Comment Re:0.53 per cent? (Score 0) 48

by hvrbyte on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:49PM (#53534779) Attached to: Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service

I think it's time for me to go relearn English again. I'm going to blame it on my Universal Translator, it must be on the fritz again.

Comment Re:0.53 per cent? (Score 1) 48

by hvrbyte on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:19PM (#53534649) Attached to: Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service

0.53% of 100 cents is 0.53 cents. So even if you round it up to the nearest cent it would be $0.01 for every dollar earned.

Comment Re:Cheaper than diesel ? (Score 0) 106

by hvrbyte on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @11:38AM (#50388279) Attached to: South Africans Revolutionize Concentrated Solar Power With Mini Heliostats

I'm originally from South Africa (all of my family and a lot of my friends still live there).

Everyone I know down there have diesel generators as backup. The state run utility can't provide enough power to supply the whole country which means that they institute "load shedding" quite often. What this actually means is that you can expect to be without power for 4 hour stretches on a regular basis as they roll these through the country.

I went back there for an extended (8 month) visit last year and the power situation drove me nuts.

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Dumps Water Data Project 112

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:27AM from the that-wasn't-the-plan dept.

littlekorea writes "Australia's weather bureau has racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system, based on Red Hat Linux, MySQL and Java, that was originally scheduled to cost somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. The Bureau's supplier, an ASX-listed IT services provider SMS Management and Technology, did a good job of embedding itself in the bureau, with all changes having to be made by the original consultant that built it."