Saturday, October 6, 2007
Primitive people.
This article shows how the last generation is really primitive and how they blow everything out of proportion.
I will post a really long comment about the artical later.
Bootlegger
Fake Disneyland.
Fake KFC + McDonald's hybird.
Just read here:
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2877
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1724
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1740
Friday, September 21, 2007
APPLESEED: EX MACHINA
Here is the web site:
http://www.exmachina.jp/
Press enter to get into the main page pop up. The pop up window is all bi-lingo.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Transformer
Sunday, September 16, 2007
VOCALOID2
It sound and look cool but it is only in Japanese. From looking at it on YouTube and Gizmodo, the program only got one vocal singer, Hatsune Miku. She sound ok, but it be better if there are more singers. But I think they might have more vocal later.
Here is the web site:http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/
They need an international version.
Addicting flash game
They got this game call "grow island" where the player must develop an island to certain level. There is a panel to chose what field to develop. Each turn can only develop one field and each field effect leveling up of another field. There are so much possibilities. I keep wanting to get the UFO to land.
Check it out!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Police training on Counter Strike
The police department of one city in China is encouraging their officer to play Counter Strike. They say it for training. Sure it might help, but real training would work better.
What they need is a Wii version of Counter Strike. That will help them!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Water on fire!!
To be precise, it salt water on fire.
A scientist accidentally sparked a test tube of of salt water on fire. It sparked by a frequency of radio wave towards the water and separated the water into sodium chloride, hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen then is sparked to light on fire. The fire can reach up to 1000 F.
If the energy out put is much greater than what is needed for the radio emitter, then the world's energy problem would be solved.
Sorce: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07252/815920-85.stm
Friday, September 7, 2007
Clubs
Any way. I joined the Anime Club today. Well I haven't decided if I'll stay. This is the second club I joined. The first is the Chinese club.
I am tire....
Thursday, September 6, 2007
The Bus Uncle
The Bus Uncle is a video captured in a bus by a passenger using a camera phone. The video was a hit online.
I can't believe it, this thing got feature on Wikipedia today. I thought it was just a local Hong Kong thing, but it more popular than I thought.
This happen when a young man ask an old person to talk a bit quieter on the phone so the he can take a nap. Then the old man start a long rant about how stress he is.
News reported on this. Studies was done on stress in Hong Kong and youth culture. Many internet and TV parodies was made.
To watch the video go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
To read about the event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle
The holy Blackbird
This wonderful master piece can, in the best spec:
Intel® Core2™ Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz,
8MB of L2 cache per processor (16MB total)
Multitaskers dream.
1GB 1GHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI enabled,
Four FSB-DIMM slots supporting up to 8 GB of main memory
You'll never get slow down or lag.
ATI RADEON X2900™ XT 1GB, with 1GB of GDDR2 SDRAM, (available with liquid-cooling)
Holy graphic!! It get hot, so hot that it need special cooling method.
Dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.
Nicer, clearer pictures.
Up to 4TB of internal storage using 1 to 5 Hard drive bays with 750GB 7200 rpm SATA
All the games, illegal downloads, and porn you can store.
A single 5 1/4 bay for Blu-ray Rewriter and , HD DVD-ROM Super multi-drive with LightScribe CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, +R/RW, +/- R DL
Watch and burn anything that comes in a disc form.
1.1 kilowatt power supply features multiple high-current rails, providing plenty of energy to drive today's high-performance graphics cards and processors
Power baby!
Full-System Liquid Cooling
Cool much faster than an conventional fan.
Separate Thermal Chambers
Separate the hot stuff from the cool.
Heat Sinks and Pipes
Redirecting heat from CPU directly out of the computer.
Discreet Wiring
All wires are hidden so it won't block air flow.
6-Way Airflow
More way to get rid of heat.
I have no clue how much this heavenly beauty will cost but I want it........
..........but I probably won't be able to afford it.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Top 100 anime song
Friday, August 31, 2007
Google Earth
There are many new feature. Most of which I will never use. There is the Google Sky to look at the stars, this will keep my astronomy heart busy for a while.
There is a fun hidden feature. It is a flight simulator. "ctrl+alt+a" will start the flight menu. You can chose from two planes. One is a jet, one is a propeller. Then you fly. The HUD is a bit primitive, there are no compass.
If any of reader want to kill some time and enjoy the pixel view of the Earth then download the newest version of Google Earth.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
I want some alone time.
I can't stand them. Sure parent are loving and stuff, but they won't leave me alone. (>.<) Not having a room is really not helping. I can't even enjoy TV or any thing. They won't shut up. All day do is judge, not just me but any thing, but I have to listen. The generation gap is also very big, the era of the last generation and this one is very different in Hong Kong.
What annoys me is that they always talk during a TV show, and ask question right when something happens. They almost always miss the answer to their question while asking the question. Another thing is that they are really skeptical of anything. Judge every thing, very stereotypical. I hate to say it but my parent are primitive. Some time they treat me like a very little kid. One time my mom want to rearrange my wallet because my bills are not stack nicely. They always want to do stuff for me, let me try stuff on my own, for the love of buddha.
Some time I am afraid that I am the smartest person with in the family right now.
I just want to be alone for a while, independence. When I want to be with some one, I'll find my self a future wife to be with.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Violence
Why are people, especially old people, against virtual violence yet they support war? Virtual violence is good for a healthy mind, only bad to an already messed up mind. I would so rather fight thousands of alien in a game than killing my fellow human been in real life. Why the hell are we killing each other for illogical reason? Primitive thinking of arrogant and intolerance are causing violence. I learn tolerance threw the media. I learn that war kill from video game, crime doesn't pay from crime shows, logic and understanding will drive the human species forward from sci-fi, and value of friends and other different value from manga, anime, and different media offer in the world.
Why do people waste money fighting, claiming that they are trying to improve their life. But wouldn't saving the money from fighting and using it be better? Sure that the earth is overpopulating and some say war can reduce it, but if we use the effort that we put into killing each other into helping each other, the world would be at least 50 years ahead in technology and humanitarian advancement.
People some time kill because they follow orders, those are not the smart one. The smart one, the one kill by plan not by instinct are the best killer and can put their violent into full potential, even might be good. The best of the worst of us, the one who can use violent to the fullest of potential are the smart people who plan out their killing, the one who also plan to escape, and the one who can learn and adapt to new situation. Some may say it is evolution, it might be, but violent isn't the only way to evolve.
The best of the worst of us who uses violence are usually the one no one expect. The one who are the nicest, the one who care the most, and the one who are quiet. No one suspect them, they hide in plane sight. They might kill because it fun, or it interesting, or for learning. The one who are the worst of the worst of us who kill by plan and liking is more evolve than the primitive killers who kill by instinct. The best of these people can control their violence and only release them in a devastating scale when they chose to. I would rather cross the violence by plan people because I can get to know them and be friend them. The violence by instinct people can be set off by some thing.
So violence drive us, but it is the worst of us. Does it mean that the more we developer the more violent we get. Or can we find a way for peace? Virtual violent is much beneficial to any one because it don't hurt real people, if use properly, it will even help us grow. So why do people fear virtual violence while love real violence? Are the people against virtual violence the most blood thirsty of all?
Human is very mysterious, where will our genetic will drive us?
Any one reading, I want to know what you think. Post some comment!.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Free!!!
Now I can play again, I gave up this game when I figure out that it won't be fun if I can't level up to more than level 20.
For who haven't heard of Granado Espada, or Sword of the New World, Google search Sword of the New World to see what it all about! It a great RPG game. You can control up to 3 characters at a time. You can move them around or use different tactic with 3 people. Classes are also good, I like the Musketeers.
The enviroment and graphical detail are wounder full. The requrement for this good playing/looking game isn't much. Most normal computer can handle it so it nice and I don't have to upgrade any thing.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The Power of Haruhi Suzumiya
Sorce: http://kotaku.com/gaming/clip/the-haruhi-dance-in-prison-292458.php
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
WoW's plage is a great research tool for disease researcher.
This curse is from boss character that was supposed to attack high level player fighting them. It also spread and cause players to scatter and make melee player to stop attack so they can scatter. This curse take a bit of health each second, and don't last long enough to kill a high level player. But some player have pet and the pets also can get the curse.
If the player recall the pet, the curse stay with it and the timer for that curse pulse. When the pet is release the curse continue to spread. It even spread to NPCs. In large city, it wiped out a lot of low level players who don't have the hit point or the heal spell to save them self. Cities were abandon and no one cluster in group.
Blizzard didn't intent for the plague to spread outside of the boss area or to NPCs. Blizzard tried a few different method and even quarantine to stop the plague. It was cure when the programing of how the cures/plague interact with players.
In March, 2007, Ran D Balicer, an epidemiologist physician at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel, described how the WoW plague was similar to the SARS and bird flu outbreaks.
With millions of players online in WoW, Second life, and other MMOs, researchers hope that they can create more virtual outbreaks of deceases in games to study the way how deceases spread from people to people and what way can be use to quarantine and stop deceases.
Who would have thought that games could help find ways to save life!
Source: http://gamepolitics.com/2007/08/21/wow-outbreak-studied-by-pandemic-researchers/
With all this, why don’t they make a MMO for the researcher, and have people from the scientific community and collage volunteer to join. They can call it Pandemic Online.
Monday, August 20, 2007
I am so fucking tire of the stupid ESRB rating system
The current rating system is too out of date. We really need to have a new rating system. The one we have now was made long time ago where there people think every minor are the same. We are growing so fast these day.
Here what I think the new one should be:
EA: Early Childhood (but who is going to use it) [ex: Elmo games]
E: Every one [ex: Pac-man, MySims, sim city]
LC: Late Childhood (8+) [ex: Zelda, Spiderman movie games]
PT: Pre-Teen (10+) [ex: StarCraft, Time splitter, Sims, Gundams, soul caliber, metriod prime, final fantasy]
T: Teen (12+) [ex: Medal of Honor, Dead or Alive]
YA: Young Adult (15+) [ex: Halo, Splinter cell, Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!, counter strike, half life, GTA, resident evil, Dead or Alive: Extream]
A: Adult (18+) [ex: mortal combat, Doom]
X: Explicit content (18+(only with really heavy sexual content)) [ex: Eroge games]
CG: Casual Gamer (any one) [ex: wario ware, nintendog, brain age]
S: Senior (50+) [ex: square dancing revolution]
And they should also consider the factor of the story, or the intensity of certain things to rate the games:
Like if Medal of Honor show blood, the rating shouldn't go up, because the blood are reasonable in a war, espically WWII, it base on actual event. Historic game should have a lower rating. But for Mortal Combat, their blood showing it not realistic, people can't kill that easily or that bloody.
If there are nudity and it not sexual nudity, just normal nudity, the rating shouldn't go up just of two innocent nipples. If the game have a fuck fest, even without nudity, then yes, the rating should go up.
Also, rating should be depending on 2D or 3D. If it bloody in 2D, the rating shouldn't go up.
I can go on much longer, but I have to get to class.