these "Movie Rights Group" parasites will get the rough treatment from the courts that they deserve.
Indeed, when they cant prove their claims they cant simply drop the case without exposing themselves to deformation counter suits under Australian law.
No one in Australia drinks Fosters, that is only for export.
Nothing is too bad for the rest of the world.
In all seriousness, it's not even brewed here in Oz any more, Heiniken International owns the license so it's not even owned by Fosters Group any more. The last time I saw a Fosters was in Singapore. I had the choice between Fosters, Pure Blonde or some local brew I'd never heard of, I took the local brew.
With Internode you get 40 GB whatever time of the day it is.
That's potentially not even one full-sized PlayStation 3 game. PS3 games come on Blu-ray Disc, and dual-layer discs can be up to 50 GB.
Because everyone is using the internet for piracy.
You also seem to have failed to understand the concept of an "example" and have taken everything a little too literally. There are differing download cap volumes, around 40 GB is starting territory for iinet and Internode.
Well that's just nitpicking, as it's basically one country
Indeed,
Australia is closer to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Indonesia then it's closest Australasian nation, New Zealand if we want to get nit-picky.
This is newsworthy how? Does an ISP rollout in California, which has ******************DOUBLE******************* the population, get a/. post?
First off, NBNco is not an ISP, it's a wholesale provider.
Secondly when the state of California rolls out a fibre network that creates a competitive environment for multiple ISP's to provide high speed internet state wide
Thirdly, when the state of California becomes as geographically large as the continental US and only then, do you get a/. post.
But seeing as the state of California is in worse debt then the rest of the US and US telco's would rather fight like feudal lords over local monopolies and dont want a competitive fibre environment that wont be happening any time soon.
but the cap is 40gigs [20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak]? at those speeds you could use up your whole allotment in like 2 days, and I hate to see what the overages costs.
That's the starting cap, iinet and internode have plans that go up to 1 TB limits.
Also, no overage charges, they shape your speed down to 128 or 256 Kb/s if you go over.
BTW, 2 days is a bit rich, there's a big difference between theoretical speeds and real world speeds. Besides this, there are larger caps available so you if you dont download 400 GB a month, you dont have to pay for that much.
iiNet has undercut Internode with prices starting at $49.95 per month for 12Mbps down and 1Mbps up with 20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak."
When comparing iinet to Internode, one has to remember that Internode doesn't do this on peak/off peak thingy.
On peak is the download limit you have between 8 AM and 12 Midnight, off peak is the download limit between 12 Midnight and 8 AM. With Internode you get 40 GB whatever time of the day it is.
However, having been a happy customer of both iinet's and Internode's ADSL offerings, both are great ISP's you wont be unhappy with. I'm waiting for Telstra and Optus to release their NBN pricing, that should be hillarious.
Also, cards like these often have a lot of media playback capabilities that aren't bandwidth-hungry. This could likely, for example, allow an old clunker system to be upgraded to Blu-Ray capabilities fairly cheaply.
More likely it's to go in a more modern machine for someone who wants a third monitor to display their emails on. Probably why they're building PCI-E 1x model as well as a legacy PCI model. PCI's bandwidth is enough to run outlook on a 1280x1024 screen. I wouldn't use it to set up a three screen CAD/GIS workstation though.
No. Newegg doesn't have anything to fear from this Post-PC hype.
The real threat to them are competitors like Amazon that sell the same thing for less, offer free shipping, and have better search features.
New-egg have lost a crapload of business from places like Australia and some Asian nations where due to regional pricing (Australia) being enforced and/or computers falling under a luxury tax (some parts of SE Asia) because they wont ship outside the US.
True, however you can't blame them for wanting to make money as easily as possible and the returns from the console are apparently better. I remember seeing Deus Ex 2 and how small the areas were... and the general console creep in many level designs. Next generation stuff: Battlefield 3, Rage, Skyrim to name a few.
First off, I've got Rage pegged as disappointment of the year. Too much hype, not enough ID fanboys left.
Secondly, I've been building my own gaming boxen for years now, the last three started to show their age at 18 months (hence my 2 year replacement cycle), my 20 month old Athlon 3800 struggled with the Supreme Commander Demo, so much so I dropped A$700 on a Geforce 8800, even that only helped a little. I eventually bought a whole new Athlon X2 PC (minus the video card).
This is not the case with my 2.5 yr old current gaming boxen. Phenom II 955, 4GB RAM, Geforce 285, high end but not absolute top of the line. I'm only now thinking of upgrading the video card to a Geforce 560 because some new games require Win 7. Thats an A$200 bit of HW just to keep my gaming PC more then capable of running the latest games. The titles you mentioned may be superior on the PC, but the console is still holding PC gaming back.
I thought the parts in my 386 were crammed together, but my new MacBook Pro is almost a solid lump of hardware internally
You're talking about a company that does everything it can to avoid using standards in an argument about standardised form factors.
My brand new Asus U30SD uses standard connectors for the HDD, Optical drive, RAM, and CPU. All of these are user replaceable, I'm not sure about the GPU because I've never looked that up. The screen can even be replaced by the user. For a long time Dell has been publishing the methods to replace almost every single part of their Laptops. Plus ATX and mATX have gone nowhere, they are still happily with us and iTX is joining them with Intel and AMD having some nice low cost iTX offerings.
As a person who enjoys building his own gaming boxen, and loves taking apart computers, Macbooks have never been what I describe as user accessible, let alone a pleasure to work on. I had to disassemble an entire G4 Macbook to get the HDD out. On a Dell, HP or Asus this is literally a 30 second operation.
Better would be "Predicted social media bubble fails to materialize". A bubble is defined by its inflation; a bubble that "pops" before it "inflates" never existed in the first place.
Not really, the bubble is partially inflated with everyone expecting massive sales at the companies IPO. Speculators are gambling on this, however the profit downgrades has shown that the massive initial share prices will not be seen. Zynga, Facebook et al. should have had their IPO two years ago at their height, now days everyone I know who played Farmville and Mafia Wars has gone back to their regular lives.
If I were Zynga's CEO, I would have had the IPO in 2008, taken a lot of money from stupid people and retired before the whole sordid mess collapsed on itself, bit late now.
Because the bubble was only partially inflated, it wont pop like the dot bomb or GFC, rather the bubble will be let down slowly making a loud farting sound. If you want to see a bubble burst, keep your eyes on APPL. They're about to get sued left, right and centre (which is entirely their own fault for attacking other companies).
For the typical Mac user (think Hello Kitty stickers covering their MacBook), the proposed attack vector is a non-issue. In order for a Java applet to run, the attacker needs Java installed on the target system. Lion ships without Java. So, beyond getting the user to run the applet, and beyond having to brute force the passwords, the attacker somehow has to install Java on the target Lion system.
1. Wait for user to install your infected Hello Kitty screensaver for Mac.
2. Tell user to install Java (or bundle it, after all if you're installing a virus, why care about Oracle's license agreement).
3. ?????
4. Profit, erm, I mean infection... no wait, I mean profit.
Same old method that has been used on other OS's for decades. No-one has managed to create an effective technological defence for social vectors and likely never will.
Because some people get snotty about a European aircraft vs an American aircraft. Stupid isn't it?
As an Australian I've never understood this.
There really is no difference in comfort and safety between a Boeing and Airbus aircraft on the same airline. It's the airline that makes the difference in comfort and safety.
If you want to worry about aircraft manufacturers, worry about the 717 and 737 clones soon to be available from COMAC (China) or the that HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, India) have the same idea.
Your tone (in the other comment) sort of implied that you didn't appreciate the messages, so I did wonder why you wouldn't shut them off.
I was being a bit sarcastic.
But advertising a book I already bought was a little annoying. Also, Amazon's algorithm for figuring out books to suggest isn't that good, for the most part they've just shown me books from the same authors.
And it will be nerfed as soon as it's added to the OS X XProtect filter, if it hasn't already.
Black lists don't work. This even MS has figured out. So they add this particular one to the filter rather then fixing the vulnerabilities or worse yet, educating users on how to safely use computers (as opposed to telling them they are automagically protected by owning a Mac) but the malware writers simply make a new variation to get around that black list. There is so much Malware for Windows simply because a lot of it is subtle variations on the same malware to get around AV/Anti-malware.
The "protect filter" is not computer security rather it is computer security theatre.
This geek idea that only the system matters is silly. True for a server maybe, not for a desktop. On a desktop, the user's data is all that matters and you don't need admin to get at that.
Some of us have understood for a while that that the user is the most vulnerable part of any system. Almost all malware infections I've seen have been user initiated, drive by infections in this day and age are very rare even on unpatched machines. This is why my Windows servers are more secure then any Linux or Mac desktop, simply because no user is permitted near them.
OK, let me understand this: you have children, not sure how many but max. 9, and they all circle your house, not finding the door? Fascinating!;)
Clearly one has never lived with children sub age 10. They can be relied upon to find coffee tables, sweets and their sisters hair but that's about it.
Does Amazon actually send you stuff you don't want? All I get from them are order and shipping confirmations, perhaps I clicked something about not sending me advertisements.
I deliberately left the advertisement checkbox checked when I bought some books from Amazon UK so yes, it's solicited. Same with other brands I wish to know about (Singapore Airlines and Air Asia spam has saved me hundreds in flights). As for sending me stuff I would like to buy, apart from advertising a book I've already bought (it's an old book so I suppose it would have a few different SKU numbers's for different publication batches) they've been pretty good.
But as mentioned above I sort this into a secondary folder (label) and mark as read so I can read it later and it doesn't bother me.
You are extremely naive if you think that is the only implication here.
You are extremely naive if you have missed the joke.
Not to mention judgemental.
Just to explain it to you, Amazon UK has been emailing me with suggestions that I buy a book I bought from Amazon UK over six weeks ago, it's not like I'm going to buy the same book again is it?
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you can get it ricking a roll.
you can get it buryin a troll.
you can get it cool storyin a bro.
matter of fact i got it now.
vic. vic bitter.
Applause sir,
No doubt our American friends wont get it though. I still have the VB song ringtone somewhere.
these "Movie Rights Group" parasites will get the rough treatment from the courts that they deserve.
Indeed, when they cant prove their claims they cant simply drop the case without exposing themselves to deformation counter suits under Australian law.
legal BS Foster's Australian for Beer.
No one in Australia drinks Fosters, that is only for export.
Nothing is too bad for the rest of the world.
In all seriousness, it's not even brewed here in Oz any more, Heiniken International owns the license so it's not even owned by Fosters Group any more. The last time I saw a Fosters was in Singapore. I had the choice between Fosters, Pure Blonde or some local brew I'd never heard of, I took the local brew.
With Internode you get 40 GB whatever time of the day it is.
That's potentially not even one full-sized PlayStation 3 game. PS3 games come on Blu-ray Disc, and dual-layer discs can be up to 50 GB.
Because everyone is using the internet for piracy.
You also seem to have failed to understand the concept of an "example" and have taken everything a little too literally. There are differing download cap volumes, around 40 GB is starting territory for iinet and Internode.
Indeed, Australia is closer to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Indonesia then it's closest Australasian nation, New Zealand if we want to get nit-picky.
This is newsworthy how? Does an ISP rollout in California, which has ******************DOUBLE******************* the population, get a /. post?
First off, NBNco is not an ISP, it's a wholesale provider.
/. post.
Secondly when the state of California rolls out a fibre network that creates a competitive environment for multiple ISP's to provide high speed internet state wide
Thirdly, when the state of California becomes as geographically large as the continental US and only then, do you get a
But seeing as the state of California is in worse debt then the rest of the US and US telco's would rather fight like feudal lords over local monopolies and dont want a competitive fibre environment that wont be happening any time soon.
but the cap is 40gigs [20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak]? at those speeds you could use up your whole allotment in like 2 days, and I hate to see what the overages costs.
That's the starting cap, iinet and internode have plans that go up to 1 TB limits.
Also, no overage charges, they shape your speed down to 128 or 256 Kb/s if you go over.
BTW, 2 days is a bit rich, there's a big difference between theoretical speeds and real world speeds. Besides this, there are larger caps available so you if you dont download 400 GB a month, you dont have to pay for that much.
Err, Australia is about as much in Asia as the Eastern US is in Europe.
Err. you really haven't had a look at a map recently. The continent of Australia is geographically located where?
iiNet has undercut Internode with prices starting at $49.95 per month for 12Mbps down and 1Mbps up with 20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak."
When comparing iinet to Internode, one has to remember that Internode doesn't do this on peak/off peak thingy. On peak is the download limit you have between 8 AM and 12 Midnight, off peak is the download limit between 12 Midnight and 8 AM. With Internode you get 40 GB whatever time of the day it is.
However, having been a happy customer of both iinet's and Internode's ADSL offerings, both are great ISP's you wont be unhappy with. I'm waiting for Telstra and Optus to release their NBN pricing, that should be hillarious.
Hmm Australia moved to Asia... Interesting!
Haven't looked at a map recently have you.
Also, cards like these often have a lot of media playback capabilities that aren't bandwidth-hungry. This could likely, for example, allow an old clunker system to be upgraded to Blu-Ray capabilities fairly cheaply.
More likely it's to go in a more modern machine for someone who wants a third monitor to display their emails on. Probably why they're building PCI-E 1x model as well as a legacy PCI model. PCI's bandwidth is enough to run outlook on a 1280x1024 screen. I wouldn't use it to set up a three screen CAD/GIS workstation though.
No. Newegg doesn't have anything to fear from this Post-PC hype.
The real threat to them are competitors like Amazon that sell the same thing for less, offer free shipping, and have better search features.
New-egg have lost a crapload of business from places like Australia and some Asian nations where due to regional pricing (Australia) being enforced and/or computers falling under a luxury tax (some parts of SE Asia) because they wont ship outside the US.
First off, I've got Rage pegged as disappointment of the year. Too much hype, not enough ID fanboys left.
Secondly, I've been building my own gaming boxen for years now, the last three started to show their age at 18 months (hence my 2 year replacement cycle), my 20 month old Athlon 3800 struggled with the Supreme Commander Demo, so much so I dropped A$700 on a Geforce 8800, even that only helped a little. I eventually bought a whole new Athlon X2 PC (minus the video card).
This is not the case with my 2.5 yr old current gaming boxen. Phenom II 955, 4GB RAM, Geforce 285, high end but not absolute top of the line. I'm only now thinking of upgrading the video card to a Geforce 560 because some new games require Win 7. Thats an A$200 bit of HW just to keep my gaming PC more then capable of running the latest games. The titles you mentioned may be superior on the PC, but the console is still holding PC gaming back.
You're talking about a company that does everything it can to avoid using standards in an argument about standardised form factors.
My brand new Asus U30SD uses standard connectors for the HDD, Optical drive, RAM, and CPU. All of these are user replaceable, I'm not sure about the GPU because I've never looked that up. The screen can even be replaced by the user. For a long time Dell has been publishing the methods to replace almost every single part of their Laptops. Plus ATX and mATX have gone nowhere, they are still happily with us and iTX is joining them with Intel and AMD having some nice low cost iTX offerings.
As a person who enjoys building his own gaming boxen, and loves taking apart computers, Macbooks have never been what I describe as user accessible, let alone a pleasure to work on. I had to disassemble an entire G4 Macbook to get the HDD out. On a Dell, HP or Asus this is literally a 30 second operation.
Better would be "Predicted social media bubble fails to materialize". A bubble is defined by its inflation; a bubble that "pops" before it "inflates" never existed in the first place.
Not really, the bubble is partially inflated with everyone expecting massive sales at the companies IPO. Speculators are gambling on this, however the profit downgrades has shown that the massive initial share prices will not be seen. Zynga, Facebook et al. should have had their IPO two years ago at their height, now days everyone I know who played Farmville and Mafia Wars has gone back to their regular lives.
If I were Zynga's CEO, I would have had the IPO in 2008, taken a lot of money from stupid people and retired before the whole sordid mess collapsed on itself, bit late now.
Because the bubble was only partially inflated, it wont pop like the dot bomb or GFC, rather the bubble will be let down slowly making a loud farting sound. If you want to see a bubble burst, keep your eyes on APPL. They're about to get sued left, right and centre (which is entirely their own fault for attacking other companies).
For the typical Mac user (think Hello Kitty stickers covering their MacBook), the proposed attack vector is a non-issue. In order for a Java applet to run, the attacker needs Java installed on the target system. Lion ships without Java. So, beyond getting the user to run the applet, and beyond having to brute force the passwords, the attacker somehow has to install Java on the target Lion system.
1. Wait for user to install your infected Hello Kitty screensaver for Mac.
2. Tell user to install Java (or bundle it, after all if you're installing a virus, why care about Oracle's license agreement).
3. ?????
4. Profit, erm, I mean infection... no wait, I mean profit.
Same old method that has been used on other OS's for decades. No-one has managed to create an effective technological defence for social vectors and likely never will.
This is like when a car manufacturer makes a new car!
No, it's like when car manufacturers released the first car made mainly out of plastic.
That moment was over 25 years ago.
Because some people get snotty about a European aircraft vs an American aircraft. Stupid isn't it?
As an Australian I've never understood this.
There really is no difference in comfort and safety between a Boeing and Airbus aircraft on the same airline. It's the airline that makes the difference in comfort and safety.
If you want to worry about aircraft manufacturers, worry about the 717 and 737 clones soon to be available from COMAC (China) or the that HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, India) have the same idea.
I was being a bit sarcastic.
But advertising a book I already bought was a little annoying. Also, Amazon's algorithm for figuring out books to suggest isn't that good, for the most part they've just shown me books from the same authors.
And it will be nerfed as soon as it's added to the OS X XProtect filter, if it hasn't already.
Black lists don't work. This even MS has figured out. So they add this particular one to the filter rather then fixing the vulnerabilities or worse yet, educating users on how to safely use computers (as opposed to telling them they are automagically protected by owning a Mac) but the malware writers simply make a new variation to get around that black list. There is so much Malware for Windows simply because a lot of it is subtle variations on the same malware to get around AV/Anti-malware.
The "protect filter" is not computer security rather it is computer security theatre.
It's just a trojan with a PDF icon
To the end user, there is no difference.
This geek idea that only the system matters is silly. True for a server maybe, not for a desktop. On a desktop, the user's data is all that matters and you don't need admin to get at that.
Some of us have understood for a while that that the user is the most vulnerable part of any system. Almost all malware infections I've seen have been user initiated, drive by infections in this day and age are very rare even on unpatched machines. This is why my Windows servers are more secure then any Linux or Mac desktop, simply because no user is permitted near them.
OK, let me understand this: you have children, not sure how many but max. 9, and they all circle your house, not finding the door? Fascinating! ;)
Clearly one has never lived with children sub age 10. They can be relied upon to find coffee tables, sweets and their sisters hair but that's about it.
Sex lives of many /.ers improved.
Rule 34 once again proven.
Does Amazon actually send you stuff you don't want? All I get from them are order and shipping confirmations, perhaps I clicked something about not sending me advertisements.
I deliberately left the advertisement checkbox checked when I bought some books from Amazon UK so yes, it's solicited. Same with other brands I wish to know about (Singapore Airlines and Air Asia spam has saved me hundreds in flights). As for sending me stuff I would like to buy, apart from advertising a book I've already bought (it's an old book so I suppose it would have a few different SKU numbers's for different publication batches) they've been pretty good.
But as mentioned above I sort this into a secondary folder (label) and mark as read so I can read it later and it doesn't bother me.
You are extremely naive if you think that is the only implication here.
You are extremely naive if you have missed the joke.
Not to mention judgemental.
Just to explain it to you, Amazon UK has been emailing me with suggestions that I buy a book I bought from Amazon UK over six weeks ago, it's not like I'm going to buy the same book again is it?