertising. The standards are irrelevent, As is whether it is WiFI+4G because that is what they chose to name it is also completely irrelevent. Every Company is subject to the laws of the countries they do business in. How would you feel if an Australian phone company started selling 4g phones in the US and you brought one only to find it only works on Australian networks?.
The ACCC in Australia is strict but extremely even handed, these laws apply as strictly to Australian companies as it does to US ones, many Australian companies have run afoul of them too, I only find it sad that you seem to think that a government organisation that actually works for the consumer interests is a bad thing, companies using small print and excuses to excuse lies in adverts while acceptable overseas is NOT acceptable here.
. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/815335
Apple Advertises it as a 4G Ipad. In Australia your advertising cannot be MISLEADING. Australia has 4G networks therefore according to the laws if a person could be mislead into believing that the ipad 4G access will work in Australia then they are breaking the laws. This is not about international standards or any of that bullshit, it is purely about consumer protection. If you advertise in Australia your product does X then it bloody well better do X in Australia, not in some foreign country. If Apple don't want to change there advertising then they should live with the consequences of their actions as they have blatantly broken the law even though they were warned BEFORE the ipad was released that they would need to change their advertising.
There are a set of acknowledged frequencies the majority of the world uses for 4g, apple DOESN'T work with them. They are not just in trouble in Australia for this, they are having legal and regulatory trouble all over the world for it. Australia has just been more direct by prosectuing them for misleading advertising, and rightly so.
Actually you have it backwards. There is a 4G standard definition for the rest of the world, then there is the US/Canada. Australia is not the odd one out here.
Because only Apple's 4g devices don't actually work on 4g networks in Australia. While you may not have coverage for 4g, if you go to an area that has it at least the 4G phones you buy will work, The ipad will not.
There is this cool thing called internet search. For example there is one called google.com, another called bing.com or even yahoo.com. Obviously you have never heard of any of them as if you had typed in facebook privacy violations you would have gotten page after page of results.
ONLY a few hundred miles. lets do some quick maths. lets say those lazy searchers did search out to a 200 mile radius. So that gives us a search area of approximately 125 thousand square miles. Still think it is ONLY a few hundred miles and the searchers simply sucked?
When I did my computer science degree some 20 odd years ago a great deal of it was maths and many of the classes that were compulsory were the same ones the maths students were doing, I was good at maths so it never bothered me but it caused many a computer science student to drop out or fail, Has that changed significantly now?
This could have a lot to do with the type of people willing to actually answer phone poll questions. Personally I would tell them I am too busy or just hang up. I know the US is full of more religious zealots than most of the world but those numbers seem a little ridiculous even for the US,
They don't have to pay off anyone and it is not an artificial limitation. XP is limited to DirectX 9 (10 and onwards had some fundamental architecture changes that would have required major changes to XP which were not made and will never be made). Game developers want to use the latest graphics effects, therefore the Vista+ requirement, this will only get more and more prevalent, XP is dieing as a gaming OS, especially on the new release front.
I don't need a $1000 test to tell me what colour my hair is.
I am bald you insensitive clod.
I live in Australia and download it instead of watching on foxtel. I have a subscription but why wait for it to air in inferior SD quality when I can download a HD copy and have it a week earlier, be allowed to watch it in any room rather than be restricted by the foxtel box to one TV and also watch it in my own time. Convenience and quality make it worth the 10 seconds of effort required to download it.
Sorry that still fails. They supplied the tires, the OEM took the air out of them and replaced it with something liquid and smelly. MS are charging to put back the original air. Really the price seems about right, not so low that it is undercutting all the small stores that offer a similar service and not so high as to make it unaffordable for those that don't want to find the more affordable options to save 30-40 bucks. Shops locally here provide the same service for Macs and for Linux too, my sister recently paid to have her Macbook reinstalled as it was getting to the point of unusuable, seems all systems suffer from crapware rott nowadays.
At the moment a maggot invested week old corpse of a Kangaroo could poll better than the labor party so that really is hardly a suprise. For that matter a maggot infested dead Kangaroo probably would smell better than the labor party too.
Even with IGP's intels stuff gets obliterated. No need to take anyones word for it on here though, just go and look at the benchmarks on places like tomshardware. Intel still has the better CPU but AMD are really leveraging their one strong point here and that is superior graphics chip performance. Still don't think it will be enough to give AMd the overall edge though.
Actually you more than likely end up working LONGER to afford the game in Australia. Australia has more expensive EVERYTHING not just games. paying for things like rent and food and transportation in Australia cost significantly more than the rest of the world. Do you actually think when food outlets are paying staff $20 an hour they still charge the same prices as the US????
PS: Voluntary administration is basically the step before liquidation/bankruptcy. An external entity is appointed to basically look over the books of the company on behalf of the creditors and then decide what is the best way forward to salvage the creditors money. options could include selling the company, breaking it up or simply liquidation
Game is one of the larger video game stores and online retailers in Australia. Realistically though I am not suprised they are going broke, it is far easier and many times cheaper to buy on the web from overseas for far less than any of the aussie retailers. places like play asia make stores like Game irrelevant. www.game.com.au
The problem is the ipad DOESN'T work on most LTE networks at all, just those in the US and Canada, Australia for instance has an LTE network but the ipad is incompatible.
The problem is 4G IS available in some of those regions, for example Australia has 4G, but the Ipad is still incompatibile with it.
I don't pirate Blu-rays or DVD's, I actually purchase any that I want. (I have a couple of hundred at least). However an additional 20 seconds of forced notices at the front will certainly encourage me to rethink my approach. If you want to educate me, don't try and do it by pissing me off or I will most definitely take the opposite view of what your trying to push.
They aren't just a software company. They have a huge amount of online services which consist of a large number of datacenters and hundreds of thousands of servers around the world. not to mention all their offices and services staff.
I twould think that in many cases having windows would come in cheaper. There may be a microsoft tax, but the crapware tax refund usually more than covers the cost in many oems.
I would agree with you if google was actually paying local taxes, the whole point of the article is they DON'T, they funnel money through tax havens to avoid paying tax on locally earned money in countries such as Australia and the US. Str
While perhaps a little over the top, he is dead right. Elderscrolls has always been a PC based game where the console ports had to make some serious compromises in dumbing the experience down. would much rather see no console version to hold the game back.