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The definition of unemployment is actually the same in many countries - it's not a conspiracy by any single government. The fact that it doesn't reflect reality is another story. The Employment Rate is a far more reliable indicator - that's what treasuries and reserve banks will be watching...

The solemn event is the *dawn* service, after which they play the Last Post. Then there's a wait until 1pm (depending on the state) until the licensed establishments open for business. Entities that got into trouble included: a) a major supermarket chain that slyly opened in the morning to...

I'm not sure OEMs or most users care about utility software for storage drives. Samsung has a two-year head start delivering 3D-NAND. From the article I linked, they owned 45% of the SSD market more than a year back, which was 5 times Intel's share. The only way they could become equals is if...

It's good of you to notice, Merc, but it's not exactly a "happy" event. It's essentially a wake. Of course, this year it fell on a Monday so most of us scored a long weekend ... the level of social happiness definitely went up a few points. :)

I imagine that hubris has caught up with the current management. Eg: Intel Aims To Surpass Samsung In The SSD Market By 2016 I see that their current CFO (bean counter) is being groomed for the top job. To me personally, that's a huge red flag - if I was crazy enough to own Intel shares, I...

I also have a paid account. Can't rule out the geographic possibility, though.

Maybe my browser is fooling me, but there's nothing in that Wikipedia article about licensing Toyota, nor in the references it links to in turn.

Finally, I'd like to share with you: Tom Swift's Atomicar. BTW, I'm not implying that it's the Model 3 - it's just that the hype surrounding Tesla reminds me of it. Enjoy.

May well be a Google Fu fail, but I couldn't find any reference to this. What IP did Telsa license to Toyota?

I did not miss it. Congratulations to SpaceX on finally achieving their stated aim of landing a rocket on its fins on a barge. Of course, Blue Origin launched, landed and reused the same New Shepard rocket 3 times in slightly more than 4 months, all before this. Yes, yes, I realize it's a...

Rockets have been 'reused' for quite some time now - you may remember the Space Shuttle ... The boosters were recovered and recycled. And the Shuttle engines could be reused after considerable refurbishment and testing (several months worth). Yes, yes, I realize we're much smarter now, and...

Problem went away overnight. Therefore, the numerous posts complaining that Hamachi servers are oversubscribed may well be correct. Have been OK since, so it might have been a temporary Hamachi equipment failure (unreported of course).

That's about one day's Windows updates, isn't it? Seriously, is there a typo in there somewhere? My phone service is $50 for 3GB, with all local, national and mobile calls, plus 5 hours international included. That's a month-to-month contract, i.e. no commitments. What have you done with Tannin?

No, I'm saying <redacted for legal reasons> is a bullshit artist. Whether or not it *can* be done is beside the point - whether or not it's a good idea is an entirely different question. Your boy isn't that much different from Donald Trump - don't let science and engineering stand in the way of...

Do I have to spell out every detail of the SpaceX manifesto? It calls for sea landings, not a staged media event on land with a small payload and heaps of spare fuel. Only a couple of years ago, it also included controlled landings of stage 2 rocketry (the marketing video is still on YouTube)...

For me, Hamachi is suddenly broken with the dreaded "Failed to connect to the Hamachi servers. Would you like Hamachi to monitor server availability and establish a connection as soon as it becomes possible?". Am I the only one, or is it affecting others?

SpaceX is running on government (NASA) money. So is SolarCity, and to some extent Tesla. The first three companies are 'ethically challenged', eg: http://watchdog.org/212170/surprise-solar-liens/ https://www.consumeraffairs.com/solar-energy/solarcity.html Let me know when Musk achieves his...

Ah, I see, this works differently to how I expected. You're saying that your feed in during the day is credited at the same rate as your draw down at night. When is it reconciled to decide whether or not you provided an excess: daily or at the end of each month? When feed in was first...

It's a shame that cars typically get charged at night, when the Sun is kinda missing ...

http://time.com/money/4279284/tesla-stock-price-surge/ I guess there are lots of analysts writing complete piles of crap. Your hero is an idiot and this will all end in tears - a surfeit of orders is actually a curse in this industry, where scaling up production takes years. This is not an...

Sounds entirely credible to me: Tesla will get trampled by the mass market

Sorry, I've been speechless. Very bluntly, the collective responses here are what I would have expected from my parents. You guys really need to get out more, or something. :p David Bowie was very probably the 20th century's most influential figure in music, period. Mercutio, of all the...

It's a shitty article and they're reporting on junk science - from MIT, no less! I'm afraid I gagged on "soft, beautiful glow". There's nothing soft or beautiful about an incandescent bulb, particularly anything over about 25W.

Recent events cast David Bowie's just-released album in a whole new light. He appears to have created a work of art based around his death. I recommend Lazarus. Now, the whole thing makes sense. Awesome and tragic at the same time.

That is a truly excellent idea. But it's a little too bleeding edge for Oz at this stage; you can *pre-order* one from Computer Alliance for only A$69.

The ML03 is a slimline case - will it fit your 750ti? The cooling philosophy is to mount up to 4 fans along one side for cross-flow. In practise, it has tons of ventilation holes and doesn't need much or any forced cooling at all - but I haven't tried one with a gaming card (because it's slimline).

Brother In Law I suspect?

"CZ80" is the model code for all SanDisk Extreme USB drives. It is both fast and affordable and the first thing I thought of when Chewy said he was looking for decent performance. But on the Anandtech Photoshop tests, it is nearly 4 times slower in reads and nearly 7 times slower in writes than...

You need a flash drive with a proper SSD multi-channel controller and appropriate firmware. The only one I can see available in Oz (but it's one of the best) is the Corsair Voyager GTX. Megabuy at Chermside has the 128GB version in stock for AU$159. Anandtech has some tests where they try to...

Your original cooler performs just fine - you provided stats to prove it. Given you bought a "K" suffix CPU, people might assume you were overclocking - that would be a reason to consider using the Hyper 212. Otherwise, it is a pointless exercise: running a CPU a few degrees cooler when it's...

Not especially. Including nearby New Zealand, we already have 4 timezones - daylight saving increases that to 6. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Australia In my experience, the biggest nuisance is the increased difficulty in catching an early enough flight to arrive by...

Did you forget your monthly chicken sacrifice?

Lunar, storage has been measured in billions of bytes (Gigabytes or GB) for many years now - except in brain-dead Windows, which never quite got past the days of MS DOS. Windows displays binary gigabytes, i.e. GiB, which is actually only relevant to RAM because each word/dword is directly...

Being online is normal for hardcore Scrabble players, based on the sample of one that I know. If you're stuck, I could ask her if there's any offline alternatives she would consider.

Really good article on this topic: http://www.caradvice.com.au/278125/headlights-explained-halogen-v-hid-v-led-v-laser/

Thanks, but I'd rather keep the AU$89 each month ...

What, for surgery?

I'm trying to set something up at a location remote from me. Turns out one of the target platforms is running Vista Home Premium. This is bad, because I need to install and configure stuff on it, but of course there is no Remote Desktop. The hacks to make RDP work on Vista Home seem to be no...

Because the sunny side reflects the sun straight into the camera? I'm just guessing, but reflective surfaces and direct sunlight are usually highly problematic.

About to order a new laptop. Windows 10 Pro or Windows 7 Pro: what's the verdict?

CougTek is the real BOFH.

That would be well-nigh impossible. Think about how each light source actually works. An LED without a lens probably has a beam angle of about 150°, whereas the other sources emit in a full 360° spherical pattern. In practise, LED's usually use some sort of lens that results in a much narrower...

Coincidentally, I just stumbled across this opinion piece, which seems reasonable to me.

No, because every company except VW managed to pass certification for the standard without explicit cheating. Having said that, I *am* sympathetic to your point: the never-ending conga line of wannabe lawmakers who argue that because car companies have managed to meet arbitrary thresholds, they...

+2 The issue here is that Volkswagen engines simply weren't good enough, so the company decided to screw their competitors who spent time and money actually complying with the law. It was a successful strategy, with Volkswagen now the biggest car company in the world.

Edimax EW-7811DAC USB adapter with dual band directional antenna Achieved better than 50Mbps (according to Speedtest.net) through two brick walls with one of these about 30ft away from a 802.11n WAP on the 5GHz band. I realize that's no help if you want it for anything other than a PC.

How about the T450s? The S1 has a 12.5" display and I assume is a fair bit lighter than the 14" Yoga 500. Do you think the extra weight would spoil the experience?

Need to find a replacement for a Lenovo X300 (13.3" 1440x900 1.3kg). To get the same screen height, it will need to be a 14" 1600x900 or preferably 1920x1080. IPS panel very much preferred. I think anything over 4.5lb (2kg) would be too much of a shock to a user who has had 1.3-1.6kg laptops for...

We suffered with a Netgear business WAP at the office for 18 months. It was a giant piece of crap. Finally, we got the Ubiquity model that timwhit did. Zero problems. Aside from the single band limitation, it's an absolute bargain. FWIW, I solved apparently insurmountable WiFi problems at one...

Lunar: I was never impressed with the S2 reliability wise. I would just bin it and move on.