because business and the government wouldn't fund setting up plant for further development.
And let me tell you, absolutely nothing has changed. Businesses here pee their pants at the first sign of any sort of risk, so if you haven't already sold your invention to a US company, it's automatically assumed that it's no good and has no future. Talk about self-fulfilling prophesy.
We may be have a high rate of innovation for our population, but independant thought in our business leaders is practically non-existant.
OT, but all schools in Australia definately do not require uniforms! Some do, indeed most private ones do, but at least here in Melbourne they would be in the minoritory.
I went to a public school, never had to wear a uniform, and subsequently never learned to tie a tie.
I'm now nearly 30, have worked for several companies including a very large, very well known European telco and now am a director of a small IT company that I co-founded. I have worn a tie exactly four times in my life. Two times were funerals, two times were job interviews. I'm sure there's a lesson there somewhere.
If I could log into a proxy server that could let me get a feed of the Halflife 3 World Cup (or whatever), viewed through a legit copy of the game on my tricked up PC and broadband connection, I would happily pay top dollar for the privilege.
What I would want though, is the same quality of presentation that we now get with major TV sports events, plus the interactivity and participation that we get with online gaming.
I'd want:
- Quality live commentators, statistics and game state presentation... think Superbowl, Rugby World Cup, F1 GP
- A live director for - at least - each team, so if I want to watch blue team setting up their bases and traps I can do so without necessarily having to work the camera controls myself.
- The ability to still use the usual 3d online game 'spactator' controls at any time.
- I would need the participants to be representing my country or something else that I can relate to the real world, not just some clan.
If gaming server networks could somehow be set up with a "spectator" mode where data was simply pushed out and proxied so thousands could watch without the gamers suffering server lag, I think they could provide ideal platform to develop all the ideas necessary to make all that interactive television stuff that's been talked about so much and acted on so little, a reality.
I'd love to see it, I'd pay to see it. Game companies if you're listening, do it! (I'm available as a consultant and tester;-)
I try to think about it in terms of making everything equally accessible to everyone, no matter what. In real terms, to me that means approaching interface issues as if you might have intergalactic aliens attempting to navigate your web site or application.
It affects the way you deal with user input and output on a pretty fundamental level, particularly if your user might be a 1-tentacled space monster with 20-20 vision in several dimensions, just not our ones...
Any chance you could mount the dish on the roof of the van on a hinge and carousel arrangement?
That way you could lie it (relatively) flat when travelling, and just raise / rotate it into position when you get where you're going, without having to lift it out and mount it.
You'd presumably have to have some sort of cover over it when driving, but OTOH you'd be able to do away with the wireless basestation.
Err, I can relate to your pain very directly (you should try starting an IT business in Australia some time to really get the taste of utter rejection, apathy and futility), but I was unable to satisfy my curiosity as to what the hell Convea actually is, because your web site first presented me with a "network path not found" error, (though it worked on my second attempt), then a great deal of marketing guff that would have won me a game of bullshit bingo in a single round, and then your demo link just popped up an empty page...
So I'm cheering for you here, but get back to me when you've sorted out your web site!
J F Christ, are you living in an alternate universe or have those rose-coloured glasses just fused to your face?
We are pathetic bitches. Yeah, it's a lovely country (as long as you're white, conservative and middle-class), but we have zero power in the world, zero say over our own future, and a "leader" who is hell bent on greasing up and bending over in front of the good old U! S! A! for a free trade agreement that will surely net us the kind of wonderful benefits that most of South America has been lucky enough to experience over the last decade or so.
Dominate? You are kidding yourself. We manufacture jack shit. Despite having the tattered remenants of an exellent education system we have a business community that would have rejected every major technological advance in history as being too risky to invest in. We are going absolutely nowhere except towards our inevitable inclusion into the growing list of US vassal states.
Most famously when the Israeli Air Force attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. The official line is that it was an accident, however the circumstances are very suggestive of a deliberate attack.
It is intended for fat, rich, lazy, credulous morons.
Any imbecile riding one of these toys on a bike path anywhere near me will be receiving a gentle nudge into oncoming traffic (or off the side of the mountain).
Well yeah, it's a cute toy, but the Segway just seems like such a pointless, expensive, inefficient and above all inelegant solution to something that wasn't a problem in the first place... to me that makes it profoundly un-geeky.
You -and anyone else defending or using this moronic service- are clearly as much a part of the problem as the spammers themselves.
I'm not in the slightest bit against using RBLs - I do so myself - but denying services to thousands of people who have done nothing wrong and generally are unable to do anything about it anyway is exactly as damaging as sending the spam in the first place.
Where do you get this nonsense about having a right to email or not? Who mentioned having a right to it?
I pay for a service and it's denied to me because some irresponsible zealot nutjob has decided that an upstream provider to the ISP I use has provided bandwith to another ISP that has a user that has been alledged to have sent spam. No proof, no recourse. I *know* there's no legal or practical way I can stop this and that nothing I do or say to my ISP can have the slightest effect (and even if it did there's no way to get off the blocklist anyway), so frankly I celebrate when this fucking headcase and his mates give it up in the face of massive protest.
And if you're considering trying the line about how SPEWs don't blacklist, the admins that use it do, just forget it. That's a weasle excuse at best, and seems to me to admit that the service was as useless and damaging as it indeed was.
I've heard - reliably - of similar setups with networks of 20-30 such slots in each venue all hooked up to an MS DOS machine (no shit) that has the actual connection to the central server for the region (dealing with many hundreds of venues).
The thing is, as you point out, the hackability of the OS doesn't really come into it too much. It's a fairly closed system, and well enough designed to withstand bits of it crashing, as I've personally experienced once or twice. No BSODs so far though, and sadly no free payouts - it's always been network-related crashes of some sort, which you may or may not find surprising...
Even better, the Ancient Greeks used their letters as digits too...
I guess I could just google for myself, but hey, why not just ask someone who seems to know already...
How did this work?
Did alpha = 1, beta = 2, etc., or was there some more complex scheme? How did they distuingish between numbers and letters, for instance when enscribing something like "today we brewed 24 amphoras of beer".
I'm just curious - if you just chuck me a good link or something I'll be happy:)
Well sure, but not to come over too luddite or anything, having a few thousand gallons of gas, plus pumps and assorted equipment potentially accessible by the kiddiez doesn't strike me as the most sensible idea, to say the least.
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because business and the government wouldn't fund setting up plant for further development.
And let me tell you, absolutely nothing has changed. Businesses here pee their pants at the first sign of any sort of risk, so if you haven't already sold your invention to a US company, it's automatically assumed that it's no good and has no future. Talk about self-fulfilling prophesy.
We may be have a high rate of innovation for our population, but independant thought in our business leaders is practically non-existant.
OT, but all schools in Australia definately do not require uniforms! Some do, indeed most private ones do, but at least here in Melbourne they would be in the minoritory.
I went to a public school, never had to wear a uniform, and subsequently never learned to tie a tie.
I'm now nearly 30, have worked for several companies including a very large, very well known European telco and now am a director of a small IT company that I co-founded. I have worn a tie exactly four times in my life. Two times were funerals, two times were job interviews. I'm sure there's a lesson there somewhere.
Right, you're probably one of these "men's movement" types, yeah?
Um, fuck you, you whiny bitch? Is that the reply you're begging for?
The poster asked a perfectly reasonably question.
The mods evidently thought is was an interesting question you mouth-breathing fuckwad.
Well said. That's the best and most succinct summing up of the situation I've ever read.
yeah but how many octopodes does it take to screw in a lightbulb
Two, but they've got to be very small octopodes or they won't fit...
Boom tish!
If I could log into a proxy server that could let me get a feed of the Halflife 3 World Cup (or whatever), viewed through a legit copy of the game on my tricked up PC and broadband connection, I would happily pay top dollar for the privilege.
;-)
What I would want though, is the same quality of presentation that we now get with major TV sports events, plus the interactivity and participation that we get with online gaming.
I'd want:
- Quality live commentators, statistics and game state presentation... think Superbowl, Rugby World Cup, F1 GP
- A live director for - at least - each team, so if I want to watch blue team setting up their bases and traps I can do so without necessarily having to work the camera controls myself.
- The ability to still use the usual 3d online game 'spactator' controls at any time.
- I would need the participants to be representing my country or something else that I can relate to the real world, not just some clan.
If gaming server networks could somehow be set up with a "spectator" mode where data was simply pushed out and proxied so thousands could watch without the gamers suffering server lag, I think they could provide ideal platform to develop all the ideas necessary to make all that interactive television stuff that's been talked about so much and acted on so little, a reality.
I'd love to see it, I'd pay to see it. Game companies if you're listening, do it! (I'm available as a consultant and tester
Err, I get your point, but really... "what's a web interface?". Why would they be buying a router if they don't know what the web is?
Not that it's really relevant to the discussion in any way, but yes he most certainly has backed up his claim very firmly.
If you have any evidence to the contrary I'd be facinated to hear it.
I try to think about it in terms of making everything equally accessible to everyone, no matter what. In real terms, to me that means approaching interface issues as if you might have intergalactic aliens attempting to navigate your web site or application.
It affects the way you deal with user input and output on a pretty fundamental level, particularly if your user might be a 1-tentacled space monster with 20-20 vision in several dimensions, just not our ones...
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Any chance you could mount the dish on the roof of the van on a hinge and carousel arrangement?
That way you could lie it (relatively) flat when travelling, and just raise / rotate it into position when you get where you're going, without having to lift it out and mount it.
You'd presumably have to have some sort of cover over it when driving, but OTOH you'd be able to do away with the wireless basestation.
Err, I can relate to your pain very directly (you should try starting an IT business in Australia some time to really get the taste of utter rejection, apathy and futility), but I was unable to satisfy my curiosity as to what the hell Convea actually is, because your web site first presented me with a "network path not found" error, (though it worked on my second attempt), then a great deal of marketing guff that would have won me a game of bullshit bingo in a single round, and then your demo link just popped up an empty page...
So I'm cheering for you here, but get back to me when you've sorted out your web site!
J F Christ, are you living in an alternate universe or have those rose-coloured glasses just fused to your face?
We are pathetic bitches. Yeah, it's a lovely country (as long as you're white, conservative and middle-class), but we have zero power in the world, zero say over our own future, and a "leader" who is hell bent on greasing up and bending over in front of the good old U! S! A! for a free trade agreement that will surely net us the kind of wonderful benefits that most of South America has been lucky enough to experience over the last decade or so.
Dominate? You are kidding yourself. We manufacture jack shit. Despite having the tattered remenants of an exellent education system we have a business community that would have rejected every major technological advance in history as being too risky to invest in. We are going absolutely nowhere except towards our inevitable inclusion into the growing list of US vassal states.
Congrats! First truly insightful post of the article!
Most famously when the Israeli Air Force attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. The official line is that it was an accident, however the circumstances are very suggestive of a deliberate attack.
It is intended for fat, rich, lazy, credulous morons.
Any imbecile riding one of these toys on a bike path anywhere near me will be receiving a gentle nudge into oncoming traffic (or off the side of the mountain).
Ah, if only that damn clown would retire... One can but hope, I guess.
Well yeah, it's a cute toy, but the Segway just seems like such a pointless, expensive, inefficient and above all inelegant solution to something that wasn't a problem in the first place... to me that makes it profoundly un-geeky.
Translation: hunt-sabs = saboteur of a fox-hunt.
You -and anyone else defending or using this moronic service- are clearly as much a part of the problem as the spammers themselves.
I'm not in the slightest bit against using RBLs - I do so myself - but denying services to thousands of people who have done nothing wrong and generally are unable to do anything about it anyway is exactly as damaging as sending the spam in the first place.
Where do you get this nonsense about having a right to email or not? Who mentioned having a right to it?
I pay for a service and it's denied to me because some irresponsible zealot nutjob has decided that an upstream provider to the ISP I use has provided bandwith to another ISP that has a user that has been alledged to have sent spam. No proof, no recourse. I *know* there's no legal or practical way I can stop this and that nothing I do or say to my ISP can have the slightest effect (and even if it did there's no way to get off the blocklist anyway), so frankly I celebrate when this fucking headcase and his mates give it up in the face of massive protest.
And if you're considering trying the line about how SPEWs don't blacklist, the admins that use it do, just forget it. That's a weasle excuse at best, and seems to me to admit that the service was as useless and damaging as it indeed was.
How the fuck are you supposed to do that if there's only one ISP available to you, you goddamn self-righteous genius?
I've heard - reliably - of similar setups with networks of 20-30 such slots in each venue all hooked up to an MS DOS machine (no shit) that has the actual connection to the central server for the region (dealing with many hundreds of venues).
The thing is, as you point out, the hackability of the OS doesn't really come into it too much. It's a fairly closed system, and well enough designed to withstand bits of it crashing, as I've personally experienced once or twice. No BSODs so far though, and sadly no free payouts - it's always been network-related crashes of some sort, which you may or may not find surprising...
Even better, the Ancient Greeks used their letters as digits too...
:)
I guess I could just google for myself, but hey, why not just ask someone who seems to know already...
How did this work?
Did alpha = 1, beta = 2, etc., or was there some more complex scheme? How did they distuingish between numbers and letters, for instance when enscribing something like "today we brewed 24 amphoras of beer".
I'm just curious - if you just chuck me a good link or something I'll be happy
Well sure, but not to come over too luddite or anything, having a few thousand gallons of gas, plus pumps and assorted equipment potentially accessible by the kiddiez doesn't strike me as the most sensible idea, to say the least.