The article mentions the fact that just getting the PCI video cards took 3 months, and they have no spares - Pakistan doesn't have a whole lot of old parts from the sounds of things.
Perhaps it is impossible/prohibitively expensive for this school to get an LCD projector? In which case this could be a good solution.
Reminds me of the trapper-keeper episode of South Park
Mr Garrison: "What the hell is that? Oh my god what is that thing?! Children there's a huge boulbous montrousity heading for the classroom! Oh my god it's awful, it's coming for the door!"
Rosie O'Donnell: "Hello Kids!"
Later Rosie stands next to a now Tetsuo-like Cartman, and a cop remarks that he's seeing double:)
This was actually an incentive for me to purchase the Discovery album, as I had been waiting for a decent reason to pay $30 for a CD (They are quite expensive in.au).
Open the case, low and behold there was no access card for the website. Tried to return the CD, but as it had been opened, I was kindly refused. I felt cheated, although the album was good to listen to. BTW I purchased the album from HMV - a large international music retailer.
I haven't worked up enough patience to purchase new CDs since - sticking to second hand is good enough.
With all my CDs I rip them and add to my collection. For me, the physical disk and case are not heavily connected to the music, and I feel that providing a more personal way of connecting with the artist (ie: new content on the web) can provide much more lasting value to a listener.
One time a friend and I were stoned and trying to killing time in the city, when I was given a leaflet advertising "Free IQ test". Wanting to see how the green may have affected our intelligence we went to the address to find it was a tiny Church of Scientology hidden away on the third floor of a building that looked condemned. We were greeted and sat down to two tests - an multiple choice IQ test and a timed aptitude test. After completing a drone told us that while the tests were being marked we can watch a film about their organisation. Wanting to get a good look at the religion, I did not hesistate to sit through it. A well-produced piece of propaganda followed. It featured some actor I had never heard of extolling the virtues of finding inner peace and enlightenment through "auditing", and also served to advertise the Scientology meditation retreats (the church owns a large cruise ship, and many hotels). After viewing the film we were presented with the results, both of which were around 140 for the IQ. The IQ results had lines indicating current ability, and the ability levels 1 month and 1 year after joining, projecting 150 and 180 respectively.
To me this seemed like absolute BS.
They then started the hard sell, personal testimonies and all. I remember freaking out that these people had so much faith in the fictional construct of a long deceased sci-fi author. All we could do was to refuse several times the offer to buy some literature (we asked for it for free; denied) and headed out of there.
It was a pretty funny afternoon.
- Scipher
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University of Queensland, Australia, limits students to 13MB week. Exceed that and you are limited to the university network. This is monitored on the dormitory(college) network connections as well as the dialup users. Sucks ass is one way to put it. To work around this one sets up a proxy on a lab pc. Don't worry about the fact that they are reimaged almost daily due to silly users.
Thank god for lockable offices on campus! w00t!
I got this album , Tom and Rich (Tom jenkinson AKA squarepusher, and Richard D James AKA Aphex) working on the same tracks.
I ripped it 8 months ago, and hasn't left my playlist since. Some of the samples in it sound as though they've been modeled after hard drive axs patterns...
Orbital, future sound of london, underworld are all seeds for the imagination.
Yes. Indeed. All in.au knew about this months ago, and there was not much response at all... Seeing all the reasoning of many/.'s ha really been a reminder of how small many people's world's are, even when they may be part of a much larger thing.
What has developed of this situation has been a suprisingly good solution. This could have been something awful, but I see having to say to my ISP that I'm running prevention software (when in reality not running anything of the sort. Net Nanny? WTF?!), is much better than having server side prevention, which is, of course, much much worse. Both of these options were being explored.
This is a good thing for australia, as far as near solutions are concerned. Why does.au have it at all? Because no-one gave a shit when it was being tabled. Now it's too late and ppl are only beginning to notice what's happening.
Yes. I heard about this a while ago... Chris Cunningham was the creative genius who made Aphex's "Come To Daddy", "Windowlicker", Madonna's "frozen" clip, and, my favourite, Autechre's "Second Bad Vilbel".
IMHO this guy has made the the most disturbing, dark, and creative videos ever seen.
This film should be the best scifi movie to date.
Johnny Mnemonic? bah! good story, extremely pore execution on celluloid.
There's been such a large clash over which client is best to "give" my spare cycles to. Whoever did this, be it a SETI developer, or just a stupid kid, is simply discrediting SETI, and making a fool of him/herself. This is the final decider for me.
We get TNT on cable in Australia, and it shows stuff from the US (wrestling,nitro and old movies), but this sounds like something decent for a change. I saw the Triumph Of The Nerds series (I still have it on tape) and I seriously hope the ppl at the stations here have enough brains to put it on.
My bet is that Jobs is depicted as a control freak, and Gates as a power hungry whiner. I'd like to see who plays Woz.
I'm a first year university student and we use Pentium II 450's that run Win98.
Most of the students in this course say they're crap (probably due to the widespread thought that its "kewl" to bag out out Microsoft)
Personally, I don't appreciate it when the computer crashes when all I do is log in and load up Eudora.
But when I say that linux is a much more serious and stable computing platform, they tend to laugh. Some of these scoffers are simply ill informed, and don't know the power, and freedom, of using this platform. Others are the fools that this pun is aimed at satiring. They find fun in using D.O.S programs in IRC, just to piss people off. Another fondness is the displayiong of large Ascii pictures. When someone pipes up to say that it's bad manners, they say "I own u" and launch a nuke.
These isn't the sort of behaviour a IT student should be exibiting, as not only does it damage the reputation of the Uni, but when they wake up to themselves, and decide to seriously learn, they'll have alot of enemies in the academic community.
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The article mentions the fact that just getting the PCI video cards took 3 months, and they have no spares - Pakistan doesn't have a whole lot of old parts from the sounds of things.
Perhaps it is impossible/prohibitively expensive for this school to get an LCD projector? In which case this could be a good solution.
Reminds me of the trapper-keeper episode of South Park
:)
Mr Garrison: "What the hell is that? Oh my god what is that thing?! Children there's a huge boulbous montrousity heading for the classroom! Oh my god it's awful, it's coming for the door!"
Rosie O'Donnell: "Hello Kids!"
Later Rosie stands next to a now Tetsuo-like Cartman, and a cop remarks that he's seeing double
This was actually an incentive for me to purchase the Discovery album, as I had been waiting for a decent reason to pay $30 for a CD (They are quite expensive in .au).
Open the case, low and behold there was no access card for the website. Tried to return the CD, but as it had been opened, I was kindly refused. I felt cheated, although the album was good to listen to. BTW I purchased the album from HMV - a large international music retailer.
I haven't worked up enough patience to purchase new CDs since - sticking to second hand is good enough.
With all my CDs I rip them and add to my collection. For me, the physical disk and case are not heavily connected to the music, and I feel that providing a more personal way of connecting with the artist (ie: new content on the web) can provide much more lasting value to a listener.
Just my 0.0109219 USD
One time a friend and I were stoned and trying to killing time in the city, when I was given a leaflet advertising "Free IQ test".
Wanting to see how the green may have affected our intelligence we went to the address to find it was a tiny Church of Scientology hidden away on the third floor of a building that looked condemned. We were greeted and sat down to two tests - an multiple choice IQ test and a timed aptitude test. After completing a drone told us that while the tests were being marked we can watch a film about their organisation. Wanting to get a good look at the religion, I did not hesistate to sit through it. A well-produced piece of propaganda followed. It featured some actor I had never heard of extolling the virtues of finding inner peace and enlightenment through "auditing", and also served to advertise the Scientology meditation retreats (the church owns a large cruise ship, and many hotels). After viewing the film we were presented with the results, both of which were around 140 for the IQ. The IQ results had lines indicating current ability, and the ability levels 1 month and 1 year after joining, projecting 150 and 180 respectively.
To me this seemed like absolute BS.
They then started the hard sell, personal testimonies and all. I remember freaking out that these people had so much faith in the fictional construct of a long deceased sci-fi author.
All we could do was to refuse several times the offer to buy some literature (we asked for it for free; denied) and headed out of there.
It was a pretty funny afternoon.
- Scipher
University of Queensland, Australia, limits students to 13MB week. Exceed that and you are limited to the university network. This is monitored on the dormitory(college) network connections as well as the dialup users. Sucks ass is one way to put it. To work around this one sets up a proxy on a lab pc. Don't worry about the fact that they are reimaged almost daily due to silly users.
Thank god for lockable offices on campus! w00t!
yes!!
i used to play that on a 286 in glorious 16 colours.
wouldn't you know it...carmack did that one too.
Original Video Animation.
I got this album , Tom and Rich (Tom jenkinson AKA squarepusher, and Richard D James AKA Aphex) working on the same tracks.
I ripped it 8 months ago, and hasn't left my playlist since. Some of the samples in it sound as though they've been modeled after hard drive axs patterns...
Orbital, future sound of london, underworld are all seeds for the imagination.
emulation.
Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Dreamcast.
BSD port.
BEOS.
PPC port.
Sheepshearer.
VMWare.
WINE.
get my drift?
nope
Apogee is/was a shareware distributer/producer.
iD did the actual coding/artwork.
Yes. Indeed. All in .au knew about this months ago, and there was not much response at all... /.'s ha really been a reminder of how small many people's world's are, even when they may be part of a much larger thing.
.au have it at all? Because no-one gave a shit when it was being tabled. Now it's too late and ppl are only beginning to notice what's happening.
Seeing all the reasoning of many
What has developed of this situation has been a suprisingly good solution.
This could have been something awful, but I see having to say to my ISP that I'm running prevention software (when in reality not running anything of the sort. Net Nanny? WTF?!), is much better than having server side prevention, which is, of course, much much worse. Both of these options were being explored.
This is a good thing for australia, as far as near solutions are concerned. Why does
yeah I remember that movie
rather than explore the technology, they concentrated on the base story - a murder mystery.
Yes. I heard about this a while ago...
Chris Cunningham was the creative genius who made Aphex's "Come To Daddy", "Windowlicker", Madonna's "frozen" clip, and, my favourite, Autechre's "Second Bad Vilbel".
IMHO this guy has made the the most disturbing, dark, and creative videos ever seen.
This film should be the best scifi movie to date.
Johnny Mnemonic? bah!
good story, extremely pore execution on celluloid.
Scipher
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sorry to be nitpicking
i think you mean Coleco Vision?
Hey this thing looks damn cool. I'd wanna get my hands on one simply because of that. Perfect for skydiving too...
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There's been such a large clash over which client is best to "give" my spare cycles to. Whoever did this, be it a SETI developer, or just a stupid kid, is simply discrediting SETI, and making a fool of him/herself.
This is the final decider for me.
Distributed.net all the way baby!
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We get TNT on cable in Australia, and it shows stuff from the US (wrestling,nitro and old movies), but this sounds like something decent for a change. I saw the Triumph Of The Nerds series (I still have it on tape) and I seriously hope the ppl at the stations here have enough brains to put it on.
My bet is that Jobs is depicted as a control freak, and Gates as a power hungry whiner. I'd like to see who plays Woz.
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Big deal!
All this comes across as just Apple trying to get a hipper public image, as the penguin looks set to take some dedicated mac users.
When Apple finally decides to release the full source(encoding and all), then they will have a warmer reception by the open source community.
Encoding source is one thing, but server codecs?
Come on Apple! Get with the program!
(P.S.Please excuse the awful pun)
I'm a first year university student and we use Pentium II 450's that run Win98.
Most of the students in this course say they're crap (probably due to the widespread thought that its "kewl" to bag out out Microsoft)
Personally, I don't appreciate it when the computer crashes when all I do is log in and load up Eudora.
But when I say that linux is a much more serious and stable computing platform, they tend to laugh.
Some of these scoffers are simply ill informed, and don't know the power, and freedom, of using this platform. Others are the fools that this pun is aimed at satiring. They find fun in using D.O.S programs in IRC, just to piss people off. Another fondness is the displayiong of large Ascii pictures. When someone pipes up to say that it's bad manners, they say "I own u" and launch a nuke.
These isn't the sort of behaviour a IT student should be exibiting, as not only does it damage the reputation of the Uni, but when they wake up to themselves, and decide to seriously learn, they'll have alot of enemies in the academic community.