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![]() ![]() Other than that, he's rarely stepped before a camera in the past 15 years. ![]() Julius Caesar in Asterix at the Olympic Games, a 2008 film based on the popular comic series, is one of Alain Delon's rare roles in a comedy. In 1973, Alain Delon once again played a hit man, this time in a Hollywood production, Michael Winner's film Scorpio, which is one of the few exceptions in his more or less French portfolio. The Swimming Pool (1969) is a movie that is more unforgettable, with Delon and Romy Schneider lounging naked by the pool. In announcing Delon as this year's prize recipient, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux had praised Delon as "a giant, a living legend and a global icon," but the festival announcement also prompted controversy based on Delon's personal life.įollowing his success in the 1960s, Delon later starred in several more or less memorable gangster movies. On Sunday at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, he received an honorary Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award "to pay tribute to his wonderful presence in the history of film." ![]() Cult imagery of film history definitely include Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, James Dean's utter cool, Marilyn Monroe's swirling white dress - and Alain Delon's performance as hit man Jeff Costello in the 1967 movie The Samurai.ĭelon's motionless face, fixed gaze, meticulous appearance and total arrogance in the movie are simply unforgettable.Īlong with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Michel Piccoli, Delon was one of the biggest stars in French cinema. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can now assign photos, videos and music to up to 8 multimedia tracks, and the optimized multi-track performance allows for a more efficient use of multicore processors. In addition to new effects, templates and audio content, the controls have also been further optimized. With tons of thematic templates for birthdays, weddings, Christmas and other events, you can automatically create the right Photostory for every occasion. If you don‘t have much time or a creative streak, you can always make use of the Photostory wizard. You can also add your own audio comments and music. With over 50 new music pieces and 500 effects, the program now features more than 850 professional sounds ![]() ![]() ![]() Cowboys teamed up in crimes and came to each other's aid based on personal relationships, and a general understanding, not orders from a leader. The Cowboys did not have the formal structure of a modern gang. These Cowboys were affiliated by a combination of blood relations, friendships and some sources say a sworn oath. "Cowboys" was a term used in the area to identify a band of outlaws - which included the McLaurys and Clantons - who were implicated in such crimes. ![]() The Earps were viewed by their enemies as badge-toting tyrants who ruthlessly enforced the business interests of the town the McLaurys, Clantons and their Cowboy crowd were viewed by their enemies as cattle rustlers, thieves, and murderers. Certainly they did not allow the law to hinder them. However, they enforced their interests in the town as a group, and going against one of them would likely be dangerous. The Cowboys were not necessarily hated, but they were loosely organized criminals. The McLaurys, the Clantons and Claiborne were from a larger group called the Cowboys. The conflicts leading to the gunfight are complex: the two sides were related in two instances (in both cases by strong family ties), but were in opposition due to politics, business concerns, and other ideological factors. To meet Wikipedia's quality standards and conform with our Neutral Point of View policy, this article or section may require cleanup. It reads more like a story than an encyclopedia entry. This article or section is written in an informal style and with a personally invested tone. Both McLaurys and Billy Clanton were killed Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday were wounded. Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne (who later claimed that he had been unarmed, though some reports credit him with shooting one or more times) ran away from the fight, unharmed. Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday fought Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Claiborne, Ike Clanton, and Billy Clanton.
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![]() Intel doesn’t have the most useless FP64 cores to add any important hardware like more FP32 or FP16 cores, additional hardware encoders and decoders, or bigger caches. ![]() With these in mind, it seems that Intel’s strategy to completely negate any hardware accelerated FP64 support on Arc Alchemist might be a good thing. In the real world, this kind of FP64 performance only works for FP64 demos or benchmarks, and rarely more. This shows how unimpressive FP64 is in the consumer space. The RTX 3090’s FP64 computation capabilities pale in comparison to the performance metric, coming in at only 556 Gigaflops (not even a single Teraflop) - or just 64th the performance of the GPU’s FP32 capabilities. This is why gamers prefer the FP64 to a gaming-focused GPU.įor example, if you look at the GeForce RTX 3090 featuring Nvidia’s latest Ampere architecture, you’ll find that the FP32 performance comes with 35.58 teraflops. In general, shorter computations can be performed faster on cores with FP32 and even FP16 capabilities. ![]() It’s simple: FP64 provides a wide range of numerical values that it doesn’t even touch or touch to handle small calculations – and so does FP64. However, FP64 isn’t really necessary for the enterprise and is rarely a product of the consumer world. A large format has been a very complex mathematical application, such as physics, weather predictions and a lot of other things, thanks to the long dynamic range of numeric values FP64 provides. Keep in mind that this configuration does not apply to Intel’s gaming-centric Arc Alchemist GPUs, but its upcoming Ponte Vecchio GPUs for the enterprise space.įP64 is the type of computer number commonly used in high-performance application applications. Depending on the nature of the equation, FP64 calculations on Arc will work much slower than GPUs with native hardware-accelerated FP64 cores. The only exception to this is an emulated support for Arc Alchemist (FP64) which will be supported for niche ioces. In contrast, the GPUs will never be able to buy directly from native FP32 and FP16 support. Considering the GPUs that support FP64, we notice that this is the kind of feature that doesn't follow GPU generations but high-end graphics in general. However, the result would be about the same, because if FP is implemented in hardware, it is typically (almost) as fast as integer operations.AMD, the AMD Forum sparked speculation that the iPC-based GPUs are not in the market in addition to hardware-accelerated FP64 cores. Of (emulated) FP operations compared to hardware FP operations (not sure what you meant). Your question might also be read to be about the performance Note: This answer compares the performance of (emulated) FP operations with integer operations on the same processor. Obviously, this case is only relevant on processor architectures where some processors haven an FPU, and some do not (such as x86 and ARM). However, this emulation is even slower (about another factor 10) than a software emulation compiled into the program, because of additional overhead. using FPU instructions) can run on a process without an FPU - the kernel will transparently emulate unsupported FPU instructions in software. The advantage is that even code compiled without FP emulation (i.e. Linux and WindowsCE) also have an FP emulation in the OS kernel. ![]() The paper also mentions that the GNU implementation (the one the GNU compiler uses by default) is about 10 times slower, which is a total factor of 100-300.įinally, note that the above is for the case where the FP emulation is compiled into the program by the compiler. So this would result in a factor of about 10-30 between integer and FP arithmetic. For the Intel XScale processor the list as latencies (excerpt): integer addition or subtraction: 1 cycle The paper mentioned by njuffa, Cristina Iordache and Ping Tak Peter Tang, An Overview of Floating-Point Support and Math Library on the Intel XScale Architecture supports this. The exact performance will depend on a number of factors, such as the features of the integer hardware - some CPUs lack a FPU, but have features in their integer arithmetic that help implement a fast software emulation of FP calculations. However, based on my understanding, in processors that do not implement floating point (FP) operations in hardware, a software implementation will typically be 10 to 100 times slower (or even worse, if the implementation is bad) than integer operations, which are always implemented in hardware on CPUs. 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Information here may no longer be accurate, and links may no longer be available or reliable.Ĭomputers use an internal clock to synchronize all of theirĬalculations. This content has been archived, and is no longer maintained by Indiana University. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is interesting that you prefer the slimmer stones, I've read that some folk go that way whilst others say they prefer the thicker, more hefty type. It looks like a lovely Goban set and something to treasure and contemplate. Kirkmc, thank you so much for your recommendation and write-up. You can also play the GNU program for free here: but this just whips me every single time. Last night I won with about 6 points, today lost with about 25. I have no idea what kyu it is, or what I am. There's no fancy business, no handicaps etc, just you and the computer. By simply cancelling the registration pop-up it takes you straight away to the option of playing a game. Willemien, I down loaded the go program from here: which offers a free evaluation copy. Trouble is that adventure may take years to sort out. Maybe I should persude my girlfriend that we visit the States or Japan for holiday and sneak a goban set back home. I have a terrible feeling I'm going to be stung not only for shipping costs but also import duty, added tax and the such. ![]() YMI and KGT do seem to come highly recommended but I may have to make a few enquiries at source before considering their offers. Redbeard, thank you for your recommendations. It does raise some nice ideas and suggestions and I've taken note of what has been advised. I did look about before posting, but didn't find the thread offered. In mind-consciousness discourse it is quite a polemic. For example, a quale might be the qualitative experience you have of the blue night sky, the taste of water, the pain in your headache. The name qualia is the plural of quale and is a term used to describe our subjective, descriptive quality of experience. Turns out that it isn't so cheap this import business. Oh well, Also I didn't realise that being in Europe I would have to pay duty fees, added tax and the what-not. It wasn't just because they said exports over $125 would be sent for nothing, but also because when I did a pretend buy and added the information that I was from Spain, the sum total for delivery still came up free. Tchan001, your advice is spot on! I did take it into account delivery costs, but for some reason dumbly assumed YMI would deliver for free to the EU. Jordus, thank you for your advice on the YMI goban set. Thank you all ever so much for your swift and informative replies. Last edited by qualia on Wed 6:26 pm, edited 1 time in total. I thank you for your time, and look forward to any suggestions you may be able to supply. Goishiten are sound people, but as you'll appreciate, I'm still a little nervous sending money to unknown sites.Ĭ) Do you have any other suggestions or avenues you feel I should persue? Price would be about $500+PP or 361€+PP.Ī) If someone was going to buy you one of these sets which would you go for?ī) Taking into account that Yellow Mountains will deliver to Spain for free and that the postage will be about another $170 from Shodan or Kuroki, which would you go for?ī) Have any of you dealt with the aforementioned companies? Has there been any problems? I've read that Yellow Mountain is a pretty cool site, and that Mr. Total price would be about $568 or around 400€ģ) Kuroki Goishiten's 3 item best buy, perhaps something like this. ![]() cts_id=115Ģ) Yellow Mountain's Shin Kaya 2.4. I'm hoping to save around 400€ to 500€ which would be about $500 to $700 and taking into the considerations above, and aesthetic appeal have boiled my choice down to:ġ) Shodan Imports' Tengen Set ($659+PP). I've checked out many in Europe but they just don't match up to Goban sets being sold in the United States or Japan, neither in general price to what is being offered, nor as often seems the case, in aesthetic look or quality. So I've been looking around at different sites to see what I may be able to purchase. Now, after Christmas I wanted to buy myself a nice set which 1) I could treasure for some years 2) my girlfriend wouldn't mind having around her living room 3) enjoy my own practice upon 4) hopefully draw some attraction to the game here in Spain. For the past few days, without cheating, I am able to draw, beat or just slightly lose against it (around 6.5 points). I first read about it in my studies on eastern philosophy (I studied philosophy at university) and am now working through online material and practicing the free online version of many faces of Go-12. I'm from Spain and I've been playing Go now for about a month and am really quite fascinated by the game. This is my first post, so firstly I'd like to say thank you to you all for letting me join. ![]() |
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