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$6 a digital rental is terrible. It's a duopoly situation.
I suggest you try presto (foxtel) small monthly fee gets you lots of movies.
The gov cares so little about the consumer, I doubt they would bother to re-introduce parallel imports.
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It's convenient that the highest recorded temperature happened the same year that they disallowed temperature readings before 1910.
I can also tell you that there has been a lot of urban development here, including cutting down small forests to turn into housing estates. Surely lopping down trees and replacing them with concrete is going to change the weather more than the man made 0.06% rise in CO2 levels.
They tried to charge me $350 for going 170MB over my mobile internet limit. I was lucky enough to talk them down to $50 after several sessions with their customer service.
Also there are some good plans available: 120GB for $60, but they leave customers on ancient plans without telling (or upgrading) them of newer ones. So often people are paying $60 for 500MB a month.
By itself you won't know which country the server is in and will end up at the mercy of crooks. Otherwise who will be policing the approvals? Will government agency x in country x be deciding what is moral and what isn't?
I think porn is going to be the first thing booted off the net thanks to the NWO.
It had a bit of everything, but a large price tag and nobody liked it except Homer. It's the same sub-par Windows only it takes up 10GB (bad if you have a small SSD) and it's hard to delete the default applications to use better ones. The only visible improvement is the ton of drivers they added to the install disc.
The OS I want is a tiny Linux install with several VMs to run any program ever released. Including the occasional Commodore 64 game.
Can anyone explain how you could do 90% of the stuff you do nowadays on an operating system that took up 5MB (a bit more if you include browser, media player and expansion card drivers)?
I tried Kubuntu -really nice-, but to change some basic options you need to type in 10 lines of text.
Another alternative is AROS (a free modern x86 Amiga OS) still needs work though.
If MS want to sell me another copy of Windows they should go back to square one and write a lean streamlined OS for 'home' users. What they do for other users doesn't concern me
Never heard of it? I'm very careful about the places I get food from because of a spate of suspect food. It is usually teen fast food workers you have to be careful of. Make sure you can see them preparing your food.
e.g. I have had a pubic hair on a soft drink can, also a toenail in a chicken burger.
Although clueless they may have a family member that advises them what to buy. Even the clueless end of the market will be picking up bargain bin 120GB external drives.
The only answer is temporary saturation. People will be waiting for the next upgrade level... which may be SSDs if mechanical HDDs don't get any faster.
I'm gonna call, slow decline to a niche product for mechanical HDDs.
You don't have the government or google tracking everything you do.
Near my old house Telstra has underground cables in pipes with service hatches. Easy to service and I remember them upgrading to fibre with out destroying anything.
At my new house the footpaths have been dug up and re-layed twice to upgrade the electricity. No-one thought it might handy to lay serviceable pipes.
What I hear from the NBN construction is that they are digging up peoples driveways and frontyards and leaving a mess. It will be a eyesore for decades whereever the NBN goes in. If ever someone digs through the cable they will have to dig up half the street to fix it.
Facebook is just modern tech becoming part of socialising. Calling Facebook users shallow and non FB users saddos is about the same as kids jostling for the alpha position of the group or separating into opposing groups.
I hook up with people in hobby/interests related context that way you have plenty to talk about.
I think the problem is us oldies seeing younger generations flipping off the old ways and only adopting something new and current. Fad based.
I wouldn't worry, the internet is becoming so commercialised that it will be no fun anymore, just a place to do online shopping and send emails.
So what if temperatures do go up one or two of degrees over a hundred or more years. It is likely that absolutely nothing will happen. The seas won't boil, the plants won't all wilt and die, people won't start wars over the now sweltering temperature.
All the crazies now get their viewpoint heard and wrapped up with global warming, really future global warming, because it isn't hotter yet. It is still going up and down with sun cycles, volcanic activity and La nina etc. Try and remember the seasonal weather when you were a kid.
Lost is attention on real issues that man is damaging the planet with overfishing, overconsuming, laziness (like taking the obsession with the car) and finally overpopulating.
I had a go of a netbook and I'm not impressed. It was too small to do anything except casual web browsing. It was a Sony but had a pretty poor glossy screen.
What is up with the poor quality screens? the non-widescreens were flicker free before the change.
I'm going to find a mini 9 to have a look at, it's more compact size might excuse the cheapness of it.
to know that farmer John who lives 300klm (200miles) from the nearest town, is going to be getting 300 klm of expensive fibre courtesy of the taxpayer for 1 house. If Libs /Nats can link the major cities and pressure the comm companies to put up 3G or better for 7Billion... I say go with that. That way Farmer John can earn money by letting them put the 3G tower on his property.
Prohibited activities include (but are not limited to):
(a) posting, disseminating, or in some cases accessing, content which is unlawful, including:
(i) content that is or would be classified by the Classification Board as RC rated or X rated and that is or would be classified by the Classification Board as R rated where a restricted access system is not in place,
Does restricted access system mean national internet filter?
Blame political correctness. Pollies are so concerned with not offending anyone they lose all human qualities. They are mostly interested in looking good among other nations or whatever special interest group that they can swap favours with.
As for the original video I haven't seen it, but if it hasn't anything to do with No.2s then I would be happy to see every copy erased.
He would be one of the ones that would like to put cameras in every home to prevent child abuse. Why don't they just trace the IP address of the person visiting the site?
Be pro technology and think up new ways to track them as opposed to proposing bans. Heck why doesn't he just ban the internet, that will do the trick as well.
USB gets marketing. People know they can plug in anything USB and it will work. Bluetooth takes a bit of configuring, people are apprehensive they might wreck something so don't bother with it. A couple of funky commercials would get them interested enough to see what they can do with it.
Competition usually drives prices down. We know that the wise to that and will try to lock you onto their hardware. Here's a tip: Nobody (and I mean nobody) buy it when it comes out. Wait a short two months and they will freak out seeing the units pile up from the factory. They'll knock 50 off the price it and be very apologetic about charging so much initially.
When I build a desktop I try and buy as many features I can. When a name brand company decides to build something, someone in management is telling the engineers to cut out as much as possible to lower the cost.
2nd hand buyers do a bit more research and won't touch crippled systems, how about something that is a bit more future proof?