Posts by Russell Brown
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Unfortunately I liked that as a low cost model, which apparently it isn't, and Treasury believes that private investors won't be interested as they'd have no return (although some may be willing if they are then locked in as the final connectors)
This was the problem with Maurice Williamson's costings last year. He made great play of what Verizon is spending on FTTH, without noting that Verizon's sums assumed total ownership of the network, and getting iirc about $US200 a month out of each household for phone, internet and television.
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I've given up trying to get the actual page on Stuff to load -- I'm getting the "internal error" message more often than not these days -- but The Standard looks at the Treasury study on the proposed fibre network, which seems to conclude:
1. The budgeted $1.5 billion is nothing like enough to pay the taxpayer's half of a high-speed fibre network reaching 75% of New Zealanders. The total cost is more like between $5bn and $10bn.
2. No 1 is especially true if you actually want "ultra-fast" broadband in the form of an active, rather than a passive fibre network.
You may feel free to ruminate on where you read both of those points first ...
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Russell, you have to put a space between the quote thing and the italics thing.
You'll learn. :)Clearly ...
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__ They probably also give "imply" as a definition of "infer." __
No 2 option in NZ Oxford, No 3 on Encarta.
Truly, these are the end times.
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What Robyn Said. I would have thought it easy enough to contact say the Waikato University Computer Science Department, and work your way out from there...
In the hope of finding someone of the desired gender? These things tend to be hard enough to put together as it is. Like I said, we were going for stories to be told: Nat made New Zealand's first web page; DPF was all over the place on Usenet, including as a moderator for regional newsgroups, and was also a key player in the InternetNZ coup; and Colin created the first .govt.nz web pages, as a Ministry of Commerce skunkworks. There are a thousand stories in the city, but those are the ones we have for our 12-14 min panel.
I know it's not the same thing, but our medical panel in the same show is 100% female.
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Refute: The Encarta World Dictionary gives as it's second option: To deny an allegation or contradict a statement without disproving it.
Backsliders.
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I think an account of the very early days really should have someone from Waikato University, eg John Houlker.
One News has interviewed John, so we thought we'd try someone else. There were quite a few candidates for the panel (Tim Wood was keen, but is out of the country this week), but we settled on those three on the basis that they have particular stories to tell.
That's not to say that there weren't women who made substantial contributions early on -- Lin Nah, and Kim Scheinberg of Iconz come to mind.
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Google map of infections courtesy @rands
Nice. If that's the word ...
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Won't somebody think of Lorelei?
She finally gets her Twitter on, and it's called SwineFluNZNews ...
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The "symptoms of swine flu" site is on a domain registered yesterday by by Bruce Wileman of BB Internet Group, Johnsonville, Wellington.
It already has a Google rank of 5, and I'm not inclined to further participate in Mr Wileman's game. The spam links are going.
3410, where did you see the link in the first place?
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