This revolutionary method allows the recording of Terabytes (thousands of Gigabytes) of information per second, hundreds of times faster than present hard drive technology," said York physicist Thomas Ostler in a paper published in the February edition of the Nature Communications journal. "As there is no need for a magnetic field, there is also less energy consumption."
In the paper, Ostler describes a system that uses a sub-picosecond laser pulse to quickly heat the magnetic medium to around 800 degrees Celsius for a brief moment. This heating significantly speeds up the process of reversing the magnetic polarity of a particular bit. Current hard drives use an external magnetic field applied to a spinning magnetic medium to invert the polarity of the two magnetic poles.
AMD DX11 Leo Demo
For those of you that haven't seen it yet, AMD has posted its DX11 Leo demo for anyone with the hardware to run it. The demo weighs in at 733MB but you shouldn't have any issues getting it, the link is pretty damn speedy right now. I'll have a video posted soon for those of you that want to see more than just screenshots.
The Leo demo showcases a real-time, DirectX® 11 based lighting pipeline that is designed to allow for rendering scenes made of arbitrarily complex materials (including transparencies), multiple lighting models, and minimal restrictions on the number of lights that can be used -- all while supporting hardware MSAA and efficient memory usage. Specifically, this demo uses DirectCompute to cull and manage lights in a scene. The end result is a per-pixel or per-tile list of lights that forward-render based shaders use for lighting each pixel.
This technique also allows for adding one bounce global illumination effects by spawning virtual point light sources where light strikes a surface. Finally, the lighting in this demo is physically based in that it is fully HDR and the material and reflection models take advantage of the ALU power of the AMD Radeon HD 7900 GPU to calculate physically accurate light and surface interactions (multiple BRDF equations, realistic use of index of refraction, absorption based on wavelength for metals, etc).
The Leo demo showcases a real-time, DirectX® 11 based lighting pipeline that is designed to allow for rendering scenes made of arbitrarily complex materials (including transparencies), multiple lighting models, and minimal restrictions on the number of lights that can be used -- all while supporting hardware MSAA and efficient memory usage. Specifically, this demo uses DirectCompute to cull and manage lights in a scene. The end result is a per-pixel or per-tile list of lights that forward-render based shaders use for lighting each pixel.
This technique also allows for adding one bounce global illumination effects by spawning virtual point light sources where light strikes a surface. Finally, the lighting in this demo is physically based in that it is fully HDR and the material and reflection models take advantage of the ALU power of the AMD Radeon HD 7900 GPU to calculate physically accurate light and surface interactions (multiple BRDF equations, realistic use of index of refraction, absorption based on wavelength for metals, etc).
999 Players in One Online FPS Match
Game technology developer MuchDifferent set its sights on a Guinness record, hoping to bring 1,000 players into a single multiplayer FPS battle. While the studio didn't quite reach its goal, it came damn close. At its peak, 999 players took part in the Man vs. Machine shootout yesterday, an accomplishment MuchDifferent heralds as the future of multiplayer gaming.
At 4:04 p.m. CET on Sunday, the Man vs. Machine battle reached 999 players, just one player away from MuchDifferent's lofty goal. And then the server crashed due to the number of players trying to get into the game. Once the game was back online, numbers reached a peak of 980 players.
At 4:04 p.m. CET on Sunday, the Man vs. Machine battle reached 999 players, just one player away from MuchDifferent's lofty goal. And then the server crashed due to the number of players trying to get into the game. Once the game was back online, numbers reached a peak of 980 players.
Networking
A few days ago while I was doing some tutorials I fired up the NAS for some files and couldn't believe what happen next. The follow day before I picked up a CAT5 Networking cable to get the NAS back online, that same day I had no problems streaming videos to the WDTV Live from the Server until I tried accessing files from Windows 7 to Windows XP. So started running command after command switch after switch and I still couldn't access the damn NAS, after spending about two hours search forums I was just about to nuke the fucking drive. Also at the same time came across another problem in the Credential Manager Virtualapp/didlogical something I knew shouldn't of been there so had to deal with that shit Too.
Long story short all I had to do was set the fucking time on the Windows XP machine witch was set to August 2009 9:32AM, it came to me after I got access to the NAS I added faster Ram PC6400 800MHz from PC5400 667MHz to the system three weeks before and reset the CMOS because the system wouldn't past POST. Even Microsoft couldn't answer the Question or fine a fix to the problem so many people where having but Google did check out the links below and have a look through the eyes of a PowerUser.
Note: Always set the CMOS before installing any OS on the HDD and make sure you correct it after clearing the CMOS, I also had some problems with Windows Update because the Date and Time was set incorrect again I couldn't believe something so simple that could cause so much Havoc.
Long story short all I had to do was set the fucking time on the Windows XP machine witch was set to August 2009 9:32AM, it came to me after I got access to the NAS I added faster Ram PC6400 800MHz from PC5400 667MHz to the system three weeks before and reset the CMOS because the system wouldn't past POST. Even Microsoft couldn't answer the Question or fine a fix to the problem so many people where having but Google did check out the links below and have a look through the eyes of a PowerUser.
Note: Always set the CMOS before installing any OS on the HDD and make sure you correct it after clearing the CMOS, I also had some problems with Windows Update because the Date and Time was set incorrect again I couldn't believe something so simple that could cause so much Havoc.
AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, Roadmaps
Thursday during AMD's Financial Analysis Day, Engadget spotted an "ultrathin" ODM reference unit from Compal featuring AMD's upcoming Trinity APU. The chip was believed to be one of the lower variants -- either 17W or 25W -- housed within an 18-mm form factor. This particular model was reportedly one of many prototypes currently being shopped around to OEMs.
According to the site, the prototype featured plenty of connectivity onboard including two USB 3.0 ports, mini-DisplayPort and HDMI mounted on the left, and audio jacks, another USB port, Ethernet and power mounted along the right. AMD is looking to sell the final product at half the price of Intel's ultrabook form factor, ranging from $500 to $600 USD.
According to the site, the prototype featured plenty of connectivity onboard including two USB 3.0 ports, mini-DisplayPort and HDMI mounted on the left, and audio jacks, another USB port, Ethernet and power mounted along the right. AMD is looking to sell the final product at half the price of Intel's ultrabook form factor, ranging from $500 to $600 USD.
Gmail Man
Google's new privacy policy hasn't gone unnoticed, since sparking some controversy about how much the search giant will know about you. Microsoft has seen this as a prime opportunity to pounce on the offensive, kicking up some dirt towards Google's way in a new ad campaign. Through its social media channels, however, Microsoft has catapulted mud straight towards Google.
Microsoft posted to its YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages a video originally made for the company's internal Global Exchange sales conference last summer. Now it's been officially promoted as another poke towards Google's new privacy policy.
Microsoft posted to its YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages a video originally made for the company's internal Global Exchange sales conference last summer. Now it's been officially promoted as another poke towards Google's new privacy policy.
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