In the end the only way to not get gouge in australia is to buy on the grey market from another country. Here instead of plowing through copyright laws by absolutely flouting them, you can bypass the arbitrary high price by going into the grey zone and buying from overseas resellers engage in arbitrage.
These companies have to get realistic, the government is already taking a dim view on this so it is unlikely, and the fact you have to go grey market often means it might be easier just to pirate the whole damn thing.
This is a massive competitiveness issue. Especially if it cost 2 times a seat to employ in world terms somebody in Australia than it does in the US just on software.
Governments don't like arbitrary things like that, especially if they can outlaw them....
He was an artist on a fellowship in new york. The statement of a fellowship tends to suggest he was paid by some organisation, which means he probably came in on a j1 or j2 visa status. This is a short term working visa for visiting artist, academics and performers. Ie if you are on a sabbatical to a us university from europe, or you are a touring musician or an artist working as an artist in the states you get one of these types of visa fairly easily.
The part of the company which founded silcon valley and made Hewlett Packard was spun out as Agilent. They make high end test equipment and instrumentation for a wide range of markets (electronics testing to biotech).
HP was the well known brand name that was kept to sell to the wider consummer market in PCs and IT equipment. There was a time when HP could make computers and it fitted with the high end analytical equipment philosophy in terms of quality. But the realities of the PCs in the late 90's (and following through to now) meant that they sacrificed the brand name to the IT PC consumer market, while putting the quality, innovative and true silcon valley element into Agilent.
why is one wing shaped differently than the other, i wonder..
This plane is meant to fly a circular path around an area indefinately.
Maybe the differential drag of the wings will make it fly a circular path naturally, and produce less drag overall than constantly moving the rudder or Ailerons to make a straight flying plane turn. Less drag means less energy required to keep it flying.
I am not a german lawyer (IANAGL). But essentially the law is saying you can't make new publications refering to the names of the released prisoners after they are released. But it was OK to publish this when they were in jail or being prosecuted.
Therefore every publication published before they were released were legally able to publish their names and assuming that there is no requirement to destroy said publication, which would be very Orwellian, then all the information can stay out there in libraries etc.
Obviously everything outside of germany doesn't have to comply, but the german wikipedia can just show a static locked version of the offending page from before the two murderers were released, as it is then not a new publication.
This is military research. Most if not all posts have to be filled by US citizens, after extensive security checks.
The military research and engineering area were always going to be the first to suffer from a decrease in the number of US citizens going into scientific and engineering fields. It is one area where importing overseas trained scientists and engineers can't fill the gap.
Which part of "chasing down and killing" and "outlaw" didn't you get. Lets take it simple, max was in a ford, the bad guy was in a hq (i think not a holden guy myself) monaro. The death of the bad guy sets up the plot for the rest of the film.
A rebadged holden monaro with a bigger yank engine. I hope your right about us making real progress on alternative energy sources, we don't want a fuel starved society decending into a anarchic dystopia to eventuate.
Interesting but totally unrelated sidenote, the first mad max film (road warrior in the US) opened with max chasing down (and killing) an outlaw in a 70's era Holden Monaro.
Ahh the irony. The way wikileaks facilitates the distribution of stolen,illegal and/or highly sensitive information in broadly very similar mechanisms that banks like BRB facilitates the hiding and laundering of stolen,illegal and/or highly taxable amounts of money.
Keep the information about where it came from tightly secured. Distribute and flow it through a number of international sites, ideally with favourable political/legal/tax climates. Fight tooth and nail against any attempts to force divulging or removal of information when requested by various national legal jurisdictions.
The same reason very specialized solutions often cost a lot. It's the development cost and small manufacturing tooling and low run production costs that drive up the price, but with a flip side of small but lucrative market that wants these products and is willing to pay the necessary fee to have them delivered in a turnkey setup.
This is an interesting point. It is off a camera that is for surveillance on the NJ turnpike. It would seem it came from some security officer that took a tape and did some editing. In truth the creative input and therefore copyright is with the mystery guy that did the editing around miles of random footage, but they obviously either broke some laws or the terms of their employment and aren't going to come forward.
Well you can do it with todays technology. Simply have an imaging fiber bundle, with each fiber pixel feeding into a photodiode or ccd array spectrometer. This is very expensive but doable. As for getting this cheap, well that's a different story as the gain in accuracy is pretty minimal for most consumer applications but for some scientific applications it has a real benifit.
My I say the guy that bought the drive at the flea market, he is a decent bloke/guy/fella. He had a look at what was on the drive he bought, and then he felt it pertinent to alert the original owners to their vulnerability and not just screw them with identity theft.
Zips aren't to bad, though outdated these days. In their day though 100mb was pretty big. I used one upto about a year ago, to get data off an old 68K mac which we used for data collection. Works well and as long as you stick with usb, scsi or internal drives actually pretty fast. Disk were always a bit over priced really.
English is ambiguous because it is a mish mash of every other languages.
My personal peeve about English as a language is the lack of an official plural for "you". My personal preference is for the Australian "youse", but would accept the american southern contraction "y'all".
Actually children learn a lot of things through play. Dolls are a classic example, where the child will use various dolls (and stuffed toys etc.) and play act them interacting in a social manner. The parents can give good examples and explain important aspect of being a well adjusted social indivdual, but then these lessons are acted out during play and are thus reinforced (unfortunatly the same will be true of bad parenting to). The sims just happens to be a more interactive version of this type of play, where the social interaction is already built into the program.
As other people have said fat32 is the obvious standard. Also there is no way that microsoft is going to restrict fat32 reading ability in vista. Why, because every portable harddisk and flask drive tends to be fat32 formatted. Basically if Vista didn't support this, 90% of flash thumb drives would become obsolte overnight, and that will go down like a lead balloon. Also if they do, fat32 is open enough to allow someone to write a suitable driver in vista for it.
How about laptop users? Many users use laptops as there main general computing wordprocessor etc.(especially a big gaming contingent, college kids). If you buy a gaming laptop, it costs a bomb, they are hot and heavy, and you get crap battery life. So instead get a lighter, cheaper and longer running, but less powerful laptop and a 360 (or ps3 when it comes out). This makes a lot more sense than buying a second gaming PC.
The numbers quoted in dollars attached to the item seem ludicrous. I call April fools.
Anyway, anyone recognised the british medical journal gag this year. It's a "news" story about MoDwD or,"motivational dificiency disorder", which apparently affects 1/5 Australians.
"As a general aside, SUVs and trucks have full length rails in order to support a more capable payload and suspension capability. Without the full length rail, the capacity would be limited. Cars used to have this as well, except that it became too expensive..."
Car manufactures adopted unibody construction (majority of car makers converted around the 50's and 60's) because it makes better cars (as in transports for passengers with shopping/luggage). This is through weight reductions, lower center of gravity and increased rigidity and load bearing capabilities of the body as a whole. All these aspects increasing the handling and safety of cars, and are the aspects that work against the safety and handling of body on chassis trucks and SUV's. Weight reduction: the chassis on body has a heavy chassis to take most of the loads of the vehicle and keep the body rigid with bolted on body work which is fairly passive in this respect, while unibody and monocoque designs use the body as part of the chassis and spread the loads over a far greater percentage of the steel in the car. Center of gravity: the chassis on body designs usually have the passengers and cargo and often the engine above the chassis and wheels as it is very hard to design otherwise, which is OK for high wheel clearance vehicles like 4x4 but the trade off is a higher center of gravity than a unibody car.
Shure E3c isolator earbuds with an iPod for me. They really do improve the sound so much over the normal portable earbud type phones. Also you can turn them down a lot and still hear some nice subtelties in the music, even when bouncing around on a crowded bus. Only problems is that they can be a pain to get to fit properly initially (they come with a bag of various sized earbuds), and occasionally you have to clean the earwax out of them. Also unlike isolating or noise cancelling headphones, you can keep them in your pocket when your not using them.
So, buy non-hydrogenated margarine. They are usually made from plant oils without the hydrogenation and so result in a softer consistency, and is healthier than hydrogenated margarine or butter.
.. is they can't admit defeat. There is no way to keep porn out of the hands of those people who actually want it. Yet they can't accept that fact, and they still believe that they can eliminate it. So what do they do, any move that regulates and thus stops some of the excesses of the porn industry, but thus also further legitimizing it, is fought tooth and nail. In this case a sensible approach of putting up a virtual redlight district that everybody knows is there, and those who want to visit it can, and those that don't can avoid or if a childs guardian chooses to can be blocked very easily.
The same is also true of prostitution of course, which porn is an abstraction of. There are many good reasons to legalise and regulate prostitution, including STD prevention and monitoring and giving the prostitute a legitimate status that will significantly minimise exploitation.
The truth is, nobody has irradicated prostitution, and nobody can irradicate porn now it is so entrenched in our society, and anybody with a video camera can make it.
"It's a sad day in the history of humanity. The cruelty that we visit upon each other should never be forgotten."
Lots of people are going to reply to this statement by saying that it was justified that japan was bombed and so forth. What these people don't quite comprehend is that these two final large acts of massive distruction where the penultimate destructive act of WW2. The final massively destructive orgy of the war and the first deployment of a weapon that would dominate world affairs afterwards.
If you think that the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs were justified, then it is sad that the US was forced into unleashing such a destructive weapon upon the world. In effect that the evils of WW2 could only be counterd with an evil weapon. If you think it was unjustified, then you have your own reasons to think it was a sad day for the world.
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In the end the only way to not get gouge in australia is to buy on the grey market from another country. Here instead of plowing through copyright laws by absolutely flouting them, you can bypass the arbitrary high price by going into the grey zone and buying from overseas resellers engage in arbitrage.
These companies have to get realistic, the government is already taking a dim view on this so it is unlikely, and the fact you have to go grey market often means it might be easier just to pirate the whole damn thing.
This is a massive competitiveness issue. Especially if it cost 2 times a seat to employ in world terms somebody in Australia than it does in the US just on software.
Governments don't like arbitrary things like that, especially if they can outlaw them....
He was an artist on a fellowship in new york. The statement of a fellowship tends to suggest he was paid by some organisation, which means he probably came in on a j1 or j2 visa status. This is a short term working visa for visiting artist, academics and performers. Ie if you are on a sabbatical to a us university from europe, or you are a touring musician or an artist working as an artist in the states you get one of these types of visa fairly easily.
The part of the company which founded silcon valley and made Hewlett Packard was spun out as Agilent. They make high end test equipment and instrumentation for a wide range of markets (electronics testing to biotech).
HP was the well known brand name that was kept to sell to the wider consummer market in PCs and IT equipment. There was a time when HP could make computers and it fitted with the high end analytical equipment philosophy in terms of quality. But the realities of the PCs in the late 90's (and following through to now) meant that they sacrificed the brand name to the IT PC consumer market, while putting the quality, innovative and true silcon valley element into Agilent.
why is one wing shaped differently than the other, i wonder..
This plane is meant to fly a circular path around an area indefinately.
Maybe the differential drag of the wings will make it fly a circular path naturally, and produce less drag overall than constantly moving the rudder or Ailerons to make a straight flying plane turn. Less drag means less energy required to keep it flying.
I am not a german lawyer (IANAGL). But essentially the law is saying you can't make new publications refering to the names of the released prisoners after they are released. But it was OK to publish this when they were in jail or being prosecuted.
Therefore every publication published before they were released were legally able to publish their names and assuming that there is no requirement to destroy said publication, which would be very Orwellian, then all the information can stay out there in libraries etc.
Obviously everything outside of germany doesn't have to comply, but the german wikipedia can just show a static locked version of the offending page from before the two murderers were released, as it is then not a new publication.
This is military research. Most if not all posts have to be filled by US citizens, after extensive security checks.
The military research and engineering area were always going to be the first to suffer from a decrease in the number of US citizens going into scientific and engineering fields. It is one area where importing overseas trained scientists and engineers can't fill the gap.
Which part of "chasing down and killing" and "outlaw" didn't you get. Lets take it simple, max was in a ford, the bad guy was in a hq (i think not a holden guy myself) monaro. The death of the bad guy sets up the plot for the rest of the film.
A rebadged holden monaro with a bigger yank engine. I hope your right about us making real progress on alternative energy sources, we don't want a fuel starved society decending into a anarchic dystopia to eventuate.
Interesting but totally unrelated sidenote, the first mad max film (road warrior in the US) opened with max chasing down (and killing) an outlaw in a 70's era Holden Monaro.
Ahh the irony. The way wikileaks facilitates the distribution of stolen,illegal and/or highly sensitive information in broadly very similar mechanisms that banks like BRB facilitates the hiding and laundering of stolen,illegal and/or highly taxable amounts of money.
Keep the information about where it came from tightly secured. Distribute and flow it through a number of international sites, ideally with favourable political/legal/tax climates. Fight tooth and nail against any attempts to force divulging or removal of information when requested by various national legal jurisdictions.
The same reason very specialized solutions often cost a lot. It's the development cost and small manufacturing tooling and low run production costs that drive up the price, but with a flip side of small but lucrative market that wants these products and is willing to pay the necessary fee to have them delivered in a turnkey setup.
This is an interesting point. It is off a camera that is for surveillance on the NJ turnpike. It would seem it came from some security officer that took a tape and did some editing. In truth the creative input and therefore copyright is with the mystery guy that did the editing around miles of random footage, but they obviously either broke some laws or the terms of their employment and aren't going to come forward.
Well you can do it with todays technology. Simply have an imaging fiber bundle, with each fiber pixel feeding into a photodiode or ccd array spectrometer. This is very expensive but doable. As for getting this cheap, well that's a different story as the gain in accuracy is pretty minimal for most consumer applications but for some scientific applications it has a real benifit.
My I say the guy that bought the drive at the flea market, he is a decent bloke/guy/fella. He had a look at what was on the drive he bought, and then he felt it pertinent to alert the original owners to their vulnerability and not just screw them with identity theft.
Zips aren't to bad, though outdated these days. In their day though 100mb was pretty big. I used one upto about a year ago, to get data off an old 68K mac which we used for data collection. Works well and as long as you stick with usb, scsi or internal drives actually pretty fast. Disk were always a bit over priced really.
English is ambiguous because it is a mish mash of every other languages.
My personal peeve about English as a language is the lack of an official plural for "you". My personal preference is for the Australian "youse", but would accept the american southern contraction "y'all".
Actually children learn a lot of things through play. Dolls are a classic example, where the child will use various dolls (and stuffed toys etc.) and play act them interacting in a social manner. The parents can give good examples and explain important aspect of being a well adjusted social indivdual, but then these lessons are acted out during play and are thus reinforced (unfortunatly the same will be true of bad parenting to). The sims just happens to be a more interactive version of this type of play, where the social interaction is already built into the program.
As other people have said fat32 is the obvious standard. Also there is no way that microsoft is going to restrict fat32 reading ability in vista. Why, because every portable harddisk and flask drive tends to be fat32 formatted. Basically if Vista didn't support this, 90% of flash thumb drives would become obsolte overnight, and that will go down like a lead balloon. Also if they do, fat32 is open enough to allow someone to write a suitable driver in vista for it.
Just don't mention blue cheeses.
How about laptop users? Many users use laptops as there main general computing wordprocessor etc.(especially a big gaming contingent, college kids). If you buy a gaming laptop, it costs a bomb, they are hot and heavy, and you get crap battery life. So instead get a lighter, cheaper and longer running, but less powerful laptop and a 360 (or ps3 when it comes out). This makes a lot more sense than buying a second gaming PC.
The numbers quoted in dollars attached to the item seem ludicrous. I call April fools.
,"motivational dificiency disorder", which apparently affects 1/5 Australians.
Anyway, anyone recognised the british medical journal gag this year. It's a "news" story about MoDwD or
Total bullsh*t. April 1st as it should be.
"As a general aside, SUVs and trucks have full length rails in order to support a more capable payload and suspension capability. Without the full length rail, the capacity would be limited. Cars used to have this as well, except that it became too expensive..."
Car manufactures adopted unibody construction (majority of car makers converted around the 50's and 60's) because it makes better cars (as in transports for passengers with shopping/luggage). This is through weight reductions, lower center of gravity and increased rigidity and load bearing capabilities of the body as a whole. All these aspects increasing the handling and safety of cars, and are the aspects that work against the safety and handling of body on chassis trucks and SUV's. Weight reduction: the chassis on body has a heavy chassis to take most of the loads of the vehicle and keep the body rigid with bolted on body work which is fairly passive in this respect, while unibody and monocoque designs use the body as part of the chassis and spread the loads over a far greater percentage of the steel in the car. Center of gravity: the chassis on body designs usually have the passengers and cargo and often the engine above the chassis and wheels as it is very hard to design otherwise, which is OK for high wheel clearance vehicles like 4x4 but the trade off is a higher center of gravity than a unibody car.
Shure E3c isolator earbuds with an iPod for me. They really do improve the sound so much over the normal portable earbud type phones. Also you can turn them down a lot and still hear some nice subtelties in the music, even when bouncing around on a crowded bus. Only problems is that they can be a pain to get to fit properly initially (they come with a bag of various sized earbuds), and occasionally you have to clean the earwax out of them. Also unlike isolating or noise cancelling headphones, you can keep them in your pocket when your not using them.
So, buy non-hydrogenated margarine. They are usually made from plant oils without the hydrogenation and so result in a softer consistency, and is healthier than hydrogenated margarine or butter.
.. is they can't admit defeat. There is no way to keep porn out of the hands of those people who actually want it. Yet they can't accept that fact, and they still believe that they can eliminate it. So what do they do, any move that regulates and thus stops some of the excesses of the porn industry, but thus also further legitimizing it, is fought tooth and nail. In this case a sensible approach of putting up a virtual redlight district that everybody knows is there, and those who want to visit it can, and those that don't can avoid or if a childs guardian chooses to can be blocked very easily.
The same is also true of prostitution of course, which porn is an abstraction of. There are many good reasons to legalise and regulate prostitution, including STD prevention and monitoring and giving the prostitute a legitimate status that will significantly minimise exploitation.
The truth is, nobody has irradicated prostitution, and nobody can irradicate porn now it is so entrenched in our society, and anybody with a video camera can make it.
"It's a sad day in the history of humanity. The cruelty that we visit upon each other should never be forgotten."
Lots of people are going to reply to this statement by saying that it was justified that japan was bombed and so forth. What these people don't quite comprehend is that these two final large acts of massive distruction where the penultimate destructive act of WW2. The final massively destructive orgy of the war and the first deployment of a weapon that would dominate world affairs afterwards.
If you think that the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs were justified, then it is sad that the US was forced into unleashing such a destructive weapon upon the world. In effect that the evils of WW2 could only be counterd with an evil weapon. If you think it was unjustified, then you have your own reasons to think it was a sad day for the world.