Here in Australia we don't have a licence, but some of our tax does to our equivalent, the ABC. It's often quoted as costing us 8c a day. That gets national TV,and multiple radio stations. No ads, fantastic programs, and is also an excellent system.
God I don't know how many times I have said this before....but in Australia, if you don't want to vote, DON'T FUCKING REGISTER!!!!!!!!
IF you register, you know that it is the law to vote, and you register under that obligation. And if you don't like it, don;t register...it's as simple as that.
Anyone that wants to buy it (and can handle PAL recordings) may wish to buy it from an Australian online DVD retailer, it's been out here for about 3 weeks.
Nowhere EVER in any of the releases from Optus@home did it state that they were scanning downloads. All they are going to do is act in response if a copyright holder complains about infringements, which is WHAT ANY OTHER ISP JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ALREADY DOES.
It's pretty simple stuff, at moment I'm putting an a Compaq Storageworks EMA 12000 with dual HSG80 controllers. If one goes down, the other keeps going. And all this is mirrored over fibre to another site.
It's pretty basic stuff for a data centre, and yet MS can't seem to handle this. Shit, you could even do most of this with Windows 2000 and this hardware.
Interestingly, I was at a Compaq update last week, and there were pretty solid plans for the future of Alpha past 2010.
The VMS business is worth $4billion, and Tru64 is currently about $3.5billion...why would they want to go and port to a whole new architecture?
The presenter scoffed when asked about IA64, saying what an inferior architecture it was, and that the compliers would need years of work before they were useful.
So it will be interesting to see who is telling the truth.
If you don't want to vote, don't register! It's not compulsory.
If you register, you do so knowing that voting is compulsory.
And what is wrong with that? It's just another civic duty like jury duty. And after seeing the pathetic bullshit that constitutes a US campaign just to get some interest from voters to get off their arses, I'm glad for it.
Try and buy a licence for a product on a low end Alpha, and look at the price for the same product for an 8400. The same thing has been going on for years, you pay different rates for a higher system grade- workgroup or Enterprise...
Australia produces a large majority of its own oil in the oilfields just south of where the accident happened. Why do foreigners without a clue keep posting articles about Australia?
Who cares about BPA? There is a lot of competition around the corner.
TPG have announced a satellite access plan that is supposed to start in Januray, $20 per month unlimited ($12 US) and you also get some TV channels thrown in as well.
Too true. We see the Sega Dreamcast, with an uncopyable disc format. So, according to what the industry tells us, they should be able to charge less for them. I'm not sure about everywhere else, but here in Australia they're more expensive than Playstation games. That argument doesn't hold much ground.
I don't know why they just say they want to make as much money as possible.
I can vaguely remember seeing the original story on Australian TV a few months ago. I think one of the reasons mentioned was that information being gathered was being used to benefit US interests at the expense of other nations interests, including Australia's.
Or watch it on television. Just look at SBS at night and you can see quite a bit more than just softcore.
This is what is so ridiculous about this law, the rest of the media in Australia is quite liberal (judging from the reactions of Americans on Aus TV, they get away with a lot more than American networks) yet we have this utterly stupid restriction placed on the net.
I was thinking exactly the same thing myself. PC games publishers would also have to undergo serious re-thinks as to their strategy. Just about every PC game I buy needs some sort of patch to make the game work properly, or fix some bug.Granted, a lot of problems are due to the myriad of PC configs out there, but a lot of them are because of shoddy testing.
Do they expect Joe Average to put up with such shoddy product? I don't think so. One of the reasons I enjoy my consoles is that they work, and in all my years of playing console games, I have never had one crash.
The PC games software market has a long way to go before it could take on the console market.
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If you are dumb enough to sign up for a 300MB plan then you deserve it.
There are alternatives, I have Netspace ADSL 10GB for $50US a month. Yes it is crap by US standards but its fine for most people
Here in Australia we don't have a licence, but some of our tax does to our equivalent, the ABC. It's often quoted as costing us 8c a day. That gets national TV,and multiple radio stations. No ads, fantastic programs, and is also an excellent system.
God I don't know how many times I have said this before....but in Australia, if you don't want to vote, DON'T FUCKING REGISTER!!!!!!!!
IF you register, you know that it is the law to vote, and you register under that obligation. And if you don't like it, don;t register...it's as simple as that.
Anyone that wants to buy it (and can handle PAL recordings) may wish to buy it from an Australian online DVD retailer, it's been out here for about 3 weeks.
Why are you all looking at a UK site for news on an Australian issue?
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Why do all Slashdotters instantly overreact with anything to do with Australia?
Why don't of you go and read this fucking article:
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPag
or visit http://www.whirlpool.net.au
Nowhere EVER in any of the releases from Optus@home did it state that they were scanning downloads. All they are going to do is act in response if a copyright holder complains about infringements, which is WHAT ANY OTHER ISP JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ALREADY DOES.
Simple, redundant controllers.
It's pretty simple stuff, at moment I'm putting an a Compaq Storageworks EMA 12000 with dual HSG80 controllers. If one goes down, the other keeps going. And all this is mirrored over fibre to another site.
It's pretty basic stuff for a data centre, and yet MS can't seem to handle this. Shit, you could even do most of this with Windows 2000 and this hardware.
Interestingly, I was at a Compaq update last week, and there were pretty solid plans for the future of Alpha past 2010.
The VMS business is worth $4billion, and Tru64 is currently about $3.5billion...why would they want to go and port to a whole new architecture?
The presenter scoffed when asked about IA64, saying what an inferior architecture it was, and that the compliers would need years of work before they were useful.
So it will be interesting to see who is telling the truth.
So why do they region code movies 10 years old?
Surely by then they have had their run in cinemas worldwide.
If you don't want to vote, don't register! It's not compulsory.
If you register, you do so knowing that voting is compulsory.
And what is wrong with that? It's just another civic duty like jury duty. And after seeing the pathetic bullshit that constitutes a US campaign just to get some interest from voters to get off their arses, I'm glad for it.
It's not all bad though for dial up. I use DingoBlue...it costs me $27 Aus (about $14US) for an unlimited connection per month..
For a 25c call, this connection has been up for 200 hours so far, and has downloaded about 900megs.
There are plenty of unlimited ISPS out there now
Try and buy a licence for a product on a low end Alpha, and look at the price for the same product for an 8400. The same thing has been going on for years, you pay different rates for a higher system grade- workgroup or Enterprise...
Australia produces a large majority of its own oil in the oilfields just south of where the accident happened. Why do foreigners without a clue keep posting articles about Australia?
Who cares about BPA? There is a lot of competition around the corner.
TPG have announced a satellite access plan that is supposed to start in Januray, $20 per month unlimited ($12 US) and you also get some TV channels thrown in as well.
I don't know why people are getting so upset.
Too true. We see the Sega Dreamcast, with an uncopyable disc format. So, according to what the industry tells us, they should be able to charge less for them. I'm not sure about everywhere else, but here in Australia they're more expensive than Playstation games. That argument doesn't hold much ground.
I don't know why they just say they want to make as much money as possible.
I can vaguely remember seeing the original story on Australian TV a few months ago. I think one of the reasons mentioned was that information being gathered was being used to benefit US interests at the expense of other nations interests, including Australia's.
Or watch it on television. Just look at SBS at night and you can see quite a bit more than just softcore.
This is what is so ridiculous about this law, the rest of the media in Australia is quite liberal (judging from the reactions of Americans on Aus TV, they get away with a lot more than American networks) yet we have this utterly stupid restriction placed on the net.
Thats crap. We have racial vilification laws, which make it illegal to discriminate against a person based on race. What is the problem with that?
The reason why people haven't complained? Maybe we don't want the Klan, or nutcase Christian fundamentalists running around blowing up clinics.
An Australian, Lawrence Hargrave, provided much of the groundwork for the Wrights. had to get an Aussie in somewhere :)
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http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/hargrave/lawr-h.ht
I was thinking exactly the same thing myself. PC games publishers would also have to undergo serious re-thinks as to their strategy. Just about every PC game I buy needs some sort of patch to make the game work properly, or fix some bug.Granted, a lot of problems are due to the myriad of PC configs out there, but a lot of them are because of shoddy testing.
Do they expect Joe Average to put up with such shoddy product? I don't think so. One of the reasons I enjoy my consoles is that they work, and in all my years of playing console games, I have never had one crash.
The PC games software market has a long way to go before it could take on the console market.
These things have been out for 12 months in Australia, and we get the black ones!
Have a look at www.blasterpc.com.au if interested.