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Golfers are a funny lot, many of them play with superstitions or simply have faith that their perseverance will eventually win out. Yet I know that the perfect swing is not all technical and mechanical, but it's also about feeling perfectly balanced and believing that the club in my hands is just an extension of my mind's eye. …
A terrible way of spoling a country walk...
As Mark Twain reputedly said of golf. However, that's not the point here. I was drawn to this...
"Now it may seem obvious, but in this country distances on links are measured in yards, which no doubt explains why there is a 'Y' on the end of the name on the box. A metric version is also available, so if you do decide to go shopping for a Pinmaster, be sure it measures in your preferred units."
So in all seriousness, some manufacturer has come up with a near £500 laser range finder that doesn't allow you to choose your preferred units at the press of a button? I have a £15 set of electronic scales that allows me to freely choose, not to mention a £6 electronic thermometer with the same capability.
That's quite apart from the idea of spending that much money on such a gadget, but then, as PG Wodehouse knew, some golfers are beyond any rational help and can only be indulged.
Rule 14-3...
"It delivers an edge by precisely measuring the distance you are from the pin (or hole to the non-golfers out there), so you can decide the best club to drive with, and using the Pinmaster is not against the rules either."
Rule 14-3
Except as provided in the Rules, during a stipulated round the player must not use any artificial device or unusual equipment, or use any equipment in an unusual manner:
b. For the purpose of gauging or measuring distance or conditions that might affect his play; or
From here: http://www.randa.org/en/Rules%20and%20Amateur%20Status/Rules%20of%20Golf.aspx#/rules/?ruleNum=14&subRuleNum=3
legal when?
I can think of only one occasion when that could be true - when t'Committee running the competition in which you're playing has created a Local Rule allowing such things. (I never played in such a competition, but maybe things have moved on since I gave up golf a couple of years ago.)
Of course, you could be playing a non-competition round with your mates, and everyone agrees that the thing can be used. Pedants will now say that you have all agreed to disregard the Rules, which is itself a violation - and that the game you are now playing is not golf!
In a practice round for a competition, you or your caddy could use it to build up your own plan of the course. This isn't golf, it's surveying. If you're also playing against other players for a few quid, then they'd have to agree to its use, in which case you're in the situation immediately above.
£500 and you can't switch from yards to metres?
See title
I have rated this article "Below par."
Didn't you mean
You've rated it a bogey, or a double-bogey?
This looks suspiciously like a rebadged spotting scope
Golf is probably the only other market where you can sell something at the same outrageous markup as used for the military. What's next? Sniper sight attached to a 7 iron?
"Sniper sight attached to a 7 iron?"
↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ You can have as many as you like with one of these.
Multiplying by 0.9144 would be too expensive
"A metric version is also available, so if you do decide to go shopping for a Pinmaster, be sure it measures in your preferred units."
So, let me get this straight, here we have a £500 gadget that's unable to convert yards to metres?
Can I pay for it in shillings?
Did anyone actually read the rules before posting?
"A manufacturer should submit to the R&A a sample of an item to be manufactured for a ruling as to whether its use during a stipulated round would cause a player to be in breach of Rule 14-3. "
So basically, as long as you submit a sample to R&A and pay off the right committee members you can have your device approved even though it 'should' break 14.3
Still ... not being able to switch bewteen yards/metres/cubits/linguine/brontosauri is a bit pants!
double sigh
Did *you* read the Rules before posting?
FAQ #6 under Rule 14-3, online.
"Can I use a distance measuring device in a competition?
The use of distance measuring devices during a stipulated round remains contrary to the Rules of Golf; however a Committee can permit the use of distance measuring devices via a Local Rule...."
2000 uses per battery.....
That would barely get me to the 9th hole.
2 year guarantee??
Blimey, they are cutting back. When I bought my Leica bins some years back they came with a 30 year guarantee.
...the quality of the product remains unchanged; it's the quality of the customer that has declined.
Not as daft as it might seem.
Leica made some binoculars a few years with an integrated distance measurement system. They were around £2500 having initially been produced for the military market.
They sold loads to golfers.. Probably giving them the idea for this.
@jeremy 2
That's an, interesting, product. Do you think the guy really thought he'd be able to retire on that idea?
Stick to the computers, guys
Just one question, Reg - why are you reviewing this thing as if it's some incredibly exotic, brand new idea, a one-off, sui generis, unique unto itself?
Spend thirty seconds on any golfing equipment web site and it becomes painfully obvious that there are dozens of these things on the market. Hell, Golf Town has a whole *category* for them:
Laser ones, GPS ones, and boring old optical ones, running the gamut from the most expensive (er, this one) to a princely $25.
So for the review to be remotely useful at *all*, it would have to compare this thing to all the other rangefinders out there, and explain why we might be motivated to shell out such a gigantic sum of dosh for it.
Personally I forked over the princely sum of $15 for the pro version of FreeCaddie, and find that does the job fine. Sure, it's GPS based and the map data comes from Google Earth so it's not going to be accurate to the width of a sub-atomic particle, but it's generally within 10 yards or so, and I wish I could say the same about my 7-iron...
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This Is The Last Advisory...
Summary Of 500 Pm Ast...2100 Utc...Information
Location...18.9n 54.7w
About 550 Mi...890 Km E Of The Northern Leeward Islands
Maximum Sustained Winds...40 Mph...65 Km/H
Present Movement...W Or 280 Degrees At 24 Mph...39 Km/H
Minimum Central Pressure...1011 Mb...29.85 Inches
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Discussion And 48-Hour Outlook
Satellite-Derived Wind Data Indicate That Dorian No Longer Has A
Closed Surface Circulation.
At 500 Pm Ast...2100 Utc...The Remnants Of Dorian Were Located Near Latitude 18.9 North... Longitude 54.7 West.
The Remnants Are Moving Rapidly Westward At 24 Mph...39 Km/H.
Maximum Sustained Winds Associated With The Wave Are Near 40
Mph...65 Km/H...With Higher Gusts.
Gale-Force Winds Extend Outward Up To 70 Miles...110 Km North Of The Center.
The Estimated Minimum Central Pressure Is 1011 Mb...29.85 Inches.
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Remnants Of Dorian Discussion Number 15
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500 Pm Ast Sat Jul 27 2013
Ascat Ambiguity Data From A Few Hours Ago Indicated That Dorian No Longer Had A Closed Surface Circulation.
Thus...The Tropical Cyclone Has Succumbed To The Harsh Environment And Has Degenerated Into A Tropical Wave. The Maximum Wind Speed Is Still About 35 Kt According To The Ascat Pass.
Regeneration Of This System Is Unlikely Due To Persistent Southwesterly Shear And Very Dry Air In The Mid-Levels Of The Atmosphere.
The Remnants Of Dorian Should Pass North Of The Leeward Islands And Puerto Rico...And Be In The Vicinity Of The Southeastern Bahamas In 2-3 Days.
An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter Plane Is Scheduled To
Investigate The Wave Tomorrow...If Necessary.
Forecast Positions And Max Winds
Init 27/2100z 18.9n 54.7w 35 Kt 40 Mph...Remnants Of Dorian
12h 28/0600z...Dissipated
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Intel code guru: Many-core world requires radical rethink
Intel is readying its many-core "Knights Corner" coprocessor for release next year, but programming the 50-core-plus beastie and its 100 or 200 core follow-ons will require a whole new approach to code wrangling. "Something that might have been only a couple per cent overhead at most in a one- or two-core system may become …
It'd be nice if everything was so convenient
This sort of coding (concern for data locality in massively-parallel architectures) has been quite normal in supercomputing for decades. And in the GPGPU programming segment for years. And it still is darn hard. The basic problem is that not all applications nicely slot into something where data will conveniently be located locally to where it is needed. Hence Berkeley can come up with a fastest-ever parallel algorithm for matrix multiplication - because they chose a problem (matrix mult) that *can* take full advantage of the way modern multi-core systems work. And it's *still* hard to code! Try doing the same with parallel algorithms that don't conveniently have data locality and you find the system runs hardly any faster than on a normal CPU because memory bottlenecks dominate. Sure, *sometimes* you can get it faster with tricks like "compute the same variable per core", but funnily enough Intel won't be telling us of all the failures too (which I suspect vastly outweigh the successes - nobody can publish failures because it might just be their lack of imagination in solving the problem and so gets rejected by reviewers).
Sorry, adding more cores onto a chip isn't some kind of revolution - it's an admission of defeat. Trying to tell us that it's our fault 'cause we need to get smarter in coding is raw marketing spin.
Isn't it already a good improvement to have one core per process?
If you think about Google Chrome that would mean one core per tab... sounds nice to me.
but you need more....
you need one core per gestured finger on every pane; its not like the core can do something else while waiting for input. Can it?
maybe it requires a hardware rethink....
I think that 200 * mesi-protocol-latency as a potential memory latency might be a stopper here; that is about the dram speed of an ibm/xt. The expected could be much lower if everyone rewrites their software to suit a rather brain dead architecture.
At 100x memory latency, it is crouching in the field that that original virtual memory architects worked in; their solution was to surrender to the OS the scheduling of memory, and render in the hardware the necessary address translation to make it work.
The same thinking can be applied, but at the granularity of cache lines - let the OS be responsible for scheduling the cache, and implement a very hi speed link under program control to perform it. In this, the shared and remote memory becomes more like a storage device; and the machines really operate on local cache-like RAM.
With this, you don't need a massive re-implementation of all the software in the world to take good control of these resources. You will want to pay alot more attention to locality of reference, however. an sparsely addressed list will chug along at 8086 speeds.....
What this doesn't do is permit a single app [ MIMD ] to span the entire processor set; rather you have to be content with numa-esqe islands of smaller, fully connected SMPs.
This is the architecture of the big-time super computers anyways [ unless Fujitsu made an 80000 node cache coherent interconnect recently ], and is the one with scalability.
But ...
Can I still join in the other Reinders' Games ?
Rudolph T. R. N. Reinder
"Intel parallelism guru "
He's a guru? Doesn't sound like it. Just one example : "Well, if you put it in a variable, and then a hundred processors access that variable to get that data, you've got a bottleneck." - and that's foreign to his brain. This point has been obvious for decades to anyone who has had to deal with as few as two processors in a system.
He's making it out to be a cool new field of thinking, but it is really just re-invention to quite a few old farts out there.
is it me or does he sound
like a bit of a moron?
"Gee, I mean, programming is hard that's for sure, certainly for an old hick like me. Some of that stuff is really, you know, difficult, Sheesh!"
This is completely wasted on ~100% of commercial software
In that part of the software market, it's all about rapid application development, and sod the efficiency. They rely on Moore's Law to make sure that by the time their software hits customer systems, the computers are powerful enough to cope.
So MIC processors will be completely wasted on commercial boxes, which is where the majority of the systems will be sold.
Even if someone (extremely cleverly) produces an IDE that can generate parallel code to make good use of many-cores, much of the workload that is done is not suited to run in a parallel manner anyway.
Apologies in advance to those that do, but most new programmers nowadays are never taught about registers, how cache works, the actual instruction set that machines use, and I'm sure that there are a lot of people reading even on this site who do not really understand what a coherent cache actually is.
I work with people who are trying to make certain large computer models more parallel, and they are very aware that communication and memory bandwidth is the key. Code that is already parallel tops out at a much smaller number of cores than the current systems that they have available can provide. And the next generation system, which will have still more cores, may not actually run their code much faster than the current one.
But even these people, many who have dedicated their working lives to making large computational models work on top 500 supercomputers, don't really want to have to worry about this level. They rely on the compilers and runtimes to make sensible decisions about how variables are stored, arguments are passed, and inter-thread communication is handled.
And when these decisions are wrong, things get complex. We found recently that a particular vendor optimised matrix-multiplication stomped all over carefully written code by generating threads for all cores in the system, ignoring the fact that all the cores were already occupied running coded separate threads. Ended up with each lock-stepped thread generating many times more threads during the matmul than there were cores, completely trashing the cache, and causing multiple thread context switches. It actually slowed the code down compared to running the non-threaded version of the same routine.
It will be a whole new ball game even for these people who do understand it if they have to start thinking still more about localization of memory, and if they will have difficulty, the average commercial programmer writing in Java or C# won't have a clue!
Don't share anything
I can only see massive parallelism working if you stop sharing memory across processors. Shared data will inevitably become a bottleneck even if you add kludges like transactional shared memory or coherent caches. Memory is also a bad model because it implies near-instant response to accesses, which can only happen with small local memories.
So each core needs its own small, local unshared memory and all sharing is done through explicit communication. Sure, you now have a problem of minimizing communication, but at least the cost is now clearly visible. Local neighbour-to-neighbour communication can be reasonably fast, but you still should not wait for response. Instead, you handle incoming data as it comes and send data when it is ready.
This needs different programming paradigms than C or Java, as both rely intimately on shared mutable data. Sure, you can get some way by adding library functions for parallelism, but these will be kludges akin to adding jet engines to biplanes -- the basic design inhibits full exploitation of the available power.
"This new thinking is bubbling to the surface"
Except that it isn't even remotely new thinking.
We were doing this on Transputers *decades* ago...
This "guru" might want to do a bit more background reading...
I was going to mention transputers in my last post
but I decided that it was long enough already!
Ahh, but they were a British invention and so "never existed" - the USA is only just catching up !
Re: Transputers
> Ahh, but they were a British invention and so "never existed"
Fair enough.
But the IntellaSys SEAforth is a Merkin chip, and that's multi-cored as well.
Intel do seem to be somewhat behind the times...
An old problem
This is just a distributed system on a chip. The usual rules apply.
demo scene
I was never skilful enough to code in the demo scene, but I remember when PCs were taking over it was said that CPUs had at that point become faster at calculating trig functions than precomputing and accessing them from memory.
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"One of the all-time classics"
Dr Covey is a man of character and demonstrates that in his book. I read this book several years ago and loaned it to someone but never got it back. I've been traveling a lot lately and decided to download this to listen to while traveling and really enjoyed the refresher. Key points that really hit home around Win-Win or Walk Away resonated with me again and the key points to business and personal relationships really renewed my perspectives.
I would have preferred this book not be so long, 11 hours is a bit much and possibly could have been condensed but I'd be afraid it would lose its impact. Regardless, great book but misses 5 stars for me for length.
"Too much fluff"
Generally a good book, but contains too much fluff. Could have been a lot more leaner, while still providing the same values. A great book to hear though.
"Great principles for life"
These are great principles to learn for life, but it could be delivered in a different more direct method that will not take 14 hours
"Solid Principle Based Content"
I have listened to this book multiple times. I gave it to each of my children for christmas. I have encouraged my co-workers and even the chaplain to not only read it but start a study group using it as a base. The information contained is not 100 percent perfect as there are terms that seemed to disagree with what I understood them to mean but they are infrequent.
The principles he chanpions and the methods suggested are right on the money!
I suggest you also get the paperback version as it is cheap and you will want to make notes.
The author does an exceptional job of reading his matereial. The listener can feel the emotion and emphasis the author intended as he not only reads the book but adjusts things enough so that you can visualize the diagrams as he reads.
It is so much more interesting listening to it then it ever could possibly have been reading it.
"Restoring the character ethic -- A must read!"
The release of this first unabridged audio edition of "The 7 Habits" could not have happened at a better (or worse) time.
The time-honored principles so marvelously organized by Dr. Covey cover every faith and philosophy, where principle-centered treatment of and respect for all people are at their very core.
Every person who is a manager or leader should read (listen to) this book. The book's original subtitle, "Restoring the character ethic," is the best way to overcome the problems that have happened in recent years with accounting scandals and other violations of trust that companies and other organizations have inflicted upon their stakeholders.
Recommended reading/listening:
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2) Dr. Covey's long-awaited follow-up to this work, "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness," which adds a higher dimension to effectiveness, as he mentions in the updated afterword of this edition of "The 7 Habits".
"Employ these principles"
I will admit this audiobook can be a little dry in spots but I must encourage anyone who reads it to practice the principled habits and see how it changes your life. Spend a month practicing each habit and you will see your leadership skills develop. Covey is a bit different from other self development authors because he leaves more to the imagination between the principles and how you choose to practice them. It can make the book more challenging to get through but if you stay on course, it's very rewarding. And I must recommend reviewing the book and chapters with a friend, spouse, or coworker. It can create a very encouraging environment. If you do find yourself stuck between the principles and practices, read Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"; A fantastic book which lists many methods based on the axioms Covey talks about in this book. I hope this review helps.
"Great Principles!"
I love this book. Steven Covey does a great job at identifying what is important in life and also does a wonderful job at showing the reader how to aply the habits to thier own life. Great book! A must Read!
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I have listened to this one over a dozen times and can't get enough. The material is easy to understand but so challenging that you must listen several times to even start to take it all it. Dr. Covey's book has helped me double my income in 18 months and has helped me improve my marriage tremendously with habit 5. By far the best program I have ever listened too!


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TALLAHASSEE — Governor Jeb Bush and First Lady Columba Bush today reminded educators across Florida that there is still time for middle school students to participate in one of the three grade level specific categories of a statewide Reading in the Arts contest centered on the New York Times Best Seller "Peter and the Starcatchers" by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. The contest, Florida's Journey into Neverland, is sponsored by Just Read, Florida! The contest is the final component of Florida's year-long reading initiative Shoot for the Stars: A Record-Breaking Year for Middle Schools.
"The Reading in the Arts contest is a wonderful opportunity for middle school students to get wrapped up in a great book and showcase their creativity and imagination," said Governor Bush. "With less than a week to go, I encourage all of Florida's middle schoolers to participate in this contest."
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"Through the Reading in the Arts contest, both students and teachers are able to demonstrate the ability of the arts to be integrated into other subjects and enhance learning experiences," said First Lady Columba Bush. "This year's book, 'Peter and the Starcatchers,' takes students on a new journey with some familiar, beloved characters, as well as a cast of new heroes and villains and provides a wonderful starting point for students to add their own artistic interpretations to a classic story."
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The right pedal arm contained one score mark on the rear edge of the boss. The score mark was circumferential for approximately 90 degrees of arc, centered at the horizontal line. It was more significant above the horizontal and tapered to nothing below it. Examination of the left, right , top, and bottom faces of the brush handle revealed no indications of any crush damage. Functional testing and macroscopic visual examination of the rudder power control unit revealed no anomalies. One estimate of the maximum rudder forces that can be exerted for various positions of rudder pedal range from 246 - 424 lbs depending upon rudder pedal position and distance from back of seat. Several like brushes were loaded in the lengthwise direction and also placed in various obstructive positions within the pedal arms. Brushes placed in obstructive positions with a pilot applying rudder pressure estimated that force he applied to the rudder pedals to fracture the brushes was 15-20 pounds. 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To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier's Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O'Brien
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The Austin College women's basketball team is teaming up with Oklahoma City University to take part in a charity food drive this weekend, with canned goods being collected at the Bob Mason Classic on Friday and Saturday.
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Easily the most crucial bone in a horse's anatomy the cannon bone is exposed to the greatest amount of stress when a horse is being worked hard. On a horse there isn't a very big support system around the cannon bone. The cannon bone is the large bone in the lower leg which runs from the knee down to the ankle. Its only support come from the tendons linking it to the knee and ankle bones and a covering of skin. There are no muscles linked to the cannon bone.
Hence it is crucial for the horse to have a well developed strong cannon bone to support its large frame during stressful workouts. 60% of its weight rests on the forelegs of a horse. We're talking about 60% of one thousand to twelve hundred pounds. A horse going at a full gallop or doing lightning quick turns is exerting a tremendous amount of force on what is about the size of a large stick.
The reason that large stick doesn't automatically snap right off every time the horse takes off is the extraordinary way the leg is designed to be a shock absorber. From the shock absorbing cushion of the sole in the hoof along the impact absorbing tendons to the upper leg muscles the blow of striking the ground with such force is redistributed and absorbed.
Even so many horses suffer life threatening injuries to the keystone bone known as the cannon bone. One such example was the famous and well loved race horse who recently succumbed to complications from his cannon bone fractures. More common are the front cannon fractures but there are also hind cannon fractures often caused by a hard bump, a kick from another horse or a bad misstep.
Reseach is always ongoing on how to prevent this tragic and often fatal injury. Key elements are selective breeding for better bone structure and improvements in running surfaces for greater protection. Also important are proper training and conditioning methods which allow for the leg to mature and become strong. Like any athlete the horse must be brought along slowly and carefully to reach his full potential.
Some disciplines use protective devices such as splint boots and running bandages to further shield the horse's cannon bone from the risk of injury. These can be helpful but if not used correctly can actually cause harm. improperly adjusted gear if too tight can cause circulation problems in the legs or bowing of the tendons and if too loose can cause chafing or skinburns in addition to not providing the proper support.
We continue to learn how to save our equine companions from harm. I for one hope for new research which will greatly lessen the risk of cannon bone injury and for more great strides in veterinary medicine to better treat fractures of the all important cannon bone.


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It was an evening filled with nostalgia as senior citizens from the Levittown community danced the night away at the Levittown School District's annual Senior Citizen Prom. Dressed in cowboy hats and other Western attire, the guests danced to tunes played by the Ron James Orchestra.
Levittown Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Debbie Rifkin welcomed the seniors and thanked them for their support of education. "We appreciate everything you've done to build this community," she stated.
Culinary students at the Gerald R. Claps Career and Technical Center prepared a delicious hot meal, which was served by student volunteers. Fully set tables adorned with centerpieces surrounded the dance floor, among which the seniors mingled with old and new friends. The student volunteers kept the dance cards full as they requested dance time and tried some of the steps as the seniors instructed them.


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