Thursday, November 13, 2008
Gaming - influenced by
In game communicaton is easily done. There are several channels supplied for various sections of a typed version of communication. An example is general chat, trade chat, looking for group (lfg), personal one to one chat with someone in game referred to as whispers. Due to gaming content involving groups having to be co-ordinated internet verbal communication as well as the normal typing is involved. The best way I can think of to describe this is that it is similar to skype but this server setup allows for multiple people,up to 40, to be in the same conversation at the same time.It is now supplied within the game, whereas it originally was not so. Yet again a catering to the gaming community. The game is supplied with a language filter, which can be turned off. Other social and moral issues do arise within the game, usually from a higher level character killing a low level character (lowbie). This is generally called ganking. There are game servers set up that discourage this type of behaviour for anyone uncomfortable with player versus player (pvp) game interaction. These are player versus environment (pve) servers.
The computer allows for my enjoyment of this social activity and continual communial contact with friends via the internet.
Potential intersting article for future use?
http://delivery.acm.org.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/10.1145/1180000/1178627/p360-brambilla.pdf?key1=1178627&key2=3733266221&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=10780291&CFTOKEN=82203793
mmm How does everything of this course apply here?? Basic word processing of course is involved through being able to type / write notes or letters to the allowed peoples. The allowances are something that I can control and I do appreciate being able to control, to a certain extent, the people viewing or interacting with my information. I find the number of applications avavilable to use on this website is absolutlely massive. Some are for commercial purposes and others are random ones done by other users of this website. Even though any pictures that I upload are then considered Facebbok's property. I do find this to be a little inhibiting to wanting to put any more pictures on this site, not that I am really inclined to post a lot of pictures anyway :P
As evidenced by my use of 'emotes ' such as the smiley face :) and others, the internet has also spawned its own version of expression, which is also widely used with mobile phone text messaging.
How all has applied to my study?
Extra Topics ?
Another potential topic would be how to use or deal with viruses, trojans and other unwanted intrusions and how to ascertain if they are present, so as not to corrupt any of your published data.
Maybe a topic on other forms of data storage. external hard drives, cd's, flash drives.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Feedback: Zun
The presentation flowed through it's ideas well. Unfortunately I do not understand some of the information provided in the graphs and charts. What was ADL? The static display in the charts and graphs is well done.
I can remember this group as doing a rotation presentation of the data as it was shown, well spoken and presented.
http://comp1900-2008-zun.blogspot.com/2008/10/slide-baby-slide.html
Feedback
There is generally a good flow of one idea to the next. I found there was several different versions of the information being presented as charts and graphs in the static section.
From what I remember of the actual presentation, it was not a concise as it could have been, but was presented quite clealy.
http://comp1900-2008-harry.blogspot.com/2008/10/powerpoint-slide.html
From the consumer to the producer
There is a considerable amount of information to digest in this area. The field of ethics when it comes to the internet alone can be rather intense. I find this comes from the idea that the general concept of manners, privacy, rights and many other topics may be applied in a very flexible way and point of view in the realm of ethernet. This all does have a big impact on us today as we are all, well in my household, high end users of the computers on the internet.
Lecture notes involved http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp1900/Lectures/comp1900_wk12_from_consumer_to_producer.pdf
Alternative software
I found that the freeware was a little confusing at times to use, but if you did require a word processor or a way of making a document without the access to a Microsoft Office Word or similarly familiar programme, they make a good alternative.
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp1900/Lectures/comp1900_wk_4_word_processing_Lec.pdf , in these lecture notes, we were doing word processing, which of course meant having a look at the freeware versions also available.
The power of the computer
This occupied many weeks of lecture time if one was to think of all the applications to be used and learnt about eg. http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp1900/Lectures/comp1900_wk_4_word_processing_Lec.pdf ,
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp1900/Lectures/comp1900_Wk7_spreadsheets_notes.pdf ,
Interface as a mediator
How most of us mediate the use of a computer is through a Graphical User Interface (GUI - goo ee). This is the very first screen seen by the user once the computer has booted up and the operating system (OS) is active. We are most familiar with Microsoft and Apple software as the OS available.
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp1900/Lectures/comp1900_wk_2_technology_Lec.pdf is a link to the lecture notes used when we were discussing the different forms of interfaces including GUI.
I also found, when I had done a basic google search, that there was sites available from Java, Python and other types of information of programming language companies.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
study hours
Study hours
yet again, the effectiveness of my study is that i would like to have more time to spend on studying. This would be for my own personal satisfaction and to the satisfaction of lecturers as well.
My study is limited.
I find it unsatisfactory for my own wants.
next on the agenda
Well this particular week of time, was taken up through the mid semester break from university.
I had visitors in my household at the time. They, at different times, are not locals to the Brisbane area. Since I am originally from North Queensland, that is where these visitors come from, therefore I was involved in showing them some of the sights in Brisbane, while still doing some study (usually assignment work)and transporting of children to their own associated activities.
Overall week 2 shows more leisure time, but also, naturally, no class time.
smiling on the outside
This is a very typical example of a week for me whilst I am at university, studying full time, and working part time.
Being a parent though, I feel this does not really reflect the amount of time and commitment to others and their things that is encompassed in the parental role.
My sleep time is included within the leisure catergory. This then does not show how little, or disturbed my sleep pattern is.
Overall being a single parent who is doing full time study, working part time ( to ease the financial situations) I am finding my study hours are suffering in comparison to someone else who does not have these extra responsibilities. This means I am not getting as much study done as I would like to be getting done.
In comparison I think my study hours are reduced, as a single parent.