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Panasonic ARMs will be fabbed at Intel
Subject: General Tech | July 8, 2014 - 10:40 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: SoC, Panasonic, Intel, arm
Intel has been fabbing ARM chips for Altera since the end of last year after their unprecedented move of allowing non-Intel designs into their fabs. This decision allowed Intel to increase the percentage of time the fabs were active, as they are no longer able to keep them at full capacity with their own chips and have even mothballed the new Fab 42 in Arizona. Altera is a good customer, as are Tabula, Netronome and Microsemi but together they are still not enough to bring Intel's capacity close to 100%. The Register has reported on a new contract with the ink still wet from signing; Panasonic will now be using Intel's Fabs for their ARM based SoCs. The immense size of Panasonic should keep Intel busy and ensure that they continue to make mountains of money licensing their 14nm-process tri-Gate transistors as well as the Fab time.
"Intel has notched up another customer for its fledgling Foundry business as it tries to make money out of its manufacturing and engineering expertise besides x86 processor sales.
The world's most valuable chip manufacturer said on Monday that Panasonic's audio-visual gear will make future system-on-chips (SoCs) in Intel's factories."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Fridge hacked. Car hacked. Next up, your LIGHT BULBS @ The Register
- RS Components shows off 3D printer line-up @ The Inquirer
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 reaches general release @ The Inquirer
- Meet Xiki, the Revolutionary Command Shell for Linux and Mac OS X @ Linux.com
- Anime Expo 2014 – Part 3: Next-Level Cosplays @ Legit Reviews
Breaking News: League of Legends Is Hard. "Intro Bots" Soon.
Subject: General Tech | July 7, 2014 - 02:13 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: riot games, moba, lol, free to play
MOBAs are known to be intricate, unforgiving PC games. League of Legends is one of the most popular at the moment (#1 PC game in terms of hours played for May 2014 according to Raptr). It is free to install and play, with small purchases to unlock more content ("microtransaction"). The free-to-play business model is quite interesting, albeit polarizing, because your commitment starts when your users installs your title, not ends. This often leads to one of two outcomes: abusers of human psychology or constantly developed, great games that strive to never get boring.
Now you can see why it is polarizing (or just read our impending comments).
The business model does permit games that are deep in gameplay mechanics, however, if it keeps a core user base playing (and buying additional content) forever. Unfortunately, this also makes it difficult for new players to join -- especially when it is competitive and multiplayer.
Riot Games noted that they were uncomfortable with how many of their players lose "Battle Training", which is supposed to be a tutorial. Some even prove to have significant skill later on. They interpret this as the problem being how they educate new players. There is high complexity that is fair, and then there is just bad user experience.
"Intro Bots" is designed to be a mode which adjusts its difficulty to match the player currently, and as they progress. Hopefully it works. Obviously that is the limiting factor. It does seem to be designed reasonably. It teaches with repetition and in realistic scenarios.
Intro Bots is coming soon, after a brief stop in public beta. Ironically, the public beta realm was refered to as "PBE"... in a press release for a feature intended to be easier for new players. You know, the people who might not know the game's vocabulary. Just saying.
Everything old is new again on the Internet o' Thangs
Subject: General Tech | July 7, 2014 - 11:34 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: internet of things, MIPS, prpl, linaro
Imagination Technologies is reinvigorating their MIPS architecture by collaborating with Oracle and Qualcomm on MIPS-focused Java and OpenWRT Linux as well as continuing older partnerships with Ingenic and Ineda Systems. MIPS has been a large player in low power WiFi enabled SoC's for quite a while with three billion MIPS-based products shipped in set-top boxes, mobile phones and wearable tech but have seen ARM take the lead and continue to garner more market share along with Intel's Quark. These new partnerships may help MIPS based devices become more popular as some of the projects being developed are quite interesting, for instance Linux.com mentions the Dhanush Wearable Processing Unit which will run Linux and is aiming for a battery life of 30 days.
"Imagination Technologies has launched a campaign to turn the 30-year-old MIPS architecture into an Internet of Things platform.
The IP designer's recent moves include the establishment of a Linaro-like "Prpl" industry group for MIPS, as well as collaborations with Oracle and Qualcomm on MIPS-focused Java and OpenWRT Linux development, respectively."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Cisco, Dell may shift server ODM orders from Foxconn @ DigiTimes
- Microsoft and Nokia tipped to launch an Android-powered Lumia smartphone @ The Inquirer
- Mains Power Detector For A Thing For Internet @ Hack a Day
- TSA Prohibits Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes @ Slashdot
- Kiss my DRaaS: Actifio reckons its virty gear will shrink your storage @ The Register
- Anime Expo 2014 – Part 1: A Quick Live Look @ Legit Reviews
- Anime Expo 2014 – Part 2: Panels, Exhibits and Cool Things @ Legit Reviews
- Win a Cooler Master HAF Stacker Mega Upgrade Bundle @ eTeknix
Google I/O 2014: Android Extension Pack Announced
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Mobile, Shows and Expos | July 7, 2014 - 01:06 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: tegra k1, OpenGL ES, opengl, Khronos, google io, google, android extension pack, Android
Sure, this is a little late. Honestly, when I first heard the announcement, I did not see much news in it. The slide from the keynote (below) showed four points: Tesselation, Geometry Shaders, Computer [sic] Shaders, and ASTC Texture Compression. Honestly, I thought tesselation and geometry shaders were part of the OpenGL ES 3.1 spec, like compute shaders. This led to my immediate reaction: "Oh cool. They implemented OpenGL ES 3.1. Nice. Not worth a news post."
Image Credit: Blogogist
Apparently, they were not part of the ES 3.1 spec (although compute shaders are). My mistake. It turns out that Google is cooking their their own vendor-specific extensions. This is quite interesting, as it adds functionality to the API without the developer needing to target a specific GPU vendor (INTEL, NV, ATI, AMD), waiting for approval from the Architecture Review Board (ARB), or using multi-vendor extensions (EXT). In other words, it sounds like developers can target Google's vendor without knowing the actual hardware.
Hiding the GPU vendor from the developer is not the only reason for Google to host their own vendor extension. The added features are mostly from full OpenGL. This makes sense, because it was announced with NVIDIA and their Tegra K1, Kepler-based SoC. Full OpenGL compatibility was NVIDIA's selling point for the K1, due to its heritage as a desktop GPU. But, instead of requiring apps to be programmed with full OpenGL in mind, Google's extension pushes it to OpenGL ES 3.1. If the developer wants to dip their toe into OpenGL, then they could add a few Android Extension Pack features to their existing ES engine.
Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 "Rivalry" Demo from Google I/O 2014.
The last feature, ASTC Texture Compression, was an interesting one. Apparently the Khronos Group, owners of OpenGL, were looking for a new generation of texture compression technologies. NVIDIA suggested their ZIL technology. ARM and AMD also proposed "Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression". ARM and AMD won, although the Khronos Group stated that the collaboration between ARM and NVIDIA made both proposals better than either in isolation.
Android Extension Pack is set to launch with "Android L". The next release of Android is not currently associated with a snack food. If I was their marketer, I would block out the next three versions as 5.x, and name them (L)emon, then (M)eringue, and finally (P)ie.
Would I do anything with the two skipped letters before pie? (N)(O).
Rob Pardo, Former Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard, Resigns
Subject: General Tech | July 6, 2014 - 01:08 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: blizzard
After 17 years at Blizzard, the developers of the Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft franchises, Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo resigned on July 3rd. He was credited as the lead designer of StarCraft: Brood War, Warcraft III and its Frozen Throne expansion, and World of Warcraft and its Burning Crusade expansion. He has not announced any future plans, except to be a better Twitter user.
Of course, several projects that he influenced are still on their way, even after he leaves the company. Beyond the games, he notes that eSports and the upcoming Warcraft movie are initiatives that he looks back on with pride, in terms of his contributions.
DDR3 Overclocking World Record: 2.31 GHz
Subject: General Tech, Motherboards, Memory | July 6, 2014 - 12:53 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: overclocking, memory, gigabyte
About a week ago, HWBOT posted a video of a new DDR3 memory clock record which was apparently beaten the very next day after the movie was published. Tom's Hardware reported on the first of the two, allegedly performed by Gigabyte on their Z97X-SOC Force LN2 Motherboard. The Tom's Hardware article also, erroneously, lists the 2nd place overclock (then 1st place) at 4.56 GHz when it was really half that, because DDR is duplex (2.28 GHz). This team posted their video with a recording of the overclock being measured by an oscilloscope. This asserts that they did not mess with HWBOT.
The now first place team, which managed 2.31 GHz on the same motherboard, did not go to the same level of proof, as far as I can tell.
This is the 2nd fastest overclock...
... but the fastest to be recorded with an oscilloscope that I can tell
Before the machine crashes to a blue screen, the oscilloscope actually reports 2.29 GHz. I am not sure why they took 10 MHZ off, but I expect it is because the system crashed before HWBOT was able to record that higher frequency. Either way, 2.28 GHz was a new world record, and verified by a video, whether or not it was immediately beat.
Tom's Hardware also claims that liquid nitrogen was used to cool the system, which brings sense to why they would use an LN2 board. It could have been chosen just for its overclocking features, but that would have been a weird tradeoff. The LN2 board doesn't have mounting points for a CPU air or water cooler. The extra features would have been offset by the need to build a custom CPU cooler, to not use liquid nitrogen with. It is also unclear how the memory was cooled, whether it was, somehow, liquid nitrogen-cooled too, or if it was exposed to the air.
Oculus Rift Shipments Suspended to China
Subject: General Tech, Displays | July 5, 2014 - 01:11 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: oculus vr, oculus rift, Oculus
The popular VR headset development kit, Oculus Rift DK2, is no longer available for order in China. The reason, according to their subreddit, is due to "extreme reseller purchases". In other words, because too many were purchased with the intention of selling them at a markup. They, then, ask enthusiasts to wait for the consumer version. These are for developers to develop.
Reselling product happens frequently. You see it at big sales, when a retailer sells product near (or under) cost to lure people into their stores. Unless they have a quantity-per-purchase limit, that is enforced, you will see the occasional person buying obscene amounts. Some will even tell the cashier that they intend on reselling it elsewhere.
Oculus is "looking into alternative ways to make sure that our development kits are getting into legitimate developer hands in China". Also, they claim to have not canceled all orders in China., because, "that would be messed up".
Yes, Oculus, that would be.
The Oculus Rift DK2 is still available in the other regions.
Attitude One's colourful Alamz headsets
Subject: General Tech | July 4, 2014 - 12:32 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: audio, gaming headset, Almaz, Attitude One
Attitude One joins the crowded headset market with their new foldable Almaz headset with a detachable microphone which is designed to be lightweight enough to carry with you everywhere. The bundled cables are compatible with both Android and Apple devices as well as one you can plug into your PC and simply leave for when you arrive home. The price of €110 quoted by TechPowerUp seems a bit high but the two year warranty somewhat alleviates that investment. If you need a portable lightweight headset with earcups this might be worth investigating as an option.
"Attitude One is a new player on the gaming scene, and today, we take a close look at their first headset, the Almaz. The Almaz can be configured to act as either a headphone or headset because of its detachable microphone and multiple cables."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- thinksound On1 Monitor Series HD Headphones Review @ NikKTech
- ASUS STRIX Pro gaming headset @ Kitguru
- Gamdias Hephaestus Multi-Sensorial PC Gaming Headset @ eTeknix
- CM Storm Sirus-C 2.2 PC & PlayStation 4 Gaming Headset @ eTeknix
- Diamond Xtreme Sound 7.1 External Sound Card Review @ Hardware Asylum
- ARCTIC S113BT Portable Bluetooth Speaker Review @ NikKTech
- Edifier Luna Eclipse 2.0 Speaker Set Review @ Madshrimps
- Luxa2 GroovyT Magic Boom Box Review @HiTech Legion
Put WiFi in all the things
Subject: General Tech | July 4, 2014 - 09:43 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: texas instruments, CC3000, CC3200, wifi
The new Ti C3200 SimpleLink is an ARM Cortex-M4 based SoC with inbuilt WiFi capability, essentially Internet on a Chip for the Internet of things. Paired with the CC3200 LaunchPad which includes sensors you can use a PC and the SDK with 40 pre-exisiting WiFi apps to enable almost any device to communicate wirelessly. The inclusion of AES, DES, MD5 and other security and encryption protocols is a welcome inclusion for anyone aware of even basic security. The power requirements range from mA in operation to µA in the various sleep modes, making remote use with battery power a definite option. Check out the links at Hack a Day for the spec sheets.
"Texas Instruments' CC3000 WiFi chip is the darling of everyone producing the latest and greatest Internet of Thing, and it's not much of a surprise: In quantity, these chips are only $10 a piece. That's a lot less expensive than the WiFi options a year ago. Now, TI is coming out with a few new modules to their WiFi module family, including one that includes an ARM micro."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Blackberry CEO lays into Android Knox security @ The Inquirer
- China approves Lenovo's purchase of IBM's x86 server business @ The Inquirer
- Microsoft confirms Office 365 price rise @ The Register
- Big Java security fixes on the way – but not so fast, Windows XP users @ The Register
Podcast #307 - EVGA Torq X10 Mouse, Samsung 850 Pro, OCZ RevoDrive 350 and more!
Subject: General Tech | July 3, 2014 - 12:17 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: podcast, video, evga, TORQ X10, Samsung, 850 PRO, ocz, RevoDrive 350, Silverstone, Nightjar, knights landing, Xeon Phi
PC Perspective Podcast #307 - 07/03/2014
Join us this week as we discuss the EVGA Torq X10 Mouse, Samsung 850 Pro, OCZ RevoDrive 350 and more!
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Ryan: S3 Screenshot Grabber
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Do you know Juno?
Subject: General Tech | July 3, 2014 - 09:39 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: linux, linaro, juno, google, armv8-a, ARMv8, arm, Android
By now you should have read Ryan's post or listened to Josh talk about Juno on the PCPer Podcast but if you find yourself hungry for more information you can visit The Tech Report. They discuss how the 64-bit Linaro is already able to take advantage of one of big.LITTLE's power efficiency optimization called Global Task Scheduling. As Linaro releases monthly updates you can expect to see more features and better implementations as their take on the Android Open Source Project evolves. Expect to see more of Juno and ARMv8 on review sites as we work out just how to benchmark these devices.
"ARM has created its own custom SoC and platform for 64-bit development. The folks at Linaro have used this Juno dev platform to port an early version of Android L to the ARMv8 instruction set. Here's a first look at the Juno hardware and the 64-bit software it enables."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Running Cisco's VoIP manager? Four words you don't want to hear: 'Backdoor SSH root key @ The Register
- Latest Nexus 9 leak outs tablet's 5GB RAM, 2560x1600 screen @ The Inquirer
- Twitter takes on GOOGLE, swallows wannabe YouTube firm @ The Register
- Samsung will halt plasma TV production before the end of the year @ The Inquirer
- Previously male-only Hearthstone competition now open to all genders @ Polygon
The slippery slope of Planetary Annihilation
Subject: General Tech | July 2, 2014 - 02:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, bad idea, prerelease, planetary annihilation
Releasing unfinished games is no longer limited to EA, many developers have picked up the habit of Early Access versions of their games and it is in danger of becoming as common as pre-purchases have. For some users this is not an issue, beta testing can be fun if you are that type of person or have a vested interest in trying to contribute to the development of a game. Uber has gone one step further with Planetary Annihilation, actually releasing an Early Access version of the game to retail stores with a free upgrade to the full version once it is released. There will be many consumers that do not understand that this is not a finished game and will purchase it with the expectation that it is completed. This will likely lead to a lot of internet bile being unleashed and bad reviews being published which is something you would think a publisher would want to avoid. Do you think that it is not an issue or perhaps a self correcting one or do you agree with Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN that this could be the start of a bad trend for the gaming industry? It is unlikely that this particular game will die in development and never be released but if it becomes a common trend unscrupulous publishers could slap together a demo, sell it as a pre-release and then abandon development; they've already made money so why bother finishing the game if consumers are happy paying full price for a half-baked product?
For those who prefer to play fully finished and perhaps even heavily modded games, why not join the Fragging Frogs for a gaming session?
"The practice of releasing alpha or beta games as part of an "Early Access" plan is not, in itself, inherently harmful. It can be quite good for a game when developers priorities are in order and everyone is given plenty of information about what they're getting into upfront. Planetary Annihilation's early access version on brick-and-mortar store shelves, though?"
Frogs moron
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Steam In-Home Streaming and Gaming Future @ Benhmak
- Ubisoft releases Watch Dogs 'Access Granted Pack' DLC @ HEXUS
- John Woo-Hoo: Double Action Boogaloo Is Free, Out Now @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Ubisoft On Far Cry 4′s Story, Box Art, Team Diversity @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
How about a little High Powered Computing?
Subject: General Tech | July 2, 2014 - 11:58 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: HPC, ISS
The Register visited this years ISS and snapped some pictures of the hardware that was on display. There were a lot of storage solutions being demonstrated like the Silent Brick Library from Fast LTA which offers an alternative to tape archives with the ability to can hold up to 60TB of uncompressed data with 12 bricks in a rack mounted device. Samsung had a brief presentation on 3D V-NAND but did not reveal anything new about their new type of NAND. AMD showed off their new W9100 FirePro and quite a few vendors, Intel included, are increasing their usage of watercooling in racks. Click over to see the latest expensive HPC gear.
"The International Supercomputer Show in Leipzig, Germany, was full of fascinating things at the high-end grunt front of the computing business. Here's what attracted this roving hack's eye."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Memcapacitors could make our computers faster @ Nanotechweb
- Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap @ Slashdot
- Samsung/Globalfoundries team reportedly lands 14nm orders from Qualcomm, Apple @ DigiTimes
- Microsoft releases test patch to address Windows 8.1 update woes @ The Inquirer
- Using Android 4.3? Don't let malware snatch your private login keys @ The Register
- ARM tears apart the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live @ The Inquirer
- Third Person Perspective is Guaranteed to Mess With Your Senses @ Hack a Day
- WiME Wi-Watch M5 Smartwatch Review @ TechwareLabs
- Silicon Power Worldwide Joint Giveaway @ NikKTech
Intel's Knights Landing (Xeon Phi, 2015) Details
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | July 2, 2014 - 12:55 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, Xeon Phi, xeon, silvermont, 14nm
Anandtech has just published a large editorial detailing Intel's Knights Landing. Mostly, it is stuff that we already knew from previous announcements and leaks, such as one by VR-Zone from last November (which we reported on). Officially, few details were given back then, except that it would be available as either a PCIe-based add-in board or as a socketed, bootable, x86-compatible processor based on the Silvermont architecture. Its many cores, threads, and 512 bit registers are each pretty weak, compared to Haswell, for instance, but combine to about 3 TFLOPs of double precision performance.
Not enough graphs. Could use another 256...
The best way to imagine it is running a PC with a modern, Silvermont-based Atom processor -- only with up to 288 processors listed in your Task Manager (72 actual cores with quad HyperThreading).
The main limitation of GPUs (and similar coprocessors), however, is memory bandwidth. GDDR5 is often the main bottleneck of compute performance and just about the first thing to be optimized. To compensate, Intel is packaging up-to 16GB of memory (stacked DRAM) on the chip, itself. This RAM is based on "Hybrid Memory Cube" (HMC), developed by Micron Technology, and supported by the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC). While the actual memory used in Knights Landing is derived from HMC, it uses a proprietary interface that is customized for Knights Landing. Its bandwidth is rated at around 500GB/s. For comparison, the NVIDIA GeForce Titan Black has 336.4GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Intel and Micron have worked together in the past. In 2006, the two companies formed "IM Flash" to produce the NAND flash for Intel and Crucial SSDs. Crucial is Micron's consumer-facing brand.
So the vision for Knights Landing seems to be the bridge between CPU-like architectures and GPU-like ones. For compute tasks, GPUs edge out CPUs by crunching through bundles of similar tasks at the same time, across many (hundreds of, thousands of) computing units. The difference with (at least socketed) Xeon Phi processors is that, unlike most GPUs, Intel does not rely upon APIs, such as OpenCL, and drivers to translate a handful of functions into bundles of GPU-specific machine language. Instead, especially if the Xeon Phi is your system's main processor, it will run standard, x86-based software. The software will just run slowly, unless it is capable of vectorizing itself and splitting across multiple threads. Obviously, OpenCL (and other APIs) would make this parallelization easy, by their host/kernel design, but it is apparently not required.
It is a cool way that Intel arrives at the same goal, based on their background. Especially when you mix-and-match Xeons and Xeon Phis on the same computer, it is a push toward heterogeneous computing -- with a lot of specialized threads backing up a handful of strong ones. I just wonder if providing a more-direct method of programming will really help developers finally adopt massively parallel coding practices.
I mean, without even considering GPU compute, how efficient is most software at splitting into even two threads? Four threads? Eight threads? Can this help drive heterogeneous development? Or will this product simply try to appeal to those who are already considering it?
Corsair's K70 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard offers a lot of feedback
Subject: General Tech | June 30, 2014 - 11:57 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: input, Vengeance K70, K70 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, corsair, Corsair Vengeance
The Corsair Vengeance K70 not only has Cherry Red MX switches to give a smooth keypress up until the key has traversed fully but you can also set it up to flash that keys LED when the key has depressed fully. The Tech Report tested the original Red version, Brown and Blue are now available for those who prefer a different feeling from tickling their keyboard. The RGB model which is able to control the LED colour on each key separately will be available very soon if that feature appeals to you. This may not be the newest model of keyboard but the overall styling, functionality, NKRO and adjustable polling rate help it remain at the top of it's niche market.
"Corsair's Vengeance K70 keyboard is a masterful combination of Cherry MX mechanical switches, programmable backlighting, and distinctive industrial design. We get all touchy feely with one of the finest mechanical keyboards around."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Rosewill's Apollo RK-9100xBBR mechanical keyboard @ The Tech Report
- Tt eSPORTS Poseidon Z Illuminated Blue Switch Edition Review @HiTech Legion
- Gamdias Hermes gaming keyboard @ Kitguru
- Corsair Vengeance K65 Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard @ Bjorn3d
- Tt eSPORTS Poseidon Z Blue Switch Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review @ NikKTech
- teSports Poseidon Z Mechanical Kailh Blue Switch Keyboard @ eTeknix
- Sentey Lumenata Pro Gaming Mouse Review @ TechwareLabs
- EVGA TORQ X10 Gaming Mouse Review @ Legit Reviews
Don't trust your life to smartwatches quite yet
Subject: General Tech | June 30, 2014 - 11:17 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: wearables
On a charity walk that went from one end of the Outer Hebrides to the other a variety of fitness trackers could not decide on just how far a distance was travelled. Indeed it quickly became quite obvious that there were discrepancies as at the two hour point in the walk the distance ranged from 5.5 to 9 miles. There were spots with no cell signal during the trek but more often than not there was a decent signal but yet the errors were not properly corrected. The Inquirer's experience illustrates that at this time you should not consider your smartwatch part of your emergency gear to be used with dead reckoning and a compass as you could be literally mislead. For now these devices are fitness trackers for the city and even then you might want to double check those distances if you are on a mission to cover a certain amount of ground.
"An example of some of the wearables present on the trek were the Galaxy Gear Fit, Fitbit Flex, Nike Fuelband, Jawbone Up24, Galaxy Gear 2 Neo and the Pebble watch."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Can You Really Use the Nvidia Shield as a Desktop Replacement? @ eTeknix
- Microsoft to roll out Windows Phone 8.1 at beginning of July @ The Inquirer
- Krebs on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails and Blaming Canada @ Slashdot
- Netgear Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router Preview @ Benchmark Reviews
- Power BI: Office 365 just got more intelligent @ The Register
- Seagate's LSI flash biz buyout: Good potential, but only if followed up @ The Register
- Fusion-io shopped itself to 11 firms... 10 declined @ The Register
- Win a Cube Raptor Gaming PC @ eTeknix
Hey Forum Members! Any interest in a free XFX R9 280 thanks to AMD?
Subject: General Tech | June 26, 2014 - 02:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, giveaway, xfx, r9 280, fragging frogs
That's right! If you have posted to the PC Perspective Forums at least 5 times before June 25, 2014 you are eligible to enter the raffle to win an XFX R9 280! Lenny and the Fragging Frogs have been given a gift from Warsam71 and AMD which will be given away to a lucky Forum member as a show of appreciation for the great community you have all helped build! Each member can only get one entry (no bribes!) and in order for your entry to count you have to post a picture of your current rig to this thread right here.
The draw will be held July 11th so get snapping and post to the thread for your chance to win!
"In appreciation of our existing forum members we are giving away a FREE XFX R9 280 Radeon Graphics Card !! (courtesy of Warsam71 and our friends at AMD)."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Linux Nears Total Domination of the Top500 Supercomputers @ Linux.com
- Samsung Gear Live vs LG G Watch specs comparison @ The Inquirer
- Intel cuts ribbon on UK Internet of Things Ignition Lab @ The Inquirer
- Bitcoin is MONEY, says Canada @ The Register
- Compal optimistic about smart shoes business @ DigiTimes
- Aaah, what's that smell, Nook? Yes, it's death: Barnes & Noble to jettison e-book biz @ The Register
- Computex 2014: HyperX Strikes Back @ Madshrimps
- Linksys X3500 N750 Dual-Band Wireless Modem/Router Review @ NikKTech
Podcast #306 - Budget PC Shootout, the Coolermaster Elite 110, AMD GameWorks competitor
Subject: General Tech | June 26, 2014 - 11:36 AM | Ken Addison
Tagged: xeon, video, seiki, podcast, nvidia, msi, Intel, HDMI 2.0, gt70 2pe, gt70, gameworks, FX-9590, displayport 1.3, coolermaster, amd, 4k
PC Perspective Podcast #306 - 06/26/2014
Join us this week as we discuss our Budget PC Shootout, the Coolermaster Elite 110, an AMD GameWorks competitor and more!
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Welcome to our beta podcast!
Quakecon is coming up, as is our Hardware Workshop!
Week in Review:
0:24:00 Noctua NH-U12S CPU Cooler Review
News items of interest:
0:42:00 You got your FPGA in my Xeon!
Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
Ryan: MSI Radeon R9 280 Gaming
Jeremy: Hack a GPS Pet collar to create WarKitteh!
Josh: Steampowered! Sales!
Allyn: Rufus makes bootable USB easy.
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Watch_Dogs; who watches the optimized code?
Subject: General Tech | June 25, 2014 - 01:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, watch_dogs, ubisoft, excuses
Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN have posted UbiSoft's reasoning behind the disabled graphics options on Watch_Dogs in this article. The explanation they chose is a little bit disingenuous as performance issues are likely not the main reason the so called "E3 enhancements" were removed, though their point about Bokeh sometimes creating issues in seeing the environment around is well founded. After all how can you have a long distance gun battle against distant blurry figures? The more likely reasoning revolves around a standard practice for AAA games when showing off a demo at a show like E3, they polished the engine specifically for that specific in game demo. By cherry picking one or more scenes and spending extra programming time to make it as pretty as possible they raise buzz about their unreleased game and hope to accrue extra pre-orders. Unfortunately this rather dishonest practice has become a tradition for shows like E3, but on the plus side gives modders extra things to play with!
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"Good thing: Watch_Dogs on PC can look nearly as good as the (in)famous 2012 E3 demo that started at all, and it's not even that hard to do thanks to some hidden graphics files that modders dug up. Bad thing: they were hidden. That certainly doesn't look good. Ubisoft has an explanation, though."
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Subject: General Tech | June 25, 2014 - 10:07 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you have been holding off on purchasing Google's Nest thermostat because you didn't like the app that controls it or just were not overly interested in a thermostat that trys to learn your schedule; would you be more interested if you could root it? All it takes is physical access to the thermostat and a minute with it plugged into a USB port on a computer. Not only will this give you complete control over the hardware inside, you can also install an SSH server with a reverse SSH connection to bypass firewalls. It will be interesting to see how these rooted Nest's can interact with other pieces of hardware released by Google with the "Works with Nest" branding. Check out how to do this for yourself at Hack a Day.
"A few months ago, Google bought a $3.2 billion dollar thermostat in the hopes it would pave the way for smart devices in every home. The Nest thermostat itself is actually pretty cool – it's running Linux with a reasonably capable CPU, and adds WiFi to the mix for some potentially cool applications. It can also be rooted in under a minute."
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Does the scientific establishment unwittingly suffer from paradigm bias? Does it assume incorrect axioms of existence?
In the light of Thomas Kuhn's "Paradigm Shift" theory, and inspired by the TED controversy of removing Rupert Sheldrake's talk, let us examine the current scientific establishment.
The scientific process is capable of historical meta-analysis to make sense of its own patterns and processes. As Kuhn points out, every generation of scientists tend to assume premises that are fundamentally false but define the paradigm in which they work, and all assumptions flow from those premises.
Two major examples to illustrate are the geocentric/religious paradigm overthrown by Copernicus, and the Newtonian absolute space-time paradigm overthrown by Einstein. Of course, we must look to the actual psyche's of the establishment itself in those contexts. Was Copernicus not considered a heretic? Did not pre-Einsteinian physicists literally just ASSUME absolute spacetime as an axiom when contemplating physics? They are only easily shown to be incorrect in 20/20 hindsight, although up to that point, all the textbooks of school and general consensus among very smart 'experts' propagated those fallacious foundations.
Scientists that are overly specialized, careerist, non-philosophical, and lacking in paradigm shattering intuition/creativity might be the 'gatekeepers' of today, propagating fallacious assumptions themselves, and dismissing all non-establishment positions as heretical.
Has science itself transcended all biases? Has it overcome all incorrect assumptions? Was Newtonian absolute spacetime the final barrier? If not, then we MUST give 'heretics' a shot, should we not? What if they are a paradigm shifter?
As a thought experiment- if we are to contemplate the hypothetical that there are indeed wrong assumptions, what might they be?
Could it be that matter emerges from mind, and not the other way around?
Can Cartesian dualism be solved?
Could it be that the paradigm of Empiricism is merely a subset of the superior Rationalism?
Was Leibniz right?
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Harro PenkMar 25 2013: It's like you're trying to wedge some kind of domino effect where there isn't one.
For example: All of evolution isn't going to crumble just because we don't know the piece between rocks and living tissue.
Another example: Math didn't wait for someone to discover how to use "0". They could still add, subtract, multiply and divide long before adding knowledge of "0" into the rules of math.
Also, all of physics and chemistry aren't anxiously waiting around until we know everything there is to know about God particles. They're not taking a break from new discoveries and new applications. They're going on at 100% speed, just like they always did.
Also, philosophy, no matter how much you would like it to, isn't a science. It's not testable at all, and there is no way to apply anything philosophy offers to any part of science or technology. In fact, I could probably argue for the opposite: Science has changed our view and understanding of philosophy.
Until science came along with verifiable, testable, and repeatable data, philosophy was often the only way for us to explain things. Witness the fact that we didn't know where starlight came from until the late 1800's, for example. The hypothesis about starlight varied from religious to metaphysical, with a huge sprinkle of BS intertwined as well. A purely philosophical view would dance around the issue and ultimately conclude "we don't know what we don't know" or "we know what we don't know" depending on what school of philosophy one belonged to.
Again, I ask: How is philosophy relevant in science? I don't see the connection, even after thinking about it for a couple of days now. Enlighten me - name a couple of examples?!
Mar 26 2013: @Harro Penk:
This should help you - Quoting James Burns below: " .. science, like any other endevour, suffers from existing in it's own time, and will eventually be corrected in some ways by the next shift in thinking. We never know enough to judge the age we are living in"
And from myself:
At core the "scientific method" is based on a philosophical perspective / belief system, which cannot be proven to anyone that did not "choose" to share that perspective / belief system.
Also, the "scientific method" is performed by people .. people are not perfect .. they bring their own "biases / belief systems / philosophies / fears" to the table .. and so every result is seen through that filter each person has and potentially affected / judged with that bias.
That's two examples for you.
If you need any more Enlightening examples then I might suggest you go do the leg work and find out for yourself.
Harro PenkMar 26 2013: Sorry I need to add another reply here John, but look:
Your examples aren't examples?!
Instead of stating examples of how philosophy could possibly bridge the gaps, you showed examples of how gaps could exist in science. Although, I do need to correct you on your view of science a little.
Science isn't:
Someone writing up some paper, it gets published, and the world moves on.
Science is:
Someone writes a paper, it gets peer reviewed, published, debated, etc. Other studies that try to replicate the data or somehow/otherwise attempt to find the same data points or conclusions are created, written, peer reviewed, published, and debated.
I think you have a "simplistic" view of science (I'm not trying to make fun of you, please). The scientific method isn't just about "hanging out in labs" and "wearing white coats". The core of the scientific method isn't the scientist. It's the peer review that takes place. Guess why that's done?
To reduce error and bias. Every scientist has bias, and every measurement has error. That's a known thing. By having independent research verify data and conclusions, science tries to reduce or eliminate both.
You don't have that in philosophy. You don't have anyone going around attempting to reduce bias and error. Heck, it's just like religion in that respect. Whatever statements are made, they stand on their own with - you pick your personal flavor of the month - whatever philosophy suits your argument.
Being rich = good (capitalism)
Being no richer than anyone else = good (communism)
Being mostly equal = good (socialism)
Being mostly poor = good (republican)
Sorry, couldn't help myself on the last one.
I hope this sheds some light one my assertions, John. As I said before, I was hoping for an example or two where your idea of philosophy had something to add to the conversation, but ... perhaps you mistook my request?
Mar 26 2013: Well you did ask:
"How is philosophy relevant in science? I don't see the connection, even after thinking about it for a couple of days now. Enlighten me - name a couple of examples?!"
And I took your question literally since I was trying not to add any bias (of course not entirely possible) and I gave what I believe to be relevant examples.
I showed you that there were connections between science and philosophy.
1. Science can be considered a philosophical belief system
2. Science is performed by people who hold a myriad of other philosophical belief systems that clash.
So, it should be pretty obvious to that philosophy is relevant.
Now, you are saying you want a different type of connection well ... hehe .. sorry I'm fresh out of rabbits for the moment.
Your description of the scientific method is reasonable, in a perfect world, where every scientist could put their ego aside but we don't have such a world and instead the method is corrupted and people being people and money being scarce old biased results are relied upon rather than re-investigated with fresh eyes.
On here recently, you had a classic case in point, where an anonymous bunch of nobodies got to censor a couple of talks for what has so far seemed to be political/personal reasons.
I say nobodies since we the viewers don't know their credentials and even if we did I'd still want to be able to make up my own mind.
This then sparked a massive debate (fortunately) but I have friends who trusted (past tense) TED's reputation so much so that they initially automatically assumed that TEDs censorship decision was OK and perfectly acceptable for them even though they had not taken the time to look at the talks themselves.
I think I'd be more interested to discover why you are choosing to find it impossible to see a connection/relevance.
The existence of a relevance should not be so troubling to you.
Mar 26 2013: john your points:
1. Science can be considered a philosophical belief system
2. Science is performed by people who hold a myriad of other philosophical belief systems that clash.
are both just plain incorrect. science can be considered the exact antithesis of philosophy, and scientists do not hold even 1 philosophical belief, much less a myriad of them.
Mar 27 2013: Re: "Again, I ask: How is philosophy relevant in science? I don't see the connection, even after thinking about it for a couple of days now. Enlighten me - name a couple of examples?!"
I like Sean Carroll's quote from the article I quoted above:
" the point of philosophy is not to be "useful" to science, any more than the point of mycology is to be "useful" to fungi. Philosophers of science aren't trying to do science, they are trying to understand how science works, and how it should work, and to tease out the logic and standards underlying scientific argumentation, and to situate scientific knowledge within a broader epistemological context, and a bunch of other things that can be perfectly interesting without pretending to be science itself. And if you're not interested, that's fine. But trying to undermine the legitimacy of the field through a series of wisecracks is kind of lame, and ultimately anti-intellectual — it represents exactly the kind of unwillingness to engage respectfully with careful scholarship in another discipline that we so rightly deplore when people feel that way about science. It's a shame when smart people who agree about most important things can't disagree about some other things without throwing around insults. We should strive to be better than that."
Mar 27 2013: @ben jarvis Re: "john your points:
1. Science can be considered a philosophical belief system
2. Science is performed by people who hold a myriad of other philosophical belief systems that clash.
are both just plain incorrect. science can be considered the exact antithesis of philosophy, and scientists do not hold even 1 philosophical belief, much less a myriad of them. "
Are you speaking for all scientists?
Do you believe that scientific theories must be, in principle, falsifiable by an experiment? If you hold such belief, I have a surprise for you: it is a philosophical belief formulated by philosopher of science Karl Popper. If you don't hold this belief, then you should agree that creationism is a scientific theory and the existence of a transcendent Creator is a scientific question.
Do you believe that natural laws are uniform and work in the same way across the universe, worked the same way in the past and will work the same way in the future? Another surprise. It's a philosophical belief too. If you don't believe this, you cannot deny that the world was not created in 6 days.
You might be also surprised that scientists not only have philosophical beliefs, but some were religious too. Big bang theory was created by a catholic priest, Geroges Lemaitre, genetics was founded by a monk, Gregor Mendel, Newton believed in God. The notion that science is incompatible with religion or philosophy or that scientists don' t hold philosophical or religious beliefs does not make any sense to me.
Without philosophical beliefs, there is no solid understanding of what can be proved by scientific method and what cannot. It leads to enormous confusion - people attempt to prove all kinds of stuff and present all kinds of claims as "scientific".
Mar 27 2013: Arkady (a bit informal, but I think after a couple of back-and-forths we should grant each other such liberties?),
Fundamentally, you are obfuscating science with all that bias that Mr. Goodman was talking about. In the same breadth, you are then making religious martyrs out of scientists, and turning philosophers into "fathers of science".
I can assure you that the following were not discovered by Popper:
Experimental method, critical thinking, mathematics, peer review, etc. Basically anything that had anything to do with science at all.
At best, Popper, being a philosopher, gave a name to some processes that were already in place, or perhaps came up with a way to think about them.
I still maintain one of my original assertions: Philosophy doesn't create anything. At best I may be able to add the following caveat: It creates a few terms and definitions for philosophy students to fret over.
While your mention of several religious scholars is admirable (you've done your homework), it doesn't really point to a philosophical gap at all. If anything, if you want to be honest, you should look at the work they did and how they accomplished it. None of them just pointed to some philosophy or some religous dogma and said: "That's how it is 'cause it says so right here." No. They all did real science work - with all the sweat and tears and blood required, all the peer review, all the debates and tests and retests that must be done to pass the gauntlet of skepticism.
I'm sorry Arkady, I still don't see the relevance that philosophy would play in science, as you seem to. Science is. It just is. Not because there's some dogma behind it, but precisely because there isn't. You see a rock - it's a rock. It has a certain composition, a certain mass. It's located here and not there, and it can be felt, touched, smelled, seen, etc. That's it.
If anything, I could grant you this: Perhaps the philosophy of science is not to have a philosophy? Big circle, no?
Mar 27 2013: Arkady is my name. That's what I prefer to be called. "Mr. Grudzinsky" is how teachers call me when my kids are in trouble at school.
Re: "I'm sorry Arkady, I still don't see the relevance that philosophy would play in science, as you seem to. Science is. It just is. Not because there's some dogma behind it, but precisely because there isn't. You see a rock - it's a rock. It has a certain composition, a certain mass. It's located here and not there, and it can be felt, touched, smelled, seen, etc. That's it."
That's a philosophical statement. Won't you agree? And a circular one too: "a rock is a rock". It's not meaningful. Meaning is exclusion. To create meaning is to define what an object in contrast to what it is not. When mycology is studying fungi, it's important to define what constitutes fungi and how fungi are different from other types of organisms. When philosophy is studying science, it's important to understand what science is and how to distinguish scientific claims from non-scientific claims.
But you are right. Definitions of science don't change what science is any more than definitions of light change the nature of light. They just add to our understanding. This spares scientists a lot of effort excluding a multitude of claims from the domain of science. If you read the article about evolution that I referred to, you might see the same thought there.
Of course, Lemaitre and Mendel made their discoveries as scientists, not as clergymen. My comment was in context of Ben's remark that scientists don't hold philosophical beliefs. Misunderstanding the context is often the source of flamed discussions.
Re: "If anything, I could grant you this: Perhaps the philosophy of science is not to have a philosophy? Big circle, no?"
I can grant you this also. I have said long ago that circular reasoning is at the bottom of any reasoning. Once we realize the circularity, it's time to stop - we reached the bottom of it :-)
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1. Accounts on Oxford Nexus
1.1. Current Staff and Students
Before you can begin using Oxford Nexus you need to have an account on the system. Talk to your local IT officer to see if your unit uses Nexus.
1.2. New Staff and Students
All new staff and students starting after 1st September 2009 from departments currently using the central Nexus system will automatically have Oxford Nexus accounts created for them for when they arrive in Oxford.
2. Accessing Oxford Nexus
Once you have an account on Oxford Nexus it can be accessed in a variety of ways. There is the Outlook Web Access interface through which all users can access their emails, view their calendar, access the global address list etc. Other ways to access Oxford Nexus depend on your computer operating system:
2.1. Windows Users
To access your account through the web interface you can use any modern web browser. However if you use Internet Explorer you will be able to access the enhanced web interface. This has more features than the Light version.
If you want to use a email program on your computer most standard programs can easily connect to Oxford Nexus using the standard IMAP protocol. See Email Clients for instructions for many common packages. To get the most functionality from the system it is recommended that you use Outlook, preferably Outlook 2007. Full setup instructions and how to use Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 are available.
2.2. Mac Users
With the release of Mac OS 10.6, Snow Leopard, Mac users can upgrade their system so that they can benefit from the much enhanced integration of Apple Mail with Oxford Nexus. Users of previous versions can still access the service either through the 'Light' web interface using a modern web browser such as Safari or FireFox or by using the Entourage Web Services (free upgrade for Entourage 2008 users).
If you want to use Entourage 2008 to access Nexus we have a variety of guides to show you how to set the program and how to use its many features such as calendaring.
With the release of Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Apple Mail users can easily connect to Nexus and use its many functions e.g. calendars, tasks etc. See the Snow Leopard pages for more information.
2.3. Linux Users
As for other systems, Linux users can access their Nexus accounts through their favourite web browser. They will all give access to the 'Light' web interface and give access to your emails, online calendar and global address list etc.
If you wish to use a stand-alone program to access your account you can connect to Oxford Nexus using the IMAP protocol in a similar manner to that of Herald. At present, there is no Linux-based program available which gives access to all the functionality found in Oxford Nexus but there is a way to see your calendar using Davmail and Thunderbird. Also see the 'Work Arounds' information.
3. Courses
The OUCS ITLP team have developed a range of courses covering all aspects of Oxford Nexus. The up coming courses are listed on the Oxford Nexus home page. To see the details of a given course and to book a place on it, please visit our ITLP courses section.
4. Self Teaching
If you find that you cannot attend one of our formal courses but would like to teach yourself instead, you can find our courses documentation in WebLearn.
Other useful resources include:
5. Case Studies
With the advent of Nexus many users are the University are finding new way to work more effectively. We have interviewed different groups to find out what they are now doing. To find out what others are doing with Nexus see the Case Studies section.
6. If you need help with Oxford Nexus
Occasionally you may find that you need help with some aspects of the service. If this happens look in our FAQ for answers or try reading our through relevant documentation on our site. If you are still having problems contact your local IT officer in the first instance and if they are unable to help you, contact our Help Centre for further advice.


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