Toy Story (Intro)
Toy Story 2 (Woody version)
2010年12月23日 星期四
2010年12月13日 星期一
2010年12月11日 星期六
2010年12月8日 星期三
2010年11月25日 星期四
2010年11月22日 星期一
Michael Bublé - Lost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-8ez6dGao8
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Summer turned to winter
And the snow it turned to rain
And the rain turned into tears upon your face
I hardly recognized the girl you are today
And god I hope it's not too late
It's not too late
'Cause you are not alone
I'm always there with you
And we'll get lost together
Till the light comes pouring through
'Cause when you feel like you're done
And the darkness has won
Babe, you're not lost
When your worlds crashing down
And you can't bear the thought
I said, babe, you're not lost
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I knew this song from, of course, NCIS.
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Summer turned to winter
And the snow it turned to rain
And the rain turned into tears upon your face
I hardly recognized the girl you are today
And god I hope it's not too late
It's not too late
'Cause you are not alone
I'm always there with you
And we'll get lost together
Till the light comes pouring through
'Cause when you feel like you're done
And the darkness has won
Babe, you're not lost
When your worlds crashing down
And you can't bear the thought
I said, babe, you're not lost
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I knew this song from, of course, NCIS.
2010年11月18日 星期四
NCIS 7x22 "Borderland" Last Scene - Abby/Gibbs
"What I really need to know ... Gibbs ... is if you're gonna love me, no matter what"
Casablanca and NCIS 7x24 "Rule Fifty-One"
http://ncisexpositionfaerie.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/casablanca-in-rule-fifty-one/
"Regardless, the conversation returns to Casablanca. Vance recites a story about a single shot that director Michael Curtiz needed for the film. It’s just a nod, but as Vance describes, it’s a pivotal point in the story. It’s the moment when Rick takes sides. Vance, in essence, gives Gibbs the direction for the same sort of call. He can take sides. He can do what he needs to do regarding Rivera, no questions asked. Gibbs doesn’t nod. He shakes his head. As they walk away, the shot resembles the ending of Casablanca, with the unspoken final line: “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Considering the animosity that has existed between Gibbs and Vance, they’ve come along way."
"Regardless, the conversation returns to Casablanca. Vance recites a story about a single shot that director Michael Curtiz needed for the film. It’s just a nod, but as Vance describes, it’s a pivotal point in the story. It’s the moment when Rick takes sides. Vance, in essence, gives Gibbs the direction for the same sort of call. He can take sides. He can do what he needs to do regarding Rivera, no questions asked. Gibbs doesn’t nod. He shakes his head. As they walk away, the shot resembles the ending of Casablanca, with the unspoken final line: “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Considering the animosity that has existed between Gibbs and Vance, they’ve come along way."
2010年11月9日 星期二
2010年11月1日 星期一
一些知名公司的辦公室照片
發現一個 blog (http://www.officesnapshots.com) 收集了不少知名公司的辦公室照片. 值得參考.
完整列表:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/
Apple:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/apple/
BBC:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/bbc/
CISCO:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/cisco/
CNN:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/cnn/
Ebay:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/ebay/
Electronic Arts:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/electronic-arts/
Facebook:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/facebook/
Google:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/google/
Netflix:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/netflix/
Pixar:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/pixar/
Reuters:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/reuters/
The New York Times:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/the-new-york-times/
Yahoo:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/yahoo/
Youtube:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/youtube/
完整列表:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/
Apple:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/apple/
BBC:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/bbc/
CISCO:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/cisco/
CNN:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/cnn/
Ebay:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/ebay/
Electronic Arts:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/electronic-arts/
Facebook:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/facebook/
Google:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/google/
Netflix:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/netflix/
Pixar:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/pixar/
Reuters:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/reuters/
The New York Times:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/the-new-york-times/
Yahoo:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/yahoo/
Youtube:
http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/youtube/
2010年10月26日 星期二
Conan O'Brien - A Visit to Intel
* It's called a cubicle. Can you say cubicle? Can you say confined space? Can you say lifeless environment?
* I have to stay very very late again. Intel is making me work and work and work. And they won't put pretty colors on the wall.
2010年6月9日 星期三
2010年5月14日 星期五
Intel as a "Computing Company"
One of the key messages that Otellini wanted to deliver to a crowd of financial analysts gathered in Santa Clara, Calif. is that Intel is pushing well beyond its core microprocessor manufacturing business, to software and services. "Don't think of us as a chip company anymore," Otellini says. "We are a computing company."
The big opportunity for Intel is to put its chips and related software into all kinds of "smart" devices, places where computing hasn't typically been found. That will be your television, your power-meter, and your washing machine. "These markets are going to explode," Otellini says. "They are all existing businesses, but they are going to be transformed by the microprocessor, by being connected to the Internet and by the server in the sky."
Source:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/11/intel-ceo-says-revenue-and-earnings-growth-poised-to-double/?section=magazines_fortune
The big opportunity for Intel is to put its chips and related software into all kinds of "smart" devices, places where computing hasn't typically been found. That will be your television, your power-meter, and your washing machine. "These markets are going to explode," Otellini says. "They are all existing businesses, but they are going to be transformed by the microprocessor, by being connected to the Internet and by the server in the sky."
Source:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/11/intel-ceo-says-revenue-and-earnings-growth-poised-to-double/?section=magazines_fortune
2010年5月6日 星期四
Yankees vs. Red Sox - Could It Be Longer?
這個記者看起來真的很怒了. 居然可以重看錄影帶看那麼仔細, 把幾個耗時間天王的動作都算得清清楚楚... :)
Ref:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/sports/baseball/06gametime.html?th&emc=th
Ref:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/sports/baseball/06gametime.html?th&emc=th
2010年3月23日 星期二
Rumor: Samsung Tablet to run on Android/ARM
New rumors have surfaced suggesting that it will actually run on the Android platform and not on Windows. As for its hardware, it’s now being reported that it will sport an ARM-based processor as opposed to an Intel Atom chipset, and will feature call functionality via a headset over some sort of VoIP implementation via 3G with 4G connectivity also being a possibility.
Granted that this new rumor is more attuned with modern mobile tablet devices as compared to its initially reported specs, there’s still no degree of certainty that this is actually true. Anyway, we’re pretty sure there will still be a handful or more so rumors that’ll surface before everything’s all said and done with this Samsung tablet, but let’s hear it from you guys first. What do you want this upcoming Samsung tablet to feature?
Source:
http://www.pmptoday.com/2010/03/20/rumor-samsung-tablet-to-run-on-android-arm-based-processor/
Granted that this new rumor is more attuned with modern mobile tablet devices as compared to its initially reported specs, there’s still no degree of certainty that this is actually true. Anyway, we’re pretty sure there will still be a handful or more so rumors that’ll surface before everything’s all said and done with this Samsung tablet, but let’s hear it from you guys first. What do you want this upcoming Samsung tablet to feature?
Source:
http://www.pmptoday.com/2010/03/20/rumor-samsung-tablet-to-run-on-android-arm-based-processor/
2010年3月13日 星期六
NCIS - Gibbs met Shannon
Stillwater, PA.
If you know about Gibbs, you will be really touched by the scene, the song, and what she said at the end, "I'm Shannon."
2010年3月3日 星期三
Fabricated DNA Evidence
In August 2009, scientists in Israel stunned the forensic sciences and raised serious questions concerning law enforcement's use of DNA matching as the ultimate method of identification. In a paper published in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics, the Israeli researchers demonstrated that it is possible to manufacture DNA in a laboratory, and thus falsify DNA evidence. The scientists had fabricated saliva and blood samples, which originally contained DNA from a person other than the ostensible donor of the blood and saliva.[21]
Additionally, and perhaps more frighteningly, the same researchers showed that, using a DNA database, it is possible to take information from a profile and actually manufacture DNA to match it. Worse, this can done without access to any actual DNA from the person whose DNA they are duplicating. The synthetic DNA oligos required for the procedure are used in probably every molecular laboratory.[21]
Dr. Frumkin fortunately has perfected a test that can forensically differentiate real DNA samples from fake ones. His test uses epigenetic modifications, in particular, DNA methylation. Seventy percent of the DNA in any human genome is methylated, meaning it contains methyl group modifications within a CpG dinucleotide context. Methylation at the promoter region is associated with gene silencing. It appears that the synthetic DNA lacks this epigenetic modification, which allows the test to be used to distinguish manufactured DNA from original, genuine, DNA.[21]
The idea that DNA can be fabricated, and then planted at a crime scene, is now reality; fortunately Dr. Frumkin has developed the test to differentiate real from fake DNA. But it is unknown how many, if any, police departments currently use the test, which is distressing considering Frumkin’s claim that the DNA manufacturing procedure is within the grasp of any undergraduate biology student. No police lab has publicly announced that it is using the new test to verify DNA results, while FSI Genetics says that any forensic laboratory doing DNA identification should adopt this test to authenticate its results as "real" DNA.[22]
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html?_r=2
Additionally, and perhaps more frighteningly, the same researchers showed that, using a DNA database, it is possible to take information from a profile and actually manufacture DNA to match it. Worse, this can done without access to any actual DNA from the person whose DNA they are duplicating. The synthetic DNA oligos required for the procedure are used in probably every molecular laboratory.[21]
Dr. Frumkin fortunately has perfected a test that can forensically differentiate real DNA samples from fake ones. His test uses epigenetic modifications, in particular, DNA methylation. Seventy percent of the DNA in any human genome is methylated, meaning it contains methyl group modifications within a CpG dinucleotide context. Methylation at the promoter region is associated with gene silencing. It appears that the synthetic DNA lacks this epigenetic modification, which allows the test to be used to distinguish manufactured DNA from original, genuine, DNA.[21]
The idea that DNA can be fabricated, and then planted at a crime scene, is now reality; fortunately Dr. Frumkin has developed the test to differentiate real from fake DNA. But it is unknown how many, if any, police departments currently use the test, which is distressing considering Frumkin’s claim that the DNA manufacturing procedure is within the grasp of any undergraduate biology student. No police lab has publicly announced that it is using the new test to verify DNA results, while FSI Genetics says that any forensic laboratory doing DNA identification should adopt this test to authenticate its results as "real" DNA.[22]
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html?_r=2
2010年2月21日 星期日
Google CEO on privacy
Eric Schmidt: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
中文翻譯: 若要人不知 除非己末為.
Video:
中文翻譯: 若要人不知 除非己末為.
Video:
2010年2月12日 星期五
2010年2月9日 星期二
2010年1月29日 星期五
The Diamond Approach on Project Management
Dimension 1: Novelty (Derivative, Platform, Breakthrough)
Dimension 2: Technology (Low-tech, Medium-tech, High-tech, Super-high-tech)
Dimension 3: Complexity (Assembly, System, Array)
Dimension 4: Pace (Regular, Fast/competitive, Time-critical, Blitz)
Source:
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation, by Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir, Harvard Business School Press
Dimension 2: Technology (Low-tech, Medium-tech, High-tech, Super-high-tech)
Dimension 3: Complexity (Assembly, System, Array)
Dimension 4: Pace (Regular, Fast/competitive, Time-critical, Blitz)
Source:
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation, by Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir, Harvard Business School Press
2010年1月19日 星期二
"Why don't we go to Steve?"
Steve Kerr on his '97 NBA Finals winning shot
Steve Kerr - NBA Finals 1997, Game 6's Final Shot
果然是天生當球評的料!
Steve Kerr - NBA Finals 1997, Game 6's Final Shot
果然是天生當球評的料!
2010年1月17日 星期日
God and the Simpsons
Bart: All right! I've sat through Mercy and I sat through Forgiveness; finally we get to the good stuff!
Homer: Everybody's a sinner, except this guy!
Bart: Dear God, we paid for all this food ourselves, so thanks for nothing.
Homer: Dear Lord thank you for this microwave bounty, even though we don't deserve it. I mean...our kids are uncontrollable hellions. Pardon my French, but they act like savages! Did You see them at the picnic? Of course You did; You're everywhere, You're omnivorous. O Lord! Why did you spite me with this family?!
Marge: Dear Lord, if you spare this town from becoming a smoking hole in the ground, I'll try to be a better Christian. I don't know what I can do...Mmm...oh, the next time there's a canned food drive, I'll give the poor something they'll actually like instead of old lima beans and pumpkin mix.
Homer: God, if you really are a God, you'll get me tickets to that game.
advertisement: In honor of the birth of our savior, Try-N-Save is open all Christmas.
Bart: Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
(When listening to "You Light Up my Life")
Homer: I bet the guy she was singing that about was real happy.
Marge: Well, actually, she was singing about God.
Homer: Oh, well, He's always happy. No, wait, He's always mad...
Homer: The Lord is vengeful. O Spiteful One, show me who to smite and he shall be smoten!
Bart: I'm Bart Simpson, who the Hell are you?
Source:
http://www.snpp.com/other/papers/gb.paper.html
Homer: Everybody's a sinner, except this guy!
Bart: Dear God, we paid for all this food ourselves, so thanks for nothing.
Homer: Dear Lord thank you for this microwave bounty, even though we don't deserve it. I mean...our kids are uncontrollable hellions. Pardon my French, but they act like savages! Did You see them at the picnic? Of course You did; You're everywhere, You're omnivorous. O Lord! Why did you spite me with this family?!
Marge: Dear Lord, if you spare this town from becoming a smoking hole in the ground, I'll try to be a better Christian. I don't know what I can do...Mmm...oh, the next time there's a canned food drive, I'll give the poor something they'll actually like instead of old lima beans and pumpkin mix.
Homer: God, if you really are a God, you'll get me tickets to that game.
advertisement: In honor of the birth of our savior, Try-N-Save is open all Christmas.
Bart: Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
(When listening to "You Light Up my Life")
Homer: I bet the guy she was singing that about was real happy.
Marge: Well, actually, she was singing about God.
Homer: Oh, well, He's always happy. No, wait, He's always mad...
Homer: The Lord is vengeful. O Spiteful One, show me who to smite and he shall be smoten!
Bart: I'm Bart Simpson, who the Hell are you?
Source:
http://www.snpp.com/other/papers/gb.paper.html
2010年1月14日 星期四
There are only 10 types of people in the world
There are only 10 types of people in the world —
those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke
those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke
2010年1月13日 星期三
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
第一次聽到 TED 也是最近的事, 因為 MIT 那個超紅的 The Sixth Sense 影片.
youtube上可以看到很多 TED 的演講影片, 有空應該要多看看, 知道一下別人的 idea!
http://www.ted.com/
youtube上可以看到很多 TED 的演講影片, 有空應該要多看看, 知道一下別人的 idea!
http://www.ted.com/
2010年1月9日 星期六
You Light Up My Life
剛剛看 The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 12 (8F10) 時聽到的.
劇情是 Marge 和 Homer 在車上聽到廣播裡的這首歌.
In Homer's car (complete with `DISCO SUCKS' bumper sticker), they sing
`You Light Up My Life' along with the radio, though Homer has trouble
with the words.
Marge: [listening to `You Light Up My Life' on the radio] Our song.
Homer: I bet the guy she was singing that about was real happy.
Marge: Well, actually, she was singing about God.
Homer: Oh, well, He's always happy. No, wait, He's always mad...
Source:
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F10.html
還有人寫了篇文章在分析:
Though he claims to be a Christian [41], Homer is essentially a pagan. Religion for him consists of placating or bribing an angry god or gods. Marge, listening to "You Light Up My Life", reminds Homer that this was their song. Homer replies that the guy she was singing about must have been real happy but Marge says that the song was about God. Homer: "Oh well, He's always happy. No wait, He's always mad." [42] When his house catches fire while he is at home skipping Sunday church service, Homer draws a conclusion about the nature of God. "The Lord is vengeful. [He falls on his knees]. O Spiteful One, show me who to smite and he shall be smoten!" [43]
Source:
http://www.snpp.com/other/papers/gb.paper.html
PS. 好像這整篇文章("God and The Simpsons")都還滿有意思的 :)
2010年1月3日 星期日
MapReduce vs. Parallel Database
先是有一篇 Google 的 MapReduce paper (OSDI '04).
再來有一篇 Brown/Wisconsin/Yale/MS/MIT 的 paper, 主旨是說 MapReduce 的 performance 完全比不上 modern parallel database (SIGMOD '09).
現在是 Google 陣營要戰了 (Communications of the ACM '10):
The query languages built into parallel database systems are also used to express the type of computations supported by MapReduce. A 2009 paper by Andrew Pavlo et al. (referred to here as the "comparison paper"13) compared the performance of MapReduce and parallel databases. It evaluated the open source Hadoop implementation10 of the MapReduce programming model, DBMS-X (an unidentified commercial database system), and Vertica (a column-store database system from a company co-founded by one of the authors of the comparison paper). Earlier blog posts by some of the paper's authors characterized MapReduce as "a major step backwards."5,6 In this article, we address several misconceptions about MapReduce in these three publications:
* MapReduce cannot use indices and implies a full scan of all input data;
* MapReduce input and outputs are always simple files in a file system; and
* MapReduce requires the use of inefficient textual data formats.
We also discuss other important issues:
* MapReduce is storage-system independent and can process data without first requiring it to be loaded into a database. In many cases, it is possible to run 50 or more separate MapReduce analyses in complete passes over the data before it is possible to load the data into a database and complete a single analysis;
* Complicated transformations are often easier to express in MapReduce than in SQL; and
* Many conclusions in the comparison paper were based on implementation and evaluation shortcomings not fundamental to the MapReduce model; we discuss these shortcomings later in this article.
We encourage readers to read the original MapReduce paper and the comparison paper for more context.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55744-mapreduce-a-flexible-data-processing-tool/fulltext
最後一句話, 用白話文來說, 意思差不多就是"你回去多讀個幾年書再來戰吧".
再來有一篇 Brown/Wisconsin/Yale/MS/MIT 的 paper, 主旨是說 MapReduce 的 performance 完全比不上 modern parallel database (SIGMOD '09).
現在是 Google 陣營要戰了 (Communications of the ACM '10):
The query languages built into parallel database systems are also used to express the type of computations supported by MapReduce. A 2009 paper by Andrew Pavlo et al. (referred to here as the "comparison paper"13) compared the performance of MapReduce and parallel databases. It evaluated the open source Hadoop implementation10 of the MapReduce programming model, DBMS-X (an unidentified commercial database system), and Vertica (a column-store database system from a company co-founded by one of the authors of the comparison paper). Earlier blog posts by some of the paper's authors characterized MapReduce as "a major step backwards."5,6 In this article, we address several misconceptions about MapReduce in these three publications:
* MapReduce cannot use indices and implies a full scan of all input data;
* MapReduce input and outputs are always simple files in a file system; and
* MapReduce requires the use of inefficient textual data formats.
We also discuss other important issues:
* MapReduce is storage-system independent and can process data without first requiring it to be loaded into a database. In many cases, it is possible to run 50 or more separate MapReduce analyses in complete passes over the data before it is possible to load the data into a database and complete a single analysis;
* Complicated transformations are often easier to express in MapReduce than in SQL; and
* Many conclusions in the comparison paper were based on implementation and evaluation shortcomings not fundamental to the MapReduce model; we discuss these shortcomings later in this article.
We encourage readers to read the original MapReduce paper and the comparison paper for more context.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55744-mapreduce-a-flexible-data-processing-tool/fulltext
最後一句話, 用白話文來說, 意思差不多就是"你回去多讀個幾年書再來戰吧".
Word vs. Latex
"閣下對於 latex 的質疑淺薄地令人覺得可笑
那跟 latex 的方便性比起來根本就是微不足道"
"我倒是也想問問您，您真的有用過 latex 嗎？"
"更何況，各大期刊會議應該都有提供 latex template
您到底有多少參數要調？您還是用使用 word 的心態在 latex 上嗎？"
這位老兄八成是工學院的學生, 搞不好還資工系的. 還真會引戰~
想我以前也是打死不碰Latex, 不過現在...五斗米力量大啊~
那跟 latex 的方便性比起來根本就是微不足道"
"我倒是也想問問您，您真的有用過 latex 嗎？"
"更何況，各大期刊會議應該都有提供 latex template
您到底有多少參數要調？您還是用使用 word 的心態在 latex 上嗎？"
這位老兄八成是工學院的學生, 搞不好還資工系的. 還真會引戰~
想我以前也是打死不碰Latex, 不過現在...五斗米力量大啊~
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