Modern Computer and Hardware

Computer is a device that computes, especially a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information. Modern Computer and Hardware 

Your PC (Personal Computer) is a system, consisting of many components. Some of those components, like Windows XP, Windows7, Windows 8 and all your other programs, are software. The stuff you can actually see and touch, and would likely break if you threw it out a fifth-story window, is hardware.

A computer is a technique or means, a plan or scheme, especially a malign one that accepts information and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed. Complex computers also include the means for storing data for some necessary duration. A program may be invariable and built into the computer or different programs may be provided to the computer Today's computers have both kinds of programming.

Modern computers inherently follow the ideas of the stored program laid out by John von Neumann in 1945. Essentially, the program is read by the computer one instruction at a time, an operation is performed, and the computer then reads in the next instruction, and so on. Recently, computers and programs have been devised that allow multiple programs to work on the same problem at the same time in parallel. With the advent of the Internet and higher bandwidth data transmission, programs and data that are part of the same overall project can be distributed over a network and embody the Sun Microsystems slogan: "The network is the computer."

Computer Modern is the family of typefaces used by default by the typesetting program Tax. It was created by Donald Knuth with his METAFONT program, and was most recently updated in 1992.

As implied by the name, Computer Modern is a modern font. Modern, or "Didone", fonts have high contrast between thick and thin elements, and their axis of "stress" or thickening is perfectly vertical. Computer Modern, specifically, is based on Monotype Modern 8a, and like its immediate model it has a large x-height relative to the length of ascenders and descanters.

Wanted Sculptures in the modern World!

Sculpture 1390, from L. sculptura "sculpture," from pp. stem of sculpere to carve, engrave, back-formation from compounds such as exculpere, from scalpere "to carve, cut," Sculptor is first recorded 1634, from L. sculptor, from sculpere. 

 1. The Great Sphinx, Cairo, Egypt

The story of sculpture spans pre-historic and ancient nobilities to the contemporary, from the utilitarian and religious to Modernist abstraction, and conceptual manifestations of both form and content.

2. David by Michelangelo, 1501 - 1504; 

Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy

 3. Venus de Milo 130 - 100 BC;
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Such works of art collectively means ‘Sculpture’ has been mainly in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent century’s large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. 

4. The Thinker by Auguste Rodin,
1902; Musée Rodin, Paris, France

5. The Kiss by Auguste Rodin, 1889;
Rodin Museum, Paris, France

Those the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.
 

 6.  The Statue of Liberty
by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, New York, US

7. Christ the Redeemer
By Paul Landowski Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing one or more people or animals, normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger. Its primary concern is representational.
 

 8. Tian Tan Buddha, Hong Kong, China

9. The Bronze Horseman by Étienne Maurice Falconet
1782; Saint Petersburg, Russia

The definition of a statue or trophy or memorial is not always clear-cut; sculptures of a person on a horse, called Equestrian statues, are certainly included, and in many cases, such as a Madonna and Child or a Pietà, a sculpture of two people will also be. A small statue, usually small enough to be picked up, is called a statuette or figurine.

10. Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, 1622-1625; Galleria     Borghese, Rome, Italy

11. Little Mermaid at Langelinie in Denmark

 

Sculpture is valuable or substantial form of public art. A collection of sculpture in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden.
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created means develop in mind or physically by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer ("plastic") materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals. The term has been extended to works including sound, text and light.
Statues are amongst the wonders or marvel, astonishment, amazement of the world, with the Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the Moai of Easter Island among the wonders of the modern world.

Hollywood Best Guy Movie “Drive” No.1

A lone-wolf Hollywood stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) moonlights as a freelance getaway wheelman, and he finds his solitary existence taking on new meaning after befriending Irene (Carey Mulligan), the lonely wife of convicted felon Standard (Oscar Isaac), and her young son Benicio (Kaden Leos).

That’s let’s see a lone hero, car chases, shootouts, and bloody retribution… Drive may star hipster idol Ryan Gosling, but by hitting all the usual guy movie checkpoints, this is one film on which hipsters and guys can agree.

 Drive became an instant cult classic, Slick, hyper-stylized and punctuated with its silent hero and retro styling.

Surprisingly badass performances from unlikely sources like Gosling and Albert Brooks, Nicolas Winding Refn's art-house action flick to join an esteemed list of guy-movie classics that’s dark genre movie, Drive had us hooked from the very first scene.

Modern neo-noir at its best, DRIVE is dangerous, taut and tantalizing.  It’s a fairly commercial film to be shown at Cannes, and is sure to appeal to audiences on grand favorite scales that’s fires on all cylinders and is quite the adrenaline rush.

Gosling stars as Driver, a man of few words.  By day, he’s a movie stunt driver and car mechanic, and by night, he’s a getaway car driver. Driver lays out his philosophy in words and action as we see his cool, calm, and collected methods. A basketball game and monitoring his police scanner, Driver always has a plan, even though it seems like he’s effortlessly making it up as he goes along.

Driver meets his impossibly-cute neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her quiet young son Benicio.  He immediately takes a shine to her and the kid a shine to him.  But Driver discovers that Irene’s husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac) is soon to be let out of jail. 
Standard wants to reform himself, the jailbird is still being pursued by old friends who want him to pull a heist.  Driver decides to lend his services to get Oscar off the hook and help Irene and Benicio.
DRIVE is a beautifully arranged, layered piece filled with loads of shock and awe as Driver’s journey progresses.  There is precious little to complain about here.  Gosling and Refn can take us on a “Night call” through L.A.’s seedy underbelly anytime.
Ranks of 4.5 out of 5
DRIVE had its North American premiere at The Los Angeles Film Festival on June 17th.  The film opens wide on September 16th.

“DRIVE”
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Written by: Hossein Amini (screenplay) & James Sallis (novel)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Ron Pearlman, Christina Hendricks, and Albert Brooks
Release Date: 09/16/2011
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Thriller