I was thinking about Apple's "cut". I usually buy iTunes cards from a retail shop when they are on special: often $30 for 2x$20 cards or $40 for a $50 card. Who is eating this "shortfall"? The cards themselves are not free, the shop can't be making a loss, so how much would Apple actually make from these cards? If I then buy an app for $40, the developer gets $28, so there isn't much available in the $2 difference!
Two years? We switched in the 1970s around here, well before I was born.
Here in Australia it jumps by 15-20 cents a litre EVERY WEEK, but then drops by a few cents every day, roughly the same peaks and troughs. At the moment it's 153.9c/L here for ULP-91, at the current peak.
Power company tried to screw over Microsoft ("they have lots of money, they should just pay more money").
However, Microsoft didn't get to where they are by writing lots of checks.
My 2 year old recognises the golden arches and a few other "naughty" food companies: he calls most of them "hamburger". But I have the skill to say "no" to him. Usually.
The Opposition is pretty much opposed to everything the Government does. Then if they get to power, they make tweaks, and if it fails they blame the previous government or if it succeeds it was because of the tweaks. This is true of both sides of politics and most projects.
Who actually wants Tony Abbott as PM anyway? No-one! Don't vote for the LNP!
But not via DLNA like other devices!
Mummy's kisses fixes my toddler's owies. All better!
Since they are not spending tax-payers money proper, if they wanted to use the money going to NBNco for something else it would have to go to something "private" like a pay-to-use (ie private) hospital, toll roads, private schools, etc - somewhere the government will get a direct return on the investment.
And some of the "50 lines to the home capability" is to highlight the (supposed) benefits, as when was the last time you needed more than 10 lines in your home? A family of 4 each on a 12-way call? That's their goal?
Isn't TFA talking about business plans? Some businesses will need 50+ lines and this is not targeted at home users.
The standard NBN connection comes with 150kbps of TC1 data, which is really for one line. There are speed tiers so that you can get 100Mbit/sec "best effort" or 150kbps "guaranteed". If they had to guarantee 100Mbps then it would cost a bit more than $38/month for the port (IMSMR).
Wouldn't the different ONTs work on different frequencies? So the "switch" at the "CO" would have to be backwards compatible, I guess like most (A)DSLAMs these days can support ADSL, ADSL2 and ADSL2+. (When I first got ADSL2+ I only had an old ADSL modem which connected well, until I got around to getting a new shiny ADSL2+ modem)
There has been a lot of talk about the current 2.5GPON will be upgraded to 10GPON and then 40GPON without much fuss. 40 Gbit/s between 16-32 users ought to be enough.
My sleepy lectures weren't wasting time after all.
My wife's grandmother recently died at 92 - she was the youngest of thirteen children (one didn't survive being into childhood so twelve). That kind of size was common back then, IME at least. (As an aside, all six of her brothers were either killed in the war or came back and never had kids so that family name died)
We planned on only having two kids but our second pregnancy was twins so we have contributed to more overpopulation...
Indeed. Might as well report Daring Fireball's statistic. 14% of his visitors are from Windows (as IE only runs on Windows it's clear much less than 14% of his visitors run IE) http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/07/03/ios-6-9to5mac
It's also noteworthy that the idiot we have a Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is planning to have his mandatory Internet filter block all RC content
He's gone quiet on the internet filter lately, since he's realised that it has been detracting from his good idea (The NBN) but the filter was only for child pornography and real illegal things. Not that I don't disagree it could have been expanded in the future - I don't agree with any kind of government filtering - but "blocking all RC content" would be completely impossible, since the block list would be bigger than the Great Firewall of China! And with the NBN fully operational the block list would actually be harder to implement/justify.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
