Everybodys good friend, Mr George W Bush.Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Photo - Uni Life
to me, this is uni life, without this glorious beverage, all hope would be lost, and i would need more than 4 hours sleep a night. sweet sweet coffeePhoto - high tech
dont know if anyone remembers this, but its a screenshot i took of the movie 'hackers' and how they portrayed a online database, and how they 'hacked' it. couldn't stop laughing personally. but im sure many people found it amazing and the effects where definitly 'high-tech' for its day lol. go C.G.I!
Photo - Summer
chose this one as it reminds me of the seemingly never ending beaches on moreton island on which i spent a lot of my summers as a kid.
Photo - Australian
i think this one is pretty self explanatory, whats more australian than VB or xxxx?Photo - Games
well i chose this particular image for the games topic as it brings back memories of the old 386, back when the 2d shooters were taking off with wolfenstien 3d, only the oldies in the course will know what im talking about..haha. rock onWednesday, April 4, 2007
week 6
in todays lecture we had a real quick rundown on a few topics, the history of the internet, and vitual reality and the screen age. now i already knew that it all began with ARPANET. and i knew the basics with ports, firewalls, etc... but funny enough, that little cartoon really helped piece it together, and it did it so simply.
the part which really caught my attention though was the virtual reality. the whole where do we draw the line between 'virtual' and 'reality' for now, true enough, there are no senses of touch or smell within a virtual world, but who's to say in the near future that won't be the case? true enough, interest in the public eye has seen virtual reality decline over the last few years, but i've no doubt that soon enough, it will rise again, it can have so many applications, military training, in fact....any training at all. i mean flight simulator is already a standerd for pilot training. there could be recreational uses also, what if you wanted to see what it was like to be on a beach in the bahamas, without having the time to fly there and take a holiday? virtual reality could give the user a quick escape. the main issue which surrounds this is that users may get addicted to their 'virtual' world, and not be quite so productive in the real world. though if we could figure out a way to take it in moderation, i think it would be great.
who knows, maybe in many years to come, we may be living in a world where being 'plugged in' like in the matrix, may be a completely normal thing to do lol
the part which really caught my attention though was the virtual reality. the whole where do we draw the line between 'virtual' and 'reality' for now, true enough, there are no senses of touch or smell within a virtual world, but who's to say in the near future that won't be the case? true enough, interest in the public eye has seen virtual reality decline over the last few years, but i've no doubt that soon enough, it will rise again, it can have so many applications, military training, in fact....any training at all. i mean flight simulator is already a standerd for pilot training. there could be recreational uses also, what if you wanted to see what it was like to be on a beach in the bahamas, without having the time to fly there and take a holiday? virtual reality could give the user a quick escape. the main issue which surrounds this is that users may get addicted to their 'virtual' world, and not be quite so productive in the real world. though if we could figure out a way to take it in moderation, i think it would be great.
who knows, maybe in many years to come, we may be living in a world where being 'plugged in' like in the matrix, may be a completely normal thing to do lol
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