YMMV - But My Milage Was Done At UOW. While I may be out of date (Finished UOW in '93)... I can say UOW has had a tradition of doing things to make sure computer usage has been good for all students. It was the first Australia University to make it mandatory that all graduating students were computer literate, so they've had experience in dealing with users of differing levels of experience.
Basically, this is great. Considering how adept and "destructive" students can be, it's good that they can standardise and protect the computers for all users. Nothing was worse than trying to do your comp sci projects and having some idiot stuff the system up in the lab before you.
Mind you, i've the sneaking suspicion it's being done so that the comp sci students use their alloted labs, rather than hunting down other under-used computer labs and working in there.
Actually, If you invent a time machine - you'll need to use it immediately and go back in time to when the Patent Office Opens for the first time and patent it immediately.
1. We are a Continent, though we are also considered to be an island as our entire country is surrounded by water. 2. We are not small. We have cattle ranches bigger than the state of Texas. You can comfortably fit all of Europe in Australia. Need I go on?
The Tampa crisis was as follows:
2.1 Norweigan captain rescues boat people from sinking boat.
2.2 Ship heads towards nearest port which was an Indonesia Port. (Not Christmas Island)
2.3 Boat people "threaten" crew and claim they will jump off ship unless it turns towards Australia.
2.4 Boat changes course to Australian Territory Christmas Island (against Rules of the Sea)
2.4 Australia denies entry of Tampa into Australia Territorial water.
2.5 Tampa captain violates Territorial water and brings ship towards Christmas Island.
It's sad when people use deliberately misleading story summaries to pursue their own personal agendas.
Steve Irwin taken and eaten by escaped Lions in the outback of Australia?
Maybe there is some justice for us Australians.
Seriously,
What natural predator does the Kangaroo have? Who the hell is going to argue with a big red? I can just see poor ol' kitty going for a big red, only to get the front half of its body caved in by a good solid kick.
Thylacine's are not good eating. Sheesh.
They were made extinct through changes to their environment and being shot as predators, just like most of the Australian animals that go extinct.
Mind you, the tasmanian tiger is the symbol used by Cascade who make various lagers, so you could get away with saying "Thems good drinking".
Just wondering - this is the world's largest optical telescope, right? Aren't there Radio telescopes with effective dish radius in the Km's? Like the sliding dishes out at Parkes, Australia?
Oh, side note - there may be a movie called "The Dish" coming to cinema's near you - It's about relaying the moon landing from the Parkes Radio Telescope to the rest of the world. Quite funny. Well worth seeing.
Outback is an aussie term, that we use to describe the interior of Australia, in reference to somewhere being really far away from civilisation.
Maybe they got the name from an Aussie and not sponsorship?
Actually, I'd be willing to venture the southern skies might be more mapped than the northern skies.
1. Less light pollution (seperated cities) 2. Less Air pollution (from less population) 3. Milky way is viewed better from southern hemisphere. (True - don't flame me - check it out) 4. No northern lights (okay - this one is just a joke)
-- A great story I know about Northern & Southern Hempisphere astronomers is some Northern ones coming to the Australian Outback (the Alice) to look at the milky way. They go out one night with thge Southern guys, and they all look up before setting up their telescopes and such. The northern ones says it's a shame about the weather, and how they'll have to wait for the clouds to clear. The southern ones have to explain to them that those "clouds" are infact the milky way.
Anyway, moral of the story is that The milky way is bright and visible in Australia. If you're looking for dark matter in the Galaxy - wouldn't you check out your own galaxy first?
Personally, I think this is the ideal candidate for a screen saver - since none of the Guiness or other beers have Linux versions of their screensavers. I could sit and watch the bubbles fall for hours..
Perhaps their could be options to alter the consistency of the beer, from Guiness to Beamish to Ales... and so on.. with different bubble patterns.
Plz don't do all the things that shirro suggested.
I don't think boycotts against our primary industrys (I'm an Ozzie) will do much, except fuck up our export industries. It won't create a political uproar.
Feel free to send email, and finally
Goto the Olympics! Don't take a banner - Ozzies hate in-your-face politics. But why come to the olympics at all? The more people coming in, the more empty seats leaving = it cost less for us Ozzies to go on Holiday overseas! Yay!
I think America has this problem and not Australia (Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie) because they are so up-tight compared to us.
Australia has Tall Poppy Syndrome - "You get ahead of yourself, too uppity, too big for you own boots, too self-important and people will cheer when something happens that brings you back to size and reality" - so we don't let people get to be too popular in school... as well as the fact I think every Australian knows :
"If you give out shit, you have to take it when people give you shit". And there's nothing quite so satisfying as hearing about some overbearing asshole getting it right back at him.
Ammerika is land of the free, freedom of speech, freedom of spelling, and et.all..
It's not like Oz is backwards, But I remember in the 80's when all out computers where just light bulbs, a switch and a battery.. those were the days...
Is this just an North American Cultural Thing? I'm an Australian and school here was different. I went to an all-boys Christian Brothers school and was a definite geek, and loner. I was crap at sport, did well in class, and played (basic) D&D with my friends. (At school!) - Not that I saw my friends after school - we all lived > 3 kilometers away - and we didn't have computers (Atari 800's came out when I was in Yr 8)
While there were some hidden problems at the school - (After I left School some of the Brothers (2) went up on Child Sex Charges) - we never had this intense level of isolation and ostricisation that seems to be in American Schools.
I'm wondering if this some huge "clique" thing of American social system and schools. Do schools really isolate people so badly? And is this just a result of the way America is socially. (Being so uptight and self-righteous as you appear to us Aussies)
From our (Aussie) point of view: America idolises your hero's - and winners. There is imense support for people who do really well, and not much for people doing okay - or just giving it a go. Australia - well our greatest heroes (ANZACS - lost their "war" - Gallipolli) did their best, and died. We suport the middle guy, or the underdog and have "Tall Poppy" syndrome - when someone gets too big - you bring them back down to size.
Anyway, this is all the way through our society. Sure you get picked on for being too smart, or too white (I was a goth and didn't know it?) but on the same hand, guys who did weight lifting got jokes made about not being able to get their shoulders through the doorways. Even though I felt isolated and like my friends and I were copping most of the "picking on" - everyone was fair game.
Probably the main rule was : If you gave it out, you had to take it when it came to you. Is this in america? Is it viewed that if you give others shit, you have to accept it when others do it to you?
Mind you - I had some "interesting" teachers in school. I'd believe that ridicule and humour is something all teachers need to know. My view of america is only what you see on TV - you have dull boring teachers. We had teachers who's best way to stop fights or classes was to bring the two people out to the front of the class, and get them to play "knucles" in front of the class. Mind you the teacher would always let the smaller guy go first, or give him a bonus "3 goes for him per 1 go of the other guy". It always seemed to stop the bullies as they knew they were going to be humilated if they did anything - especially if they were chicken and pulled their hands back. I never actually saw anyone actually go through with it - The geeky person was usually just satisfied with having the bully identified and made fun of.
This sort of typifies Australia. Sure I lost my temper at school - and earned two nicknames in the process "The Pink Fit" and "Jekyll & Hyde" but the same guys who made fun - also helped me out when I broke both my ulna and radius in my left arm. It's this idea of helping someone in trouble - that some Aussies view as a quintessential Australianism.
I wonder if America works like this? It's difficult for me to put the recent happenings into focus, without understanding what America is like compared to Australia.
If you feel like replying, please email me directly, as I have almost no chance of finding it in the/. articles.... Thanx.
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At last another useful invention!
Amuse the kids with the new Yoda Furby, and when you get a flat - use Yoda Furby Force powers to lift the car and change the tyre, without having to leave your seat!
It may become reality the moment the corporate world(no country bias) works out how to push ads into your head while using a computer. "No# 2 Ebony Fluid of Life" - the thought of the next generation.
Even worse, can you imagine being spammed like this?;-(
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YMMV - But My Milage Was Done At UOW. ... I can say UOW has had a tradition of doing things to make sure computer usage has been good for all students. It was the first Australia University to make it mandatory that all graduating students were computer literate, so they've had experience in dealing with users of differing levels of experience.
While I may be out of date (Finished UOW in '93)
Basically, this is great. Considering how adept and "destructive" students can be, it's good that they can standardise and protect the computers for all users. Nothing was worse than trying to do your comp sci projects and having some idiot stuff the system up in the lab before you.
Mind you, i've the sneaking suspicion it's being done so that the comp sci students use their alloted labs, rather than hunting down other under-used computer labs and working in there.
Actually, If you invent a time machine - you'll need to use it immediately and go back in time to when the Patent Office Opens for the first time and patent it immediately.
Australia is not a SMALL island.
1. We are a Continent, though we are also considered to be an island as our entire country is surrounded by water.
2. We are not small. We have cattle ranches bigger than the state of Texas. You can comfortably fit all of Europe in Australia. Need I go on?
Oh great - another case of innacurate lies.
The Tampa crisis was as follows:
2.1 Norweigan captain rescues boat people from sinking boat.
2.2 Ship heads towards nearest port which was an Indonesia Port. (Not Christmas Island)
2.3 Boat people "threaten" crew and claim they will jump off ship unless it turns towards Australia.
2.4 Boat changes course to Australian Territory Christmas Island (against Rules of the Sea)
2.4 Australia denies entry of Tampa into Australia Territorial water.
2.5 Tampa captain violates Territorial water and brings ship towards Christmas Island.
It's sad when people use deliberately misleading story summaries to pursue their own personal agendas.
Steve Irwin taken and eaten by escaped Lions in the outback of Australia?
Maybe there is some justice for us Australians.
Seriously,
What natural predator does the Kangaroo have? Who the hell is going to argue with a big red? I can just see poor ol' kitty going for a big red, only to get the front half of its body caved in by a good solid kick.
Thylacine's are not good eating. Sheesh.
They were made extinct through changes to their environment and being shot as predators, just like most of the Australian animals that go extinct.
Mind you, the tasmanian tiger is the symbol used by Cascade who make various lagers, so you could get away with saying "Thems good drinking".
Just wondering - this is the world's largest optical telescope, right? Aren't there Radio telescopes with effective dish radius in the Km's? Like the sliding dishes out at Parkes, Australia?
Oh, side note - there may be a movie called "The Dish" coming to cinema's near you - It's about relaying the moon landing from the Parkes Radio Telescope to the rest of the world. Quite funny. Well worth seeing.
Outback is an aussie term, that we use to describe the interior of Australia, in reference to somewhere being really far away from civilisation.
Maybe they got the name from an Aussie and not sponsorship?
Actually, I'd be willing to venture the southern skies might be more mapped than the northern skies.
1. Less light pollution (seperated cities)
2. Less Air pollution (from less population)
3. Milky way is viewed better from southern hemisphere. (True - don't flame me - check it out)
4. No northern lights (okay - this one is just a joke)
--
A great story I know about Northern & Southern Hempisphere astronomers is some Northern ones coming to the Australian Outback (the Alice) to look at the milky way. They go out one night with thge Southern guys, and they all look up before setting up their telescopes and such. The northern ones says it's a shame about the weather, and how they'll have to wait for the clouds to clear. The southern ones have to explain to them that those "clouds" are infact the milky way.
Anyway, moral of the story is that The milky way is bright and visible in Australia. If you're looking for dark matter in the Galaxy - wouldn't you check out your own galaxy first?
Personally, I think this is the ideal candidate for a screen saver - since none of the Guiness or other beers have Linux versions of their screensavers. I could sit and watch the bubbles fall for hours..
Perhaps their could be options to alter the consistency of the beer, from Guiness to Beamish to Ales... and so on.. with different bubble patterns.
Truly this would be a great feat.
Plz don't do all the things that shirro suggested.
I don't think boycotts against our primary industrys (I'm an Ozzie) will do much, except fuck up our export industries. It won't create a political uproar.
Feel free to send email, and finally
Goto the Olympics! Don't take a banner - Ozzies hate in-your-face politics. But why come to the olympics at all? The more people coming in, the more empty seats leaving = it cost less for us Ozzies to go on Holiday overseas! Yay!
I think America has this problem and not Australia (Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie) because they are so up-tight compared to us.
Australia has Tall Poppy Syndrome - "You get ahead of yourself, too uppity, too big for you own boots, too self-important and people will cheer when something happens that brings you back to size and reality" - so we don't let people get to be too popular in school... as well as the fact I think every Australian knows :
"If you give out shit, you have to take it when people give you shit". And there's nothing quite so satisfying as hearing about some overbearing asshole getting it right back at him.
Well that's my AUD$0.04 worth.
Mate, How can you dare question them?
Ammerika is land of the free, freedom of speech, freedom of spelling, and et.all..
It's not like Oz is backwards, But I remember in the 80's when all out computers where just light bulbs, a switch and a battery.. those were the days...
P.S. This is sarcasm. You do know that, right?
Is this just an North American Cultural Thing? I'm an Australian and school here was different. I went to an all-boys Christian Brothers school and was a definite geek, and loner. I was crap at sport, did well in class, and played (basic) D&D with my friends. (At school!) - Not that I saw my friends after school - we all lived > 3 kilometers away - and we didn't have computers (Atari 800's came out when I was in Yr 8)
/. articles.... Thanx.
While there were some hidden problems at the school - (After I left School some of the Brothers (2) went up on Child Sex Charges) - we never had this intense level of isolation and ostricisation that seems to be in American Schools.
I'm wondering if this some huge "clique" thing of American social system and schools. Do schools really isolate people so badly? And is this just a result of the way America is socially. (Being so uptight and self-righteous as you appear to us Aussies)
From our (Aussie) point of view:
America idolises your hero's - and winners. There is imense support for people who do really well, and not much for people doing okay - or just giving it a go.
Australia - well our greatest heroes (ANZACS - lost their "war" - Gallipolli) did their best, and died. We suport the middle guy, or the underdog and have "Tall Poppy" syndrome - when someone gets too big - you bring them back down to size.
Anyway, this is all the way through our society. Sure you get picked on for being too smart, or too white (I was a goth and didn't know it?) but on the same hand, guys who did weight lifting got jokes made about not being able to get their shoulders through the doorways. Even though I felt isolated and like my friends and I were copping most of the "picking on" - everyone was fair game.
Probably the main rule was : If you gave it out, you had to take it when it came to you. Is this in america? Is it viewed that if you give others shit, you have to accept it when others do it to you?
Mind you - I had some "interesting" teachers in school. I'd believe that ridicule and humour is something all teachers need to know. My view of america is only what you see on TV - you have dull boring teachers. We had teachers who's best way to stop fights or classes was to bring the two people out to the front of the class, and get them to play "knucles" in front of the class. Mind you the teacher would always let the smaller guy go first, or give him a bonus "3 goes for him per 1 go of the other guy". It always seemed to stop the bullies as they knew they were going to be humilated if they did anything - especially if they were chicken and pulled their hands back. I never actually saw anyone actually go through with it - The geeky person was usually just satisfied with having the bully identified and made fun of.
This sort of typifies Australia. Sure I lost my temper at school - and earned two nicknames in the process "The Pink Fit" and "Jekyll & Hyde" but the same guys who made fun - also helped me out when I broke both my ulna and radius in my left arm. It's this idea of helping someone in trouble - that some Aussies view as a quintessential Australianism.
I wonder if America works like this? It's difficult for me to put the recent happenings into focus, without understanding what America is like compared to Australia.
If you feel like replying, please email me directly, as I have almost no chance of finding it in the
At last another useful invention!
Amuse the kids with the new Yoda Furby, and when you get a flat - use Yoda Furby Force powers to lift the car and change the tyre, without having to leave your seat!
My god, this is another case of OIA.
Network brain jacks?
;-(
It may become reality the moment the corporate world(no country bias) works out how to push ads into your head while using a computer.
"No# 2 Ebony Fluid of Life" - the thought of the next generation.
Even worse, can you imagine being spammed like this?