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by quink 12y ago
> billions to infrastructure Oh, what's this? I think it was the sound of Tony Abbott on Jon Faine's program back in February last year lambasting Labor for treating the NBN like an infrastructure project instead of a broadband
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by quink 12y ago
Ditto. While I'm never going to use this Yo here thing, I don't consider it to be something that never should have existed. Yo and the mere fact that it exists means that the per-unit cost, monetary or in terms of effort, of makin
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by quink 12y ago
I want to enjoy reading this as much as it deserves to, but there are so many typos ;_; Nevertheless, I shall persist and so should you.
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by quink 12y ago
Chromecast is not an ISP.
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by quink 12y ago
Don't you know that change frightens and confuses people? For anyone for who changes do just that, check this out, which I think is the most impressive example of data-driven UI design ever documented even remotely this well: http:&#x
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by quink 12y ago
Considering most HD refers to 1080i or 720p, even more so here in Australia, I don't mind this so much. Remember, anywhere really, that broadcast or cable TV is hardly ever 1080p. With this step hopefully killing off interlacing, I sup
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by quink 12y ago
Please have a quick look through, I don't know, the last 100 videos and find me your typical Field of Gears of Duty War Call Battle. Even when he ventures into something in FPS land, the most recent outing was Shrubbery Simulator. And
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by quink 12y ago
> Now making jokes about rape and the holocaust? PewDiePie can go fuck himself. OK, I can't find anything on Google on the latter, and only something on the former from three years ago. If you're saying that with 1 billion view
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by quink 12y ago
Wikipedia says 57%. And apparently he lives in the UK these days.
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by quink 12y ago
> No. I'm not a fan of "mindless" entertainment when there's so much that I don't have to turn off my brain to enjoy. I don't mean it in the sense of being mindless entertainment, it's more off the get
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by quink 12y ago
What do you mean, 'disappear'? I'm pretty sure taxes charged on income doesn't just flow into government and then suddenly vanish without a trace. > The 24-year-old Mr. Kjellberg, who created PewDiePie five years ago,
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by quink 12y ago
For me, the only surprise was that the guy is from Perth - my number 2 guess - instead of Sydney's inner west or south or Campbelltown, which was my #1 general area guess.
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by quink 12y ago
Just a guess... you were born before 1982, right? I think most of this really is just an age gap. I don't think that PewDiePie is the height of Let's Play quality (and definitely not any of those you listed) - that honour might as
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by quink 12y ago
Whatever are you complaining about? Little as I am a fan of the WYSIWYG philosophy, Office is a genuinely spectacular product.
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by quink 12y ago
Ahhh, the CEFC. http://www.afr.com/p/national/clean_energy_profits_up_in_smo... $200 million annually in profit by 2017 for the government through investment in renewables. But making money from renewable energy i
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by quink 12y ago
> The $5.68 million research program is supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and is part of a broader collaboration with Abengoa Solar, the largest supplier of solar thermal electricity in the world. Australian Renewable E
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by quink 12y ago
We're posting things on climate science now? So here we have one not a climate scientist and it's been linked once, so I guess I'll post the relevant sections from the IPCC fifth assessment report as many times in number as t
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by quink 12y ago
> Well, it was "better" on every axis except one -- it was centralized. I can assure you that if Bitcoin wasn't decentralised by design (which is like saying 'if this wooden desk wasn't made of wood'), it&#x
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by quink 12y ago
Well, if you can think of a better way to find out that it's Tuesday (at least in my timezone) again than seeing this reposted I'd very much like to know about it.
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by quink 12y ago
> A knee-jerk reaction to throw out the baby out with the bathwater by abolishing the whole patent system may not be the right solution here. To further that analogy, if that bathwater is a toxic brew with, at least in the software indus
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by quink 12y ago
OK. Which of the 17 rules does this apparently working deliverable fulfill? Because I'm not seeing many rules having been delivered upon... at least not that I can see.
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by quink 12y ago
¿Porque no los dos?
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by quink 12y ago
And how long will that last? And there's a presumption here that businesses with lots of IPs that got in early aren't already selling them for fun and profit. They, such as Nortel, already are.
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by quink 12y ago
OK, why are we making it darker? Can't we just LED the place up - sure, it'll require ongoing power, but it must be cheaper and more flexible. Imagine you did this on Earth and how much you could save over nuclear bombing the plac
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by quink 12y ago
And if I worked for freaking Sinodinos, the coalition counterpart here, that response would bore me stiff. Not to be read as a criticism of the response per se, mind you.
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by quink 12y ago
> Fix the internet. It doesn't matter how much it costs. I care how much it costs, which is why it's utterly insane to go with the coalition's VDSL2 at $40+ billion. GPON on the other hand is a bargain at any price below $
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by quink 12y ago
I don't know about Lynda, much of what I've seen on it is just ridiculously reliant on Adobe products. But in any case, while the content on these is great and all, what happens is that often you're then tied to a specific pl
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by quink 12y ago
Disclaimer: I work in the library industry, with public libraries. Fund public libraries. Fund the hell out of them. As we're moving towards the future, the disparity between those who have grown up alongside x, y or z technology and t
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by quink 13y ago
Not updated yet, but here it goes: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.14 , with the caveat that: > /!\ /!\ /!\ WARNING /!\ /!\ /!\ : This page is not complete and it's missing lots of crit
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by quink 13y ago
ns4 = (document.layers)? true:false ie4 = (document.all)? true:false if (ns4||ie4) document.writeln('<DIV ID="bulge"><IMG SRC="bulge.gif" WIDTH=49 HEIGHT=148 BORDER=0></DIV>')

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