The problem with that viewpoint is that the majority of internet content is not hosted in Australia. Faster internet is definitely very much needed in Australia, but the view that as soon as we have 100meg connections available that all this content is suddenly going to materialise is ridiculous, Australia size wise is a pimple on the arse of humanity, ie insignificant. whether you have a 10meg, 20meg of one of the current 100meg non NBN solutions currently in Aus the actual experience is not much different. I still look forward to high speed fibre, but it is ridiculous to think that it is going to significantly change Australian internet content significantly.
If you want unrestricted web access then pay for your own connection. Don't bitch about IT people doing their job properly, their primary goal is not to be an ISP for you to surf the web. Most corporates and government agencies all apply these so called "draconian" restrictions on thier staff and it isn't because they are all bastards. Basically your average user can be trusted about half the distance you can kick them, they all think they know what they are doing until something goes wrong then it is IT's fault for not protecting them.
You must live in one of the major coastal cities. I live in a little place called Canberra, I can't even get reliable mobile reception from my house in the outer suburbs. Large areas of Australia still have extremely patchy or non existant mobile coverage outside the major capitals, many of those areas are also being covered by the NBN.
The Average Usage even on a lot of large cap plans for those with decent connections in Australia is around 30GB, 10mb connections to 100Mbps is not going to suddenly make 10 times more content available. Sure there are those fringe users that try to download the entire internets porn collection every month, but they really are the minority (even if I do happen to be one of them).
Yeah for us it was the SAS 15k disks. seems they have the bigger sizes, but the lower end are no where in site. Our department spends around 10 million a year on hardware and even that wasn't enough to twist the vendors arm to find us the disks we wanted.
we had server purchases seriously delayed, in the end we had to go with some more expensive and larger disks just so we could get our desperately needed servers delivered, otherwise it was expected up to a further 3 months of delays.
RAM speeds have not been a significant issue for some time now. Go and read some of the performance tests done recently on various speed RAM, even jumping from 1333 to something like 2133 DR3 RAM has such an insigificant performance change on the rig that it is clear memory is not the bottleneck nowadays. The Bus, HDD etc are the bottlenecks that hurt more than anything else.
They get singled out because they are by far and away the most profitable company and much of that profit is directly manufactured in that plant giving Apple far more influence over the running of that plant than any other company in the world. Apple has a huge margin they can play with and Foxconn would basically do anything to keep sucking in the profit that apple generates for them.
It doesn't point out the FUD of the article at all, that is like saying 720k floppy disk storage is not obsolete as I can create a drive that takes 10TB of them. but yes the summary is garbage. It is also important to remember that NAND is not the only SSD technology and hence the death of NAND based SSD does not equate to the death of SSD.
Not at all, patents are about protecting the investment of whoever puts in the effort, whether they are the small guy spending months in his basement inventing or a huge firm spending 100 million on R&D, both have very valid needs to protection. Unfortunately between scumbag lawyers, patent trolls and a patent office that allows you to patent anything regardless of how obvious or prior art both the small guy and the big guy are getting screwed by whoever submits the dumbest patent the fastest.
That would require every parent to understand every game. That is completely unrealistic even for many good parents, a well run rating system is meant to assist parents in determining what their kids can and cannot play/watch.
call me a pessimist but I don't see how this changes the current situation at all. Apple has been performing inspections of them and finding breaches every single year, They then issue a warning to the company who then promise to do better in future and they both continue on their merry way raking in profit. As long as Companies like Apple (and yes I know it is not just apple) continue to give human rights nothing more than lip service and publicity stunts nothing will change.
ahhhh I see, so rather than show an error when the WAN link has become unavailable or the remote link to an external organisation that we don't control isn't working or even when a server has failed we should rewrite the code to just... do nothing?
while the derogatory terms etc may seem obvious, there are plenty of less obvious mistakes that people fall into. For instance we used naming conventions on errors in on of our production applications that referred to greek mythology and specifically the underworld. It came as quite a shock when we received official complaints from religious nutcases that said they were offended by our blasphemy. Since then we have had to rewrite a lot of that to use far more boring errors.
Actually I would say not passing it on contravenes their neutrality on politics and religion as they would then be making a judgement based on religious views rather than just following the law. The laws are dumb and should not be allowed to stand, however interpol is not the place for such a stand to be taken, that is for international courts, politians and governments.
they did stay out of politics and religion. They received a warrant and they forwarded the warrant, what is done with the warrant is not within there juristiction. They do not get to decide the validity of the warrant.
Interpol isn't involved, Interpol merely forwards warrants to the relevant people, whether the warrant is valid or not is not something for interpol to judge.
There have been far faster climate changes over the course of the past 200,000 years than the current man-made one. Some by as much as a 10 degrees average swing in just a few years.
any person or company that could accurately predict what a stock is going to do within 10% of an IPO would be an overnight billionaire. There are simply too many variables and outside influences, not to mention emotional factors that make such an accurate prediction practically impossible. If you can come up with a formulae that can get close then you will have people knocking down your door with wads of cash to get their hands on it.
The N9 has had more than double the amount of time on market, in more markets (released August). The lumia is being targetted for more markets but initially there was only the 710 and with the 800 only becoming available towards the end of the year. So N9 has 6 months on market, the lumia's have had just over 2 months.
You will find most Xbox 360 games are region free. While the Xbox support region coding, most games don't seem to use it, I import a lot of my games into Aus from the US or from playasia
The fault is with the irresponible and unethical deals the government keeps making. If you are going to act unethically all the time then you have to expect to have the odd person within the government become morally outraged enough that they think it is better to leak the info than to remain silent. The real solution is to clean up the governments behaviour so that there is no need for leaks to occur.
The real problem with the other OS option tends to be the way the console industry works. i.e. selling hardware as a loss leader. This model only works effectively if the console is not sidelined as a workstation or clustered to make supercomputers or turned into xbmc media players etc etc. For the other OS to realistically remain you will see a corresponding increase in price so they don't sell hardware at a loss next gen as there is no way sony is going to fork out a couple hundred dollars so you can have a subsidised cluster.
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The problem with that viewpoint is that the majority of internet content is not hosted in Australia. Faster internet is definitely very much needed in Australia, but the view that as soon as we have 100meg connections available that all this content is suddenly going to materialise is ridiculous, Australia size wise is a pimple on the arse of humanity, ie insignificant. whether you have a 10meg, 20meg of one of the current 100meg non NBN solutions currently in Aus the actual experience is not much different. I still look forward to high speed fibre, but it is ridiculous to think that it is going to significantly change Australian internet content significantly.
If you want unrestricted web access then pay for your own connection. Don't bitch about IT people doing their job properly, their primary goal is not to be an ISP for you to surf the web. Most corporates and government agencies all apply these so called "draconian" restrictions on thier staff and it isn't because they are all bastards. Basically your average user can be trusted about half the distance you can kick them, they all think they know what they are doing until something goes wrong then it is IT's fault for not protecting them.
You must live in one of the major coastal cities. I live in a little place called Canberra, I can't even get reliable mobile reception from my house in the outer suburbs. Large areas of Australia still have extremely patchy or non existant mobile coverage outside the major capitals, many of those areas are also being covered by the NBN.
The Average Usage even on a lot of large cap plans for those with decent connections in Australia is around 30GB, 10mb connections to 100Mbps is not going to suddenly make 10 times more content available. Sure there are those fringe users that try to download the entire internets porn collection every month, but they really are the minority (even if I do happen to be one of them).
Yeah for us it was the SAS 15k disks. seems they have the bigger sizes, but the lower end are no where in site. Our department spends around 10 million a year on hardware and even that wasn't enough to twist the vendors arm to find us the disks we wanted.
we had server purchases seriously delayed, in the end we had to go with some more expensive and larger disks just so we could get our desperately needed servers delivered, otherwise it was expected up to a further 3 months of delays.
RAM speeds have not been a significant issue for some time now. Go and read some of the performance tests done recently on various speed RAM, even jumping from 1333 to something like 2133 DR3 RAM has such an insigificant performance change on the rig that it is clear memory is not the bottleneck nowadays. The Bus, HDD etc are the bottlenecks that hurt more than anything else.
They get singled out because they are by far and away the most profitable company and much of that profit is directly manufactured in that plant giving Apple far more influence over the running of that plant than any other company in the world. Apple has a huge margin they can play with and Foxconn would basically do anything to keep sucking in the profit that apple generates for them.
It doesn't point out the FUD of the article at all, that is like saying 720k floppy disk storage is not obsolete as I can create a drive that takes 10TB of them. but yes the summary is garbage. It is also important to remember that NAND is not the only SSD technology and hence the death of NAND based SSD does not equate to the death of SSD.
No, Metro allows traditional desktop apps, Metro styled apps or even a combination of both at the same time.
Not at all, patents are about protecting the investment of whoever puts in the effort, whether they are the small guy spending months in his basement inventing or a huge firm spending 100 million on R&D, both have very valid needs to protection. Unfortunately between scumbag lawyers, patent trolls and a patent office that allows you to patent anything regardless of how obvious or prior art both the small guy and the big guy are getting screwed by whoever submits the dumbest patent the fastest.
That would require every parent to understand every game. That is completely unrealistic even for many good parents, a well run rating system is meant to assist parents in determining what their kids can and cannot play/watch.
call me a pessimist but I don't see how this changes the current situation at all. Apple has been performing inspections of them and finding breaches every single year, They then issue a warning to the company who then promise to do better in future and they both continue on their merry way raking in profit. As long as Companies like Apple (and yes I know it is not just apple) continue to give human rights nothing more than lip service and publicity stunts nothing will change.
ahhhh I see, so rather than show an error when the WAN link has become unavailable or the remote link to an external organisation that we don't control isn't working or even when a server has failed we should rewrite the code to just... do nothing?
while the derogatory terms etc may seem obvious, there are plenty of less obvious mistakes that people fall into. For instance we used naming conventions on errors in on of our production applications that referred to greek mythology and specifically the underworld. It came as quite a shock when we received official complaints from religious nutcases that said they were offended by our blasphemy. Since then we have had to rewrite a lot of that to use far more boring errors.
Actually I would say not passing it on contravenes their neutrality on politics and religion as they would then be making a judgement based on religious views rather than just following the law. The laws are dumb and should not be allowed to stand, however interpol is not the place for such a stand to be taken, that is for international courts, politians and governments.
they did stay out of politics and religion. They received a warrant and they forwarded the warrant, what is done with the warrant is not within there juristiction. They do not get to decide the validity of the warrant.
Interpol isn't involved, Interpol merely forwards warrants to the relevant people, whether the warrant is valid or not is not something for interpol to judge.
There have been far faster climate changes over the course of the past 200,000 years than the current man-made one. Some by as much as a 10 degrees average swing in just a few years.
The article did say "Living" thing.
any person or company that could accurately predict what a stock is going to do within 10% of an IPO would be an overnight billionaire. There are simply too many variables and outside influences, not to mention emotional factors that make such an accurate prediction practically impossible. If you can come up with a formulae that can get close then you will have people knocking down your door with wads of cash to get their hands on it.
The N9 has had more than double the amount of time on market, in more markets (released August). The lumia is being targetted for more markets but initially there was only the 710 and with the 800 only becoming available towards the end of the year. So N9 has 6 months on market, the lumia's have had just over 2 months.
You will find most Xbox 360 games are region free. While the Xbox support region coding, most games don't seem to use it, I import a lot of my games into Aus from the US or from playasia
The fault is with the irresponible and unethical deals the government keeps making. If you are going to act unethically all the time then you have to expect to have the odd person within the government become morally outraged enough that they think it is better to leak the info than to remain silent. The real solution is to clean up the governments behaviour so that there is no need for leaks to occur.
The real problem with the other OS option tends to be the way the console industry works. i.e. selling hardware as a loss leader. This model only works effectively if the console is not sidelined as a workstation or clustered to make supercomputers or turned into xbmc media players etc etc. For the other OS to realistically remain you will see a corresponding increase in price so they don't sell hardware at a loss next gen as there is no way sony is going to fork out a couple hundred dollars so you can have a subsidised cluster.