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by jeza 14y ago
I grew up in Australia with metric, with parents and grandparents who grew up with imperial units. Though it seems things happened differently in Australia as my parents (and possibly grandparents too) converted to thinking in metric at lea
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by jeza 14y ago
The majority of luxury models of European cars are made for export. Not to say they don't drive there (of course they do), but it's often quicker to travel by train so a lot of people do so, even though they own a car.
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by jeza 14y ago
Affluent people in Europe actually use public transport.
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by jeza 14y ago
Though the report lists top brands, which they must get from something other than the census.
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by jeza 14y ago
Unless you're lucky enough to live in a country (like where I live) where public health care will cover your expenses. :) In any case you could argue that the driver of the vehicle is responsible for your expenses since they hit you. Unfort
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by jeza 14y ago
A bicycle would be good in such circumstances!
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by jeza 14y ago
It is the only uninterrupted motorway from the east to west sides of Melbourne, but not the only core arterial. There are other roads you can use to get from one side of town to the other. A lot of traffic using the tunnels is just commuter
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by jeza 14y ago
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Thanks. I remember those days all too clearly. Everyone assumed that because Microsoft dominated Desktop computing that they would be able to leverage that into any future platforms. Even then, the higher usage of
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by jeza 14y ago
I noticed that as well, though they no longer have the image of Bill Gates with fire (I think?) coming out the side of his face for all Microsoft related stories. E.g. http://web.archive.org/web/19990209091342/http://www.slashdo...
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by jeza 14y ago
My account there is five digits as well (I probably didn't sign up straight away). The ironic thing is that I was probably about 15 years old myself when I started visiting Slashdot.
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by jeza 14y ago
The media has certainly quoted Melbourne as being a potential place: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/apple-co-founder-s...
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by jeza 14y ago
You can easily apply to get your British citizenship back. I suspect they'd automatically reissue it, unless you've committed a crime or something perhaps. Of course it'd never be guaranteed. Reading between the lines though, I think its mo
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by jeza 14y ago
Really? I've never really associated Australia Day with eating meat, but if we were going to organise something on that day a barbecue would be quite likely. But that's probably true of any day where we'd be organising a family gathering. I
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by jeza 14y ago
They have to measure vehicle speed accurately and in such a way that will stand up to scrutiny in court. So not just your run of the mill consumer type camera. I like your joke nonetheless. :)
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by jeza 14y ago
Only a $40 fine... that's a bargain! It does make it seem silly that people would respond by recking the cameras. I wonder if it's more a case that some people will vandalise anything they can. (Here in Australia we pay at least $200 for a
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by jeza 14y ago
We had a white christmas in Australia... in July! ;-)
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by jeza 14y ago
Maybe it'd be safer to swap out the hard drive with a brand new one before crossing the border? :)
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by jeza 14y ago
It seems all that iMessage really does is enable users to discover connectivity through an alternative means and enable communication through that means. There's no reason you couldn't use the same mechanism to discover a JID/XMPP ID.
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by jeza 14y ago
In most jurisdictions I think you can claim your losses against such taxes. Something you'd certainly want to consider beforehand.
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by jeza 14y ago
I first installed Debian in 1999. I remember when Potato came out and was all the rage. :) The installer certainly was intimidating though once I got my head around dselect it made sense. I don't think they even use dselect on the installer
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by jeza 14y ago
This probably has more to do with the massive antenna (also known as a radio telescope) here on earth that are used to pick up the signal. Fortunately a few such antenna exist around the globe, so Mars should be in view of one of these ante
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by jeza 14y ago
This topic was also discussed here (regarding some previous missions): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4356878 They use a black and white CMOS to accurately measure the actual light hitting the lens (which may include non visible spec
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by jeza 14y ago
It seems we've spent just as much on preparing our athletes for London 2012[1] as the Phoenix mission to Mars [2]. So when are we launching a space probe into space? :-) [1] $380 million - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/No_surprises_for_sport
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by jeza 14y ago
Perhaps it would be a start if Google would recognise public domain content before matching against claims of other content owners.
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by jeza 14y ago
That might work if the road system were entirely isolated from the rest of the world, but it's not. There are walkers, cyclists, animals, children and other random obstacles that might exist, none of which will ever be controlled by compute
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by jeza 14y ago
The Commonwealth Bank tried charging for online transfers about six years ago. It caused such a public uproar that they made them free again. I suspect that it was a bait and switch attempt to phase out branch banking. I.e. make it free unt
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by jeza 14y ago
Wouldn't there be a problem with vendor support? Presumedly you'd have something in the contract where they'd fix things that break when it's their fault. That would include hardware and firmware. For the later, they might just insist that
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by jeza 14y ago
Maybe some people are illiterate. ;-) Though more likely, they probably noticed the difference but the packaging and the images looked so much like the iPad that they thought it'd be the same. Only to realise when they opened it, that it wa
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by jeza 14y ago
Seems like the US want to abuse extradition here. If he's guilty of copyright infringement, then they should be able to get him in NZ. Extradition should only be for cases where someone is physically present in a country where they commit a
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by jeza 14y ago
Surely there's a better way, like disconnecting the external aerial that feeds the GPS receiver?

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