miercuri, 6 februarie 2008
Prison Break
Prison Break is an American serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005. The story revolves around a man who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and his brother's elaborate plan to help him escape his death sentence. Created by Paul Scheuring, the show is produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions in association with Original Television and 20th Century Fox Television. The current executive producers are Paul Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty, Brett Ratner.Its theme music is composed by Ramin Djawadi, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2006.
The show is currently in its third season. The uniqueness of Prison Break is attributed to its serialized story structure, a similar format used by Lost and 24, and to its setting, as very few television series were primarily set and filmed in a prison.Its success and recognition as a prison drama revived interest in the genre.
Two full seasons of the show have aired so far. However, due to the Writer's strike, there are only 13 episodes which have currently been produced for the third season. The final 5 episodes began airing in 2008, starting January 14. If the strike is still active when the thirteenth episode airs, the series will be put on indefinite hiatus until new episodes can be written and produced.
miercuri, 30 ianuarie 2008
Procesoarele AMD Phenom
AMD anunţă lansarea noii familii de procesoare Phenom, singurele procesoare quad-core din industrie, care însoţite de noua DirectX 10 ATI Radeon HD 2000 series vor să ofere o experienţă fenomenală pentru fanii PC. Sistemele quad-core şi dual-core AMD Phenom vor fi disponibile pe piaţă începând probabil din a doua jumătate a acestui an.
La San-Francisco, AMD a făcut o demonstraţie a platformei 8-core, sub numele de "FASN8" (pronunţată "fascinate"), pentru a arăta noile inovaţii ale companiei. Demonstraţia a inclus două modele de procesoare AMD Phenom quad-core şi noua DirectX 10 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.
Procesoarele quad-core din familia Phenom sunt proiectate în aşa fel încât să utilizeze în mod optim resursele de care dispun: curent electric, resurse sistem, etc. De asemenea, vor include resurse precum un controller al memoriei DDR2 integrat, legături HyperTransport şi alte facilităţi pentru mărirea puterii de calcul în operaţii cu virgulă mobilă.Cu noua tehnologie, unităţile de procesare comunică între ele direct şi nu printr-o magistrală, crescând astfel viteza schimbului de informaţii, care ajunge la 20,8Gbytes/secundă!
AMD numeşte aceste procesoare "adevărate" quad-core, pentru ca sunt patru unităţi de procesare puse să lucreze împreună. Acesta este de fapt şi un "nod în papură" pe care cei de la AMD îl găsesc celor de la Intel, ale căror quad-core (Intel Core 2 Quad şi Intel Core 2 Extreme) de fapt sunt două dual-core puse laolaltă. Însă aceste detalii de construcţie nu sunt foarte relevante pentru utilizatorul de rând, pentru care contează de fapt performanţa cipurilor. Procesoarele anunţate de AMD sunt construite pe tehnologia 65nm, punct în care cei de la Intel au un avantaj prin faptul ca implementează deja tehnologia 45nm, ceea ce permite includerea mai multor tranzistoare, mai mici, în noile cipuri fabricate. Quad-core-ul anunţat include pentru fiecare unitate de procesare un cache L2 de 512kB, şi de asemenea un cache L3 unic, de 2MB, împărţit între cele 4 cipuri pentru un acces mai rapid la date. Noile procesoare suporta Socket AM2 şi Socket AM2+.
Facilităţi:
* suport îmbunătăţit pentru operaţii cu virgulă mobilă. Procesoarele din clasele anterioare ofereau unităţi de 64 biţi pentru executarea operţiilor cu virgulă mobilă. Noile unităţi dublează această cifră, ajungând la 128 biţi
* îmbunătăţirea lucrului cu instrucţiunile maşină. Procesorul poate efectua 3 instrucţiuni complexe per ciclu de ceas.
* suport pentru paginare mare ( şi anume de 1GB). Această facilitate aduce mari beneficii aplicaţiilor multimedia care operează cu cantităţi mari de date.
* îmbunătăţiri ale setului de instrucţiuni procesor - sunt adăugate două instrucţiuni de manipulare avansată a biţilor.
Lupta pe piaţa procesoarelor multi-core continuă între cei doi mari rivali, lucru care nu poate fi decât benefic, atât din punct de vedere pur tehnologic, cât mai ales din perspectiva utilizatorilor.
Softpedia
Softpedia is a site that indexes information and provides downloads for many games, drivers, mobile phones, and software for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms, as well as PDAs and other devices. The site also indexes major technology, science, health, and entertainment news both from ticker servers and from in-house sources. As of April 2007, it is one of the top 500 websites according to Alexa traffic rankings.The site was originally known as Softnews.ro, but was changed to Softpedia near the end of 2003.
Software categories are arranged hierarchically and are modeled after Windows filesystem paths, such as "C: \ Mobile Phone Tools \ Sony Ericsson." Users can sort by criteria such as the date of the last update, the number of downloads, or the rating. There are three viewing modes, normal, freeware, or shareware, which allows users to screen out certain types of software.
Malware testing
Softpedia claims to thoroughly test each software product and game they list and to check each one for evidence of viruses, malware, adware or spyware using a variety of well known antivirus and antispyware products.[citation needed] Programs which Softpedia finds to be free of viruses, malware, adware and spyware are given its "100% Clean" award; programs which are also freeware are given Softpedia's "100% Free" award.
Google Search marks Softpedia as a harmful website
On 18 September 2007, some search results in Google search engine pointing to Softpedia.com were tagged with a "This site may harm your computer." message. The notation was removed by 20 September 2007, but no information concerning the situation was listed at Stopbadware.org. Softpedia blamed the notation on the actions of a third-party advertising provider.
Statistics
* Number of applications indexed: 276,503 as of 2007-06-28
* Total number of downloads: 365,094,945 as of 2007-06-28
www.softpedia.com
Software categories are arranged hierarchically and are modeled after Windows filesystem paths, such as "C: \ Mobile Phone Tools \ Sony Ericsson." Users can sort by criteria such as the date of the last update, the number of downloads, or the rating. There are three viewing modes, normal, freeware, or shareware, which allows users to screen out certain types of software.
Malware testing
Softpedia claims to thoroughly test each software product and game they list and to check each one for evidence of viruses, malware, adware or spyware using a variety of well known antivirus and antispyware products.[citation needed] Programs which Softpedia finds to be free of viruses, malware, adware and spyware are given its "100% Clean" award; programs which are also freeware are given Softpedia's "100% Free" award.
Google Search marks Softpedia as a harmful website
On 18 September 2007, some search results in Google search engine pointing to Softpedia.com were tagged with a "This site may harm your computer." message. The notation was removed by 20 September 2007, but no information concerning the situation was listed at Stopbadware.org. Softpedia blamed the notation on the actions of a third-party advertising provider.
Statistics
* Number of applications indexed: 276,503 as of 2007-06-28
* Total number of downloads: 365,094,945 as of 2007-06-28
www.softpedia.com
miercuri, 23 ianuarie 2008
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