RMIT Interior Design entrance exam
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Many years ago I sat the entrance exam for RMIT Interior Design (no - not Decoration (what colour wallpaper), design (acoutstics, structural, thermal, lighting, etc...)).
The entrance exam was about 4 hours long, it included questions on spatial relationships, being able to visualise 3D objects from their 2D components, and lateral thinking (e.g. name 30 distinctly different uses for a brick, and again for a wine bottle).
I got an offer, but chose to do Architecture at UniMelb becuase it looked like less work.:)
Face it, she knows it's there if she knows you at all. If she's anything like me she probably just wants you to keep it discretely hidden when family or the cleaners are coming by so that she doesn't have to answer questions about it.
Department of Education in Victoria runs a network (WAN) to every single primary and secondary school in the state, among other things it provides internet access to all these schools via a central service.
While I can't confirm that it is larger than Centrelink, I can confirm that it is a massive enterprise. I interviewed a few years back to support a number of schools when they were first connecting it up. Fortunately for me, I found work at a University instead. DeptEdu is known as being disorganised and poor payers to contractors.:(.
This is possibly not the most enlightened environment to have this debate - most threads which raise issues regarding sexism denigrate into name calling fairly quickly as a general rule. That said however, the perceived sexism is probably a secondary issue.
The problem, as I perceive it as an outsider, is one of customer expectation. If I create a character in an RPG which has certain racial benefits or disadvantages, this is usually defined clearly in the character creation rules. Did the people who created female characters know the by selecting that gender at time of character creation that they may be disadvantaged in game, by design?
There is a significant difference in how you expect to be treated by NPCs than by PCs. In general you expect NPCs to treat you in an even handed manner as per the advertised conditional modifiers.
If you plan on introducing moral quandries into the game, you should perhaps state so clearly in the FAQ.
I recently bought a pedigree kitten from a breeder, the breed has only recently been recognised for showing (Australian Mist - Category 3 for showing in Australia), we bought this particular breed because of it's temperment (the primary reason this particular breed was brought into being).
To get the breed to a state where they can reliably breed healthy animals that consistently exhibit the same pelt, markings, body shape/size, traits has taken the breeder nearly 15 years and many generations. One of the big problems with pure-breds is that the inbreeding often leads to problems with the animals health (Mists had problems with liver disease in many of the earlier generations, only living to an average age of about 5 years).
To determine what sort of problems you will get with a breed of animal takes time and multiple generations. It's not like DVD media where you can do accellerated tests to estimate the life exceptancy.
We recently got a new kitten - an Australian Mist, they are specifically bred for their disposition.
We have a major problem with cats killing native fauna in Australia, so the Mists are bred to be indoors cats who are very people orientated, they are supposedly good with invalids and small children. They come in a number of colours, and their markings fall into 'marbled' or 'spotted' categories.
We played Brockian Ultra Cricket at University, although we substituted "cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis racquets, skis, anything you can get a good swing with" with water filled balloons.
I'm just suprised they never banned Conker's Bad Fur Day - after all you have a fight with a giant turn, who is hurling smaller turds at you all the while singing about shit fetishes...
In fact, if you tried to import it (as a title refused classification) and it was inspected by the Australian Customs Service, they would simply seize it to be destroyed.
If you had tried to import it prior to it receiving a rating, and they seized it, notifying you that I appears to contravene current ratings laws, you could request a ruling - at your cost - and risk still having the item destroyed, but now you've paid for them to ban it and paid for the seized item.
I wonder if you could use some kind of heat exchanger - you would need to insulate the pipes very well, but you could run the water pipes through the compost bin to heat water passing through them (similar to some solar water heaters) then run the water back to the pump. If you have the pipes mostly underground, provided the earth core temperature wasn't too low, you wouldn't need to have the compost heap right next to the hot tub...
If you can find a copy - read Don Norman's "The Psychology of Everyday Things". In it he talks about how we are often ready to blame users for stupid mistakes - but that how the physical design of an object can give misleading suggestions on how to use it.
He discusses the problems with early cockpit design at length, and other problems that when you read it you will recognise them as 'mistakes' you have made yourself at various times and given yourself a smack on the upside of the head for being stupid.
In all seriousness, the office I work at has a Wayne Carr, Wayne Kerr and a Wayne King. I'm not sure if someone in HR didn't highlight their CVs for the humour value just so they could collect the set.
Introducing them to new starters is always a laugh.
We're even planning on having a "Halo Party" on midnight Nov. 8th where people who preordered it can pick it up and hang out with other Halo fans.
Random thought here - if they pre-ordered and raced out to pick it up on te day of release, what makes you think they want to hang out at the store rather than race home and PLAY it?
100% of the music on my iPod is considered illegal even though 95% is from CDs that I or my husband own - becuase in Australia format shifting is not recognised as legal and we have no fair use provision.
I have a copy of the Lost Treasures for Mac, and I have downloaded several Z-machine emulators for OS X, however the original games were designed to be run as standalone games and the data files are enclosed in the runtime files.
Is there any way of extracting the data files from the original games to run them under an emulator?
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Many years ago I sat the entrance exam for RMIT Interior Design (no - not Decoration (what colour wallpaper), design (acoutstics, structural, thermal, lighting, etc...)).
The entrance exam was about 4 hours long, it included questions on spatial relationships, being able to visualise 3D objects from their 2D components, and lateral thinking (e.g. name 30 distinctly different uses for a brick, and again for a wine bottle).
I got an offer, but chose to do Architecture at UniMelb becuase it looked like less work. :)
Face it, she knows it's there if she knows you at all. If she's anything like me she probably just wants you to keep it discretely hidden when family or the cleaners are coming by so that she doesn't have to answer questions about it.
*snork
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My family moved from Lakema to country Victoria when I was very young, a lucky escape I suspect...
why settle for +1 when wonderous items come in all increments up to +5 :)
Department of Education in Victoria runs a network (WAN) to every single primary and secondary school in the state, among other things it provides internet access to all these schools via a central service.
While I can't confirm that it is larger than Centrelink, I can confirm that it is a massive enterprise. I interviewed a few years back to support a number of schools when they were first connecting it up. Fortunately for me, I found work at a University instead. DeptEdu is known as being disorganised and poor payers to contractors. :(.
Little Johnny doesn't need to kneel... he's already down there.
This is possibly not the most enlightened environment to have this debate - most threads which raise issues regarding sexism denigrate into name calling fairly quickly as a general rule. That said however, the perceived sexism is probably a secondary issue.
The problem, as I perceive it as an outsider, is one of customer expectation. If I create a character in an RPG which has certain racial benefits or disadvantages, this is usually defined clearly in the character creation rules. Did the people who created female characters know the by selecting that gender at time of character creation that they may be disadvantaged in game, by design?
There is a significant difference in how you expect to be treated by NPCs than by PCs. In general you expect NPCs to treat you in an even handed manner as per the advertised conditional modifiers.
If you plan on introducing moral quandries into the game, you should perhaps state so clearly in the FAQ.
I recently bought a pedigree kitten from a breeder, the breed has only recently been recognised for showing (Australian Mist - Category 3 for showing in Australia), we bought this particular breed because of it's temperment (the primary reason this particular breed was brought into being).
To get the breed to a state where they can reliably breed healthy animals that consistently exhibit the same pelt, markings, body shape/size, traits has taken the breeder nearly 15 years and many generations. One of the big problems with pure-breds is that the inbreeding often leads to problems with the animals health (Mists had problems with liver disease in many of the earlier generations, only living to an average age of about 5 years).
To determine what sort of problems you will get with a breed of animal takes time and multiple generations. It's not like DVD media where you can do accellerated tests to estimate the life exceptancy.
If anything, 2007 sounds a bit optimistic.
We recently got a new kitten - an Australian Mist, they are specifically bred for their disposition.
We have a major problem with cats killing native fauna in Australia, so the Mists are bred to be indoors cats who are very people orientated, they are supposedly good with invalids and small children. They come in a number of colours, and their markings fall into 'marbled' or 'spotted' categories.
*snork*
from a downunder grrl :)
Besides, if they used a HP 9000n it would would be an obsolete printer and in B&W...
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We played Brockian Ultra Cricket at University, although we substituted "cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis racquets, skis, anything you can get a good swing with" with water filled balloons.
I'm still trying to work out if this implies that Australia is now a state of America - or whether we are no longer 'part of the world.
Not sure which would be worse.
I'm just suprised they never banned Conker's Bad Fur Day - after all you have a fight with a giant turn, who is hurling smaller turds at you all the while singing about shit fetishes...
In fact, if you tried to import it (as a title refused classification) and it was inspected by the Australian Customs Service, they would simply seize it to be destroyed.
If you had tried to import it prior to it receiving a rating, and they seized it, notifying you that I appears to contravene current ratings laws, you could request a ruling - at your cost - and risk still having the item destroyed, but now you've paid for them to ban it and paid for the seized item.
I wonder if you could use some kind of heat exchanger - you would need to insulate the pipes very well, but you could run the water pipes through the compost bin to heat water passing through them (similar to some solar water heaters) then run the water back to the pump. If you have the pipes mostly underground, provided the earth core temperature wasn't too low, you wouldn't need to have the compost heap right next to the hot tub...
My first response is that was an awfully fast result on a thorough investigation for an unusual intermittant fault
If you can find a copy - read Don Norman's "The Psychology of Everyday Things". In it he talks about how we are often ready to blame users for stupid mistakes - but that how the physical design of an object can give misleading suggestions on how to use it.
He discusses the problems with early cockpit design at length, and other problems that when you read it you will recognise them as 'mistakes' you have made yourself at various times and given yourself a smack on the upside of the head for being stupid.
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In all seriousness, the office I work at has a Wayne Carr, Wayne Kerr and a Wayne King. I'm not sure if someone in HR didn't highlight their CVs for the humour value just so they could collect the set.
Introducing them to new starters is always a laugh.
We're even planning on having a "Halo Party" on midnight Nov. 8th where people who preordered it can pick it up and hang out with other Halo fans.
Random thought here - if they pre-ordered and raced out to pick it up on te day of release, what makes you think they want to hang out at the store rather than race home and PLAY it?
100% of the music on my iPod is considered illegal even though 95% is from CDs that I or my husband own - becuase in Australia format shifting is not recognised as legal and we have no fair use provision.
I have a copy of the Lost Treasures for Mac, and I have downloaded several Z-machine emulators for OS X, however the original games were designed to be run as standalone games and the data files are enclosed in the runtime files.
Is there any way of extracting the data files from the original games to run them under an emulator?