As an idea our primary telco just happily announced that they can now provide broadband to allmost 16% of all Australian homes.
Not so. Its already nearing 50% in wireless alone... and over 95% in total. Given Western Australia makes Texas look like a small state, and most of our small towns have a population of under 2000, its quite an effort. I am speaking as one who lived in a town of 160 people, where the nearest ATM or fast food store apart from the service station is 180 kilometres away, yet broadband is available.
Some 20 years ago, as soon as I got back from school there was a science show on one channel, an environmental kids show on the other, and news on the third commercial channel.
I got back from work early on Friday and what did I see? Girl TV (wtf?) and some show about kid warriors fighting each other. Oh and lets not forget a bratz cartoon.
I used to love plonking down on the couch after school and watching anything from experiments on various gas or metal types, to the ecosystem of the great barrier reef. Sure we had our transformers and He-man etc etc, but it wasnt ALL transformers and He-man!
Sorry mate, but in WA it's Emu Bitter - not much Swan draft is downed over here:P
Coopers is a level above all the other beers you mentioned. I'm in WA and can't go past a Coopers Pale Ale or Sparkling Ale (even though it's $15 a 6 pack instead of $!2).
For a unique beer try Bees Knees.. couldn't drink it all the time but very nice to have while cooking up a Barby.
You should be able to set upper limits for your cell phone expenses, plus have people call you back if there is unusual activity.
In Australia a lot of companies do. When I used to work for a reasonable size telco we would set an upper limit depending on what 'plan' the person was on. If for example they went over $500 (a set limit on a particular plan) the phone was automatically barred, after we spoke with them the phone bar was lifted.
The only problem with this method is that a lot of calls were recieved by people saying "how dare you cut off my phone, I pay my bills" even though it is clearly stated we do so if an unusual spending pattern is detected.
Yeah exactly, but skolelinux doesn't have the bloody "buntu' tag added onto to the end of it that so many many slashdotters bar up over. As a result, most people probably don't know of it.
I'm really surprised a Red Dwarf book wasn't listed. Sure they aren't as popular and well known as many of the others listed but since when have geeks cared about that?
It's well recieved in the UK and Australia, but I guess some countries out there just haven't caught onto the brilliance of it just yet;-)
PS - Just noticed there was only 132 responses. THAT must be the reason.
they also believe that they belong in the international trading world. Cool. But, here they are blocking a service because it may (most likely will) compete with their established companies. So, even though they are one of the few countries with large positive growth (8-12% annual), and yet, they block on one of the few competitive groups
It's only one step further from what is already going on in the USA. Farmers are subsidised to allow cheaper prices for export against non subsidised countries. Import tarrifs are an incentive to purchase local goods.. without all the import tarrifs think of the drop off in American made vehicle purchases that would no doubt occur for example.
yes, it's not a good thing, but it's not as though similar practices don't go on around the world all the time. Almost everything can be traced back to making a buck these days!!
You're confusing the general public with/.ers. How much of the general public even in America do you think will figure out how to use linux on their own?
Maybe... maybe not. The first pc I had real access to was in 1987... at that stage I was definitly not a 'technically able' bloke. Heck I was only 12 years old:) nonetheless, through persistence I managed to pick up the very basics of msdos ie.. simple 'cd c:\games\airborn' or whatever I wanted to run, and then find the executable through 'dir/w'. After a while I wanted to do more, and with Xtreegold learnt about directory structures/copying/moving etc etc... you know the drill...sounds all so simple I know.. but it was the start.
These days things are so much easier for the novice. If I could do it as a kid back then anyone can do it now... you mentioned your dad - using that example I'd say that if it were important to him and no-one else was around, he could figure it out himself anyway, but since people are around to help why not just ask? it saves time and is much simpler.
Why else do you think those technical schools which teach you how to use spreadsheets and word processors make money if everyone can just open a software and magically learn how to use it.
Because these days half the time you can't get job that requires said software without some 'official training';)
What Microsoft is trying to say is that what people in Africa need are more IT skills, not free software and they are there to help train them along with other companies according to the article. In other words, you can give people linux, firefox, or any other free software you can think of, but if they don't know how to use it, it's useless
Although your right in stating the article was taken out of context, we need to remember that of course Microsoft are going to be training people to use their (costly) products in untapped areas - its a future revenue earner in the long term. Worse, once people ARE familiar with those products and only those products, they will just think that "the way to do things is the windows way" because thats what they were taught... just the same as most of the general population today.
Secondly, I'm sure many of us on/. were first exposed to PC's sometime around the mid 80's. We didn't need some damn course on how to use a computer - we picked it up as we went along - troubleshot problems through trial and error, and came up with often inovative ideas. To suggest that the poorer parts of Africa are unable to learn without being shown is insulting. Fact is they are able to pick things up just as we did a few decades ago; and given that fact, how is Open source useless??
The problem I've found (after just registering) is that even though it's clearly stated to enter questions most people can answer, you still get morons putting in questions such as:
Is geum macrophyllum an avens?
Is indomethacin a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory?
Is hydrocharis morsus-ranae an aquatic plant?
How many people would know the answer to them without first looking it up?
Your comparing the immediate with the long term. That is invalid.
Its like comparing the number of people who die suddenly without warning to those who die from cancer.
And I say that as someone who comes from a country that refuses to use nuclear power for energy. What would you rather have, the rare accident where people are killed by reactor accidents, or in a generations time air that is almost unbreathable?
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Hmmm... using Mozilla browser on Deb unstable:
I get the letters on the screen, then the browser opens new windows (6 of them and then stops) but no images are displayed and no sound is played.
Blogging looks like it could be fun, but I never participated in it because it always seemed as if no one would ever particularly are about my life
Although I rarely bother with pasting a blog entry, I do have one.
The reason is not so people will look at it, but rather so I can put my ideas down in black and white with a date stamp. That way, when an 'unusual' or 'just won't happen' idea enters my head I can write it down and if that issue becomes mainstream and all the sheep say "I knew that would happen" I have something to differentiate myself from them all. It is self centered in a way, but who cares.. each to there own right?
Whatever discomfort you experience during an airline flight is small retribution for the choking, gagging, and wretching you and your fellow smokers inflicted on your non-addict fellow passengers before the airline smoking law was imposed.
Ok then. From now on each time I sit near some fat tart with WAY to much perfume on (which I am allergic to) or some bloke who think Calogne is a scent that is meant to be smelt half a mile away I'm gonna complain the same way everyone else does about smokers.
Smoking may cause an offensive smell to a lot of people, but so does the multitude of 'cosmetic' products out there
And then when you quit (which is hell of course) you MISS the needle, so you say to yourself "Hey, injecting a saline solution or sugar water can't be to bad for me, plus, I'm off the gear so what the heck"!!
Seriously though, I don't understand what the big deal is... after 6 years of 3 or 4 injections a day I never had any trouble except when I 'missed' (damn needles were so fine it was hard to tell if it was in or not.. and drawback sometimes means it comes out of the vein).
Sorry, but the CPU and Maths co-processor were totally separate components going into separate sockets on the 386. It had nothing to do with the quality aspect of the chip.
The difference was 386SX had a 16 bit data bus as opposed to the DX's 32. The CPU itself still processed at 32bit whether DX or SX.
Here's hoping it infects those poor braindead souls who do nothing but send text messages during class...
These are also the morons (school age kids) that started the whole 'pay for sms' to begin with. For years they were free - then it became 'the done thing' and telco's started charging.
not that anyone will be reading this thread so late, and even if they do my message will be at the bottom of the pile, but the US constitution is only valid for government. It holds no real power for the people anymore whatsoever (and never really did).
even by Gentoo people for not looking before he leaps?
Lets have some consistency here. We are expected to write he/she or "person" for a given phrase that indicates success/advancement/winning yet as soon as a downer phrase like "not looking before HE leaps" it gets by
I know, its pedantic and rediculous to point out.. but whats good for the goose is good for the gander. How many posts lately have we seen with he/she (or even just plain SHE) when the article inferes the positive.
Given it is bill gates personally, and not the M$ community, I'll look at it as a personal contribution too.... With the proviso that income and assets are taken into account, I am giving away MUCH MORE of my net worth than ol Bill is each and every year....
I know he is contributing a great deal, and that is fantastic given he doesn't have to. But lets not make him out to be a sait here!!! There are many ordinary everyday people doing just as much or more in proportion to available expenditure.
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Looks like it's safe. According to siteadvisor:
sexmoviesonpod.com Gets the green light as well!
Come to Australia, relive those old memories :)
As an idea our primary telco just happily announced that they can now provide broadband to allmost 16% of all Australian homes.
Not so. Its already nearing 50% in wireless alone... and over 95% in total. Given Western Australia makes Texas look like a small state, and most of our small towns have a population of under 2000, its quite an effort. I am speaking as one who lived in a town of 160 people, where the nearest ATM or fast food store apart from the service station is 180 kilometres away, yet broadband is available.
Some 20 years ago, as soon as I got back from school there was a science show on one channel, an environmental kids show on the other, and news on the third commercial channel.
I got back from work early on Friday and what did I see? Girl TV (wtf?) and some show about kid warriors fighting each other. Oh and lets not forget a bratz cartoon.
I used to love plonking down on the couch after school and watching anything from experiments on various gas or metal types, to the ecosystem of the great barrier reef. Sure we had our transformers and He-man etc etc, but it wasnt ALL transformers and He-man!
Over in the west they prefer to drink Swan Lager.
:P
Sorry mate, but in WA it's Emu Bitter - not much Swan draft is downed over here
Coopers is a level above all the other beers you mentioned. I'm in WA and can't go past a Coopers Pale Ale or Sparkling Ale (even though it's $15 a 6 pack instead of $!2).
For a unique beer try Bees Knees.. couldn't drink it all the time but very nice to have while cooking up a Barby.
I couldn't get in at all running Debian (sid) and trying with both Firefox and Konqueror.
You should be able to set upper limits for your cell phone expenses, plus have people call you back if there is unusual activity.
In Australia a lot of companies do. When I used to work for a reasonable size telco we would set an upper limit depending on what 'plan' the person was on. If for example they went over $500 (a set limit on a particular plan) the phone was automatically barred, after we spoke with them the phone bar was lifted.
The only problem with this method is that a lot of calls were recieved by people saying "how dare you cut off my phone, I pay my bills" even though it is clearly stated we do so if an unusual spending pattern is detected.
Yeah exactly, but skolelinux doesn't have the bloody "buntu' tag added onto to the end of it that so many many slashdotters bar up over. As a result, most people probably don't know of it.
I'm really surprised a Red Dwarf book wasn't listed. Sure they aren't as popular and well known as many of the others listed but since when have geeks cared about that?
It's well recieved in the UK and Australia, but I guess some countries out there just haven't caught onto the brilliance of it just yet
PS - Just noticed there was only 132 responses. THAT must be the reason.
they also believe that they belong in the international trading world. Cool. But, here they are blocking a service because it may (most likely will) compete with their established companies. So, even though they are one of the few countries with large positive growth (8-12% annual), and yet, they block on one of the few competitive groups
It's only one step further from what is already going on in the USA. Farmers are subsidised to allow cheaper prices for export against non subsidised countries. Import tarrifs are an incentive to purchase local goods.. without all the import tarrifs think of the drop off in American made vehicle purchases that would no doubt occur for example.
yes, it's not a good thing, but it's not as though similar practices don't go on around the world all the time. Almost everything can be traced back to making a buck these days!!
You're confusing the general public with /.ers. How much of the general public even in America do you think will figure out how to use linux on their own?
:) nonetheless, through persistence I managed to pick up the very basics of msdos ie.. simple 'cd c:\games\airborn' or whatever I wanted to run, and then find the executable through 'dir/w'. After a while I wanted to do more, and with Xtreegold learnt about directory structures/copying/moving etc etc... you know the drill...sounds all so simple I know.. but it was the start.
;)
Maybe... maybe not. The first pc I had real access to was in 1987... at that stage I was definitly not a 'technically able' bloke. Heck I was only 12 years old
These days things are so much easier for the novice. If I could do it as a kid back then anyone can do it now... you mentioned your dad - using that example I'd say that if it were important to him and no-one else was around, he could figure it out himself anyway, but since people are around to help why not just ask? it saves time and is much simpler.
Why else do you think those technical schools which teach you how to use spreadsheets and word processors make money if everyone can just open a software and magically learn how to use it.
Because these days half the time you can't get job that requires said software without some 'official training'
What Microsoft is trying to say is that what people in Africa need are more IT skills, not free software and they are there to help train them along with other companies according to the article. In other words, you can give people linux, firefox, or any other free software you can think of, but if they don't know how to use it, it's useless
/. were first exposed to PC's sometime around the mid 80's. We didn't need some damn course on how to use a computer - we picked it up as we went along - troubleshot problems through trial and error, and came up with often inovative ideas. To suggest that the poorer parts of Africa are unable to learn without being shown is insulting. Fact is they are able to pick things up just as we did a few decades ago; and given that fact, how is Open source useless??
Although your right in stating the article was taken out of context, we need to remember that of course Microsoft are going to be training people to use their (costly) products in untapped areas - its a future revenue earner in the long term. Worse, once people ARE familiar with those products and only those products, they will just think that "the way to do things is the windows way" because thats what they were taught... just the same as most of the general population today.
Secondly, I'm sure many of us on
The problem I've found (after just registering) is that even though it's clearly stated to enter questions most people can answer, you still get morons putting in questions such as:
Is geum macrophyllum an avens?
Is indomethacin a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory?
Is hydrocharis morsus-ranae an aquatic plant?
How many people would know the answer to them without first looking it up?
Your comparing the immediate with the long term. That is invalid.
Its like comparing the number of people who die suddenly without warning to those who die from cancer.
And I say that as someone who comes from a country that refuses to use nuclear power for energy. What would you rather have, the rare accident where people are killed by reactor accidents, or in a generations time air that is almost unbreathable?
Hmmm... using Mozilla browser on Deb unstable:
I get the letters on the screen, then the browser opens new windows (6 of them and then stops) but no images are displayed and no sound is played.
Blogging looks like it could be fun, but I never participated in it because it always seemed as if no one would ever particularly are about my life
Although I rarely bother with pasting a blog entry, I do have one.
The reason is not so people will look at it, but rather so I can put my ideas down in black and white with a date stamp. That way, when an 'unusual' or 'just won't happen' idea enters my head I can write it down and if that issue becomes mainstream and all the sheep say "I knew that would happen" I have something to differentiate myself from them all. It is self centered in a way, but who cares.. each to there own right?
"The U.S. vetoed acting in Rwanda. They actually said that the problem wasn't important enough to risk American lives there."
Just as the UN as a whole wanted to end the food for oil idea, yet the US kept blocking them.
Whatever discomfort you experience during an airline flight is small retribution for the choking, gagging, and wretching you and your fellow smokers inflicted on your non-addict fellow passengers before the airline smoking law was imposed.
Ok then. From now on each time I sit near some fat tart with WAY to much perfume on (which I am allergic to) or some bloke who think Calogne is a scent that is meant to be smelt half a mile away I'm gonna complain the same way everyone else does about smokers.
Smoking may cause an offensive smell to a lot of people, but so does the multitude of 'cosmetic' products out there
And then when you quit (which is hell of course) you MISS the needle, so you say to yourself "Hey, injecting a saline solution or sugar water can't be to bad for me, plus, I'm off the gear so what the heck"!!
Seriously though, I don't understand what the big deal is... after 6 years of 3 or 4 injections a day I never had any trouble except when I 'missed' (damn needles were so fine it was hard to tell if it was in or not.. and drawback sometimes means it comes out of the vein).
Sorry, but the CPU and Maths co-processor were totally separate components going into separate sockets on the 386. It had nothing to do with the quality aspect of the chip.
The difference was 386SX had a 16 bit data bus as opposed to the DX's 32. The CPU itself still processed at 32bit whether DX or SX.
Here's hoping it infects those poor braindead souls who do nothing but send text messages during class...
These are also the morons (school age kids) that started the whole 'pay for sms' to begin with. For years they were free - then it became 'the done thing' and telco's started charging.
I implemented spamlist.org and now it's more like 5 or 10. Spamassassin on top of that cuts it to 1 to 5.
OR, you could just use Mozilla Thunderbird like many of us do, and not worry about any extra 'products'. not one false positive in 3 months.
not that anyone will be reading this thread so late, and even if they do my message will be at the bottom of the pile, but the US constitution is only valid for government. It holds no real power for the people anymore whatsoever (and never really did).
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take the time to read through this link.
http://nodebts.temp.powweb.com/theseries/part1.tx
then go to page2 etc etc...
even by Gentoo people for not looking before he leaps?
Lets have some consistency here. We are expected to write he/she or "person" for a given phrase that indicates success/advancement/winning yet as soon as a downer phrase like "not looking before HE leaps" it gets by
I know, its pedantic and rediculous to point out.. but whats good for the goose is good for the gander. How many posts lately have we seen with he/she (or even just plain SHE) when the article inferes the positive.
I do so every year.
Given it is bill gates personally, and not the M$ community, I'll look at it as a personal contribution too.... With the proviso that income and assets are taken into account, I am giving away MUCH MORE of my net worth than ol Bill is each and every year....
I know he is contributing a great deal, and that is fantastic given he doesn't have to. But lets not make him out to be a sait here!!! There are many ordinary everyday people doing just as much or more in proportion to available expenditure.
This will only be of interest to the American public, given only American stations have been listed so far.
Those of us in free countries like our information uncensored.