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This conversation is being brought back from the dead due to the overwhelming amount of people who spread false information about lag and lag compensation. Please read the entire article, if you feel the information is wrong or inaccurate comment below.
What is Lag?
For those of you who don't know what lag is or you do not fully understand it here's a brief explanation:
Imagine you are playing a game of TDM. You are sniping and have a man in your sites as he runs across the map. Your crosshair is directly on his chest. You fire, but nothing happens. No hit marker or anything. It's a clean miss. How does this happen.
As an individual player you are playing on your own map by yourself essentially, as is everyone else in your lobby. The host player is the one who communicates where everyone is in their own game and translates that onto your map. Thus making it appear they are right there with you. The host is the central point for all players; your game is a mere reflection of what is taking place in his own space and time. All information is sent to him and all information received is sent from him. The information does not flow as one solid piece though. It is broken up into packets of information interlaced with other packets (eg one bit sent then one bit received, each player getting their own individual interaction with the host at a time) also known as connection speed. In a perfect situation, if his game has a man throwing a grenade then your game will reflect that action. However, if the host player does not have the bandwidth to send and receive packets of information in a sequacious manner then the information will get "bottlenecked" and you then start noticing lag.
Not all lag is cause by the host. Each individual player can cause lag. If little Jimmy is downloading "movies" and decides to play CoD while they download then little Jimmy is only going to affect himself, he will still send information without any problem. But if little Jimmy is uploading something or has multiple devices connected to the internet at one time then he will not be able to send/receive a complete sequence of interactions thus making little Jimmy lag.
This goes for you as well, to limit your contribution to lag you must allow the necessary bandwidth needed to send and receive information without constriction so that the host may too send and receive accurate information to other players.
Going back to you sniping the man running across the map. Based off the information that you have received, it appears that the man running across the map is directly in your crosshairs. However you have not received the update that man has moved. So you are essentially firing at a ghost and you're playing a game based off of information that is inaccurate.
Lag Compensation
Lag compensation isn't suppose to be noticeable, but when it is it's extremely annoying. So I figure I would shed some light on the matter.
Ever play a match and walk into a room start to shoot a guy clearly 20-30 feet in front of you only to get knifed? You go into an all-caps-rage when you find out this man just lunged at you from 10 yards out. No, he doesn't have the Commando Perk, it's called lag compensation and it does a few different things. The game interprets what is being done and when information is taking too long to update it starts to assume movement patterns. So when you see the guy at the other end of the room that's lag compensation telling you that he is over there when in real time he's been standing right next to you in position to knife. This doesn't happen often as mentioned (or at least noticeably like the situation describes), only when there are gaps in packet transactions.
What Lag Compensation Is Not
It has become a common misconception that lag compensation is the intentional suppression of a one's internet in hopes that it places players on the same connection speed. This is not true, if you're having a bad connection it is probably an instance where so many people in the lobby are having a difficult time connecting to the host himself that everyone is having a hard time communicating. As mentioned above, are several factors that add to lag. If those factors are magnified it can mean the whole lobby suffers
Factors That Contribute To Lag
Now that you have a basic understanding of lag and what it is you might be wondering how lag comes about. Match making is a major factor. When you are placed in a lobby with several people of different nationalities and locations that span the globe your chance of lag is almost assured. Imagine having to send information to someone who lives well over a thousand miles away. If you were doing it by mail it would take many days. When being done by internet it takes several milliseconds. In retrospect that might not seem like a much time, but ask anyone in a fire fight what all happens during a span of 10-15 milliseconds. An SMG with rapid fire can easily put off 3-5 extra rounds in the short amount of time it takes for you send a bit of information to the other side of the globe. Now imagine there are multiple people that live hemispheres away from the host. Those milliseconds taken simply because location compound on top of each other, throwing the game from 2-3 milliseconds off to 10+. You then add that to the already average 10 milliseconds that it takes for your PS3 to process and you to react to what's happening on the screen, that's huge. Now imagine the host has less than ideal internet, or you're playing with little Jimmy. All those factors compounded have now thrown the game off by almost a full second
The wireless world that we live in is pretty sweet. The no-strings-attached lifestyle is extremely convenient. It can greatly affect your gaming experience though. As most of you know a wireless connection is not even comparably as fast as a physical connection. Think about it, you already have to send information from you to the controller, to the PS3, to the modem, to the PSN, to the Host and then it all has to come back to you. Why throw in a wireless router? That's valuable time you have to wait. A router also limits the bandwidth. Most internet providers give you plenty of bandwidth to work with so it's not really a factor, but if you have the cheapest internet package offered those megabytes/s you're losing becomes a much bigger fraction of the problem.
Lag can at time also contribute to glitching. When you are sending information to the host you are compressing information and breaking it up to make the sending easier. It's not uncommon that bit of info can be lost in this process. It is believed that the drop rate of information happens on a regular basis. However, The fact that so much information is being sent and the fact that a single bit can be menial at times makes this unnoticeable or a nonfactor. In times when lag is at its highest point the amount of information dropped, lost, or misinterpreted can be high as well making glitches more frequent
Care Packages falling through
Reloading twice or not reloading at all
KIA by friendly claymores/grenades or surviving claymores/grenades
Invisible walls
Spawning in enemy territory
Enemy dressed and labeled as a friendly
Killstreak malfunctions
Throwing random grenades or equipment not detonating
1) Lag is excessive amount of time it takes for packets of information to be sent and received by and from the host player
2) Lag is mostly caused from less than ideal match making, either because of vast distance in players location or because of connection speeds are poor
3) Lag is not always directly resulting from a poor host. Other players can attribute to lag by not providing a strong connection to the host
4) Your game is a mirror of what the host's game resulting in the host often, but not always, having less lag
5) Limiting the number amount of hardware between you and the host (eg, getting an all-in-one router/modem) as well as reducing the number of devices using internet decreases lag
Q. My connections status is four bars and I'm still lagging, why?
A. The connection status is based off your connection to the host. You are not lagging, the other player/s are
Q. Why am I still lagging when I join a local match?
A. Remember location is not the only factor when lag happens. Internet connection is most likely the problem in these kind of situations.
Q. Does lag just affect hit markers and "lag jumping"?
A. No, lag affects many smaller things often blamed on "glitching" (the processing of misinformation)
This information was gathered from independent research from multiple sources in hopes of providing a better understanding. If you have further questions of would like to correct an error I have made, please feel free to do so and POLIETLY ask. If you find this helpful or useful please comment to bump it
Reminds me of the good ol' saying: You think you got lag; took Jesus 3 days to respawn...
OT: Nice post! I can appreciate the amount of time it took you to pop this out, cheers
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Reminds me of the good ol' saying: You think you got lag; took Jesus 3 days to respawn...
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Very good post
Good and informative post. However I do believe in lag comensation (and now I also believe in ghosts).
"It has become a common misconception that lag compensation is the intentional suppression of a one's internet in hopes that it places players on the same connection speed. "
In MW3 I have, while host, walked up behind a stationary target, and shot him in the head, point blank with a type 95, and he did not die, but the character model perfomed a flintch animation. A fired again and got the kill. I then backed out of the game (to confirm whether or not I was host), and watched the host migration.
Whatever lag comp is, I think one of its components is a delaying of registering the hits resulting from the hosts shots. I think the problem in MW3 is that sometimes the game starts registering the hosts shots too late, relative to when the other player starts to fire, combined with the very fast times-to-kill of the weapons, resulting in lots of assists for the host.
My opinions from my experiences. Have you seen something like this? Do you think it can be explained another way?
Edit: also, I play a lot of laggy games, and I can easily identify lag experienced when I am host to lagging in a normal game.
MW3 is know for hit detection issues. I've had experiences where I've unloaded an entire clip into someone and it wasn't until halfway through all my rounds that I started to get hit markers. It's something that lag contributes too, no doubt, but it's also just poor development
Thank you! Great post!!
Good post.
They just need to cut back down to the basics. Anyone remember all these problems in cod4 or waw? Even Mw2 wasn't bad but it did make an apperence then. There is just simply too much going on in games now. Too many player controled killstreaks, too many killstreaks being used at the same time. Not only that but in blackops the host also sent data to activison servers (theater). In MW3 they replaced this with elite ( stat updating ). Standard internet speeds haven't changed much since cod4 but yet the games are pulling more and more.
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Dearest Sallie, This day a week ago I left the hospital at Chattanooga and came here to give room there for more sick soldiers. I wrote you a letter there about the 19th and have been thinking for several days that I would write again but I have been so very busy that I have not had time. The evening I got here I met with Dr. Yates who married in Panola County a daughter of I. N. Davis and lived there a while but now lives in Texas. As soon as he found out who I was and where from, he asked me if I wouldn't rather have and office in a hospital than to stay in camp. I told him I would anyhow until my health got better and as they are establishing a new hospital here. He had me appointed clerk and steward of the hospital and I have been at work all this week getting the thing started. I had to go to Atlanta on the cars for some dishes and things - was gone 2 nights and a day.


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Geneva Chair
Nothing is more representative of the horror of land mines than this wonderful sculpture of the chair with with a blown up leg.This rests in front of the League of Nations Building.
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Geneva is the international city with many important offices. The old seat of the League of Nations, it attracts many tourists.On the day that I landed, there was the huge arrival of tourists for skiing.The image above seems to commemorate the family as an institution.
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An Angel Joins me for Lunch
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Q- nice find.
Notice the PP speaker on skype was laughed at when he mentioned that as pirates they understand "game theory". It was a bit of an odd comment for a political leader. Not to mention the presenters "sink the pirate ship" and "eyepatch" comments that happened later which were just completely intended to poke fun.
I'm not sure about Europe but I don't see PP gaining much traction here in Australia. I hope it changes in the future, but at the moment, even their name here just won't be taken seriously.
When mainstream media quotes political parties here they usually just use single sentence soundbite quotes without any context and without any follow-up. If pirate party started trying to gain traction, they'd get destroyed on the media front, especially with Murdoch media controlling the major news limited entity - Pirate Party would be a direct threat to the Murdoch empire. I'd love for it to be a viable party that I could support, but honestly it just sounds too 'hard line' and not serious enough. If they'd chosen another party name even that would have been a good start :-/
(edited to make more of a point and less ramble... too much beer!).Last edited by Kamikaze; 04-13-2012, 07:51 AM.
Rick the Founder (of Swedish Pirate Party) was evasive and didn't answer the question about where the party stands politically (in terms of definition/spectrum etc). This party is just a political movement, nothing else.
'If pirate party started trying to gain traction, they'd get destroyed on the media front, especially with Murdoch media controlling the major news limited entity..'
True. Then why are they so vague in every discussion? They should be talking about the mainstream media and being more specific.Last edited by Panix; 04-13-2012, 04:40 PM.
These people seem to base their views largely on what they think should constitute property.
Of course the whole notion of property is an invention of mankind not a universal truth as some people like to think of it and if a society decides to acknowledge intellectual property along with more traditional forms that's fine. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with that.


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A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
When wealthy Texas rancher and statesman Jim Stauton Rogers is called to Paris on a United Nations matter, he reluctantly takes his grown daughter Elizabeth with him, fearful that she will encounter his long-estranged wife, singer Marie Devarone. Although Jim and his faithful housekeeper Glynnie try to shield Liz from press photographers, Marie sees their picture in the newspaper, and with the help of her partner, Paul Sarnac, plots to meet her daughter. That night, despite Jim's preference for all things Texan, he and Liz enjoy an evening out on the town. Back at the hotel, though, Jim becomes concerned after receiving a flower basket with a welcoming note from Marie.
Reading the card, Jim thinks back to his first trip to Paris in 1927: While attending an American Legion convention, Jim becomes attracted to Marie, who sings in a small club. They marry after a whirlwind courtship and Marie accompanies Jim to his small ranch in Texas. Although Jim is happy, he spends much of his time building up the ranch while Marie feels lonely and out of place. Liz's birth does not mitigate Marie's homesickness, and when Liz is two, Marie abruptly returns to France. Back in the present, before Jim leaves on a business trip to London with colleague Henri Milan, he warns Glynnie to keep Liz away from Marie. That afternoon, Liz has fun shopping with Henri's son Andre, a government clerk, who is immediately smitten with her. For reasons unknown to Liz or Andre, well-known French painter Claude Duval asks her to sit for a painting and she agrees. At Duval's studio, Marie, who is a good friend of the artist, secretly watches her lovely daughter and asks Duval to invite Liz to the nightclub "La Parisienne" that night. Marie arranges a sumptuous feast for Liz and Andre, who are overwhelmed by the service they receive from Jean, the ingratiating maitre d'. Marie yearns to talk with Liz, but cannot reveal herself because Liz believes that her mother died when she was a baby. Paul, who is in love with Marie, suggests that she introduce herself as a friend of Andre's father.
After Paul and Marie's performance, she goes to Liz and Andre's table and chats for a while, then invites them to meet her for tea at Duval's studio the next day. Liz is flattered by the sophisticated Marie's interest in her and readily agrees. At the end of the evening, Jim calls Liz from London. He is pleased that she has been out with Andre, but when Liz casually mentions meeting Marie, Jim decides to return to Paris as soon as possible. The next afternoon, Marie and Liz have another warm conversation and Marie invites her to return to La Parisienne that evening. When Jim arrives at his Paris hotel, he questions Andre about Marie while Liz is out of the room, but Andre is only interested in asking for Liz's hand in marriage. A rather preoccupied Jim agrees to talk with Liz, but discourages Andre because Liz has a boyfriend, Bob Lennart, back in Texas. After Andre leaves, Jim gets into an argument with Liz and forbids her to see Marie again. The confused Liz balks at his order and determines to keep her engagement. That evening, Jim goes alone to La Parisienne to convince Marie not to see Liz again, but while they are talking, Liz and Andre arrive. Because Jim is also concerned over Liz and Andre's relationship, Marie offers to see if their love is real. After Jim leaves, Marie confides in Paul that she thinks Liz would be making a mistake to marry Andre because of the same cultural differences that came between her and Jim.
The next morning, when a determined Liz tells Jim that she and Andre, whose proposal she has accepted, will be meeting Marie for lunch, Jim encourages the meeting. At lunch, Marie tries to show Andre and Liz the differences that separate them, such as where each wants to live. The couple begin to argue, after which they break the engagement. Later, at the hotel, a tearful Liz hears that Andre has left Paris and asks Jim if they can return to Texas right away. Jim arranges for a flight that night, but before they leave, Liz goes to La Parisienne to say goodbye to Marie. Seeing Liz's unhappiness, Marie realizes that Liz truly loves Andre and determines to get them back together. Marie asks Liz to wait in her dressing room during the floorshow, then discovers Andre sitting in the club. She then tells Andre to wait in Paul's dressing room, which is next to hers. Meanwhile, Jim fears they will miss their plane and calls Marie's dressing room. When Liz answers the phone, Andre hears her voice and goes to her to admit how much he loves her. When Jim arrives at the nightclub, Marie takes him to Paul's dressing room and tells him that Liz and Andre really are in love. Liz and Andre overhear them and Liz learns that Marie is her mother. Jim, who does not know what Liz has heard, gives her and Andre his blessing, suggesting that they divide their time between France and America and promising to let her in on a big surprise after Marie finishes her number.
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MINGORA, Pakistan — Pakistan's security forces expanded their military offensive into a second district Tuesday in the country's extremist-plagued North West Frontier Province, leaving Pakistan's controversial peace accord with the Taliban hanging by a thread.
The paramilitary Frontier Corps attacked Pakistani Taliban fighters in Buner, a district just 60 miles from the capital of Islamabad. The move followed an operation launched Sunday against militants in Dir, which the military declared largely over on Tuesday. The army acknowledged that 10 of its troops were killed but said that government forces had killed 70 to 75 insurgents.
Dir and Buner lie on either side of Swat, the Taliban's stronghold in Pakistani territory, where Islamabad agreed to impose Islamic law earlier this month in return for peace.
That peace deal now is under intense strain. Swat militants broke off talks when the army launched the operation in Dir, and should the agreement collapse, an all-out clash between the militants and the army in Swat will be hard to avoid.
So far, the Taliban have shown unusual restraint to prevent the fighting from extending to this vast valley, which is home to some 2 million people, while the authorities also clung to the deal that's stopped the killings there.
The Pakistani government and army were criticized widely at home and abroad for agreeing earlier this month to impose Shariah in Swat and then standing by while the Taliban attempted to annex Buner, pushing into that district about three weeks ago. The extremists' presence in Buner raised concerns about the security of Islamabad and led Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to criticize Pakistan last week for "abdicating to the Taliban."
Pakistan's government and army talked tough Tuesday, indicating that their patience may have snapped. Under the peace accord, the Taliban had agreed not to expand their presence to the areas adjacent to Swat.
"This is the last appeal to the militants, including the militants in Swat who think they are bigger than the state," said Rehman Malik, the interior minister. "Leave the arms, join the mainstream, work for Pakistan, not the enemies of Pakistan.
"Wherever we need to go to establish our writ, we will go."
The Taliban took over Swat starting in late 2007, and two subsequent military campaigns failed to dislodge them. Critics charged that the Taliban took over Buner earlier this month without firing a shot. In moving into Buner, the army said it had no plans to proceed to Swat.
"The overall objectives of the operation are to eliminate and eject the militants from Buner," said Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the chief army spokesman. "The operation will restrict itself to Buner, because basically the violation (of the peace deal) was in Buner."
Abbas said that some 450 to 500 Taliban were holed up in Buner, having staged a phony withdrawal last week. He estimated that it would take no more than a week to flush them out.
The action comes on the eve of a visit to Washington next week by President Asif Ali Zardari, part of a 10-day international tour that will include Dubai, Libya and Britain. Zardari is expected to spell out his counterinsurgency plan while he's in the U.S., a strategy that would've appeared hollow with the Taliban rampaging unchallenged in Pakistan.
The United States immediately welcomed the Buner offensive, while leaders in Congress said they were considering sanctioning emergency aid to Pakistan.
"This is something that's in the interest of the government of Pakistan," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Tuesday. "These Taliban and other extremists have posed an existential threat to Pakistan. They've also caused problems for the government of Afghanistan."
The situation in Swat is tense, with residents fearing that the Dir and Buner operations will revive the bloodshed that the peace deal ended. As the Taliban moved across Swat in an 18-month reign of terror, they carried out beheadings, seized property and blew up nearly 200 schools, mostly for girls. The clumsy military response led to many civilian casualties in the relatively densely populated district.
While extremists long have controlled Pakistan's wild tribal border area with Afghanistan, their presence in Swat, some 100 miles from Islamabad, brings them into the heart of Pakistan.
"Those who sit in air-conditioned offices and want an (military) operation here should come and see conditions for themselves. People in Peshawar, Islamabad and America don't know what it's like here," said Fazlullah Khan, a lawyer and activist in Mingora, the main town in Swat. "If the army shows its strength, the Taliban shows its strength, the ones who will die are ordinary people."
Militants sent letters Tuesday to local journalists in Swat, warning them, "Do not write against the Taliban and do not tell lies about us." Placards with the same admonition were posted around Mingora.
(Shah is a McClatchy special correspondent.)
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A Jury of Her Peers
American Women Writers
From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30
The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes from a 1917 short story of the same name by a young journalist, Susan Glaspell. The story is based on the murder trial of an Iowa farmwife who strangled her husband after enduring years of his cruelty and abuse. When two of her peers located potentially incriminating evidence, they concealed it to protect the abused woman from "the patriarchal system of the law."
Glaspell died in 1948, all but disappearing from literary history. Her story and its back story have a particular resonance for Showalter. Showalter doesn't much like it when really good writers like Glaspell fall off of the literary map. This means that while much of the book conjures names good readers know, it is happily punctuated by names we've never seen, stories we never knew existed.
Showalter has organized the book by decades, beginning in 1650, when Anne Bradstreet, a settler from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote the first book by a woman living in America. Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" is a collection of poems describing the difficulties and joys of being a settler, wife and mother. It was published in London and required no fewer than 11 testimonials by male friends, family and critics to convince the publisher that it was indeed written by a woman and worthy of publication. It was followed by Mary Rowlandson's 1682 memoir of her abduction by Narragansett Indians, "A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson." It was in this genre, "captivity narratives," that American women first distinguished themselves as writers.
As education became more widespread for women, they branched out into poetry, bestselling fiction and political satire. In 1794, Susanna Rowson's "Charlotte Temple" appeared in America, becoming the first bestselling novel here by a woman and opening the floodgates for other female novelists. By the early 1800s, women entered the publishing industry, editing periodicals with titles like Ladies, Mother and Home, as well as anthologies and annuals.
Though the 1850s are considered a golden age in American letters, with male luminaries like Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne, they were also, as Showalter quotes literary historian David S. Reynolds, the "American Woman's Renaissance," influenced to a large degree by the enormous popularity of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," published in America in 1848. The increase in "domestic novels" written by women inspired vitriolic reviews and threatened marriages. Nathaniel Hawthorne told his publisher William Ticknor, "Ink-stained women are, without a single exception, detestable." For their part, writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe complained of the many interruptions a woman had to face: "Nothing but deadly determination enables me to ever write -- it is rowing against wind and tide." Women depended on legendary editors such as William Dean Howells and Thomas Wentworth Higginson to take their work seriously and steer them to publication in the Atlantic Monthly, the Century, Harper's and Everyweek.
The mid-19th century was also a renaissance for black women's writing and slave narratives that invigorated a flagging book publishing market that had perhaps seen a surfeit of domestic novels. It's not easy, wrote the literary editor of the New York Times in 1862, "to sit down to a tale of imaginary woes and sorrows while one great wail is going up from the sick and wounded in the swamps and trenches before Richmond." Showalter defends Emily Dickinson's avoidance of the Civil War in her work, pointing out that so much of the poet's writing was about death and loss; that she was constantly undergoing a civil war within herself, against authorities in her life, who were mostly male.
Now and then, Showalter is called upon to untangle the various waves of criticism and revival that works by writers including Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Eudora Welty have endured. Her approach in this thorny landscape (feminist criticism can be fierce) is unifying and magnanimous. She brings a perspective to changing literary culture that makes criticism seem not only understandable but also healthy and invigorating, making the work timeless in its ability to weather readers' changing priorities. Dickinson, for example, has been much criticized for her narrow window on life; Jewett and Welty for bourgeois views; and Millay for her self-styled insistence on domesticity.
The early 1900s saw the end of the Victorian Age and the birth of Modernism -- many women in this next generation did not want to be defined as "women writers"; some, such as Willa Cather and Edith Wharton, openly criticized female writers. "I have not much faith in women in fiction," Cather wrote. "They have a sort of sex consciousness that is abominable. They are so limited to one string and they lie so about that." Showalter hardly needs to point out that this open criticism among female writers is far preferable to the silence or condescension previously offered by male critics.
In 1920, women got the vote. Women wrote with renewed vigor of the difficulties of writing and running a home: Short story writer Katherine Anne Porter spoke of the "curious idea of feminine availability in all spiritual ways and in giving service to anyone who demands it. And I suppose that's why it has taken me twenty years to write this novel," she said of "Ship of Fools" -- "it's been interrupted by just anyone who could jimmy his way into my life." Many Southern writers -- Carson McCullers, Welty -- hail from the century's first 50 years. African American writers such as poet Gwendolyn Brooks, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and, later, Alice Walker, found their voices in this period.
In the first half of the 20th century, critics such as Louise Bogan, Mary McCarthy and others discovered new writers, rebelled against the ghettoization of female writers and fastened the work of women writers in the cultural consciousness of the century. Activists like Adrienne Rich and Grace Paley opened the eyes of readers to the working class. Gail Godwin wrote about life as a working woman; Erica Jong and others about sexual liberation.
By the 1970s, Joan Didion and others were attacking the women's movement, accusing feminists of "narcissism, ignorance, and sloth." By the 1980s, Showalter writes, "women fully joined the literary juries of the United States. . . . No longer dependent on judgments that denied them representation." By the 1990s, Showalter writes, women dominated the book market, buying between 70% and 90% of all fiction, and she notes a rise in women's gothic -- works by Mary Karr, Kathryn Harrison, Dorothy Allison, Susanna Moore and Alice Sebold that did not shy from violence. She also notes an ethnic cross-fertilization, with second-generation immigrants including Gish Jen and Julia Alvarez.
Showalter ends this remarkable book with Jane Smiley and Annie Proulx, both equally comfortable writing from male and female perspectives. Nor have they been afraid to challenge their male forebears. Smiley, in a 1996 Harper's essay, criticized Mark Twain: "To invest 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' with greatness," she wrote, "is to underwrite a very simplistic and evasive view of what racism is." Proulx, for her part, reinvented the American western.
Showalter has spent her life, in and out of academia (she is professor emerita of English and Avalon professor of the humanities at Princeton) writing, thinking and lecturing on literature and judging literary prizes. "A Jury of Her Peers" does an enormous service, houses a drop-dead reading list and gives the reader a fluid framework for the great (much of it still undiscovered) wealth of writing by women in this country.
Salter Reynolds is a Times staff writer.


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A completely new computing platform is on the horizon. They're called Microservers by some, ARM Servers by others, and sometimes even ARM-based Servers. No matter what you call them, Microservers will have a huge impact on the data center and on server computing in general.
What Is a Microserver...and What Isn't
Although few people are familiar with Microservers today, their impact will be felt very soon. This is a new category of computing platform that is available today and is predicted to have triple-digit growth rates for some years to come - growing to over 20% of the server market by 2016 according to Oppenheimer ("Cloudy With A Chance of ARM" Oppenheimer Equity Research Industry Report).
According to Chris Piedmonte, CEO of Suvola Corporation - a software and services company focused on creating preconfigured and scalable Microserver appliances for deploying large-scale enterprise applications, "the Microserver market is poised to grow by leaps and bounds - because companies can leverage this kind of technology to deploy systems that offer 400% better cost-performance at half the total cost of ownership. These organizations will also benefit from the superior reliability, reduced space and power requirements, and lower cost of entry provided by Microserver platforms".
This technology might be poised to grown, but today, these Microservers aren't mainstream at all - having well under 1% of the server market. Few people know about them. And there is a fair amount of confusion in the marketplace. There isn't even agreement on what to call them: different people call them different things - Microserver, ARM Server, ARM-based Server and who knows what else.
To further confuse the issue, there are a number of products out there in the market that are called "Microservers" that aren't Microservers at all - for example the HP ProLiant MicroServer or the HP Moonshoot chassis. These products are smaller and use less power than traditional servers, but they are just a slightly different flavor of standard Intel/AMD server that we are all familiar with. Useful, but not at all revolutionary - and with a name that causes unfortunate confusion in the marketplace.
Specifically, a Microserver is a server that is based on "system-on-a-chip" (SoC) technology - where the CPU, memory and system I/O and such are all one single chip - not multiple components on a system board (or even multiple boards).
What Makes ARM Servers Revolutionary?
ARM Servers are an entirely new generation of server computing - and they will make serious inroads into the enterprise in the next few years. A serious innovation - revolutionary, not evolutionary.
These new ARM Server computing platforms are an entire system - multiple CPU cores, memory controllers, input/output controllers for SATA, USB, PCIe and others, high-speed network interconnect switches, etc. - all on a SINGLE chip measuring only one square inch. This is hyperscale integration technology at work.
To help put this into context, you can fit 72 quad-core ARM Servers into the space used by a single traditional server board.
Today's traditional server racks are typically packed with boards based on Intel XEON or AMD Opteron chips and are made up of a myriad of discrete components. They're expensive, powerful, power-hungry, use up a considerable amount of space, and can quickly heat up a room to the point where you might think you're in a sauna.
In contrast, the ARM Servers with their SoC design are small, very energy efficient, reliable, scalable - and incredibly well-suited for a wide variety of mainstream computing tasks dealing with large numbers of users, data and applications (like Web services, data crunching, media streaming, etc.). The SoC approach of putting an entire system on a chip, results in a computer that can operate on as little as 1.5 watts of power.
Add in memory and a solid-state "disk drive" and you could have an entire server that runs on under 10 watts of power. For example, Calxeda's ECX-1000 quad-core ARM Server node with built-in Ethernet and SATA controllers, and 4GB of memory uses 5 watts at full power. In comparison, my iPhone charger is 7 watts and the power supply for the PC on my desk is 650 watts (perhaps that explains the $428 electric bill I got last month).
Realistically, these ARM Servers use about 1/10th the power, and occupy considerably less than 1/10th the space of traditional rack-mounted servers (for systems of equivalent computing power). And at an acquisition price of about half of what a traditional system costs.
And they are designed to scale - the Calxeda ECX-1000 ARM Servers are packaged up into "Energy Cards" - composed of four quad-core chips and 16 SATA ports. They are designed with scalability in mind - they embed an 80 gigabit per second interconnect switch, which allows you to easily connect potentially thousands of nodes without all the cabling inherent in traditional rack-mounted systems (a large Intel-based system could have upwards of 2,000 cables). This also provides for extreme performance - node to node communication occurs on the order of 200 nanoseconds.
You can have four complete ARM Servers on a board that is only ten inches long and uses only about 20 watts of power at full speed - that's revolutionary.
How Do ARM Servers Translate into Business Benefits?
When you account for reduced computing center operations costs, lower acquisition costs, increased reliability due to simpler construction / fewer parts, and less administrative cost as a result of fewer cables and components, we're talking about systems that could easily cost 70% less to own and operate.
If you toss in the cost to actually BUILD the computing center and not just "operate it", then the cost advantage is even larger. That's compelling - especially to larger companies that spend millions of dollars a year building and operating computing centers. Facebook, for example, has been spending about half a billion (yes, with a "b") dollars a year lately building and equipping their computing centers. Mobile devices are driving massive spending in this area - and in many cases, these are applications which are ideal for ARM Server architectures.
Why Don't I See More ARM Servers?
So - if all this is true, why do Microservers have such a negligible market share of the Server market?
My enthusiasm for ARM Servers is in their potential. This is still an early-stage technology and Microserver hardware really has only been available since the last half of 2012. I doubt any companies are going to trade in all their traditional rack servers for Microservers this month. The "eco-system" for ARM Servers isn't fully developed yet. And ARM Servers aren't the answer to every computing problem - the hardware has some limitations (it's 32 bit, at least for now). And it's a platform better suited for some classes of computing than others. Oh, and although it runs various flavors of Linux, it doesn't run Windows - whether that is a disadvantage depends on your individual perspective.
Microservers in Your Future?
Irrespective of these temporary shortcomings, make no mistake - this is a revolutionary shift in the way that server systems will be (and should be) designed. Although you personally may never own one of these systems, within the next couple of years, you will make use of ARM Servers all the time - as they have the potential to shrink the cost of Cloud Computing, "Big Data", media streaming and any kind of Web computing services to a fraction of the cost of what they are today.
Keep your eye on this little technology - it's going to be big.
Note: The author of this article works for Dell. The opinions stated are his own personal opinions vs. those of his employer.
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In a rare move, the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday ordered all U.S.-operated Boeing 787 Dreamliners grounded over possible flaws in the plane's battery systems that could cause fires — elevating the safety concerns over an aircraft that just five days earlier inaugurated a Japanese airline's highly touted service from San Jose to Tokyo.
The FAA said it would work with Boeing and U.S. air carriers to develop a plan allowing 787s to "resume operations as quickly and safely as possible." United Airlines is the only U.S. carrier currently flying 787s.
"This is almost unprecedented," said Robert Fiegl, chairman of the aeronautical science department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. "You usually don't see whole lines of aircraft ordered grounded."
Other countries are likely to follow the FAA's lead and ground 787s, he added. Boeing has delivered about 50 Dreamliners worldwide and has some 800 on order.
The latest blow to the aircraft, which is packed with cutting-edge technology, came as the San Jose delegation of All Nippon Airways launch flight to Tokyo made its way back to the Bay Area through San Francisco International Airport after the airline voluntarily grounded its entire fleet of Dreamliners.
ANA, the launch customer of the 787, shut down operations of the aircraft after one of its planes made an emergency landing in western Japan because of battery problems. Japan Airlines then announced it was parking its Dreamliner jets. ANA's mishap followed last week's explosion of a battery in an auxiliary power system in a parked JAL at Boston Logan International Airport.
The Dreamliner's problems were a setback for Mineta San Jose International Airport, which was basking in last week's launch of the new five-day-a-week ANA Dreamliner service. Airport officials hoped it would lure more international flights to the newly remodeled airport.
On Wednesday, the airport issued a statement that the next ANA flight from San Jose to Tokyo's Narita International Airport is scheduled for Friday. But it could take investigators a lot longer to figure out what went wrong with the lithium-ion batteries the 787 relies on for much of its electricity, said Jianhua Liu, associate professor of electrical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Daytona Beach, Fla., campus. "The electronic systems are extremely sophisticated for this kind of aircraft," he said. "It could take a long time, more than weeks" to diagnose the problems.
The 787, which is made of lightweight composites instead of aluminum, is the first Boeing plane to use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are much lighter than other airplane batteries.
"Lithium batteries are pretty safe as long as they are designed well, as long as there is a reliable system to monitor them and a backup system," Liu said.
It's not uncommon for problems to occur on new aircraft, and some have had far more serious problems than the 787, said Robert Herbst, a retired American Airlines pilot and aviation industry consultant who operates AirlineFinancials.com. For example, in November 2010, a midflight engine blowout on an A380 led Qantas Airways to ground its entire fleet of Airbus superjumbos for nearly a month.
"There is nothing unusual about this," he said of the recent 787 mishaps. "These things will continue to happen until they get a long history of flying it. They can't predict all the things that can go wrong on an airplane."
Still, investigators looking into the JAL 787 fire clearly saw something that raised concerns, Fiegl said.
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At least four teams of investigators — from the National Transportation Safety Board, the FAA, Boeing and the manufacturer of the battery — will examine every facet of the 787's battery-powered electronic system, from the battery itself to software and everything that happened leading up to the fire, Fiegl said.
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Thank God Thanksgiving is around the corner. Traders are exhausted trying to figure out every iteration of how to play the "fiscal cliff." So they've given up with being creative. They're just depressed now.
Here's one comment from a trader just back from an investment conference: "Stock, [mutual fund], and [exchange-traded fund] sellers are everywhere, as most investors expect to pay more cap gains on Jan. 1 then today. Sell your winners now is the mantra!"
And this from an ETF trader: "Been wrestling with it, but keep coming back to 'short everything.' In all seriousness: gold and commodities. USCI. DBC."
The one beneficiary from this mess seems to be ETFs. They are simply more tax efficient, and in this environment, that matters.
For more on why ETFs are more tax efficient than mutual funds, see my "Trader Talk" story from last week.
Ben Johnson at Morningstar noted to me that there has been notably increased volume in some of the biggest ETFs since the election: S&P 500 SPDR volume up 42 percent compared to the trailing 3 month average prior to the election, S&P Financials up 37 percent.
There's also been a significant increase in trading in the iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund, the main ETF for trading China shares, which, Ben says, "coincides with the leadership transition underway in China."
One big beneficiary of the election and the fiscal cliff: volatility ETFs. Trading in the Barclays Short-Term VIX up 99 percent. Traders are betting on an increase in volatility, but it's not happening: the cash Volatility Index has remained stubbornly below 20. Traders are losing money betting on volatility.
So why is volatility so low? With markets down since the election, how come traders aren't freaking out and buying protection? One explanation is that the holidays are coming up. There are more days off in the next month, and since the VIX calculates the odds of the markets moving when they are open, the VIX is rightly assuming less volatility.
That may be part of it, but it's not completely satisfying. The simplest answer: traders are selling puts. They are selling volatility. A lot of money hedged, particularly when the S&P 500 index was above 1,400. Now, as the market has been dropping, they are unwinding those hedges. They are selling those puts they had bought because they are in the money.
1) World Gold Council released its report on third-quarter gold demand: Gold sales at 1,084.6 tons, down 11 percent from third-quarter 2011 "due to the challenging global economic climate."
Key trends:
a) gold sales recovered somewhat in India, with sales up 8 percent;
b) sales in China were down 8 percent due to the slower economy: "This was particularly noticeable among the middle classes, whose purchases of 18-carat gold jewelry were among the worst casualties";
c) central bank purchases were down 31 percent; and
d) purchases of gold using ETFs increased 56 percent (!), apparently due to concerns about more quantitative easing and the effect on inflation.
2) You're what? Ross Stores reported earnings and revenue in line with expectations, but buried in the release is this neologism from CEO Michael Balmuth: "We are also anniversarying the robust 7 percent increase in same-store sales from last year's fourth quarter." Anniversarying? That's not a word that belongs in a discount chain release! Or anyone else's.
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