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It would be nice if we would start winning some of these spring training games, I just don't want to see a trend starting.
It would be nice if we would start winning some of these spring training games, I just don't want to see a trend starting.
Meh.. It's only February. I wonder how many players that aren't even going to be on the team that are losing the games?
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Me, I'm a Realist. 1/2 empty IS 1/2 full.
W-L record in ST is absolutely meaningless. I mean, MEANINGLESS. Don't worry about a trend starting.
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Be more concerned that the first nine regular season games are against the Angels, Nationals, and Cardinals. It could be very ugly IF the boys get off to an 0-9 start out of the gate.
"I got all of it ... I crushed that ball ... and it BARELY cleared the outfield wall. I settled into my home run trot ... then I realized I didn't even have a home run trot." - Bob Uecker
Spring Training = Working not winning
Players have been in camp for something like 20 minutes.... I think they'll please us eventually
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I don't even look at the final score honestly. I scan the box scores mainly looking for how some youngsters are doing in camp. Other than that, I am just glad to know baseball and warm weather are around the corner.
If anything I would rather have a losing record in spring training than a winning record.
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
the royals are 6-0 so i wouldn't be concerned about it mattering. i'm sure royals fans are printing playoff tickets.....maybe they are lol. i loath spring training. it's about as bad as the nfl pre season.
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Ricky henderson has a higher OBP than C. patterson and he's retired. C. Trent 6-14-2008
Ya spring training means nothing
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It's the 10-12 games following the break in mid-march that are the only games I pay attention to. Those games have most of the regulars playing for most of the game as they get tuned up for the regular season. Twice through the rotation with pitchers going 5-6 innings each, as well. Outside of those games, I couldn't care less about the scores.
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The only time to worry during the spring is if injuries start piling up. So far so good for the Reds on that front.
I can remember listening to a Royals spring game on XM while driving home from work a few years back at the end of the spring. They won the game and clinched the best record in the Cactus League. By listening to their announcers you thought they had just won the World Series. IIRC, they ended last or near last that season and the spring training "title" was a distant and mostly forgotten memory.
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The competitor in me wants to win even these games. In the grande scheme of things though...they amount to nothing more than getting work in and avoiding injury.
That is one thing that always aggravates me about Marty. He is constantly talking of Won/loss records in ST and saying stuff like "The reds will need to win 4 in a row to get back to the 500 mark ".....or etc.
Most of the early games are decided by people who will not make roster or maybe by some veteran working on a certain pitch which he wouldnt do in a real game anyway.
More interested in watching Individual players get more dialed in as STgoes on.
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So, what did everyone think of the first issue of the "Darklighter" story arc? Personally, I wasn't sure what to make of it at first, and it didn't live up to my already iffy expectations.
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Can the Expanded Universe writers ever leave well enough alone? Seriously. This should be an Infinities tale, because in my book, Biggs is telling the honest truth to Luke and knows nothing about the Death Star prior to his joining the Rebellion (which occurred just after the droids landed on Tatooine).


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From Keo's Thai Cuisine in Honolulu, this recipe calls for marinating pork ribs in coconut milk, lemongrass, ginger and soy sauce overnight. It's a delicious dish.
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On the barbeque this marinade will create a fragrance so heavenly your neighbors will cave in the fence trying to see what it is.
I'm limited on space, so I changed the method up a little to suit. I combined the marinade ingredients as written (plus red pepper flakes, with lime zest in place of lemongrass). After blending the marinade, I poured it over pork ribs and cooked everything in a slow cooker on medium all day. Because there was so much sauce at the end of the day, I added some extra broth, plus mushrooms, green beans, and then rice noodles to make it a meal. Really, really good. Next time I'll use less sugar and probably add fish sauce.
absolutely delicious!!
Wow! This recipe is amazing. I made the marinade exactly by the recipe and used it on chicken thighs and drumsticks which I marinated for only about 5 hours due to time constraints. My husband grilled on the BBQ and basted with the remaining boiled marinade towards the end of the cooking time. Everybody loved and I will definitely be keeping this recipe.
I wanted to use up some leftover flanken-cut short ribs so I used those instead of pork (omitting the steaming step, of course). They were very tasty, but I think with pork (or as a grilled chicken marinade like some did) it would be just amazing. I would make this again, but I wouldn't use red meat. I'd use pork ribs as the recipe intends.
Made this recipe with spare ribs instead of baby back but that didn't seem to matter. The coconut marinade/sauce was delicious. Everyone enjoyed the ribs.
I LOVE this recipe. Have made them for a number of parties and they are always all gone by the time everyone leaves. The steaming is messy and a pain with the baby back ribs. Next time I may try country style ribs and preboiling or steaming on the grill. That said, these are well worth the effort!
I'm adding a new review because these are so great. This time I didn't make ribs. I used boneless (but WITH skin) chicken breasts. Don't precook, just marinate overnight and grill. FAB!
I am basing my rating on the memory of a meal eaten over a decade ago (recipe is from 1995), but WOW! This is awesome. The marinade is just so good. My husband gnawed and gnawed on the bones and we both wish I had made more. I finally dug this recipe up as I went through old issues of Bon Appetit this week. I am heading to the store tomorrow for ingredients. I hope my memory serves me well.
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Anybody here going? Would you go if you could? I know many will watch at some level if they have an interest, but many do not.
Personally, I'm glad I'm a half a world away.....
Anybody here going? Would you go if you could? I know many will watch at some level if they have an interest, but many do not.
Personally, I'm glad I'm a half a world away.....
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but i was in sochi several years ago......i think it was for a white sox game.
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I have a good friend who will probably be shooting some of the events. Need to email him and see if I need to be searching the banks of big white lenses to see if I can spot him. He has shot the last ten or twelve Olympics with the exception of the last summer games when he was kayaking down the headwaters of the Amazon on a National Geographic shoot. He is fearless, has shot Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, etc. As for me, no time, no money, don't like crowds or standing in line.
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At first I thought the pics of the uniforms were a joke, looks like grandmas ugly Christmas sweaters, a new rock bottom. At least they aren't made in China this time.
I love watching the winter Olympics on TV but have never had a desire to actually go to any venue and see them live. What I've heard about Sochi sounds particularly scary.
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Peter S C and Juro,
I am directing this question to these gentlemen because of a reply that they had given Smolt about a rod and line combination. Specifically, I am interested in changing the line combination that I use with my Winston BIIx 11' 7 wt. Like most people who have this rod I have used both a steelhead taper and a WC line on this rod. The steelhead taper was SA's 7 wt and it was too whimpy for spey casts. The WC was the 6/7/8 floater and it was too heavy.
I have read in posts on this and the Speyclave that Winston recommends heads of about 300 grns. I did not receive confirmation of that when I called Winston. I understand that the Hardy Mach 1 8/9 and WC 5/6 F have been recommended for this rod. I know of guide in WI who also liked the Delta Short 6/7.
Now my question is this: is there a standard for determining head length and weight? This question is prompted by looking at the SA site and noting the Delta 6/7 has head weight of 450 but SA considers all but 12 feet of the line to be head? Short of trying all of the lines is there a good way to evaluate spey lines? My inclination is to try the Delta 6/7 based on the recommendation that I received; and, if that is too heavy then to order the Hardy from Mike at Red Shed.
I posted this question on this board rather than the Speyclave as this rod is being sold and marketed as a GL Steelhead rod. The rod is great for our smaller rivers in WI. I like the rod but want a better line fit.
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Thanks for asking David,
I was admiring that rod at Somerset but did not get a chance to load it up with a line. It's no surprise to me that it did not load with the SA steelhead line, which is probably my favorite *single* hand greasliners line in an 8wt on the Sage 9'6" 8wt RPL (discontinued) but it does not strike me as being the right choice for spey casting due to the very long back taper. I suppose it could be adapted to spey casting if it was up-sized to a 9wt (?) and cast with a sufficient amount of the back taper inside the guides. My experience with long back-taper spey lines is that the taper must be stripped into the guides. It does provide a good keel for the loop in flight, although other lines with more abrupt tapers also fly well with spey casts so I am not certain how valuable a long back taper is in spey lines.
I use my own groupings to rate lines for rods until all lines come into the new standards - the 5/6 group; the 6/7 group, the 7/8 group, the 8/9 group, etc. There is some conistency around Rio, Airflo, and SA in numbering in three of the four mentioned above, thankfully. In other words, if you buy a Solstice 6/7 it works with all three 6/7 lines. Or the 7/8, yes once again.
Without having cast the rod, my guess would be that it falls into the same category as the CND tracker 12'2"... what I call the "5/6" group:
- 5/6 Windcutter, best choice for versatility / sinktips, etc.
- Hardy Mach I 8/9 (not the PLUS which is much heavier).
If that's light, then up to the next notch, which is the 6/7 spey notch (listed below by heaviness of 'feel'):
- 6/7/8 Windcutter
- 6/7 Midspey
- 6/7 Delta
- 6/7 SA short spey
- etc.
Beyond that we are out of the range of that rod I am sure.
I would proceed as follows:
Determine whether the rod is a 5/6 class or a 6/7 class rod. My W.A. guess would be the 5/6 group, having only wiggled it.
If yes... and you are interested in a versatile line, sinktips, etc - go with the Rio Windcutter 5/6. Otherwise if you want a floating salmon finesse line, go with the Hardy Mach I 8/9.
However if it's a 6/7 class rod:
Choose from
- 6/7/8 Windcutter (tips or not)
- 6/7 Midspey (tips or not)
- 6/7 Delta (tips or not)
- 6/7 SA short spey (cut your own)
- etc.
I can only tell you which if I tried it, and my opinion might differ from anothers as I like a crisp feel to cast for distance with the whole head out of the guides.
Please let us know what you find out.
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Why don't you ask Smolt, he owns the rod and loves it. Rumor has it a few Atlantics fell to that baby.
Shoot him a PM, pretty sure he will be glad to answer it.
Thanks, I have been exchanging emails with SMOLT and he has similar line concerns.
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To make the Rio S/AS line into a decent spey caster, it needs to be reversed. The long, 24' rear taper then becomes a nice front spey taper, and the abrupt, bullet front end, now becomes a decently short rear taper.
I'd think the 7 wt. will be a bit light on the spey. Overhead cast what you consider to be the ideal amount of aerialized line, then mark it (or measure the length) and weigh that length. That's the best casting weight for that rod.
Then use that casting weight to find the right line on this table.
All of the S/AS lines mentioned on this table are measured reversed. The Airflo Deltas mentioned here are trout Deltas, not Spey Deltas unless noted otherwise. The trout Deltas would be equivalent to the new Forty+ lines if you preferred those. Also, these casting weight numbers are measured with the full head (excluding rear taper) outside of the guides. That requires casting about 60' of S/AS vs. about 35' of trout Delta. If you used the S/AS choked up to 35', you'll find it a lot lighter than the equivalent Delta.
You mentioned that 300 grains is right for the rod and let's assume that you could overhead 300 grains comfortably, then an S/AS 8 wt. reversed is right for the rod. As you can see, the WC 6/7/8 has a casting weight of 355 so it doesn't surprise me that you find it too heavy.
Last edited by peter-s-c; 02-13-2005 at 02:37 PM.
Peter -
My S/AS appears to have a very long front taper before the finish taper. It would seem to me that the belly would be way out front if reversed... however I have not tried it.
Where does the belly fall when reversed (feet from running line, etc)? Pretty unique approach, wouldn't work with every line but this one sounds interesting.
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The S/AS has what Rio calls a "bullet" front taper, meaning that it doesn't taper down too much until the last 2.5'. It's 10' long, the belly is 33' and the rear taper is 24'. Flipped around that gives us 24' front, 33' belly and about 5' of usable back taper thanks to the gradual tapering -- 62' overall.
As a general rule for AFTMA rated lines, the shorter the front taper, the lighter the average belly grains per foot since the front taper plus the belly portion in the front 30' must add up to a fixed weight. This results in a 6 wt. trout Delta with a 19' front taper having a belly grains per foot that's a tad heavier than an S/AS 7 wt. belly grains per foot. That's an important consideration when the 7 wt. is used flipped around as it's actually a bit lighter than a 6 wt. trout Delta at the 35' mark.
I estimated that the 10' bullet taper on the S/AS makes it equivalent to a 7' or 8' standard front taper in terms of weight and I used that estimate when doing the head weight and casting weight calculations. When I worked on my two S/AS lines, I estimated a total head weight of 575 grains for my 10 wt. S/AS based on taper lengths and the AFTMA 280 grains rating for 10 wts. When I cut mine and actually weighed it, it came out at 570 so the taper based weight estimations for the other S/AS lines on this chart can be considered pretty accurate.
Last edited by peter-s-c; 02-13-2005 at 03:39 PM.
The line David was talking about was the SA steelhead taper 7wt, which is the line I was referring to despite my acronym error. That confirms my suspicion, I would imagine the steelhead taper to be unworkable backwards.
However, thanks for the description of the Rio S/AS line.
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OK, I get it now. Rio lists their S/AS as their "steelhead" line on their website so I thought we were talking about the same thing.
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Original post made by Sally, Valley Trails, on Apr 25, 2012
However, I walked in the neighborhood recently (halfway between 680 and Hopyard), and I was very very bothered by the noise of 680 (especially since the wind is usually blowing west-east). Is it always that bad? I also saw a couple of vacant, bank owned homes, there, which did not make me feel comfortable about the area.
Any feedback about this topic would be appreciated.
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a resident of Oak Hill
on Apr 25, 2012 at 10:30 am
Valley Trails seems to be a nice neighborhood and I've heard that a lot of residents like it. I haven't heard anyone complain about the freeway noise there, though. The #1 concern I've heard about Valley Trails for homebuyers is that there are apparently some foundation problems among some of the houses there.
Since Pleasanton is near the intersection of two freeways and has a number of busy streets, some level of traffic noise is not that unusual. You can find a noise contour map of future estimated noise levels throughout Pleasanton at the following link: Web Link
The map shows that, as a whole, Valley Trails is not a particularly noisy neighborhood in comparison with most of Pleasanton.
a resident of Parkside
on Apr 25, 2012 at 11:15 am
First they force low income housing down our throats. Then they complain about freeway noise. Next they try to impose noise curtailing rules and regulations on us. And before long His Royal Highness Barack Hussien Obama and the rest of his loyal loon followers will be insisting that we all wear spandex and ride bicycles. We're on our way DOWN.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 25, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Don't buy in Pleasanton. The schools are a mess and the people are snobs. The town's policies are backwards... see all the threads about downtown and new businesses. We moved here 18 months ago and all the realtors told us Pleasanton is the place to be. I hate it here...no one is friendly. I've heard alot of new residents have similar comments. Personally, I"d go to San Ramon or Danville.
Besides that... you have the nutjobs like Stever (see comment above)
Good luck!
a resident of Valley Trails
on Apr 25, 2012 at 4:42 pm
We live a couple of streets away from the freeway - you will not even notice it after a while - I like living here - the folk are friendly - the VTHOA ($25 a year) have regular get togethers throughout the year so you can meet your neighbors like pot luck bbqs etc.
These houses were built around 1969 and had foundation problems initially but I think all the houses have had their foundation problems rectified many years ago, so you will probably find that the houses no longer have issues with the foundations.
a resident of Valley Trails
on Apr 25, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Sally....You'll find bank owned homes everywhere so to say this make you uncomfortable means you'll have a hard time finding a house anywhere.
One of the homes in our street sat foreclosed for a couple of years - you wouldn't have known though as the neighbors cut the grass etc and kept it looking nice.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Apr 25, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Sally, you also have the smell from the sewage treatment plant by val vista. And you may get used to the noise from the freeway, but remember how much pollution you will be inhaling! i would also recommend Danville / San Ramon over Pleasanton. And I have lived here for 17 years. Schools are way overrated. And the low income housing will put a fork in this town. Pleasanton downtown is all but dead. You should see DT Danville or Livermore....very vibrant
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on Apr 26, 2012 at 8:56 am
@Yikes - we don't get the smell from the sewage treatment FYI - maybe it's the way the wind blows or something.
a resident of Oak Hill
on Apr 26, 2012 at 9:24 am
Yikes said: "Sally, you also have the smell from the sewage treatment plant by val vista. And you may get used to the noise from the freeway, but remember how much pollution you will be inhaling! i would also recommend Danville / San Ramon over Pleasanton."
I've never heard of Valley Trails getting any smells from the water treatment plant. And as for the freeway, the very same freeway also goes right through Danville and San Ramon.
We bought our house in Pleasanton in the summer of 2010 and looked all over the area. Danville was a bit too far away, but we did see some houses in San Ramon. The schools are good there, but the city didn't quite have the Pleasanton feel to it. The parks didn't seem to be kept up as well as Pleasanton parks, and the neighborhoods didn't seem to feel as good as most Pleasanton neighborhoods. In looking at the neighborhood houses, there didn't seem to be the same level of pride in home ownership that I see in Pleasanton.
a resident of Valley Trails
on Apr 26, 2012 at 10:06 am
You're right Sam - we don't get any smells from the water treatment plant. I think Valley Trails is a great area to live - close to Donlon, Hart and Foothill schoools.
@ the negative posters about Pleasanton - why don't you move if you hate it so much!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 26, 2012 at 11:06 am
Why don't you be nicer? Maybe we wouldn't hate it so much.....Such a typical Pleasanton response..... 'There is nothing wrong here... it isn't us... it must be YOU'. You must be like the neighbor across the street who refused to introduce her kids to mine because 'They are too busy for new people' Or the parents on the sports teams don't talk to the new parents or invite them to their get togethers. However, we have also played on sports teams in san ramon and those parents couldn't have been nicer.
If people would reach out and be friendlier, it really would be a better place to live. But no one has time for anyone here, except their friends.
I DO want to move, but obviously, you haven't relocated across the country or you would know it isn't that easy to uproot a family again.
a resident of Happy Valley
on Apr 26, 2012 at 11:06 am
Yeah, if you don't like it in Pleasanton, move. Say to Danville. You want the definition of snob, you'll find it in Danville. I grew up there. It was full of snobby people then and it still is.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 26, 2012 at 11:49 am
I am wondering about the smells, too.
I have been at ValVista (the soccer park) several times where the smell has been overbearing. I'm not sure if it is just the close proximity to the water treatment plant or not?
I don't know because I don't live there. I'm sure it depends on your location in the neighborhood. But, if I was looking at a house that is adjacent to ValVista, I would visit several times a different times during the day (and different weather) to be sure... if I had a sensitive nose.
Good luck in your home search.
a resident of another community
on Apr 26, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Thank you all for your (very) various comments. I do like Pleasanton, I have been in the Tri-Valley for quite some time now, and I know what to expect from this town, and I have many friends and habits there. I was just wondering about a particular area of Pleasanton, which I did not find as apealing (at first sight) as Vintage hills or the Downtown area for example. The houses also seem cheaper in Val Vista/V. Trails than the rest of the City, and I was trying to understand why. I am also not opposed to San Ramon or Dublin, I will definitely keep looking.
a resident of another community
on Apr 27, 2012 at 5:34 pm
There sure are some sick cookies on this website.
Do you really think people are that much different 5 miles down the road in San Ramon?
To answer your question, the two biggest reasons why Valley Trails is cheaper is A. The sinking ground B. The smells
The freeway should be the least of your concerns.
On the other hand, if you were to ask the conservative trolls/liberals posing as conservatives, they will tell you the biggest problems in Val Vista are A. Obama B. Low income housing.
a resident of Valley Trails
on Apr 28, 2012 at 2:30 pm
@Mitch - don't know what smells you're talking about - we don't get any here. - Val Vista has the problems with the sewage treatment center not Valley Trails - you can sit out any day of the week in your yard and smell the fresh air while you listen to the soothing freeway traffic!
@Mitch - the sinking ground - that's not much of a problem anymore - it was when the houses were first put up - we've been here 15 years and not had a problem.
@Mitch - You live in "another community" and don't know what you're talking about.
So Sally, you can take advise from the people who actually live in Valley Trails or those who think they know everything about it yet don't live here.
a resident of another community
on Apr 29, 2012 at 2:37 pm
@homeowner - I stand corrected. I did mix up Val Vista with Valley Trails. Smells aren't as bad.
@homeowner - That is great YOU haven't had problems in "15 years" but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
@homeowner - I'm from another community, and therefore don't know what I am talking about? I lived in town long enough to know I don't want to live there, but that is not to say it isn't a great place to grow up. As long as you live outside of the sinking Valley Trails ghetto, that is.
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Yeah, we see these every so often (and this one looks legit than most) but it's still fun to speculate - so Knightshade, you don't have to post the token "I called my MS rep and had a good laugh about it" reply
btw of course they're going to deny everything until the press release
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Xenon is powered by a 3.5+ GHz IBM PowerPC processor and a 500+ MHz ATI graphics processor. Xenon has 256+ MB of unified memory. Xenon runs a custom operating system based on Microsoft® Windows NT®, similar to the Xbox operating system. The graphics interface is a superset of Microsoft® Direct3D® version 9.0.
The Xenon CPU is a custom processor based on PowerPC technology. The CPU includes three independent processors (cores) on a single die. Each core runs at 3.5+ GHz. The Xenon CPU can issue two instructions per clock cycle per core. At peak performance, Xenon can issue 21 billion instructions per second.
The Xenon CPU was designed by IBM in close consultation with the Xbox team, leading to a number of revolutionary additions, including a dot product instruction for extremely fast vector math and custom security features built directly into the silicon to prevent piracy and hacking.
Each core has two symmetric hardware threads (SMT), for a total of six hardware threads available to games. Not only does the Xenon CPU include the standard set of PowerPC integer and floating-point registers (one set per hardware thread), the Xenon CPU also includes 128 vector (VMX) registers per hardware thread. This astounding number of registers can drastically improve the speed of common mathematical operations.
Each of the three cores includes a 32-KB L1 instruction cache and a 32-KB L1 data cache. The three cores share a 1-MB L2 cache. The L2 cache can be locked down in segments to improve performance. The L2 cache also has the very unusual feature of being directly readable from the GPU, which allows the GPU to consume geometry and texture data from L2 and main memory simultaneously.
Xenon CPU instructions are exposed to games through compiler intrinsics, allowing developers to access the power of the chip using C language notation.
The Xenon GPU is a custom 500+ MHz graphics processor from ATI. The shader core has 48 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs) that can execute 64 simultaneous threads on groups of 64 vertices or pixels. ALUs are automatically and dynamically assigned to either pixel or vertex processing depending on load. The ALUs can each perform one vector and one scalar operation per clock cycle, for a total of 96 shader operations per clock cycle. Texture loads can be done in parallel to ALU operations. At peak performance, the GPU can issue 48 billion shader operations per second.
The GPU has a peak pixel fill rate of 4+ gigapixels/sec (16 gigasamples/sec with 4× antialiasing). The peak vertex rate is 500+ million vertices/sec. The peak triangle rate is 500+ million triangles/sec. The interesting point about all of these values is that they're not just theoretical—they are attainable with nontrivial shaders.
Xenon is designed for high-definition output. Included directly on the GPU die is 10+ MB of fast embedded dynamic RAM (EDRAM). A 720p frame buffer fits very nicely here. Larger frame buffers are also possible because of hardware-accelerated partitioning and predicated rendering that has little cost other than additional vertex processing. Along with the extremely fast EDRAM, the GPU also includes hardware instructions for alpha blending, z-test, and antialiasing.
The Xenon graphics architecture is a unique design that implements a superset of Direct3D version 9.0. It includes a number of important extensions, including additional compressed texture formats and a flexible tessellation engine. Xenon not only supports high-level shading language (HLSL) model 3.0 for vertex and pixel shaders but also includes advanced shader features well beyond model 3.0. For instance, shaders use 32-bit IEEE floating-point math throughout. Vertex shaders can fetch from textures, and pixel shaders can fetch from vertex streams. Xenon shaders also have the unique ability to directly access main memory, allowing techniques that have never before been possible.
As with Xbox, Xenon will support precompiled push buffers ("command buffers" in Xenon terminology), but to a much greater extent than the Xbox console does. The Xbox team is exposing and documenting the command buffer format so that games are able to harness the GPU much more effectively.
In addition to an extremely powerful GPU, Xenon also includes a very high-quality resize filter. This filter allows consumers to choose whatever output mode they desire. Xenon automatically scales the game's output buffer to the consumer-chosen resolution.
Memory and Bandwidth
Xenon has 256+ MB of unified memory, equally accessible to both the GPU and CPU. The main memory controller resides on the GPU (the same as in the Xbox architecture). It has 22.4+ GB/sec aggregate bandwidth to RAM, distributed between reads and writes. Aggregate means that the bandwidth may be used for all reading or all writing or any combination of the two. Translated into game performance, the GPU can consume a 512× 512×32-bpp texture in only 47 microseconds.
The front side bus (FSB) bandwidth peak is 10.8 GB/sec for reads and 10.8 GB/sec for writes, over 20 times faster than for Xbox. Note that the 22.4+ GB/sec main memory bandwidth is shared between the CPU and GPU. If, for example, the CPU is using 2 GB/sec for reading and 1 GB/sec for writing on the FSB, the GPU has 19.4+ GB/sec available for accessing RAM.
Eight pixels (where each pixel is color plus z = 8 bytes) can be sent to the EDRAM every GPU clock cycle, for an EDRAM write bandwidth of 32 GB/sec. Each of these pixels can be expanded through multisampling to 4 samples, for up to 32 multisampled pixel samples per clock cycle. With alpha blending, z-test, and z-write enabled, this is equivalent to having 256 GB/sec of effective bandwidth! The important thing is that frame buffer bandwidth will never slow down the Xenon GPU.
The Xenon CPU is a superb processor for audio, particularly with its massive mathematical horsepower and vector register set. The Xenon CPU can process and encode hundreds of audio channels with sophisticated per-voice and global effects, all while using a fraction of the power of a single CPU core.
The Xenon system south bridge also contains a key hardware component for audio—XMA decompression. XMA is the native Xenon compressed audio format, based on the WMA Pro architecture. XMA provides sound quality higher than ADPCM at even better compression ratios, typically 6:1– 12:1. The south bridge contains a full silicon implementation of the XMA decompression algorithm, including support for multichannel XMA sources. XMA is processed by the south bridge into standard PCM format in RAM. All other sound processing (sample rate conversion, filtering, effects, mixing, and multispeaker encoding) happens on the Xenon CPU.
The lowest-level Xenon audio software layer is XAudio, a new API designed for optimal digital signal processing. The Xbox Audio Creation Tool (XACT) API from Xbox is also supported, along with new features such as conditional events, improved parameter control, and a more flexible 3D audio model.
As with Xbox, Xenon is designed to be a multiplayer console. It has built-in networking support including an Ethernet 10/100-BaseT port. It supports up to four controllers. From an audio/video standpoint, Xenon will support all the same formats as Xbox, including multiple high-definition formats up through 1080i, plus VGA output.
In order to provide greater flexibility and support a wider variety of attached devices, the Xenon console includes standard USB 2.0 ports. This feature allows the console to potentially host storage devices, cameras, microphones, and other devices.
The Xenon console is designed around a larger world view of storage than Xbox was. Games will have access to a variety of storage devices, including connected devices (memory units, USB storage) and remote devices (networked PCs, Xbox Live™). At the time of this writing, the decision to include a built-in hard disk in every Xenon console has not been made. If a hard disk is not included in every console, it will certainly be available as an integrated add-on component.
Xenon supports up to two attached memory units (MUs). MUs are connected directly to the console, not to controllers as on Xbox. The initial size of the MUs is 64 MB, although larger MUs may be available in the future. MU throughput is expected to be around 8 MB/sec for reads and 1 MB/sec for writes.
The Xenon game disc drive is a 12× DVD, with an expected outer edge throughput of 16+ MB/sec. Latency is expected to be in the neighborhood of 100 ms. The media format will be similar to Xbox, with approximately 6 GB of usable space on the disk. As on Xbox, media will be stored on a single side in two 3 GB layers.
Industrial Design
The Xenon industrial design process is well under way, but the final look of the box has not been determined. The Xenon console will be smaller than the Xbox console.
The standard Xenon controller will have a look and feel similar to the Xbox controller. The primary changes are the removal of the Black and White buttons and the addition of shoulder buttons. The triggers, thumbsticks, D-pad, and primary buttons are essentially unchanged. The controller will support vibration.
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The reason why I thought it was real when I talked about it on the front page was simply because there was too much information there to be all conjecture.
Is it at all true though? We'll see.
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A lot of it seems to kind of jive with the various rumors about processor/GPU we've been hearing for a while. The things is going to be a friggin' beast if tis true. This makes my dream of fully anti-aliased 1080i gaming a very good possibility :-)
I think the coolest things about those specs is the possibility of USB 2.0 devices. If MS went with this and opened it up a bit, you could conceivably add on 802.11b cards, bigger hard drives, web cams, etc. and open up a lot of doors for some interesting game elements built around standard USB2.0 peripherals.
Another quote I noticed:
"The Xenon console will be smaller than the Xbox console. The standard Xenon controller will have a look and feel similar to the Xbox controller. The primary changes are the removal of the Black and White buttons and the addition of shoulder buttons. The triggers, thumbsticks, D-pad, and primary buttons are essentially unchanged. The controller will support vibration."
- no more OMG XBOX I HUGE LOL!!1
- About freaking time they got rid of those awful black/white buttons. After all these years playing Xbox, that's probably one of my biggest complaints...
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