Interesting Article - AMD user are smarter than intel users

Two brain but still stupid

Pasted from http://www.maxitmag.com/loose-wires/articles/intel-users-less-intelligent-than-amd.html

In a recent survey, a study of over 5,000 computer users concluded that people who use Intel powered computers have a lower IQ than their AMD counterparts. The study took place over a six month period and involved computer users with Intel and AMD powered computers of various specifications.

The test subjects were asked to complete a series of written and hands on tests covering basic computer skills up to more advanced tasks. The survey found that over 69% of people with Intel powered computers had greater learning difficulties and found computer related tasks more difficult compared with 31% of AMD. A whopping 78% of novice computer users with Intel processors inside their computers could not transfer and resize an image from a digital camera even with the the step by step instructions in front of them.

AMD user smarter hehehe

The survey concluded that AMD users tended to be more 'computer smart' and 'enthusiast' orientated having researched the market before purchasing their computer. Most people recognise the Intel brand and tend to purchase bog standard off the shelf computers knowing little about the details of the hardware. People who buy AMD are more creative and willing to adopt new technology more easily.


See my PC spec at the right corner of this page, I am an AMD user.

Fanart wallpaper - Kaze no Stigma Kazuma Yagami

Just finish watching Kaze no stigma, I really love the story and the characters, so I planned to do a wall with one of my favourite character in the series.
Kazuma Yagami ,a Fuujutsushi (wind art user)

the character was fully handrawn (fanart) by me, including the wind all around him. The wall not turned out as what I was planned, but I managed to at least show how his power looks like.

Below is a step by step on how I draw him.

Character Pose was defined with Poser, and the skeleton was traced.

Sketching its clothes

Draw his face, eyes, and hair

Detailing and cleaning his clothes

Coloring with base color

Shading was added

Add some winds effect plus its winds attack
Finished!

I hope to do more fanart wallpaper to brush my skills even more.
As usual, I used Wacom Intuous 3 tablet to draw on Photoshop CS3, and Poser for defining the character pose. The characters takes 5+ hours to complete, and another 3~4 hours for wallpaper it. This was created on 22 February 2008 at night about 9.00pm+ and finished on the next day (because I sleep) 23 February 2008 at about 10.00am.

The wall still need some refinements so there might be some changes to the wall later.

A fan art wallpaper - Kratos Aurion VS Cloud Strife

Kratos Aurion Tales Of Syphonia VS Cloud Strife FFVII

Takes about 2 weeks to complete.. this wall was on request by a user in animewallpaper forum.
I just new in hand drawn wallpaper so I try my luck to do this.

Using Poser 6 software to do the pose of the character, the job difficulty was cut into half. Save it as JPEG and load in in photoshop. Then I trace the skeleton of the character with it. The reference for kratos was great, so it didnt took much time to draw it.

Unfortunately Cloud character is a big headache. the official character itself has 3 version, one from the original FFVII, one from Kingdom Hearts and one from Advent Children. You can count it as 4 I guess if you count the latest FFVII series "Crisis Core".

First I try to refer from Advent Children. the clothing turns out fine, but the face was a bizzare..
He looks like Trunks Dragonball in Cloud Advent Children suite.

Cloud looks like Trunks Dragonball in his Advent Children suite

Not satisfy with how it turns out, I use Dark Cloud from Kingdom Heart for his head. Instead of drawing from skretch, I trace it out from the original picture.
Luckily I have a great reference for his weapon, so I just trace it.
Kratos sword is simple so no big deal for it.

Cloud and Kratos with their weapon completely drawn.

For the background, it took many days for the inspiration, but the drawing didnt took even a day. Referenced from Tales of Symphonia OVA screenshot, I just move it in a suitable position and trace it with Painter. Then I added a big block of rock for them to stood on. The rest is just a simple photoshop filter.

Its not being critics yet by forumers right now (the day this was posted), but I feel great because the wall is accepted by the one who request it. He even give a rep to me, which I not expected.

New FF7 series comes out!!

New FF7 series come out! Named Crisis-Core - Final Fantasy VII, the game will come out on PSP only. Damn.. I wish I could buy a PSP rite now.. Arghh its my favourite FF series as I played the ff7 PC version before and really love it!

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