Sunday, March 9, 2014

WAR OF LOVERS

WAR OF LOVERS - PART SIX

"ZAAAKIIIIIIII" *NGIIING* seketika telingan Zaki bedengung di pagi nan cerah itu. 'astaga anak itu. aku penasaran kayak apa sih pita suaranya? cempreng banget' batin Zaki. "Apa?" jawab Zaki ketus. "Gapapa, cuma manggil." jawab sahabt Zaki sambil tersenyum lebar --kita samarkan namanya menjadi Kichi. Zaki cuma mendecak kesal atas ulah sahabatnya ini. "Oh ya, kemaren kamu pulang bareng kak Sakura ya?" tanya Kichi. "Kalo iya emang kenapa?" jawab Zaki ketus --lagi. "Jangan-jangan..." kata Kichi menggantungkan kalimatnya sambil memberikan tatapan jahil pada Zaki. "Jangan-jangan apa?" kata Zaki yang mulai kesal. "Kamu suka ya~" "Bukan urusanmu." "Cie yang naksir kakak kelas... Ciee ciee..." ledek Kichi yang dilanjutkan dengan tawa kerasnya. Zaki yang merasa jengah dengan ulah sahabatnya ini pun pergi meninggalkan sahabatnya menuju perpustakaan. Kenapa perpustakaan? Karena dapat dipastikan 100% bahwa Kichi takkan mengikutinya. Kenapa? Karena Kichi benci ruang penuh buku mungkin.

Tak lama kemudian Zaki pun tiba di depan perpustakaan. Kenapa di depan? Kenapa gak masuk aja? Dan kenapa chapter kali ini banyak pertanyaannya? Karena author lagi stres mikirin uts besok mungkin. Oke back to the story. Karena saat Zaki hendak masuk ke dalam perpustakaan, Zaki dapat melihat Sakura dan Syahmil sedang berbicara berdua dengan senyuman Sakura yang menemani perbincangan mereka. Zaki yang panas melihat kejadian itu akhirnya pergi berlari menuju atap. Bukannya dia sakit hati melihat Sakura dapat tersenyum semanis itu hanya karena berbicara dengan Syahmil namun karena Syahmil yang --seenak pala botaknya om dedi-- dekat-dekat dengan Sakura. Meskipun Sakura bukan milik siapa-siapa saat ini --kecuali milik keluarga dan Tuhan YME tentunya-- tetap saja Zaki tidak suka melihat pemandangan itu.

Di lain tempat, di perpustakaan tepatnya. Syahmil tengah menyeringai penuh arti dalam hati. Rupanya Syahmil sedari tadi mengetahui keberadaan Zaki yang memperhatikan dia dan Sakura dari depan perpustakaan. 'How that's feel, my junior. Khu khu khu.' batin Syahmil. "Oh iya Sakura, kakak baru inget kalo kakak ada janji. Kakak balik duluan ya. Kapan-kapan kita ngobrol-ngobrol lagi, oke?" kata Syahmil pada Sakura. "Oke kak!" yang dijawab penuh semangat oleh Sakura.

--di atap--
*BRAK* terdengar suara pintu yang ditutup dengan cara dibanting. "Megane sialan!" teriak Zaki ketika sampai di atap. "Oi. Gak usah teriak-teriak bisa gak? Berisik tau." suara yang tidak begitu asing baru saja menyapa indra pendengaran Zaki. Zaki sempat menekukkan dahinya untuk mengingat-ingat suara milik siapa yang barusan berbicara (baca: memerintah) nya. "Oh, kak Mada ya?" kata Zaki kalem yang dibalas dengan munculnya sosok tersebut dari balik tembok. "Kenapa?" tanya sosok tersebut yang diketahui sebagai Mada. "..." Zaki hanya diam tak mengindahkan pertanyaan kakak kelasnya tersebut. "Megane, hm? Kak Syahmil maksudnya?" kali ini pertanyaan Mada dijawab dengan anggukan singkat dari Zaki. Mada diam tak melanjutkan pertanyaannya berharap adik kelasnya ini mau membuka mulut untuk bercerita. Tak lama Zaki pun menceritakan apa yang dilihatnya barusan karena ia merasa bahwa kakak kelasnya ini amat teramat sangat menanti jawaban dari Zaki. Namun cerita Zaki hanya dijawab dengan 'oh' dari Mada. "Kok cuma oh?!" teriak Zaki kesal. "Terus maunya apa?" kata Mada kalem. "Ya apa gi-" kata-kata Zaki terhenti saat tubuhnya berbalik menghadap Mada yang terlihat tengah mengeluarkan aura membunuhnya. Seakan mengerti dengan situasi Zaki pun langsung menutup mulutnya, tak berniat sama sekali untuk melanjutkan pembicaraan. Kenapa Mada mengeluarkan aura membunuh? Jelas karena jealous. Zaki pulang bareng sama Sakura kemaren. Mada tau itu dari gosip yang beredar di sekolah saat ia sedang menuju ke kelasnya. Syahmil ngobrol bareng Sakura di perpustakaan. Dan tolong siapa pun, pertegas kata ini, BERDUA. Kalau perlu di bold, italic, underline sekalian (begini? BERDUA). Apa perlu dijelaskan lagi kenapa? Jelas karena Mada belum bertindak sama sekali. 'dasar kouhai-senpai kurang ajar' geram Mada dalam hati.

--di tempat Sakura berada--
*WUUSSHH* tiba-tiba angin berhembus cukup kuat di sekitar leher Sakura membuat yang bersangkutan bergidik ngeri. 'harus waspada, harus waspada' batin Sakura.
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Yak, di karenakan satu-dua alasan, minggu depan aku gak ngepost. Kenapa? (aduh pertanyaan mulu perasaan) Yah, pokoknya karena satu-dua alasanlah intinya. Dan maaf kalo chapie ini pendek, aku mau belajar buat uts besok soalnya :D. Oke, see you 2 week again~

Friday, March 7, 2014

AMD AM1 Chipset

AMD Shows Off th Low-Cost Upgradeable AM1 Chipset Aimed at Expanding PC Market

AMD AM1 Chipset

AMD AM1 Chipset

"AMD has developed a new low-cost desktop chipset, targeting more computing power for the sub-$60 market. The new AMD AM1 Kabini range of processors are system on a chip (SoC) designs, combining a Kabini API with a socketed FS1b motherboard.

While much of the tech industry focuses its designs on the mobile market, AMD is refocusing on cheaper alternative desktop chipsets for developing regions. What this means is cheaper PC hardware worldwide, while still remaining upgradeable thanks to the socket AM1 platform…
AMD AM1 Chipset

These new Kabini processors are being created to be similar to their laptop counterparts, while focusing on a key aspect of PCs - upgradeability. Each of the processors will come packing four Jaguar-based CPU controller, a memory controller supporting up to 1600 MHz memory and 128 streaming processors utilising the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. This will make them very similar in technology to the recently launched Playstation 4 and Xbox One consoles, although the all-in-one packages will begin retailing for an expected starting price point of $60 for the combined chipset and motherboard.

A range of fifteen different motherboards are planned for the worldwide launch on April 9th, with many major chipset partners getting on board. The majority of the mobos will be in a micro-ATX form factor, while some are mini-ITX. Building a system using these components could see complete PC builds in the sub-$200 range, capable of playing many of the last decade’s games at lower settings.

While the specs won’t make for very pleasant reading for gamers it should be enough to create a system right at the lower end of the scale, great for running some of them older games. Gamers right at the cutting edge won’t see much to gain here, but AMD looks to be targeting a market of potentially billions of new PC gamers looking to get a foot in the door for an extremely affordable price.

AMD AM1 Chipset

These AMD AM1 products are expect to be available globally from April 9th."

source - Game-Debate

OnLive

OnLive Reborn as Steam-Integrated CloudLift Store

Onlive

OnLive

"It’s disappeared from public view for the last 18 months or so but OnLive has once again surfaced, and it’s an even stranger proposition than before.

The video game streaming service is back with a new business model, a cloud gaming companion service going by the name CloudLift. The difference this time is that it no longer sells any games whatsoever…
OnLive

The new CloudLift service will work with gamer’s existing game collections, letting them stream their games remotely via any device with a browser. It’s beta opened up to everyone yesterday, and will allow them to stream select games via the CloudLift service for a subscription fee of £9.99/$14.99 per month, which doesn’t include the cost of buying the games from other services.

The service will automatically detect the games installed on your primary gaming machine and make them available for streaming. The difference between CloudLift and the previous Online service is that users can retain ownership of games they buy should their subscription lapse, and can still play their games in perfect fidelity at home.

The cloud play CloudLift service will reportedly work on PC, Max, TV and Android devices, while gamer’s cloud saves are synced automatically to allow them to pick up where they left off. Presumably this is being targeted at commuters who want to play games streamed from their gaming PC that their laptops aren’t capable of. The immediate problem is that OnLive already had large-scale issues due to input lag and artifacting from users without fast enough internet connections, CloudLift appears to rely exclusively on wireless connections to stream games.

CloudLift also has to contend with the issue that not every game is supported by the service, with it launching with a limited selection of titles, including Batman: Arkham City, The Lego Movie: Videogame, Saints Row IV and a dozen others.

We've tried to boot up the free trial to put it through its paces but it doesn't appear to working just yet, let us know if you have any luck!"

source - Game-Debate