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You should see the size of my pineal gland!

http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/images/projects/beng un1.jpg.

If there is one thing that gets chicks, its gotta be that suit.

-Vic

The main problems with the system seem to be

1. The system uses GPS which is not quite accurate enough for this type of application
2. The GPS is only updated once per second, where as the game is updated at 30 frames per second.
3. Anyone that sees you will think your crazy.

You should visit Nooface as you'd be interested by this article which is about Augmented reality Quake

This is IT

Just as an example, estimates differ, but 400-2000 innocent civilians were killed when the US invaded Panama to arrest a suspected drug smuggler some years back.

A U.S.-funded drug smuggler, some people might add.

I believe that Slashdot had an article on a related subject. There is a link or two about this on the 'net.

According to some of the work done in the field, some of their largest problems have to do with the location of the person, the direction that the person is facing, and the angle that their head is at to properly display WHERE the graphics are going to be put.

Read the links posted above as they describe more effectively that I ever could what is going on.

Oh yes? Well such a meaningless article is typical of the Australian press (as if summarizing a whole act into 10 paragraphs is simple - I am being unfair). But its a bit hard to draw the conclusion you have made.

So.

Here are some useful links on the subject (including analysis - difficult for some slashdotters to read, but give it a try - and the actual amendments). Unfortunately some of these analyses are rather old due to the fact that the Act was proposed several years ago and passed last year:
http://www.gtlaw.com.au/pubs/digitalageaustr alia.html
http://www.roma.unisa.edu.au/08908/lect11/co mmentary.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au//legis/cth/cons ol_act/ca1968133/notes.html
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/IP/copyright.ht ml

Oliver

Who, as usual, still hasn't thought up a clever sig.

IMHO, it's ridiculous that there are no courses in Universities that relate to the history of couputing

What i think is even more reprohensable is that at The University of South Australia (Mawson Lakes Campus [formerly the Levels]), they are moveing away from unix alot. Last year they installed a STUPID MS Exchange E-Mail farm, and are moving to Java for the teaching language (no C any more).[This is not a bag on Java]
And just the other day i was reading a Lecurers notes that he hands out to students on unix (for part of the subject that fortunately required UNIX), and one of the many, but in my opinion the worst mistake that was made was that he stated that the verion of unix that students were allowed to use was the tcsh version. I mean it is a frigging SHELL not a version! *shudder*

UniSA's web page


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Java won't ever replace C++ for me until some huge improvements are made.

I'm actually quite worried that since Sun essentially 'controls' everything, noone else can make extensions that become popular enough to become part of major IDEs. (IDEs with intellisense rocks).

Here's what java needs.
1) Compile once run anywhere is not as important for where java is heading (server end). Please stop insulting us, and give us a native compiler sun. We are capable of compiling to bytecode when we want to use applets on webpages (noone does that anymore tho :P).
Don't sun realise a lot of people don't like java cause of how bloated and slow it is?
I can live with compile once run anywhere, but for speed's sake, let us have the option of write once run anywhere.

2) Give me paramterised types or templates. Writing our own collection classes and/or casting really really sucks.
Some of the stuff that the folks who wrote Pizza are cool, anonymous functions for java :D! (basically lambda expressions) and parameterised types. It's even compatable with current virtual machines, just most IDEs and compilers won't like it.

3) Delegates, I want MS 'delegate' style function pointers in java. Anonymous Inner Classes are horrific, and spoil Swing.

4) ASSERT. We need asserts!!!! Lucky J++ has a simple preprocessor. So many bugs could be caught if people used ASSERT more, Sun don't even think we need them!

Anyway, until at all of these relatively small additions are made, C++ is going to rule supreme.

At least for me :).

>Java lacks templates and overloaded operators, which makes it a fairly useless language for generic programming.

Note that there is a Generic Java spec as well as the Pizza effort that add templates to Java. I don't know if this stuff can be hooked into the egcs system easily, but if it is, one of your (and my) two complaints would be gone.