“Apple Australia has landed a deal within federal government for its storage and server systems by selling 14 RAID storage systems and five Xserve G5 servers to the Australian Sports Commission (ASC),” Rob O’Neill reports for The Age. “The deal is on Apple’s home-turf of multimedia, with the boxes being used for a digital video repository to consolidate access to sports video material. However, it comes on top of other federal government deals with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australian Federal Police and a number of wins in state government and education, including one at Swinburne University.”
“ASC CEO Mark Peters says the repository will ‘provide a means of further enhancing the competitive advantage of Australia ‘s elite athletes and provide vastly improved information services to sports.’ According to a statement, the facility will enable improved performance analysis of athletes; allow collaborative access and the sharing of corporate digital video information; provide much greater storage capacity and ensure greater protection of video data,” O’Neill reports.
Full article here.
Looks like our UK and US friends have woken up …
though feeze seems to be repeating .. a bad case of prawns? (or shrimp?)
Loss of culture is not really funny … homogenisation of world culture is probably even more tragic … imagine death by cultural boredom. As with computers, diversity is a good thing!
Now if Apple Australia would only improve their pricing structure I could update (or actually add to) my Powerbook G3 Firewire and assorted ancient Apple computing devices …
I like prawns
VanillaSpice,
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Will you have fries with that?
Al wrote:, “In Canada the bastards are totally in bed with Microsoft.”
It’s even worse here in the UK, the government have even let Windows control nuclear subs!
With this corrupt socialist government in control, they seem to give contracts to whoever gives them a kickback.
And we knighted this moron as well! (Mr Gates).
Sorry, I thought you said Tony Bliar was a socialist. Very funny.
soory about the multiple comments, been having connection problems
Wow, I say prawn, go away for a day and look what happens.
In Australia we say wankers!
Just to correct the Aussies on the origin of barbecues. They were in fact Indian (Hindu, not American) as is the orgin of the word. Like so many other things we Americans have stolen or subsumed in the past we just made everyone think it was ours to begin with.
The Australians are a proud and independant folk.
They broke away from the Brits and decided to rename their currency and thus underline their independance.
“We wont call it the pound anymore.
We’re independant now. Let’s be creative.
We’ll call it the …. DOLLAR”
Whoops! … ‘independent’
Australia is the one country outside of Europe where I wouldn’t mind living. The only problem I would have is choosing between New South Wales and Victoria.
Beats that gun-infested hole just south of Canada anyday
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Most Americans would understand Independent or Independant as the same thing.
Thanks, Thropedo, for concurring that both words (shrimp+prawn) were in use in all around the world (incl Australia). But you then say that usage of ‘shrimp’ in Australia is an Americanisation – contradicting yourself. If the word was in use (common or otherwise) in Australia (which it was) then it CANNOT be an Americanisation – it was already part of our language !
By your logic, an American using the word “prawn” is Australianisation, when clearly, nothing could be further from the truth (they’ve been using prawn as long as we’ve been using shrimp – ages !!)
I stand corrected on the origin of BBQs, but it remains true that our modern idea of the BBQ design and of “having a BBQ” in the backyard are both American ideas – and I am not saying there is anything wrong with that !!
I don’t care if you are a Yank or a Skip, or whether you want prawns or shrimp, so long as you use a Mac.
Hey VanillaSpice, I agree with most of what you said but the usage of prawn over shrimp is more common in Australia especially for the larger edible varieties. In the USA prawn generally refers to the freshwater kind. In Australia, shrimp was not commonly used (until more recently) for the edible kind, though shrimp is widely used for the smaller kind that certain fishes like to eat. The fact that shrimp is being used more in preference to the term prawn is an Americanisation. OK?
The origins of BBQ are ancient and hard to determine (especially since most folks use the outdoor kind in grill mode and lest often in barbecue mode). But I reckon it is hard to go past this Oz recipe:
1.� Get the beer.
2.� Get the barbie.
3.� Get the meat.
4.� Get the salads (optional).�
5.� Drink, Cook and Eat in that order, preferably in the sun by the beach.�
I hope the public servants are mouse users. OSX wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much mouse usage. What about the users who can actually type?!?!?!?!? NUHHHHHHH
trippah, you don’t have to press the keys so hard, we get the point.