12.04 is the current LTS, and will be supprted and patched until 2017.
Also 12.04.3 is from August this year. So it isn't some old OS left out to dry. I dunno if this is the version used but would be surprised if it isn't.
I dont use Ubuntu so I am not sure what is included in these increments. Bug fixes and backports?
You think that is the only Great White shark that is patrolling the East Coast?
I looked at it and thought "Cool, the East Coast (of Australia) is safe. There are no Great Whites at all." Then I thought like you, maybe they dont have them all.
under the filter proposal would cause all of amazon.com to be blocked in Australia. Over a game that is a joke the whole way through. Hopefully it would be re-classified after this change.
In order to win a Senate seat, the party has to gain a quota of votes. If the party gains two quotas, they get two Senate seats, and so on. In Conroy's case, he is the first candidate on Labor's Victorian Senate ticket - so if Labor gets a quota in Victoria, he's in. Doesn't matter how many quotas Labor gets, if they get just one, he's in.
This is true if all people voted above the line. The voting actually happens on individuals, it is just that parties can nominate how an above the line vote gets distributed.
Now tell me - what do you think are the odds that Labor doesn't get a Senate quota in this year's Federal election?
I think the probability is zero. It could happen if people voted below the line, the vast majority don't. Even if it was optional preferential people could just order their party selections and leave everything else. Currently I think that would be thrown away though.
No its not banned, it just cannot be sold in any state. However the territories do sell unclassified materials. Thats why everyone goes to Canberra for porn.
RC is banned for sale. Australia does have an X classification for movies and this is what you can buy in the territories.
This leads to the situation that sex shops in Australian states sell material that is X and potentially that would be RC (as they are already doing something illegal) and is not available in the territories. When the OFLC does spot checks of these shops they are usually only looking for child porn or bestiality.
One of the lobby groups for the sex industry has been complaining about this for a long time. Here is a story about it.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,26194980-36418,00.html
Furthermore, I'm not sure what you consider "large scale" but nothing comes close to SAS in that arena. R, while a very nice tool would choke on the sort of data SAS handles with ease.
I was involved recently in an evaluation of R at a Big Bank. It is great and I suggested our research people might like it, it just can't handle our volume of data though.
Being an old S/S+ person I wondered if I would prefer to contribute to R to make it enterprise safe or as also an old SAS person try and start up an R equivalent to SAS.
Luckily I will never be a billionaire so I don't have to make a decision.
I hope so. The thought of people having access to Amazon makes me sick. They sell the Leisure Suit Larry game that was RC, who knows what else they might have.
If you think this is just tinfoil hat paranoia, perhaps you haven't heard of the Wood Royal Commission. There's good reason to be wary of the police of NSW, and I say that despite being someone who might not be alive today were it not for a detective's hard work.
I have said this for more years than I care to remember, the NSW Police are the best police force that money can buy.
Our liveleak friend is looking at 15 yrs for reposting the "swinging baby" video
I think this is from a doco I saw a while ago of a Russian man. His family were in the circus, the baby in the video ended up performing in weightlifting.
However that's not ideal for a device that sits in pockets and handbags and office buildings with little natural light.
Well why don't they just build artificial light panels. Just like solar but charged by light bulbs.
If only we could capture all the artificial light with these panels and use that energy to power the artificial lights. If this isn't a perpetual energy machine, I don't know what is.
Personally, one of the most ignorant things I see is people who are in the middle of a conversation with you and just stop (often mid-sentence) to answer the phone, regardless of who's calling.
What I hate the most about this is people that just say 'I am in the middle of something, can I call you back?' Wouldn't letting it through to voicemail say the same thing?
Prof Michael, thanks very much for adding so much to this discussion.
I like these photos a lot as it make me remember that in all of these types of adventures, there are actually real people doing the work. Physically traveling to places that are incredibly difficult and I guess dangerous as well.
The shot of two blokes sitting on top of the yellow box just for a photo is great. If only they were holding up a "Hi Mum" sign or something.
Either he is a retard, or he is mimicking one. It's just a matter of common respect for your audience. Yeah, you can dress like a jackass, but all that says
Let me imagine for a minute.
You: Why is this retard wearing a nappy? Doesn't he understand that India will never be free until he puts a suit and tie on.
You: Why is this retard wearing a Springboks jumper? How will anyone take him seriously?
You: Why is this African-American shaking that torch like that? Can't he just put it straight in? Doesn't he understand what a mockery this is?
Or, or, or...
I think you are completely right for the first few years of college. Very few academics really want to teach first or second year courses. Let the one who are good at that do videos for everyone. Eg, my first year economics course had multiple overflow rooms, how useful was that?
MIT are taking good steps with this. Eventually you will be able to get some certification from public projects like this.
The length of a CD is up to 78 minutes, as defined by the standard Did manufacturing just get better then, so it could meet the upper end of the standard? Earlier CD's were restricted to 74m, then later on it magically became 78m. An example is 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' by The Cure. The original CD omitted one track 'Hey You!'. It has subsequently been put back on to the re-mastered, re-packaged, re-taking-your-money editions.
Unfortunately for 'Storm The Studio' by Meat Beat Manifesto they couldn't seem fit on Strapdown Part 3 which is still missing from the newer editions.
And to evilbessie I hope I am not the one to break it you, but some people aren't so moronic that they read 'Eco perhaps, Hofstadter, Orwell or Burroughs even' and think that they are thinkers. A lot people read this stuff and a lot of other things without worrying what is 'think' material and what is not. They just enjoy it.
I agree completely. FBI in Sydney is a great station. The earlier poster suggested RRR in Melbourne as well. Both are good. Unfortunately I don't live in either city. So my radio choices are nothing.
Thats not entirely true. I still try and listen to Roy & HG and the Coodabeans. Neither are primarily news or music though.
Too true. Painfully true. If you live in Australia and care about the information you're fed, listen to Triple J radio. They may be somewhat left biased (particularly being a non-commercial alternative 'youth' focused network),
This may have been true prior to 1989. Remember when they played 'Express Yourself' by NWA all day? Then all those people got the sack and they have been a stupid useless joke ever since.
but they rarely filter, blinker or mold the truth, unlike the other stations.
They also used to do their own news. Now they feed off the common ABC feed. I love getting sport updates on JJJ. Reminds me how far they have fallen. Their news now reflects the upper-middle class crap that the rest of the ABC does.
As an aside I remember when the DJs weren't handed set lists and could actually play anything they wanted. JJJ wasn't just another music industry whore.
Someone commented that corporations seem to go through three phases
For private companies this has usually been ascribed to the generations that owned them. You've got Grandpa that started it all and was successful enough to pass something along to his son. The son increases it a bit usually, but loses the focus of the original business. Then the grandkids come along and piss it all up against the wall.
Best examples at the moment in Australia are Packer and Murdoch. (Although James Murdoch appears to be doing ok). The rest of the third generation are burning cash faster than I could snort coke whilst swimming in champagne.
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12.04 is the current LTS, and will be supprted and patched until 2017.
Also 12.04.3 is from August this year. So it isn't some old OS left out to dry. I dunno if this is the version used but would be surprised if it isn't.
I dont use Ubuntu so I am not sure what is included in these increments. Bug fixes and backports?
Actually there is quite a lot I don't know.
I looked at it and thought "Cool, the East Coast (of Australia) is safe. There are no Great Whites at all." Then I thought like you, maybe they dont have them all.
I find it strange that this link (caution, links to a site selling RC material)
http://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Suit-Larry-Magna-Laude-Pc/dp/B0001XLMTY/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1291536607&sr=8-10
under the filter proposal would cause all of amazon.com to be blocked in Australia. Over a game that is a joke the whole way through. Hopefully it would be re-classified after this change.
In order to win a Senate seat, the party has to gain a quota of votes. If the party gains two quotas, they get two Senate seats, and so on. In Conroy's case, he is the first candidate on Labor's Victorian Senate ticket - so if Labor gets a quota in Victoria, he's in. Doesn't matter how many quotas Labor gets, if they get just one, he's in.
This is true if all people voted above the line. The voting actually happens on individuals, it is just that parties can nominate how an above the line vote gets distributed.
Now tell me - what do you think are the odds that Labor doesn't get a Senate quota in this year's Federal election?
I think the probability is zero. It could happen if people voted below the line, the vast majority don't. Even if it was optional preferential people could just order their party selections and leave everything else. Currently I think that would be thrown away though.
No its not banned, it just cannot be sold in any state. However the territories do sell unclassified materials. Thats why everyone goes to Canberra for porn.
RC is banned for sale. Australia does have an X classification for movies and this is what you can buy in the territories.
This leads to the situation that sex shops in Australian states sell material that is X and potentially that would be RC (as they are already doing something illegal) and is not available in the territories. When the OFLC does spot checks of these shops they are usually only looking for child porn or bestiality.
One of the lobby groups for the sex industry has been complaining about this for a long time. Here is a story about it. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,26194980-36418,00.html
Furthermore, I'm not sure what you consider "large scale" but nothing comes close to SAS in that arena. R, while a very nice tool would choke on the sort of data SAS handles with ease.
I was involved recently in an evaluation of R at a Big Bank. It is great and I suggested our research people might like it, it just can't handle our volume of data though.
Being an old S/S+ person I wondered if I would prefer to contribute to R to make it enterprise safe or as also an old SAS person try and start up an R equivalent to SAS.
Luckily I will never be a billionaire so I don't have to make a decision.
I hope so. The thought of people having access to Amazon makes me sick. They sell the Leisure Suit Larry game that was RC, who knows what else they might have.
If you think this is just tinfoil hat paranoia, perhaps you haven't heard of the Wood Royal Commission. There's good reason to be wary of the police of NSW, and I say that despite being someone who might not be alive today were it not for a detective's hard work.
I have said this for more years than I care to remember, the NSW Police are the best police force that money can buy.
Our liveleak friend is looking at 15 yrs for reposting the "swinging baby" video
I think this is from a doco I saw a while ago of a Russian man. His family were in the circus, the baby in the video ended up performing in weightlifting.
Everyone at SBS should be arrested.
However that's not ideal for a device that sits in pockets and handbags and office buildings with little natural light.
Well why don't they just build artificial light panels. Just like solar but charged by light bulbs.
If only we could capture all the artificial light with these panels and use that energy to power the artificial lights. If this isn't a perpetual energy machine, I don't know what is.
Yes, but I fail to see why people think 15032008 is an approximation to celebrate, and you can put the decimal point anywhere you like.
What I hate the most about this is people that just say 'I am in the middle of something, can I call you back?' Wouldn't letting it through to voicemail say the same thing?
Prof Michael, thanks very much for adding so much to this discussion.
I like these photos a lot as it make me remember that in all of these types of adventures, there are actually real people doing the work. Physically traveling to places that are incredibly difficult and I guess dangerous as well.
The shot of two blokes sitting on top of the yellow box just for a photo is great. If only they were holding up a "Hi Mum" sign or something.
Hope it all goes well.
Let me imagine for a minute.
You: Why is this retard wearing a nappy? Doesn't he understand that India will never be free until he puts a suit and tie on.
You: Why is this retard wearing a Springboks jumper? How will anyone take him seriously?
You: Why is this African-American shaking that torch like that? Can't he just put it straight in? Doesn't he understand what a mockery this is?
Misinterpreted man? Most of the time I can't even read it enough to misinterpret it.
Or, or, or...
I think you are completely right for the first few years of college. Very few academics really want to teach first or second year courses. Let the one who are good at that do videos for everyone. Eg, my first year economics course had multiple overflow rooms, how useful was that? MIT are taking good steps with this. Eventually you will be able to get some certification from public projects like this.
Unfortunately for 'Storm The Studio' by Meat Beat Manifesto they couldn't seem fit on Strapdown Part 3 which is still missing from the newer editions.
Who did write 'The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod'?
And to evilbessie I hope I am not the one to break it you, but some people aren't so moronic that they read 'Eco perhaps, Hofstadter, Orwell or Burroughs even' and think that they are thinkers. A lot people read this stuff and a lot of other things without worrying what is 'think' material and what is not. They just enjoy it.
BD shoulda been FP
Yes Sir! Anything else you would like for free?
I agree completely. FBI in Sydney is a great station. The earlier poster suggested RRR in Melbourne as well. Both are good. Unfortunately I don't live in either city. So my radio choices are nothing.
Thats not entirely true. I still try and listen to Roy & HG and the Coodabeans. Neither are primarily news or music though.
Too true. Painfully true. If you live in Australia and care about the information you're fed, listen to Triple J radio. They may be somewhat left biased (particularly being a non-commercial alternative 'youth' focused network),
This may have been true prior to 1989. Remember when they played 'Express Yourself' by NWA all day? Then all those people got the sack and they have been a stupid useless joke ever since.
but they rarely filter, blinker or mold the truth, unlike the other stations.
They also used to do their own news. Now they feed off the common ABC feed. I love getting sport updates on JJJ. Reminds me how far they have fallen. Their news now reflects the upper-middle class crap that the rest of the ABC does.
As an aside I remember when the DJs weren't handed set lists and could actually play anything they wanted. JJJ wasn't just another music industry whore.
All the artists should just do what I do and post art that is so crappy no one in their right mind would copy it. And steal others'.
TODD
Damn, just wasted 4 mod point too. Very funny, thank you.
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Someone commented that corporations seem to go through three phases
For private companies this has usually been ascribed to the generations that owned them. You've got Grandpa that started it all and was successful enough to pass something along to his son. The son increases it a bit usually, but loses the focus of the original business. Then the grandkids come along and piss it all up against the wall.
Best examples at the moment in Australia are Packer and Murdoch. (Although James Murdoch appears to be doing ok). The rest of the third generation are burning cash faster than I could snort coke whilst swimming in champagne.