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- From: jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (John Costella)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: INDUSTRY: Australian: don't count on enthusiasm
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:29:08 GMT
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- This article in the latest _Engineers_Australia_ does not talk
- about VR per se, but should be a warning for any VR vendor
- thinking about trying to convince Australian industry to take
- up their latest goodies, since the general attitude will likely be
- very similar. In a sense, supercomputing is now at the stage that
- VR will be in 3 or 5 years. One might also want to be careful about
- planning VR conferences here (despite the 100 F weather ... sorry
- Bob, hope you didn't get flooded!).
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- >From _Engineers_Australia_, 22 January 1993, p. 14-15:
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- A supercomputing setback
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- "A push for industry to take up supercomputing has suffered a
- setback following a dismal turnout at the industry day of the
- Fifth Australian Supercomputing Conference in December. The
- middle day of the three-day conference held in Melbourne was
- devoted entirely to expounding the benefits of high performance
- computing to industry. The only hitch was that industry failed
- to turn up.
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- "Almost all of the 150 delegates were academics, vendors of
- supercomputing hardware or from government institutions. Of
- the handful of industry representatives present most were
- speakers at the conference or belonged to the same company as
- a speaker.
-
- [... rest omitted ]"
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- A good rule of thumb is that when you tell an Australian of
- a great new idea that will save/make them money, they'll say,
- ``sounds like bullshit to me''. :-) Plan to visit a country
- of cynics if you're coming down under to peddle your wares!
- (As if you hadn't figured that out already ;-)
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- John P. Costella School of Physics, The University of Melbourne
- jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au Tel: +61 3 543-7795, Fax: +61 3 347-4783
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