Eh, Cheif, we's gots oiselfs a racket gurn darn arn 52nd an' Jefferson, waddaya says we's getts oir Tommy-guns an go teach thems hoods da meenin arf DA LAAAAW?
What exactly was the 'racket'? Selling hokey nickeldeons? Bootlegging whiskey over county borders? HORSE RUSTLIN'?
Re: @JetSetJim, was Before anyone says "here comes big brother"...
"You'll also be guaranteed to have 1/2 a mile of traffic behind you within minutes, and a [insert favourite rep car of the year here] reporting 68mph 12 inches from your boot."
And, they can just sit there for all I care. I drive in the left lane, so what is their problem?
Fun with people like that:
- tap the brakes occasionally, you win 10 pts per wheel they lock up.
- very gradually slow down, you get 100 pts if they have a heart attack or brain hemorrhage.
As long as we get CHEAPER premiums for being good drivers!
I've never had a speeding ticket, infringement notice, been the cause of an accident (some fool ran into me though), I've never even had a parking ticket! I've been driving for 25 years.
I have simply never had the need to speed - I passed physics at high school so I understand the laws of momentum.
Soto voce: "Don't forget to send a case of beer to the Air Force for letting us use the laser in the payload bay of the X-37, sorry it took a few days to get it lined up"
If you (as someone quite unauthorized) muck about with you phone in such a way, then it catches fire and causes injury to someone else... you would be liable, wouldn't you?
"Hey dude, you gonna do a hang-check or what?" - Is it professional negligence to NOT speak out on safety issues, even ones that aren't yours? It IS in the building industry in Australia...
Our Glorious Leaders are completely in favor of the kind of censorship China uses - just look at Senator Luddite Conroy, with his expertise in the field of internet communications.
Our government would LOVE to have the kind of surveillance control China has - lets face it so would the UK & US governments, not to mention a few media outlets *cough* MURDOCH *cough*.
Electronic Logistic Computer Helping to Enhance Aerodynamic Position Options in Combat with Live User Selected Target Evasion, Return Fire and Unpredictable jinKing.
No more unlikely than any other acronym I've seen.
"This is a dangerous, unprecedented design error."
The OBOGS is the design error. Apart from a stupid acronym (Would you fly in an aircraft, no matter how good, if the avionics suite was designated EL-CHEAPO-CLUSTERFUK?) it's clear that whatever chemical-based tech they are using (some nasty peroxides most likely) doesn't like either high altitude operation, negative Gs, positive Gs, vibration, heat, cold or all of the above. Or was built by the cheapest bidder, and is overly complex and difficult to maintain, is poorly cooled so it overheats, has pipes and ducting made out of incompatible materials which corrode etc. etc. etc. all the REALLY BASIC STUFF engineers are meant to take into account for a mission-critical item.
If and when the details of the faults in the OBOGS are revealed, they will of course be obvious, simple and likely down to the kind of faults RR have in their A380 engines (bad bearings in that case - probably an $800 part out of an $8x10^6 engine)
When it comes down to it, the whole bloody F22 is a design error - it only won the competition due to pork-barreling.
If there ever was a use for 'No shit, sherlock' this is it.
What Australia lagging in uptake of cloud-based services? Who woulda thunk it?
Maybe the lack of decent broadband connections? Perhaps? Maybe? Do ya think?
Well, at least we won't have to worry about it once the Liberals get in - we'll be back to the good old bush telegraph just like maw and paw had back on the sheep station!
Austfailia - what's that smell? You're standing in it!
Who? You may ask... remember JenniCAM? 1996? She really was a pioneer for what is now commonplace on the Internet, whether you think such a thing is 'dirty' or not.
How about Gene Ray, aka Otis E. Ray aka TIMECUBE.COM - peddling woo-woo-crackpot-hokum since 1997, and to this day hasn't worked out his blather is not only hilarious but unreadable. Quote" Belly-Button Is Signature" - I can't make it 30pt text though.
How about Paris Hilton? As a major topic on the Internet, surely she deserves... exposure!
He probably didn't have a lazy half-million quid lying around, did he? It was the EARLY eighties - CAD still required big, hilariously expensive workstations.
You are thinking like a 220-yr-old Colonial; a platypus is NOT a 'primitive' animal.
Just because it looks like a duck bill is simply evidence of co-vergent evolution, although I have yet to meet a duck with an electromagnetic-field-detecting bill (Platypuses can sense *really* small EM fields with their bill).
Also, no ducks I know of have venomous claws; platypuses do. (Male ones, at least)
Also, platypuses are quite successful creatures - visible in the wild, even within Sydney if you know where and when to look.
It might make DNA processors easier to build - they are very fast parallel processors.
Also, we could become a hyper-evolving species like the Haggunenon (based on triple-striated octo-helical DNA) thus making it much easier to reach the sugar across the table.
"but not happy to say, "God did it but we don't know how."
No; because saying 'God did it' at any point is proof-by-faith, which is an invalid proof.
"where did RNA come from?" - being unable to provide an answer is NOT proof-of-god.
If you look at things from a scientific perspective it is very hard to actually 'prove' the existence of god-as-creator-of-all.
Exercise for the reader - propose an experiment that proves the existence of god. Take all the time you need.
The whole proof-denies-faith discussion is a circular argument anyway - saying your faith proves there is a god denies god. Please be careful crossing the road!
" If these are required for DNA replication we've got a serious chicken and egg situation going on." - no, you just don't understand molecular biology. That's OK though, that's why it's still being researched. There are a whole bunch of entirely plausible pathways to what we call life; research continues. We will probably never know for certain which pathway led to our life - but not knowing exactly how or when is NOT a reason to throw our hands in the air and say 'It must have been Big Electric Sky-Daddy-Shepherd-Tooth-Fairy'
Why not just encode a z-channel into normal photos?
I bet most decent modern DSLRs with multi-focus sensors could do this, I am sure it could be rigged up with an IR laser too.
The film & special effects industry has been doing this for 20 years or so by encoding the z-channel (image depth) into images. The pictures are rendered with an aperture of infinity (hey, because you can!) which makes everything crystal clear, then you choose what you want your depth of field to be, and where, Gaussian-blur filter by z-channel mask and presto!
Same effect, easier, quicker, all the advantages of DSLR or even PAS cameras, standard image format (TIF) and images only 25% larger (4 channels instead of 3).
I wouldn't worry too much - look how long Duke Nukem was vapourware, and look at the resulting product. Just because it has been in development a long time doesn't mean it's good.
Narrow depth of field images have very limited uses - mostly arty effects in film and art photos, and food blog photos by hipsters.
For the rest of us, we prefer images actually in focus - I can't think of too many times I've actually WANTED to have to sit down and focus my pictures, badly, after the event.
I can imagine doing that to the alleged 750 pics on the camera would result in an afternoon of spectacular tedium. Coupled with only even being able to view them with the special software it looks like too much trouble.
I can see how media-arts-and-food-blog hipsters who find aperture settings hard to remember will love it.
Maybe they realized it was a bit 'Meh' and they only way they would get their investment money back was by marketing it to people with more money than sense.
Which of the two buttons changes mode then? Or will it work on a 'you have to triple-click the shutter to take a photo in creative mode' basis, like the god-awful button interfaces that Apple demand?
"says a certain amount about their mentaility and business sense"
Actually they have quite good business sense. Make a mediocre product, tart it up in fancy packaging, lock users in to your service, market to a demographic renowned for massive amounts of cash and very little sense = PROFIT!
"wow, a GBP$400 camera! So cheap! Why not buy TWO? Shiny colours, square design, super minimal buttons, no apparent use except to wealthy hipsters doing media or arts degrees, can only view pics on special website; surely these guys thought to pitch it to Apple."
Then I read on page 3 - "At the moment there is only a Mac version available"
Data write (storing charge) and data erase (removing charge)
So... this RAM can only store 1's?
Does that mean it can only store data that uses "zero-compression"? - you know, the compression where they fit a movie onto a 5.25" floppy disk by removing all the 'useless' data - the 0's.
Yes, thats my jacket with the highly illegal terrorist weapon (green laser pointer) in the pocket. Back off man, I'm an architect.
Ask for your money back - it's NOT Kevlar(tm) it's boring old ordinary carbon fibre.
Kevlar fibres are a pale goldy-yellow, and as a matted laminate are most often a bronzy-brown colour. There is a reason why Kevlar sails on yachts look copper-brown - that's what colour kevlar is.
"in part, on inadequacies in Australia's Copyright Act that may need to be dealt with by Australia's Parliament."
What, you mean like the inadequacies that exist in our other laws, such as 'You can't hold a car manufacturer responsible if their car is used in a hold-up" or "You can't even hold a GUN manufacturer responsible if someone shoots someone" - they aren't laws, but basic principles of common law.
I can't see how a company can claim 'piracy' anyway - it implies loss of income; if they aren't even selling this to Australians how the hell can they claim loss of income?
The High Court made the right decision, NOT due to inadequacies (in whose view? Hollywood's?) in our law, but in spite of them! Our High Court is actually well known for mostly getting things RIGHT, likely because it is a 6-person panel, not a single judge.
Living as I do in Austfailia, we have the pretty steep 'it has to be imported by row-boat, can't get the wood you know, more than me job's worth mate' tax so there isn't a lot of difference in price between velociraptor and SSD - both are pure unaffordium.
Re: I imagine... all the people, living with Linux....
.. except you'll all be LIVING IN CAVES!
"then discover that pretty much every bit of software they could want [apart from the latest games] is available from the Repositories, "
Name one decent CAD package available in any Linux repository. Name ONE. Come one, I'm waiting...
So while everyone crows about how great Linux is, no-one will be able to actually design anything physical. No cars, planes, new CPUs, computers, laptops, coffee machines, pubs, houses - NOTHING, we will be back to the grande olde dayes of pen-and-paper drafting.
2 Enter sudo apt-get install windows7-session-fallback
3. Warning, removing windows8_start_screen will break dependencies in explorer, internet explorer, cmd, wmp, xcom, activex, driectx, iss, networking, csrss, dwm, winlogin do you want to proceed y/n?
A shame, because Win 8 runs better than 7, snappy, boots fast, just has the UI From Hell, that makes Ubuntu's interface look sane - something I thought was impossible. Bloody hell even iOS would be better.
Also - x86 (32 and 64 versions) - I though x86 IS 32bit (confusingly illogical) and x64 IS 64bit (confusingly logical).
Oh great. This is game over, man, this is fucking game over.
Its pretty certain the Liberal 'tards are going to waltz in the next fed election, and it's pretty plain to see they will just rip the NBN to shreds with the same thinking that gave Australia freeways with only two lanes, no high-speed rail and CSIRO research into sheep dip and rainmaking rather than satellite and digital computer technology.
Yes, every time it rains the internet drops out to most homes because of crappy old copper- such as today in the Sydney CBD - our alleged Telstra ADSL2 connection is down to 128kbps with the rain - while our latest software upgrades were made available by Autodesk today - it's only a 14GB download, at 128kbps can we skip this year's upgrade and just start downloading NEXT YEARS one? Thanks Telstra, thanks Austfailian government, hey Mr Turnbull you animated turd, we can't keep up with modern software because our ISP is too fucking slow! We would choose another, but oh! thats right! Telstra have a monopoly on the infrastructure!
Without fibre to homes and businesses Austfailia will be left behind as the rest of the world embraces cloud-based software and proper connection speeds.
Bloody hell I hope that oxygen thief Turnbull drowns in his money-bath tonight.
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Marketing fail.
Hipsters don't usually have an idle $50,000 sitting around.
Racketeering? What is this, 1920?
Eh, Cheif, we's gots oiselfs a racket gurn darn arn 52nd an' Jefferson, waddaya says we's getts oir Tommy-guns an go teach thems hoods da meenin arf DA LAAAAW?
What exactly was the 'racket'? Selling hokey nickeldeons? Bootlegging whiskey over county borders? HORSE RUSTLIN'?
Count me in.
Said the Bishop to the Actress...
Over to you, Sherlock
Hmmm, couldn't see that one coming!
Re: @JetSetJim, was Before anyone says "here comes big brother"...
"You'll also be guaranteed to have 1/2 a mile of traffic behind you within minutes, and a [insert favourite rep car of the year here] reporting 68mph 12 inches from your boot."
And, they can just sit there for all I care. I drive in the left lane, so what is their problem?
Fun with people like that:
- tap the brakes occasionally, you win 10 pts per wheel they lock up.
- very gradually slow down, you get 100 pts if they have a heart attack or brain hemorrhage.
As long as we get CHEAPER premiums for being good drivers!
I've never had a speeding ticket, infringement notice, been the cause of an accident (some fool ran into me though), I've never even had a parking ticket! I've been driving for 25 years.
I have simply never had the need to speed - I passed physics at high school so I understand the laws of momentum.
Re: Call me cynical
What are the chances?
"Oh deary me, looks like your rocket blew up"
Soto voce: "Don't forget to send a case of beer to the Air Force for letting us use the laser in the payload bay of the X-37, sorry it took a few days to get it lined up"
I don't want to jinx them, but...
Things have a nasty habit of going BANG around 18-19 May.
Mines with one with 'I climbed Mt. St. Helens and all I got was this nasty gravel rash, and a set of obsidian wind-chimes' on the back.
Ok, who pays for damage then?
If you (as someone quite unauthorized) muck about with you phone in such a way, then it catches fire and causes injury to someone else... you would be liable, wouldn't you?
Has no-one here...
...heard of gloves?
...heard of distilled water (for the washing of things)?
...got cats / dogs / llamas / children that need cleaning up after?
It's not like the police have to lick the card clean, you know!
Re: What a fool
"Hey dude, you gonna do a hang-check or what?" - Is it professional negligence to NOT speak out on safety issues, even ones that aren't yours? It IS in the building industry in Australia...
Need a lawyer icon for that...
Re: Amen, Gavin!
HEY! Since when can we do italics?
Re: bring back outlook express
Outlurk Explode? ARE YOU INSANE, SIR?
The biggest virus infection vector that ever existed? It was abysmal!
With any luck the source code was buried upside down in a lead coffin sealed inside the Chernobyl Sarcophagus, or launched on rocket into the sun.
Austfailia the best place for it!
Our Glorious Leaders are completely in favor of the kind of censorship China uses - just look at Senator Luddite Conroy, with his expertise in the field of internet communications.
Our government would LOVE to have the kind of surveillance control China has - lets face it so would the UK & US governments, not to mention a few media outlets *cough* MURDOCH *cough*.
Think about it...
Yes.
Re: Solution
Well clearly a candle would be dangerously stupid in fighter cockpit.
I suggest using a canary instead.
Ok, you don't have to shove, I'm leaving!
Re: F-22 and Annoxia / Hypoxia
EL-CHEAPO-CLUSTERFUK
Electronic Logistic Computer Helping to Enhance Aerodynamic Position Options in Combat with Live User Selected Target Evasion, Return Fire and Unpredictable jinKing.
No more unlikely than any other acronym I've seen.
Re: F-22 and Annoxia / Hypoxia
"This is a dangerous, unprecedented design error."
The OBOGS is the design error. Apart from a stupid acronym (Would you fly in an aircraft, no matter how good, if the avionics suite was designated EL-CHEAPO-CLUSTERFUK?) it's clear that whatever chemical-based tech they are using (some nasty peroxides most likely) doesn't like either high altitude operation, negative Gs, positive Gs, vibration, heat, cold or all of the above. Or was built by the cheapest bidder, and is overly complex and difficult to maintain, is poorly cooled so it overheats, has pipes and ducting made out of incompatible materials which corrode etc. etc. etc. all the REALLY BASIC STUFF engineers are meant to take into account for a mission-critical item.
If and when the details of the faults in the OBOGS are revealed, they will of course be obvious, simple and likely down to the kind of faults RR have in their A380 engines (bad bearings in that case - probably an $800 part out of an $8x10^6 engine)
When it comes down to it, the whole bloody F22 is a design error - it only won the competition due to pork-barreling.
Would the F23 have had the same problems?
Just asking....
Marketing by Arnold J. RIMmer perhaps?
There are three kinds of people who use RIM phones in Austfailia:
1. corporate types who are forced to - it is the only thing on offer by their firms. Suckers.
2. Hipsters. iPhones are too mainstream; "Yeah, like, I've been using my RIM like since like way before the like iphone, like."
3. Nobody else.
4. Bloggers who are paid to make idiots of themselves outside Apple stores. (see 2. above)
Ok, so that's four.
If there ever was a use for 'No shit, sherlock' this is it.
What Australia lagging in uptake of cloud-based services? Who woulda thunk it?
Maybe the lack of decent broadband connections? Perhaps? Maybe? Do ya think?
Well, at least we won't have to worry about it once the Liberals get in - we'll be back to the good old bush telegraph just like maw and paw had back on the sheep station!
Austfailia - what's that smell? You're standing in it!
Re: Don't worry, it sucks the same way for Windows or even Google Apps users...
"customer service"
You get what you pay for!
So if you're on a Mac...
why not just use iDrive? Isn't that a perfect solution from the perfect company?
Oh, oh dear, oh dear will you look at that... Apple completely screwed everyone who paid for it. Again.
Boring list - mostly men, mostly academia.
What about Jennifer Ringley?
Who? You may ask... remember JenniCAM? 1996? She really was a pioneer for what is now commonplace on the Internet, whether you think such a thing is 'dirty' or not.
How about Gene Ray, aka Otis E. Ray aka TIMECUBE.COM - peddling woo-woo-crackpot-hokum since 1997, and to this day hasn't worked out his blather is not only hilarious but unreadable. Quote" Belly-Button Is Signature" - I can't make it 30pt text though.
How about Paris Hilton? As a major topic on the Internet, surely she deserves... exposure!
Re: They appear to have fixed it
He probably didn't have a lazy half-million quid lying around, did he? It was the EARLY eighties - CAD still required big, hilariously expensive workstations.
Anyway, whats wrong with pencil-and-paper?
1980's design - still fresh, still original, still the best.
I never owned one, but I coveted the Sinclair Spectrums for their awesome design aesthetic.
They are such pretty little things! They design still looks futuristic today, and makes Apple look quite conservative and pedestrian by comparison.
Sinclair's own logo? - Classic. Utterly devoid of whale-music. Copied by ad nauseum by the demo scene it was so good.
Happy birthday Speccies!
Re: Evolution?
*sigh*
You are thinking like a 220-yr-old Colonial; a platypus is NOT a 'primitive' animal.
Just because it looks like a duck bill is simply evidence of co-vergent evolution, although I have yet to meet a duck with an electromagnetic-field-detecting bill (Platypuses can sense *really* small EM fields with their bill).
Also, no ducks I know of have venomous claws; platypuses do. (Male ones, at least)
Also, platypuses are quite successful creatures - visible in the wild, even within Sydney if you know where and when to look.
Also, Vista actually worked pretty well.
So; your point, sir?
Re: What I want to know...
It might make DNA processors easier to build - they are very fast parallel processors.
Also, we could become a hyper-evolving species like the Haggunenon (based on triple-striated octo-helical DNA) thus making it much easier to reach the sugar across the table.
Re: worry
Please step away from the Television; t is starting to damage your mind.
If you want something to be scared about that is a much real bigger threat to you - check out the Americium in your smoke detectors.
Ah, thats it, you prooved it. I'm a Christian now and forever, thank you for saving me.
Just one question, one simple little question, I'm sure you can answer this; people like you have answers for everything:
WHAT THE FUCK WAS 'MAN' STANDING ON AT THE TIME HE ASKED THE QUESTION?
Re: Evolution?
"but not happy to say, "God did it but we don't know how."
No; because saying 'God did it' at any point is proof-by-faith, which is an invalid proof.
"where did RNA come from?" - being unable to provide an answer is NOT proof-of-god.
If you look at things from a scientific perspective it is very hard to actually 'prove' the existence of god-as-creator-of-all.
Exercise for the reader - propose an experiment that proves the existence of god. Take all the time you need.
The whole proof-denies-faith discussion is a circular argument anyway - saying your faith proves there is a god denies god. Please be careful crossing the road!
" If these are required for DNA replication we've got a serious chicken and egg situation going on." - no, you just don't understand molecular biology. That's OK though, that's why it's still being researched. There are a whole bunch of entirely plausible pathways to what we call life; research continues. We will probably never know for certain which pathway led to our life - but not knowing exactly how or when is NOT a reason to throw our hands in the air and say 'It must have been Big Electric Sky-Daddy-Shepherd-Tooth-Fairy'
A much better way of doing this...
Why not just encode a z-channel into normal photos?
I bet most decent modern DSLRs with multi-focus sensors could do this, I am sure it could be rigged up with an IR laser too.
The film & special effects industry has been doing this for 20 years or so by encoding the z-channel (image depth) into images. The pictures are rendered with an aperture of infinity (hey, because you can!) which makes everything crystal clear, then you choose what you want your depth of field to be, and where, Gaussian-blur filter by z-channel mask and presto!
Same effect, easier, quicker, all the advantages of DSLR or even PAS cameras, standard image format (TIF) and images only 25% larger (4 channels instead of 3).
Hmmm, maybe I should patent that.
Re: Unlikely ever to be more than a novelty.
I wouldn't worry too much - look how long Duke Nukem was vapourware, and look at the resulting product. Just because it has been in development a long time doesn't mean it's good.
Narrow depth of field images have very limited uses - mostly arty effects in film and art photos, and food blog photos by hipsters.
For the rest of us, we prefer images actually in focus - I can't think of too many times I've actually WANTED to have to sit down and focus my pictures, badly, after the event.
I can imagine doing that to the alleged 750 pics on the camera would result in an afternoon of spectacular tedium. Coupled with only even being able to view them with the special software it looks like too much trouble.
I can see how media-arts-and-food-blog hipsters who find aperture settings hard to remember will love it.
Re: Oh the irony...
Maybe they realized it was a bit 'Meh' and they only way they would get their investment money back was by marketing it to people with more money than sense.
Re: Depth of Field
Which of the two buttons changes mode then? Or will it work on a 'you have to triple-click the shutter to take a photo in creative mode' basis, like the god-awful button interfaces that Apple demand?
Re: Only Mac?
"says a certain amount about their mentaility and business sense"
Actually they have quite good business sense. Make a mediocre product, tart it up in fancy packaging, lock users in to your service, market to a demographic renowned for massive amounts of cash and very little sense = PROFIT!
As I was reading...
By about page 2 I was thinking:
"wow, a GBP$400 camera! So cheap! Why not buy TWO? Shiny colours, square design, super minimal buttons, no apparent use except to wealthy hipsters doing media or arts degrees, can only view pics on special website; surely these guys thought to pitch it to Apple."
Then I read on page 3 - "At the moment there is only a Mac version available"
Close enough.
Re: Crime scene photography
Someone's been watching too much CSI haven't they?
"Quick, we can solve this case by hitting the ENHANCE button! Look, the spin on those electrons PROVES it was that black guy that did it!"
No, I'm being stupid....
Data write (storing charge) and data erase (removing charge)
So... this RAM can only store 1's?
Does that mean it can only store data that uses "zero-compression"? - you know, the compression where they fit a movie onto a 5.25" floppy disk by removing all the 'useless' data - the 0's.
Yes, thats my jacket with the highly illegal terrorist weapon (green laser pointer) in the pocket. Back off man, I'm an architect.
You have that "kevlar" razr phone?
Ask for your money back - it's NOT Kevlar(tm) it's boring old ordinary carbon fibre.
Kevlar fibres are a pale goldy-yellow, and as a matted laminate are most often a bronzy-brown colour. There is a reason why Kevlar sails on yachts look copper-brown - that's what colour kevlar is.
Re: First line of article:
"in part, on inadequacies in Australia's Copyright Act that may need to be dealt with by Australia's Parliament."
What, you mean like the inadequacies that exist in our other laws, such as 'You can't hold a car manufacturer responsible if their car is used in a hold-up" or "You can't even hold a GUN manufacturer responsible if someone shoots someone" - they aren't laws, but basic principles of common law.
I can't see how a company can claim 'piracy' anyway - it implies loss of income; if they aren't even selling this to Australians how the hell can they claim loss of income?
The High Court made the right decision, NOT due to inadequacies (in whose view? Hollywood's?) in our law, but in spite of them! Our High Court is actually well known for mostly getting things RIGHT, likely because it is a 6-person panel, not a single judge.
“Just about every area of CSIRO is able to make use of the cluster,”
Department of Mining Surveying at Taxpayer's Expense for Large Wealthy Companies
Department of Sheepdip Engineering
Department of Rainmaking
Department of Remembering When We Launched Rockets
Department of Yet More Fiscal Jiggerypokery For Government Enquiries Into Fiscal Jiggerypokery
To be fair, the CSIRO do some wonderful work, but unfortunately they are largely directed by Earth's lowest form of life - Austfailian politicians.
Re: much ado about nothing
"And that's irrelevant how exactly?"
Sergy's name was misspelled. CASE DISMISSED!
It's usually grounds for dismissal of cases in Austfailia, anyway...
I hope the Docking Computers play 'Blue Danube'...
and I also hope it isn't being flown by Jebediah Kerbal!
As long as it is actually cheaper...
Living as I do in Austfailia, we have the pretty steep 'it has to be imported by row-boat, can't get the wood you know, more than me job's worth mate' tax so there isn't a lot of difference in price between velociraptor and SSD - both are pure unaffordium.
Re: I imagine... all the people, living with Linux....
.. except you'll all be LIVING IN CAVES!
"then discover that pretty much every bit of software they could want [apart from the latest games] is available from the Repositories, "
Name one decent CAD package available in any Linux repository. Name ONE. Come one, I'm waiting...
So while everyone crows about how great Linux is, no-one will be able to actually design anything physical. No cars, planes, new CPUs, computers, laptops, coffee machines, pubs, houses - NOTHING, we will be back to the grande olde dayes of pen-and-paper drafting.
Thanks Linux. EPIC EPIC EPIC FAIL.
Re: Why do I want Win 8?
I think you mean...
2 Enter sudo apt-get install windows7-session-fallback
3. Warning, removing windows8_start_screen will break dependencies in explorer, internet explorer, cmd, wmp, xcom, activex, driectx, iss, networking, csrss, dwm, winlogin do you want to proceed y/n?
hVault
Fine purveyors of:
Holographic Storage
Jetpacks
Flying Cars
Hangover Free Alcohol
Skyhooks
Over-Unity Generators
also co-developing Elite 4
Ability to turn Start Screen OFF?
I don't see that listed.
A shame, because Win 8 runs better than 7, snappy, boots fast, just has the UI From Hell, that makes Ubuntu's interface look sane - something I thought was impossible. Bloody hell even iOS would be better.
Also - x86 (32 and 64 versions) - I though x86 IS 32bit (confusingly illogical) and x64 IS 64bit (confusingly logical).
FTTN? FOR FUCKS SAKE, Austfailia....
Oh great. This is game over, man, this is fucking game over.
Its pretty certain the Liberal 'tards are going to waltz in the next fed election, and it's pretty plain to see they will just rip the NBN to shreds with the same thinking that gave Australia freeways with only two lanes, no high-speed rail and CSIRO research into sheep dip and rainmaking rather than satellite and digital computer technology.
Yes, every time it rains the internet drops out to most homes because of crappy old copper- such as today in the Sydney CBD - our alleged Telstra ADSL2 connection is down to 128kbps with the rain - while our latest software upgrades were made available by Autodesk today - it's only a 14GB download, at 128kbps can we skip this year's upgrade and just start downloading NEXT YEARS one? Thanks Telstra, thanks Austfailian government, hey Mr Turnbull you animated turd, we can't keep up with modern software because our ISP is too fucking slow! We would choose another, but oh! thats right! Telstra have a monopoly on the infrastructure!
Without fibre to homes and businesses Austfailia will be left behind as the rest of the world embraces cloud-based software and proper connection speeds.
Bloody hell I hope that oxygen thief Turnbull drowns in his money-bath tonight.
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