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21 Dec 09

Game Server Search, Player Search, Server List, Stats, and Rankings in Australia [AU]

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Pacific Gaming - Australia - News

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13 Dec 09

Apple’s Next Media Frontier Will Be Streaming Video | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

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building a 500,000 square-foot data center in North Carolina, which could provide the massive bandwidth required for ubiquitous streaming video
approval this week of iPhone apps with live video-streaming capability.
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- September iPod event, Jobs made it clear Apple was entering the consumer video market.
- what’s the big deal if you put live-video capability in a phone? You can carry it everywhere and broadcast live from anywhere, and that opens a whole new world of applications for the technology. John Ham, co-founder of video-streaming startup Ustream, predicts live video will give birth to a new world of citizen journalists.
- Knocking Live Video, an app that broadcasts live video between iPhones, said anywhere-video broadcasting is the evolution of Twitter.
- pple is working with Lala’s engineers to revamp iTunes into a streaming music service that lets users buy and listen to music through a web browser.
- makes Apple software the potential hub for personal media, something that is poised to explode in the next 2-3 years,

10 Dec 09

Whale Watch Kaikoura

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06 Dec 09

Mobile broadband plans - 3G - Mobile data - wireless - Vodafone NZ

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you need. Choose from casual access just for the day, or our monthly
100MB, 1GB or 3GB plans. If you need help working out the best mobile
broadband plan for you, check out our data calculators
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- Open term$79.95
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  insurance. If you go over your included data allowance, we'll automatically
  double your data for just $10 more. You don't need to do a thing,
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- To get onto a monthly plan, visit any Vodafone
  retail store . They'll help you choose the best plan, and
  sort you out with everything you need to get online from your mobile
  or your computer.

Worldwide Mac: Using the iPhone in New Zealand

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if you want to buy an iPhone in New Zealand, unless you're willing to jump through a lot of hoops and pay a lot more money, Vodafone is pretty much the only horse in town

05 Dec 09

Torque for iPhone | Best of Torque | TorquePowered.com

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04 Dec 09

cRARk - a free RAR password recovery utility (Win32, Linux, Mac, GPU)

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03 Dec 09

West of the Border: 屎提夫卓噗

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Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory

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Eureqa is a software tool for
detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Its
primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could
describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data. Eureqa is free to
download and use. Below you will find the downloadable program, video tutorial,
user forum, and other and reference materials.

02 Dec 09

The Financial Markets , Gold and Good Wine: Comparing The Great Depression with The Current Crisis

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clues on how to anticipate and dampen the effects of future crises.
asymmetry of the Gold standard was that countries who experienced gold out-flows necessarily deflated but countries who enjoyed gold inflows (notably France and USA) could hoard the specie and avoid increasing their money supply
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- necessary reflation which was in every one’s interests.
- ery nature of the Gold standard intensified price- deflation and banking weakness, but there were other destabilising events.
- Wall Street soared from 1926-1929 and the speculative element increased dramatically with “ bucket shops “ which allowed gambling on the price of securities with leverage of 10 to1.
- current fiat system has equally transmitted banking crises and capital flight , however fiat has also transferred unsound credit practices , money creation and speculative fever around the world.
- root of the crisis lies with the unnecessary easy monetary policy following the 2000-2002 recession and the subsequent proliferation of easy credit ( particularly for the housing market ), leading to an unsustainable housing boom, and a vast unregulated derivatives market [4]
- key problem was that the FED’s 1 pct interest rate policy was matched by inappropriately low rates by many countries who feared asset market declines. In particular, the Gulf States, Hong Kong , China and other Asian countries who linked themselves to the dollar either formally or informally were forced to have commensurately low rates.
- real estate boom in the US was then spread through the unnecessarily easy monetary policy around the world. Many countries have had unsustainable real estate booms which bust. USA,UK Spain , Ireland , Dubai all have huge problems.
- In the 30s it was the extent of short-term debt that caused the problems. This time it’s the unregulated nature of debt in the derivatives market and the nature and size of consumer debt; for example 50 year mortgages, interest –only mortgages, teaser rates, sub prime lending etc
- the fiat system has allowed a build up of credit and leverage around the world of unprecedented proportion. This time, unlike the 1930s, the problem was rooted in too easy monetary policy.
- US and UK in particular have monetised over 50 pct of their government debt and there is a possibility of a buyers strike. China may equally monetise if the dollar weakens enough to threaten her quasi-fixed exchange rate. The consequence is clear. The credibility of the fiat system , like the gold standard , is in question.
- The Fiat system needs governance and sound institutional support. Governments must understand moral hazard and cannot keep interfering with central bank policy to prevent necessary hard recessions as in 2000-2002. Fiscal deficits have to be kept within reason to prevent debt crises; perhaps there should be 2 government houses .The first one is elected to raise taxes and the 2nd house elected to allocate those taxes with a strict Chinese wall between the two. All derivatives must be on an exchange to allow losses to be settled continuously and immediately[6].
- finally, the masses wake up. They become suddenly aware of the fact that inflation is a deliberate policy and will go on endlessly. A breakdown occurs. The crack-up boom appears. Everybody is anxious to swap his money against 'real' goods, no matter whether he needs them or not, no matter how much money he has to pay for them. Within a very short time, within a few weeks or even days, the things which were used as money are no longer used as media of exchange. They become scrap paper. Nobody wants to give away anything against them.
- anger of fiat creation and has started reallocating its dollar assets , buying gold and investing in mining companies and commodity assets. It is important that many indebted governments act decisively before everyone else participates in the crack-up boom.

Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model - NYTimes.com

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truth about open-source companies: their societal and strategic importance far exceeds their financial value as operating businesses
One main incentive for Oracle to keep improving MySQL is that the program serves as a bulwark against Microsoft’s SQL Server database, which challenges Oracle’s products on the low end.
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- best-known open-source company is Red Hat,
- Red Hat offers a free version of its base product and relies on selling support services and extra tools for revenue
- In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns.
- Many of the top open-source developers are anything but volunteers tinkering in their spare time. Companies like I.B.M., Google, Oracle and Intel pay these developers top salaries to work on open-source projects and further the companies’ strategic objectives.
- Sun, for example, bought MySQL for about 10 times its revenue, while Citrix bought XenSource for more than 150 times its revenue, according to people familiar with the companies’ sales.
- Most recently, VMware, the leading maker of virtualization software, brought SpringSource for $420 million, or about 20 times its annual sales.
- A lot of open-source firms are one-product companies, and it’s hard to build a long-term, successful business that way.”
- larger technology companies have tended to buy these one-trick ponies for strategic purposes
- a critical mass of adoption

30 Nov 09

Speeding up science: CSIRO's CPU-GPU supercomputer cluster (Fact Sheet)

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The CPU-GPU supercomputer will likely be ranked in the top 500 fastest computers in the world and will process data at Teraflop speeds, putting Australia on the forefront of computer science facilities
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The Portland Group

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The Australian Institute for Commercialisation - Ideation - The Precursor to Innovation

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ideas ideation idea

The more ideas you produce the greater the chance of finding a winning or breakthrough idea.
“Applied Imagination” where he described the concept of “Brainstorming”. Brainstorming is now widely used as a tool to generate a large number of ideas in a group setting
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- Tony Buzan’s MindmappingÒ technique has also provided the means for individual brainstorming.
- We can improve the process of capturing ideas by
- Actively looking for ideas around us through observation and listening e.g. talking to people, reading newspapers, magazines and books, and observing the environment around us
  
  à Building idea sources such as reference books, thought leaders, mentors, social networks and the Internet
  
  à Recording and banking ideas in notebooks, journals and electronic databases or PDAs.
- When ideas are generated and captured they are usually in a raw form and require further processing or constructing into a concept or application.
- idea development or idea translation.
- tools can be used including brainstorming, morphological analysis, scenario building, rearranging, cross-linking or randomising.
- final step involves harvesting the developed ideas that will either satisfy an existing market need, solve a known problem or provide a new opportunity for further development.
- evaluating ideas an initial feasibility should include a preliminary technical, market and risk assessment.
- Paralysis by analysis should be avoided if the idea is to progress to implementation
- To develop great ideas and not to action them is the same as not having any ideas at all
- typical implementation process may involve: clarifying the objective, developing the plan, identifying key processes and tasks, prioritizing activities, resourcing and budgeting, sourcing funding, assigning task responsibility and then doing it! Developing a compelling business case or business model with a clear path to market is a key factor of success in taking an idea to market.
- . Measures of the potential value that can be created by implementing an idea are known as “value currencies”, and they might not be about money at all! Types of value currencies are revenue, cost savings, efficiency gains, social benefits

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Game Server Search, Player Search, Server List, Stats, and Rankings in Australia [AU]

Pacific Gaming - Australia - News

Apple’s Next Media Frontier Will Be Streaming Video | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Whale Watch Kaikoura

Mobile broadband plans - 3G - Mobile data - wireless - Vodafone NZ

Worldwide Mac: Using the iPhone in New Zealand

Torque for iPhone | Best of Torque | TorquePowered.com

cRARk - a free RAR password recovery utility (Win32, Linux, Mac, GPU)

West of the Border: 屎提夫卓噗

Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory

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The Financial Markets , Gold and Good Wine: Comparing The Great Depression with The Current Crisis

Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model - NYTimes.com

Speeding up science: CSIRO's CPU-GPU supercomputer cluster (Fact Sheet)

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The Australian Institute for Commercialisation - Ideation - The Precursor to Innovation

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