Monitored Alarm Systems

Johannes Kepler wrote: "Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

recent GPU, code-named Kepler after the German mathematician, seems inspired by the budget, and by Kepler's mathematical prowess of origin. The new GPU GTX 680 - offers excellent graphics power, but only requires two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors. This is an excellent starting point for the next generation GTX 580, which was fast but power hungry.

Discussion on performance

bit, but first let's look at the underlying architecture of Kepler.

small equals high

Kepler GPUs are built with a 28nm manufacturing process, allowing the construction of circuits Nvidia in the field of dying younger.

As Fermi, Kepler is a modular architecture, allowing Nvidia to scale the design up or down by adding or subtracting the functional blocks. In Fermi streaming multiprocessors, or SMS, for short, are the basic building blocks that built the line GTX 500 GPU. Basic figures CUDA in SMS may vary. For example, each block in the GTX 560 Ti SM contained 48 CUDA cores, while the GTX 580 SM was built with 32 cores. The GTX 580, however, had a total of 16 SMS of 32 cores each, for a total of 512 CUDA cores.

Kepler

function block is the SMX. Kepler is based on the 28nm GPU, Nvidia allowing architects to develop things a little differently. So Nvidia has increased the number of cores in an SMX Kepler to 192 CUDA cores each impressive.

The GTX 680 GPU

is built from blocks of eight SMX, arranged in groups of couples called GPC (Graphics Performance groups). This gives the GTX 680 up to 1536 CUDA cores.

The SMX not only the home of CUDA cores, however. SMX built in each polymorph is the new engine, which contains the tessellation hardware engine characteristics, and related configuration. Also included are 16 texture units. This gives the GTX 680 of 128 texture units (compared to 64 texture units built GTX 580). Interestingly, the cache has changed a bit, each SMX still has 64 KB of L1 cache, some of which can be used as shared memory for GPU computing. But this means that the total L1 cache has decreased slightly, as there are only eight units of SMX GTX 680, not 16 as with the GTX 580. The L2 cache is smaller than 512 KB instead of 768Kb Fermi.

Another interesting change is that before decoding and dependency checking downloaded the software, while Fermi is handled in hardware. What Nvidia got in return was more effective and more space given instructions. Interestingly, the number of transistors on the GTX 680 GPU is 3.5 million, only some $ 3 million of the GTX 580. The chip size is reduced, however, a much more manageable 294mm2, however, Sandy Bridge 32 nm Intel quad core CPU is 216mm2.

Textures

, antialiasing, and more

One of the coolest features of a few new textures bindless real application. Before Kepler, NVIDIA GPUs were limited to 128 simultaneous textures, Kepler is increased by allowing textures to be allocated as needed, in the shader program, with up to 1 million simultaneous textures available. It is doubtful that games that use lots of textures, but certain types of architectural representation might benefit.

Nvidia is incorporating into its mode of antialiasing FXAA property, but added a new method called TXAA. The "T" means "temporary". TXAA in its standard mode, is actually a variant of multiple sampling, 2x AA, but the sampling pattern varies with time (ie several images.) The result is a better edge quality than even 8x MSAA, but the performance hit is more like 2x multisampling.

Another cool new feature that finally also supported by the Nvidia GPU Vsync is more adaptable. Today, if you lock the vertical sync to the refresh rate of your monitor (typically 60 Hz, but some as high as 120 Hz screens), you win the game softer. However, you can see a stutter, as the frame rate drops to 30 fps or less, because output frame is closed to vsync. On the other hand, if you stay with vsync off, you can see the ripping part, as new frames are sent to the screen before the old is complete.

Adaptive

Vsync locks the frame rate to a vertical refresh rate, until the driver detects the running speed falls below the refresh rate. Vsync is temporarily disabled until the frame rate rises above the monitor refresh rate. The end result is a much smoother performance from the perspective of the user.

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Bethesda releases the official recommendations.


Bethesda has released the official Rage PC system requirements.


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Rocksteady has released the system requirements and recommendations for the PC version of Batman: .. Arkham City



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Part of the optimum lifetime of the plants we have seen in a game


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Sega confirms system data breach.


It becomes ridiculous. Sega has confirmed that its system of passes has been the victim of a hack attack, with users' personal data stolen.

While the presentation makes sure to stand out, I'm more interested in the mechanical permadeath, something that is out of fashion in recent years, as the game of power fantasies player was put problem for the survival of the road. Although you can kill other players and even steal your team corpses not yet cold, there are repercussions for such actions. After spending hours playing too much

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Adafruit "Internet of things device" is a neat mashup of Arduino existing components in a camera of the remote versatile. The keyword here is in the distance - a capacity that is provided by the inclusion of a first generation Eye-Fi, an SD card with built in Wi-Fi, you can upload images to your computer or other device or, better yet, a variety of photo sharing sites like Flickr ... Continue reading Build your own motion activated "Internet of Things" camera

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In the last year we have been covering the efforts of Senator Ron Wyden for Obama administration officials to come public with his secret interpretation of the Patriot Act. Wyden, of course, I can not say how they are interpreting the Patriot Act, although there was evidence, which suggests an extremely broad interpretation, which effectively allows to spy on Americans, in direct contrast how most people (including many members of Congress) believe that the law allows. In the past, intelligence officials have said basically he would not reveal how they interpret the Patriot Act, unwilling, and could reveal some details of how to spy on people.



course, to keep secret details of specific operations risk control is reasonable. However, an interpretation of the law on secrecy that seems to go against what the law says directly? This is not acceptable. If the government can come up with how it interprets the laws, so keep secret interpretations, we do not have representative democracy at all. We have a joke of government.

Given all this, the New York Times and the ACLU sued the government for not revealing his interpretation of the law under a Freedom of Information Act. The administration is seeking the two rejected applications ... Senators Wyden and important to send a header Udall more direct and forceful of the Attorney General to question this movement. I will include a large number of fragments below, but a small key in the letter, which I think is new is the recognition that additional information that Wyden and Udall have found suggest that the covert surveillance operation that uses this secret interpretation of the law is not yet effective:

also tells us that in recent months have become increasingly skeptical about the real value of "intelligence-gathering operation" discussed the recent introduction of the Court in the Department of Justice with respect to pending lawsuits. It was a surprise for us, as he bent to take claims from the Executive on the importance of this "operation" at face value. We will provide more details on this correspondence skepticism ad.

This is a very strong statement, and certainly shows another reason why the government is fighting so hard against revealing secret interpretation. They know that when people realize how much they are tracking people under the false interpretation of the law, not only people upset, but the government will not even be able to demonstrate that these efforts do nothing to prevent terrorism in the country. In some other spots of the letter:

It is well known that Article 215, which is a public right has been interpreted legal secrets. Stocks of these interpretations, which are contained in the views displayed by the Intelligence Surveillance Court Foreign Affairs (or "FISA Court") has been repeatedly recognized by the Department of Justice and other executive branch officials .

think most Americans are surprised to learn the details of how such secret judicial opinions have interpreted section 215 of the Patriot Act.

As we see, now there is a significant gap between what most Americans think

the law allows and what the government

said quietly permitted by law. This is a problem because it is impossible to have an informed public debate on what the law should say that the public does not know what their government thinks the law says. that seems too short. Really makes you wonder what country we live in today. I'm fine with the government to keep secret certain things - but it's something that should never be kept secret

the law itself

. This is not democracy at all, an issue raised in the letter, thus:


In a democratic society - in which the government derives its powers from the consent of people - citizens rightly expect their government does not arbitrarily keep information from their part. Americans expect their government to act within the limits of public law, and understood that voters who have a need and right now on how the law is interpreted so that they can ratify or reject decisions its name. In other words, the Americans know that government will prosecute some covert operations, but do not think government officials should be submitted in writing secret laws. how the government interprets the law:
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people like their smartphones so they also tend to love their children and should not be a surprise that we see an increasing number of baby monitors that transmit live video mobile parents. Recent examples have included intelligent BabyPing baby monitor. The device based iBaby Apple is the last such system, but it is remarkable that, instead of offering a single shot with a tripod, the camera can be remotely criticized and bows ... Continue reading iBaby baby monitor provides rotation to watch the action


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According to the "infinite monkey theorem," a monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type the complete works of Shakespeare. There were even efforts to bring proof of the theorem written by creating virtual monkeys were able to re-create at least one of Shakespeare's works. However, the monkeys were digital - here are some examples of some real

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• cows in the UK equipped with "Smart Pass" can inform farmers when they are sick or in heat. The collars use the same type of sensor that is in 3D video game Wii controllers to detect motion. [Url]
A monkey in China with two sensor chips implanted in their brains can control a robotic hand with his thoughts. Sensors monitor 200 neurons in the motor cortex of the monkey, and translate the brain signals in real time the movements of robotic fingers. [Url]

Alex, an African Grey parrot, had math skills were at least as good as those of chimpanzees. He had been trained to count objects, and could add two numbers to a total of eight, or add two sets of objects, for a total of six. [Url]



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As Techdirt found a couple of days, one of the reasons why the European Commission decided to refer the law before the European Court of Justice was the fear that another disaster SOUP was in sight. It's a little early to be sure, but we may be seeing the first signs that the agreement PPT equally problematic is in trouble because of the greater sensitivity to key issues behind the revolt of the Web cons SOUP.

Here's a report from Sean Flynn in the last round of TPP, which was held recently in Australia:

contrast to the sharp increase in other chapters, which have been declared "on track" by the negotiators, in the chapter of the Trans-Pacific Agreement on intellectual property seems to be developed death in Melbourne. Sources said the 10 trading days produced no significant progress in the chapter on intellectual property. Thus some of the most controversial aspects of the proposal of the United States, including the liability of Internet service and the "May 2007" access to medicines issues came to the table.

The issue of ISP liability is the family of intermediaries responsible for what their customers are. The result of putting the laws in this regard would be the destruction of ISPs to monitor their users and block content to minimize the risk of being sued. PPT can not require monitoring and censorship, but it would be its inevitable consequences.

What is new, however, is the growing public concern about the impact of TPP on access to medicines, particularly generic low cost are important for many countries in the region of Pacific. KEI Krista Cox wrote about this in his summary of the meeting in Melbourne:

the afternoon [of PPT Stakeholders Forum] started with eight representatives of the generic pharmaceutical industry giving strong statements in opposition to the U.S. "Access Window" text, in particular, are opposed to provisions relating to patent term extension, patent liaison and exclusive rights over test data. These representatives noted that the proposal of the United States may hinder access to affordable generic drugs



Cox report also states that the negotiators SOUP Again PPT - and ACT - lessons on the importance of transparency in real
The first question that comes in the form of calls for greater transparency, including the release of the text, to allow the public to be part of the process. The chief negotiator of Australia stated that the stakeholder forum provides the basis for stakeholders to participate and is a common practice not to provide the text during the negotiations of free trade agreements. He suggested that the release of the text would not be possible, because
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