Has the inquest in Australia got any momentum behind it though? I really want to see Murdoch's empire fall, but it already looks like the momentum here in the UK which was at the heart of it all has completely gone and it's back to business as usual sadly.
Julia Gillard is "meeting" with Newscorp so I think I cant call it either way.
But Newscorp will eventually find itself in financial hardship, especially if James finds himself in control.
I still don't see it being much demanded by anyone at this point.
That would be a failing on your part sir,
People are falling off the Apple bandwagon left, right and centre here in Oz, telco's are advertising Android heavily and the purchasers are starting to favour Android over Iphone in Oz. I only know one person who still chooses Apple and he's pretty tragic, the rest have switched to the Samsung Galaxy S 2 or HTC Incredible or Sensation now their 2 year contracts on 3GS' have run out..
It's no wonder their country is politically fucked. Why on earth would you ever let one person control that much of any type of media? What utter lack of irrationality allowed the Aussies to let things get that bad?
Actually, politically we're a lot better off then the US at the moment. Our parliament can get things done and our tiny national debt is decreasing.
Despite what a few angry ultra-nationalists will say.
One thing that came out of the British media hacking scandal was an interesting article on News International globally. Well, it turns out, Murdoch owns 70% of Australia's newspaper market
Ever wonder why Newscorp is losing money hand over fist. Yep, they own 70% of the media but not 70% of the audience. Their readership is literally dying off... of old age. These days I dont read any of Murdochs junk. Murdoch competes with the public broadcasters, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and SBS (Soccer Before Sex.. actually it Special Broadcasting Service) both of which Murdoch has a long history of trying to get both shut down.
Newscorp is not very respected in this country and it's readership is dwindling. There have been parliamentary calls for an inquest into Newscorp's Australian divisions after the phone hacking scandal.
Not that Newscorp has a hope in hell of surviving once the Emperor dies under his idiot (Scientologist) son, James. James Murdoch has a long history of failed businesses.
That is not a business decision, that's an admission they cannot compete.
Because Sumsung's Android gear has been selling so well they've decided to no longer report the numbers, to...um... not make anyone jealous. You can see why Apple might be shaking in their boots.
Could you have found a more biased site. They readily admit they are paid by Apple.
Besides that proves nothing.
If Apple isn't scared, why are they trying to get the courts to prevent Samsung from selling a much demanded competing product.
Sorry if this shatters your fanboyish delusions.
Samsung will provide Apple Australia with three units for study in coming weeks to ascertain whether or not the Korean gadget maker did in fact infringe on Apple's patented intellectual property
Even better, apparently Apple gets to decide if it infringes. Can't wait to hear their decision!
Not quite, Apple get a chance to prove it in court. The court gets to decide if the infringement has actually taken place.
If Apple cant prove their claims they open themselves up to a heap of claims for compensation by Samsung.
A very high stakes game of poker here, with the pot being measured in billions of Aussie dollars (about 1.1 USD).
Said the Ipad 2 was "fooly sikh" and that Apple "wants if fuckin money fuckin".
Meanwhile
Samsung's legal counsel Neil Murray
Said that Apple was being a "wuss and should harden up" and that their counsel was a "flamin galah" stating that this case was "a few tinny's short of a six pack". He also commented elected to inform apple on "where to stuff ya bloody law suit".
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Soon I will have no debt (relatively speaking) and will not be using a credit card or buying anything on credit ever again.
The only problem with that is I don't get 1% cash back on my cash purchases. (And yes, I'm sure my data is being sold, and no, I don't carry a balance).
You also wont be paying 3% more for whatever you purchase.
You didn't honestly beleive the bank was giving away their money for using their card did you. Every dollar they give you back was paid for by fees foisted on the merchant. Banks charge additional fees to process a credit transaction, even if that is coming out of your savings (debit) rather then the banks money (credit). The merchant is forced to adsorb this fee and if their bottom line cannot handle it they are forced to raise prices to compensate for this additional cost.
In Australia merchants are not forced to hide the credit card fee. Some will, often the larger stores but smaller stores will charge a credit card surcharge in order not to force their customers paying via debit or cash to pay higher prices.
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I think giving up military bases could be a profitable adventure. I used to live in Kadena AFB in Japan (I was a military brat), and the bases take up like 10-20% of the island we were on IIRC. Lawns are unheard of off base, but yet many of us were housed in small homes with lawns. I'm willing to bet Japanese investors would go crazy over that land (so long as the US military hasn't massively polluted it; that's been known to happen).
Some developing nations who receive a lot of money from US military bases would be quire unhappy to see that go.
Not that I disagree with the GP, military expenditure makes up for 1/2 of US govt expenditure. Cutting the military down by half alone would almost save the US budget.
Not taking into account the knock on effects on the US companies who make a lot from lucrative military contracts but that's no excuse.
Crowe maybe, but some people think he's already beyond his sell-by date.
Romper Stomper was from the 80's.
That phone throwing kiwi is deffo past his use by date.
And Jackman? I like him, but name one hit he's carried as the leading star
Strictly Ballroom,
Being lead in that Baz Lurhman Stinker alone should disqualify him from every being in another movie ever again or even having his name spoken aloud in civilised conversation.
Jackman is a drama actor, not an action actor. Never was, never will be, X-men was a fluke, the two proceeding X-men and the Worlverine movie proved that.
I'd like to see more of Jason Stratham (Transporter, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). But then Hollywood would need to stop requiring the lead role to be an Americans for action movies. Eric Bana would also be able to do some light action, that piece of crap Hulk movie not withstanding, to see Bana in his best form you need to watch "Chopper" (Bana was also in Black Hawk Down) but Bana is primarily a comedian.
Keep a distance between cars of at least 2 seconds.
2 seconds is the absolute bare minimum distance you need to maintain. 3 seconds is recommended here in Oz because so many factors affect stopping distance. Your reaction time is going to be between 1.5 and 3 seconds alone depending on fatigue and alertness. Very few drivers will be capable of fully applying the brakes in under 1.5 seconds whilst a distracted driver will rarely be able to react in under 3 seconds.
Saving 100ms in leg movement doesn't seem very important, when the real risk is how long it takes for the brain to raise the alarm and decide on the correct action, and then the actual breaking which still takes a long time.
True,
Stopping distance is reaction distance + braking distance. Reaction distance is always at full speed (say 60 KM/h) whilst braking distance is how long it takes your car to stop.
Reaction distance at 50 KM/h is 20.8 metres, at 60 KM/h is 25 metres and at 70 KM/h it's 29.1 meters. this is the distance travelled before even engaging the brakes.
To increase road safety, you want to drive slower and have more room with the vehicle in front of you. Unfortunately if you leave a wide enough a gap between you and the vehicle in front of you in too many cities some moron will try to take up that space cutting a 4 or 5 second gap down to a 1 second gap.
There's also a relatively new American project working on MSRs
As long as that remains a secret the work can continue.
If the BANANA's find out they'll throw a thermo-nuclear hissy fit until it gets shut down.
I've said for years Australia should go nuclear, not only is it safer and cleaner then our current coal and oil power plants Australia has enough Uranium for 1000's of years and that's just the stuff we already found. But what are we doing, commissioning new CO2 and heavy metal belching coal power plants and selling the uranium to India.
The suicide "problem" at FoxCon is a bit overblown; for the number of employees, FoxCon is right around the national average for suicides in China.
Nope.
First off, Foxconn is a very localised area to have that many suicides. The national average is from the entire nation, in all walks of life, from all age groups.
The Foxconn suicides are from the same age group, the same job, in the same localisation. In fact you've cut out the highest suicide risks, young teens.
Also it seriously bucks the unique suicide trend in China. China has the unique distinction of being the only county where there are more female suicides then male suicides. Most of the suicides at Foxconn were male.
"And what happened with HTML5 being an open, cross-platform standard"
Nothing. It's just that so far nobody has a complete implementation, and different browsers have different parts working.
It's worse then that. You've really got three groups trying to guide or co-opt the standard, Google is by far the least evil who is at least trying to create an open platform.
Then we have the other players who have very vested interests in keeping people locked into their respective platform, Apple keeping people locked into IOS and Microsoft with Internet Explorer.
So we're going to end up with 3 different standards, we've already seen Apple strong-arming sites into using H.264 and Apple's version of HTML5 by preventing any competitors from running on IOS and I'll put good money on MS trying their old tricks from the first browser wars.
And IOS Fanboys wonder why flash as hated as it is, hasn't gone anywhere. It's still the only way to ensure that multimedia can be seen by almost everyone.
Maybe I've just been unrealistic; but I assumed most of the NCC-1701 series, at least, were already running something more advanced than that.
They couldn't even install fuses to stop the control panels from blowing out whenever the ship hit a little turbulence. They're probably still running a token ring.
I'm guessing about.1% of ISP's will be able to support native V6 by then...
1% of US telco's perhaps. 3 out of the 4 of Australia's biggest Telco's are running or rolling out IPv6 in a dual stack configuration (IPv4 and IPv6 run concurrently).
Willing to bet that Europe is the same and Asia is way ahead of us.
It's long since been known Samsung has planned this, lots of nice press releases but no product. I'd bet on it being released with the next version of Android.
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You're measuring storage capacity.
Actually I was being facetious.
Making allusions to the price of enterprise SSD's, 10 x more expensive then 15K RPM mechanical disks, at least in Oz.
Not going to argue about the IO benefits, because you're right.
Is he talking about performance or price. I can imagine that a single rack of enterprise SSD's could easily cost the same as 9 racks of anything else.
Has the inquest in Australia got any momentum behind it though? I really want to see Murdoch's empire fall, but it already looks like the momentum here in the UK which was at the heart of it all has completely gone and it's back to business as usual sadly.
Julia Gillard is "meeting" with Newscorp so I think I cant call it either way. But Newscorp will eventually find itself in financial hardship, especially if James finds himself in control.
That would be a failing on your part sir,
People are falling off the Apple bandwagon left, right and centre here in Oz, telco's are advertising Android heavily and the purchasers are starting to favour Android over Iphone in Oz. I only know one person who still chooses Apple and he's pretty tragic, the rest have switched to the Samsung Galaxy S 2 or HTC Incredible or Sensation now their 2 year contracts on 3GS' have run out..
Actually, politically we're a lot better off then the US at the moment. Our parliament can get things done and our tiny national debt is decreasing.
Despite what a few angry ultra-nationalists will say.
One thing that came out of the British media hacking scandal was an interesting article on News International globally. Well, it turns out, Murdoch owns 70% of Australia's newspaper market
Ever wonder why Newscorp is losing money hand over fist. Yep, they own 70% of the media but not 70% of the audience. Their readership is literally dying off... of old age. These days I dont read any of Murdochs junk. Murdoch competes with the public broadcasters, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and SBS (Soccer Before Sex.. actually it Special Broadcasting Service) both of which Murdoch has a long history of trying to get both shut down.
Newscorp is not very respected in this country and it's readership is dwindling. There have been parliamentary calls for an inquest into Newscorp's Australian divisions after the phone hacking scandal.
Not that Newscorp has a hope in hell of surviving once the Emperor dies under his idiot (Scientologist) son, James. James Murdoch has a long history of failed businesses.
A very high stakes game of poker here, with the pot being measured in billions of Aussie dollars (about 1.1 USD).
Oh, wow - I didn't realize Australia's currency had depreciated so dramatically! It's like the Weimar Republic all over again...
I meant 1:1.1 USD.
I actually found it rather amusing (unlike the disrespectful AC garbage generated by your feeble mind).
Applause sir,
That was the point (good humour, not the AC's feeble mind)
That is not a business decision, that's an admission they cannot compete.
Because Sumsung's Android gear has been selling so well they've decided to no longer report the numbers, to ...um... not make anyone jealous. You can see why Apple might be shaking in their boots.
Could you have found a more biased site. They readily admit they are paid by Apple. Besides that proves nothing. If Apple isn't scared, why are they trying to get the courts to prevent Samsung from selling a much demanded competing product. Sorry if this shatters your fanboyish delusions.
Yeah, that's Apple being scared. It's definitely not your wishful thinking projecting emotions onto a business decision.
They're trying to block the entry of a competitor via the legal system as opposed to competing with them once the product is released.
That is not a business decision, that's an admission they cannot compete.
Samsung will provide Apple Australia with three units for study in coming weeks to ascertain whether or not the Korean gadget maker did in fact infringe on Apple's patented intellectual property
Even better, apparently Apple gets to decide if it infringes. Can't wait to hear their decision!
Not quite, Apple get a chance to prove it in court. The court gets to decide if the infringement has actually taken place.
If Apple cant prove their claims they open themselves up to a heap of claims for compensation by Samsung.
A very high stakes game of poker here, with the pot being measured in billions of Aussie dollars (about 1.1 USD).
Apple's legal counsel Christian Dimitriadis
Said the Ipad 2 was "fooly sikh" and that Apple "wants if fuckin money fuckin".
Meanwhile
Samsung's legal counsel Neil Murray
Said that Apple was being a "wuss and should harden up" and that their counsel was a "flamin galah" stating that this case was "a few tinny's short of a six pack". He also commented elected to inform apple on "where to stuff ya bloody law suit".
Soon I will have no debt (relatively speaking) and will not be using a credit card or buying anything on credit ever again.
The only problem with that is I don't get 1% cash back on my cash purchases. (And yes, I'm sure my data is being sold, and no, I don't carry a balance).
You also wont be paying 3% more for whatever you purchase.
You didn't honestly beleive the bank was giving away their money for using their card did you. Every dollar they give you back was paid for by fees foisted on the merchant. Banks charge additional fees to process a credit transaction, even if that is coming out of your savings (debit) rather then the banks money (credit). The merchant is forced to adsorb this fee and if their bottom line cannot handle it they are forced to raise prices to compensate for this additional cost.
In Australia merchants are not forced to hide the credit card fee. Some will, often the larger stores but smaller stores will charge a credit card surcharge in order not to force their customers paying via debit or cash to pay higher prices.
I think giving up military bases could be a profitable adventure. I used to live in Kadena AFB in Japan (I was a military brat), and the bases take up like 10-20% of the island we were on IIRC. Lawns are unheard of off base, but yet many of us were housed in small homes with lawns. I'm willing to bet Japanese investors would go crazy over that land (so long as the US military hasn't massively polluted it; that's been known to happen).
Some developing nations who receive a lot of money from US military bases would be quire unhappy to see that go.
Not that I disagree with the GP, military expenditure makes up for 1/2 of US govt expenditure. Cutting the military down by half alone would almost save the US budget.
Not taking into account the knock on effects on the US companies who make a lot from lucrative military contracts but that's no excuse.
Romper Stomper was from the 80's.
That phone throwing kiwi is deffo past his use by date.
Strictly Ballroom,
Being lead in that Baz Lurhman Stinker alone should disqualify him from every being in another movie ever again or even having his name spoken aloud in civilised conversation.
Jackman is a drama actor, not an action actor. Never was, never will be, X-men was a fluke, the two proceeding X-men and the Worlverine movie proved that.
I'd like to see more of Jason Stratham (Transporter, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). But then Hollywood would need to stop requiring the lead role to be an Americans for action movies. Eric Bana would also be able to do some light action, that piece of crap Hulk movie not withstanding, to see Bana in his best form you need to watch "Chopper" (Bana was also in Black Hawk Down) but Bana is primarily a comedian.
Keep a distance between cars of at least 2 seconds.
2 seconds is the absolute bare minimum distance you need to maintain. 3 seconds is recommended here in Oz because so many factors affect stopping distance. Your reaction time is going to be between 1.5 and 3 seconds alone depending on fatigue and alertness. Very few drivers will be capable of fully applying the brakes in under 1.5 seconds whilst a distracted driver will rarely be able to react in under 3 seconds.
Saving 100ms in leg movement doesn't seem very important, when the real risk is how long it takes for the brain to raise the alarm and decide on the correct action, and then the actual breaking which still takes a long time.
True,
Stopping distance is reaction distance + braking distance. Reaction distance is always at full speed (say 60 KM/h) whilst braking distance is how long it takes your car to stop.
Reaction distance at 50 KM/h is 20.8 metres, at 60 KM/h is 25 metres and at 70 KM/h it's 29.1 meters. this is the distance travelled before even engaging the brakes.
To increase road safety, you want to drive slower and have more room with the vehicle in front of you. Unfortunately if you leave a wide enough a gap between you and the vehicle in front of you in too many cities some moron will try to take up that space cutting a 4 or 5 second gap down to a 1 second gap.
There's also a relatively new American project working on MSRs
As long as that remains a secret the work can continue.
If the BANANA's find out they'll throw a thermo-nuclear hissy fit until it gets shut down.
I've said for years Australia should go nuclear, not only is it safer and cleaner then our current coal and oil power plants Australia has enough Uranium for 1000's of years and that's just the stuff we already found. But what are we doing, commissioning new CO2 and heavy metal belching coal power plants and selling the uranium to India.
Next up: Comparison of penis length and brand of toothpaste. Don't ya love 'science'?
This man is a dentist. We cant show you his face but we can show you his giant purple python.
Nope.
First off, Foxconn is a very localised area to have that many suicides. The national average is from the entire nation, in all walks of life, from all age groups.
The Foxconn suicides are from the same age group, the same job, in the same localisation. In fact you've cut out the highest suicide risks, young teens.
Also it seriously bucks the unique suicide trend in China. China has the unique distinction of being the only county where there are more female suicides then male suicides. Most of the suicides at Foxconn were male.
Aren't Mac users a subset of women?
Girly men are not women no matter how effeminate.
"And what happened with HTML5 being an open, cross-platform standard"
Nothing. It's just that so far nobody has a complete implementation, and different browsers have different parts working.
It's worse then that. You've really got three groups trying to guide or co-opt the standard, Google is by far the least evil who is at least trying to create an open platform.
Then we have the other players who have very vested interests in keeping people locked into their respective platform, Apple keeping people locked into IOS and Microsoft with Internet Explorer.
So we're going to end up with 3 different standards, we've already seen Apple strong-arming sites into using H.264 and Apple's version of HTML5 by preventing any competitors from running on IOS and I'll put good money on MS trying their old tricks from the first browser wars.
And IOS Fanboys wonder why flash as hated as it is, hasn't gone anywhere. It's still the only way to ensure that multimedia can be seen by almost everyone.
Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013
Maybe I've just been unrealistic; but I assumed most of the NCC-1701 series, at least, were already running something more advanced than that.
They couldn't even install fuses to stop the control panels from blowing out whenever the ship hit a little turbulence. They're probably still running a token ring.
2013? Seriously?
Who would be going to these sites?
I'm guessing about .1% of ISP's will be able to support native V6 by then...
1% of US telco's perhaps. 3 out of the 4 of Australia's biggest Telco's are running or rolling out IPv6 in a dual stack configuration (IPv4 and IPv6 run concurrently).
Willing to bet that Europe is the same and Asia is way ahead of us.
Yeah.... still not true: Either way, it looks like this Android 2.2 player (it's upgradable to 2.3, by the way) with full Market access will be headed stateside sometime soon.
Call me when it's released.
It's long since been known Samsung has planned this, lots of nice press releases but no product. I'd bet on it being released with the next version of Android.
DOS is still being used in some places...
Except now it's got a bad comb over, picked up a young ditzy girlfriend and drives a mid range sports car.
Welcome to mid life DOS.
Yeah all this cheap, ubiquitous, amazingly capable computing is terrible for users. We really lost.
I'm guessing the GP is a Mac user, they get none of those things.