Ten years ago we had been using serial ports since the 1960s, how many have you seen lately?
LoL, you were still using serial ports 10 years ago?
Where are you living. In Australia serial ports were relegated to specialised jobs in the late 90's. In 2003, it was hard to find a printer with a LPT port, they were all USB. PS2 hung on a bit longer, but the last PS2 peripheral I bought was in 2002.
Serial ports are still on a lot of PC mainboards, but since 2006 they have been internal (I.E. not on the back with the USB ports). Serial is hanging around because of specialised applications that use RS232 (EFTPOS systems are a big culprit) but the average person hasn't seen an RS232 connector since the 90's well over 10 years ago now.
The brilliant thing is, a USB printer using USB 1.1 still works in a USB 3 port... if you can find an ink cartridge for the fecker.
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Personally, I prefer getting a mid-range GPU, a year after the consoles are released. My GTX 260, inexpensively bought on a sale, has at least another 2 years in it. PC gaming is NOT expensive.
When you consider the costs of games, PC gaming is cheaper.
PC's have higher initial HW costs (not including the monitor/TV and assuming you don't buy extra peripherals for the console) but PC games are about $10 cheaper per game. So buying 2 games a month nets $480 over 2 years. $720 over 3 year, the mid range PC pays for it's own replacement.
But Sony hasn't learned, the console market is casual so again, Nintendo wins this generation almost by default (the Wii U is nothing special, but is the only console geared towards console players).
Yes, but what connection are you going to want in 2018? I would be almost willing to bet (I have a rule, if I place a bet with you, you may as well just give me the money, I already know the outcome--not think, know) it will not be a USB port.
Given the fact I've been using USB since 1998, it probably will be. Just not the same version of USB that is currently installed in head units (USB 2.0) but USB is backwards compatible.
It's Ipod connectors I wouldn't count on being the same in 3 years. But fortunately I dont touch anything made by Apple.
Well, given the tens of thousands in premium you pay to purchase a BMW or Acura plus the additional maintenance expenses, the least they can do is keep updating them.
Well Acura outside the Americas is known as Honda. My Honda Integra is the Acura RSX in the US, basically the same Honda with a premium price.
But with BMW you can bet your bottom dollar they'll make updates, you can bet that same bottom dollar that the updates wont be cheap.
As a side note, it's a shame Honda dont make cars like the Integra, NSX and S2000 any more.
I agree with this 100% and it's one of my biggest pet peeves about modern head units, onscreen displays are really unsafe. The one thing I want more than hardware buttons though is a single hardware button that tells my smartphone over Bluetooth to listen for a voice command, I don't want a head unit with built in apps that will be dead long before the 10-12 year typical car life, I want a standard way to use my more or less disposable smartphone.
This, this, a thousand times this.
Touch screen units require me to take my eyes off the road.
Also, I drive a car built in 2006, the stock head unit doesn't even have a USB port, I have to use this archaic device called a "Compact Disc" to transport music. I'm half surprised I'm I dont need a stone tablet.
How the hell do Ford/BWM/GM et al know what technology I'll want in a car 10 years from now. With my 2006 Integra, I can replace the head unit with minimal fuss (well as soon as I find a wiring loom for it) but BWM are integrating the head unit into the car. With BMW you dont have to worry so much as they'll keep making updates (and installing them onto old Bimmers for a not so modest fee) but the likes of Ford and Hyundai? Hyundai dont give a shit about the i30's they sold last week, let alone an Elantra they sold 5 years ago.
Who cares if an Integra is the same car as an RSX? They're both great cars I'd be perfectly happy with either. The point is that the RSX is not worse than the Integra.
The points over here.
Hi.
You seem to have missed it.
The reason the Honda Integra was not sold as the Honda Integra in the US is that Honda decided they could ask for a higher price tag under the Acura brand (same with the Honda Accord and Acura TL). They are exactly the same car with the same K20 engine made in the same factory in Suzuka, Japan. Only the badge is different.
As a side note, I own one (Honda badging as I live in Australia) and they are awesome cars.
Here the Xbox did very, very well. But both the Xbox and Playstation are the wrong paradigm for consoles. The Xbox360 did well vs the PS3 but both did horribly vs the Wii.
Sony and Microsoft designed their consoles to be PC-alike, this only resulted in a crippled gaming machine. Nintendo designed their console to be a console, a casual gaming machine and it was a smashing success. Instead of chasing after traditional PC genre's they embraced console genre's and made money hand over fist whilst Sony and MS lost money hand over fist.
But this is besides the point, the Xbox did alright, not as well as the PS2 but it did hold it's own, the Xbox360 did better than the PS3, but was fighting for second place.
Well, since they only have to drive 1080p at 60Hz with most of the shaders turned off, they don't need near as much processing power as hardcore gamers running dual 1920's at 120Hz with all the options turned up to 11 with their music player, teamspeak and a web browser with item maps and strategy guides all going in the background.
Forget the dual 1920's, the rumoured specs on the next Xbox/PS are less capable than my Phenom II 955 with a Geforce 660 (both stock). I happily run 1 1920x1200 @ 120 Hz with FSAA turned up to max.
Consoles never have been and probably never will be as powerful as a serious gaming rig.
Consoles have never been as powerful as an average gaming rig (when the PS3 came out in 2007, it used a video card available for PC's for over 8 months). This is why serious gamers game on the PC.
Consoles are casual. This is what they excel at, this is why Nintendo released last and ate everyone's lunch. The Wii is simple, casual fun. Something I can play with my non-gamer friends. Sony/MS are still suffering from the losses they had to make to sell overpowered consoles in this generation, creating a loss leading next generation console may sink one of them.
Not really. Lexus cars are always better spec'd than their Toyota counterparts. Same goes for Acura and Infiniti. The specs might not go up linearly with the price, but they are objectively better cars.
Not really,
The biggest differences are normally in the Interior (I.E. Leather seats as standard on a Lexus R300 and optional on a Toyota Aurion). With the other brands you mentioned, these seem to be American specific. The Infinity G37 in Asia and Europe is sold as the Nissan Skyline 350/370GT and Australia as the Nissan Skyline 350/370z. The Acura cars are sold as Honda in other parts of the world. I own a Honda Integra Type S (DC5S) which is known as the Acura RSX Type S in north and south America. The only difference between the Honda Integra and Acura RSX is the badging on the front.
Luxury brands for average cars are a scam to get you to pay twice as much for a Toyota Aurion or Kluger badged as a Lexus
If their motives were so pure, they might have considered passing a law to deal with kiddy porn and child rape(which would now be in effect) rather than tying action on that issue to successfully ramming through a variety of much more dangerous and ill-considered changes(because of which they now don't have any progress on the issue).
If it were only that simple,
The Philippines is a very, very devout catholic nation, doing things "for god" is as good as "for the children" and the two excuses are interchangeable by two (sometimes even three or four) faced politicians, so such laws can easily be co-opted in the name of the public morality (under God). If you think politics in western nations is screwed up, wait until you try to understand the politics of Asian nations.
Something tells me that this was squashed by the PNP (Police) and NBI (Filipino FBI) when they found out the law would require them to do some work and wouldn't have much of a payday. In fact quite the opposite, all the "sex cam" site operators pay a bit of cash to the local PNP and mayors office on a regular basis. This law would get between quite a few Filipino's and their money (a big no-no if you've never been to the Philippines).
It sounds like you had a Visa-branded debit card, not a credit card. Visa/MC Debit cards serve no use other than to enrich the bank, the merchant fees are much higher than PIN-debit. And, as you have learned, if a thief gets a hold of your number, your bank account is empty and your bills bouncing while you argue with the bank.
Merchant service fees are based on the service the customer chooses to pay with.
In Australia you have Savings, Cheque or Credit. Choosing Savings or Cheque (mainly redundant these days as checking accounts have gone the way of the dodo or common sense) the merchant pays the lower fee even if using a Visa/MC branded card. With Credit, even when paying with your own money the merchant pays the higher fee.
It's far better to get a credit card and simply pay off the bill every month
If you're looking to cut down on fees, this is the stupidest bit of advice you could possibly give.
Merchant service fees for paying via credit are higher than paying via debit.
If you want to reduce merchant service fees, pay cash.
I'm really surprised that they "bowed to pressure". When last I checked, Australian companies could set the price of their goods as they choose and parliamentary testimony had as much authority as the dog and pony shows of the U.S. congress.
How can BMW sell a car for $350,000 in Australia when the same model is $100,000 in the UK.
I'm not sure I understand what your problem is. If the price is too high, don't buy the car. If everyone did that, BMW would have no choice but to lower the price, if they want to continue to sell cars in Australia.
LOL,
Ahhh, the naivety of youth.
Why would BMW lower their prices when they have a complete monopoly?
Answer, they dont. Having a monopoly means there are no market forces forcing them to change.
Most American appliances can use 120 or 240 without any need for conversion these days - companies make everything all over the world, so it's a lot easier to simply change the power-cords then the transformers and drive electronics.
This,
I had compliance tests done by a licensed electrician. Made sure they could take 240v before being connected to the mains (the plug did need to be replaced with an AS3112 plug though).
As far as media goes, I'm hopeful that something might come of this, it's one thing on physical products (where at least you can put it down to "shipping"),
This went out the window when I could import a kitchen from the US paying shipping, taxes and imports for 1/2 of what I paid here (we're talking oven, cooktop, fridge, dishwasher, stone benchtops). Well over A$1000 worth of stuff so no tax free threshold. Still managed to save near to $3000.
Even with Games/Media. I order DVD box sets from the UK with shipping it costs half of what the same box set costs here.
Dont even get me started on cars. How can BMW sell a car for $350,000 in Australia when the same model is $100,000 in the UK. Even sans the LCT (Luxury Car Tax), GST (Goods and Services Tax) and import duties, that's still $220,000 base price and the UK price includes their 20% VAT.
Interestingly, one Australian company made the submission that it was cheaper to send an employee business class from Australia to the US to buy a certain piece of software there, stay for a night or two in a hotel, fly back, and pay import and/or GST at customs than it was to get the software locally.
Been there, done that.
Used to work for a GIS outfit with a small office in San Diego. Basically 2 guys working out of the spare room in one of their homes. If we wanted to buy some software and didn't need it right now, we'd get them to buy it and post us the box (this was back in 05 when sending 12 gigs was faster via airmail than Internet).
Though all this is a waste of time if people use non-standard app stores and/or download warez, then what do they really expect?
It's funny.... when Apple or Microsoft comes up, all the highly rated comments are about how Android lets you escape the walled garden and get your apps wherever you want from whomever you want. But let the story be about malware and security problems with Android - and all of the sudden it's the users fault for going outside the walled garden.
When given responsibility, people are expected to be responsible for themselves.
Shock Horror.
Whenever there is a thread on viruses for Mac's, Mac Fanboys always blame the user as malware is only found in pirated programs. Whilst this is not strictly true in any modern OS (OS X, Windows or Linux) almost all malware these days is (knowingly or unknowingly) installed by the user.
The equivalent on relying on "walled gardens" for security is like trying to cut road accidents by mandating that people can only buy white Automatic Camry's with speed limiters. This ignores the fact that you can still crash a speed limited auto camry if you have no fecking clue how to drive.
The problem is that everyone here in America focuses on Cancer. That is really the single least likely effect of cell phone use. Cell phone electromagnetic radiation is not ionizing radiation, the type of radiation that we know can cause cancer.
This, people cant tell the difference between non-ionising "radio" radiation and ionising "cancer" radiation.
The worry warts will stress out about mobile phones and WiFi's harmless non-ionising radiation but are happy to remain completely oblivious to the larger than normal dose of cancer causing gamma rays* they get taking a flight.
* which is well within the acceptable limits of the amount of radiation the average person should receive per year. So again, nothing to worry about. Someone can post the XKCD radiation source comparison chart... I cant be arsed.
First, using one doesn't interfere with another household member's use of the family PC.
When you're all grown up and have you're own job this is not an issue.
Besides, this advantage is easily negated when Male Child wants to play HaloZone and Female Child wants to play Barbie Horse Adventures. This is somewhat of a worse scenario.
I've said it before and upset the fanboys but I'll say it again and upset them again.
Consoles are for casual, PC's are for gaming.
If you buy 2-3 games a month the A$20 I save per game pays for the difference between a gaming box and a console. For that I get better controls and a much larger variety of games (as well as great graphical features like anti-aliasing).
Consoles are for when friends or relatives who want to play games with me. Which is what they're great at, simple, casual fun (sorry fanboys, but the best selling games are casual for a reason). I keep a Wii around simply for this purpose. This is also why Ouya will succeed. It wont do fantastically, but it'll pave the way for the console that does.
If you don't like it, then build your own fucking network. I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee.
Here let me fix that for you
I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee based on advertising claiming they have unlimited access.
OK, first off, in Australia it's illegal to advertise a service as "unlimited" when it does in fact have limits. Telstra does not offer an uncapped broadband service to consumers. Telstra is a pretty shitty telco in general, almost as bad as the best US Telco. Fortunately thanks to forward thinking govt regulation Telstra does not have a monopoly.
Secondly, I highly doubt this will work. First off, a lot of people will complain to the ACCC, secondly a lot of people will jump ship to one of Telstra's competitors. This move will only increase the customer base of the likes of iinet.
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Ten years ago we had been using serial ports since the 1960s, how many have you seen lately?
LoL, you were still using serial ports 10 years ago?
Where are you living. In Australia serial ports were relegated to specialised jobs in the late 90's. In 2003, it was hard to find a printer with a LPT port, they were all USB. PS2 hung on a bit longer, but the last PS2 peripheral I bought was in 2002.
Serial ports are still on a lot of PC mainboards, but since 2006 they have been internal (I.E. not on the back with the USB ports). Serial is hanging around because of specialised applications that use RS232 (EFTPOS systems are a big culprit) but the average person hasn't seen an RS232 connector since the 90's well over 10 years ago now.
The brilliant thing is, a USB printer using USB 1.1 still works in a USB 3 port... if you can find an ink cartridge for the fecker.
Personally, I prefer getting a mid-range GPU, a year after the consoles are released. My GTX 260, inexpensively bought on a sale, has at least another 2 years in it. PC gaming is NOT expensive.
When you consider the costs of games, PC gaming is cheaper.
PC's have higher initial HW costs (not including the monitor/TV and assuming you don't buy extra peripherals for the console) but PC games are about $10 cheaper per game. So buying 2 games a month nets $480 over 2 years. $720 over 3 year, the mid range PC pays for it's own replacement.
But Sony hasn't learned, the console market is casual so again, Nintendo wins this generation almost by default (the Wii U is nothing special, but is the only console geared towards console players).
Meth labs don't have them. :-)
Ahem,
Why do you assume just because I make meth, my lab is not set up to conform to AS2343 standards.
For shame sir, for shame.
The UK tried.
They ended up with the safest plug in the world... that causes more foot injuries than any other plug.
Behold the BS1363, bane of the foot.
My '12 Challenger R/T has a USB port...
Yes, but what connection are you going to want in 2018? I would be almost willing to bet (I have a rule, if I place a bet with you, you may as well just give me the money, I already know the outcome--not think, know) it will not be a USB port.
Given the fact I've been using USB since 1998, it probably will be. Just not the same version of USB that is currently installed in head units (USB 2.0) but USB is backwards compatible.
It's Ipod connectors I wouldn't count on being the same in 3 years. But fortunately I dont touch anything made by Apple.
Well, given the tens of thousands in premium you pay to purchase a BMW or Acura plus the additional maintenance expenses, the least they can do is keep updating them.
Well Acura outside the Americas is known as Honda. My Honda Integra is the Acura RSX in the US, basically the same Honda with a premium price.
But with BMW you can bet your bottom dollar they'll make updates, you can bet that same bottom dollar that the updates wont be cheap.
As a side note, it's a shame Honda dont make cars like the Integra, NSX and S2000 any more.
I agree with this 100% and it's one of my biggest pet peeves about modern head units, onscreen displays are really unsafe. The one thing I want more than hardware buttons though is a single hardware button that tells my smartphone over Bluetooth to listen for a voice command, I don't want a head unit with built in apps that will be dead long before the 10-12 year typical car life, I want a standard way to use my more or less disposable smartphone.
This, this, a thousand times this.
Touch screen units require me to take my eyes off the road.
Also, I drive a car built in 2006, the stock head unit doesn't even have a USB port, I have to use this archaic device called a "Compact Disc" to transport music. I'm half surprised I'm I dont need a stone tablet.
How the hell do Ford/BWM/GM et al know what technology I'll want in a car 10 years from now. With my 2006 Integra, I can replace the head unit with minimal fuss (well as soon as I find a wiring loom for it) but BWM are integrating the head unit into the car. With BMW you dont have to worry so much as they'll keep making updates (and installing them onto old Bimmers for a not so modest fee) but the likes of Ford and Hyundai? Hyundai dont give a shit about the i30's they sold last week, let alone an Elantra they sold 5 years ago.
Who cares if an Integra is the same car as an RSX? They're both great cars I'd be perfectly happy with either. The point is that the RSX is not worse than the Integra.
The points over here.
Hi.
You seem to have missed it.
The reason the Honda Integra was not sold as the Honda Integra in the US is that Honda decided they could ask for a higher price tag under the Acura brand (same with the Honda Accord and Acura TL). They are exactly the same car with the same K20 engine made in the same factory in Suzuka, Japan. Only the badge is different.
As a side note, I own one (Honda badging as I live in Australia) and they are awesome cars.
Here the Xbox did very, very well. But both the Xbox and Playstation are the wrong paradigm for consoles. The Xbox360 did well vs the PS3 but both did horribly vs the Wii.
Sony and Microsoft designed their consoles to be PC-alike, this only resulted in a crippled gaming machine. Nintendo designed their console to be a console, a casual gaming machine and it was a smashing success. Instead of chasing after traditional PC genre's they embraced console genre's and made money hand over fist whilst Sony and MS lost money hand over fist.
But this is besides the point, the Xbox did alright, not as well as the PS2 but it did hold it's own, the Xbox360 did better than the PS3, but was fighting for second place.
Well, since they only have to drive 1080p at 60Hz with most of the shaders turned off, they don't need near as much processing power as hardcore gamers running dual 1920's at 120Hz with all the options turned up to 11 with their music player, teamspeak and a web browser with item maps and strategy guides all going in the background.
Forget the dual 1920's, the rumoured specs on the next Xbox/PS are less capable than my Phenom II 955 with a Geforce 660 (both stock). I happily run 1 1920x1200 @ 120 Hz with FSAA turned up to max.
Consoles never have been and probably never will be as powerful as a serious gaming rig.
Consoles have never been as powerful as an average gaming rig (when the PS3 came out in 2007, it used a video card available for PC's for over 8 months). This is why serious gamers game on the PC.
Consoles are casual. This is what they excel at, this is why Nintendo released last and ate everyone's lunch. The Wii is simple, casual fun. Something I can play with my non-gamer friends. Sony/MS are still suffering from the losses they had to make to sell overpowered consoles in this generation, creating a loss leading next generation console may sink one of them.
Not really. Lexus cars are always better spec'd than their Toyota counterparts. Same goes for Acura and Infiniti. The specs might not go up linearly with the price, but they are objectively better cars.
Not really,
The biggest differences are normally in the Interior (I.E. Leather seats as standard on a Lexus R300 and optional on a Toyota Aurion). With the other brands you mentioned, these seem to be American specific. The Infinity G37 in Asia and Europe is sold as the Nissan Skyline 350/370GT and Australia as the Nissan Skyline 350/370z. The Acura cars are sold as Honda in other parts of the world. I own a Honda Integra Type S (DC5S) which is known as the Acura RSX Type S in north and south America. The only difference between the Honda Integra and Acura RSX is the badging on the front.
Luxury brands for average cars are a scam to get you to pay twice as much for a Toyota Aurion or Kluger badged as a Lexus
Because iPhones actually perform well?
No, no they dont. You did ask the question.
If their motives were so pure, they might have considered passing a law to deal with kiddy porn and child rape(which would now be in effect) rather than tying action on that issue to successfully ramming through a variety of much more dangerous and ill-considered changes(because of which they now don't have any progress on the issue).
If it were only that simple,
The Philippines is a very, very devout catholic nation, doing things "for god" is as good as "for the children" and the two excuses are interchangeable by two (sometimes even three or four) faced politicians, so such laws can easily be co-opted in the name of the public morality (under God). If you think politics in western nations is screwed up, wait until you try to understand the politics of Asian nations.
Something tells me that this was squashed by the PNP (Police) and NBI (Filipino FBI) when they found out the law would require them to do some work and wouldn't have much of a payday. In fact quite the opposite, all the "sex cam" site operators pay a bit of cash to the local PNP and mayors office on a regular basis. This law would get between quite a few Filipino's and their money (a big no-no if you've never been to the Philippines).
It sounds like you had a Visa-branded debit card, not a credit card. Visa/MC Debit cards serve no use other than to enrich the bank, the merchant fees are much higher than PIN-debit. And, as you have learned, if a thief gets a hold of your number, your bank account is empty and your bills bouncing while you argue with the bank.
Merchant service fees are based on the service the customer chooses to pay with.
In Australia you have Savings, Cheque or Credit. Choosing Savings or Cheque (mainly redundant these days as checking accounts have gone the way of the dodo or common sense) the merchant pays the lower fee even if using a Visa/MC branded card. With Credit, even when paying with your own money the merchant pays the higher fee.
If you're looking to cut down on fees, this is the stupidest bit of advice you could possibly give.
Merchant service fees for paying via credit are higher than paying via debit.
If you want to reduce merchant service fees, pay cash.
I'm really surprised that they "bowed to pressure". When last I checked, Australian companies could set the price of their goods as they choose and parliamentary testimony had as much authority as the dog and pony shows of the U.S. congress.
The whole thing seems odd to me.
Yes, this is clearly Julia Gillards fault.
I'm not sure I understand what your problem is. If the price is too high, don't buy the car. If everyone did that, BMW would have no choice but to lower the price, if they want to continue to sell cars in Australia.
LOL,
Ahhh, the naivety of youth.
Why would BMW lower their prices when they have a complete monopoly?
Answer, they dont. Having a monopoly means there are no market forces forcing them to change.
Libertarianism does not work in the real world.
Most American appliances can use 120 or 240 without any need for conversion these days - companies make everything all over the world, so it's a lot easier to simply change the power-cords then the transformers and drive electronics.
This,
I had compliance tests done by a licensed electrician. Made sure they could take 240v before being connected to the mains (the plug did need to be replaced with an AS3112 plug though).
As far as media goes, I'm hopeful that something might come of this, it's one thing on physical products (where at least you can put it down to "shipping"),
This went out the window when I could import a kitchen from the US paying shipping, taxes and imports for 1/2 of what I paid here (we're talking oven, cooktop, fridge, dishwasher, stone benchtops). Well over A$1000 worth of stuff so no tax free threshold. Still managed to save near to $3000.
Even with Games/Media. I order DVD box sets from the UK with shipping it costs half of what the same box set costs here.
Dont even get me started on cars. How can BMW sell a car for $350,000 in Australia when the same model is $100,000 in the UK. Even sans the LCT (Luxury Car Tax), GST (Goods and Services Tax) and import duties, that's still $220,000 base price and the UK price includes their 20% VAT.
Interestingly, one Australian company made the submission that it was cheaper to send an employee business class from Australia to the US to buy a certain piece of software there, stay for a night or two in a hotel, fly back, and pay import and/or GST at customs than it was to get the software locally.
Been there, done that. Used to work for a GIS outfit with a small office in San Diego. Basically 2 guys working out of the spare room in one of their homes. If we wanted to buy some software and didn't need it right now, we'd get them to buy it and post us the box (this was back in 05 when sending 12 gigs was faster via airmail than Internet).
TFA author is an iPhone user, according to his twit feed https://twitter.com/craigtimberg
So the only genuine insecurity to be found in the article, is that of the authors.
It's funny.... when Apple or Microsoft comes up, all the highly rated comments are about how Android lets you escape the walled garden and get your apps wherever you want from whomever you want. But let the story be about malware and security problems with Android - and all of the sudden it's the users fault for going outside the walled garden.
When given responsibility, people are expected to be responsible for themselves.
Shock Horror.
Whenever there is a thread on viruses for Mac's, Mac Fanboys always blame the user as malware is only found in pirated programs. Whilst this is not strictly true in any modern OS (OS X, Windows or Linux) almost all malware these days is (knowingly or unknowingly) installed by the user.
The equivalent on relying on "walled gardens" for security is like trying to cut road accidents by mandating that people can only buy white Automatic Camry's with speed limiters. This ignores the fact that you can still crash a speed limited auto camry if you have no fecking clue how to drive.
The problem is that everyone here in America focuses on Cancer. That is really the single least likely effect of cell phone use. Cell phone electromagnetic radiation is not ionizing radiation, the type of radiation that we know can cause cancer.
This, people cant tell the difference between non-ionising "radio" radiation and ionising "cancer" radiation.
The worry warts will stress out about mobile phones and WiFi's harmless non-ionising radiation but are happy to remain completely oblivious to the larger than normal dose of cancer causing gamma rays* they get taking a flight.
* which is well within the acceptable limits of the amount of radiation the average person should receive per year. So again, nothing to worry about. Someone can post the XKCD radiation source comparison chart... I cant be arsed.
When you're all grown up and have you're own job this is not an issue.
Besides, this advantage is easily negated when Male Child wants to play HaloZone and Female Child wants to play Barbie Horse Adventures. This is somewhat of a worse scenario.
I've said it before and upset the fanboys but I'll say it again and upset them again.
Consoles are for casual, PC's are for gaming.
If you buy 2-3 games a month the A$20 I save per game pays for the difference between a gaming box and a console. For that I get better controls and a much larger variety of games (as well as great graphical features like anti-aliasing).
Consoles are for when friends or relatives who want to play games with me. Which is what they're great at, simple, casual fun (sorry fanboys, but the best selling games are casual for a reason). I keep a Wii around simply for this purpose. This is also why Ouya will succeed. It wont do fantastically, but it'll pave the way for the console that does.
Good! I'll be glad when the 24x7 torrenting hogs move away from Telstra's network. More bandwidth for me!
Enjoy your high prices and crappy service.
What, you think Telstra doesn't need to make up for the revenue lost from this?
If you don't like it, then build your own fucking network. I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee.
Here let me fix that for you
I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee based on advertising claiming they have unlimited access.
OK, first off, in Australia it's illegal to advertise a service as "unlimited" when it does in fact have limits. Telstra does not offer an uncapped broadband service to consumers. Telstra is a pretty shitty telco in general, almost as bad as the best US Telco. Fortunately thanks to forward thinking govt regulation Telstra does not have a monopoly.
Secondly, I highly doubt this will work. First off, a lot of people will complain to the ACCC, secondly a lot of people will jump ship to one of Telstra's competitors. This move will only increase the customer base of the likes of iinet.