You're right. You don't need maths to solve this though. It's a thought riddle and makes some assumptions. so you ignore ice/ocean etc. You walk South 1 mile. Following your compass, traveling West, you're walking an arc exactly 1 mile radius from the North pole. The distance you walk West doesn't matter, you will always be 1 mile away from the pole. Now by turning North and walking 1 mile, you are back where you started.
You may not know the full story here and it would be laborious to explain it fully. However the costing of the original NBN was budgeted and the time line worked out. Delays came about because of the reluctance (politically motivated) by Telstra to sell their pipes to the NBN. That took around 2 years and many millions of dollars. Now, FTTH (FTTP) has been degraded to FTTN (node) and copper wires from the node to the premises! WTF? Here's an apt quote: "Shadow communications minister Jason Clare used Mr Hackett's comments to attack the Coalition's policy. "Malcolm Turnbull sacked the NBN Co board because they didn't agree with him," he said. "A year and half later, Turnbull's hand-picked replacement has come to the same conclusion - his second-rate copper NBN is a dud." http://www.smh.com.au/business... Not only that, but a public infrastructure project run by the government is now in the hands of 3rd party developers using old (VDSL) technology. So when sense finally comes, all that VDSL (which has to be separately powered on street corner fridge sized boxes) needs to be ripped out. More time wasted and less bandwidth for the next decade at least. So much for the original vision of superfast connections to over 90% of the homes in Australia. Now Turnbull is no chump. Maybe he was forced into an alternate version of the NBN by the Liberals and is pushing this ahead, against the advice of every tech head out there. He knows it's wrong but he has no choice but follow a damaged policy.
There has already been enough discussion about this in IT circles and more in the future. I bet that there will be a bill passed to clarify this. Encryption/cryptography are not the sole property of the good good guys anyway. If someone builds a bigger wall, there's always someone else that can pull it down.
Yes, maybe Turnbull. His only problem is his hypocrisy where he invests his personal fortune in FTTH in France, but baulks on supporting the same infrastructure in Australia. What a waste of time and money the new NBN is when it'll all have to be ripped up and replaced with full fibre. I'll be non-compost menzies by then. Gough was God in my time. He gave me a free education (which I repaid time over), fixed the health of the populace and did a lot of good deeds. Unfortunately he ran out of money.
On the other hand, we're just a bunch of gutless arseholes that just don't care. In the next election are we going to vote middle left or middle right? Same crap ALL THE TIME and we don't do anything about it. And how the hell can Uber operate in Australia? WTF! No one is allowed to transport people for money except Taxis and bus drivers and that is highly regulated. Maybe the AC is right. Another Eureka Stockade anyone? As for the latest gov. blunder? Well it'll sort itself out. As one poster put it "This makes everyone guilty of something. Then governments can just prosecute anybody they don't like in a completely arbitrary fashion." (et.al.). Just another piece of shit we have to put up with emanating from the dickhead in charge who keeps claiming he has a 'mandate' to make any changes he gets told to do by incompetent cronies who have no clue about anything.
Maybe I WANT to be sexually harassed. I also want more oxidizers in margarine as well as permeate in my milk. And for good measure, I'll add my own woosh.
OH GREAT ED! So they stuck me in front of a terminal way back in '75 with a pile of printouts, checking to see if the data got input correctly WHILE they went off to play Star Trek. I finished a few hrs later and entered @@XCIO to end the session. The command wiped out the whole data set off the tape, no 'Are you sure you want to do this?" or 'Really? You want to delete the file?".... just a few seconds of blank before the cursor re-appeared flashing happily. As I didn't know any better, I wandered off, but they found me in the uni library and frog marched me to the BIG GUY. He explained what I did and how those thousands of punch cards that have to be re-read. I got banned from the computer room for the rest of the semester.
Ever meet a COBOL Report programmer? He was employed till ~2005 when he retired of old age. He never had a personal computer either. He would go to work, write code on a terminal to output a custom report (Banking btw), then go home to lead an ordinary life. He was paid well and in demand but knew nothing about any other programming languages, IDE or anything else. Just one skill set and that's it.
Yes. I had to interface with a well written driver once. It would only accept BASIC calls. So I wound up with a small notice board behind my monitor, thumbtacks+ A4 pages of reference data and both Apple and PC basic. Everything was done using the native BASIC on Apple (plus some assembler), compiled for speed then converted to PC DOS. Ran a treat too. And yes, test, test, test AND good documentation.
You don't have mod points, so please stop trying to moderate. This does nothing but clutter up the discussion. The lack of mod points mean what you think in this case is irrelevant to everyone but you.
I agree. This shit keeps on cluttering up valuable discussion space.
The military aren't going to sit around and wait. They are looking for a delivery vehicle that can act as a drone. http://news.discovery.com/spac... where it states in 2012 it completed a 224 day mission, terming it 'drone'. With China's attempt in weaponizing space, the US military are being foresighted. Ramming speed?
Allah and God and Jesus and Yaweh are all the same self-hating guy.
Ermm they are not. In all 3 monotheistic religions, 'God' is qualitatively different. The oldest Hebrew has a monotheistic God with NO recognized prophet. The Christians have a tripart God as 3 identities, the total of which is a monotheistic god that also predates itself. The newest - Allah who is further removed from 'man', is based on the Hebrew God (the first 4 books of the Hebrew bible) and comes with a prophet.
Although when you start reading some sites, those Veterans who are restricted to 4x5mg daily are in greater need. They are some who buy from the black market. One of the problems they've found is that some Oxy is mixed with plastics to slow uptake, so they tend to take more than prescribed for pain relief, consequently run out before they can get more on prescription. Coming down is not fun for them and so they seek alt. sources.
Thanks for your response. The problem with the majority of Android based smart TV is that the updates are custom written by a software company in Hong Kong. For some reason they have crippled enough of the OS to stop certain apps from working. Netflix is one of them and that's why I asked. The reason for why I've been modded down is that there is a rogue mod out there and has been modding down me and others for no good reason.
You're right. There is a continuum of men and women and I love women somewhere along this continuum but hate others further up or down the line. The discussion becomes pointless for that reason alone. I am empathetic towards men and women if they are hurt through no fault of their own, by circumstance, injustice and so on, but this is not a forum topic.
University of Teheran designed a Solar Challenger car a few years back. It didn't arrive in Australia in time for the race. There was a lot of disappointment by many here and overseas. The story we heard was that the car was loaded on a transport, but arrived at a non-Aust. destination then got sent back. Then the whole thing was hushed up and never spoken of again. About a week before the start of the race, I googled some of the team members and found a few entries in a German forum on solar development, asking for a source for specific parts. I even emailed the organizers of the Solar Challenge who were expecting the team and car to show up soon. Images and a short video from the Uni website were available at the time and it looked like a serious contender. The timing of the event sort of clashed with the political events at the time. There was a period where Iran was seen as having relative freedoms and its academic work was being recognized. Politically, they were at a turning point (or the western world saw it at that) and various commentaries and sanctions turned them away. As far as science was concerned, this was not a good development and due to this, the project got canned - or I think it did. http://www.ut.ac.ir/en/content...
This submission (as some of the others recently) are there to troll slashdotters. We're being used as THEY know that there'll be factions and fanbois sprouting stuff about their favourite OS. It's a matter of respect and there is little of that around any more.
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You're right. You don't need maths to solve this though. It's a thought riddle and makes some assumptions. so you ignore ice/ocean etc.
You walk South 1 mile.
Following your compass, traveling West, you're walking an arc exactly 1 mile radius from the North pole. The distance you walk West doesn't matter, you will always be 1 mile away from the pole. Now by turning North and walking 1 mile, you are back where you started.
You may not know the full story here and it would be laborious to explain it fully. However the costing of the original NBN was budgeted and the time line worked out. Delays came about because of the reluctance (politically motivated) by Telstra to sell their pipes to the NBN. That took around 2 years and many millions of dollars.
Now, FTTH (FTTP) has been degraded to FTTN (node) and copper wires from the node to the premises! WTF?
Here's an apt quote:
"Shadow communications minister Jason Clare used Mr Hackett's comments to attack the Coalition's policy.
"Malcolm Turnbull sacked the NBN Co board because they didn't agree with him," he said. "A year and half later, Turnbull's hand-picked replacement has come to the same conclusion - his second-rate copper NBN is a dud." http://www.smh.com.au/business...
Not only that, but a public infrastructure project run by the government is now in the hands of 3rd party developers using old (VDSL) technology.
So when sense finally comes, all that VDSL (which has to be separately powered on street corner fridge sized boxes) needs to be ripped out. More time wasted and less bandwidth for the next decade at least.
So much for the original vision of superfast connections to over 90% of the homes in Australia.
Now Turnbull is no chump. Maybe he was forced into an alternate version of the NBN by the Liberals and is pushing this ahead, against the advice of every tech head out there. He knows it's wrong but he has no choice but follow a damaged policy.
There has already been enough discussion about this in IT circles and more in the future. I bet that there will be a bill passed to clarify this.
Encryption/cryptography are not the sole property of the good good guys anyway. If someone builds a bigger wall, there's always someone else that can pull it down.
Yes, maybe Turnbull. His only problem is his hypocrisy where he invests his personal fortune in FTTH in France, but baulks on supporting the same infrastructure in Australia. What a waste of time and money the new NBN is when it'll all have to be ripped up and replaced with full fibre. I'll be non-compost menzies by then.
Gough was God in my time. He gave me a free education (which I repaid time over), fixed the health of the populace and did a lot of good deeds. Unfortunately he ran out of money.
At least he hasn't (yet) appointed an aging pop star to the ministry....
On the other hand, we're just a bunch of gutless arseholes that just don't care. In the next election are we going to vote middle left or middle right? Same crap ALL THE TIME and we don't do anything about it.
And how the hell can Uber operate in Australia? WTF! No one is allowed to transport people for money except Taxis and bus drivers and that is highly regulated.
Maybe the AC is right. Another Eureka Stockade anyone?
As for the latest gov. blunder? Well it'll sort itself out. As one poster put it "This makes everyone guilty of something. Then governments can just prosecute anybody they don't like in a completely arbitrary fashion." (et.al.). Just another piece of shit we have to put up with emanating from the dickhead in charge who keeps claiming he has a 'mandate' to make any changes he gets told to do by incompetent cronies who have no clue about anything.
Maybe I WANT to be sexually harassed. I also want more oxidizers in margarine as well as permeate in my milk. And for good measure, I'll add my own woosh.
WOOSH!
OH GREAT ED!
So they stuck me in front of a terminal way back in '75 with a pile of printouts, checking to see if the data got input correctly WHILE they went off to play Star Trek.
I finished a few hrs later and entered @@XCIO to end the session. The command wiped out the whole data set off the tape, no 'Are you sure you want to do this?" or 'Really? You want to delete the file?".... just a few seconds of blank before the cursor re-appeared flashing happily.
As I didn't know any better, I wandered off, but they found me in the uni library and frog marched me to the BIG GUY. He explained what I did and how those thousands of punch cards that have to be re-read. I got banned from the computer room for the rest of the semester.
Ever meet a COBOL Report programmer? He was employed till ~2005 when he retired of old age. He never had a personal computer either. He would go to work, write code on a terminal to output a custom report (Banking btw), then go home to lead an ordinary life. He was paid well and in demand but knew nothing about any other programming languages, IDE or anything else. Just one skill set and that's it.
Yes. I had to interface with a well written driver once. It would only accept BASIC calls. So I wound up with a small notice board behind my monitor, thumbtacks+ A4 pages of reference data and both Apple and PC basic. Everything was done using the native BASIC on Apple (plus some assembler), compiled for speed then converted to PC DOS. Ran a treat too. And yes, test, test, test AND good documentation.
So what happens when a tornado hits, rips off the 60 metre blades and throws them around?
I mean that sort of thing can't happen, can it?
You don't have mod points, so please stop trying to moderate. This does nothing but clutter up the discussion. The lack of mod points mean what you think in this case is irrelevant to everyone but you.
I agree. This shit keeps on cluttering up valuable discussion space.
I prefer Aten (Egyptian monotheistic God) instead.
The military aren't going to sit around and wait. They are looking for a delivery vehicle that can act as a drone.
http://news.discovery.com/spac...
where it states in 2012 it completed a 224 day mission, terming it 'drone'.
With China's attempt in weaponizing space, the US military are being foresighted.
Ramming speed?
He's just an asshole.
Our little group donated $1000 for helicopter fuel. Absolutely NO administrative costs either.
Allah and God and Jesus and Yaweh are all the same self-hating guy.
Ermm they are not. In all 3 monotheistic religions, 'God' is qualitatively different.
The oldest Hebrew has a monotheistic God with NO recognized prophet.
The Christians have a tripart God as 3 identities, the total of which is a monotheistic god that also predates itself.
The newest - Allah who is further removed from 'man', is based on the Hebrew God (the first 4 books of the Hebrew bible) and comes with a prophet.
(I don't believe any of this btw)
Although when you start reading some sites, those Veterans who are restricted to 4x5mg daily are in greater need. They are some who buy from the black market. One of the problems they've found is that some Oxy is mixed with plastics to slow uptake, so they tend to take more than prescribed for pain relief, consequently run out before they can get more on prescription. Coming down is not fun for them and so they seek alt. sources.
No.. Startwithabang is in love with Ethan.
Thanks for your response. The problem with the majority of Android based smart TV is that the updates are custom written by a software company in Hong Kong. For some reason they have crippled enough of the OS to stop certain apps from working. Netflix is one of them and that's why I asked.
The reason for why I've been modded down is that there is a rogue mod out there and has been modding down me and others for no good reason.
Just hope that it can run netflix.
You're right. There is a continuum of men and women and I love women somewhere along this continuum but hate others further up or down the line. The discussion becomes pointless for that reason alone. I am empathetic towards men and women if they are hurt through no fault of their own, by circumstance, injustice and so on, but this is not a forum topic.
Not for long. Toyota, Ford and Holden (GM) are in the process of pulling out.
University of Teheran designed a Solar Challenger car a few years back. It didn't arrive in Australia in time for the race. There was a lot of disappointment by many here and overseas. The story we heard was that the car was loaded on a transport, but arrived at a non-Aust. destination then got sent back. Then the whole thing was hushed up and never spoken of again.
About a week before the start of the race, I googled some of the team members and found a few entries in a German forum on solar development, asking for a source for specific parts. I even emailed the organizers of the Solar Challenge who were expecting the team and car to show up soon. Images and a short video from the Uni website were available at the time and it looked like a serious contender.
The timing of the event sort of clashed with the political events at the time. There was a period where Iran was seen as having relative freedoms and its academic work was being recognized. Politically, they were at a turning point (or the western world saw it at that) and various commentaries and sanctions turned them away.
As far as science was concerned, this was not a good development and due to this, the project got canned - or I think it did.
http://www.ut.ac.ir/en/content...
This submission (as some of the others recently) are there to troll slashdotters. We're being used as THEY know that there'll be factions and fanbois sprouting stuff about their favourite OS. It's a matter of respect and there is little of that around any more.