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I still remember the animated film Inside Out released by Pixar in 2015, which personified people’s five basic emotions and made people re-examine their emotions in laughter.

This time, Pixar applied the creative idea of "everything can be anthropomorphic" to natural elements, bringing a brand-new fantasy story-

Crazy element city

Fire, water, wind and earth live together in a dream city.

They seem to repel each other, but they can influence each other, colliding with crazy and interesting chemical reactions, and even bringing a love story of "fire and water are incompatible"?

On the occasion of the upcoming film release this Friday (June 16th), Time Jun will take you to see what new elements Pixar has brought to the audience from the picture to the story.

Technical force explosion

In fact, the idea of anthropomorphizing elements is not novel. After all, many people have played the flash game "The Man in the Forest" in the computer room:

But to present this idea perfectly on the big screen requires an extremely professional industrialization process and world-leading technical force.

In this regard, we can always trust Pixar’s technology-

When the gate of Element City is opened, you are greeted with a visual feast that you can enjoy to the utmost.

Absent-minded clouds that come and go freely have injected a trace of cure and accident into the city:

The soil looks dirty, but it is the hero who built and supported the whole urban structure:

Hot and active fire, with a steady stream of energy and energy, provides a solid foundation for the city:

Water full of curiosity always protects and nourishes the natural environment of the city;

In these special urban residents, we can feel that Pixar has created a new height for the presentation of dynamic effects.

For example, Pixar has made great efforts to describe the movement track of "fire", observing the flame in the real world, looking for inspiration, and then performing artistic processing.

So, you can see that when the fire is moving rapidly, sometimes part of the body disappears and rises again:

The audience can feel that this is really a group of "fire people", not a person with "flame skin".

Of course, it takes explosive technical force to make all kinds of elements lifelike, but it takes imagination and sincere observation of life to make these elements truly "characters" and have their own lives in a logical way.

In the trailer, we can see a lot of people who can’t help but sigh "so imaginative, but so real!" The details.

Fire Baby’s stroller is an oven, and milk powder is engine oil;

Fire can also make a hot air balloon heated and take off for a romantic air date:

When water glides on the surface of the lake at a high speed, it can stir up spray and hang a rainbow on the horizon:

Of course, sometimes jokes will be made, such as the fire accidentally hitting the soil wearing a "turf coat" and burning him bald in an instant:

The elements live in this city, and every interaction between them can collide with interesting events, which makes the world truly convincing.

Stimulation of technical strength and imagination, sincere love for life … These "creative elements" complement each other, which is the reason why Pixar animation touches people’s hearts again and again.

Fire and water love

In the gorgeous and magical element city, the classic story of "boy meets girl" is also staged all the time.

However, the two protagonists of this love story are fire and water, Xiao Yan and A Bo.

The gap between the two is so deep that it seems to span an entire periodic table, and it is completely impossible to have a happy ending.

Xiaoyan lives in a traditional family and has the responsibility of inheriting the family business.

Her family has always taught her that "elements are incompatible" and excluded other elements. She has also been taught and has never left the fiery town where the fire elements live.

It was not until Po suddenly jumped out of the burst water pipe that a bigger world slowly opened in front of her.

Contrary to Xiaoyan, A Bo lives in an optimistic family, free and unrestrained, and Xiaoyan is also welcome to outsiders.

The acquaintance with A Bo made Xiao Yan curious about the larger element world, bravely took the step of exploration, and began to pursue his true inner desire.

This is not only a romantic love story across ethnic groups, but also a story of finding self-identity and embracing more possibilities.

In Pixar’s past classic feature films, love rarely served as the main narrative theme, but through some descriptions with little ink, the innocence and sincerity among them have moved the audience to tears.

For example, in Travels around the Flying House, Grandpa Carl and his wife were childhood friends, and the montage clip of their love for a lifetime was tearful to the whole world, explaining what is plain and true:

The pure love between Wali and Eva in Robot Story has also brought happy childhood memories to countless people, telling us that true love may not need the pretense of words:

As for the love between fire and water in Crazy Element City, can Pixar bring us another romantic adventure?

I look forward to how they can overcome many obstacles, know each other and love each other, turn compatibility into compatibility, and turn the impossible into possibility.

Asian perspective

As Pixar’s brand-new feature film masterpiece, Crazy Element City is in full swing and has assembled a gold medal team.

There is a core team that once created Soul and other excellent works with high scores, the chief creative officer of Pixar Studio, and Pete Docter, who directed Inside Out’s Travel Around the Flying House and other Oscar classics, as the producer.

As for Peter Sun, an Asian director who once participated in the production of Summer Friendship Day and Travel Notes around Flying Houses, many people may not be familiar with him.

Most of the time, he is active in animation as a voice actor, and his voice (Ganke Lee) is in the recently released Spider-Man: The Vertical and Horizontal Universe.

He is a new director, but he also has impressive works.

For example, in 2009, the animated short film "Violent Clouds and Crane Delivery" recounted an ancient western legend with a bold and unconstrained style and healing warmth.

For more than five minutes, the soft and changeable "violent cloud" made people feel warm:

What makes people smile is that we can also see the lovely cure of the same paragraph in the "wind" in "Crazy Element City":

In Crazy Element City, we can see Peter Sun’s Asian perspective and narrative about cultural conflicts.

The love story of Xiao Yan and A Bo, which is "incompatible with fire and water", comes from his marriage.

Born in a Korean family, he has been shouldering the responsibility of continuing the tradition since he was a child. Grandma’s expectation for him is "marry a Korean!" .

However, he fell in love with a white woman and got married, which caused many dramatic events in two families.

A small detail can be seen in the trailer. A Bo tried to eat very hot food and burned himself to deformation.

The details of this life also come from the director’s emotional story. He took his wife and her family to a Korean restaurant, but as a result, her wife was not used to eating too spicy food and made some accidents:

At first, the two could only associate behind his parents’ backs, but fortunately, in the end, true love prevailed, and both families finally accepted each other, and they also found many things in common in this marriage with different skin colors.

From this, we can also see that individuals who seem to be "incompatible with fire and water" can actually merge into one as long as they have love to cross obstacles, bringing incomparable touch.

Besides the love story, the setting of Element City also comes from the director’s life experience. As the son of immigrants, the residents in Element City are very different, which obviously refers to the ethnic diversity in the city.

It can also be seen from the choice of directors that Pixar attaches importance to and encourages Asian groups.

From "Metamorphosis of Youth" to "Crazy Element City" today, new directors are boldly used, and the audience can witness more works from Asian perspectives.

In both works, there are themes about the "heavy love" of traditional East Asian families and the identity of immigrants, which are quite cordial to East Asian audiences.

Of course, I also expect these Asian directors to bring more narratives that are not limited to identity, so that audiences all over the world can resonate.

How big is the power supply? I believe this is a problem that many DIY players will encounter when purchasing power. Most people’s solution is to follow the crowd, and I will choose how big others choose. In addition to seeking help in forums and post bars, the sales volume and evaluation of e-commerce platforms are also one of the reference standards.

Although this method can solve the problem of "which power supply to buy" temporarily, it can’t answer the fundamental question of "how much power to buy" in the long run. You can’t ask others for help every time you install the machine, can you?

So is there a way to do it once and for all without asking for help? Today, I will teach you a trick to easily choose the power supply suitable for your computer.

Let’s popularize the basic knowledge before teaching you how to choose the power supply suitable for your computer.

Our computer isIt is composed of CPU, graphics card, motherboard, memory, hard disk, peripherals and other hardware. When the computer is running, all parts of the hardware need to consume a certain amount of power. Generally speaking, the power consumption of CPU and graphics card is the highest, accounting for the vast majority of the overall power consumption of the computer.

Whether the computer can run stably is not only affected by the hardware itself, but also by the power supply that provides them with electricity.

Simply put, if the power consumption is higher than the overall power consumption of the whole machine, the computer will run stably; When the power supply is lower than the overall power consumption of the whole machine, it will be unstable. Therefore, it is particularly important to choose a power supply with sufficient power.

In fact, the solution is very simple, just buy a power supply with high power supply, but don’t forget that the higher the power supply often means the higher the price, and you need to pay more money for the high power supply.

The power calculator is good, but the update is not in place.

So, how can we calculate the overall power consumption required by the whole machine?

There are two ways, one is to calculate the overall power consumption of the whole machine through the known power consumption of each part of the hardware. Obviously, this method is time-consuming and laborious, and it is necessary not only to find the power consumption of each part of hardware, but also to add them one by one, which inevitably leads to the risk of mistakes.

The second method is obtained through a power calculator. There are some power calculators on the Internet. You can automatically calculate the required power by selecting the configuration of your computer, which is very convenient.

But most of these calculators are old, and the support for many new models of hardware is not in place. You may not find your own hardware at all.

PSU Calculator to find out.

The following is the key point that the author wants to talk about. Since the power calculator is more convenient than manual search, is there a power calculator that supports the existing hardware better?

The answer, of course, is yes, which is also the purpose of this paper. It is a power calculator from Cool Extreme.

This power calculator is called PSU Calculator, which can only be found from Cool Extreme. The English interface is not very friendly to us, but fortunately, the support for new hardware is good, and it can be found in 8-generation Core and 10-series graphics cards.

After opening the link of PSU Calculator, you can see a very detailed table, including motherboard, CPU, memory, graphics card, hard disk, keyboard and mouse, fan and other devices, and you can even overclock the frequency of CPU and graphics card to calculate the appropriate power supply. I have to say that this power calculator is very careful and worth learning from domestic manufacturers.

How many watts of power do the high, medium and low platforms need?

After knowing that there is a good thing called PSU Calculator, let’s try to calculate how many watts of power are needed for high, medium and low platforms based on the current mainstream hardware configuration.

1. High-end platform: i7-8700K+GTX 1080

Let’s take a look at the high-end platform of i7-8700K+GTX 1080. Other configurations are fixed as two 8GB memories, a SATA SSD+ and a 7200 rpm mechanical hard disk.

After selecting the configuration, click Calculate in the lower right corner to calculate the required power supply.

It can be seen that there are two powers in the lower right corner, one is Load Wattage, and the other is Recommended PSU Wattage. Load Wattage refers to the typical load of this configuration, such as the power required for running a 3D game, and Recommended PSU Wattage is the recommended power, which we shall take as the standard.

The typical load of this configuration is 401W, and the recommended power is 451W W. It can be seen that the power required by this high-end configuration is not as high as we thought, and the power supply of 500-600W can meet it.

For example, Hangjia’s JUMPER500 power supply has a rated power of 500W, and has passed the 80PLUS white-label certification, with 12V single-channel 40A current output and active PFC+ dual-transistor forward scheme. The price of 299 yuan is very cost-effective.

2. Mid-range platform: i5-8400+GTX 1060

For the mid-range platform, we take the i5-8400+GTX 1060 as an example. Other configurations are still fixed as two 8GB memories, a SATA SSD+ and a 7200 rpm mechanical hard disk. Calculated by PSU Calculator, this configuration only needs 362W W.

We can choose a 400W power supply for this mid-range configuration. For example, this Longba 400 power supply of Jinhetian has a rated power of 400W, adopts an enhanced 12V output (18A), double copper PCB design and a 12cm hydraulic fan. The power supply is stable and the heat dissipation is more efficient, and the price is only 159 yuan, which is very affordable.

3. Low-end platform: AMD Ruilong 2200G+ set display.

Here we positioned Ruilong 2200G as the living room entertainment center, so we didn’t increase the solo display. The recommended power calculated by PSU Calculator is 212W, and the power consumption is very low, so it is enough for us to choose a 300W power supply.

For example, the C5 power supply of Xingu, a nuclear-powered cruiser, has a rated power of 300W, a 12V output of 252W(21A), accounting for 84%, and the peak power can reach 400W W. Moreover, it adopts a 12cm PWM intelligent temperature control fan, which can reduce noise while providing large air output. The price is more affordable, only 119 yuan.

Well, the above is the author taking the current mainstream configuration as an example, and calculating the required power through PSU Calculator to choose the power supply he needs.

The purpose of this paper is to tell you that you can use PSU Calculator as a small tool when purchasing power supply, so you don’t have to ask for help from others or calculate manually. Interested friends may wish to collect it and try it first.

　　

　　On June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (front right) and French President Macron (front left) took a group photo in Berlin, Germany.

　　"The recession at the economic level is transmitted to the social level, with the rise of extreme nationalism and populism, and then transmitted to the political level, forming political turmoil. This is a logical clue for problems in Europe."

　　Text/Global magazine reporter Zhang Yue

　　Sixty years ago, the leaders of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg signed the Treaty on the European Economic Community and the Treaty on the European Atomic Energy Community (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Treaty of Rome) in Rome, marking the birth of the European Community, the predecessor of the European Union.

　　The European Community has ended hundreds of years of wars in the European continent and brought peace to Europeans. It has always been regarded as a model of regional integration. However, this "model" is facing more and more challenges: economic depression, political disunity, the rise of populism, refugee crisis and terrorist threats …

　　Why are these problems in Europe? Where will Europe go? On these issues, Global magazine interviewed Feng Zhongping, vice president of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.

　　Step too fast

　　Global magazine: The Treaty of Rome in 1957 made the predecessor of the European Union, the European Community, which was once regarded as a model of regional integration. Some even said that the European Community would become a "United States of Europe". The EU is now facing many challenges. Where is the root of the problem? Has the EU itself made some mistakes in the process of promoting integration?

　　Feng Zhongping:The story of post-war Europe is the story of integration. The initial motivation for the establishment of the European Community was to eliminate wars and achieve long-term peace in Europe. There were two world wars in Europe in the 20th century, and integration meant to keep Germany in the cage of integration. After World War II, Europeans felt that if the "German problem" could not be solved, the war would break out again, so there was a particularly strong will to promote integration at that time.

　　Therefore, integration was a "peace project" or a "political project" at first, with economic benefits, and it was very stable at first. However, after the end of the Cold War, the pace of EU development was too fast, from 12 countries at the end of the Cold War to 28 countries. The level of national development within the alliance has become more differentiated, and the demands for interests are different. The motives of the new member countries, especially the Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU after 2004, are mainly for economic benefits, but after joining, they did not obviously feel that it brought them much benefit. Coupled with the international financial crisis in 2008, the cohesion within Europe has been declining.

　　There are mistakes in the expansion of European integration. If a member state does not get economic benefits, its support and loyalty to the EU will be greatly reduced.

　　If the European debt crisis widens the contradiction between the North and the South, causing the southern European countries to fall into crisis, and the northern European countries act as "fire captains", then the refugee crisis highlights the contradiction between the East and the West. Western European countries are willing to open their doors to accept refugees, while Eastern European countries refuse to accept refugees.

　　The problems in Europe are actually the problems faced by the whole west, that is, the pressure brought by the new round of economic globalization and the intensification of polarization between the rich and the poor. Some signs actually appeared before 2008, but the financial crisis and the European debt crisis exposed and aggravated the inherent contradictions. The recession at the economic level will inevitably be transmitted to the social level, with the rise of extreme nationalism and populism, and then it will inevitably be transmitted to the political level, forming political turmoil. This is a logical clue to the problems in Europe.

　　As a direct result, people began to oppose European integration. Anti-European integration is actually anti-globalization. Britain’s "Brexit" is an example of turning anti-globalization thoughts into reality. Britain has thousands of reasons to "leave the European Union", but the last straw that overwhelms the camel is immigration. During the referendum on "Brexit" last year, one of the most attractive views for the British people was that after leaving the EU, the population of other EU member countries would no longer flood into the UK. People can see that anti-immigration has become the core word of anti-globalization and anti-integration

　　Will not disintegrate.

　　Global magazine: Will Britain’s "Brexit" trigger a chain reaction that will lead to the disintegration of the EU?

　　Feng Zhongping:There have been two particularly big concerns in Europe: one is whether the euro zone will disintegrate and the unified currency will disintegrate due to the outbreak and spread of the European debt crisis; The second question is whether Britain’s "Brexit" will become the first domino to fall, triggering the disintegration of the whole EU.

　　Britain’s "Brexit" marks the climax of European anti-integration forces. People are very worried about the emergence of a second Britain. Will France (Brexit)? Will the Netherlands (Brexit)? Coupled with Trump’s election as president of the United States in November last year, people are worried that it is likely to further stimulate the wave of anti-globalization in Europe.

　　However, from the current point of view, Britain’s "Brexit" has not had the chain effect that people are worried about, and Macron’s victory in the French general election is an important symbol.

　　The "National Front" led by Le Pen, Macron’s opponent and right-wing candidate, is an extreme anti-EU political party. It can get a very high support rate in France, which actually reflects the strong anti-integration and anti-globalization forces in France, but it was finally defeated by Macron, indicating that this force has not yet gained the upper hand.

　　The French election marks that European integration has not ebbed, and it is a sign that the situation of European integration has improved.

　　Macron is the most pro-EU politician in recent years, or the most supportive of European integration. His coming to power may bring an opportunity to the EU, that is, France and Germany will reunite and continue to play the role of twin engines as the locomotive of European integration. After he was elected president, he immediately visited Germany to discuss with Merkel how to make European integration move forward.

　　Another sign that the EU is improving is that the European economy is improving. This year, the forecasts of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other authoritative organizations for the economies of the euro zone and the European Union are relatively optimistic. The EU is expected to achieve positive growth for all its member countries for three consecutive years after the financial crisis. In addition, the unemployment rate in Europe is also declining. From 2016 to this year, the unemployment rate has dropped below 10%, reaching the pre-crisis level. The signal of data transmission is that the most dangerous period of EU integration has passed, and now it has entered a period of introspection, adjustment and reform.

　　Must be reformed

　　Global magazine: If the EU has entered a period of reform, what is the main direction of reform? What obstacles do you face?

　　Feng Zhongping:At present, the reform of the EU mainly includes two levels, one is the national level and the other is the European level.

　　At the national level, we should focus on countries such as France and Italy, especially France. If Macron can’t guide the French to carry out real reforms, populism will still come back, and the prospect of the EU is still not optimistic.

　　France needs to carry out structural reforms, revitalize the economy, reduce the operating costs of the economy and improve its competitiveness, that is, to reduce welfare, reduce public expenditure, reform the labor market, untie enterprises and let them regain their competitiveness. But everyone knows the problems in France, and the resistance to reform is too great. Both Chirac and Hollande’s reforms ended in shelving. Macron served as the Minister of Economy in the Hollande government at that time, and put forward a reform plan for Macron, which was not achieved in the end. This shows that the reform has great resistance in France.

　　Fortunately, the party led by Macron won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, which ensured that he not only had the will to reform, but also had the ability to reform.

　　France is said to be the most unwilling country in the world. As soon as the reform was carried out, people took to the streets to demonstrate. One of the lessons that European countries should do is to reform the social welfare system and improve the competitiveness of products in the face of economic globalization. This lesson is being done in other countries, but not in France. Some critics say that no matter who wins, Macron and Le Pen get a "sick man of Europe".

　　The reform at the EU level is mainly to improve the defects at the EU system level. When Macron visited Germany after his election, he proposed to establish a "euro zone fiscal union", which is actually the most urgent thing in Europe now.

　　Part of the reason why the European debt crisis occurred is that although the European Union unified its currency, it did not unify its finances. There is a unified central bank, but there is no unified Ministry of Finance and unified budget.

　　Within the EU, there is a big gap in the level of development between countries. Normally speaking, it is safer to unify the currency only when the economic development level between countries is roughly the same, but the European Union unified the currency without meeting this premise, which is itself a defect in the monetary system. Macron’s proposal to build a unified fiscal union in the euro zone is to avoid another debt crisis.

　　Reform is very difficult. Whether Macron’s reform can be promoted or not, and whether the euro zone’s reform can be promoted, remains to be seen. But these are all reforms that the EU must make, not reforms that can be done or not. For the long-term development of the EU and France, these reforms are unavoidable.

　　Multi-speed Europe

　　Global magazine: The European Union has also noticed the problem of unbalanced internal development, so it puts forward the concept of "multi-speed Europe" with the aim of realizing the integration of different speeds. Do you think "multi-speed Europe" can be realized from the operational level?

　　Feng Zhongping:Speed-by-speed integration is not what the EU wants to see, and there is no way out. If this is not done, integration may stagnate. In order to avoid stagnation, we must adopt a new integration path.

　　The enlargement of the European Union and the divergence of internal interests determine that it cannot move forward at the same speed. The EU itself does not want to be divided into core areas or marginal areas, which is not conducive to internal unity.

　　In fact, the EU is already a "two-speed Europe". For example, some member States have not joined the euro zone or the Schengen Agreement. I think it is a realistic approach to be forced to propose "multi-speed Europe". "Multi-speed Europe" has a very important premise: it must be open, not form a small collective circle, and other countries should be allowed to participate at any time when conditions are ripe.

　　However, Central and Eastern European countries are firmly opposed to "multi-speed Europe". They are worried about being marginalized and think that this is splitting the EU. But I think France, Germany and Italy are determined to do this.

　　Global magazine: After facing a series of challenges, is the influence of the EU being weakened in the world?

　　Feng Zhongping:The biggest influence of the EU in the world is its economic influence, or the right to speak economically. Its economic status depends on three major factors: a unified market, a unified currency, and its emergence as the unified identity of the European Union in international multilateral institutions.

　　The position of the European Union in economic affairs remains particularly important. In the field of political, diplomatic and security, the influence of the EU mainly depends on the cooperation among member governments. This part of the power is not handed over to supranational institutions, but is still in the hands of member States. Undeniably, in recent years, the European Union has encountered many difficulties and crises, which have led to an increase in its internal contradictions and centrifugal separation from Germany, and its international voice has indeed been weakened. The future influence will depend on the success of the above reforms.

　　America and Europe are drifting away?

　　Global magazine: After Trump was elected president of the United States, he announced the implementation of "American priority". What impact will this have on the relationship between the United States and Europe?

　　Feng Zhongping:After Trump came to power, the differences between Europe and the United States did increase. The thinking of "American priority" is contradictory to the position that Europe and the United States jointly safeguard the transatlantic alliance in the past. In the past few decades, the president and government of the United States have always regarded the common interests of Europe and the United States as very important. Trump puts American interests first. In this case, Europe and the United States began to disagree on many issues.

　　For example, on the climate issue, Europeans firmly upheld the Paris Agreement, while Trump announced his withdrawal. On the NATO issue, Trump mainly emphasized that European countries should pay military expenses and dilute collective defense. My view is that as long as Trump is on the stage and the "US priority" policy does not change, the relationship between Europe and the United States may be alienated, and the relationship between the two sides of the Atlantic may gradually drift away.

　　Although I don’t think NATO will be dissolved yet, the relationship between the two sides of the Atlantic will become cold. For the EU, this may have three effects.

　　First of all, the EU will reduce its dependence on the United States, especially on defense, and increase its own common defense construction. This trend has now begun to appear.

　　Second, the EU will pay more attention to peripheral issues such as the Middle East issue than before, and propose solutions, instead of relying mainly on the United States to solve these problems as before.

　　Third, the EU will expand its "circle of friends". It thinks that if the United States is not too reliable, it will seek to ease relations with some emerging economies, including the Russian Federation, and will pay more attention to its relations with China.

　　On May 22nd, in Berlin, Germany, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch? uble (left) and French Economy Minister Bruno lemerre attended the press conference. The two sides stated that they would take measures to consolidate the euro.