Status: Muse of thoughts
BGM: Passion - Utada Hikaru
Let's make some comparison between laptop and desktop.
Desktop is big and bulkier, while laptop is small and light.
On energy consumption, laptop consume less energy than desktop, which make it an ideal power saver.
Laptop is easier to be bring around, making it very convenient for people who needs to move around constantly. Meanwhile, desktop is hard to be carry around due to it's large size.
Until here it sounds like the laptop is better than a desktop.
However, desktop has it advantages too.
Desktop is relatively faster than a desktop, as due to it's size, it is able to provide near excellent air flow system to cool and maintain the desktop in moderate heat level, maintaining the efficiency of it.
Whereas for laptop, due to it's size, it is hard to have a powerful cooling system to cool it down, although there's external cooling system for laptops, it is still less efficient than the desktop cooling system - built-in cooling system.
Performance wise, laptop can hardly beat desktop, as desktop can be equipped with the most powerful hardware, while laptop will have it's limitation.
Well, both of them have their own pros and cons, and they both cater a different category of users.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Quantum Computers
Status: Blurry
BGM: Crank That -Soulja Boy (Alvin & the Chipmunk ver.)
Quantum Computers are said to be the next gen computers.
Apparently, when compared to the presently used computers, they could hold more data & process faster.
Currently, data in computers are processed with paralleled processing method.
Which practically means things are running in one same way, or one way method.
Meanwhile, quantum computer could run in a way that a few parallel system are ran simultaneously, greatly increasing the capability of a computer in handling high requirement commands.
Will that be the future of computing?
BGM: Crank That -Soulja Boy (Alvin & the Chipmunk ver.)
Quantum Computers are said to be the next gen computers.
Apparently, when compared to the presently used computers, they could hold more data & process faster.
Currently, data in computers are processed with paralleled processing method.
Which practically means things are running in one same way, or one way method.
Meanwhile, quantum computer could run in a way that a few parallel system are ran simultaneously, greatly increasing the capability of a computer in handling high requirement commands.
Will that be the future of computing?
Hacker Wars
Status: Flayed
BGM: Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't be late
There's a recent hacker wars (competition): CanSecWest-2008 (March 26 -28), at Vancouver, Canada.
The hackers are to hack into 3 different notebooks, each with different system installed.
The system are: Vista Ultimate SP1, Mac OS X10.5.2 & Linux Ubuntu 7.10.
The results?
Well, the 1st to fall is... suprisingly, Mac OS X10.5.2
The reason? The hackers exploited a security loophole in the Safari Browser, and they hacked it within 2 minutes time. [On the second day of competition] After succesfully hacked, they gain control of the Mac Book Air.
Next is Vista Ultimate SP1.
It falls on the last day of the competition.
They attacked a security loophole in the Java system, and then successfully gain control of the
Vista system.
Ubuntu are safe even to the end of the competition.
Is it the safest?
Probally is, probably not.
There are some loopholes indeed, but the hackers think that those loopholes are too premature to be properly attacked.
There goes the whole wars.
BGM: Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't be late
There's a recent hacker wars (competition): CanSecWest-2008 (March 26 -28), at Vancouver, Canada.
The hackers are to hack into 3 different notebooks, each with different system installed.
The system are: Vista Ultimate SP1, Mac OS X10.5.2 & Linux Ubuntu 7.10.
The results?
Well, the 1st to fall is... suprisingly, Mac OS X10.5.2
The reason? The hackers exploited a security loophole in the Safari Browser, and they hacked it within 2 minutes time. [On the second day of competition] After succesfully hacked, they gain control of the Mac Book Air.
Next is Vista Ultimate SP1.
It falls on the last day of the competition.
They attacked a security loophole in the Java system, and then successfully gain control of the
Vista system.
Ubuntu are safe even to the end of the competition.
Is it the safest?
Probally is, probably not.
There are some loopholes indeed, but the hackers think that those loopholes are too premature to be properly attacked.
There goes the whole wars.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Games & Physics
Status: Slightly-Impressed
BGM: My Heart Will Go On
Ever wonder how much games had evolved these days?
Truth is, it has evolved in a pace that most gamers found it hard to catch up.
Couldn't tell it? Well, look how fast the hardware sector evolved.
They even have physics cards now!
For what it is used for? To create real-life like physics effect in the game.
In older time of gaming (1998-2002), games usually are quite fake or surreal... like when you hit a building or a tank, it'll take the same damage no matter from which angle it got hit, and when it's destroyed, it goes by a blast, then it dissapear.
Now let's look at the more modern games (2006-now). I shall take the World War II themed RTS (Real Time Strategy) game, Company of Heroes, as the example.
When a tank is hit at the front, it takes less damage (due to thick frontal armor). When it's being hit on it's flank, it takes normal damage. When the rear is hit, it will take more damage than it usually does. And it doesnt die off in a simple blast. When it is critically damaged, it will either be it's engine damaged (reduced speed), Main Gun destroyed (It's cannon go silent), or gunner killed (machine gunner got killed off). When defeated, it usually blast off, leaving it's burned hull around, or before that happens, it goes out of control, run around and then dies, sometime crashing into friendlies, causing more damages.
How these all works are beyond me, but it is really impressive. I tell ya... this game's gonna make me go addicted once again!
BGM: My Heart Will Go On
Ever wonder how much games had evolved these days?
Truth is, it has evolved in a pace that most gamers found it hard to catch up.
Couldn't tell it? Well, look how fast the hardware sector evolved.
They even have physics cards now!
For what it is used for? To create real-life like physics effect in the game.
In older time of gaming (1998-2002), games usually are quite fake or surreal... like when you hit a building or a tank, it'll take the same damage no matter from which angle it got hit, and when it's destroyed, it goes by a blast, then it dissapear.
Now let's look at the more modern games (2006-now). I shall take the World War II themed RTS (Real Time Strategy) game, Company of Heroes, as the example.
When a tank is hit at the front, it takes less damage (due to thick frontal armor). When it's being hit on it's flank, it takes normal damage. When the rear is hit, it will take more damage than it usually does. And it doesnt die off in a simple blast. When it is critically damaged, it will either be it's engine damaged (reduced speed), Main Gun destroyed (It's cannon go silent), or gunner killed (machine gunner got killed off). When defeated, it usually blast off, leaving it's burned hull around, or before that happens, it goes out of control, run around and then dies, sometime crashing into friendlies, causing more damages.
How these all works are beyond me, but it is really impressive. I tell ya... this game's gonna make me go addicted once again!
M-Rated games... are they as bad as we think?
Status: Dumbfounded
BGM: The One - Backstreet Boys
In GTA IV, the players is able to steal cars, drives around, killing anyone, or challenge the police in various ways.
Gears of War 2 allow the players to slash people into half, whether it is from up to down, left to right or the total opposite, while players can also use corpses as meat shield.
These are downright violent, or morally incorrect to most of the baby boom generation.
As for the generation X, these are nothing: "c'mon, it's just a game".
Some politicians even slams these games, vowing to ban them and sue the game makers. [The truth is, it's just another way of publicity for them ( -_-|||) ]
Are they really bad for us?
Not exactly.
Various study found that although violent games will no doubt have some effects on the player, it is not likely to be the main cause of causing the gamer to be violent. Look from another side: the players of violent games might be having some degree of violence within them even before they play the games.
Until now, there are no sturdy proof showing that violent games will affect the players and cause them to be violent.
So don't be worry, let us sit down and enjoy playing GTA IV as much as we can. =D
BGM: The One - Backstreet Boys
In GTA IV, the players is able to steal cars, drives around, killing anyone, or challenge the police in various ways.
Gears of War 2 allow the players to slash people into half, whether it is from up to down, left to right or the total opposite, while players can also use corpses as meat shield.
These are downright violent, or morally incorrect to most of the baby boom generation.
As for the generation X, these are nothing: "c'mon, it's just a game".
Some politicians even slams these games, vowing to ban them and sue the game makers. [The truth is, it's just another way of publicity for them ( -_-|||) ]
Are they really bad for us?
Not exactly.
Various study found that although violent games will no doubt have some effects on the player, it is not likely to be the main cause of causing the gamer to be violent. Look from another side: the players of violent games might be having some degree of violence within them even before they play the games.
Until now, there are no sturdy proof showing that violent games will affect the players and cause them to be violent.
So don't be worry, let us sit down and enjoy playing GTA IV as much as we can. =D
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
What I feel about Comtech...
Status: Uber High
BGM: I got music playing in my brain!
It's almost the end of t3h semester now.
ComTech is such a lovely subject, and Mr. Avila is such a lovely lecturer.
The part I like about him is that he constantly suprises us with lots of gifts, mostly on the time that we never expect them.
And the presents make us cry in touch, so much that our tears run dry.
And it make us so happy until we can die of happiness.
It's such a enjoyable subject that I'll recommend my friends in the course to take up this subject.
And seriously saying, It's really nice! Come join the partay!
BGM: I got music playing in my brain!
It's almost the end of t3h semester now.
ComTech is such a lovely subject, and Mr. Avila is such a lovely lecturer.
The part I like about him is that he constantly suprises us with lots of gifts, mostly on the time that we never expect them.
And the presents make us cry in touch, so much that our tears run dry.
And it make us so happy until we can die of happiness.
It's such a enjoyable subject that I'll recommend my friends in the course to take up this subject.
And seriously saying, It's really nice! Come join the partay!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Handphone - the inseperable one
Status: Feeling a little bit sarcastic right now
BGM: Random ringtone music echo-ing within my brain
20-50 years ago us human are using normal phones to contact each other.
And thus whenever one leaves home, it might take forever to contact em or find em.
Sad right?
Now the problem is solved.
Handphones are all over the place, where handphone is a must-have tool for urban human.
The bane is, what will happen if one day this technology simply dissapeared like it's never been invented?
Could we human still survive normally without it?
And oh, the ironic part, I love em. - 30 years ago we have problem looking/contacting a person. Soon we would actually track them through their handphones. And 3G technology with the video call function virtually makes us unable to hide our track.
Soo much sacrifice for the sake of technology.
And I think, I'm one of the victim of technology too. Sighs.
BGM: Random ringtone music echo-ing within my brain
20-50 years ago us human are using normal phones to contact each other.
And thus whenever one leaves home, it might take forever to contact em or find em.
Sad right?
Now the problem is solved.
Handphones are all over the place, where handphone is a must-have tool for urban human.
The bane is, what will happen if one day this technology simply dissapeared like it's never been invented?
Could we human still survive normally without it?
And oh, the ironic part, I love em. - 30 years ago we have problem looking/contacting a person. Soon we would actually track them through their handphones. And 3G technology with the video call function virtually makes us unable to hide our track.
Soo much sacrifice for the sake of technology.
And I think, I'm one of the victim of technology too. Sighs.
OMG?
Status: Semi-spirited-away
BGM: Utter silence of the Computer Lab, save for the keyboard tapping sound echoing around.
Lately I enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of a friends in midnight.
It's just so interesting just to listen what they've got to say.
And the particular thing that interest me the most is that the way they mess around with their handphones.
They just love messing with handphones... to an extend they'll do all kinds of weird modification on their phone.
They talk like professional... yet when a question pops up, it pops the bubble.
"Eh i dunno how to do it lah, you know how ah?"
The LOLness, I tell you...
How human acts never cease to amaze me, even when they were dealing with technological stuffs.
BGM: Utter silence of the Computer Lab, save for the keyboard tapping sound echoing around.
Lately I enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of a friends in midnight.
It's just so interesting just to listen what they've got to say.
And the particular thing that interest me the most is that the way they mess around with their handphones.
They just love messing with handphones... to an extend they'll do all kinds of weird modification on their phone.
They talk like professional... yet when a question pops up, it pops the bubble.
"Eh i dunno how to do it lah, you know how ah?"
The LOLness, I tell you...
How human acts never cease to amaze me, even when they were dealing with technological stuffs.
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