ゲームオーストラリアのプレーヤーのための4オブザデッド2とGrand Theft Auto IVの左を含む編集-後者は、どちらも多くのプラットフォーム上でゲームを殺しに影響を与えるは、国際的なプレーヤーと互換性のないプレーには、Xbox功績やゲーマー、特に沿ってリードを含む、2008年に販売記録を更新ポイント報酬システムです。
場合には、苦情等が見てもクソはありません。 Once we start the OMG OFFENSE game on the Internet it's game over to free speech. Besides, there's a lot of us out there who enjoy trolling racists, that being said I'm not sure whether ED is inherently racist or more offensive for the sake of causing offence, I'd probably say the latter.
Interestingly the article on news.com.au was pulled due to the comments field being flooded with trolling from btards. ：P
It's Follow Friday in Australia, and normally I just accept recommendations of randoms to follow, but I figured I should try and point out a few users each week who I actively read, who won't try and sell you some fucking MLM marketing scam, and who aren't boring. I'll do this in no particular order, so don't think I love any of you more than the other. If you don't make the cut, nag me in DM, or better yet bribe me with votes in the Shorty Awards.
Speaking of Shorty Awards, follow the folks who've thrown me votes, and vote for me to inadvertently gain exposure from this post at http://shortyawards.com/bashpr0mpt where I'm up in nominations for #humor, #weird, #gaming, #design, # celebrity , and other random things. I'm almost in the top twenty for most categories too, so vote for me and I'll find some way to compensate you, kidneys and firstborns are options. Also follow the folks who vote for me, they follow back and are the real active twitter types who've caught my attention. ：）
So, here's the BaSH PR0MPT #FF short (very short) list for this week. And remember, I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!
Interested in my loved ones, storytelling, film, books, media studies, philanthropy, and working with NPO's to strengthen our social economy <- Bleeding heart job who does too much charity work like me!
Lover of all things fitness -Cert TKB Instructor & Bootcamp Leader, fitness management entreprenuer & fitness mentor! <- Great when you need someone to tell you to harden the fuck up. ：）
Bibliophile, secretly goth, lover of movies, thinks guyliner is hot, loves drag queens, hates autotweeters, cultural experimental traveler. <- Crazy mofo who started my Shorty Award nomination craze. ;）
Twits, blogs and consults about how social media can be integrated into marketing programs. Founder of www.theduffyagency.com a media-agnostic ad agency. <- Should hire me to open his Australian office. ：P
として血汗症（また血汗症と呼ばれる、明らかにメディアの彼は必要な一般的な慣行に戻ります）博士ブキャナン、または誤って伝えているだけが、文書化は非常にまれな状態は、人間の汗血。 It may occur when a person is suffering extreme levels of stress, for example, facing his or her own death. Several historical references have been described; notably by Leonardo da Vinci: describing a soldier who sweated blood before battle, men unexpectedly given a death sentence, as well as descriptions in the Bible, that Jesus experienced hematidrosis when he was praying in the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22,44).
Hemochromatosis, another form of sweating blood, is a disorder due to deposition of hemosiderin in the parenchymal cells, causing tissue damage and dysfunction of the liver, pancreas, heart, and pituitary. Other clinical signs include bronze pigmentation of skin which may fly under the radar given the girls complexion, arthropathy, diabetes, cirrhosis, hepatosplenomegaly, hypogonadism, and loss of body hair, none of which are evident. Full development of the disease among women is restricted by menstruation and pregnancy.
According to Dr. Frederick Zugibe, Chief Medical Examiner of Rockland County, New York, sweating blood is well-known, and there have been many cases of it, “Around the sweat glands, there are multiple blood vessels in a net-like form. Under the pressure of great stress the vessels constrict. Then as the anxiety passes the blood vessels dilate to the point of rupture. The blood goes into the sweat glands. As the sweat glands are producing a lot of sweat, it pushes the blood to the surface – coming out as droplets of blood mixed with sweat.”
In a lecture, Dr. Zugibe stated: “The severe mental anxiety…activated the sympathetic nervous system to invoke the stress-fight or flight reaction to such a degree causing hemorrhage of the vessels supplying the sweat glands into the ducts of the sweat glands and extruding out onto the skin. While hematidrosis has been reported to occur from other rare medical entities, the presence of profound fear accounted for a significant number of reported cases including six cases in men condemned to execution, a case occurring during the London blitz, a case involving a fear of being raped, a fear of a storm while sailing, etc. The effects on the body is that of weakness and mild to moderate dehydration from the severe anxiety and both the blood and sweat loss.”
After super conservative fuckwits jumped up and down while the mainstream media was being ambiguous about the ramming of the Ady Gil, originally referring to it as 'allegedly rammed', more video has come to light, and even the mainstream media are releasing the footage from the Ady Gil's cameraman around about the place that shows without doubt the Japanese vessel moved to ram the Ady Gil, which was floating dead in the water with all crew on deck taking a break, including the captain.
Earlier in the week, Japanese whalers and their puppet 'research' groups in New Zealand (who have, off the record, been showing strong pro-whaling flags backing Japan, in exchange for Japanese funding of course) claimed that the Ady Gil pulled in their way at the last minute causing the collision and went as far as demanding that Australia intervene against Sea Shepherd.
Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd announced that $170,000 was pledged in the first few hours after the incident while more was flooding in following the screening of a Sea Shepherd advert featuring Transformers actress Isabel Lucas to replace the $3,000,000 dollar stealth yacht the whalers sunk.
Captain Watson also praised Australian Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard – who has been accused by Japan of inflaming public opinion and making diplomatic resolution of the whaling dispute harder to realise – for speaking out. “Julia Gillard is the only politician who has had the courage to say something about the illegal activities Japan has undertaken; the rest of them are hiding behind Japan's kimonos as far as I can see.” It's a fair call given pre-election promises by Kevin Rudd that he would engage the Japanese illegal whaling activities under the guise of research, amongst other intra-political matters along the employment lines, and delivered on none of them.
Captain Watson was especially scathing of New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully, who has said it was not the NZ Government's responsibility to send armed vessels to protect people “determined to break the law ”. “The Minister of Foreign Affairs has made ignorant and unsubstantiated accusations and he should apologise and if he refuses to apologise he should be asked to resign,” Mr Watson said. A fair call given the almost blatent public backing of Japan's piratical acts over the past decade in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
“How dare he take Japan's side in this issue against his own citizens? If a Sea Shepherd ship had rammed and sunk a Japanese ship, there would be no hesitation in sending a Navy ship to the Southern Ocean with a warrant of arrest.” It's unfortunate no governments are taking any action, especially in light of the new evidence that the Japanese vessel intentionally rammed and sunk the yacht.
I've had many an argument online with folks obsessed with 'you'll go blind' mentality towards video games, amongst other things. I feel vindicated today as I read that a study found video games are “good for eyes”, far from being harmful to eyesight action games provide excellent training for what eye doctors call contrast sensitivity.
Contrast sensitivity is the ability to notice tiny changes in shades of grey against a uniform background, and is critical to everyday activities such as night driving and reading. It often degrades with age.
The findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, reveal a previously unsuspected adaptability in the brain, and could open the way to new therapies, the researchers said. ”This is not a skill that people were supposed to get better at by training,” said Daphne Bavelier, a professor at the University of Rochester in New York state and the study's lead researcher.
”It was something that we corrected for at the level of the optics of the eye – to get better contrast detection you get glasses or laser surgery.”
”What we found is that even without this correction you can help your brain make better use of whatever information is received from your retina,” she said.
For the study, Bavelier and three colleagues conducted two sets of experiments. In the first, they compared the contrast sensitivity of hard-core action game players with video game aficionados of the same age who preferred less rapid-fire fare.
In action games, players typically target and shoot figures that pop up suddenly on a computer screen. The researchers found that the action buffs were 50 percent more efficient at detecting contrast. But there remained a chicken-or-egg question: had their vision been improved by playing, or did they become action game players because they had better than average contrast sensitivity to start with?
To find out, Bavelier asked two groups of non-action video game players to undergo 50 hours of training. One played a popular point-and-shoot game called Call of Duty, and the other played a game that offered a rich visual experience, but one bereft of action.
”We found that the people in the first group improved by 43 percent, and the other group not at all,” she said. As important, the study also found that the improvement was not transitory. ”The positive effect remained months, even years after training, indicating long-lasting gains,” she said.
Is there some limit beyond which playing action games loses its positive effect or becomes detrimental? Can you, in other words, have too much of a 'good thing'?
“For your visual system, probably not. For your social life, perhaps,” said Bavelier.
In what is billed as a world first, a life-size robotic girlfriend complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin was introduced to adoring fans at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.
“She can't vacuum, she can't cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean,” TrueCompanion's Douglas Hines said while introducing Roxxxy to the world, needless to say most men would see that as a fair trade off.
“She's a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person.”
Roxxxy stands 170cm (five feet, seven inches) tall, weighs 54.43kg (120lbs), “has a full C cup and is ready for action,” according to Hines, who was an artificial intelligence engineer at Bell Labs before starting TrueCompanion.
Roxxxy comes with five personalities. Wild Wendy is outgoing and adventurous, while Frigid Farrah is reserved and shy.
There is a young naive personality along with a Mature Martha that Hines described as having a “matriarchal kind of caring”. S & M Susan is geared for more adventurous types.
Aspiring partners can customise Roxxxy features, including race, hair colour and breast size. A male sex robot named Rocky is in development.
People ordering the robots online at truecompanion.com detail their tastes and interests much like online dating sites but here, the information is used to get the mechanical girlfriend in synch with her mate.
Has anyone else noticed that user @AdorianDeck and his bum chum @brysonen are the users behind the recent cash in on the #omgfacts trend of Twitter creating @OMGFacts? Has anyone noticed how all of their facts tend to be wrong?
It's like they've googled 'list ob kool faxtz' and are just copy-pasting without any critical evaluation or quality control. Idk about you, but shit like that drives me up the wall. On average most humans are pig shit ignorant, but 'pop sci' facts are the bane of academia, science, and thought. Nutshell 'facts' may be easy for the ignorant to digest, but they get stuck in the craw of anyone of any education.
It's possibly one of my biggest pet piss offs, it's always the pseudo-intellectual type who everyone knows are full of a substance other than book-learnin's who spout such shit, propogated by morons, who later take these facts to be truths self evidently held on the grounds that they read it on 'teh interwebs lololol~`!1′
I'm calling you out, bitch. @OMGFacts, employ some form of quality control, or hand the account over to your nearest University. But whatever you do, don't let @DrKarl touch it, his pop sci facts are almost as ubiquitously fucking WRONG and flawed as yours are.
Police say DNA has become a vital crime-fighting tool and helps speed up clean-up rates. In Queensland they have taken DNA samples of children, which figures under Right to Information legislation have revealed, a collection of DNA from 1275 children aged between 10 and 16. earmarked as the next generation of criminals was carried out.
Civil libertarians have accused the police and State Government of giving up on Queensland's youth and focusing more on convictions than on rehabilitation. Civil Liberties Australia chief executive Bill Rowlings said it was an infringement of civil rights because, while the law ensured a child's criminal record was not carried through into adulthood, it would not stop their DNA remaining in criminal databases indefinitely.
Last year, the Queensland Police Service caught 33,644 juvenile offenders. “Some of these children might be guilty of stealing a Mars Bar and for that the Queensland police are prepared to put them on a national criminal register, possibly for life,” he said.
The average daily number of juveniles in custody in Australia is 800. Youth Affairs Network Queensland director Siyavash Doostkhah said he was against taking DNA from children and called on the Government to fund more rehabilitation and youth mentoring programs.
“It never brings any safety to the community,” Mr Doostkhah said. “If we get more tough, if we collect more DNA and have more cameras out there . 。 。 it doesn't stop crime, it just brings convictions.” That being said the Australian law enforcement industry as a whole is fed by conviction basis, meaning that budgets are given and awards recieved for numeric dominance over the population as opposed to deterrence or rehabilitation.
A Department of Communities spokesman said there were currently about 139 young people in detention in Queensland and insisted it was a priority to focus on rehabilitation for young offenders.
A wireless technology industry group has claimed that mobile phone conversations are still safe from eavesdropping in the wake of German researcher Karsten Nohl's leaking of code used to unscramble calls made by most of the worlds phones last week.
The London-based GSM Association yesterday said that it has spent the past few years figuring out ways to thwart hackers who might try to tap into wireless calls using Nohl's research, which it first learned of in 2007.
GSM Association engineers have figured out a short-term solution to block eavesdroppers, said James Moran, head of security for the association. It involves making slight changes to the settings in each wireless operator's network. Carriers can quickly make those adjustments by tweaking existing features in the technology, Mr Moran said.
Mr Nohl's research applies to GSM technology, which runs about 80 per cent of the world's mobile phones, including systems run by AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. Over the next several years, GSM carriers will adopt a new standard for encrypting, or scrambling, voice conversations that will be tougher to crack, according to Mr Moran.
Painters and photographers will no longer be able to rely on a defence of artistic merit under an overhaul of child pornography laws in Australia. Nearly two years after police raided Melbourne artist Bill Henson's contentious exhibition, the Government will legislate to force artists to account for their works. A 'working party' set up by the Government in the wake of the May, 2008, controversy over Henson's child exhibits has recommended the artistic-merit defence be struck out.
As much as I despise child pornography and those who would produce it or in any way exploit a child, I loath more those who would demand that those facing charges 'prove' their 'innocence', and equally loath those who would repress art under a moralistic dogma of puritanism last seen amongst the nazi's.
The report also recommends the introduction of laws making it easier for police to investigate child pornography and for juries and court staff to participate in trials for these offences. This suggestion follows concern within the legal fraternity of the impact that the viewing of child pornography evidence has on jury members, many of whom find the process distressing.
The working party has recommended the law be changed so jury members, prosecutors and court staff are able to view only a sample of images during the trial process.
The assumption is the jury will be shown images and told to assume that there are far worse images, which is somewhat similar to the 'terrorism' charges where individuals in this civil liberty stricken nation can be charged and not be told what they're being charged with, going as far as even refusing to tell the judge what the charges are.
Here I was thinking we voted out the neo-conservative lobby. Besides, what IS art and what IS porn? Can porn be art? Can art be porn? Something tells me the answer to those questions is 'whichever yields the most convictions' given that the Australian justice system's prosecution works on a conviction quota for it's budget.
Chairman Rudd and his Glorious Workers Party has once again shown us that we don't have bipartisan politics , but both parties are batshit insane hardline right wingers. As much as I hate talking about politics , and don't assume I'ma lefty, I'm quite solidly centrist as a civil libertarian.
Twitter, the popular but money-losing microblogging service, is hiring engineers and specialists who can help turn it into a money-maker.
The 2-1/2-year-old Internet start-up, whose short text messages or “tweets” have become a global social phenomenon, is building up a team focused on generating revenue with a new range of yet-to-be launched products, judging by job postings on the company's website.
Among the 26 job openings listed on Twitter's site, four are specifically identified as being devoted to “monetization.” Striking licensing deals are key responsibilities for two other jobs.
“Twitter is looking for new members of our technical staff to work on cutting edge monetization projects,” several of the postings said.
The move to invest in such projects signals that making money is becoming a bigger priority at Twitter, as it seeks to evolve from being one of the Web's fastest-growing social media firms into a self-sustaining online business.
“The company has crossed into the phase where monetization matters. They're ramping it up,” said a source close to Twitter who did not wish to speak on the record about its finances.
A Twitter spokesperson said co-founder Biz Stone was not immediately available for comment. The company has about 120 employees, she said.
Tweets, which are limited to 140 characters, have grown into an established communications medium that has played a key role in world events such as the post-election protests in Iran last summer.
“They know they're here for the long term now, so they need to turn on these monetization engines,” said Altimeter Group analyst Jeremiah Owyang.
Twitter, a privately held company, does not report earnings, but its website says: “While our business model is in a research phase, we spend more money than we make.”
The company spokesperson did not confirm if that is still accurate.
Twitter struck deals in October — widely reported to total $25 million — to license its data feed to Google Inc and Microsoft Corp, allowing tweets to appear within search results on the companies' Internet search engines.
The job postings make it clear that generating revenue beyond the licensing deals is one of the 2010 priorities for Twitter, said Altimeter's Owyang.
Twitter, which recently moved into a larger office space in San Francisco, had 19.4 million unique visitors to its US website in November, according to comScore, up sharply from the 1.5 million visitors a year earlier. Many industry watchers believe the actual number of worldwide Twitter users is much higher, since many people access the service through third-party applications instead of the website.
In September, Twitter raised $100 million in a move that valued the company at $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, from backers including mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and private equity firm Insight Venture Partners.
Twitter executives have said in the past that the company is interested in offering premium services, such as analytic tools for certain customers, and that it was exploring ways to integrate advertising into the service.
According to the job postings, the company is seeking engineers to build out the infrastructure and front-end features to support monetization systems that include “customer applications and reporting.”
A posting for a product marketing manager for monetization said the person would focus on “enhancing business users' understanding of the value of Twitter.”
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Richard Chang, Reuters)
These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so many people only use a hundreth of what Google has to offer, read on and find out for yourself: -
1。 Convert units. Whether you want to convert currency, American and metric units, or any other unit, try typing in the known unit and the unknown unit to find your answer (like “how many teaspoons in a tablespoon” or “10 US dollars in Euros”).
2。 Do a timeline search. Use “view:timeline” followed by whatever you are researching to get a timeline for that topic. 3。 Get around blocked sites. If you are having problems getting around a blocked site, just type “cache:website address” with website address being the address of the blocked site to use Google's cached copy to get where you are going. 4。 Use a tilde. Using a tilde (~) with a search term will bring you results with related search terms. 5。 Use the image search. Type in your search word, then select Images to use the image search when trying to put a picture to your term. 6。 Get a definition. If you want a definition without having to track down an online (or a physical) dictionary, just type “definition:word” to find the definition of the word in your results (ie: “definition: serendipity” will track down the definition of the word “serendipity”). 7。 Search within a specific website. If you know you want to look up Babe Ruth in Wikipedia, type in “site:wikipedia.org Babe Ruth” to go directly to the Wikipedia page about Babe Ruth. It works for any site, not just Wikipedia. 8。 Search within a specific kind of site. If you know you only want results from an educational site, try “site:edu” or for a government site, try “site:gov” and your search term to get results only from sites with those web addresses. 9。 Search for a specific file type. If you know you want a PDF (or maybe an MP3), just type in “filetype:pdf” and your search term to find results that are only in that file type. 10。 Calculate with Google. Type in any normal mathematical expressions to get the answer immediately. For example, “2*4″ will get you the answer “8.” 11。 Time. Enter “what time is it” and any location to find out the local time. 12。 Find a term in a URL. This handy trick is especially useful when searching blogs, where dates are frequently used in the URL. If you want to know about a topic for that year only and not any other year, type “inurl:2009″ and your keyword to find results with your keyword in URLs with 2009 in them. 13。 Use Show Options to refine your search. Click “Show Options” on your search result page to have access to tools that will help you filter and refine your results. 14。 Search for a face. If you are looking for a person and not just their name, type “&imgtype=face” after the search results to narrow your results to those with images of faces.
Google Specifically for Education
From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school.
15。 Google Scholarの。 Use this specialized Google search to get results from scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, and academic publishers. 16。 Use Google Earth's Sky feature. Take a look at the night sky straight from your computer when you use this feature. 17。 Open your browser with iGoogle. Set up an iGoogle page and make it your homepage to have ready access to news stories, your Google calendar, blogs you follow in Google Reader, and much more. 18。 Stay current with Google News. Like an electronic clearinghouse for news, Google News brings headlines from news sources around the world to help you stay current without much effort. 19。 Create a Google Custom Search Engine . On your own or in collaboration with other students, put together an awesome project like one of the examples provided that can be used by many. 20。 Collect research notes with Google Notebook. Use this simple note-taking tool to collect your research for a paper or project. 21。 Make a study group with Google Groups. Google Groups allows you to communicate and collaborate in groups, so take this option to set up a study group that doesn't have to meet face-to-face. 22。 Google Code University. Visit this Google site to have access to Creative Commons-licensed content to help you learn more about computer science. 23。 Study the oceans with Google Earth 5. Google Earth 5 provides information on the ocean floor and surface with data from marine experts, including shipwrecks in 3D. 24。 Learn what experts have to say. Explore Knol to find out what experts have to say on a wide range of topics. If you are an expert, write your own Knol, too.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently.
25。 Use premade templates. Use these 50 pre-made templates to track spending, keep up with your health , and much more. 26. Collaborate on group projects. Google Docs allows for real-time collaboration, so make easy work for everyone next time you have a group project due. 27。 Use keyboard shortcuts. Use this handy list of keyboard shortcuts to save lots of time while using Google Docs. 28。 Create online surveys for research projects. Quickly and easily create online surveys for any research project that requires feedback from others. The answers are saved to your Google Docs account. 29。 Add video to your presentation. Learn how to seamlessly add video to your Google Docs page to really give your presentation or project a boost. 30。 Use the school year calendar template. Have an easy to use school year calendar through Google Docs by following these instructions. 31。 Create graphs from spreadsheets. Once you have populated a spreadsheet with data, you can easily create a graph. Google Docs allows for pie, bar, line, and scatter graphs. 32. Create a new document with shortcuts. Learn two ways to open a new Google Docs page with these tricks. 33。 Right click to use save-as. Use the right click save-as option to save a Google Docs document on your computer. 34。 Send invitations . School shouldn't be all about work. Find out how to send party invitations using Google Docs.
Gmailの
The super-popular Gmail is full of fun and fast ways to make your life and communications easier.
35。 Use the Tasks as a to-do list. Use the Tasks available in Gmail as a way to stay on top of assignments, exams, and project due dates. 36。 Use the Archive feature. One of the great features of Gmail is that it allows you to archive emails to get them out of your inbox, then you can use the search feature to find them if you need them again. 37。 Highlight mail with labels. Use labels to mark your messages. You can find them easily while in your inbox and do a search for all the messages with that label after you archive them. 38。 Never forget to attach a file. By signing up for the Labs, you can select to have the Forgotten Attachment Detector. This feature notices if you have typed something about an attachment in the body, but are sending without actually attaching anything–a great tool to save time and embarrassment. 39。 Use keyboard shortcuts. Go to Settings and enable keyboard shortcuts so you can perform common tasks at the touch of just one or two keys. 40。 Add multiple attachments. Use the Control (or Cmd on Macs) and Shift keys to select more than one file to attach to your email at one time. 41。 Use the https option. Google recommends using this option if you use your Gmail in public places like a dorm or coffee shop to add an extra bit of protection to your Internet activities. 42。 Incorporate Google Calendar and Docs on your Gmail page. Have access to recent documents used in Google Docs and get an agenda of upcoming activities you have on Google Calendar with small boxes added to your Gmail page. Go to Labs to select this option. 43。 Add a “Waiting for Response” label. If you have emails in your inbox that you are holding until someone gets back to you, creating this label keeps you from forgetting to follow up on it later. 44。 Use Canned Responses. If you find yourself writing the same type of email over and over, use the Canned Responses feature in the Labs to create a template that you you can use without having to type out the entire email every time. 45。 Consolidate email accounts. If you have a Gmail account, an account through school, and any other account you are juggling separately, combine them all into Gmail to cut down on time spent checking all those accounts. 46. Use AIM in Gmail. If you use AIM to IM friends or partners on projects, add it to the chat feature already in Gmail to have access to both.
Googleカレンダー
Save yourself some time by keeping track of appointments, assignments, and more with Google Calendar.
47。 Sync up with others using iCal or Sunbird. Google lets you sync your calendar with others using Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird. 48。 Customize reminders. Set reminders in your Google Calendar so that you never forget an appointment again. Choose from email, pop-up, or SMS reminders and even set when the reminder comes. 49。 Learn some basic keyboard shortcuts. Change from daily to weekly to monthly view, compose a new event, and more with these simple shortcuts. 50。 Use Quick Add. Click on Quick Add and type the day and time and what you are doing to have the calendar create the event with the correct time and date. 51。 Use multiple calendars. Create separate calendars for school work, personal information, important due dates, and more to stay ultra-organized. 52。 Get a text message with your daily agenda. Keep up with all that you need to do for the day without ever having to log on to your Google Calendar. 53. Set weekly repeats for any day. The drop-down menu only offers M/W/F or T/Th options for repeating events. Go to “Every Week” and customize which days you want the event to repeat. 54。 Get upcoming events while away from the computer. Check out #8 in this list to learn how to access your upcoming events via your phone. 55。 Add events from Gmail. If you receive an email with event time and date information, you can easily add this event to your calendar by clicking “Add to calendar.” 56。 Invite others. If you have events on your calendar that you want to invite others to join, just add their email address under Add Guests within the event.
Google Mobile
Whether riding the bus or walking to class, use Google Mobile to stay productive while away from your computer.
57。同期のカレンダーです。 Never be far from your Google Calendar when you sync it to your phone. 58。 Check your email. Keep your email right at your fingertips with Gmail for mobile. 59。 Access your blog subscriptions. Keep up with your blogs and news feeds that you subscribe to through Reader right on your phone. 60。 Use Google Voice to consolidate phone numbers. If you have a phone in your dorm or apartment, a cell phone, and any other phone numbers, consolidate them into one number with Google Voice. 61。 Easily find friends. Find out where your friends are and even get a map with directions for how to get there with Google Latitudes. 62。 Find out information easily while on the go. Whether you are looking for a great place to eat dinner, wondering what the weather is like, or want to know what the Spanish word for “bathroom” is, just text your information to Google (466453–spells Google on your phone) to get the answer texted back right away. 63。 Access iGoogle. Get your iGoogle page formatted just for the smaller screen size of your phone. 64。 Read your Google Docs. Have access to all your Google Docs items right on your phone. 65。 Keep a to-do list on your phone. Use Google Tasks for mobile so you can access your to-do list any time–and check off what you've finished, too. 66。 Never get lost again. Google Maps is an interactive program for most smart phones that offers tons of features so you will never have to be lost again. 67。 Do a quick search anywhere. Find information with a Google search from your phone to impress your professors and your friends. 68。 Access Google Books. Android and iPhone users can access Google Books on their phones. 69。 Post to your blog. Use your mobile to post to your Blogger blog.
Google Chrome Tips and Extensions
If you are using the Google Chrome browser, then you will love these time-saving tips and extensions.
70。 Use a “Pin Tab”. If you have multiple tabs open, use a “Pin Tab” to make the tabs the size of the little icon on the left side. 71。 Don't overlook Paste and Search and Paste and Go. These two features are available when you right-click to add a word or URL to Chrome and will save you an extra step. 72。 Reopen a closed tab. おっと！ If you didn't mean to close that tab, just press Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen it. 73。 Use the Chrome shortcuts. Open a new tab, see your history, maximize your window, and much more with these shortcuts. 74。 Take advantage of the address bar. With Google Chrome, you can use the address bar to perform a Google search, quickly access pages you've already visited, and get recommendations for places to go. 75。 Go incognito. If you don't want to leave traces of where you were browsing, use incognito mode instead of having to go back and delete your history and cookies. 76。 Use the bookmarks manager. Stay organized, rearrange bookmarks, search for bookmarks, add folders, and much more with the bookmark manager. 77。 ChromePass. This tool will give you a list of all the password information stored in Google Chrome. 78。 Save as PDF. Save any page as a PDF with this bookmarklet. 79。 ChromeMailer. If you've lost valuable time when having to manually enter email information from a website because Google Chrome doesn't support the mailto: function, then you will love this extension. 80。 Google Chrome Backup. Back up your personal data, bookmarks, and more with this simple tool.
Googleブック検索
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81。 Search full text. Google Books offers full text for over 10,000 books, so look here the next time you are researching something at the last minute. 82. Use “About this book”. At the top left of the page of a book, clicking this link will give you helpful information such as the table of contents, related books, and a map of places mentioned in the book. 83。 Create a personalized library. Click on “Add to my shared library” to start your own personalized library where you can label books to keep them organized for each class or project. 84. Find books in your college library. Each book in Google Books has a link to find the book in a library. It can tell you exactly where to look at your own school. 85. Use the Advanced Book Search. If you can't find the book you are looking for, try the advanced search, which provides you with many more detailed options. 86. Access text books. Many text books are available on Google Books, so see if you can save a trip to the bookstore next semester. 87。 Search for magazine content. Select Magazines in the Advanced Book Search to locate information from magazines. 88。 Read the blog. Google Books is constantly evolving, so stay on top of all the latest news with the Inside Google Books blog. 89. Find books to supplement your assigned texts. Search by subject to see what books you may be able to read to get the extra leg up in your classes.
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These other Google products will help you save time by offering you everything from alerts to online collaboration to help working with data sets.
90. Google Alerts. Sign up to get email notifications any time a topic you designate shows up in Google search results. This is a great way to stay current with a project or news story. 91. Google Desktop. Keep a clock, weather, news stories, Google search box, and more all within easy reach when you use Google Desktop. 92。 Google SketchUp. If you need to draw 3D figures for class, use Google SketchUp to do so easily and free of charge. 93。 Google Talk. This versatile app is more than just for IMs. You can switch to voice, do a video chat, and send texts, too. 94. Google Images. Google has an incredible image search feature that will provide you with tons of high-quality images you can use in presentations. 95. Google Translate. Don't spend time looking up stuff in books, use Google Translate to get foreign words translated right away. 96. Google Wave. This brand new Google product shows great promise for anyone collaborating, but especially for those in school. Communicate, create documents, and more–all in real-time. 97. Googleファイナンス。 Business students can keep track of markets, news, portfolios, and more in one place. 98. Google Toolbar. Have easy access to Gmail, Google search, bookmarks, and more with this toolbar available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. 99. Picasa. Manage your photos and even incorporate them into your blogs and emails with Google's streamlines photo manager. 100。 Google Squared. Find facts and organize them with this search feature from Google Labs. 101. Google Fusion Tables. If you are working with data sets, then you will love this program that will allow you to upload data, create visual representations, and take part in discussions about the data.
The other day pirate Japanese whalers rammed a Sea Shepherd vessel during 'scientific' whaling operations that were deemed illegal by the HCA in Australian territorial waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. (read the report here: http://tr.im/JIY7 ) Their actions drew the usual irritation of the global community that the Japanese are still scamming their arses off trying to use loopholes to commercially whale.
Glen Inwood of the ICR, the Japanese government sponsored 'research' organisation spoke briefly this morning on the issue, getting railed by reporters and asked many hard questions. He claimed that their research is to 'establish whether commercial whaling is sustainable,' and to do this research they need to use lethal research methods, defending the commercial operation stating the IWC set a 'requirement that the meat goes on the market' before running the usual fake 'tradition' defence that has been debunked by many a researcher interviewing average Japanese citizens on the issue.
It was ironic hearing Glen Inwood spouting that to convince IWC that whaling can be sustained they 'need to whale,' and that they were merely trying to 'obtain data' on commerial sustainable whaling. One interviewer nailed him, asking “When will you have adequate data?” after citing a list of whales to be slaughtered this 'season,' to which he immediately stated “All of your figures are wrong.” and beat around the bush before admitting it is “Indefinite research.”
He stopped short of outright admitting it's all just a Japanese government sponsored scam, but toes the line of his puppeteers well. The interviewer ultimately asked if he can understand why whaling pisses the average Australian off given that it's in our waters, illegally conducted, and in a whale sanctuary; he floundered before trying to claim many nations deny Australia's claim to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
He didn't quite elaborate if there were any nations aside from Japan and Norway, the two nations that still illegally whale regardless of the worldwide moratorium, that deny Australia's claims to it's own territorial waters.
He ended stating the usually tripe of the political correctness defence of “It's a cultural tradition that Australians will need to learn to respect.”
Let's hope they try and ram a vessel that isn't 1/10th their size, maybe the Steve Irwin next? They wouldn't have the gall, IMHO, a tiny fiberglass trimaran is an easy mark.
Where to begin. Apparently Optus Vision doesn't exist anymore, their lame resale of Foxtel cable TV is winding up and they will only cater for existing customers. I rang their sales line only to be told to ring back between office hours (which I shouldn't have to do) to contact their accounts team and they outright refused a sale of a $3,000+ contract for TV and home phone services.
なぜ？
Because they can't manage a sales team and haven't even trained their existing sales team in how to sell an upgrade, or anything beyond merely regurgitating advertising materials, or so said the Optus sales person I was speaking to in a more off the record chat of frustrations.
I kind of figured something was up, although haven't read any news about it; however optus.com.au only listed mobile and internet plans, no mention of TV anywhere, and optusvision.com.au seems to have been hijacked by a domain parker account. Seems they can't even manage their own intellectual property rights, no wonder they can't assist someone wanting to throw cash at them.
Optus Mobile coverage is equally abysmal, when you do get a bar of service that is. They've been 'setting up a new tower' in my area for the past ten years, every few weeks for a laugh I call up and complain about lack of service with intent to one day get a copy of my account contact with them and mail it to their head office with a big frowny face drawn on it. Although, in good news, I found I'm no longer in contract so I can fuck off to Telstra with that one too.
Their internet, on the other hand, is an entirely new shade of shit. They had to hire designers to create the shade of shit of their connectivity, lack of plans, and shaping. Their plans were savvy, in the 90's, but stayed in the 90's with 20 gb cap being the largest offering they had until their recent 90 gb scam offer (more on that in a tick), when you hit your cap you're shaped down to '64k', however whilst your contract and their site says this, they consider anywhere down to 2k to be 'acceptable' shaping, or so I've been told numerous times when I've been shaped down to even under 1k.
Their latest offering of broadband internet is whimsical. Their speeds are about 8 meg at the best of times, which I'll admit is not bad for broadband in Australia, however that's only on their pre-2000 connections, the rest are all speed limited, shaped, and redirected up the whazoo–a mate of mine's broadband from home to optus server out to the wilds of the internet had 38 hops, 30 of which were in the same Optus building–newer connections really don't cut the mustard.
They are, however, offering a whopping 90 GIGABYTES DOWNSTREAM CAP. Although, it's at twice the price of TPG's 120 GB downstream plan, AND, if you read the fine print with Optus, it's 30 GB during peak time (midday to midnight) and 60 GB off peak, reducing to 30 GB off peak during the second year of your two year contract, so they're selling you a 30 GB account, period, pretty much. The kicker to it all is, they count your upstream in your traffic. Upstream is free, it always has been, and always will be, with all primary backbones and internet service providers, however due to the average internet user being an ignorant twat and the fact consumers rarely ever cause a stir when getting dicked we're faced with our upstream being accounted for and charged for.
Think of it this way, they get their upstream through the major telco pipelines they use free, they charge you anywhere up to 400% the cost they pay for their downstream on your downstream, then charge you 100% for your upstream, that's raising their profit margin an additional 100% to a whopping 500% of what their overheads are: for what their product is really worth on a resale level.
I've contacted Optus in the past, recently actually, asking them why I should bother staying with them, given that I've been an Optus customer since they arrived in the country back in '96 – '97 and stayed with them even when they merged with the big flop telco SingTel, and got some copy pasted default reply from some braindead office wank.
It's sad to say though, I expected no different. Australian companies have become Americanised, customer loyalty isn't something they care about anymore, there's plenty of saps left in the world to be sucked in to various plans and packages that sound good at face value.
It's time for me to switch services. Foxtel straight from the source, Telstra for their epic mobile network coverage and functional 3G network, and TPG for their brilliant naked ADSL2+ plans with huge caps with shaping down to 1 meg when you go over cap as opposed to 1k with Optus.
I'm guessing SingTel are just using Optus as a tax write off, because they sure aren't looking to make money in Australia anymore.
