The Voice, on NBC, started with a good idea – judges listen to candidates not seeing them, so in the first round the selection is purely based on vocal qualities. Ironically, however, in the current season, as of the 2nd round, when they can also see the singers, the better looking ones tend to influence [...]
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When I play chess against my computer, there are three important factors. Engine, visuals and quality of the game analysis. The engine aspect drives me to use the top UCI engines, such as Houdini, Hiarcs and alike – even thou I am not a Grand Master. One has a large selection in either free or [...]
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Bravo NBC, and once more Bravo!
The talent show called Sing-off is pure quality and top entertainment. All the contestants are fantastic talents, and the judges are reasonable, funny, down to Earth people. Keep on this path, bring on shows that measure to this level.
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I have written an article on this topic before, here is a follow up. I have found the first music recommendation system on the web that I really like so far. It is called Pandora at pandora.com. You can register for free and create virtual radio stations. Each radio station starts with a song or [...]
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Legutóbbi singaporei utaimon számos fotót készítettem a városról. Lassacskán, ahogy időm engedi, ezek a fényképek felkerülnek a Flickr oldalamra. Egy kép különösen kedves számomra, egy éjszakai panoráma a városról, a Skyparkból fényképezve. Az alábbi 3 nagyságban tekinthető meg. Kövesd a linket és utána a kép egyes részleteire kattintva a web browser kinagyítja a képet.
On my [...]
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Ha még nem hallottál a Darwin Awardról akkor itt az ideje. A darwinawards.com web oldal évek óta gyűjti a különlegesen ostoba emberek eseteit melyben ezek az emberek vagy meghalnak vagy súlyos sebesülést szenvednek nevetséges körülmények között. Persze mondhatod most hogy mások halála nem nevetséges, ám ez meglehetősen függ a körülményektől. A klasszikus példa erre – [...]
In a previous post I was writing about the Snow Leopard installation on VMWare. While I was troubleshooting the choppy sound problem, I observed that high disk activity may be related to sound problems. So I decided to try what if I install OS X on a physical hard drive as opposed to a virtual [...]
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Let me start with the obvious. Jackie Evancho is the – how shall I say … – True winner of this year, whatever happened behind the scene, whatever happened with the voting. There are other forums going into deep analysis why she lost the majority vote, I will not do that here.
Some key observations from [...]
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Choppy sound is a problem many people hear when running OS X Snow Leopard under VMWare Workstation. Radio stations, podcasts are not enjoyable, watching movie trailers in iTunes is nearly impossible.
Several posts suggest to change the VMWare config parameters in VMX but that does not really do anything. Based on my experiments, no wonder, because [...]
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The GPU is easily the most expensive component in one’s PC. If you are a gamer, it is essential to render the virtual world in high resolution, brilliant colors and flawless animation – whatever the price is.
But what about it’s idle hours, days? Can the price/performance ratio be improved on this investment?
Absolutely.
CUDA stands for Compute [...]
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