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Fergie had just come from a photoshoot for Outspoken, where Axl was on set — "it was a lot of fun," she said. And all the fragrance talk had her reminiscing about certain scents from her past (which we bet more than a few of you will relate to).
"I do remember that I loved the scent of my boyfriend, [when I was a teen and] had a lot of hormones going on. He would always wear Drakkar Noir. I was so obsessed I bought it and wore it myself," she said. "I don't think a lot of guys are wearing it these days, but it totally brings me back [when I smell it]. I've stopped people before and asked if they were wearing it. Fragrance is memory. It's definitely about nostalgic memory for each individual person."
These days, she sticks to her Avon scents, which she sees as an "expression of who you are, like picking out your clothes," she explains. "Black leather is Outspoken. Outspoken Intense is glitz, more sparkle. More like a power suit. If I could create fragrances in outfits that's what they would be."
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It's hard to see your parents get older. This is especially true as they begin to decline physically and mentally. Their need for help can also create unexpected stresses and financial challenges for you and your family. Making sure your financial house is in order can help minimize the financial burden on you, so you can focus on giving them the love and care they need.
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50 years of occupation: the story of a village trapped at the seams
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Since the 1967 Six-Day War which saw the Israeli army defeat the joint Arab army in a mere six days, Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza have been living under the shadow of Israeli occupation.
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the war, as well as half a century of Israeli occupation. From land confiscation to home demolitions to the construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinians have faced fifty years of dispossession.
The village of Jab'a is only one example of how Palestinian villages in the West Bank face isolation and fragmentation while the Israeli government continues to endorse the construction of illegal Israeli settlements.
Jab'a is located in the "seam zone", which refers to the areas between the Green Line and the separation wall. The village lies 17 km north of Hebron and 15 km southwest of Bethlehem.
Meaning "hill" in Arabic, Jab'a offers a vantage point over a long distance. It is possible to see the outline of the Mediterranean sea in the horizon and steep valleys dotted with olive and almond trees.
With four Israeli settlements - Beitar Illit, Bat Ayin, Gush Etzion and Jab'a - facing the Palestinian village of Jab'a, Diab Marshalleh, the Mayor of Jab'a village says: "First, our village is surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements from all four directions. There are 2 entrances to our village. The first one leads to Hebron but it has been closed since 2000. Another one leads to Bethlehem but it has been closed since the last Intifada (2000-2005)." As a result, travel time to these two cities has significantly extended for residents of Jab'a.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlements are encroaching on Jab'a, while land is progressively confiscated from the Palestinian village.
"The Israelis want to cut our village off from the rest of the West Bank and turn it into a big prison," said Abdallah, a school teacher from the village.
According to B'Tselem, there are approximately 588,000 settlers living in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in contravention of international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an occupying power from transferring citizens from its own territory to the occupied territory.
In fact, friction between settlers and Palestinians living in close proximity are not unheard of.
"The road to Hebron runs through the village of Surif in the Hebron governorate," Marshalleh explains. "Since the Israeli authorities closed this road, we have to travel through the Etzion settlement. Many times, the settlers attacked us with stones and burnt our cars," he said.
This curtailment of movement for Palestinians is clearly evident from the building of bypass roads meant for settlers only. The setting up of checkpoints, road blocks and most notably the infamous separation wall further restrict the movement of Palestinians
Life in the seam zone is fraught with difficulties and inconveniences. One such example is the access to farmlands belonging to Palestinians, for which permits have to be granted by the Israeli authorities.
Marshalleh reveals that, "we can't even go to our farms even if we have permits. Sometimes they (the Israeli authorities) agree to give us permits, sometimes not. Last year, we went to our olive farms near Bat Ayin and a lot of settlers attacked us by throwing rocks and fire. The settlers have guns. The Israeli soldiers told us that they could not stop the settlers and asked us to leave quickly."
Even children are not spared from the harsh realities of living under occupation. Space for Palestinian children to play is also delineated by the Israeli authorities. "At the outskirts of our village which is near the Israeli settlements, our children cannot play near there," Marshalleh adds. "When our kids played football close to the settlements, the Israeli soldiers will sometimes come and the kids will be frightened and ran away."
Living under Israeli occupation also means that Palestinians do not have the liberty to expand their properties outside of designated areas.
"We are not allowed to construct outside of our village. The Israeli soldiers will demolish our houses if we build outside the boundary of our village," Marshalleh says.
The establishment of separation barriers and restrictions on movement means that families are separated especially those who are trapped in the seam zone.
"Our village was occupied [during] the war in 1967. It was occupied by the Israeli soldiers, so the villagers were afraid and left their houses. Many of them these are now living in Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Many of the houses are empty now which is the result of the occupation. Many families are separated as a result," Marshalleh said.
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ROCKFORD — The man who has shepherded the city's major infrastructure improvements for more than eight years has resigned.
City officials said they reached a mutual agreement to part ways with capital program manager Pat Zuroske. The Rockford native resigned April 25; he could not be reached by phone.
Zuroske spent 23 years in the private sector and became the city's capital program manager in December 2005. He was responsible for drafting and implementing the city's five-year infrastructure plans and guided the city through several significant projects, including the $7 million construction of the Riverwalk behind Burpee Museum of Natural History, the removal of the pedestrian mall on North Main Street, construction of a roundabout at North Main and Auburn streets and the rebuild of the North Main and West State street corridors in conjunction with the state.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is on his first official visit to the Capitol and is making his case for revitalizing California's most populous city.
His visit Thursday comes as lawmakers are negotiating the state budget for the coming fiscal year.
Garcetti told lawmakers in the Senate that he is trying to bring together fellow mayors to devise ways to improve California's economy. He says he needs state support to retain the film industry and for earthquake retrofits and water projects.
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Trying to sell Ram trucks, Chrysler made a splash in the Super Bowl this month with a two-minute television spot celebrating the American farmer — a montage of handsome still photos and a vintage Paul Harvey speech all ending with the pitch: "For the farmer in all of us."
Nine days later, the picture was very different as President Barack Obama skipped over farmers entirely in his State of the Union address, never mentioning the yearlong farm bill stalemate in Congress nor even including "agriculture" among the thousands of words spoken that night.
"It's obviously not on their radar screen," said Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee. "The president and his people I don't think even get it."
The White House declined to speak on the record, referring questions to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. A spokesperson for the secretary told POLITICO that he remains convinced Obama truly wants a farm bill notwithstanding his silence. Ag trade groups smoothed over the slight by focusing on the president's remarks regarding potential markets in Europe.
But the juxtaposition of the Super Bowl ad and State of the Union silence reflects a real disconnect in American politics over farm policy. And one that goes well beyond the president.
Chrysler's marketers made a business decision to invest millions of dollars to identify with farmers, just as the automaker also aired a second two-minute spot for Jeep — this time celebrating U.S. troops coming home from wars overseas.
"We have used the largest television viewing audience to highlight the pride, the resilience and the determination that form an integral part of the American character," said Sergio Marchionne, CEO for both Chrysler Group LLC and its principal owner, Fiat S.p.A. An accompanying news release speaks of the troops and farmers as "two groups whose work ethic, dedication and service have sustained the very fabric of this nation."
Contrast that with Washington where in the middle of the worst drought in a generation, no farm bill was even brought to the floor of the House — an unprecedented delay for which Republicans paid little at the ballot box. Indeed, the year ended with Obama washing his hands of the whole matter and allowing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to pen a nine-month extension that infuriated many dairy farmers and left the two Ag committees out in the cold.
What is it that Chrysler sees that Washington doesn't? Are these just modern Mad Men selling pickups to suburban men with farm fantasies?
Or is something bigger happening here in power politics? And is there a lesson that farmers themselves must learn from if they are to better market their importance to American consumers — and voters?
"It was a prideful moment out here in Ag country," said Keith Alverson, a 32-year-old farmer in Lake County, S.D. "But we're a small percentage of the population, and it's clear we're not connecting the way we used to. We have to find new ways."
"No one is thinking about the promotion of agriculture in a big and bold way," said one Republican aide who tracks farm issues. "There are numerous newsletters, coalitions, websites but they're all serving the same audience. They're essentially all singing to the choir, but no one is bringing any new folks to the church service."
Politics is certainly part of it.
When Iowa was in play in the presidential election, Obama talked a good game on the farm bill last summer. But more than past administrations, this White House has taken a remarkably hands-off approach to farm issues — the chief exception being the first lady's vegetable garden.
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It took an estimated 1,200 hours to clean up wood dust that had accumulated in the 13 sawmills hit with stop-work in inspections by WorkSafeBC conducted between November and January.
Put another way, it took 30 workers a full 40-hour week each to clean up wood dust considered a hazard for fire or an explosion at the sawmills in B.C.
WorkSafeBC announced the results of its latest inspection in March. But more details of its inspection were revealed in documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun through a freedom of information request.
They showed that, in November 2013, it took Weyerhaeuser about 700 hours of worker time to clean up wood dust at its Princeton sawmill after WorkSafeBC issued a stop-work order.
There were heavy accumulations of wood dust on all surfaces in the sawmill, including electric motor control centres.
Following the cleanup at Weyerhaeuser, the stop-work order was lifted.
The next biggest cleanup took place at Skeena Sawmills in December 2013. Reopening the mill took an estimated 180 hours of cleaning. Excessive wood dust accumulations were found throughout the sawmill and planer buildings.
It took about 90 man-hours to clean up Canfor's Chetwynd mill (November 2013), 54 man-hours at Sigurdson Forest Products in Williams Lake (January 2014) and 50 man-hours at Western Forest Products in Chemainus (December 2013).
The documents also showed examples of mills clean of dust and others where combustible dust had not been cleaned properly.
In one photo of an unidentified sawmill, wood dust is escaping from a drop chute to a waster conveyor. The dust is piling up near the conveyor and also settling on wall supports.
In several other photos, motors that run equipment in sawmills are covered in sawdust and finer wood dust.
The inspection was the third round carried out by WorkSafeBC since two wood dust-fuelled explosions at sawmills in northern B.C. in 2012 killed two workers each.
The B.C. government reacted to the latest round of inspections by saying continuing dust buildups in sawmills would not be tolerated.
Following an meeting with industry in late March, B.C. Labour Minister Shirley Bond announced that WorkSafeBC would be doubling the size of its wood-dust inspection team to 20, that safety regulations were being reviewed and that industry would be helping to set up a team of technical experts to assist all mills to properly manage and clean dust.
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Drinking coconut water has many benefits. Coconut Water is naturally
- Low in Carbs
- 99% Fat Free
- Low in sugars
Coconut water contains organic compounds possessing healthy growth promoting properties that have been known to help
- Keep the body cool and at the proper temperature.
- Orally re-hydrate your body, it is an all natural isotonic beverage.
- Carry nutrients and oxygen to cells.
- Naturally replenish your body's fluids after exercising.
- Raise your metabolism.
- Promote weight loss.
- Boost your immune system.
- Detoxify and fight viruses.
- Cleanse your digestive tract.
- Control diabetes.
- Aid your body in fighting viruses that cause the flu, herpes, and AIDS.
- Balance your PH and reduce risk of cancer.
- Treat kidney and urethral stones.
- Boost poor circulation.
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"It's a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood. It's the fluid of life, so to speak." In fact, during the Pacific War of 1941-45, both sides in the conflict regularly used coconut water – siphoned directly from the nut – to give emergency plasma transfusions to wounded soldiers.
Most coconut water is still consumed fresh in tropical coastal areas – once exposed to air, the liquid rapidly loses most of its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, and begins to ferment.
- Coconut Water is more nutritious than whole milk – Less fat and NO cholesterol.
- Coconut Water is More Healthy than Orange Juice – Much lower calories.
- Coconut Water is Better than processed baby milk – It contains lauric acid, which is present in human mother's milk.
- Coconut water is naturally sterile – Water permeates though the filtering husk.
- Coconut water is a universal donor – Its identical to human blood plasma.
- Coconut Water is a Natural Isotonic Beverage – The same level we have in our blood.
- Coconut water has saved lives in 3rd world countries thru Coconut IV.
"Coconut water is the very stuff of Nature, biologically Pure, full of Natural Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to ward off fatigue and is the next wave of energy drinks BUT natural", according to Mortin Satin, Chielf of the United Nation's Food & Agriculture Organization.
- Coconut water contains more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks (117 mg) and most energy drinks.
- Coconut water has less sodium (25mg) where sports drinks have around 41mg and energy drinks have about 200 mg.
- Coconut water has 5mg of Natural Sugars where sports and energy drinks range from 10-25mg of Altered Sugars.
- Coconut water is very high in Chloride at 118mg, compared to sports drinks at about 39mg.
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I imagine given how things go with consoles the first batch will reveal all kinds of problems due to lax QA and corner cutting of that sort. Also there's no Ken Kutaragi crazying up the place.
The PS4 will be affordable...
I can imagine them doing a Steve Jobs style reveal/launch...
"And the best part is, you get to CHOOSE whether you pay for it with your arm or with your leg"
When I first heard about AMD's APU design, that was the first thought through my head: "How the hell are they going to deal with the heat?" While a console actually does strike me as the more optimal place for an APU, it's got its own specific set of drawbacks that might be problematic to address.
Overcompensation more like. I talked with a few people who developed ghames for PS3. Their main complain was "we cant make this or that becuase the machine dont have enough active memory (read: ram). so i guess sony overcompensated with that after hearing same complaints from developers. Also, we are already buying PCs with 8 gb, if this console wants to be competetive for more than itsl aunch day it has to look at the future, so nothing wrong with that. Ram isnt expensive anyway. Now what i really dont like is that its AMD processors, as AMD still havent managed to get the new efficien technology that iseries has, but this deal was probably signed before that came out of the bag anyway.
Really? The APU's seem like an ideal solution for most of the things developers would want for a console. The A10 is basically the beefiest integrated most people would need on a PC. If you actually optimized things to make use of all the good points it has, on-die means lower latencies and that you won't have it desolder itself from the system board.
The launch PS3 used a GPU on a 90nm process, A10 is 32nm. Since 2006 we have went through 4 cycles of Moore's law, mostly keeping up. So at the same price point as then we have hardware 16x as powerful. Native resolution on both PS3 and 360 was 720p then internally upscaled to 1080p. Native 1080p will be doable in the coming generation.
Best A10 goes for $132 retail, 8GB of DDR3 costs $40 retail, 250GB 2.5" hard drive $52, proprietary motherboard. Throw in controller and usual cables.
So I can see them easily hitting a sub $350 price point without taking a lose on the.
As for heat, these things are many times cooler then the 360 gpu. Putting the GPU and CPU on a single die means they can use a single better cooler to deal with heat. A regular A10-5800k has a TDP of 100W and does most of the heavy lifting processor wise. The 360 power brick is 203W. As long as they are intelligent about airflow and fan curves they will have no issues being quiet and cool.
People saying 8GB of ram is too much, think for a bit. The system will use dual channel DDR3 ram. That means 4 slots/ their equivalent will be used by the system. They don't make 1GB DDR3 dimms, in fact 2GB dimms are cheaper and faster then 1GB dimms of similar price.
Well I can see the theory of it being affordable. Even 400 bucks at launch wouldn't be too unreasonable. Even the Delux Wii U with only 32 GB of Memory is going for 350 bucks.If they decide on like 450 or 500... maybe not quite as appealing... but 400 bucks, not too far out of the realm of possibility.
As for backwards compatability, I'd suspect they might still use Bluray technology, since hell they've hardly ever had a game that tapped the 50 GB on it, so maybe it's still possible to get?
If not, I propose to Sony, since they would read this post... that those who buy a brand new PS4, get a voucher for either a specific amount of money, or a specific amount of games, that they can perchase on the PSN (limited time offer). They would be loosing money technically, but maybe it would encourage some people on the fence about getting the new system, since it would allow them to pick out a few choice games on the network while new games are in development.
Still not buying it, but it looks decent for people that want to game and can't/won't cobble together a PC.
Not really, I've got 8GB on my comp and I'm gonna be adding another 8GB just to get rid of my SWAP file so things run faster.
Devkits usually have double the RAM of console (PS3 devkit has 1 GB).
Also, people are forgetting that PC and consoles operate differently. Drivers take RAM space, for example. Remember PS3? RAM-wise it's 256+256 are equivalent to 4GB on PC when used properly or 2GB if not. 8GB of console RAM will allow for graphics comparable to 32 GB on PC.
In Japan/Asia number 4 signifies horrible misfortune and death. Worse than 13 in the West.
Still worse than any half decent pc build in the last 4 years.
How do thy keep coming up with this lame crap,.
The sad part is, I was only talking about PS3 backwards compatibility.
You can talk about Moore's Law and how amazeballs it is compared to the old gen consoles all you like, the fact remains that a budget gaming PC from two years ago will equal or beat an A10-based system in any benchmark you care to name, more often the latter if you give the budget rig a decent overclock. Even accounting for the moderate performance boost that comes from developing games on a closed system like a console, you're still not going to be seeing any DX11 features running on this thing.
When you consider that PC users have access to the i5, the i7, and soon the new Haswell architecture; plus graphics wise the 7970/GTX670 now, and soon the new AMD HD-8xxx-series(and with that the rumoured Nvidia cards that were held back from the current crop because they were so ludicrously powerful compared to AMD's 7xxx-series cards) - these new consoles will be obsolete at launch, and within a year or two we'll be back to where we are today, with PC's capable of truly outstanding performance being held back by the limits of another platform.
If they can make that, and make it affordable then Sony may just be able to compete in the next gen. They out-priced themselves from the market with the PS3 and the Vita both (even with taking a loss on each PS3 sold) and is one main reason for lack of uptake and subsequently, developer support. A console that costs more than £200, or £250 on the absolute outside is simply too expensive, even if it does have added value. A handheld over £150, like the Vita is simply extortionate.
Sony will be very unlikely to release a "PS4". The word for four in Japanese, Shi, is the same pronunciation as the word for "death" and as such is considered bad luck, equivalent to thirteen in the west.
Dude you've really depressed me. I was finally looking forward to the possibility that gaming can move on from the rut it's been in for the last four years and your prognosis suggests we'll only get 2 years of boundary pushing before stagnation kicks in again. *sigh* I hate consoles for what they did to gaming.
Not if it allows the majority of a game to be cached for instant loading. Good idea if you ask me. Windows Vista onward use large amounts of RAM effectively by caching things that are expected to be loaded soon. RAM will also be shared with the GPU portion of the APU.
OT: The AMD A10 would make a very capable console part. It is a good inexpensive mid range CPU with a decent mid range integrated GPU. With the highly optimised OS and software consoles use it will be very powerful.
Going by the hard drive size it is obvious that it is in fact an SSD. This thing is going power on and load almost instantly.
My only disappointment is there is no mention of DisplayPort which is better than HDMI in terms of tech specs and the fact it is royalty free. Although seeing as Sony is one of the founders of HDMI I am not surprised.
This would be different from every other console generation how? Because the 360 and PS3 were nothing that spectacular based on specs alone at launch. The disparity between previous consoles and PC's tended to be even worse.
Second to market, it came after the Dreamcast, but that game library really gave the PS2 the edge.
They nearly did, KIllzone 3 takes up somewhere around the 46 GB mark on the disc, I think most of the game is uncompressed though, the soundtrack is definately so as it sounds marvelous.
But yeah, blu-ray will be staying I'd imagine, god help anyone who clings to DVD next gen for gaming.
It is wiki, but links are provided. The page simply puts the OECD numbers in an easy to read chart.
Here is another one. I believe this too is based on the OECD numbers and expressed in PPP (money is expressed in 1 US dollar spent in the US). This a more simplistic number, and simply average monthly salary with cost of living included.
The OECD has a site, but it's not easy to understand or compare numbers.
edit: Note, these numbers are adjusted for living expenses (PPP number does that). I think that is what the other poster was probably using. If you go simply by actual dollars, Australia is considerably higher. Yet the cost of living more than eats up that difference. So it really depends on how you look at things. From a video game perspective, 33% higher costs in Australia should be expected and not really any different than US prices considering the wage differences.
I wonder if ity will be backwards compatible....is that a silly question?
By having really low standards, not even coming close to matching what typical users are capable with PC hardware today.
Also having everything-on-one-chip hugely reduces production costs as well as potential efficiency.
But this is a double win for PC as the A10 architecture is (unlike the Cell Broadband processor) very similar to PC hardware, games made for this new Playstation would be easily ported to and scaled up on PC.
I hope this A10 based system is true, it'll be affordable system for me to get a new generation of console games yet my current PC won't be rendered obsolete.
That actually seems rather reasonable.
Average isn't necessarily median.
For example how is that "average" skewed by how there are so many multi-billionaires and even trillionaires living and earning in the United States while the "typical earner" may not earn much more or even less than other countries. This wealth doesn't trickle down, the super rich buy giant yachts, private planes. They don't buy games consoles, they buy private jets.
I don't have a source (yet) but I did hear in a BBC documentary about economics that in the United States middle earnings have frozen for the past 30 years while the highest earners have shot up "INSANELY high". Like an order of magnitude higher. Like is a banker earned $1 million in the 1980's, he'd take in $10 million today. This is happening almost everywhere in the world though some countries to a greater extent.
This can be insidious, as "average earnings" going up may appear like an egalitarian improvements, when most are being left behind as a tiny minority take in all the extra wealth being generated.
What you really need is to compare middle earners, with cost of living of middle earners (distance to commute, cost of commute, heating/air-conditioning expenses) and then the balance of both taxation and government support. So how much government tightens household budget and also how much it might (if at all) ease it.
But that's complicated as hell, really you could just, well, ASK australians and americans and Brits and so on what they feel they can afford. Can they afford X-amount per game? Can they afford a console with initial price of X-dollars-US/OZ. Because that's what it ultimately boils down to.
Hold the phone, EIGHTY SMACKEROONS!
PC games are right now selling for the low low price of FREE (to play), I can barely afford console games at the equivalent of $60 (£40). My PS3 controller is collecting dust not because I can't find games worth playing but because I cannot justify the cost of each game. $80 would end up being £55 in the UK, that's a total turn off. I could buy almost every game I could ever want in a typical steam sale for that amount.
As I remember, PS games were around $30 at launch (admitting my memory is fuzzy on this one),
It makes sense that the cost of the games will go up. $80 might be an exaggeration,
Might be fixable by just upping the number of GPU cores at the expense of CPU cores.
Either way, I believe cost will be the overriding concern not power. Sony has seen what happened with the PS3 and PSV. Not to mention that the global economy is currently in the toilet.
I think you are worrying too much - we don't even know if the rumours are true.
Not sure if it has already been posted but just so you guys know, if these specs are real then the final console wont have 16GB of RAM.
These leaks are based on dev kits of the consoles and dev kits almost always come with double the memory for debugging purposes.
Maybe it's a matter of coding, but after assembling so many gaming PCs and benchmarking them I've yet to find a game that gets a consistent advantage from 16GB of System RAM, even the highest speed. Even though it makes us more money we argue against customers requesting 16GB of RAM for a gaming rig as we know we'd be taking advantage of them.
16GB only really comes into it's own for processes that don't need to be fast but deal with a lot, like photoshop, video editing and making 3D models and animations. So basically game development.
8GB is just about ideal for even the most demanding games.
I think a likely scenario is the console plan to launch with 8GB, but the dev-kit models have double the RAM (16GB) just to make it easier to tweak, create and combine elements with the goal on the dev-kit to get the system memory usage down to only 8GB which will be the launch version.
Though it may be even half that, 4GB of RAM would be very affordable yet very capable on a console with refined specs and no Operating-System overhead. Xbox 360 has done so well on only 512MB of RAM shared between CPU and GPU. 4GB would be 8 times that, that is three Moore's Law doubling, what you'd expect over 6 years. 2013 is 6 years since PS3 launched in Europe.
Look, games don't HAVE to endlessly go up in price because we are not in fact all earning more money with lower essential expenditures (rent, mortgages, car-payments, fuel for heating+transport, food, etc)
Our pockets are not bottomless.
An INEVITABLE RESULT of higher game price is people buy less games. The risk of each game becomes SO HIGH that developers NEVER want to take any risks, they just copy the last game with incremental improvements and people only invest in sure-bets that they know their friends will play so they aren't at risk of spending their entire disposable income of a month on a game that none of their friends play.
game price goes down = sales go up = revenue goes up.
Each copy is CHEAP to make, it's just an optical disc that can be mass produced for less than $1 per boxed copy.
If this generation is made on the foundation ofr games being any price higher than $80 then it is on the road to disaster.
If we make it clear NOW that we will not accept $80 then we will ALL be better off.
The question is, will the rich-boys screw it for everyone buying at $80 and throwing away their money they hold no value of and leaving everyone else high as dry. Will console gaming become an elite hobby that average earners will pay through the nose just to experience a small part of?
It might defeat the purpose if the premium is too high a price.
For example, if the Premium version costs more than a "core" PS4 PLUS the price you'd get from selling your PS3... then it makes more sense jsut to keep your PS3 and get core PS4.
Backwards compatibility made sense with PS1 to PS2. I sold my PS1 then used the money I made from that to help pay for PS2 yet I could still play all my PS1 games. Gamecube didn't have backwards compatibility but it sold for $99 when PS2 sold for $299.
Personally I already don't purchase games at launch because of the price tag. Why should I when the game's price will inevitably drop less than a year worth of waiting? Sometimes we even get GOTY editions that have all the DLC packaged in. It makes no sense to buy a game at launch unless it's a game that I just really REALLY wanted.
From just general chat on this site, quite a few people also do this, yet we have not seen any drop in price. So why do developers keep charging $60 for their games and then complain when people people buy used? Are there really that many rich kids willing to throw down money at launch or is it something else? I really don't know.
That's not a workable model. By waiting you are screwing the developers who get paid based on sales per quarter, and the retailer usually buys games for a price then lowering it later pretty much fire-sale prices to cut their losses making no profit or a loss even. And the dependence on pre-owned market is a further problem, it's sharing one actual sale the developers make money from amongst many.
People SHOULD buy games when they want to play them, but they can't for the price. the PS1 era was such a boom time because $30 was a cheap price yet earnings were high and cost of living was low. Now games cost twice as much, gas costs 4x as much (cuts into disposable income) and median incomes have pretty much frozen.
The problem is the publishers are in a trap of their own making, they drove up the price by being greedy, but drove down new sales.
Instead of selling each game for $60 where it will be resold to 3-4 different people, they could sell the game for $30 to each of those 4 people ONCE.
That every thing else requires very little power, facebook, twitter, light internet browsing. Hulu and Netflix streaming are probably the most intense task in the everything else category and a Raspberry Pi can do that, err well as soon as they sort out the audio issues with the Android 4.0 release.
For game designers they will want all that to stop while playing most games regardless of what the system can handle. Probably savestate everything running to drive cache when you launch a game, and then have system integrated tasks available from the system menu in game. Last thing someone playing the next Battlefield or COD will want is a notification poping up, and the last thing the game devs will want to think about is how many apps are currently running when they launch this.
True the APU's don't have the most high end components but to be better than current gen that isn't necessary. Without discrete graphics AMD's APUs dominate on GPU tasks, and anything done in a console would be integrated. Plus they don't want these thing to retail at $500 while still talking a loss, they'll want to come in around and hopefully below $350 for base models. Plus Sony isn't going to use some off the shelf A10, they'll get something custom.
Yes, but prior to the current generation of consoles, PC gaming was a discrete market with developers who catered to it, now PC gaming is an afterthought for developers who focus mainly on consoles, and the vast majority of the games we do get are ports of console titles with the bare minimum of effort required to achieve functionality on the platform the extent that developers will work on them.
The majority of the remaining minority of titles which are developed specifically for the PC are indie games who's creators are limited by their available resources, F2P social games that look like they've stepped right off the screen of a Gameboy Color, and MMOs who's business model requires them to be compatible with five+ year old hardware(the easiest way to achieve such being to simply design the game for such outdated hardware rather than to design a fully-scalable system).
The quality of PC games are dependent on the limitations of console titles more than at any time since the two became commonplace, and that's why it depresses me that console makers are once again engaging in a race to the bottom; because my enjoyment is going to be limited and the value of my investment in a gaming PC diminished, and because the limitation is going to be extremely pronounced given that the proposed PS4 specs(to which we can infer the 720 will be fairly close) aren't even capable of running features a modern-day budget gaming rig can(if you think you're going to see Tesselation or the improved particle effects and lighting of DX11, you're dreaming).
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Jalandhar: India is well-known worldwide for its splendid foods, flavours and festivals. Maintaining the same, LPU's School of Hospitality celebrated its annual Culinary Festival "Flavours 2012", today, to promote "Chef Profession" among young students. The celebration saw the best combo of amazing food, innovative national/international 'carte du jour'(dishes) and unbelievable group of talented would-be-chefs from competing 20 educational Institutions and universities. During the fest, the budding professional-students were provided a big platform to showcase their culinary skills, which would further motivate them to build strong foundations in Hospitality Industry. For this, a number of competitions like Healthy Breakfast Dish, Innovative Soup with accompaniment, Novel Menu, Creative Dessert and Culinary Quiz were held. Following international rules, the competing students were judged for accuracy of recipe, presentation/balance, taste, technique/skill, creativity, hygiene & use of indigenous ingredients.
Congratulating all the winners and other participating students, Director General of LPU Er HR Singla said: "It is heartening to note that Indian hospitality industry is growing exponentially and is predicted to grow 17 percent up to 2014, thereby adding millions of new jobs to the present work force. Moreover in relation to the same, India will be a tourism hot-spot up to 2018, having the highest growth potential. So a career in hospitality is sure to open up opportunities to earn a very good living with great income." He further informed: "Through this competition, the endeavour of our School of Hospitality is to impart knowledge, skills, concepts and techniques to the students to learn and emerge as global hospitality service providers."
Some of the participants Harsh & Jyotsana said: "We know that the competitive celebrations like this are sure to develop and promote the related culinary skills in us towards flourishing food & beverage industry. We have learnt so many innovative styles of food preparation and presentation skills, viable in terms of food-cost and nutrition, from our rivals also. This fest has really strengthened our individual creativity by furnishing us a big platform to portray skills, techniques and styles."
In fact, hospitality industry is a vibrant and glamorous field by offering more dynamic work environment than other professions. If one considers the level of accommodation that companies provide for top managers, or even the day-to-day perks that hotel and restaurant managers get for free, one finds that the salaries are very competitive with other industries.


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The Batsiranai Craft Project is based in a highly-populated township outside of Harare known as Dzivarasekwa. "Batsiranai" translates as "helping each other." The project supports mothers with severely disabled children living under challenging circumstances. In addition to living with extreme poverty, these families often suffer from stigma related to local beliefs regarding the origins of disabilities. Added to the stigma, many are living with HIV/AIDS (25 percent of Zimbabwe's population lives with HIV/AIDS). The Batsiranai income generation project allows women to work near their homes, and thus support the needs of their families and to be available to care for their disabled child. Ten Thousand Villages began purchasing from Batsiranai in 2008. Ten Thousand Villages sells "Twin Dolls" from Batsiranai.


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Nats having issues with holding runners, allowing steals
WASHINGTON -- In the fifth inning of the Nationals' loss to the Braves on Monday night, Stephen Strasburg got into a predictable rhythm and Braves outfielder Justin Upton took notice. Upton went for the steal and was halfway to second base before the ball even left Strasburg's hand.
Freddie Freeman followed with a single, scoring Upton to give the Braves a 2-1 lead in what became a 3-2 victory for Atlanta.
"It happens," Strasburg said dismissively after the game. "You get caught in having a predictable time to home plate, and he took a gamble. Three-and-0 hacking, they went up the middle. It is what it is."
The play was indicative of a larger trend that has haunted the Nationals this season: an inability to hold runners and a tendency to give up stolen bases. Entering Tuesday, the Nationals had only thwarted 10 stolen-base attempts all season and allowed 73 steals, the third most in the National League.
Washington's caught-stealing percentage (12) is by far the lowest in the Major Leagues. The next lowest is the Angels' 20 percent, and the Major League average this season is 28 percent.
"It's a tough thing," catcher Kurt Suzuki said. "You've got a lot of runners that nowadays they don't run unless they know they're going to be safe, so it puts you in a tough spot. All we can do is keep working on it. If you try to rush it and stuff, you start making errors, so you can't try to change too much."
The catchers are partially to blame, as their throws to second base have sometimes been off target. Suzuki has thrown out six runners while allowing 49 steals. Wilson Ramos has thrown out four and given up 18 steals.
However, manager Davey Johnson said most of the problem stems from the pitching staff. Opponents have stolen 12 bases with Strasburg on the mound and 11 against Jordan Zimmermann. Reliever Drew Storen was demoted to Triple-A Syracuse last month in part because of his slow time to the plate.
"Stras has probably given up a whole bunch because he's pretty much set in his timing, but some guys are very slow," Johnson said. "We had that problem last year, the same thing. We spent a lot of time in the spring going over how to be a little quicker, but basically, they're stealing off our pitching."
Suzuki added that there's only so much you can change without disrupting a pitcher's performance.
"You don't want to do that, get out of their comfort zone and then leave a pitch over the middle of the plate and it's hit for a homer," he said. "So it gets tough, but you try to do the best you can."


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1. Guardians are requested to go through the diary of student every day.
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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) April 25, 2014
US Federal Contractor Registration (USFCR) is releasing highly regarded data showing the increase of federal contracts in Colorado. Currently after reviewing the federal marketplace for available solicitations, US Federal Contractor Registration has found 314 contracting opportunities in Colorado. In order for businesses in Colorado to start bidding on these opportunities and awards, they must first become registered in System for Award Management (SAM). Contractors can call (877) 252-2700 Ext 1 to start the government registration process or go to their SAM.gov Online Registration page.
Georgia Tech PTAC office "estimates that a high percentage of the 600,000 firms presently registered in SAM.gov have errors in their records. The mistakes range from misspelled words to empty data fields, to incomplete entries, to selection of incorrect procurement codes, and other flaws. As a result, these vendors miss-out on government contract opportunities either because they are screened out for not exhibiting attention to detail or because of incomplete information they cannot be identified by government buyers." This shows that there is a real need for US Federal Contractor Registration's services.
In an effort to help businesses become registered and help the small business initiative US Federal Contractor Registration is encouraging businesses to use other their full service or their self-service options. Investing in US Federal Contractor Registration's full service plan prepares a contractor for all that is ahead. The full service includes yearlong technical support, annual SAM migration updates, added to the USFCR federal buyer newsletter, creation of a FEMA Vendor profile, grant assistance if needed, NAICS code research and the highly-recognized Verified Vendor Seal of Approval. US Federal Contractor Registration complaints are handled very seriously due to the gravity and importance of federal paperwork compliance.
US Federal Contractor Registration has registered over 60,000 private sector businesses in the SAM registration some of which include McGraw Hill, HP, Wells Fargo, Xerox, GoodWill, Dixie, UPS, Heinz, Sheraton Hotels, Marriott, Westin, Interstate Oil, CITI, and Coldwell Banker. As well as academic institutions and colleges like NYC, Northwestern, Oxford, Southwestern, and Mercer. Numerous federal agencies like US Army, US Navy, Veteran Affairs and United States Department of Agriculture have also had their government paperwork facilitated by US Federal Contractor Registration Case Managers.


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More than three years after Flint, Michigan's water supply was exposed to high levels of lead, residents there are still being instructed to use bottled or filtered water. In September, the water quality returned to pre-crisis levels, but city officials say residents should still avoid using tap water until they can replace more than 18,000 lead and galvanized service lines by 2020.
In the midst of the Flint Water Crisis, community members and organizations banded together to help each other and provide relief for those most affected by the lack of safe drinking water in the city.
United Way of Genesee County immediately set up the Flint Water Fund, which has raised more than $4 million to date to purchase water filtration systems and bottled water for residents, as well as provide emergency support services.
In the wake of this crisis, widespread attention has been called to the issue of the quality of water in homes in other communities across the country.
So how can you ensure your own water isn't tainted with harmful toxins?
The Environmental Protection Agency recommends contacting your water supplier to request the Consumer Confidence Report, which outlines contaminants of concern in your area. You can also have your water tested by a certified lab, which runs about $20 to $100.
To reduce your risk to lead, EPA recommends the following:
- Use only cold water for drinking, cooking and making baby formula. Boiling water does not remove lead from water.
- Regularly clean your faucet's aerator
- Consider using a water filter certified to remove lead
- Before drinking, flush your pipes by running your tap, taking a shower, doing laundry or a load of dishes.
The EPA and Center for Disease Control and Prevention agree there is no safe levels of lead in a child's blood. Educate yourself on the dangers of lead and take steps to protect your family from exposure to lead-contaminated water. For more information on the Flint Water Crisis and to see how you can help, please visit www.flintcares.org.


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What is InfoSnap?
InfoSnap is a provider of online admission and registration solutions designed specifically for Pre K - 12 schools. InfoSnap provides secure customized online forms based on the school system's existing registration processes.
Why use InfoSnap?
InfoSnap online registration enables families to enter and update student biographical data anytime using secure customized online registration forms, then delivers this data to the school's student information system PowerSchool.
What are the advantages of using InfoSnap?
InfoSnap makes the registration process simpler and more efficient for parents/guardians by reducing repetitive information entered on paper forms. It's more "green" then using paper forms. Using InfoSnap saves the school staff many hours of manual data entry. Online registration enables cost savings on paper and postage. It also allows the school to collect and process more quickly the annual registration of students.
How does InfoSnap work?
For a parent/guardian to complete or update their child's InfoSnap forms, they need an access code known as a "snap code". Once a parent/guardian has have the snap code they logon to the InfoSnap website and access the InfoSnap forms. The InfoSnap forms are pre-populated with data from the school's student information system PowerSchool. Parents/guardians only need to make changes or corrections to the forms.
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Red Sox keep ticket prices unchanged for 2013
The Boston Red Sox are keeping ticket prices unchanged for 2013 after their worst season in nearly 50 years.
Individual prices range from $12 for the upper bleachers to $165 for a seat above the Green Monster in left field. Prices for season tickets also remain unchanged. The team kept prices the same for the 2009 and 2012 seasons.
''It was abundantly clear this year that we should hold the line on ticket prices,'' team president Larry Lucchino said Monday. ''Over the past few years, we have fallen short of our goals to play postseason baseball. Through it all, fans have shown their deep loyalty and support, for which we are all grateful.''
The Red Sox went 69-93, missing the playoffs for the third straight year. Their .426 winning percentage was their lowest since 1965 when they went 62-100.


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I'm trying to set up a custom post type following this tutorial. However, I'm a bit confused as how/where to implement
update_post_meta(). The tutorial suggests this pattern:
add_action('save_post', 'save_my_metadata');
function save_my_metadata()
global $post;
update_post_meta($post->ID, 'my_metadata', $_POST['my_metadata']);
Which does work, but has the unfortunate effect of adding that metadata to each and every post, whether it belongs to this custom type or not.
I've put the above in
functions.php and am guessing that might be part of the problem. I'm guessing I need to restrict the 'save_post' action to only trigger for posts of my custom type.