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you know what i took out of this article?
the entirety of Rage is one giant fucking texture! wow. do many games do this?
I didn't know anything about cell processors and these differences but I honestly was fine with no PS3 backwards compatibility. It really didn't seem to have that great of a library and I at least felt like the console was recent enough where emulation actually would be costly or difficult. The lack of PS2 and PS1 backwards compatibility is what pissed me off. Even the PS3 can play PS1 games (I think) and buying my PS2 games again is just ...no.
One thing I suspect that people overlook is that if they were to put a PS2 into the PS4 (which is kinda what they did with the PS3), then the price would easily be an additional $100-$200. I don't know about you, but that is an acceptable sacrifice.
The thing that saddens me most about no backwards compatibility is that the greatest library of games ever will be lost forever.
Just a really damn sad thing to see. On the PC we at least have places like GoG and less reputable sites keeping games up for purchase/download, but what about consoles? That's a shitload of gaming history that'll just fade away. And that's a damn shame.
No, it's not "pretty shit in most regards".
Rage is the only one so far, though future id games may do this as well. The technology is called megatexture. Shamus made a video explaining the tech, if you want to know more.
I'm going to unfortuently cap that hope, the Xbox uses a different type again, and while more compatible than PS3 its still needs work. However both consoles could in theory receive re-releases/HD versions from multiplatform games, Activision etc just need to adapt their PC versions as they already use x86.
I gave the PS3 a complete pass. Both from a business and a feature perspective (sony really ticked me off around the start of the generation). But rage cools, and they could do one thing to win me back: give me PS2 compatibility. I couldn't care less about the PS3 library, but I have a huge pile of PS2 games that I still haul out and play on a regular basis. Let me do that without having to jump through increasingly difficult hoops to replace PS2s when they eventually die.
This was a heart breaking read. I was so looking forward to one day having my entire PS library on one machine and it looks like it'll be at least another decade before that's realistic.
It will never be realistic, unfortunately. Have you talked to many mainstream gamers lately? They don't know what PS1 games are and they don't care. They want bleeding-edge graphics and Halo and emotional experiences.
The video gaming industry: it's business, not art. Businessmen go where the money is, and there's probably very little to be had in backwards compatibility.
What baffles me is that people actually raised this as an issue. Was it not obvious from the financial and power requirements of the PS3 that there wouldn't be backwards compatibility in the PS4? Sure, it's a hard pill to swallow, but you can't actually expect Sony to include a CBBP in there, the right memory on top of the 8GB etc. Getting an OS to work nicely with two totally different assembly languages, for one, is a miraculous feat in itself, and one that surely would raise the price due to dev time. Anyone can see this a mile off.
PS4 without BC - £350 - £400
PS4 with BC = £650 - £700 (maybe less if Sony feel like making a very harsh loss)
Still, here's to hoping Sony will leverage Gaikai for some sort of solution, they're in the position to do so.
Uh... Well, I guess you can't argue with 'I want it to happen so it'll happen.' It might!
the xbox will rule you all
But what about PSN games? Games that would run just fine on the PS4?
I don't know why people are thinking this would be such an expensive thing to implement.
1) PS1 emulation can be done through software.
Sony is doing this because:
1) They want to resell you your games online from the Playstation store.
What they don't realize is:
1) The used games everyone wants are harder to get and more expensive than the online digital versions. So being able to play older discs wouldn't really affect sales of digital games.
Just to continue my rant a bit more...
The Wii U could still be GameCube compatible. (The hardware architecture is very similar so I don't think any additional hardware would be required beyond GameCube to USB controller adapters.) However, Nintendo has deliberately disabled this feature as they have done in later model Wiis. And again, they will be selling digital versions of GameCube games online while not allowing you to play your own disc versions. Anyone see a pattern here?
I am becoming so jaded by the whole game industry that I even expect the PS5 to NOT be able to play PS4 games, even if the PS5 is just an even more enhanced "x64". Instead they will want to sell you your PS4 games again...
Now if you will excuse me I will huddle in a corner by myself with my Super Nintendo...
Ouch, you got me right in the optimism :-(
Thanks for making this article. I've grown tired of explaining why emulating the ps3's processor would be nigh impossible.
Yeah, that shocked me when I saw it too. Crazy stuff. That certainly explains the texture loading issues in the game. I wonder why they thought that was a good idea or if it was just an easier way for them to do things?
I understand the frustration you're having with this move but I assure you it isn't just them being greedy bastards like normal. There are some things that absolutely should be backwards compatible like any kind of ps1 or ps2 games you've purchased on the store.
But the fact is that while the ps4 is significantly more powerful, it is not as exponentially more powerful as the ps3 was compared to the ps2. The ps2 is basically a graphing calculator at this point where consoles are concerned. The requirements to emulate any environment take up more resources than the original environment would. The fact that the ps3's hardware is so alien to anything else significantly harms attempts at emulation as this article explains. Emulating that hardware architecture would take resources that we really don't have faith the ps4 has. It may be viable, we just don't know yet. Do you have any evidence regarding the specs required to emulate the ps3? Probably not since it hasn't been done and may be impossible to do.
Perhaps Sony will come up with an addon or physical device of some kind that will alleviate that system stress somehow, but without some serous innovating it isn't as simple as you think it is. They also can't incure a significant cost on all ps4 consumers with the changes. They can't simply sell you the same games they'd been selling previously. Take inFamous for example, one of my absolute favorite series. This game was entirely optimized for the ps3's architecture and the digital format was the same as you'd get on disk. In order to make that playable on the ps4 you actually have to have a development team go in and parse the code in order to make a port to the ps4 just as if they were going to sell it on the 360. So, from the code level, in order for it to be playable on the ps4 it'd have to be a different license. Doing this on a game by game basis costs significant money and would warrant reselling to comp very real development time. Every single game would have been coded differently so there's no easy software parsing solution that would automatically switch things over. If you know anything of coding you'll understand that.
It's really unfortunate that this is the decision that Sony made for the ps3. I've been bitching about that choice from day one. But this move with the ps4 will only benefit all of us going forward and should make ps4 games playable on all future consoles and much more easy to port to other systems. We'll get a lot of better titles and better ports that would otherwise have been on other systems. This is why a basically more powerful machine got crappy ports and lost some exclusives last generation. This move had to be made.
I understand the cost of ps3 titles in at least the short term may sound like a huge price to pay. But this is one of the first positive steps I've seen Sony make in a generation.
What I don't understand is why Sony couldn't have handled BC like Nintendo did with the Wii U.
Let me explain: when people started tearing apart the Wii U and getting a proper look at the hardware, they found that Nintendo had been very sneaky and clever regarding backwards compatibility. Rather than simply taking the barebone Wii internals and bolting them on the side of the unit, in the same way that the PS2 and early PS3s handled BC, they took the CPU and GPU, broke them down into little pieces and actually integrated them into the circuitry of the Wii U CPU?GPU itself.
Inside the Wii U GPU is a little Wii GPU that allows it to perfectly play Wii games. Not through emulation or anything like that. The Wii GPU kicks in, and the Wii U essentially becomes a Wii.
What's even better, and this is according to some of the tech-heads at Neogaf, is that because the Wii GPU and CPU are actually integrated into the main circuit, then the console isn't in backwards-compatibility mode, those components can be used to give a moderate boost to performance. Rather than having them just sit there as dead weight, Nintendo is getting usage out of those parts even in regular Wii U mode.
Why couldn't Sony do the same thing with the Cell? I mean, obviously it's more complicated than the Wii CPU by a huge margin, but they're already using an 8-core CPU with the PS4. Contrary to popular belief, the CELL isn't a multicore CPU, but a single core with 7 or 8 SPE units to handle smaller computational tasks. Is there no way that Sony could have taken that single core and those SPEs, broken them down and again integrated them into the Jaguar CPU they're using? Couldn't they have potentially spent less on the Jaguar by going for a six core instead of eight, and actually using the PS3 architecture in an integrated way to make up the difference?
I mean, it would have been expensive to R&D, but developing any kind of console is expensive. And they get the knock on effect of having at least a small part of the CPU being absolutely dirt cheap now, yet still being completely functional, and with 100% backwards compatibility as standard.
Is the CELL processor just too weird a piece of tech for that to even potentially work?
Something to that effect is what I had in mind when talking about an addon of some sort. A hardware solution would be far more viable than emulation at this point. The processor itself isn't that large (it's still a chip) but the question is how much it'll cost and what other factors are involved with including it (e.g. heating concerns, what additional components are required along with it, etc).
If it even adds $50 to the console, this could hurt Sony's price point. They could probably launch tiered systems again (and will likely do so regardless) but this exposes them to risk.
It is a very interesting question that I'd also like to see answered.
One texture for the landscape, I believe. Characters, cars, buildings all had separate textures. The landscape tech was called Megatexture Technology, or something like that, and it was supposed to make game development easier (so it benefits the devs rather than the gamer). Rage was basically a tech demo for Megatextures.
Thing is, as I said in my original post, while it would probably cost money to R&D integrating a CELL processor into the PS4 architecture, the actual component itself is dirt cheap nowadays, isn't it? I mean, it's hardly at the cutting edge of CPU technology anymore. And considering that integrating it into the hardware would give PS4 players the entire PS3 library to potentially play, day 1, that would be a huge potential sell. Work in PS2 and PS1 emulation, and you've got the entire history of the Playstation catalogue potentially there for people to play. That would be huge. Imagine being able to play all your playstation games, from 1995 to now, on one machine. That would blow people's minds.
As for the tiered systems thing... I don't think that would necessarily work. Again, from what I understand, integrating the older architecture into the new can give the overall hardware additional resources to work with. Meaning that a PS4 with integrated CELL hardware would be a bit more powerful than one without. You wouldn't just create a schism in price, you'd create a schism in console performance as well.
I don't know how much it would cost. If it's $50 then that is an additional sum of money that will be imposed on anyone who gets a system with it in there. If the ps4 is considering this a generation that they can legitimately take market share from microsoft then that $50 is a tough pill to swallow and not one we can bully them into taking.
There are other factors too. The ps3 wasn't the most efficient at heat control and these chips absolutely have heat issues. So you're talking about something that could potentially harm the ps4 and you're also talking about something that requires other components where the ps2 did not demand them.
No telling the cost and potential dangers without being an expert in ps3 hardware.
A few points:
1. Tiered systems already worked for the ps3 early on. Remember when ps3s were backwards compatible with ps2s?
Interestingly enough, I'll point out that the next xbox will have a backwards compatibility problem with physical 360 media. The HD-DVD format completely lost to the bluray format so the odds of the next box having HD-DVD readers is nill. Since bluray players don't read HD-DVD format (they use different lasers altogether from what I understand). Digitally purchased formats should be completely playable though.
The issue isn't nearly as bad as complete hardware redesign.
The 360 uses DVDs for game storage.
The HD-DVD player was just an external add-on. So the "720" could read the discs no problem.
If the "720" also goes X64 like the PS4 (that is the rumor) then the "720" will be more like the original X-Box, which was just a Pentium III based system...
I think you misread my post as these were my points! What I was trying to emphasize is that the physical CELL processor and related chips are from 2006 and therefore not expensive to make. It would add to the cost (hence my suggestion for the add-on card so if you want this feature you pay for it that way) but not hundreds of dollars as some of the previous posters have suggested.
You are much more optimistic than I am! I think they have abandoned backwards compatibility as a matter of policy, not so much technology. On reporting on the PS4 many articles have mentioned the streaming of PS3 games. I believe this will be similar to the PS2 games in the Playstation Store that ALL PS3s can play. The streaming will be for the new game you just purchased only, not any of your disc based titles.
I think that through software emulation and physical chips full BC would be possible. This could be passed on as a charge only to the users that really want it and are willing to pay for it. HOWEVER, this doesn't fit with Sony's new digital sales strategy so that is why we aren't seeing it.
I dunno man, with our 2013 amazing foresight it indeed seems like a dumb decision, but go back to 2003 when it was made (giving or taking a year) and building a machine around the Cell architecture actually made sense in some areas. They already had experience in dealing with exotic architectures from the PS2, it saved the (then expensive) RAM allowing superior performance with the same hardware compared to a regular x86-64 and naturally prevented emulation among other things.
Honestly the PS3 was the first console to totally blew me out of the water in designs and avobe all in how much they belived in their vision of the product. Never got one because by then I was just too invested in PC gaming and had no interest on a console, but to the date is the only console I don't consider just a cheap totally crippled/wall gardened (portatil gaming-dedicated) computer.
I would understand this if we were trying to emulate all six spes with one core, but the PS4 has eight cores ... that seems like enough ... although, there's still the problem of emulating PPC code on an x86, which isn't that hard to do really, but it is excruciatingly slow if you're trying to play something like a PS3 game ...
On a relatively related note, I think more games should be written in Haskell. That language is basically designed to optimize concurrent code automatically, so the same Haskell code would compile equally optimally on the PS2, PS3, and PS4 without major modification, if Sony had put a little energy into porting GHC properly (and if all the game developers learned Haskell, which is more difficult than learning most languages, but not by much). That would make the PS3 much easier to develop for, and then maybe the PS4 would use another Cell with more cores on it, which would make BC trivial.
I wasn't bringing up a new point, I was asking if you had any evidence to support the claim that the ps4 would be capable of emulating the ps3 since emulation of the ps3 has not been successfully performed on any machine that we know of.
Yeah, I would expect something like $25-$50 of chip cost and something more regarding additional hardware to connect it. The problem may come in if it specifically requires additional hardware to operate properly.
Actually, the standardizing of hardware will mean there would be no further excuse for saying that the system can't be backwards compatible. The console is now officially more computer than not or at least the line it thoroughly blurred. They've had legitimate reasons to claim incompatibility for most systems in the past but not really anymore.
It isn't optimism, it's a basic understanding of the difference between proprietary hardware and standardized hardware. Proprietary usually means compatibility issues with any product or service, not just consoles. Standard means that there's even a potential to play the same disks on a computer, think about that one.
Take a look at the current 360. The next gen won't have HD-DVD readers because that would be dumb. So the 360 will have a similar problem for completely different reasons. It would actually require a seperate reader to use.
It doesn't benefit a console company with such stiff competition to purposefully strangle their library. It would be a significant boon to them to have their ps3 library readily available on the ps4 if they want to acquire more market share this time around. With them releasing first they are well poised to do that and this only hurts them.
The successful implementation of the physical chip by itself would solve the problem. That's all the multi-core is, it's a chip like any CPU that's about the size of your thumb. The real questions are what else is required to make that successful and how much does it cost? If it's just as easy as slapping the chip in there then that's great, but it may require other hardware and it may have compatibility issues with the existing resources. There's also a potential heat problem, maybe, we don't konw. Beyond that, if it does cost more then you're absolutely talking about a tiered console pricing scheme again, which is the new norm anyways.
It was only a matter of time before their arrogance came back to bite them in the ass. They wanted to make the ps3 so different and not even give developers english translated manuals with the expectation people would just take it as they would always maintain their number one position. How is that complicated hardware treating you NOW sony?
Oh and no thanks to rebuying all the digital downloads again on your ps4 simply to fill your greedy pockets at my expense. It's simply worth it in the long run to continually upgrade your pc so you don't have to get burnt by sony and microsoft corporate greed.
It wasn't arrogance so much as poor foresight. The multi-cell processor could outperform other platforms in theory and they thought developers would utilize that instead of just porting games over.
It was just too difficult to program for and it had some file size limitations that they just didn't foresee at the time (some assets can be too large to fit in any one cell and some files bloat with use. E.g. Skryim on the ps3). Additionaly, Sony didn't really provide the tools in a way that they should have. They were afraid that developers would immediately unlock the full potential of the ps3 and then we'd have nowhere to go from there (they should be so lucky to have had 2013 quality games in 2007). The current CEO stated that they wanted it to be hard and that is also just them being dumb.
On the other side, they correctly called the bluray format and did a decent job providing media resources from the desktop. This saved them in my opinion. So what we're hopefully seeing now is them learning from a mistakes rather than trying to overcome part of their culture.
I think it's now up to the publishers of certain games to make sure their old games don't fade away. Lavish packs of "classics" might be the answer, but then it's till a nightmare to change the code to work on the new machines. Remember what a mess Konami made of the Silent Hill HD remake.
xbox will still rule you all. even if you block my posts.
Livid.... This makes no sense. GTA V comes out in September which I will buy instantly on PS3. The PS4 comes out in November and I would only afford it if I traded my PS3 in for one which I won't do as I won't be able to play GTA V on it? I think there are a lot of people in this position and I expect this one game (GTA V) will impact people's decisions to buy a PS4 on release. I can see early sales of the PS4 being low.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Ultrasound can detect fluid in the lungs of dialysis patients, possibly preventing what could turn into fatal heart problems, Italian researchers report.
Many patients undergoing dialysis for kidney failure also suffer from heart failure and are at danger of having too much fluid in their lungs, which can lead to a heart attack, other heart problems and even death, the researchers said.
"Fluid overload is a leading risk factor for death and [heart problems] in end-stage [kidney] disease patients on chronic dialysis, particularly in those with heart failure, which represents a substantial fraction of this population," said lead researcher Dr. Carmine Zoccali, director of the nephrology, hypertension and renal transplantation unit at Riuniti Hospital in Reggio Calabria.
Early identification of lung congestion may help prevent progression of heart failure, serious cardiovascular problems and death in dialysis patients, he said.
Zoccali noted that ultrasound is commonly used to visualize heart problems and is widely available and relatively inexpensive.
In the study, which was published online Feb. 28 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Zoccali's team measured the amount of lung congestion in nearly 400 dialysis patients using ultrasound. They found that 14 percent of the patients had severe lung congestion and 45 percent had moderate-to-severe congestion.
Yet 71 percent of those with moderate-to-severe lung congestion showed no symptoms of it, the researchers found.
Over two years of follow-up, dialysis patients with severe congestion had a 4.2-fold increased risk of dying and a 3.2-fold increased risk of having a heart attack or other heart problems, compared to patients with mild or no lung congestion.
Fluid in the lungs is one of the hallmarks of heart failure, said Dr. Stephen Green, associate chairman of the department of cardiology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. Fluid builds up because the heart isn't strong enough to pump blood efficiently. As the lungs fill with fluid, it becomes more difficult to breath, Green said.
In the study, fluid in the lungs was a better predictor of the risk of dying or having a heart attack than were other symptoms of heart failure.
Green called the study "interesting" but noted the small number of participants.
He said the results "suggest that use of lung ultrasound to assess early signs of fluid retention in and around lung tissue in patients with kidney failure on dialysis might help predict those patients at higher general risk of heart failure or heart attack symptoms -- namely shortness of breath and body fluid overload."
Those patients being treated for heart and kidney failure might soon have another test to help assess which patients not currently having symptoms might be on the cusp of developing lung congestion and worsening cardiac disease, he said.
"It's in this group of high-risk kidney and heart patients we could then intensify treatment and hopefully avert a problem before it develops," Green said.
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SOURCES: Carmine Zoccali, M.D., director, Riuniti Hospital, Reggio Calabria, Italy; Stephen Green, M.D., associate chairman, department of cardiology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, N.Y.; Feb. 28, 2013, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology


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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Budget Beach Decor
5 comments:
- dana said...
Donna, Donna, DONNA.....that was such a cute, cute porch redo!!!!
I love every little bit of it....from those darling burlapy wreaths to the pillow you created from your hubby's jeans to the the doorbell sign!
That was so creative, thrifty and just downright adorable!!!
Maaaaaan, now I have to put a ruffler on my list of things I want to buy, thanks to you! :)
I was wondering if you and your family were still going to do the Disney 5K...so glad you are! I'm sorry to hear that you are having foot issues, too. It really stinks.
With our HORRIBLE weather we've had for about three weeks, my running hasn't been happening regular enough. I went out last night...the first time in a week and a half. It was a killer....still so hot and humid at 8:30 pm. I stopped at 2 1/4 mile. I was really feeling it and decided my elder body needed to be "eased" back into the 3.1 mile run/jog point.
I have met another gal my age who runs/walks. She does really long distance events...half and whole marathons with the run/walk approach. I know I'm not in condition to do that....but SHE can't actually run more than 1/4 a mile at this point. However, she started Couch to 5K, so is working on building up like I did. We're gonna "encourage" each other...her to run 5K.....me to run/ walk longer distances. We have a couple of "goals" set up for the fall and spring for each type of event. It's really nice to have someone who "gets" why we like to do this! :) I will be happy when the weather breaks so I can be consistent again about getting outside....once a week doesn't get it. However, the "resting" has been good on healing my foot that has the plantar fasciitis. Th
It was so great to hear from you!! I hope things have "slowed" down a bit for you.....I miss our frequent visits!
Have a super duper week!
L, Dana
- July 25, 2011 at 5:32 AM
- Nicole-Lynn said...
Super cute! I love all of the burlap!
- July 25, 2011 at 6:30 AM
- Gallamore West said...
Thanks for your sweet comment on my Beachy Burlap Subway Art! I'm loving your Beachy makeover too. I love all the burlap and that "Bell" sign is too cute! Have a great week!
Laurie @ Gallamore West
- August 1, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Maya @ Completely Coastal said...
Ah, here they are... your gorgeous wreaths... and other coastal goodness!! I'm looking forward to feature some of your creations on my blog!
- August 16, 2011 at 11:55 PM
- CereusArt said...
I LOVE the shutter picture frames!
- October 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM


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New Page: the weapons… first entry – Minié ball
I am in need of another page on which to collect notes about weapons. I've begun it here. First entry…
Cylindroconcoidal Bullet ["Minié ball"]
- Invented by a Captain Norton of the British army in 1832. [TACWOMW, 16]
- Perfected by Claude-Etienne Minié (right) in 1843, a captain in the French army. [TACWOMW, 16]
"Previously too slow to load, the rifle became a practical weapon on the battlefield. The Minie ball could be dropped down the muzzle of a rifle almost as easily as if it were round. T he net result was additional range, velocity, and accuracy." [TACWOMW, 16]
Photo: Minié Ball design from Harpers Ferry. Source; Wiki commons.
[TACWOMW] – Edward Hagerman, The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).


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According to local website Impacto Deportivo Manny Ramirez will stay with LA and will make it official this Friday after returning from Brasil.
"This wednesday was informed to Impacto Deportivo that Ramirez had already decided with the Dodgers", said the local website.
"Ramirez is on vacation in Brasil and as soon as he returns this friday will make his deal official, tha last offer from the Dodgers was 15.0 millions for 2009, 22.5 for 2010 and 27.5 for 2011, but this offer will be improved, why? Manny wants the Dodgers and the Dodgers want Manny".
Well, I personally don't give any credit to this report from this source, sometimes they make big impact with news from Dominican Players because the good relations they have with them, but in this case I'm sure they are wrong.


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Our best childhood memories include horsing around in the colorful and durable back seats of hadron collider-sized rolling Americana. Kim White remembers them with fondness as well, offering these amazing handbags sewn from the same vintage automotive fabrics.
Thankfully seating materials have been updated over the years, giving our hind quarters somewhat of a break as well as freeing up fabric for White to turn into fantastic clutches. Take a peak at the most stylish of the bunch, the Camaro Special Edition ($225) and try to picture your favorite lady friend gasping it tightly at the next vintage car show you both attend.
If she's worried that some chump's broken in her glorious handbag fabric over the years, White says they use;
dead stock never-used textiles intended for use in American automobiles: cars, trucks and vans. She fortuitously unearthed an entire warehouse of automotive fabric, which may be the last existing stock anywhere in the US, and she is the sole owner of these amazing textiles.
A reason to impress her has never come sooner, so gents, get your credit cards out and make your girl happy.
[Kim White Handbags via Autoblog]


text: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:56:20AM +0100, Ariel Sabiguero wrote: > >>If you have 3% failure at 65F at 3 years, and 15% failure >>at 80F at 3 years, >> >What is the source for that figures? >Of course that if it is the case even 80F is too much. > I thought it was clear, I just made up those numbers to illustrate, the hypothetical situation of different temperatures: 10% failure at 3 years means 0.01% chance of failure every day (10% / 3 / 365). Failures are not necessarily skewed at the end of the period, but could be evenly distributed, or skewed toward the beginning of the period (which I think is most often the case, some hardware just lasts while others fail at 6 months). My guess is that at higher temperatures, failures will be evenly distributed across the time period, causing continual maintenance issues -- which are more easily addressed with disk failures, than mainboard and/or cpu. Also, I should clarify, I've not setup a site like this, by experience I really meant exposure. I know the hot room and cold room setup does make a difference though. It may well be advantageous to use slow CPU (ie 1.2 Mhz, and possibly under-clocked) for raid systems in a hot room, to help preserve them. Power supplies vary wildly in quality and efficiency. The point about them being the limiting factor in high temperatures is well taken. The new macmini advertises operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C) http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html (that may not be for continous operation) and their design would make it easy to gang several units on one specially designed power supply (for efficiency). I'm not recommending, I don't know anybody who has touched one, but I would look into them; they do run Linux, I think. // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george at galis.org


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How to Deepen Financial Systems in Africa: All financial sector policy is local
Editor's Note: This is the fifth and final contribution in a series of posts that preview the findings of the forthcoming Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond regional flagship report, a comprehensive review documenting current and new trends in Africa's financial sectors and taking into account Africa's many different experiences. The report was prepared by the African Development Bank, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank. In this post, the authors argue that all financial sector reform has to start locally, taking into account political constraints, but also aiming to create a constituency for financial sector reform.
What has the recent crisis taught us about the role of finance in the growth process of countries? The global crisis and the ensuing Great Recession have put in doubt the paradigm that financial deepening is good for growth under any circumstance. For students of financial systems, the bright (growth-enhancing) and dark (instability) sides of financial development go hand in hand. The same mechanism through which finance helps growth also makes finance susceptible to shocks and, ultimately, fragility.


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On March 22, 2011, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, 85 countries supported a Joint Statement entitled "Ending Acts of Violence and Related Human Rights Violations Based On Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity." This follows previous statements on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons issued at the United Nations, including a 2006 statement by 54 countries at the Human Rights Council, and a 2008 statement that has garnered 67 countries' support at the General Assembly. The United States is amongst the signatory states to both previous efforts. The United States co-chaired the core group of countries that have worked to submit this statement, along with Colombia and Slovenia.
This statement adds new references not seen in previous LGBT statements at the UN, including: welcoming attention to LGBT issues as a part of the Universal Periodic Review process, noting the increased attention to LGBT issues in regional human rights fora, encouraging the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue addressing LGBT issues, and calls for states to end criminal sanctions based on LGBT status. The statement garnered support from every region of the world, including 21 signatories from the Western Hemisphere, 43 from Europe, 5 from Africa, and 16 from the Asia/Pacific region.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "This statement is an example of America's commitment to human rights through dialogue, open discussion and frank conversation with countries we don't always agree with on every issue. In Geneva, our conversations about the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals with countries where sexual orientation is not only stigmatized, but criminalized, are helping to advance a broader and deeper global dialogue about these issues. As I said last June, gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. We will continue to promote human rights around the world for all people who are marginalized and discriminated against because of sexual orientation or gender identity. And we will not rest until every man, woman and child is able to live up to his or her potential free from persecution or discrimination of any kind."
You can read Secretary Clinton's full remarks here, and more about the joint statement here.
Virginia R. in Wisconsin writes:
TO: Hillary Clinton
This letter is written to request the US Dept of State formally protest the forced virginity tests of women in Egypt.
Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced 'virginity tests', inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month. Arrested female demonstrators were tortured with shocks, subjected to strip searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to 'virginity checks' and threatened with prostitution charges.
'Virginity tests' are a form of torture when they are forced or coerced.
It is important that the US act now while the new government is forming in Egypt to insure that women's rights are elevated, especially in all aspects of the legal system.
The State Dept. should ask that all women army units be formed inside the Egyptian armyand sd dpecial police units. These female units should be trained and armed. They should have jurisdiction over all females immediately, at the scene of a woman's arrest and throughout their custody within the Egyptian legal system. Female officers should act as protectors, counselors, and guardians, especially in domestic disputes.
Volunteer US female army trainers and military police are available to facilitate the implementation of this project. The Institute for Inclusive Security is also available.
Jill in Nevada writes:
I was wondering if the State Department was coordinating with U.N. Woman concerning woman issues.


text: Gerry, As a former installer/patsy at one of those nameless clumsy hardware vendors, I thought this *may* be useful for you: > 1. We specified "No OS" in the purchase so that we could install > CentOS > as our base. We got a set of systems with a stub OS, and an EULA for > the diagnostics embedded on the disk. After clicking thru the EULA, > it > tells us we have no OS on the disk, but does not fail to PXE. Vendors get into all kinds of legal issues when they don't sell M$ licenses they are supposed to have EULA's for cover. They used to clobber/corrupt partion tables etc. when fdisk'd ruthelessly but are largely benign now if you handle issue #2 gracefully and get the standard install/fdisk launched. The vendor I worked for had a EULA free sku but only if you purchased RHEL WS licenses. Blank disks Always had EULAs. > > 2. BIOS had a couple of interesting defaults, including warn on > keyboard error (Keyboard? Not intentionally. This is a compute node, > and should never require a keyboard. Ever.) We also find the BIOS is > set to boot from hard disk THEN PXE. But due to item 1, above, we > never > can fail over to PXE unless we load up a keyboard and monitor, and hit > F12 to drop to PXE. A fast trick I've used: a. Keyboard errors are usually just complaint messages on a console you'll never see. I haven't seen them halt a system during boot in years so hopefully this is cosmetic. b. to get around keyboarding through the BIOS config, a system with hot swap drives can be simple: Eject the drives Boot the system (with ethernet cabled to a powered on switch) Wait long enough for the system to post and decide there's no hard drive, which bumps the PXE up to first boot Power down, reinstall the drives - Now PXE is the primary boot device This sounds more painful than it is. I've deployed a few 500+ and a couple 1200+ node clusters and life was much faster and simpler this way. Note: With many systems you can switch back to Disk as primary boot device by powering off the ethernet switch and going through the 2 boot dance so the local drive becomes the primary boot device again. We normally setup PXE to tell the node to boot local on the occasions we need a stateful install. YMMV Once the nodes are booted you can script the "Config" utility from the vendor to tune the bios/bmc etc to your preferred favorite settings. I use Perceus so the local drives are always scratch+swap space and we partition them and format on the way up if they need it. Hope this helps, Cheers! Greg


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This was $14 or so from Home Depot.
Planted in december 2012.
Looks a lot better. Im quite confident really as it is the best spot in the garden really for sunshine which I think its wants more than anything else. Considering its still less than a year theres not much more to expect other than visible growth.
Seems a bit worse for wear really.