Tuesday, 23 July 2013

You are failing just the way you are

A song for my failing students, adapted from Bruno Mars - Just The way you are...

Oh, your scripts, your scripts make me look like I’m not teachin’
Your grades, your grades falls perfectly without me tryin'
You don’t understand
And I tell you everyday

Yeah, I know, I know when I motivate you, you won't believe me
And it's so, it's so sad to think that you don't see what I see
But every time you asks me am I passing sir?
I say

When I see your marks
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're failing
Just the way you are

And when you cry
The whole course stops and pause for awhile
'Cause hey, you're failing
Just the way you are

Your wrongs, your wrongs, I could count them all day if you’d let me
Your flops, your flops, you hate but I think it's so scary
You don’t understand
And I tell you everyday

Oh, you know, you know, you know I'd never teach you to fail
If perfect's what you're searching for, then pull up your socks
So don't even bother asking if you going to pass
You know I'll say

When I see your marks
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're failing
Just the way you are

And when you cry
The whole course stops and pause for awhile
'Cause hey, you're failing
Just the way you are

The way you are
The way you are
Hey, you're failing
Just the way you are

When I see your marks
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're failing
Just the way you are

And when you cry
The whole course stops and pause for awhile
'Cause hey, you're failing
Just the way you are, Ye’eh

Friday, 19 October 2012

What Can a Computer Do

What can a computer do? This is the question that I keep asking myself when there's a task that's need to be done, and I hear it most from my none techie fellows. Since nowadays, living in the age where more and more people have computing devices especially mobile devices.

Most people will tell you that a computer can:

  • Play music and videos
  • Help communicate with emails, messages and even calls
  • Go to the internet and Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter
  • Open study content and do work
  • so on, and so forth

BUT, according to my knowledge, a computer is a very very dumb machine which can only do one thing, Add.Yes, all that a computer can do is too add, and not complex numbers, it can only add '0's and '1's. The brain of a computer is the processor and there is no other function that exists for a computer processor other than the addition of binary numbers, which are  '0's and '1's

Now, to get the subtraction, squaring, multiplication, division - ALL other mathematical functions the computer adds 1's and 0's in creative ways (utilizing the Most Significant Bit and the Least Significant Bit). In theory, computers can do any "computation" which is a fancy way of saying they can take numerical input, perform mathematical operations on them, and then return numerical output. Of course, people don't like numerical input and output, so fancy ways were invented to encode things like text and pictures into numbers, so we can have our computers do stuff like spell check and send things over the internet.

So to answer the question correctly, I would say, the computer can only do one thing, it can ADD!