Informational Tech Talk

Movie Retrospective – Why Star Wars was not as awesome as you thought it was.

2009-02-03T14:30:00.000+11:00

Movie Retrospective – Why Star Wars was not as awesome as you thought it was.

The epic space opera franchise, known as Star Wars, was conceived by George Lucas during the 1970’s and spanning a total of 31 years, 7 movies were released forming the original Star Wars trilogy, the prequel trilogy and The Clone Wars. The total films ranged from 97% (The Empire Strikes Back) to 18% (The Clone Wars) on Rotten Tomatoes. One would think George Lucas would prevent anyone from defiling his ideas further by making The Clone Wars, but seeing as he did write and direct The Phantom Menace, Lucas probably realised it was past the point of no return.
Okay, put a group of Star Wars fans in a room for long enough and I guarantee the conversation will eventually turn to prequel bashing, so I doubt we need to explain further. If you still don’t believe me – Jar Jar Binks and midi-chlorians.
Hypothetically, a movie is only as bad as the number of plot holes it produces, and the original trilogy did produce a bit although overshadowed by the prequel trilogy.
“I wince every time a person dies” – Of course, we all remember when Yoda and Ben winced when thousands perished, however considering this is a universe we’re talking about, the average deaths per minute should incapacitate them.
“Don’t kiss me bro!”- If Luke and Leia are both attuned to the force (how else can we explain Leia’s recollection of her real mother as a “kind and gentle woman”) how come they didn’t realise they were brother and sister? How come Luke never sensed that his father was really Vader?
“It’s a TRAP!” - Admiral Ackbar’s memorable quote definitely stayed in the hearts of many and his words of wisdom definitely helped out. How else did Luke realise that he had to fly vertically towards the north pole of the Death Star to fire the magic missiles rather than to fly horizontally as per the briefing?
So in the end, maybe Star Wars is still an epic and fun series of movies to watch, but remember, even George Lucas bailed after filming the first one and decided to swap profit points with Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. At least it’s still better than Catwoman.

Movie Rental Review - The One - Jet Li

2008-10-31T17:15:00.002+11:00

Movie Rental Review:

This week, we review The One - directed by James Wong.

There are many things that make up a good movie; action scenes, plot, plausibility, believability and maybe lack of plot holes. The only thing that made The One half decent was the fighting scenes which involved Jet Li beating up crap. Then there comes a point when you just run out of things to beat up so the directors probably thought "Hmmm...instead of Jet Li beating up walls and objects, Jet Li beating up good guys, Jet Li beating up bad guys, we'll have Jet Li beating up Jet Li (insert smiley face). And since we all know action movies involving no plot gets old easily: we’ll add lots of bullet time and slow motion, so that the 30 minute tv special will become a full length feature movie!" So instead of the normal sane reaction of "Wait...what?" producers actually gave the green light and today we have the movie known as 'The One'.
If leaps and bounds in plot hole techniques were to be congratulated upon, then 'The One' would definitely win and if there was one thing that could of saved this movie, it would have been making Jet Li unable to talk. Unfortunately, neither is true, and 'The One' is definitely not made out of 'win'. Okay, so the movie goes on somewhat like this: Jet Li being himself accidentally talked to another Jet Li from another universe, killing it and somehow absorbed that universe's Jet Li's energy (plot hole 9000), sending him down a spiral filled with the thirst for more power, unfortunately none of the universes had POWER THIRST (plot hole 9001) causing him to travel to other universes to kill more Jet Li's, until there is only one left, and since (still with us?). Oh crap. I’m sorry I spoilt the movie for you; I guess you can’t go and waste your money on it now.
One and a Half Betas (add one beta if you enjoy a movie with action and no plot). In case you’re not convinced, screaming into the paper as you read “This is BS, Jet Li does martial arts, it can’t be bad!” then I have prepared a rebuttal: “Jet Li spoke English...ENGLISH”

Giant Robots and the such – exploring the possibility of a real life Gundam

2008-08-12T00:04:00.001+10:00

Following the release of the information regarding Japan’s plan to build a giant robot…Oh wait…they never actually planned to build anything. So take back those conversation topics about “Did you hear? Japan’s going to build a gundam!” and confused questions of “but how will they get the gundanium?”, because when taking into account the plausibility of building and running an actual Gundam-like robot, the possibilities involving current technology is quite...impossible.

The armor:

Putting aside the need of gundanium alloy, one would need to speculate on a possible substitute and while the Japanese Science and Technology Agency suggested that aluminum alloy would be feasible as a light-weight alternative, one would also wonder why carbon fiber wasn’t chosen. Considering carbon fiber can exhibit more than 10 times the maximum tensile strength of aluminum alloy, it is more heat resistant, lighter and will not fail under very small cyclic loadings, this makes it perfect for defense against children throwing rocks. Is there anything that makes it a worse choice than aluminum alloy? Maybe it was the cost.

The computer system:

One would think a gundam would only require a simple computer to run it, since it was only built to walk. However a US$1.5 million computer used to run 30 400KW motors (maybe even simultaneously) most definitely sounds like a steal!

The propulsion system:

So this thing has 30 x 400KW motors. So it can walk. So what? What about flying? Even in the anime the robots moved more like cars instead of utilising the human walking motion. If our walking motion was used, theoretically a pilot inside would feel extremely sick after the high gforces of the constant upwards and downwards motion. So unless a carlike motion was adopted, this rules out any chances of pilots. (Not to mention where are we going to find those coordinators.)

So unless we dig up some ancient super-technology, this writer doubts that a Gundam could be built in the foreseeable future. But in the mean time >insert propaganda for recruiting people into robotics design at unsw<

Next week -> Gundam is totally possible!

The easy-way to "Dual-Boot" Kubuntu Linux with Windows XP - just "Shrink" your Windows Partition

2008-04-05T18:52:00.003+11:00

Well I recently got a version of Kubuntu (free that I might add) and was wondering how to 'Dual-Boot' install it without harming my original xp installation.

That's when i found this guide by Shannon VanWagner. Props to him you can find the original article here.

The easy-way to "Shrink" your Windows XP partition with the GParted LiveCD and prepare your hard drive for installation of Kubuntu Linux.

With the use of the open source GParted utility (think partition magic but easier) you can very easily "shrink" your Windows XP partition quickly and safely without purchasing any additional software.

To install Kubuntu Linux (or any other Linux distro for that matter) you should "Shrink" your Windows Partition to make room for your Kubuntu Linux installation. You can then install Kubuntu in the extra space that you free up after "Shrinking" your Windows partition and the Linux Grub loader will automatically provide the option for you to select Windows or Kubuntu Linux on startup.

About GParted: The GParted utility is an easy-to-use yet very powerful graphical Open-Source partition editor that is available in "LiveCD" format(meaning that it boots from CDROM).

To use a "LiveCD, download the *.iso file and then use your favorite cd-burning software to burn the .iso image to a cdrom disk (My favorite cd-burning app for Windows is DeepBurner Free 1.8 for Linux use K3B).

Here are the steps that I used to "Shrink" my Windows partition with a nifty utility called "GParted ". I was then able to install Kubuntu 7.04 in the free space that was left over.

1.) Download and burn to cdrom the free Gparted Partition Editor Utility in LiveCD format from here or direct link to the gparted-livecd-0.3.4-7.iso file: http://tinyurl.com/24ph7r.

2.) Boot into Windows, perform a full disk cleanup (checkout www.ccleaner.com for a good cleanup utility), then run a full defragmentation of your Windows drive(s) (with Windows Defragmenter) to move all the physical data on your hard drive and provide room to "Shrink" the Windows partition.

3.) Boot up your computer to the GParted LiveCD (from Step #1 above). Upon booting into Gparted, try pushing Enter all the way through to accept the defaults at each of the configuration screens - this will get you into the GParted graphical utility, which is very simple to use.

4.) To "Shrink" your Windows partition, simply right-click it from within the GParted graphical utility, then select "resize". From the resize dialog simply use the slidebar to adjust the size of your Windows partition to a smaller size (slide to the left or enter a number). Be sure to leave some free space for Windows (4GB or more would be great)to avoid Windows performance problems. For Kubuntu you can set aside as little as 4GB of free space for the install. However, I suggest that you free up 20GB or more to have plenty of space for using Kubuntu. Chances are that once you start using Kubuntu Linux you will make it your primary OS of choice.

5.) Click "Apply Changes" and watch the magic of the GParted as it performs a "Shrink" of your Windows partition. Note: GParted may not work properly if you have any type of RAID array, so you're on your own for testing that.

6.) After all changes are applied, reboot the machine (Be sure to remove the GParted cdrom first). Windows XP will then perform a "chkdsk" to scan the hard drive for errors- this is normal, let it complete. Note: Be sure to let the chkdsk fully complete and then login to Windows to test to see that everything changed properly. If you look in "My Computer" it should show that your Windows partition is now smaller. If you were to run Start>Run>diskmgmt.msc , you would see that your drive now has the free space you created in steps 4 & 5 from above.

7.) Reboot with the Kubuntu LiveCD in your drive, once you get to the point where you can install Kubuntu you can install the linux partitions (swap, and / (e.g. ext3 root)) in the free space you created. Kubuntu will automatically detect your Windows partition and will add it as a selection for the GRUB Boot loader during the final steps of installion.
Explore a great new world and have a lot of fun using Kubuntu!! Try it, I'm sure you'll like it!!

Shannon VanWagner

The Piano

2008-01-07T11:43:00.000+11:00

A Happy New Year to everyone who has stayed with ITT for so long *cough*

Golden Compass - An extensive review

2007-12-28T15:17:00.000+11:00

Okay, so basically it was Boxing Day and what better to do than watch a movie with some friends. Maybe get smashed. But we didn't have the means nor the need because we were going to watch the Golden Compass....despite my warnings that reviews for it have been disappointing.

Last time I ever let my friends take charge.

Well, in short, the Golden Compass is crap. I'll explain:

The film, based off Phillip Pullman's book 'The Northern Lights' aka 'Golden Compass', is directed by Chris Weitz of >insert multiple movies< fame. Oh wait. He doesn't have much fame. Although credited for his help in writing screenplay and scripts, he doesn't actually have much said experience when it comes to directing. And that would be one of the major flaws when it comes to a big budget movie such as Golden Compass.

The movie is constrained within a rushed feel as if the audiences need to come preprepared with knowledge of the book. This never allows the full characterisation of the cast who seem to be lost without definite command by the director. And of course if the script wasn't great the acting couldn't have been much better.

The need to please younger audiences also seemed detrimental to the film as there was a lack of religiouis depth and edginess. Or just lack of depth over all. What? Is it too confusing and hard to explain to teenagers on film than on books?

Phillip Pullman craftily inserted everything from the ideas of atheism to the authority of the Church and combined it in the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Chris Weitz took it and urinated over it...then added special effects.

So maybe if you haven't read the books and don't plan on doing so, then I would suggest you might want to borrow it on dvd only if you are bored out of your brains and have nothing better to do. But that would be like getting a razor blade and eating it compared to reading the books.

Rating: 5/10

Well that wasn't really an extensive review, I lied. But the advertising promised me a good movie and they lied.

Minor Spoilers below.
Some good points for discussion: Was it just me or was there an overabundant use of phallic imagery or ideas (oh come on when you saw those giant balloons you thought about it too).
When the bear says "So you want to ride me?"

Black people - how Koreans perceive them

2007-12-25T15:13:00.000+11:00

backup version (slower)

lol...gota love those Koreans

Blame Halo 3

2007-11-01T14:23:00.000+11:00

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Hilarious video

"I Am Legend" trailer

2007-10-25T16:03:00.000+10:00

The new "I Am Legend" trailer starring Will Smith

Zero Punctutation - Orange Box

2007-10-18T19:50:00.000+10:00

Yahtzee is my hero :D, but for someone who has the title of "Zero Punctuation" he sure uses alot of punctuation.

New Full Length Theatrical Trailer - The Golden Compass

2007-10-11T19:55:00.000+10:00

Yes I have put a trailer for The Golden Compass (Northern Lights for non-Americans out there) previously, but this is the new, full length preview. So enjoy.

Personal thoughts: It looks excellent, darker moods present making it more than just a "kids film". Hopefully it'll be half as good as the book (which is still pretty damn awesome).

Poster:

Click for Full Picture

It's Daniel CRAAAIIIG (of Casino Royale face)

Fuck you Sony, Fuck you Nintendo

2007-10-09T14:14:00.000+10:00

That's right, I'm blatantly put it out there.
Fuck you Sony, Fuck you Nintendo...and don't think Microsoft is getting away with anything, but at least their doing a half-arsed job.

Why? Some may ask. And the simple reason may be concluded from the fact that the writer of this article lives in Australia. Down Under. Filled with jack all.

Bullshit you may cry! We have Kanga-fucking-roos! We have Steve...no wait we don't.

But facts don't lie.

Firstly let me put the cards on the table.

This continent known as Australia is only about 10000km away from America and Europe yet for some unknown reason, it takes a couple of months to ship games consoles over. What do they use? Turtles? NO WAIT! Turtles are faster. (Haven't you seen Finding Nemo?)
We get the same releases as Europe, all encoded in the "Pal" region code. Yet for some unforeseen reason we always get it a few months later than they do.

So why, I ask, is it so hard to fill a country with eager gamers with what they want? I mean Sony has upped the stakes and made it ILLEGAL for us to import games and consoles.

Industry says that America may be awarded with $399 PS3 by the end of November, but when will Australia ever see the light of this?

As of now, combo packs for the PS3 still cost around AU$1000, heavily overpriced for the shit amount of games there are (which are also, full of shit).

Well as of now it seems it's a pretty one sided argument, no? Some may argue: "But Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft have to their hands full trying to fulfill demand in America, Japan, and other more important countries."

Oh fucking bullshit. 2007 hasn't been the first year that demand shortages have occured, this issue has been happening for far too long and non of the companies are pussy enough to do anything about it.

Now it may seem that I've only taken the piss out of Sony (they deserve it...come on you know it too) but rest assured, Nintendo and Microsoft are at it as well. I just can't be bothered.

[Editor: The irony is that the author neither has a PS3 or Nintendo Wii or ShitBox360 and thus cannot be pissed at the lack of games, he claims "I am waiting until the prices drop."]

Make Your Own Multi-Touch Pad

2007-10-05T13:15:00.001+10:00

Music: Sahara 7 by Shadow of the Beat.

Download the Software here: http://www.libavg.de/

Wish i knew how to do it

2007-09-18T22:39:00.001+10:00

Seth Green's Parody on Crying Girl

2007-09-18T17:06:00.000+10:00

ROFL,

Top Ten David Letterman By Napolean Dynamite

2007-09-11T20:09:00.000+10:00

Enjoy

Neils Bohr - Beast

2007-09-01T23:12:00.000+10:00

Okay, I really enjoyed this story so read it. Now.

..."Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected. I read the examination question:

"SHOW HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE HEIGHT OF A TALL BUILDING WITH THE AID OF A BAROMETER."

The student had answered, "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring the rope up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building."

The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course and to certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this.

I suggested that the student have another try. I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he had not written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on.

In the next minute, he dashed off his answer which read: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x=0.5*a*t^^2, calculate the height of the building."

At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit. While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were.

"Well," said the student, "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building."

"Fine," I said, "and others?"

"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units."

"A very direct method."

"Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated."

"On this same tact, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession".

"Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem.

Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer."

At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.

The student was Neils Bohr and the arbiter was Ernest Rutherford.

What Not To Wear in an ER Room

2007-08-26T13:25:00.000+10:00

Unfortunately, it's not true.

Claim: Photograph depicts a wounded KKK member being treated by an all-black emergancy staff
Status: False

Origins: This photo appeared to be a posed or fabricated image intended as ironic or humorous political commentary, and the crease down the middle of the image suggested a picture scanned from another source, such as a magazine. (Despite many viewer's mistaking it for such, this image is not a screen capture taken from an episode of the popular television hospital drama ER, nor is the doctor shown in the center of the picture actor Eriq LaSalle, who portrayed surgeon Dr. Peter Benton in that series.)

To read more please visit: http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/klaner.asp

POWERTHIRST

2007-08-21T22:03:00.000+10:00

Powerthirst

Genuine VS Fake Memory Stick Pro Duos

2007-08-20T19:47:00.000+10:00

Being a psp owner, one has to wonder whether the stuff on Ebay are really genuine. Simple answer, most of them are fake.

I have compiled together some information that may help for you to differentiate between a genuine and a fake Memory Stick Pro Duo.

First off: Most memory sticks from Ebay originating from Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and other Asian countries except for Japan and maybe Korea, will be fake. Sorry to burst your bubble but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Now days it's actually harder to find a bargain involving the real deal, hence for this guide.

Ebay Tips:

Check the country of origin, remember Asian Countries are a big no-no.
Always check the star ratings of the seller
Check the comments on the seller, there are usually helpful people out there who say things like "user sells fake memory sticks"
Lastly, check price. Stuff that is about AU$40-60/EUR$30-35/US$40-50 for a 4GB Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo can be mostly considered fake.

If you are unlucky enough to have been tricked, having a fake Memory Stick isn't so bad. A member of ITT has bought one unknowingly, and it has been almost a year since its first usage occurred. Not only does it give the required transfer speed, it also gives an extra 20-30MB. THIS ONLY APPLIES TO 2GB MSPDs.

However, that same member, thinking that this applies to all fake memory sticks, recently foolishly bought 3 4GB MSPDs and they were all not working, either not giving the full 4 gigs or just not working at all.

How to tell the difference?

Well it's not as if Ebay sellers blatantly put pictures on the internet showcasing their fraudulence. But it's a lot easier to tell once we can view the packaging.

1. Seals

Genuine retail blister packaging has long staple-shape heat-pressed seals indicated by the yellow arrows. Fake has round dimple glue seals indicated by the encircled red arrows.
Genuine retail blister packaging has 9+6+9 (some has 3+2+3) staple heat seals along the Left, Top and Right edges of the pack while fake always only has 3+3 round dimple glue seals along the Left and Right edges with NO seal at the Top edge. This applies to all 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB retail packaging products.
Genuine has color coded round label: 1GB is Light Blue, 2GB is Light Green, 4GB is Purple Blue, 8GB is Red. Fake Sony has similar color codes for 1GB, 2GB and 4GB so not as easy to differentiate, except Fake 8GB is Light Blue which can be easily identified.
Genuine retail blister packaging will have a golden metallic 3D 'SONY holographic sticker' at the front as pictured. Newer fakes now also have similar identical holographic sticker. Bring the packaging to your nearest SONY retail outlet and ask for a SONY Anti-counterfeit Handy Viewer to tell if your item is genuine. The viewer has 2 see through Lens. Genuine hologram will appear as complete BLACK when see through the Left lens and Normal on the Right lens. Counterfeit hologram will appear as Normal through both Left and Right lens.

2. They look crap in general

Genuine uses print ready/control vector art technique to print all the letterings. Fake uses inferior hi-res bitmap to copy the genuine, so zoom in a bit to see the printing flaw. The font on the fake usually is bolder, messy, out of focus and rub off easily. Newer fakes have exact print now.
Genuine card is often thinner than fake. Try fitting the card into an adapter and you may find that it has problem as it doesn't seems to fit into the adapter easily (feels like its squeezing in). Newer 2GB fake (1959MB version) even has problem fitting into a PSP (PlayStation Portable).The font face, font size and printing technique are the main criteria to differentiate the genuine from the fake, so you must take notice.
Genuine has the letter 'S' in 'MSX-4GS' as Italic than the 'S' used in other writings such as 'BBSC1000000'. Also notice the OPEN top letter '4' for both 2GB and 4GB cards. Fake is using identical normal font face throughout!
On the 10 gold metal stripes/contact, genuine is covered fully by the black plastic housing from the top to the bottom end. Fakes may have small black holes on the some metal stripes, some have its gold metal stripe not fully covered by the black plastic housing. Some fakes have internal green color PCB board exposed as pictured displaying its inferior manufacturing defect.
Genuine uses print ready/control vector art technique and has all golden letterings engraved by laser-etched into the plastic shell of the card. Fake uses inferior hi-res bitmap to copy the genuine, so zoom in a bit to see the printing flaw. The font on the fake usually is messy, out of focus and rub off easily. To know if it is printed, just use your finger to feel the surface as the letterings are a bit raised.

3. Capacity and Transfer Speed

Genuine 4GB displays default capacity as 3839MB and genuine 2GB displays default capacity as 1909MB while some devices will read them at 1910MB. Some older fake 2GB shows 1948MB and 1959MB of memory space when being tested. Newer fake 2GB may now show any of these figures including the 1910MB of a genuine. However some 2GB fakes only have a true capacity of only 512MB/1GB. Try transferring as much data as possible to your card and also READ BACK from the card to see if it will actually hold close to the stated capacity with no sign of data corruption.
Genuine hi-speed card (with red-stripe) has a transfer speed at about 80Mbps. Fake has a slower transfer speed with 1948MB fake actually can do about 65Mbps to 70Mbps and 1959MB fake at most 60Mbps

4. False SONY Part Number or MagicGate not supported

5. PSP test:

Sony has added into the 3.00+ firmwares an easy way to check whether memory sticks are genuine or not:

1: Browse to your memory stick under game, video, photo or music.
2: Press triangle and select information
3: If it says its magic gate compatible its real. If not then its fake.

This is an excellent way for people to be absolutely sure that their memory stick is real.

New laws that should be passed on the current prison system

2007-08-13T20:08:00.000+10:00

Most should know by now my opinions on prisons and capital punishment.
If you don't, read on. If you do, allow me to reiterate.

Firstly, let me speculate.

Capital punishment was invented as a way of controlling people from doing such things like stealing, raping, killing, etc. Before it was a slap on the wrist to hanged. Now all that is improved is prisons...and the Death Sentence.

Now, what I don't understand is why people would want to waste a person's life via Death Penalty when, say, that person has violated one of the Human Rights, that is, to live. That person was brought up into this world. That means somewhere along the lines resources must have been used up by this person and what has this person done in return? Work at a local 7/11?

So we basically get this equation:

Person + does nothing = -resources + nothing

Now i'm pretty sure that when you add nothing to something, you're still left with that something, without change. However this time, we're taking away something, and we left with less of what we've started out with.

And then what we do is put them into prison, or use the Death Penalty, where the TAX PAYERS have to pay in order to house and feed these people (killing them takes up electricity as well). Given a choice I doubt many would pay for that.

So what I propose is that we set them to work. Hard work. Why not have them earn for their housing and their food whilst helping the economy? Why not have them do the work that no one else wants to...for free?
And we all know that free labor is not exactly abundant now days, (kids just don't do what they're told anymore).

So this is what the new equation should look like:

Person + work = resources - what that person uses

Plus we have a huge variety of inmates, I mean there must be some tax accountants. We could use that. People who don't know jack? That's okay, we can get them to improve on the current roads.

Okay there may be some flaws such as:
1) What if the person uses more than he makes?
Solution: Not possible, this is still a prison, not a hotel.
2) If we do put them into labor doesn't it make it easier for them to escape?
Solution: Usually people who escape, try not to be found again, ie they would hide and not make a big scene. Which if they would, then we could just put them back in.

Music Vid - Nizlopi

2007-08-10T14:08:00.000+10:00

This songs alright,

But this one's even better

JCB Song

Just Testing

2007-08-03T19:22:00.000+10:00

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einstein screwed up

ITT takes a rest

2007-06-18T20:50:00.000+10:00

It seems as if it was forever since the last post, and ironically this will probably be a post for another while.

Until then, ITT will be on an unfortified haitus. You can contact the editor at phatinc90@gmail.com for more information.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

2007-05-30T15:37:00.000+10:00

Here at ITT, we don't always talk about new technology...well actually, we haven't for quite a while...

But on a more serious note, ITT would like to discuss The Perry Bible Fellowship(PBF). PBF is a webcomic. Simple? Well, out of the thousands of webcomics out there, this one is part of the hundreds that base itself on humor. With no plot at all, this webcomic is perfect for a light read that can generate a huge amount of laughs. The author can only be described as a intellectual genius, creating words on a page lighting magical fires inside my stomach (I'm laughing so much that my stomach hurts), as it can be compared to be like lyrics from a song, beautiful, combined with the humor of a...very funny person (k i lost the metaphor there).

Rating: 5/5

Read it, ITT recommends it.
(sample)

To be warned it can be addictive.