This pretty much represents one of the most known Australian animal, the kangaroo, most people from over seas think thats all Australia is, full of kangaroos. Its pretty funny, its probally shows like skippy that set that off.Wednesday, April 25, 2007
photo - Australian
This pretty much represents one of the most known Australian animal, the kangaroo, most people from over seas think thats all Australia is, full of kangaroos. Its pretty funny, its probally shows like skippy that set that off.
photo - Communication
This is the image i chose for communication. Although its alot simplier than todays forms of communication it still represents todays ideas.Virtual Chat Sites
Hey all,
Just went on Active Worlds ( http://www.activeworlds.com ). It claims to be the webs most powerful virtual reality experience. Its actually quite cool. You can visit the hundreds of thousands of users to chat and play with them. With the variety of camera angles you can really get a good look around the place. You can do a whole bunch of things such as swim, drive cars, just on boats and fly. You can also go into different worlds and meet new people. I didnt exactly like the graphics of this one though, it was like 'choppy' and had a slow frame rate. I rate this virtual chat site a 5/10.
IMVU (http://www.imvu.com) was really good. The graphics were good, it was alot like the game, the sims. Unline the last game, i think this games graphics were alot 'smoother'. What I enjoyed about this game was you got to choose who you actually were, you had a selection of people and you could modify them by clothes, hair, eye colour, skin colour ect... There is a bit of a market in this site though, when you first sign up, you get a free 1000 credits, which is like money there. But once you have used all those credits you have to buy things with actualy money Eg) Different hair styles range from about 60 cents to $1 in Aus money. I spoke to some new members to the site and asked about what they thought. The few i did speak to said they hated the fact the conversations are in speech bubbles. One of the cool things about this virtual chat site is you have a ton of different actions and emotions you can choose. You can even do a 'kissanova', thumb wars and smack people in the face.... You can do some violent moves. Its a chat site you can get addicted to. I rate this virtual chat site a 8/10.
Habbo (http://habbo.com.au) was a nightmare registering, it took forever loading. Then told me it could not load, from what i saw it was very simple and pixelated. It also looked like it was made for younger people. I rate this a 2/10.
The next one tried was second life (http://www.secondlife.com) I agree with what the tutorial task said, it is annoying to get into if you only want a quick look. It took a little bit to download but by the time i got on there it would not log me on. I tried a few times but it continued to say log on failed. Then at the bottom of the screen they have a news and announcements section with an article saying they were having problems with increased traffic into the site which may result in log on failure. I will defiently give this one a go later on, it looks like it will be a good one. Rating 4/10.
I find virtual chat sites very interesting. Inconvient to the dial up user (yes thats me, hopefully broadband will be up by next week). They are more entertaining than the original Msn Messenger, but some people do enjoy the simplicity of it. My favourite one would have to be IMVU, but as a fan of the sims i cannot speak for other people. Some people in the class were saying how everyone says they are young but in reality beleive they are old, ill have to agree, everone asked my age first then amazing they were the same age.
Just went on Active Worlds ( http://www.activeworlds.com ). It claims to be the webs most powerful virtual reality experience. Its actually quite cool. You can visit the hundreds of thousands of users to chat and play with them. With the variety of camera angles you can really get a good look around the place. You can do a whole bunch of things such as swim, drive cars, just on boats and fly. You can also go into different worlds and meet new people. I didnt exactly like the graphics of this one though, it was like 'choppy' and had a slow frame rate. I rate this virtual chat site a 5/10.
IMVU (http://www.imvu.com) was really good. The graphics were good, it was alot like the game, the sims. Unline the last game, i think this games graphics were alot 'smoother'. What I enjoyed about this game was you got to choose who you actually were, you had a selection of people and you could modify them by clothes, hair, eye colour, skin colour ect... There is a bit of a market in this site though, when you first sign up, you get a free 1000 credits, which is like money there. But once you have used all those credits you have to buy things with actualy money Eg) Different hair styles range from about 60 cents to $1 in Aus money. I spoke to some new members to the site and asked about what they thought. The few i did speak to said they hated the fact the conversations are in speech bubbles. One of the cool things about this virtual chat site is you have a ton of different actions and emotions you can choose. You can even do a 'kissanova', thumb wars and smack people in the face.... You can do some violent moves. Its a chat site you can get addicted to. I rate this virtual chat site a 8/10.
Habbo (http://habbo.com.au) was a nightmare registering, it took forever loading. Then told me it could not load, from what i saw it was very simple and pixelated. It also looked like it was made for younger people. I rate this a 2/10.
The next one tried was second life (http://www.secondlife.com) I agree with what the tutorial task said, it is annoying to get into if you only want a quick look. It took a little bit to download but by the time i got on there it would not log me on. I tried a few times but it continued to say log on failed. Then at the bottom of the screen they have a news and announcements section with an article saying they were having problems with increased traffic into the site which may result in log on failure. I will defiently give this one a go later on, it looks like it will be a good one. Rating 4/10.
I find virtual chat sites very interesting. Inconvient to the dial up user (yes thats me, hopefully broadband will be up by next week). They are more entertaining than the original Msn Messenger, but some people do enjoy the simplicity of it. My favourite one would have to be IMVU, but as a fan of the sims i cannot speak for other people. Some people in the class were saying how everyone says they are young but in reality beleive they are old, ill have to agree, everone asked my age first then amazing they were the same age.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
History of the internet
Hey everyone,
I think I may be a blog behind so ill talk about my last lecture. Last lecture we covered ‘the history of the internet’ and ’virtual philosophy’. Ill just cover ‘the history of the internet for today’.
Many myths plague the internet, myths such as we are experiencing an epochal transformation that changes our common beliefs about time, space and power. There is particular interest in the golden age, the golden age is the idea in looking back in a period of history where everything was bright and beautiful. If there ever was a gold age of the internet, ended with the dot.com crash in 2000 and the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11 2001, ushering the age of digital surveillance. Digital mythology continues to generate the memes of an Internet Golden Age that has shifting spatial and temporal boundaries.
Samuel Butler in the late 19th century predicted the development of the ‘machine language’ and computer code would become ‘a speech as intricate as our own’. This development began in the 1940’s but did not really come to fruition until 30 years later in Silicon Valley. In 1959 a program called sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe was demonstrated. This integrated circuit cost $1000 back in 1959 costs less than $10 today. In 1968 the word processor was demonstrated, it is now still a common computer application. The late 1960’s recorded a Swiss computer scientist developed the first of many computer programming languages. His first language was called Pascal. 1970 was the year that Fairchild Semiconductor introduced a 256-bit RAM chip. 1K RAM chip and the 4004, a 4-bit microprocessor was introduced by Intel during the late 1970’s. Two years later came the 8008, an 8-bit microprocessor. The role of Silicon Valley was the incubator of consumer-directed digital technologies. Heres a timeline of 1970: Intel Inside
Mid 1960’s - Third generation computers came into being
1971- Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data
1971- Intel released first microprocessor
1975- The Altair was released, it was easy and affordable for the small but growing hackers community
It is predicted the future of the internet will be like a television with thousands of channels, not just hundreds. The mouse will just become another remote control.
Sorry i couldnt go inot too much detail, 300 words isnt enough to outline the history of the internet.
I think I may be a blog behind so ill talk about my last lecture. Last lecture we covered ‘the history of the internet’ and ’virtual philosophy’. Ill just cover ‘the history of the internet for today’.
Many myths plague the internet, myths such as we are experiencing an epochal transformation that changes our common beliefs about time, space and power. There is particular interest in the golden age, the golden age is the idea in looking back in a period of history where everything was bright and beautiful. If there ever was a gold age of the internet, ended with the dot.com crash in 2000 and the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11 2001, ushering the age of digital surveillance. Digital mythology continues to generate the memes of an Internet Golden Age that has shifting spatial and temporal boundaries.
Samuel Butler in the late 19th century predicted the development of the ‘machine language’ and computer code would become ‘a speech as intricate as our own’. This development began in the 1940’s but did not really come to fruition until 30 years later in Silicon Valley. In 1959 a program called sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe was demonstrated. This integrated circuit cost $1000 back in 1959 costs less than $10 today. In 1968 the word processor was demonstrated, it is now still a common computer application. The late 1960’s recorded a Swiss computer scientist developed the first of many computer programming languages. His first language was called Pascal. 1970 was the year that Fairchild Semiconductor introduced a 256-bit RAM chip. 1K RAM chip and the 4004, a 4-bit microprocessor was introduced by Intel during the late 1970’s. Two years later came the 8008, an 8-bit microprocessor. The role of Silicon Valley was the incubator of consumer-directed digital technologies. Heres a timeline of 1970: Intel Inside
Mid 1960’s - Third generation computers came into being
1971- Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data
1971- Intel released first microprocessor
1975- The Altair was released, it was easy and affordable for the small but growing hackers community
It is predicted the future of the internet will be like a television with thousands of channels, not just hundreds. The mouse will just become another remote control.
Sorry i couldnt go inot too much detail, 300 words isnt enough to outline the history of the internet.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Photoshop and flu :(
Hey everyone,
I’m sorry I won’t be in the tutorial today, I have been so sick with the flu this past few days and I think I just need to rest. I’ve started on some antibiotics so hopefully ill be as good as new next lesson.
This week in our tutorial we used the program PhotoShop. I’ve always wanted to learn about PhotoShop because I’ve seen some people do some pretty cool things with it. We had to start off by getting some personal photos of things such as uni life, friends, summer ect… But unfortunately I don’t own a digital camera so I guess google photos will just have to do. I started off by doing the basic tutorials in PhotoShop, getting rid of red eyes and learning to cut backgrounds away from focused images. Then I pretty much experimented with different tools and seeing what different things were there. I would have to say my favourite was the filtering tool, you could give the photo a whole different look by the filter eg. You could make it look like honeycomb. Ill post some pictures of my experiments with PhotoShop next time I’m using a university computer.
We were asked to write an introduction of our essay (I’m warning you, this is only a very rough draft).
I usually do my introduction at the end so I can cover everything I’ve spoken about, I normally start off with the body. (My references aren’t in correct format yet I have just written the sites for now).
File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing). The problem with file sharing is that it’s stealing. It’s a group of people "sharing" files such as movies, music and books amongst a large array of people whom they do not know. Its programs such as morpheus, limewire, kazaa, bearshare and napster that make this possible. File sharing has been a hot topic of the news in recent years with some saying its equivalent to stealing a car. (http://media.www.beaconnewspaper.com/media/storage/paper540/news/2003/11/18/Opinion/FileSharing.Is.The.Moral.Equivalent.Of.Stealing.A.Car-560417.shtml)
**As I said it’s a very rough draft, its just I’ve got some books on order at the Gold Coast Library on order and I want to start this assignment with as much information as possible, they should be in late this week, early next week. **
I’m sorry I won’t be in the tutorial today, I have been so sick with the flu this past few days and I think I just need to rest. I’ve started on some antibiotics so hopefully ill be as good as new next lesson.
This week in our tutorial we used the program PhotoShop. I’ve always wanted to learn about PhotoShop because I’ve seen some people do some pretty cool things with it. We had to start off by getting some personal photos of things such as uni life, friends, summer ect… But unfortunately I don’t own a digital camera so I guess google photos will just have to do. I started off by doing the basic tutorials in PhotoShop, getting rid of red eyes and learning to cut backgrounds away from focused images. Then I pretty much experimented with different tools and seeing what different things were there. I would have to say my favourite was the filtering tool, you could give the photo a whole different look by the filter eg. You could make it look like honeycomb. Ill post some pictures of my experiments with PhotoShop next time I’m using a university computer.
We were asked to write an introduction of our essay (I’m warning you, this is only a very rough draft).
I usually do my introduction at the end so I can cover everything I’ve spoken about, I normally start off with the body. (My references aren’t in correct format yet I have just written the sites for now).
File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing). The problem with file sharing is that it’s stealing. It’s a group of people "sharing" files such as movies, music and books amongst a large array of people whom they do not know. Its programs such as morpheus, limewire, kazaa, bearshare and napster that make this possible. File sharing has been a hot topic of the news in recent years with some saying its equivalent to stealing a car. (http://media.www.beaconnewspaper.com/media/storage/paper540/news/2003/11/18/Opinion/FileSharing.Is.The.Moral.Equivalent.Of.Stealing.A.Car-560417.shtml)
**As I said it’s a very rough draft, its just I’ve got some books on order at the Gold Coast Library on order and I want to start this assignment with as much information as possible, they should be in late this week, early next week. **
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