eh? It's 51% taxpayer funded, 49% private investment then wholly sold off after 5years of running (Like Telstra, for a fucking huge profit).
Huge bonus' to this plan.. (stolen from the good Simon Hackett shining knight of Aussie ISP's) Best path: FTTH (not FTTN) (Fibre To The Home/Node)
Retain ADSL2+ Abandon flawed FTTN approach same (high) speeds for everyone Retain copper access regime New infrastructure in parallel Retain competitive tension Retain innovation Retain competitive pricing No overbuild protection needed No legal battles needed more innovation, more choice long term consumer benefit
Have such a direct effect on the laws across the world? I very much doubt that him being convicted would have any effect my me being charged with the same thing here in Australia.
Someone needs to tell those yanks that U.S. != World:-P
When our (now 11 month old) Son was born it was an easy decision. Over here it costs around AU$3k to store it for personal use until he is 21 years old. Then if he still wants to keep it he has to pay extra.
It was even easier for us because the current Government was giving out a AU$4.5k Baby bonus (a once of cash lump sum). We used it for that... it seemed like the right thing to do at the time, and I suspect it still was.
Something else you should know, there are public blood banks that will store it much cheaper. The down side of this is that you have no guarantee of getting _your_ blood back. It's public so that anyone who is in need can use it. We went private.
A great series of books to read: A Bolo is a fictional type of artificially intelligent super-heavy tank. They were first imagined by Keith Laumer, and have since been featured in science fiction novels and short stories by him and others.
unlike us here in australia where in a capital city it's not possible to get faster than 24/8 for less than $100.00 a month -and- with horribly restrictive download limits of 20-40gb!
and this is supposed to be a 1st world country... it's shamefull.
read the teaser site link System: HP Pavilion DV 2000 with 2GB ram.
Not really a supercomputer:-P
But see my other post... this proves nothing, Vista isn't too bad to use for the first few hours... its medium to long term real world use that shows it to be a complete pig of an OS.
Just about any OS is nice and fun to use for the first few hours of use.
Watch how aggravated people become when trying to use "Mojave" in the real world. After the first few days they'll be annoyed, after the first few weeks they'll be pissed off and aggravated. After a few months they'll want to swap back to XP/Linux etc
according to their logic http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/press_releases/200806241.txt *********** It is estimated that many more pirated copies of LGP games exist, than do original copies. We obtained this estimate by seeding the download sites with a number of broken copies of our games, and monitored the number of requests for technical support that referenced the known bug we had inserted. ***********
So they gave out a free copy of the game and effectively made it available to many millions of people, and were _shocked_ when people downloaded it?!?
Who would of thunk it? If you make it available people _will_ take it!
It's a moot point anyway... it'll take some enterprising thief about 3 hours to figure out how to crack it and re-release it to the web. When will these people realize that the tools you use to lock it down are the same set of tools thieves have to unlock them.
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I'll let Simon say if for me:
www.simonhackett.com/submissions/inconvenient-truth-fttn-hackett.pdf
Also it's worth noting that FTTH will force Telstra to split up to compete with it.
eh?
It's 51% taxpayer funded, 49% private investment then wholly sold off after 5years of running (Like Telstra, for a fucking huge profit).
Huge bonus' to this plan.. (stolen from the good Simon Hackett shining knight of Aussie ISP's)
Best path: FTTH (not FTTN) (Fibre To The Home/Node)
Retain ADSL2+
Abandon flawed FTTN approach
same (high) speeds for everyone
Retain copper access regime
New infrastructure in parallel
Retain competitive tension
Retain innovation
Retain competitive pricing
No overbuild protection needed
No legal battles needed
more innovation, more choice
long term consumer benefit
So if you load the player using a MAC you get one voice... if you load it using anything else you get a completely different voice.
This is a rather interesting thing to do... I mean, what happens if the MAC users like the other voice?
Why would they do such a thing unless the MAC voice was "better" is some way?
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:X9gxL2vZ5soJ:smari.yaxic.org/blag/2009/03/06/microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/+http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2009/03/06/microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au
Have such a direct effect on the laws across the world?
I very much doubt that him being convicted would have any effect my me being charged with the same thing here in Australia.
Someone needs to tell those yanks that U.S. != World :-P
ha! am reading this book atm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire :-P
Made me think for a moment
and I don't trust it yet.
I love gmail but I can see that it is possibly the most insidious Social Networking tool ever created. So I still don't use my real details on it.
When our (now 11 month old) Son was born it was an easy decision.
Over here it costs around AU$3k to store it for personal use until he is 21 years old.
Then if he still wants to keep it he has to pay extra.
It was even easier for us because the current Government was giving out a AU$4.5k Baby bonus (a once of cash lump sum). We used it for that... it seemed like the right thing to do at the time, and I suspect it still was.
Something else you should know, there are public blood banks that will store it much cheaper. The down side of this is that you have no guarantee of getting _your_ blood back. It's public so that anyone who is in need can use it.
We went private.
Don't swap to FOSS backed tech just because it's free.
AD is actually a pretty sweet piece of tech, and many FOSS apps work just fine with it.
_Always_ pick the best, AD is the best then for the situation pick the best OS to go with it etc
I have donated my brain in Australia
http://www.braindonors.org/
I'm not gonna be needing it after the Aus Gov filter my internet... so why keep it ? :-P
So.. it's a hologram?
A giant solid light hologram... now _that_ would be impressive...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank)
A great series of books to read:
A Bolo is a fictional type of artificially intelligent super-heavy tank. They were first imagined by Keith Laumer, and have since been featured in science fiction novels and short stories by him and others.
The sub prime state... You can pay for it and sell it but when you look at it hard enough it's not really there...
Because it costs far too much for something that does not and can not work.
Worse yet it lulls clueless parents into a false sense of security when they should be paying more attention.
For when my 7 month old son decides it's time to learn walking... :-P
You're obviously a Linux user...
I'd love to see this run as a Post Rapture forecast game... how much more interesting and less populated the world would be "post rapture"
heh...
Turn up with a solution...
my goodness, how terrible that must be for you...
unlike us here in australia where in a capital city it's not possible to get faster than 24/8 for less than $100.00 a month -and- with horribly restrictive download limits of 20-40gb!
and this is supposed to be a 1st world country... it's shamefull.
yeah being an avid player of wii fit and wii sports I can heartily say your statement is incorrect...
It should read:
If you play it wrong, it's a workout.
And I'll add a hell of a lot more fun as well :-)
read the teaser site link
System: HP Pavilion DV 2000 with 2GB ram.
Not really a supercomputer :-P
But see my other post... this proves nothing, Vista isn't too bad to use for the first few hours... its medium to long term real world use that shows it to be a complete pig of an OS.
Just about any OS is nice and fun to use for the first few hours of use.
Watch how aggravated people become when trying to use "Mojave" in the real world.
After the first few days they'll be annoyed, after the first few weeks they'll be pissed off and aggravated.
After a few months they'll want to swap back to XP/Linux etc
:-)
Sounds like a good way to oppress the masses.
according to their logic http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/press_releases/200806241.txt
***********
It is estimated that many more pirated copies of LGP games exist, than do original copies. We obtained this estimate by seeding the download sites with a number of broken copies of our games, and monitored the number of requests for technical support that referenced the known bug we had inserted.
***********
So they gave out a free copy of the game and effectively made it available to many millions of people, and were _shocked_ when people downloaded it?!?
Who would of thunk it? If you make it available people _will_ take it!
It's a moot point anyway... it'll take some enterprising thief about 3 hours to figure out how to crack it and re-release it to the web. When will these people realize that the tools you use to lock it down are the same set of tools thieves have to unlock them.
A brilliant idea shot down before it could really grow wings. :-(
Oh well, FoxMark it is... Google will have to find a different way to have my information.