Posts by Neoc785 posts • joined Friday 13th June 2008 00:11 GMT
The one I eventually got (from Dick Smith of all places) automatically reconfigures itself to the SIM (same as most unlocked phones). And since my WiFi settings remain the same anyway...
Having shopped around for one of these last year, I found out that some of them (especially the ones sold by Telcos) are tied to a specific network. (e.g. if I's bought a Vodafone MiFy, I could put any SIM I wanted in there... so long as it was a Vodafone SIM).
It might be a good idea to differentiate between devices locked to a specific network and those who can be used anywhere.
(PS: I eventually bought one which would allow me to use *any* SIM anywhere is the world... except maybe for the USA and their damn GSM networks)
Windows 8 will have to sets of API: a documented one for non-MS developers and an undocumented set of MS developers. This will allow us to degrade the documented API's performances "at will" to make our products look better to the general public.
...but not quite yet where I'd like to see.
I have a few PCs at home, each with a different CPU, or memory configuration, or add-on cards, or number of HDDs. Ideally, I'd like an OS (or hypervisor system) that I can install on my network so that ALL of my PCs look like on enormous PC with shitload of CPUs, memory, add-on-cards and hard-drives. And then I could run a series of VMs on this "single" hardware. *That* would be nice.
About £13.20 to the Denarius (calculated in 2005 based on bread-buying power).
Based on the fact it was made from ~4.5g of silver, that's roughly £2.47 per Denarius assuming 99.9% silver purity (£2.29 if Sterling silver). I doubt they were *that* pure, however.
D'OH!
You are entirely right: CMXCIX it should be. Then again, I should probably have said XCIX instead anyway.
IM bottles of beer on the wall, IM bottles of beer
If one of those bottles should happen to fall,
IIM bottles of beer on the wall.
Looks like the kids get some sort of charge out of it.
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar. I could do with a pint or two.
Yellow Pages was doing alright - gave me back what I was looking for when doing searches. Then they introduced Sensis.
Now, unless you know exactly what it is you're looking for and type it in the correct order, forget it! I have since moved to using Google to find businesses locally.
Personally, I prefer to use Media Player Classic - Home Theatre (MPC-HT - *not* Microsoft's Media Player) with the CCCP codec pack.
It has played everything I've thrown at it, although I admit VLC is perfect as a stand-alone player on a USB stick.
Is the video file (a) created when the user requests it, (b) created automatically and *then* made available if the user requests it? If multiple people request the same file, are (a) multiple version created, or (b) only one version is shared between all users?
If Optus answers (b) for any of the above, then *Optus* is doing the copying and then distributing the copies.
GoCard seems to kinda work here in Brisbane. At least I can use Trains, Buses and Ferries with the one card. And the main stations have at least one over-sized gate per exit for people in wheelchairs or with large bags.
Well, it *was* a politico talking... so braincells were probably not required for the job, nor for responding to questions by the Media.
Didn't care about that - loaded the bluray into the drive, fired-up Slyfox AnyDVD and MakeMKV and let them do their thing for about an hour. Voila - 1080p MKV viewable anywhere, anywhen.
I *was*, however, making a comment on the calcification of the industry's thinking. ^_^
Yeah... right. Bought the recent TIntin movie (yes, *bought*) and on the cover it promised a "play anywhere" digital copy. "Really" thinkest I. Might save me having to rip the bluray disk.
So I read the instructions. Play anywhere? Yep. So long as you have iTunes on that "anywhere". And Windows Media Player.
a**holes.
In the distant past, I acquired a full-sized enclosed rack. A year ago I got tired of chasing down whatever DVD contained the movie I wanted to watch, I decided to build myself a rack-mount file-server. The wife agreed (she understands my need to do these crazy things) but only under the proviso I build the biggest one I could.
I live in Australia, so the ready-made products available down here are few and far between (or at least, they were back then - haven't looked lately) and I have to work against the usual price gauging when it comes to IT, but...
I eventually built myself a 4U i5 9x2TB RAID-5 1GbE file-server (plus one 250Mb HDD for the filesystem). By the time you take the 1024->1000 conversion factor and RAID-5 into account, it left me with a useable 14TB of drive-space. I also installed a TV capture card and MythTV back-end on it, but that was a bonus. Total price: about $2,200 (drives included) or roughly £1,400 at today's rates.
Still haven't found a decent rack-mounted drive-farm (with or without HDDs) for that price. But if you know of one, let me know... I'm looking to expand. ^_^
...if companies are allowed to shop around the world for cheaper manufacturing and outsourcing, why aren't we allowed to do the same for goods and services?
Goose, meet Gander.
I *have* read it. Here's the relevant section: "was able to control the robot at Lausanne by imagining acts like lifting his fingers"
So in other words, the scientist decided in advance which section(s) of the brain they were going to look at and told the subject that (for example) "if you want the robot to move forward, think about moving your finger." This is not proper mind control. This is not imaging what you want the robot to do and the robot doing it. This is making the controller fit the controls, whereas it should be the other way around.
As for my bit about the eyes, kindly re-read *my* post properly - I was making a comparison.
If you're going to down-vote me, kindly do it for what I actually said.
This is no different that reading the movement of an eyelid (or an eye) to control said robot.
The day I can think "left", or imagine the robot turning left, and the robot does it, *that* will be mind-controlled. Until then, it's just a glorified joystick.
Yes, there may be training involved so that my commands are nice and "crisp" for the receiver, but that is no different to learning to drive - you get better with time.
"Why iiNet beat Big Content Codes of conduct, legislation, likely as court says Copyright Act not ready for BitTorrent The High Court's decision to dismiss Big Content's appeal of the Federal Court's decision absolving iiNet of copyright infringement relies, in part, on inadequacies in Australia's Copyright Act that may need to be dealt with by Australia's Parliament."
Can somebody please help me parse that first paragraph? It looks like at least three three lines merged into one, and the first two seem to be more like newspaper headers than actual sentences.
And this is at least the second article I've read in El Reg today with this problem.
I'll second your call for more protection *of* copyright when you explain to me when and how I will eventually get decent protection *from* copyright.
Especially since *your* idea of copyright protection is "all of it is ours until the end of time and you'll pay us what we think is appropriate".
...An enema, not love, is what the world needs NOW!
<with thanks to D*A*A*S>
I'm in Australia and I'm running the official Samsung ICS (Europe version) on a GSII without problems. Why are you having problems upgrading?
No thanks. Every time it rains, Telstra's copper network takes a hit and I loose ~50% of my broadband speed. And of course, by the time Telstra brings somebody out it has stopped raining and the line works correctly, so there never is a fault found.
(and no, I do not own shares in it).
The best and fastest way of dealing with mobile coverage has always been to send the mobile data to the nearest tower and from there for it to use land-lines to get to its destination (or to the closest mobile tower to the destination). Trying to piggy-back the data over airways only is stupid.
"Wyse" or "Wyss"? Both are used in the article.
"...his Chinese finance Priscilla Chang".
Is this a term like "boffin"? What's a "finance"? Someone you go out with because they pay for you?
"whodayathink invented French Fries?" Not the French. Try Belgium, circa 1860.
"Les Grandes Frommages" Nope. Frommage is a masculine noun in French, thus it would be "Les Grands Frommages".
C'mon EL Reg, you've got a reputation on research accuracy to uphold.
<BTW: I'm Australian. I just happen to do some research.>
At least, it is for *new* books. Reprints and out-of-prints are a different kettle of fish altogether.
There was a very nice article a while back (I forgot the URL now) which followed the creation of a new book from the moment the author had The Idea to when the book finally hit the shelves. And by the time you had the author's percentage, the cover designer's fee, the proof-reader's wages, the "this", the "that" and the proverbial "other" accounted into the final cost, the cost of actually printing and distributing a *NEW* book was pretty small in comparison.
Again, I'll emphasise this: for **NEW** books.
Once the book has sold, especially the more modern books which are electronically typeset anyway, then yes; the eBook version is much cheaper to produce than a re-print.
But, like the prototypes for cars and planes, etc..., there is a lot of initial sunken cost in bringing a new product to the market, so there doesn't tend to be much of a saving between Hard-cover/paperback first prints and eBooks.
And no, I am not associated with the book industry in any way, except as an avid reader.
...and pull out my "Michael Blueberry" set of books from storage.
Full disclosure: I am Australia.. but really..
"Until now, two sites have been proposed to host the SKA: South Africa partnering with Namibia, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique and Zambia; and the rival bidder Australia in collaboration with New Zealand."
So.
Option1: locate the array across 9 countries in Africa, most of which are not exactly known for their stable government or populace (or both);
or
Option 2: locate the array in a single state of a single country (and still have room to expand - WA is *big*) which is geopolitically stable. Well... as stable as a republican government can ever get, what with "election fever". (yes, republican. The world's so-called democracies are all republics)
Explain to me why option 1 is more viable than option 2?
With "bendy roads" possible, how soon before we can replicate our own local metropolises in digital format and see how well they run?
I just bought two Xeon-powered rackmount that work was decommissioning. I may mount them at home and load OpenStack on them to play around with.
1080p, huh? Might finally be worth rooting one of these suckers, installing MythBuntu and hooking it up to my fileserver.
...prepare yourself for "karma ran over your dogma" jokes in 3..2..1..
...we the public are not legally allowed to shop overseas for cheaper goods, while companies can do so for cheaper labour/parts.
Explain this to me.
...when patents were about ways of implementing ideas, not about the ideas themselves. Which is why the first ball-point pen was kept under wraps for so long while its inventor patented every single method he could think of to make one.
Now, you don't even have to show that my ideas are do-able; you just need to put a patent on some off-the wall concept which you have no way of implementing and simply sue whoever actually comes up with a way to make it work in the future.
As a first step, how about getting Foxtel and Austar to stop forcing people to use their STB to view their channels. Smartcard, yes - STB, no!
Planetes (πλανητες) originally meant Wanderer after all
"Two types of binding are described: "lazy" and "active". The lazy-binding scenario involves selecting one or more media items and associating them with someone in the device's contact list. When the call is made, the recipient is then offered the choice of accepting the media items."
Yes. Best vector for worms and viruses since "autorun".
An Apple store in Brissie? So what? It's not like they'll sell their products any cheaper than in other stores.
Just wanting to point out the weirdness of an Australian ISP (and let's face it, Oz isn't known for its extensive download plans) offering a new Unlimited plan when everyone else is getting rid of them.
My ISP here in Oz had removed their "unlimited" plans early in 2011. Sometime around November, they re-introduced at least one (ADSL2+ unlimited), which I am now on. So far, they haven't "shaped" or "fair-used" me, even though I am catching up on one heck of a backlog of old Anime. ^_^
According to www.space2099.com, the story starts 40 years after the Lunar Nuclear accident.
To paraphrase Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes, Minister":
-- Government should be about surviving the next Century; Politics is about surviving the next election. --
What sort of political decisions can you expect from a bunch of elected officials who know that a good long-term decision is likely to be a short-term vote-loser? We don't have Democracy(*) in the West, we have Entertainmentocracy: "s/he who pleases me the most gets my vote." Is it any wonder it takes almost a year for the American public to pick a President? They should sell the DVD after the election under "America's Got Presidents" or "So You Think You Can Preside?"
But then again, what do you expect when you have a society who is hanging on the every words of (for example) an actor or sports-person, as if their ability to act or play sports somehow gives them greater insight into the rest of Life in general. <sigh> We truly are sheeples.
(*) yes, yes, I know. Technically we *never* had democracy in the West except for a short time in ancient Greece. A Democracy would require everybody to vote on every decision. Instead we elect a bunch of people who make the day-to-day decision from that point on. That's a Repubic, not a Democracy.
