Wanna talk a bit of history of how i learnt computer in the past.
It is kind of funny to most of yours, may be.
As my secondary school is very near to the bigger computer and electronic shopping center, almost everyday i would go there to have a walk before i walk home.
My school was very supportive on computing, so information about motherboard, CPU, ram, hard disk, etc. were easily available. I read nearly all of them. Mind you, i did not have a chance to touch a computer yet. That's was my secondary one.
I joined school library, as a librarian, i faced book everyday, so books to mi is just like friends. Basically i just took whatever information available to mi. Coz i hate school books, it is really too boring.
So, before i finally had my first computer, i knew about the relationship between CPU clock speed, FSB, PCI freq, memory bandwidth, latency, hard disk rpm, cache, IDE, etc... But i still didn't know how to operate a computer, coz i didn't have one.
And, finally, at the end of secondary one, i got my first computer, i can still remember the windows 95 screen vividly. And my learning start to go practical.
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In the past, there is nothing so automatic like today's computer.
Whatever the speed you want the computer to run, you have to put the jumper to short two pins, in order for the computer to know what frequency you want it to run at.
When you wanna get the CDrom working, oh please, write your batch script to tell the operating system where the hell is the driver. Hard disk? No kidding, patter, head, etc... all those have to set in BIOS even before you start installing OS.
Nowadays, it's nearly all automatically done for you, unless you wanna overclock it, else all you need to do is to plug in all components and power supply, and it's ready.
In near future, you can see more integration, such as graphic card, north bridge and south bridge chipset merging with CPU, like an embedded system. As chips are getting more and more powerful, you simply need lesser components to get a system working, if you are not choosy.
With cloud, or home cloud computing, and extreme fast broadband your mobile phone can yield the power of the desktop to do what you need them to do, in a matter of mini second.
I was joking with my friends, well, may be very soon, our computer are like Lego toy, so idiot proof that no matter how you plug them together, it will automatically route the wire connector to connect themselves properly. And once the toy is within the range of power charging point, it will automatically find the network and connects to your home server, and starts working.
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All the above will eventually happen, if and only if, we don't destroy ourselves in our lifetime.
By war, environmental degradation (green house effect, pollution), energy starvation, or whatever means which human is capable of.
Sometimes, i feel, the problem is not with how fast we are developing our world but how fast we are destroying our world, in the form of development.
Obama is on the right path, if he can push the policy through. Hai.
In my opinion, Bush and Bush Jr are both disastrous to mankind.
They are comparable to the N. Korea leader.
Push countries into war, use nuclear to threaten others, don't give a damn to economics, and many others. Are they actually doing the same thing if you filter our the nice packaging of the media?
I didn't realise political is so important till Bush administration.
When it quit the Kyoto Protocol, i was like "omg, what the hell is he doing??"
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Er...... i was saying too much unrelated crapz above.
Ya, that's part of the things i am thinking recently.
Currently reading a book by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Common Wealth, Economics for a Crowded Planet.
Still haven't finished the whole book, but it makes mi think quite a lot about the world.
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I am a Computer Engineer student, an Engineer.
It doesn't mean i don't give a damn to the world.
I do.
I care.
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