Texas is a state. Western Australia is a state. You can't compare a country to a state as you are doing comparing Texas to Australia.
Lets look at Western Australia (a smallish state population wise in as much as texas is population wise compared to California, NY etc etc) and look at the results:
The capital city of Perth (capital of Western Australia with approx 1.5 Million) is hotter than either Dallas or Houston.
Just a small mention that Perth, The capital of Western Australia, is hotter than Dallas and Houston . Also Marble bar in Western Australia holds the world record for the number of days above 35C. So I really don't think texas is hotter than WA any more than the phrase 'bigger than texas' holds true against WA.
"I much prefer PayPal to bank transfer because in case of fraudolent, forged or non working product (or simply if the item was never sent)"
As an Australian, I can honestly say after 54 buys since 1997 I have *never* been sent anything other than described. Granted, one time I did receive a tape deck where the play button pushed in a bit far so it wouldn't pop out so I was offered another good of my choice at the reserve price even though the issue might have come about due to it being shipped 4,000kms from Brisbane to Perth.
I always deposit money direct into the sellers account and have never had any issues whatsoever. So maybe what you speak of is cultural?
I'm always amazed to hear Europeans try and compare Europe to the United States. Do you have any idea of the scale of the United States? Mass transit simply isn't an option for a vast majority of this country.
I'm always amazed to hear about Americans using scale as a reason for comparison. If so, look at Australia.
In Australia (western Australia at least) we are paying between $1.50 and $1.60 a litre. Thats about $6 a gallon. The distances we need to travel between rural towns vastly out does what the US needs to deal with in any part of your country. So stop using the 'wo is me, we live so far apart' crap.
It mentioned Ubuntu after all. The biggest linux meme around.
Yes, it's a simple distro, yet other 'easier' ones exist including Mepis which now use Ubuntu repos but plays mp3s out of the box and most videos as well as having an easier system setup process (no I don't use it so don't go into the whole 'my preference' thing, I use Sidux).
Why do we not hear about alternatives.. it's all "unbuntu, unbuntu, ufuckingbuntoo'. Hell a few years ago it was Gentoo which was on the opposite extreme. Try different distros people. Don't get stuck in the 'people say this is best so it is' because I can almost guarantee it won't be for your purposes. Research.
And what is to stop us from using direct deposit the way we always have? The sellers email address is given... all I need to do is ask him directly what his banking details are to deposit the funds.
At work I use Firefox on my workstation almost exclusively except for two (Government run) sites. Both of these require ActiveX. One provides data on sewer invert levels, locations, and also AHD level data for the whole of my state. The other provides legal Boundary information for every block of land.
How can I phrase something that will send a 'message' to them, that although I am forced to use their sites due to my place of employment (and chosen profession) it is not a good thing to do in the long run. I'm not trolling, merely that I am at a loss to explain to them in a succinct way that the method they are using is flat out wrong.
I can unequivocally state that should I find the right way to go about it (in a manner with which even registers to them) I will let them know.
Skip DST entirely. No clock changes at all. You want more daylight? Get up earlier. Need more time to work? Work summer hours.
This is what we as West Australians believed on the whole as well. The state government however had other ideas, and imposed DST on us all even though it had failed 2 previous referendums. Our capital city (perth) is a true Mediterranean climate, unlike LA with which it's often compared (LA is cooler, wetter, with less average sunshine hours per day). We have no need for it whatsoever, the general public don't want it, yet the government imposed it. Welcome to the new world... fun huh!
Not meaning to troll, but with the plan I'm on I frequently receive speeds of 1.1-1.6 Megabytes per second while grabbing a torrent. The downside?? I only get 40 gig a month, once I hit that I am capped to a rediculous 64Kbps:O
I can't believe US consumers have been throttled for so long given I've had this connection for about 18 months now - sure it has a cap, but I rarely reach it anyway.
Or a very very rundown place in Perth, Western Australia: "Perth's median house price peaked at $564,000 in November 2006, when Sydney's median price was $515,000."
Ok - so $1AU is Currently 88.54 US cents, but even taking that into consideration it is ridiculously overpriced. Markets are slowly realising and it has since fallen to $462,000.
Ok. So I have bad karma, no one will see this but you - yet I don't give a damn.
in a nutshell you have it dead right. Instead of relying on technology we should be relying on how well someone can actually drive. Having a relative who is an alcoholic demonstrates this - Before he's had at least a few shots of whiskey in the morning (after one every three or four hours through the night) he shakes..
This person is not a bum, not unemployed, but infact the State manager of a rather large sized bank. He has enough each morning to make the levels read "drunk" yet it is what he requires to function as an everyday human being... one thing the breathalisers will never understand is tolerance.. any alcoholic needs a fair wack of the stuff in the system to function normally - with a zero bac they can be downright dangerous (shakes, impared judgement etc).
I've contacted Dell on two different occasions asking why I am required to buy a computer with an Operating system I have no intention of using. Both times I received an email stating it had been referred to xyz and they would be in touch soon regarding my enquiry; Needless to say they have neglected to get back to me.
With any luck if the sales continue overseas we will finally see such offerings here. I don't use Ubuntu myself, so it would be wiped in favour of Deb, but at least I wouldn't be contributing to Microsofts coffers.
When will people get it through their heads that men and women have quite varying interests.
I'm not even talking about employment itself here but rather the path that leads to employment. Take a look at any 'challenge' sites that deal with encryption, security, programming etc and a good 95% of the challengers are male, and the top 100 is normally all men. This is what we do in our free time for no financial gain because it interests us. If women really are interested in these things then why are there bugger all of them on such sites when it's accessible to all??
"Models indicate the planet is either rocky like the Earth or covered in an ocean"
Wow, they've really narrowed it down haven't they. Might as well say "we've no idea what it's composed of so we will just say it could be water or it could be land"
There would always be demand. Those switching from 1-2-3 to excel yet still using 1-2-3 commands are doing so because they don't want to learn yet another way of doing the same things, as a result there is always going to be that large user base still using 'old' commands.
If such a thing doesn't still exist today it's purely because there is now no real alternative from the point of view of most users.
It really is a shame that two pieces of software in the top ten are no longer.
Word Perfect was used almost universally over MS Word in the 80's early 90's, as was the case with Lotus 1-2-3 over Excel (in fact, Excel allowed you to use the 1-2-3 commands should you so desire - wonder if that feature still exists).
Something I thought that would make the list but didn't is Quarterdeck's desqview. It allowed multitasking through DOS and a number of companies used it at the time... It wasn't perfect, but heck it was a better tech product than some of the things on that list;)
Can anyone tell me why anyone uses Linux instead of OSX? I personally understand that not everyone can afford a Mac, but those who can, and hate wiindows, often go the linux route. Why?
Simple. The fact I can choose hardware *I* want, and change or upgrade it however I want when ever I want!
I use Beer/alcohol for a similar analogy.. but for a different type of people...
Cache: is the beer you have beside you in the esky, it easy to reach and fast to get the beer, but only holds so much.
ram: when the esky is empty, so you have to go to the fridge to get more beer..
HDD: when the fridge is empty, so you need to drive to the bottle shop to get more beer...
It doesn't show the swapping as well as yours, but it sure gets the message across. (and yeah I know, I'm neglecting going into HDD cache etc.. but hey its simple)..
Sheesh.. I cant believe THAT wasnt given a mention. Your probably think I am
Being silly, but this drug had serious potential only to be wiped out prematurely
(from a legal standpoint at least).... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd
However, due to construction issues, the installation was changed (for the worse) so that separate vertical rods were used.
Im a Surveyor. Cadastral mainly, but also do Engineering Surveying when required... I can tell you first hand that with many of these construction issues its a matter of differing the specs in order to obtain a given goal while KNOWING things will be weakened - considerably.
Obviously this was totally unforseen, but I have seen some scary things when I tell the Engineers that doing x will end up with a part of the building being over the boundary. I know they are scary because I hear comments such as oh well, the building will be demolished in 10 years anyway
.. but rather the US is so far behind. 3g became popular in the rest of the world years ago. Why is it that because Japan is ahead of the USA then it is assumed that it is ahead of the rest of the world as well??
Even my current phone (in Australia) has a 2 megapixal camera, Video ring tones, and Video conferencing. Sure, a lot of it may be useless but this stuff IS available in other parts of the world, and actually quite popular
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Texas is a state. Western Australia is a state. You can't compare a country to a state as you are doing comparing Texas to Australia.
Lets look at Western Australia (a smallish state population wise in as much as texas is population wise compared to California, NY etc etc) and look at the results:
The capital city of Perth (capital of Western Australia with approx 1.5 Million) is hotter than either Dallas or Houston.
Perth:http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/climate.html Dallas: http://www.cityrating.com/citytemperature.asp?City=Dallas+-+Fort+Worth [cityrating.com] Houston: http://www.cityrating.com/citytemperature.asp?City=Houston [cityrating.com]
Just a small mention that Perth, The capital of Western Australia, is hotter than Dallas and Houston . Also Marble bar in Western Australia holds the world record for the number of days above 35C. So I really don't think texas is hotter than WA any more than the phrase 'bigger than texas' holds true against WA.
;)
references:
Perth:http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/climate.html
Dallas: http://www.cityrating.com/citytemperature.asp?City=Dallas+-+Fort+Worth
Houston: http://www.cityrating.com/citytemperature.asp?City=Houston
Of course, with as shitty 'karma' as mine no one will read this but you you, but as a proud West Australian I felt it necessary to note
"I much prefer PayPal to bank transfer because in case of fraudolent, forged or non working product (or simply if the item was never sent)"
As an Australian, I can honestly say after 54 buys since 1997 I have *never* been sent anything other than described. Granted, one time I did receive a tape deck where the play button pushed in a bit far so it wouldn't pop out so I was offered another good of my choice at the reserve price even though the issue might have come about due to it being shipped 4,000kms from Brisbane to Perth.
I always deposit money direct into the sellers account and have never had any issues whatsoever. So maybe what you speak of is cultural?
I'm always amazed to hear Europeans try and compare Europe to the United States. Do you have any idea of the scale of the United States? Mass transit simply isn't an option for a vast majority of this country.
I'm always amazed to hear about Americans using scale as a reason for comparison. If so, look at Australia.
In Australia (western Australia at least) we are paying between $1.50 and $1.60 a litre. Thats about $6 a gallon. The distances we need to travel between rural towns vastly out does what the US needs to deal with in any part of your country. So stop using the 'wo is me, we live so far apart' crap.
It mentioned Ubuntu after all. The biggest linux meme around.
Yes, it's a simple distro, yet other 'easier' ones exist including Mepis which now use Ubuntu repos but plays mp3s out of the box and most videos as well as having an easier system setup process (no I don't use it so don't go into the whole 'my preference' thing, I use Sidux).
Why do we not hear about alternatives.. it's all "unbuntu, unbuntu, ufuckingbuntoo'. Hell a few years ago it was Gentoo which was on the opposite extreme. Try different distros people. Don't get stuck in the 'people say this is best so it is' because I can almost guarantee it won't be for your purposes. Research.
And what is to stop us from using direct deposit the way we always have? The sellers email address is given... all I need to do is ask him directly what his banking details are to deposit the funds.
Honest question:
At work I use Firefox on my workstation almost exclusively except for two (Government run) sites. Both of these require ActiveX. One provides data on sewer invert levels, locations, and also AHD level data for the whole of my state. The other provides legal Boundary information for every block of land.
How can I phrase something that will send a 'message' to them, that although I am forced to use their sites due to my place of employment (and chosen profession) it is not a good thing to do in the long run. I'm not trolling, merely that I am at a loss to explain to them in a succinct way that the method they are using is flat out wrong.
I can unequivocally state that should I find the right way to go about it (in a manner with which even registers to them) I will let them know.
Cheers..
Skip DST entirely. No clock changes at all. You want more daylight? Get up earlier. Need more time to work? Work summer hours.
This is what we as West Australians believed on the whole as well. The state government however had other ideas, and imposed DST on us all even though it had failed 2 previous referendums. Our capital city (perth) is a true Mediterranean climate, unlike LA with which it's often compared (LA is cooler, wetter, with less average sunshine hours per day). We have no need for it whatsoever, the general public don't want it, yet the government imposed it. Welcome to the new world... fun huh!
Not meaning to troll, but with the plan I'm on I frequently receive speeds of 1.1-1.6 Megabytes per second while grabbing a torrent. The downside?? I only get 40 gig a month, once I hit that I am capped to a rediculous 64Kbps
I can't believe US consumers have been throttled for so long given I've had this connection for about 18 months now - sure it has a cap, but I rarely reach it anyway.
Or a very very rundown place in Perth, Western Australia: "Perth's median house price peaked at $564,000 in November 2006, when Sydney's median price was $515,000."
Ok - so $1AU is Currently 88.54 US cents, but even taking that into consideration it is ridiculously overpriced. Markets are slowly realising and it has since fallen to $462,000.
Figures taken from: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22010311-37037,00.html
Ok. So I have bad karma, no one will see this but you - yet I don't give a damn.
in a nutshell you have it dead right. Instead of relying on technology we should be relying on how well someone can actually drive. Having a relative who is an alcoholic demonstrates this - Before he's had at least a few shots of whiskey in the morning (after one every three or four hours through the night) he shakes..
This person is not a bum, not unemployed, but infact the State manager of a rather large sized bank. He has enough each morning to make the levels read "drunk" yet it is what he requires to function as an everyday human being... one thing the breathalisers will never understand is tolerance.. any alcoholic needs a fair wack of the stuff in the system to function normally - with a zero bac they can be downright dangerous (shakes, impared judgement etc).
I've contacted Dell on two different occasions asking why I am required to buy a computer with an Operating system I have no intention of using. Both times I received an email stating it had been referred to xyz and they would be in touch soon regarding my enquiry; Needless to say they have neglected to get back to me.
With any luck if the sales continue overseas we will finally see such offerings here. I don't use Ubuntu myself, so it would be wiped in favour of Deb, but at least I wouldn't be contributing to Microsofts coffers.
When will people get it through their heads that men and women have quite varying interests.
I'm not even talking about employment itself here but rather the path that leads to employment. Take a look at any 'challenge' sites that deal with encryption, security, programming etc and a good 95% of the challengers are male, and the top 100 is normally all men. This is what we do in our free time for no financial gain because it interests us. If women really are interested in these things then why are there bugger all of them on such sites when it's accessible to all??
"Models indicate the planet is either rocky like the Earth or covered in an ocean"
Wow, they've really narrowed it down haven't they. Might as well say "we've no idea what it's composed of so we will just say it could be water or it could be land"
There would always be demand. Those switching from 1-2-3 to excel yet still using 1-2-3 commands are doing so because they don't want to learn yet another way of doing the same things, as a result there is always going to be that large user base still using 'old' commands.
If such a thing doesn't still exist today it's purely because there is now no real alternative from the point of view of most users.
It really is a shame that two pieces of software in the top ten are no longer.
Word Perfect was used almost universally over MS Word in the 80's early 90's, as was the case with Lotus 1-2-3 over Excel (in fact, Excel allowed you to use the 1-2-3 commands should you so desire - wonder if that feature still exists).
Something I thought that would make the list but didn't is Quarterdeck's desqview. It allowed multitasking through DOS and a number of companies used it at the time... It wasn't perfect, but heck it was a better tech product than some of the things on that list
There definitly was a ram disk from the DOS days.. I always had a 4mb ram disk configured at boot via config.sys back in the 80's.
Can anyone tell me why anyone uses Linux instead of OSX? I personally understand that not everyone can afford a Mac, but those who can, and hate wiindows, often go the linux route. Why?
Simple. The fact I can choose hardware *I* want, and change or upgrade it however I want when ever I want!
That's all there is to it.
Works fine using Mepis too.
I use Beer/alcohol for a similar analogy.. but for a different type of people...
Cache: is the beer you have beside you in the esky, it easy to reach and fast to get the beer, but only holds so much.
ram: when the esky is empty, so you have to go to the fridge to get more beer..
HDD: when the fridge is empty, so you need to drive to the bottle shop to get more beer...
It doesn't show the swapping as well as yours, but it sure gets the message across. (and yeah I know, I'm neglecting going into HDD cache etc.. but hey its simple)..
LSD: Lysergic acid diethylamide...
Sheesh.. I cant believe THAT wasnt given a mention. Your probably think I am
Being silly, but this drug had serious potential only to be wiped out prematurely
(from a legal standpoint at least).... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd
However, due to construction issues, the installation was changed (for the worse) so that separate vertical rods were used.
Im a Surveyor. Cadastral mainly, but also do Engineering Surveying when required... I can tell you first hand that with many of these construction issues its a matter of differing the specs in order to obtain a given goal while KNOWING things will be weakened - considerably.
Obviously this was totally unforseen, but I have seen some scary things when I tell the Engineers that doing x will end up with a part of the building being over the boundary. I know they are scary because I hear comments such as oh well, the building will be demolished in 10 years anyway
Civilcad!!!!! I use Linux exclusively except for work - I am thus stuck on a dual boot system.
Am I the only one that reads '.org' as 'orgy'?
You probably were the only one, until that post. Now I will forever be stuck with images Id rather forget.
.. but rather the US is so far behind. 3g became popular in the rest of the world years ago. Why is it that because Japan is ahead of the USA then it is assumed that it is ahead of the rest of the world as well??
Even my current phone (in Australia) has a 2 megapixal camera, Video ring tones, and Video conferencing. Sure, a lot of it may be useless but this stuff IS available in other parts of the world, and actually quite popular