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I for one certainly hope that ARM gets a chance in the more mainstream market; the more competition for Intel, the better!
How much more mainstream can it get? ARM is everywhere. It's in your iPhone -- probably every single phone out there, actually -- in tablets, in NAS boxes, in DVD players... countless applications. If you mean it should compete with Intel CPUs for PC processors, on the other hand, one impediment may be that ARM is (at least at present) a 32-bit architecture.
The best bit: ARM chips are everywhere, and they are presumably very friendly to implementing Acorn Archimedes emulators. Archimedes on your fridge, yeah!
There are already perfectly good emulators that run quite happily on x86, but getting hold of RISC OS is rather trickier unless you've bought and paid for a license (which is surprisingly expensive considering it's got very little modern software available, and these days is only really of any interest as an exercise in "how to design a very small OS for a 1980's version of a chip without many of the things we take for granted these days such as multi-user security or protected memory")
I meant software available for RISC OS, not ARM.
There are already perfectly good emulators that run quite happily on x86, but getting hold of RISC OS is rather trickier unless you've bought and paid for a license (which is surprisingly expensive
It's for sale (special version for emulators) for £5, which seems reasonable enough.
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Surprisingly, no. Archimedes actually used an initial version of the ARM architecture with 26 bit addressing. The high bits of the program counter register were used to store the CPU status and condition flags, giving an easy way to save/restore those flags across function calls. A clever trick, but unfortunately 64Mb of code address space wasn't enough for everyone, and so ARM moved to the fully 32-bit architecture in current use. For a transitional period, ARM CPUs supported both architectures, but that time is long gone now.
Sadly, this means that modern ARMs can only run Archimedes software through software emulation. I understand that a newer version of RISC OS does exist for the 32-bit architecture, but it's not compatible with older binaries. Programs have to be recompiled for it, and if written in assembly, partially rewritten! So, no "Sibelius 7" or "Lander"...
The cortex15 line extended the address range for memory to 40 bits which ought to be enough for the next few years.
Think of it in terms of virtualization. The hypervisor has access to up to 1TB or memory but the individual OS instances are 32-bit and can only address up to 4GB.
That means back to segmentation. That isn't a killer problem, but it is significant. In terms of how that works in modern computers, you can see it on Windows systems on Intel PAE processors. Basically the OS gets access to all the memory in the system, but it has to be divided up to be used. In the case of the Windows implementation, the kernel can get only 2GB and each application can get only 2GB. You can have multiple 2GB apps running, but they can't have more.
For an app to get more, it has to implement memory management internally. Basically it talks to Windows and gets a range of memory set up that will be paged, it then gets more RAM allocated and specifies how to page through it. Called AWE and used by a couple apps, like MSSQL. Of course that is complex on the part of the app and would be problematic if you had multiple ones running.
Also it makes task switching hit the system harder over all, because of the segmentation.
So i mean it works, don't get me wrong, I have seen servers doing it. However 64-bit is a much, much, cleaner solution both OS wise and software wise. It really is a hack when you get down to it.
I like current desktop CPUs, which have larger virtual address spaces than physical. You are right, 40-bits is fine for now. As far as I know the top end Intel CPUs only have 48-bits of address lines currently. No reason to implement all 64-bits, you wouldn't use it. However having a flat virtual memory space is something that is extremely useful. There's a reason everyone wanted to move to that with 32-bit CPUs as soon as it became feasible. We don't really want to go back to segmentation.
How much more mainstream can it get?
I think he means in terms of being something consumers are aware of, like they are with Intel and AMD. Yeah, I think the contrast is being exaggerated more than a little bit here, as a lot of people don't really know about Intel or AMD, and vice versa it's not like nobody knows about ARM, but there definitely is a difference in mindshare here.
If you mean it should compete with Intel CPUs for PC processors, on the other hand, one impediment may be that ARM is (at least at present) a 32-bit architecture.
I can't speak for AC, but I think ARM netbooks would do the trick. Unfortunately, the longevity of the netbook market isn't exactly clear, and ARM netbooks implies Linux, which is even more uncertain a consumer market than Windows netbooks is.
But yeah, phones and tablets, ARM is where it's at for now.
64bit architecture is 20 years old on the desktop but right now nobody is using it anyway.
They're certainly using more memory than is practically addressable on 32-bit. Ordinary people do need that memory. They do work with large images. They do handle lots of data. They do have many things open at once. They do run large games. Not everyone needs it for everything, but being stuck with only 4GB of address space would really suck. (Luckily ARM isn't limited this way; cortex15 can address 1TB of memory directly, which is rather a lot more than anyone currently puts in a single machine at the moment.)
If I get a Notebook with an ARM, which can run OpenOffice, Email, Firefox and maybe Flash, for half the price and have a battery life of 8 hours and more I really don't care what architecture it have.
The apps are what people care about, yes. But many apps like to have lots of memory because they work with lots of data. (Funny, that...)
Anyway, it would be a great start if I can finally buy any ARM notebooks. So far I couldn't see any of them.
If you mean it should compete with Intel CPUs for PC processors, on the other hand, one impediment may be that ARM is (at least at present) a 32-bit architecture.
I don't see that as a huge drawback for at least taking on the netbook market, or possibly extending the netbook market to an even lower price point. There's not been any significant push for more memory in recent years, in fact the 4x4GB DDR2 is mostly replaced by 6x2GB DDR3 as the "top of the line" at mortal prices.
By far the greatest challenge is software, with no Windows or Mac support you'd be pushing Linux. A linux with no option to run Windows software through WINE or virtualbox for those occasional
Unless Windows or Mac get their heads out from their asses and go cross platform. I'd prefer Linux myself, but either way it wouldn't be a bad thing. Wishful thinking all around.
Well, Mac has been 68xxx series, PPC, and Intel Xeon. OS X has worked on both PPC and Intel wioth AMD's 64-bit extensions. I wouldn't be surprised terribly if they changed platforms again someday if it was evident they could get a good deal and be competitive. They're already using ARM in several products and hosting the devel environments for those on OS X.
Windows has actually been on IA32, Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, IA64, and AMD64. The Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC versions were short-lived. The IA-64 version is b
ARM is everywhere. It's in your iPhone [...] in tablets, in NAS boxes, in DVD players... countless applications.
Sorry, I wasn't listening. I was looking at the woman in the red dress.
one impediment may be that ARM is (at least at present) a 32-bit architecture.
Not all desktop applications need dozens of GB of RAM. A 32bit architecture is more than enough for the browsing/mail/chatting crowd.
I think the main impediment is that ARM runs a different instructions set.
Which means that a big proportion of the users won't even be able to run their x86-only favourite OS on it. And even, in the unlikely case of Microsoft finally delivering the so-long promised ARM port of Windows 7 (that it is still currently failing to produce), the software to which said users are addic
Until then, could there be a 64b emulation with multi-core 32b ARM processors?
Not to mention this is ignoring the same elephant in the room that has bitten Linux in the ass for years...its the apps. The world doesn't ignore Linux because it isn't pretty, they ignore because it doesn't have or is a PITA to run their Quicken/Quickbooks/Photoshop/games/cheap USB crap/ software that came with their camera/etc.
The reason ARM works so well in all those places you mentioned is because nobody expects to run a damned thing on those that isn't handed to them by the device manufacturer be it built in or from an app store. it is a completely walled approach and the customer accepts it because to them it is an appliance and NOT a PC. whereas if they were to step into it against Wintel and AMD they would be expected to run x86 apps and would be looking at insane returns when they didn't. Hell my local Craigslist is often filled with ARM netbooks where I bet you to the last dollar why these people are selling their "brand new! Barely used!" ARM netbook is they found out the hard way it don't run their x86 apps.
People expect netbooks to run like "baby laptops" and anything that looks like a PC to act like a PC, and that means x86/64.
That would really shake up the Wintel alliance.
Can't you connect any of the portables via HDMI to a monitor already?
You can, however you have to play with cables. Cables != dock. Geek != consumer.
Funny, most consumers I know don't have any problem connecting chargers and/or audio cables. An HDMI isn't any different...
I know the droid x does hdmi. Its the only one ive heard of having it.
I know the droid x does hdmi. Its the only one ive heard of having it.
EVO 4G has it.
which is not quite the same as a standard dock/charger with keyboard,mouse, lan, sound, charger... connectivity.
HDMI, charger, and a USB hub for everything else. Meh. Docks always either break too quickly or far outlast the single device they were designed to take.
No, I'm not missing that you said "standard dock", but that's pretty much an oxymoron. Other than Palm and Handspring, it's nearly been impossible to get one manufacturer to standardize a dock for their multiple devices. Good luck getting several to agree to one.
Docks always either break too quickly or far outlast the single device they were designed to take.
So on average, they are just right?
Yes. Let's find the Goldilocks dock.
Averages can be deceiving, can't they? Sometimes it's better to average the customer's happiness, which I think for docked computer devices as a whole would be below 50% satisfied customers, with most customer somewhere between 2 and 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being "totally satisfied".
A "standard dock" design would be a cradle with a USB3 port in the center, and a USB3 port on the device. USB3 ought to offer enough power to charge most anything you want to carry in your pocket.
I wouldn't mind seeing an HDMI connector at a specified distance so that docks could have HDMI support as well. That would be logical. Thus it will never happen.
Can't you connect any of the portables via HDMI to a monitor already?
GSMArena lists 13 different phones with an HDMI port, and the trend seems to be increasing. http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sFreeText=HDMI [gsmarena.com]
It would be a great time to develop a standards-based dock/charger platform so we could drop our phones/tablets into an adaptor and have them display on a large monitor and accept standard USB peripherals.
Not USB. I want a BlueTooth keyboard & mouse.
I'll accept an HDMI monitor connection for now (some phones have HDMI already), but eventually that should be wireless as well.
When that happens, I'll have no need for a laptop.
While people love the idea of wireless, it just isn't going to happen for everything. In terms of power, it is impossible basically. You can do inductive charging which is technically wireless, I suppose, but it doesn't really fix anything. You device has to sit directly on the charger, which of course has a wire back to the outlet. It's been around forever, electric toothbrushes use it because having a waterproof system is important, but it just isn't that useful over all. Better to just use a wire, or have exposed connectors in a dock. Cheaper and more efficient.
You'll never see actual wireless, longer range, power until we discover some way of getting around that pesky inverse square law thing.
As for communications, well bandwidth is just an ironclad bitch, and one with no easy solution. The very best wireless technology can, in the best circumstances, compare favorably with old ass wired technology. Have a look at Wireless N as an example. If you have a good multi-antenna transmitter and receiver and you aren't too far away and there's no interference you can get 300mbps raw data rate. That works out to 100mbps of throughput. Oh yay. A whole 100mbps, you know, what the cheapest of the cheap wired ethernet can handle.
The real problem starts with video. So HDMI needs 2.8gbps so support 1920x1080 @ 60Hz. That is just the video, no audio. If we start to want things like higher resolutions, higher refesh rates/3D more than 8bpp and so on, it takes even more. Can't do that with any cheap wireless tech these days.
Also when trying to make ultra high bandwidth wireless you run in to the problem that is Shannon's Law. Bits per second is related to bandwidth and SNR. Well SNR is something you can't do much about with wireless. The noise level is what it is, so you have to increase bandwidth to increase throughput. That means increasing frequency. Here there's a problem, the higher the frequency, the less ideal the transmission characteristics. The high GHz stuff, what you need for big bandwidth links, gets rather directional, is quite short range (air even attenuates it) and doesn't pass through hardly any barriers, even walls. This is all aside from the general difficulties making stuff that signals cheap at those frequencies.
You also get the additional problem of needing even more bandwidth to avoid contention. With wires, there's no interference. I can HDMI to three displays side by side, and there's no problem. With wireless, each needs its own channel, which just further increases the amount of RF bandwidth you need to make things work.
Wireless is useful, don't get me wrong, but I don't see this "All wireless, all the time" future you do. You could spend a lot of money trying to do wireless video from your Blu-ray player to your TV, or you could just get a cheap cable. Given that both devices are going to be plugged in anyhow, is it really such an issue?
Not USB. I want a BlueTooth keyboard & mouse.
So how do you recharge it? Lemme A proprietary AC adapter? Induction? Tiny power gnomes?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/PDMI [wikimedia.org]
You will find this at the bottom of the Dell streak, and most likely the Samsung Galaxy Tab as well. And i suspect the Toshiba Folio 100 may also sport such a connector.
But did you really just link an SSL wikimedia page to slashdot? Not very kind of you.
I'd also be curious as to why you'd browse something like wikipedia via SSL, but I tunnel traffic via SSH so I don't have much to talk here either
If you install the HTTPS-Everywhere plugin from the EFF, Wikipedia is one of the sights on the default encryption list. I suspect that's what he did.
Not with the idea of a standards based chargers but this "Wintel alliance," crap. There is no such thing. x86 chips are used for desktop computers because they are the only things that have been cheap, common, and powerful. MS has no special interest in pushing Intel. DOS, and thus earlier Windows versions, were tied to x86. When NT came out, they abstracted it and indeed you could get NT4 for x86, PowerPC, and Alpha. Let me give you a hint how well those other versions sold. As such, they were discontinued.
Also when it came to 64-bit for the desktop time, MS cast in with AMD. Intel was pushing Itanium, which MS does support on their server OSes, but AMD's 64-bit extensions, called amd64 internally by the Windows tools, were what was used for the desktop. So you can get Windows 7 in x86 and x64 variants, and Server 2008R2 in x64 and IA64 variants.
Now for Windows CE (also the basis for Windows Mobile), their mobile/embedded OS, well then that runs on all sorts of things. x86, MIPS, ARM, and SuperH. Again, more could be added, this is just what is supported as that is what there is currently a market for.
What it comes down is they support the architectures that are used in the markets their OSes work in. There is no ARM version of Windows 7 because there are no ARM desktops that demand it. Porting an OS to a new architecture and maintaining it is not a zero effort task, so it isn't done unless it is worth it (unless it is NetBSD
Also the reason x86/x64 continues so strong on the desktop is it works so well. It provides binary compatibility will all your old apps, and the CPUs that use it are fast and cheap. Thus far, I've seen nobody who can beat Intel and AMD in that market. Sure there are higher end CPUs that cost more and use tons more power, like Itanium and Power7. There are also chips that use less power and are cheaper, the ARM. However I've yet to see the chip that does better in their market, as in can do more operations with the same or less power and costs less.
So you want ARM desktops? Well first an ARM CPU that is competitive in that market has to come out. Competitive, please note, doesn't mean "Barely can compete with the low end." I'm talking something that makes you say "Wow, that is faster than my i5, and for less money." Then maybe there's interest. Should ARM desktops start to become popular, you can be pretty confident MS would move Windows over to them.
But please, stop pretending like there's some sinister conspiracy to keep alternate architectures down. There are only two reasons for the x86 dominance:
1) Compatibility. It is far nicer to have a chip that works with your old stuff. People will default to what's compatible unless given a good reason. I'm not going to pay the same amount for a CPU with the same performance that doesn't run my apps as for one that does. So whoever wants to break in to the market has to offer a good reason. Less cost, more performance, etc. Probably still need have a good emulators to support older apps.
2) Intel is really, really, good. Everyone likes to hate on Intel because they are big and there's automatic underdog love on Slashdot, but they are good at what they do. They spend a ton on R&D and the result is they are almost always ahead in terms of fabs and their CPUs tend to offer great performance for the money. Yes, they've bad problems, Netburst (P4) was an example, but currently it is impossible to touch the Core i series. They are fast, do a lot given their power budget, and have a good price.
AMD's 64-bit extensions, called amd64 internally by the Windows tools...
There's no need to insult Microsoft's programmers by calling them 'tools'. They have enough vitriol hurled at them already from all the users that experience BSODs and viruses.
All "data enabled" phones in the EU are going to be chargeable through a micro-USB based standard socket.
Maybe - Apple agreed to this last summer, but still brought out the iPhone 4 with only their proprietary connector.
That would really shake up the Wintel alliance.
As soon as smartphones have enough power to run excel, word and outlook at (current - 5years) office speeds, office wintel will be replaced on a phone price basis.
We'll still have desktops for photo/video edition, gaming, and many other things that can still burn any amount of computing power.
And, some years later, someone will invent the direct brain connection and we'll go back to needing massive hardware beasts to process our home virtual worlds.
I thought most of the interesting stuff took place on the server?
Well either way, I wish them luck. Having competition and diversity in the processor market is a very good thing and forces everyone to step up to the mark, benefiting everyone.
And if they've managed to keep the power envelope down then even better.
This is a laptop / server chip design. It fits into ARM's product line above the A9 and provides features that are more interesting on the server than anywhere else. It is also likely to have a larger power envelope than the A9.
No, it's a general purpose chip design like Intel has with the Core series, like AMD has with the Hammer series. The cores stay pretty much the same, but the support hardware and the number of cores will change from implementation to implementation. We'll likely see up to four cores in actual portable devices.
That's exactly what I was wondering too. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to see a company putting its WebSphere application server or Oracle or DB/2 database on a cell phone or netbook any time soon. Nor (I hope to the elder gods) where they'll make their personnel enter the data or program those servers on cell phones instead of some kind of desktop.
Granted, some of those servers may or may not have ARM CPUs, but then that's not what he's implying there. And a lot are running on PowerPC already. The server w
Virtualization of server farms/Infrastructure
32-bit addressing was seriously impressive in 1987, compared to Acorn's then-current machine with 32KB, including video memory. But now even smartphones are starting to come with 512MB, 1GB of memory. Does ARM have a strategy for getting past 4GB?
From what I understand, the A15 will support 40 bit physical addressing. So far, I'm not certain if that's segmented, or sane. I heard a claim that in a multicore setup, different cores might be configured with distinct memory controllers so that the various cores need not address strictly the same 40b worth of memory, enabling some sort of NUMA setup. Dunno if that will ever happen in practice. 1 TB RAM is likely to be sufficient for the commercially relevant life of the CPU.
Combined with the virtualization support, i suspect one could allocate the different cores to different OS images and use the address space to slice up the RAM as needed. Consider having a rack of these in a web hotel, with each core running its own server instance. Hell, given that one can fit a ARM SoC on a DIMM, one could make such a rack very easily expandable with the correct mother/logic-board.
It will come down to, if you know the old intel address modes to things called segments, which means you have so called segments of max 4 gigs you have to juggle around. This system on assembly level was quite evil because you had to shift around with segments for code data stack and whatsoever.
The + side it offered another layer of code injection protection. But for complexity reasons it was very unpopular, and when the segment spaces became big enough most compilers just rolled one huge segmetn and placed code and data there.
For a processor designer this approach however is very elegant because they can increas the memory range ad inifnitum while keeping the register size the same and thus keeping backwards compatibility.
From a programmers point of view segments are hell because you never know when you run into the boundary set by the segment and then the shuffeling beings. Also if you have data bigger than the segment you have to press it into multiple ones.
I am not sure if I like the way arm is going there just to keep the backwards compatibility. One point in time they will have to break it to keep the power consumption low (Intel just added on top of everything the next fluff), and I guess given their current success in the mobile phone area, they shun it a little bit to roll out the next breach in backwards compatibility like they had done in the past.
Actually, it's not _that_ bad for most applications.
I have actually programmed assembly back in ye goode olde days of 16 bit CPUs and segment registers, and the reason it was evil was that you ran into that limit all the time. Even the most trivial operations had to juggle registers. You couldn't even process a 640x480 pixel image in 16 colours without running into segment maths. (Incidentally that aforementioned image would need about twice the memory you could address with 16 bits without segment maths.)
But what if you want to memory-map your 2TB Hard disk as virtual memory?
Unfortunately, the detailed A15 documentation is not available yet, so we're left to speculate over what this means. But at the same time, the supported architecture remains ARMv7 and there is no hint of any major changes on the instruction side. An easy implementation would use a MMU with 40-bit physical addresses to map this amount of memory, but the process size would remain at 4 GiB to avoid any drastic change to the programming model.
Yeah, that's the picture I'm getting from the collection of links provided to my query. A 64-bit address register would have been nice, but it looks more like they're aiming this at virtualisation, e.g. to provide multiple 'instances' of a 4GB address space to several VMs.
Yes back to segmentation
Bit of a shame, then, that in 1987 it didn't support 32-bit addressing (IIRC instructions were 32 bits wide but the address bus was only 24 bits) and even if it did, it relied on a separate memory controller.
The MEMC1 in the early Archimedes models supported.... oooh, 1MB of RAM. You could upgrade the memory (no SIMM sockets then, you had to have it soldered on), you also had to upgrade the chip to a MEMC1a, which supported 4MB.
(note: much of this is a hazy recollection - constructive correction welcomed!
They extended the addressing to 40 bit... but only for the memory, the register addressing still is 32 bit for backwards compatibility reasons.
The 4 GB barrier was overcome a long time ago on 32 bit systems. The reason people still think its a problem is because Microsoft decided you as a customer shouldnt be able to use more than 4 GB memory on 32-bit since Windows 2000 . The limitations are solely artificial today on Windows 32-bit but linux gladly handle any memory you toss at it.
Excellent article explaining the issue:
http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm [geoffchappell.com]
I have also yet to see a benchmark where 64-bit in itself gives significant advantage outside large calculations an simulations.
The 4 GB barrier was overcome a long time ago on 32 bit systems. The reason people still think its a problem is because Microsoft decided you as a customer shouldnt be able to use more than 4 GB memory on 32-bit since Windows 2000
Er, ARM is not an x86 derivative. This new revision does seem to have added some flavour of PAE, but AFAIK 4GB is an absolute limit for all currently-manufactured ARM microprocessors.
I think you'll find it's giving significant advantage.
To the bank accounts of Intel and AMD, as it's giving people (often gamers) a "reason to upgrade"...
Generally, though, I'd agree with you.
When I last bought a machine, it was before the time of Windows 7. 64-bit was an option, but not a good one. So I went with 32-bit and 4Gb of RAM, mostly because of reasons I suspect you'd agree with:
a) For playing games under Windows, I lose nothing. A 768Mb graphics card means I lose 768Mb of RAM under Windows
Problem is the memory mapped IO, add 2 gigs of graphic card data mapped into memory and you have a problem...
"It's like taking a desktop and putting it in your pocket," said Schorn.
That's gotta be one of the most uncomfortable marketing images ever.
"Is that an ARM in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"
'The exciting place for software developer graduates to go and hunt for work is no longer the desktop.'
Why, actually, why??
I am really really looking forward to a desktop with low power footprint. There is no need here to run MS-crapware; no Crysis or other high-resource gaming.
Gimme a nice desktop, low-low power, that boots to Debian on ARM, and I throw mine out of the window. And I already have a 80+ PSU, single row of RAM, dual-core EE AMD. It still has a 45W TDP; plus AMD does not sell the Energy Efficient (EE) any longer except to OEMs; at least in this country.
Throw out the 24-pin plus 12 V power supply, let's do everything on 12 V, give it 6 USBs, Sata, HDMI/DVI, Ethernet and WiFi. A mini ARM.
And, yes, I want to be able to add a hard disk of my own, maybe a DVD- or BlueRay-Drive, so add some space.
I'm thinking of the marketplace these would be targetted at.
Sure, hard-core gamerz will not want one if it doesn't run the absolute latest super-graphics games that require 2 PSUs and 4 Gfx cards for their neon-light equipped gaming rigz. but, ignoring them....
My account manager always has his (old) smartphone glued to his ear when i see him. And he uses his PC for email and the odd word document. That's easily replaced with a smartphone, one that could connect to a big monitor and keyboard while still bein
I'm thinking of the marketplace these would be targetted at.
Me too. All those machines that I see being run for our receptionists, point of sales, kiosks.
No, I don't think everyone will bring their HDMI-enabled mobile from home and plug it in a docking station. As security-conscious person I even wouldn't want.
Though, just think about the saving in energy, when 1 billion PCs can be replaced by boxen consuming a fraction of the current power-sucklers! Let the other 1 billion still sit on WIntel, if need be.
Marvell OpenRD-client:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-openrdcdetails.aspx [globalscal...logies.com]
Has an ARM9 at 1.2GHz, half a gig of RAM, sound, VGA video, lots of USB, SD card reader, 2 GbE ports, eSATA and a spot for a 2.5" hard drive in it. Mine draws 10W from the wall. And it happily runs Debian.
My only beef is the video (XGI Z11) has absolutely horrible driver support, so don't expect the thing to play Blu-ray.
Of course, that's what I can foresee. But 1280x1024 is already far out of the scope. Nevermind the lack of hardware acceleration at those specifications. A bit of compiz is quite okay for me; doesn't have to be rotating cubes.
Give it an extra slot 5.25", and HDMI. Otherwise Marvell won't sell all too many.
And ping me when that machine comes to the market, please.
plus AMD does not sell the Energy Efficient (EE) any longer except to OEMs; at least in this country.
What is "this country"?
In Germany, you can still get some "Energy Efficient" models, although they have a small "e" instead of the "EE" now. For instance the Athlon_II_X2_240e:
http://www.alternate.de/html/product/CPU/AMD/Athlon_II_X2_240e/137074/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Prozessoren+(CPU)&l2=Desktop&l3=Sockel+AM3 [alternate.de]
2 x 2.8GHz at 45W TDP, for 65 Euros. That is pretty nice.
What is "this country"?
Malaysia, since you ask.
A Mac Mini, while Intel based, almost fits these specs. It is fairly lower power.
I'm currently working with several concurrency development groups within the SUNY system; we are partnered with Oracle, Google, and IBM as well as a few others. Upon mention of ARM not a single co-worker has been able to resist going into rant mode about the lack of reasonably quick CAS and LL/SC implementations. Further, barriers and fences apparently take so long to establish that to fake a CAS you are looking at three to six hundred cycles compared to about a dozen for current generation i7's and SPARCs (optimistic CASing). Can anyone speak to the implementation of the features on this new chip?
What i assume he means is:
CAS - Compare and Swap
LL/SC - Load-Link/Store Conditional
Without getting into too much detail both are design concepts/operations that are critical components of any system that requires atomic operations. For example, implementing semaphores/mutexes which are in turn critical components of most symmetric multi-processing systems such as the linux kernel (when so configured), or windows. While these operations are most critical in multi-core systems, single core systems also have
Have run all of these, in anger, in production, at one point or another.
I still have an extremely soft spot for the RAQ2, 64 bit MIPS processor.
Image link - http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/pics/mipsel-raq2/inside-main-board.jpg [gentoo.org]
Nota Bene, NO HEAT-SINKS OF ANY KIND, and yet these puppies could saturate a 10 Mbit connection (of course this was the days before flash and stuff) and the whole mainboard used about 10 watts, most of which was the RAM, the biggest power eater was the IDE HD.
Downside was it was MIPS, which is a lot like the downside of the Acorn ARM based A series and Risc-PC series, eg not x86 compatible, ergo not mainstream.
Now that ARM is used is zillions of other devices, ARM is no longer the backwoods, everywhere except in "a computer" eg desktop or server.
Which means ARM on the desktop or ARM on the server won't suffer so badly for not being x86... it will still suffer, but not so badly.
RAQ3 went away from MIPS to x86, IMHO because of this accessibility and availability of x86 code, not because it was technically superior to MIPS... one RAQ3 wasn't more powerful than two RAQ2 in any sense except power consumption and thermal rejection.
In practical terms x86 has gone nearly as far as it can go, both in terms of light speed and die size, and thermal dissipation per cubic mm, so the alternatives are catching up, not so much because of sheer lifting power, but because of thermal dissipation per cubic mm they still have "development room" left to play around in.
The next 5 years or so are going to be interesting, as this "development room" is explored and used up, and especially so if anyone comes out with a robust cross architecture compiler / translator.
Like so many others, I have an SGI Indy, it has a 64 bit MIPS processor. I have the R4400SC which is faster than the R5000 which didn't come with secondary cache. It has and needs a heat sink (but no fan.) But it's 200MHz and by today's standards not fit to be a game console.
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Rihanna OK with Chris Brown Going to Grammys
While most have forgiven, few have forgotten Chris Brown's pre-Grammy assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna three years ago. Now, hot on the heels of a rumored rekindled romance (at least in anonymous Twitter form), reports surfaced saying Rihanna is fine with former flame Brown attending this year's Grammy ceremony.
Brown is nominated for three Grammys this year (Best R&B Album, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song), and has also been rumored to possibly perform at the ceremony — and so is RiRi. "Rihanna is also nominated for several Grammys, and she performed at the Grammy nomination concert recently, and she could be going to the awards ceremony as well," a source told Radar Online. "Rihanna thinks that Chris should attend the Grammys if he wants to, she has absolutely no qualms with him being there."
This is in line with Rihanna's lifting of her restraining order against Brown — which the 'We Found Love' powerhouse initially did specifically for awards ceremony situations.
The source does say, however, that despite rumors of a potential reunion, there won't be evidence of it at the show. "Don't expect them to hang out, but she has moved on from that horrible night," the source said, "and doesn't want it to define either one of them as people."
While rumors were abound that Brown was banned from "Music's Biggest Night" following his battery charge, a source told Radar Online that those reports are false. "Chris was nominated for three Grammys last year, he didn't go because of scheduling conflicts," the source said. "Chris was never banned from going to the Grammys. Was he welcome with open arms in the past? No, but he was never banned. Chris wouldn't have even been nominated if such a ban existed. Producers of the Grammys recognize the hard work that Chris has done in fulfilling his legal obligations stemming from the incident. Chris is amazingly talented, and he is honored that his work has been nominated."


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Stacy Lewis shot a 3-under 69 Friday to keep her three-stroke lead after the second round of the LPGA Thailand.
Lewis had five birdies and two bogeys for a 12-under 132 total at the Siam Country Club Pattaya Old Course, replicating her form from 2012 that made her the first American to win the LPGA Player of the Year award since Beth Daniel in 1994.
Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn shot a bogey-free 66 in windy and humid conditions to move into second place. Beatriz Recari (68), So Yeon Ryu (68) and Catriona Matthew (69) were tied for third at 8 under.
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EMC also enhanced the performance of its VPLEX virtual storage architecture, which allows data mobility between on-premise, public cloud and private cloud storage.
VPLEX 5.1 now includes integration with EMC's RecoverPoint continuous data protection software and the company's Unisphere entry-level and midrange storage management software.
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Had a call today the HO has a Fridgidaire model b2bm048k-c.
I got him fixed up but got curious about the unit tonight and looked for info on the web but couldnt find anything. I'm a small guy in a rural area and havent been doing this work long. The HO is not the origional owner so didnt have any paper work. Has anyone got an opion about these units? Who makes em? I dont post much just read.


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Austin gets a special sneak preview of Austin City Limits with Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel at 7 p.m. Sunday. This live event includes interviews with Ray Benson and is hosted by ACL producer Terry Lickona and Central Texas Gardener producer Linda Lehmusvirta.
The Oak Ridge Boys: A Gospel Journey at 8:30 p.m. Sunday and 6:30 p.m. Saturday features live performances of their best-loved gospel favorites, combined with vintage footage and photos of their 36-year journey together.
On this week's Antiques Roadshow at 7 p.m. Monday, host Mark Walberg joins appraiser Beth Szescila for a tour of Bayou Bend in Houston, Texas, the extraordinary museum and gardens that once were home to famed philanthropist and antiques collector Ima Hogg.
Magic Moments: Best of 50s Pop at 8:30 p.m. Monday and 9 p.m. Friday features classic moments from Perry Como, Debbie Reynolds, The McGuire Sisters and more. Phyllis McGuire, Pat Boone and Nick Clooney host this nostalgic warm trip back to the 1950s.
In this follow up to Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, and Magnificent Mind At Any Age, Dr. Daniel Amen presents his plan on how to use your brain to bring and keep more love in your life at 7 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
Dr. Wayne Dyer presents a program, based on his newest book Excuses BeGone at 9 p.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Thursday. Dyer's goal is simple but not easy: to help viewers learn how to overcome lifetime thinking habits that keep us from maximizing our human potential.
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Hardy Hardship Ends In 53.96 Berth
Jun 30, 2012 - Craig Lord
US Olympic Trials, Omaha, Day 6 finals:
Women's 100m freestyle
The roller-coaster ride to this point has been immense for Jessica Hardy, on 53.96 for victory and an Olympic debut four years after having been denied in troubling circumstances.
On the team in 2008 over 100m breaststroke, she was then dropped after returning a positive doping test. The nightmare was followed by challenge and appeal, penalty reduced and case won on the grounds that the substance was found in a food supplement that had more in it than it said on the tin.
Hardy arrived in Omaha as a strong candidate to join Team USA in London in the same 100m breaststroke event but a big leap for Breeja Larson ahead of world champion Rebecca Soni put paid to that. Next up, it came down to the 100m free for relay or solo and turned out to be a tick in both boxes.
In a tight finish, Missy Franklin, still pointing from a 2:07.91 in the 200m backstroke semi, managed a 54.15 for the second berth in London 2012, the relay berths going to Allison Schmitt, 54.30, Lia Neal, 54.33, and reserves Amanda Weir, 54.41, and Natalie Coughlin, 54.44. There was no place for Dana Vollmer (already on the team) or the half-way leader, Madison Kennedy.
On the emotional ride and qualification, Hardy said: "I still don't believe it really happened. I think I haven't practiced my emotions yet. It's amazing. I'm on a different planet now, and I think that swim for me was 100 percent emotional. It was heart the whole time. It wasn't so much physical capacity, just staying calm and enjoying it, I think. I think that's what made the difference.
From the moment she knew she had been banned four years ago, she had been determined to race on: "I think as soon as I was told I wasn't allowed to compete, it was the first thing I wanted to do again. And during the time I was suspended it was a lot of - I put a lot of emphasis into my training and appreciated every single second in practice, and I still do now. It's something that's changed in my over my career, how much I enjoy swimming in practice, and every race I get to do is fun and an opportunity, where before it could be stressful. I think going through the heartbreak of my 100 breast this week, rekindled that emotion, what I went through in 2008, and for a 24-hour period I was pretty sad and upset. I think it brought out a better swim in me tonight, and I am definitely more surprised because of that breaststroke."
Hardy saw potential in the fact that it will be freestyle in London not breaststroke: "It's really crazy. In warm-up I haven't done a single stroke of breaststroke or breaststroke kick, and I've been doing breaststroke my whole life, so it's pretty weird. I think it's going to be good to put some emphasis into freestyle and learning that technique because I'm still green in that event, still going best times which I'm not doing in breaststroke and haven't done that in a while. So it's fun and it's a lot less stressful of a race for me, and I'm excited to get to do that this summer."


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(WMC-TV) - A Memphis professor is among a handful of people still alive who personally witnessed not one but two of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous speeches.
David Acey was inside the Mason Temple in Memphis on April, 1968 for what turned out to Dr. King's emotional and prophetic farewell speech on the eve of his assassination.
As America celebrates the golden anniversary of King's monumental "I Have A Dream" speech, Acey can say he heard it all in person at the 1963 March on Washington.
"Just being there on that occasion. It was inspirational. It was motivational. And given the timbre of the times in the 60s, I grew up in a segregated neighborhood. I been discriminated against. I'd been to a segregated school. And I understood the importance of gaining freedom," said Acey.
Acey was in the thick of the 250,000 black and white images from August 28, 1963. He was then a 25-year-old military policeman in the Army who found himself 40 feet from the podium where Dr. King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
"He was speaking truth to power ... Truth to power. And he was doing it in a way that was the best of the American tradition," said Acey.
Acey is a professor of African-American Rhetoric for 40 years now at the University of Memphis, and he knows much of the speech by heart.
"We will never be satisfied until we have freedom and justice. So, those who are looking for a cooling off period, because we're here and we're right. And he went on in that speech of course to say that he had a dream," said Acey. "You had to listen. And it was motivational. Go back to Mississippi. Go back to Alabama. Go back to Tennessee and continue the struggle."
Acey did. After an honorable discharge from the Army, he used the GI Bill to register at the segregated Memphis State University.
"We had no football players. No basketball players. No faculty members. No students working in the bookstores ...In the library. No where on campus, no student organization," he said.
Acey became first president of the all new Black Student Association. Using nonviolent civil disobedience and other tactics pioneered by King, Acey and others integrated the university, where he has devoted all his career.
"I was responsible for starting the Black Studies program at the University and now it's a full fledged program," he said.
Acey has done much more – with his wife, Yvonne, he started Africa in April in 1986, the annual celebration of black culture that honors a different African country each year.
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Bill DeMent joins the MKAEC staff to oversee construction of the $28 million facility. Prior to joining the MKAEC team, DeMent worked as project engineer/project manager for three-and-a-half years with Willocks Construction Corp. on the Big Island. Prior to joining Willocks, he was an independent contractor doing project and land management for companies such as the Estate of James Campbell, AMFAC Land Company, and Huliwai Tropical Plantations on Oʻahu. He also served as senior project engineer and civil engineer at Oʻahu Sugar Company.
DeMent graduated from UH Manoa with a bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1983.
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Let me get this straight.
Dan Le Batard filed a ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame that contained ten legitimate names for enshrinement and yet, in the aftermath, had his right to vote in the future stripped away by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA).
But one BBWAA member voted for Armando Benitez and somehow that person is allowed to vote again next year?
Sure, that makes sense.
The issue, of course, is that Le Batard essentially "gave" his vote to readers of the sports website Deadspin, who then used an on-line balloting effort to determine the names they would pass on to Le Batard. Had Deadspin not bragged about the deal they struck, none of this would have mattered once Le Batard sent in his ballot, for it contained ten legitimate names. But, to make their point, Deadspin had to brag about having a BBWAA member farm out their ballot to a renegade website and their readers.
It would have been very interesting had the names forwarded to Le Batard been the likes of Ray Durham (undeserving) or Armando Benitez (undeserving). What, then, would he have done? Would he have followed through on his obligation and sent the ballot to Cooperstown, with his signature at the bottom, knowing full well the Deadspin readers had, in fact, made a mockery of the selection process. Le Batard said yesterday he wasn't sure what he would have done if that would have occurred and I believe him on that note.
That said, the ten names given to Le Batard were legitimate. Guys like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Craig Biggio, Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas and Tom Glavine were on the ballot given to him by the Deadspin contributors.
Yet, for playing along with the Deadspin game, Le Batard was suspended from the BBWAA for a year and will no longer be allowed to vote for future Hall of Famers.
That, honestly, could be a fair punishment for Le Batard. Even though he didn't take money for his shenanigans with Deadspin, Le Batard knew there would be outcry if or when it surfaced he was the goof who eschewed his right to vote for one of sports most important honors and handed it over to the great unwashed who read and follow Deadspin.
But — what about the clown who voted for Armando Benitez?
Who did that?
And why on earth wouldn't the BBWAA take away his or her right to vote on future ballots?
I mean, seriously…you can go into the whole "Well, you have the right to vote for anyone you want" but if you vote for Armando Benitez, you shouldn't be allowed to vote again. Ever.
At least the people who read Deadspin knew enough about baseball to vote for REAL candidates.
Football picks for the weekend —
I almost hope I'm wrong with these so I don't have to deal with people (*cough*, BK, *cough*) who get upset when I brag about getting the winners right. Yes, that's what it's come to, I suppose. I'd almost rather be wrong than have to hear from these people who can't take a joke.
New England beats Indianapolis 27-20
San Francisco beats Carolina 24-13
San Diego beats Denver, 30-28***
Seattle beats New Orleans 23-20
*** I originally picked Denver, but as most of you know, San Diego was the team the Eagles hosted in their home opener back in September. Why is that important? Because for the last four years, the team the Eagles played in their home opener went on to win the Super Bowl. Weird, right? Very much so…
So, San Diego wins this game because, well, because they're the team that played the Eagles back in September.


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Carrie Underwood Talks Music & Marriage with Vegas Magazine
With her new album "Blown Away" due to be released on May 1st, Carrie Underwood added to her early promotions by taking over the cover of the April/May 2012 issue of Vegas magazine.
The 29-year-old actress looked cute and colorful in a Theia laser-cut dress with David Yurman jewels and Christian Siriano yellow strappy toe sandals for the Robert Ascroft shot front page while chatting with the publication about her fourth studio album, her new single and her loving husband, Mike Fisher.
Highlights from Miss Underwood's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Vegas!
On her favorite Vegas activity:
"There are some really fabulous places to eat there. We always go out to eat when we're in town. I love Lakeside at Wynn—Mr. Wynn is a vegan so they have a lot of stuff on the menu that I can eat. I know where the Whole Foods is there, too. If we're not eating out, I'm making my own food. I will never order room service—it weirds me out!"
On her fourth compilation being a big change from her first three:
"I've always been known for power ballads, and there's not really that at all in the album. I honestly think it's just because the album kind of makes itself. We'll look at the end and think what could we use more of, but it is what it is. I don't think, Oh, I need this power ballad. If you can't find a song like that, you don't force it. I have one song that's so beautiful and so moving but it's so quiet. It's a story, and you really listen to it—I'm not trying to impress people with what I can do. I've done enough by now that I don't have to sing to the moon with every single song."
On the meaning behind her new single, 'Good Girl':
"'Good Girl' is about that girl that you know or you have been—I know and I have been this girl before—and she's got stars in her eyes and the guy isn't good enough for her and doing Lord knows what behind her back, and she thinks the world of him. Love is blind, right? So she doesn't see him for what he is. And I'm the one trying to talk some sense into her: 'What is wrong with you? You're awesome, and you're with…that?' It's really rocking—it's definitely a foot-tapper."
On spending time with her husband, Mike Fisher:
"We see each other as much as we can, but he's not one for road life. He can't really sleep on the bus. You can't have a giant bed in the back, so I'm like, 'You're touching me! Go away. What are you doing? Scoot over!' He gets bored. I think if he ever comes out with us on tour for any length of time, I'm going to have to find him something to do!"
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My dearest hunks of burning love:
This year will be my first burn! I am coming all the way from New York but all my camping gear is in Corona, CA at my mother's house. If anybody is driving out from Southern California and going near or through Corona, CA (it is right off the 15!) I would be eternally grateful if you could pick up my gear and meet me on the playa (and maybe return it). I would be more than happy to compensate you with love, hugs, and $$. =D If you don't have room for all the stuff that's cool too! Anything would be such a help so I don't have to purchase here and then transport each way.
The gear:
chairs (2)
sleeping bag (2)
See you on the playa!
My gear needs a Ride from So. Cal !
Materials and expertise...whether you need them or have them to share, you can let folks know here.
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Re: My gear needs a Ride from So. Cal !
In theory this could work. But finding people out there is a big ask. As it is your first burn is it possible that you could get it sent to Reno and transport it in from there? I'd be terrified of the gear not turning up. And if you are picking up in Reno, if everything goes to shit at least you can buy a new tent there.
Re: My gear needs a Ride from So. Cal !
My playa partner did this last year with stuff from Seattle so figured it was worth a shot. If we aren't able to work this out then we will just buy a tent when we arrive in Reno. I also thought it was a big ask but burners never cease to both inspire and surprise me. =D
Re: My gear needs a Ride from So. Cal !
I am in Corona as well. Near Ontario and Fullerton area. How much stuff do you have? Am not sure how we are going up, probably early again, and if I get a truck, I could help you out.
Re: My gear needs a Ride from So. Cal !
That would be awesome! It's a 4 man tent, standard in one of those little rectangular bags, two sleeping bags, and 2 beach chairs. If the chairs are too much we can do without. I also will be going up early so that would be super awesome. And of course we will compensate you for your troubles! My email is email@example.com if you wanna chat there when you figure out how you're coming up!
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The incoming director of the Department of Natural Resources says he wants to reverse a slow, but steady, decline in the sale of hunting and fishing licenses in Michigan and "get people outdoors."Rodney Stokes, who last week was named to the post by Gov.-elect Rick Snyder, said he wants to expand the focus of the department's recruitment efforts beyond youth to encouraging adult Michigan residents to take their neighbors hunting or fishing.
Although the department has seen deep cuts in its general fund allocations over the past 10 years and has not had a license fee increase since 1996, Stokes said he has no plans to increase revenues by seeking to hike license fees.
"Not right now," he said.
Revenues from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses edged up to $45.3 million this year from $44 million in 2005 as a result of the department removing certain discounts, said Sharon Schafer, the department's assistant division chief for administration and finance. But when inflation is factored in, revenues have lost ground.
Bills introduced in 2007 to hike the cost of hunting and fishing licenses never got out of committee, despite support from user groups such as the Michigan United Conservation Clubs.
The bills would have gradually increased the cost of a firearm deer license from $15 to $30 by 2010, while increasing the cost of an all-species fishing license from $28 to $37 during the same period.
Dave Nyberg, the conservation clubs' legislative affairs manager, said the group supported the fee hikes because "we have a problem with long-term sustainable funding for management of our natural resources."
But the group is supportive of Stokes' view that now is not the time for a license fee increase, Nyberg said.
"Quite frankly, the department has a lot of work to do on their customer service," another priority area cited by Stokes, Nyberg said. The department needs to show users they are receiving value for money, he said.
Stokes, now the chief of the science and policy office, has had two stints with the DNR, the first one beginning in 1977.
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BEFORE Super Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Lara Croft and World of War Craft, there was Pong. The arcade game batting a ball between two paddles on either side of the screen was launched 40 years ago this week.
It was not the first video game. It was the first commercial success. Back in 1972, people began queueing outside the bar in California where the game first appeared, until one day the machine broke down. Pong's designer, engineer Al Alcorn, arrived and quickly diagnosed the problem as coin overload.
Three years later, the company Atari began selling Pong, with its minimal instructions such as ''avoid missing ball for high score'' - into homes as a console game connected to the television, and a fledgling industry took flight.
''Pong is a small game that has had a big impact,'' said Conrad Bodman, curator of international projects at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
''It established the sports game genre. It used sound to create tension and excitement in the game, and it also introduced a two-player format and the notion of competitive one-on-one play.''
Last year, Australians spent $1.5 billion on interactive gaming, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Worldwide, $54.7 billion was spent on console, handset, computer, online and wireless games. And this figure was expected to reach almost $77 billion by 2016.
The rules established by Pong, including the one-on-one or ''versus'' play using the language of today's generation, apply for such modern developers as Mark Boulton, who worked at the Australian video game company Blue Tongue Entertainment before it folded last year.
''Most game developers strive to create a product with high replay value, hoping the player will find it addictive,'' Mr Boulton says.
Pong's influence can be seen in any game in which friends' high scores are used to spur players' competitive instincts. But the paddle game nearly did not happen, with the creators at Atari fearing the project was too expensive.
''The integrated circuit boards by themselves cost almost $200, so that was clearly never a consumer product,'' Atari boss Nolan Bushnell said at the time.
Decades later the issue of the cost of gaming technology has not gone away.
Mr Boulton also welcomed the federal government's announcement last month of a $20 million Australia Interactive Games Fund to help local developers, saying the high dollar had made it difficult to compete in an industry already shaken by the global financial crisis, and its reliance on discretionary spending.
This year's Entertainment and Media Outlook released by PwC predicted that the future of the game industry was in mobile devices. While established gamers would continue to invest in traditional consoles and home computers, the report estimated that Australians would spend $400 million on games for smartphones and tablets this year, and that this would increase by more than 11 per cent annually up to 2016.
Melbourne University academic Daniel Golding, who writes and lectures on video games, says games for mobile devices require a huge amount of downloads to turn a profit.
But, he says, designing blockbusters is risky as well, given high production costs and risk of failure.
For ACMI information communications technology manager Paul Cuthbert, it all started with Pong.
The 60-year-old built his own games console from scratch in the mid-1970s, even extending the controller's cord so he could play from the couch. Five years ago he decided to try playing with his children.
''They weren't overly impressed,'' he said. ''They said 'yes dad, but I can do all of that on my iPhone'.''


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Subway Graffiti Warns Of "F*ggot Season" In NYC
JoeMyGod posted pictures of unnerving graffiti that one of his readers photographed at the 72nd and Central Park subway station.
The number of anti-gay hate crimes in New York City has doubled in 2013, startling the city enough to begin providing free self-defense training for the LGBT community.
According to a press release from NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn:
Following a string of hate crimes against LGBT New Yorkers, Speaker Christine C. Quinn and the City Council LGBT Caucus today announced they will host a series of free self-defense trainings across the City. The trainings will empower New Yorkers by teaching violence prevention strategies and safety tips to the LGBT community. The kick-off class, led by the Center for Anti-Violence Prevention, will be held on Saturday, June 8th in Room 101 of the LGBT Center at 4:00 PM. An additional evening class has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 12th at the Hudson Guild Elliot Center at 7:00 PM.
Participants should reserve their space by calling (212) 788-5613 or by e-mailing email@example.com. "No one should be made to feel unsafe because who they are or who they love," said Speaker Christine C. Quinn. "The spate of bias attacks against LGBT New Yorkers in recent weeks is unacceptable and must end now. Our free self-defense classes will teach violence prevention strategies to New Yorkers and will provide the community with the tools they need to stay safe."


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2010-11 Men's Basketball
Defiance 66, Bluffton 62 (OT)
Defiance stays in HCAC tourney race with 66-62 OT win
February 16, 2011
By: Josh Bruner, sports information assistant
DEFIANCE, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's basketball team hosted the Yellow Jackets of Defiance College on Wednesday, February 16, for Senior Night. The Beavers honored Rob Luderman (Ayersville) and Cam Saylor (Belle Center/Benjamin Logan) for four years in the Bluffton men's basketball program.
Defiance took the early lead, pulling ahead 34-28 at the break. The Beavers picked up the defense in the second as they added another 28 while holding Defiance to 22 to push the game into extra time. The Yellow Jackets outscored Bluffton 10-6 in overtime for a 66-62 win. Defiance improved to 12-12 overall and 7-10 in the HCAC. Bluffton's fifth straigh loss dropped the Beavers back to 14-10 overall and 7-10 in the conference.
Defiance started out hot as they hit the first two shots for a quick 4-0 lead. The Beavers put together their first bucket after a minute and a half with a Mychal Hill (London/Jonathan Alder) layup. This was followed by a Hill three which pulled the Beavers within one (6-5) at the 16:40 mark.
The teams traded buckets over the next two minutes as the Jackets kept the one point lead following a Ryan Hicks layup. Two Brent Farley (Lima/Shawnee) free throws with 12:51 left in the half put the Beavers up, 9-8.
The teams continued to battle over the next three minutes as a Dustin Kinn (Alvada/New Riegel) layup kept Bluffton up one, 19-18. The Yellow Jackets went back ahead and a Logan Wolfrum jumper pushed the Defiance lead to 26-21 with 5:17 on the clock.
The Yellow Jackets maintained the lead over the remainder of the half before an Anthony Brown three-pointer in the left corner as time expired put Defiance up 34-28 at the break.
A Farley layup made it a one possession game, 36-34, before the Yellow Jackets responded by going on a 6-0 run, capped with a Hicks jumper that put them up 42-34 with 14:47 left in regulation.
A Josh Johnson (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) free throw cut the deficit to five points as Bluffton trailed 42-37 at the 13:27 mark. Defiance slowly pulled ahead with their biggest lead of the night when a Wolfrum jumper pushed the advantage to 50-40 with 8:33 left to play.
The Beavers picked up the pace as they whittled away at the lead. Two Kinn free throws pulled Bluffton within four with just over five minutes left in regulation.
Two Hill free throws made it 56-55 with three and a half minutes left. A Farley foul shot tied the game at 56-56 with 1:20 left. Both defenses were up to the task as neither team managed a bucket in the last minute of the game.
The teams started slowly in overtime as neither squad scored until the 3:46 mark when the Yellow Jackets took the lead. Bluffton responded on the next possession with a Will Pope (Somerville/Preble Shawnee) layup. Defiance put together a chip shot from Hicks and a Kevin Tietje free throw for a three-point lead with just over two minutes left to play.
Bluffton pulled ahead by one thanks to a Josh Fisher (Rockford/Parkway) steal and layup with just 1:23 left. The Yellow Jackets responded with a deuce of their own. Bluffton was unable to answer and the home team was forced to foul as Defiance claimed the 66-62 victory.
The Beaver scoring was evenly distributed as they had four players in double digits. Leading the team in the scoring column was Hill with 15, going 10-of-10 from the charity stripe while pulling down a career-high seven rebounds. Dustin Kinn added 13 off the bench. Farley chipped in with his 7th double-double, dropping in 12 points while pulling down 12 rebounds and swatting away five shots. Fisher added 10 markers for the Beavers. Bluffton struggled from the field as they converted only 19-of-53 (35.8 percent), including 1-of-11 (9.1 percent) from behind the arc. The Beavers knocked down 23-of-31 (74.2 percent) at the stripe.
The Defiance offense was led by Wolfrum who dropped in 22 points and dished out four assists on 10-of-23 shooting. Brandon Campbell added 12 for the Yellow Jackets. Hicks chipped in 11 and pulled down nine boards for Defiance. The Yellow Jackets hit 29-of-70 (41.4 percent), but struggled from behind the arc, connecting on 1-of-13 attempts (7.7 percent).
The Bluffton University men's basketball team will travel to Earlham College for its last regular season game on Saturday, February 19. The contest is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. A Bluffton win would likely propel the Beavers into the six-team Heartland Conference tournament next week.


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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - A sudden dump of snow in southern Oregon closed a 33-mile section of Interstate 5 on Thursday, stranding untold numbers of motorists.
The Oregon Department of Transportation said the highway would be closed between Canyonville and Hugo for several hours while crews dealt with vehicles that spun out and motorists who had no chains or four-wheel drive to get through a series of three steep mountain passes.
The closure was one of a number of weather-related problems across the state as stormy weather closed a lane of I-84 in Eastern Oregon, overloaded a sewage system in the Portland area and sent landslides and high water onto coastal highways.
A landslide closed state Route 126 between Eugene and Florence.
In Astoria, the city told three households to evacuate after two large trees fell across the street.


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Bread machine "wizard" Lora Brody of West Newton, Massachusetts visits Julia Child in her kitchen. Brody demonstrates how to make bread mach ine buttermilk white bread. After the machine kneads the dough, she ba kes one loaf in the oven and the other is baked in the machine. Using the same dough, she forms cloverleaf rolls and twisty rolls and breads ticks. Brody creates a salsa quitza made from a dough containing refri ed beans and flour then topped with cream cheese, salsa, and shredded cheddar cheese.
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Malky Mackay is expected to beat Tim Sherwood to the vacant Crystal Palace job.
The former Cardiff boss is now the clear front-runner to succeed Tony Pulis at the south London club, but Palace have remained tight-lipped on the situation.
Selhurst Park bosses are believed to be close to finalising a three-year contract for Mackay, with bookmakers suspending bets on his appointment.
Former Tottenham bosses Sherwood and Martin Jol had been under serious consideration by the Palace board, but Mackay's close relationship with sporting director Iain Moody should tip the balance in his favour.
The duo worked in tandem at Cardiff, before Mackay was sacked in December.
Former Watford manager Mackay could be in place to lead Palace in Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with one of his former clubs, West Ham.
Pulis walked out on Palace on the eve of the league season after reported disagreements with co-chairman Steve Parish over transfer strategy.
The ex-Stoke boss landed the manager of the year award for steering the Eagles from the depths of a relegation battle to an impressive 11th-place finish last term.
His forthright style clashed with Parish and Moody across pre-season, leading to his departure.
Now Palace look prepared to reunite Mackay and Moody, while also retaining the remainder of the backroom staff that worked under Pulis.
Sherwood had been understood to favour a reshuffle of the behind-the-scenes coaching roster, while Palace are aiming to keep what semblance of continuity possible in the wake of Pulis' surprise exit.
Tony Popovic on Tuesday downplayed speculation linking him to the vacant post, insisting his former club had not been in contact.
The 41-year-old former Australia international has strong ties with the Eagles, having played for the club for five seasons before returning in 2011 as part of Dougie Freedman's backroom set-up.
Popovic is now manager of Western Sydney Wanderers and, despite having been as short as 6/1 with one bookmakers to replace Pulis, insisted talk of taking charge at Selhurst Park was wide of the mark.
"No there's been no conversations with anyone in regards to that and it's not for us to speak about speculation," Popovic said.
"If there was something happening we'd certainly speak to you about it.
"I'm very fond of that club. I have great memories and history there and many friends I have there.
"I wish them the best in whoever they choose as a manager."
Palace have signed just Fraizer Campbell, Brede Hangeland and Martin Kelly so far during the transfer window, with the board intent on adding at least three more recruits.
Caretaker coach Keith Millen assumed control for Palace's opening league fixture, the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal.
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South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma has set show dates for its 2013-14 performing arts series.
All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. except Jazz on Jackson, which starts at 8 p.m., following a champagne reception.
Joe Weigand as Teddy Roosevelt is featured on Nov. 1. This is a one-man theatre show on a nation-wide tour. Wiegand's reprisal of former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt shares stories of adventures as rancher, Rough Rider and father of six while in the White House.
Roosevelt was instrumental in establishing America's national parks, forests, monuments, and wildlife reserves.
Featured on Nov. 15 are The Rigneys, Bluegrass Sounds. Well-known to local audiences, the Rigneys will premier their latest album titled "Double or Nothing". They have been impressing folks with their instrumental mastery, vocal harmonies, and just plain fun stage entertainment for years. Andrew plays guitar and mandolin. Grant plays fiddle and mandolin. Mark provides strong banjo playing, and Melissa keeps the band together with powerful bass backup. You'll be toe tapping and wishing for more by the end of this show?
During Jazz on Jackson, Jan. 18, T.S. Monk, son of legendary Thelonious Monk, is featured. T.S. Monk is an award-winning smooth jazz performer, who is drummer, composer, vocalist and bandleader. T.S. won the prestigious Album of the Year with a birthday tribute album to his father called, "Monk On Monk". He also formed the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to further music education. Many attend with the help of scholarships. The institute even helps to fund after-school athletic programs.
On April 25 The Tart Terrors, Celtic Sounds will perform. This show combines music, dance and even comedy. Bagpipes, drums, guitar and more provide the rhythms for Highland Dancers. Championship status of musicians and dancers takes the audience to new levels of Celtic appreciation. Celtic Beat Magazine calls the Tartan Terrors, the "heirs apparent to the (Celtic) mayhem."
Brochures describing these shows and more can be found at South Jackson Civic Center. Call (931) 455-5321 or email email@example.com to make arrangements. Season tickets are being offered at $60 for adults and $45 for students. Individual show tickets are $20 for adults and $15 each for students.


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The first time Jim Caldwell came to Allen Park to interview for the Detroit Lions head coaching position he met quarterback
The two exchanged pleasantries, talked football, philosophy and a little bit about Stafford's 2013 season. Caldwell said he left that meeting impressed by his new franchise quarterback.
"If you ask him the question, is he willing to work. Yes," Caldwell said. "Is he dedicated. Yes. Does he want to get better. Yes. Does he want to win a Super Bowl. Yes. All of those things you can answer affirmative.
"I think without question you're going to see he can get better, better and better."
Stafford set franchise records with 5,038 yards and 41 touchdowns in 2011, but he hasn't neared those touchdown totals the last two years as the Lions have stumbled in the second half of both seasons to miss the playoffs.
Certainly not all of that is on Stafford, but it comes with the job description that the quarterback gets the praise for winning and the blame for losing.
This season, Stafford completed 58.5 percent of his passes for 4,650 yards with 29 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.
Caldwell worked closely with Peyton Manning in Indianapolis and Manning made an unsolicited call to Lions general manager Martin Mayhew on Caldwell's behalf.
Manning set then-career highs in completions (379), completions percentage (67) and yards (4,267) in his second season under Caldwell. He threw 49 touchdowns with 10 interceptions the following year.
"I think, No. 1, he's a very, very talented guy," Caldwell said of Stafford.
Caldwell said he hasn't made any determination just yet if he'll call the plays, but did say he'll work closely with the offense and the quarterback position.
"We also talked about what it was going to take to improve," Caldwell said of that first meeting with Stafford "We just hit on a few things. I think the thing that you find out about him is the fact that he is willing to do whatever it takes to get ready to win. That's the key.
"I mean, he's a guy that has talent, he has ability, he has great leadership qualities and I think, without question, you're going see him develop and then also, certainly, take off in every facet."
That's certainly the hope, because Caldwell's success as Detroit's 26th head coach in franchise history will be tied to the success of his 25-year-old signal caller.


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I have an object/array populated by json data like this:
[{name="John", gender="male", country="US"},{name="Bill", gender="male", country="GB"},{name="Steve", gender="male", country="SE"}]
Question 1: is this an array or an object?
Question 2: how can i find out the country= of name="Bill"?
Obs! this array/object is large over 4000 indexes, so the method have to be fast


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Council Honors Veras With Street Re-Naming
September 11, 2013
Council Honors Veras With Street Re-Naming
The three-block street near Sorrento Market previously known as Bush Way has been re-named for Albert and Ursula Vera, former owners of Sorrento Market.
The City Council was unanimous in voting for the re-naming.
Albert Vera, Sr., was an Italian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1950 at the age of 15. He gradually learned English and started a food delivery service that grew into a storefront grocery, Sorrento, at 5518 Sepulveda Boulevard.
Over the years Vera became involved in Culver City affairs and ran for City Council. He served three terms and was Mayor. Even during his years in local politics he continued to work in his store and often donated food to charities and local events.
Ursula Vera was born in Cologne, Germany in 1936. She also emigrated to the U.S. and after a brief first marriage that yielded a son, she met Vera while he was on one of his deliveries.
Ursula was characterized by all who knew her as a warm and generous person. She worked at Sorrento from 1971 on and was known to some for her sense of humor as well as her generosity.
Albert Vera passed away in June, 2010 from a sudden coronary. Ursula Vera struggled for several years with health issues and passed away in May 2011.
Because of what the Veras have meant to Culver City there has been a movement to honor them. It was originally suggested the Culver City Senior Citizens Center be named for the couple but that plan seems to have been put on ice for the time being.
Instead, the idea was put forth to re-name the small Bush Way street after the Veras. In January 2013, the Council discussed this idea and sent it to staff.
Staff found that the Veras qualified for the naming honor because their contributions met the criteria stated in City Council Policy 2006-01, for which the individual(s) would need to have made "extraordinary contributions to the community, which have been consistent and continuous over a considerable period of time" and "be deceased for a period of at least one year prior to the initiation of the naming process."
Stephen Hadland, publisher of the Culver City Observer, spoke to the Council regarding the proposal. Reading from his editorial published earlier this year in the Observer, Hadland said of the street re-naming: "This is a nice start but does not begin to honor them in a way that fully represents all they did for Culver City, and humanity."
Hadland enumerated the charitable contributions made by both Albert and Ursula, noting that "if there were more people in the world like Ursula and Albert, there would be no person hungry and no one homeless."
He hoped the city would move ahead with the original plan to name the senior center after the Veras in addition to re-naming the street.
A letter from Albert Vera, Jr., son of Albert and Ursula, was read into the City Council meeting record. Vera Jr. thanked Culver City and said his family would be happy to accept the honor in memory of his parents.
It was the wishes of the Vera family, as well as many letters of support that Council members said they had received from the community, which gave them the resolve to re-name Bush Way.
"This is a good first step," said Meghan Sahli-Wells, noting that the move to name the senior center for the Veras might still be made in the future.
Mehaul O' Leary and Mayor Jeff Cooper both cited Albert Vera as their "mentor" who got them involved in politics. "I bought my first house about 27 years ago near Bush Way," said Cooper. "Politics at that time was far from my mind but meatball sandwiches were on my mind."
Going over to Sorrento, he recalled, he became friendly with Albert Vera and credited Vera with teaching him about "civic pride."
The four street signs on Bush Way will be replaced soon with signage featuring the new name. The total cost to the city is estimated to be $150 per sign.


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Hey guys! Thanks to NamcoBandai I was able to receive a copy of Dark Souls 2 a wee bit early to help start populating the Wikidot if I can. I was also given specific permission to do a little unboxing for you. :] I know that you have probably all seen them from IGN but maybe you'd rather see one from one of the every day joes like you!
It also, as you can see, mentions a T-Shirt Giveaway contest that we will be hosting here on the forums. Keep a lookout for that thread here in the next 24 hours. Sorry everyone....NA only :/
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NOW I have to go wash "Animal", too!
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Mads Dengsø Jessen of the National Museum of Denmark wrote to Martin Rundkvist (Aardvarchaeology) to say that he and his colleagues are re-launching the old Journal of Danish Archaeology (1982-2006) as Danish Journal of Archaeology at Taylor and Francis On-Line.
Subscribers get access to the full back-catalogue of the old JDA, as well as new papers. You can also buy PDFs of single papers without subscribing, but this is jævle expensive. Whether Open Access alternatives will be available appears uncertain at the moment:
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Just as the young Israelite warrior David created a shield in the shape of two triangles and later went on to become King David, celebrate the coming of age of your son or daughter and the future that lies ahead with these Bar and Bat Mitzvah invitations. Modern in design, but traditional in theme, these invitations are printed on premium eco friendly paper.
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An ideal piece would be a rosette disc that is an Arri rosette on one side and a RED rosette on the other. Basically a spacer that would go between Arri and RED style rosette gear. I would buy these for $25-$35 a piece.
An ideal piece would be a rosette disc that is an Arri rosette on one side and a RED rosette on the other. Basically a spacer that would go between Arri and RED style rosette gear. I would buy these for $25-$35 a piece.
It might be difficult to bring those in at $35 unless we sold a ton of them.
Yeah...there's very specialized machining in those...not like you can just mill it and drill it.
Yeah...I just got Arri ones from Allstar and redrilled the holes to fit on RED stuff. Then I just swapped out the Rosette plates. Even that was a pain in the ass.
We've been discussing making these we can bring them in between $100-$200. Is that pricing consistent with what people are expecting to pay?
I think a 100 bucks is reasonable. I'd buy a couple for sure. They are hard to make. I have a great machinist who is not too expensive who mods stuff for me all the time, but honestly, I'd rather just buy something and be done with it.
I wonder if any of these match the Arri rosette....http://www.jwwinco.com/products/sect...7.4/index.html
I just found out that the red rosettes use 1/4 20 which means they aren't compatible with the mantis. I feel that red has brought some great accessories to the table, especially the swat/nato rails, and the universal quick release system, but I'm staying away from the rosettes that red makes. I get why they did it because everything else is 1/4 20, but I think the metric rosettes are an industry standard they should have maintained. Additionally some of the handles are female only, so they can't just bolt on anywhere, you need many parts, and when you reconfigure those parts, you get end caps and just too many loose parts in your hands. I like the simple arri standard - bolt onto anything approach. I'm also very sad that they didn't put 3/8 holes on almost any of their accessories. Thats a standard you really should not ignore. But if you want to use the universal quick release, you are stuck with 1/4 20, which is inferior for so many applications. I do love their build quality though.
BTW, these are ridiculously hard to machine. The CNC mill needs something to hold on to and this thing looks like a steel poker chip when it's done.
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Twelve major contributors to prep athletics in Alabama were inducted into the 23nd class of the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame Monday night.
The 2013 class was honored at a banquet at the Renaissance Hotel at the Convention Center in Montgomery. The induction class includes coaches, administrators, a contest official and an "old-timer" and raised total number of individuals enshrined since 1991 to 285.
The Class of 2013 included volleyball coaches Denise Ainsworth and Julie Sinclair, football coaches Ben Harris and Buddy Davis, basketball coaches Larry Davidson, Jim Hunter, Jr., and Raymond White, baseball coach Mike Estes, wrestling coach Steve Gaydosh, administrator Jim Tuley, former AHSAA Associate Executive Director Joe Evans and long-time basketball official Greg England.
Ainsworth, currently an Assistant Director at the AHSAA, was a successful softball and volleyball coach at Alabama Christian who also served the Montgomery school as athletic director. Sinclair has 1,115 career volleyball wins at Montgomery Academy.
Harris led Blount to four state Class 5A football championships in a 10-year span in the 1990s. Davis, selected in the "Old-Timer" category, guided Booker T. Washington of Montgomery to three unbeaten regular seasons and then joined the Jeff Davis staff when BTW was closed, helping the Vols post an undefeated season. He is now deceased.
Davidson won 415 games as a head coach, first at Walter Wellborn and later at Oxford, and was an assistant coach on three Oxford state football championships. He now serves OHS as athletic director. Hunter, head basketball coach and athletic director at Calhoun, has 398 basketball wins and two state titles. White, with 731 career wins, has led Barbour County to three state titles and two runner-up finishes in nine Final 48 appearances, including a 34-0 season in 2012.
Gaydosh has coached Vestavia Hills to 12 Class 6A state wrestling titles. Tuley served as a successful assistant football coach and golf coach at Robert E. Lee before helping Trinity Presbyterian win 18 state titles in a variety of sports after becoming the Montgomery school's athletic director. He is now retired.
Estes guided Hokes Bluff to 606 baseball wins and nine state titles before retiring after the 2008 season. Evans was a successful high school basketball coach at Keith High School and then served for almost two decades as an assistant coach at UAB with coach Gene Bartow. He served as AHSAA Associate Executive Director from 2000-2011.
England officiated high school basketball for 42 years with 25 appearances in the Final 48 state tournament. He now serves as a camp instructor and official observer.
Sinclair, who is also the associate athletic director at Montgomery Academy, delivered the acceptance address for the Class of 2013.
An 18-member Hall of Fame Committee made the selections from 46 nominations on the Hall of Fame ballot. The Hall of Fame is located at the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) office in Montgomery.
Sponsors of the Hall of Fame program are the Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association (AHSADCA) and the AHSAA. The corporate sponsors are Cadence Bank, Coca-Cola, Encore Rehabilitation, Farmers Insurance, Russell Athletic, TeamIP and Wilson Sporting Goods.