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@import url(//db.onlinewebfonts.com/c/2aaa3c2e0e310b46d2d64ffbea8e78d6?family=Euro);#3 Use font-face declaration Fonts.(http | https)
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Jacked Eleven W00 Highlight
Mns GrebckAuthor
Mns GrebckTrademark
Jacked Eleven is a trademark of Mns Grebck.Copyright
Copyright (c) 2011 by Mns Grebck. All rights reserved.Description
Copyright (c) 2011 by Mns Grebck. All rights reserved.License
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The Best Night
The Best NightStyle
1.00 November 1, 2012, initial releaseCopyright
The Best Night (TattooWoo.com). 2012. All Rights ReservedDescription
This font was created using FontCreator 6.0 from High-Logic.com
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Rocky is a trademark of deFaced fonts.Copyright
Copyright (c) deFaced fonts, 2003. All rights reserved.Description
Rocky is my black Labrador Retriever. This font is big, black, playful and full of energy like he is, almost. :-) Anyone that owns a Lab knows what I mean.
Consuelo W00 Shadow
Eli HernandezTrademark
Consuelo Shadow is a trademark of Eli Hernandez.Copyright
Copyright (c) 2014 by Eli Hernandez. All rights reserved.Description
Copyright (c) 2014 by Eli Hernandez. All rights reserved.
Ambigue W01 Black
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Ambigue is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Copyright
Copyright 2006 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This font software may not be reproduced, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. Ambigue is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. This typeface is original artwork of Carla Schweyer. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions.License
NOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENTYou have obtained this font software either directly from Linotype GmbH or together with software distributed by one of Linotype's licensees.This font software is a valuable asset of Linotype GmbH. Unless you have entered into a specific license agreement granting you additional rights, your use of this font software is limited to your workstation for your own use. You may not copy or distribute this font software. If you have any questions regarding your license terms, please review the license agreement you received with the software.General license terms and usage rights can be viewed at www.linotype.com/license.Generelle Lizenzbedingungen und Nutzungsrechte finden Sie unter www.linotype.com/license.Pour plus d'informations concernant le contrat d'utilisation du logiciel de polices, veuillez consulter notre site web www.linotype.com/license.Linotype GmbH can be contacted at:Tel.: +49(0)6172 484-418
Sherlock W95 StuffPrints
Copyright (c) 2014 Gert Wiescher, Wiescher-Design, Munich, Germany,.wiescher-design.deAuthor
Gert WiescherTrademark
Sherlock is a trademark of Gert Wiescher, Wiescher-Design, Munich, Germany,.wiescher-design.de.Copyright
Copyright (c) 2014 by Gert Wiescher, Wiescher-Design, Munich, Germany,.wiescher-design.de. All rights reserved.License
Wiescher Design Standard LicenseBy buying this font you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement, in conjunction with the receipt that accompanies each purchase from Wiescher-Design, constitutes the complete agreement between you and Wiescher-Design.1. Allowed usesYou may use the licensed fonts to create images on any surface such as computer screens, paper, web pages, photographs, movie credits, printed material, T-shirts, and other surfaces where the image is a fixed size.You may use the licensed fonts to create EPS files or other scalable drawings provided that such files are only used by the household or company licensing the font.2. Number of usersThe maximum number of simultaneous users is specified in the applicable receipt. All users must belong to the same company or household purchasing the font.3. Third partiesYou may provide the font to a graphic designer, printer or other service bureau that is working on your behalf only if they agree to use the font exclusively for your work, agree to the terms of this license, and retain no copies of the font on completion of the work.You may not provide the font or make it accessible to any other third parties.4. EmbeddingYou may embed the licensed fonts into any document you send to third parties provided such embedding is restricted to viewing and printing that document.You may not embed the licensed fonts into software or hardware products in which the fonts will be used by the purchasers of such products. Such use requires a different license (OEM). Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for information on OEM licenses.5. ModificationsYou may import characters from the font as graphical objects into a drawing program and modify such graphical objects.You may not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the licensed font itself without Wiescher-Design' prior written consent.6. CopyrightThe font and the accompanying materials are copyrighted and contain proprietary information and trade secrets belonging to the foundry owning the font. Unauthorized copying of the Product even if modified, merged, or included with other software, or of the written materials, is expressly forbidden. You may be held legally responsible for any infringement of the foundrys intellectual property rights that is caused or encouraged by your failure to abide by the terms of this Agreement.7. TerminationThis Agreement is effective until terminated. This Agreement will terminate automatically without notice from Wiescher-Design if you fail to comply with any provision contained herein. Upon termination, you must destroy the written materials, the Product, and all copies of them, in part and in whole, including modified copies, if any.8. Product UpgradesWiescher-Design may, from time to time, update the Product. Product upgrade pricing may apply.9. Disclaimer and Limited WarrantyWiescher-Design warrants the Product to be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a period of twenty one (21) days from the date of delivery as shown on your receipt. Wiescher-Design' entire liability and your exclusive remedy as to a defective product shall be, at Wiescher-Design' option, either return of purchase price or replacement of any such product that is returned to Wiescher-Design with a copy of the invoice. Wiescher-Design shall have no responsibility to replace the product or refund the purchase price if failure results from accident, abuse or misapplication, or if any product is lost or damaged due to theft, fire, or negligence. Any replacement product will be warranted for twenty one (21) days. This warranty gives you specific legal rights. You may have other rights, which vary from state to state.EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED ABOVE, THE PRODUCT, IS PROVIDED AS IS. WIESCHER-DESIGN DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Product rests upon you. Wiescher-Design does not warrant that the functions contained in the Product will meet your requirements or that the operation of the software will be uninterrupted or error free.WIESCHER-DESIGN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FROM LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PRODUCT EVEN IF WIESCHER-DESIGN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.10. Governing LawThis agreement is governed by the laws of Germany.
Ingleby Bold
Style : BoldPackages
David EngelbyAuthor
David EngelbyTrademark
Ingleby is a trademark of David Engelby.Copyright
Ingleby, font. Copyright David Engelby (c) 2006-2008Description
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Plathorn W01 Cond Regular It
Jeremy DooleyAuthor
Jeremy DooleyTrademark
Plathorn is a trademark of Jeremy Dooley.Copyright
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British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday it had stopped using all travel agencies which have been accused by the Chinese police of channelling bribes to illegally boost sales and inflate the price of its medicines in the country.
Chinese police had said earlier in the day that four senior Chinese executives from the firm had been detained as part of the probe.
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"GSK shares the desire of the Chinese authorities to root out corruption," it said in a statement. "These allegations are shameful and we regret this has occurred. We are taking a number of immediate actions.
"We are reviewing all third party agency relationships. We have put an immediate stop on the use of travel agencies that have been identified so far in this investigation and we are conducting a thorough review of all historic transactions related to travel agency use."
(Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Mark Potter)

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Do you know what's in your 401(k)?
Probably not.
The more than 33,000 active participants in Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement Plan, for example, may be surprised to learn that American Funds Growth Fund of America is one of the top funds in the company's 401(k) plan — and that fund's top holding is the world's most valuable company ever. You may be just as fortunate to own this unbelievably profitable stock. (We'll reveal its identity later.)
It's pretty easy to find out the top mutual funds in your 401(k), but it takes a little more digging to find out the most widely held stocks in those funds. Who has the time to do that much homework? Well, we did it for you.
We asked BrightScope,a website that rates plans of more than 45,000 employers using hundreds of data points obtained from publicly available data, to tell us which mutual funds dominate the 401(k) landscape.
According to the company, these are among the top five equity mutual funds in most 401(k) plans: American Funds Growth Fund of America, EuroPacific Growth Fund, Davis NY Venture Fund, Fidelity Contrafund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund.
Next, we asked researchers at Morningstarto compile a list of the most widely held stocks in these funds, based on the total weight of available investments. You may be surprised to learn what we found.
Here is the list of the companies you may own.
By Sharon Epperson and Judy Gee
Published Sept. 10, 2012


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Language Arts Book
Language Arts Book
Schoodoodle teacher supplies has language arts books that will provide practice exercises to solidify language arts concepts in reading comprehension, phonics, writing, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary. We also offer a large selection of language arts test prep books, foreign language resources, and critical thinking books and games for elementary school students.
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Cleans hair without water. Soaks up excess oils. Removes buildup. Creates gritty texture and instant volume. Saves hair from too much shampoo, heat-styling, or color loss. In a nutshell, ReFINISH is a miracle style rescue.
Inva (Stylist, ARROJO studio)
Product benefitsTexture. Volume. Cleans without water
For hair typesAll.
Key ingredientsAloe Vera Ginger
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'Biggest Brown-Noser' and Paul Ryan: Possible VP's Life Exposed
"Biggest brown-noser" was what Paul Ryan, the vice presidential candidate selected by Mitt Romney, was voted in high school. The Republican Congressman attended Joseph A. Craig High School in his native Janesville, Wis., and was awarded with the unscrupulous title.
Though Ryan was given the title of biggest brown-noser, his cousin, Adam Ryan, won the title of "Most Likely to Succeed," according to the Los Angeles Times. Now that the 7-term member of the House of Representatives could become the next Vice President, his 1988 classmates may have to eat their words.
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan- somewhat of a personal opposite to him- has led to many details of the 42-year-old's life being exposed as voters get to know him. While some more politically informed U.S. citizens knew the congressman only for his controversial Ryan Budget, many will now see him on a more personal level.
Ryan was a very involved student: he joined the student council, history club, Latin club, letterman's club, outdoors club, pep club, ushers club, and the International Geographic Society. He was also part of the Model U.N., he ran track for two years, played varsity soccer, and played basketball, the LA Times reported.
Ryan went on to Miami University in Ohio with some of his conservative ideals already formed, but while there, was introduced to the writings of Ayn Rand by Professor Richard Hart. Although he disavows the author's atheism because of his Catholic beliefs, her ideas did influence his views on economics, and he graduated with a B.A. double major in economics and political science in 1992.
The congressman originally become widely known with his 2008 debt reduction proposal dubbed The Ryan Budget, and subsequent revisions to the plan in subsequent years. Various GOP politicians have cited his dedication to economic policy, but critics of his plan say it would harm the poor and elderly.
Ever since Mitt Romney made his choice of Ryan to be his running mate, there have been a number of significant changes to his Wikipedia page- some tallies number in the hundreds so far. However, the "brown-noser" comment still stands as of this article's publication.


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State of Tennessee Miniature Desk Flag, 4" X 6"
Beautifully printed on a polyester fabric, these State & Territorial flags offer the highest quality in a hand-held, desk, or classroom flag. Hemmed stitched on all four sides and stapled to a 10" staff with gilt spear tip.
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Legal Writing Competitions
Many organizations throughout the country, and the world, sponsor writing competitions for law students. The competitions typically focus on a particular area of the law. Participating in a writing competition is a great way to explore an area of interest and to hone your writing skills. As a bonus, the competitions often grant cash prizes, travel opportunities, or publication opportunities for the winning essays. For more information feel free to contact Professor Rachel Smith (firstname.lastname@example.com) or go directly to our database of competitions.


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Senate OKs additional $1 billion to overhaul nation's election
Saturday, October 25, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Intent on avoiding a repeat of the 2000 presidential election debacle, the Senate has added $1 billion to the president's request for funds to carry out improvements in the national voting system.
"In a time when we are committing billions of dollars in federal resources to build democracies around the world, we simply cannot afford to shortchange our own," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., before the Senate voted 63-31 Thursday to waive budget caps and increase funds for election reform in fiscal year 2004 from $500 million to $1.5 billion.
Joining Dodd was Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, who said he found himself "in an extremely awkward position" in contesting the budget figure proposed by the president and agreed to by the Senate Appropriations Committee. "This, however, is that very rare instance which I believe warrants providing funding above that provided in the budget."
In all, 19 Republicans supported the increased funding, added to a $90 billion spending bill for Transportation and Treasury Department programs in the budget year that began Oct. 1.
Dodd and McConnell were lead Senate sponsors of the Help America Vote Act that President Bush signed into law last October. The measure approved the spending of $3.86 billion through 2005 to help states modernize voting technology, ensure that no eligible voter is turned away at the polls and reduce fraud.
But the amount actually approved for spending in the 2003 budget and requested for 2004 is $1 billion less than prescribed under the act, making it difficult, supporters of the Dodd amendment said, for states to prepare for the 2004 election.
"The cold reality is this," McConnell said. "We promised the American people that in the fall of 2004 we would have the mechanisms in place to dramatically improve the election system."
The provision was opposed by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Don Nickles, R-Okla., who said it both busts the budget and was unnecessary because there is still unused money in the pipeline from last year's budget.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, also opposed the amendment but said that before Congress goes out this year "we will have to provide this money and the Appropriations Committee will find some way to find it within the budget."
In the House, the second-ranked Democrat, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, and House Administration Committee Chairman Bob Ney, R-Ohio, are also pressing the GOP leadership to find an extra $1.86 billion to fulfill payment of the entire $3.86 billion allowed under the law.
They noted that 27 states still use punch cards, the voting method that was the source of problems in the disputed Florida presidential election in 2000.
Ney, in an interview Friday, said he was pleased with the broad support shown in the Senate and hoped the final version of the Transportation bill would include the election funds. "If it doesn't get in there it has to get in somewhere. We have to have that money."
He said House Speaker Dennis Hastert was behind the effort to fully fund election reforms. "I would like to see the White House weigh in on this and support it."


text: BioBrew-3.1 for x86 is here. BioBrew is an open source Linux cluster distribution based on the popular Rocks (www.rocksclusters.org) cluster software and enhanced for bioinformatics. BioBrew includes popular cluster software e.g. MPICH, PVM, Modules, PVFS, Myrinet GM, Sun Grid Engine, gcc, Ganglia, and Globus, *and* popular bioinformatics software e.g. the NCBI toolkit, BLAST, mpiBLAST, HMMER, ClustalW, GROMACS, PHYLIP, WISE, FASTA, MrBayes, and EMBOSS. A BioBrew DVD iso for x86 is freely available for download at BioBrew.org, a Bioinformatics.org sponsored and hosted website. README and INSTALL docs are also available on the website. Features you'll find in this release that differ slightly from Rocks-3.1 include: -Infiniband support from Mellanox (/usr/mellanox) -Myrinet support with gm-2.0.11 -Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) 2.0. (/opt/vmi-2.0-gcc) -mpich built for VMI (/opt/mpich-vmi-2.0-gcc) Application upgrades for 3.1: added modules back to distro with modulesenv 3.1.6-2 upgraded modulefiles to 1.0.2, including corrections to profile.d scripts submitted by Humberto Zuazaga upgraded hmmer to 2.3.2-1 upgraded gromacs to 3.2.1-1 upgraded EMBOSS to 2.9.0-6; EMBOSS now installs to /usr/share and not /opt/BioBrew upgraded NCBI BLAST with ncbitoools 6.1.0-2 and ncbi.tar.gz from 10/20/04) upgraded mpiBLAST to 1.3; mpiBLAST lives under /opt/NCBI/6.1.0/bin with the rest of the binaries upgraded Phylip to 3.61-5 and separated it from EMBOSS New applications: MrBayes 3.0-1 has been added to BioBrew BioBrew rolls are also here: BioBrew rolls for Rocks-3.1 and Rocks-3.3 on x86 are also available on the website, as is a BioBrew roll for Rocks-3.3 on x86_64. The rolls contain the same bio apps as the full BioBrew release. But know that if you build a cluster with Rocks + BioBrew roll, you will not have access to the vmi, mpich-vmi, Infiniband, or Myrinet packages in the full BioBrew release. You will be relying on Rocks' Infiniband, mpich, and Myrinet support, which is slightly different than BioBrew's, when using these rolls. The BioBrew rolls include the SRPMS as well as the RPMS. This is the first BioBrew release for x86_64: The BioBrew roll for Rocks-3.3 on x86_64 includes the same apps as the x86 releases, except for Java and EMBOSS. EMBOSS is not included because Java for Rocks-3.3-x86_64 was not available at the time this release was built. Future BioBrew development is likely to consist of BioBrew rolls only. I've got more apps planned. I'm also soliciting requests. Hint, hint... Thanks to Joe Landman of Scalable Informatics and Luc Ducazu of BioLinux for the SRPMS they make available to the community, and from which I borrowed liberally. They helped make this release a reality. Thanks to the beta testers that downloaded the releases over the past few weeks and pointed out a few problems. Thanks to Aaron Darling and Humberto Zuazaga for their help with mpiBLAST and Modules, respectively. Special thanks to the folks running BioBrew mirrors! Glen Otero Ph.D. Linux Prophet -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3161 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20050223/2fbbf51d/attachment.bin>


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Oak Tree Outfitters of IllinoisR.R. 1P.O. Box 22Vermont, IL 61484ph: 309-224-3632alt: email@example.com
Welcome to Oak Tree Outfitters of Illinois - Home of Bruiser White-Tail Bucks! We started our small outfitting business in West Central Illinois in 2010 and have had several very sucessful years. Our land consists of approx. 1,000 contiguous acres of hardwood oak, tillable corn, beans and pasture. The land is owned by one owner (my father-in-law). He, along with I live on the property. This allows me to study the deer that call this farm home year-round which I do diligently. For that reason, your next Illinois deer hunt should be with us, Oak Tree Outfitters of Illinois. Check out the photos page to see some of the kills from past seasons as well as trail cam pics from this past season.
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Goldman Sachs Simmers Down on Bullish Call
By Alexandra Scaggs
After nearly a year of bullishness, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is walking back a bit from its positive call on global stocks.
In the long term, the bank's portfolio-strategy research team sees stocks rising. But, in a note issued to clients Friday, Goldman downgraded its view on global equities over the next three months, to "neutral" from "overweight," recommending investors hold steady after a rally that has brought U.S. benchmarks to their highest levels since Oct. 2007.
The bank made waves in March of 2012 by describing the environment as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for long-term investors to shift from bonds to stocks.


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Central Connecticut junior Rob Hollomon was named the Northeast Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Monday afternoon. The announcement was part of the conference's weekly football release.
Hollomon posted 253 all-purpose yards for the Blue Devils in a thrilling 51-44 double overtime loss to #19/23 Lehigh on Saturday afternoon. Hollomon totaled 160 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. He also hauled in four passes for 69 yards.
His 44-yard catch and run, on a screen pass, on CCSU's opening drive set the offensive tone for the Blue Devils in the game. The play moved CCSU inside the Lehigh five yard line and two plays later Hollomon plunged into the end zone for his and his team's first touchdown of the game.
Hollomon added touchdown runs of 17 and 13 yards in the third quarter with his third score of the game giving CCSU a 34-17 lead with 7:06 left in the third quarter.
He rushed 35 times for 160 yards in the game and averaged 4.6 yards per rush.
As always, Hollomon was a big play threat in the game as he posted a 44 yard reception, a 35 yard rush and a 24 yard kickoff return.
Hollomon's three touchdowns matched his career-high.
On Sunday evening, the CFPA named Hollomon as an honorable mention for their National All-Purpose Performer of the Week award.


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When you find something in Chrome that you want to view later, put it in Pocket. It automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or computer so you can view it at any time, even without an internet connection.
Extension Features:
* One-click saving of any page with the toolbar button or keyboard shortcut
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GNOME 2.6: Two Left Feet?
A Foot in the Door
The latest release of the GNOME Desktop, 2.6.1, hit Web and FTP servers near you on 14 May 2004. It's purty, to be sure, and its fonts are anti-aliased. But, it eats your CPU, your RAM, your disk space, your bologna sandwich, and, if you're not careful, your small pets. I've written in this space before that I'll trade performance for eye candy almost every time, so GNOME 2.6 was at a disadvantage before I even got started with it. Nothing in the quality time I spent with GNOME 2.6 the last few days has caused me to change my mind.
The truth of the matter is, simply put, I couldn't persuade GNOME 2.6.1 to run. Just getting it installed took more work than it should have. First, to prove my Linux machismo, I tried building it from source. The build instructions seemed clear and the requirements on external packages (pkg-config, Xft2, fontconfig, FreeType 2.0.9, docbook-xml, and docbook-xsl) were minimal. I had the required development libraries, too, so it couldn't be too hard because the helpful GNOME folks described the build and installation order at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.6/notes/rninstallation.html.
No joy. Everything was going fine until I tried to build libgnomeui. I don't recall now what precisely went wrong, but I do recall spending a couple of hours trying to solve the compile problem, which revolved around some circular library dependencies.
I considered trying GARNOME, a GNOME source code distribution that automatically downloads and builds the source tarballs for you, but I heeded GNOME's advisory that "GARNOME is usually used only for testing of unstable development versions of GNOME" and discarded that notion. I was already developing a bad taste in my mouth and didn't want to make it worse.
Giving up on demonstrating my machismo, I decided to take the developers' suggestion to install a binary distribution. I downloaded the latest and greatest slackware-current GNOME packages. that in itself took a couple of hours because there are a lot of packages to download, and some of them are rather large. I let the download finish over night.
A quick
upgradepkg *tgz installed the downloaded
packages. At the moment of truth, I rebooted, and...
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thebwit needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
MMA Recap
The image is needed for a news style podcast
sports - specifically mixed martial arts
I need a background image for my videos. I film in front of a green screen and want to replace it with this image. The image needs to be that of a studio or a gym. I shoot the video in 720p widescreen, so the image needs to be of good quality. I am not too concerned if the image looks like a real thing or if it looks like it would be apart of a video game. Either or works for me.
I have attached a logo that you can incorporate as well as a screen capture of our first video.


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18.85 acres in Pearl River County, Mississippi
Great property to come build your dream home on located just a few miles off of I-59. There is a pond on the property.
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Change Your Mind. Change Your Life.
Mandurah Meditation.
Life can change when Mind has changed. "How can I change and empty my mind?" and "Who am I?" Meditation can really better the quality of your life! Cleansing the mind can bring health, beauty and longevity. Even some of the most successful CEOs and top athletes meditate. You will be given thorough information about Meditation during the seminar. Also, you will learn about what human mind is and why we need to change human mind to infinite universe mind. Find out the answers to the fundamental questions about human existence. "Where do we come from? Who am I? What is the reason and purpose of human existence?"
Simply book here or give us a call or a text to 0413 029 181 for your Free Introduction! Please send your name/ date / time (ex: Simon/ 24th June Sat/11am), then we will get back to you to confirm! Easy!
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There are going to be those that don't like Cloud Atlas. They may rage against the very concept and decry it as a failed attempt at bringing ADD theater to life. They may find fault with the initially disjointed narrative that focuses on six moments in time that don't obviously lend themselves to one another. They may even pick at the often amazing but occasionally off-putting makeup featured heavily throughout the film. To those, I salute you and wish you well as you move along.
I understand the criticisms of Cloud Atlas. This is certainly not a film for everyone. But for those that find merit in each of the six settings, and those that are willing to stretch their appreciation to accept a more esoteric theme, they will be rewarded with one of the better and more original films of the year.
The story of Cloud Atlas is actually stories, six in total, all taken from the 2004 novel by David Mitchell. The six stories are told concurrently, with the film jumping back and forth as the narrative in each – although inherently unique – eventually finds a common thread to unite them. The stories are also connected in unlikely ways, as the central character of each new setting in some way stumbles upon a manuscript, a book, series of letters, or video of the chronologically previous character.
The themes that tie these narratives together are not fully revealed until the end, and the influence one has upon the other is subtle, and not always obvious. It is there though. But regardless of the overall impact, each of the individual narratives offers a complete story.
The film begins with an aged and tattooed Tom Hanks speaking a bizarre dialect that could only exist in the future, but chronologically the film begins in the South Pacific in 1849, with the story of an American notary named Thomas Ewing (Jim Sturgess) who is subjected to the horrors of slavery before beginning the journey home while racked with a debilitating illness. The next tale begins in the 1930s and focuses Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw), a young, gay musician who takes a job working with a marginalized, but brilliant composer.
The next era highlighted is 1975, and focuses on a journalist (Halle Berry) who becomes involved in a deadly conspiracy after a chance encounter. From there the plot jumps to the present day plight of Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent), a beleaguered publisher that finds himself running from one bizarre situation into a much weirder one. That leads to Neo Seoul and a dystopian future where a genetically engineered servant named Sonmi-451 (Doona Bae) is shown the truth about her society with violent results. The final tale takes place in a nearly unrecognizable Hawaii in the far future after an event alluded to only as The Fall reverts most of humanity back thousands of years. When a member of the last technological society on Earth comes to the island, she (Halle Berry) must put her trust in the hands of Zachary (Tom Hanks), an emotionally scarred tribesman.
The gamble with Cloud Atlas is obvious. Each of those narratives is different in theme and tone, and each is an essential moving piece in a larger machine. If one fails, the whole is diminished. There may be enough to overcome a dislike of one or even two of the narratives, but even that seriously impacts the overall package. So all six pieces need to fit together and keep you entertained, otherwise the pacing will be severely affected.
Thankfully, each of the stories is engaging and engrossing. The shift in tones – from the humor in Cavendish's situation to the action of Neo Seoul to the detective yarn of the 70s – all fit together well, and the three directors, Lana and Andy Wachowski (the Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International) do a masterful job of knowing when to cut between times to maximize the emotional impact of each story. You are generally left wanting more, which is good, but you also build on the feeling the previous setting generated and let it influence your interpretation of the next period.
This is well handled throughout, but nowhere more so than at the end when each of the six stories reaches its individual climax. The cuts between eras become fast and furious, and you are constantly left with mini-cliffhangers as the narrative picks up. Every one of the six then concludes with a surprisingly impactful ending, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always relevant to the overall narrative. There are some that are stronger than others, and there is an order and a ranking to the power of each conclusion, but that will come down to the individual audience members tastes as much as anything.
Of course, not all stories are created equal. Some certainly drag more than others, but there is a quality feel to each of them, and if you aren't enjoying a particular section of one story just wait a few minutes.
While the narratives began in radically different places, they are often held together by the cast that dons multiple hats. Most of the characters play more than one role, and a few are in four or more. Hugo Weaving leads the pack with six roles, although Halle Berry and Jim Sturgess are the only actors with two roles that can both be considered as starring characters in their respective eras, with Berry leading the story in the 70s and costarring in the distant future, and Sturgess as the focal point of the 1849 piece and also co-starring in Neo Seoul.
Some of the actors, Hanks and Broadbent especially, seem to gleefully embrace the chance to try out the different skins they wear, while others consume their new characters with a degree of intensity that impresses. Of all the stars in the film, Sturgess is perhaps the standout. In each of the roles he plays, he transforms into that character. His mannerisms change, his vocal patterns mutate, and he approaches each role from a different viewpoint. Perhaps he is favored by the story of the two major parts he plays, as both are motivated by love, but he embraces the story powerfully.
Hanks is in top form as well, and whether cackling as the 19th century Dr. Goose, or battling inner demons in the future as Zachary, he brings a fire to the role. Berry by comparison also does a good job, but her roles are somewhat hampered in comparison, as they are far more traditional even as she plays a member of a scientifically advanced branch of humanity.
Broadbent, however, may have the most endearing role in the film as Cavendish, a lovable loser with the timing of an oblivious Englishman, but it is Whishaw that has perhaps the most emotionally charged role. Between this and his turn as Q in the upcoming Bond film Skyfall, Whishaw may be bound for stardom.
The actors are free to indulge in playing multiple roles thanks in part to the makeup and effects used. For the most part, they are exceptional. In crowded theaters, the end credits will become a game of sorts as audiences are shown the various roles each actor played. If you correctly guessed them all, you will be in the minority. Hugh Grant in particular is almost like an Easter Egg in this film thanks to his time in the makeup chair. There are a few moments where the makeup becomes disconcerting and obviously fake, but these moments are typically brief.
The effects, although used sparingly, make this film possible. Moments like the first time you see Neo Seoul or the juxtaposed technology in the primitive future meld well with the generally remarkable look of the period pieces.
Despite the $100 million budget, Cloud Atlas is an indie film that just happens to star several major Hollywood talents. And like an indie movie, it stretches itself out and plays with the convention of film in order to try something new.
On paper, it shouldn't work. You have six different stories with one emotional thread that the audience is left to recognize and accept on their own. And yet somehow it all manages to come together. The pacing is spot on and the cuts between time periods are handled in such a way that they help to lead you into the next narrative even though it may be completely different in tone. There is no way this should work. And yet it does.
For those willing to accept the odd nature of the film, for those that can appreciate that a story can have depth even if there isn't a lot of time to fully flesh out the characters, and for those looking for something that is fresh and original, Cloud Atlas comes highly recommended.
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Some only proffer advice on a fee-for-service basis (hourly, fixed dollar or percentage of assets under management), whereas others may charge a commission for implementing recommendations (e.g., placing trades). Finally, some advisors charge a fee and commission. Understanding how an advisor is remunerated provides insight into what may motivate him or her.
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text: Should the question not be: how much are you willing to pay. If you only get a 2X speed up in your run time for $10K, then you will buy more nodes. If you get a 10X, you may call it a wash and could go either way. If you see a 1000X then you will pay a great deal more than $10K. I have seen a bioinformatics application where the site installed a reconfigurable FPGA box and got an approx. 1400X improvement on a Smith-Waterman application, vs their Linux Cluster. Economy of scale applies to the computer consumer mass market, but rarely does it apply in the more demanding HPC market, in general terms, for these type of products. Bill Harman, -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Diepeveen Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:16 PM To: daniel.pfenniger at obs.unige.ch; Jim Lux Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Vector coprocessors AND CILK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lux" <James.P.Lux at jpl.nasa.gov> To: "Vincent Diepeveen" <diep at xs4all.nl>; <daniel.pfenniger at obs.unige.ch> Cc: <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:00 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Vector coprocessors AND CILK > At 07:18 PM 3/21/2006, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Pfenniger" >><daniel.pfenniger at obs.unige.ch> >>To: "Jim Lux" <James.P.Lux at jpl.nasa.gov> >>Cc: <beowulf at beowulf.org> >>Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:32 PM >>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Vector coprocessors >> >> >> >>If you produce such cards in low quantity you lose roughly 100 dollar to >>the pci card to >>royalties basically then add chip production price. 2 big chips, well i do >>not know what price >>they are. Sound expensive to me. I talked about 1 big chip for some other >>card. >> >>That chip had a price, when mass produced, of 50 dollar a chip. > > If it's a full custom chip, figure a "first chip" cost of $2M. (layout, a > couple spins, etc., but assuming you know basically what the chip is > supposed to do and how to do it) Most projects are indeed having a total cost of around $1M for such chips, including programming and design and package design for supermarkets/resellers/salesmen/stores. > I work with a fair number of very low volume but fairly complex chips > (intended for space applications, but not in Class S quality grade) and > they all seem to run about $5K to $10K each, which must be a sort of basic That must be something not sold in a shop then, but something intended to cream off the university world. Those universities waste money by the shitload, so for them $10k is affordable handsdown. However for products and cards that you want to sell to ordinary people who simply want a bit better card, a price of $10k is too much. > price for them to build small runs where there's not a huge NRE. Things > like MOSIS (http://www.mosis.org/) (or Atmel's equivalent, the name of > which I forget) can be less expensive, but probably not for something of > this scale. $5K probably covers the cost of running the wafer, dicing, > testing, and putting it in a package, in quantities of <100. > > So, to get the $50/chip cost, you need an order of 40,000-50,000 pieces. No no. 1000-5000. For 20000+ you can get the entire product including packaging down to way smaller money. This card has however 2 chips, not 1. That's a huge difference, additionally it clocks perhaps "only" at 250Mhz, but it might be more complex technology than the chip we wanted to produce. We just wanted a single giant chip, also at a comparable, though bit higher Mhz range. Mhz range is however less important than product price. Of course for this product if it would be a success, there would be printed more of them, which probably reduced the price of the manufacturers offering. Succesful products, such as chesscomputers, when they do well and are succesful, you sell around 100000 of them. That's only for the *succesful* products. Usually such numbers are only for low priced items, like 99.95 euro computers. For small amount of products it was not possible to get production price under $150 however (excluding packaging and delivery, just card+chip), which meant simply the entire product was not possible to produce as the chip wouldn't carry any RAM which meant a PC would outperform it and in general a product sells for 4x more. So that would mean a bruto price of 600 dollar. Or a netto price for the customer (add roughly 20% VAT for europe at products) == 600 euro. Now of course dollar will go down bigtime, which means effectively the sales price could perhaps become 499 euro, which is a very competative price. Yet you'll have to have RAM on the card then to compete. It's easy to sell a lot of products if a product outperforms all software that is out there. Asking 1000-1500 euro a product is possible in that case, if it doesn't, then a price of 500-1000. So for example if i put my chessprogram in hardware, that's nearly impossible, as it's too big (what i write in a few hundreds of lines of C code in hardware goes default even very well optimized to like 50000 transistors, and the code is 2.2MB in total) and software is more efficient than hardware, because in software you can use all kind of caches which in hardware are either too slow to access, or too expensive to make. Another alternative is a real chesscomputer from wood with real pieces and inside it a chip, that's of course interesting. Alternative is a pci card with a single chip. That's cheaper. But it's 150 euro, 150 dollar without salestax. The problem is, that software at a k8 just completely outperforms such a hardware chip. >>So bare production price of this card i estimate at around 250 dollar. You >>don't want to lose bigtime >>on such a card of course. >> >>That means an importer price of 500 and a consumer price is a minimum of >>1000 dollar. > When I was working for a developer of retail products, we'd figure retail > selling price is 10x material cost. For products with high integration > (i.e. an ASIC) you'd probably go down to 5x. > > >>Now you skip the importer of course with such types of cards. >> >>According to my economy book then a company can then follow 2 approaches. >>You can try to >>flood the market and sell 50 million of them, which means that the card >>will be priced 1000 dollar. > > Don't need to sell that many.. a hundred thousand would probably do <grin> A good chesscomputer gets 100k handsdown. True, in past they sold even more, and it's dissappearing slowly, as no one wants to invest in such products. Please note that there never was any chipproducer involved. Usually they put single chips in the chesscomputers of like 30Mhz and a SH7000 chip or so. That's real real cheap. That's why they do not sell anymore of course. PC software and hardware has won from the own designs. > >>If you're serious and you want to buy 200 of their cards, then you're a >>big customer. >>Propose them a secret deal in this sense that you don't publicly reveal >>the price paid, >>and you sign for it that first 3 years you won't resell their cards nor >>lend them nor hire them >>to other persons. Under that condition you offer $200k for 200 cards. > But they're not going to even be able to cover a fraction of the > development cost for that. But, perhaps, if they are thinking about > "buying market share" with OPM (other people's money). It's been done, > more than once. If you want to earn back your development costs with 1 client, then you better stop producing such a product. Only money wasting governments want to pay that much. Vincent > > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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The above statement is not unfounded. For those who know me, you know I DO NOT sprout curses and vulgarities at people for no known reason. (YES there are people who effing uses the eff word in EVERY damn effing sentence, and sometimes not just once, okay?)
Yesterday, I went to catch a dumbass Halloween show. Yup you guessed it. Halloween 2! Before I go cursing and swearing at the stupid Indian Angmor-wannabe bitch, I gotta tell you - THE SHOW IS A BLAAARRRDEEE WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!!!! Just plenty of gore and grotesque scenes. Nothing more. The content was crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. It was the stupidest thing I've watched, ever. I should have suggested to my friend that we head home to watch Animal Planet or Discovery Channel's Air Crash Investigation. AT LEAST I would have gained some knowledge. Or entertained myself watching Tom and Jerry in teochew on Youtube. SORRY darling for suggesting such a crap show! Next movie's on me okay?
Okay, point made.
The stupid Indian bitch.
I am not prejudiced okay? Some of you know I have Indian friends who are normal, some even cool. Though of course some of these friends are ashamed of some people of their own kind. And joke about them like we do. And come on, like the Chinese, don't we all hate the uncouth, loud, rude, China PRCs who've infiltrated into our society? The nice ones are okay, it's just these...URGH people who make people ashamed of their roots!!!!
Let me recount to you what happened last night~
She was there making FUCKING LOUD burps ON BLARDEE PURPOSE! Friends of mine, you know I burp right? And you know I can't control mine, so it comes out as a damn deep chesty burp, sometimes abruptly halted by pieces of food or liquid that come out along with the burp... Okay, now, I'm sure you know how the purposely-forced-out burp sounds like right? Take the volume of MY burp, multiply the decibels by 10. KANNINNA!!!! I would have named her that. Fuck man. And she does it when there is a silence. Like in between trailers before the show, or at scene changes. And and and...get this...every time she does it, she explodes into squeals (you know, like a pig?) of giggles with her retarded Indianish angmorish (it was dark and I couldn't confirm his race) boyfriend. Like you know how some stupidly obnoxious guys purposely does something exaggerating and laughs (complete with snort-ed laughter) and EXPECTS the girls to laugh? Yah! She did it JUST like that!!!!!! With the snorts!!! Except she's female. And well, yeah, it worked for her because at least one person, her mentally disabled boyfriend, LAUGHED!!! -.-"
Then, she HAS to get more attention showered on her by going "WWHHHHOOOOAAAA!!!!" at the most inappropriate timings. Dear, I'm SURE you are the sort who have joined Singapore Idol (and it ends at the auditions of course) and been appraoched by the camera and have HAPPILY done your super salah act thinking it was oh-so-cool and which shouts "ME". AND ended up in the 1st 3 episodes of the Singapore Idol where they showcase the Salah Idiots before moving on to the real Singapore Idols. She should have gone for Miss Singapore World man. She'd have beaten Ris Low to shame. URRGHHH!
Do you feel my disgust already?
I had an urge to be super Ah Lian and do this
But of course, Miss Silver Ang here has a reputation to keep (I'm supposedly the sweet WaWa Jie Jie remember???) and I don't want to be famous this way cos I was SURE if the above were to occur, some smartass would whip out their latest cameraphone, video down the whole drama in its raw entirety, and post it up on Youtube. Then I'll appear, HUGE on the front page, of today's New Paper. ALTHOUGH ALTHOUGH!!! I was pretty sure I'd be applauded and appreciated by every single person in the cinema trying to watch the stupid show in peace. (YAH it's a stupid show~~~, but you don't have to lose the cinema etiquette cos we're all civilized souls, are we not, hmmm? *bats eyelashes*)
May these people just die....
Shouldn't they, hmmm???


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ATI Stream vs. NVIDIA CUDA - GPGPU computing battle royale
Introduction, GPGPU history, ATI Stream and CUDA overviews
It's a bit late to the party, but can ATI Stream bring the heat against a refined CUDA technology?
Since our initial review of five of NVidia's CUDA-enabled applications back in June, we've been chomping at the bit to get our first real look at ATI's entry into the GPU computing ring called ATI Stream. Both of these platforms use parallel computing architectures to utilize the GPU's stream processors, in tandem with the CPU, to significantly increase any system's video transcoding speeds.
Today, we are going to discuss both of these technologies as well as benchmark a couple video transcoding applications from Cyberlink that support both CUDA and ATI Stream platforms. We will also take a brief look at ATI's Avivo video converter to see what ATI's own free software has to offer.
GPGPU history at a glance
Video Equipment with Ikonas graphics system (Courtesy photo)
The first General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit or GPGPU was initially created in 1978 when Ikonas developed a programmable raster display system for cockpit instrumentation. Before 2006, there were only a handful of other systems that incorporated GPGPU technology.
Former CEO Dave Orton explains ATI's Stream computing initiative at a press event in 2006 (Courtesy of TechReport.com)
In November 2006, AMD's website stated they started the "GPGPU revolution" with the introduction of "Close To Metal", the first iteration of their GPGPU technology that has now evolved into ATI Stream. But, after several missteps and delays, they weren't actually able to fully utilize ATI Stream technology until their December 2008 launch of the ATI Catalyst 8.12 driver, which officially brought Stream to the masses.
To give consumers a glipse of this new technology, AMD reconfigured ATI's free Avivo Video Converter to be Stream-compatible. Since it's re-release in 2008, only two video transcoding applications have incorporated ATI Stream into its programming -- Cyberlink's PowerDirector and MediaShow Expresso applications. There are other applications in various stages of development, but nothing else available on the market currently.
NVidia CEO and president Jen-Hsun Huang plays with a game using NVidia's Physx technology for gaming, at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 8, 2009. (Courtesy photo)
On the other side of the fence, NVidia's Compute Unified Device Architecture or "CUDA" platform was announced together with G80 in November 2006. A public beta version of the CUDA SDK was released in February 2007. The first version of CUDA rolled out with Tesla in June 2007, which was based on G80 and designed for high performance computing. At the end of 2007, NVidia released CUDA 1.1 beta, which added new features but was a minor release. Since it's initial release, CUDA has been used and featured in seven retail video transcoding applications.
The development of GPGPUs is truly about fully utilizing all the processing potential that lies dormant in graphics cards when users aren't playing Crysis or Far Cry 2. GPGPUs will allow users to see what will happen if other applications are able to make use of the stream processors in a graphics card. This is why NVidia and AMD are frantically working to harness the GPGPU potential of their respective graphics hardware.
Why is GPGPU technology important?
The importance of the emergence of GPGPU technology is simple -- it will increase the speed of many types of tasks consumers do every day by using the GPU and the CPU in tandem for "general purpose" computations (or number crunching) that was once only handled by the CPU alone. When this technology fully matures, consumers will see noticable performance increases when they convert audio and video files, play graphics-intensive games, and in other daily tasks. ATI Stream and CUDA focuses on using the GPU's stream processors in tandem with the CPU to enable the entire system to handle computing-intensive applications, and more specifically video transcoding applications.
ATI Stream technology overview
(Courtesy of ATI)
Ryan first wrote about ATI's new Stream technology back in November 2008, and since that time the basic premise behind the technology still stands. ATI Stream technology is based off a set of advanced hardware and software technologies that enable AMD graphics processors, working in concert with the system's central processor, to accelerate many applications beyond just graphics. Stream technology enables hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.
(Courtesy of ATI)
ATI Stream uses parallel computing architecture that will take advantage of thegraphics card's stream processors to compute problems, applications or tasks that can be broken down into parallel, identical operations and run simultaneously on a single processor device. Stream computing also takes advantage of a SIMD methodology (single instruction, multiple data) whereas a CPU is a modified SISD methodology (single instruction, single data); modifications taking various parallelism techniques into account.
NVidia CUDA technology overview
(Courtesy of NVidia)
NVidia CUDA is a general purpose parallel computing architecture that leverages the parallel compute engine in NVidia graphics processing units to solve many complex computational problems in a fraction of the time required on a CPU. It includes the CUDA Instruction Set Architecture and the parallel compute engine in the GPU. No GPU parallel computing architecture has been more in the spotlight than NVidia's CUDA either. CUDA performs two major functions that consumers should be aware of – it helps reduce or match CPU usage by engaging the GPU's stream processors and it can accelerate any computing process where CUDA is enabled.
(Courtesy of NVidia)
NVidia claims to have sold more than 100 million CUDA-enabled GPUs to date which is probably accurate, and they are also being supported by thousands of software developers who NVidia says are already using the free CUDA software development tools to solve problems in a variety of professional and home applications.
Now that you have better insight into the history behind GPGPU technology as well as ATI and NVidia's role in the technology's development, let's move on to the ATI Stream and CUDA-enabled video transcoding applications we will be using for our review today.
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Your article is not about a comparison of Stream and CUDA performance, it is the difference between two software implementations utilising Stream and CUDA.
These technologies allow you to parallelise your algorithms, to imply that one technology performs ,as you essentially say, 'better quality maths' than the other is ignorant.
Please do not misdirect readers like this.
Joe Bloggs
Please change you word.
Your comment is not about a reply to the article, it is a quantification of how butthurt you are.
These new breakthrows allow us to see how badly you are spell ,as you essentially try to use 'larger words' but not good at English.
Please do not obfuscate readers' thoughtings like this.
Bloe Joggs
damn dude, look at your own english, it's absolutely dreadful!
Ya dude, your an idiot, your article is misleading. For sure!
Hater Bater Fuck Face
You are comparing two cards, one is nearly a year older than the other one, its elementary that the new one is going to win. This review is biased
Why are you not comparing the same frame in the outputs? How can you do a comparison of different frames and make a decision on differences in quality?
My personal gaming research team has found nVIDIA's CUDA technology to be superior, but they compared current GPUs, not GPUs with a manufacturing time gap.
This is a very interesting article to contribute to my PC Hardware class, as I'm currently in a Network Admin program in Vermont. Please keep up the good work guys I love your site, and you have been very helpful over the last several semesters.
For BitCoin Minners AMD GPUs faster than Nvidia GPUs!
Firstly, AMD designs GPUs with many simple ALUs/shaders (VLIW design) that run at a relatively low frequency clock (typically 1120-3200 ALUs at 625-900 MHz), whereas Nvidia's microarchitecture consists of fewer more complex ALUs and tries to compensate with a higher shader clock (typically 448-1024 ALUs at 1150-1544 MHz). Because of this VLIW vs. non-VLIW difference, Nvidia uses up more square millimeters of die space per ALU, hence can pack fewer of them per chip, and they hit the frequency wall sooner than AMD which prevents them from increasing the clock high enough to match or surpass AMD's performance. This translates to a raw ALU performance advantage for AMD:
An old AMD Radeon HD 6990: 3072 ALUs x 830 MHz = 2550 billion 32-bit instruction per second
A New Nvidia GTX 590: 1024 ALUs x 1214 MHz = 1243 billion 32-bit instruction per second
This approximate 2x-3x performance difference exists across the entire range of AMD and Nvidia GPUs. It is very visible in all ALU-bound GPGPU workloads such as Bitcoin, password bruteforcers, etc.
Secondly, another difference favoring Bitcoin mining on AMD GPUs instead of Nvidia's is that the mining algorithm is based on SHA-256, which makes heavy use of the 32-bit integer right rotate operation. This operation can be implemented as a single hardware instruction on AMD GPUs (BIT_ALIGN_INT), but requires three separate hardware instructions to be emulated on Nvidia GPUs (2 shifts + 1 add). This alone gives AMD another 1.7x performance advantage (~1900 instructions instead of ~3250 to execute the SHA-256 compression function).
Combined together, these 2 factors make AMD GPUs overall 3x-5x faster when mining Bitcoins!
Fucking plagerism. Copy/paste from some other source, no citation or credit. Your education should be shredded and flushed down the toilet. Here is where you copied it from for people who want to read from someone with actual knowledge and not just ctrl+c ---> ctrl+v.
You plagerized me. I complained about someone else who copied something and posted a link. All you did was change the link. You are a loser and the worst scum on the internet.
Why are we bitching about plagiarism? If i wanted to make sure his info was correct i would've looked it up myself. I could care less if it was "plagiarized" as long as the information was correct.


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Older announcementsVersion 1Initial release, no news.Version 2Updated version, much faster than previous ones.
Download and details at my blog: http://www.3ice.hu/blog/3ice-sliding-system-for-roc/Version 3Updated! Download version 3: http://www.3ice.hu/blog/3ice-sliding-system-for-roc-v3/
(Minor fixes and new readme)
Current version number3.0
CreditsDark_Baron_Prot, the first person to ever make a sliding trigger in Warcraft (not sure he did, but it was very laggy anyway)
All the other crappy sliding systems and demo maps that inspired me to create the perfect Sliding System
Limiter, for making sliding popular, I guess? (I mean the Polar Escape Series)
My ToDo listHIGH_PRIORITY Video tutorial on importing!
MED_PRIORITY Video tutorial on enabling and disabling terrainkill and realistic mode.
LOW_PRIORITY Video tutorial on adding/removing units, sliding buildings, sliding patrollers, sliding and attacking mortar teams, stopping units on ice, other cool things you can do with my system.


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Smart investments? The costs of choice and excessive switching in pension funds
Pension funds are rightly viewed as an important source of long-term capital in many countries. Following the global financial crisis of 2008, the theme of long-term investment and the role of institutional investors as providers of domestic capital for economic development has been high on policy makers' agendas. Despite generally positive findings linking pension system development and economic growth, there are also plenty of disappointments. In too many countries, pension fund investments remain highly concentrated in bank deposits and traditional government bonds. This lack of diversification can be explained by many factors, for instance, unsupportive macro conditions, shortage of investment instruments, poor governance, limited investment knowledge, and regulations with restrictive asset class limits and excessive reliance on short-term performance monitoring.


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Friday, April 26
Good morning, TexMessagers! What do you think of Obamacare?
When asked about the fate of a bill to modify Obamacare, Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy responded, "The First rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club."
Thanks to emails obtained by Buzzfeed, we have an
inside look into the "fight club" that took the "Helping Sick Americans Now Act" right off the House floor today.
The bill was proposed by Rep. Michael Burgess of Lewisville and Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania to eliminate the "Prevention and Public Health Fund" and put that money towards protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions. Majority Leader Eric Cantor was pushing the bill behind the scenes, no easy task given the resistance from both Democrats and Republicans.
Influential, conservative groups including The Club for Growth, GrowAmerica, and the Heritage Foundation worried that the bill would strengthen Obamacare and the government's role in healthcare. Tea Party leader Brent Brozell criticized what he dubbed "CantorCare" for abandoning the cause of repealing Obamacare altogether.
Cantor visited the Republican Study Committee on Wednesday to garner more support, but was unsuccessful. The bill was pulled from the floor yesterday.
"We had good conversations with our members and made a lot of solid progress," said Erica Elliott spokesperson for McCarthy, R-Calif.,. "There's still work to do and with members leaving town for the Bush Library dedication in Texas, we'll continue the conversations after the district work period."
According to emails, Tea Party hero Sen. Ted Cruz played a large role in the opposition. Aids to Cruz sent a series of highly combatant emails on the "repeal coalition" email listserv targeting at Cantor's attempt to gain Republican support.
"The message sucks. We oppose Obamacare. Period. We will repeal it. Period." Cruz chief of staff Chip Roy wrote.
It's an unusual move for a newcomer to challenge the majority leader, but not surprising given Cruz's proclivity to conflict and previous efforts to defund Obamacare.
Headlines from TxPotomac's top articles
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★ Economic indicators: Bureau of Economic Analysis will release data on the gross domestic product at 8:30 a.m.
★ Energy Subcommittee of House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing titled "A Review of Federal Hydraulic Fracturing Research Activities" at 9:30 a.m.
★ Public Lands and Environmental Regulations Subcommittee of House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on pending legislation at 10 a.m.
★ Economic indicators: Federal Reserve System will release selected weekly data on the assets and liabilities of commercial banks in the United States at 4:15 p.m.
★ Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee and Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee of House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing titled "Islamist Extremism in Chechnya: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland?" at 10:30 a.m.
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ April 29 Heritage Foundation will hold a discussion titled "Placing the U.S. on the Path Towards Meaningful and Effective Border Security."
★ May 7 Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on pending ambassadorial nominations to Chad and Libya.
★ May 8 Rep. Kevin Brady holds a hearing on the role of immigration in the economy.
★ May 14 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on natural gas issues.
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Game Design Essentials: 20 Mysterious Games
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[Following three previous articles - for '20 Unusual Control Schemes', '20 Open World Games', and '20 Difficult Games', respectively, Gamasutra's 'Game Design Essentials' series looks at the design lessons from titles in which 'the player must solve mysteries' - from finding secrets to wrestling with algorithmically generated content.]
Not really all that very long
ago, a game was released called The Legend of Zelda. For the
time it was ground-breaking, but as often happens with games, many of
the really interesting things about it were not copied in the inevitable
onslaught of games it inspired in the following years.
One of those features was
Zelda's huge variety of secret passages. While other games, including
later Zeldas, will sometimes throw in a poorly-hidden secret
chamber once in a while, the first Zelda did it all the time.
Nearly half of its overworld screens, in fact, contain a special area
of some type, offering rewards ranging from handfuls of rupees to entire
dungeons that must be found to win the game.
The existence of so many things hidden in the game that don't have to be found lends the game a certain quality, one best described as verisimilitude. Verisimilitude is a useful word to use in describing video games. It means the quality of being like life, but the connotations are more profound than petty "realism," which has been redefined in the game review sphere as the quality of the graphics. Properly used, the word means that there seems like there is a world outside the borders of the screen, happening regardless of what the player does. It implies the existence of a fully-fleshed world, one that's more than a mere collection of polygons or tiles that might as well be sealed in Plexiglas. It allows a game to better enable the player to forget that it is, really, just a game.
Of course in games this is usually faked, although with varying degrees of success. Grand Theft Auto and Dead Rising, where one can tell the story to take a running jump and go off and explore on one's own, fake it pretty well. Games that force a strong, linear narrative on the player, not so well.
Not all games require that the player be immersed, and pretend to actually be a participant in the game world. Indeed, it's probable that too many games desire this state, and fail badly when they try. But there are other reasons for wanting to instill mysterious elements into a game. But I should define my terms. By saying "mysterious," I mean games that hide some aspect of their play or workings from the player. These are games in which the unraveling of hidden knowledge is essential to the game. These are games in which the player must solve mysteries -- thus the word "mysterious."
There are two major ways to do this. The most common is to include a lot of pre-made content the player must discover. This is, by far, the most common method, and nearly all games do this in one way or another. First-person shooters only reveal the portion of their territory which is visible to the player's camera. Even simple games like Pac-Man could be termed mysterious, in that the behavior of the monsters is algorithmic, but difficult to figure out during a game. All games are mysterious if the category is defined too broadly, so we will concern ourselves with games that go to unusual lengths, games that take the matter deeper than just the unveiling of new content:
The standard disclaimer: This
is not intended to be a "top 20" list, and these games are
not presented in a ranked order. Some of the games may seem to only
be peripherally associated with the topic. That's because, to truly
understand some concept, it's useful to look at both obvious and non-obvious
cases. Most of these games are older, but this is as intended. Older
is not the same as worse! The purpose of the article is to show how
other games have done it over the years, and hopefully to inspire you
in working on your own projects. You could even play them to see the
principle in action.
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