The last person who suggested they reduce prices to be competitive was beaten to death by the Duopoly of Coles/Myer and Woolsworth. Then the corpse was kicked by Gerry Harvey (who seems to enjoy beating dead horses).
So a horse suggested that retailers should reduce prices? Australia is stranger than I thought.
"Ms Baddeley said mobile phone monitoring, already operating in the UK and US, would help the struggling retail sector develop marketing campaigns and identify the best mix of shops in centres."
The retail sector is struggling because I can buy almost everything cheaper from overseas as long as the AUD is above ~0.75 USD. It's currently over 1.00 USD.
The last person who suggested they reduce prices to be competitive was beaten to death by the Duopoly of Coles/Myer and Woolsworth. Then the corpse was kicked by Gerry Harvey (who seems to enjoy beating dead horses).
This could potentially work against Apple if Samsung go after the iPhone 4S on Oz. Precedent has been set, and it would be quite difficult for Apple to argue that an injunction shouldn't block the iPhone4S if Samsung decide to assert their hardware patents.
The Australian legal system is not precedent based.
Secondly, it's a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
Finally, Justice Bennett needs here head examined. There is no reason to deny competition and absolutely no reason to rule against Samsung after Apple have been caught lying to the court.
It's called Vlingo and has been available on Android for quite some time.
Android has a good inbuilt speech recognition system, saying "call John Smith" will call John Smith unless you have to make a choice (I.E. John Smith has two numbers).
What I haven't been able to get it to do is. "Message John Smith. John, the estimates on your latest project are way off base, please revise them and get back to me."
But they are the stupidest idea ever. I'm glad Australia didn't go down the same path. We have enough trouble with private security, basically the same as the "specials" you describe sans armour and rank, but on just as much of a power trip.
Wouldn't be surprised if a secret group of developers is paying for this. Getting rid of referential integrity one DBA at a time.
As a network engineer, I wouldn't mind getting rid of a few snowflake developers this way. Capsules will be cheap as surviving re-entry is not a requirement.
Snowflake Developer: This laptop you gave me 3 months ago is crap. Network Engineer: That's because I gave you admin privs 3 months ago and you stuffed it up. Snowflake Developer: I demand a new laptop. Network Engineer: I'll re-image the old one. I took an image of it before I gave it to you, should take about an hour. Snowflake Developer: I WANT A NEW LAPTOP NOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW./stamping of feet. Network Engineer: OK, come with me to the Aperture Science Emergency Hardware Generation Capsule./laughs maniacally.
However being truly old school, I demand a big screen in the launch centre and a giant red launch button with a plastic cover that flips open at T minus 10.
As a person who has seen macbooks KP in a variety of very warm and humid nations, you are.
The laptop I would least like to travel with is a Mac because of this. The last example was a mere 2 weeks ago, in the Philippines this Mac fan came up to expunge the benefits of his chosen PC and it KP'ed shortly after his spiel about their reliability. Mac's cannot handle heat very well, mix in humidity and their screwed due to poor airflow.
Let me put it this way, refurb Imac's go for A$1600, if they didn't have a relatively high rate of failure why are refurbed mac's being advertised by Apple? For comparison, refurbed Dell i7 latitudes (a A$2500 laptop new) go for A$600 and there aren't enough of them for dell to justify selling them, they just sell them to auction houses.
What's sad is, that HP burned WebOS in the cradle.
The WebOS fanboys wont like this. But WebOS was stillborn, it never had a chance from the moment Palm pushed it out and abandoned it at the CDMA airport. With no GSM phone they couldn't compete on the world market (the very lucrative markets of Asia and Europe) and they kept making more and more mistakes by depreciating the product. By the time HP got it, WebOS was a rotted, zombified mess. It was all HP could do to spray it with Glen 20 and claim it's not dead, please ignore the bits of flesh falling off.
By the time HP had a product ready, WebOS was so far behind in features there was no way WebOS could compete with IOS and WP7, let alone Android.
This may be a great opportunity for Google to acquire a corporate brand and a large patent portfolio for its Chromebook for the enterprise.
Makes as much sense as Google acquiring Motorola for the same platform and patents for android.
Motorola = Great Hardware, Crap Software, Terrible management. Google can fix the software and management parts.
HP = Terrrible Hardware, Crap Software, Even worse management. Google cant fix the HW, they dont have the expertise or experience.
As someone who owned a Motorola Milestone (GSM Droid) I loved the hardware and the Vanilla Android was great (motoblur was an abomination) but the terrible decision to lock the bootloader was a fail of legends. Moto had great HW when Google bought it, if Google-rola releases a new Milestone with an unlocked bootloader I'll be first in line. Especially with the great speaker my original Milestone had.
It's like someone who got blasted with a couple Sieverts worth of radiation all at once. They're sick for a while, then everything seems to get better for a while, but everyone knows it won't be long until their hemorrhaging out every orifice and on the way to being dead. Seriously though, when did the exposure occur? What, if anything, was the event that signaled HP's eventual demise as the company we know today? I think most of us agree that it's going to happen, I'm just curious what the point of no return was.
It's more like someone who got blasted with about 10 Sieverts of radiation, died in a horrible, gruesome fashion and then came back as a zombie infecting MBA's and IT decision makers whom we are now blasting with shotguns in an attempt to stop it.
Yes, HP is standard where I work.
I'm just curious what the point of no return was.
For a normal person, 4 to 6 sieverts. 8 is considered a fatal dose by realistically, after 4 even if you survive, your quality of life will never be the same.
Hopefully, as much as anyone hates Apple, they'll be the only american company left that knows how to build a PC.
So no American companies know how to make computers then.
Which is why I buy my computers from Japan and Taiwan. Hell, even Lenovo (china) is doing a much better job then Apple. I live in a hot country, Apple's constantly have overheating problems which Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba and even Sony avoid. I watched the 3 Mac's in the office KP last time the air-con failed on a 40 Degree day.
And how many of these parents are not going to 'opt-in' to being able to view a little bit of porn now and then? And teens are smarter than you think, and will figure out how to 'opt-in' anyway.
The article got it wrong,
The filter is opt-in, not opt-out. But your question stands, how many parents are so prudish and technologically competent enough to opt-in. Methinks that catagory already has some parental controls installed, all 4 of them.
This seems more like arse covering for ISP's. When Whiny McPrude rings up to complain about seeing a nipple, the ISP can tell her to naff off because she didn't opt in to the filter.
however (having just thought of this point once clicking "submit") it would be far easier, and less expensive to just have the parents, um... parent.
But that would require the parents to have some element of responsibility and actually take time out from party's, getting drunk, holidays, et al. to actually take care of their crotchspawns.
No, no, much easier to have the TV do it and whinge to the government when that fails.
No offence, but your former flatmate sounds like a complete dickhead.
As someone who has experienced Melbourne trams having to break hard to avoid an accident which resulted in all the passengers being hurled forwards (some off their feet) it is just not cool.
+1
Dickheads like this are the people responsible making it hard for young people to get their license these days as well as the woeful hoon laws.
If you want to be stupid with your car, go out where no one cares, not in inner city traffic.
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Oh, by the way, don't forget to toss any modern cellphone you have, Apple/Google/Microsoft/WebOS, what country did they come from again?
China.
Xie xie.
So a horse suggested that retailers should reduce prices? Australia is stranger than I thought.
Mate, no human is willing to staff their boards.
Little known fact, BHP is run by a Wombat.
"Ms Baddeley said mobile phone monitoring, already operating in the UK and US, would help the struggling retail sector develop marketing campaigns and identify the best mix of shops in centres."
The retail sector is struggling because I can buy almost everything cheaper from overseas as long as the AUD is above ~0.75 USD. It's currently over 1.00 USD.
The last person who suggested they reduce prices to be competitive was beaten to death by the Duopoly of Coles/Myer and Woolsworth. Then the corpse was kicked by Gerry Harvey (who seems to enjoy beating dead horses).
bet you it's a Westfield - probably Chermside...
+1 to Westfield. I'm surprised Gerry Harvey hasn't considered this.
I can't imagine there's a single Apple "first-in-liner" that wouldn't let Woz cut to the front of the line if he showed up at the last minute.
I can imagine that 95% of people in your average Apple line know who Woz is.
In Australia that number is closer to 99% as the kind of people who buy Iphones buy them as fashion accessories, not as phones.
If he pays me in $2 bills.
Actually he pays in $1S bills.
As an ordinary person who uses knives to open boxes, pry off obstinate panels, remove loose threads and cut small hoses and cable ties,
By that logic I need a box cutter, prying knife, thread removing knife, hose severing knife and cable tie removal knife.
Why do I need to carry around 5 knives when 1 Swiss army knife (or leatherman) will do all that and more amicably?
Icloud is not specialised at all, in actual fact it's a more limited version of Dropbox, being limited does not make it specialised.
This could potentially work against Apple if Samsung go after the iPhone 4S on Oz. Precedent has been set, and it would be quite difficult for Apple to argue that an injunction shouldn't block the iPhone4S if Samsung decide to assert their hardware patents.
The Australian legal system is not precedent based.
Secondly, it's a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
Finally, Justice Bennett needs here head examined. There is no reason to deny competition and absolutely no reason to rule against Samsung after Apple have been caught lying to the court.
It's called Vlingo and has been available on Android for quite some time.
Android has a good inbuilt speech recognition system, saying "call John Smith" will call John Smith unless you have to make a choice (I.E. John Smith has two numbers).
What I haven't been able to get it to do is. "Message John Smith. John, the estimates on your latest project are way off base, please revise them and get back to me."
If I already have a 10-year old kid, why would I want to print more of them? And what's wrong with the old fashioned way, even if I wanted more?
No, no, no,
The 3D printer is in exchange for your crotchspawn, a fair swap if you ask me.
Is it still clocked at 42 miles per hour?
I prefer the sound of "Hobby Bobby" myself.
But they are the stupidest idea ever. I'm glad Australia didn't go down the same path. We have enough trouble with private security, basically the same as the "specials" you describe sans armour and rank, but on just as much of a power trip.
I would say we need these guys a lot more than we need thugs assaulting each other or random people in the streets.
If I got jumped by a bunch of guys, I would rather have someone in body armor show up with mace than no-one at all.
The problem is after a while, you cant tell which is the vigilante and which is the thug.
Wouldn't be surprised if a secret group of developers is paying for this. Getting rid of referential integrity one DBA at a time.
As a network engineer, I wouldn't mind getting rid of a few snowflake developers this way. Capsules will be cheap as surviving re-entry is not a requirement.
/stamping of feet. /laughs maniacally.
Snowflake Developer: This laptop you gave me 3 months ago is crap.
Network Engineer: That's because I gave you admin privs 3 months ago and you stuffed it up.
Snowflake Developer: I demand a new laptop.
Network Engineer: I'll re-image the old one. I took an image of it before I gave it to you, should take about an hour.
Snowflake Developer: I WANT A NEW LAPTOP NOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW.
Network Engineer: OK, come with me to the Aperture Science Emergency Hardware Generation Capsule.
However being truly old school, I demand a big screen in the launch centre and a giant red launch button with a plastic cover that flips open at T minus 10.
As a person who has seen macbooks KP in a variety of very warm and humid nations, you are.
The laptop I would least like to travel with is a Mac because of this. The last example was a mere 2 weeks ago, in the Philippines this Mac fan came up to expunge the benefits of his chosen PC and it KP'ed shortly after his spiel about their reliability. Mac's cannot handle heat very well, mix in humidity and their screwed due to poor airflow.
Let me put it this way, refurb Imac's go for A$1600, if they didn't have a relatively high rate of failure why are refurbed mac's being advertised by Apple? For comparison, refurbed Dell i7 latitudes (a A$2500 laptop new) go for A$600 and there aren't enough of them for dell to justify selling them, they just sell them to auction houses.
Sure, that will stop the government: http://xkcd.com/538/
This is a problem that can only be fixed by fixing the government, no technological solution exists.
Way ahead of you,
No government wrench costs as little as $5.
What's sad is, that HP burned WebOS in the cradle.
The WebOS fanboys wont like this. But WebOS was stillborn, it never had a chance from the moment Palm pushed it out and abandoned it at the CDMA airport. With no GSM phone they couldn't compete on the world market (the very lucrative markets of Asia and Europe) and they kept making more and more mistakes by depreciating the product. By the time HP got it, WebOS was a rotted, zombified mess. It was all HP could do to spray it with Glen 20 and claim it's not dead, please ignore the bits of flesh falling off.
By the time HP had a product ready, WebOS was so far behind in features there was no way WebOS could compete with IOS and WP7, let alone Android.
This may be a great opportunity for Google to acquire a corporate brand and a large patent portfolio for its Chromebook for the enterprise.
Makes as much sense as Google acquiring Motorola for the same platform and patents for android.
Motorola = Great Hardware, Crap Software, Terrible management. Google can fix the software and management parts.
HP = Terrrible Hardware, Crap Software, Even worse management. Google cant fix the HW, they dont have the expertise or experience.
As someone who owned a Motorola Milestone (GSM Droid) I loved the hardware and the Vanilla Android was great (motoblur was an abomination) but the terrible decision to lock the bootloader was a fail of legends. Moto had great HW when Google bought it, if Google-rola releases a new Milestone with an unlocked bootloader I'll be first in line. Especially with the great speaker my original Milestone had.
It's like someone who got blasted with a couple Sieverts worth of radiation all at once. They're sick for a while, then everything seems to get better for a while, but everyone knows it won't be long until their hemorrhaging out every orifice and on the way to being dead. Seriously though, when did the exposure occur? What, if anything, was the event that signaled HP's eventual demise as the company we know today? I think most of us agree that it's going to happen, I'm just curious what the point of no return was.
It's more like someone who got blasted with about 10 Sieverts of radiation, died in a horrible, gruesome fashion and then came back as a zombie infecting MBA's and IT decision makers whom we are now blasting with shotguns in an attempt to stop it.
Yes, HP is standard where I work.
I'm just curious what the point of no return was.
For a normal person, 4 to 6 sieverts. 8 is considered a fatal dose by realistically, after 4 even if you survive, your quality of life will never be the same.
Hopefully, as much as anyone hates Apple, they'll be the only american company left that knows how to build a PC.
So no American companies know how to make computers then.
Which is why I buy my computers from Japan and Taiwan. Hell, even Lenovo (china) is doing a much better job then Apple. I live in a hot country, Apple's constantly have overheating problems which Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba and even Sony avoid. I watched the 3 Mac's in the office KP last time the air-con failed on a 40 Degree day.
And how many of these parents are not going to 'opt-in' to being able to view a little bit of porn now and then? And teens are smarter than you think, and will figure out how to 'opt-in' anyway.
The article got it wrong,
The filter is opt-in, not opt-out. But your question stands, how many parents are so prudish and technologically competent enough to opt-in. Methinks that catagory already has some parental controls installed, all 4 of them.
This seems more like arse covering for ISP's. When Whiny McPrude rings up to complain about seeing a nipple, the ISP can tell her to naff off because she didn't opt in to the filter.
however (having just thought of this point once clicking "submit") it would be far easier, and less expensive to just have the parents, um... parent.
But that would require the parents to have some element of responsibility and actually take time out from party's, getting drunk, holidays, et al. to actually take care of their crotchspawns.
No, no, much easier to have the TV do it and whinge to the government when that fails.
For the legions of probably around 14-to-[something] year olds that live at home
You make it sound like this filter is somehow going to work?
The Howard government in Australia offered free "parental control" software to Australians in 2006, it was hacked in 30 minutes flat.
There is no force on earth that can keep a 14 yr old away from a bucket of Pr0n.
Haven't the Palestine war photographers taught your anything?
Just shoot anything and Photoshop it later.
No offence, but your former flatmate sounds like a complete dickhead.
As someone who has experienced Melbourne trams having to break hard to avoid an accident which resulted in all the passengers being hurled forwards (some off their feet) it is just not cool.
+1
Dickheads like this are the people responsible making it hard for young people to get their license these days as well as the woeful hoon laws.
If you want to be stupid with your car, go out where no one cares, not in inner city traffic.