That can reach about 5% of Aussie homes, let me know when you were planning to cable up Vic Park, I'll be getting NBN by the end of the year. Given the reach of Optus's cable network, iinet is still number 2.
WA represent!
Oh HFC. You could be living in a recently developed suburb (e.g. Dalyellup, maybe Ellenbrook) where it used to be just e-wire cable service, man those guys had it rough in the early days until they got ADSL.
NBNco's WA second stage roll-out maps are low resolution but it looks like the Vic Park installation will cover my suburb too. I will be dropping ADSL2 so hard it's going to leave a crater.
Imagine a future where I can switch ISPs without waiting a month for the churn because I'm already on naked DSL.
Running 3.15 here too, don't want to lose the OtherOS. Do OtherOS-capable PS3s fetch more than regular PS3s? I could sell this and use the money to not buy Sony stuff.
Poking around the checkouts I see that you buy the game individually for each operating system as opposed to buy once, run anywhere. If my main mac dies (again) I'll have to shell out again to play it on a Windows or Linux machine. Not a huge fan of this sort of arrangement, I liked Braid where I've paid for it once and have access to Windows and OSX copies.
It may be possible to get ARToolkit to do this. It's dual-licensed under the GPL so it's OSS. If you want to play with it just get a v4l video capture device and print out the squares.
ARToolkit's been used by the University of South Australia to create ARQuake which is a lot of fun to use with the actual wearable computer:) Thanks Wayne Piekarski from UniSA for letting me play ARQuake on that thing at linux.conf.au in 2003.
I'm not sure if they used ARToolkit or something more in-house to make Tinmith, that looks really sweet.
I used to use this theme years ago to show off, although the thick vertical bar at the left of the windows sort of wasted space on the 800x600 monitor.
META NAME="DESCRIPTION" content="Why should YouTube.com have all the fun? Welcome to Crave video, where we get to have some fun with our camcorders as we explore the darker and more twisted side of the gadget world....
Yeah, why should youtube have all the fun? Because it's not a "buffering" pile of crap maybe?
Maybe seeing how Valve can put the Half Life 2 release date back a few months due to their leak may have given Microsoft an excuse to delay Longhorn a little further;)
Yes I understand the consequences etc, I wanna grow up and be a respected open source coder (and get paid to go to conferences). If I wanna read source, I'll read/usr/src/linux (captivating stuff, gripping plot).
That's a good point, and it raises a few concerns for me, as I wasn't around when those devices were made. How do people cope when their stuff gets superceded?
In 10 years, there will be people laughing at me because I'll probably be clutching onto my Nokia 5510 mp3 player (GSM will be obsolete by then, so no phone calls). I get crap from N-Gage owners (little brother) already. I just can't let go of my stuff as technology marches on. I still use 3dfx voodoo 1&2 cards, and my 8088 is corroding so it doesn't always work.
Also, regarding the gadgets on that site, why does every second appliance have an embedded calculator? WHY? Was it all the rage back then to have a calculator wherever you went?
Once the PM's email is made public, he will get tons of spam.
He's probably more concerned about getting "flamed" right now.
For all you non-Australians out there, I'm guessing you haven't heard of the horrific bushfires plaguing our capital city (Canberra, where the Prime Minister lives, hence the PM getting "flamed". I hate it when I have to explain jokes). Maybe the 4 dead and 400 homes razed to the ground (the last I heard of it) doesn't warrant air-time on your news networks compared to "let's go to war!"
Typical, us Aussies had 11/9 plastered on our tv sets for weeks, and !@#$!@#$
The article mentions that the device replaces the damaged rods and cones in the eye. This is not the same as myopia and hypermetropia (short- and long- sightedness) that people wear glasses for. These problems are caused by the lens at the front of the eye. LASIK surgery would be more useful for people like us, instead of the ceramic microdetector thingy.
On another note, the article doesn't say anything about whether the arrays act more like rods (high-speed night vision) or cones (high-detail colour images). Or does it act like a video camera? It would also make sense to implant the array near or on the fovea (center of the retina, all cones only), so that the array produces the images in the center of the person's vision. If the implant wasn't at the fovea, they would seem to be looking away from you when they're actually looking at you. Also, if the implant acted more like rods, this could be weird for the person.
But all this talk of cutting open the eye and doing all that squishy stuff freaks me out too.
Wow, I'm not the only one noticing Australia being mentioned more and more in/. (hey mum, we're in the spotlight!)
It'd be even better if it was for all the right reasons (tech breakthroughs etc) rather than the government trying to get attention (look at us, we're doing something _for the children_). It's like the government's saying 'me too', except on a larger scale and, yeah, 'me too' posts are annoying. I wonder when this negative attention will really screw things up and it all comes unstuck for the cronies over in Canberra.
Apparently all the net censorsh*t and the hopelessness of the broadband situation (it's even worse for me, but I won't go there) hasn't pushed us (and others) over the edge. Until then...
But I digress, and the spotlight's starting to hurt my eyes.
Yes indeed, especially when it's on nice hardware. It's a wonderful thing to show off Linux with when visitors come over (as opposed to running a matrix screensaver in the root window). And the whole 'look at what we can do with a cute penguin' thing really helps Linux. Yes, some people go for the 'ooh, a penguin' thing as opposed to a 'flying, multi(5)coloured window'. I mean, you can do lots of things with Tux, like make it slide down ice or give it guns, but a picture of a window really doesn't kick it.
It's a wonderful game and it entertains while being dangerously addictive, like Solitaire or Minesweeper.
I think we're safe for now. THEY'd need samples of everyone's voice. Hang on, my voicemail message provides my voice! But then THEY'd have to remove any accents I might put on to foil THEIR evil plans. And I'm hoping they can't do that yet.
But until they do, we're safe from THEM spying and tracking us through the phone.
Oh dear, I hope those Angels do something to avert this looming crisis.
ELKS (The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subsystem) is what you ae looking for.
Find it here.
Unfortunately, my 8088 box is flaky (controller is dodgy and the hdd is covered in bad sectors, not to mention the corroded ISA contacts) so I never got ELKS going.
I know I'm responding seriously to a post rated 'funny' but now you know you can defeat those terrorists.
--Duane
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For a slightly more detailed comparison of Warmest 100 vs. Hottest 100, here's a chart a mate did which includes some commentary:
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/WarmesttoHottest1002012/Dashboard
That can reach about 5% of Aussie homes, let me know when you were planning to cable up Vic Park, I'll be getting NBN by the end of the year. Given the reach of Optus's cable network, iinet is still number 2.
WA represent!
Oh HFC. You could be living in a recently developed suburb (e.g. Dalyellup, maybe Ellenbrook) where it used to be just e-wire cable service, man those guys had it rough in the early days until they got ADSL.
NBNco's WA second stage roll-out maps are low resolution but it looks like the Vic Park installation will cover my suburb too. I will be dropping ADSL2 so hard it's going to leave a crater.
Imagine a future where I can switch ISPs without waiting a month for the churn because I'm already on naked DSL.
Running 3.15 here too, don't want to lose the OtherOS. Do OtherOS-capable PS3s fetch more than regular PS3s? I could sell this and use the money to not buy Sony stuff.
Poking around the checkouts I see that you buy the game individually for each operating system as opposed to buy once, run anywhere. If my main mac dies (again) I'll have to shell out again to play it on a Windows or Linux machine. Not a huge fan of this sort of arrangement, I liked Braid where I've paid for it once and have access to Windows and OSX copies.
What we need is Chris Crocker to do another "leave Britney alone" style video.
"LEAVE YAHOO ALONE!"
I think MS would get the message.
It may be possible to get ARToolkit to do this. It's dual-licensed under the GPL so it's OSS. If you want to play with it just get a v4l video capture device and print out the squares.
:) Thanks Wayne Piekarski from UniSA for letting me play ARQuake on that thing at linux.conf.au in 2003.
ARToolkit's been used by the University of South Australia to create ARQuake which is a lot of fun to use with the actual wearable computer
I'm not sure if they used ARToolkit or something more in-house to make Tinmith, that looks really sweet.
There exists an LCARS theme for Enlightenment DR16 at http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/lcars/
Some freshmeat searching reveals that there's themes for GTK+ too at http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/lcars_/
I used to use this theme years ago to show off, although the thick vertical bar at the left of the windows sort of wasted space on the 800x600 monitor.
META NAME="DESCRIPTION" content="Why should YouTube.com have all the fun? Welcome to Crave video, where we get to have some fun with our camcorders as we explore the darker and more twisted side of the gadget world....
Yeah, why should youtube have all the fun? Because it's not a "buffering" pile of crap maybe?>>Their Internet access should match the quality of their accomodations and food they are fed.
>That would be a bit o'string and 2 dented cans, then...
True, true.
I wish the food matched the network. My college just upgraded from 10mbit hubs to 100mbit switches this year, but the food's still the same old slop.
~Duane
Maybe seeing how Valve can put the Half Life 2 release date back a few months due to their leak may have given Microsoft an excuse to delay Longhorn a little further ;)
/usr/src/linux (captivating stuff, gripping plot).
Yes I understand the consequences etc, I wanna grow up and be a respected open source coder (and get paid to go to conferences). If I wanna read source, I'll read
~Duane
That's a good point, and it raises a few concerns for me, as I wasn't around when those devices were made. How do people cope when their stuff gets superceded?
In 10 years, there will be people laughing at me because I'll probably be clutching onto my Nokia 5510 mp3 player (GSM will be obsolete by then, so no phone calls). I get crap from N-Gage owners (little brother) already. I just can't let go of my stuff as technology marches on. I still use 3dfx voodoo 1&2 cards, and my 8088 is corroding so it doesn't always work.
Also, regarding the gadgets on that site, why does every second appliance have an embedded calculator? WHY? Was it all the rage back then to have a calculator wherever you went?
~Duane
Once the PM's email is made public, he will get tons of spam.
He's probably more concerned about getting "flamed" right now.
For all you non-Australians out there, I'm guessing you haven't heard of the horrific bushfires plaguing our capital city (Canberra, where the Prime Minister lives, hence the PM getting "flamed". I hate it when I have to explain jokes). Maybe the 4 dead and 400 homes razed to the ground (the last I heard of it) doesn't warrant air-time on your news networks compared to "let's go to war!"
Typical, us Aussies had 11/9 plastered on our tv sets for weeks, and !@#$!@#$
Sorry, teen angst.
~Duane
The article mentions that the device replaces the damaged rods and cones in the eye. This is not the same as myopia and hypermetropia (short- and long- sightedness) that people wear glasses for. These problems are caused by the lens at the front of the eye. LASIK surgery would be more useful for people like us, instead of the ceramic microdetector thingy.
On another note, the article doesn't say anything about whether the arrays act more like rods (high-speed night vision) or cones (high-detail colour images). Or does it act like a video camera? It would also make sense to implant the array near or on the fovea (center of the retina, all cones only), so that the array produces the images in the center of the person's vision. If the implant wasn't at the fovea, they would seem to be looking away from you when they're actually looking at you. Also, if the implant acted more like rods, this could be weird for the person.
But all this talk of cutting open the eye and doing all that squishy stuff freaks me out too.
~~Duane
Wow, I'm not the only one noticing Australia being mentioned more and more in /. (hey mum, we're in the spotlight!)
It'd be even better if it was for all the right reasons (tech breakthroughs etc) rather than the government trying to get attention (look at us, we're doing something _for the children_). It's like the government's saying 'me too', except on a larger scale and, yeah, 'me too' posts are annoying. I wonder when this negative attention will really screw things up and it all comes unstuck for the cronies over in Canberra.
Apparently all the net censorsh*t and the hopelessness of the broadband situation (it's even worse for me, but I won't go there) hasn't pushed us (and others) over the edge. Until then...
But I digress, and the spotlight's starting to hurt my eyes.
--Duane
Yes indeed, especially when it's on nice hardware. It's a wonderful thing to show off Linux with when visitors come over (as opposed to running a matrix screensaver in the root window). And the whole 'look at what we can do with a cute penguin' thing really helps Linux. Yes, some people go for the 'ooh, a penguin' thing as opposed to a 'flying, multi(5)coloured window'. I mean, you can do lots of things with Tux, like make it slide down ice or give it guns, but a picture of a window really doesn't kick it.
It's a wonderful game and it entertains while being dangerously addictive, like Solitaire or Minesweeper.
I think we're safe for now. THEY'd need samples of everyone's voice. Hang on, my voicemail message provides my voice! But then THEY'd have to remove any accents I might put on to foil THEIR evil plans. And I'm hoping they can't do that yet.
But until they do, we're safe from THEM spying and tracking us through the phone.
Oh dear, I hope those Angels do something to avert this looming crisis.
~Duane
Actually, Linux can run on your 8088.
ELKS (The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subsystem) is what you ae looking for.
Find it here.
Unfortunately, my 8088 box is flaky (controller is dodgy and the hdd is covered in bad sectors, not to mention the corroded ISA contacts) so I never got ELKS going.
I know I'm responding seriously to a post rated 'funny' but now you know you can defeat those terrorists.
--Duane