Angry Halos

Finals ugh.

2011-06-05T09:18:00.001-07:00

Finals are coming up and besides studying for that crap I can't seem to find some sweet word to blabber about.
I didn't realize that finding words were hard (especially when I DONT have time to do it)

so, currently at the moment I'll do what I suck at most. posting movie reviews.

Probability.

2011-06-03T10:25:00.000-07:00

Head's I win, head's.........what?

Okay, you've probably got tired of these things at school.

and this post might piss you off.

For those who has a sliight probability of throwing up at serious words, please don't, I'll

probably make this post as easy as possible.

now. Probability.

What is it? Guess.

Yeah you did right. It's kind of guessing.

As our lives becomes more and more complicating, some smartasses mathmaticans began to think "what if we express something that might happen as some kind of rate or number?".

Usually, in math subjects you might see probability go from at least 0 to at most 1.
And you'll find yourself throwing dice or flipping coins.

Or in many places, people say 0~100% , like some people have a XX%of dying, bla bla bla

Now there are some important stuffs about probability.

-(Independence) if you see this word, it means that EVERY time you do something that has a probability, it has NOTHING, and NOTHING related to the one you did the same thing before.
For example, when you're throwing dices, (unless the dice is loaded, which would piss me off) having one for about 7 times a row DOES NOT mean that you could get one again next time.

Just because you've lost money at a casino doesn't mean that you might win your goodies back.
Just because you've survived a coin flip won't save your ass next time you flip that "lucky coin"
(yeah, I mean you, Two Face)
when you think about it, it's just obvious as that, but unfortunately, many people forget this simple principle right when their sitting at the slots or staring at a dealer's sniggering face(and of course, money goes bye bye)

-now about that independence, if many "independent" events happen at once, the probability is not the addition, it's the multiplcation.
For example, even if you have a probability of 90% of guessing the right choice,
getting sweet grades on a final exam or pop quiz won't be that high(let's say there are 10 questions, then 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.9 == 0.3486 ===>about 35% of getting every question right. Fat chance consider that you had 90% individually, right? )

-every now and then, if you're lucky, you might get something like aces in a row. But remember, if you keep on mess with probability, it will become closer to the original probability.
For example, normally many casinos have a 55% chance of the dealer winning and 45%chance of the player winning. Even if you got some early wins, if you keep on gambling(man I'm on fire! crap) you eventually and WILL LOSE.

-last if the probability is not zero, (even the slightest chance, even the most ridiculous event) it CAN HAPPEN. Actually, I've read an article about a person wrote his ten lottery tickets the same, and he won second prize! There's even a case where a ebony child was born in a caucassian family (wait a minute, that not my.......)

Anyway people, have a nice day and good luck gambling!

DDoS

2011-06-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

Remember Shaun of the Dead(2004)?

Short for Distributed Denial of Service attack.
If you level up Denial of Service attack (DoS), you'll end up with this.
It's an type of bombard used only on the internet, and many cyber terrorists use this.

DDoS is performed when loads and loads of computers binormally log into one web server,
causing it's traffic and the CPU's to overload.
In other words,it's A PACK FULL OF ZERGLINGS or ZOMBIES AT YOUR DOORSTEP, yo.

DDoS can be seperated into many types from one user F5 bombing a site(well in this case this could be just DoS) to ordering multiple types of computers to F5 bomb the same site.

One of the most advanced types is the Zombie type.
Now these babies causes lots and lots of computers to their bidding(like a zombie) by using some malware. If you're not careful, your PC might even be one!(remember, it's not working by it's own will. which fits perfectly with the word zombie) so it is advised you people go and find some good vaccine and clean your PC often.

But remember, it is NOT advised and BANNED in countries.
Although the overmind of the zombie PCs is hard to catch(yes. hard. Not impossible) the police or the Interpol can and will find the one responsible for the DDoS.

Well, they might. Unless it's an international crime, which would screw things up a bit more

WWII

2011-05-31T05:45:00.000-07:00

A war that occured from 1939(or 1937) to 1945. Called the Biggest war humanity ever made.

Allies: Britain, America,France, Russia, China , the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Nepal, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil , Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Liberia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria Chile, Ethiopia

of 49 countries

Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan, France (Vichy), Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Thailand , Finland , Croatia, Iraq,etc.

Not like the First World War, this one was ... more like a devestating world war.
The reason WWII started.... is also more complicated as well.

Germany was getting it's butt kicked(loser's penalty), the spread of communism, etc.

The main reasons were the Great Depression,the rise of facism, Germany's counterattack and Japan's greed(this case is the Pacific War).

Although Japan and Italy were Allies in WWI, they didn't get what they "deserved" and Germany itself was devestated by communist revolution.
To make things worse for Germany, England and France charged loads and load of money from Germany which blowed up their economy.

Of course, the allies called that "fair" (well to be fair, it was Germany's fault)
But the part that suck more is that at the Treaty of Versailles, the money was 20 billion marks, however, the bill grew to 132 billion marks by the year 1932. Of course, Germany had absolutely no freaking way to pay back that awful loads of money.

1933, after Hitler became furer, Germany becamed armed and also became again one of the most powerful countries in the world, at the year 1939, the war stated with Germany invading Poland.

And as we know it, everything went to hell.

Thanks to the scale of the war the change of the world was also damn significant.

The Allies and the Axis began to use weapons that were mass-destructive,

newer tactics were made to change the tide of the battle.

Colonial empires collapsed(yup I'm talking about you England),

philosophists became despair to see the inhumanity leaders and countries caused,

East europe and third world countries became infected with communism.

Europe was no longer only the central of the world(no offence, Europeans),

America became the so-called "show me the money" superpower of the world.

So it can be said that WWII is still not finished, even in the 21 century.

[Movie SPOILERS] Megamind

2011-05-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd watch some movies i bought last year and watched some goodies.
unfortunatly, where the place i lived, megamind didn't get so good scores (i do hope so) compared to those giants (the notorious cry-baby maker Toy story 3). but in my opinion,
the movie itself did lived up to it expectations of being "cool"

To express the movie itself, it's an "twist"of a "twist", finishing the "twist" with a "twist".
the whole basic idea roots comes from the famous Superman comics, with Superman and his villans. given it a twist, the bad guy isn't actually what the comic books would define as.
Megamind is that "bad guy", he's just playing bad because Metroman(yup the Superman with Brad Pitt's voice) is sucking up to society as the "good guy".
Well, if that were the case, the story could start new as a new franchise, with Megamind being the protagonist fighting Metroman who is the Metro City's savior.

BUT? nope

The story starts at the very end of the saga, and also the movie only shows the very last battle of Megamind and Metroman.
And the result? Megamind's unexpected victory.(I mean, look at Metroman's hair he's turning GRAY for ****'s sake- how long have they been fighting?)

But then the funny line is -- then what?
We've lived through loads of comics, games, movies that the villains are trying to take over the world. But none of those(actually, change that to most) stuffs actually pictures villain ever RULING it.

What astonishes Megamind and the audience is that NONE of the citizens of Metro City(since its based on Metropolis or Gotham City, real life New York)actually stand up and do something about it. Well, it could be said that people actually left the whole damned place, but this is wrong too -> everyone's just living their everyday lives.
In my opinion, I think that Dreamworks is trying to depict this situation that in ALMOST EVERY hero-based comic book, the civilians actually do NOTHING but yell, scream or run away.

Also what's so irony about this movie is that it was suppose to appeal to children, yet all the superman thing and good being bad and bad being good and the NERD BASH is just too much for just normal kids to understand(Maybe not? kids do mature these days). And seriously, what's with the yin and yang crap going on? that stuff was mentioned twice in the movie, but the situation jjust doesn't fit in.
Megamind is not good harmonized into evil, nor Hal (aka, T*****) is not evil mixed with good.
(actually, scratch that last bit, i'll have to read some more about that yin and yang stuff)

Assembly.

2011-05-28T08:13:00.000-07:00

A programming language. Totally low-level language like the machine code.

Since machine codes totally suck at reading to the human eye, it was developed to make it
at least readable. The commands and the machine code are matched 1:1.
However, since machine codes are unique to their CPUs, assembly itself is also unique to it's owner. To be precise, the language differs to it's architecture.

For example, a machine code

001000 00001 00000 0000000000001010

the assembly equivalent to that code

addi $1, $0, 10

well, it is kinda a little better to read.
One with a good imagination can at least guess what the hell the example sentence meant.
(yeah, people call that a benefits to assembly.)

Since the language is only good at reading out loud, one will have to memorize the computer's WHOLE FREAKING CPU structure. Because of that reason assembly lost to the "fresh and new" high-level languages(C, C++, JAVA, stuff like that) in modern programming.

However, when handling system drivers and embeded stuff, these babies are still up and high.
And assembly is used to optimize high performance programs (everyday games, or CAD or hard core graphics stuff)

Starting a new blog

2011-05-27T09:58:00.000-07:00

Hello folks and myself, I'm going to start my very own blog!

However I haven't decided 100% what I should post on.

But I do have cool random stuff on my mind, so I think I should post them on future references!