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. **
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Hey this is kind of a bunch of ideas and sites i have collected for my essay:
Ive decided to do my essay on 'Issues regarding filesharing online'. I chose my topic because filesharing has been such a hot topic latley. Filesharing is kind of like a loophole in the system, its computer users basically making their files avalible for others to download and visa versa.
Basic idea of what i want to include:
Ive decided to do my essay on 'Issues regarding filesharing online'. I chose my topic because filesharing has been such a hot topic latley. Filesharing is kind of like a loophole in the system, its computer users basically making their files avalible for others to download and visa versa.
Basic idea of what i want to include:
- Napster/ kazaa/limewire
- Copyright laws
- Define the topic
- What issues they cause in society
- Whos against/for it
- Diagrams (found some usefuol ones on this site)
- http://www.answers.com/topic/file-sharing
Thats all for now, take care, till next time :)
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Hello everyone out there,
Here are some interesting facts from our week three tutorial task.
1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
The current world record belongs to Steve Daletas of Oregon. His pumpkin weighed 1,385 pounds (628 kilograms).
2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?
He arrives at the Pizzey Park pool on the Gold Coast at 5am.
3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
A giraffe's tongue is just about two feet long
4. How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?
The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. In my own words i think its like a relationship between concepts, got to do with computers.
5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
1969: First feature and first film in 35mm, "Stereo" (produced, directed, wrote, shot and edited)
6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?
For many years 555 was the unassigned dialling code in the US, but due to expansion the codes been recently re-assigned
8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?
I found this question really difficult. The cheapest form of travel would be by ferry.
9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
I'll Never Find Another You- The Seekers
10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Stephen Stockwell plays in a Brisbane band called 'Black Assassins'.
That was actually harder than i thought it would be. I noticed when typing in these questions i would get alot of the classes blog entries (don't worry i didn't copy). I'm so used to Google so it was good getting used to a variety of different search engines. I would say a search engine is like an electronic library (that isn't exactly creditable), i think that rank pretty highly though, because without them then how would you find different sites about different things. Example: you have been looking for a particular recipe for ages and you cannot find it anywhere. If you access the Internet, most people wouldn't even know how to go about looking for it, that's when these search engines come in handy.
The order of the search results is pretty helpful, it is pretty much, the more related, the higher the ranking. Example: I'm looking for information on R31 skylines, in yahoo the search results will show the r31 skyline club up there because its the most relevant. I also notices wikipedia being pretty high in the search results as well. My favourite search engine is http://www.google.com/, i think its because its the only one Ive ever really been familiar with. I like how you have choices (most search engines probably do) but they have the tabs at the top, you can search information, images, current news articles. I also have a Google toolbar so its so convenient just to click that.
Some current news stories about search engines include:
Google: Media giants tie up with Google's YouTube rivals for online video distribution
Google: Google's expansion is coming at a price: it's losing its popularity
Yahoo: Yahoo's new ad program clicks
Yahoo: Yahoo! India content head quits
Ill post my information on my essay in another blog, i really don't want to lose everything Ive written. =D
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