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Few have enjoyed pizza without getting burned. In those couple of moments that make the difference between a blistered and unmarred palette, the need for pizza can defy reason. The roof of the mouth is most susceptible, but despite searing the tender flesh time and time again, we are all, undoubtedly, repeat offenders. Until now, most have felt like they had to just grin and bear it according to our 2011 Slice poll (results right). But according to a report from NBC, an associate professor of pharmaceutical science from the University of New Mexico has created a dissolvable strip to soothe the burn. The prototype he has created was inspired by breath freshening strips and contains a topical anesthetic, benzocaine. The intro flavor is mango, but when these babies are available over-the-counter in a couple of years, there may be some pizza-friendly flavors in the mix. Until the day comes when we can burn and strip, practice letting that slice sit.
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First event: Bicycling!
I rolled out into crazy headwind after work. I coasted down Broadway, took off down Southwest Boulevard, and got a ways past the brewery when the sidewall blew out on my front tire.
Now, the sidewall's been ailing for a while. I got this bike a year ago today), and this is the original factory front tire. For a while, my brake pad was rubbing the sidewall. I've been keeping my eye on it, and meaning to pick up a new Bonti hard case tire like the one that's remained trouble free on the rear wheel for many months. I guess I just didn't replace it in time. Not sure what finally triggered the inner tube failure. I was on flat, smooth pavement and not hitting the brakes. It just went PFFFF! Pfff-pff-pff and was flat.
Second Event: Bicycle Hiking. Also known as "The Walk Of Shame"
About 3 miles from my tire failure sits the closest reliable stop for the Dreaded Bus. So begins the Bicycle Hiking. I walked. And walked. And walked some more.
I had more than enough time to make it to the bus stop. I took my time. Took some pictures. I even posed my bike as if everything were hunky-dory.
IRS Facility's parking garage security gates. These have nothing on my data center's entry ritual.
Skyline from the IRS Building. You can see clouds forming.
Looking to the east towards the northern part of Crown Center. The Link (skywalk connecting Crown Center and Union Station) and the Union Station Fountain are visible.
Union Station.
I think this is the main Kansas City Post Office. Not positive, though.
Next Event: Bus Riding.
Not much to say about this one. I took the bus a few miles to get me within walking distance to The Trek Store. Then, Another Hike Of Shame. About 3/4 mile worth.
Fourth Event: Fixing a tire.
I picked up my new tire and a new inner tube, then went to work fixing it myself right there in the shop.
With all that out of the way, it was time to hit the road. Lots of weather bubbling up. Major props to New Media Meteorologist Ed Roberts and the Kansas City Weather Podcast for keeping me and so many others in the loop via live chat. I really appreciate it.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
The multi-sport commuting obstacle course
First event: Bicycling!
5 comments:
- Frogman said...
Look Ma, tornadoes!
- May 01, 2008 10:39 PM
- MRMacrum said...
My first thought was professional. Does your brake pad need adjusting? Is your wheel true?
Then I just read the rest of the post. "Walk of Shame" is a good way to put it. I hate walking my bike. I feel foolish. But walking a bike is so much easier than walking a car.
- May 02, 2008 6:25 AM
- Noah said...
The wheel is true. It's round. It's centered. It's bottomed out in the fork. Skewer is tight. This bike has always had trouble keeping the brake pad all the way on the rim on the front wheel, and I'm not sure why.
When it was brand spankin' new, the OEM brake pads had a taper to them which only made contact with the rim, but barely. As time wore on and the pads wore thin, the tapered part got wider and intruded on the sidewall. The pad holders are all the way as far out as they can get on the calipers.
When I installed my front fender, I tried with all my might to shift them a bit; thinking that somehow I could alter how they attach to the fork. No dice.
They only need about 1mm more. I'm thinking of just grinding out the sliders on the calipers just a smidge with a rat-tail file to allow the pad holders to move down just a little further.
- May 02, 2008 6:32 AM
- Apertome said...
It's weird that it failed for no apparent reason like that, although I suppose flat tires always happen when you least expect them. At least you got some cool photos out of it.
- May 02, 2008 8:26 AM
- MRMacrum said...
I notice they are sidepull brakes. And by thier very action, they pull up towards the tire. A little filing in the slot might just do it. You should also be able to find some pads that have a slimmer profile. Regardless, it is a very aggravating problem. I know. Ruining an otherwise good tire with a brake pad sucks.
One trick I have used in the past is filling the leading edge of the pad that wants to hit the tire. Usually do not have to take off much. And you can do it with a sharp utility knife if you want.
- May 02, 2008 10:36 PM
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — When Bode Miller is away from the ski slopes during the Winter Games, he might just be found joining his wife, Morgan, for a little volleyball practice in the street outside their hotel.
She's a pro volleyball player with Olympic aspirations who'd love to have him hang out with her at the 2016 Games in Brazil, the way she's supporting him in Russia.
"We play every single day," Morgan said in an interview after watching her husband's last downhill training session before he competes as the defending champion in the super-combined race Friday. "Bode is the most gifted athlete I've ever met. He always tries to find a better way of doing things. With volleyball, he has a new perspective on how I should be playing."
And yep, five-time Olympic Alpine skiing medalist Bode gives volleyball veteran Morgan pointers as they bump the ball back and forth for fun.
Watching him race gets stressful for her. She cried after he finished eighth in the Olympic downhill last weekend, pulling her hood over her face to hide from cameras.
Morgan vowed to be more composed Friday.
"When you watch someone work so hard and not succeed, and you're so invested in the process, it's heartbreaking," she said. "There's no other way to say it. I had a lot of wise people send me messages after the downhill and say, 'Just make sure you stay positive and happy.' This has been a learning experience for me, too."
The couple has been married for 16 months, and Bode is certainly enjoying having Morgan around. They've been pretty much inseparable since they began their whirlwind romance.
"I've learned to survive on the World Cup without much support, but it's nicer and more enjoyable to have someone there who experiences everything with you and you can talk to," he said. "So, yeah, it's good."
Before the Olympics, Bode had a very public dispute with a former flame over their infant son; the two eventually agreed in court to share custody. The agreement set up the possibility of Miller taking the boy — along with his daughter from a previous relationship — to these Olympics, but the logistics didn't work out.
"There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle here and adding a couple of more pieces to the puzzle might have made it a little too overwhelming," Morgan explained. "We didn't know where we were staying until we got here and what the conditions would be like.
"It would've been really cool to have them at this event."
Given that Bode is 36, and already would be the oldest medalist in Olympic Alpine skiing history, most people assume he'll be done with the Winter Games by the time 2018 rolls around.
Morgan is not so sure about that.
"With Bode, you never know," she said Thursday. "When he's having this much fun, and you see how happy it makes him, I wouldn't be surprised if he kept coming back."
When that was relayed to Bode, he laughed it off.
"She's a little bit extravagant with her imagination sometimes," he said. "I don't think that's very realistic. Obviously, you never know."


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"Larp can change the world."
So claimed Heikki Holmås, Norway's newly-appointed Minister for International Development back in March, and I couldn't help but take notice. Three months previous, I was out researching an article on the Collapsonomics movement when the conversation turned to the new direction in which larp players from the Nordic nations were taking the form.
Larp — which you may have encountered already as LARP, acronym of "live action roleplaying", now noun'd down into lower case by regular use — has been around long enough for its public image to settle into an established stereotype, namely nerds dressing up as knights and orcs and hitting each other with rubber swords at the weekend. Like all clichés, it's rooted in truth: a lot of larp is exactly like that — and as such, I'd argue, no more worthy of mockery than paintballing, its over-macho cousin.
But there was, I heard, another type of larp: a larp whose potential as a tool for political and social change inspired Holmås to evangelise about it; a larp that could not only give players an insight into the lived experience of, for instance, homelessness, refugeeism or gender disparity, but which might also suggest changes to the way society deals with people in those situations; a larp that could 'game out' better ways of responding to a Haiti-scale natural disaster, or help the two sides of an interminable religiopolitical stalemate to walk a few yards in the shoes of their opponents.
I scribbled some notes, went home and started digging.
A brief history of larp
Larp's roots run deeper than Dungeons & Dragons.
In her book Leaving Mundania, Lizzie Stark traces the development of larp from its origins, the nascent form of what Bruce Sterling likes to call the military-entertainment complex: immersive historical pageants thrown by medieval royalty, often at immense expense; prototypical wargames for training the officers of the European enlightenment; contemporary historical re-enactment groups, some simply restaging the great battles of the past, or — in the case of the Society for Creative Anachronism — doing what they call 'living history', where old skills and ways of life are revived as part performance, part play, all wrapped up in authentic period costumes.
Wargaming systems of a more realist (or at least mimetic) type were a popular pastime for well-to-do Victorian folk, but it took a man named Dave Wesley form Minneapolis-St. Paul, frustrated with the way that the wargames he played in would break down into arguments over the implementation of the rules, to investigate the theory of games with an aim to developing non-zero-sum scenarios. The first run of Braunstein, a Napoleonic battle rendered with miniature soldiers on a tabletop landscape, ended in intrigue and chaos, with Wesley feeling he'd failed. "His players disagreed, and begged him to run another session," says Stark, so he did.
Braunstein attracted others, including one Dave Arneson, who'd go on to combine his wargaming jones with his Lord Of The Rings obsession to build a new set of rules, developed in collaboration with a thirty-something insurance underwriter named Gary Gygax; the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons, the ur-RPG, hit shelves in 1974.


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The European Commission says further testing will be done to see if the incidence is an isolated one.
The animal, which was slaughtered in 2002, was initially thought to have scrapie, a similar brain-wasting condition sometimes seen in goats.
But British scientists have now confirmed the disease was in fact BSE.
More than 100 people in the UK have died from vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease), the human form of BSE, after eating tainted beef.
But the EC stressed on Friday that precautionary measures put in place in recent years to protect the human food chain from contaminated meats meant there was no need for alarm over the latest finding.
Markos Kyprianou, EU Commissioner responsible for Health and Consumer Protection, said: "I want to reassure consumers that existing safety measures in the EU offer a very high level of protection.
"This case was discovered thanks to the EU testing system in place in France.
"The testing programme has shown us that there is a very low incidence rate of TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) in goats and allowed us to detect suspect animals so that they can be taken out of the food chain, as was done with this goat and its entire herd."
UK expert opinion
BSE had not previously been found under natural circumstances in ruminants other than cattle - although its presence in goats or other ruminants had been viewed as theoretically possible.
Although some incidences of TSEs in animals such as cats and antelopes have looked very similar to the BSE strain, there is some debate over whether these really were mad cow.
In 2001, a study in the UK was thought to have found BSE in sheep. It later transpired, however, that the scientists working on the research study were mistakenly looking at samples obtained from cow brains.
The EC now wants to test 200,000 goats in the 25 EU member states over the next six months.
The testing would concentrate on countries where cases of BSE have been reported in cattle in the past, including the UK.
Current testing has already shown there is a low incidence of scrapie in goats. In the UK, for example, only two cases have been confirmed since 1997. In France, which has a far bigger goat population, just 19 positives were recorded among 21,000 animals tested in 2003.
Across the EU bloc as a whole, there are believed to be more than 11.5 million goats.
The European Commission's Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health will meet to discuss the case of the French goat and its implications next week.
The French agriculture ministry said the goat came from the Ardeche region, in southeast France. It was kept in a flock of 300 animals which were all slaughtered and their carcasses destroyed.
When French research was unable to distinguish the TSE found in the goat from the BSE strain, samples were sent to the Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) for TSEs in Weybridge, UK, for its expert opinion. It confirmed the presence of the BSE strain.


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Weyman 'hungry for footy' after dealing with major injury
THE odds are against it, but Dragons prop Michael Weyman hopes he could be back wearing the red V as soon as next month's Charity Shield clash against South Sydney.
The Australian and NSW representative hasn't played since he suffered a season-ending knee injury against Penrith in round 10 last year.
Weyman has resumed running and said he was confident he would be right for the start of the season.
"I'm back running again and I'm not far off full training but it's just about getting the rehab right ... it's just one of those things you have to take slow," he said.
"I'm aiming to be back for round one, but I'd really like to get a trial game under my belt and possibly the Charity Shield."
The traditional rivals will face off in the 30th annual Charity Shield match at ANZ Stadium on Friday, February 22.
Weyman said he had it tough watching from the sidelines and could not wait to pull on the jersey again.
"A long injury like this just gets you hungrier for footy again and you really value what we do for a living when you can't do it," he said.


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|Article Index
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L'Afrique, le Sommet mondial de l'ONU et l'avenir
Security Council: Membership since 1946 (searchable database)
English: http://www.un.org/sc/members.asp
French: http://www.un.org/french/sc/members.asp
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/sc/members.asp
UN Conferences and Observances (Reference Paper No. 45, February 2006)
English: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/Reference_Paper_No_45.doc.htm
French: http://www.un.org/french/events/ref45.html
UN Reform: Investing in the United Nations for a Stronger Organization Worldwide (Secretary-General report)
English: http://www.un.org/reform/
French: http://www.un.org/french/reform/
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/reforma/
UNBIS Reference Manuals (Dag Hammarskjoeld Library)
UNBIS Reference Manuals for Bibliographic Description, Name Authority, Speech Index, Thesaurus and Geographic Name, UN Documents Series Symbol and Voting Records, containing guidelines for organizing UN materials, documents and proceedings for easy retrieval.
2005 World Summit Follow-Up Process: Peacebuilding Commission
In Focus : IAEA and Iran
UN News Focus : Haiti
English: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=91&Body=Haiti&Body1=
French: http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/infocusRelF.asp?infocusID=50&Body=Haïti&Body1=
United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNHQ New York, 26 June-7 July 2006)
United Nations Peace Operations: Year in Review 2005
2006 UNSD Calendar of Events
Afghanistan: Opium Rapid Assessment Survey (UNODC report)
The Millennium Development Goals - The way ahead: A pan-European perspective (UNECE report)
United Nations Division for Sustainable Development in Brief
English: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd.htm
French: http://www.un.org/french/esa/dsd.htm
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/esa/dsd.htm
2005 World Summit Follow-Up Process: Human Rights Council
In 'historic' vote, General Assembly creates new UN Human Rights Council
English: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17811&Cr=rights&Cr1=council
French: http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=12032&Cr=conseil&Cr1=droits
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/News/fullstorynews.asp?newsID=6486&criteria1=&criteria2=
Human Rights Council information page (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [observed 21 March]
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
(formerly the Central Emergency Revolving Fund)
UNAIDS website – launch of new version
The website, which will also be available in French, Spanish and Russian, provides content specifically chosen for each audience group; business and labour; civil society; donors; media; people living with HIV/AIDS; policy-makers; researchers; the UN family; and women as well as an easier more intuitive navigation structure
International Law Commission
The UN's Office of Legal Affairs has recently unveiled a new Web site for the International Law Commission, which includes unprecedented access to almost all of the Commission's documents since its inception in 1948. Of interest to researchers will be the section called Researching the work of the Commission, which includes the following sections: a research guide, topics, texts and instruments, documentation, publications and a search page. The publications area also includes the full text of the Commission's yearbooks.
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|i really like the look of the new controller.
|I'd be super keen for this if it came with kb/mouse support out of the box as an optional control method... but i doubt that will be the case and looking at the movement in the Killzone demo footage, it really turns me off what will no doubt be another bluray player, social media come game console, with some gimmicky movement controls thrown in for good measure
I'd be super keen for this if it came with kb/mouse support out of the box as an optional control method.
Seems pretty likely given that the PS3 could do it.
|oh s*** that's better than any PC i've ever used :/
|with that much processing power, this is going to have the most fun games evar!!!!
|EBgames has a preorder value of $899.00 AUD for the ps4 (official price yet to be announced) Well looks like my preorder is tomorrow..., i did a bit of research on the cpu (nothing on the gpu as of yet) seems pretty decent and they speculate the next xbox will utilize the same type of CPU.
Watchdogs, the next final fantasy and the ease of streaming/recording and the social/facebook benefits sold me instantly (i mean really when your stuck in a game and live streaming the people watching can give you extra potions or weapon or advice? Awesome.) I believe xbox is gonna have to pull something amazing to get a sale out of me again (had 3 xbox 360's, i blame my collectors edition itch for those consoles<.<) Hell i will buy both if the xbox is decent enough.
|I think I'll wait this time around unless there is some extravagant looking games for sale. I've got my Wii U and PC to keep me company for a good few years, but it is nice to see a catch up technology wise which will hopefully bleed into PC ports.
|Only thing that caught my eye was the 8gb of GRAM.
|I wish they had the left thumb stick like in the xbox style.
|well i would pay more then $400 for it as it a gutless console but the good thing is that porting from it shouldn't be so hard as its just a pc.
|The trouble is "only 8gb of RAM"?
I'm assuming some of that is dedicated towards the GPU? So basically, they're just catching up. When tech surges ahead again with all the new games challenging it, it'll probably get left behind again pretty quickly.
And the AMD CPU's are known for being pretty under-powered as well, though hopefully they're utilized properly.
I dunno, not gonna rush out and buy. Probably be a "buy it for $160 from the hock-shop" down the track like the PS3 was for me.
|Really don't like the "Share" button on the DS4, if I ever get a PS4 I expect to use that button about zero times. I mean I understand the appeal of sharing and the social side of things to many people, but I don't see the need for a dedicated physical button on the controller for that. Hopefully games can use the Share button for whatever they like and it's not hardcoded to the OS or something.
Happy to see them falling into line with x86 architecture though, stands to benefit both Sony and us.
The trouble is "only 8gb of RAM"
That's 8 GB DDR5 which is insane.
That's 8 GB DDR5 which is insane.
But again, if it's working like I think it does and 2048 (that's a guesstimate number) of that 8gb is dedicated to graphics memory, it wont take long before they're hitting points where games are stagnating due to lack of memory on consoles.
I mean, there are some games now that will use up a good 2gb of RAM on PC and we've been held back by old hardware on consoles.
With this new tech, they should be able to actually start working on game tech again, but how long before they reach a point where the 6gb free isn't enough?
Of course, we could never reach a point where that is the case, but I'm kinda worried.
|I assumed that meant 8GB of RAM for graphics only. That sounds great.
|I'm pretty sure it means 8GB total system RAM, but all of it super fast GDDR5.
Edit: in the announcement they called it "8GB Unified Memory".
|Aren't graphics like 2.4 gig?
Anyway I have to say I am not impressed by the screens we've seen so far. Looks in some cases worse than screens from BF3 and Crysis 3. It really is just going to where PC gaming can go. Hopefully with out worrying about limits for consoles it'll be a jump. however really it just looks like fairly standard game engine with better lighting.
I'm pretty sure it means 8GB total system RAM, but all of it super fast GDDR5.Edit: in the announcement they called it "8GB Unified Memory".
Ah well then consider me unimpressed.
|You need to remember that consoles don't have all that OS overhead and other crap that adds a need for such vast amounts of RAM we have in PCs. It means they can do all kinds of funky space-saving things and not need the ability for the system to do all this abstract crap that requires maybe 1.6-3.5x the amount of RAM as doing it on a dedicated, low-level system.
I'm stunned that it's x64.
|Is it DDR5 or GDDR5 because GDDR5 is DDR3 base.
I double checked with wikipedia, and it is.
|the specs:
I'm pretty sure it means 8GB total system RAM, but all of it super fast GDDR5.Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the main advantage with GDDR5 related to the bus width? So performance is similar to DDR3 on a 32-bit bus, but on a GPU with a 256-bit bus, there's a massive improvement in transfer speeds?
|So unless I misunderstand those specs, and apart from more cores, my current gaming/HTPC already out specs this. Looks like I'll be sticking to PC gaming for some time to come.
|i'm glad they bumped the bluray drive up to 6x
|Compared to say Windows 8, would there really be that much of a difference in overhead? I mean sure there wouldn't be as many processes going on in the background, but it wouldn't be that different? Considering how many things are going on with the console in regards to continuously recording your game, ability to pause/resume on will, background applications, controller inputs, the new Eyetoy function etc. it would have to be using a good 3-4GB just for the system?
I could maybe see 2GB being given to games, 2GB for GPU and the rest is OS/capture device. I might be totally wrong here, but hey at least we are getting BF3 quality games on the PS4/720 now, so maybe we can finally have cross-platform play.
|Yeah on the Tflops side, my last generation 580 calculates 1.5tflops and i've got two. So.. i'm not sure you want to be going around throwing those specs up haha :)
From a RAM point of view, with all these chrome tabs open, skype, msn, yahoo, notepad, word, etc my RAM usage is 2.5gb and my CPU is 3%.. I don't know what the PS3 overlay is like, but it's got to manage similar things, it probably closes the browser down though when you leave it.. but your friends and achievements and your PSN status and all that has to remain ready so i wouldn't see that being less than 1gb..
I might be totally wrong here, but hey at least we are getting BF3 quality games on the PS4/720 now, so maybe we can finally have cross-platform play.
maybe for non-fps games.
|Consoles will always be behind PC technology. I'm not surprised.
They're nice for some of the (unfortunately) exclusive games that come out, but thats the only reason to buy these consoles. If games were platform universal, there would be no reason to buy a console.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the main advantage with GDDR5 related to the bus width? So on a 32-bit bus performance is similar to DDR3, but on a GPU with a 256-bit bus, there's a massive improvement in transfer speeds?
I don't know enough about it to be confident, but my understanding is that yes, GDDR5's advantage is in its much higher bandwidth. I don't know how a unified memory would work and if there will be multiple memory controllers, but I'd assume that the speed will be limited by the bus size of whatever memory controller is utilising the RAM.
That said, I think GDDR is usually split up into more modules which means more channels, so that lower system bus could potential be multiplied by more than the usual 2 or 3 channels and still have an advantage over regular PCs with DDR.
Maybe someone a bit more knowledgeable can shed some light on this?
|Considering the ps3 only has 256mb of system memory and 256mb of video memory yet can still bring out decent looking games like The Last of Us, 8 gig should be fine.
|Kos you're pretty much on the ball.
All to do with voltages and I/O memory controllers. Depending on setup it will have a faster rate than the fastest DDR3 for pcs, but also run at a higher voltage (depending). Without knowing the memory controller and the voltage/frequencies used you can only really guess.
Just like the CPU... 8 cores of what? How good is the multithreading? etc...
Personally I'm more interested in the cooling setup they plan to go for. And of course the games!
I had a Xbox 360 for 2 years and sold before they started dropping big in price, but this time I think a PS4 will be better. Paying for Xbox live and getting ad spam for the effort turned me off big time.
|Yeah I definitely won't be getting any of these next-gen consoles for the tech, I'll get them instead for the games, its why I purchased a Wii U because I like Nintendo's first-party line-up. Though I'll definitely be waiting until a good year or two into the cycle as I have more than enough games coming to Wii U and a soon-to-be purchased 3DS. Monster Hunter alone will keep me for a good 300 hours.
|But with the apparent backflip in development kit ideal, where last time they went "F*** you devs, console buyers this purchase will last 10 years because we hamstrung the devkit" this time it's the whole "Uh, it's easy now" meaning PS4 games > PC are higher chance unless Sony starts paying for full ownership of an IP?
Which means not getting it at all and probably playing the same game (albeit 3months later) will be a norm?
I mean it's speculation but if you have a PC it seems like the PS4 will have massive diminishing returns. If you don't have one, go balls out crazy because it's a fair bit of tech for sub 1k!
I've not doubt modern games will run great on it, and future games will run great too, but what will they be compromising on? For PS3 that was generally shaders and polygon counts plus the resolution of many games were limited at 720p which is half the pixel count of a 1080p game.
Thankfully we're currently limited by the slowdown of TV's again, and i don't see 4k tv's hitting it off mainstream anytime soon. Last time there was the whole TV revolution going from a max of 480p (560? interlaced? max?) to 720 or 1080 this time we won't see resolutions blowing out of the water compared to PS2 vs PS3.
If games were platform universal, there would be no reason to buy a console.
Sure there is. Just because theres no reason for you to buy a console, doesn't mean theres no reasons to anyone to buy one.
The move to X86 is great, tonnes of advantages from a development point of view, the biggest downside it seems so far is the fanboys comparing its specs on paper (in a vaccuum and irrespective of any of the other features of the console), with an equivalent specced PC and writing it off. Shame it doesn't work that way, but whatever makes you happy I guess.
|Until Sony makes a console that connects to the brain like in the matrix movies, i think i'll pass on this console and stick with my PC. I've had all the PS consoles, and they have all gone the the same way, gaining dust. My PS3 has become an expensive blueray player. So i have finally learned my lesson and putting any money i would use to buy a console into updating my PC. Saying that, i did enjoy the PS4 event. As PC's are usually linked to consoles for alot of games (multiplatform), i'm really excited at the great games we will be playing in the few years.
Until Sony makes a console that connects to the brain like in the matrix movies, i think i'll pass on this console and stick with my PC.
they have, it's called the playstation 9.
|"The PlayStation 9" sounds more to me like a name the media would give to a group of 9 school kids they claim were inspired by violent PlayStation games to commit a school massacre...
|so $900 console with $120 games? If that is the real price then get f***ed.
|It will be fine, it will destroy any PC for quite a number of years in game performance, because:
- devs can optimise the s*** out of the engine specifically for the exact hardware - tweak every little thing
- iirc it was apu ala cpu/gpu on a single die? this combined with massive memory bandwidth could be an analogy of IDE vs SSD for your cpu/gpu/ram
- no redundant OS overhead - again, optimised to the s*** for the purpose of playing games
- 8gb of ram in a console is insane! - the ps3 has 256mb of ram, the xbox 360 has 512mb of ram - its a massive leap (see same point as below on cpu)
- comparing cpu speed is a joke: - ps2 "emotion engine" was running at 300mhz, no 300mhz pc's would run any of the ps2's games (P3-600mhz were available for PC a year before the PS2 was released). The benefit of going with x86 architecture is that you don't have the little endian/big endian issues, risc/cisc, dealing with different instruction sets etc. Hell, the PS1 was running at 33mhz.
- A large side benefit (that they haven't covered yet) is by going x86, devkits can theoretically be COTS (off the shelf), so more beneficial to indie devs (I heard friends doing ps3 dev having to burn to test)
- Having the 2nd cpu that deals with background processing / downloading means that the entire APU is given to the game - the OS can run comfortably on the aside cpu, devs don't have to consider it - personal note I cannot wait until smartphones do this
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with an equivalent specced PC and writing it off. Shame it doesn't work that way, but whatever makes you happy I guess.
Wait, you said fanbois. Can you clarify which ones? Because i'm pretty sure the most hardcore fanboys aren't PC fanboys... and so we're now choosing straws about what your entire point is about.
Because i'm pretty sure the most hardcore fanboys aren't PC fanboys
haha have you read any of this or the other ps4 threads or any thread about consoles
all i'm reading is this:
fanboys comparing its specs on paper (in a vaccuum and irrespective of any of the other features of the console), with an equivalent specced PC and writing it off
|And i'm telling you that you could pretty much interchange the word PC and PS4 for anything and the entire argument could be copy pasted into almost any thread of android vs iphone, windows vs mac, toyota vs nissan etc.
or another point is when there's nothing but the facts given to you, and that's what they have released to their media, then that's what they want you to compare. Otherwise they wouldn't have released the specs and actually released completely different things like the size and shape of the console.
What am i supposed to argue about when the only information available is the specs? There's only some scripted game trailers that don't look better or worse than modern day computer rendered images and that's it.
Should we all just be silent and not talk about this?
Should we just be randomly speculating on stuff that isn't the thread topic? Like "I think it's going to be f*****g massive and that's balls. I can't believe sony would do that" because i don't see how that's any better to talk about.
I think it's just that we're making comparisons to existing technology and many of us are saying that we're unconvinced by the specifications for a reason to buy it, but it's not like we're closed to any more information, there just ISN'T any other information to base any other decision on.
|What I mean is what simul was pointing out, you can't compare its specs to a PCs specs in any real sort od direct way, theres so many other factors that come into play. And thats even disregarding any software-level features that set it apart as something different as well.
I mean for me, probably the coolest parts of that whole presentation were the bits about the spectating and the remote play stuff, and the potential to cloud stream PS1, PS2 and PS3 games to the PS4 and other devices. Granted its highly unlikely that s*** will even work here and it still sounds like its, in large part, still a bit of a pie-in-the-sky idea, but its a very cool insight into where things are heading. Thats the sort of stuff I want to hear more about and see more of in the next generation of consoles.
I'm not necessarily championing one over the other and I'll have both anyway, all I'm saying is its not really a fair comparison when all you're doing is putting PS4 specs on one in one column and PC specs in the other and basing it off that.
|Well done for completely missing the point
|I wasn't going to read what you wrote.
Well untech savy console fanboy think that got a better gaming rig for $450 when that clearly don't understand jack s***. Oh and "simul" the AMD 8 core is apples to apples in a PC so yes it is S***, but again for $450 it is value. The extra with that uploading crap is just a software feature, nothing fancy. Origin has twitch Tv thing now and steam will mostly follow with something too, as for the GDDR5 well the CPU isn't going to use that so much, as its slow anyhow ,its not like its going to be able to boost performance to 200% its mostly for the GPU. 8Gb GPU ram yea thats pretty good for textures and what not but next gen AMD or Nvidia could be stock 4Gb so again its old tech. Now the only good thing about these so called NEX Gen console is that its X86 CPu but i see alot of hacking will be happening and as its going to be Open GL 3.2 Blabla it is very close or is DX11. One thing for sure it is a PC hands down with a unix based OS and integrated MOBO, atleast porting with UDK or whatever , games should be easier to run on windows based desktop. oh and one last thing windows and dx API wouldn't be much of a cripple to a modern day PC with an intel core in it.
|haha replies to post without reading post
I wasn't going to read what you wrote.
Welcome to the forum, I can tell already you'll fit right in.
|good summary of what we know about the ps4 thus far
|I guess when mummy and daddy are paying for it, you can only afford one platform to game on so you have to rubbish the others to make yourself feel better? People with real jobs on the other hand have more options.
|Haha Angus created a second account just to agree with himself.
|Now I look like I'm just being a d*** for no apparent reason :(
|don't be so hard on yourself khel.
|^ I generally don't like consoles as I believe they are mostly responsible for the dumbing down of PC games (e.g. final boss fights of many AAA titles resorting more and more to quick-time events...), but the above post is just retarded.
Why is there a sudden influx of children on this forum lately?
|Baby bonus?
|Doenst have steam so no good for me
|Meathead has just verified Khel's argument above.
While i do 95% of my gaming on my PC, i still own a ps3 to play the exclusives that i cant play on PC. For me it was metal gear solid 4, gran turismo 5, uncharted series, ni no kuni, red dead redemption etc. Granted my ps3 has been collecting dust for a year or so, but i dont regret buying it just because it is not as powerful as my PC.


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More on open source servers
The announcement that Novell has agreed to sell itself to Attachmate for $2.2 billion does absolutely nothing to remove the huge question mark hanging over the future of Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Novell's open source Linux OS. Annoyingly for SLES customers, it actually raises as many questions as it answers.
Novell put itself up for sale eight months ago following a takeover offer from hedge find Elliott Associates. Since then, long-suffering SLES customers have had to put up with uncertainty and doubt about the future of the server OS. Many of them must be wishing they'd made life simpler by picking Red Hat as their Linux supplier when they made their original purchasing decision. After all, no-one ever got sacked for not choosing Novell.
What SLES customers do now know is that their server OS is going to be supplied by a company that "enables IT organizations to extend mission-critical services and assures they are managed, secure, and compliant." Which is nice, but not necessarily reassuring. When you rely on an OS to power the mission-critical workloads in your company, I'm guessing you want a well-known systems company standing behind it. Put it this way: All things being equal, would you rather get your server OS from a company like Oracle, IBM, HP or Red Hat, or from a conglomerate knocked together by a handful of private equity firms?
There has been no indication so far that any of the key people behind SLES will be changing, so the sale of Novell might not alter things for customers in the short term. But what of the longer term? The truth is that we don't know at this stage.
Part of the deal involves Novell selling "certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft," for $450 million. What these intellectual property assets are and what CPTN Holdings will do with them is anyone's guess.
The only clue is that the mysterious CPTN has been organized by Microsoft, and Microsoft, you'll recall, has been using Novell as its not-so-undercover agent in the Linux world for some years. The Redmond company has been paying Novell for Linux support certificates, which it gives away or sells to Windows customers that want to use Linux as well, in effect subsidizing SLES so it's less expensive for customers to choose Novell's Linux rather than Red Hat's. It's also promised not to sue Novell's Linux customers for patent infringement. In exchange, Microsoft has been getting the inside track into what its customers want to do with Linux, and Novell and Microsoft have been working together to ensure SLES works well as a guest server OS on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization system.
Microsoft buying Novell outright was probably always out of the question -- the outcry from all sorts of parties would have been too great. But given the lengths Microsoft has gone to establish a relationship with Novell, it's almost inconceivable that the company would want to abandon it altogether. And as far as Attachmate is concerned, why would the company want to buy Novell if it thought the cozy relationship between SUSE and Microsoft was in any doubt? It's not as though SLES makes a vast amount of money with Microsoft's help, let alone without it.
So the odds are good that whatever the intellectual property CPTN is buying turns out to be, it is something that will cement the relationship between Microsoft and SLES under its new owners.
How or even whether the Attachmate deal benefits SLES customers, though, is still far from clear. For this group of long suffering enterprise Linux users, the game of wait and see continues ...
Paul Rubens is a journalist based in Marlow on Thames, England. He has been programming, tinkering and generally sitting in front of computer screens since his first encounter with a DEC PDP-11 in 1979.


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Hello there bloggity type people! Yup, been a long time. The last two months have just been a flurry of changes and activity that has shattered my fledgling blogging habit. My apologies. So let's get caught up! This Thursday will be the end of my fourth week at my new job. This last four weeks also involved a pretty major move too a much bigger house. We're still renters but it still feels very grown up for us.
The new job has been amazing. The first week was a little terrifying. The difference from my last property to my new one is like a minor league ball player getting moved up to the big leagues. I felt a little like I was on an episode of Sliders and I had just slid onto an alternate world. This world looks like my home dimension in most every respect, but there are tinny subtle but sometimes mind bending differences.
The differences from a 41 room independent boutique resort in the country to a 600 room luxury major brand city hotel are enormous, but absolutely what I was looking for. The commute for the first week, before we moved, was a hellish 2 hours on top of the mental strain of all the new information I had to absorb. Since moving I've settled in and found my legs. My training is semi complete, but they've already thrown me to the wolves, having me work solo manager shifts after about a week, which felt entirely too soon, but I survived.
Our move left us within a 5 minute drive of a BART train station, it's still a 50ish minute ride from there, but so much better to me then even a 30 minute car ride (mostly). I get to kick back and watch TV shows on Netflix or hulu, or stuff I downloaded. I already caught up on the new series of Sherlock riding the train. Kinda nice. Not Sherlock. Sherlock was fraking amazing! It just leaves me constantly wishing that series was awesome. Totally looking forward to the US CBS remake…no not really! Shut up! Riding BART has been kinda nice. I don't have to worry about falling asleep behind the wheel, that's a huge plus. And so far writing this blog post on my Xoom has been nice.
At the moment I'm sitting on BART ridding in for my first of four training graveyard shifts this week. That's something I'm not looking forward to, but I knew it was going to be a requirement when i took the job. I did one training night audit at my last job, I'm not afraid of the work, if anything at this job I'm looking forward to the potential for crazy guest stories I might get to live through, I'm just not looking forward to the hours. I love my sleep! More importantly I love sleeping next to my wife in our new king sized bed!
My fellow BART riders have been interesting at times. Things I've seen have included, a crazy lady screaming at the entire train in some Asian language and English curse words. A wandering street preacher guy walking down the train telling us damnation was coming to us all. And yesterday a four man team running a classic shell con game. I never knew that people still did that, I thought it was just a TV thing now. And what's amazing is people fell for it! Really!? How is that still possible? Stupid. And St Patrick's Day night was not a pretty sight. Drunk people everywhere.
Anyways, I hope to make blogging on my commute a more regular practice, since I never have time at work any more…and web filters to worry about. Thanks everyone!


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Friday, April 01, 2011
Olympic festival to celebrate Britten centenary
A visionary National Lottery funded project linking the 2012 London Olympics and the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth in the following year has been revealed by sources close to the Britten-Pears Foundation in Aldeburgh. Following the close of the sports Olympics in August 2012 the first ever cycle of all sixteen of Benjamin Britten's operas will be given fully-staged productions in the Olympic venues over a fifteen month period. Orchestral forces are being provided by an augmented Britten Sinfonia and the ensemble's involvement is reflected in the grant increase awarded by Arts Council England this week.
In an initiative inspired by the 2008 performance of Stockhausen's Gruppen at Berlin's former Tempelhof Airport the site specific opera productions will include Gloriana at the Olympic Stadium, Death in Venice at the Aquatics Centre and The Turn of the Screw at the Velodrome, with the Olympic Festival of Britten ending on the centenary of the composer's birth, November 22, 2013 in a gala performance of Peter Grimes at Lee Valley White Water Centre which will be attended by HRH the Prince of Wales.
All the operas are to be transmitted as global HD simulcasts and directors whose names have been connected with the project include Francesca Zambello, Bob Wilson and Hans Neuenfels. Full details of the Olympic Festival of Britten are expected to be announced by UK Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt in May.
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10 comments:
- Vecchio John said...
Yes, we do know today's date.
- 9:35 am
- John said...
Naughty boy!
- 9:39 am
- Pliable said...
This story is also reflected in the sports community -
- 11:50 am
- Unknown said...
How Exciting! I have a meeting of the Exec Committee for the Britten Centenary Celebrations this afternoon and this has somehow escaped our notice. I wonder if they have considered staging Peter Grimes at the Olympic Sailing Venue at Portland Harbour or Prince of the Pagodas on the Beach Volleyball Pitch in Pall Mall......
- 12:04 pm
- timfoxon said...
*checks date*
- 12:27 pm
- Pliable said...
and via Twitter - http://twitter.com/alexrossmusic/status/53798269096165376
- 1:44 pm
- Antoine Leboyer said...
So wonderful to read that the UK Government has finally revised its funding spending upwards to finance such exciting projects.
- 1:53 pm
- Leonora said...
Briliant - best one I've seen so far!
have they managed to persuade Russell Watson to sing Captain Vere?
- 1:57 pm
- John said...
Presumably Rape of Lucretia will be at the fencing venue
- 8:01 pm
- Unknown said...
Shurely shome mishtake here? It obviously ought to be ALBERT HERRING at the Velodrome...
- 9:37 pm


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To mark the end of the course work part of their degree, MA Cultural Studies students have proposed the 'Marx Trot'. This being a pub crawl with a revolutionary excuse. Having done significant research as per my brief to lead said Trot, I propose the following:
Marx is buried in Highgate. So we start at the end. Meet at the East Cemetery gate at 4pm. Watch the film 'High Hopes' beforehand if need be. Bring cigars.
The Marx family would often walk from Haverstock Hill to Soho, so we can too. As its a nice day. We'll walk through the park. Hamstead Heath in fact, though other parks might distract our thoughts. Marx took part in a Hyde Park demonstration against the Sunday Observance laws and wrote an article on the Anti-Church demonstration of July 1855. We can read this on the way and contemplate the production of nature.
At the far end of Hamstead Heath is a favourite pub of the Marx's – so we could visit Jack Straws castle. I found the following info on a cursory search:
Jack Straws Castle
Jack Straw's Castle ought to be the perfect place for an inspiring pint. The situation is good, the history intriguing and the ghosts distinguished. Karl Marx drank here on the corner of Hampstead Heath, high above the foul air of 19th-century London. So did Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt and Max Beerbohm. Jack Straw himself – one of the leaders of the peasants revolt of 1381 – allegedly rallied his pitchfork-wielding mob from a haywagon nearby.
From here we can walk down Heath Street to Chalk Farm and Grafton Terrace.
Marx lived at 3 Roxburgh Terrace, now part of Prince of Wales Road Kentish Town. Then he moved to 9 Grafton Terrace. He drank at the Lord Southampton on the corner of Southampton and Grafton. We'll obviously have to spend some time here.
Then we head to central London.
Marx fenced in a salon off Oxford street – in Rathbone Place (not far a from Tottenham Court Rd tube).
The Manifesto was drafted and approved at (according to internet gab – which I suspect is apocryphal):
The Red Lion, Soho [Closed] – pub details
Address: 20 Great Windmill Street, London, W1D 7LQ
Not many people know this but this pub is where Marx and Engels and others used to meet, where the first meetings of the Communist Party were held and where the Communist Manifesto was initially drafted and approved. This is a historic building in the history of Politics and it should have a Blue Plaque on it. I hope the people that live there when its converted know the relevance of this place.
Now apparently reopened as an "AT One" – we could I suppose heckle them a little [its an awful bar – heckle a lot – they have no idea where they are, adn beers were 4 quid for a bottle of sol – pah!]
When he first came to London Marx lived on Dean Street – We can visit Marx's House and Blue Plaque – its on the second floor.
Then across to the British Museum. Obviously. There will be a test on your recall of particular passages from the footnotes. Someone will recite the bees and architects passage.
And finally, though I disagree with much of what Comrade Germain has done with Stop the War (or rather unstop it), here I think there is a hint of what is to be done as the evening closes in – a crawl up Tottenham Court Road starting at the Rising Sun.
"Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were refugees following the defeated 1848 revolutions in Europe. Marx wrote Capital in the reading room of the British Museum. He and Engels enjoyed pub crawls on Tottenham Court Road" [from an article by Lindsay Germain]
And by then wee should be able to make up our own after dinner entertainments. I do think one day a less ad hoc version of this walk is necessary – and I will prepare it – but this seems ok for starters. Leaving now.


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John Ortberg's books have great titles: 'If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat', 'God is Closer than You Think', and 'Everybody's Normal Till You get to Know Them' are some good examples. Ortberg's teaching is in spiritual growth and formation. His devotionals are mostly anecdotal which is a powerful teaching tool. It would not be very instructive to ask someone else, "what are the main points in this book?" Because the point comes in the story, and story is most powerful and memorable.
Using the game of Monopoly as example, (he used to get whipped at the game by his grandmother, wouldn't you love to meet her?) Ortberg reminds us that stuff is temporary and that which is eternal will last. When the game is over, it all goes back in the box.


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Hurlstone Agricultural High School
The crisis in the picture reached a logical conclusion or climax in Russia in 1914 when Kasimir Malevich painted a black square. This was for him an absolute statement of pure painting.
In 1921, Alexander Rodchenko painted three monochromes in the primary colours, he saw them as demonstrations of pure paint. For him, they represented a full stop to painting's history.
Marcel Duchamp: 'I wanted to get away from the physical aspect of painting. I was much more interested in recreating ideas [of] painting. For me the title was very important. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind. It is interesting – considering how painting has been so often seen as the butt of conceptual art's mockery.'
Explain the term conceptual art and discuss how it relates to the work of Natasa Dzinic, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden. A number of modernist and post-modern artists have grappled with the difficulty of conveying ideas through visual imagery. Examine how each of these three artists has approached the notion of representation. Discuss the role that language plays in these works both as an image and as an idea.