..and everything nice

michelle, i just realised you called me ribeena in one of your posts. lovely.

hello to a new term !

and with a new term comes a new assignment, for which this term it is ; Researching Multimedia.

So, its in pairs, and i am pretty sure you can guess who i am with....yeah, its ariadne. okay so the topics that we are going to do are;

Sabine;
1. Primary storage
4. Motherboards
10. Hand held multimedia devices
13. Piracy and copyright

Ariadne;
2. Secondary storage
5. Graphics cards
9. Digital TV transmission, HD TV transmissions
12. Software licence types

&& we're are going to do this lovely assignment in scrapblog, we'll post the link later...

Rawr.

okay, right in with the work.
1.where do you commonly use multimedia in your daily life? well i don't know about you, but i use use multimedia at school (mainly in ist), on the bus(ipod!!), at home(wonderful laptop which i have dubbed "george"), and i use my phone almost everywhere.
2. what multimedia device or service would find it hardest to be without? I would have to say my phone, only because it can pretty much do everything my computer can and it can play music, so no need for an ipod, even though the itouch is super cool.
3. Do you think the second video will come true ? i think to a certain extent it will as at the rate new technology is becoming available to the public, it will be only a matter of time till everyone has everything. The advantages to this are that everything would be less time consuming and easier for the said human being, it also is really cool and makes communication to people alot easier. But i think the disadvantages to this would be making everything too available, people might get sick/annoyed with it after a short period of time. And i would imagine that the people who use it would become extremely lazy and sad(but not in the depressed way, well maybe). And as michelle has stated that artificial intelligence taking over the world and making everyone dance like a monkey because after a few years with this kind of technology everyone will trust it, and if something goes wrong we might not be so willing to accept that.

and michelle, wow. with your number 4, it seems like you've had alot of time to think about that. i wonder if the said person in power and mad with it could be you in a few years ?

love 'em, just cause we do.

look what i can do...
LONG LONG LONG LONG time ago
haha how cool is that ??

data compression.
as it is like the second last day of term, i'm rather tired and bored. But school ends tomorrow, harry potter comes out next week, and i have a spongebob marathon planned with a totally random person who works with sheep. yeah, its totally action packed. But on with data compression.
data compression is otherwise known as 'source coding' which is the process of encoding information using fewer bits and pieces. very vague isnt it, but i like it.
data compression, okay i'm already annoyed from tying data com.. so from here onwards it shall be refered to as ping. i dont know why, but it shall. okay so ping ratio is the ratio of the size/rate of the origional to the size/rate of the compression data.
ping is a important technique for the online world because it helps decrease the utilization (wow, i like that word) of expencice recources. the only small glitch is that the information must be decompressed which might ruin some applications.
The difference between lossy and lossless data compression...

ohh whatever, ill finish this later.

yay, its later. and i probably should finish this, but since its last terms work, and its no longer last term anymore, i am not going to complete this, so yeah.

hopeless smiles

bored debored debloop bloop bloop =)
RSS FEEDS.
which stands for really simple syndication ! you don't believe me? google it. Now, i wish all acronym's would be that simple. When i first heard rss feeds, I'm like "what ?!" but those three simple words, which just happens that two of them are 'really simple' kinda adds to the awesome factor...ahh, the awesome factor.
back on with biting the bullet...get it gabbie ? bullet ! okay maybe not, god I'm sad sometimes, but anyway...
since we have already cleared up what RSS stands for, here is the definition. i is the format used when you want to syndicate the news and other feed content. so basically it's the stuff that allows information to be sent over the internet.
now, you may be asking, what goes into the feed oh wonderful one.., well the feed has two types which just happen to be different. A partial feed and a full feed. Sill with me ? better hope so, I'm doing this for you. A partical feed is when you only get the headline and a summary of the information and the link to the website can go on it, and a full feed is the whole entire website! pretty obvious if you ask me.
Now, what can a feed do for you ? well the real question is not what it can do for you, but what can you do for it ? not really, you cant really do anything for it, unless you want to like literally feed a computer, but that might look alittle suss. But the answer is that it keeps you updated, its basically like a personal twitter, well, actually no, but twitter is so cool and it has a cute little bird on it! i like birds.
Question 4! which you really wouldn't know because unless you've been keeping count (which if you have is kinda weird) is yeah, still kind of weird. makes sense doesn't it ? How are feeds different from e-mail? okay, there's the obvious, the name differences, then you have the less obvious such as RSS is anonymous and it doesn't have the all hated spam ! i really hate spam, and I'm not just talking about the tinned meat either.
Number go. (which is 5 in japanese) how sad is that, after three years learning japanese all i can do it like count to 5. well actually i can count to like 100, well now that i think about it, i cant. I only know up to 99, how pathetic is that? anyways, How do you read a feed? well you kinda need a computer, and the Internet would help alot, fingers ? well you don't really need them, but they make the job alot easier, and yeah, eyes. but actually Ithink the answer that you are looking for is that by visiting a page and the feel automatically gets the information.
&& last but definitely least, How do you find the feeds you want to subscribe to? by a keyword search, just like magic. which reminds me, HARRY POTTER COMES OUT SOON !

everything is still a blur

for the life of me I cant seem to find a cool title for my blog, and for the past week or so, I've changed it like five times, so if anyone has any suggestions, please tell me !
but life must go on, so...today sabine and ariande somehow managed to complete the movie and add wonderful credits (which ariadne doesn't like, yet sabine loves. [wonder who won that fight?]) and a funny part at the end, which wasn't originally going to be there, but its just that cool we had to use it. And as of this very minute, no wait, this millisecond, the movie is approximately 4.21 minutes. Hopefully, next lesson we will be able to save it properly. Right now, at this moment it is saved on sabine's USB as well as on the computer *pleaseeeee god, be on the computer!*
&& Ariadne put Michelle's longest narration into the video (as sabine sounds like an old man and ariadne is lazy and doesn't want to take the hour to install moviemaker onto her computer) on movie maker and it is fabulous, and since it is slightly shorter than the video clip when the narration ends it shows us in the cage (not in the "OMG ! they're in a cage ! call child services !" kind of way) then walking away. It looks spectacular.

**sorry for talking in third person, it rubbed off from michelle