This week, our hero gets into more trouble as he (thinks that he) can't return with a ruined expensive cashmere coat. But... something worse awaits him at the Sanzenin Mansion.
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Last night, after I wrote the last post, I was scanning through my messy collection of anime that had been hogging larger and larger amounts of space on my hard disk, and I noticed a mysterious AVI that one of my friends had given to me. But I haven't watched it.
(Warning: this is a long post so don't blame me if you can't hand in tomorrow's report because of this ;P)
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Its been almost a month since the HD DVD key release and all the hype caused by it is still going strong. I see numerous T-shirts all over the place with the entire set of hexadecimal numbers slapped on to them in a hundred different ways. Its almost as if Christ just came for the second time and everyone is welcoming Him with open arms and slapped an image of Him on to his shirts. Of course, the key release does mean that all the encryption on the media on HD DVDs released so far is now deemed useless, since every Tom, Dick and Harry can start watching those shows without having to get a proper decoder that pays Toshiba and NEC millions to produces players that can read HD DVD movies.
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I want to thank everyone who made my birthday special on Sunday, especially Tabletier, Noobicity, NOBODY, jaser, hwl82, Sly3r, ineser, mike and the water ballons!! They really made my day haha. "Thanks I've recieved your wishes" also go to nicole, -k-, alvin, gordon, and everyone who sent me mail and MSN messages!
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I wonder if its me, or if its just that my days are just too short. Or whether or not I should take a break from coding for my project... Ah well, at least I have done quite a bit. Time to work on stuff I always wanted to. Back to translating and hopefully getting another episode done today.
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It really seems that anime has become an integral part of my life. Looking at my blog, I suddenly came to the ultimate realization... I have become AN OTAKU. OMG. This has become really sad. Anyway... on to the rant...
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Latest fresh from the Tokyo Animation is the latest would be craze full of more school life randomness brought in by hastily sketched characters in sailor uniforms! Enter Lucky Star! Mahora Fansubs are gonna pull out Ep 1 in no time for all of you otakus out there, or so I'm informed. So while you're waiting, here's the OP from Lucky Star! The opening song is Motteke! Seifuku by (guess what) Aya Hirano from Haruhi... WOOT. Enjoy.
らき☆すた OP
Apr27
While being a big anime fan is wonderful, its also nice to stray off and nurture other interests as time goes by. I'm sure Nagato will agree.
Today I shall talk about the very center of my final year university project. My university project consists of creating an emulator for a computer that first years can play around with to learn about how a computer works after you hit the compile button. I'm supposed to emulate a stack machine.
Now, typical processors you see such as those made by microprocessor giants Intel and AMD are called register machines. These machines typically store numbers in little boxes in the processor and use them. Stack machines however, only have a few long boxes (typically 2) in which they pile up all the numbers that they use and pick them out one by one. Examples of stack machines are the Motorola 68000 and the Java Virtual Machine.
Yes I know. They are pretty lame compared to the almighty Core Duo and Athlon Processors, but hey its gotta be simple enough for a first year to use right?
Well, now I'm gonna talk about what I'm really writing. Basically, its gonna be a simple processor where you write some instructions into memory, and the processor will run through them and do exactly what you wrote. Sounds simple?
Cool! Now, we're going to have a keyboard! This means the CPU needs to wait for your input! Wow. This does mean that we are gonna be needing some sort of interrupt now. Basically, what happens is, when you press a key on your keyboard, the keyboard sends an interrupt to the CPU, or in other words, it taps the shoulder of the CPU saying "hey, mind if you come over here and have a look at this key the user pressed?" and the CPU will stop whatever it is doing for the moment, and come over to see whats going on. The CPU coming over to see what's going on is called "interrupt handling". Basically, every interrupt must be handled, or the machine simply won't work properly. This means there needs to be some kind of table for the CPU to look up to find out what it has to do when a certain interrupt comes in.
In the olden days when geeks had long hair and were less accepted in society and carved program code on cave walls, these interrupts came in through wires directly connected to the CPU. Things are different today and now the hardware simply sends a message across, and the CPU knows what to do.
Now how exactly does it know what to do? Well, thats gonna go int owhat instruction set the CPU uses!
Apr27
This is a Japanese ripoff of DarkMirage's old (yes I am quite late) Otaku Lifestyle Crisis poem. The original is here
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Okay fine that last post was just half-hearted. I'm not a tech fan after all HMPH. Anyway, since I was falling asleep doing that, I found something that really woke me up. YES, its an EXTREMELY kickass AMV from our Goddess Suzumiya Haruhi! Enjoy...