Half a year away? Why so long, I never heard the work Cisco until my CCNA class and 6 weeks later I took the test without a problem. Try Exam Essentials for some practice tests. With that and a software practice router it takes no time at all.
RESEARCHERS AT Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.
"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."
In a project intended more as performance art than scientific experiment, faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques.
Then, they waited.
At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.
"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.
Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in.
The notion that monkeys typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance.
The Plymouth experiment was funded by England's Arts Council and part of the Vivaria Project, which plans to install computers in zoos across Europe to study differences between animal and artificial life.
Phillips said the results showed that monkeys "are not random generators. They're more complex than that.
"They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there."
Time to use my work and post this before it gets to/.ed
NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200 GPU
Between capability and competence
by Geoff Gasior -- April 29, 2003
WHEN NVIDIA announced its NV31 and NV34 graphics chips, I have to admit I was a skeptic. The chips, which would go on to power NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5600 and 5200 lines, respectively, promised full DirectX 9 features and compatibility to the masses. Who could resist?
Me, at least initially. Perhaps I still had a bitter taste in my mouth after the recycled DirectX 7 debacle that was the GeForce4 MX, or maybe it was NVIDIA's unwillingness to discuss the internal structure of its graphics chips. Maybe it was merely the fact that I didn't believe NVIDIA could pull off a budget graphics chip with a full DirectX 9 feature set without making cutting corners somewhere.
Or maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man.
Well, NVIDIA may have pulled it off. Now that I have Albatron's Gigi FX5200P graphics card in hand, it's time to take stock of what kind of sacrifices were made to squeeze the "cinematic computing" experience into just 45 million transistors. Have NVIDIA and Albatron really produced a sub-$100 graphics product capable of running the jaw-dropping Dawn demo and today's 3D applications with reasonably good frame rates? How does the card stack up against its budget competition? Let's find out.
The NV34 cheat sheet
NVIDIA's big push with its GeForce FX line is top-to-bottom support for DirectX 9 features, including pixel and vertex shaders 2.0, floating point data types, and gobs of internal precision. As the graphics chip behind NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200 and 5200 Ultra, NV34 has full support for the same DirectX 9 features as even the high-end NV30. What's particularly impressive about NV34 is that NVIDIA has squeezed support for all those DirectX 9 features into a die containing only 45 million transistors--nearly one third as many as NV30.
Beyond its full DirectX 9 feature support, here's a quick rundown of NV34's key features and capabilities. A more detailed analysis of NV34's features can be found in my preview of NVIDIA's NV31 and NV34 graphics chips.
Clearly defined pipelines -- NVIDIA has been very clear about the fact that NV34 has four pixel pipelines, each of which is capable of laying down a single texture per pass. Unlike NV30, whose texture units appear dependent on the kind of rendering being done, NV34 is limited to a single texture unit per pipeline for all rendering modes.
Arrays of functional units -- NVIDIA has been coy about what's really going on under the hood of its GeForce FX graphics chips. Instead of telling us how many vertex or pixel shaders each chip has, NVIDIA expresses the relative power of each graphics chip in terms of the amount of "parallelism" within its programmable shader. NV30 has more parallelism than NV31, which in turn has more parallelism than NV34. How much more? Well, NVIDIA isn't being too specific about that, either.
Lossless compression lost -- Unlike NV30 and NV31, the NV34 graphics chip doesn't support lossless color and Z compression, which could hamper the chip's antialiasing performance. The absence of lossless Z compression will also limit the chip's pixel-pushing capacity.
0.15-micron core -- NVIDIA's mid-range NV31 and high-end NV30 graphics chips are manufactured on a 0.13-micron manufacturing process, and both feature 400MHz RAMDACs. Since NV34 is targeted at low-end graphics cards, it's being built on a cheaper and more mature 0.15-micron manufacturing process. The 0.15-micron manufacturing process limits NV34's RAMDAC speed to 350MHz, but only those running extremely high resolutions at high refresh rates should be limited by a 350MHz RAMDAC.
Image Size and Display Type
- Approx. 10" diameter spherical image
- Swept-screen multiplanar volumetric display
- Autostereoscopic: no viewing goggles
- Volume-filling imagery
- Supports many simultaneous viewers - no head-tracking
Resolution / Color / Performance / Memory
- Volume comprised of 198 2-D slices (1.1 slices / degree)
- Approximately 768 x 768 pixel slice resolution
- 24 Hz volume refresh
- Full color (21-bit hardware-based stippling)
- 8 colors at highest resolution
- Polygons / sec.: To be announced
- Dual volume buffers
- TI(TM) 1600 MIPS DSP high-performance embedded processor
- 3 Gbit DDR SDRAM (100 Mvoxels x 3 colors x 2 buffers)
Viewing Angle
- 360 horizontal, 270 vertical
Brightness (typical)
- To be announced
Contrast (typical)
- To be announced
User Controls (Hardware and Software)
- Power on/off, lamp standby, screen on/off
- SCSI ID selector and auto-termination override
- Additional functionality and control available through API
Connectors
- 2 SCSI-2 Wide
Power Supply Electrical Requirements
- Line voltage: 120V AC
- Frequency: 50 to 60 Hz, single phase
- Power: 250W
Agency Approvals
- Pending
System Requirements
- Works with PC-compatible systems running Microsoft® Windows 2000® or Linux.
- SCSI connector.
Size and Weight
- 24" (61 cm) diameter x 9" (23 cm) high base
- 20" (51 cm) diameter dome
- Top of dome 21" (53 cm) from base of display
- Weight: Approx. 60 lbs (27 kg)
I was also abducted for a short time in the cutco cult... I sat through a 3 hour group interview and didnt even know what the job was until the last 10 minutes. It took all the friends and my family to un=hypnotise me.:) Thou shalt cutith ropith
GreaT.. I can use this special player to weed out all the annoying sex scenes. ahh yes precious porn plot. But then again theres only so many times you can watch a guy deliver a pizza.
They seem to go mostly unaffected because first off..they never check their email(or dont know how) and secondly they wouldnt even know if they had it.
Slashdot Mirror
2nd Post
Now we can have even more Shaky's Pizzas...
Screw you guys.. Im goin home. Bebe you still coo
He is a mathamatical Anomaly... PI (3.14) He had 314 seconds to get in the room.
I thankya
Half a year away? Why so long, I never heard the work Cisco until my CCNA class and 6 weeks later I took the test without a problem. Try Exam Essentials for some practice tests. With that and a software practice router it takes no time at all.
At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.
I think they are far beyond are level of intelligence.
RESEARCHERS AT Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.
"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."
In a project intended more as performance art than scientific experiment, faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques.
Then, they waited.
At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.
"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.
Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in.
The notion that monkeys typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance.
The Plymouth experiment was funded by England's Arts Council and part of the Vivaria Project, which plans to install computers in zoos across Europe to study differences between animal and artificial life.
Phillips said the results showed that monkeys "are not random generators. They're more complex than that.
"They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there."
Good Lord... Everything does not need to run linux. But BSD on the other hand... Ok... I.. I got nuthin.
....Thanks. Might check it out. Um... who's the tool that moderates a simple question flamebait?
Because a person who is interested in Linux would also be interested in BSD... Linux/Unix - whats not to understand
Time to use my work and post this before it gets to /.ed
NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200 GPU
Between capability and competence
by Geoff Gasior -- April 29, 2003
WHEN NVIDIA announced its NV31 and NV34 graphics chips, I have to admit I was a skeptic. The chips, which would go on to power NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5600 and 5200 lines, respectively, promised full DirectX 9 features and compatibility to the masses. Who could resist?
Me, at least initially. Perhaps I still had a bitter taste in my mouth after the recycled DirectX 7 debacle that was the GeForce4 MX, or maybe it was NVIDIA's unwillingness to discuss the internal structure of its graphics chips. Maybe it was merely the fact that I didn't believe NVIDIA could pull off a budget graphics chip with a full DirectX 9 feature set without making cutting corners somewhere.
Or maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man.
Well, NVIDIA may have pulled it off. Now that I have Albatron's Gigi FX5200P graphics card in hand, it's time to take stock of what kind of sacrifices were made to squeeze the "cinematic computing" experience into just 45 million transistors. Have NVIDIA and Albatron really produced a sub-$100 graphics product capable of running the jaw-dropping Dawn demo and today's 3D applications with reasonably good frame rates? How does the card stack up against its budget competition? Let's find out.
The NV34 cheat sheet
NVIDIA's big push with its GeForce FX line is top-to-bottom support for DirectX 9 features, including pixel and vertex shaders 2.0, floating point data types, and gobs of internal precision. As the graphics chip behind NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200 and 5200 Ultra, NV34 has full support for the same DirectX 9 features as even the high-end NV30. What's particularly impressive about NV34 is that NVIDIA has squeezed support for all those DirectX 9 features into a die containing only 45 million transistors--nearly one third as many as NV30.
Beyond its full DirectX 9 feature support, here's a quick rundown of NV34's key features and capabilities. A more detailed analysis of NV34's features can be found in my preview of NVIDIA's NV31 and NV34 graphics chips.
Clearly defined pipelines -- NVIDIA has been very clear about the fact that NV34 has four pixel pipelines, each of which is capable of laying down a single texture per pass. Unlike NV30, whose texture units appear dependent on the kind of rendering being done, NV34 is limited to a single texture unit per pipeline for all rendering modes.
Arrays of functional units -- NVIDIA has been coy about what's really going on under the hood of its GeForce FX graphics chips. Instead of telling us how many vertex or pixel shaders each chip has, NVIDIA expresses the relative power of each graphics chip in terms of the amount of "parallelism" within its programmable shader. NV30 has more parallelism than NV31, which in turn has more parallelism than NV34. How much more? Well, NVIDIA isn't being too specific about that, either.
Lossless compression lost -- Unlike NV30 and NV31, the NV34 graphics chip doesn't support lossless color and Z compression, which could hamper the chip's antialiasing performance. The absence of lossless Z compression will also limit the chip's pixel-pushing capacity.
0.15-micron core -- NVIDIA's mid-range NV31 and high-end NV30 graphics chips are manufactured on a 0.13-micron manufacturing process, and both feature 400MHz RAMDACs. Since NV34 is targeted at low-end graphics cards, it's being built on a cheaper and more mature 0.15-micron manufacturing process. The 0.15-micron manufacturing process limits NV34's RAMDAC speed to 350MHz, but only those running extremely high resolutions at high refresh rates should be limited by a 350MHz RAMDAC.
Image Size and Display Type - Approx. 10" diameter spherical image - Swept-screen multiplanar volumetric display - Autostereoscopic: no viewing goggles - Volume-filling imagery - Supports many simultaneous viewers - no head-tracking Resolution / Color / Performance / Memory - Volume comprised of 198 2-D slices (1.1 slices / degree) - Approximately 768 x 768 pixel slice resolution - 24 Hz volume refresh - Full color (21-bit hardware-based stippling) - 8 colors at highest resolution - Polygons / sec.: To be announced - Dual volume buffers - TI(TM) 1600 MIPS DSP high-performance embedded processor - 3 Gbit DDR SDRAM (100 Mvoxels x 3 colors x 2 buffers) Viewing Angle - 360 horizontal, 270 vertical Brightness (typical) - To be announced Contrast (typical) - To be announced User Controls (Hardware and Software) - Power on/off, lamp standby, screen on/off - SCSI ID selector and auto-termination override - Additional functionality and control available through API Connectors - 2 SCSI-2 Wide Power Supply Electrical Requirements - Line voltage: 120V AC - Frequency: 50 to 60 Hz, single phase - Power: 250W Agency Approvals - Pending System Requirements - Works with PC-compatible systems running Microsoft® Windows 2000® or Linux. - SCSI connector. Size and Weight - 24" (61 cm) diameter x 9" (23 cm) high base - 20" (51 cm) diameter dome - Top of dome 21" (53 cm) from base of display - Weight: Approx. 60 lbs (27 kg)
Ha, haha....ha Nice
BSD's Popularity is due to its simple nature. Too many people talk of bigger and better things with it but its purpose it already acheived.
Use Excel, sorry Im a jerk....
Yeah it is really odd there are so few posts
I was unaware..
I was also abducted for a short time in the cutco cult... I sat through a 3 hour group interview and didnt even know what the job was until the last 10 minutes. It took all the friends and my family to un=hypnotise me. :) Thou shalt cutith ropith
1.Send out tons of Spam 2. ? 3.profit
How much do you pay for your precious 4 gigs, and for that matter do you use it on p0rn?
GreaT.. I can use this special player to weed out all the annoying sex scenes. ahh yes precious porn plot. But then again theres only so many times you can watch a guy deliver a pizza.
They are coming....JIMMY!
They seem to go mostly unaffected because first off..they never check their email(or dont know how) and secondly they wouldnt even know if they had it.