Posts by Matthew Poole
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For want of anywhere else to post this, it's going to be a long three years with David Garrett, isn't it?
I'm glad you posted it, because it saves me taking the conversation in that direction.
Garrett's behaviour justifies perfectly the opinion that so many people have of politicians. Regardless of what he thinks of Helen personally, it's an amazing achievement to go from PM of a nation that's a pimple on the arse-end of the world to number three at the UN.
Of course he probably wants to see the UN scrapped and all foreign aid terminated, so I can understand his reluctance to acknowledge the magnitude of this appointment. -
It would be frankly irrational for the government to not let Kordia go ahead.
To echo Mark, you've just used the words "irrational" and "government" in the same sentence, along with an implication that politicians would never act in anything less than the most rational of ways.
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100Mbps= theoretical top speed of the offering (ADSL2?)
VDSL would be the DSL variant that could offer 100Mbps over copper, but it drops off very rapidly as you move further from the exchange. Fibre's got no theoretical peak speed, but since we'd probably be using an ethernet-based system it'd be a peak speed of 1Gpbs (at present, and probably for the next 10-15 years given current technology costs and limitations).
Your numbers are also off. 100Mbps=10MBps (small b=bits, big B=bytes) is the rough rule-of-thumb that networking types use to account for protocol overheads. The movie would be 700MB not 700Mb. At 10MB/s a 700MB movie would take 70 seconds.
If Key's seeing GbE to the home your 7 second calculation works, but given how obscenely expensive current connections are I just don't see it being affordable except to the very richest of households. For a statement made to kids going to a public high school in a low-decile area, it doesn't add up. He was just, as per usual, shooting from the lip without actually having a skerrick of understanding to support his assertions.
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This just in about the Earth Hour-billboard-towing SUV. Then people wonder why I get cynical about events like Earth Hour. I'd have thought it was perfectly bloody self-explanatory!
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Think of it this way. the govt is for eg offering immigration and other inducements to people like doctors providing they go rural/small town. After enjoying European levels of access many are going to be put off by dialup, but not the Scottish type model.
This is very true. When you've grown used to fat tubes in the middle of nowhere, you're going to be distinctly unsatisfied by 9.6k skinnyband-over-number-eight-wire. I recall seeing an article on Granny that quoted an immigrant who loved nearly everything about the NZ lifestyle; except for our abysmal internet connectivity. The speeds, in part, but also the woeful caps at exorbitant prices.
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It's just that I know of your extra-curricular bent, you see, and we all know that actors are - shall we say, odd?
Look, the skirt and pigtails were done as a tech, not as an actor :P
And you also know how long I've been online. That makes me rather odder than my thespian tendencies ;) -
I'll be charitable and assume that Google was involved.
Thank you. Mr Harris, I'm disappointed in your lack of faith!
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"That's why they call it the present" is original Oogway, though, no?
Nope. I'd heard that line loooooooooong before KFP came out. It's been around since at least 1999
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The actual LFC isn't allowed to provide anything other than raw glass, right?
That's how it looks, yes, and to try and avoid the monopolist hell that we endured when Telecom had end-to-end control of everything it would be the smartest move.
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I think the point is they have effectively invested on mass for the eventual WiMax rollout and the forward tax loss will help get that business running stable for a lesser outlay.
No idea about the feasiblity of that business though.If they can turn it cash-positive, then you're definitely right about being able to get it stable more quickly. The problem is that WiMax seems to be being accepted as a dog whose day never quite came. Woosh will need to do something else if it's to generate more money than it's losing, if some of the articles in Computerworld in the last couple of weeks are close to the mark. Since one of the pundits is Paul Budde, I'm inclined to think it's probably pretty accurate.