Games/School/PastLife and 2 guys in my head

Well, I am staying up till 1 am and sleeping till 8 >-<. Little kids keep waking me up while getting ready for school. College doesnt start for another two weeks so i just enjoy myself

Well, today is my last day at work. Afterwards i have two weeks of free time before college starts. I dont think i had a week of break yet this summer. All i am going to do is play WoW all day and ride my bike probably.

I found this article on the bbc news website. The author traveled with her girl around Europe. In the article she compares Russian reaction to babies and Italian reaction to babies. It is really sad to read for former Russian citizen.

Well, as my time to go to college grows near couple of questions and worries start to arise.
It is pretty much required that we live on campus. So in my first year I will have 3 roommates. I don't know them, and I don't think they know me. First time we meet is at the college.
-Will I be able to keep up with work?
-Will I be able to keep my A's?
-Should I take my computer with me first day, or wait couple days to see what roommates I have. And then pick between brining new or old comp?
-Will I have decent roommates for that matter :) :?

Anyway, I can get to my parents home on a bus. SO I have no problem doing laundry and have one decent shower in a week.
Basically, I am pretty anxious and worried right now!

Russian designers official introduced a space shuttle. It is named "Kliper", not sure what it means. It is pretty small compared to US version, but costs roughly 10 times less. You can follow this link to find out more, but it is on russian.

While on aviation topic. Airplanes go down around the world but for some reason helicopters go down almost as much. Couple of helicopter crashes this month

She (mom) have again started a terade about my "brainless" ideas and actions.
She hates me choosing to live with 3 roomate instead of 1 ( i asked many teachers in the school and they recomend to live with as many people as i can). She hates me buying new things for my comp, which is new also. I am on a scholarship which active for one year, but can be easily renwed if my GPA high enougth. Well she thinks i will not get any work done and get bad grades living with 3 people, so i'll lose the scholarship next year. She thinks they will use my computer, and steal my things. Basicly She thinks i am a brainles kid, who doesnt know what he is doing( well this what i think all her words mean). So this piss me off every time and we starts yelling at each other, get completely pissed and then dont talk time and time again. Tho after 2-3 days it gets back to normal.
>_< She knows i am not an idiot, but all of her words suggest that i am. I am not going to take my new pc with me to college for firt few weeks, and i do know how to put an account on it. If i am destracted, i will leave my room and go to the library or something.

Anyway. >-<, >_< , O.O, ( . )( . ) :).

Here is a link to my Warrior equipment in World of Warcraft.

Plug in cars that get 250 mpg hopefully is the future of worlds Auto motive industry. The article, from CNN, explains how people tinker with their hybrids to make them more efficient and environment friendly.
But, as usual, they forget to mention all the hardships that companies and the independent researchers will have to face in actually getting these cars out and available to public. This world runs on fossil fuels, and serious producers will not be happy to lose a part of their profits. While on the topic, a year or two back I have seen a small clip on crude oil made out of trash, and that was the last of it.

Well, anyway, I hope these cars will be available by the time I get out of college. We cant have cars in our college until senior year there, or if we work. But working and studying at the same time, I would presume, is ridiculously hard.

To ME. I turned 18 this saturday.
Nothing special happend during these weekend. I never had a party,ever,and these was not an exception. Well I got a computer, which i had for like a month now, but my mom paid for it so i am happy. My brother got me last copy of FInal Fantasy 10 in our Target. And my steps got me FarCry. I just stayed home all weekend and watched tv, didnt even went to a raid with the guild.

in the begining of the summer, a group of people came to the university with an interesting device. That device was called AFM (atomic Force microscope) . It was a sweet looking device, not very large and pretty portable. Owners of AFM took immages at atomic level, of samples from people in the chemistry department. The immages were 3-d on computer scree, and i was able to get some of the immages they had:

Cat tail collagent fiber:



DNA in water


Drawing on atomic level :)


They did say that our university ordered one, and it was supose to came during summer. I been waiting for it to come since that day, but it is middle of the August and it is still not here. I have roughly three weeks untill my work is done and college starts, and i really hope it comes in during that time.

Human Universe

not sure how to include the article in its PDF format so i copied it. After reading it, i thought about one of the batman movies where Penguin and Puzzler (or what ever that guy name is) invented box that did similar to described below, while sucking their brain power out. Freaky....

here is the article:

ARTS AND LEISURE DESK
Television That Leaps Off the
Screen
By MICHAEL KRANTZ (NYT) 1995 words

Published: July 3, 2005

IN a nondescript optics lab in tucked into an anonymous office park in the San Fernando Valley, the photon hackers of Deep Light are
showing me the future of media. The object of their affection is a small screen on which an animated gladiator is clashing scimitars with a
horned monster in a Coliseum-like setting. But this isn't a flat cartoon image: it's full 3-D space, the combatants circling each other inches
from my eyes so convincingly that my hand twinges to grab them -- and I'm not wearing those clunky red-and-blue cardboard glasses,
either. I'm seeing a 3-D image with the naked eye. My host, Deep Light's co-founder Dan Mapes, bounces on his heels, giggling with
delight. ''It's cool, isn't it?''
Yeah, it's cool.
Ordinary TV sets deliver 500 lines of resolution. Most high-definition screens reach 1,050. The HD3D hits 1,280 lines and counting --
which means better picture quality than that of any TV available today, all in a convincing impression of the third dimension. And here's
the seriously trippy part about the new screen, which Deep Light plans to introduce at next winter's Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas: multiple ''blades'' of video enable one screen to show different programs to different viewers, at the same time.
Imagine what that could do to your living room. Your kid sprawls on the floor, happily splattering the virtual walls of Quake 3-D, while
you sit on the couch watching the news and your spouse beside you talks with friends in a virtual chat room -- all on the same TV, all at
the same time, and all in 3-D. Lean a few feet to the right and the latest report from the floor of the stock exchange becomes a live 3-D
chat with the couple who came over to dinner the other night; lean the other way and Junior is blasting a zombie. And something similar
is going on over at the neighbor's. And halfway around the world.
To be sure, plenty of technical and financial hurdles stand between today's 3-D pioneers and the future of their fervid imaginations. But
Mr. Mapes thinks Deep Light has a pretty big trend on its side: humanity's evolution toward ever-more sophisticated representations of
reality. ''The brain is a media junkie,'' he says. ''And it wants the good stuff.''
We see the world in three dimensions, but throughout most of history, we've only been able to depict it in two. Until recently no one had
come up with a better solution to this problem than goofy eyewear. When Rover sent back images from Mars, NASA scientists studied
them wearing much the same glasses that audiences in 50's movie palaces donned to watch ''It Came From Outer Space.''
Within the realms of industry, that's been changing, as what's known as stereoscopic imaging has become a big business involving
everyone from drug researchers doing molecular mapping to car designers building next year's SUV. Culturally, however, it remains a
novelty, consigned to the occasional theme park ride or Imax film. Recent commercial film releases, like ''The Adventures of Shark Boy
and Lava Girl in 3-D,'' have raised its profile a bit, but they still rely on the dinky glasses.
But the ever-evolving high-tech revolution is finally moving 3-D entertainment to the next stage. Sharp has sold three million 3-D cell
phones in Japan since 2003 and has just released a laptop that toggles between 2-D and 3-D views. The South Korean government,
meanwhile, recently announced an ambitious ''3-D Vision 2010'' project to make stereoscopic TV the worldwide standard within five
years, and a number of companies are racing Deep Light to build the pieces of that puzzle; just in April, Toshiba announced new display
technology for 3-D television screens. ''The whole realm of TV,'' says Chris Chinnock, the president of the market research firm Insight
Media, ''is the Holy Grail of 3-D.''
In which case 3-D's Lancelot may turn out to be a Cambridge University professor named Adrian Travis. Back in autumn 1986, while he
was an optics-obsessed grad student, Mr. Travis had an idea that he called time multiplexing. Suppose you were to pass an image through
a lens and open a shutter when it emerged to guide the image out at a precise angle. And suppose you could do that for 30 images a
second through each of 10 angles. Like fanning out a deck of cards, you'd beam out 10 angles of your image so quickly that, no matter
where the viewer was in relation to the screen, each of his eyes would see its own angle of live video. Voilà: natural 3-D.
The problem was speed. Movies need 24 frames per second to fool our brain into seeing motion. Video needs 30. Time multiplexing
needed 300, and no device existed to deliver it, so Mr. Travis decided he'd just build one himself. ''I thought it was a get-rich-quick
scheme,'' he says with a chuckle. ''I'd make my fortune and then decide what I really wanted to do in life.'' Instead, it followed the course
of so many other high-tech eurekas: a long, painful succession of investors nibbling away at it, until the trail of licenses and sub-licenses
reached from Europe to Asia to Los Angeles and Dan Mapes.
Mr. Mapes is a New Age-bedazzled baby boomer and high-tech savant who's been preaching the gospel of virtual worlds ever since the
1960's. His eclectic résumé ranges from designing light shows for Peter Gabriel to running online video-conferences for the United
Nations. He was in his lab in Santa Monica, Calif., three years ago when a former employee then working in Korea called him to rave
about time multiplexing. So Mr. Mapes went to a Northrop Grumman military laboratory in the San Fernando Valley, where Mr. Travis's
latest demo box, a 50-inch giant, had been gathering dust.
And what he saw, he says, changed his career plans on the spot. He and two partners, Paul Yoon and Robert Kory, spent $2 million in
investment capital and three years gathering all the relevant patents and licenses under one corporate umbrella to build their first HD3D.
The small company, which has yet to book its first actual sale to a manufacturer, is hardly guaranteed to win the 3-D race, but time
multiplexing, the only rear-projection no-glasses 3-D system to date, may give it an edge over larger players. Toshiba's flat-panel screen,
for instance, alternates rows of pixels to deliver different angles to each eye in order to produce a 3-D effect, but at the cost of the screen's
resolution: 480 lines to Deep Light's 1,280. Deep Light says that the first PC monitors with natural 3-D could be out as soon as this
winter for around $5,000 and the HD3D television sets could be available by next year for $10,000 -- a number that might not be out of
the question for slavering home-theater freaks. These prices could drop when the technology is mass-produced. All this, of course,
depends to a large degree on Deep Light's finding manufacturers willing to license its technology (though they are putting 3-D PC
monitors into production themselves).
HD3D isn't the first, or even the biggest, high-tech attempt to change the way people watch television. Yet aside from the advent of cable,
the viewing experience remains largely the same. (Even TiVO is still a minority taste, to say nothing of interactive TV.)
If 3-D is to have a big impact on American living rooms, the first indication, paradoxically, may come at the multiplex. The film industry
has lately been conducting its own experiments: last winter, for example, 2 percent of the screens that played the animated Tom Hanks
film ''Polar Express'' did so in Imax 3-D. Those few screens were responsible for 22 percent of the movie's domestic ticket sales.
''Everyone in town sees 3-D as the killer app for digital cinema,'' says Joshua Greer, chief executive of Real D, whose hardware and
software for 3-D delivery lets theaters exhibit digital films economically in both 2-D and 3-D. In March, the company announced its first
deal, with the Mann Theaters chain, and will also provide the equipment for Disney's plans, revealed last week, to release ''Chicken
Little'' in 3-D on 100 screens this fall. Mr. Greer says he hopes to be on 1,000 screens by next summer.
''We're on the cusp of a stereo renaissance,'' says the director James Cameron (''Titanic'''), a hardcore technophile. ''I'm doing all my films
in stereo from now on, and just waiting for the display technology to catch up, both at the theater and the consumer level.''
Meanwhile, the games industry has been eager to adapt to the evolving technology: hit titles like Halo 2 and Spiderman are already
programmed in 3-D, ready for the day when TV screens are ready to show them in all their glory. And both the new Xbox 360 and
Playstation 3 use platform standards that support 3-D.
It will almost certainly be years, however, before anyone starts making ordinary television shows in 3-D, a situation that suggests a
typical chicken-and-egg problem -- why would the hardware giants build 3-D sets if there's nothing playing to seduce consumers into
buying them? Because, Deep Light and its competitors hope, the old 2-D programming can be retrofitted to new sets. ''We can
synthetically create the 3-D data that's lost when you film with a 2-D camera,'' says Chris Yewdall, chief executive of Dynamic Digital
Depth, a 3-D technology company in San Monica. The company's software in Sharp's 3-D laptop lets you watch ordinary DVD's in 3-D;
in theory, a similar box, plugged into your HD3D system, would render every movie on Netflix fit for 3-D conversion. ''As the 3-D
display market reaches a certain size,'' Mr. Yewdall says, ''we think Hollywood will be quite interested in exploiting those screens for
their libraries.'' Ready for ''The Honeymooners'' in 3-D? ''Desperate 3-D Housewives?'' Might your children enjoy, say, rampaging 3-D
dinosaurs?
''Jurassic Park in 3D?'' Mr. Mapes yells. ''It's mind-blowing! Martial arts in 3-D are so good! Porn in 3-D? Oh my God ''
Do we really need porn in 3-D? Will ''Casablanca'' be a better film when we can reach out and touch Ingrid Bergman? Will sitcoms be
funnier and dramas more engrossing when writers create stories that move not only up/down and right/left but also in/out?
We're no more likely today to make an accurate prediction of the future of 3-D entertainment than the average talkie-era moviegoer
would have been to anticipate ''The Matrix.'' But when our ancestors painted bison on the walls at Lascaux, they were using the most
advanced tools they had to depict their world as richly as possible, and we've been upgrading as fast as technology permits ever since.
The transition to 3-D might someday look like just the next stop on a path we've been traveling all along, from sound to color to
interactive -- and beyond.
''These 3-D screens are going to be the head ends into the high-speed Internet,'' Mr. Mapes says. ''Their ultimate application is networked
virtual environments.''
''Imagine 3-D TV hooked up to the Net,'' Mr. Mapes says. ''I'm in California having shared experiences with friends in Indonesia. Forging
deeper connections with people anywhere in the world will be one of the key factors in creating a true global village.'' And so, perhaps,
will a cool new way to watch ''Malcolm in the Middle.''

@Dawn of the 21st century - the impact of accelerating technological development on the human race

Ok, she is completely over worked/over schooled/ and over stressed. And i dont know what to do about it. here what happend:
This morning she said: "Make a sandwitch to take for lunch today, because........."
and kept talking. Then, couple minutes later, she comes around and says same thing again.
Me: "Yes, i heard you first time. No need to do it 2nd time"
Her: " But you didnt say anything"
Me: " but i understood you, why should i say anything"
her (raising voice): "Well, next time i wont reply to you." And continued on and on and on and on and on and on.

This didnt turn out as i expected. But basicly she got mad for no apparent reason.

Another guess i have for it is that she expresses her love to me that way, since i am going to live on campus of college this fall.

PLZ SOME HELP, on what to do. plz, plz,plz

Sorry for not posting for like 4 days, but no one read this stuff anyway. Over the weekends I got in Fight with my Mother again. Usual scenario: I get pissed at something, then yell. She then starts yelling, crying, and saying that I am an ungrateful person for all stuff she is done. After couple days we slowly start talking to each other and everything back to normal.
I still don't get where the heck does she takes the idea that I am ungrateful for something, I never said it or anything >-<.