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BT and Virgin sue over £10m state-funded Birmingham broadband
something is amiss here....
I'm wondering if there is something we're not being told in the articles that are written about this situation. Did Birmingham council perhaps mislead Virgin into thinking it would spend it's £10,000,000 with Virgin, in order for them to construct the infrastructure in the Birmingham area, in order to get their co-operation and expertise in a field that they would otherwise know nothing about, then stab them in the back by deciding to do it all on their own?
I'm with Virgin and BT here. BT was privatised because of the simple fact that governments are CRAP at running services like this. Look at the DWP and the NHS for prime examples of just how badly governments run public services, far better for it to be run by a private company that has an interest in keeping it's customers happy and improving services.
It's probably worth pointing out here, that I left Virgin Media years ago and will never use them again, because the exit service I received, was absolutely dire. Also, I left BT nearly a year ago in favor of Sky, because I was getting 2 - 4Mbps max and I knew my line was capable of 16Mbps, which I now get on Sky.
As you can see, I'm no fan of either of these companies, but a government, local or national, building, managing and running the services related to this kind of infrastructure, is a recipe for disaster, where they'll end up having to sell the whole thing off to VM or BT at some point anyway, likely at a MASSIVE loss to the taxpayer.
Safer conjugal rights via electronic skin
Re: Don't get something here...
Why do radiographers wear the big lead aprons and stand behind blast shields when taking an X-Ray, yet you get to sit there in your Jeans and T-Shirt right infront of the big nuclear camera? It's called essential exposure, you don't expose yourself to radiation unless you have to. It's why you stand there for the X-Rays without protection (Because you need the X-Rays), but the radiographer takes those steps for protection. I'd say Mrs Dabbs needs this radioactive treatment, but I'm guessing Mr Dabbs and the little Dabbs don't and so are advised to take measures to avoid exposure.
Apple, Samsung blast away in patent case closing arguments
Seriously people!?
All you fanbois that claim Apple invented the smart phone, or revolutionised the world, or claim no one wanted a Samsung phone before this are clearly just full of shit!
I bought a Samsung E900 from an Orange store in the UK back in 2007, just before I went back to live in New Zealand for the second time around. It had a partial touch screen, with a slide out keyboard, apps, an online app store, could do everything all other phones had been able to do up to that point (MMS, Email, etc.). When the iPhone came out, I was living in NZ, one of my colleagues camped out all night to get it, only to be disappointed that it didn't even do half the stuff my £90 Samsung did!
Prior to my E900 I had a Sony Ericson something-or-other. I can't remember the model number and it got broken in a house move and thrown away, but it was blue, had a full touch screen, it ran Symbian, with apps galore and was not even the top of the range phone available at the time, nor was it the first 'smart' phone, but we're talking 2005/2006 here, LONG before the stupid iPhone came out.
I've avoided iPhones like the plague from minute one. My colleagues have them, some of my friends have them etc. Every time I use one I just feel superior, because my phone (Currently Samsung Galaxy SIII, previously SII and prior to that an S) does more, feels better in my hand and looks better than theirs does! I wouldn't have an iDevice if you paid me!
Do I accept that Apple brought out the first, full touch 'smart' phone? No, I f***ing don't! Do I think they marketed their device so well that a bunch of people think they invented the concept? Yes, because that's what apple does! My best mate is a chef, he owns a restaurant in South London, knows very little about tech, but has both an iPhone and an iPad, he asked me what it was I 'do' again the other week, when I replied that I work in cloud, he asked me 'Oh you mean that thing Apple made?!'.
They are exceptionally good at convincing people they invented things that in reality they stole the technology to make and then ploughed tonnes of marketing funds behind! They did it with the original GUI for Personal Computing, they did it with the mouse, they did it with OSX, iOS, etc, etc, etc! Most people think they actually created the first MP3 player too! Apple has never really innovated ANYTHING! It builds on existing tech and then markets it as it's own creation, I dare you to provide me with one example of an Apple 'Invention' where the tech didn't already exist!
Why don't the best techies work in the channel?
Channel? Which one? 5?
I've worked there, but never called it 'The Channel', I'm guessing it's a sales buzzword? Either way, I ended up leaving the resellers and outsourcers I worked for, because I got sick and tired of being treated like shit, paid naff all and getting constantly stressed out that I wasn't actually helping anyone, except my director to make more money, which is very much NOT what I got into this game for!
I even ran my own little outsourcing outfit for a while, but I went bust, because I couldn't lie to customers and did a good job, priced honestly and only provided what was actually needed. Some might say I should have hired a sales guy to do the selling and then just get on with it, but I would have felt far too dirty!
A few years ago I got out of it all, went to work for an insurance company as their IT manager and now I work in cloud, for a medium - large international startup, doing back line support of all things. I'm treated considerably better, I get great pay, great benefits, work from home, plenty of time off, sick pay, it's kinda wicked really, but the problem now, as someone else said, is what next? I'm being approached recently for CIO roles, CTO roles, Technical Directorships, but do I really want to go back to working in an office, with a bunch of idiots I don't want to be around, trussed up in a suit and tie, licking the arse of the guy above me and sweet talking suppliers I know are going to rip me off? FUCK NO!
Problem is of course, I don't really want to go out on my own again either, as it was cold out there, because I'm too nice, too honest and too good at what I do for my own good. I could stay where I am in cloud, wait for my annual pay review, which is likely to follow inflation, but not much more, as I'm a massively under-used resource these days. My other option of course, is to go contractor, but in development again, instead of systems. I'm being approached recently, for PHP and Perl roles of all things, worth over £90k if you're contracting. Then of course the downside comes, you have to run it as a Ltd VAT registered company, any time off you take, you lose all your pay, no healthcare benefits, or extra time off to stop you from burning out.
To sum up? Why don't the best techies work in the channel? Because we've already been there, got the FUCK OUT and are not going back, in any capacity, for all the money, magic beans, coffee, mountain dew and stupid bonus reward schemes that make us feel like sales pricks, in the world! You can keep your channel, you can keep your stupid rewards schemes, your pink shirts, your frilly, smilie talk and just get bent! The decent techies do the real work, that you lot who choose to stay in the channel and play the game, are not capable of!
Apple OS X update puts elderly Flash out of its misery
Problem: Apple forces you to do stuff you don't want to do constantly
Solution: Stop using Crapple devices!
Google to FCC: Protecting Street View coder didn't derail probe
Re: Whilst that's true....
~s/would not have done this deliberately/must have done this deliberately/
Whilst that's true....
....this is mostly the fault of the ISPs for sending out routers that don't use an encrypted network key by default.
Most 'dumb users' out there (about 90% of those with internet and apparently about 3% of the readers of this site) have no idea what a network password is, one of my non-techy friends, actually asked me to remove his, as it was a pain in the ass having to type it on all new machines he added to the network, lol!
He collects scrap metal for a living and doesn't have the first clue, or care, about online security. The upside is, I refused to remove it, as would anyone capable of doing so I hope, so he's got that layer of protection, albeit not a very strong one. Lots of ISPs however, still send out bog standard routers, with WiFi enabled and no network key or any level of encryption, if he had one of those ISPs, he wouldn't have that layer of protection, because he wouldn't have a clue how to implement it.
We techies, have made it a plug and play world for the non's, it's that simple.
On-Subject - Did Google mean to slurp it? Yes, of course they bloody well did! Any competent engineer doing this would not have done this deliberately. You can accidentally NOT save data when you intend to, but you can't accidentally save it when you didn't mean to!
US judge orders Apple, Samsung CEOs to get a room
Re: Patentdome
This one, DEFINITELY! From now on, ALL patent disputes should be settled this way, I bet the blood suckers......erm sorry, I mean lawyers, wouldn't be so interested in taking the cases any more!
Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals
How the hell......
...do you write this article, without even mentioning RightScale.com?!?! I mean seriously! You talk about IaaS and PaaS and all the individual clouds own management portals, yet absolutely no mention whatsoever, of the one thing out there, that makes cloud "Truly usable", come on Matt, WTF!
Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell
Oh for gods sake! ROFL!
I fell for this completely, I didn't twig at all, that it was an April Fools, until I read the comments. Just goes to show that literally NOTHING surprises me in the whole patent war thing now. I actually laughed when I read it, not because I thought it was a good April Fools post, because I just can't help but laugh at the patent crap they keep throwing, if I didn't, I'd cry.
Ceglia fined for failing to show evidence of Facebook ownership
Considering some of the hackers Facebook employees (i.e. some of the best, headhunted from various top string tech firms), would it be entirely unreasonable to suggest that he *HAD* the evidence and now *doesn't*?
Year of the Penguin - el Reg's 2011 Linux-land roundup
No future for the desktop?
I'm so sick of people saying that! There is no way in hell, I'm ever going to switch completely to a laptop/netbook/tablet and use only web apps, it's just NOT going to happen, so stop trying to tell me I will!
We have a tablet in the house, my partner loves it, but for her graphic design work, she still returns to her desktop. I have both a netbook and a laptop and a Galaxy S, but I do 98% of my daily work on my desktop, that's not likely to change, ever!
I'm with Robert E A Harvey, why does hibernate still not work properly, why do not all printers just plug and play the way they should? Linux has SO much going for it in desktop, which is still just as important as it ever bloody was, and yet it still falls over with simple tasks like being able to plug in a cheap printer or run 2 versions of an app in different desktops, WTF people! Stop whinging about the bloody web and get on with the desktop for crying out loud! Let android deal with the web, it's doing a damn fine job, Ubuntu is a Desktop OS!
Apple's TV killer 'on shelves by summer 2012'
32 and 27" iMac anyone?
As per the title really. Are Apple really going to outdo Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Sony and the likes, who've been making these things for decades? We have 3 Samsung Smart TVs in our house, all 3 have wireless, iPlayer, Freeview built in etc. etc. No doubt Apple will hold their usual ridiculous price tag, that only zealots and the idiotic will pay for, so what exactly is this going to do to "crack" TVs? The only thing I can imagine, is literally a 32 and 37" imac, complete with mouse and keyboard, but also comes with a handy remote shaped thing, that no doubt they'll aim to patent, because no one has ever used one of those before!
Boycott forces Go Daddy U-turn on anti-piracy law backing
Probably has more to do with....
.... the new ownership. New owners of companies are notoriously more cautious than founders. Founders get where they are by blackmailing, stealing, lying, thieving, cheating and basically being as underhanded and down right dirty as they can possibly be, people taking over a company are always far more concerned about public opinion and share value, if public opinion begins to affect or look like it's going to affect share value, the new owners back things off, apologise and do damage control, this looks to be what's happened here I'd guess. That's also not to say they won't start supporting it again around March?
Go Daddy boycott threat for backing hated anti-piracy law
Pirates are essential
... and anyone who says otherwise is a complete retard. If it weren't for pirates, we might still be sailing ships with actual sails, firing canons rather than missiles and torpedos etc. Technology is developed to meet a need more than anything else, it's to scratch an itch and one big itch, is piracy, always has been, always will be. We'd still be using VHS and our computers would still be slow and shit without pirates too.
Regardless of what some of you goody two shoes idiots may say about pirates being scum and lowlife, they're the reason half the innovation that goes on, goes on. In order to keep innovating a reason is needed. Profit is not a reason, because people will keep buying the same stuff if they can, so profit will still be made by the corporations, but nothing will be developed as fast. Sure we need to keep them under control, but that's what the innovations are about, this SOPA bollocks is the same as the bloody patent war bollocks, it's a corporate entity thinking "What's the easiest way I can make more money, without actually having to fight back, I know, I'll litigate and make everyones life miserable and poorer"
In the SOPA case, it's the media industry who can't be arsed to find a new way to do business that makes it harder for the pirates to do anything about it, in the patent wars case, it's companies like Apple wanting to stay as top dog, they don't want to have to KEEP innovating, because they're crap at it, they want to stop others using what's already there, so that they then innovate instead and Apple can then steal it, patent it and make profit.
Before any appletards reply to this, go look up how Apple and Microsoft even got started, go look up what they stole, to get where they are today, sad as it is, if they hadn't been PIRATES, we'd still be using black and green console screens for our desktops. Apple even flew a pirate flag above it's HQ for a while!
Iran spy drone GPS hijack boasts: Rubbish, say experts
...Sadly the most likely circumstance, it's guidance computer was likely coded in Ruby, making it that much easier to induce a bug :D
Why your tech CV sucks
You sir, are THE unemployment problem!
This article is disgusting, it completely and utterly encapsulates the recruitment industry, stupid, idiotic, arrogant arseholes who wouldn't know a good applicant if it hit them in the face!
Why do we put our education on our CVs? Because it took us a bloody long time to get, in some cases cost us a fortune to get, because most employers look for degrees or relevant vendor qualifications and that was the reason we spent so much time and money getting them. We could of course just leave school and tell you that "I can com-pooo-tor" if you like? Fucktard!
Those who can, do, those who can't, teach, those who can literally do NOTHING, recruit! Most recruiters don't have a CLUE what my job entails, they have NO idea how to write code, how to build a server, how to set up a network, half of them barely know how to turn on a computer in the first place. "I can't turn the damn thing on, look" ........... "That's the HP logo, not the on button, let me help".
Your CV checking agency does credit checks does it? Is this something industry wide? I don't remember ever agreeing to a credit check with an agent, I'm sure that's against the law!?
The reason people put their summer jobs on the CV and have a 4 or 5 page CV instead of a 2 page one, is because interviewers are more intelligent than recruiters, so they ask questions. If I don't put down that I spent 7 months doing nothing but DJing for a living in 2003, I'll get asked why I went from working in BTs back office to working for a finance company in Epsom, but spent 7 months out of work in between, at which point I have to start talking, once I start talking, I run the risk of saying something they don't want to hear, something that's going to not get me the job, if it's on my well thought out and triple checked CV however, they won't ask, because it's already there as 2 lines, briefly explaining what I was doing and where I was, this then enables me to just answer the techie questions that are actually fucking relevant!
I would absolutely LOVE to destroy the recruitment industry, it's nothing but a blood sucking whore with a bunch of zombies in their employ! You go for an interview, get pipped at the post by one other applicant, the recruiter won't ring you back! You ring their office and you get told they're "out", what fucking ever, you just don't want to talk to me because I didn't earn you any commission you shallow fuck! How about giving me some feedback as to why the other guy pipped me at the post? How about telling me what they liked about me, so I can make sure to do it again the next time you ring me up, in a months time, like nothing happened and you weren't an arrogant prick and send me somewhere else?
Recruitment, IS the reason for unemployment. All those broken websites out there in the world, Recruitments fault, I'd go as far as to say the whole PSN fiasco, that was recruitments fault, because no doubt Sony went to a recruitment agent to hire the developers and the ones who could secure the site and make it resilient against attack, spent their child hoods hacking things and playing with technology, instead of learning how to use Word or correcting their fucking grammar! My god you boil my blood, you arrogant, ignorant prick!
Android bakes bitter 20th birthday cake for Linux
Lately I keep reading Google and Android hate-articles on the reg and it's starting to fog me off! The Apple articles are still there, but with less hate and more "understanding", it's almost like el'reg has a new sponsor that we don't know about!
I Re-iterate all the statements about forking being good, by design etc. and I also re-iterate the thoughts that Android won't make a blind bit of difference to Linux on the desktop, because it just isn't the same thing.
For me Desktop Linux just isn't there yet, but it's coming. I use it as a desktop, I haven't used anything but Linux as a desktop for years, but for the mainstream public, it's not there yet. That being said, my 5 year old and my 16 year old both have Ubuntu Laptops and my Mechanic Lodger is, since moving in here, running a SUSE laptop :D So maybe it's getting somewhere!
Worm spreads via RDP
Until you've worked somewhere..........
.......that uses "companyname123*" as it's default password for all 300 users and will not let them change it, you cannot just write things like this off as "A secure password is all that's needed" lol, because regardless of the fact that may be true, there are thousands upon thousands of desktop machines out there with utter tripe passwords, both corporate and personal, with crap passwords, some of which are enforced by the sysadmins themselves!
Samsung refuses to buy HP's PC business
That's a terrible joke on two counts, first HPs current high end laptops, the "Envy" looks considerably like a MacBook, they're just not being sued for the "look and feel" like Samsung are, which brings us to the second count, because the reason is, MacBooks likely outsell the Envy, unlike the iPhone and iPad, which are BEING OUTSOLD by the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab, and before anyone says that's based on price, you can get either the Galaxy S 2 or the iPhone 4, free on a £15 - £20 a month contract.
Personally I have nothing much against HP computers, other than their hardware is just not as good as it once was and their corporate printers are a frickin nightmare once they get to be a couple of years old.
Apple changed shape of Galaxy Tab in court filing
THIS is innovation ............
and look who's making it!
No doubt Apple will patent a device that contains it one day and then sue Samsung for making something vaguely not too dissimilar, in colour and format! Cos let's face it, nothing else about the iPad and the Tab are similar really, even the curved edges, are curved in a completely different way!
Whether Apple doctored the images or not, this is ridiculous! Apple never made anything in black, with curved edges and a screen in the middle until the iPhone. Samsung on the other hand, well their TVs are black with curved edges and a screen, their photo frames are black with curved edges and a screen and my old Samsung e800, which I bought before the iPhone ever came out, was black, with curved edges a metalic frame around the screen, with part-touch screen and icons on the desktop, 3g capability and all that comes with it such as email etc. So I reckon Samsung should be sueing them instead!
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Physical education teacher Traci Branham demonstrates use of the Sportwall XerTrainer on Friday morning at Lake Forest Middle School. Bradley County Schools received an $800,000 grant to promote active lifestyles for children.Photo by Jake Daniels.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Coming soon to Bradley County's public schools: More than $243,000 worth of exercise equipment.
The school system is using some money from the federal Carol M. White Physical Education Program grant to make the purchases. The money was awarded last year.
The shopping list includes 65 stationary bicycles, at $1,021 each, for the county's two middle schools and two high schools, and 40 bicycles, $672 each, for the two high schools. Including a maintenance contract, the total is $75,878.
The school system also is using $37,000 from the White grant to buy a ropes course for Ocoee Middle School. Lake Forest Middle already has a ropes course, purchased with another grant.
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The White grant runs for three years. This first year's grant is $576,579, some of which is being used for teacher training, as well as equipment. The second-year grant is $144,716, and the final year is $132,616.
There were no gym classes at Lake Forest Middle on Friday, but physical education teacher Traci Branham and Principal Ritchie Stevenson demonstrated how the already installed "game wall" works.
With flashing lights, loud music and scoreboards, the wall can be used for a myriad of activities, from volleyball to jumping games, Branham said.
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go go go systemd!!!
why, xorg server has future?
how to waste your life.
can you PLEASE avoid to say in every Steam news that Gabe hates Windows 8? :)
wow, now I can find it, it appeared from some minutes.
but it didn't compile:
Installing cputemp:
Copying program to /tmp/yaourt-tmp-fabio/aur-cputemp/pkg/usr/bin: Done.
Checking if log...
there is some package for ArchLinux?
times ago they talked about openGL 3/4 support, where is it now? isn't openGL 2 old too?
Linux client, please.
I hope that with this version finally ASPM works...
I dont think the problem is in the BIOS.
I have kernel 3.3.4 but seem that ASPM problem is still here, it's normal that output?
[fabio@hp6735b ~]$ uname -r
[fabio@hp6735b ~]$ dmesg | grep ASPM
kernel and xserver support please.
Steam on Linux: :cool:
Launching X application is like what apple does?
see? I also tough that that wasn't kms infact vt switching isn't very fast... but this mean that we can use plymouth now?
I don't have xf86-video-ati package at all.
I can make a video if you don't belive me, the terminal font in archlinux boot goes in the natural display resolution without that I've touched nothing.
Installed on Archlinux, first time I run it, seem that now this driver support Kernel Mode Setting, anyone noticed?
I still have artifacts like this:...


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After multiple season attempts, the Levittown New Yorkers claimed the 2011 MABL Division A Championships. In game one, the New Yorkers stepped up and scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to secure a 3-1 win.
The team's ace pitcher, Pete Abrami, shut down the Long Island Dodgers allowing one unearned run on three hits with an appealing eight strikeouts. Game two hindered the celebrations with a devastating 2-15 loss.
The Levittown New Yorkers came back confidently and played impeccably in game three. The batters made hitting look too easy and their defensive line-up rallied behind pitcher Ryan Harold. The New Yorkers proudly scored 22 runs to secure their first team championship. Ryan Harold threw 165 pitches for the duration of the game, striking out eleven batters and locking in the win. Rob Degennaro led the team with 6 RBIs and a homerun. Bob O'brien also helped to lead the offensive explosion with three hits and 5 RBIs. Congratulations to the Levittown New Yorkers on their first MABL Division A Championship.


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Can You Get AIDS From Piercing
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Community Resource Update: Spotlight on Pierce County AIDS Foundation, Tacoma, Wa.The Pierce County AIDS Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1987 to respond to the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS in Pierce County. A Board of Directors oversees the work of Foundation staff and volunteers. The mission of... Read more »
Australia: Warning Over the Dangers of Body PiercingOver the warmer months in Australia, doctors anticipate the usual seasonal spike in piercing-related infections, and now they are offering advice on how to avoid them. Less-than-sterile conditions can lead to the spread of disease, warned Dr.... Read more »
Ohio: West Milton Council Bans Tattoo, Body-Piercing ShopsLast month, officials in West Milton voted 4-2 to prohibit tattoo and body-piercing parlors from operating in the city, citing the potential of unsterile needles to spread hepatitis and HIV. The town of 4,700, located north of Dayton, may be the... Read more »
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HIV and Tongue PiercingHello is posible that you an get Aids from having oral sex with someone with a tongue piercing????...
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Chicago Black Gay Mens CaucusThanks for your question,A tongue piercing would only make a difference if it were bleeding significantly. That might be an issue if it were a <i>new</i> piercing. Otherwise it'd be all healed up.. significant bleeding would only... Read more »
piercing crisisHi,I'm writing this again because I'm very afraid. I was wondering for you could contract HIV on a belly piercing jewlery. If someone with HIV tried on the jewlery and her piercing was not healed and someone with a not healed belly...
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Columbia University's Health & Related ServicesYou should not be worrying about blood exposure unless you are absolutely certain that you were exposed to HIV infected blood. There is no evidence that people get infected with HIV through body piercings.Talk with an adult about your concerns if... Read more »
tattos and ody piercing is this a risk?.DEAR DOCTOR,i recently heard that tattoing and body piercing can lead to aids,since the same instument are used on all kinds of poeple.what i mean is..if a person gets a tatto done in a shop and is an aids infected person and the next person who...
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University of Cincinnati, College of MedicineBusinesses that do tattooing and body piercing should be sterilizing their needle and other instruments after every use. If you are not confident that these standard health protection policies are being followed, then don't patronize the... Read more »
Ear piercingCan you get HIV or hepatitis from a piercing gun? I just pierced my baby's ears at the mall and then I read a lot of info on the net about how dangerous it is. they used a prepackaged sterile cassette, and they said the gun(which is not...
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Posted by Anonymous, 2 Repliesis it possible to get aids from a piercing gun? they push the earing through your ear, not a needle.
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Posted by COMO, 2 Replieshola!!! bueno compis, tengo una duda. hace como 1 ao me puse 1 piercing en el lbulo de la oreja. me lo puse en 1 joyeria (no era una tienda de piercings como tal), y me lo pusieron con una pistola perforadora. estas pistolas funcionan poniendoles 1... Read more »
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"It's the Fourth of July, and Joe and his mother have come to watch the big parade. They join the crowd that lines the street. People are talking and laughing and joking. But "where is Uncle Louie"? Joe wonders. The high school band marches by, with twirlers out front flinging their batons high in the air. A mariarchi band plays the national anthem. There are clowns, too, and a parade of horses. But there is no sign of Uncle Louie. Now Joe worries that Uncle Louie will miss the big parade. Then Joe sees a flash of chrome. Here come the lowriders! But where in the world is Uncle Louie? Kathy Whitehead's joyous story captures the thrill of watching an Independence Day parade in the American Southwest."


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For example, Great Plains Energy hosted an innovative set of issue-driven "seminars"—panel discussions with national experts representing a variety of perspectives. Customers, community leaders, regulators, media, board members, and all employees were invited, and had ample opportunities to ask questions of the panel. On average, each session was attended by more than 250 people. This approach set the tone for a successful regulatory process, resulting in unanimous approval of a $1.3 billion growth plan by the commissions of two states.
3. Don't swing for the fences . Successful plans have adopted a balanced portfolio instead of the single-fuel strategy typical of prior growth cycles. In this environment, betting on the success of one single-fuel or renewable solution to emerge as the winner is risky. In an era of higher and volatile prices, customers will be less forgiving of the downside of a risky bet, as will regulators. Successful plans will be built on a balanced portfolio of fossil, renewable, distributed, and efficiency technologies that mitigate both cost and risk.
4. Timing is everything . As in any development cycle, there are likely some benefits to starting early. This advantage can manifest itself through lower costs, better access to labor, availability of equipment ( e.g., turbines), and establishing differentiation and industry leadership. Recent examples are utilities that were proactive on environmental retrofits prior to regulatory and legislative certainty.
Although the timing of the upcoming wave of electric price increases unfortunately coincides with substantial increases in other energy costs, electric utilities are well positioned to take control of their destiny. Utilities that move forward with a comprehensive approach will be able to better create and communicate value through a time of rising and volatile energy costs. Only time will tell if these increases will be no big deal or the last straw, but the time to work toward the former is now.
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Aussie broadband is slower than a slow thing in a slow town
So Australia is building a superfast fibre to the home (FTTH) national broadband network and not a minute too soon. Last week's survey from Akamai, a company that charges clients hefty sums for making their websites run faster, shows the country ranked a dismal 50th place in the global broadband speed league with an average …
"shows the country ranked a dismal 50th place in the global broadband speed league with an average speed of 2.6Mbps, behind even New Zealand (42nd and 2.9Mbps)...Yes, it's that bad."
Well I think their distraught is a bit exaggerated. 2.6Mbps isn't too bad at all.
Until recently, on cablevision in the suburbs of NYC, we experienced irregular dropouts (0bps) for 15 minutes a day (I measured them), this lasted for a year before they fixed their lines.
I would have gladly taken a reliable 2Mbps over shoddy 5Mbps, but cablevision has a 100% broadband monopoly in the region.
The key word is average.
I don't know whether you think every Australian has access to a reliable connection with a minimum speed, but considering ADSL2+ subscribers within 1km of an exchange and on a good quality ISP receive 24Mb/s, and there are cable subscribers in limited areas on 30Mb/s in this country, there's a long way to fall to bring the average down to 2.6...
There are vast swathes of this country that have no access to ADSL at all, even within major cities, because all the telephone lines in the country are owned by a single, formerly government owned, company, and this company has grown fat, lazy, stupid and spendthrift.
Telstra is the problem...
Most people with Telstra are probably on 256k connections still, or 1.5M at best because they charge excessively for anything else, anyone with half a brain not to go with Telstra who has access to a non-Telstra port in their exchange would be on ADSL2+ which would be well above 2M in most cases.
Telstra is the biggest problem with broadband in this country, regardless of how many millions if not billions the last Liberal government handed over for them to uprgade the Telstra exchanges so more people could at least get access to broadband...
@Sorry that handle is already taken.
"I don't know whether you think every Australian has access to a reliable connection with a minimum speed"
No, I wouldn't presume so, just saying the study didn't appear to take into account quality or reliability. Although point taken, averages aren't representative like medians.
"good quality ISP receive 24Mb/s, and there are cable subscribers in limited areas on 30Mb/s in this country"
Really? Wow I'm impressed, this speed is unheard of for residential cable users in the US.
Regarding the lack of access to competition, I can sympathize with that.
So what you're saying is....
That Telstra is just like BT. Except that BT don't have geography quite as "challenging" as Telstra to blame, twice as many potential victims/customers and still manage to arse it up to an astounding degree.
Re: The key word is average
Wow, and I thought BT was bad. At least they had some foresight and have made a bit of effort.
With regards Telstra's challenging geography it should be noted that, although the country is a large one, around 50% of the population live in just 3 cities (10.5m out of around 21m in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) therefore it shouldn't be to hard to up the average although people will, on average, live further from the exchange - I'm 5kms from the city centre yet about 3kms from my local exchange. They do own the cable network as well it should be remembered. However, as previously mentioned they are extremely lazy and charge like a wounded rhino and I believe that their pricing has been the real issue all along...
This is only a recent change as 50GB used to cost over $100/mth but they must have been losing customers hand over fist and decided a little competition on their part wouldn't be a bad idea. Up until now I paid $89.95 (GBP 51.77) for 25GB of bandwidth which is daylight robbery - when you own the phone and the cable network it's easy to charge like this. Lack of regulatory oversight also helps.
Thanks to this article and navigating their site for prices I've just saved $20 a month and upped my bandwidth by 25GB as the bastards hold you on the old plan at an inflated price even when you're out of contract if they change their product offerings. They don't even notify you, which is also nice. BT's bastard love-child relative for sure.
You're being robbed!
I just updated my old Telstra plan of $130 a month for 100Gb to $90 a month for 200Gb. This is with the elite cable package, so my speed is the fastest the country has to offer. (Being in Sydney and at the end of a handy fiber optic loop for a business park across the valley)
I know not everyone can get the speed but the pure download for dollar of these latest plans isn't terrible.
They don't need it!
Gonna ban porn soon!
We need faster internets because
We need to download it all while we still can!
Don't worry.
I've burned the entire internet to a CDRW. If you need a copy ill burn you one.
We'll get both...
With Labor imploding in a flurry of leaks and internal scandals, suddenly the Libs may take the elections. Which means we'll probably get the worst of both worlds: NBN cancelled *and*the Internet filter (*)
(*) Some people here tend to forget that the Liberal Party hasn't *really* come out in opposition to the filter, but is rather worryingly mute. Add the ultra-Xian Mad Monk and I wouldn't bet a farthing on them not continuing the filter rubbish.
Internet filter
Last i heard they have spoken against it.... but not loudly.
They seem to have the stance of "we oppose it purely because our opposition supports it".
To be honest the NBN is a big old waste of cash considering at least 3 tenders came forth offering to do it for a fraction of the price (we're talking high hundred millions instead of multiple billions).
Factor in government incompetence (re: every project doubling its cost over a 5 year period, ad infinitum) and this NBN is going to cost a hell of a lot more than it is worth.
Even if that does give me access to all the porn the Labour government lets me have because i need to be protected from myself and to learn we were always at war with Eastasia and Eurasia was always our ally.
Mine is the one with a copy 1984 in the pocket.
Bah, I'm not holding my breath.
Internet here now is overpriced and underperforming. Promise the earth and deliver a mouse fart.
Everyone who comes from overseas says our speeds are a practical joke.
Heck, even downloading from local mirrors is slower (significantly!) than getting it from a US or asian mirror. No really.
And yet, to make it go faster, they're telling us it's going to cost even more.
Besides, like the last poster said, it'll be a moot point anyway, without porn the NBN will be yet _another_ white elephant.
Over the ditch..
They just upgraded broadband this year in my suburb (to ADSL2+). I now get 9.7 down & .9 up. Not bad now I take a look at the average speeds people are receiving.
I'll still bitch about it bring too slow though :)
Fantastic. I'll be able to exceed my monthly download quota in a matter of minutes. But the three web sites that the government will let me see after the filter's imposed will load really fast!
Do Not Want...
To further what previous posters have alluded to,
Yes the ruling party touts the benefits of their high speed connection with feel good
propaganda ads on tv,"Think of the Children" kind of stuff,they will have accelerated
learning opportunities and unlimited access,
All well and good but keeping in mind that this is all backed by one Mr Stephen Conroy,
Communications Minister for the ruling faction who with a reverence verging on madness
and a foaming of the mouth that makes Cujo look like a puppy with a playful streak wanted to
institute the"Great Firewall of Australia" forcing the ISP's to block anything that he considered not to his taste.
-"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...." -
They can keep their grandiose Orwellian plans and i will keep my freedom...Thanks.
NBN is a dead duck
$43bn to deliver a fibreoptic cable to every premises - sounds fine. But they're going to charge accordingly - so most people will find it unaffordable. It's never going to happen.
What they need to do is renationalise the infrastructure (ducts, cable, etc) from the government-department-cum-private-company-with-most-shares-still-owned-by-the-government and upgrade them, and then hire that out to resellers on a pay-per-megabyte basis. Hopefully that way we get some actual competition in the market and the service will get better.
Renationalise infrastructure
Nope. All that does is burden the public purse. There's no demand for an efficient implementation as the government will try to roll out to 'everyone' where there's no desire.
It's better for commercial companies to roll out fibre where it's cost effective and tehy can turn a profit, and the government intervene only where there is a public need or significant demand which could not otherwise be met.
I don't live in Australia, but...
honestly, with even a 1mbps connection I can watch youtube if I want, pages load fine, and games? They rely on low latency, not high bandwidth. 2.9mbps is fine. However..
The BIG problems I see? (I'll use numbers from where I live in the US but I think Australia has similar problems).
1) People that can't get anything. Well, here in the US in reality most people who claim they can't get "anything" really can get wireless broadband from Verizon Wireless, but it's $60 for a 5GB cap, so really they can't get anything too good. Or there's satellite, it's also very costly. Bringing me to....
2) TOO EXPENSIVE. I have a aircard right now, on a grandfathered unlimited plan, and my speed is adequate -- around 1mbps. But, as I say above, people can't even get that any more. I keep it for the use on the road, but I also can't get anything much cheaper! I can get 40mbps service, but it's like $100 (it's fiber-to-the-node, with copper to the house). If I go from that to the minimum the cable *or* phone company will give, 1.5mbps, it's still something like $45 a month. They constantly advertise "$20 a month" but that is for like 3 months, then the price jacks up to normal. There's some cities here where, if you want to settle for like 1.5mbps or so it's about $15 a month. But not here!
What they should really do (both in Australia, and in the US) is, rather than making sure people who can already get a fast connection can get an even faster one, try to improve speeds for those whose best speed is below, say, 5mbps. And try to make an affordable option available as widely as possible. In Australia I think cost may be a bigger consideration!
The Problem with that is..
The problem that is, is that its cheaper to improve the speeds for those who are already getting great speeds.
I know this one's a bit extreme, but:
Think of Alice Q. Public, out there in the middle of the "Never Never" (outback). ADSL isnt an option - never mind a Phone line less than 7Km, her Driveway is 7Km long! Laying out a whole lot of celltowers to cover huge spaces of "nothing" isn't practical, neithers a few 100Km worth of Fibre cable. Her only option is a couple of Megabit (if she's lucky) on Satelite.
Compare this with her big-city cousin Sydney Public. She lives in a very densely populated area with lots of city slickers. Due to the huge demand for landlines, there's a few exchanges in her city, and the lines aren't that long. The costs of any improvements can be split between her, and her relatively densely-packed neighbours.
The moral of the story is, if you want fast internet, move somewhere where its cost effective to provide it to you, and don't expect the majority to pay for the minority.
Not quite true
There are other options being looked at for remote areas, such as microwave links.
You can get well over 100Mb/s on a MW link, with low latency and, from a small mast, ranges of 100 km are feasible. 150km has been achieved but you do need a mast the height of say Ayers Rock...
Yes they are susceptible to rain fade/dust depending on the frequency used, but they can be very cheap to install and run. You could be up and running for about AUD $2K . Not great for mission-critical apps but then 'Alice' probably isn't that way inclined.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
Labour want to build the Fibre network and filter it. The others want to build something else instead, but havn't said what, and are strangly silent about the filter. We vote in two weeks. What to do, what to do. The Greens may get the balance of power in the senate, pro-fibre, maybe pro-filter.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Sad when you have to vote for the lesser of two evils because there's nothing else.
@Roger Jenkins - FYI Greens' stance on filter
I think the Australian Greens are against the filter
according to this speech.
Not just a technical issue
There are an enormous amount of idiots here on old plans from Telstra Bigpond (the largest ISP) and paying double for a fraction of the speed and download quota they can get from competitors, or even from Bigpond themselves if they simply called up and asked to be moved to a different plan.
Yes, large parts of the country are underserved, but a boatload of ignorant consumers are on slow, expensive connections due to their own inability to shop around.
BT (Bloody Terrible)
And in the UK BT is working on its 21CN (21st Century Network) attempting to get speeds other countries were aiming for in the 20th century. They're not even trying to compete. Unless it's for the wooden spoon?
Ahh the conservatives started it
I believe the conservative party of Australia actually initiated the filter. This whore here: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/homepages/senators.asp?id=2M6
That's why there appears to be no opposition to it.
At least Gillard is an atheist - so sick to death of religious leaders in this supposedly secular state.
Ahh the conservatives started it - Except they didn't
The liberals provided a 'Net-Nanny' style PC-based filter that you could download, free of charge, from your ISP. It wasn't compulsory, it wasn't whole-network based and, it seems, it wasn't downloaded a hell of a lot either.
Of course the latter fact was seized upon by Conrod who decided that the reason for the poor takeup was that it was all too hard for the poor timid public and something had to be done 'for their own good'.
Gillard may be an atheist, but her puppet-masters in the Labour party as still militant Christians. Senator Conroy was in fact one of the higher-ups in the faction that pushed Gillard into power after Rudd's fall...
So we are still doomed to a religious parliament, no matter who we vote for...
Censored.....Bonk! (Sound of rubber stamp)
What's the point, if the Aussie government is determined to censor their internet out of existence? It'll be only GOOD AND WHOLESOME THINGS that you'll be able to legally download at speed. Proxy lists, anyone?
Slower than New Zealand
I thought that was a general principle?
As in " every time someone emigrates from NZ to Oz, the average IQ of both countries goes up."
Rob Muldoon
That particular wee quote gem was popularised by then Prime Minister Rob Muldoon, back in the day.... He was a very clever wee gnome of a man! Made a great Narrator in the NZ stage production of Rocky Horror too, after he left parliament.
thanks for that
I could NOT remember the name.
Was the UK still in last place as it has always been?
even *getting* broadband in Australia is hard
I've just moved to Sydney and I am still waiting for my broadband to be connected after placing the order 3 weeks ago. Since the telephone line in my apartment was previously a Optus line, I have to have a Telstra engineer check the line from the exchange to the building and then Optus from the krone block to the apartment. Two engineer vistis for an operation that should ready need none.
In contrast my mother placed an order in New Zealand on Saturday afternoon and was connected by Tuesday. In Japan when I signed up for Yahoo Broadband, they hand you the modem if you sign up at one of their shops and it is active by the time you get home.
I have had broadband in 4 countries and this is by far the slowest to get installed. I wonder how it will perform once it actually gets installed.
Slow Oz
Too right, I wondered why my Steam downloads were crawling at 3k t'other day, then I realised they were going thru Telstra servers in Oz - switched to New York and it ramped up to 700k. I'm in Auckland - I ask ye....
Large country, small population, limited infrastructure...
You can't get blood from a stone.
Just an excuse
@Winkypop - "Large country, small population, limited infrastructure..." is a poor excuse, Australia is one of the most urbanised countries around, the vast majority of the population lives in < 10 cities.
Ahh Telstra
The phone company that makes BT customer service look hyper efficient. I once spent 3 hours being passed round different departments to resolve a billing issue, and in the process discovered they had multiple billing systems, but most departments couldn't access both.
I live in an area where there are a large number of new estates, most of the housing has been built in the last 5 years. We are stuck on ADSL if we're lucky, as Telstra decided to put in a sub-exchange, rather than a full exchange, so there is no room for the kit needed for ADSL2+.
They don't really need superfast broadband tho
ABC has all the best shows in the world (they have the best of both BBC and PBS!) and that negates the need to torrent anything.
Now Malaysia. When you have nothing but crappy free-to-air TV stations and Pay TV providers that does either does not care about the viewers (they dropped BBC Entertainment in favor of some stupid home makeover channel goddamnit! How am I going to get my fix of Red Dwarf and the good doctor now!?!) or have appalling coverage, and oh, blocked from both iPlayer AND Hulu. Then you have every need for high speed broadband. Except that the monopolizing Telekom Malaysia (our version of Telstra/AT&T) is only planning to make the service available in selected areas, and mine apparently isn't one of them.
Fail. Need I say why?
It is hopeless
It's not like we didn't know or there weren't enough evidence on what went wrong. But our average general public are too stupid.
Let's see:
1. Large amount of people still buy the story that Telstra is good for the country.
2. Most people still believe gov great wall of Aussie is good for the country.
3. Majority of people don't understand how our gov works.
4. Majority of people are too greedy, too stupid, too selfish, too easily controlled by who ever is in power.
What we really need:
1. Get rid of all of current blood suckers. Gov is meant to serve the public. The head of gov is not "leader" of public, NO he/she is the top servant of the public.
2. Get rid of our stupid tie to the queen or king of England.
3. Bill of rights that put power back to people's hand.
4. Ban all political correctness crap.
5. Ban all religions interfering with any gov policy or any law.
Really don't see how point 2 helps you in any way. I'd say that any politician that focuses on this should be ignored as they are clearly paying lip-service to public needs and going for a headline grabbing story to divert attention away from the fact that, despite it's huge mineral resources and solid-ish balance sheet (the States don't look as rosy), the infrastructure and services available in Australia are shithouse at best.
This a is title
"...downloading illegal stuff from torrents..."
Illegal stuff? You mean like plans for a radioactive dirty bomb, or was that supposed to be 'illegally downloading stuff from torrents'? Although I suppose given the quality of a lot of todays music/movies/games...
@ it is Hopeless
I whole heartedly agree. However, it is a pipe dream and considering the pipe I use to connect that dream is trickling through at a couple of bytes per hour
The grenade because with the options I have in the upcoming election they can all suck on it We ask for leaders and we get to choose from a bunch of grubby corrupt little pissants
Telstra is fun.
I Live in the state of Tasmania. We only have 3% of Australia's population living here on the island state. However Telstra owns the Fibre optic cable to the state, so naturally as a result of competition, its frozen the other companies out of tasmania, by having higer data costs on the cable than it costs to send data to the US.
Telstras exchanges could have adsl2 turned on, but dont so they dont have to wholsale the adsl2 services. The competition will only sell selstras wholesale services. Telstra will enable individaul ports to adsl 2 for permium customers, the pricing is terrible.
You're a year out of date, competition is in Tasmania now.
Stop complaining and start investigating.
1. Aurora fibre across Bass Strait went live in June 09.
2. Internode has progressively been rolling out ADSL2+ in Tasmanian exchanges since then
I went naked ADSL2+ at the beginning of this year (about a month after my exchange went live with Internode). My old plan was 1.5Mb theoretical, usually about .9Mb, had 30% less download allowance, now I'm getting 9Mb/s (1.6km from exchange, old cabling inside house) and I no longer pay $22/month for a landline I never use).
Check out http://whirlpool.net.au/ to see if coverage is at your exchange yet.
Oz bb reliable?
Mine (in Melbourne) always drops out when it rains hard. I normally get 3mb's from ADSL2+ (25k from the city-centre) so I guess I'm ahead of the game.
The other problem is that there isn't anything worth downloading in Oz, so it all has to come across the pacific over a piece of soggy string. Shopping online from Oz providers isn't generally any cheaper or quicker than shopping online and getting things shipped from the US, UK or HK. In fact, it is usually cheaper and quicker to buy from abroad. Even the shipping internationally is often cheaper than local postage.
Telstra is also a major problem. They own a lot of the infrastructure and charge twice as much as everyone else. Competition isn't something retailers do in Oz in any area.
Icon: yep, they're taking your wallet
Amen to the internet shopping part
You can buy your books from the book depository in the UK and get them sent to Oz for half the price they cost locally. Get them billed in local currency too at a reasonable rate. Completely nuts.
I believe the term is....
"Sucks to be you"
From a concerned NZ'er ;)
I'm a happy Orcon customer, whose equipment in the exchanges spanks that of the incumbent Telecom (the Telstra/BT of NZ). Go LLU!
NZ also has a fibre-to-the-door 10 year plan (currently being semi-tendered). We'll see in 10 years just how that's going....(i.e. whether the tendering has finished and work actually started).
Not just the first mile
Of course it is in Akamai's interest to downplay the achievable speeds. Since their content distribution network removes a major cause of Australian customer --- US content underperformance, the 180ms latency between Sydney and the US west coast. Australia and South Africa are unique in that there are major performance issues outside of the first mile.
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A Russian school teacher says he was forced to quit his job because he complained that the Moscow school system requires students to use Microsoft Office. Vladimir Sorokin – a computer science teacher and deputy director at School No. 572 in southeastern Moscow – tells the Moscow Times that officials asked for his resignation …
Easy solution to this
Stop buying M$ products. That way, M$ can't bribe the Ruskie governments with their "donations" and "charities", and the Ruskies will give up on M$.
Tux. Because.
Why not
stop buying Appl£, $ony, D£ll, M£rc£d£$, To¥ota, Chr¥$l£r, $am$ung or any other company that is in business to make money and you can make an amusing mix of currency symbols and alphabetic characters to show your hatred of them.
Oh, wait - all companies want is your money. All of them have no interest in you other than your money and will lie cheat and steal to get it. You lose any chance of getting any point you have across when your argument descends to the level yours did in the first sentence when you reveal yourself to be so immature.
Now where is the blindfolded tux icon as far too many linux 'enthusiasts' seem to have one fitted if you suggest to them that linux may not be perfect and isn't suitable in some situations.
What part of
"In 2007, the Russian government ordered all of the country's schools to adopt Linux by 2011" Is so hard to understand?
There is no consipicy here, just someone who complained to the Kremlin, which is never a good idea. He lost his job over such a stupid thing as MS v Linux, he deserves all he gets.
would people stop this 'M$' shit? It's fucking puerile and immediately gives the reader the impression that the writer is some friendless uber-zealot with some form of higher functioning autism and an eternal aversion to sunlight. The point is valid though, if they're supposed to be moving to Linux by 2011 then they really shouldn't be using Microsoft specific training programs. I suspect in this case you could follow the money and find your answer pretty quickly though.
To be fair "To¥ota" actually looks kinda cool - though even better with a couple of adjustments
To¥oT - like some kind of crazy owl face .... erm, ok, back to work now
Damn fool, doesn't he realise that Linux isn't Win32 compatible?
Damn fool, doesn't he realise that Linux isn't Win32 compatible?
Come to think of it, most of the Linux devotees (Mr 1%-ers) who read these pages don't realise it either.
Linux is too hard and different to Windows for the average user. Linux zealots never accept this.
As I implied in my earlier post, Linux is too hard and much too different to Windows for the average user to easily accept. As always, it's really the basis behind such disputes. Linux zealots never accept this fact. Nor do they ever accept that Linux--not being Win-32/64 compatible--is a disaster (and primary reason) for its failure to gain a wider acceptance*.
It has absolutely nothing to do with about how good Linux is technically. It is all to do with compatibility, keeping one's working/desktop environment, not having to retrain and not having to buy or convert applications. Simply, it's all about keeping one's existing comfort zone intact.
Very unfortunately, Linux devotees, who are usually well skilled and have plenty of resources, never see these issues as important or significant. Despite their 'brilliance' they've a totally myopic view/understanding about how the average user works and thinks. And, despite many years of development, it's the most significant reason why Linux is still and will always be a 1%-er operating system on the desktop.
As an IT professional who's spent many years trying to convince users to adopt Linux and failed miserably, I now find it much easier to lie back and be raped by M$. At least M$'s marketing department knows and accepts that between raping sessions I'll be with the majority and have some recuperative evenings off.
Such a concept or notion doesn't even gel with the Linux fraternity. Being in love is being totally blind to the other's faults; but nothing makes one more acutely aware of every aspect and nuance of the raper than when one's being raped by him.
Mandating a change to Linux in Russia will most likely fail.
* Frankly, I reckon 'desktop' Linux should be ripped apart, modernised and converted to Win32/64 compatibility, alternatively Linux users/developers should forget using it for desktop use and perhaps spend their efforts in getting the moribund Win-32 alternative, ReactOS, to a working stage.
Of course, this will never happen (unfortunately, the world doesn't work in a logical coherent way, especially when there's a lot of vested interests involved (and pride at stake)).
after he complained to the Kremlin
those are the key words, believe me. Nobody loves trouble-makers complaining over one's head.
Well, that's just it
If the Kremlin wants its policies to be obeyed, then clearly he should be re-instated, and the people who fired him should themselves be unemployed. Obviously, if people at the bottom aren't free to inform those at the top of failure to comply with directives, the directives will not be obeyed.
It may be that there is a perfectly good explanation as to why this training system requires an exemption from the general policy. But there is nothing improper in asking for clarification of the apparent contradiction. Attempting to suppress this is open defiance by his immediate supervisors of their supervisors, and that is what has to be stamped out ruthlessly if one is to have any kind of a functioning organization which actually does what it has been directed to do.
Of course, while Linux is good, having invaded Georgia, Russia's leaders appear to be evil. Thus, it would be better for Russia to collapse into anarchy than to revert to Stalinism. But if they had a good central authority, brought to power by an enlightened electorate in free and fair elections, then effective top-down control would actually be a good thing.
Some sushi are on their way to his house now.
Going to get more of this.
Who is funding the bulk of that "russian silicon valley" thing again?
"There has to be freedom of choice."
There is a choice. Use it or quit!
Corruption most likely.
Given Russia's communist past, and its deep suspicion of the USA, it always amazed me that they even allowed MS operating systems to become so common (OK, pirated in the past) rather than insisting on something they have control over. Remember this?
So most likely there are officials in a position of power who stand to lose over the choice here, and they are pissed that he has spoken out over this matter.
Get them while they are young - MS and the church both know that.
Anymore complaints, then one word and one number
Polonium 210
In Soviet Russia....
Microsoft own you.
"the people who feed the school"
You have to wonder how much money Microsoft provides in the form of "incentives" to the individuals who run the "Moscow Institute Of Open Education" eh?
It seems that the tactic of "If you can't win on your merits then bribe the decision makers" is still very much alive and well in Redmond.
A good cause
A good cause doesn't pay the bills....choose something worth complaining about.
And you think.
That that's just Russia, happens all over the world, complain about a managerial choice trouble, show it to be wrong, you get fired, or go over your managers head, that'll do it too.
He tried to follow the directive and sought clarity
Unfortunately, that clarity was clearly very murky indeed.
I am not a number
"School No. 572"
That sounds like something out of a bad cold war movie...
Hardly surprising to hear that Microsoft has its tentacles
cozily wrapped around the Moscow city administration - one can only hope that now that Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov has finally got the boot, the new mayor can clean up some of the corruption for which that administration for which that administration was noted. Perhaps then, it will be possible for ordinary teacher to question Microsoft's attempt to maintain its monopoly position in the city's school system....
Someone in Russia, working in "dead-ucation", is trying to think for themselves, they could be dangerous by encouraging students to follow the same reckless path! We must all serve the corporate entities, it is our destiny! Do not defy them!
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Have been busily farming for the little Zandalari raptors this week and now have them all, plus a full set for hubby :) Am slowly working on the 999 bones but my goodness it's a long haul! I have been lucky enough to get a primal egg to drop though off the world boss loot so very happy about that, am thinking ill give myself a break from the isle and the bones till it hatches lol. maybe a break will bring new luck in getting myself that seriously cute lil direhorn
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Ok, so this pet is now official the hardest pet for me to get my little belf hands on (well, not that blood elves have small hands, but well..you know). I'm hoping the WoW gods are looking down on me while I write this and they take pity on me cause I'm starting to see Grimtotem Mauraders in my dreams! I do recommend if you are going to start farming for this one...take an alliance toon and round em up at New Thalanaar. AOE loot ftw. /peeks up and smiles at WoW gods hopefuly.
I had never seen this lil guy on my server before today. Read some of the comments here and decided to go kill any battle pets i found in the valley, went back up and nothing. Went down and killed the few critters i could see, went back up, nothing. Flew around for ages then decided to take a break, came back to comp and there it was! The killing battle pets/critters thing might have nothing to do with it, but worth trying it!! Mine spawned at around 69,41. GL all!
Finally had one drop for me after thousands of kills, SO HAPPY. I highly recommend getting the spot around 67,47 (I think thats it, where the orcs and dragonkin are fighting). The spawn rate is brilliant there, aoe them down and auto loot. There are two small groups on either side of them, I found that if I ran up and quickly got those, the pack in the middle spawned faster and with more of them in one hit. I got into a cycle of left pack, middle, right pack, middle, etc. Good luck!
FINALLY! I have tried every method possible to get this guy. I had been re-trying the flight path method this morning, unsuccessfully, so went back and there was Immolatus. I killed him (again) but this time stuck around and kept killing infernals and critters around where he was and a poor Minfernal popped up!! Keep at it, it is all about luck with this one. No one method seems to work for everyone, so try them all!!! Good luck guys!
Found in Tanaris, at 64,60 after flying nearly the entire coastline and starting to think I would have no luck here. Pretty easy capture with the team I have of lvl 13s. Happy hunting!
Found both the Twilight Beetle and Twilight Spider at Sable Ridge as mentioned above. There were no spiders there the first few fly arounds but I killed off the few roaches that were there and on the next fly around, there was this little spider :)
Sooo pleased it didn't take me as long to get this one as it did for me to get the Giant Sewer rat! lol
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