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Which low end graphics card can support 1080p?

KatiePelly — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:08:43 +0800

I have an AMD cpu that can only play 720p mkv files, on a 690G chipset, but when playing 1080p the CPU utilization shoots to 100% and naturally the video is laggy. I tried to force my WMP to use the 690G chipset to decode, the CPU utilization doesn't reach 100% but the video is unwatchable. So now I'm thinking to buy a discrete graphics card but the lowest one possible that can support 1080p. Which is the cheapest graphics card that can let me watch 1080p smoothly?

I still wonder tho, will it be used to decode the mkv or will it still use my low powered CPU to decode?

Thanks ya

which app for free blackberry to android calls?

KatiePelly — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:56:31 +0800

Thanks if anyone can help!

Cannot do forum search

KatiePelly — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:01:13 +0800

kthxbai

Windows Phone to overtake iOS

KatiePelly — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:50:24 +0800

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Worldwide Smartphone Market Expected to Grow 55% in 2011 and Approach Shipments of One Billion in 2015, According to IDC

09 Jun 2011

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. June 9, 2011 – The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to grow 55% year over year in 2011 as a growing number of users turn in their feature phones for more advanced devices. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors will ship a total of 472 million smartphones in 2011 compared to roughly 305 million units shipped in 2010. That figure will nearly double to 982 million by the end of 2015.

The fast-growing smartphone market, which will grow more than four times the rate of the overall mobile phone market this year, is being fuelled by falling average selling prices, increased phone functionality, and lower-cost data plans among other factors, which make the devices more accessible to a wider range of users.

"The smartphone floodgates are open wide," said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. "Mobile phone users around the world are turning in their 'talk-and-text' devices for smartphones as these devices allow users to perform daily tasks like shopping and banking from anywhere. The growth trend is particularly pronounced in emerging markets where adoption is still in its early days. As a result, the growth in regions such as Asia/Pacific and Latin America, will be dramatic over the coming years."

Smartphone Operating Systems

"Underpinning smartphone growth is the rapidly shifting operating system landscape," added Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Phone Technology and Trends team. "End-users are becoming more sophisticated about what kinds of experiences are offered by the different operating systems. Taking this as their cue, operating system developers will strive for more intuitive and seamless experiences, but will also look to differentiate themselves along key features and characteristics."

IDC expects Android, which passed Symbian as the leading operating system worldwide in Q4 2010, to grow to more than 40% of the market in the second half of 2011. A significant and growing list of vendors who have made Android the cornerstone of their respective smartphone strategies is propelling the growth of Android.

Symbian will steadily lose share throughout the forecast period as its biggest supporter Nokia transitions its smartphone strategy to Windows Phone. This will present a huge opportunity for competing operating systems to gain footing. Still, Nokia's commitment to support Symbian devices until 2016 will keep the installed base of Symbian-powered smartphone users on par with its competitors.

Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile will benefit from Nokia's support, scope, and breadth within markets where Nokia has historically had a strong presence. Until Nokia begins introducing Windows Phone-powered smartphones in large volumes in 2012, Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile will only capture a small share of the market as the release of Mango-powered smartphones are not expected to reach the market until late 2011. Nevertheless, assuming that Nokia's transition to Windows Phone goes smoothly, the OS is expected to defend a number 2 rank and more than 20% share in 2015.

iOS was the third ranked OS going into 2011 and will remain a force in the mobile phone market throughout the forecast. After an initial explosive growth period, iOS is expected to grow at a more modest pace throughout the latter half of the forecast as the smartphone market matures and diversifies. Although a small market share decline is expected, IDC expects significant overall shipment volume growth through the end of 2015.

BlackBerry OS is expected to maintain its position as a Top 4 smartphone operating system over the forecast period. Like iOS, the BlackBerry OS will experience market share decline even as shipment volumes grow throughout our forecast.

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22871611

IPv6 day is kambing

KatiePelly — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:00:15 +0800

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World IPv6 Day: firing up the engines on the new Internet protocol
1/12/2011 07:23:00 AM
Today, Google and major websites are joining the Internet Society to announce World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour test flight of the next generation Internet protocol on June 8, 2011.

The story begins in 1977, when Vint Cerf, the program manager for the ARPA Internet research project (and now one of the driving forces behind Google’s IPv6 efforts), chose a 32-bit address format for an experiment in packet network interconnection. Who would have thought that the experiment would evolve into today’s Internet: a global network connecting billions of people, some using handheld devices faster than the mainframes of the 1970s?

For more than 30 years, 32-bit addresses have served us well, but now the Internet is running out of space. IPv6 is the only long-term solution, but as the chart below shows, it has not yet been widely deployed. With IPv4 addresses expected to run out in 2011, only 0.2% of Internet users have native IPv6 connectivity:

IPv6 connectivity among Google users since September 2008

Google has been supporting IPv6 since early 2008, when we first began offering search over IPv6. Since then we’ve brought IPv6 support to YouTube and have been helping ISPs enable Google over IPv6 by default for their users.

On World IPv6 Day, we’ll be taking the next big step. Together with major web companies such as Facebook and Yahoo!, we will enable IPv6 on our main websites for 24 hours. This is a crucial phase in the transition, because while IPv6 is widely deployed in many networks, it’s never been used at such a large scale before. We hope that by working together with a common focus, we can help the industry prepare for the new protocol, find and resolve any unexpected issues, and pave the way for global deployment.

The good news is that Internet users don’t need to do anything special to prepare for World IPv6 Day. Our current measurements suggest that the vast majority (99.95%) of users will be unaffected. However, in rare cases, users may experience connectivity problems, often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home network devices. Over the coming months we will be working with application developers, operating system vendors and network device manufacturers to further minimize the impact and provide testing tools and advice for users.

We hope that many other websites will join us in participating in World IPv6 Day. Changing the language spoken by every device on the Internet is a large task, but it’s essential to ensure the future of an open and robust Internet for decades to come.

Googleblog sos

I dun think my TPlink router is IPv6 ready...

Where's Ah Wang?

KatiePelly — Mon, 30 May 2011 03:57:16 +0800

He no comment at all during the ribut tahi. He online but very senyap. Wonder why?

The Star spiderman komik

KatiePelly — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:54:47 +0800

Previously spiderman and MJ drop down from the building then spidey realize he got no more webbing, time to die. Then morbius manage to save him.

Then today, morbius and his vampire wife fall down from building, suddenly spidey got webbing to grab morbius. WTF?

Why I believe in

KatiePelly — Mon, 23 May 2011 01:18:49 +0800

Vampires...

Because the book says that they exist, so it must be true.

Bhutan names so cool

KatiePelly — Sat, 21 May 2011 23:15:39 +0800

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema

Who is Al-Jazeera biased towards?

KatiePelly — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:10:35 +0800

I find Al-Jazeera a very good news channel with seemingly balanced views coupled with good journalistic investigations which have exposed quite a few scandals.

However, it is very hard for any news provider to be absolutely free of bias, so I'm wondering who or what is Al-Jazeera biased to or against?

Incontrovertible evidence it’s NOT Anwar!

KatiePelly — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:35:42 +0800

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Incontrovertible evidence it’s NOT Anwar!
April 29, 2011

FMT LETTER

From Lilian Tan, via e-mail

A lot of people have argued that the guy in the “Anwar” sex video is not Anwar citing a range of evidence: his big paunch, his flabby breasts, his lack of facial hair, his fuller face and lack of wrinkles, his funny trousers and underwear, etc. All that notwithstanding, I would urge you to study the following images for even clearer proof:

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

Sumpah laknat

KatiePelly — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:33:36 +0800

Got any famous people outside of malaysia do it b4?

Should she follow pulis advice?

KatiePelly — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:38:40 +0800

I know dis girl who left some valuables in her office drawer. Then during the weekend, this 1 week old employee came to office to steal some stuff, including her valuebles. The next working day, the new employee still came to work pretending to be innocent. Long story short, the thief was handed over to the pulis, and returned some office equipment that he stole but not the girl's valuables. Pulis then advised the girl to not press charges on the thief so the thief next time wont come back to kacau her.

Should she still lipot?

/in b4 this girl is stupid for leaving valuables in the office. She is memang stupiak.

kthxbai

rate DAT BUNTUT

KatiePelly — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:56:11 +0800

why /k/ like to say lipoted but never actually do?

KatiePelly — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:30:03 +0800

in b4 lipoted

My ipad suddenly cant turn on

KatiePelly — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:24:23 +0800

Charged it also can't turn on. Does it normally have any led lights while charging? Where can I send it for warranty claim?

y u no arrest datuk T?

KatiePelly — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:57:56 +0800

kenot brain

QUOTE

The Penal Code Section 292

Whoever --

(a) sells, lets to hire, distributes, publicly exhibits or in any manner puts into circulation, or for purposes of sale, hire, distribution, public exhibition or circulation makes, produces or has in his possession any obscene book, pamphlets, paper, drawing, painting representation or figure or any other obscene object whatsoever; or ...

(b) imports, exports or conveys any obscene object for any of the purposes aforesaid,....

shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both.

Nice comic about MALAYSIA

KatiePelly — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:59:09 +0800

Arab christians no likey bigotry in malaysia

KatiePelly — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:09:55 +0800

Arab Christians express concern about Malaysian Bible row
By Clara Chooi
March 14, 2011

PETALING JAYA, March 14 — The lengthy row over Bahasa Malaysia Bibles and the “Allah” controversy has sparked off international concern among the Arab Christian community, triggering them to urge the Najib administraton for a quick resolution to the issues.

Religious leaders from the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), led by its president, Bishop Munib A. Younan, met with unity affairs minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon last Thursday, where both issues were discussed extensively.

Younan also urged Koh to initiate the release of the 35,000 Malay-language Bibles currently held by the government in two separate ports in the country.

In the discussion, Younan had also told Koh that the tussle over the word “Allah” between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities here has baffled the Christians of the Arab world who have been using the word for over 2,000 years.

“Something we cannot understand in the Arab world and the whole world is when Malaysia prohibits Malaysian Christians from using the name of Allah because we have used it for 2,000 years and until this moment, no one has stopped us.

“If we, the Arab Christians are using it in the heart of the Muslim and Arab world, then why can’t the Malaysian Christians use it?” Younan told reporters in Armada Hotel here yesterday.

Younan, who is also the bishop for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), added that it would be good for Malaysia to show a pluralistic nature by allowing non-Muslims to use “Allah” in their prayers as the country’s constitution provided for religious freedom.

“It is not a challenge to others or a cause for confusion... on the contrary, every religion has the right to use the name of God in any way that they want,” he stressed.

In rejecting the government’s move to detain 35,000 Malay-language Bibles, Younan pointed out that the holy books merely promoted love and moral deeds.

“I said (to Koh) that it does not give a good indication to this whole issue. I think it is very important that people have their own Bibles and to read them because it is better to have the Bible than to have something else because the Bible teaches you love of God and your neighbour,” he reasoned.

Younan added that he had also expressed hope to Koh that the Malaysian government emulated the move by the Jordanian King in allocating 5,000 square metres of free land to
churches to allow them to build their respective houses of worship.

“The King gave every church 5,000 square metres of land free on the baptism site along the River Jordan. My Lutheran Church received this precious land, we got a permit and duty-free and tax-free materials to build it.

“We hope Malaysia can follow in these footsteps because it is important to help complete this freedom of religion in Malaysia,” he said.

Younan claimed that upon hearing the views during the over two hour meet, Koh promised that he would raise the issues up with the administration.

“I spoke to him in my capacity as the LWF president and he promised to do something. He has received our message and we will continue to write each other on this,” he said.

The LWF is a global communion of Christian churches in the Lutheran tradition founded in Sweden in 1947. It presently has 145 member churches in 79 countries across the globe, including four in Malaysia, and represents some 70 million Christians worldwide.

The Home Ministry has come under fire for its move to impound the Malay-language Bibles and is presently facing extreme pressure from the local Christian community and numerous political parties, including those in the Barisan Nasional (BN), to release the holy books.

Despite this, the ministry announced that it had passed the buck to the Attorney-General to decide, reasoning that the detention of the books had been due to the pending appeal over Catholic newspaper The Herald’s use of the word “Allah” in its publications.

Younan also disagreed with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s recent assertion that Islam rejects pluralism, arguing that the religion in itself was pluralistic.

“Islam is a pluralistic religion. It has many trends, four schools of thinking and within these, many more trends of thinking.

“And if political leaders say Islam is not pluralistic, to me, this is unacceptable because then you would similarly have one party in politics and this works nowhere. You have to allow people of different understanding and conception together,” he said.

In a statement recently, Najib had warned Muslims against religious pluralism, saying that putting Islam on an equal footing with other faiths was unIslamic.

Religious pluralism is sometimes used as a synonym for interfaith dialogue or promotes understanding of different faiths with the objective of reducing conflicts.

Critics of religious pluralism however see the concept as a threat to the supremacy of Islam and claim that it would result in the religion to be equated with other beliefs.

Younan however voiced his understanding that in a multi-religious society such as Malaysia, misunderstandings between religions were bound to happen.

Citing his experiences as a son to two Palestinian refugees born in Israel and today a minority leader in the thick of the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict, Younan said that the best method to resolve conflict was through dialogue sessions between the different religious communities.

Younan recalled that during the international controversy sparked off by an offensive caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in 2009, he had called for the signing of a “code of conduct” among religious leaders in the Middle East.

“So 48 Christian and Muslim leaders alike signed this code where we said that we have to respect each others’ traditions, symbolism, prophets, cultures and holy places. Freedom of expression does not mean insulting other religions.

“We were clear on these and together, we made this public. I believe that there are enough values in Christianity and Islam that are common like the acceptance of one another, justice and peace. It is enough for us to share a common ground,” he said.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard had invited heavy criticism from the Islamic world over his caricature of Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban.

In another experience of interreligious dialogues in his home nation, Younan revealed that religious leaders of various faiths had independently formed a council of religious institutions in Jerusalem, known as the Holy Land, some five years back.

“We had the chief rabbis of Israel, the head of the Islamic Syariah court in Palestine, and the heads of the churches — the Catholics, the Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, all... and we are focussing on three objectives,” he said.

The council, he explained, had set up a special hotline to monitor any derogatory remarks made by one religion against the other.

“We monitor what the imams and the rabbis and the clergy are saying,” he said.

Secondly, Younan said, the council was now in the process of studying some 700 textbooks used in the school curriculum of Palestine and Israel to weed out discrepancies in any religious information.

“We have a team now reading about what these books are teaching about and once we are done, we will urge the government to change the curriculum to ensure that the books teach what they are suppose to teach about the various religions,” he said.

The council’s third objective, said Younan, was in developing a paper to compile the views of all religious leaders — the Muslims, Jews and Christians — on Jerusalem.

“The core of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is about Jerusalem and we believe that Jerusalem should be shared... for the Christians, Muslims, Jews, the Palestine, Israel, and only in such a way will there be peace in the Middle East,” he said.

He added that religious leaders in Malaysia should take similar initiatives to engage one another in dialogue independently in order to solve any religious crises in the country.

“But I cannot teach them what to do here, only offer these examples. Being an Arab Christian, we can help anytime if we are asked to because we have a long experience in this,” he said.

Younan admitted however that many often misconstrued dialogues as methods of proselytisation but stressed that it was the best way to promote moderation and reject extremism.

“When we dialogue, we speak on doctrines and we get to know each other’s teachings. The dialogue table should not be a battlefield for conversion but for the sake of being a good neighbour.

“We do not convert one another in dialogue, or work to convince one another of each person’s point of view... it is to present your point of view and if there are common values where Muslims and Christians can speak in one voice against injustices, then the dialogue is very powerful,” he said.

He expressed confidence that the Christian leaders of Malaysia were ready to engage in interfaith discussions with other religious leaders.

“And I believe that there are many Malay Muslim groups who want to do the same. For those who refuse, it is okay. We bring the moderates to the table. It must start from somewhere,” he said.[/QUOTE][QUOTE]

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Anyone went for Buble concert?

KatiePelly — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:33:56 +0800

Really nice stage work done, world class. Sold out concert.

Oh yeah, certified PAS-safe too.