No it's clear cut corporate intervention, unless you want to go for the standard conspiracy theory crap.
Considering how irritatingly slow auDA are at handling any kind of request (think a month to 6 weeks, yes I have witnessed this), I find it highly unlikely that they weren't at least prod'd into action via external forces (ie Senator Conroy or one of his cronies).
Out of curiosity, What ad blocker do you use? I'm using ad-block plus, and didn't have to do a thing. I sometimes forget it's there. I set it up long ago so the sites that aren't obnoxious with their advertising and I also frequent, are white listed.
I used this specific feature in Mplayer, as I was doing the same thing. 12Mb cache seemed to be enough for most streams, as bandwidth wasn't a huge issue, more the consistency of the connection (which can't be guaranteed with wireless as it's half duplex, well at least a/b/g are, I think n can do full duplex in certain configurations)
Not quite lone, Senator Nick Minchin although initially for it, because his own agenda, came to realise that exactly what he was pushing, was exactly the problem with the proposed filter and withdrew support for it.
Believe me, Australians are not asleep. Senator Conroy has chosen to barge ahead regardless of any public outcry. Fortunately the Labour Government do not hold enough power in the Senate to push this through with out the support of the opposition and the Independents/Minority Parties, which they just aren't going to get. Independent Senator Nick Minchin and Greens Senator Scott Ludlam have both been very vocal in opposition to Censorship in Australia. The Librals (the other major party) seem to be fighting the Labour party at every turn, so I suspect their support will be limited. I think if it doesn't pass, the worst outcome will be that Labour will use this as a slander campaign to paint the opposition as supporting "Child Abuse".
The only eyebrow-raising part is that you would expect Microsoft to have a whole brace of plan Bs in place at the drop of a hat for just such an occurrence.
GPS for me came in handy in a recent 4x4 adventure, we had been using paper maps and just following our noses along the track until my Fiancé required urgent medical attention, now I didn't have one, but one of the other guys that was with us did, so whilst I was calling for an Ambulance, he was calling through our current location and best meeting point for the Ambulance over the 2 way. It was rather comforting that we didn't need to stop and work out where exactly we were or where we needed to be (we were familiar with the area, but the bush looks quite the same for quite some distance, so it's quite hard to narrow things down to more than +/- 10k's)
I can second that, music for me provides enough distraction so that I don't distract myself, it aides my concentration significantly. I also find faster paced music sometimes makes me work faster, but sometimes it's whatever I'm in the mood for that does this.
Fortunately my boss gets it, he understands that once those head phones are on, I'm shutting out the world to get some serious work done. Even my colleague in the same room will IM me when I've got my head phones on (and vice/versa) as it's less disruptive to the thought processes.
Wanted to beat that bloke senseless by the end of that. I know I was bored, but I figured a "geeky" card might have been interesting. Thoroughly dissappointed (should I have expected anything different, I don't really consider having an iPhone in the least bit geeky)
Great if you want a secure password. But the parent has provided a link specifically for Wifi passwords. Long, random and valid for WPA and WPA2. Personally I'd reckon that they'd be pretty hard to crack!
Try LinHES (aka Knoppmyth). It's purely a MythTV based Distro that is heading towards becoming as easy to setup as any Appliance. The forums are full of very very knowledgeable people and they now have proper repositories with software, tested and packaged specifically for the distro. I've been using Knoppmyth/LinHES as my TV Tuner/Recorder etc for around the same amount of time. I have to say they have made significant advances in recent times. It's much much easier to setup, I can have the box installed, using EIT (over the air) for my guide data in under half an hour. Heck, post the initial setup, if you have a supported remote, you can sit back and do it all from the comfort of your chair!
I have looked at alternatives and they all seemed to require more work to setup than I was preparred to undertake. It was fun in the early days, but I've moved on to different projects now, I just want my TV to work and so does my Fiancé (who is not a nerd/geek like me!). The most major piece of work I did to the box in the last 6 months, changed my TV guide from IceTV (paid for service) to Shepherd (free service) and that was pretty straight forward, pacman -S shepherd (it could even be in the menu somewhere, but I'm a cli junkie), run through the shepherd config... 10 mins later, new guide data from a new source and I haven't touched it since!
And if your ahead of the Curve, your product is so much more polished then your competitors when it is relevant.. Judging by the article, these devices aren't using dedicated chips yet (using programmable ones instead) which bumps up the cost by around $200. I'd reckon once they finalise things like Booting, that chip will be replaced with a dedicated one. You could see it drop by a 1/3 in 6 months.
I'd say take a walk in the real world, not everything is perfect and costs money right from the word go. You may want something different, But I can see where it could be use. I know someone that would love one, the guy that runs Cacheboy, now he doesn't have the budget for enterprise stuff, but could certainly give one of these a good thrashing.
And what about the businesses that aren't big enough to go beyond the "consumer" scope. What about Uni's with limited budget? Go look at the latest and greatest "consumer" Intel processor, I can guarantee you won't have much change out of $1000. Yet give it 12 months it'll probably be less then a 1/3 of that price (maybe sooner, I don't keep up with pricing).
With that kind of attitude 640K would be enough for anyone.
It's speed and usefullness is limited only by your imagination. I know we have workloads here where the data set mightn't be huge, but those extra IOPs would make a huge difference. Cost, well it's irrelevant, all new tech is expensive when it's released. Hell if you go by SSD standards, they are still way more expensive then their spinning platter brethren.
I see your defeatist attitude, and raise you one positive and thoroughly excited attitude that wonders where the tech world will go next.
Don't 3COM have an incredible amount of IP? I dare say this will be to help bolster their ProCurve line as a competitor to Cisco. Comparatively speaking, HP Procurve gear IME seems quite reasonable for the price, way less then Cisco and doesn't require a license to "legally" run the OS. Don't get me wrong, Cisco kit is nice if you can afford it, but by jeez do you pay a premium (I say this with a Cisco Phone sitting next to me and 5 Cisco switches in our rack... all trunking into a modular HP Procurve).
3Com hardware IME was always top notch, I did wonder what happen to them, lets see what HP do from here.
Indeed, I like their products and their software seems impressive (discounting itunes on windows). But the cost both in monetary terms and my philosophy on how I feel the world should work, mean that I'll never own an apple product in at least the near future. If they change their philosophy, maybe I'll consider it then.
Did anybody else read this as "Head Mounted" when they first glanced at the headline (scuse the pun)? Pretty cool none the less and does stop me wondering what use a head mount one would have:P
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I wondered how much work went into these kind of things -> Interactive Easter Egg Hunt
Indeed, it was an Aussie car, XB GT Falcon Coupe
No it's clear cut corporate intervention, unless you want to go for the standard conspiracy theory crap.
Considering how irritatingly slow auDA are at handling any kind of request (think a month to 6 weeks, yes I have witnessed this), I find it highly unlikely that they weren't at least prod'd into action via external forces (ie Senator Conroy or one of his cronies).
I guess it's not like they have a history of doing this... Oh right they do -> Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics
Out of curiosity, What ad blocker do you use? I'm using ad-block plus, and didn't have to do a thing. I sometimes forget it's there. I set it up long ago so the sites that aren't obnoxious with their advertising and I also frequent, are white listed.
I used this specific feature in Mplayer, as I was doing the same thing. 12Mb cache seemed to be enough for most streams, as bandwidth wasn't a huge issue, more the consistency of the connection (which can't be guaranteed with wireless as it's half duplex, well at least a/b/g are, I think n can do full duplex in certain configurations)
Indeed Pirate Party Australia who have quite a spiel regarding mandatory filtering in Australia on their home page.
Not quite lone, Senator Nick Minchin although initially for it, because his own agenda, came to realise that exactly what he was pushing, was exactly the problem with the proposed filter and withdrew support for it.
Believe me, Australians are not asleep. Senator Conroy has chosen to barge ahead regardless of any public outcry. Fortunately the Labour Government do not hold enough power in the Senate to push this through with out the support of the opposition and the Independents/Minority Parties, which they just aren't going to get. Independent Senator Nick Minchin and Greens Senator Scott Ludlam have both been very vocal in opposition to Censorship in Australia. The Librals (the other major party) seem to be fighting the Labour party at every turn, so I suspect their support will be limited. I think if it doesn't pass, the worst outcome will be that Labour will use this as a slander campaign to paint the opposition as supporting "Child Abuse".
The only eyebrow-raising part is that you would expect Microsoft to have a whole brace of plan Bs in place at the drop of a hat for just such an occurrence.
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GPS for me came in handy in a recent 4x4 adventure, we had been using paper maps and just following our noses along the track until my Fiancé required urgent medical attention, now I didn't have one, but one of the other guys that was with us did, so whilst I was calling for an Ambulance, he was calling through our current location and best meeting point for the Ambulance over the 2 way. It was rather comforting that we didn't need to stop and work out where exactly we were or where we needed to be (we were familiar with the area, but the bush looks quite the same for quite some distance, so it's quite hard to narrow things down to more than +/- 10k's)
I can second that, music for me provides enough distraction so that I don't distract myself, it aides my concentration significantly. I also find faster paced music sometimes makes me work faster, but sometimes it's whatever I'm in the mood for that does this.
Fortunately my boss gets it, he understands that once those head phones are on, I'm shutting out the world to get some serious work done. Even my colleague in the same room will IM me when I've got my head phones on (and vice/versa) as it's less disruptive to the thought processes.
Wanted to beat that bloke senseless by the end of that. I know I was bored, but I figured a "geeky" card might have been interesting. Thoroughly dissappointed (should I have expected anything different, I don't really consider having an iPhone in the least bit geeky)
Great if you want a secure password. But the parent has provided a link specifically for Wifi passwords. Long, random and valid for WPA and WPA2. Personally I'd reckon that they'd be pretty hard to crack!
Try LinHES (aka Knoppmyth). It's purely a MythTV based Distro that is heading towards becoming as easy to setup as any Appliance. The forums are full of very very knowledgeable people and they now have proper repositories with software, tested and packaged specifically for the distro. I've been using Knoppmyth/LinHES as my TV Tuner/Recorder etc for around the same amount of time. I have to say they have made significant advances in recent times. It's much much easier to setup, I can have the box installed, using EIT (over the air) for my guide data in under half an hour. Heck, post the initial setup, if you have a supported remote, you can sit back and do it all from the comfort of your chair!
I have looked at alternatives and they all seemed to require more work to setup than I was preparred to undertake. It was fun in the early days, but I've moved on to different projects now, I just want my TV to work and so does my Fiancé (who is not a nerd/geek like me!). The most major piece of work I did to the box in the last 6 months, changed my TV guide from IceTV (paid for service) to Shepherd (free service) and that was pretty straight forward, pacman -S shepherd (it could even be in the menu somewhere, but I'm a cli junkie), run through the shepherd config... 10 mins later, new guide data from a new source and I haven't touched it since!
You could try this on your keyboard.
Two wongs don't make a right....
And if your ahead of the Curve, your product is so much more polished then your competitors when it is relevant.. Judging by the article, these devices aren't using dedicated chips yet (using programmable ones instead) which bumps up the cost by around $200. I'd reckon once they finalise things like Booting, that chip will be replaced with a dedicated one. You could see it drop by a 1/3 in 6 months.
I'd say take a walk in the real world, not everything is perfect and costs money right from the word go. You may want something different, But I can see where it could be use. I know someone that would love one, the guy that runs Cacheboy, now he doesn't have the budget for enterprise stuff, but could certainly give one of these a good thrashing.
Tell me, what is the right direction then?
And what about the businesses that aren't big enough to go beyond the "consumer" scope. What about Uni's with limited budget? Go look at the latest and greatest "consumer" Intel processor, I can guarantee you won't have much change out of $1000. Yet give it 12 months it'll probably be less then a 1/3 of that price (maybe sooner, I don't keep up with pricing).
With that kind of attitude 640K would be enough for anyone.
It's speed and usefullness is limited only by your imagination. I know we have workloads here where the data set mightn't be huge, but those extra IOPs would make a huge difference. Cost, well it's irrelevant, all new tech is expensive when it's released. Hell if you go by SSD standards, they are still way more expensive then their spinning platter brethren.
I see your defeatist attitude, and raise you one positive and thoroughly excited attitude that wonders where the tech world will go next.
Don't 3COM have an incredible amount of IP? I dare say this will be to help bolster their ProCurve line as a competitor to Cisco. Comparatively speaking, HP Procurve gear IME seems quite reasonable for the price, way less then Cisco and doesn't require a license to "legally" run the OS. Don't get me wrong, Cisco kit is nice if you can afford it, but by jeez do you pay a premium (I say this with a Cisco Phone sitting next to me and 5 Cisco switches in our rack... all trunking into a modular HP Procurve).
3Com hardware IME was always top notch, I did wonder what happen to them, lets see what HP do from here.
Indeed, I like their products and their software seems impressive (discounting itunes on windows). But the cost both in monetary terms and my philosophy on how I feel the world should work, mean that I'll never own an apple product in at least the near future. If they change their philosophy, maybe I'll consider it then.
Really really interesting project!
Did anybody else read this as "Head Mounted" when they first glanced at the headline (scuse the pun)? Pretty cool none the less and does stop me wondering what use a head mount one would have :P
Nah, one minute of copy time.