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USB 3.0 and 6 Gbps SATA are both getting speed
increases this year in an unusual two-for-one special. USB 3.0
introduces the SuperSpeed mode, which provides raw throughput of 5
Gbps versus the measly 480 Mbps of USB 2.0. The USB interface uses
8b10 encoding, so with overhead USB 3.0 will top out at around 400 MB/s.
This standard will quickly be adopted by USB
flash drives and digital cameras due to the large amounts of data
The case for 6 Gbps SATA isn't as strong, unless
you're into Solid State Drives. While Seagate
has shipped the world's first hard drive to support the new
standard, it uses magnetic storage and is only able to use the extra
bandwidth when reading from cache. However, SSDs have been bandwidth
limited since early this year, and SSDs supporting the new interface
should have transfer speeds over 500 MB/s.
ASUS and Gigabyte
were both showing off motherboards supporting USB 3.0 and 6 Gbps SATA
during the Computex trade show in June. They both announced several
motherboards last week, and the boards are available in volume. All
of these boards use NEC's
USB 3.0 host interface controller introduced in June.
is now shipping the P7P55D-E Premium using Intel's P55 chipset and
the P6X58D Premium using the X58 chipset. The P55 chipset only
supports the first generation of PCIe with single lane bandwidth of
250 MB/s, so ASUS uses a PLX8613 bridge chip and four PCIe lanes to
optimize the throughput potential of the new interfaces.
company is also making its U3S6 expansion card available for all
P7P55D series motherboards. It will plug into a PCIe x4 or x8
connector and add two USB 3.0 and 6 Gbps SATA ports.
is also shipping seven motherboards in its P55A series supporting the
new technologies. They have decided against using a bridge chip, but
their implementation means you will be unable to use a second PCIe
x16 slot for CrossFire or SLI.
Meanwhile, problems at Intel
have delayed
new chipsets that will use these new technologies until the
beginning of 2011. Solutions from motherboard manufacturers will have
to do for now.

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speeds for internet users in America are often woeful in comparison
to the speeds found in other countries around the world. The FCC is
working hard to get faster broadband connections all around the
country, especially to the poor and those that live in rural
areas.Vendors are also working hard to increase the speed of
our web connections using existing methods while other firms work on
faster speeds with new technology like fiber optic and wireless
connectivity. Today, the majority of fixed-line internet is served by
copper cables that have been around for decades.As various
vendors that make the hardware that allows broadband over cable wires
using DSL technology make
technological breakthroughs, the speeds consumers can get
are growing. Nokia Siemens recently announced that it could transmit
data at up to 825Mbps using copper wires for a distance of 400
meters. Huawei has also announced that it has been able to transmit
data at up to 700Mbps over the same distance.The fastest
speeds in tests have been from Alcatel-Lucent with the ability to
send data at 910Mbps over 400 meters. These fast speeds are achieved
using different methods. One of the methods reports PC
is VDSL2 (Very high bit-rate digital subscriber Line) that sends data
over several copper pairs at one time. The VDSL2 method also uses DSL
Phantom Mode to create a third virtual copper pair to send more data
over along with the two copper pairs.Phantom Mode reportedly
causes crosstalk that the vendor then has to eliminate using noise
canceling tech very similar to the tech used by noise canceling
headphones. The tech monitors noise on the copper pairs continuously
and generates its own signal to cancel the noise out. The vendors
getting some of the highest speeds are using copper wire with four
pairs inside, but that wiring is not readily available making the
dual pair approach more realistic. Sending data across
two copper pairs is good for data speeds up to 390Mbps over 400
meters and vectoring can increase that distance to 1,000 meters.
Products using these new techniques are starting field trials with
providers now and should be in the commercial space for consumers
next year.
optic web connections are already available at 1Gbps
speeds in some areas.


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Art Contest of the Month
[September 2012]
These are the submissions for this month
1: Thoth with Set Fire to the Rain
2: Chachee with Memories
3: Killer Vision with Predator Lurks
4: Uzumaki Naruta with Randomness is Random
5: Elementalist with I pray the Lord my soul to keep
6: Hansom with The Akatsuki Organisation
7: Supermacaquecool with I'm Alive!
8: Nir with Tell me, what is power?
9: Lara with Kill time | Killed by time
10: -Severus Snape- with Naruto & Jiraiya
11: LonelyAssassin with Haruhi Fujioka
12: Eishi with My watercoloured storyboard submitted in Illustration class ~_~
13: leezy of the sand with random work
14: Jordanoftheclouds with Sasuke stopping Jugo and Suigetsu from fighting
15: Harm with Manga drawing (where tobi tells sasuke the truth about Itachi)
16: Skylar Knight with Snow White
17: Swati Chan with Yuna
18: Zyynn with Sasuke X Naruto
19: Gutsy Jiraiya with Donald Duck
20: Hydrax92 with Angel Wings
21: +Kyon+ with Save the Girl
22: GrimReaperoftheHideenLeaf with Ulquiorra Cifer-resurreccion segunda etapa
23: Zack Blade with 5 Kages
24: SHARINGAN_USER UCHIHA_ITACHI with Uchiha-Hood
Good luck and don't cheat -_-
You know the rules if not here is a brief ruling......
- No Voting for yourself
- No Asking for people to vote for your work
- No getting on alternative accounts to vote for yourself
- No saying mine is better than their
- Any breaking of any of the rules results in disqualification
- Advertising the contest-poll with VM/PM's or in any other way is forbidden
Just don't forget to vote for the the best artwork and not for your friends ^x^


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answer to the Apple
iPad has been rumored for at least
a few months, but the company made its new device official today.
The 7" tablet is called
the PlayBook and runs the BlackBerry Tablet OS which is based on
Neutrino microkernel architecture.
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis describes the device as "the
first professional tablet".
PlayBook features a 7" touch screen (1024x600), dual-core Cortex A9
processor, 1GB of RAM, and will have both HDMI and
USB ports. Unlike the Apple iPad, the 9.7mm-thick PlayBook will have
both a front-facing and rear camera. The device can also
playback both HTML5 and Adobe Flash content.
the PlayBook supports 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. Although it won't be available at launch, RIM intends to release versions of the PlayBook with 3G and 4G functionality. "RIM set out to engineer the best professional-grade tablet in the industry with cutting-edge hardware features and one of the world's most robust and flexible operating systems," said Lazaridis. "The BlackBerry PlayBook solidly hits the mark with industry leading power, true multitasking, uncompromised web browsing and high performance multimedia."Full specs for the PlayBook are as follows:
details are still slowly trickling in about the device, so you can
watch a two-minute video here which
previews the device's operating system.


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This study is provided by Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD).
Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England, 2006 (ICPSR 24502)
Principal Investigator(s): Hu-Dehart, Evelyn, Brown University; Garcia, Matthew, Brown University; Garcia Coll, Cynthia, Brown University; Itzigsohn, Jose, Brown University; Orr, Marion, Brown University; Affigne, Tony, Providence College; Elorza, Jorge, Roger Williams University. School of Law
The Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England is the New England extension of the LATINO NATIONAL SURVEY (LNS), 2006 (ICPSR 20862), which was conducted in 2005-2006. The Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England contains 1,200 completed interviews (unweighted) of self-identified Latino/Hispanic residents of the United States. The questionnaire is the same as that used in the original LNS. Interviewing began on November 17, 2005, and continued through August 4, 2006. The survey instrument contained approximately 165 distinct items ranging from demographic descriptions to political attitudes and policy preferences, as well as a variety of social indicators and experiences. All interviewers were bilingual, English and Spanish. Respondents were greeted in both languages and were immediately offered the opportunity to interview in either language. Interviewers also provided a consent script that allowed respondents to opt out of the survey. Demographic variables include age, ancestry, birthplace, education level, ethnicity, marital status, military service, number of people in the household, number of children under the age of 18 living in the household, political party affiliation, political ideology, religiosity, religious preference, race, and sex.
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Miss Luelle Williams' South Newfane School Class
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Why World Vision? Breaking the cycle of poverty
Poverty is a deeper issue than a simple lack of resources, which is why World Vision takes a holistic approach to community development in order to address all of poverty's complexity. Though money won't solve poverty alone, Economic Development is still a vital component to breaking the cycle. Today's infographic explores how World Vision develops communities economically.
Check back throughout the week for two videos, stories from the field, and a Q&A on Friday with one of our Economic Development experts.
If you missed any posts from the first four weeks of our "Why World Vision?" campaign, you can find them all at the link above — including infographics, stories from the field, and Q&As with our experts.
Child sponsorship is the cornerstone of World Vision's approach to community development. Join us! Change a child's life for good. Sponsoring a child provides life-saving basics and helps break the cycle of poverty. Consider sponsoring a child today!
Along with our Why World Vision? campaign, we introduced our limited-edition T-shirt line to support the campaign through a partnership with Jedidiah Clothing. Don't miss the designs for Economic Development!


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Wunderbar is a program which is able to identify mislabeled samples in genotype data when a few extra independent genotypes are available ("genetic barcoding"). Wunderbar calculates the likelihood that genotype mismatches have occurred by chance. It is capable of reliable and sensitive detection of sample mismatches and swaps even in the presence of numerous genotyping errors and in the presence of linkage disequibrilium between the individual genotypes. It only requires a few SNPs to work well.
Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. Running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris, it can disassemble ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), MIPS, PPC, and x86 architectures. Capstone provides rich details about disassembled instructions along with useful semantic information.
The Omega Project is a universe simulator accessible remotely by registered users over the JSON-RPC protocol. This allows the highest number of users and developers to access the universe and control ships / stations / other entities in via many mechanisms. The server listens for requests over a variety of protocols including TCP, HTTP, Websockets, AMQP, and more, and clients written in any language running on any platform may use these transports to communicate with it. Omega also ships with a WebGL frontend based on three.js, providing an interactive view into running simulations.
Foodsoft is online software for a non-profit food coop. It features a product catalog, order cycle management, accounting, and tasks. A food cooperative is a group of people that buy food from suppliers of their own choosing; a collective do-it-yourself supermarket. Members order their products online and collect them on a specified day, and all put in a bit of work to make that possible. foodsoft facilitates the ordering and administration.
capistrano-typo3-cms is an extension for the deployment tool Capistrano. It facilitates the deployment of TYPO3 CMS projects. This tool is only tested on Unix based systems. A German introduction is available. It includes the following additional packages: capistrano, capistrano-ext, and railsless-deploy.
Backerup is a robust remote backup system which can operate over relatively slow networks. File transfers are done using rsync, and snapshots are taken using hardlinks. Bandwidth can be controlled per host and per network. Priorities can be set on backup groups, as well as requesting minimum ages for backups.
The virtualbox-COM Ruby gem is a library that provides a low level Ruby binding to the VirtualBox API, allowing anyone to control VirtualBox from Ruby code. It can create, destroy, start, stop, suspend, and resume virtual machines, and also list virtual machines, list hard drives, network devices, etc.
An automated solver for the "Black Hole" and "All in a Row" solitaire/patience card games.
A distributed fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server.


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Environment Colorado, a prominent advocacy group, sent a letter to President Barack Obama this week, asking him to shield national parks from fossil fuel extraction.
The letter had 90 signatures, including city councilors, mayors, county commissioners, and conservation nonprofits from around the state.
Deborah Gangloff, president and CEO of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, was the only Montezuma County signatory.
Durango city councilors Christina Rinderle and Sweetie Marbury, as well as new La Plata County commissioner Gwen Lachelt, signed on, as did San Juan Angler, a fly fishing shop; Durango Rivertrippers; the La Plata Open Space Conservancy; and Great Old Broads for Wilderness, a group of wilderness-minded seniors, also in Durango.
"Mesa Verde National Park, and many other parks all across Colorado, are where some of our families' most unforgettable memories are formed - our first hikes, our first time camping, our first encounters with wildlife," said Environment Colorado field associate Margaret McCall in a press release. "That's why (it) deserves permanent protections from pollution and drilling."
The letter calls on Obama to restore full funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund in his upcoming budget proposal for fiscal year 2014, and the rest of his term. The budget is already one month overdue; presidents typically release their proposals for the following fiscal year no later than the first Monday in February.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund, created in 1965, uses royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling to pay for acquisitions of private properties, normally surrounded by or abutting existing public lands. All sales are voluntary. According to the U.S. Forest Service, 7 million acres of land, worth $9 billion, have been purchased over the fund's history.
Congress can appropriate up to $900 million annually for the fund, but that amount has only been met once, according to Bob Bendick, director of U.S. Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy. Much of it gets diverted to other areas of the federal budget.
"The annual diversion of LWCF funds to non-conservation purposes has left a long legacy of backlogged conservation projects and missed opportunities to safeguard our national heritage," the Environment Colorado letter reads.
In February, three Democratic senators introduced a bill in Congress to reauthorize the LWCF - it is due to expire in 2015 - and boost funding back to the full $900 million. Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is a cosponsor.
There is no oil and gas development inside Mesa Verde National Park, but almost 11,000 acres on eight parcels east of the park were scheduled to be leased at auction last month. At the last minute, Bureau of Land Management Colorado director Helen Hankins announced those leases would be deferred for further analysis. Local environmental groups had raised concerns that current resource management plans were outdated.
Kinder Morgan has multiple carbon dioxide wells sites within BLM/Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. Marietta Eaton, the monument's manager, said about 80 percent of Canyon of the Ancients is leased for development.


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TimD was 25 when he peaked. now look up other players at 4/5 in the all-time greats and tell me how many players improved dramatically after 26.
Could you be more vague? Specifics please otherwise it is white noise.
Who is the we in the bold above?
One thing to consider for the last sentence: did it occur to you that without a training camp and limited practice time, the team got better on defense due to Casey's having more time to teach and implement? I know I'm just another Bargnani fanboy but the post offers no new insight and is certainly far from accurate in the big picture.
Defensively, well, my point here has always been that the defensive improvement was a function of the staff. The entire team improved. Amir and Davis went down 8 and 9 pts respectively. Derozan and Calderon went down 6. James Johnson went down over 10 pts. Point being that the DRTGs were less about individual player improvement and more/all about team improvement. I couldn't find the PPP stat that Soft Euro quoted but assuming the methodology is good, it does suggest a positive. I would like to see those numbers year over year alongside spot up stats cause I wonder how much of it is influenced by the fact he regularly guards the worst offensive opponent big.
The other note here is something alluded to in your post: his limited playing time. Last year he missed 16 games and this year 35. Now I grant that there were some mitigating factors but Bargs was very durable his first 4 years. Since he's become a high USG%, focal point player he has not been very durable. Surely, if we're talking about a player's career trajectory, the fact that he couldn't stay on the floor this year doesn't bode well.
Look, I've never been anti-Bargs. He is what he is and as stretch 4 he could be an extremely useful player as a 3rd option off the bench (a giant Harden). But he isn't a focal point of a contender. He has never been and he won't be. Right now is as good as it gets.
He is below the league average significantly in 1 category: three point percentage (although his career average is slightly higher)
So if anything, he is an average NBA player with exceptional scoring capabilities, free throw shooting and a capable rebounder by average NBA player standards (not taking into account his position). He is also a proven three point shooter and his clutch scoring is more than 10% higher than NBA average.
For a 7 foot man to display the kind of touch he has showcased, I would consider that exceptional. He is by no means perfect or the guy, but a $9M price tag to go along with his production who meets average standards in all statistical categories and surpasses the average in a few (once again: ppg, ft%, clutch scoring and reb -- even though this one is misleading),
...... I would consider him a solid player for the Toronto Raptors.
& we are talking about paying Nic Batum slightly more than Bargnani ... go figure, the hate generates from the expectations of a #1 overall pick, but his salary does not indicate this status)
I dont create controversies. Theyre there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.
-- Charles Barkley
Here is the list of salaries for 2012/13 for players in Bargnani's economic snack bracket ($7.5 million plus). I have excluded franchise players (Kobe, LBJ, DWade etc) and historic albatross contracts (Lewis, Arenas, Davis etc).
1. Amare Stoudemire $19.9
2. Joe Johnson $19.7
3. Pau Gasol $19.0
4. Elton Brand $18.0
5. Andrew Bynum $16.5
6. Zach Randolph $16.5
7. Rudy Gay $16.5
8. Al Jefferson $15.0
9. Carlos Boozer $15.0
10. Marc Gasol $13.9
11. Kevin Love $13.7
12. Emeka Okafor $13.5
13. Josh Smith $13.2
14. Andrew Bogut $13.2
15. Danny Granger $13.1
16. LaMarcus Aldridge $13.0
17. Nene Hilario $13.0
18. Kevin Martin $12.9
19. David Lee $12.7
20. Ben Gordon $12.4
21. Al Horford $12.0
22. Gerald Wallace $11.4
23. Hedo Turkoglu $11.4
24. Monta Ellis $11.0
25. Corey Magette $10.9
26. DeAndre Jordan $10.5
27. David West $10.0
28. Stephen Jackson $10.0
29. Richard Jefferson $10.0
30. Andrea Bargnani $10.0
31. Luis Scola $9.4
32. Andris Biedrins $9.0
33. Shawn Marion $8.6
34. Rodney Stuckey $8.5
35. Devin Harris $8.5
36. Mo Williams $8.5
37. Brendan Haywood $8.4
38. Marvin Williams $8.3
39. Lamar Odom $8.2
40. Michael Beasley $8.1
41. John Salmons $8.1
42. Charlie Villanueva $8.0
43. Tyrus Thomas $8.0
44. Jameer Nelson $7.9
45. Kendrick Perkins $7.8
46. Marcus Thornton $7.6
47. DaSanga Diop $7.5
While there is endless debate and statistics on his (in some peoples eyes) glaring shortcomings and (in other peoples eyes) his undeniably unique skills. The fact of the matter is that there is no right answer to whether or not Bargnani should be traded.
He should not be traded for the sake of ridding the team of him - he is not getting in the way of any player who potentially has a higher ceiling than he does (apologies to those that still have high hopes for ED), and to those who say you can't win with him as your franchise player so get rid of him - you are half right - he's not a franchise player (but he's not getting paid like one) so you don't HAVE to get rid of him.
On the other side of the fence, to those that say you can't trade him, he's our best offensive player. You too may be half right, he is likely our best offensive player, but he is not a franchise player, so if you can get a better player or players for him you do the deal. In my view this does not mean cap space or a lottery pick (unless you believe it is a can't miss franchise type pick).
If you look at the list above and the salaries associated with the players it is hard to argue that Bargnani is decent value for his contract in comparison to his salary peer group. Certainly there are players on that list you'd rather have than him at current contract rates, but I would argue there are far more that you wouldn't. (remember to be as critical of the other teams players shortcomings as you are of ours).
I would love to hear people's thoughts.
I see everyone is quoting Bargnani's salary as an excuse now.
Good post OntheRightTrack.
The problem is you cannot compare bargnani's salary directly to players like Pau. Pau is earning a lot of money right now as he signed his last big contract with the biggest team in the NBA after having proven himself as an incredible talent. But if you look at what he or even franchise players (which was left out) like TimD were earning at 26 I bet it will not be very different from Bargnani's salary right now. If you do an age-adjustment and also account for size of the team Bargnani's contract value will drop down further. This is why Calderon's contract (which will not be any higher) is better than Bargnani's in my books.
AlHorford , Monta who are the same age as Bargs are better comparisons than players like Pau from the list. Sure there are worse contracts than bargnani in the league but from the raps viewpoint it is one of the highest and immediately subject to criticism if it is not backed up by all-star performances (like a Bosh). If we had Bynum and Kobe in our team bargnani will be viewed more favorably of course. But we are not the lakers and the earlier point about trading a non-franchise player with the biggest contract and trade value cannot be dismissed by fanboys.
draftedraptor, not sure if first line was serious or not, I am by no means trying to make excuses for Bargnani. Frankly, my personal opinion is that I don't care if he stays or goes. What I do care is whether or not we get better value for those dollars.
When you state that Pau is not the best comparison, I would agree. Where I differ is in trying to compare to what Tim D was making when he was 26 - market was different then and Tim D by your own admission is a franchise player. Additionally age is not really a defining factor as players enter the league at different ages. The most reasonable comparisons are players who have signed their second contracts since entering the league. The two you list, Horford and Monta are good examples, but so are Tyrus Thomas, Charlie Villanueva, Marvin Williams, Mo Williams, Devin Harris, Rodney Stuckey, Andis Biedrins, Ben Gordon, David Lee, DeAndre Jordan, Kevin Martin, LaMarcus Aldridge, Danny Granger, Andrew Bogut, Emeka Okafor, Kevin Love, Marc Gasol, Rudy Gay, Andrew Bynum and Joe Johnson.
Some great players in there - and some with good value contracts, but imo Bargs on average, delivers reasonable market value at worst. Again, this is not a comparison to bad contracts - this is a comparison to all contracts in his comp range. What this tells me is that when he was re-signed it was as a "good" player at good value - not a franschise player by any means (or he would be earning $16.5 million).
I guess my overall feeling is that we have way bigger issues than AB. We are way short on talent.
What the Raps should be doing (again in my opinion) is looking to add top end talent where, if he is still here (has not been used to acquire top end talent) then Bargs becomes your third offensive option ( after a dynamic pg and a dynamic wing - neither of which we have). Then we would have the makings of something. BC has some tools this summer to do just that.
If we stay at 8 in the draft I would probably target Rudy Gay in a trade. Not because he is my favorite wing that might be available but because he is the "most available" for the assets we want to use. Memphis has said they will not be a tax team - if they are going to trade Gay it is to get some future value and reduce salaries. I would offer (before July 1st) Ed Davis, Gary Forbes and our 2013 first rounder. Obviously Memphis is not getting near full value for Gay but they are getting a young, cheap big who is controllable and a future first that they probably expect would be in the lottery and most importantly for them, room to manouver.
With our pick at 8 I would look at Perry Jones or Lillard (I think we have to swing for the fences- not take a safe pick) Another option would be trade down for an asset and take Tony Wroten (again a very unsafe pick, but with a large high risk upside)
We would still have the mid-level and bi-annual exceptions to use for veteran role players along with Bird rights for Bayless, Gray and Weems (to either have them return or for S&T purposes again for veteran role players.)
If BC plays his cards right - and the biggest challenge will be the trade for a wing - I think we could have a 4, 5,6 in the east type team next year with lots of room for future frowth.
To me this is more of a fair comparison of similar contracts and value. Looking at the list, how many players are a better 'value' or a better contract than Bargnani or a preferred player to have? Personally I only see Horford and Ellis (who both make more than Bargnani, fwiw) as you mentioned.20. Ben Gordon $12.4
21. Al Horford $12.0
22. Gerald Wallace $11.4
23. Hedo Turkoglu $11.4
24. Monta Ellis $11.0
25. Corey Magette $10.9
26. DeAndre Jordan $10.5
27. David West $10.0
28. Stephen Jackson $10.0
29. Richard Jefferson $10.0
30. Andrea Bargnani $10.0
31. Luis Scola $9.4
32. Andris Biedrins $9.0
33. Shawn Marion $8.6
34. Rodney Stuckey $8.5
35. Devin Harris $8.5
36. Mo Williams $8.5
37. Brendan Haywood $8.4
38. Marvin Williams $8.3
39. Lamar Odom $8.2
40. Michael Beasley $8.1
41. John Salmons $8.1
42. Charlie Villanueva $8.0
43. Tyrus Thomas $8.0
44. Jameer Nelson $7.9
45. Kendrick Perkins $7.8
46. Marcus Thornton $7.6
47. DaSanga Diop $7.5
I'm assuming your point is because Bargnani is the highest paid player, he must be an All-Star. I do not agree. The reality is given his contract he is a very good player if the above list is any indication. Also what happens when or if the Raptors get an all-star but they have shipped off all their talented or supporting cast? Sacramento is struggling to find an all-star and has loads of cap space - what benefit is that? Or what about Cleveland/LBJ situation - great centre piece but no flexibility to add players due to overpaid veterans and overall lack of talent to get a championship won. What about Luol Deng in Chicago? Using your thinking, Deng should have been shipped out long before Rose arrived on the scene - and where would the Bulls be without Deng now? Probably looking for a wing scorer and defender.
Trading away your second highest paid and arguably best player because your team is still building and searching for an All-Star does not seem like a fool-proof way to build a contender.
in my opinion he should only be traded if we get lucky and draft Anthony Davis. Otherwise we keep him to go along with the core, i like the way Indiana is built and i think our team when its all said and done, will be much better.
Who doesn't like the way Indy is built?
I don't see why Bargnani needs to be traded unless it was for someone significantly better than him like Josh Smith or a high potential upcoming player like Derrick Williams.
I acknowledge the incredibly weak source, but it's been a slow week, and we need something new to discuss.
http://sports.gather.com/viewArticle...81474981352310Boozer was mentioned in trade rumors before the deadline this past season and now he is rumored on the move again. The latest from Paul Grossinger of Bleacher Report suggests they make a deal with Toronto for Andrea Bargnani.
Both these players have under-performed and a change in scenery is possibly the best option. The Raptors would get a veteran that could help bring along the young front-court players in Toronto and Chicago would be better off without the distraction Boozer has become with his play.
Keep in mind that Boozer is set to earn $15 million next season, while Bargnani will be earning $10 million. So a straight-up trade may not work.
Regardless of salary, would you make this trade?
as much as i'm not a fan of bargs, there are certainly players that i actually despise on a level that goes beyond basketball...and boozer is one of 'em.
not that they should or will, but they could do a straight-up trade. as TO is under the cap & can absorb more money. they probably have room to eat all of boozers contract (or close to it), so could - in theory - trade a pick or a low-$$ player for him. again, doing so makes zero sense....on a team like this, boozer puts them firmly in treadmill territory.
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Boozer is npt worth it.
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As much as I like Derozan, I beleive he will regress if we trade Bargnani. In the small sample of games without Andrea Demar has struggled. Coincidence? I think not.
Even though Andrea is infamously the worst defensive center in the league, and quite possibly the worst defensive player in general, for the sake of argument, I will agree with you: he is an absolute gem, shooting 0.448 from the field at seven feet. So given Andrea is a gem, how is DeMar a disappointment? His sophmore season has been at least as good as Andrea's; therefore, he is theoretically en route to be at least as good as Andrea: an gem to every other GM in the league.
DeMar is still a sophmore, 21 years of age. Even if he was significantly less productive than he is currently, say as productive as Andrea was in his sophmore season, he still has plenty of time to make an All-Star of himself.
I think we need to wait another year or two to even begin to pass judgment on whether DeMar has lived up to the potential we gave him, regardless of statistics. Relax.
I think there is too much hype on DD, and it is not being backed up by statistical relevance, which is my point.
Most ppl are responding to this thread with "Bargs sucks", which means they acknowledge my points on DD
I hope you understand how stupid it is to compare a second year player's second year stats to his career average, when analyzing his development.Turnovers per game: 1.2 career, 1.7 this season
RPG: 3.3 career, 3.7 this year
Personal Fouls: 2.5 career, 2.7 this year
Points per Game: 12.4 career, 16.5 this season
And you are right Tim, this is all it is. A diversion. They want to somehow justify in their own mind how "good" Bargnani is and how its everyone else bringing him down.
but if someone dares to point out the deficiencies of another player, everyone says "bargs sucks"
you all are hypocrites if you do that you know.
I'll meet you here next year when you are crying about "yo multipaul was right, DD sucks, trade his ass"
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Thanks Mike!
Thanks everyone! Have a good weekend..
@Rick, yes the wireless sensor networks stuff. This is where the Zigbee IP folks among other hope to cash in.
well everyone, it has been fun
remember that we'll be doing another week in review next week, same time!
@rich, good idea. Though again, it is the integration(miniaturization?) of the sensor that needs work.
Great chat. Lots of things to consider regarding the IPv6 switchover especially.
Sensor in the wash... Sounds like a new version of electronic-safe Tide is in the works... Thanks for the chat folks.
@caleb, there are comms links that use the body as the conductor for near field RF. Maybe you dont need thread
@Taichi: Are you familiar with the OpenWSN work?
But the problem is, I'll have this freaking sensor to deal with. it'll be cumbersome. Anyway, I've gone waaay off topic AND our time is up!
See ya, Rick.
@rick, meant the call for sensor experts, not the micron call.
I have a tiny heart rate sensor and some conductive thread. I'm trying to think of a fun way to spice up my daily jog.
@Rich, so far the v6 stacks are still in their infancy. They'll get smaller as soon as we figure out the bare minimum for comms and offload most of the bookkeeping to a gateway. That's what 6LoWPAN does.
@rick - CC me on that call. I'm going to need sensor bloggers
the sensors are the hard part. Ultimately they need to be non detectable. You need to have shirts in your wardrobe that feel normal but can measure your heart rate, hormones, blood sugar level etc.
@Caleb: That's what I am saying. Conductive yarns have been in dev for a decade+ But where's the result?
I gotta get on a call with Micron's prez. See ya!
there's conductive thread on my workbench right now rick! it isn't new.
See ya, Max.
I am looking for some good sensor experts to get a 30,000 foot lay of the land. If anyone knows anyone, send them my way
64M? Wow, I had no idea it was that large. Could the system have the gateway be the memory hog and use IPv4 or something else modest for the final link to the endpoint, so the endpoint can be small?
@Rick, I agree. The term Embedded has lost it's meaning and charm. E.g., it's not the Embedded System Conference any longer is it? So, the Universities have got to feel that there is a reason to teach small RAM footprint development again. If we call it industrial internet, maybe they'll respond.
@Caleb: Ten+ years ago DARPA and some Europeans were separately working on conductive yarns. But these folks have gone quiet. Clothes = the new mobile platform?
Bye Max!
@rick, in the short term, absolutely.
@Caleb: I think the winner will have watches and shoes and glasses and etc that do cool things together...and link to your phone ands tablet of course.
straying from the topic completely, I think the next big thing will be tiny sensors in our clothes to monitor our body.
I'm sorry chaps and chappesses ... I have a visitor who has just come into my office ... Mike, I will leave you in Caleb's cabable hands -- Max
@caleb, true that connectivity will become commonplace, but the IoT helps separate the things that are human controlled from those that are gathering and sending data autonomously. They're different software architectures, or should be.
@Rich, the numbers I've heard so far are that you can't even consider v6 in less than 64MBs of RAM. On the SoCs with M3/M4 they're coming with 256M. So, it's not much of an issue as long as the application is frugal.
Information "at a glance" is big right now. Watches play into that very well. Especially considering you can add Biofeedback
@Taichi: For sure IoT and IoE are marketing terms. As is to some extent Industrial Internet. ARM CTO said this week that its just a sexy term for embedded so someone will get excited and write about embedded again.
So what about the reports of the Samsung Galaxy Gear watch and Apple iWatch TK this fall. Are we on the cusp of useful wearables or another round of bell bottom pants?
Yes, there are several projects underway for the "Industrial Internet" where v6 and small footprint devices intersect. The Term "IoT" is a marketing thing. In fact, Cisco now calls it the "Internet of everything". So, as M2M applications become more prevalent, the erm will be replaced by something else.
@max I disagree with that too. We create "memes" every day and they go away all the time. Especially in tech. every new feature gets its spotlight for a little bit, but I think in the near future we just won't even bother with IoT. Everything will just have communication.
Tai, sounds like IPv6 is going to impose a minimum set of requirments on the endpoint's resources, then, a larger set than those working with IPv4 realize. How much bigger will the memory need to be?
@Taichi: You know Berkeley's Kris Pister and David Culler have been big IPv6 champions and Cisco bought Culler's startup
@Caleb: I kind of think the term IoT will just go away.
I wish ... but I disagree ... once a "meme" has taken hold and started breeding ... it's %^&^ difficult to stop
@Max, the issue of IPv6 address size is actually not one to be glossed over lightly. The definition of DNS getHostInfo calls return IPv6 *before* IPv4 addresses accroding to the RFC. These addresses are dynamically allocated in the spec. If I simply send a few thousand DNS responses to the device following a request, I can exhause device memory (DoS attack). Then the user is "supposed" to remember to free the allocated memory using another call. One missed deallocation and you've got a substantial memory leak.
that's like saying my nexus tablet is the latest in this "web enabled" electronics craze
I suspect other established indiustrial companies such as Honneywell, Johnson Controls etc have works in progress
Of course, the really interesting think about Kickstarter is that all they have to do is provide the platform ... and take a cut of the funds that are raised ... basically Kickstarter is a "license to print money" by th efolks who own th eKikstarter website (I wish I'd thought of it :-)
I kind of think the term IoT will just go away. Everything will have connectivity. We can stop thinking about that part of it.
Chiming in late...FYI GE has a big IoT program under the name Industrial Internet whose folks I hope ti interview soon
@Mike: ...the kickstarters of the world is where you'll see big IoT adoption first...
I guess the Kickstarter types are playing chicken, then, in the old chicken-and-egg game. Hopefully the IoT egg will be golden, not rotten
@Rich, true. IMHO, the kickstarters of the world is where you'll see big IoT adoption first. Once it's proven, the established companies will have to adopt or get passed by.
In the old days, we could see a 4K IPv4 stack. But, v6 has pushed to simplify the router code by pushing protocol code into the endpoint. Router discovery, neighbor discovery, multicast (v6 doesn't do broadcast) have all been pushed to the end device. This takes a lot of RAM. So, we'll have to go to larger processors to make it function.As for the Hackenstein period, it will likely start to taper off as legacy units get replaced due to attrition. The silicon manufacturers can't make much money on 8051s, they're driving the customers up the processor scale so the silicon folks can turn a profit.
@caleb, I would think that the big wave of IoT would first come from small startups, which are the greater risk-takers. Big companies will follow with polished versions, perhaps, but mostly derivatives.
I don't think it will ever end, but once it proves itself enough times you'll see whole swarms of devices that are designed to the purpose released by big companies
Tai: How long do you think that Frankenstein era will last? Or does it ever really end?
I'm just looking forward to my appliances getting DDOS'd
@Mike: surely the issue of IPv6 (16-bytes) vs. IPv4 (4-bytes) is a non-issue in terms of memory size -- even in a memory constrained system.
My understanding is that a bunch pof end devices will trpically communicate with each other using a 6LoWPAN (passing data packets that are only 127 bytes in size) -- the trick comes when the 6LoWPAN interfaces with the Gateway, which connects to the Internet ... now we have to take big Internet packets and split them up into lots of smaller 6LoWPAN packets, or take lots of small 6LoWPAN packets and bundle them up into a big Internet packet ... but all of thsi is done in the Gateway .. so no memory footprint impact on the end devices...
@Caleb: Yes, there will likely be a transition period with all sorts and manner of frankenstein hacks of network interfaces duct taped to existing systems.
It will be nice to be able to address all the Galaxies in the universe with v6. That way the United Federation of Planets can send SPAM emails... :-)
In fact, the US is dead last in IPv6 adoption. That's because we owned the majority of the address space. But, IANA ran out of V4 addresses in 2011. New users get v6. China currently has 7 major backbones that are v6 only. Even the 2008 Olympics was broadcast with v6. Netflix, Google, Amazon and Akamai now all support v6.
People are going to strap IoT pieces to existing stuff for quite some time just to establish that there is a use for it.
@tai, it is this adaption that concerns me. It sounds like that is where these memory leaks are going to be the bigger problem, not in new IoT device designs.
it will happen though. At least in the beginning.
Tai, do you think folks will try to take legacy systems and bolt on a network connection to make them into IoT devices? I sure hope not. That could be a nightmare. like the title says,
As to IPv4 vs IPv6, even the Zigbee folks are bowing to the inevitable. Zigbee IP uses 6LoWPAN which is a compressed IPv6 address space. The issue is not that IPv4 will go away any time soon, the issue is that v6 will happen regardless of our ability to ignore it. We surpassed 4 Billion devices on the Internet in 2009. There are expected to be 15 billion on the Internet by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020. NAT and CIDR only go so far. Eventually, we'll all have to adapt.
@rich: that's what they thought about IPv4..
LOL ... but you are right
@ max, that's what they thought about IPv4..
@Mike: The Synapse Wireless SNAP OS (their version of a Stack) consumes only ~40KB (including a Python Virtual Machine) while still implemnenting a full 802.15.4-based wireless mesh network
Useless but interesting facts #2 According to calculations and estimations performed by the folks at the University of Hawaii (who obviously have far too much time on their hands), if we account for all of the beaches around the world, together they contain around 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand. Thus, the addressing space of IPv6 is sufficient to give each grain of sand its own unique IP address – and to do this for approximately 5 x 10^19 Earthlike worlds – so I don't think we're going to run out of IPv6 addresses in the foreseeable future.
@Max, Sorry, you are correct, I was looking at their gateway. My mistake.
Useless but interesting facts #1
Pv4 uses 32-bit (four-byte) addresses, which limits the address space to 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 possibly unique addresses.IPv6 uses 128-bit (16-byte) addresses, so the new address space supports 2^128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 3.4 x 10^38) addresses.
@Duane: Yes, there will be places where cost sensitivies are such that languages like Java, Python, Lua, etc. will be fine. I'm more concerned for the billions of devices that will not have that luxury. Look at the cost differnetial between an ARM Cortex A8 and a Cortex M0. The M0 is less than a nickle and the A8 is several dollars. Multiply that by 40,000 sensor points and you've got a sizable chunk of change.
@Mike: Their wireless module is 2-3 orders of magnitude more expensive and can support the RAM and MMU needed for full Linux.
What? I'm talking about a $20 module that's got 128KB of flash and a small amout of RAM ... I think you must be looking at their Gateway device or something
Tai, but are people using Java and the like in the endpoints? Most developers I talk to for that end prefer C.
The ARM processors are bringing enough power to the embedded world that Python and possibly a few other high-level languages are viable in embedded.
@Max: The folks at Synapse Wireless (www.synapse-wireless.com) use Python in their wireless modules -- my understanding is tha tit's very memory efficient because of the use of byte code. True, for what it is, Python is very efficient. However, look at the cost of their module compared to the cost of a SCADA sensor. Their wireless module is 2-3 orders of magnitude more expensive and can support the RAM and MMU needed for full Linux.
Ah, yes. Cost cutting. In the mid-80s I had to design the control system of a surgical laser around the 6502 because an Apple II+ was the only thing available to use as a development tool - no budget for new tools. Yes, I see your point
@Max, Yes, the endpoints are where the code its the metal. That's the problem, not the gateways.
@Max. Well, they should write new code. But, management is always looking to cut costs. If I'm upgrading the critical infrastructure in a power plant because my Windows 95 box (no kidding they actually use these) can run any longer, then management wants to port the legacy code because it's "proven". Of course porting to a new environment will introduce new bugs. But, that's not taken into acount in the calculus.
@mike: The embedded code in the enpoint. The gateways can typically run Linux/Android or even WinDoze.
But isn't it the endpoint devices we're the most concerned about when it comes to small memory footprints?
@mike: This requires a significantly different development skill set than can be found in Java EE and Python Apps.
The folks at Synapse Wireless (www.synapse-wireless.com) use Python in their wireless modules -- my understanding is tha tit's very memory efficient because of the use of byte code.
The approach taken by Android for VMs is significantly different than that found in the typical J2EE app on the desktop/server. In the Dalvik case, each app gets it's own VM. This differs from J2EE where one VM runs everything.
So you see the gateways as the point where memory constraints and leaks will be the big issue?
@Mike: Small memory footprints will be the lion's share of devices (sensors) placed on the IoT.
I agree -- and my contention is that folks will be writing new code for these -- not using legacy code
The embedded code in the enpoint. The gateways can typically run Linux/Android or even WinDoze.
Tai, but the IoT device developers are usually coming from the embedded world and not using Java but C, arent they?
Mike: if VMs encourage the dynamic creation and deletion of objects that ultimately leads to excessive memory use and potential errors, will that problem be compounded as we add more and more VMs to the network? In other words, would an error in one VM tend to compound an error in another, perhaps leading to a third? Or do all VMs function independently in that respect? (In which case, I suppose we could still see a collective weakness if several generated errors at the same time.)
If the obtaining of an IPV6 address involves a procedure call -- why not just get someone to create an open source procedure that handles the memory allocation and deallocatoion and that everyone can look at and say "this is good" and then everyone can subsequently use in their applications...
Which code are we talking about here? There is the embedded code in the endpoint device, the code running gateways and servers, the apps on the mobile devices (where needed) and the code on the data crunchers handling all the M2M data being streamed to them.
Small memory footprints will be the lion's share of devices (sensors) placed on the IoT. This requires a significantly different development skill set than can be found in Java EE and Python Apps. For example, a typical SCADA implementation may have 40,000 sensor points. Sheer costs will preclude the use of devices capable of running a full O/S like Linux or Android. The proliferation of ARM Cortex M0/3/4 devices as replacements for 8051/Z80/68HC11 also have limited memory foot prints with no MMU for protection. Anyone remember pointers?
Max, Mike - I would think that a substantial potion of code has to be re-written for the purposes of security. Applications going from big external systems to embedded will also need pretty substantial re-writes to accomodate the embedded architectures.
Well, the memory skills issue is certainly a debateable subject. The issue is that the universities are not generating folks with skills like memory conservation. The use of VMs encourages the dynamic creation and deletion of objects that ultimately leads to excessive memory use and potential errors. The dependency on the garbage collection cycle is also fraught with peril for safety-critical applications.
Drat. My Outlook alarm clock is on the fritz. Pardon my tardiness. I already see Max has made statements on the challenges of managing memory as the IoT matures. Brilliant!
@Mike (Taichichuan): It seems to me that the things that are memory constrained are going to be the new things that we add to the IoT, so we will be writing new code for them anyway, won;t we?
Does anything of significance exclusively use IPv6 today?
@Caleb: I linked it in my comment also, but for some reason the link doesn't show -- $%^^% computers -- probably a memory leak somewhere
I thenk the term "semantic web" has also been coined to address the IoT. Essentially, devices being able to derive information based on what they find lying around in search engines and your browser cookies...
Not sure I agree that memory constraint skills are lost, but the change from IPv4 to IPv6 looks fraught with peril
hrm. you can't tell what is linked and what isn't! Here's the article
The way I think of the IoT is that we have the Internet as we know and love it -- and then we have a bunch of "things" plugged into it ... and a lot of these "things" are going to be really small and memory-constrained and bandwidth-constrained ...
Here's the article for those who haven't seen it
Hmm... Good question. Ostensibly, the IoT is the collection of devices that are on the Internet. These may or may not have humans associated with them. Hence the IoT has a lot of Machine-to-machine characteristics that make it unlike the Web 2.0 world we've been living in up to this point.
@Caleb: ...anyone care to establish what exactly the Internet of THings is realistically?
What it is now, or what it will be?
It's very broad. I bet you could name any device and someone could come up with a reason to connect it to the Internet.
Everyone, we're talking about Mike's recent column Over the Internet of Things Hovers the Specter of Legacy Code
So, anyone care to establish what exactly the Internet of THings is realistically?
Never a shortage of things to do here either :-)
sounds good!
OK -- I say we kick off
Hi Duane
@Rich: Max, feels weird without a blog requirement looming before me.
I have a mountain backlog on APP if you are looking for something to do :-)
Max, feels weird without a blog requirement looming before me. But it gives me time to be here, which is of great interest to me.
Good morning
latecomers!!! (not late comments :-)
I guess we'll wait a few minutes fo rthe late comments to roll in and take their seats
Hi Rich -- how goes things?
Hi Mike -- thanks for signing in early
or you're late. hi max
Good Grief -- you're early
cool. Karen didn't give me many details... So, I'm in your capable hands.
Indeed! Max and I are always around to make sure things go well
So, is magnificent Max going to be the moderator?
Beautiful day here in DC. Especially for August. Temp in the high 70s and sunshine for a change.
Hi Mike!
Hi Gang, Mike Anderson here...
Looks like you got here REEEEEAAAAALY early
I'm here too Tom!
Looking forward to this chat. I decided to drop by early to get a good seat!
The "EE Times Week In Review" is a live online chat about what's been happening in electronics and engineering and what you thought about it all, from hard news to the weird and wonderful.
This week's chat will take place on Friday, August 16, 2013, commencing at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time / 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
This week, we host special guest Michael Anderson, CTO and Chief Scientist for The PTR Group and an expert on embedded systems and embedded Linux and Android on a number of CPU architectures.Anderson's blog Over the Internet of Things Hovers the Specter of Legacy Code stirred up a hornet's nest with our readers this week with his take on a potential nightmare looming for engineers and programmers.
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For parents with children in grade school, school delays due
to bad weather are a common occurrence. In most cases, parents can get
notifications of school delays/closing by checking the internet, through email,
or by catching the local news before heading to bed. Some school districts,
however, take the extra step of robocalling parents to let them know of
Aaron Titus, father of five, became more than a bit
irritated when he was woken up at 4:30 by a robocall from the Prince George's
County School District informing him that the start of school would be delayed
by two hours. Titus was perturbed because 1) it was 4:30 in the morning, and 2)
he already knew about the delay because he saw it on TV the night before, states
the Washington Post.
So Titus decided to take matters into his own hand by
finding an online robocalling company to dish out a bit of payback. In the end,
he found the phone numbers of 19 school officials and sent them their own
4:30am wakeup call the very next morning.
The recording explained:
is a Prince George's County School District parent, calling to thank you for
the robocall yesterday at 4:30 in the morning. I decided to return the favor.
While I know the school district wanted to ensure I drop my child off two hours
late on a snow day, I already knew that before I went to bed. I hope this call
demonstrates why a 4:30 a.m. call does more to annoy than to inform. Quit
robocalling parents at 4:30 in the morning or at least allow us to opt out of
these intrusive calls.
Of the 19 officials (including the superintendent) that were
called, 8 of them actually woke up to answer the phone.
After being awakened by the robocall, school board member
Donna Hathaway Beck stated, "I
wholeheartedly agree that calls at that hour of the morning are a bad
A spokesman for the school district said that someone
entered the wrong time into the system, as most robocalls go out in the 5 or 6
o'clock hour. However, the damage was already done -- over 127,000 households
were contacted.
"I think, in the future, if we know the night before,
we need to make the call the night before," concluded school board member
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There have been numerous studies that have shown that distracted drivers can be as dangerous on the road as drunk drivers. Some recent studies have shown that texting while driving may actually be just as dangerous as driving intoxicated.
In an effort to reduce the distractions that drivers are confronted with while driving some stated have instituted hands free laws that require drivers to use hands free kits to make calls while driving. Ford has a system called Sync in some of its vehicles that offers all sorts of hands free technologies to make driving safer while still allowing drivers to stay in contact and listen to music from digital devices.
Ford commissioned a new study that has shown significant differences in how distracted drivers are when using its Sync system compared to not using it. For the study, Ford had drivers select a phone number or choose a song on their MP3 players using Sync compared to doing the same thing manually.
Drivers who did the tasks manually had their eyes off the road for about 25 seconds while drivers using Sync had their eyes off the road for approximately two seconds. Participants in the study were asked to dial ten-digit phone numbers, call a specific person form the digital phone book, receive a call while driving, play a specific song, and review and respond to text messages.
The time eyes were off the road was measured by the researchers for drivers using both methods. Ford says that drivers performing these tasks manually swerved out of their lane 30 percent of the time while Sync users never swerved out of their lane. Ford has also announced a new 911 Assist feature for Sync that can dial 911 post-crash automatically.
Dr. Louis Tijerina from Ford said in a statement, "These real-world results indicate that SYNC's voice-interface offers substantial advantages compared to using a handheld device to do the same task."


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Space Shuttle fleet is due to be retired
by the end of this year, but the youngest shuttle still has two
more missions to complete. Both of these will be assembly missions to
the International Space Station. Endeavour was
constructed as a replacement vehicle after the Challenger disaster
in 1986.The STS-130 mission launched successfully this
morning carrying two primary payloads weighing more than 16.5 tons.
The Tranquility module
was built by Thales Alenia and funded by the European Space Agency.
It houses some of the most advanced life support systems in space, in
particular waste water recyclers (up to 93% efficient), oxygen
generators, and CO2 scrubbers.Tranquility is
an evolutionary design building upon the experience of constructing
Node 1 (Unity)
and Node 2 (Harmony).
It contains an extensive piping network for the distribution of water
(for fuel cells, drinking, waste and processes) between itself and
Node 1. There is a special line for the transfer of pretreated urine
from a new Waste and Hygiene Compartment (otherwise known as a
toilet) to Water Recovery System racks inside Node 3. Special lines
and sectioning devices are also adapted to distribute oxygen and
nitrogen.Originally designated as Node 3, Tranquility was
named after NASA held a controversial online poll. NASA wanted the
public to give their input on the suggested
names: Earthrise, Legacy,Serenity,
and Venture.
However, they allowed the public to suggest their own write-in names.
Stephen Colbert suggested naming it after himself on his TV show, and
a race developed with the fans of the Serenity movie, named after the
spacecraft from the Firefly TV series.Almost 1.2 million
votes were cast, but Colbert won
by 40,000 votes. However, NASA had reserved the right to pick the
final name, and choose Tranquility in
honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo
11 lunar landing on the Sea of Tranquility. The COLBERT
Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) was named
instead for Colbert. It was launched in September of last year and temporarily installed
in Node 2, but will be moved to its permanent location in Tranquility
after it is attached to the ISS.The Cupola is a pressurized
observation and work area that will accommodate command and control
workstations and other hardware. It will primarily be used to control
station robotics such as the Canadarm2, Dextre, and the European
Robotic Arm. However, it will also be uses as a 360 degree
observation station by ISS astronauts. There aren't a lot of viewing
stations on the ISS, which has mostly small portholes. The best view
is currently afforded by a 20 inch (50 cm) window on the Destiny
module. The cupola includes window shutters that provide orbital
debris protection when closed.There are also
multiple experiments being carried onboard Endeavour.
NLP-Vaccine-7 is a commercial payload serving as a pathfinder for the
use of the ISS as a National Laboratory after station assembly is
complete. It will use several different pathogenic organisms to
further assess the use of space flight to develop potential vaccines
for infections caused by these pathogens on Earth and in
microgravity.Several experiments will focus on the growth of
plants in microgravity, including NLP-Cells-3. That experiment will
verify the potential effects of microgravity on improving
characteristics such as cell structure, growth, and development of
the Jatropha
curcas plant,
which has the potential to be used as an alternative biofuel
crop.The ISS will be about 90 percent complete after
the Tranquility module
and the Cupola are installed. The next shuttle flight will be in
March by Discovery to
deliver more supplies and experiments. Endeavour's
last flight will be in July, after which it will be decommissioned
and likely sent to a museum.


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People who using Madara will seriously spam with him, including his awakening mode, maybe his susano army or his perfect susano, who knows. But I have a feeling that Madara gonna be the most overpowered character in storm 3 no doubt.
His normal jutsu may be his katon, his ultimate jutsu may be his meteor or his mokuton techs, who knows.
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April 1, 1946 Unimak Island USA earthquake and tsunami
On April 1, 1946, at 12:29 [local time] a rather strong magnitude 8.6 earthquake occurred with source to the south of Unimak Island, causing one of the most destructive tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean.
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DailyTech reported a couple weeks back on Microsoft's release of its Windows Vista and Server 2008 Service Pack 2's Release Candidate. The SP2 RC was only available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Not wanting to leave the general public out of the testing process, Microsoft has at last announced the availability of the SP2 RC to the masses.
The service pack brings a number of changes and bug fixes to Windows Vista. It provides support for VIA's new 64-bit CPU, Bluetooth v2.1, Windows Connect Now (WCN) Wi-Fi Configuration wireless functionality, faster Wi-Fi resume times after hibernation, and most significantly the ability to record Blu-ray.
It also features a number of software/connectivity improvements, including faster RSS feeds in the sidebar, Windows Search 4.0, the ability to configure the maximum number of TCP connections.
The service pack is also for Windows Server 2008, and offers the Hyper-V virtualization environment as a free fully integrated feature, with one free daughter OS with Windows Server 2008 Standard, four free licenses with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and an unlimited number of free licenses with Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. It also improves the management options in Windows Server 2008 and fixes some licensing key problems.
To top it off, the service pack bundles into a single package numerous bug fixes that Microsoft has been working on over the past several months and slowly releasing over Windows Update. Altogether, SP2 should help to make Windows Vista and Server 2008 more solid platforms, with many small improvements.
Testing is critical to the service packs success. Microsoft has been burned by past SP releases, which at times caused extreme errors like machine resetting. The company is looking to give this one a thorough public testing and resolve any issues before deeming it complete.
For those wanting to grab the new SP2 RC, you can download it here. You will have to uninstall the beta of SP2, if you have it currently installed.


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He'll kill us......He'll kill all of us. I've heard stories but I never thought he existed.
Name: Broly
Nickname: The Legendary Super Saiyan
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Clan: /
Broly has spiky golden hair with bangs.When enraged Broly tends to use the Transformation Technique to transform into what he calls, Legendary Super Saiyan. As a Legendary Super Saiyan, Broly's hair retains the golden color from his normal form while gaining a faint green tint and his pupils turn white. In addition to this, Broly's muscles become engorged to extreme levels and he also grows taller by a few feet after ascending to this form. However this is all purely cosmetic and has no influence in power, speed or anything else. The rest of his attire consists of white pants and a red sash.
Broly's personality is similar to that of a psychopath, as he generally exhibits tremendously uncontrollable rage, and is uplifted by the very idea of bringing destruction and inevitably crushing his enemies. He loves nothing more than to destroy things. Broly also has a tendency to toy with his victims, as evidenced by his statement that, and "If you'd just let me kill you all before, you wouldn't be dealing with this pain now," Broly enjoys playing with his feeble foes with sadistic sarcasm, often teasing his opponents with a plethora of "free punches". Broly himself rarely has anything to fear from any opponent he faces, which may have contributed to this. It is implied that Broly might have grown insane from living with the pain and fear endured by him and his father for so long.While Broly is able to converse with his enemies when he has just transformed into LSSJ, when he is completely enraged he starts chanting his opponents name in an obsessive manner. However, while in a non transformed state in, as besides grunting and yelling, he also displays a noticeably larger dialogue as he constantly talks about killing his opponents, taunts them and displays dark humor.
Village of Birth |Konohagakure
Village of Alliance | Konohagakure
Ninja Rank | SanninSPECIALTY
| Sensory | Lightning | Taijutsu | Satsui no Hado |
Broly has a large affinity to this energy based attack, using it most of the time in his battles. Combined with his speed and crushing Taijutsu attacks, Broly has been known to be very dangerous with lightning. From using this element so much he can perform all lightning jutsus with a single handseal.
感覚の | Sensory
Broly is able to sense the power (chakra) levels of any enemy around him, he can pick out familiar chakras of the members of his village, as well as being able to detect how many enemies are around.
体術 |Taijutsu
Broly, having learned taijutsu from an Lord Of Kaos, an EIG master, is excellent at the art of taijutsu since he was taught by such a great master. He is also undergoing Leg Weight training with Scorps, having just been bestowed with a pair of Leg Weights. Although he still can't use them.
Satsui no Hado
Broly has started training in the art of Satsui no Hado under the teachings of the EIG master Lord of Kaos. The training within this has increased his speed, strength, and power beyond that of a normal human fighter at the cost of his humanity. When Broly embraces Satsui no Hado his sanity completely breaks, and he becomes a monster without fear, bent on destruction of both his opponent and everything around him. His eyes turn white and he has been known to chant the word "Kakarot" when this happens. Due to his training he is able to move at speeds equal to Rock Lee without weights.
兵器| Weaponry
Beneath his red sash Broly carries a pouch full of standard ninja weapons like shuriken, kunai, smoke and flashbombs, as well as a standard katana on his right hip that are all easily accesible. He also has seals for "Lightning Blade Creation" on both of his wrists from which he can summon various weapons.
Other Training
根 Genjutsu: Mastered
拳 Taijutsu: Mastered
寄 Summon: Cardinal
萬 Ninjutsu: S Rank
(Chakra Henkanshi no Jutsu) - Chakra Sensing Technique
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Range: Short - Long
Chakra cost: 15
Damage points: N/A
Description: This is a very advanced of advancing the ability to feel chakra. The technique allows the user to concentrate and detect someones chakra. Using these technique sensors can tell when the enemy is approaching and can easily track down targets. (Techniques activation lasts 5 turns)
Note: Can only be used by bio with sensory ability
Broly was born within the walls of Konoha like any other normal baby. He was placed beside another baby named PresidentBush, within the ward. While Broly tried to peacefully sleep, PresidentBush's incessant crying kept him up, placing hatred for him within his subconscious. While the attendants of the hospital were going over each baby's chakra level, to see which one they think would fare better then the others, it was noted that Broly had an unusual chakra level. When word of his chakra level got to the Hokage Scary Yamato, he was intrigued, and thought that perhaps Broly should be killed before he poses a threat to Konoha. However, Broly's father Lord of Kaos pleaded with the Hokage to let his son live, citing that he could be a great help to the kage and his son Scorps. Scary Yamato, in all of his wisdom, agreed with Lord of Kaos and allowed Broly to live to stay within Konoha.
Years later, PresidentBush had moved out of the village and Broly was a budding ninja. In the Konoha Academy he would meet two of his best friends General Teno, and Asunathey fought and grew stronger with each passing day, becoming friends and rivals. But as Broly grew stronger, and knew he was stronger than all of the others, he began to sort of.... Feel. How much weaker everyone else was. He focused on this feeling each day and found out that he was able to sense the power (chakra) levels of all those around him, for very long distances. When his family and fellow villagers found this out the Hokage had him made to be one of his bodyguards, due to his ability to sense enemies.
The Legendary Super Saiyan
Of course with all his power Broly went on several S rank missions. No one having seen Broly fight seriously before, they were unprepared for the pure savage that he was in battle. Broly, within battle is demon like, an unstoppable force. One day on a joint mission with Iwagakure, he met Selendrile. Selendrile had heard of the mighty brute known as Broly, the one they called the Legendary Super Saiyan, and was excited to meet him. Selendrile respected Broly a great deal and that respect was returned by Broly, who had heard of the kiyoshi clans power. They became great friends along with Asuna, Teno, and Light and to this day he can detect their chakra signatures very easily.
Go on, say it Vegeta. Broly, the legend, is now free, broken from my control, from anyone's control. He has become what I was honored and afraid he would become. The true Super Saiyan...a killing machine. He won't stop now, not until he has destroyed this entire planet!
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Won: Few*
Lost: Many
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permission from scorps: http://www.narutobase.net/forums/con...3623&u2=108286
Caliburn, PLEASE let me keep the words "power levels" in there that one time it is
if you do i shall bestow upon you one ice cream :ice:
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Alright, this is unsettling just to type about,but,curiosity finds me telling this.
Disclaimer:What you are about to read was actually experienced in a completely sane,sober state as fucked up as it is. It's not something that happened in a dream or a movie and it's not some dillusion.
Alright, I'm not sure how to explain this. So, I'm just going to start and make it straight forward.
Alright,so, when I was a baby my grandfather had a stroke. He was rushed to hospital and put on life support.My Nana(his wife) was told that doctors could either cut open the brain and do what they can and he'd live. But, he'd be a vegetable(have no quality of life). She said she won't do that to him and doctors said "ok,well we can basically comfort him until he goes". So, then all of his family was called in along with a priest(for obvious reasons). So, he passes and the family is given their own private room to grieve. So, we're in there and my mom realizes she's forgotten the baby bag for me in Papa's room. So, she goes back to grab it and my uncle is in the room looking out the window. They had yet to move my Papa's body. So,my mom bends down to grab the baby bag...and this is where it gets weird...my Papa's body sits up and my mom looks up,my uncle turns around and looks and they see these white lights and then my Papa's body goes back down and my uncle and mom look at each other in disbelief and never really spoke about it again until recently, seperate times. First my mom got drunk enough to actually ask my uncle if he saw what she saw and he said yes.
Then another time, my mom explained it to my dad's uncle and he said he experienced something similair when his mom passed.
Again, I'm not making this up as much as I'd like to. It actually happened. My mom has told me the story at least twice. It's so crazy and three people to validate it that there is no way it's made up.
It's weird as fuck. But, I want to know if anybody else has experienced this? and want anybody else who has to know longer think they are going insane.


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House Hearing on GSEs Proceeds as Snow Falls
Despite an approaching winter storm and big, fat snowflakes falling in Washington, the House Financial Services subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises went forward with plans to hear from mostly academic witnesses at a Wednesday morning hearing on how government policy at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed homeowners and led to the financial crisis.
The House will wrap up its work week early due to the storm, which could bring up to a foot of snow to the nation's capital, and conclude business at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Fannie and Freddie were placed into conservatorship in September 2008.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's Quarterly Conservator's Report for October 2012 estimated that the two GSEs' cumulative Treasury draws by 2015 will range from $191 billion to $209 billion.
Democrats and Republicans in Congress, as well as President Obama's administration, agree the GSEs must be reformed post-conservatorship. However, the parties disagree on what should be done.
Obama has said he wants the government to have continued involvement in the housing market, at a minimum providing borrowing assistance to low-income applicants.
House Republicans, however, have been pushing for a privatization of the housing market ever since they gained control of the House in 2011. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), Financial Services Committee chairman, introduced bills in 2011 and 2010 that would privatize Fannie and Freddie within two years, immediately raise fees and cap the GSEs' portfolios.
NAFCU Vice President of Legislative Affairs Brad Thaler sent a letter to Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), the respective chair and ranking member on the subcommittee, which urges the leaders to retain a system that provides credit unions with continued access to the secondary market and the liquidity it provides.
He listed 10 "core principles" that would ensure credit unions be treated fairly during the reform process, including explicit guarantees on the payment of principal and interest on mortgage backed securities issued by the GSEs.
"The explicit guarantee will provide certainty to the market, especially for investors who will need to be enticed to invest in the MBSs and facilitate the flow of liquidity," Thaler said.
A GSE model based on a cooperative or mutual entity was another NAFCU suggestion. Each GSE would have an elected board of directors, be regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and be required to meet strong capital standards, Thaler offered.
Although the trade said the GSEs should be self-funded, NAFCU also stressed that it does not support full privatization of the GSEs because of serious concerns that small, community-based financial institutions could be shut-out from the secondary market.


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Health and happiness through clean water
Unsafe water is one of the leading causes of child mortality in Afghanistan, with more than 40 percent of child deaths caused by diarrhea and acute respiratory infection. Clean water can prevent these illnesses. See how a World Vision deep well is changing life in young mother Maryam's village.
Water is the foundation of life; it plays a vital role in the well-being of families. Nevertheless, in areas of poverty, there is never enough water — especially clean water. Many people spend their entire lives searching to find enough, just to survive.
In places like Robata Parniyan, a village in Afghanistan, people lose large amounts of time gathering water, while many suffer from waterborne diseases and hygiene-related problems because of that water.
"I was sick for four days. I had dysentery and vomiting," says Maryam, 24. "As our economic condition wasn't good, I tried to use a home remedy, but it was useless. My husband had to take me to clinic for treatment."
Maryam's sickness not only put her own health at risk; it also jeopardized the health of her 4-month-old baby girl. "[When I was sick], I had to feed my baby with powdered milk and sometimes with tea and sugar," she says, noting how her milk supply decreased due to her own dehydration. "My child cried. The [powdered milk] didn't satisfy her. I was really sad that because of my sickness, my child's future was in danger."
At the clinic, the doctor recommended that they stop drinking water from their shallow well because that water was endangering their health.
Maryam, her family, and all the other community members in her village depend on water from such questionable sources.
"We don't have enough money to dig a deep well," said Maryam with a look of hopelessness in her eyes.
The shallow wells bring with them a host of problems: The water is salty and, because it is close to the surface and uncovered, often contaminated.
Unclean water is one of the most deadly threats for children in Afghanistan. More than 40 percent of child deaths are due to diarrhea and acute respiratory infection. Young babies are especially at risk as mothers who lack breast milk mix the contaminated water with powdered milk to provide food for their children.
In February 2009, World Vision conducted a baseline survey of all four target districts (Kohsan, Zindanjan, Karukh and Chest-I-Sharif) to assist in the identification and prioritization of problems that exist within the community. The survey revealed that 25 percent of children under 5 years old had diarrhea during the time of the survey, while 45 percent of children said they had suffered from diarrhea at some point during the two weeks prior to the survey.
Although many know that the water is dangerous, they have no alternative. They don't have enough income to purchase clean water or to buy the fuel necessary to boil the salty water to kill the bacteria.
World Vision is currently implementing a four-year, USAID-funded child survival grant called Better Health for Afghan Mothers and Children, which aims to produce sustainable improvements in maternal, newborn, and child health for nearly 200,000 people in the above four districts of Herat Province.
As part of the program, World Vision has repaired 30 damaged wells in 10 villages of Zindajan and Kohsan districts, and drilled two new 30 meter deep wells in the Robata Pariyan and Rabat Afghan villages.
"Three days ago, we stopped using salty water," says Maryam with a smile. "Currently for drinking, cooking, and washing, families use the well dug by World Vision. The water is a little bit tasteless for us, because we drank salty water for a long time."
"Today and yesterday, I went to school on time because I didn't have to walk a far distance to gather water," says 12-year-old Ali.
A single well in the center of a village will not solve all of the problems related to a shortage of clean water. There are 60 households in this village. Some families have to walked around 10 kilometers (about six miles) to collect water from this well, a task that will be difficult during the winter. There is still more work to be done.
"World Vision is a great organization that helps poor people and digs wells for them," says villager Nor Bibi. "If the help of such an organization were not in the country, I don't know what would happen to the people. I hope this organization makes at least two more wells, so all families can enjoy drinking safe water."
More than 768 million people do not have access to clean drinking water, and about 2.5 billion people do not have proper sanitation. You can help. Contact your member of Congress and urge them to support the Water for the World Act!


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