Well since we study new technologies, I thought… why not post this cool lil gadget here *grins grins*
I give youuuu a PHONE HACKING DEVICE!!!!
BT Info
And here’s a review from a happy customer: “It’s really cool!I can get pics from other peoples on the street!…” The BTInfo application basically allows you to hack other mobile phones via Bluetooth - runs on Java.
Even on Youtube you can learn from other users how to hack for MSN passwords or into email addresses. Funny…. it’s like the ‘dark side’ of the virtual community, compared to the nicer things we’ve seen on Youtube (the videos shown in class).
Tho the real gist of this story is that I got the application from a kid who’s still in primary school. Nice to see the lil ones getting in touch with tech and so brilliantly too.
Cell phone users only get younger and younger - Vittachi: Toddler Phone …. so this is where the world is heading to?
Another day surfing the net.. watching music videos in Youtube
but oooohhh what do we have here? My darling Sony PS3
I don’t watch youtube videos on my computer/laptop silly… I watch them on my TV
and why not visit Facebook too while I’m at it?
See…
What I find lacking in class is the very rare mention of consoles or console gaming.
We’re counted as gamers too ya know!!!
Lemme break it down to you this way. Console gaming is basically loads lighter on your wallet, plus you have that Hi-definition (HD) plasma TV from 42″ to 65″ inches wide as a screen. With over 1920×1080 of resolution. Just that Television screen, your console, joysticks and games (and WiFi for some) are needed. Pretty cool ei? Compare it to computers, you guys need dual screen monitors that cost thousands, plus programmable a gaming mouse, gaming mouse-pad, CPU with a higher graphic card and more RAM, sound system, games blaa blaaa….
Console gamers are simple folk
That’s not all… If you’re missing the company, consoles HAVE MMORPG games ya’ know. Example, C.O.D version for the PS3 and xBox.
One thing remains the same with the comp/laptop as well as the console in that matter……. the tragic
After all the horrible experiences on the road (and no, I don’t drive.. I merely observe - which makes me not want to drive even more) today, based on my many many many years of observation…. I conclude that MOST Malaysian’s practice a ‘different’ form of shell culture on the road.
Still remember Williams’s example?
I’m borrowing the definition from Elaine aka The Adventures of Louiselaine’s blog, tq. “In a nutshell about “Shell culture”, Williams analogy was that of a car transport. Everyone driving on the road is obeying the societal rules of the road, but internally everyone is in their own worlds and heading in their own directions.”
And as Dr.B has explained in class… although it may appear that every one is in their own bubble, they still interact with one another through non-verbal communication. Plus while driving, there are (unwritten) sets of rules and adequacy that we ‘usually’ follow. Well here’s how some Malaysians make it all the more interesting.
Example: Here in Malaysia, we do not find the need to use our signal lights when driving at 90KMP from the left lane to cut into the lane right lane/neighbouring lanes - in a 3 lane road.
- People here generally do not communicate with each other on the road. They only interact AFTER an accident or something near to an accident happens. Example of their communication after things happen: The sudden loud hon blaring and people yelling at one another (besides the hand gestures).
Before: Interaction is non-existent..
After: Too much communication
……we only communicate ‘after’.
Like my post title…. I applied to the age verification in SL in order to view the adult content in the game, and I failed miserably.
*I think I forgot to mention in my previous post, sex or sexual acts including BDSM and the rest are only prohibited to ‘adult users’.
Here’s how the rating goes:
Adult > Mature > PG > er.. universal?
To enable yourself to view and visit places with Adult Content you have to either:
Verify your age by sending in your ID or Drivers License number along with other details.
Or through purchasing Linden $ with your credit card.
Go read it up yourself, there’s too much to explain here: Adult content in Second Life and the FAQ
Here’s the form
I’m not sure if you’re able to view it tho
aaaand… Here’s how I miserably failed to get my age verified:
and the notification *sorry I couldn’t get better shots of the screen*
I suppose it’s easier to rip off your parents ID. Then again, nah…
Looks nice ei? Pretty cool stuff ei? …………………………………….. that’s how advertising works my dear.
Really, Second Life is overated.. loads of the users I’ve met think so as well.
Here’s an example:
“And the only way to do anything worthwhile is to pay for it, which is a fucking rip off considering the graphics quality”
I really don’t see what’s the big fuss people are making over SL… So what’s all this about “The steamier side of second life” then?
Here’s the equation:
Second Life = Sex
My my… such fascinating fired up young minds we have.
Then again, who wouldn’t be curious to sex?
Besides it being the highest form of human intimacy…
But first, watch these clips for an even better view of the game:
I hope you took notice of the SL graphics *points to socks*
And here’s when the SL conflicts begin:
most controversial of all… as usual by CNN
It’s true that the matter falls in a gray area and various potential new criminal offenses are just about to emerge all at once bla bla blaa.. we’re human, what do you expect? It’s not like it was unforeseeable.
C’mon the No.1 genre/list of things downloaded in Torrent is PORN!!!
What were you expecting.
But then…
Now how ’sexually excited’ do you feel?
*satire*
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
Francois de la Roche Foucald
“It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
All these crazy lines would make more sense if you decoded them in a leet speak converter, unless you can read them just fine the way they are now (:
Since ‘I Like Cats’ has covered the topic of leet speak, I won’t be repeating the subject. (tho the contents below are written using leet speak)
Then again…. if you’re not up to the experiment, here’s what the whole passage meant *cheers!*
Welcome to the digital age whereby all slaves of technology speak da lingo called Netspeak.
*Urban Dictionary
1. netspeak
An easy way to determine the IQ of the person you are talking to over the Internet.
*Dictionary.com
Main Entry: Netspeak
Definition: the language and characteristic mode of speaking peculiar to the Internet and online communication, esp. acronyms and shorthand used in posts and chatrooms
It’s rather interesting really.. how these particular individuals share a similar lingo all thanks to new media such as cell phone (text messaging) and the internet (Instant messenger, forums, chat rooms, social networking sites..) Till it becomes an innate etiquette or practice, even when afk (away from keyboard). Makes you wonder what sort of language/lingo/slang generations in the future will speak. Maybe it would sound something like “AFAIK he LOL-ed u n went AFK……. *sudden phone call disrupts the current conversation* w8, TTYL I’ll BRB”, in an everyday face-to-face conversation.. oh wait, it has already begun (:
I started on Second Life this week, just ta see how the game/alt reality/whatchamacallit works, for the real taste of that world, rather than just whine about SL like an expert after watching a few documentaries… when ‘SOME’ people really have no firsthand experience at all, bah!!!
Anyways… met quite a few interesting individuals there,
one of which, saved my character from being stark naked
another one thinks that most Muslims are terrorists, funny.
one very sad thing tho……………….. the graphics *draws picture of socks*
and the loading process is *draws image of human being engulfed in flames*
Note to self: mm..mu…must buy gaming equipment or let this be the fate of me
that pretty much sums up what I’m trying to say.
‘Cuz without the gadgets to support the game nor Linden $,
you’re the saddest noob around.
Anywaysss… if you’re ever there, look me up (:
It’s Clementine Starship!
p.s: facebook got so depressing I shutdown my account
Humanity today is a travesty… with horrendous grammar, shallow content and campy cam whores who in their highest form of omniscient-wisdom and sodding narcissism refuse to take some guidance or advice on photography. We are DOOMED
Anyway here’s something similar to the example Dr.B was giving in class (note: the spontaneous sync dance in da train station to the Sound of Music/on da streets to Michael Jackson), mildly differing from those examples, this is an actual group that creates all sorts of skits (not just dance) and take off to all places for their experiments.
Oh Internet, computer, and MOST OF ALL Youtube…. with you guys, I’d never have to attend school ever again.
Ever feel as if your whole life is a race against time?
If you had more time to study you’d ace the test
If you had more time to work with your guild, you’ll win the war
If you had all the time in the world to do what you really felt passionate about, you’d be a master of that area.
But we don’t.
As a wee kid I remember myself hoping to be a Vet someday… but I was always slow.
EG: My dad thought I was retarded because both my sisters are top scorers whereas I was just trying to pass the exams.
I’m still slow. It takes me a while to gather information and decipher it. (it’s usually why I don’t do well in exams either, I think too slowly)
Test me.
If I had all the time in the world to practice on my photography, I’d have possessed the capability of a National Geographic photographer… even if it took a lifetime, I’d be there.
but back to reality, we never seem to have enough time… us being the IT generation. There’s always a distraction. And it’s funny… because gadgets and the evolution of technology was ’supposedly’ there to aid us, not enslave us. But so many of us are hooked to the various forms of media. It used to be TV and the cell phone for me, now it’s the Internet… there’s social networking sites like Facebook, things like Youtube or MMORPG games like C.O.D and so on.
And not just that, the media does such a fine job at making you hate yourself.
as they these days mainly highlight young successful individuals to do with the Internet/New technology (think Mark Zuckerberg, Angelo Sotira, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross) the faces that take take name all get younger and younger.
and you wonder why you can’t be as brilliant.. sheesh bets that’s why I’m depressed.
Sigh, after side-tracking for so long… here’s the main idea:
taking your own sweet time to learn new things.. study… and the whole shebang, without the thousands poured into edu institutions whose No1. priority is BUSINESS *cough $ cough* then Education second.
Here are some of the same clips that we’ve seen in class:
My FB addiction has moved on to a higher level…. *sniffles*
now I’m adding random strangers just so that I can get ahead in games.
P.S: Okay fine I lied…. it’s not just the ‘checking up on what every one is doing’ but more so due to games (as I mentioned in class before I stared to hyperventilate, thus freak out)
Originally when this started it was just a diversion :’(
Then again I know this guy who created 198 different email accounts and that same number of FB accounts to play mafia wars (see where I’m going with this)
ugh…. that’s where I’ll be in a year
*straps self down in a Robert Smith/Stevie Nicks straitjacket*
It’s funny tho, before I had the “weeeeeeeeeeee FB FB FB” 24/7 access to the internet… I used to drop by places like Starbucks fer the WiFi, horrible Mbps and depressingly low signal connection, akin to a family of 20 sharing one bathroom and they all leave fer school/work at the same time.. but that’s what desperate people do
*Side track fer a moment*
Notice the increase of place/eateries that have started to provide the WiFi service?
Even Mamak eateries have it…
SEE?! And we don’t even need Laptops (bah…!!! those are toys of da past ma dear)
Just get a blackberry/iphone/palm/whatever thingamajig and POOF!!!
*Goes back to her original the main point*
The shortage of time to surf the net (not to mention horrible connection) compelled me to fully use up that time span doing ‘useful and productive’ things online. Eg: searching things up on bands, tarot cards, philosophy, mythology, movies, interior decor, visual art, photography, events to fill up my weekend and lots more..
Reduce my dosage of internet access, and my addiction comes to a pause.
Place me in front of the screen with 24/7 internet access…..aaaaand that’s where I’ll begin planning the 200 email names and FB accounts (that I’m commencing on now)
why not? ‘It’ is there all the time.. it’s EVERY WHERE…………..well almost (fer now)
X)
Photography’s an interesting subject that we hardly touch on in class… and I think it’s just as important as studying the television, radio, computer, phones and all.
Modern photography and digital cameras meant that EVERY ONE could take pictures, tearing down the problem which people had in the past. Eg: cameras being too expensive or it required certain levels of technical skills to operate… plus with picture editing softwares, people are able to edit their photos to perfection.
Yet at the same time, the authenticity of the picture is questioned. Eg: War images by Brian Walski who was fired from the Los Angeles Times.
and of the art of photography.
Moving from this
To this
So here’s a particular brand that has captured the heart of Artsy Fartsy zilch photography knowledge kids these days.
Without further introduction, the oh so famous LOMO *snap snap flash*
With them you wouldn’t even need to Photoshop (picture editing software) nor digitally manipulate your pictures… no technique is needed for the shot as the camera itself is already designed for that function. Hence you have so many ‘SO-CALLED’ photographers out there.
Don’t mind me, I’m just another idiot who trained really really hard on her DSLR as well as editing skills then some lil’ punks take out their Lomo and TA-DAAAAAA the whole world loves them more. Depressing isn’t it ei? It’s not like my friends stealing my pictures and refusing to credit me ain’t bad enough, now you have people without a single knowledge of photography flashing their SUPER CAMERAS……….. and calling themselves photographers.
Sigh, no wonder it’s been over 6 months since I took pictures for the passion of it. FML man…
Here are some pictures I snapped some time back:
*Sony Ericsson W800i, edited (Adobe Photoshop CS2 ver 9.0)
