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Choc

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Symbian is dead.

Nokia has announced a partnership with Microsoft to put windows phone 7 on nokia phones going forward


wow.
 
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Dead Man

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Bernbaum said:
WEEKEND, and not a moment too soon.

Like alot things created by the Babylonians, the seven-day week cycle is totally past its expiry date with modern culture. A nine day week broken up as follows would be better:

- 2 day weekend
- 3 working days
- 1 midweek 'catchup' day
- 3 more working days before the weekend

And so on.

As such, the usual five-day stretch is mitigated by having two much more manageable chunks of three days straight.

Culturally, the mid week day would be the day you catch your breath and maybe do all the chores and shit that normally chews into your weekend. For students, the midweek day is for studying, lightening the homework load on regular days. It'd also be a regular trading day and a lot of people would still work.

As such, by having the catchup day, you're actually having proper time off on the real weekend and not doing the lawns or washing the car or whatever.

That makes for 40.6 'neoweeks' per year - so about 10-11 weeks per season. Get rid of the gregorian calendar and have 8 'months' all up - two per season. Give 'em poetic names or something, like 'Berntober'.

From a productivity perspective, there would be more days off per year due to weekends and the midweek day off (121 days compared to the current 104), but that doesn't factor in the work done by people on the midweek catch-up day. Plus, I'd argue that people would generally be more productive. At present, a core part of the economy really only works 4 to 4.5 days instead of the 5 official 8-hour days on paper. For alot of people, the weekend starts at Friday lunch-time, and from the behaviour I see in a lot of high-ranking workers in the city, you might as well write Fridays off altogether. The three-day blocks would be more work-focussed and I'd like to think that employees would spend less time farting about on facebook as they have more time outside of the week to do real socialising.

The benefits:

- a more productive working week (no fatigue due to the midweek hump and lazy fridays)
- more time spent actually enjoying your days off
- weekends are real weekends and you're not running errands

AusGAF dies in the arse over the weekend, so I doubt I'll get any good feedback on this. Maybe when the floodgates open on Monday I'll bring it back up again.
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Bern for PM!
 
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markot

Banned
Choc said:
Symbian is dead.

Nokia has announced a partnership with Microsoft to put windows phone 7 on nokia phones going forward


wow.
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Im kinda excited to see what happens. Ive got a Nokia N8 and I like it alot, but at the same time, Symbian on the higher end side of things seems stagnant, it doesnt have the buzz and it feels like it would be a real up hill battle to get it to compete with Ios and Android. WM7 isnt perfect, but it should be interesting to see what happens, if they can make it stand next and compete with the other 2 big boys. With Nokia and Msoft behind it, one would hope so >.<
 
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Caramello

Member
Bernbaum said:
WEEKEND, and not a moment too soon.

Like alot things created by the Babylonians, the seven-day week cycle is totally past its expiry date with modern culture. A nine day week broken up as follows would be better:

- 2 day weekend
- 3 working days
- 1 midweek 'catchup' day
- 3 more working days before the weekend

And so on.

As such, the usual five-day stretch is mitigated by having two much more manageable chunks of three days straight.

Culturally, the mid week day would be the day you catch your breath and maybe do all the chores and shit that normally chews into your weekend. For students, the midweek day is for studying, lightening the homework load on regular days. It'd also be a regular trading day and a lot of people would still work.

As such, by having the catchup day, you're actually having proper time off on the real weekend and not doing the lawns or washing the car or whatever.

That makes for 40.6 'neoweeks' per year - so about 10-11 weeks per season. Get rid of the gregorian calendar and have 8 'months' all up - two per season. Give 'em poetic names or something, like 'Berntober'.

From a productivity perspective, there would be more days off per year due to weekends and the midweek day off (121 days compared to the current 104), but that doesn't factor in the work done by people on the midweek catch-up day. Plus, I'd argue that people would generally be more productive. At present, a core part of the economy really only works 4 to 4.5 days instead of the 5 official 8-hour days on paper. For alot of people, the weekend starts at Friday lunch-time, and from the behaviour I see in a lot of high-ranking workers in the city, you might as well write Fridays off altogether. The three-day blocks would be more work-focussed and I'd like to think that employees would spend less time farting about on facebook as they have more time outside of the week to do real socialising.

The benefits:

- a more productive working week (no fatigue due to the midweek hump and lazy fridays)
- more time spent actually enjoying your days off
- weekends are real weekends and you're not running errands

AusGAF dies in the arse over the weekend, so I doubt I'll get any good feedback on this. Maybe when the floodgates open on Monday I'll bring it back up again.
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I wonder what it'd take for such a drastic change though? There'd be just too many issues involved with changing the way the calendar works from business to our culture.

I think a better way to look at it would be a per company basis, having work rostered in the way you've set it out instead of five days straight. Of course then some weekends will be rostered for working which means the employees of companies taking up this approach would be out of sync with everybody else and the culture of their country i.e. weekend sport, expos, the ability to meet up with people etc..

I do have a feeling that a shift like this is more likely to happen in our lifetime than it ever has been before though and I'm interested in reading to the various counter points to the idea of an overhauled calendar and working week.
 
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Deleted member 30609

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hey, who would have guessed it, Black Swan was great
 
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ClivePwned

Member
Got the cheap LBP2 from Dstore this week (with a 5 dollar off coupon it was $51 shipped). Played it for a fair while today and loving it so far. It tore me away from Donkey Kong Cuntingly Hard, which tore me away from BLOPS. I expect to receive AC Brotherhood sometime this week and have that tear me away from LBP2.

I am torn.
 
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Ydahs

Member
AusGAF, footy's live and so is my site. I was planning to only launch it at season start, but who could wait?! Threw a quick match data retrieving script together and here we are.

It may be a bit slow, but that's because I'm using my old data retriever (from the db). My newer one won't work with the current team structure, but it is insanely efficient in comparison.

Link to current match.
Link to third match (won't start working until 10-ish) edit: this match is up now. Delay is pretty iffy at the moment though.

Note: chances of seeing errors: 90%. Again, it wasn't supposed to work live until round 1 so let me know if you see anything abnormal!
 
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Scrow

Still Tagged Accordingly
Bernbaum said:
WEEKEND, and not a moment too soon.

Like alot things created by the Babylonians, the seven-day week cycle is totally past its expiry date with modern culture. A nine day week broken up as follows would be better:

- 2 day weekend
- 3 working days
- 1 midweek 'catchup' day
- 3 more working days before the weekend

And so on.

As such, the usual five-day stretch is mitigated by having two much more manageable chunks of three days straight.

Culturally, the mid week day would be the day you catch your breath and maybe do all the chores and shit that normally chews into your weekend. For students, the midweek day is for studying, lightening the homework load on regular days. It'd also be a regular trading day and a lot of people would still work.

As such, by having the catchup day, you're actually having proper time off on the real weekend and not doing the lawns or washing the car or whatever.

That makes for 40.6 'neoweeks' per year - so about 10-11 weeks per season. Get rid of the gregorian calendar and have 8 'months' all up - two per season. Give 'em poetic names or something, like 'Berntober'.

From a productivity perspective, there would be more days off per year due to weekends and the midweek day off (121 days compared to the current 104), but that doesn't factor in the work done by people on the midweek catch-up day. Plus, I'd argue that people would generally be more productive. At present, a core part of the economy really only works 4 to 4.5 days instead of the 5 official 8-hour days on paper. For alot of people, the weekend starts at Friday lunch-time, and from the behaviour I see in a lot of high-ranking workers in the city, you might as well write Fridays off altogether. The three-day blocks would be more work-focussed and I'd like to think that employees would spend less time farting about on facebook as they have more time outside of the week to do real socialising.

The benefits:

- a more productive working week (no fatigue due to the midweek hump and lazy fridays)
- more time spent actually enjoying your days off
- weekends are real weekends and you're not running errands

AusGAF dies in the arse over the weekend, so I doubt I'll get any good feedback on this. Maybe when the floodgates open on Monday I'll bring it back up again.
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i like it, but it'll never happen unless civilisation as we know it now completely collapses and is rebuilt over hundreds of years. 7 day week is too ingrained in society/civilisation now.
 
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Salazar

Member
Rez said:
hey, who would have guessed it, Black Swan was great
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Excellent. Planning a Walking Dead marathon (even if it was reportedly almost woeful) and I'll fit that in at the end.

Symposium at uni tomorrow. I'm in charge of morning tea. If nobody compliments me on my sausage rolls, I will kill before the day is out.
 
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VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
Caramello said:
Naww why? I'm basically the same except I have to go shopping for Valentines day >_>
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Because I don't have to go Valentines shopping. (and wouldn't anyway).
 
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evlcookie

but ever so delicious
fappenmeister said:
Approximately one thousand iOS games to play this weekend.
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What did you buy fapp? I'm starting to think i should pick up a few games just for the train, although listening to music and perving has been working ok so far.
 
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AdventureRacing

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Caramello said:
I wonder what it'd take for such a drastic change though? There'd be just too many issues involved with changing the way the calendar works from business to our culture.

I think a better way to look at it would be a per company basis, having work rostered in the way you've set it out instead of five days straight. Of course then some weekends will be rostered for working which means the employees of companies taking up this approach would be out of sync with everybody else and the culture of their country i.e. weekend sport, expos, the ability to meet up with people etc..

I do have a feeling that a shift like this is more likely to happen in our lifetime than it ever has been before though and I'm interested in reading to the various counter points to the idea of an overhauled calendar and working week.
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How would this affect a profession like nursing? Where you need staff there 24/7 and where there is already a significant shortage of workers?

Don't get me wrong i like the idea, it just got me thinking.

Caramello said:
Naww why? I'm basically the same except I have to go shopping for Valentines day >_>
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Already finished mine. Though the main thing my GF wants is to go somewhere nice for dinner so she is quite easy to satisfy.
 
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BanShunsaku

Member
I always forget about Valentine's Day.

Good thing that my partner of 8 years has never wanted or expected anything at all out of me on the 14th of Feb. She has no interest in Valentines day, and subsequently I reluctantly pass on getting her anything each year.

Feels good man.

Pressure to pop the question is definitely building though
 
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Neverender

Member
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C

Choc

Banned
BanShunsaku said:
I always forget about Valentine's Day.

Good thing that my partner of 8 years has never wanted or expected anything at all out of me on the 14th of Feb. She has no interest in Valentines day, and subsequently I reluctantly pass on getting her anything each year.

Feels good man.

Pressure to pop the question is definitely building though
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8 years no fucking wonder she wants it dude
 
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markot

Banned
Should I finish ME before I start ME2 >.>? Played it for like an hour but already kinda lost on some of the plot >.<

Forgot what I was up to though and I lose my save awhile back....
 
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HolyCheck

I want a tag give me a tag
markot said:
Should I finish ME before I start ME2 >.>? Played it for like an hour but already kinda lost on some of the plot >.<

Forgot what I was up to though and I lose my save awhile back....
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Yes


especially sincec anything you do (characters dying, talking to NPC's affects me2! and then me3!)

SHAPE YOUR UNIVERSE.
 
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Kritz

Banned
markot said:
Should I finish ME before I start ME2 >.>? Played it for like an hour but already kinda lost on some of the plot >.<

Forgot what I was up to though and I lose my save awhile back....
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Complete at least one planet. Start with the dig site one. It's not the most interesting but in general I find it's the best one to jump into first.

By that point you'll be invested enough to finish the other planets.

Seriously, finish ME1 before ME2. Seriously.
 
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Agyar

Member
Kritz said:
Complete at least one planet. Start with the dig site one. It's not the most interesting but in general I find it's the best one to jump into first.

By that point you'll be invested enough to finish the other planets.

Seriously, finish ME1 before ME2. Seriously.
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Agreed. The point most people seem to turn off the first Mass Effect is after arriving on the Citadel. The start exploring, pick up a thousand quests, get lost and confused then put it down. Best way to deal with that section of the game is to have a bit of a poke around the Citadel but don't even bother trying to finish any quests, then head straight off on the main missions, which are three separate planets you need to visit. Just pick one and go for it. By the time you get back to the Citadel, you'll have a better idea of what's going on and bit more direction.
 
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Kritz

Banned
Well that was fun and lasted like an hour.

We should do it again sometime. Maybe with the Battlefield 1942 or UT2k4 demos.
 
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hamchan

Member
Kritz said:
Well that was fun and lasted like an hour.

We should do it again sometime. Maybe with the Battlefield 1942 or UT2k4 demos.
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I have the actual game, doesn't everybody!? Or we could play a similar game in the form of Quake Live and it'll take less bandwidth too.

EDIT: oh crap it costs money to host private servers in Quake Live. Lame.
 
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Kritz

Banned
I guess most people would have Unreal. But it's kind of novel playing old ass game demos that are still kinda active, or even not.
 
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lucablight

Member
Help me Ausgaf! I want to get someone a Pikachu plush toy for Valentines day and I have no idea where to look. I'm located in the Sydney area. I basically only have till tomorrow to find one. Anyone know where I could get one?
 
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Mar

Member
lucablight said:
Help me Ausgaf! I want to get someone a Pikachu plush toy for Valentines day and I have no idea where to look. I'm located in the Sydney area. I basically only have till tomorrow to find one. Anyone know where I could get one?
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There's a shop in Kensington on Anzac PDE just before the huge roundabout that has lots of Nintendo stuffed toys. Can't guarantee pokemon stuff though.
 
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lucablight

Member
Mar said:
There's a shop in Kensington on Anzac PDE just before the huge roundabout that has lots of Nintendo stuffed toys. Can't guarantee pokemon stuff though.
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Would you happen to have an address/link phone number so I can find the location?
 
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Fredescu

Member
lucablight said:
Help me Ausgaf! I want to get someone a Pikachu plush toy for Valentines day and I have no idea where to look. I'm located in the Sydney area. I basically only have till tomorrow to find one. Anyone know where I could get one?
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Game Traders usually have this sort of stuff. Pokemon plushies are listed on their Feature Merchandise section, so they could be worth a shot: http://www.gametraders.com.au/#figurines . They're only in Parra, Cambelltown, or Blacktown though, so I'd call ahead first.
 
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Mar

Member
lucablight said:
Would you happen to have an address/link phone number so I can find the location?
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Not really no.. It's one of those dodgy asian stores with no name that you wonder how they got the license to sell all this licensed stuff. I've bought a few 1up mushrooms and things from there. The quality is great even if the source is questionable.

Like Fred said, Game Traders have lots of stuff too, and they even have a phone number!
 
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FormallyMegadrive

Member
Mar said:
Not really no.. It's one of those dodgy asian stores with no name that you wonder how they got the license to sell all this licensed stuff. I've bought a few 1up mushrooms and things from there. The quality is great even if the source is questionable.

Like Fred said, Game Traders have lots of stuff too, and they even have a phone number!
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Definitely more expensive though.
 
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Kirby102

Member
lucablight said:
Help me Ausgaf! I want to get someone a Pikachu plush toy for Valentines day and I have no idea where to look. I'm located in the Sydney area. I basically only have till tomorrow to find one. Anyone know where I could get one?
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GameTraders have the official stuff. I went in there one time, they had some headgear, there was a Pikachu hat, and a Pikachu ears... I thought they were cool.

If not, if you're in the City, should check out the Morning Glory's, or if you have them around your area, they would sell the typical anime kinda stuff.
 
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