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Olympia Sports Center(603) 528-3216
1458 Lake Shore Rd
Gilford, NH
Gilford, NH
Sports & Marine Parafunalia(603) 293-8998
44 Weirs Rd
Gilford, NH
Gilford, NH
Nick Sandric's Mountain Sports(603) 279-5540
178 Daniel Webster Hwy
Meredith, NH
Meredith, NH
Big Dog Sportswear(603) 286-9427
120 Laconia Rd
Tilton, NH
Tilton, NH
Lakes Region Sports & Photo(603) 569-1114
Wolfeboro, NH
Piche's Ski & Sport Shop(603) 524-2068
318 Gilford Ave
Gilford, NH
Gilford, NH
Opechee Trading Post(603) 524-0908
13 Opechee St
Laconia, NH
Laconia, NH
Pac Sun(603) 286-8135
120 Laconia Rd
Tilton, NH
Tilton, NH
Kingswood Golf Club(603) 569-3569
37 Kingswood Rd
Wolfeboro, NH
Wolfeboro, NH
Wolfeboro Bay Outfitters(603) 569-1114
Wolfeboro, NH
Wolfeboro, NH
A Knife for Every Reason
A Knife For Every Reason
January 15, 2008by Brendan O'Brien
In baseball he's called a utility player. A guy you can fearlessly stick anywhere on the diamond in any situation. Put him in right field because he's comfortable shagging fly balls or move him to first base because he's just as adept at fielding hard hit grounders. His usefulness is his versatility.
The knife world has an equivalent of baseball's utility player and it's known as the tactical knife.
When asked what defines a tactical knife, we like to go with Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Famer® and Spyderco president Sal Glesser's definition: "A tactical knife is a knife you have to make do with for whatever you need it at the time, whether that means to cut a person out of a wrecked car or defend yourself from an attack."
Although in theory ANY knife could be classified as a tactical knife, this article will focus on the newest factory fixed blade tactical knives.
Semper Fi
The people at TOPS Knives have always prided themselves on providing military personnel and people of law enforcement with quality knives capable of completing even the most dangerous of tasks. In particular, the company has always maintained a special relationship with the Marine Corps and that special bond is once again evident on the new TOPS Marine Heat.
By combining design input from Larry Keen, one of the founding members of TOPS and a former Operational Recon Marine, with an impressive list of criteria compiled by active Marine Corps members in Fallujah, Iraq, the company conceived the Marine Heat.
Among the FIBUA (Fighting in Built Up Urban Areas) criteria deemed necessary was a readily deployable 6-inch blade and a thick full-tang with a strong handle and three-screw blade fitting. The Marine Heat also features a heavy-duty non-reflective blade coating as well as the company's new MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) point – a full-point perfectly suited for digging. A "humpback" on the spine of the blade was included to provide integral strength and to the give the blade the ability to penetrate further if required.
"We have found that TOPS has become the personal carry choice for many military units and we are certainly pleased," says TOPS president Mike Fuller. "We were proud to include a bit of Marine Corps red in the handle of the Marine Heat and we realized the need to make it affordable so the enlisted field marine could afford it. We also lasered the Marine Corps emblem right onto the blade," Fuller says.
Each Marine Heat is hand ground and done in 1095 high carbon alloy and includes a thick kydex sheath with rotating steel clip as well as a pocket-size Lansky touch-up sharpener for field use.
In The Eye of the Beholder
Odds are, if someone called you stubby and stout you'd probably take great offense. However, it's a des...
Little in Size But Lots of Knife
Little in Size But Lots of Knife
October 03, 2008by By MSG Kim Breed (retired)
Model Small Alias
Pattern Utility folder
Maker Andrew Fitz
Blade Steel CPM 154 stainless
Rockwell Hardness 58-59 Rc
Blade Length 3 1/8"
Blade Width at Widest 1.75"
Blade Finish Hand-rubbed satin
Handle Bead-blasted 6AL4V titanium
Lock Frame lock
Closed Length ~4"
Maker's List Price $475
I was not familiar with the voice on the other end of the phone. It was that of knifemaker Andrew Fitz wanting to know how to get his knife tested in an installment of "Spec Sheet." He politely told me about himself and his knives. I received a good impression from talking to him and told him that I would look at the knife and then make a decision on whether to do a "Spec Sheet" on it.
A week later I had a nice frame-lock folder in my hands. Exhibiting excellent eye appeal and sturdy construction, the knife is a handful. The contoured titanium handle fits my hand perfectly. The blade reminded me of a Japanese chopping knife. I could tell I was going to have fun cutting with the "Small Alias."
Multi-Use Piece
I had to use the Small Alias in the kitchen first just because the knife's design provides enough room to palm the blade and use it in a chopping motion. The Small Alias diced and sliced carrots and celery for the stew pot. The knife is very controllable and the blade shape lends to a rocking motion when held in a standard grip. However, this is not just another knife for the kitchen. It is a multi-use piece, and I really like the wide blade.
Now for the real challenge—cutting plastic foam. It's not as easy as you think because the edge can tear the foam very easily. I started out with a half-inch sheet of the foam packing. The Small Alias made long cuts without tearing it. Next I grabbed some foam peanuts and, using only the weight of the knife, cut thin slabs. It took me just one peanut to get the right technique down; after that it was smooth slicing.
So much for the finesse stuff—I needed a tougher medium.
A cardboard box was just asking to be sliced up. (Actually, it was just too long to fit in the garbage can.) The Small Alias "ate" long slices in the cardboard and before I knew it the box was in pieces at my feet. This is still too easy!
I had purchased a new 100-foot roll of half-inch sisal rope for test cutting. The Small Alias removed about 2.5 feet off the roll, which equates to 60 half-inch cuts. The thumb notches are in the right place and are rounded off so no sharp edges chewed on my thumb. Lockup was positive throughout the cutting, and the handle is very comfortable.
It was time to cut some wood. I had some 1x4 pine boards left over from a home project that fit the bill. I started whittling and the Small Alias bit deep into the pine board, producing a whole bunch of curly-cues....


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Wyclef Jean Accuses Lauryn Hill of Misleading Him Over Son's Paternity
Wyclef Jean has accused his former Fugees bandmate and ex-lover Lauryn Hill of misleading him about the paternity of her son with Rohan Marley.
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The couple was caught up in an affair at the height of their fame in the band despite Jean being married to Marie Claudinette at the time.
Jean has previously hinted the romance was the catalyst for the group's split in 1997, but in his new memoir, titled "Purpose," he blames Hill for allegedly lying about the paternity of her child in a bid to convince him it was his and not Marley's.
In an excerpt obtained by the New York Post, Jean writes, "In that moment something died between us. I was married and Lauryn and I were having an affair, but she led me to believe that the baby was mine, and I couldn't forgive that.
"She could no longer be my muse. Our love spell was broken."
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Vickie Bridges announces the marriage of her daughter Aron Ann Fallon to Mervin James Nielsen, the son of James and Delaina Nielsen, on June 7.
A reception will be held in the couple's honor that evening at the Old Rock Church, 10 South Main, Providence, Utah from 6-8 p.m.
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Ralph and Loretta Worthen announce the marriage of their daughter, Andrea Marie to Mark Ronald Hales, son of Ronald and Kathryn Hales. The couple was married May 24 in the Manti Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
There will be an open house at the Worthen residence, 30 East 200 North, Ferron on June 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Robert and Melisa Barnes of Castle Dale, and Sherry and Terry Peterson of Grand Rapids, Minn. announce the marriage of their daughter Ashlie LaShae Barnes to Wyatt J. Anderson, the son of Lynn and Joan Anderson of Ferron.
The couple will be married on June 7 at 5 p.m. at 1630 West Canyon Road, Ferron.
Ashlie is the granddaughter of Gordon and Mary Barnes of Roy, Mel and Bev West of Springfield, Colo., Brent and Cathy Hardee of Castle Dale, Arthur and Doris Peterson of Conrad, Mont., and the late Lowell Tuttle.
Wyatt is the grandson of June and Fonda Anderson of Salt Lake City, Florence Bowers of West Valley City, and the late Vao Bowers.
The couple will make their home in Castle Dale.
Haylie and Colby announce their marriage in the Manti Temple on June 7. A reception will be held that evening from 6-8 p.m. at the residence of Darold and Henrietta Hansen at 200 North Center Street in Elmo. Dancing from 8 p.m. until midnight. Parents of the bride are Kirk Hansen and Sherrie Hansen. Parents of the groom are Mitch and Audrie Horton and Tony and Shannon Montag.
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Debates of June 19th, 2012
House of Commons Hansard #143 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was agreements.
- Question Period
- Committees of the House
- Canada Genuine Progress Measurement Act
- Canada Shipping Act, 2001
- Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Points of Order
- Correctional Service Canada
- Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal
- Blood Donation
- Children's Health
- Birthday Congratulations
- Canada-Wide Science Fair
- Democracy
- Fiesta Week
- The Prime Minister
- Diesel Exhaust
- Christiane Blanchet
- Pyrrhotite
- Free Trade Agreements
- Polio
- Free Trade Agreements
- Canadian Coast Guard
- International Trade
- Government Legislation
- Government Accountability
- Ethics
- Federal-Provincial Relations
- Ethics
- The Economy
- International Trade
- National Defence
- Ethics
- Canada Revenue Agency
- Ethics
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Privacy
- Employment Insurance
- International Trade
- Ethics
- Health
- The Budget
- Fisheries and Oceans
- The Economy
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Natural Resources
- Points of Order
- Privilege
- Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act
- Committees of the House
- World Autism Awareness Day Act
- Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act
- Protecting Canada's Seniors Act
- Financial Literacy Leader Act
- Strengthening Military Justice in the Defence of Canada Act
- Search and Rescue
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Kevin Lamoureux Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Party has been fairly clear on the issue in regard to this particular bill. In principle, we support it. We do have concerns regarding the environment, as I alluded to earlier, and labour and so forth. At the end of the day, this is a bill we be supporting.
Having said that, I think Canadians need to be concerned about the growing trade deficit that the Conservative government has created. The government tends to focus on this particular agreement and the Jordan agreement.
What does this particular member believe the Government of Canada is going to have to do to try to turn things around and bring back the days, with Liberal administrations, when we had a trading surplus? At the end of the day, that is going to create the hundreds and thousands of jobs here in Canada. We have to achieve that surplus.
When does the member believe we are going to be able to address that particular issue?
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Rob Merrifield Yellowhead, AB
Mr. Speaker, that is an interesting comment. Maybe the member is rather new here, but when the Liberals were in power for 13 long years, they signed zero agreements.
We signed nine and are heading to ten free trade agreements. It is very important that we not allow other countries to eat our lunch when it comes to trade. That is exactly what I said: when it comes to Panama, we have the United States, Singapore and other countries ahead of us with free trade agreements. The first one in usually has an opportunity ahead of the others. That is why we are pursuing, aggressively, free trade agreements with Japan and others. There is an advantage to making sure we do that.
It is very interesting, coming from the Liberal Party that agrees with free trade, because they did absolutely nothing. We have seen that as a trend by the Liberal Party for many years, so we are not really surprised.
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Anne-Marie Day Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to tell the hon. member that the NDP does not oppose free trade, but it does oppose time restrictions on debate. The NDP also opposes everything that is hidden in legislation and everything the Conservatives forget to mention. The NDP is in favour of a healthy economy and wants workers to be protected and to have their own rights. The NDP also wants to put an end to tax havens.
Can the hon. member confirm that there is nothing hidden in this bill?
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Rob Merrifield Yellowhead, AB
Mr. Speaker, the member is not opposed to trade; she is opposed to time allocation. This bill got to third reading with the last government. How much more debate does the member want on this thing?
Now we have started from scratch. This government has brought it up through committee and into the House, into third reading. That is a fairly extensive look at it. If the opposition has not made up its mind by now, it is never going to.
When it comes to tax havens, this is something that has been brought up before. In 2002 Panama committed to implementing the OECD's standards when it comes to exchange of tax information. In 2011, the OECD took another look at it and formally listed Panama as having substantial implementation and as having achieved international standards on exchange of information.
I believe Panama has come a long way. This is the right thing to do, and I encourage all members to consider that and vote for this piece of legislation.
Correctional Service Canada
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Maria Mourani Ahuntsic, QC
Mr. Speaker, inmates in Correctional Service of Canada penitentiaries regularly use their blood, vomit, feces, urine, semen or saliva as a weapon against correctional officers. The rate of hepatitis C among inmates is 20 to 50 times higher than in the general population, and the HIV infection rate is 5 to 40 times higher.
Every incident that occurs leaves correctional officers and their families in limbo, since inmates can refuse to have their blood analyzed to determine their state of health. These men and women who serve the public deserve our respect and our protection. They are not asking that every prisoner be required to give a blood sample, only those who, by their actions, have threatened the most fundamental right of correctional officers—the right to life.
What is the Minister of Public Safety waiting for to respond to this appeal and pass appropriate legislation?
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Barry Devolin Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON
Mr. Speaker, every member of Parliament has been given the privilege of selecting 30 recipients for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. For several months I wondered how I would select just 30 people from the 120,000 in my riding. Obviously there are hundreds of worthy candidates. Upon further reflection, I began to think about the Queen herself and about what she values and stands for. Words such as duty, honour and service quickly came to mind.
I think all Canadians are aware of the high regard the Queen has for our armed forces and how often she pays them respect. That is why I decided to select Diamond Jubilee recipients by honouring those who serve members of our armed forces. For example, there are unsung heroes in Royal Canadian Legions across the country who serve our veterans on a daily basis. In recent years, many Canadians have paid respect to our troops in Afghanistan. In my riding, one woman has sent scores of packages in the mail to soldiers she has not even met. There are also many cadet commanders across Canada who give their time to prepare the future leaders of our armed forces.
It is these people who will receive Diamond Jubilee Medals in my riding. I think my choices are most appropriate and I believe the Queen herself would agree with my decisions.
Blood Donation
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Dany Morin Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, QC
Mr. Speaker, last week was very important, because Canadians were encouraged to generously donate blood. I made my first donation when I was 18. But the cruel and discriminatory rules set by Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec against gay and bisexual men prohibited me from continuing to donate.
In 2012, because of biomedical technological advances to detect HIV in blood, there is no need for this discrimination. In fact, a team of researchers with the Canadian Medical Association Journal recommended that gay couples who have been in a stable, monogamous relationship for one year be able to donate blood.
These researchers suggested that, with such a measure, the risk of receiving HIV-infected blood would be only 1 in 11,000,000. Since we do not have a stable supply of blood from year to year, we are not in a position to refuse the generous donations from these gay couples, whose sexual practices are just as safe as those of heterosexual couples.
I am calling on the Minister of Health today to put an end to this discrimination against gay men. It is an insult to assume that our blood is not clean enough for you.
Children's Health
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Joe Daniel Don Valley East, ON
Mr. Speaker, I stand in the House this afternoon to highlight the need for a pan-Canadian network for child and youth nutrition.
Studies have shown that good nutrition for our children and youth has a direct impact on their educational success. These educational outcomes lead to their success in getting better jobs and better long-term health. This has a direct impact on our economy in reducing health care costs and in creating a more educated workforce to meet the needs of Canada's future workers.
I call on all members of the House to support the Motion No. 319 on children's health which will engage in a consultative process regarding the promotion and maintenance of healthy weights for children and youth.
Birthday Congratulations
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Judy Foote Random—Burin—St. George's, NL
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a remarkable lady living in Stephenville Crossing in the riding of Random—Burin—St. George's. On May 29, Mrs. Frances Peddle celebrated her 106th birthday.
On a recent visit with Mrs. Peddle, who lives with her daughter, Margaret, I had the pleasure of chatting with her and enjoyed her stories and sense of humour. At the age of 15, Mrs. Peddle moved from her childhood home in Green's Harbour, Trinity Bay to St. John's where she worked until age 17 when she moved to Montreal. This meant moving to a foreign country, as Newfoundland was not then a part of Canada.
At the age of 23, Mrs. Peddle returned to Newfoundland where she worked and raised her family of six children. After her husband passed away, Mrs. Peddle married again to a gentleman with six children. Today she has 57 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren, 30 great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild.
I ask all members to join me in recognizing Mrs. Frances Peddle and this tremendous milestone in her life.
Canada-Wide Science Fair
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Rob Clarke Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK
Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to recognize two constituents of mine who have the remarkable achievement of attending the Canada-Wide Science Fair and competing.
Tristen Sasakamoose and Mario Ahenakew of the Ahtahkakoop School, with their project on ancient laws and legends pertaining to buoyancy, attended the Canada-Wide Science Fair this year in Charlottetown. On behalf of our Conservative government, I congratulate them both on being the first first nations team to attend the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
The Canada-Wide Science Fair is a national championship where finalists from different regional science fairs across the country meet and compete. It is the largest extracurricular youth activity related to science and technology in Canada.
It is an honour to rise today and recognize these two students who achieved such a remarkable feat. The Canada-Wide Science Fair accepts only the best students and projects and has a long history dating back to the 1960s.
I know the community of Ahtahkakoop and first nations across Canada are incredibly proud of what Tristen and Mario accomplished.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Denise Savoie Victoria, BC
Mr. Speaker, I often visit high school classes in my riding because I believe a healthy democracy needs all voices at the table, including youth. Students I have met recently at Victoria High are not apathetic. They are aware and engaged. In the civics class, every student is involved in a volunteer project. I promised I would bring some of their concerns to Ottawa.
The Vic High media and politics class wants to see a greater concern for truth and less spin by politicians. They deplore how some issues are depicted as black and white or good versus evil, but one overriding concern in several classes was that governments were not doing enough to protect our environment.
It is not apathy that stands in the way of youth engagement but an open and responsive government that respectfully listens to their concerns for a healthy environment is a goal that all youth would embrace.
Fiesta Week
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Colin Carrie Oshawa, ON
Mr. Speaker, this week, in my home riding of Oshawa, we are celebrating the 38th annual Fiesta Week.
Fiesta Week is one of the most popular summer events in Oshawa. The annual week-long multicultural festival is a wonderful celebration of the cultural diversity of Durham region, especially in the city of Oshawa, for which I am truly proud to represent in the House of Commons.
Over the last 38 years, Fiesta Week has provided an opportunity for residents of Oshawa and Durham region to experience European, Asian and Caribbean cultures and cuisines, all without having to leave their community. There are numerous fun and exciting events throughout the week for people of all ages. This past Sunday I was proud to be part of the kickoff to Fiesta Week and attended the parade and concert.
Fiesta Week truly has something for everyone. Fiesta Week continues to be an inspiring celebration of the cultural diversity of Oshawa. I encourage everyone to participate in the festivities. A special thanks goes out to all the volunteers in the Oshawa Folk Arts Council. These individuals deserve our utmost respect and appreciation for all they do.
The Prime Minister
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mark Adler York Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, there is a growing lack of respect for basic common decency by certain members of the House.
Last Thursday, two members gestured toward the Prime Minister in a questionable manner. I know I was not alone in my disgust in hearing of this action. Regrettably, it seems that this questionable action from the third party is not isolated to the House. Merely hours later, the member for Papineau tweeted that the Prime Minister does not believe in Tikkun Olam, a Jewish tenet that means healing the world.
On this side of the House, under the leadership of this Prime Minister, this government acts every day to uphold the Canadian values of freedom, human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Furthermore, considering the many awards and accolades that the Prime Minister has received from the Jewish community and other humanitarian organizations, I find the statement outrageous.
Given the strong humanitarian record of the Prime Minister, I urge all members to stand in recognition of the great works that have been accomplished in the spirit of Tikkun Olam by our government under the leadership of our principled Prime Minister.
Diesel Exhaust
Statements By Members
June 19th, 2012 / 2:05 p.m.
Mike Sullivan York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, last week, the World Health Organization moved diesel exhaust to a new ranking, making it a carcinogen as powerful as asbestos, arsenic or mustard gas. This means that exposure to diesel exhaust can kill people just as surely as smoking cigarettes can.
Residents of the west end of Toronto have been saying to this to governments for years. With federal help, Ontario plans to run 464 diesel commuter trains each day within a few feet of homes, schools, day care centres and hospitals. It will be the busiest diesel corridor on the planet and, given the new evidence, 300,000 local residents will be subjected to carcinogenic exhaust.
The federal and Ontario governments need to get their act together and begin electrifying this corridor, starting with the air rail link. Electric trains are clean, quiet, more economic to run and maintain, last longer and, best of all, do not cause cancer.
I urge the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities to take immediate action to protect the residents of Toronto.
Christiane Blanchet
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to salute the contribution of an extraordinary volunteer in my riding.
I am pleased to announce that, on June 12, Christiane Blanchet received the off-road vehicles volunteer recognition award of excellence from Quebec's transport minister, Norman MacMillan.
Now in its third year, this award honours people who have made a major contribution to their community through their involvement and activity.
As an intrepid, energetic and vital member of the Club motoneige des Plaines in Lotbinière, Ms. Blanchet has helped keep the club going for many years.
On behalf of all members of Lotbinière snowmobile clubs, I am very pleased to congratulate Christiane Blanchet on receiving this award of excellence.


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Joseph Eto
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Originally posted by Maelkor
The only thing I would add to this thread is this: People who make predictions about storage devices rarely take into account the fact the programs grow in size too. In fact they have a tendancy to grow in size at a rate that is similar to what hardrives/storage devices can hold. Putting it another way - Just because you only need 200 or 300 gigs of storage today to run the OS and your main programs does not mean that will hold true even 2 or 3 years from now. As an example - MMOS - Age of Conan the download was something like 5 gigs If I remember right - and everyone crapped in their pants that a game could be so big. It was unheard of. Now a typical game is 20 or 30 gigs and growing. Putting that aside, it seems that SSD's might perhaps be large enough for some mainstream usage as a performance booster. At the current rate of growth though they will not replace actual Hardrives for a long time to come as people still have movies, half a dozen games, pictures, sound files etc to store and they need a lot of storage capacity to do this. Soon movies and shows are going to transition from HD quality to 3D quality - yet another huge jump in file size. The last point being - most people dont need the performance that an SSD drive can give and therefore will stick with platter technology which is cheaper, more reliable(long term) and holds significantly more. I do see that SSD drives will start to make their way into the market as an addition to the platter drive in much the same way RAM was added as a cache etc. Not so much as a cache per se but as a place to run the OS and such things as quizzical described earlier, however, the average user doesnt have a clue how to set something like that up - so even those uses will be only a small segment of the population I think.
Except that your entire argument isn't true. Vanguard launched around the start of 2007 and required 20 GB. If sizes had doubled every two years since then, we should be looking at games far over 100 GB today. I'm not aware of any games that are anywhere near that.
If you go back further, I used to have Red Alert, which came on two CDs and launched in 1996. I don't know exactly how much space it took, but presumably more than would fit on one CD. So let's call it 1 GB. If you double size every two years, you'd be looking at games taking well over 200 GB today. Do they?
In 1998, I bought a computer with an 8 GB hard drive. I think I used somewhere around half of that capacity. If my capacity needs doubled every two years, then I should need around 1 TB today. Windows reports that I actually have 74.3 GB in use.
But that's just the empirical data. There are theoretical reasons why sizes shouldn't increase so fast in the future, too. In the case of Red Alert, most of the CDs was filled by videos that it would play at various points in missions. Other games did similar things. Most of the size of Civilization II was videos that it would play when you completed a wonder. Most of Age of Empires was an intro video that it would play when you launched the game.
Such cut scenes in games actually take less space now than they did then. If you've got a bunch of 3D assets already made, then it's much easier to simply run a cut scene showing this character here and that one there than it is to create a new video from scratch. Reusing your existing 3D assets also takes virtually no space.
It's not just cut scenes in games. Many things have stopped scaling. Suppose that you bought a 3 TB hard drive today and could somehow magically to the drive everything typed by all of humanity, from forum posts on forums you'll never hear about to text messages and e-mails written by random strangers you'll never have any contact with. How long would it take to fill up the drive? At least several hours, and possibly more than a day.
The actual amount of text that makes its way to your hard drive is such an infinitessimally small fraction of that as to constitute a rounding error in the storage it takes--even as compared to current SSD storage capacities. Anything that is roughly proportional to text typed likewise takes virtually no space--and this includes compiled executable files. Most programs today take essentially no space. The same is true of documents, whether made by a word processor, a spreadsheet, or whatever. Twenty years ago, such things took a substantial amount of space.
It used to be pretty easy to fill up a hard drive with pirated music. Today, only the most zealous pirates can manage a collection that amounts to much more than a rounding error. 1000 hours of .mp3 files adds up to maybe 50 GB, which is still significant on an SSD but basically a rounding error on a hard drive. You could say about the same of pictures: they used to take a ton of space, but now you'd need to be a really zealous photographer to fill much hard drive space with them.
What's left that actually takes a lot of space? Videos still do if recorded rather than procedurally generated (so movies do and cut scenes in games don't) and texture files used by games still do. And that's about it for consumer use. There are still some enterprise or scientific applications that need to store massive amounts of data, but those are irrelevant to most people deciding whether an SSD is enough.
And even videos and game textures won't scale forever. There's no sense in having Blu-Ray movies shot in higher definitions than televisions can show. You mention stereoscopic 3D, but that's a one-time doubling (or less, if they can compress it)--assuming it even catches on, which is unlikely. HD video takes about 5-6 GB per hour, so 500 hours of HD video would fill a 3 TB hard drive. But that will scale in the next decade much like how .mp3s did in the past. 3 TB is a lot today, but a decade from now, it may well be basically a rounding error on a hard drive and substantial but manageable on an SSD. And that's assuming that you actually need 500 GB of HD videos, which most people don't.
As for game textures, you can make arbitrarily high definition textures, but this has sharply diminishing returns. Most of the game, a game doesn't even use the full texture; it mipmaps it down to use a much lower resolution version. Only when an object is up close do you see the full resolution. And only when it's close enough to magnify the texture substantially would a higher resolution actually be used.
You can also make more textures for a game, with each the same resolution as before. But that means more work to create the game. If you want to have twice as many textures, it costs twice as much to make them. That can't double every two years for long.
Both game texture resolutions and video resolutions can make good use of scaling as monitor and television resolutions increase. But this happens very slowly. Let's estimate very high and assume that 2560x1600 is the standard resolution today. If you want to use 1920x1080 instead, cut all the subsequent numbers of pixels in half. If it scaled by something analogus to Moore's Law, then 1280x800 would have been the standard four years ago. But that was tiny four years ago. Eight years ago, 640x400 would have been the standard. I'm not sure if Windows XP is even usable at that low of resolutions. Go back in time 24 years and you'd have a resolution of 40x25. For comparison, the NES that launched years earlier used a resolution of 256x240. Go back to when the Atari 2600 launched in 1977, and it "should" have had a resolution a little smaller than 6x4, as opposed to the 192x160 that it had in the real world.
Capacities needed do tend to increase a little as time passes. Much of it is due to people finding creative ways to be less efficient, but some of the bloat does get worthwhile uses. But the needed capacities increase a lot more slowly than hard drive and SSD capacities are increasing.
^- thats an insane amount of text lol but im kinda curious if you think SSD will become the new HDD for pcs or if HDD will last until its replaced by a more flash driven system outside of the SSD chain?
oh and RA1 took about 400mbs of space. (if you try to install it on win7 you have to manually copy it off the cd lol </3 installer)
and games like The Sims can get up to 100gbs of space after you install every single pack for it and start adding in mods. which is why i kinda wonder if its more prudent to focus on SSD for pc replacements or still rely on the old HDD (i personally still use HDD as SSD was not as main stream or cheap as it is now when i built my pc)
i see SSD more of a tablet/cellphone tech system then really PC based though, i know OS usage is better on a SDD over hdd but gaming is better on hdd is it not? or has that changed in the last few years that SDD has evolved??
Programs and data get bigger - true.
But compression also gets better. Audio used to be very large, in .WAV or raw format. MP3 drastically reduced the file size (without drastically affecting audio quality). H.264/MP4 are doing the same thing for video now. Many games are recording cutscenes as in-game rendered, rather than CGI, which cuts down dramatically on the size of those files.
So far, it's been relatively stagnate in the past 6-7 years, which is unusual across computing history (particularly when looking at Moore's Law), but there have been some external influences to data size rather than just available storage space - mainly the fact that more and more data is being streamed dynamically now than being statically stored.
The real driver for this, however, isn't so much storage space. Storage space is cheap, even relatively so on SSDs. The real driver is transmission, and the rise in cloud/online services, which have really driven the push to continue to minimize data size. If a music/video/data file is XXX T/G/M/kbytes, and XXX thousand people download it, or XXX thousand people per day stream it - that bandwidth adds up fast, and unlike storage space, isn't always cached locally or permanently.
SSD's aren't necessarily PC's future, but then again, PC's are necessarily the future of computing.
There will always be a niche for a desktop PC - be it SOHO servers or workstations or PC gaming rigs or whatever. And some of those PC's will always be better served by traditional hard drives (mainly those requiring larger-than-typical amounts of storage). But I think most PC's would be best served by an SSD (especially when paired with a traditional hard drive as a bulk storage device), and that applies to most PC's sold or used today.
There was a big push early in computing history to go with diskless computing and dumb terminals (large companies had main frames, and they wanted dumb terminals just to connect up to those big expensive computers). That notion comes back every now and then (Windows Terminal Services/Remote Desktop back in late 90's/early 2k's, "Cloud Computing" and virtualization now). These types of computers don't necessarily require any local storage at all - they can run entirely off the network, including network booting - and that technology has been around for decades.
So I don't think that hard drive technology is necessarily a driver of PC futures. SSDs are a very nice advance in computing hardware, and probably the single most impactful piece of technology to come along in the past 10 years in terms of difference it makes on the computing experience. But I dont think it will define what anyone is capable of doing with a PC - at least not in the way that some things like bitmapping, the GUI, internet access, or mouse have.
Originally posted by Ridelynn
Many games are recording cutscenes as in-game rendered, rather than CGI, which cuts down dramatically on the size of those files.
Yeah, but that's not that important anymore. With current compression methods for video files, size of storage and that cinematics are short - it does not play as big role as in past.
In past cinematics were sometimes bigger that rest or game. Nowadays? You much FULL HD CGi is gonna take?
Let'e evan assume that combined lenght of all CGI's are 10 minutes, which almost never happen. How much h264 or even divx/xvid 10 minute CGI even with relatively high bit rate and in full hd gonna take? 500 mb? Hell make it even 1gb.
Considering most so called 'big' titles nowadays take 10-25 gb, that's not much.
Besides games used in-game rendered cutscenes almost since beggining. There was a game called Flashback and it's intro was made on game engine using many of in-game assets. It is very old game.
Some other newer but still old games? Baldur's Gate. Ok it had CGI intro, but almos all in-game cutscenes are on in-game engine.
Warcraft 3 ? Same thing. Many CGI but even more in-game engine cutscenes. so on so on
It is not new thing.
Let's say you have a 10 min CGI in an MMO. And lets say it's 1G in size.
Your user downloads that from the patch server. You have 100,000 users that do so.
That's 100,000 x 1G = 100T of bandwidth you just had to pay for.
Now lets say that same 10min cutscene is done using the in-game engine. Now it's down to 10M of procedural calls using the remainder of models and textures that are already packaged with the game for gameplay.
That's two orders of magnitude less. That's a big deal.
Now your down to 1T of bandwidth to serve up those files.
The amount of storage space on your hard drive - I argue that is more or less inconsequential. Rather you take up an extra 990M or not, in the day of 1T+ hard drives, is neither here nor there. It's not even that relevent on more limiting SSDs. But you can see in streaming/patch servers/bandwidth, with digital distribution and streaming becoming the norm rather than the exception, that it makes a huge deal.
It doesn't have to be a new technology to be good. CGI cutscenes make a big splash back when most people didn't have dedicated 3D cards, and they looked fantastic compared to in-game rendered material (FF VII comes to mind), and the only real limit was file storage space (how much room we had on the distribution media). Now, we have 3D capability that rivals what CG renders can perform, in real time. So we've come back around.
Originally posted by Ridelynn
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
The random Writes are handled by the RAID controller, which has 1024MB DDR2 as main memory for cache. The SAS drives are fast enough for random reads on their own. And again with RAID0 i get about the same sequential speeds as SSD's at a fraction of the cost, the SAS drives were bought when the then brand new Intel X-25 cost over 900US... they come with a 7 year warranty, and onsite next buisness day service from the local segate rep.
Fraction of the cost? Really? How much are those 15k drives a piece - and don't forget to factor in the price of that RAID card either.. because most SSDs are just using onboard SATA3.
And let's look at today's SSD prices, the X-25 hasn't a main stream SSD for a good while now, is listed as Discontinued by Intel, and I can't even buy them new any longer... I quoted the retail price of the Samsung 840 above, and it's considered a pricey SSD by today's standards.
I'm going to leave the rest of your post alone for now, except to say that SSDs are limited in write cycles, you can read from them all day long (so just saying IOP is false - only write ops affect the load count), and that write cycle limit is extremely high when you take into account things like load averaging and excess capacity.
The 146GB Cheetas were about 90US, today they cost less than 60...
The RAID controller is not important i had it, and most of my Motherboards had a SAS controller on them for a good while now.
Fraction of the cost? Really? How much are those 15k drives a piece - and don't forget to factor in the price of that RAID card either.. because most SSDs are just using onboard SATA3. And let's look at today's SSD prices, the X-25 hasn't a main stream SSD for a good while now, is listed as Discontinued by Intel, and I can't even buy them new any longer... I quoted the retail price of the Samsung 840 above, and it's considered a pricey SSD by today's standards. I'm going to leave the rest of your post alone for now, except to say that SSDs are limited in write cycles, you can read from them all day long (so just saying IOP is false - only write ops affect the load count), and that write cycle limit is extremely high when you take into account things like load averaging and excess capacity.
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
Originally posted by Ridelynn Originally posted by DOGMA1138 The random Writes are handled by the RAID controller, which has 1024MB DDR2 as main memory for cache. The SAS drives are fast enough for random reads on their own. And again with RAID0 i get about the same sequential speeds as SSD's at a fraction of the cost, the SAS drives were bought when the then brand new Intel X-25 cost over 900US... they come with a 7 year warranty, and onsite next buisness day service from the local segate rep.
Here's the cheapest SAS 15k Cheetah I can find new on Newegg.
If your going to tout the benefits of 1G of RAM on your RAID controller, then it becomes relevant to the discussion. Onboard RAID controllers are mostly software, and rarely have dedicated cache.
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=seagate+sas+15k&qid=1348951140&rh=n:172282,n:!493964,n:541966,n:193870011,n:1254762011,k:seagate+sas+15k&sort=price The 15K.5 are around 50-60US today
The small capacity ones are going to be small platters, and that means poor sequential performance. They'd likely lose badly in sequential read and write performance to even a simple 7200 RPM hard drive of modern platter capacities. The 15K hard drives would probably still get you good IOPS for a hard drive, but they're on clearance for a reason.
nope just an older gen, most if not all of the 15K.7 models these days come with encryption/fips level encryption built in thats why their price tag is what it is.
For simmilar capcities they use the same number of plates with the same density, the 7th gen just goes upto higher capacities.
Originally posted by DOGMA1138
For simmilar capcities they use the same number of plates with the same density, the 7th gen just goes upto higher capacities.
That's not how it works. You can't get a 74 GB drive from an integer number of 500 GB platters.
The platters that they make today have much larger capacities than those they made several years ago. That means that you pass over much more data in a single revolution of a platter. Sequential read and write speeds are just rotation speed times how much data you get per rotation.
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I am not totally disagreeing with what you are saying. My main point is only that we can not predict too far into the future what will happen technology wise. We have a pretty good idea 2 to 3 years out as the development cycle takes a while to ramp things up from research to production, however, unless something works today in an economical fashion I do not try to extrapolate that refinement will automatically make that same techonology the next generation technology that finnaly replaces what currently exists. It might do so - but it might not if something else comes along( Either a new tech or the old tech has a new breakthrough making it cheap enough and fast enough to keep going as the mainstay).
I am not sure if what I am saying is making sense but it boils down to this - If a particular setup works for me today - in price versus performance and what I can actually afford then I buy it (kind of obvious I know) - otherwise I buy whatever has the best price versus performance that I can afford at that given moment in time. I do not worry about what might happen a year from now or two years from now techonologically. I only consider if something new is right around the corner(1 to 3 months) that might affect that equation.
In short - one year ago the cost of SSD drives versus the performance and the size of the drives and what they could do just didnt balance out. You could pay large amounts of money for very little actual performance gain ( a few seconds faster OS load time - perhaps slightly higher framerate in games etc). I have not looked specifically at the drives today - however - the descriptions in this thread make me think it might be worth it to get an inexpensive drive as the OS partition with perhaps a few heavily used programs and still use a platter drive for the main data storage - especially as my income has increased significantly over the last few years.
I do not believe however, that these drives will replace my platter based drives completely for the forseeable future. I just dont think they will come down in price per gigabyte enough to compete for raw data storage over a fast platter drive. Then again with cloud computing and storage - who knows. We might end up with our cell phone as a dockable unit that handles all of our local functions allowing us to connect to the cloud and dock to a full screen/keyboard type setup. Then again we could see glasses which project a 3d image for us to interact with and most of the computing taking place again in cloud servers.
There are so many possibilities and directions that computing could go from this point that trying to predict things too far out is just not possible - So I only worry about what is actually available today - right now and if I need to upgrade or want to upgrade I base my decision only on that. I figure I upgrade every two to three years in any case so - if I miss a technology today I will get it the next go around.
Anyways this thread has been a good read all the way around.
Whether to ditch your hard drive in favor of an SSD-only setup depends tremendously on how much storage you need. If 120 GB is plenty for you, then there's not much reason to get a hard drive. If you need 1 TB, then you'll probably still need a hard drive for years to come.
Also, returning to the original point, the SSD in question is officially rated for only 1000 write cycles. That's down from about 3000-5000 for most other recent SSDs, and 10000 for a lot of older ones.
On the one hand, double the capacity makes up for half as many write cycles per cell, giving you the same total lifetime writes. And controllers have certainly gotten better about write amplification. On the other, a product whose write endurance for consumer use may be more naturally measured in years rather than decades may give some people pause.
Originally posted by Maelkor
In short - one year ago the cost of SSD drives versus the performance and the size of the drives and what they could do just didnt balance out. You could pay large amounts of money for very little actual performance gain ( a few seconds faster OS load time - perhaps slightly higher framerate in games etc). I have not looked specifically at the drives today - however - the descriptions in this thread make me think it might be worth it to get an inexpensive drive as the OS partition with perhaps a few heavily used programs and still use a platter drive for the main data storage - especially as my income has increased significantly over the last few years.
I totally disagree with you here. The performance gain is anything but "little". It's several orders of magnitude.
Sure, it may measure to saving 30 seconds off your boot time. But it also measures to saving several seconds every time you open a program that is saved there, or every time you open a large file, or access a cache (of which there are several in Windows that rely on HDD storage, such as right click contextual menus and icon caches).
It isn't just "boot time" - it's everything, and the difference is very large. The cost per byte may be a lot more, but if you also take into account the cost per unit of time to do something with those bytes, it becomes a much different equation. Not every piece of data really needs that extra speed - MP3s, data archival, video. But there is a lot that can really benefit from it, and the size of that data where speed matters isn't so large that SSDs are not useful, or the cost is exorbitant. Maybe 4 years ago, when SSDs first really hit the scene commercially, prices were such that most consumers would not find them useful, but in the last 2-3 years price per byte has dropped steadily, and continue to do so. Today, I can't see any build except the most budget constrained considering leaving an SSD in some form (even if it's just a small cache drive) out of the budget.


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Two of the deceased miners families will also speak at the dedication ceremony. Michael Mower, the Governor's assistant has been instrumental in helping with the development of the monument. He said, "It will be a nice and fitting program."
Everyone is invited to come and see the new memorial which artist Karen Templeton recently completed. The sculpture went from Templeton's studio to the Metal Arts Foundry in Lehi where the bronzing process was completed.
The sculpture has reproduced likenesses of each of the miners including: Kerry Allred, Carlos Payan, Luis Hernandez, Brandon Kimber, Gary Jensen, Dale Black, Don Erickson, Manny Sanchez and Brandon Phillips. The bronze sculpture will rest upon a concrete wall.
Huntington City has been busily preparing the small park area at the mouth of Huntington Canyon to receive this monument. Concrete and landscaping work is underway to prepare the area as a fitting place for the monument to be placed. It is adjacent to the Huntington City Cemetery and near the Canyon View Junior High School where the families spent much time during the Crandall Canyon disaster. Mine officials met with the families for briefings in the school and meals were served to the families during the time of the disaster.
You can also look up Huntington Canyon from the spot and see Crandall Canyon where six of the miners are still entombed in the mountain. The bodies of the three rescuers were recovered and Black is buried in Huntington City Cemetery, Kimber in Moab and Jensen in Richfield.
Several eagle scout projects are being done on the site of the monument. Julie Jones, Huntington City Councilmember has been coordinating the work with the scouts and the contractors. Scouts who are working on projects include: Tyler Pulli, Nathan Mecham, TJ Furner, Colton Barnett, Bryson Weaver, Lance Sitterud and Caleb Woolsey.
Aug. 6, marked the one year anniversary of the collapse. A private ceremony was held at the Crandall Canyon mine site. A monument was dedicated there which included headstones for each of the six miners who died on the site and three benches with the names of the rescuers on them.
Templeton has worked on the sculpture and she said she feels like she knows each of the miners personally now. She has become close friends with the deceased miners families during the time she has worked on the sculpture. The families have been frequent visitors to the studio to watch the work progress.
Templeton named her sculpture Heroes Among Us from the beginning when the first concept for the statue came to her. The six miners trapped in the mine collapse facing the three miners who died during the failed rescue effort set in a 16-foot long, 6-foot tall curved wall. Templeton doubts the community will ever get over the tragedy, but with the help of the new monument, the miners can be remembered.


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The National Gallery of Australia will participate in World Day for Health and Safety at Work on Thursday 28 April 2005. The day is intended to focus international attention on promoting and creating a safe and healthy culture at work, and to help reduce the number of work-related injuries each year. As part of this special day the Gallery will be launching an innovative Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) campaign developed specifically for the Gallery work environment.
The Gallery is committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for all of its employees, and participating in the National Safety Council of Australia (NSCA) Five Star Health and Safety Management Program. As part of the Gallery's goal of achieving a five-star NSCA rating, the OH&S communication campaign has been developed to raise awareness of health and safety issues.
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Lake Characteristics
Location: Outside the city of Brady in McCulloch
Surface area: 2,020 acres
Maximum depth: 48 feet
Impounded: 1963
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Current Lake Level
Conservation Pool Elevation: 1,743 ft. msl
Fluctuation: 3 to 5 feet
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Lake Records
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This fishery is rebuilding slowly after a golden alga bloom in 2012 and several years of low water levels.
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Structure in Brady Creek Reservoir consists of rock/gravel shorelines, a rocky bluff along the creek, boulders and dead trees. Added to this is an old railroad bed that can be productive. As with typical West Texas reservoirs, the amount of good structure available is determined by water level. Aquatic vegetation is normally on the light side even at high water levels.
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Spring is a great time to look for largemouth bass in shallower waters closer to the bank and up in the creek, since this is their spawning season. Crankbaits and spinnerbaits have proven very productive. Another technique would be flipping jigs or plastic worms around dead trees. During summer, use topwater baits early in the morning or late in the evening and plastic worms during the hotter part of the day. In winter, just remember to slow down your retrieve to be successful.
Channel catfish can be caught year round at Brady Creek. Excellent fishing may be found up in Brady Creek when it is on a rise. Another good time is in the spring during the spawning season. Popular baits include liver, shrimp, minnows and stink bait. Blue catfish tend to be a more open-water fish, so fishing a trotline 4-6 feet deep in open water can be the way to go. Flathead cats can be found around dead trees, boulders and cuts in the bluff. September-November seems to be a period of peak activity for this species. The best bait to use is live fish, be it goldfish, shad or sunfish. Crappie fishing is the best in the spring when they can be found in shallower water and up in the creek during their spawning season. At other times crappie may be found in deeper water around the trees or in holes along the bluff. During summer, look for crappie around shaded areas such as boat docks or piers. The best baits include small jigs or live minnows.
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In the Wonders of the Solar System Blu Ray, learn how the solar system interacts. Nature's beauty surrounds the earth and creates continuity amongst the chaos. During the Solar System Blu Ray DVD, discover the universe as captured through telescopes, satellites, and probes.
The Wonders Of the Solar System Blu Ray allows you to experience the extraordinary "¦in our planet's own backyard. Wonders explores some of the most amazing features of our very own solar system " how the forces of nature carved out beauty and order from the chaos of space; how our home planet doesn't sit in magnificent isolation but is intimately connected with the rest of the solar system; and how these connections have created the haven we call Earth. In the Solar System Blu Ray DVD, using the latest scientific knowledge and breathtaking images beamed back from the fleet of probes, rovers and telescopes currently in space, this gorgeous imagery will is paired with some of the most spectacular, extreme locations on Earth help to reveal wonders never thought possible.
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text: Forbes's "Best Sports Blogs" Of 2003 Are A Portal To A Time You're Glad You ForgotSam Eifling1/27/13 11:00amFiled to: time travelMediaBlogsForbesoutkastGettypicNewsEspnWashington PostFox NewsSports IllustratedDisneyCarmelo AnthonyWorld SeriesNew York YankeesLance Armstrong10EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The shortest increments of time known to humanity are the following, beginning with the most brief: Advertisement — One week — A New York minute — One decade — A sec — Like five minutesIt's that decade, so wily. Writers love using the word so they don't have to do math. Something invented in 1938 has "been around for decades." Wow, decades! That's like, forever. Except they fly by quick. Live through two or three of them, and you realize, Oh, shit, if that's how fast 10 years can trickle by, I'm going be dead in like five minutes. Advertisement But rest assured that 10 years can also be a really, really long time, at least when we're talking about sports blogs. Why, back in 2003, when "Hey Ya!" was the song of the moment (it holds up!) the Web was still in an prolonged pubescence. People relied newspapers and magazines and news crawls for their sporting informations. There was such a thing as sports-talk radio, but it would be unrecognizable today, as it was full of white men in fedoras barking in their classically trained 1930s play-by-play announcer voices. The notion of going "online" to write "opinions" about "sports" seemed as laughable as putting a person on the moon! (Because the Space Race had been over for decades, you see, not because we didn't have the means.)For one indication of how benighted 2003 was, have a look at this list of "Best Sports Blogs" that Forbes assembled in September of that year. It begins by describing a dystopian hellscape and then heads downhill from there.Just turn on your radio, watch TV or go to a cookout, and you'll inevitably hear one know-nothing or another comment on the sports story du jour.You're no doubt cringing at the memory of all the conversations you had at cookouts about how the Yanks were due to win a World Series or how Carmelo would surely defend Syracuse's title or how Lance Armstrong's cancer treatments made him so good at winning Tours de France. People knew nothing back then. Yet the nightmare only festers from there: Sponsored Surprisingly, that sports-centric stream of consciousness hasn't flourished on the Web. Sports blogs, i.e., Weblogs—Internet journals that give their creators and visitors a soapbox to air ideas—are few and meager. That may be because established sports Web sites—like Disney-owned espn.com, AOL Time Warner's si.com or the online sports sections of outlets such as The Washington Post or News Corp.'s Fox News—give fans their fix. Indeed, there is no economic incentive to start a sports blog—even the finest ones we perused were barely able to cover costs.With the benefit of hindsight, we know most of this would be considered true even today. Blog is still short for Weblog, which is still technically an Internet journal that serves as a forum for ideas, except now the Web is so pregnant with blogs that people scarcely distinguish them from websites at large. ESPN.com and SI.com and the Washington Post and Fox are all mainstays in sports coverage, but they've also become ecosystems for their own blogs, which are themselves a mixture of reporting and idea-soapboxing. There is still almost no economic incentive to start a sports blog. That is, unless you're going to hump the living hell out of it, perhaps yoking a human raft of free labor to the enterprise and then sell it to a company eager to take possession of a vehicle for cheap or unpaid labor. But you'd never do that, because that would be wrong. Advertisement Advertisement So what were the top sports blogs of 2003, in the estimation of Forbes? These five merited mention: badjocks.com, Off Wing Opinion, fuckedsports.com (now defunct), fanblogs.com and yankeefan.blogspot.com. That last one was in the midst of some serious growth back in the summer of aught-three: "1,000 hits in May, 2,000 in June, 3,000 in July and 6,500 in August." Gosh, if that exponential trend had continued for the past 10 years? Why just think of the page hits.But that didn't happen. Instead, starting in 2005, you got the likes of Deadspin, an independent newsgathering and commentary site known for its fearless, intrepid journalism. You're welcome. Best Sports Blogs [Forbes]Reply10 repliesLeave a reply