In Australia they seem to be marked as 'Warm White', 'Cool White' or 'Daylight'. The 'Warm White' is a yellowish colour similar to the familiar incandescent globes everyone is familiar with. The 'Cool White' is a slightly bluer white which is a bit stark for some people. The 'Daylight' globes are quite blue and give very good true colour representation as they are similar to true daylight which best suits the human eye.
Inner-city suburbs in Australia tends to fall into one of two categories.
Pre-gentrification: borderline slums occupied by welfare recipents and university stundents (who are also often on a form or welfare) who cannot afford to move into better accomodation and are proximate to high-density employment or education hubs.
Post-gentrification: former slum suburbs where Yuppies bought out the houses, renovated or demolished/rebuilt the workers cottages, got representation on the local council and forced out the former 'poor' occupants who could no longer afford the rent in the newly trendy inner suburbs.
I was recently looking to move from the outer suburbs where I currently pay a mortgage, to a place closer to where I work for all the reasons cited in people's comments above (I've put on 15-20kg in the 6 years I've lived in the outer suburbs and commuted by car versus living in the innner city and walked/used public transport). Even on nearly double the salary I was on when I left the area, I can't afford to move back to the suburbs I lived in as a poor student.
Fat genes aren't total BS. Have you heard of the concept of Somatotypes?
The three somatotypes; endomorphic, mesomorphic, and ectomorphic.
The majority of the population fit into the Endomorphic category, often 'apple' shaped and have a tendancy to gain weight easily
The next most common body type is Mesomorphic, which is a more atheletic build - often V-shaped in men or hourglass shaped in women, also have a tendancy to easily gain weight.
The least common body type is Ectomorphic, poeple of this body type will tend to slender frames, often 'under-weight'. Most fashion models come from this category.
In Australia a limited number of school teach a recognised Architecture program. You cannot use the term Architect to describe your profession unless you have passed a certification exam with the national registration body. The pre-requisite to sitting the certification exam is a recognised degree and a minimum of two years recorded work experience with a registered firm.
I completed 4/5 of an architecture degree at Melbourne University and two years work experience with one of the countries largest Architectural firms (Peddle Thorpe) before moving into IT during the '90 economic downturn/IT bubble.
Interior DESIGNERS and Interior DECORATORS are two entirely different disciplines (the first is designing the entire space possibly including furniture design, lighting and some structural components, the latter is choosing paint colours and the fabric to re-upholster the sofa).
Within Architecture you may get people who specialise in particualr fields such as acoustic or lighting design, stadiums, theatres, facilities design (workflow and utilisation - critical with complex buildings like hosiptals and hotels).
Residences do not require an architect to get a building permit, but will require approval from a registered structural engineer. It is not uncommon for people to get work done by 'Architectural Draftsmen', how are not registered 'Architects'.
I grew up in a household where my father was a self-employed electrician. There were always things around the house in pieces. As I got older, I would take things apart to see how they would work too.
While I no longer do that for a living, I spent most of a decade dismantling and reassembling computers, printers and monitors on a daily basis.
Culture/environment probably played some part in my career choices.
I was throwing up this morning before I left for work. The only reason I came in was there was no way my WoW playing boss would belive I actually WAS sick today. Planning to head home early to beat the traffic, explor a little , throw up some more and go to bed.
There is not much on the TBC install CD's, well only >1Gb of terrain data for the new zones, so nothing much worth worrying about...
Yes, you will need to install the CDs. Yes you need to upgrade your account status with a TBC licence key (one per account you want to access the new content with). You can upgrade the account from within the installer while the install is happening. Was surprisingly smooth and quick process. Then it will do two patches 2.0.0 -> 2.0.3 (from the file oyu have already downloaded) and then 2.0.3 -> 2.0.5 from a new file it will download which is less than 3Mb.
We had a running gag in one campaign where the standard attempt to initiate a surprise check we to point and say "Look it's the Good Year Blimp", generally this only occured if we were already engaged with th epotential combative opponents. The DM would roll a d100 check to see if they looked for the Blimp (it being an anachronism and all). The one time it actually worked, I think the DM was more surprised than the mobs.
Same campaign we used to roll; 'check for traps', 'check for secret doors/hidden', 'check for stoats'. One time the DM got so sick of us checking for stoats that he said we found one. One of the party members did a successful charisma check to tame it and we used to send it in ahead to check for traps after that.
I think you are refering to compressive vs. tensile strength. An example of this would be concrete has a high compressive strength rating (can absorb high compressive/crushing forces) but has quite poor tensile strength (twisting or bending) and will crack or spall. Conversely, steel has a high tensile strength (resistent to twisting/bending) but is comparitively easily deformed by crushing forces. This is why in construction you often use steel reinforce concrete - it has the benefits of both materials in resisting compressive and tensile forces.
During materials sciences classes we were shown the differences between 'bulletproof' and 'armoured' glass. Generally "bulletproof" glass can absorb the forces of a single bullet in a given area (can't remember the size off the top of my head), an "armoured" panel can absorb half a dozen or so bullets in close proximity. The way this is done is by layering glass with sheets of a flexible polymer, the kinetic energy from the bullet(s) is dispersed through the polymer layer, reducing the likelyhood that the panel will break/tear/shatter. The number of layers affects the amount of energy that can be dispersed, and therefore the number of bullets.
In the mid-80's I encountered a similar situation in high school where I was point-blank told by one of the teachers in final year that I should be enrolled in home economics not maths/physics/chemistry.
I sometimes wonder if the attitude was one of the reasons I slipped from Dux to 2nd place that year.
This would have been over 10 years ago, when Australia first started getting pay TV. We had a service called Galaxy which was delivered by microwave transmitter, it was used quite a bit by people in aparments who couldn't get an actual cable connection installed.
There was only on 'adult' channel, you had to request access to it in writing. It only operated during certain hours overnight and shared a channel with something else during the day (might have been one of the world movies channels).
If you tried to access the channel without subscription to it during the night, you would get a scrambled transmission
We came in late from somewhere, can't remember where, and caught a sequence from early in Michael Ninn's Latex (woman doing dishes at sink in yellow rubber gloves), the music for his films was pretty funky, we though we were on a music video channel, then things went from kinda erotic to extremely explicit, and we were looking at each other asking - what channel are we on anyway...
The channel was called NIghtmoves. Galaxy went out of business and we lost our pay TV because our body corporate wouldn't allow FoxTel to be installed.
We've moved since, but never gotten around to getting it installed - have cable internet instead.
Check out titles by Michael Ninn. The first time we saw one it was by accident, channel surfing on cable. We had to double check which channel we were on because the production quality seemed to be too high to be the pr0n channel.
I remember everyone saying how the original iPod was too expensive, feature poor, no way it was going to compete in a market that already had the Rio, etc...
The iPod redefined the market for MP3 players.
As a long time Mac user, I've been listening to people predict the demise of Apple, the failure of it's products for decades.
The iPhone may be a disaster, or it may be as disruptive a technology as the iPod. Only time will tell.
I've been playing this for years, I think I have a rev 2.0 set (might be a rev 1.0 but I think it has a few additional cards).
The rev 3.0 (I think it is) currently kicking around has a bunch of new rules and cards that makes it just that little bit too complex for teaching novice (non-gamer) users, I'd personally ditch the extras and go back to the rev 2.0 set.
So I went to see my physio on Monday night last week fo my regular monthly appointment. It was exactly 4 days since the Australian release of the Wii. We were chatting in passing that my husband was crawling around the house from too much Wii Sports Bowling and my physio tells me they had already had half a dozen people trough with sports injuries from using the Wii.
This tells me two things, people are REALLY getting into it, and secondly that more people are buying the console than I expected.
I get motion sick, frequently. As a small child we used to drive past the Dog on the Tuckerbox twice in a two week period over the summer holidays. It was a logical spot for a break in the drive.
I have thrown up on the Dog on the Tuckerbox probably a dozen times or more.
Quite a few of these conventions also have Wargaiming events and Collectable Card Game (CCG) events if that's your thing.
We have looked at CRPGs at conventions, but the cost/risk doesn't fit the rest of the events we are running. Australia gaming conventions are typically low cost events - the Arcanacon GEt Wrecked option is usually aroud $60 for 4 days of roleplaying events.
There are decinfately RPG/tabletop gaming cons in Australia (not sure which part of the mix you were interested in).
From memory, SwanCon runs out of Perth. Melbourne has Arcanacon, Conquest, Unicon, Dwarfcon and Fauxcon. There's a version of GenCon running in Brisbane next year, and I've forgotten the names of all the Sydney cons; included are MacquarieCon, Sydcon and Necronomicon. There's also a couple in Canberra; CanCon and Phenomenon . One annual con in Adelaide that I've heard of.
I have had a subscription to one of their cross-stitch magazines for nearly 5 years now. They are quite strong in the crafts market. The have plenty of titles that are nothing to do with computers or gaming.
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They are too busy huging iPhone brochures and feeding up their credit cards.
In Australia they seem to be marked as 'Warm White', 'Cool White' or 'Daylight'. The 'Warm White' is a yellowish colour similar to the familiar incandescent globes everyone is familiar with. The 'Cool White' is a slightly bluer white which is a bit stark for some people. The 'Daylight' globes are quite blue and give very good true colour representation as they are similar to true daylight which best suits the human eye.
Inner-city suburbs in Australia tends to fall into one of two categories.
Pre-gentrification: borderline slums occupied by welfare recipents and university stundents (who are also often on a form or welfare) who cannot afford to move into better accomodation and are proximate to high-density employment or education hubs.
Post-gentrification: former slum suburbs where Yuppies bought out the houses, renovated or demolished/rebuilt the workers cottages, got representation on the local council and forced out the former 'poor' occupants who could no longer afford the rent in the newly trendy inner suburbs.
I was recently looking to move from the outer suburbs where I currently pay a mortgage, to a place closer to where I work for all the reasons cited in people's comments above (I've put on 15-20kg in the 6 years I've lived in the outer suburbs and commuted by car versus living in the innner city and walked/used public transport). Even on nearly double the salary I was on when I left the area, I can't afford to move back to the suburbs I lived in as a poor student.
Fat genes aren't total BS. Have you heard of the concept of Somatotypes?
The three somatotypes; endomorphic, mesomorphic, and ectomorphic.
The majority of the population fit into the Endomorphic category, often 'apple' shaped and have a tendancy to gain weight easily
The next most common body type is Mesomorphic, which is a more atheletic build - often V-shaped in men or hourglass shaped in women, also have a tendancy to easily gain weight.
The least common body type is Ectomorphic, poeple of this body type will tend to slender frames, often 'under-weight'. Most fashion models come from this category.
The 'dude' is Hugo Weaving. If you want to see him in a really different role, find yourself a copy of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
In Australia a limited number of school teach a recognised Architecture program. You cannot use the term Architect to describe your profession unless you have passed a certification exam with the national registration body. The pre-requisite to sitting the certification exam is a recognised degree and a minimum of two years recorded work experience with a registered firm.
I completed 4/5 of an architecture degree at Melbourne University and two years work experience with one of the countries largest Architectural firms (Peddle Thorpe) before moving into IT during the '90 economic downturn/IT bubble.
Interior DESIGNERS and Interior DECORATORS are two entirely different disciplines (the first is designing the entire space possibly including furniture design, lighting and some structural components, the latter is choosing paint colours and the fabric to re-upholster the sofa).
Within Architecture you may get people who specialise in particualr fields such as acoustic or lighting design, stadiums, theatres, facilities design (workflow and utilisation - critical with complex buildings like hosiptals and hotels).
Residences do not require an architect to get a building permit, but will require approval from a registered structural engineer. It is not uncommon for people to get work done by 'Architectural Draftsmen', how are not registered 'Architects'.
I grew up in a household where my father was a self-employed electrician. There were always things around the house in pieces. As I got older, I would take things apart to see how they would work too.
While I no longer do that for a living, I spent most of a decade dismantling and reassembling computers, printers and monitors on a daily basis.
Culture/environment probably played some part in my career choices.
I was throwing up this morning before I left for work. The only reason I came in was there was no way my WoW playing boss would belive I actually WAS sick today. Planning to head home early to beat the traffic, explor a little , throw up some more and go to bed.
There is not much on the TBC install CD's, well only >1Gb of terrain data for the new zones, so nothing much worth worrying about...
Yes, you will need to install the CDs. Yes you need to upgrade your account status with a TBC licence key (one per account you want to access the new content with). You can upgrade the account from within the installer while the install is happening. Was surprisingly smooth and quick process. Then it will do two patches 2.0.0 -> 2.0.3 (from the file oyu have already downloaded) and then 2.0.3 -> 2.0.5 from a new file it will download which is less than 3Mb.
Body is at work, mind is in outlands.
We had a running gag in one campaign where the standard attempt to initiate a surprise check we to point and say "Look it's the Good Year Blimp", generally this only occured if we were already engaged with th epotential combative opponents. The DM would roll a d100 check to see if they looked for the Blimp (it being an anachronism and all). The one time it actually worked, I think the DM was more surprised than the mobs.
Same campaign we used to roll; 'check for traps', 'check for secret doors/hidden', 'check for stoats'. One time the DM got so sick of us checking for stoats that he said we found one. One of the party members did a successful charisma check to tame it and we used to send it in ahead to check for traps after that.
...can make DRM effective against determined hackers.
I think you are refering to compressive vs. tensile strength. An example of this would be concrete has a high compressive strength rating (can absorb high compressive/crushing forces) but has quite poor tensile strength (twisting or bending) and will crack or spall. Conversely, steel has a high tensile strength (resistent to twisting/bending) but is comparitively easily deformed by crushing forces. This is why in construction you often use steel reinforce concrete - it has the benefits of both materials in resisting compressive and tensile forces.
During materials sciences classes we were shown the differences between 'bulletproof' and 'armoured' glass. Generally "bulletproof" glass can absorb the forces of a single bullet in a given area (can't remember the size off the top of my head), an "armoured" panel can absorb half a dozen or so bullets in close proximity. The way this is done is by layering glass with sheets of a flexible polymer, the kinetic energy from the bullet(s) is dispersed through the polymer layer, reducing the likelyhood that the panel will break/tear/shatter. The number of layers affects the amount of energy that can be dispersed, and therefore the number of bullets.
Memories are meant to fade, Lenny! They're designed that way! -- Strange Days
In the mid-80's I encountered a similar situation in high school where I was point-blank told by one of the teachers in final year that I should be enrolled in home economics not maths/physics/chemistry.
I sometimes wonder if the attitude was one of the reasons I slipped from Dux to 2nd place that year.
This would have been over 10 years ago, when Australia first started getting pay TV. We had a service called Galaxy which was delivered by microwave transmitter, it was used quite a bit by people in aparments who couldn't get an actual cable connection installed.
There was only on 'adult' channel, you had to request access to it in writing. It only operated during certain hours overnight and shared a channel with something else during the day (might have been one of the world movies channels).
If you tried to access the channel without subscription to it during the night, you would get a scrambled transmission
We came in late from somewhere, can't remember where, and caught a sequence from early in Michael Ninn's Latex (woman doing dishes at sink in yellow rubber gloves), the music for his films was pretty funky, we though we were on a music video channel, then things went from kinda erotic to extremely explicit, and we were looking at each other asking - what channel are we on anyway...
The channel was called NIghtmoves. Galaxy went out of business and we lost our pay TV because our body corporate wouldn't allow FoxTel to be installed.
We've moved since, but never gotten around to getting it installed - have cable internet instead.
Isn't high quality porn an oxymoron?
Check out titles by Michael Ninn. The first time we saw one it was by accident, channel surfing on cable. We had to double check which channel we were on because the production quality seemed to be too high to be the pr0n channel.
And given we are mortal, it's a finite resource for any given individual.
I remember everyone saying how the original iPod was too expensive, feature poor, no way it was going to compete in a market that already had the Rio, etc...
The iPod redefined the market for MP3 players.
As a long time Mac user, I've been listening to people predict the demise of Apple, the failure of it's products for decades.
The iPhone may be a disaster, or it may be as disruptive a technology as the iPod. Only time will tell.
We send staff to the following two locations as 'punishment':
I've been playing this for years, I think I have a rev 2.0 set (might be a rev 1.0 but I think it has a few additional cards).
The rev 3.0 (I think it is) currently kicking around has a bunch of new rules and cards that makes it just that little bit too complex for teaching novice (non-gamer) users, I'd personally ditch the extras and go back to the rev 2.0 set.
So I went to see my physio on Monday night last week fo my regular monthly appointment. It was exactly 4 days since the Australian release of the Wii. We were chatting in passing that my husband was crawling around the house from too much Wii Sports Bowling and my physio tells me they had already had half a dozen people trough with sports injuries from using the Wii.
This tells me two things, people are REALLY getting into it, and secondly that more people are buying the console than I expected.
I get motion sick, frequently. As a small child we used to drive past the Dog on the Tuckerbox twice in a two week period over the summer holidays. It was a logical spot for a break in the drive.
I have thrown up on the Dog on the Tuckerbox probably a dozen times or more.
It makes me feel quesy just thinking about it.
I so can't spell today.
Quite a few of these conventions also have Wargaiming events and Collectable Card Game (CCG) events if that's your thing.
We have looked at CRPGs at conventions, but the cost/risk doesn't fit the rest of the events we are running. Australia gaming conventions are typically low cost events - the Arcanacon GEt Wrecked option is usually aroud $60 for 4 days of roleplaying events.
There are decinfately RPG/tabletop gaming cons in Australia (not sure which part of the mix you were interested in).
From memory, SwanCon runs out of Perth. Melbourne has Arcanacon, Conquest, Unicon, Dwarfcon and Fauxcon. There's a version of GenCon running in Brisbane next year, and I've forgotten the names of all the Sydney cons; included are MacquarieCon, Sydcon and Necronomicon. There's also a couple in Canberra; CanCon and Phenomenon . One annual con in Adelaide that I've heard of.
More information can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_G aming_conventions
It's not entirely accurate, as The Big Con was a real con that ran for some uyears in Brisbane.
I have had a subscription to one of their cross-stitch magazines for nearly 5 years now. They are quite strong in the crafts market. The have plenty of titles that are nothing to do with computers or gaming.