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  1. Re:it's a test... on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 1

    Well here in New Zealand our notes are plastic and they are also textured, so I would really like to see on try to copy our notes.

  2. Re:Ireland on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    Local calling in NZ is free by law. When the government sold off Telecom they said they had to provide free local calling.

  3. Re:New Zealand Prices on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    Umm Paradise have changed the cable pricing since then. Only 256/128 (10GB) and 2048/256 (1GB) is avilable now.

    $60 for 256 and $90 or $100 for the 2048.

    Though waiting for Woosh to come to Wellington which is based on WCDMA and offers a home plan at 256/256 for 60 a month get about 7GB (Unlimted means 10 time the median usage after that ask you to change to business plan). On business can get 256/256, 384/284 and 512/512 and is not unlimted.

  4. Re:New Zealand Prices on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    There is a good article about just that here. http://www.aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/1209.shtml

  5. Re:New Zealand Prices on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    I'm on Cable and NZ$60 per month plus modem rental at NZ$17. I get 256/128 and 10GB International Traffic per month (National traffic is charged at 0.1)

    NZ$60 ~ US$40.45
    NZ$17 ~ US$11.46

  6. Re:A drop on the factual side on Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Then might as well state it in terms of 5.25" 720kB disks then get a number 2x as big.

  7. Re:If you were a terrorist. on DIY Cruise Missile Grounded · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well reading his site. The missle and and all the plans are no longer with him. The plans are off shore encrypted somewhere, and the missle has been given to someone else.

  8. Re:Bah humbug... on Microsoft Makes Push for COBOL Migration · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are missing his point. He is refering the internal workings not redunacy. The mainframes will double check their working so if errors in the datapath (ie in processor) are picked up and corrected. 80x86 (AFAIK) does not have this kind of checking built into the chip.

  9. Re:Not eating their own dogfood? on Longhorn Developers @ MSDN · · Score: 1

    Remember MS said that IE after IE6 will not be avaiable for other version of windows so likely it is running in this VM.

  10. Re:Good example on China Upgrades from Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Don't opposites attract?

  11. Re:Somebody get to work on Lecture Hall Back-Channeling · · Score: 1
    At Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) in the Comp Sci there is a hands on paper (Comp 389) where you do a real project. One of the projects that is currently under way is one to to set up a way that lecturers can receive feed back via sms during a lecture.
    Brief project outline:

    1.8 SMS Feedback for Lecturers
    The Internet has had a profound impact on the ability of individuals to communicate
    globally. The advent of wireless technologies means that the ability to
    communicate electronically is now seen as an anyone, anytime, anyplace activity.
    This project proposes to explore the impact that integrating SMS feedback
    into lecture teaching has on student engagement, levels of interaction, participation
    and retention of key concepts. To undertake the study, we will develop
    a software framework for lecture room computers that receives SMS message
    input from students, and allows a lecturer to monitor, manage, and address the
    input while the lecture is underway.
    from http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/courses/COMP389/2003T2/do cuments/projects/project_list.pdf
  12. Re:No, not even close on Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data · · Score: 1

    Well the garage might have multiple NICs to help receving the data. So the garage might have enough unloading docks to mean that this can be done.

  13. virtualspectator on Sports Technology? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Virtual Spectator (http://www.virtualspectator.com/) I'd say is the biggest jump in sports viewing technogly. Made by some Kiwi's down in Dunedin.

    It has made wacthing Yacthing interested and has come a long way since American's Cup 1995.

    Along with yacthing they have also doing golf, WRC and F1.

  14. Re:Sports Tech..... on Sports Technology? · · Score: 1

    Well Formula 1 teams are hoping to hit 19000rpm with their 3L V10 this year. These engines will not go much faster than 20000rpm becasue the pistons will start going supersonic!!

  15. Re:Don't drink and drive! on NEC Unveils Methanol-Fueled Laptop · · Score: 1

    Reminds a bit like the Simpsons when Homer found out about alcohol fueled car and had picture of him going one for you one for me .....

  16. My experiences teaching on Innovative Uses for a Computer Classroom? · · Score: 1

    I was recently I was tutoring a E-Commerce course at university for 2nd year students.Putting stuff online can increase the workload a lot.

    For one assignment we gave them a Dreamweaver MX template with the subsection headings put in there so they couldn't change them and they could only write in small sections of the page. After opening this template up showing them what to do on the projector/big screen. We still got people who didn't understand and wanted walking through it step by step.

    Then we wanted them to upload to a FTP server for marking. We used dreamweaver again to do this (as we had been teaching them Dreamweaver for the practical part of the course, building a web page). We provided them with a upload tutorial with images of each step and what to type into each box and which boxes/sections not to touch in setting up the site/ftp info. When then also showed them on the projector. And again people didn't get it and had to be walked through individually.

    On due time people still emailed the course supervisor about how do they hand in their printed word document.

  17. Re:very expensive on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1

    Luckly it is winter here a the moment. Just have to open the doors and get a nice southerly blowing through and they want have any heat problems. If they did this they might actually have to think about heating rather than cooling :)

  18. Re:Really the top? on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1

    In the DomPost InfoTech this morning http://stuff.co.nz/infotech.html said that they will about 3200 processors running.

  19. Re:A few million on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1

    The FOTR made enough $$$ to pay for all 3 movies with loads left over as profit. TTT & ROTK is pure cream (profit), so money is not really a problem with this movie project.

  20. Re:Here's hoping they don't pull a Titanic! on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1

    Umm Weta is Jackson's company. Weta Digital does the digital stuff and Weta Workshop makes the props, sets, models etc.

    http://wetafx.co.nz/

  21. Re:Here's hoping they don't pull a Titanic! on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Jackson said that he wanted to be able to zoom in a extra have them look just as good as main character.