I guess it's nice to know that the U.S. isn't the only country whose leaders are just slavish lapdogs for the MPAA/RIAA. Goodday mates!
Just so you know,
The court ruled against the MPIAA in the first case. They have the right to appeal as anyone does and that appeal has been granted a hearing in the High Court of Australia. They haven't won anything, in fact they've still lost and have to pay iinet's lawyer fee's. Now if the MPIAA lose in the High Court, it's game over and iinet can go to town, this evidence will be entered and count against MPIAA's puppet organisation, AFACT.
But these studios are the victims here. Not the bullies.
Poor, wretched victims... Where is the MPAA relief fund when they are in such dire need.
*Glues plastic tear under left eye*
Give now to the Make A Fortune foundation so that some poor executive who only has three BWM's can get the huge bonus he needs for another luxury car.
SMB is a file sharing protocol (Server Message Block) not an transmission protocol like TCP or AppleTalk. I remember getting Macs in 2006, they had Apple talk on by default but not TCP/IP
I have firewire ports on both my Dell and Sony. Firewire is not "Apple's" standard, it is an IEEE standard and Apple is part of the licensing pool. Just as there is a licensing pool for USB.
I used to have IEEE 1394, the laptop I bought last week doesn't have them. Every device I have uses USB and none use Firewire.
Also use of USB is royalty free, unlike Firewire.
You mean "headaches" such as using a DVI to VGA connector?
Then having it not work.
The headache comes when you dont have the converter handy, or having to carry around 30 connectors because your laptop doesn't have a port everyone else uses.
During my years of tech support, every time someone brings a Mac into a meeting I get called and asked "do you have a converter" when they find out we dont they roll their eyes and ask everyone to huddle around their laptop screen. There's your headaches, not just for you but for everyone else.
Well both my Dell and Sony have firewire. There is also a fee to use USB.
Fee to use the USB logo, the hardware is royalty free.
Regardless of what you think of Mr. Jobs' company's products, you must admit the man had an almost unparalleled vision for the future.
A world where everyone was the same, did the same things with the same devices. Where the ability to make your own decisions on what you did with your devices was removed and placed with a gatekeeper. Where you were told from people higher then you what was and wasn't allowed. A world where individuality and independent thought are shunned and one must love the company, any disagreement is violently quashed.
Steve Jobs didn't dream that future up, but I do have to give him credit for merging the worst ideas of Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eightey-Four into one giant nightmare.
A $1 salary is not an act of philanthropy, it's a tax dodge.
Any high ranking businessman does not earn the majority of their income from salaries, they earn it from shares, gifts (from the company), trusts and other means that are:
1) tax deductible.
2) non-taxable
3) taxed at a lower rate.
How many restricted shares in APPL (the kind that pay dividends and are not permitted to be sold openly) does Steve Jobs own. A lot more then $1 worth I'd bet. Meanwhile he compares all his expenses against his $1 salary in order to gain tax deductions on his other sources of income. Not that I'm singling out Jobs here, just pointing out that it's far from philanthropy, in fact it's getting out of paying income taxes.
> Who's to say he doesn't do it privately or hasn't set up his will for postmortem charitable contributions?
Exactly.
Love how fanboys need to make up these little fantasies to justify their beliefs. It's so cute that you hold onto the threads of hope like that.
Maybe Steve Jobs is undergoing a metamorphosis (like a butterfly) into a younger version of himself in order to complete his plans for galactic domination. That would certainly explain his absence from Apple's leadership.
Hell, given his Spartan lifestyle (does he have a couch yet?)
A man who owns his own Gulfstream V does not live a "Spartan" lifestyle.
he may be giving a ton away
I find this hard to beleive. Unless the cayman islands banking association is a registered charity.
If he was really interested in creating good will, he'd use his public persona to raise awareness of issues in need of charity in the same way Bill Gates does.
Apple has generally been a good corporate citizen in terms of supporting open standards where they have no value-added differentiation--that's about all you could hope for out of a business
That's an odd way of writing "Apple have generally tried to push their proprietary standards above open standards and even when they used the same standards as everyone else they made proprietary plugs so they would not work with off the shelf components from other manufacturers without having to buy an expensive converter".
For years they pushed AppleTalk over TCP/IP, even after OS X.
Firewire over USB.
They have a custom Dport connector (proprietary connector on open standard)
iWhatever has a proprietary USB connector.
Apple's been actively rejecting the standards other people use, open or otherwise. There is no HDMI on Mac products, No VGA ports (every projector has a VGA port, mac users just couldn't connect to them without headaches), tried forcing ZipDisks when everyone was using floppy disks, 2007 Macs still did not have +/- DVD writers (they choked on -R blank DVD's) and just this year, Apple have made the hard drives in 2011 Imacs non-upgradable.
Firewire is a standard, so is Thunderbolt
Firewire and Thunderbolt are not open standards, they are proprietary and Apple charge a fee for their use. That's why everyone uses USB and the laptop I just bought does not have a IEEE 1394 connector. If you want to legally sell something with an Ipod connector (I.E. a car stereo or Ipod dock), you need to pay Apple a licensing fee. So not open, in fact, that's almost as far from open as you can get.
I think you need to start taking your medication again, you're clearly seeing things that aren't there.
Except that in many places the lights aren't timed to minimize the number of stops at the posted speed limit. That's the point of this entire discussion.
Hi, the points over here.
Traffic lights aren't there to minimise your number of stops, they are there to control the flow of traffic. They are timed to allow traffic to flow on two intersecting roads and to prevent blockages further up by providing a break in traffic. They also allow safer turns.
Now teaching people to be better drivers or even better, punishing people who are bad drivers will do more to improve traffic flow then all the "smarts" you could ever cram into a traffic light because the problem isn't traffic lights when it comes to traffic, it's people.
I cannot speak for your particular city, and I have seen a few roads that are set up to help traffic, but this does not seem to be the norm, and it is verifiable not universal.
I live in Perth, another Australian city and yes it is the norm. People over here whinge if they hit two red lights in a 2 minute time.
What most people dont consider when whinging about traffic lights is that:
1) More then one direction of traffic.
2) The effects of that traffic on later stretches of both roads in all directions.
I often hit all green's when driving through the CBD, that's because I drive east-west and the lights are designed to maintain that flow because it's where the vast majority of the traffic goes.
Absolutely false! Driving below the speed limit is perfectly safe and legal.
Legal yes,
Safe, well that depends on the circumstances.
If you're doing 40 in a 70 zone whilst everyone around you is doing 70 (consider this on a multi-lane road), you are more likely to be the cause of an accident because you are out of sync with most of the traffic.
Now there are plenty of legit reasons for going slower then the limit, bad weather, poor visibility, wet/icy roads but generally most people will be going slower. Here in Oz we are taught to go slower when it's raining because visibility decreases and the roads become slipery. Of course there is always the dingbat who goes faster but they become the minority in that situation.
I agree on tailgaters, cant stand them. I get them when driving at the limit, if there is no one behind them I settle into 2nd gear for a lesson in patience.
Put more sensors and "intelligence" in the traffic lights and let people drive around as normal.
You've got that completely arse about.
Put more intelligence into the drivers so they stop doing stupid things. People thinking that doing 80 (Kph) in a 60 zone is normal are the problem, not traffic lights. In the vast majority of cities traffic lights and speed limits are designed to work together to ensure traffic flows correctly, when Dingbat McHoon drives at 90 in a 60 zone he is the problem, not the traffic lights.
Driving is somewhere where the Dunning-Kruger effect is very obvious.
Insightful my fat arse.
Aggressive drivers who try to get from A to B as fast as possible cause traffic jams. Drivers who flow with the traffic don't. That technology is made explicitely for a smooth traffic flow.
This,
People travelling above or below the speed limit +/- 10% ish are the ones who cause traffic jams and accidents. Especially the lane weavers.
Saving on fuel whilst driving is about driving your car the way it was designed to be driven, along the acceleration curve the engineers designed it for (especially if you drive a manual). Over or under revving will use more fuel then driving properly. Manufacturers design most cars to be most efficient at the speed limit in most nations (50-80 KM), if you're driving an urban car, it's designed to be most efficient around 60, not 80.
If you drive an urban tank, please take yourself out and have yourself shot. Our roads could use less of you.
Worse yet, Apple is looking at releasing a "new" ARM A9 processor when TI and Qualcomm are looking at releasing a 28nm A10 processor. Given Apple's history they'll expect this to stay "current" for at least 18 months.
Maybe they'll sue Qualcomm and TI for violating their processors look and feel^W^W^W, sorry, trade dress.
Culturally, I find non-American women more fun to hang out with.
I live in Oz, it's a pretty Americanised culture (no I will not spell that with a zed), and women here are too materialistic and self adsorbed. The amount of money some of my colleagues have spent on cars, fashion, toys to keep up with other douchbags to attract a mate is astounding. The smarter ones have just started targeting non-Australian women (European and Asian), I have taken to preferring Asian women because they are more accommodating and friendly. There's definitely a lot less "what have you done for me lately" attitude and a lot more forgiving of your flaws. All of this I rate before the fact they generally have better bodies and nicer skin.
women complain men are obsessed with t&a but women are exactly the same: if you're not tall, it doesn't matter if you are a CEO and run 3 charities: she'll pick the tall guy who still lives with his mom
Late model Beemer == Hot young girl in passenger seat.
This isn't high school any more. That's why top CxO's can marry movie stars. You only have to look at Prince William and Kate Middleton, she didn't marry him for his looks (lets not even mention Lady Diana and Prince Elephant^W Charles).
Symbian was a decent smartphone system predating the iPhone but it died because they actively excluded most of the home-brew developers and only targeted their own phones
This is the single thing that kept WinMo going all those years. The fact that developers were actively modding and improving it. A lot of XDA dev was WinMo before Android came along.
In the final analysis, it's this community that drives adoption by testing out what new ideas work and what new ideas fail. Having used CyanogenMod for most of the last 2 years they have always been ahead of Google in features, but CM had some shocking releases that would have sent most companies bankrupt if they ever released something half as bad. Without an active and technology minded community, you cannot test new ideas in real world conditions and will fall behind companies/organisations that can.
I live in Oz and there isn't a Best Buy in 14,000 KM's of here but I know that, any store offering a third party warranty is offering a scam. I thought it was common knowledge.
It was covered by the 4-year warranty, so I went to Best Buy and they took it and sent it back for repair.
Here's the second thing, if you have to get something repaired, deal with the manufacturer yourself.
I once had a user who bought a HP Compaq (he wasn't too bright) and a thrid party warranty from Harvey Norman (a national big box retailer in OZ, did I mention this user wasn't too bright). The HP broke after 9 months so he took it back to the retailer, he was jerked around for another 9 months (in that time, he bought another laptop) until it was fixed.
I have an Acer Iconia 500 and this is not the case. Same on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v.
so is the processing a lot of times, especially on JavaScript-heavy pages like Slashdot or Facebook.
If you think Android is bad, you should see how IOS chokes on./ and FB. Lets not get to media heavy sites like AFL.com.au. There's a reasons people create new sites for IOS yet dont for Android. My bank has had to produce an IOS application for IOS users yet the mobile and normal sites are lightning fast on my Iconia and the mobile site is lightning fast on my Desire Z.
Honestly, I am 30X more productive than the guys at work that dont have one. I carry autocad files with me to review and show. I annotate pdf files etc...
As long as everyone else is 60 X less productive to compensate for what the Ipad cant do.
Richard Boss [rboss@work.com.au] RE:Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Jesus Rollerblading Christ Bob, just use your laptop.
Bob Wanker [bwanker@work.com.au] RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
But I want to use my iPad.
John Worker [jworker@work.com.au] RE:Schedule for Job XYZ-221
No Bob, it's a 12 MB document, use your laptop.
Bob Wanker [bwanker@work.com.au] RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Can you PDF this and email it to me, I cant access the network on my iPad
John Worker [jworker@work.com.au] Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Initial costing for this job is complete, the xls is on//server/share/clientfiles/xyz-221/costing-jw-xyz221.xls
And about 2 days later.
Bob Wanker [bwanker@work.com.au] RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
I havent been able to open the file on my iPad.
Can you PDF it and email it to me.
John Worker [jworker@work.com.au] RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Bob,
I'm waiting for you to complete your part of the project costing. I can't send it to the client until you've entered your estimates.
not to listen? They refused all claims except a rather trivial one that can be easily fixed. You should definately listen to us:)
Plus those wooden shoes hurt when you throw them.
I for one welcome our new windmill-building, beer brewing clogverlords, as a person of some influence may be useful in rounding up others to toil in your underground breweries (for a small sample of the produce of course).
With all this talk about an NBN (National Broadband Network) in Australia, why doesn't the government allow google to use the country as a testing ground for it's gigabit network rather than making the tax-payers pay through the butt?
The A$27 b of government funds (raised through bonds, not tax) over 10 years is less then the amount we spend on middle class welfare each year (A$30 b in 2009/10 for Family Assistance).
And in before 10 years has passed the NBN will be making money as a a corporatised (non-government controlled) entity. You have to ignore these facts in order to claim it's a terrible financial decision.
Yes it is 27 B, the remaining money comes from non government sources.
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I guess it's nice to know that the U.S. isn't the only country whose leaders are just slavish lapdogs for the MPAA/RIAA. Goodday mates!
Just so you know,
The court ruled against the MPIAA in the first case. They have the right to appeal as anyone does and that appeal has been granted a hearing in the High Court of Australia. They haven't won anything, in fact they've still lost and have to pay iinet's lawyer fee's. Now if the MPIAA lose in the High Court, it's game over and iinet can go to town, this evidence will be entered and count against MPIAA's puppet organisation, AFACT.
But these studios are the victims here. Not the bullies.
Poor, wretched victims... Where is the MPAA relief fund when they are in such dire need.
*Glues plastic tear under left eye*
Give now to the Make A Fortune foundation so that some poor executive who only has three BWM's can get the huge bonus he needs for another luxury car.
Please, give generously.
SMB is a file sharing protocol (Server Message Block) not an transmission protocol like TCP or AppleTalk. I remember getting Macs in 2006, they had Apple talk on by default but not TCP/IP
I used to have IEEE 1394, the laptop I bought last week doesn't have them. Every device I have uses USB and none use Firewire.
Also use of USB is royalty free, unlike Firewire.
Then having it not work.
The headache comes when you dont have the converter handy, or having to carry around 30 connectors because your laptop doesn't have a port everyone else uses.
During my years of tech support, every time someone brings a Mac into a meeting I get called and asked "do you have a converter" when they find out we dont they roll their eyes and ask everyone to huddle around their laptop screen. There's your headaches, not just for you but for everyone else.
Fee to use the USB logo, the hardware is royalty free.
But you're out for a duck.
I understand the tech, You were the one who called proprietary standards open, so feel free to leave any time you like.
Regardless of what you think of Mr. Jobs' company's products, you must admit the man had an almost unparalleled vision for the future.
A world where everyone was the same, did the same things with the same devices. Where the ability to make your own decisions on what you did with your devices was removed and placed with a gatekeeper. Where you were told from people higher then you what was and wasn't allowed. A world where individuality and independent thought are shunned and one must love the company, any disagreement is violently quashed.
Steve Jobs didn't dream that future up, but I do have to give him credit for merging the worst ideas of Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eightey-Four into one giant nightmare.
Yes, he has no public record of philanthropy.
Philanthropy is not a black or white issue. His salary at Apple was $1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
A $1 salary is not an act of philanthropy, it's a tax dodge.
Any high ranking businessman does not earn the majority of their income from salaries, they earn it from shares, gifts (from the company), trusts and other means that are: 1) tax deductible.
2) non-taxable
3) taxed at a lower rate.
How many restricted shares in APPL (the kind that pay dividends and are not permitted to be sold openly) does Steve Jobs own. A lot more then $1 worth I'd bet. Meanwhile he compares all his expenses against his $1 salary in order to gain tax deductions on his other sources of income. Not that I'm singling out Jobs here, just pointing out that it's far from philanthropy, in fact it's getting out of paying income taxes.
> Who's to say he doesn't do it privately or hasn't set up his will for postmortem charitable contributions?
Exactly.
Love how fanboys need to make up these little fantasies to justify their beliefs. It's so cute that you hold onto the threads of hope like that.
Maybe Steve Jobs is undergoing a metamorphosis (like a butterfly) into a younger version of himself in order to complete his plans for galactic domination. That would certainly explain his absence from Apple's leadership.
A man who owns his own Gulfstream V does not live a "Spartan" lifestyle.
he may be giving a ton away
I find this hard to beleive. Unless the cayman islands banking association is a registered charity.
If he was really interested in creating good will, he'd use his public persona to raise awareness of issues in need of charity in the same way Bill Gates does.
That's an odd way of writing "Apple have generally tried to push their proprietary standards above open standards and even when they used the same standards as everyone else they made proprietary plugs so they would not work with off the shelf components from other manufacturers without having to buy an expensive converter".
For years they pushed AppleTalk over TCP/IP, even after OS X.
Firewire over USB.
They have a custom Dport connector (proprietary connector on open standard)
iWhatever has a proprietary USB connector.
Apple's been actively rejecting the standards other people use, open or otherwise. There is no HDMI on Mac products, No VGA ports (every projector has a VGA port, mac users just couldn't connect to them without headaches), tried forcing ZipDisks when everyone was using floppy disks, 2007 Macs still did not have +/- DVD writers (they choked on -R blank DVD's) and just this year, Apple have made the hard drives in 2011 Imacs non-upgradable.
Firewire is a standard, so is Thunderbolt
Firewire and Thunderbolt are not open standards, they are proprietary and Apple charge a fee for their use. That's why everyone uses USB and the laptop I just bought does not have a IEEE 1394 connector. If you want to legally sell something with an Ipod connector (I.E. a car stereo or Ipod dock), you need to pay Apple a licensing fee. So not open, in fact, that's almost as far from open as you can get.
I think you need to start taking your medication again, you're clearly seeing things that aren't there.
Except that in many places the lights aren't timed to minimize the number of stops at the posted speed limit. That's the point of this entire discussion.
Hi, the points over here.
Traffic lights aren't there to minimise your number of stops, they are there to control the flow of traffic. They are timed to allow traffic to flow on two intersecting roads and to prevent blockages further up by providing a break in traffic. They also allow safer turns.
Now teaching people to be better drivers or even better, punishing people who are bad drivers will do more to improve traffic flow then all the "smarts" you could ever cram into a traffic light because the problem isn't traffic lights when it comes to traffic, it's people.
I cannot speak for your particular city, and I have seen a few roads that are set up to help traffic, but this does not seem to be the norm, and it is verifiable not universal.
I live in Perth, another Australian city and yes it is the norm. People over here whinge if they hit two red lights in a 2 minute time.
What most people dont consider when whinging about traffic lights is that:
1) More then one direction of traffic.
2) The effects of that traffic on later stretches of both roads in all directions.
I often hit all green's when driving through the CBD, that's because I drive east-west and the lights are designed to maintain that flow because it's where the vast majority of the traffic goes.
Absolutely false! Driving below the speed limit is perfectly safe and legal.
Legal yes,
Safe, well that depends on the circumstances.
If you're doing 40 in a 70 zone whilst everyone around you is doing 70 (consider this on a multi-lane road), you are more likely to be the cause of an accident because you are out of sync with most of the traffic.
Now there are plenty of legit reasons for going slower then the limit, bad weather, poor visibility, wet/icy roads but generally most people will be going slower. Here in Oz we are taught to go slower when it's raining because visibility decreases and the roads become slipery. Of course there is always the dingbat who goes faster but they become the minority in that situation.
I agree on tailgaters, cant stand them. I get them when driving at the limit, if there is no one behind them I settle into 2nd gear for a lesson in patience.
Does any one else wonder why all these CEO's have funny last names?
No.
Signed,
Anora Morcock.
Put more sensors and "intelligence" in the traffic lights and let people drive around as normal.
You've got that completely arse about.
Put more intelligence into the drivers so they stop doing stupid things. People thinking that doing 80 (Kph) in a 60 zone is normal are the problem, not traffic lights. In the vast majority of cities traffic lights and speed limits are designed to work together to ensure traffic flows correctly, when Dingbat McHoon drives at 90 in a 60 zone he is the problem, not the traffic lights.
Driving is somewhere where the Dunning-Kruger effect is very obvious.
Insightful my fat arse.
Aggressive drivers who try to get from A to B as fast as possible cause traffic jams. Drivers who flow with the traffic don't. That technology is made explicitely for a smooth traffic flow.
This,
People travelling above or below the speed limit +/- 10% ish are the ones who cause traffic jams and accidents. Especially the lane weavers.
Saving on fuel whilst driving is about driving your car the way it was designed to be driven, along the acceleration curve the engineers designed it for (especially if you drive a manual). Over or under revving will use more fuel then driving properly. Manufacturers design most cars to be most efficient at the speed limit in most nations (50-80 KM), if you're driving an urban car, it's designed to be most efficient around 60, not 80.
If you drive an urban tank, please take yourself out and have yourself shot. Our roads could use less of you.
Worse yet, Apple is looking at releasing a "new" ARM A9 processor when TI and Qualcomm are looking at releasing a 28nm A10 processor. Given Apple's history they'll expect this to stay "current" for at least 18 months.
Maybe they'll sue Qualcomm and TI for violating their processors look and feel^W^W^W, sorry, trade dress.
Culturally, I find non-American women more fun to hang out with.
I live in Oz, it's a pretty Americanised culture (no I will not spell that with a zed), and women here are too materialistic and self adsorbed. The amount of money some of my colleagues have spent on cars, fashion, toys to keep up with other douchbags to attract a mate is astounding. The smarter ones have just started targeting non-Australian women (European and Asian), I have taken to preferring Asian women because they are more accommodating and friendly. There's definitely a lot less "what have you done for me lately" attitude and a lot more forgiving of your flaws. All of this I rate before the fact they generally have better bodies and nicer skin.
women complain men are obsessed with t&a but women are exactly the same: if you're not tall, it doesn't matter if you are a CEO and run 3 charities: she'll pick the tall guy who still lives with his mom
Late model Beemer == Hot young girl in passenger seat.
This isn't high school any more. That's why top CxO's can marry movie stars. You only have to look at Prince William and Kate Middleton, she didn't marry him for his looks (lets not even mention Lady Diana and Prince Elephant^W Charles).
Welcome back to harsh reality.
This is the single thing that kept WinMo going all those years. The fact that developers were actively modding and improving it. A lot of XDA dev was WinMo before Android came along.
In the final analysis, it's this community that drives adoption by testing out what new ideas work and what new ideas fail. Having used CyanogenMod for most of the last 2 years they have always been ahead of Google in features, but CM had some shocking releases that would have sent most companies bankrupt if they ever released something half as bad. Without an active and technology minded community, you cannot test new ideas in real world conditions and will fall behind companies/organisations that can.
third party warranties == expensive toilet paper.
I live in Oz and there isn't a Best Buy in 14,000 KM's of here but I know that, any store offering a third party warranty is offering a scam. I thought it was common knowledge.
Here's the second thing, if you have to get something repaired, deal with the manufacturer yourself.
I once had a user who bought a HP Compaq (he wasn't too bright) and a thrid party warranty from Harvey Norman (a national big box retailer in OZ, did I mention this user wasn't too bright). The HP broke after 9 months so he took it back to the retailer, he was jerked around for another 9 months (in that time, he bought another laptop) until it was fixed.
I have an Acer Iconia 500 and this is not the case. Same on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v.
If you think Android is bad, you should see how IOS chokes on ./ and FB. Lets not get to media heavy sites like AFL.com.au. There's a reasons people create new sites for IOS yet dont for Android. My bank has had to produce an IOS application for IOS users yet the mobile and normal sites are lightning fast on my Iconia and the mobile site is lightning fast on my Desire Z.
As long as everyone else is 60 X less productive to compensate for what the Ipad cant do.
Richard Boss [rboss@work.com.au]
RE:Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Jesus Rollerblading Christ Bob, just use your laptop.
Bob Wanker [bwanker@work.com.au]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
But I want to use my iPad.
John Worker [jworker@work.com.au]
RE:Schedule for Job XYZ-221
No Bob, it's a 12 MB document, use your laptop.
Bob Wanker [bwanker@work.com.au]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Can you PDF this and email it to me, I cant access the network on my iPad
John Worker [jworker@work.com.au] //server/share/clientfiles/xyz-221/costing-jw-xyz221.xls
Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Initial costing for this job is complete, the xls is on
And about 2 days later.
Bob Wanker [bwanker@work.com.au]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
I havent been able to open the file on my iPad.
Can you PDF it and email it to me.
John Worker [jworker@work.com.au]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Bob,
I'm waiting for you to complete your part of the project costing. I can't send it to the client until you've entered your estimates.
RAGE (and loss of productivity)
not to listen? They refused all claims except a rather trivial one that can be easily fixed. You should definately listen to us :)
Plus those wooden shoes hurt when you throw them.
I for one welcome our new windmill-building, beer brewing clogverlords, as a person of some influence may be useful in rounding up others to toil in your underground breweries (for a small sample of the produce of course).
With all this talk about an NBN (National Broadband Network) in Australia, why doesn't the government allow google to use the country as a testing ground for it's gigabit network rather than making the tax-payers pay through the butt?
The A$27 b of government funds (raised through bonds, not tax) over 10 years is less then the amount we spend on middle class welfare each year (A$30 b in 2009/10 for Family Assistance).
And in before 10 years has passed the NBN will be making money as a a corporatised (non-government controlled) entity. You have to ignore these facts in order to claim it's a terrible financial decision.
Yes it is 27 B, the remaining money comes from non government sources.
It's nice talking with your neighbors, isn't it?
Yeah but at A$0.10 connection fee and A$0.15 per minute, it's cost prohibitive.
Do you want to be the one to tell a bunch of soldiers that they have to go without air-conditioning for two months?
No, I want to be the one to tell soldiers they can go home.
Saving a whole bunch of money the US doesn't have in the process is just a plus.