I think EU’s anti-trust ruling against Intel is wrong. A few years ago, AMD have a really good chance fighting Intel but it flopped and missed a technology cycle. It’s CPU is slower and less powerful than Intel’s. AMD can’t cry unfair and ask government step in to punish Intel because their own incompetence.
Color Scheme Designer
Online color wheel that generates monochromatic, complimentary, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic color palettes. It even comes with a feature simulation how the palettes looks like to people with problems seeing colours.
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Picking color
Designing your house is not an easy task. No wonder interior designer charge a lot to make your house looks nice. My parents are very practical people and since I moved out of their house, I have been living in rental apartments, I always live in places with minimal design. In fact, I never have any colours on my walls except the generic beige colour. The closest design experience I ever have is buying IKEA furnitures and arrange them to fit inside my room.
I am a baby to home design, so I have much to learn. The first lesson in home design is choosing a colour scheme for you home. I found this task very challenging. When presenting hundreds of colour sample from paint manufacturer, I am totally clueless on how to pick the right colour. To make it worse, men is genetically colour insensitive, since we only have 1 pair of X chromosome, which controls the colour sensing neurons.
I have been reading general rules on picking the right paints from BBC Home Design. I know there are three basic colour schemes. Tonal scheme picks colours within the same hue in different shades. Harmonious scheme picks colour next to each other on the colour wheel. Complementary colour picks colour on the oppose side of the colour wheel. Natural colour like black, gray, white or wood colour does not fit inside the colour wheel and they general blend in well with any other colour. I know what is a warm colour and what is a cool colour. I know contrast can draw focus and make the room appears to be bigger.
After picking the right colour, then we have to select where to buy the paint and what finish should we use. I like paints from Benjamin Moore, but it quite pricey and maybe too expensive for my budget. There are 6 level of finish﹐ Matte﹐ Enamal﹐ Eggshell, Satin, Semi-Gloss and Glossy, from flat to shiny. Matte is most common for walls. I would like to try Enamal on hallways and Eggshell on Kitchen. The question is how does it look when mixing different finish.
I don’t have strong preference on colour. I like blue in general but it may not looks very well on walls. I don’t like making subjective decisions. I am happy with Pat’s pick on colour as long as it is not is in pink, which is a girl colour. I tried Pat’s idea to the 3D house model. The colour shows up on screen is not the same in reality, but the program helps me visualize how the paint looks like on wall. We tried a few different colours, but honestly I couldn’t tell what’s beauty and what’s not. I know how to check whether the colour violate the rules of colour wheel, but other than that they all looks the same to me.
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Blood the Last Vampire 血戰新世紀
《血戰》是我喜愛的日本動畫﹐全智賢也是我愛看的韓國女星﹐長劍少女更是我萌的類型﹐《血戰新世紀》理應完全對正我口味。為什麼這套韓國資金﹐改篇日本動畫故事﹐劇中角色大講英語的偽荷里活片﹐可以如此令人失望﹐爛得足以榮獲金草莓獎的殊譽。
或許批評是人類的天性﹐又或許愛之深責之切﹐痛恨為什麼這套電影可以把九十分的動畫片﹐刪改得如此支離破碎﹐我對這套電影只有一面倒的批評。全智賢並不適合演小夜這個角色﹐一來她穿水手服已經超齡﹐二來她完全沒有武打底子﹐所有動作場要也依靠快鏡和借位。野蠻女友的可愛傻大姐不知去了那兒﹐這套電影中全智賢全程板起面孔來演﹐與我印象中柔弱的小夜完全不配。
電影的打鬥千篇一律是快鏡加凌亂剪接﹐在砍那一秒忽然慢鏡﹐假血漿從被砍中的敵人身上﹐像噴泉般四處亂噴。最要命還是那些CG怪獸﹐動作生硬像二十幾年前泥膠公仔動畫﹐倒不如找幾個武打員演來當那些吸血鬼﹐正正經經和全智賢過招﹐不要搞變身怪獸還比較好。最後小夜與翼手決戰﹐雙方竟然拋下手中長劍﹐改用龜波氣功互轟﹐我還以為自己看錯了龍珠。
若果連我這個《血戰》的忠實擁躉﹐熟讀原著劇情來龍去脈﹐也不明白這套電影的故事想說什麼。我可以百份百肯定﹐其他觀眾看得完全一頭霧水。電影中沒有突出小夜本身是吸血鬼的身份﹐沒有那份要殺光同類的矛盾心情。小夜所屬的組織赤盾在電影中忠奸不分﹐甚至他們行動目標也不清楚。小夜最後忽然成為吸血鬼女王翼手的女兒﹐簡直把原著故事改得亂七八糟。
最後想說說電影中每逢有小夜的特寫鏡頭﹐我的視線總是被全智賢鼻尖的暗瘡吸引著。心想是否小夜飲人血太燥﹐還是全智賢吃得太多泡菜熱氣。
兩週一聚﹕假如我是一本書
前言﹕這是一個叫「兩周一聚」的活動。是網友米雪兒發起。每月十五日﹑三十日﹐一班住在世界不同角落的香港人都會一起寫同一個題目。今天是第二十一次相聚，由Vince出題﹐主題定為「假如我是一本書」。
認識我的朋友﹐應該很容易估到我想變成那一本書。那一本書全世界發行量最多﹐被翻譯成超過一百多種文字﹐每天也有幾千萬甚至幾億人閱讀﹐更有很多人奉這部書為金科玉律﹐人生所做每一個決定﹐都要參考書中內容作根據。沒錯﹐我想成為的書就是《聖經》﹐成為地球上最具影響力的書本。《聖經》到底是一本書還是一套書﹐這個問題聖經學者爭論了千幾年。不過既然夾是在兩塊書皮中間﹐全部頁紙釘裝在一起﹐應該算是一本書吧。
咦~ 我這一本書既然不限厚度﹐只要能夠釘裝在一起便可﹐那不如索性把人類歷史上﹐所有最具影響力的書﹐一股腦兒吸納在我這本書內。除了《聖經》外﹐另一本可以與之匹敵的書本是《可蘭經》。成為《聖經》加《可蘭經》的混合體﹐足以號令地球上一半的人口﹐從西方強權到中東恐怖份子﹐統統也要聆聽書中神的說話。儒道思想孕育中華文化﹐孔子的《四書五經》和老子的《道德經》必定要入選。說到對中國影響之深﹐恐怕要數上馬克思的《資本論》﹐因此也要把此書吸納。既然有在二十世紀主宰地球一半人命運的共產主義﹐又怎能沒有把它擊倒的資本主義呢。說起資本主義的代表作﹐肯定是亞當史密斯的《國富論》。有了宗教和經濟政治的書藉﹐科學類的代表作便是達爾文的《進化論》。《進化論》本身故然有科學貢獻﹐但人類進化的想法卻具劃時代性﹐後來衍生出的社會達爾文理論﹐更成為納粹德國的思想理論基礎。
《聖經》﹐《可蘭經》﹐《四書五經》﹐《道德經》﹐《資本論》﹐《國富論》﹐《進化論》加起來﹐應該可以左右地球大部份人的思想。還有一些其他古靈精怪的邪教﹐各有其經書迷惑教眾心靈。若果我這本書還有空位的話﹐可以把幾個主要邪教的經書收在附錄﹐如摩門教的《摩門經》﹐南韓統一教的《神聖教義》﹐法輪功的《轉法輪》﹐科學教的Dianetics等等。至於剩下來的其他人﹐大慨他們的文盲﹐根本不懂看書﹐那我這本書也沒法可施了。
今次披起書衣的博友包括 :
Vince、C9讀與食、南杏、athrunz、加燦、michelle、Haricot、火羽、lomichee 、hevangel、亞占 、小貓、 周游、longqt