I hope I'm not the only one where the exact sound sequence played out in my head and a reminder of the perverse sense pleasure enjoyed whilst watching 100 lemmings explode, bringing the computer to it's knees.
So what about upload speed? Really, that is the achilles heel of all of these technologies. Also how many people are going to live in the zone that gets 100mbps or will it be like where I live, suburban area Perth with a cable run 4km from the exchange (don't mind that the exchange is abount 1.5k away via the road) and getting ADSL1 speeds, but paying for ADSL2+ (which is actually cheaper as it's not provided by the semi privatised monopoly called Telstra).
It doesn't require a book to use, but rather to configure. Well if you want to get fancy with your configuration anyway. The Out of Box experience is well suited to managing software development (It's not just a bug tracker, it's a full software development management suite), however if your using it for something unrelated to software, it takes some tweaking.
We are using it to replace a completely custom developed.NET piece of garbage and there hasn't been a road block that isn't crossable or at least worked around. It's extremely powerful, which means things can get a little complicated. The documentation is pretty good and I haven't struggled much in getting my head around the concepts.
Summary slightly inaccurate, this is Telstra/Optus and a few smaller operations (who already offered filtering) who are enabling voluntary filtering. There are plenty of ISPs refusing to implement the filter until it becomes legislation and will fight it with everything they can before then. This will do nothing but make many more customers go to the smaller operators who have better customer service, better pricing etc.
The other stupid part of this is that it is DNS based and the work around is to use different DNS servers. Who actually uses their ISPs DNS servers? I haven't in years!
I know one of the stores here in Australia, use the Zip (Post Code here) to decide whether it's worthwhile building stores in new areas. If enough people are willing to travel 50ks to shop there, then more will shop local if it's available.
I found enough good reasons to make our Win7 image to have a prominent Firefox icon, with IE buried in the menus. People can use either, but most go with the path of least resistance, in this case it will be Firefox. It's actually really easy to manage the things most IT departments need to manage. I should know, that's what I do day in, day out.
Indeed there is aFirefox MSI. We deploy that + ietab plus to get around any apps that don't like Firefox (fewer these days, only thing we use it for now is Exchange Web mail 2007, being that the full featured version only works in IE). We deploy to 100's of desktops without any issues.
Unfortunately that's not the case. Office 2007 requires significant pain for the end user and also doesn't support OOXML all that well. In face a 1.3mb template file is enough to cause 100% cpu load, where as libre office handles the same file without any issues.
A number of our staff voluntarily use Libre Office and we deploy it on our rental equipment as we cant justify the license cost of MS Office to open the simple excel files our survey software generates.
A lot of employers, especially in the mining sector require you to get a medical before your allowed to commence work. Some even have regular Drug/Alcohol tests, especially if you work on a mine site.
The thing is, shipping costs more than the 10% GST in most cases anyway. So there isn't anything to gain from taxing overseas retailers. All it does is make things more complicated to purchase from them, meaning that at the end of the day, the only people that would lose out in that scenario are the consumers. So if the prices were competitive, people would more than likely buy local. I know that's how I operate, international sales are a pain when you need to make a warranty claim.
So IMHO, Gerry Harvey or any of those other large retail chains do not have a right to my money, they can stick their bad customer service and exorbitant prices up their collective coits.
Most of the secuirty industry is light years behind the rest of the world, their gear is really basic, the software to manage it is atrocious and the way they operate is very archaic. Imagine the dismay on the installers face when he asked for an Analogue phone line and the best we could offer him was a port on our FXS gateway (yeah not a great idea), we eventually convinced them to install a GPRS card in the system.
Therefore it will not be able to pass through either house of parliament unless the Liberal/National Coalition switch their position (which wouldnt surprise me)
Actually I would be very surprised. They would have to do a complete 180 flip on how they've behaved as the opposing party for the last 3 years. Which mainly consists of opposing everything and slagging off at every opportunity. I dare say that's part of the reason why the Greens got 4% of the swing away from Labor and the Coalition (liberals) only got 1.5%. Admittedly they need to change their tactics, but being a conservative party, change isn't going to happen fast.
My facts are my personal experiences over the years, so take that as a testimonial of some random Internet user. But for a better and more complete explanation the quicktime alternative was written for a reason and the facts stated here may go a long way to let you know why. I mean seriously a picture viewer? Also, why on earth would a I want a _Video Codec_ to install a system service for updating and another one for making quicktime load faster for that 1 time every six months I'll use it. Applications that behave in this manner are a personal pet hat of mine (I repackage applications for a living) and Apple are big culprits for doing this (they are not alone here, I'm looking at you Adobe).
IMO Opinion quicktime causes windows to slow down and also likes to install background services. The Quicktime Alternative is just far less bloated and seems to work just as well. Also you aren't forced to use the quicktime player, it just behaves like any other normal video codec.
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Sensible approach, requires checks and balances, so big media's sketchy evidence won't pass. It's also makes it too hard for them to squash the little guys like in the states. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/isps-anti-piracy-proposal-rejected-by-entertainment-sector/story-e6frgakx-1226208551936
That might work in America, but I'm not so sure it will work here. Time will tell I guess.
I hope I'm not the only one where the exact sound sequence played out in my head and a reminder of the perverse sense pleasure enjoyed whilst watching 100 lemmings explode, bringing the computer to it's knees.
So what about upload speed? Really, that is the achilles heel of all of these technologies. Also how many people are going to live in the zone that gets 100mbps or will it be like where I live, suburban area Perth with a cable run 4km from the exchange (don't mind that the exchange is abount 1.5k away via the road) and getting ADSL1 speeds, but paying for ADSL2+ (which is actually cheaper as it's not provided by the semi privatised monopoly called Telstra).
It doesn't require a book to use, but rather to configure. Well if you want to get fancy with your configuration anyway. The Out of Box experience is well suited to managing software development (It's not just a bug tracker, it's a full software development management suite), however if your using it for something unrelated to software, it takes some tweaking.
.NET piece of garbage and there hasn't been a road block that isn't crossable or at least worked around. It's extremely powerful, which means things can get a little complicated. The documentation is pretty good and I haven't struggled much in getting my head around the concepts.
We are using it to replace a completely custom developed
Summary slightly inaccurate, this is Telstra/Optus and a few smaller operations (who already offered filtering) who are enabling voluntary filtering. There are plenty of ISPs refusing to implement the filter until it becomes legislation and will fight it with everything they can before then. This will do nothing but make many more customers go to the smaller operators who have better customer service, better pricing etc.
The other stupid part of this is that it is DNS based and the work around is to use different DNS servers. Who actually uses their ISPs DNS servers? I haven't in years!
I know one of the stores here in Australia, use the Zip (Post Code here) to decide whether it's worthwhile building stores in new areas. If enough people are willing to travel 50ks to shop there, then more will shop local if it's available.
Did anyone else have the voice of Stephen Fry in their head whilst reading that page?
I found enough good reasons to make our Win7 image to have a prominent Firefox icon, with IE buried in the menus. People can use either, but most go with the path of least resistance, in this case it will be Firefox. It's actually really easy to manage the things most IT departments need to manage. I should know, that's what I do day in, day out.
Indeed there is aFirefox MSI. We deploy that + ietab plus to get around any apps that don't like Firefox (fewer these days, only thing we use it for now is Exchange Web mail 2007, being that the full featured version only works in IE). We deploy to 100's of desktops without any issues.
Unfortunately that's not the case. Office 2007 requires significant pain for the end user and also doesn't support OOXML all that well. In face a 1.3mb template file is enough to cause 100% cpu load, where as libre office handles the same file without any issues. A number of our staff voluntarily use Libre Office and we deploy it on our rental equipment as we cant justify the license cost of MS Office to open the simple excel files our survey software generates.
A lot of employers, especially in the mining sector require you to get a medical before your allowed to commence work. Some even have regular Drug/Alcohol tests, especially if you work on a mine site.
There's nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. -- Clare Booth Luce
The thing is, shipping costs more than the 10% GST in most cases anyway. So there isn't anything to gain from taxing overseas retailers. All it does is make things more complicated to purchase from them, meaning that at the end of the day, the only people that would lose out in that scenario are the consumers. So if the prices were competitive, people would more than likely buy local. I know that's how I operate, international sales are a pain when you need to make a warranty claim.
So IMHO, Gerry Harvey or any of those other large retail chains do not have a right to my money, they can stick their bad customer service and exorbitant prices up their collective coits.
To be fair it is a pretty awesome video.
Too late :(
Australia. The tipping dollars are paper (generally come in $1 or $2 varieties). Our legitiment currency is plastic.
In aus you buy "Tipping Dollars" which are paper. Smallest note here is a 5 and all the notes are plastic.
Answer the door naked, that usually works.
And the opposition are busy "opposing", so they aren't going to support anything the government wants to do.
Most of the secuirty industry is light years behind the rest of the world, their gear is really basic, the software to manage it is atrocious and the way they operate is very archaic. Imagine the dismay on the installers face when he asked for an Analogue phone line and the best we could offer him was a port on our FXS gateway (yeah not a great idea), we eventually convinced them to install a GPRS card in the system.
Therefore it will not be able to pass through either house of parliament unless the Liberal/National Coalition switch their position (which wouldnt surprise me)
Actually I would be very surprised. They would have to do a complete 180 flip on how they've behaved as the opposing party for the last 3 years. Which mainly consists of opposing everything and slagging off at every opportunity. I dare say that's part of the reason why the Greens got 4% of the swing away from Labor and the Coalition (liberals) only got 1.5%. Admittedly they need to change their tactics, but being a conservative party, change isn't going to happen fast.
My facts are my personal experiences over the years, so take that as a testimonial of some random Internet user. But for a better and more complete explanation the quicktime alternative was written for a reason and the facts stated here may go a long way to let you know why. I mean seriously a picture viewer? Also, why on earth would a I want a _Video Codec_ to install a system service for updating and another one for making quicktime load faster for that 1 time every six months I'll use it. Applications that behave in this manner are a personal pet hat of mine (I repackage applications for a living) and Apple are big culprits for doing this (they are not alone here, I'm looking at you Adobe).
Offtopic note: Answering slashdot posts whilst taking hell desk calls doesn't always work as expected ;)
IMO Opinion quicktime causes windows to slow down and also likes to install background services. The Quicktime Alternative is just far less bloated and seems to work just as well. Also you aren't forced to use the quicktime player, it just behaves like any other normal video codec.