We have a US exchange student staying with us and the cultural difference in usage is very obvious. The first two weeks he was here he chewed through 80% of our cap before we had a chat and I educated him on our pathetic limits here in Oz.
Yes we Australian's are jealous of true unlimited caps and like our UK brethren enjoy a little whinge now and then. For $60/mo I get all of 30GB down (and 20 more between 1 and 7 am, woohoo). It is fast, averaging 20Mbps but that just means more time spent rationing between fast large downloads:(
What do we use? Well most of the peak download, ie 20-30GB/mo.
For the a little more you can get 150GB/mo but 110GB of that is between 3 and 9am, not very sociable hours.
Hoi Pipka, you mentioned you are trying to set up a (software) patent watch in Aus. Can you please post or send more details as I would be interested in helping out and linking up with such a project. Cheers, Brisbane
It warms my heart that the single most hotly discussed post I have ever seen on/. is about this movie. I have seen many comments about the importance of this movie to not just nerds but to all Americans. I would just add that the outcome of the next US presidential election is of utmost importance to all humans!
Watch the movie. Think about it. Then go and answer some of the questions raised yourself.
Hoi UconnGuuy, Could you tell us more about these credit cards offering "virtual numbers"? Interesting concept and one I have not come across here is Australia. I have several friends / relatives who are wary to say the least about online shopping and this sounds like a very good solution for them peace of mind wise.
You know it's time to get a new computer when... a SmartPhone with 192MB memory and a built in 1.1 Mpixel CCD camera. It's a slide-down type phone, running on a 400MHz Intel X-Scale processor with a 2.8" 262K color TFT LCD.
Don't worry my poor little C466A, daddy still loves you...
Personally, I have actually tried, very hard, to purchase music from Napster, PureTracks and also iTunes. Of course it is not as easy as that is it?
iTunes is US only, PureTracks limited to Canada. Napster and iTunes limited to Win2000 and XP. All three need a credit card of certain types to access. This is without even touching on any DRM / / available player / format issues.
I am not only willing, I am keen to purchase legal music. I do buy much legal music for the obvious reason of over pricing but also because I simply do not find myself near a CD shop when they are open very often. The last 3 CDs I bought, I bought through the internet, however the postal cost reduces any savings to zero over a normal CD shop and delivery is not 'instant' often requiring a special purpose trip to the post office in a any case!
So in short, as soon as a decent music catalogue goes online that is 1) avail in Australia 2) available to Linux / Win98 users and 3) has decent DRM policies (iTunes' are fine for me!) I will be poorer but happier.
The Australian google site (www.google.com.au) suffers from the same googlewhacks. However if you limit the search with the site:.au or Australia only search you get;
Searched the web for candle truck site:.au. Results 1 - 50 of about 1,060. Search took 0.29 seconds
The same is true for adding the limit and searching from www.google.com (except it is even faster at 0.18 seconds:)
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We have a US exchange student staying with us and the cultural difference in usage is very obvious. The first two weeks he was here he chewed through 80% of our cap before we had a chat and I educated him on our pathetic limits here in Oz.
Yes we Australian's are jealous of true unlimited caps and like our UK brethren enjoy a little whinge now and then. For $60/mo I get all of 30GB down (and 20 more between 1 and 7 am, woohoo). It is fast, averaging 20Mbps but that just means more time spent rationing between fast large downloads :(
What do we use? Well most of the peak download, ie 20-30GB/mo.
For the a little more you can get 150GB/mo but 110GB of that is between 3 and 9am, not very sociable hours.
Hoi Pipka, you mentioned you are trying to set up a (software) patent watch in Aus. Can you please post or send more details as I would be interested in helping out and linking up with such a project. Cheers, Brisbane
1200 Posts? Try more than 3000 posts! :)
/. is about this movie. I have seen many comments about the importance of this movie to not just nerds but to all Americans. I would just add that the outcome of the next US presidential election is of utmost importance to all humans!
It warms my heart that the single most hotly discussed post I have ever seen on
Watch the movie. Think about it. Then go and answer some of the questions raised yourself.
How do you tell from the on-line patent when the patent was initiated and therefor on what date art becomes prior-art?
Surely this is important for the whole prior-art arguement.
S!
Hoi UconnGuuy, Could you tell us more about these credit cards offering "virtual numbers"? Interesting concept and one I have not come across here is Australia. I have several friends / relatives who are wary to say the least about online shopping and this sounds like a very good solution for them peace of mind wise.
You know it's time to get a new computer when... a SmartPhone with 192MB memory and a built in 1.1 Mpixel CCD camera. It's a slide-down type phone, running on a 400MHz Intel X-Scale processor with a 2.8" 262K color TFT LCD.
Don't worry my poor little C466A, daddy still loves you...
Personally, I have actually tried, very hard, to purchase music from Napster, PureTracks and also iTunes. Of course it is not as easy as that is it?
iTunes is US only, PureTracks limited to Canada. Napster and iTunes limited to Win2000 and XP. All three need a credit card of certain types to access. This is without even touching on any DRM / / available player / format issues.
I am not only willing, I am keen to purchase legal music. I do buy much legal music for the obvious reason of over pricing but also because I simply do not find myself near a CD shop when they are open very often. The last 3 CDs I bought, I bought through the internet, however the postal cost reduces any savings to zero over a normal CD shop and delivery is not 'instant' often requiring a special purpose trip to the post office in a any case!
So in short, as soon as a decent music catalogue goes online that is 1) avail in Australia 2) available to Linux / Win98 users and 3) has decent DRM policies (iTunes' are fine for me!) I will be poorer but happier.
The Australian google site (www.google.com.au) suffers from the same googlewhacks. However if you limit the search with the site:.au or Australia only search you get;
:)
Searched the web for candle truck site:.au.
Results 1 - 50 of about 1,060. Search took 0.29 seconds
The same is true for adding the limit and searching from www.google.com (except it is even faster at 0.18 seconds