Archive for May, 2007

Pearls

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

The quality  of a pearl is determined by  various things: the type of pearl, how thick it is, its shine, how clean it is and surface texture, its size, its color, and its shape.

Pearls are one of the very  few organic gems. It is the sole gemstone that has been grown inside an animal. Interestingly, a pearl found in the rough, without ever being touched by man, is already beautiful. It needs no help from man to achieve its own glory.
Now, a pearl isnt perfect, it has certain oddities and abberations, becuz it is organic, and not a cut stone. Simply put, a near perfect string would cost you a fortune.

In recent times, man has become proficient at producing freshwater pearls, and as a consequence they have beomce affordable so that the avergae person now has a chance to possess them.  They are still an organic creation nonetheless and will have all the variance one woudl expect.

Xbox360 vs Wii vs PS3

Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Feature Xbox 360 Core Xbox 360 Premium Wii Playstation 3 Basic
Playstation 3 Premium
CPU 3.2GHz PPC “Xenon” (3 Core) 729MHz “Broadway” 3.2GHz PPC Cell (7 Active, 1 Redundant)
GPU 500MHz “Xenos” 243MHz “Hollywood” 550MHz RSX
RAM 512MB GDDR3 88MB 1T-SRAM 512MB (XDR & GDDR3)
CPU-RAM Bandwidth 22.4GB/s 4GB/s 25.6GB/s (XDR), 22.4GB/s (GDDR3)
DVD/DVD-Video 12x Read 6x Read (No Video DVD*) 8x Read
Next-Gen Optical HD-DVD Optional (Q4) No 2x Blu-ray Disc
Proprietary Optical Xbox 360 DL DVD GameCube Disc, Wii Optical Disc Playstation 3 BD, Playstation 2 DVD, Playstation CD
Internal Memory 20GB HDD Optional 20GB HDD 512MB Flash 20GB HDD 60GB HDD
External Memory Memory Card - 64MB SD, USB Storage, GameCube Memory Card No Memory Stick, Compact Flash, & SD/MMC
Wired LAN 1x 100Mb/s Optional via USB Adapter 1x 1000Mb/s
Wireless LAN Optional Yes Optional Yes
USB 3x USB2.0 2x USB2.0 4x USB2.0
Wired Controller Ports 4x via USB 4x GameCube 4x via USB mini-B
Wireless Controller Support 4x 4x 4x
Controller Motion Sensing No 3-Axis Rotation, 3-Axis Position (Full Motion) 3-Axis Rotation, 3-Axis Acceleration
Controller Rumbling Yes Yes No
Video Output Composite, S-Video, Component, VGA Composite, Component Composite, S-Video, Component, SCART, VGA All Basic Outputs + HDMI
Maximum Video Resolution 1080i 480p 1080p
Audio Output Dolby Digital, DTS Dolby Pro Logic II Dolby Digital, DTS

Its my opinion that the PS3 is the best machine. It is superiors in storage capacity and possesses Blu Ray technology. If you consider that the ps3 has free online gaming then in the long run its cheaper than the xbox360.

On the other hand, the xbox is made by microsoft, who have an intimate knowledge on how windows works, meaning PC peripherals used for console gaming will likely be best supported by xbox. thats just my opinion.

The wii gets points for pure innovativeness. No more joystick, no more control pad. No we actually might getexcercise while dominating the electronic battleground. The game base is still thin for the wii console, but its family centric nature gives it an edge in that market.

thats just my 2 cents.

Cyberarmy: Heroes or Villians

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Cyberarmy is real and very much in existence. Just because you cant see something doesnt make it any less real. We breathe air, but we do not see it. But, you say to me, I can feel the air.

And without realizing it you can feel the effects that Cyberarmy produces. First you must understand their goal. Freedom, privacy, and unfettered trafficing in data. They believe in free exchange of ideas, and the freedom to voice your mind.

But you wont see them, they arent in a chat room visibly. They are busy working on things like lobbying for new RPC’s. Or educating the masses on privacy and rallying people to the cause of self governance. Cyberarmy believes in the users are best suited to regulate the medium they use.

They educate and empower users to better undertake the tasks and overcome the challenges that a medium as large as the internet presents. Meanwhile working to keep privacy a factor in the information age, and an age where rights are stomped upon.

Some salute them, others would call them hackers. Without taking the time to understand what this particular group does, its certainly not fair to pass judgement, alot of the members of this organization are prominent members of society, security consultants, programmers, attorneys, the boy next door… It could be a relative, or a co worker.

They maintain an extensive library of manuals, tutorials, and documents for anyone who wants to learn, study, or simply view a given bit of data. They have strong ties to the Open Source community.

I personally applaud the brave and hard working people who seek to make the world better, with no glory in their own name.

Roger who?

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Roger is a word used in phonetic alphabet to stand for the letter R. These alphabets use names to represent letters; these alphabets are known as “radio alphabets” or “phonetic alphabets,” among other names, and are used for many different languages. Roger was the phonetic for “R” used prior to 1954 in the US Navy.

R indicated *message recieved* and saying roger indicated you recieved the message and understood the broadcast. Such a practice is common in the military, and the use of roger is a very well known example.

Wilco however has nothing to do with phonetics, its a combination of “will comply”. It was common to acknowledge to receipt of the message before comfirming that you will comply, hence “roger wilco”

This combination was first noticed in WWII.


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