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Comment Re:Plot twist: (Score 1) 85

NASA will make an announcement about the agency's first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m EDT Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium

I didn't realize NASA had a launch platform at Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium either, thanks for clearing that up!

Comment Re:Where's Mac Pro? (Score 1) 234

We've seen the future, and the future is touch-boards!

Apple saw how popular its touchbar equipped models were with people who have too much money and no technical experience.
Studies with a focus group of this demographic have revealed that people are sick and tired of keyboards that aren't a flat piece of glass over a backlit LCD panel.

Comment Re:$36 billion doesn't sound like enough... (Score 2) 149

They didn't even save money if you look at even the relatively short term picture though. 76 months, which is a little under 6.5 years is the figure I read where the FTTH network would have recouped the cost of the additional investment, after that it would have been more profitable than FTTN.

I keep hearing how the coalition are supposed to have good business know-how, but they went with the plan that after 6.5 years will cost more to run and runs at a fraction of the speed: 40% faster on average than DSL based on New Zealand's experience with the same technology, making Australian business that rely on high speed information services less competitive. I just don't see the logic or how this benefits Australia given the alternative that they adamantly rejected.

Comment Re:Sabotaged by Telstra (Score 3, Informative) 149

Speaking of monopolies!

Non paywalled link is a Murdoch paper. Coincidence that just as they look like they're about to be sold off, they speak out about the economically short-sighted move a lot of people think he lobbied for in the hope that internet broadcasters wouldn't run him and his overpriced cable out of town on the horse he rode in on? I think not xD

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