It can't be mining asteroids, there is no evidence of any minerals in the asteroid belt that:
a) are of any use.
b) can't already be mined on earth for a miniscule fraction of the cost of mining from an asteroid.
c) couldn't be synthesised already on earth for a fraction of the cost of mining from an asteroid
Maybe its orbital solar power stations? given the current state of spaceflight tech thats got to be more practical than mining asteroids that are millions of kilometers away.
"I have only come accross 2 people that said the NBN is a great thing (out of possibly 30-35 people I've talked to about this)."
Its usually unconcious but we tend to be surrounded by and interact with people who share similar beleifs to us. One example of that is your 2 out of 35 . Another is ther vast majority of people that I work with and socialise with who are very much in favour of the NBN.
Both of those examples are entirely anecdotal and therefore worth squat by way of denying/supporting the findings of this poll.
Where did it come from? Was it just the sum total of 30,000 years background exposure or was there some natural source local to where the seeds were found?
Malcolm Turnbull: "i said "a MASSIVE new government-owned broadband monopoly.” Singapore by comparison to Australia is very small so theirs is therefore a VERY SMALL new government-owned broadband Monopoly."
See he's not wrong after all.
And another thing, singapore is not our closest neighbour. It is close but Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and East Timor are all closer.
Is there an easy rule of thumb to gravity at the surface of these planets. ie. assuming the same density if the mass is 4.5 times earths is acceleration due to gravity at the surface = to 4.5 x 9.8 m/s/s?
1) Absolutely there are limits to growth. You eventually run out of people in poverty who you can pay to do crap jobs. Then the cheap shit stops being cheap. It becomes expensive, and nobody wants expensive shit. I'm not sure it’s what you meant, but when you say:
"This transition to higher living standards through outsourced labor is running into … limits."
you are suggesting it’s the outsourced labor that’s the problem. I suggest it’s the higher living standards period that is running into sustainability limits. It’s our already high living standards not their improving living standard that’s the main cause of that. It’s not fixed by telling the world’s poor "You cannot work your way toward having what we have." It’s fixed by us accepting decreases to our living standards
Despite limits to growth the outsourcing of crap jobs to places with cheap labor is the most effective (only) way that vast numbers of people around the world can be raised out of poverty.
2) Yes you need more than just pouring money into a place to permanantly increase standards of living. China’s stable communist government that genuinely seems focused on the greatest good for the greatest number of its citizens (to the exclusion of concern for the individual which is reflected in their disregard for human rights) has allowed china to ride the gravy train to middle class in a way that no other nation could have.
But even if you create the required economic and governance environment in places like the Philippines and Thailand through UN diplomacy and IMF carrots and sticks you still then need to pay them to do something and that thing is going to be stuff that you can’t pay people in developed economies to do cheaply. i.e. cheap labor making cheap shit.
It’s still the process of global capitalism finding the cheapest place to get something done that in the end will grow the economies and the living standard of the worlds developing economies.
Giddy with joy as I enetered the shuttle thinking I had finally defeated SHODAN and escaped i was not emotionally or mentally prepared for this turn of events my response at the time was to pull the plug on the PC and declare:
"I still beat you SHODAN!"
Truely one of the greatest games I have ever played in so many ways.
Already Foxconn is looking abroad and building manufacturing plants in Brazil citing increased labour costs as the reason for building outside China. The conditions for workers in chinese manufacturing may seem unconscienable by western standards, but if it weren't for western demand for cheap shit, and chinas ability and willingness to provide cheap labour then there would be hundreds of millions of chinese still subsistance farming in an agrarian economy instead of, as they are now and have been for the last 50 years, moving into the middle classes and creating their own demand for cheap shit. As China continues to fill up with money and its per capita income continues to increase over the next half century more and more chinese will elevated from poverty to middle class and inexorably China's economy will follow western economies and manufacturing will move to parts of the globe with cheaper labour and China's economy will become more sevice oriented.
This is the joy of global capitalism. It is the most effective way to raise living standards around the globe, and its our demand that shit be cheap that determines where the focus of those living standard increases are directed. The rub is that the transitional steps between poverty and middle class often appear very unpleasent to those who never had to go through it.
"I am all for being optimistic, but how can Newt possibly think that the U.S. could ever be able to even get to the moon in 8-years..."
Manned moon landings was an election promise in 1960 only 2 years after the creation of NASA itself, and 9 years later it happened. Given the advances in technology and the amount of economic growth in the half century since, it could be accomplished in much less time and be significantly cheaper in terms of % of national GDP were they to seriously try again. The only thing really missing is the political will to do so.
those dummies are wearing hoodies and in one case a baseball cap. I'd suggest thats more like a realistic training scenario for mall cops or maybe the London Met than the Marines
If the verdict is that using gps trackers without a warrant is ok, would that mean that anyone can stick a tracker on a vehicle without breaking a law?
""And you can be assured that OEM's and Enterprises will pay for Windows 8 regardless of its interface"
Seem to recall that didn't happen when Vista came along as the Corporate world didn't see any benefit from moving away from Xp."
The corporate world may not have moved to Vista for the most part (my employer is only now considering the move from XP to 7), but that doesn't mean they didn't pay for it. every time a new HP or Dell pc was deployed with a Vindows Vista licensce key stuck on it the business paid the OEM who then paid Microsoft for that license. Even if the business then downgraded to XP.
"I'll (generally) tolerate any old crap Microsoft wants to put into Windows if I can avoid it or ignore it,..."
Having looked at the developer preview it is possible to hide the metro interface altogether leaving you with just the changes to the windows 7 desktop interface to deal with. I suspect this will happen in almost every enterprise/business deployment of Windows 8 in the world.
"It seems Microsoft's response is "tough shit" and that it's me who's wrong not them, and would rather spend time telling me that than addressing my concerns. Fine; I won't upgrade then. Another lost sale and it's not even launched yet."
Microsoft isn't saying "tough shit", truth is they're completely indifferent to your disgust. They're also indifferent to your threat's to not pay for it. As far as Microsoft is concerned people don't pay for Windows. OEM's pay for windows, Enterprises pay for windows, but the number of people who pay for Windows is so close to zero for them as to be indistinguishable. And you can be assured that OEM's and Enterprises will pay for Windows 8 regardless of its interface.
Microsoft have an idealogical goal with windows 8 and that is to create an OS that can be as comfortable on a tablet as it is on a PC. And getting onto tablets will be worth much more to them than any loss of tech elitists they incur on the PC.
"If I tried to count the number of times I've run out of iPhone battery on my fingers, well, I'd fail to do so, as the current count is zero"
Count one on you fingers...okay got that? All right then, now retract that one finger you currently have extended so that you have no fingers extended. There you go, you just counted zero on your fingers. Not as difficult as you seem to think hey?
Why so mach asterisk bracketing sir? and are you being sarcastic or emphatic? because either way that much sarcasm or emphasis on random words derails the little voice in my head that I read with.
Im about to jumpship from vodafail to telstra this afternoon. I live about 10 k out of Hobart CBD and after being suckered in by the cheap plans (in comparioson to telstra at the time) I have been itching to leave for the past year given the frequency of dropped calls on my mobile whilst at home.
Its a little to late to be "fixing" a network now that has been obviously not up to the task at hand for the last 2 years for me to stick by them. Besides given where I am I suspect that any improvement to the network either wont make it here or will be amonst the last places to be improved.
The Taliban only banned the growing of opium in 2000* but for the 7 years of their rule prior to that it was fine, their reason being that opium wasconsumed by westerners. Hashish production was banned from the time they came into power bcause it was consumed locally. The taliban "frown upon the production of opium" because the Koran forbids the use of intoxicants, but they have no concerns growing to supply to the infidels.
* there is some suggestion that this was not out of religious zeal but to change the supply/demand equation in favour of higher prices.
I posted to the comments of Malcolm's article a summary of your analysis Richard including links to the LG U+ and SK Broadband subscriber data and a link to your article, and shortly afterwards Malcolm's article disappeared, and has remained unavailable for 4 hours now.
"The claims of so-called Chinese state support for hacking are completely fictitious and have ulterior motives"
Seriously, who do they think this statement is for? Surely they know that the only people who matter won't believe this. Even if it is true it shouldn't be, its expected that China is doing this kind of thing so if they're not they may as well since they're going to be accused of it anyway.
As a side note I quite respect the chinese form of communism, I can't imagine any other form of government that could have elevated so many so quickly from subsistance poverty to middleclass.
"From 2014 to 2015, the amount of traffic will exceed all of the traffic generated in 2010"
Maybe I'm reading this wrong but I am unsurprised that there is forecast to be more annual traffic 4 years from now than there was a year ago. Is this meant to say something like prior to 2010 perhaps?
Since 2000 the Australian federal government has offered a $7000 payment to first home buyers, and a various times there has been an additional $7000-14000 if you build your first home rather than buying an existing home.
This is not the only reason but certainly is a significant factor why housing prices in Australia have more than doubled in the decade since and our housing affordability has been on a continuous delcine to the point where we are now one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the developed economies.
To make matters worse Australia's economy escaped the global financial crisis relatively unscathed and so while housing prices in other major markets notably the US and UK corrected themselves and declined considerably ours barely dipped at all and then contined to rise sharply in the two years since.
In the late 1980's Australia experianced a recession famously referred to by our prime-minister of the time as "the recession we had to have". During that recession home loan interest rates in Australia reached 20% but an average mortgage required less than 30% of houshold income to service. Now home loan rates are at 7.5% but the average mortgage requires 35% of household income to service.
Theres a reckoning coming in the Australian housing market and until it arrives I will be happily renting a property I could never hope to buy, first home buyers grant or not.
See http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf for more detail on relative housing affordaibility.
synonyms: abide, bear, endure,humor, put up with, take, suffer.
Religious tolerance does not require that I respect anything just that I put up with it.
Because I am pragmatic I will tolerate beleif in sky fairies just as I will tolerate beleif in garden fairies, and underpants gnomes. I will not respect you for holding that beleif, and I will disrespect you if seek to press your belief onto children who do not have the mental maturity and life experiance to take an informed postion on the existance of underpants gnomes.
"But that is not what it's about!!! It is a place of worship, so whether it is a mosque, a church, a synagogue or a hindu temple. These are places that are holy to many people and that should be respected!!!"
If the priest or whoever else was responsible for the decision wanted the premises in question respected as a place of religious worship then they should not have taken the money to whore it out as a polling place. Once they did that they were obliged to allow any material that was allowed under the electoral act of NSW inspite of any moral, political or religious views they may hold.
The last one Michael Atkinson basically said over my dead body to R18 game classifications.
And the new one:
"South Australian Attorney-General John Rau has also flagged support for an R18+ rating on the condition the current MA15 classification is abolished."
I assume he wants to see all current and future MA15 games be boosted to R18.
What do they put in the water over there that makes them think games must be treated differently to television or feature films.
@AC: Uranium doesn't magic itself out of the ground
Given that almsot 40% of the worlds uranium comes from Canada, Australia, and the USA your assertion that uranium mining "predominantly occurs in astoundingly corrupt dictatorships that don't give a flying fuck about the safety of their workforce" is borderline.
But more importantly worldwide production of uranium last year was approximately 50,000 tons almost exclusively for power generation, compared to 5,990,000,000 tons of coal in excess of 5 billion of which is for eclectricity generation. Coal produces 45% of the worlds electricity and nuclear produces 20%. Some simple maths on these figures shows that 1 ton of uranium produces about the same amount of electricity as about 45000 tons of coal.
The upshot of this is that mining uranium would have to be 5 orders of magnitude more dangerous than mining coal per ton for the production of fuel to be of an issue in terms of the overall saftey the nuclear power life-cycle compared to the production of fuel in the coal power life-cycle.
Im not sure why but out of all the bullshit statements in these comments your was the one I felt compelled to debunk.
Beer? because it is St Patricks day and I'm about to go to lunch :)
Insurers for vehicle insurance at least treat age and how long youve held a drivers license (experience) seperately already.
"But age is not just a number; it represents how much experience you have."
"Conversely, a 60-year-old who only learned to drive last week should probably have the same premium as a 20-year-old who did the same"
you appear to contradict yourself saying age represents experience, and then saying age may not reflect any experience.
An insurer will look at the age of a driver and decide how likely they are to engage in risky behaviour, in this case someone who is 60 is much less likely to take risks than a 20 year old. They will then look at experience and factor that in to premium calculations as a seperate variable to age. In this respect they are and should be looking at age and discriminating on that basis. It is fact that drivers of a certain age are less likely to be involved in accidents than drivers from another age demographic all other things being equal.
Insurers can and should disciminate by varying premiums on this basis.
I could, for instance, be a male with straight A* at school and college and with a 1st class honours degree and hence be much more responsible than one of the local Bogans. We may both share an interest in higly modified cars, under the currently commonly accepted status quo I would be penalised simply for having a modified car because he will not be responsible with his.
This is the way the insurance system works and so it should. having a modified vehicle does not prove that I am a better or worse driver than anyone else but staticially there is a connection between modified vehicle and higher accident rates. Being a male does not prove that I am a bad driver but statistically, assuming all other factors are the same, I am more likely to have an accident than a female.
The end extension of your logic is that they (insurance companies) should not penalise me for the poor behaviour of others. Even if I am 19 year old male on a provisional license driving a highly modified needlessly powerful japnese import. Because I might just be the exception to the rule.
"The fundamental problem is that being male doesn't inherently mean you'll be a worse driver"
I absolutely agree that being male does not inherently make you a worse driver. But it does inherently make you more likely to take risks than a female paticulalry if you are a young male. this in turn makes you more likley to be involved in an accident.
Where ever there is a clear statistical variation based on a variable whose value can be easily and clearly measured for all policy holders then the insurance companies should be adjusting premiums to reflect that. Regardless of whether that variable be gender, age, vehicle modification, claim history, garaging, primary purpose. It is a fact that males are more likely to have an accident than females, whatever the reason. It is not discrimination to adjust premiums to reflect this.
out of the 6 or maybe 7 of them including mexico, colombia, brazil, and thailand.
Actually many of the countries with higher gun-related deaths than the US have high levels of drug production coupled with high levels of corruption and law and order systems incapable of dealing with the problem. Just an interesting observation...
Against comparable countries ie. wealthy educated western democracies the US is streaks ahead in the number of people who die from gunshot wounds.
Could have been a pic of a panda, the great wallof china , terracotta soldiers, or tanks in tienamen square to ensure we understood you meant that china and not some other china.
Is it just because dragons are cool?
Can this pictorial method of identifying the country in an article be extended. For instance can we have a picture of Steve Irwin with a kangaroo in the middle of all future articles about Australia's NBN, a random fat person with a gun every time the USA is mentioned, and maybe the queen whenever Ol'Blighty makes the news?
"...total notebook HDD capacity of 95EB (exabytes) shipped in 2011 with 69EB in 2010."
"This left a pathetic 0.77EB (770PB) for notebooks, which would have allowed around ten per cent of notebook HDD storage to be replaced by SSDs last year."
"...boost in NAND fab capacity this year, maybe enabling 2EB to be used for notebooks
Its even better than this for the spinning metal mob as .77 is in fact slightly more than 1% of 69 not "around ten per cent".
Working with the 2011 estimates NAND production will still only be able to supply about 2% of the forecast 95EB. Still the writing is on the wall for rotating disks in the laptop/notebook/netbook market maybe 5 years before its all flash.
On relaying the bootnote of this story my wife who works in the federal public service pointed out that we are in the middle of a federal election here in Australia and while the government is in caretaker mode public servants are restricted from doing things that may unduly influence the outcome of the election. Since the proposal is still in the investigatory phase and is not an actual policy of the government the FOI officer has at this time decided that release of the details would unduly influnce the election. If there were no election then most likely the FOI officer would not have censored the documents as much if at all.
A more detailed article on the censored documents can be found here:
Having said that I find it very worrying that they are even investigating if this is possible. It says to me that there is some desire on the part of government here in Aus to have this. If they didn't want it they wouldn't be investigating.
The current government has me conflicted with regard to their internet policies, on the one hand they've set up the National Broadband Company and are rolling out a 100Mbit Fiber to the Home network costing 47 Billion over 8 years. So they get a big tick for correcting the failure of the major telco's to invest in this kind of infrastructure meaning that the best net connection available to me is ADSL2+ running at about 3 Mbit and I live on the outskirts of a state capital.
But on the other hand we have Conroy's idiotic internet filtering policy (recently shelved, but i suspect only to make it a non issue during the current election), and now an investigation into making ISPs keep internet activity histories of its users which if followed through seems entirely sinister. So its epic fail there.
Still I'm going to have to vote for them as the lesser of two evils. The opposition (Liberal Party, though the name is a misnomer as they are actually conservative in the ideologies)have indicated their support for ISP filtering and likely would relish having internet histories for everyone, but they have said they would terminate the national broadband network if elected. So if they get in my internet would end up filtered logged and still be crap as well :(
I will take you at your word that Sallitu Mopoille = Permitted for mopeds, but if it does then that sign is almost non-sensical given the picture is of a man holding a childs hand.
Since YOU want to be technical Terry H. In technical terms acceleration is a vector value i.e. it has both magnitude and direction, and so as intractable says deceleration is just acceleration in the opposite direction. Even the wikipedia article on deceleration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceleration) simply redirects you to the article on acceleration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration). It is only when people are NOT being technical that they will use the term deceleration in reference to a reduction in speed.
If you're going to get all pedantic on someone you really, REALLY need to get it right.
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What resource?
It can't be mining asteroids, there is no evidence of any minerals in the asteroid belt that:
a) are of any use.
b) can't already be mined on earth for a miniscule fraction of the cost of mining from an asteroid.
c) couldn't be synthesised already on earth for a fraction of the cost of mining from an asteroid
Maybe its orbital solar power stations? given the current state of spaceflight tech thats got to be more practical than mining asteroids that are millions of kilometers away.
How long....
til Malcolm turnbull and the coalition are pointing at this and saying "See the NBN FTTH network is obsolete before its been built."?
Re: How to skew a poll
"I have only come accross 2 people that said the NBN is a great thing (out of possibly 30-35 people I've talked to about this)."
Its usually unconcious but we tend to be surrounded by and interact with people who share similar beleifs to us. One example of that is your 2 out of 35 . Another is ther vast majority of people that I work with and socialise with who are very much in favour of the NBN.
Both of those examples are entirely anecdotal and therefore worth squat by way of denying/supporting the findings of this poll.
About that radiation
Where did it come from? Was it just the sum total of 30,000 years background exposure or was there some natural source local to where the seeds were found?
I can imagine the defense already...
Malcolm Turnbull: "i said "a MASSIVE new government-owned broadband monopoly.” Singapore by comparison to Australia is very small so theirs is therefore a VERY SMALL new government-owned broadband Monopoly."
See he's not wrong after all.
And another thing, singapore is not our closest neighbour. It is close but Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and East Timor are all closer.
Gravity?
Is there an easy rule of thumb to gravity at the surface of these planets. ie. assuming the same density if the mass is 4.5 times earths is acceleration due to gravity at the surface = to 4.5 x 9.8 m/s/s?
Well allow me to retort.
Actually I mostly agree with you.
1) Absolutely there are limits to growth. You eventually run out of people in poverty who you can pay to do crap jobs. Then the cheap shit stops being cheap. It becomes expensive, and nobody wants expensive shit. I'm not sure it’s what you meant, but when you say:
"This transition to higher living standards through outsourced labor is running into … limits."
you are suggesting it’s the outsourced labor that’s the problem. I suggest it’s the higher living standards period that is running into sustainability limits. It’s our already high living standards not their improving living standard that’s the main cause of that. It’s not fixed by telling the world’s poor "You cannot work your way toward having what we have." It’s fixed by us accepting decreases to our living standards
Despite limits to growth the outsourcing of crap jobs to places with cheap labor is the most effective (only) way that vast numbers of people around the world can be raised out of poverty.
2) Yes you need more than just pouring money into a place to permanantly increase standards of living. China’s stable communist government that genuinely seems focused on the greatest good for the greatest number of its citizens (to the exclusion of concern for the individual which is reflected in their disregard for human rights) has allowed china to ride the gravy train to middle class in a way that no other nation could have.
But even if you create the required economic and governance environment in places like the Philippines and Thailand through UN diplomacy and IMF carrots and sticks you still then need to pay them to do something and that thing is going to be stuff that you can’t pay people in developed economies to do cheaply. i.e. cheap labor making cheap shit.
It’s still the process of global capitalism finding the cheapest place to get something done that in the end will grow the economies and the living standard of the worlds developing economies.
I still beat you SHODAN.
Giddy with joy as I enetered the shuttle thinking I had finally defeated SHODAN and escaped i was not emotionally or mentally prepared for this turn of events my response at the time was to pull the plug on the PC and declare:
"I still beat you SHODAN!"
Truely one of the greatest games I have ever played in so many ways.
Labour costs in China are rising.
Already Foxconn is looking abroad and building manufacturing plants in Brazil citing increased labour costs as the reason for building outside China. The conditions for workers in chinese manufacturing may seem unconscienable by western standards, but if it weren't for western demand for cheap shit, and chinas ability and willingness to provide cheap labour then there would be hundreds of millions of chinese still subsistance farming in an agrarian economy instead of, as they are now and have been for the last 50 years, moving into the middle classes and creating their own demand for cheap shit. As China continues to fill up with money and its per capita income continues to increase over the next half century more and more chinese will elevated from poverty to middle class and inexorably China's economy will follow western economies and manufacturing will move to parts of the globe with cheaper labour and China's economy will become more sevice oriented.
This is the joy of global capitalism. It is the most effective way to raise living standards around the globe, and its our demand that shit be cheap that determines where the focus of those living standard increases are directed. The rub is that the transitional steps between poverty and middle class often appear very unpleasent to those who never had to go through it.
It was about 8 years the first time.
"I am all for being optimistic, but how can Newt possibly think that the U.S. could ever be able to even get to the moon in 8-years..."
Manned moon landings was an election promise in 1960 only 2 years after the creation of NASA itself, and 9 years later it happened. Given the advances in technology and the amount of economic growth in the half century since, it could be accomplished in much less time and be significantly cheaper in terms of % of national GDP were they to seriously try again. The only thing really missing is the political will to do so.
The tower of Babel
"Fingers crossed that this one can snoop Norks"
Shirley there must be cheaper and more effective ways to cop an eyeful of bulgarian airbags than launching a satellite.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=norks
for marksmen?
those dummies are wearing hoodies and in one case a baseball cap. I'd suggest thats more like a realistic training scenario for mall cops or maybe the London Met than the Marines
If the verdict is that using gps trackers without a warrant is ok, would that mean that anyone can stick a tracker on a vehicle without breaking a law?
""And you can be assured that OEM's and Enterprises will pay for Windows 8 regardless of its interface"
Seem to recall that didn't happen when Vista came along as the Corporate world didn't see any benefit from moving away from Xp."
The corporate world may not have moved to Vista for the most part (my employer is only now considering the move from XP to 7), but that doesn't mean they didn't pay for it. every time a new HP or Dell pc was deployed with a Vindows Vista licensce key stuck on it the business paid the OEM who then paid Microsoft for that license. Even if the business then downgraded to XP.
I like titles
"I'll (generally) tolerate any old crap Microsoft wants to put into Windows if I can avoid it or ignore it,..."
Having looked at the developer preview it is possible to hide the metro interface altogether leaving you with just the changes to the windows 7 desktop interface to deal with. I suspect this will happen in almost every enterprise/business deployment of Windows 8 in the world.
"It seems Microsoft's response is "tough shit" and that it's me who's wrong not them, and would rather spend time telling me that than addressing my concerns. Fine; I won't upgrade then. Another lost sale and it's not even launched yet."
Microsoft isn't saying "tough shit", truth is they're completely indifferent to your disgust. They're also indifferent to your threat's to not pay for it. As far as Microsoft is concerned people don't pay for Windows. OEM's pay for windows, Enterprises pay for windows, but the number of people who pay for Windows is so close to zero for them as to be indistinguishable. And you can be assured that OEM's and Enterprises will pay for Windows 8 regardless of its interface.
Microsoft have an idealogical goal with windows 8 and that is to create an OS that can be as comfortable on a tablet as it is on a PC. And getting onto tablets will be worth much more to them than any loss of tech elitists they incur on the PC.
"If I tried to count the number of times I've run out of iPhone battery on my fingers, well, I'd fail to do so, as the current count is zero"
Count one on you fingers...okay got that? All right then, now retract that one finger you currently have extended so that you have no fingers extended. There you go, you just counted zero on your fingers. Not as difficult as you seem to think hey?
Who's suing who wall chart:
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20101007/22591311328/meet-the-patent-thicket-who-s-suing-who-for-smartphone-patents.shtml
It's what you needed.
*Asterisk* bracketing
Why so mach asterisk bracketing sir? and are you being sarcastic or emphatic? because either way that much sarcasm or emphasis on random words derails the little voice in my head that I read with.
Whats in a name?
I can't help but think Teradata as a name is is going to seem a bit dated in 10 years or so.
Make that 375,001
Im about to jumpship from vodafail to telstra this afternoon. I live about 10 k out of Hobart CBD and after being suckered in by the cheap plans (in comparioson to telstra at the time) I have been itching to leave for the past year given the frequency of dropped calls on my mobile whilst at home.
Its a little to late to be "fixing" a network now that has been obviously not up to the task at hand for the last 2 years for me to stick by them. Besides given where I am I suspect that any improvement to the network either wont make it here or will be amonst the last places to be improved.
mostly wrong but
The Taliban only banned the growing of opium in 2000* but for the 7 years of their rule prior to that it was fine, their reason being that opium wasconsumed by westerners. Hashish production was banned from the time they came into power bcause it was consumed locally. The taliban "frown upon the production of opium" because the Koran forbids the use of intoxicants, but they have no concerns growing to supply to the infidels.
* there is some suggestion that this was not out of religious zeal but to change the supply/demand equation in favour of higher prices.
John Wayne's not dead.
He's frozen and as soon as we find a cure for cancer we're gonna thaw out the Duke, and he's gonna be pretty pissed off.
Funny that.
see my previous post @6:26 gmt.. The article went offline shortly after i posted a comment on it summarising this article.
Me thinks Business Spectator is less than unbiased on this subject if they allowed the article to be pulled when it bacame apparent it might be wrong.
Did I do that?
I posted to the comments of Malcolm's article a summary of your analysis Richard including links to the LG U+ and SK Broadband subscriber data and a link to your article, and shortly afterwards Malcolm's article disappeared, and has remained unavailable for 4 hours now.
Claiming non humans as a carbon offset.
My wife and I have decided to have only one child. I like to tell people its to minimise our carbon footprint for the horrified looks i get.
Hmm, maybe condom manufactures and other producers of contraception should be talking to the government about carbon credits.
pilfersrips off student's rejected iPhone appI'm trying...
really hard to be shocked, or appaled. Even the slightest bit surprised would do. Instead i just get a creeping sense of resignation.
The fact that they were so blatant about it goes to show they know we know and they just don't give a flying...
Audience?
"The claims of so-called Chinese state support for hacking are completely fictitious and have ulterior motives"
Seriously, who do they think this statement is for? Surely they know that the only people who matter won't believe this. Even if it is true it shouldn't be, its expected that China is doing this kind of thing so if they're not they may as well since they're going to be accused of it anyway.
As a side note I quite respect the chinese form of communism, I can't imagine any other form of government that could have elevated so many so quickly from subsistance poverty to middleclass.
Unsurprising
"From 2014 to 2015, the amount of traffic will exceed all of the traffic generated in 2010"
Maybe I'm reading this wrong but I am unsurprised that there is forecast to be more annual traffic 4 years from now than there was a year ago. Is this meant to say something like prior to 2010 perhaps?
Not as lucky as you might think.
Since 2000 the Australian federal government has offered a $7000 payment to first home buyers, and a various times there has been an additional $7000-14000 if you build your first home rather than buying an existing home.
This is not the only reason but certainly is a significant factor why housing prices in Australia have more than doubled in the decade since and our housing affordability has been on a continuous delcine to the point where we are now one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the developed economies.
To make matters worse Australia's economy escaped the global financial crisis relatively unscathed and so while housing prices in other major markets notably the US and UK corrected themselves and declined considerably ours barely dipped at all and then contined to rise sharply in the two years since.
In the late 1980's Australia experianced a recession famously referred to by our prime-minister of the time as "the recession we had to have". During that recession home loan interest rates in Australia reached 20% but an average mortgage required less than 30% of houshold income to service. Now home loan rates are at 7.5% but the average mortgage requires 35% of household income to service.
Theres a reckoning coming in the Australian housing market and until it arrives I will be happily renting a property I could never hope to buy, first home buyers grant or not.
See http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf for more detail on relative housing affordaibility.
NSFMP*
before the denoument my best guesses were:
Not Safe For Minute Particles
Not Safe For Mary Poppins
Not Safe For My Pants
Not Safe For Most People
Its not going to be viral anymore.
Vodafone may not have requeted the video be taken down, but it seems that TV Live on Stage has.
The meaning of tolerance
Tolerate
synonyms: abide, bear, endure,humor, put up with, take, suffer.
Religious tolerance does not require that I respect anything just that I put up with it.
Because I am pragmatic I will tolerate beleif in sky fairies just as I will tolerate beleif in garden fairies, and underpants gnomes. I will not respect you for holding that beleif, and I will disrespect you if seek to press your belief onto children who do not have the mental maturity and life experiance to take an informed postion on the existance of underpants gnomes.
Not the poster in question
I havn't been able to find an image of the offending poster but this very mildly NSFW link has an example of Sex Party political advertising material
http://www.2dayfm.com.au/entertainment/the_dirt/blog/sex-party-poster/20100719-98by.html
@ZimboKraut
"But that is not what it's about!!! It is a place of worship, so whether it is a mosque, a church, a synagogue or a hindu temple. These are places that are holy to many people and that should be respected!!!"
If the priest or whoever else was responsible for the decision wanted the premises in question respected as a place of religious worship then they should not have taken the money to whore it out as a polling place. Once they did that they were obliged to allow any material that was allowed under the electoral act of NSW inspite of any moral, political or religious views they may hold.
You might think its okay...
“10% of youth think it’s okay to send text messages while having sex.”
but there is a 90% chance the person your having sex with doesn't making this a bad idea if you want to keep having sex.
Also I'd suggest that if you have the abilility and/or the desire to text during sex then you are doing it wrong anyway.
WTF is with South Australian AG's
The last one Michael Atkinson basically said over my dead body to R18 game classifications.
And the new one:
"South Australian Attorney-General John Rau has also flagged support for an R18+ rating on the condition the current MA15 classification is abolished."
I assume he wants to see all current and future MA15 games be boosted to R18.
What do they put in the water over there that makes them think games must be treated differently to television or feature films.
@AC: Uranium doesn't magic itself out of the ground
Given that almsot 40% of the worlds uranium comes from Canada, Australia, and the USA your assertion that uranium mining "predominantly occurs in astoundingly corrupt dictatorships that don't give a flying fuck about the safety of their workforce" is borderline.
But more importantly worldwide production of uranium last year was approximately 50,000 tons almost exclusively for power generation, compared to 5,990,000,000 tons of coal in excess of 5 billion of which is for eclectricity generation. Coal produces 45% of the worlds electricity and nuclear produces 20%. Some simple maths on these figures shows that 1 ton of uranium produces about the same amount of electricity as about 45000 tons of coal.
The upshot of this is that mining uranium would have to be 5 orders of magnitude more dangerous than mining coal per ton for the production of fuel to be of an issue in terms of the overall saftey the nuclear power life-cycle compared to the production of fuel in the coal power life-cycle.
Im not sure why but out of all the bullshit statements in these comments your was the one I felt compelled to debunk.
Beer? because it is St Patricks day and I'm about to go to lunch :)
age and experiance.
Insurers for vehicle insurance at least treat age and how long youve held a drivers license (experience) seperately already.
"But age is not just a number; it represents how much experience you have."
"Conversely, a 60-year-old who only learned to drive last week should probably have the same premium as a 20-year-old who did the same"
you appear to contradict yourself saying age represents experience, and then saying age may not reflect any experience.
An insurer will look at the age of a driver and decide how likely they are to engage in risky behaviour, in this case someone who is 60 is much less likely to take risks than a 20 year old. They will then look at experience and factor that in to premium calculations as a seperate variable to age. In this respect they are and should be looking at age and discriminating on that basis. It is fact that drivers of a certain age are less likely to be involved in accidents than drivers from another age demographic all other things being equal.
Insurers can and should disciminate by varying premiums on this basis.
you could apply that thinking to any variable
I could, for instance, be a male with straight A* at school and college and with a 1st class honours degree and hence be much more responsible than one of the local Bogans. We may both share an interest in higly modified cars, under the currently commonly accepted status quo I would be penalised simply for having a modified car because he will not be responsible with his.
This is the way the insurance system works and so it should. having a modified vehicle does not prove that I am a better or worse driver than anyone else but staticially there is a connection between modified vehicle and higher accident rates. Being a male does not prove that I am a bad driver but statistically, assuming all other factors are the same, I am more likely to have an accident than a female.
The end extension of your logic is that they (insurance companies) should not penalise me for the poor behaviour of others. Even if I am 19 year old male on a provisional license driving a highly modified needlessly powerful japnese import. Because I might just be the exception to the rule.
"The fundamental problem is that being male doesn't inherently mean you'll be a worse driver"
I absolutely agree that being male does not inherently make you a worse driver. But it does inherently make you more likely to take risks than a female paticulalry if you are a young male. this in turn makes you more likley to be involved in an accident.
Where ever there is a clear statistical variation based on a variable whose value can be easily and clearly measured for all policy holders then the insurance companies should be adjusting premiums to reflect that. Regardless of whether that variable be gender, age, vehicle modification, claim history, garaging, primary purpose. It is a fact that males are more likely to have an accident than females, whatever the reason. It is not discrimination to adjust premiums to reflect this.
Welcome to the antipodes
I have certainly apprciated greater coverage of topics local to me, and look forward to continuing Reg coverage of A/NZ subjects.
There are no new ideas.
http://www.papasangre.com/
No video only sound effects. I havn't played it but the concept is very cool.
Australia is popular this year.
Am I the only person who has noticed the number of australian articles on the Reg has been quite high recently?
By many you mean...
out of the 6 or maybe 7 of them including mexico, colombia, brazil, and thailand.
Actually many of the countries with higher gun-related deaths than the US have high levels of drug production coupled with high levels of corruption and law and order systems incapable of dealing with the problem. Just an interesting observation...
Against comparable countries ie. wealthy educated western democracies the US is streaks ahead in the number of people who die from gunshot wounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
Why a dragon?
Could have been a pic of a panda, the great wallof china , terracotta soldiers, or tanks in tienamen square to ensure we understood you meant that china and not some other china.
Is it just because dragons are cool?
Can this pictorial method of identifying the country in an article be extended. For instance can we have a picture of Steve Irwin with a kangaroo in the middle of all future articles about Australia's NBN, a random fat person with a gun every time the USA is mentioned, and maybe the queen whenever Ol'Blighty makes the news?
mathematics pedantry
"...total notebook HDD capacity of 95EB (exabytes) shipped in 2011 with 69EB in 2010."
"This left a pathetic 0.77EB (770PB) for notebooks, which would have allowed around ten per cent of notebook HDD storage to be replaced by SSDs last year."
"...boost in NAND fab capacity this year, maybe enabling 2EB to be used for notebooks
Its even better than this for the spinning metal mob as .77 is in fact slightly more than 1% of 69 not "around ten per cent".
Working with the 2011 estimates NAND production will still only be able to supply about 2% of the forecast 95EB. Still the writing is on the wall for rotating disks in the laptop/notebook/netbook market maybe 5 years before its all flash.
I cannot force this sentence to make sense!
"Also, as of 2012, the 125cc class will move to 250cc engines,..."
Surely if the 125cc class changes their engines to anything other than 125cc's they will cease to be the 125cc class.
And if they do change to 250cc's how will the 125cc class differ from the existing 250cc class?
Greatest computer game antagonist of all time
Come on! How can you reference what SHODAN stands for without referencing System Shock as the source.
System shock is still one of my favourite games of all time and was years ahead of its comtemporary FPS games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN
Its much much stranger.
Have you ever invited a mormon into your home and let them talk at length about their religion. I have and those people are completely loopy.
Its also quite a bit stranger than poeple whose posts have no discernable connection to what their replying to
Not quite as bad as it seems
On relaying the bootnote of this story my wife who works in the federal public service pointed out that we are in the middle of a federal election here in Australia and while the government is in caretaker mode public servants are restricted from doing things that may unduly influence the outcome of the election. Since the proposal is still in the investigatory phase and is not an actual policy of the government the FOI officer has at this time decided that release of the details would unduly influnce the election. If there were no election then most likely the FOI officer would not have censored the documents as much if at all.
A more detailed article on the censored documents can be found here:
http://tribes.tribe.net/politicaljunkies/thread/8c82ca0e-0d90-46b4-95d5-93b9984a8d0d
Having said that I find it very worrying that they are even investigating if this is possible. It says to me that there is some desire on the part of government here in Aus to have this. If they didn't want it they wouldn't be investigating.
The current government has me conflicted with regard to their internet policies, on the one hand they've set up the National Broadband Company and are rolling out a 100Mbit Fiber to the Home network costing 47 Billion over 8 years. So they get a big tick for correcting the failure of the major telco's to invest in this kind of infrastructure meaning that the best net connection available to me is ADSL2+ running at about 3 Mbit and I live on the outskirts of a state capital.
But on the other hand we have Conroy's idiotic internet filtering policy (recently shelved, but i suspect only to make it a non issue during the current election), and now an investigation into making ISPs keep internet activity histories of its users which if followed through seems entirely sinister. So its epic fail there.
Still I'm going to have to vote for them as the lesser of two evils. The opposition (Liberal Party, though the name is a misnomer as they are actually conservative in the ideologies)have indicated their support for ISP filtering and likely would relish having internet histories for everyone, but they have said they would terminate the national broadband network if elected. So if they get in my internet would end up filtered logged and still be crap as well :(
Are all Finnish signs so unintuitive?
I will take you at your word that Sallitu Mopoille = Permitted for mopeds, but if it does then that sign is almost non-sensical given the picture is of a man holding a childs hand.
Bravo Intractable!
Since YOU want to be technical Terry H. In technical terms acceleration is a vector value i.e. it has both magnitude and direction, and so as intractable says deceleration is just acceleration in the opposite direction. Even the wikipedia article on deceleration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceleration) simply redirects you to the article on acceleration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration). It is only when people are NOT being technical that they will use the term deceleration in reference to a reduction in speed.
If you're going to get all pedantic on someone you really, REALLY need to get it right.
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