Posts by Colin Tree 215 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2008
"Best and Brightest" sounds a lot like sourcing foreign workers to fill IT positions.
"Stem and startups fever is starting to bubble" - so I just licensed one of my recent inventions as Creative Commons Non-commercial Share-alike, to make sure it doesn't get stolen by some smart ass, fascist, little opportunist, but it's free for DIYers to share and tweek - eeYZee router.
We would probably have a far inferior internet without porn.
Porn was the earliest successful business model on the internet.
Porn can certainly show Hollywood how to build a business while giving away free content.
Porn has driven data bandwidth and download limits.
Now video content providers have learnt how to do it the internet will hopefully become more kid friendly.
Waitress:
Well, there's egg and bacon,
egg, sausage and bacon
Egg and porn
Egg, bacon and porn
Egg, bacon, sausage and porn
porn, bacon, sausage and porn
porn, egg, porn, porn, bacon and porn
porn, sausage, porn, porn, porn, bacon, porn tomato and porn
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Choir:
porn! porn! porn! porn!
Lovely porn!
Lovely porn!
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/digital-technologies/curriculum/f-10?layout=1
This week she who must be obeyed was at a conference for Australian Curriculum, F-10 Digital Technologies. The bureaucrats didn't have a clue.
1. Queensland is getting dumber, but only Victoria is doing OK, even NSW has gone down by 3
2. We need more money to support DT
3. We don’t have teachers with the expertise, if you had the expertise you would not be a teacher
Today – boring as – a room full of the very people who are supposed to be making this better and most of them had NO idea.
Australian Government public servants were there – sprouting on about CODING but without any understanding that kids can’t just be made to be like little monkeys copying stuff – they actually have to have a purpose to what they do, and they have to actually THINK about what they do and they actually have to SOLVE a PROBLEM with their coding - but all that is too hard for the pollies so instead they just skim across the top wanting students to “perform”….. needless to say I got quite agitated at times!
…. I feel like crap
The council owns the roads and footpaths and has the easiest access to working on that land. Council has the best knowledge of existing infrastructure underground and where to dig.
Councils have a lot of expertise in civil engineering. What expertise they don't have with fiber can be employed and work with NBN to achieve a good outcome. Council staff will be retrained and become more valuable to the community.
Council has the communities well-being at it's core. It is very positive value adding for rates income, useful, improved communications for local companies expanding and for residents being in touch with their communities and beyond.
If we call the internet a hi-tech communications road, council is only providing the infrastructure it should. Local electrical/communications companies would be contracted by residents to take the fiber from the boundary to the premises, just as we build our driveway to connect with the greater road system.
The best reason for fiber is the vastly reduced maintenance cost which pays off the upgrade in a small number of years.
The cost of the VG fast modems will probably be extraordinary. Currently the standard for G fast MIGHT be finished last this year.
Watch the magician pull a rabbit out of his hat, ah but wait it is a slight of hand, a distraction, from the real story which is.......... fiber, and........... data.
In years to come, after wasting enormous amounts of money on old or transitional technologies fiber WILL be put in the ground.
The providers have to give customers the required bandwidth and data limits for new applications right now.
a quote from
http://jpe.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/1/109.full
Australia is among one of the world’s wealthiest nations; yet, its relatively small human population (22.5 million) has been responsible for extensive deforestation and forest degradation since European settlement in the late 18th century. Despite most (∼75%) of Australia’s 7.6 million-km2 area being covered in inhospitable deserts or arid lands generally unsuitable to forest growth, the coastal periphery has witnessed a rapid decline in forest cover and quality, especially over the last 60 years. Here I document the rates of forest loss and degradation in Australia based on a thorough review of existing literature and unpublished data.
Important Findings Overall, Australia has lost nearly 40% of its forests, but much of the remaining native vegetation is highly fragmented. As European colonists expanded in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries, deforestation occurred mainly on the most fertile soils nearest to the coast. In the 1950s, south western Western Australia was largely cleared for wheat production, subsequently leading to its designation as a Global Biodiversity Hotspot given its high number of endemic plant species and rapid clearing rates. Since the 1970s, the greatest rates of forest clearance have been in south eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, although Victoria is the most cleared state. Today, degradation is occurring in the largely forested tropical north due to rapidly expanding invasive weed species and altered fire regimes. Without clear policies to regenerate degraded forests and protect existing tracts at a massive scale, Australia stands to lose a large proportion of its remaining endemic biodiversity. The most important implications of the degree to which Australian forests have disappeared or been degraded are that management must emphasise the maintenance of existing primary forest patches, as well as focus on the regeneration of matrix areas between fragments to increase native habitat area, connectivity and ecosystem functions.
I'm sick and f*cking tired of climate deniers.
Want to support the oil industry drilling in the Arctic.
The richest industry in the history of the world,
and the probable cause of it's impending demise.
Now that Abbott is gone I might have to come up there and shirt front you myself.
The Reg needs a good solid kick up the ass.
Well, don't believe what every well meaning technician tells you.
We're talking supersample anti-aliasing, which might work over the whole picture or just edges of objects or colour areas, depending how much processing power the TV has. It does work, it smooths the jagged edges even though it might appear to blur slightly. I personally don't like it.
The amount of processing power to anti-alias a large picture with a lot of movement is colossal and I feel a waste of technology. This sort of kit should be advancing society, not trying to make a fecking football look better.
And that's from another well meaning technician.
Mr Hockey said "it will take a long time to get this right, if ever. We are going to have taxation officials travel around the world visiting companies asking them to register for GST purposes. There could be hundreds of them..."
He has no idea how much tax it will bring in, but it was certain to exceed the cost of collection because Australian officials would not be asked to open parcels to check whether tax had been paid.
Hockey's a moron.
Re think memory and how it's used is what Intel is saying. All the current memory interfaces and file systems could be out the window eventually.
I expect immediate inside the processor core, then external, linear memory space[s]. Using 1/10th the space, on-chip storage just took a big jump up. A processor will want to take advantage of the bit address-ability for ALU and logic operations. No dynamic refresh time wasting, cold boot nothing needs to be loaded into registers, the OS will be simplified, no more paging between disk, dynamic ram, cache, registers. How much of an OS is just to manage different memories. Hardware security of a linear memory space is already well developed. Bit addressing, serial, variable memory widths. I/O devices with the same memory advantages.
We need new engineers not restrained by standard processor topologies to design into the future.
Back in the day, there was a surcharge on CDs, which covered royalties and allowed copying audio CDs. There is always a reasonable way to make everyone happy. Maybe content makers get some royalty payment from overall internet traffic paid by ISPs and added as a surcharge to all internet users. This will pave the way for future increases in online content consumption.
I'm more interested in reliability. We live in an area 0.9 meters above high tide. Basically the ground water is just under (and over) the surface with a good rain, and all that Telstra copper repeatedly fails. It's currently 6.85 Mb down and 0.33 Mb up. But it's sod all when the line is down.
Verison says the savings of FTTP is compelling on all counts, fibre is overall 60% cheaper than copper.
Turnbull read a dodgy executive summary and is now the worlds greatest specialist on communications. The guy is a cretin.
Is it time to review how all taxes are collected. Multinationals are making a joke of the whole international tax system. It has to be re-organised by all countries in cooperation before all governments go broke.
Tax funds transferred in any transaction instead of taxing the goods or services, wages or profits.
Tax both sides of the transaction - both the credit and debt, then international transactions will share taxes to both countries. Forget tax refunds, just make a sensibly low tax level which raises sufficient to pay for government expenditure. Adjust the tax level to balance the economy, simple.
Everyone pays, no-one dodges tax.
quote"
REVISED EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
7. The Bill gives effect to several of the PJCIS‘ recommendations including:
the data retention obligation only applies to telecommunications data (not content)
and internet browsing is explicitly excluded (Recommendation 42
"
So they say what they WON'T store, but where do they say what they WILL store.
What protocols on what layers are being monitored and stored ?
Will they store all or selected packet headers, all DNS data, SMTP headers, all phone call connection data, etc ?
7. appears to say anything we can do through browsing is excluded,
thus what has been said about Gmail, etc being unmonitored.
But that also appears they will turn a blind eye to pedophile or terrorist browsing ?
If I use a public DNS located overseas will that be unmonitored ?
Are all application layer protocols monitored ?
Questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today.
Ahh, but its a great time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen .... FZ
It's a simple panacea, look tough, don't make waves which might come back to you, don't actually do anything, but be seen do be doing things. Maybe make a speech which resonates with the public. Just when Tony's at a very low ebb. Mal's up for the top job and couldn't do any worse than Tony.
But Mal's in for a broadside from Labour, raising the republic debate for Australia Day, to cause tension with the LNP conservatives, but can Mal resist a republic comment for his possible future as PM.
I love the political thrust and parry.... wankers
Of course governments are to blame for not picking up taxes. World wide the tax systems have to change to taxing money transfers, not taxing profits. A low tax at both the credit and debit side of all transfers would also share tax evenly between countries and cover internet purchases. The tax would be collected at banks when any money transfer occurs. Taking cash out of a bank would be taxed at a high rate and some tax returned for returning cash to the system.
Stop perpetuating the climate doubting myths you idiots.
I have been watching the effects of man made climate change since I was young.
If you have your heads stuck up your fundamentals and can't see what is in front of your eyes, please stop making comments.
The fossil fuel industry is the main culprit and the have spent a fortune sending out propaganda which you digest and regurgitate to your readers.
The fossil fuel industry is in it for the money and doesn't give a rats about our children's future.
Wake up you little toe rag.
My brothers rural, installing NBN connections in homes.
Fixed Wireless - faster than a 56k modem he reckons !!!
"Wholesale" speeds up to 25 Mbs or Wholesale speeds up to 12 Mbs,
depending which NBN "fact" sheet you read.
Would be interesting to get some real feedback from (L)users
http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/
Our GST gets taken by companies for products and services and sent to the tax office.
But surely the efficient place to collect tax is at the bank transfer.
The tax office wants to collect where 'profits' are generated, which will only cause loop holes.
A very small tax on both the debt and credit side of all transfers, will get tax from everyone for everything.
Overseas transfers will pay tax in the purchasers country and the sellers country.
Get rid of all other taxes and adjust the size of transfer taxes.
No more tax deductions, everyone pays a fair tax.
We could probably sack 99 % of our accountants as well !!!!!!
I trust my linux boxen.
I choose to not have external access to my home machine for security reasons.
But I have from time to time setup external access as storage and remote login.
Clouds leak, go broke, change their rules, cost ...
A single user cloud is still a cloud, in that it is distributed, not one centre.
But anyway it is still the server centric computer model of the 60's.
Corporations just can't let go and allow properly distributed peer to peer.
They would loose control of everything and give up control to the masses.
I don't trust corporations.
I though M$oft was fairly irrelevant in the modern internet world compared to 1 -2 decades ago, couldn't give a Bing.
I started with Netscape then Mozilla on Linux when Explorer ruled the net and broke web pages.
The competition with other web browsers levelled the playing field.
Thanks Google.
Keep the future support transparent to maintain our trust in Mozilla.
What is Firefox OS?
It's the thingy running my next phone so I can trust my phone the same as I trust my Mozilla browser!
And this is exactly the problem with languages which don't factor out problems in an elegant fashion but instead reduce to horrible nested loops of incomprehensible symbols which vary between languages but to the young student all look like crap, yuck.
You can make it even more incomprehensible in Python, wow.
The most important part of programming is understanding the problem and deriving a solution starting with documentation, maybe writing pseudocode, commenting, then finally writing your code.
If you want to teach crap like that you have to document what is happening with lots of words.
Come on Ralph, give the kids (and the parents) the easy learn-able version,
at least 4 lines with verbose commenting.
Then you can stay back and write the application in at least 10 languages for being a smarty.
Here is a text which teaches problem solving through programming in arguably the most efficient language. http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf0/sf0.html
An old book kids would be able to learn from, I first got a copy in the 80's and still open it on the rare occasion.
Programming isn't just apps on tablets.
Most of the processors and code on this planet is in small computers embedded in devices we use every day.
Embedded programming can make math, science and engineering come to life for a student in real world applications. Exceptional students might try to build a Tardis for their friends doing history.
The whole concept of centralised records is flawed. We might bang on about XP, but that's only one issue. The more complicated the system the more possibilities of failure. We have seen government medical systems costing too many $millions and failing spectacularly.
If you hold our own medical records on a usb stick. Go for medical treatment anywhere, you have your complete medical history available and it gets updated with each visit to any doctor or medical service.
Could contain images, scans, EEG records, pathology results, doctors notes, medication prescribed and dispensed, etc. A more intelligent unit could be programmed to remind you when and how to take medication or give appointment reminders, or in emergencies transmit a medi-alert.
Take it home and back it up encrypted on your home computer. You run a virus scan on your own stick, the medical centre does a virus check on your stick, hopefully your stick doesn't get sick.
We rely too much on centralised servers. If your computer gets hacked the hackers get one encrypted record, not a worthwhile target. It is worth the hackers effort to get an organisations server with thousands of records.
" The old (and often unfair) jibe about teachers was "if you can't do something, teach it." This now appears to be hopelessly out of date in modern Britain. If you can't do something – tell teachers they must teach it, and pocket the subsidy or the profits. You can't go wrong.® "
...and if you can't teach it, do curriculum.
This is the result of the federal Liberal review by Donnley and Wiltshire (dickheads). There will now be intense lobbying and responses from independent systems and state government departments. I get this stuff at high volume from my squeeze who does Curriculum for independent schools.
We pay for the NBN once, it's a truck load, but then we will use it for decades and it will generate truckloads every year.
1 truck = lotsa trucks = good
All I see is economists and accountants wanting to control something else. Sorry guys you stuff up everything you touch, e.g. G.F.C.
First the country wide backbone and redundant paths should have been boosted.
Second paths from backbone to exchanges should have been boosted.
Third boost exchanges to nodes.
Fourth build FTTP.
The politicians wanted the accolades immediately, they run on a 3 year cycle so they had to show fast user connections now. It's going to take years to do it properly. Get the work started and be patient, set sensible milestones, keep an eye on contractors ripoffs.
Just sounds like object oriented programmers applying themselves to networking. Which means large power hungry routers, switches, NTU's, running buggy, bloated, high level, abstracted code. Maybe they could populate a lot of network caches with a gazillion content addressable memories.
Rastus, Moore's law also applies to communication speeds, otherwise I might still be very happy with my 300 baud modem, you definitely wouldn't remember having 50 baud would you.
The future should include active web pages viewing as real time hd video, not just low res small you-tube vids in a window.
Doctors using ultra hi res imaging in real time, engineers and scientists working with massive data acquisition in real time.
You just be happy downloading your porn in 15 minutes, meanwhile the rest of the world is progressing into the 21st century.
People have intellectual property.
Corporations have contractual property.
Corporations have no intellect.
I am happy to give credit when it is for the creator.
The most useless people on the globe are the lawyers who work for corporations
and suck the life blood out of people.
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