Friday, December 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
SVQ Fun Boxing (Ivan vs ando)
Please don't forget to like the Video Clip thanks. lolz :P
SVQ Fun Boxing (Xtian vs Bunso)
Bunso, wearing shirt with Yellow while Xtian wearing Uniform.
Please don't forget to like the Video Clip thanks. lolz :P
SVQ Fun Boxing (Jun2x vs Dean)
Jun-Jun is the one wearing pure white while Dean is the other.
Please don;t forget to like the Video Clip thanks. lolz :P
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Warcraft Tower Defense
One of the very popular and played games today is Warcraft series (like DotA). another map version played in warcraft series is Tower Defense.
Anyways, here is a Flash-version of one of the popular Warcraft concepts introduced in a Warcraft III bonus level… Tower Defense!
The player is challenged to position offensive towers along the enemy’s path with the hopes of wiping out large groups of advancing baddies. The concept is simple but the strategy is complex and challenging. For the Warcraft gamer this is some quality guaranteed time-kill.
Download a Standalone copy of Tower Defense and Play it. For fun, print screen your level and submit them to this email (jdialytika@gmail.com) with you name and ill post them on this page.
Here's the Link:
Tower Defense.exe
Check out mine: Level 37
Anyways, here is a Flash-version of one of the popular Warcraft concepts introduced in a Warcraft III bonus level… Tower Defense!
The player is challenged to position offensive towers along the enemy’s path with the hopes of wiping out large groups of advancing baddies. The concept is simple but the strategy is complex and challenging. For the Warcraft gamer this is some quality guaranteed time-kill.
Download a Standalone copy of Tower Defense and Play it. For fun, print screen your level and submit them to this email (jdialytika@gmail.com) with you name and ill post them on this page.
Here's the Link:
Tower Defense.exe
Check out mine: Level 37
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Morality - Human Life
have people really reached the gutter when it comes to their morals? Have you heard the news about this call centre lady who was found dead in angeles who was headless... as a catholic nation, is that even something which is nearly digestible? It sucks that human lives don't cost much here... people don't value and respect other people anymore. There was also this student who goes to school in angeles, she's from here, arayat, malapit lang dito sa min. I think this happened a few months lang. She was brutally killed din. One day, when she headed back to her apartment for lunch, she witnessed the murderer, apparently the landlady's son, how cruel is that no. She saw him stealing from their stuff... yun the guy killed her, he used a bread knife to cut her neck, she wounded her severely ata and then he drowned her on a tub of water...
When you hear news like that, it just makes you sad. Have people really lost their morals... Is any material thing worthy of killing other human being for? Imagine, that girl is a lone child of her parents. Imagine the lost of her family, her own lost, all the dreams she had, everything... all of it is somehow just thrown to dust. Sometimes, it really sucks when our lives are being put on the hands of other people.
It sucks that human lives talaga don't cost much na. I think you can blame the government for that. People here run away, literally from murders. Many criminals are roaming the street because the people don't catch them. the police has gotten so useless here... that they have just become a symbol of corruption rather of good values.
Environment has really big effects on the behaviour of people, the lack of concern by the police make people feel like they can just do anything. Sadly, I think people have gotten so insensitive about these kinds of news. Like say, there's this really bad crime... people don't seem to get affected anymore. Yes, it's a horrible news, but people don't get affected to the point of action anymore. What can we do as a community to prevent these kinds of horrendous things from happening again... I don't know. For now, tougher law enforcement is one key. The police should really do their part... if there would be police everywhere, at all times, then we might be better off. That is one key, perhaps we really need some kind of martial law now, or at least some stricter rules. I think I am willing to give up some of my rights just so we can have a better life here. Say in Singapore or UAE for that matter, they have stricter laws there, and there's less crimes. We need something drastic as such, or even more drastic measures... cause really people should be protected FROM themselves.
When you hear news like that, it just makes you sad. Have people really lost their morals... Is any material thing worthy of killing other human being for? Imagine, that girl is a lone child of her parents. Imagine the lost of her family, her own lost, all the dreams she had, everything... all of it is somehow just thrown to dust. Sometimes, it really sucks when our lives are being put on the hands of other people.
Environment has really big effects on the behaviour of people, the lack of concern by the police make people feel like they can just do anything. Sadly, I think people have gotten so insensitive about these kinds of news. Like say, there's this really bad crime... people don't seem to get affected anymore. Yes, it's a horrible news, but people don't get affected to the point of action anymore. What can we do as a community to prevent these kinds of horrendous things from happening again... I don't know. For now, tougher law enforcement is one key. The police should really do their part... if there would be police everywhere, at all times, then we might be better off. That is one key, perhaps we really need some kind of martial law now, or at least some stricter rules. I think I am willing to give up some of my rights just so we can have a better life here. Say in Singapore or UAE for that matter, they have stricter laws there, and there's less crimes. We need something drastic as such, or even more drastic measures... cause really people should be protected FROM themselves.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Which is worst..insecurity or Envy?and whats the difference?
insecurity and envy; I'll put my two cents on the matter.
Insecurity is something which is not necessarily bad I believe. As a part of growing up, there are so many things about ourselves, both physically and emotionally that we are not necessarily proud of. Say for example, I feel like too skinny, so that is one thing that I feel insecure about... Or say I have no job now, that sorts of make me feel bad now, like it is affecting my confidence di ba. But eventually, as a part of the growing OLD process, our insecurities are something which we can work up on.
On the other hand, envy is a bad thing... You know the term, "keeping up with the Joneses". It means that when you see something which others have, you tend to overlook the fact that they had that thing because they worked hard for it. It means that you also feel the need to have it... in one way or another. Envy is bad because essentially, you are having the bad thoughts, selfish thoughts that is. Envy is focused more on MATERIAL things i think, so we just need to train our values and we should reassess our lives as to what it is, say materially, would really make us happy.
Envy is more rooted on comparing our lives to others I think, hence, that term keeping up with joneses. But as was written on the book di ba... if you don't like the culture, don't buy it. Really, I really feel like people here sa tin are so stuck with material things, material goods, SM, SM.
Insecurity is something which is not necessarily bad I believe. As a part of growing up, there are so many things about ourselves, both physically and emotionally that we are not necessarily proud of. Say for example, I feel like too skinny, so that is one thing that I feel insecure about... Or say I have no job now, that sorts of make me feel bad now, like it is affecting my confidence di ba. But eventually, as a part of the growing OLD process, our insecurities are something which we can work up on.
On the other hand, envy is a bad thing... You know the term, "keeping up with the Joneses". It means that when you see something which others have, you tend to overlook the fact that they had that thing because they worked hard for it. It means that you also feel the need to have it... in one way or another. Envy is bad because essentially, you are having the bad thoughts, selfish thoughts that is. Envy is focused more on MATERIAL things i think, so we just need to train our values and we should reassess our lives as to what it is, say materially, would really make us happy.
Envy is more rooted on comparing our lives to others I think, hence, that term keeping up with joneses. But as was written on the book di ba... if you don't like the culture, don't buy it. Really, I really feel like people here sa tin are so stuck with material things, material goods, SM, SM.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Osoligas Fade Animation Zeta
Direct Link: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o165/dave_baolong/aniOsogilas.gif
Monday, October 4, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Hostage Crisis in the Philippines Aug. 23, 2010
Unfortunately, i have seen it on the news... what else can I say; the police were totally pathetic, like totally useless. How could've they acted in such a lousy way... like seriously, it was like watching a comedy series. It was really sad and shameless at how it all played out.... I guess as filipinos, we are just really doomed siguro, that is our fate... No need to complain, no need to waste time worrying about pretty much anything else... When you are doomed, you don't really need to worry about anything else, cause the outcome is all the same...
I really felt sad for those tourists whose only purpose was to have a nice time, look at how we treated them. There was this whole family ata, the husband died of protecting his wife from taking the gunshots, heroic but could have been avoided if the police just did their part. Ahhh... what more can I say... I wonder at how the police can still boast when all they can offer us are their blunder; corruption, torture, all sorts of evil things. Lesson here; you can't really trust the authority... you can't really trust anybody for that matter. You give people some small power, and all they will do is to corrupt it. That's the price for freedom I guess, you can choose to be GOOD or you can choose to be EVIL; sadly, people always tend to choose the easy road, and the easy road is at most times always EVIL. Cest la vie.
All these things lead to the same old problem; poverty. They showed this news about that guy who did the crime... turned out he was one of the GOOD cops; aha...ironical but true. He was a victim of the bad politics in our country... oh well. and here i am dreaming that somehow, someday there would be some hope pa rin sa tin.... I was surprised that before he was terminated, he was only earning a measly 20k peso...wtf.. He was even earning less than .5k during the 80s, when he started. Wtf is that... I guess you can't blame the police for doing bad things eh... nope, absolutely not. There's no justification to doing bad... although at some point, you need to understand where it's all coming from. Even people from rich countries apparently do evil things for money and power, it is how it is... just need to accept that fact about our human condition. At the end of the day, all you can really trust is yourself, your own experiences.
Oh well... let us still remain hopeful, even when hope might be the last thing that is available.
I really felt sad for those tourists whose only purpose was to have a nice time, look at how we treated them. There was this whole family ata, the husband died of protecting his wife from taking the gunshots, heroic but could have been avoided if the police just did their part. Ahhh... what more can I say... I wonder at how the police can still boast when all they can offer us are their blunder; corruption, torture, all sorts of evil things. Lesson here; you can't really trust the authority... you can't really trust anybody for that matter. You give people some small power, and all they will do is to corrupt it. That's the price for freedom I guess, you can choose to be GOOD or you can choose to be EVIL; sadly, people always tend to choose the easy road, and the easy road is at most times always EVIL. Cest la vie.
All these things lead to the same old problem; poverty. They showed this news about that guy who did the crime... turned out he was one of the GOOD cops; aha...ironical but true. He was a victim of the bad politics in our country... oh well. and here i am dreaming that somehow, someday there would be some hope pa rin sa tin.... I was surprised that before he was terminated, he was only earning a measly 20k peso...wtf.. He was even earning less than .5k during the 80s, when he started. Wtf is that... I guess you can't blame the police for doing bad things eh... nope, absolutely not. There's no justification to doing bad... although at some point, you need to understand where it's all coming from. Even people from rich countries apparently do evil things for money and power, it is how it is... just need to accept that fact about our human condition. At the end of the day, all you can really trust is yourself, your own experiences.
Oh well... let us still remain hopeful, even when hope might be the last thing that is available.
What drives human to be Materialistic?
To answer that question about what drives people to be so materialistic, pride and greed. It has everything to do with the fact that this world will never be unfair, some are destined to be rich, others to rot in the ground... that's the basic rule of CAPITALISM; if you are not strong enough to fight for yourself or to be some kind of businessman, then you are out of the game, you are stuck to the ground. It explains din why there are so many people suffering, like having nothin on the table to eat while the WORLD'S RICHEST according to the latest Forbes list are probably sitting next door, enjoying their life accomplishments.
Everyone knows that there is a problem, that poverty is a problem, yet we have failed to realize the ROOT of the problem, that there is some solution for it, that it must be solved. The more you dig deep to this chaos, the more you realize that it is all interconnected, that the society is one big mess that somehow still functions as it ever was, not as it should be, but it does so to protect the interest of the rich few.
APATHY is the other major problem. It's like if the people have gotten so used to feeling like shit, then there is probably some good chance that they would eventually forget how to live, especially if they have never gotten the chance how it would be like to have a decent life.
There, that is what needs to be solved; to shake the people real hard... that they eventually have the final say; I'd say a real revolution, who knows. The key is to provide them some VISION, a realization that the world is moving fast, the world is evolving, and to be left behind with barbaric situation and barbaric ideals is suicide.
Now the world is in recession, everyone is like in some lost state, everyone is finding the right path. I wonder if the policy makers sa tin are ever considering that fact, that somehow we are still very much part of the game, that we need to find that right path ourselves, in order to make it out alive. I think now, more than ever is the best time to find what it is that we really want with our lives as FILIPINOS, what it is really to feel like a filipino, to make our real definition of what a filipino is, not how the world sees us as we roam through different places, being treated as slaves.
There could never be more self humiliating way than to be treated as a slave, than to think of yourself as a mere slave. I wonder how we have ended up only dreaming to be slaves abroad, for the sake of having better things? better lives? but what is a better life ba talaga di ba? Oh, if you could only see what it is like here, there are just too many filipinos here!!! It is never like I hate to see em here, or I might hate to see em here... yun parang... what the f*** are you doing here people, then I am one too! What the hell am i doin here? Why are we wasting our lives building someone else's castle when our own existence back home is totally collapsing. That's the basic rule of CAPITALISM, the rich will eat the poor alive! The rich will suck everyone's energy until they beg for mercy.
It is very funny at how the rich can totally pride themselves, with all their luxurious lives, in a city of SLUMS right. Is it ever enough to be happy all by yourself, can you ever be happy in a world of miseries? I really don't know. I wish there was someone who would dream of a first class world sa tin, who would give everyone some dreams to pursue. Hope, I wish I could throw a rock of hope, a rock of vision, I would throw it so high to the clouds, it would burst in all its beauty, casting hope to everyone on the ground. That should be the goal, to put everything on PAUSE, like oohhh, wait people, don't you think we should stop for a bit and figure out this life before we go deeper into a sh**ho**?? I still feel POPULATION is the first main issue; yet its roots are so deep, deep-seated in poverty... no dreams for people to pursue, no goals, so what is left is population growth. The church might be celebrating with PRO-CREATION, then i would say can we stop this pro-creation for a while and try to figure out our lives first? I don't know, that's just my ten cents, and I'd wish that government should really do something about it... it is all part of the problem; YOU can never sustain a BIG population with a very limited food supply or land area to build houses to. The more people, the more crimes, period! You can never have a full control of a bulging population.
Then it comes down to our morals as people. I am never saying saying that we should abondon our ideals, that we should legalize things like abortion, for that is an awfully indigestible thing to do. Yet it happens, babies are being dumped to the ground all the time, cause we allow it to happen. And you try to search for the root cause, and you only end up realizing that it is all about poverty too; and you end up on zero level again.
Oh well, I guess that it's just all too complicated to be dealt with one time, but it is good that we are discussing things like that. It is in an open minded society where solutions will be found. Answers are to those who asked alone! If you live your whole life in the shadows of other people lang, trying to save yourself by going abroad to escape it all, I'd think we may just deserve to be doomed then. It's never admitting admitting the fact that going abroad is a bad thing, of course it is a good thing din naman, you are able to help yourself, your family back home, your society by not being an additional burden... stuff like that. My only question siguro is the long term effect, when you are no longer needed abroad, where would you go?
back home... yet back home is no place to live cause it's rotten and full of shit! Did you ever try to change that though... NOPE... instead you chose to run away.
If you are going to see it on an individual case, i think it wouldn't make sense, a person can never be enough to possibly change the world, no sir. Yet, on the grand scale, these whole set of OFWs choosing the better life abroad chose to run away... and if you sum them up, there would be millions of them... certainly millions would make a difference, if we ever chose to make a difference!
Until the time comes siguro that we have some real sense of direction back home will we make the change. For now, we have to rest in the uncertain...
Everyone knows that there is a problem, that poverty is a problem, yet we have failed to realize the ROOT of the problem, that there is some solution for it, that it must be solved. The more you dig deep to this chaos, the more you realize that it is all interconnected, that the society is one big mess that somehow still functions as it ever was, not as it should be, but it does so to protect the interest of the rich few.
APATHY is the other major problem. It's like if the people have gotten so used to feeling like shit, then there is probably some good chance that they would eventually forget how to live, especially if they have never gotten the chance how it would be like to have a decent life.
There, that is what needs to be solved; to shake the people real hard... that they eventually have the final say; I'd say a real revolution, who knows. The key is to provide them some VISION, a realization that the world is moving fast, the world is evolving, and to be left behind with barbaric situation and barbaric ideals is suicide.
Now the world is in recession, everyone is like in some lost state, everyone is finding the right path. I wonder if the policy makers sa tin are ever considering that fact, that somehow we are still very much part of the game, that we need to find that right path ourselves, in order to make it out alive. I think now, more than ever is the best time to find what it is that we really want with our lives as FILIPINOS, what it is really to feel like a filipino, to make our real definition of what a filipino is, not how the world sees us as we roam through different places, being treated as slaves.
There could never be more self humiliating way than to be treated as a slave, than to think of yourself as a mere slave. I wonder how we have ended up only dreaming to be slaves abroad, for the sake of having better things? better lives? but what is a better life ba talaga di ba? Oh, if you could only see what it is like here, there are just too many filipinos here!!! It is never like I hate to see em here, or I might hate to see em here... yun parang... what the f*** are you doing here people, then I am one too! What the hell am i doin here? Why are we wasting our lives building someone else's castle when our own existence back home is totally collapsing. That's the basic rule of CAPITALISM, the rich will eat the poor alive! The rich will suck everyone's energy until they beg for mercy.
It is very funny at how the rich can totally pride themselves, with all their luxurious lives, in a city of SLUMS right. Is it ever enough to be happy all by yourself, can you ever be happy in a world of miseries? I really don't know. I wish there was someone who would dream of a first class world sa tin, who would give everyone some dreams to pursue. Hope, I wish I could throw a rock of hope, a rock of vision, I would throw it so high to the clouds, it would burst in all its beauty, casting hope to everyone on the ground. That should be the goal, to put everything on PAUSE, like oohhh, wait people, don't you think we should stop for a bit and figure out this life before we go deeper into a sh**ho**?? I still feel POPULATION is the first main issue; yet its roots are so deep, deep-seated in poverty... no dreams for people to pursue, no goals, so what is left is population growth. The church might be celebrating with PRO-CREATION, then i would say can we stop this pro-creation for a while and try to figure out our lives first? I don't know, that's just my ten cents, and I'd wish that government should really do something about it... it is all part of the problem; YOU can never sustain a BIG population with a very limited food supply or land area to build houses to. The more people, the more crimes, period! You can never have a full control of a bulging population.
Then it comes down to our morals as people. I am never saying saying that we should abondon our ideals, that we should legalize things like abortion, for that is an awfully indigestible thing to do. Yet it happens, babies are being dumped to the ground all the time, cause we allow it to happen. And you try to search for the root cause, and you only end up realizing that it is all about poverty too; and you end up on zero level again.
Oh well, I guess that it's just all too complicated to be dealt with one time, but it is good that we are discussing things like that. It is in an open minded society where solutions will be found. Answers are to those who asked alone! If you live your whole life in the shadows of other people lang, trying to save yourself by going abroad to escape it all, I'd think we may just deserve to be doomed then. It's never admitting admitting the fact that going abroad is a bad thing, of course it is a good thing din naman, you are able to help yourself, your family back home, your society by not being an additional burden... stuff like that. My only question siguro is the long term effect, when you are no longer needed abroad, where would you go?
back home... yet back home is no place to live cause it's rotten and full of shit! Did you ever try to change that though... NOPE... instead you chose to run away.
Until the time comes siguro that we have some real sense of direction back home will we make the change. For now, we have to rest in the uncertain...
Friday, August 6, 2010
RVHOST.EXE is missing error
This means that RVHost has been infected or is a virus that has been detected already by your anti virus and removed. So to remove the Error message follow you have to edit your registry, just this steps:
Start>Run>Type regedit then
Look for this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
then on right pane look for "Shell"
Its entry should be "Explorer.exe" only
If it’s has extra like “RVHOST.exe” remove it.
Double click the “Shell” then edit.
Then close and restart your PC.
And your Done!!
If it’s has extra like “RVHOST.exe” remove it.
Double click the “Shell” then edit.
Then close and restart your PC.
And your Done!!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Education Patungo sa Kaunlaran
Ang plano ni President “NoyNoy” Aquino para sa Education ay maganda. Maaaring marmaing mga batikos tungkol sa mga pinili at niluklok nyang mga gabinete, pero ang tanung ang mga mga nakaluklok ba ay magpagkakatiwalaan. Sa isang pamumuno masimportante ang ganun sa ngaun. Para maiwasan ang pangungurakot. Ang isang kakayahan ay na “dedebelop” sa katagalan. Kung merun kang initiative na gumalaw, tama na ito para sa umpisa. Isa sa plano ni President Aquino ay dagdagan ang taon ng pagaaral sa elementarya. Marahil nga ito ay mas magbibigay bigat sa ating lahat. Ngunit magbibigay din ito ng magagandang resulta sa hinaharap. Tandaan natin na "ang ginagawa na natin sa kasalukuyan ang magdedetermina o magsasabi kung ano ang ating hinaharap". Education ang dapat tutukan, dahil "ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan". Ang sagot sa kahirapan ng Pilipinas ay hindi lang sa Presidente o sa mga nakalulok sa gobyerno kung di sa bawat mamayaman na nakatira dito. Kung ang tao ay marunong magtiis, marunong magtipid, di maglalaon, bukas lahat ay makakaramdam ng ginhawa. Scarcity, kakulangan, alamin ang “need” sa “want”. Gumasta ng perang sapat lamang. Kung merong sobra ibahagi sa mga na ngangailangan. Kung magagawa natin ito, hindi lang ang Pilipinas ang matutulungan natin, kung hindi naging mabuti pa tayong Kristyano.
Tama ang pangulo, “galing sa pakikielam tayoy humakbang pantungo sa pakikilahok” dahil kung tayo ay aasa lamang sa kanila hindi ito sapat ganun din kung tayo ay magrereklamo lamang. Kung tayo ay magtutulungan, lahat ng bagay matutupad. Paniniwala, pagiging makabayan ang kailangan natin sa umpisa ang susunod ay gawa, bukas ay ang hinahangad. Makiisa patungo sa kaunlaran ng ating bansa.
"Mga kasama, wag nating palampasin ang linggo ng hindi gumagawa ng maliit na hakbang sa pagbabago; pagpila ng maayos ng hindi nag-uunahan, pag gamit ulit ng 'po' at 'opo' sa mga nakakatanda, pagtawid ng maayos sa ating mga lansangan. Marami po iyan, pero maliliit na hakbang ang kailangan, hakbang tungo sa bagong Pilipinas." - President NoyNoy Aquino
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
JDs Lecture: History of Computer (Table)
| Computer History
| Computer History
| Computer History
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| Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer | First freely programmable computer. | |
| John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
| Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. | |
| Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
| The Harvard Mark 1 computer. | |
| John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
| 20,000 vacuum tubes later... | |
| Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
| Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. | |
| John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley
| No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers. | |
| John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
| First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. | |
| International Business Machines
| IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'. | |
| John Backus & IBM
| The first successful high level programming language. | |
| Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric
| The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks. | |
| Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
| Otherwise known as 'The Chip' | |
| Steve Russell & MIT
| The first computer game invented. | |
| Douglas Engelbart
| Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end. | |
| ARPAnet | The original Internet. | |
| Intel 1103 Computer Memory | The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. | |
| Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
| The first microprocessor. | |
| Alan Shugart &IBM
| Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility. | |
| Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
| Networking. | |
| Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers | The first consumer computers. | |
| Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers | More first consumer computers. | |
| Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston
| Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner. | |
| Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby
| Word Processors. | |
| IBM
| From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution | |
| Microsoft
| From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century. | |
| Apple Lisa Computer | The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. | |
| Apple Macintosh Computer | The more affordable home computer with a GUI. | |
| Microsoft Windows | Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple. | |
| So on | ||
JDs Lecture: History of Computer Part 2
Computer “an electronic device that computes”
Harvard Mark I computer which was built as a partnership between Harvard and IBM in 1944. The first programmable digital computer made in the U.S. But it was not a purely electronic computer. Instead the Mark I was constructed out of switches, relays, rotating shafts, and clutches.
In 1965 the work of the German Konrad Zuse was published for the first time in English. Z( 1 and 2) was built between 1936 and 1938 in the parlor of his parent's home. Z3, built in 1941, was probably the first operational, general-purpose, programmable (that is, software controlled) digital computer. Zuse reinvented Babbage's concept of programming and decided on his own to employ binary representation for numbers.
The title of forefather of today's all-electronic digital computers is usually awarded to ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. ENIAC was built at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1945 by two professors, John Mauchly and the 24 year old J. Presper Eckert, who got funding from the war department after promising they could build a machine that would replace all the "computers"
Once ENIAC was finished and proved worthy of the cost of its development, its designers set about to eliminate the obnoxious fact that reprogramming the computer required a physical modification of all the patch cords and switches. It took days to change ENIAC's program. Eckert and Mauchly's next teamed up with the mathematician John von Neumann to design EDVAC, which pioneered the stored program. Because he was the first to publish a description of this new computer, von Neumann is often wrongly credited with the realization that the program (that is, the sequence of computation steps) could be represented electronically just as the data was. But this major breakthrough can be found in Eckert's notes long before he ever started working with von Neumann. Eckert was no slouch: while in high school Eckert had scored the second highest math SAT score in the entire country.
Eckert and Mauchly left the University of Pennsylvania over a dispute about who owned the patents for their invention. They decided to set up their own company. In the 50's, UNIVAC (a contraction of "Universal Automatic Computer") was the household word for "computer", was the first computer to employ magnetic tape. After a success there came personal computers together with the invention of microprocessor and IBM hiring firm called Microsoft to provide software for their products.
The 8080 was employed in the MITS Altair computer, which was the world's first personal computer (PC).
JDs Lecture: History of Computer
The origin of the computer is hard to pin down together with the exact date. But let see computer history by its definition.
Computer “a device that computes”
Abacus is a Latin word that has its origins in the Greek words abax or abakon (meaning "table" or "tablet") which in turn, possibly originated from the Semitic word abq, meaning "sand". It is also called a counting frame, a calculating tool used primarily for performing arithmetic processes. It was developed and used by the Chinese in 3000 BC. But the oldest surviving abacus was used in 300 B.C. by the Babylonians
In 1617 an eccentric (some say mad) Scotsman named John Napier invented logarithms, which are a technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition. The magic ingredient is the logarithm of each operand, which was originally obtained from a printed table. But Napier also invented an alternative to tables, where the logarithm values were carved on ivory sticks which are now called Napier's Bones
Slide Rule appeared in 1650 and was the result of a joint effort of two Englishmen Edmund Gunter and the reverend William Oughtred. This slide rule based on Napier's logarithms was to become the first analog computer (of the modern ages) since multiplication and subtraction were figured out by physical distance.
In 1642 Blaise Pascal, at age 19, invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this gear-driven one-function calculator (it could only add) but couldn't sell many because of their exorbitant cost and because they really weren't that accurate (at that time it was not possible to fabricate gears with the required precision).
Just a few years after Pascal, the German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (co-inventor with Newton of calculus) managed to build a four-function (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) calculator that he called the stepped reckoner because, instead of gears, it employed fluted drums having ten flutes arranged around their circumference in a stair-step fashion. Although the stepped reckoner employed the decimal number system (each drum had 10 flutes), Leibniz was the first to advocate use of the binary number system which is fundamental to the operation of modern computers. Leibniz is considered one of the greatest of the philosophers but he died poor and alone.
In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a power loom (Jacquard’s Loom) that could base its weave (and hence the design on the fabric) upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden cards, held together in a long row by rope.
By 1822 the English mathematician Charles Babbage was proposing a steam driven calculating machine the size of a room, which he called the Difference Engine. Then he invented Analytic Engine. This device, large as a house and powered by 6 steam engines, would be more general purpose in nature because it would be programmable, thanks to the punched card technology of Jacquard.
From Jacquards Loom came Hollerith’s Punch (Read/Write) Cards. Hollerith had the insight to convert punched cards (read-only) to what is today called a read/write technology. While riding a train, he observed that the conductor didn't merely punch each ticket, but rather punched a particular pattern of holes whose positions indicated the approximate height, weight, eye color, etc. of the ticket owner. This was done to keep anyone else from picking up a discarded ticket and claiming it was his own (a train ticket did not lose all value when it was punched because the same ticket was used for each leg of a trip). Hollerith realized how useful it would be to punch (write) new cards based upon an analysis (reading) of some other set of cards. Complicated analyses, too involved to be accomplished during a single pass thru the cards, could be accomplished via multiple passes thru the cards using newly printed cards to remember the intermediate results. Then Hollerith after a success built Tabulating Machine Company, where in short time became International Business Machines, known today as IBM.
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