And to think Dick Smith used to actually sell electronics parts (e.g. capacitors, resistors, diodes, transistors, etc.).
Just last night I went into my new local Dick Smith mega store.
Just one shelf with any components on sale - that won't ever be restocked when they sell out. Now it's all wide screen TVs, laptops, printers, mobile phones, etc.
I'm Australian and suffer this problem as well. Australians can pay between 2x and 10x as much for the same product. Just the other day I saw a large wall map available from National Geographic for approximately $90 US. An Australian internet store was selling the exact same map for approximately $900 US. WFT?! As Craigj0 wrote, even with shipping and a hypothetical 10%GST added on it would still be cheaper most of the time.
Lack of competition in the retail sector and a small population hinder us greatly.
Even the new OS X App Store opened today has different prices for Australians Aperture 3 in US = $80, in Australia = $100. Remember our dollar is within 1% of the value of the US dollar and it is digital delivery. Yet we get shafted anyway.
Screw these dumb retailers - they need to adapt to the competition by changing their prices and business practices.
Actually you're probably spot on. My father-in-law told me of a massive overnight bird die-off in the south-eastern portion of Australia. The shire council decided to eradicate the rabbit plague by laying millions of poisoned carrots. Of course the local flocks of budgerigars (parakeets in America) were all killed overnight since they fed on the carrots. I asked how many died and he said that up until that day, every morning and evening the sky was almost blocked out by the millions of budgerigars that flocked in the sky together.
Just to clear things up, all of the accounts on Twitter are real. The person that registered the accounts (or wrote the script that registered the accounts) is also real. Even the content is real.
The only thing that might be fake is if the account represents a fictitious person (but as above, it is still a real account - it just represents a fake person).
Great, these gigabit links will be real handy! Especially with Australia having about 8 terabits of cabled overseas bandwidth.
Lets see, 8000 gigabits divided by 10000000 households with just 1% (100000) trying to have all you can eat = 80 megabits per household with nothing left over for the other 99%.
We only need 92 terabits more overseas connection bandwidth to meet that insatiable 1% (the ones downloading torrents 24 hours a day).
Spot on. And Android is an OS whilst iPhone is a device having the iOS variant OS. They article itself clearly compares OS variants. A better reading headline would say "more phones sold running Android than iOS in the last 6 months with Blackberry OS outselling both".
I'm not citing any expert. I might cite a study if I felt so inclined - but I don't. You don't cite any studies/research yourself. This is Slashdot. It won't change the world one way or the other if I do or don't cite research to backup any claims.
Now, the Britons did not fail to get the safe sex message across. What they failed to convey was that the majority of STDs are not prevented by safe sex practices. Condoms do not stop them. I already wrote this of course. And from what I heard the rate of sexual intercourse in the targeted demographic increased with increased sexual awareness.
I wasn't addressing your other arguments. I was just pointing out this simple problem.
Don't try and tell me what I do or don't like in regards to your arguments when I haven't voiced my opinion on them. That would be a dumb assumption your making.
Why do you type some words as capitals? Is this to add some sort of emphasis? Old netiquette would construe this as shouting. Maybe you should use italics instead.
Don't forget the follow on from the killing of small animals. Becoming a psychopathic killer of humans. A small group of people will in fact become this, and it is at an increasing rate.
This small group of people has a very big impact on the rest of us when they finally kill some people.
"Honest sex-ed that admits sex is fun, often engaged in for that purpose and can be almost as MUCH fun by yourself is known to reduce pregnancy and STD rates"
A bit off topic but...
No. It increases both STD rates and pregnancy rates. Most STDs are not prevented by condoms. So more sex equals more STDs. Along the same line, with the contraceptive rate constant, if you increase the amount of people having sex you increase the total amount of pregnancies. This is best highlighted in the recent failed sex education campaign in Britain, which had exactly these results.
These are Australian researchers who wouldn't know their arse from their elbow in regards to the American legal system. If the highly regarded and well paid lawyers say file in the East Texas District Court - then you file in the East Texas District Court.
Don't confuse the intentions and knowledge of the plaintiff with that of their lawyers.
The only reason the previous lawsuit settled instead of going to a jury trial is because the coalition of companies being sued knew the gig was up. If they thought they were in the right and were using their own technology then they would have gone to trial and probably won. Instead they backed down since they weren't using their own technology.
By Australian standards even 200 gallons a day is a huge amount. Australians use an average of 315 litres (83 US gallons) per day. Mind you Australia is supposedly the driest continent on earth.
Perhaps India and China don't have a water shortage but more of a usage problem. They have high but very uneven rainfall distribution and haven't realised that better usage techniques are required to utilise that water to it fullest potential.
Nothing like a supporting someone who thinks OS X, which is a FreeBSD/NetBSD frankenstein, which are "UNIX-like" operating systems, is UNIX (when it's not). It has been certified as UNIX 03 compliant from 10.5 onwards. Before this certification OS X was also "UNIX-like" - which means it didn't comply to any standard and one might find their "UNIX knowledge" a little out of place in any of the UNIX-like variants.
I hope that the ISP you mention has a multi-terabit connection to the rest of the world otherwise their contention ratio won't be good enough to deliver gigabit speeds to the home (except for locally delivered content - backbone network permitting).
And there was Google reprehending Australia's government for wanting to censor data. But here we have Google's home country the USA giving 23 times the data requests and 7 times the censorship requests.
This doesn't change the fact that the internet filter is a stupid idea.
It does give a better view of how things are right now - one situation (the internet filter) is a possibility, it may happen, and one (current Google censoring requests) is reality, it's happening right now.
There is no supression since it isn't meant to be submitted in the first place.
When it is an agreement between two parties it isn't censorship. Any developer making an app must agree to the license - so you are in default of the agreement if you try and push through content that is in breach of the license.
In other words - you've already agreed to not do a particular thing and you're illegally going back on that agreement.
I've worked as a Paramedic under the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System (AMPDS).
Whether you are given a Cat A or B generally makes no difference in the response time of the crew to the scene - i.e. they always drive as fast as they safely can no matter what the emergency.
Incorrect triage by the communications centre is routine. This is usually not the comcen's fault - it is almost always incorrectly reported information from the caller. Things like whether there is a pulse or not, whether they are breathing or not, whether they are bleeding or not, are often incorrectly reported from panicky callers.
Or you can get correctly triaged responses with totally different results. You might get a call saying a patient has severe gastric pain which ends up being a myocardial infarction.
You might get a call from a patient with severe difficulty breathing (which is a cat B emergency) only to find they are having a panic attack or have a sore knee (patient lie all the time to get either free drugs, attention, a free trip to hospital, etc.).
In regards to the height of a fall problem consider this. A 6 foot plus tall person falls 6 plus feet to the ground when they pass unconscious from standing - yet the person reporting won't usually think of saying they fell six feet (we're talking head impact here - not much else matter until you're falling from really big heights and can start shattering lots of bones). A very common example of misreporting from callers.
The incumbent South Australian Government is Labor.
Vote for the opposition (Liberal, Independant, etc.) in the impending South Australian State Election on the 20th of March 2010 and the new government will invariably give us a new AG.
If you are in the Croydon electorate - which is where Michael Atkinson's seat it - then you should rally all your friends and vote for the opposition - then he won't even have a seat, let alone be AG.
In the same time period we will enhance our own intellectual capabilities with either cybernetic devices, genetic alteration, or both such that AI will very likely still be playing catchup.
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I wonder how young Blake Peebles is going after he dropped out of high school (aged 16 - 2008) to focus on playing Guitar Hero professionally...
He could always learn the real guitar and play in a real band.
It's a good system that was implemented years ago by these guys:
http://www.permo-drive.com/tech/index.htm
From my quick perusal the systems look the same.
They even sold it to the US military for use in their FMTVs.
And to think Dick Smith used to actually sell electronics parts (e.g. capacitors, resistors, diodes, transistors, etc.).
Just last night I went into my new local Dick Smith mega store.
Just one shelf with any components on sale - that won't ever be restocked when they sell out. Now it's all wide screen TVs, laptops, printers, mobile phones, etc.
Jaycar Electronics must be loving it...
More examples:
Just went on Steam Australia store - Call of Duty: Black Ops = $90, look at US store online and it is $60.
Looked on Apple store online - base level Mac Pro in Australia = $3200, in the US Apple store it is $2500.
I'm Australian and suffer this problem as well. Australians can pay between 2x and 10x as much for the same product. Just the other day I saw a large wall map available from National Geographic for approximately $90 US. An Australian internet store was selling the exact same map for approximately $900 US. WFT?! As Craigj0 wrote, even with shipping and a hypothetical 10%GST added on it would still be cheaper most of the time.
Lack of competition in the retail sector and a small population hinder us greatly.
Even the new OS X App Store opened today has different prices for Australians Aperture 3 in US = $80, in Australia = $100. Remember our dollar is within 1% of the value of the US dollar and it is digital delivery. Yet we get shafted anyway.
Screw these dumb retailers - they need to adapt to the competition by changing their prices and business practices.
Actually you're probably spot on. My father-in-law told me of a massive overnight bird die-off in the south-eastern portion of Australia. The shire council decided to eradicate the rabbit plague by laying millions of poisoned carrots. Of course the local flocks of budgerigars (parakeets in America) were all killed overnight since they fed on the carrots. I asked how many died and he said that up until that day, every morning and evening the sky was almost blocked out by the millions of budgerigars that flocked in the sky together.
Just to clear things up, all of the accounts on Twitter are real. The person that registered the accounts (or wrote the script that registered the accounts) is also real. Even the content is real.
The only thing that might be fake is if the account represents a fictitious person (but as above, it is still a real account - it just represents a fake person).
Great, these gigabit links will be real handy! Especially with Australia having about 8 terabits of cabled overseas bandwidth.
Lets see, 8000 gigabits divided by 10000000 households with just 1% (100000) trying to have all you can eat = 80 megabits per household with nothing left over for the other 99%.
We only need 92 terabits more overseas connection bandwidth to meet that insatiable 1% (the ones downloading torrents 24 hours a day).
Woohoo go gigabit.
Contention ratio is a bitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia#International
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1436043.html (post by Duideka)
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/6C0F2180158809B9CA2573D20011048E?opendocument
Spot on. And Android is an OS whilst iPhone is a device having the iOS variant OS. They article itself clearly compares OS variants. A better reading headline would say "more phones sold running Android than iOS in the last 6 months with Blackberry OS outselling both".
Like the first black President of the United States wasn't news?
With Ann Dunham ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham )as his mother he's as much "white" as he is "black".
I'm not citing any expert. I might cite a study if I felt so inclined - but I don't. You don't cite any studies/research yourself. This is Slashdot. It won't change the world one way or the other if I do or don't cite research to backup any claims.
Now, the Britons did not fail to get the safe sex message across. What they failed to convey was that the majority of STDs are not prevented by safe sex practices. Condoms do not stop them. I already wrote this of course. And from what I heard the rate of sexual intercourse in the targeted demographic increased with increased sexual awareness.
I wasn't addressing your other arguments. I was just pointing out this simple problem.
Don't try and tell me what I do or don't like in regards to your arguments when I haven't voiced my opinion on them. That would be a dumb assumption your making.
Why do you type some words as capitals? Is this to add some sort of emphasis? Old netiquette would construe this as shouting. Maybe you should use italics instead.
Don't forget the follow on from the killing of small animals. Becoming a psychopathic killer of humans. A small group of people will in fact become this, and it is at an increasing rate.
This small group of people has a very big impact on the rest of us when they finally kill some people.
"Honest sex-ed that admits sex is fun, often engaged in for that purpose and can be almost as MUCH fun by yourself is known to reduce pregnancy and STD rates"
A bit off topic but...
No. It increases both STD rates and pregnancy rates. Most STDs are not prevented by condoms. So more sex equals more STDs. Along the same line, with the contraceptive rate constant, if you increase the amount of people having sex you increase the total amount of pregnancies. This is best highlighted in the recent failed sex education campaign in Britain, which had exactly these results.
Because the lawyers they are paying decided to.
These are Australian researchers who wouldn't know their arse from their elbow in regards to the American legal system. If the highly regarded and well paid lawyers say file in the East Texas District Court - then you file in the East Texas District Court.
Don't confuse the intentions and knowledge of the plaintiff with that of their lawyers.
How about you demonstrate how they are "non-practicing" to the rest of us.
Show us what they do and don't do. In detail please.
Can you do that for us?
"Ideas are cheap on the global scale"
Yes, apparently you can just take them without paying for them. That's particularly good value.
I do believe this patent covers the hardware and software implemented in every 802.11 wireless device.
According to this article the patent was granted in 1996 and the IEEE 802.11a standard was ratified three years later.
http://www.csiro.au/news/CSIRO-honours-wireless-team.html
The only reason the previous lawsuit settled instead of going to a jury trial is because the coalition of companies being sued knew the gig was up. If they thought they were in the right and were using their own technology then they would have gone to trial and probably won. Instead they backed down since they weren't using their own technology.
By Australian standards even 200 gallons a day is a huge amount. Australians use an average of 315 litres (83 US gallons) per day. Mind you Australia is supposedly the driest continent on earth.
Link for that data http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/e5cb0b45f4547cc4ca25697500217f47/cc9d340e1feef80bca256e9900810f09!OpenDocument
Perhaps India and China don't have a water shortage but more of a usage problem. They have high but very uneven rainfall distribution and haven't realised that better usage techniques are required to utilise that water to it fullest potential.
Nothing like a supporting someone who thinks OS X, which is a FreeBSD/NetBSD frankenstein, which are "UNIX-like" operating systems, is UNIX (when it's not). It has been certified as UNIX 03 compliant from 10.5 onwards. Before this certification OS X was also "UNIX-like" - which means it didn't comply to any standard and one might find their "UNIX knowledge" a little out of place in any of the UNIX-like variants.
I hope that the ISP you mention has a multi-terabit connection to the rest of the world otherwise their contention ratio won't be good enough to deliver gigabit speeds to the home (except for locally delivered content - backbone network permitting).
And there was Google reprehending Australia's government for wanting to censor data. But here we have Google's home country the USA giving 23 times the data requests and 7 times the censorship requests.
This doesn't change the fact that the internet filter is a stupid idea.
It does give a better view of how things are right now - one situation (the internet filter) is a possibility, it may happen, and one (current Google censoring requests) is reality, it's happening right now.
There is no supression since it isn't meant to be submitted in the first place.
When it is an agreement between two parties it isn't censorship. Any developer making an app must agree to the license - so you are in default of the agreement if you try and push through content that is in breach of the license.
In other words - you've already agreed to not do a particular thing and you're illegally going back on that agreement.
I've worked as a Paramedic under the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System (AMPDS).
Whether you are given a Cat A or B generally makes no difference in the response time of the crew to the scene - i.e. they always drive as fast as they safely can no matter what the emergency.
Incorrect triage by the communications centre is routine. This is usually not the comcen's fault - it is almost always incorrectly reported information from the caller. Things like whether there is a pulse or not, whether they are breathing or not, whether they are bleeding or not, are often incorrectly reported from panicky callers.
Or you can get correctly triaged responses with totally different results. You might get a call saying a patient has severe gastric pain which ends up being a myocardial infarction.
You might get a call from a patient with severe difficulty breathing (which is a cat B emergency) only to find they are having a panic attack or have a sore knee (patient lie all the time to get either free drugs, attention, a free trip to hospital, etc.).
In regards to the height of a fall problem consider this. A 6 foot plus tall person falls 6 plus feet to the ground when they pass unconscious from standing - yet the person reporting won't usually think of saying they fell six feet (we're talking head impact here - not much else matter until you're falling from really big heights and can start shattering lots of bones). A very common example of misreporting from callers.
Michael Atkinson is a Labor Attorney-General.
The incumbent South Australian Government is Labor.
Vote for the opposition (Liberal, Independant, etc.) in the impending South Australian State Election on the 20th of March 2010 and the new government will invariably give us a new AG.
If you are in the Croydon electorate - which is where Michael Atkinson's seat it - then you should rally all your friends and vote for the opposition - then he won't even have a seat, let alone be AG.
Democracy at work people.
In the same time period we will enhance our own intellectual capabilities with either cybernetic devices, genetic alteration, or both such that AI will very likely still be playing catchup.