Wednesday, January 24, 2007
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2007/01/014779.htm
Golf fans are being banned from using mobile phones at The Open Championship, according to the DailyRecord.
"Spectators at this year's The Open Championship at Carnoustie will not be permitted to have mobile phones in their possession within The Open site.
This policy is in line with other major golf championships, including this year's Ryder Cup, and follows comments from players concerning the excessive numbers in evidence last year at Hoylake.
In order to implement the no mobile phone policy, security checks of every spectator will be in operation at the paygates
http://www.rocknscroll.net/
Rock N' Scroll is a software infrastructure for interventions into wifi-equipped public space.
Mobile wireless computing is usually a rather immobile affair: people working on laptop computers commonly stare transfixedly at the device's screen, typing, and occasionally clicking the mouse: computer work does not usually require much physical involvement.
Imagine walking into a coffee shop or another semi-public wifi-equipped place where people normally congregate quietly with their laptops: instead of working unbudgingly on their computers, they are shaking their office equipment and wildly tapping their cell phones. Joysticks and old mechanical mice serve as maracca-type rhythmic instruments or optical mice are used for DJ-like scratching motions, manipulated using fancier gyro mice, computer keyboards used as drumkits. Both mobile phones and computers are connected using Skype voice-over-IP telephony (VOIP) software. This creates delay effects depending on how good the network connection is. The sound itself is a combination of standard macintosh and windows sounds, as well as sounds that included in the Skype software, and pre-made drumloops.
Golf fans are being banned from using mobile phones at The Open Championship, according to the DailyRecord.
"Spectators at this year's The Open Championship at Carnoustie will not be permitted to have mobile phones in their possession within The Open site.
This policy is in line with other major golf championships, including this year's Ryder Cup, and follows comments from players concerning the excessive numbers in evidence last year at Hoylake.
In order to implement the no mobile phone policy, security checks of every spectator will be in operation at the paygates
http://www.rocknscroll.net/
Rock N' Scroll is a software infrastructure for interventions into wifi-equipped public space.
Mobile wireless computing is usually a rather immobile affair: people working on laptop computers commonly stare transfixedly at the device's screen, typing, and occasionally clicking the mouse: computer work does not usually require much physical involvement.
Imagine walking into a coffee shop or another semi-public wifi-equipped place where people normally congregate quietly with their laptops: instead of working unbudgingly on their computers, they are shaking their office equipment and wildly tapping their cell phones. Joysticks and old mechanical mice serve as maracca-type rhythmic instruments or optical mice are used for DJ-like scratching motions, manipulated using fancier gyro mice, computer keyboards used as drumkits. Both mobile phones and computers are connected using Skype voice-over-IP telephony (VOIP) software. This creates delay effects depending on how good the network connection is. The sound itself is a combination of standard macintosh and windows sounds, as well as sounds that included in the Skype software, and pre-made drumloops.
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