Archive for April, 2009:
Artistic Mobile Wallpapers – Part One
April 27th, 2009 / 10 Comments » / by AF8AB
We bring Some creative juice for your Mobile phone Screens.
The wallpapers are 320×240 pixels in resolution and are usable on any Cell Phone. Most of the wallpapers come from iPhone hype of art and are designed by some of the finest and most creative artists around. I have hand edited them to fit our Nokia Screens. For people want to get iPhone versions, Please visit SmashingMagazine. This is part 1 of many sets to come, Look Forward 
Typography
Illustration – A
Illustration – B
Nature
Have Fun ….
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hp pavilion dv6t series Benchmark
April 26th, 2009 / 8 Comments » / by Faizan
It’s been around three weeks I got my first notebook that is hp pavilion dv6t-1045ee. Now I’ve got some time to test what this 100 Grand PKR notebook has got. I’ll be doing several benchmark tests to check how much performance boost (processing power) I’ve got and compare it with my 3.5 years old A64 3.2K+ Desktop and may be with my 7 years old P3 which is still in good operating condition ;p
Unfortunately laptop came preinstalled with everyone’s hated Windows Vista HomePrem so I’ve to live with it for now ignoring any performance loss although I’ve removed all bloated software’s that came preinstalled with it. All tests were performed on AC power with Windows Aero and unnecessary services turned Off.
Test Setup :p
Penryn (DV6t) |
Winchester |
Coppermine |
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Benchmark Applications:
- Everest Version 5.01 (For Memory and CPU Benchmark)
- AutoGK 2.45 (For Xvid Encoding, 189 Sec Mpeg2 Source)
- Winrar 3.71 (162MB File, Best Compression, Dictionary = 4096)
- Nero DiscSpeed
- HD Tune Pro
Memory BenchMark:
Higher is better
Memory Latency:
Lower is Better.
CPU Benchmark:
Higher is better
FPU Benchmark:
Higher is Better
Xvid Encoding & Winrar Compression Benchmark:
Lower is better
HDD Benchmark:
the laptop came with Fujitsu 320GB 5200RPM HDD which performed quite good. Benchmarks of my desktop HDD’s can be found here.
DVD ROM Benchmark:
Tested with 16x Verbatim DVD+R the best one available in market right now!
Cheetah 
Conclusion:
Overall applications performance as expected showed more than 2x performance boost as compared with my Athlon64 Desktop System. The HP dv6t meets my needs perfectly. It is an extremely well-rounded 16-inch multimedia notebook at a great price point. A beautiful design, superb input devices, a great screen, and good performance are the major highlights of this machine. I have no second thoughts about giving the dv6t my full recommendation.
Your Comments are welcomed!
Space boomerang video – old but c00l
April 23rd, 2009 / 3 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: A video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that the objects [i.e: Boomerang] do, in fact, come back – even in the microgravity environment of the space station.
Aerodynamics expert David Caughey of Cornell says that is just what is expected – the looping paths are the result of uneven forces on the curved devices by the air they travel through – not the influence of gravity.
Words of Science originated from Scifi.
April 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
In no particular order:
1. Robotics. This is probably the most well-known of these, since Isaac Asimov is famous for (among many other things) his three laws of robotics. Even so, I include it because it is one of the only actual sciences to have been first named in a science fiction story (”Liar!”, 1941). Asimov also named the related occupation (roboticist) and the adjective robotic.
2. Genetic engineering. The other science that received its name from a science fiction story, in this case Jack Williamson’s novel Dragon’s Island, which was coincidentally published in the same year as “Liar!” The occupation of genetic engineer took a few more years to be named, this time by Poul Anderson.
3. Zero-gravity/zero-g. A defining feature of life in outer space (sans artificial gravity, of course). The first known use of “zero-gravity” is from Jack Binder (better known for his work as an artist) in 1938, and actually refers to the gravityless state of the center of the Earth’s core. Arthur C. Clarke gave us “zero-g” in his 1952 novel Islands in the Sky.
4. Deep space. One of the other defining features of outer space is its essential emptiness. In science fiction, this phrase most commonly refers to a region of empty space between stars or that is remote from the home world. E. E. “Doc” Smith seems to have coined this phrase in 1934. The more common use in the sciences refers to the region of space outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.
5. Ion drive. An ion drive is a type of spaceship engine that creates propulsion by emitting charged particles in the direction opposite of the one you want to travel. The earliest citation in Brave New Words is again from Jack Williamson (”The Equalizer”, 1947). A number of spacecraft have used this technology, beginning in the 1970s.
6. Pressure suit. A suit that maintains a stable pressure around its occupant; useful in both space exploration and high-altitude flights. This is another one from the fertile mind of E. E. Smith. Curiously, his pressure suits were furred, an innovation not, alas, replicated by NASA.
7. Virus. Computer virus, that is. Dave Gerrold (of “The Trouble With Tribbles” fame) was apparently the first to make the verbal analogy between biological viruses and self-replicating computer programs, in his 1972 story “When Harlie Was One.”
8. Worm. Another type of self-replicating computer program. So named by John Brunner in his 1975 novel Shockwave Rider.
9. Gas giant. A large planet, like Jupiter or Neptune, that is composed largely of gaseous material. The first known use of this term is from a story (”Solar Plexus”) by James Blish; the odd thing about it is that it was first used in a reprint of the story, eleven years after the story was first published. Whether this is because Blish conceived of the term in the intervening years or read it somewhere else, or whether it was in the original manuscript and got edited out is impossible to say at this point.
” Please tell us more if u know some. “
Super LoiLoScope MARS
April 11th, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Japanese firm intros GPU-accelerated consumer video editor
Consumer-oriented video transcoders that take advantage of GPU acceleration are all well and good, but what if you want to do some video editing, too? The folks at LoiLo were probably trying to fill that gap when they came up with Super LoiLoScope Mars: this $69 video editor has a novel, user-friendly interface for HD video editing, and it features extensive GPU acceleration—both for the editing and encoding processes.
For folks more interested in the technical aspect, Nvidia’s press release includes a handy run-down of Super LoiLoScope Mars’ key features:
GPU accelerated H.264 encoding Movie output up to 10x faster with NVIDIA CUDA™ enabled GPUs Editing & playback of AVCHD HD movies at full HD resolution (1920×1080) Magnet output which enables output of multiple movies at once A simple new interface for saved projects Faster image editing A Search button for original files of thumbnails Support for 9 languages, including: Japanese, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and simple Chinese. Support for MP4, iPod, PSP, AVCHD, mp4 for Blu-ray, and Youtube HD movie formats
Download Trial From: Loilo.TV
Beware of teh CADIE — g00gle’s HOAX {1-4-2009}.
April 1st, 2009 / 6 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE)
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.
caught while reading, looked fishy, searched and here it is. lolz, enJoy teh Bluff.
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