Posts by Kyle Matthews
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But I heard that Prime was showing it without losing the feed. Surely Prime and Sky are using the same feed??
Both lost picture, but kept sound. Sky went to ads, Prime stayed with it and got it back about 30 seconds in. Sky came back a minute or so later and the commentator apologised.
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Japan asked for a review and we saw all the judges review the footage together and change the grade once it was analysed. If as in gymnastics a performance is graded by deducting marks for ability to execute certain moves, I think the video footage actually makes marking easier and if it is deemed by all judges to have been marked wrong, shouldn’t it be amended?
Did they review the efforts of the other teams in the running for medals? How could it be fair if they didn't?
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Could somebody please explain to me what mechanism has been used to deny same sex couples a marriage licence – given that the Marriage Act doesn’t actually stop that occurring?
The case is Quilter v Attorney-General (Court of Appeal in 1997, reported in 1998 I think).
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NZ highlights so far - black sticks beating Australia, White Ferns coming within 5 minutes of drawing Brazil (jeepers they gave it everything), Bond and Murray making the entire rest of their field crap themselves by hacking the head off the "World Best Record" (why world best and not world?).
And the French guy Yannick who anchored in the 4x100 Freestyle absolutely spanked Lochte to get gold for the French. Owned him on the last 50.
Worst: My partner making me watch artistic gymnastics. I can handle the vault and bars and whatnot, but I don't get why they have dancing bits in the floor exercise. Talk about gap filler between the tumbling.
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Only distantly related to hip hop (he does some beat boxing in his music), but I’m quite taken with Kishi Bashi. Uses his violin (both in the traditional sense, and more like a guitar, strumming), vocals, beat box, and a loop pedal to create some fantastic music.
And here live at NPR to get the full effect of how he builds his music up:
(Starts to fire up about 90 seconds in)
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I've certainly been proud of the Young Nats recently
That is interesting isn't it. There's been enough internal pressure that they've stirred up and political cover from the wider public to make it look like it might pass. Perfect year to have your members bill plucked out of the ballot, does anyone know if both possible bills were put in with the knowledge of what young nats were working on?
Like many here I'm damn stoked that 1. this has been pulled out of the ballot, and 2. prospects look good. I remember a blog post that Emma wrote not horrendously long ago along the lines of "time for this now dammit!" No doubt the debate will get more unpleasant, but tonight I'll consume a beer or two for making society a little bit better.
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Because it’s not the same amount of hardware if you’re selling even 100Mbps into the home, never mind gig.
Yeah, it wouldn't compete well with fibre direct to the home, but in comparison to broadband to the home, wireless connected direct to fibre would tend to be equivalent to several connections. Plus you could mount multiple hardware on one fibre line no problems and a person could connect to any of them. Seemed like a sensible approach to the last 20 metres that suited the local environment there.
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I'm happy. This investigation relates to an election that he lost, so it's not like his weasel ways won him anything. Maybe it might have prevented him winning Epsom if this had come out ages ago, but I suspect it just would have meant that we would have Don Brash instead of him.
The police have been pretty clear that he's done the dirty, but they can't convict him on it, but it's another good nail in the coffin of his career and in the the ACT party. Only a little over 2 years to go!
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Relies on an exclusive partnership arrangement between the provider of the physical layer and the provider of the services layers. Which is completely the opposite of the intent of UFB.
Yeah I don't know exactly how it came about, but without having tried it, it seemed like an excellent result for the customer. Why provide internet to each apartment when you could provide it to the whole block with the same amount of hardware?
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Personally, I’d have thought a Fibre-To-The-Lamppost technology with wireless of some kind for the “last 20m” would have worked better. That way, there’s no/less premise equipment, no/less marginal cost of connection and the ability to offer free trials.
A friend of mine had this in America about 7 years ago. The local council installed to the telephone pole outside the apartment, and then did partnerships with an ISP to provide wireless from the pole. She got good connection all around her apartment, and just had to pay for an account with the ISP.
Had the massive advantage that she got a wifi connection all around the neighbourhood for several miles - basically removed the need for mobile data.
Probably wouldn't work as well in NZ in suburbia where your house starts 10 - 20 metres back from the footpath.