Yes. In NSW it is. It is also illegal to sell anything with a blade to someone under 16.
It is also illegal to carry that kitchen knife you bought at the Chef supply store to your car to take it home. It is illegal to have a pocket knife in your possession in a public place.
Doesn't stop people doing these things and is rarely enforced, but it gives police an excuse to arrest people they don't like the look of, in addition to the "trifecta" non charge they seem to use so much (offensive language, resisting arrest, assaulting police)
Then it's "Oh, and look what we found in this little bag in your pocket."
Actually in NSW it is not technically legal to carry said kitchen knife home from where you bought it. It's called "going armed in public" or something.
Even having a pocket knife or swiss army knife in your pocket to peel your orange is illegal if you are in a public place.
Completely ridiculous and rather selectively enforced.
The one new feature I'm looking for is the ability to have multiple X-ranges in a X-Y chart. at the moment when I open my Excel spreadsheet in Oo2 it moves all the X-Ranges to the first one when I save it.
You will be replacing the whole thing with a new one anyway just because of obsolescence long before any of the cores "burn out" - unless your heat sink falls off or your fan stops or your voltage regulator fails, or your motherboard filter caps leak. Then you'll be replacing the whole CPU at least, not just limping along without one core.
This initiative is a demand side solution that tries to take away the peak that occurs over the a couple of hot days in mid summer. To address a demand side problem (peaky demand) from the supply side is not a good idea.
You have to remember that money spent on infrastructure that isn't used much takes money away from projects that would provide greater benefit per dollar spent.
It's a lot easier and fairer to address the demand side directly by lopping off those few peaks. Having your thermostat set to 25degC (do the conversion yourself) is not going to kill your computer(s). I had three of them running yesterday in a non-airconditioned house that reached 30degC indoors and had no problems.
Having said that, I think a better approach is to let the market do the work. Here in NSW, we have a new system foir new meter installations where you get charged different rates depending on when you use the power. Power that you use during peak times costs 3 times as much, and you get a discount for off peak.
The UK has a similar system, and it requires a special meter that can store the time each kWhr was used. These are being installed in NSW for new dwellings and when meters are replaced for other reasons, but they will eventually become the standard.
The new tariffs give people an incentive to do things like running dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, etc overnight when its cheap. It also gives an incentive to turn up your thermostat during peak times, or run the Aircon earlier when it's cheaper and rely on that insulation you were forced by BASIX to install to keep your house cool through the peak.
Not everyone will do so. Some will need to run air conditioning through the peak to protect their overclocked "data centre" or whatever. Some will do it on one day and not another day. Some will be too ignorant or lazy to bother about when they turn things on.
Those people will pay for their peak usage. Others will be smart and find ways to minimise their peak usage by by what they run at night. By having lots of people doing so. those peaks will be lopped off, money is spent on more beneficial infrastructure, less energy is wasted, less carbon is emitted and everyone is happy, except those who can't or won't reduce their peak usage. No one is forced to sit in a hot room and there are opportunities to save on your bill.
# The magazines store enough energy for like half a YEAR of use, so even longish periods of drougth are no problem. So six months without filling the lake is a drought is it?
Warragamba Dam near Sydney stores enough water for five years and hasn't been full since 1987.
Why do I fear this "prequil" will suffer the same fate as the Lucas prequils, with Bilbo at the end screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOO"
That's after they've added in material to show the increasing influence of the Ring on Bilbo's character. Bilbo increasingly acts like a whiny child when Gandalf tries to correct him, and ultimately slays Gollum in front of Sauron after being promised fame fortune and eternal life for him and the newly written in Hobbit love interest he has foreseen the death of. Of course that mean re releasing the LOTR trilogy with Bilbo taking Gollum's place.
Don't forget the version with Bilbo narrating and the one without Bilbo narrating, and the one re-edited to suggest that Bilbo is really an orc himself - or was that another movie?:)
As others have pointed out though, BigPuddle is one of the few ISPs that charge large amounts for any data used above a fairly miserable monthly allocation (for the price compared to other Australian ISPs). Therefore, by removing this from their free server, they're forcing people to pay their $150Gb to download Office - if that download takes them over their monthly quota, which may be as low as 200Mb. This will discourage people who are Telstra users to bother using OpenOffice.
Having said that, most people who are on the savvy level of the average Slashdotter wouldn't bother with Bigpuddle. Their market is the AOL demographic, because they can charge a lot of money to those who don't realise they can get a better deal elsewhere, and who go to Telstra because they appear to be a "safe" option. They've probably also stayed with Telstra for their phone as the "default" option because shopping for a better deal is too confusing and difficult.
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Yes. In NSW it is. It is also illegal to sell anything with a blade to someone under 16. It is also illegal to carry that kitchen knife you bought at the Chef supply store to your car to take it home. It is illegal to have a pocket knife in your possession in a public place. Doesn't stop people doing these things and is rarely enforced, but it gives police an excuse to arrest people they don't like the look of, in addition to the "trifecta" non charge they seem to use so much (offensive language, resisting arrest, assaulting police) Then it's "Oh, and look what we found in this little bag in your pocket."
Actually in NSW it is not technically legal to carry said kitchen knife home from where you bought it. It's called "going armed in public" or something. Even having a pocket knife or swiss army knife in your pocket to peel your orange is illegal if you are in a public place. Completely ridiculous and rather selectively enforced.
People Eating Tasty Animals
but you have to wear the special trousers.
Unlimited power!!!!!
But how much information can it process in Libraries of Congress?
Four throats. Very powerful.
You can sit on it though.
In your mother's basement.
Posting on Slashdot.
As a matter of fact, I do.
But the vegemite sandwich won't be necessary.
...and the helicopter ejection seat
...but they don't contain real girl scouts
spicy moon enchiladas. Or did I read that wrong?
The one new feature I'm looking for is the ability to have multiple X-ranges in a X-Y chart. at the moment when I open my Excel spreadsheet in Oo2 it moves all the X-Ranges to the first one when I save it.
Also known as the Richie Benaud release
"Dantooine. They're on Dantooine"
and what colour trail did the Navy pick?
Can we have your liver?
Kiss me, Sir William, I am no longer infected.
You will be replacing the whole thing with a new one anyway just because of obsolescence long before any of the cores "burn out" - unless your heat sink falls off or your fan stops or your voltage regulator fails, or your motherboard filter caps leak. Then you'll be replacing the whole CPU at least, not just limping along without one core.
This initiative is a demand side solution that tries to take away the peak that occurs over the a couple of hot days in mid summer. To address a demand side problem (peaky demand) from the supply side is not a good idea.
You have to remember that money spent on infrastructure that isn't used much takes money away from projects that would provide greater
benefit per dollar spent.
It's a lot easier and fairer to address the demand side directly by lopping off those few peaks. Having your thermostat set to 25degC (do the conversion yourself) is not going to kill your computer(s). I had three of them running yesterday in a non-airconditioned house that reached 30degC indoors and had no problems.
Having said that, I think a better approach is to let the market do the work. Here in NSW, we have a new system foir new meter installations where you get charged different rates depending on when you use the power. Power that you use during peak times costs 3 times as much, and you get a discount for off peak.
The UK has a similar system, and it requires a special meter that can store the time each kWhr was used. These are being installed in NSW for new dwellings and when meters are replaced for other reasons, but they will eventually become the standard.
The new tariffs give people an incentive to do things like running dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, etc overnight when its cheap. It also gives an incentive to turn up your thermostat during peak times, or run the Aircon earlier when it's cheaper and rely on that insulation you were forced by BASIX to install to keep your house cool through the peak.
Not everyone will do so. Some will need to run air conditioning through the peak to protect their overclocked "data centre" or whatever. Some will do it on one day and not another day. Some will be too ignorant or lazy to bother about when they turn things on.
Those people will pay for their peak usage. Others will be smart and find ways to minimise their peak usage by by what they run at night. By having lots of people doing so. those peaks will be lopped off, money is spent on more beneficial infrastructure, less energy is wasted, less carbon is emitted and everyone is happy, except those who can't or won't reduce their peak usage. No one is forced to sit in a hot room and there are opportunities to save on your bill.
Warragamba Dam near Sydney stores enough water for five years and hasn't been full since 1987. Now that's a drought!
What about:
"Get these Motherf*#king orcs out of my motherf*#king cave!"
That's after they've added in material to show the increasing influence of the Ring on Bilbo's character. Bilbo increasingly acts like a whiny child when Gandalf tries to correct him, and ultimately slays Gollum in front of Sauron after being promised fame fortune and eternal life for him and the newly written in Hobbit love interest he has foreseen the death of. Of course that mean re releasing the LOTR trilogy with Bilbo taking Gollum's place.
Don't forget the version with Bilbo narrating and the one without Bilbo narrating, and the one re-edited to suggest that Bilbo is really an orc himself - or was that another movie? :)
As others have pointed out though, BigPuddle is one of the few ISPs that charge large amounts for any data used above a fairly miserable monthly allocation (for the price compared to other Australian ISPs). Therefore, by removing this from their free server, they're forcing people to pay their $150Gb to download Office - if that download takes them over their monthly quota, which may be as low as 200Mb. This will discourage people who are Telstra users to bother using OpenOffice.
Having said that, most people who are on the savvy level of the average Slashdotter wouldn't bother with Bigpuddle. Their market is the AOL demographic, because they can charge a lot of money to those who don't realise they can get a better deal elsewhere, and who go to Telstra because they appear to be a "safe" option. They've probably also stayed with Telstra for their phone as the "default" option because shopping for a better deal is too confusing and difficult.