![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even a short audience with such spectacular species like the titan arum, the symbol of Sumatra, reminds us of why we must save the rainforests. I imagined what it would be like to discover the titan arum in full flower in its native haunts in the lowland rainforests of Sumatra: after sweat-soaked hours of trudging through the mud and flicking off leeches, to smell something odd-a dead leaf monkey, a rotting tapir?-and then to stumble upon the biological reward of a lifetime. How tragic to think that most of the remaining natural habitat of the titan arum may disappear before this individual, one of the last in its lineage, decides to flower again. This is where an individual plant increases its fitness by breeding with another relative some distance away-what Darwin himself termed as “nature’s urge.” (The flower of our local pawpaw, a species that boasts many close relatives abiding in Sumatra’s rainforests next to the titan arum, gives off the same corpse scent, if much more muted than the titan arum’s inflorescence).įirefly on the Screen Door (cc) slgckgc without the telltale aroma, the titan arum is a spectacular feat of evolution, like the fronds of a leafy sea dragon or the feathers of a peacock, and almost as ephemeral as a firefly’s glow. The titan arum and its cohort of stinkers are cleverer than we think: by drawing in with its rank odor reliable pollen carriers in a dense rainforest, it succeeds in outcrossing. Many tropical plants pollinated by carrion flies and beetles produce flowers that smell like old socks or worse. By the time I arrived there was no evidence of the stench from its giant flower (technically an inflorescence, a cluster of many tiny flowers borne on a stalk) for which the titan arum is most notorious, an odor said to resemble a decomposing corpse. The horticulturists-in-charge, or perhaps the titan arum’s ‘handlers,’ had deliberately placed the titan on a floral throne decorated with lesser plants in the same family (Araceae)-its jealous and more familiar potted cousins, the Anthurium and the Phyllodendron-kneeling below it at the base. When I visited the titan arum on exhibit, I joined a crowd milling around this all-star among aroids, many asking to be photographed next to it. "Corpse Flower" on Display at US Botanic Garden, Washington DC (cc) William Angel out the live webcam here. ![]()
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![]() Here are our top three reasons why you should regularly test your internet speed: However, we do live in a world where increasingly many activities depend on a fast internet connection, and where internet service providers often promise one thing and deliver something completely different. Unfortunately, we don’t live in such a world. In a perfect world, your internet connection would always be at its top speed, and you would never experience any slowdowns and connectivity issues. Your download speed doesn’t determine just how long it takes you to download files, but also how long it takes websites to load because every website is really just a collection of various assets which must be downloaded for the website to load correctly. ![]() ![]() Ping is not too important when browsing the web or downloading files from the internet, but it’s critical when streaming audio and video or playing games. Just like when testing download speed, multiple connections are typically established to increase the accuracy of the test. Upload speed: Upload speed is the rate at which data packets are transferred from the user's computer to a remote server.Most internet speed test online applications establish multiple simultaneous connections to make the final result more accurate. Download speed: Download speed is the rate at which data packets are transferred from the Internet to the user's computer.Ping is typically tested multiple times, with the lowest value finally determining the result. Ping test is performed by measuring the time it takes data packets to travel from the internet to the user’s computer. Ping (latency): Ping is the amount of delay it takes to send information from one point to the next.Most internet speed tests online test the following three connection metrics: Many people don’t know what internet speed tests are good for, and those who do know often don’t fully understand what influences them. ![]() There’s a lot of confusion surrounding internet speed tests. ![]() ![]() You can check all the prices here.The latest version of Mocha Pro just hit the scene, and it’s chock-full of new tools geared toward visual effects artists. Pricingīoris FX Mocha Pro 2020 offers a number of licensing options. It’s compatible with the Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) and should allow for improved color-managed workflows with high-end post-production and VFX applications. This feature support should give Mocha users “consistent and predictable color displays across industry workflows,” according to Boris FX. OpenColorIO supportīoris FX Mocha Pro 2020 now supports OpenColorIO (OCIO). ‘Editors and finishing artists working on tight deadlines will love the new Area Brush paint tool for its speed and ease of use,” Shain says. Ultimately, that should speed up tracking and masking tasks. Additionally, added and subtracted paint strokes convert to vector splines. ![]() Users will be able to define large tracking search areas with a single stroke. According to Boris FX, it will bring “paint-like” functionality to Mocha. Area BrushĪnother new feature being added to Boris FX Mocha Pro 2020 is the Area Brush with Quick Mask mode. Boris FX Mocha Pro 2020 will introduce Mega Plate, which extracts a larger-than-raster image from video to do advanced VFX tasks. It will generate a larger-than-raster extended canvas, allowing for things like retouching, set extensions, matte painting, sky replacements, and object removal. ![]() Shain believes this feature will allow for many new unique workflows. “The Mega Plate feature is an evolution of our planar tracking engine, now developed to generate a stitched panorama effects plate from a moving shot,” says Ross Shain, Chief Product Officer, Boris FX. ![]() ![]() sources were limited, that's why I changed to FanControl.) Currently the Fans in question seem to just use what I've set in the BIOS. I have a Gigabyte Z390 AORUS ULTRA MoBo, when I used Gigabyte's software I was able to control these as well. The fan curves were all applied correctly, and now they are not (and all have the ?).Īny idea how to regain control over those fans? I have a default profile set in BIOS for all of my fans, but only 2 fans are actually getting overridden by the BIOS values and I cant see a difference there in the settings. ![]() Can you look into this when you get a chance? I know, for a fact, it was working before because I opened it beforehand to check for an update (before the 22.7.1 Adrenaline update) and before I restarted. I recently updated to 121 and 22.7.1 as well (in the same restart actually) and I am now having this show up on all fans (where before it was just my RX 6750 XT that would not listen to FC). Thus I suspect the problem comes from the new AMD driver, and not from FanControl itself. ![]() What else has happened at the same time this new bug appeared is an update to Catalyst 22.7.1, which I believe also installed a new version of the chipset driver (for me a B450 chipset) at the same time. I downgraded to version v119, and that removed the "?" marker, but not the behavior that leads to fanControl loosing control on the fan speed (thus locking the fan speed to whatever it was when that event happens). ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim Dinsdale's Project Water Horse was inspired by an 1879 Scottish newspaper article on the kelpie as a water horse in Loch Ness. The kelpie traditions have evolved into descriptions reflecting a current awareness of plesiosaurs, according to Sjögren. Current beliefs in lake monsters, such as the Loch Ness Monster, are linked to kelpie folklore, according to Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren, who wrote in 1980.Īccording to Sjögren, Loch Monster stories have evolved over time they were initially described as horse-like creatures meant to keep children away from the loch. Most of the suspected evidence supporting the existence of the Loch Ness Monster has been rejected, and broadly believed that the monster is a myth. Loch Ness Monster is a large sea creature or beast thought by some individuals to live in Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. Anyone using the information provided by Kidadl does so at their own risk and we can not accept liability if things go wrong. Kidadl cannot accept liability for the execution of these ideas, and parental supervision is advised at all times, as safety is paramount. We recommend that these ideas are used as inspiration, that ideas are undertaken with appropriate adult supervision, and that each adult uses their own discretion and knowledge of their children to consider the safety and suitability. Our recommended activities are based on age but these are a guide. We recognise that not all activities and ideas are appropriate and suitable for all children and families or in all circumstances. Kidadl provides inspiration to entertain and educate your children. ![]() We will always aim to give you accurate information at the date of publication - however, information does change, so it’s important you do your own research, double-check and make the decision that is right for your family. We try our very best, but cannot guarantee perfection. We strive to recommend the very best things that are suggested by our community and are things we would do ourselves - our aim is to be the trusted friend to parents. ![]() At Kidadl we pride ourselves on offering families original ideas to make the most of time spent together at home or out and about, wherever you are in the world. ![]() ![]() The apex functions use SSE2 load/loadu/store/storeu and SSE streaming, with/without data pre-fetching depending on the situation. After that, it's gravy! So there are actually 3 self contained functions here, and they will select and use the most optimal one automatically!ģ) Most built-in memcpy/memmove functions (including MSVC and GCC) use an extremely optimized QWORD (64-bit) copy loop. ![]() This is a ONCE-off penalty the first time you call them. If none of these features are found, the functions will fall-back to using the built-in memcpy/memmove!Ģ) The first time you call either memcpy/memmove, they do a CPU feature detection (CPUID) and select the most optimal function for your CPU at runtime. ![]() 64-bit processors with SSE4.2 (Core i generation without penalties for unaligned memory), older 64-bit processors (Core, Core 2 and AMD equivalents) and 32-bit processors with SSE2. (I thought I would answer this question early as it must be on your mind!)ġ) This is NOT a SINGLE memcpy/memmove function, this is actually THREE separate functions with different caracteristics, algorithms and optimizations the code will choose the best function for the CPU at runtime, each function is built specifically for 3 different CPU architectures. Why is this faster than my built-in memcpy/memmove?Ī. For less than that I only have a 1 or 2 clock cycle penalty! But for all the other sizes, that title belongs to me! These functions will also reach your MAXIMUM memory bandwidth limits very quickly! Q. This code is faster for copies with size > 16 bytes. I think the only size I was consistently outperformed in Assembler was a 16-byte copy (and possibly some other small byte combinations, possibly also 8-bytes and 32-bytes if you optimize specifically to beat these algorithms). Since optimizing for any one size is a tradeoff. The title of `fastest` does NOT belong to me for EVERY size copy. So of course I wanted to make a highly controvertial title, how many times have we seen `the fastest algorithm EVER` before but I needed your attention and I was successful in that! However, my title is not without justification! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How many representatives attended from each country? Each of South America’s 14 countries was equally represented. Eureka Math Grade 5 Module 2 Lesson 23 Exit Ticket Answer KeyĮureka Math Grade 5 Module 2 Lesson 23 Homework Answer KeyĪ political gathering in South America was attended by 7,910 people. If the elephant drinks the same amount of water each day.Ĥ.15 gallons. ![]() The elephant’s water tank holds 2560 gallons of water.Īfter two weeks, the zookeeper measures and finds that the tank has 1944 gallons of water left. The number of days will a full tank of water last = 4.15 gallons. 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The friends I had back then that could afford dedicated gaming computers could run beautiful games that demanded beefier components, even when the graphics in games like Skyrim or Crysis 2 reduced down to the lowest playable settings. Whether it was my beaten-up laptop or the old family desktop computer, it was always a game that my siblings and I could play. You can almost run it on a toaster if needed, but its accessibility was a great selling point. ![]() A large reason I loved the game was because of its ridiculously low system requirements. When the beta for Minecraft with RTX was announced, I was actually rather confused. I've been a huge fan of Minecraft almost as far back as its initial release – over a decade ago if anyone else needs to feel older than they should – and though I haven't played it consistently over the last few years, it's always been something I crawl back to when I need a few chill evenings away from competitive gaming environments. ![]() |
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