US price= US$2599
Aus price= AUD$3949= US$4134
US/AUS= 2599/4134= 0.62
So not double but still a 60% increase (50% when you take into account GST)
Australia has a GST tax. Just figuring out if you are liable for this will cost you a bundle.
Figuring out whether you are liable for GST takes about 5 minutes. Registering for GST would take a few hours. Nearly every company in Australia registers for GST, so the government made it extremely simple. These things are such a marginal cost that it is ridiculous to use them as a reason for significant price differences.
crippled late-to-tha-game almost-abandoned video streamer box is a revolution?
I personally think it is crippled at the moment (I jailbroke mine and run XBMC on it) but saying it is abandoned just shows your ignorance. Apple just released a new UI and new hardware, as well as building airplay into the next version of Mac OS X.
It's also an unsent draft of an e-mail written by a Google employee who wasn't working on Android!
Oracle are using the final sent email now, the reason they had to use drafts earlier was because Google tried to claim attorney-client privilege on the final email (because it was sent to a few lawyers). Also Lindholm has said that he worked on Android, just that he didn't work on it very much.
Your being an idiot aside, this was an unsent DRAFT email.
It is not just a draft. Oracle ARE using the drafts as evidence, but the final email also included the licensing language. The reason Oracle had to use the drafts was because the original email was at one point argued to be privileged information. It was found not to be and the final email is considered evidence.
so they should rescale the bars so that when you are at half speed or less you get 1 bar.
The speed you get on LTE depends on both the congestion of the cell and the strength of the signal you get from that cell. I thought the iPad can only tell what the strength of the signal, that cell towers don't report levels of congestion (excluding when they are too congested to operate). I don't think telecommunications companies would be willing to let consumers see how congested their network is either, they want consumers to see 5 bars all the time.
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