an age of new future?

[Swoop]

Damn. Future technology is gonna be impressive.
I'm happy that I now know how dishwashing machines really work!

[skelstar]

I cant wait for OLED technology to become more mainstream. Things will get very small and useful then.

[sAsLEX]

I cant wait for OLED technology to become more mainstream. Things will get very small and useful then.

pfft old school, technology is already leaving that behind and heading in a newer better direction (for tvs anyways)

http://www.behardware.com/articles/5...-kind-sed.html

[Wolf]

well if you think about it owning an ipod with say 60 gig of capacity will make cds, entirely made of your nasty plastic, obsolete. Therefore they are actually helping the environment in a way.

Dunno about you, but I don't throw my CDs away.

I'm not opposed to using plastic to manufacture things, I'm opposed to making the stuff into things that wind up in the landfill. OK, there is always going to be a lot of stuff that is, by the nature of its function, disposable and will waste resources - packaging springs instantly to mind - but making things that are traditionally made to last into "one-shot-wonders" is an unnecessary waste to my mind.

And it's false economy - you spend a fortune on a succession of "cheap" disposable cameras that take crap photos when it would have been more cost effective to buy a decent camera that takes good photos and you'd still have a good camera every time you want to buy a roll of film.

Me, I want the law in NZ brought in line with that of the States so I can buy my CDs, buy an iPod (of the non-disposable variety), encode my CDs into MP3s and put them away safely where they won't get scratched in case the RIAA comes pounding on my door and wants proof that I purchased the music I have on my iPod or in case I accidentally erase an MP3 and need to re-encode it from the CD.

That can't happen so long as NZ has laws forbidding the format-shifting of the music we buy.

[SixPackBack]

Research and implementation of organic plastics designed with a limited life are/will be come very popular. Perhaps more of an issue worldwide is the use of energy resources.
NZ could do itself a huge favour and accept Nuclear energy as being a clean green alternative, unfortunately public opinion is swayed by ignorance and misinformation, Kiwi's believe [erroneously] that hydro is the answer when in fact it destroys huge tracts of land and necessitates massive delivery lines that visually pollute the landscape
Wake up NZ!

[sAsLEX]

NZ could do itself a huge favour and accept Nuclear energy as being a clean green alternative,

I have nothing against Nulear energy, but at present and in the near future NZ's power demands dont warrent a Nuclear station.

[SixPackBack]

I have nothing against Nulear energy, but at present and in the near future NZ's power demands dont warrent a Nuclear station.

A recent course I completed at AIT had a component [stipulated by the NZ government]. This component outlined briefly nuclear power being used with NZ.......It is common knowledge that cold fusion or some other ground breaking technology not with standing NZ will need Nuclear energy to service its needs within the next twenty years, NZ government is well aware of this and as mentioned any one in NZ going through an Engineering course at a tertiary level is taught to expect this eventuality.

[sAsLEX]

NZ going through an Engineering course at a tertiary level is taught to expect this eventuality.

haven't heard much of it at AU in fourth year engineering there at the mo.

[Wolf]

A recent course I completed at AIT had a component [stipulated by the NZ government]. This component outlined briefly nuclear power being used with NZ.......It is common knowledge that cold fusion or some other ground breaking technology not with standing NZ will need Nuclear energy to service its needs within the next twenty years, NZ government is well aware of this and as mentioned any one in NZ going through an Engineering course at a tertiary level is taught to expect this eventuality.

Just don't build the fucker in Wellington or anywhere near the fault line.

That's my only argument against nuclear power - the eventuality of "the Big One" (Wellingtonians should need no explanation of the term) causing a containment breach. Other than that, given the choice between flooding yet another valley (and destroying another tract of native bush) and having a nuclear power station, I'm all for it. I think the technology has been around long enough now that the bugs have been ironed out - hasn't been a Chernobyl or Three-Mile Island type of incident in ages.

Oops, I spoke out in favour of Nuclear Power, there goes my "hippy-cred", better cancel my membership of Greenpeace.

We do have "nuclear" power in use in NZ - according to the techies I used to associate with at a previous job, nuclear thermocouples are readily available (albeit for a high price).

If we could pull down all the dams and replace the hydro-power with state of the art, safe-as-possible nuclear power, I'd be thrilled. Of course, the water skiing crowd wouldn't share my enthusiasm...

[SixPackBack]

haven't heard much of it at AU in fourth year engineering there at the mo.

'Introduction to Engineering' [ a pre requiste course teaching mainly Physics. Designed mainly for those missing 6/7 form physics]

[sAsLEX]

'Introduction to Engineering' [ a pre requiste course teaching mainly Physics. Designed mainly for those missing 6/7 form physics]

Nope not in my degree

Part I Pnts Semester
1st 2nd
ENGGEN 121 Engineering Mechanics 15
ENGGEN 140 Biology and Chemistry for Engineers 15
ENGSCI 111 Mathematical Modelling 1 15
CHEMMAT 121 Materials Science 15
ELECTENG 101 Electrical & Digital Systems 15
ENGGEN 131 Intro. to Eng. Comp. & Software Dvlp 15
ENGSCI 115 Introduction to Engineering Design 15
General Education 1 15

Used to breifly cover junk like that in Sustainability and Professional development but I see they have dropped them from the cirricullum (along with spelling lol).