Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Washdyke
Temuka
Dunsandel
Rolleston
Templeton
Hornby
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people wearing scarves over their faces?
Does the public highway have a dress code?
Also, they might have an employer who doesn't like them marching, or a bail condition, or zits.
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I think government agencies do cost and analyse FOSS solutions. Most of the ones I deal with do (and in purely commercial terms, it makes sense for IT consultants to recommend open source, as it costs more in implementation rather than license costs).
I'm not suggesting for a moment that the government goes for a student license or whatever - that's just what consumers do..
Now, if the FOSS world would stop telling decision makers they were mentally ill and start making the Linux/Open Office (or indeed Windows/Open Office) stack such that a person walking in the door wouldn't know they weren't using Microsoft, they might get some traction.
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If you buy one from Vodafone you can put ANY SIM card in it and it'll work. You'll need to change settings but that's it.
That's what I said, or tried to.
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Woosh is something over half the price of Vodafone/Telecom for a data-only connection.
There are a number of reasons they are cheaper:
- they only provide coverage where it's straightforward to do so and there is a concentration of potential customers.- a mobile provider is under an expectation that their customers will be able to connect in most urban/highway areas. Woosh isn't - they don't expect you to move around much.
- mobile providers have to try and defend their mainstream business from cannibalisation by data (e.g. email instead of SMS, VOIP)
- woosh have a much simpler billing task because of the lack of per-call charging (not to mention no interconnection)
- woosh don't have to manage telephone interconnection and are basically unregulated
- woosh are pretty much offering a consumer-only service. They don't have to provide the service levels the corporate customers of full-service telcos expect
- woosh has always been on the edge of commercial viabillity
Having said that, maybe the woosh model will work out in the longer term as people do switch to doing all their communication over Internet and using the mobile device as a pure Internet terminal.
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I guess improved mental health would lose NACT many of their most vocal supporters.
(Not to diss actual mentally ill people who don't post on Kiwibleargh).
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There is, I believe, two forms of locking on an iPhone, one to restrict your choice of network and one to restrict your choice of application.
Vodafone don't apply the first one, but the second is there until you get a patch to jailbreak it.
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the restaurant scene, no
I thought Banks owned a few pubs? With pokie machines that donate money to his campaigns, allegedly.
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"Auckland -- like Wellington, minus the brains"
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"Auckland -- like LA, only smaller, and it rains more"
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"Auckland -- we built the Southern Motorway, so you don't have to"
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Oh, have the reference for that