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If you're going to be the biggest tunnel digging machine in the world, you deserve a beefy name to back it up. That's the thinking of the Washington State Department of Transportation, which announced Monday the massive machine that will dig the new tunnel beneath downtown Seattle is now officially named "Bertha".
The name was chosen as part of a contest for kindergarten through 12th-grade students. It had to be female and have significance to Washington state heritage, life, nature, transportation or engineering. The name, picked by a panel of judges that included Gov. Chris Gregoire and Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond, honors Bertha Knight Landes. She was elected mayor of Seattle in 1926, the first woman to lead a major American city.
"This project is about breaking new ground," said Charley Royer, former mayor of Seattle and a contest judge. "Like the SR 99 tunneling machine, Bertha Knight Landes was one of a kind. It's only fitting that the machine bears her name."
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WSDOT says crews in Japan just finishing the one-of-a-kind machine featuring a 57.5-foot-diameter cutterhead. She'll be taken apart and loaded onto a ship that will arrive in Seattle next spring. She'll start tunneling from the west of Seattle's stadiums next summer.
Along with her name, Bertha is also getting her own identity and even a Twitter account.
"So nice to finally have an identity," @BerthaDigsSR99 tweeted Monday. "Maybe now the folks at the passport agency will take my application."
"The next generation of engineers is in our classrooms right now," Hammond said. "Letting students name the machine and providing an opportunity to follow Bertha on Twitter is a great way to engage them in this historic project, which is an engineering marvel."
Josh Kerns is an award winning reporter/anchor and host of KIRO Radio's Seattle Sounds (Sunday afternoons 5-6p) and a digital content producer for MyNorthwest.com.
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aw, that's sad.
A million dollars isn't that hard to come by these days...hope he gets it.
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AMERICAN Wesley Warren Jr has told how he needs a $1million operation to remove his SEVEN STONE testicles.
The 47-year-old has suffered in silence with the enormous growth on his scrotum but is now pleading for help so he can get life-changing surgery.
His testicles have grown so large that he cannot wear jeans or trousers anymore and lives on a diet of antibiotics and medications.
Instead Wesley, from Las Vegas, US, has to wear a hoodie - placing his legs in the arms and using the hood to support the growth.
Wesley said: "It's not easy to get around, it makes me stay in most of the time."
But he refuses to let his unfortunate condition get him down, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
He added: "I want to have real friends and a relationship with a woman.
Unfortunate ... Wesley struggles to get on the bus
"But I'm not suicidal.
I'm too strong for that."
Doctors told him he was suffering from scrotal lymphedema a condition that has made his lymph nodes in his scrotum swell up with watery fluid.
Wesley believes he was struck down by the embarrassing deformity when he squashed his privates while asleep in 2008.
Incredibly his testicles then started swelling up and the next morning they were "the size of a soccer ball", said Wesley.
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He has not revealed exactly how much he has raised but tearfully said: "What I've got is a start.
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Another common cause is fluid accumulation between the testicle and the skin.
This is called a hydrocele.
The swelling usually only occurs on one side.
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aw, that's sad.
A million dollars isn't that hard to come by these days...hope he gets it.
Ok i`ll start the donations,i can give him a wheelbarrow...
Makes you wonder how the US can consider itself in the "civilised" bracket when there is nothing available for this guy from the government.
He should bounce around on them like a spacehopper ala Randy Marsh.
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He just needs to empty his bag. He'd make a great stunt c**k .
On a serious note, surely the gov. should step in to help him.
thats one helluva set of balls. id be inclined to keep them and show them off at parties.
I have on more than one occasion bashed my bollocxs and they still work. Last 'good' time was on way home on bicycle last summer, going up a hill - CRUNCH - gears on bicycle let go, crossmember got a rude awakening.
If it's just water, has he tried dynorod(TM)?
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$1 million for an operation !! Tell me it ain't so ?
omg thats just awful
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Silicon Valley, Europe
Governments across Europe are always obsessing about creating their own Silicon Valleys, rivals to California that will catapult their country/city to international tech prominence, create jobs and make them cool by association. As I've said before, this is partly because such talk is cheap – bung a few million pounds/euros into some accelerators, set up a co-working space near a university and you can make some tub-thumping speeches about investing in innovation.
Obviously there's a lot more to creating a new Silicon Valley than that. So I was interested to read a recent EU survey of European ICT Hubs, which ranks activity across the region. It doesn't just analyse start-up activity, but also factors such as university strength, external links and business growth. While Munich, East London and Paris top the table, (with Cambridge at the top of tier 2), what is interesting is the sheer number of hubs and their relative strengths, despite many being quite close to each other.
There is a European obsession with a single hub to take on Silicon Valley, but as Paul Stasse points out in this piece on Tech.EU, if you zoom out and centre your 'hub' on Brussels, a 400km radius will bring in the majority of the EU's ICT hubs. So consequently you need to go beyond individual cities or regions to move to a larger scale view. After all, Silicon Valley itself is not a single place, but a collection of cities and towns, that spreads from San Francisco through the Santa Clara Valley. So, while the Santa Clara Valley is geographically 30 miles long and 15 miles wide, the actual area of 'Silicon Valley' itself is much bigger.
In that case, why can't Europe create its own Silicon Valley encompassing multiple hubs? Or even Valleys within countries – it is around 60 miles from London to Cambridge, so it wouldn't be a stretch to build the M11 Valley (though with a catchier name).
The trouble is, California has some pretty big advantages that have helped Silicon Valley grow. While entrepreneurs and programmers flock there from all around the world there's one business language (English), one legal system and one predominant culture. Being part of the US gives immediate access to over 300 million people in a single market. Europe's diversity is both a strength and a weakness – you can't simply up sticks and move your company from, say, France to Belgium, with the same ease as from San Jose to Palo Alto.
In my opinion what is needed are three things:
1 Be more open
I'm as guilty as the next person, but individual hubs need to look outward more, rather than believing that success ends at the ring road. Only by encouraging conversation between hubs and idea sharing will innovation flourish.
2 Make movement easier
You are never going to change cultures, but the EU has a role to play in standardising the playing field when it comes to creating companies, harmonising legal systems and generally helping create a single market. That way entrepreneurs and companies can move more easily and collaborate, without having to duplicate bureaucracy or red tape.
3 Celebrate what we have
It is time to end the obsession with creating the new Silicon Valley. It isn't going to happen. Instead, celebrate the ability Europe has to build multiple, interlinked hubs that play to our strengths, rather than bemoan our inability to spawn the next Facebook.
Silicon Valley, Europe may not happen but by supporting existing, successful clusters and hubs we can build a technology industry that can drive innovation, growth and jobs.
Hubs, bridges and the discovery of America
There can be a tendency in Cambridge to think that innovation ends at the city limits, and particularly that we've got the monopoly on tech startups in East Anglia.
Proof positive that this isn't the case was on show last week at SyncNorwich, where more than 300 entrepreneurs, developers and members of the Norwich tech cluster talked about their diverse successes. This included market leaders such as FXhome, which produces special effects software for both Hollywood blockbusters and amateur filmmakers, Liftshare.com, the world's most popular car sharing site and mobile interaction/payment firm Proxama. A whole host of newer startups, such as targeted mobile advertising company Kuoob, music community site SupaPass and educational software provider Wordwides (set up by a 16 year old) also talked about what they could offer.
There's obviously been lots of activity in Norwich for quite a while (FXhome has been going for 10 years and Liftshare.com for 15), but what the evening did was give outside endorsement to the cluster. Mike Butcher from Tech Crunch came along and it gave everyone present belief that they were on the right road and that they should be shouting about it. In the days since, I've seen emails offering co-working spaces and there's even a cluster name (Silicon Broads) being bandied about, along with a startup map.
Norwich isn't the only cluster rising to prominence across Europe – the growth of cloud-based technologies, new agile development methodologies and a focus on entrepreneurship mean they are springing up everywhere. Some people see this as a bad thing – they point to the size of Silicon Valley and wonder how hundreds of disparate European cities can compete or scale. But as Butcher pointed out, the Valley has a 60 year head start and what is needed is to build bridges between the different hubs – after all takes 2 hours to drive from London to Norwich (or Cambridge), the same time to get from one end of Silicon Valley to the other.
What Europe needs to do is to use the nimbleness of having multiple centres to its advantage and turn disparateness into diversity. I'm reminded of the story of the 'discovery' of America. At the same time as Christopher Columbus was touting his plans around the courts of Europe, the Chinese Emperor was assembling a great fleet to explore the same area. Given the scale and backing put into the expedition it would have been likely that the first non-native settlers in the present day United States would have been Chinese, not European. However the Emperor died and his plans died with him – there was no alternative power that could take them on. In contrast Columbus, originally Genoese, travelled round Europe for years until he found a backer in the Spanish monarchy. The result? The world we know today.
So it is time that European startups (and political leaders) stopped dreaming of a single super hub that on its own can rival Silicon Valley. It'll never happen and what we need to do is build bridges between the enormous variety of hubs across Europe. Making everyone aware of what is going on up the road (or further afield) is crucial to driving collaboration, unlocking opportunities and building a successful pan-European tech ecosystem that can break down barriers and silo working and deliver jobs and growth.
Cambridge Clever and Shoreditch Smarts
Last week Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy, announced the first investment by his latest venture, Invoke Capital. It has put money into Darktrace, a security company founded by Cambridge mathematicians. Darktrace uses Bayesian logic to spot cyber security issues by learning what is normal inside a company network and then flagging behaviour that differs from this.
Lynch is a divisive figure, but whatever your views on him, he built Autonomy into a multi-billion pound business, achieving the biggest ever sale price for a UK tech company when he sold it to HP for £6.2 billion. Of course, since then HP has sacked Lynch, written down Autonomy's value substantially and asked authorities on both sides of the Atlantic to investigate possible accounting irregularities at the firm.
But two things that Lynch said stood out for me. Firstly, he believes too many European tech companies are sold too early in their development (normally to US rivals) – raising tens of millions rather than billions. Invoke plans to change that by investing for the longer term and providing experienced managers to take businesses to the next level.
The second thing he really encapsulated was the difference between Cambridge and Tech City businesses. Speaking in The Economist, he said "What you will find in Cambridge is something which is fundamentally clever, while what you are going to find in Tech City is something where the raw science isn't fundamentally clever, but its more attuned to the market and the consumer."
So the difference is between Cambridge clever and Shoreditch smart – but (as Lynch also says) we need both if we are going to build strong, vibrant tech sector in the UK. After all there's no point in clever technology if it doesn't have a market, while there is a limited opportunity for low IP businesses – we already have enough social networks.
What we need is to bring the two clusters together and develop a mutual understanding so that both can learn from each other, cross-fertilise ideas and even work in partnership. Let's face it – they are only 60 miles away from each other, just a bit more than the distance from San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Some people in Cambridge have a tendency to look down on any ideas that haven't originated here (or spent years in development in the lab). In contrast denizens of Silicon Roundabout often view Cambridge companies as too technical, too geeky and taking too long to build in comparison with their agile media startups.
Two immediate things would help this necessary cross-fertilisation. Firstly, a forum to bring the two groups together to share ideas and network, and secondly, a realisation by the government that you've got to look at the tech sector as a whole. At the moment a lot of effort goes into TechCity but that needs to be widened to encompass tech companies across the UK (not just in Cambridge, but in other clusters too) with a cohesive set of policies that encourage innovation and longer term investing. Otherwise Lynch's vision of building billion dollar businesses in the UK simply won't be realised, and that will hurt everybody.
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Million pound dropped
On the face of it, David Cameron's announcement of a £1m prize for solving a 'grand innovation challenge' is good news for UK science and industry. The competition will look at the biggest issue of our time (as selected by the public) and then be judged by an illustrious panel, chaired by Lord Rees, the English Astronomer Royal. The Prime Minister likened the competition to the 1714 Longitude Prize which was created to solve the problem of navigation at sea, and which spurred unknown Yorkshire clockmaker John Harrison to develop much more accurate marine timepieces.
All well and good – anything that stimulates debate on pressing problems for mankind and supports scientists and engineers is obviously welcome. Even Cameron's idea of a 'Britain's got talent'-style show to identify the key issue that scientists have to solve is an attempt to put engineering and research back into the mainstream.
But there's three main problems I can see – and unfortunately they run through a lot of the coalition's thinking on science, engineering, technology and entrepreneurship.
Firstly, £1m is a pitifully small amount of money for an idea that will solve 'the biggest problem of our time'. The annual Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (bankrolled by Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and tech investor Yuri Milner) has distributed $33m to 11 winners. And that's just in one year. The new Longitude Prize is being funded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and it appears (from what I've read) that the £1m is not new money, but is from the TSB's existing budget. Hardly an expansion of government investment in science and engineering.
Secondly, like all politicians Cameron is driven by short timescales. Solving the problems the world faces can't be accomplished in a single term in office. Research simply does not move that fast. If the Prime Minister checked his historical facts (perhaps he needs to speak to Michael Gove), this has always been the case. The original Longitude competition began in 1714 but Harrison's clock was not successfully operational until the 1760s. And even then he was judged not to have won the official prize itself (though he was awarded multiple grants during his lifetime to recognise his achievements).
Thirdly, modern research is a global undertaking. Scientists work with their peers across the world, collaborating to solve problems across disciplines and countries. Look at the Human Genome Project – while the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge made an enormous contribution to sequence human DNA, it was a truly global effort, involving scientists from across the world. So if Cameron expects his prize to be won by a 100% British entry, he's likely to be proved mistaken.
I really hope that the new Longitude Prize takes off and increases interest in science, engineering and technology. But, like investment in championing Tech City, it smacks of a short term, PR-led approach by the Prime Minister – aiming for headlines, not the lasting breakthroughs that take decades to unlock.
Taxing times for tech companies
Very few of us like paying tax, but there's a fine line between legitimately reducing your tax bill and actively avoiding paying the tax that is due. And at a time of austerity where everyone is tightening their belts, there's obviously a push by governments to close loopholes and maximise the revenues they receive.
Given their high profile and obvious success Starbucks and Amazon have both been the subject of widespread condemnation of their tax avoidance methods, and I've covered Starbucks inept PR response in a previous blog. Google was up before a House of Commons Select Committee last week (for the second time), backing up its claims that, despite revenue of £3 billion in the UK, all its advertising sales actually take place in the lower tax environment of Ireland. Google boss Eric Schmidt has countered that the company invests heavily in the UK with its profits, including spending £1 billion on a new HQ that he estimates will raise £80m per year in employment taxes and £50m in stamp duty.
Apple is the next company caught in the public spotlight, with CEO Tim Cook appearing before a US Senate committee that had accused it of 'being among America's largest tax avoiders'. Meanwhile, the loophole that sees Amazon and other big US ecommerce companies avoid paying local sales taxes is being challenged by a new law passing through Congress, with estimates of between $12 and $23 billion extra being collected.
Given the close links between Google and UK politicians (Ed Miliband is appearing at a Google event this week and Schmidt is expected to meet David Cameron on his current UK trip), the cynical view is that this is a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing. But it does create an image problem for the companies involved, particularly at a time when we're all meant to be in it together.
Obviously the most popular thing for companies to do would be to re-organise their tax affairs so that they meet the spirit as well as the letter of the law. But that's not likely to happen given the enormous sums at stake. Instead expect increased calls for global tax reform (so that the organisations involved don't have to operate the way they are currently 'forced' to) and a slew of feel good announcements that demonstrate the level of investment and support for the UK economy by the companies concerned. Being ultra cynical perhaps the whole tax situation explains the huge support by big tech companies for Tech City – it is simply an elaborate way of diverting attention from their financial affairs…………..
Where's the money going?
In a week that saw the publication of the long-awaited Cambridge Phenomenon book, celebrating 50 years of innovation in the area, some more sobering figures concerning continued investment have been published.
Research from tech-focused investment group Ascendant found that while generally VC investment is up in Q1 2012, money doesn't seem to be coming to Cambridge. £307m was invested in tech companies in the UK and Ireland – with £188m going to London-based outfits, and £27m to Irish ones. Cambridge (and Oxford) saw very little new money.
While it can be misleading to generalise based on three months of data this could be a worrying trend as centralised government action to boost London's Tech City draws potential funding (and talent) away from the Cambridge ecosystem. After all, as Rory Cellan-Jones points out in his BBC Blog, Cambridge has potentially a better chance of creating world-class tech companies than London as it has already developed an ecosystem with research at its heart to feed innovative ideas to the market. But investment funding for Cambridge is key – not just in 'scientific' spinouts such as Owlstone and ARM but the more internet-style businesses and the thriving cleantech sector that Cambridge also supports.
So how does Cambridge compete against the media-savvy Tech City community when it comes to gaining funding? I may be biased as a marketer, but really feel that public relations has a strong role to play. There is still a tendency amongst Cambridge startups to treat PR as an afterthought rather than an intrinsic part of how you create a company and drive its success. You need to know your audience and deliver the right message to it at the right time using language they understand to succeed. Otherwise the risk is that Cambridge will become seen solely as the domain of technical wizardry rather than as a driver of customer-focused innovation that leads the UK tech scene.
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Food 4 Less Brings Hope And Dollars To The Tables Of Local Food Banks
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Food 4 Less, the nation's largest price-impact supermarket chain, invites customers to help support local food banks and families in need through a special fund-raising campaign that kicks off November 11. In addition, the supermarket chain's Foods Co Division is also collecting donations for food banks in Central and Northern California.
Food 4 Less and Foods Co customers and associates can support food banks in their community through the supermarket chain's nonprofit arm, The Food 4 Less/Foods Co Fund, by donating their spare change in collection canisters located at the checkstands in Food 4 Less stores in Southern California, southern Nevada and the greater Chicago area, and at Foods Co supermarkets in Central and Northern California. The fundraising campaign will run from November 11, 2012 through February 2, 2013.
Monies collected will be donated to food banks and hunger relief organizations in the communities served by Food 4 Less and Foods Co in California, southern Nevada, and the greater Chicago area.
"Food 4 Less has a firm commitment to give back to the communities that our customers and associates call home," said Bryan Kaltenbach, president of Food 4 Less/Foods Co. "Through our 'Bringing Hope to the Table' checkstand fundraising campaign, our customers and associates can drive funds to local food banks to help hungry families who are our neighbors."The checkstand fundraising program is part of Food 4 Less' "Bringing Hope to the Table" initiative that is working to reduce hunger in local communities. In addition to the checkstand fundraiser, the "Bringing Hope to the Table" initiative includes an annual cause marketing partnership with Feeding America that generated more than $200,000 for Feeding America-affiliated food banks this year. Food 4 Less' ongoing commitment to bring as much food as possible to hungry families also includes its company-wide Perishables Donations Partnership (PDP) program. The program allows fresh, wholesome food such as meat, produce and dairy products to be donated directly from Food 4 Less and Foods Co stores to local food banks that are able to safely handle perishable foods.
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Food Network star Geoffrey Zakarian is the latest celebrity chef opening a restaurant on a cruise ship.
Norwegian Cruise Line announced late Thursday that Zakarian will create and oversee the new seafood eatery it plans for the soon-to-debut Norwegian Breakaway, which will sail out of New York.
To be called Ocean Blue by Geoffrey Zakarian, the extra-charge restaurant will be a luxury seafood dining experience "utilizing all of the ingredients and techniques that Zakarian would employ in a land-based establishment," the line says.
In addition to Ocean Blue, Zakarian will oversee The Raw Bar, an adjacent bar highlighting crustaceans and wines by the glass; and Ocean Blue on The Waterfront, a more casual dining option.
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Norwegian says Zakarian will have a hand not only in menus but every aspect of the dining areas of the new venues, from uniforms to glassware. On select sailings, Zakarian will host meet-and-greets with Norwegian Breakaway passengers, cooking demonstrations and intimate cooking experiences for smaller groups. The line did not say how much the Zakarian venues will cost.
"It is an unbelievably exciting prospect to create a concept for such a groundbreaking ship," Zakarian said in making the announcement. "I am nostalgic at heart, so the thought of making a modern experience that harkens to the age of steamship travel is just terrific."
Zakarian oversees two restaurants in New York, The Lambs Club and The National, and one in Atlantic City, the Water Club at Borgata. He appears regularly on the Food Network's Iron Chef America and Chopped, and he won the recent fourth season of the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef, Super Chefs. He highlights his favorite dishes on The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
Ocean Blue will be one of more than a dozen eateries on the 4,000-passenger Norwegian Breakaway, which is scheduled to debut in May 2013. This year, Norwegian revealed the ship will have a restaurant-lined boardwalk facing the ocean, to be called The Waterfront. See illustrations of what The Waterfront will look like.
The Norwegian Breakaway also will feature larger children's areas than previous Norwegian ships and new cabin designs. See illustrations of the new cabins.
Under construction at a shipyard in Germany, the Norwegian Breakaway was named by a USA TODAY reader last year in a contest held here at the Cruise Log. It's scheduled to sail year-round from New York to Bermuda, the Bahamas, Florida and the Caribbean. Read more about the ship's itineraries.
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Head of Seattle police mocks homeless in 1986 videoon April 25, 2013 @ 5:17 pm (Updated: 9:21 am - 4/26/13 )
The video, titled "Under the Viaduct," was released to Real Change and The Stranger in the interest of full transparency, according to Sgt. Sean Whitcomb. No media outlets requested the video, he said.
The video is a parody of The Drifters' 1964 hit "Under the Boardwalk" and features Seattle police officers in the role of homeless inebriates. It was included in a training video that was briefly released, then retracted by the department in 1989.
Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said the video in question was not meant to have training value, but was an attempt to keep officers' attention.
Lyrics in the video include, "Under the viaduct, we'll be drinking our booze. Under the viaduct, our sores continue to ooze. Under the viaduct, we'll be breaking out glass. Under the viaduct, the cops are kicking our ass."
Chief Pugel, who was a 26-year-old officer when the video was filmed, portrays a homeless man who swigs alcohol, vomits and breaks the window out of a car parked under the viaduct. He is wearing sweatpants, a brown sweater and his face is covered in coffee grounds to imitate a beard.
Pugel was named interim police chief earlier this month after Chief John Diaz announced his retirement.
"I was asked if there was anything out there that could embarrass the department or the profession, and certainly this is something that does," he said.
In 1989, Pugel said he and others were "severely reprimanded" for their role in the video by Police Chief Patrick Fitzsimons, who ordered that copies of the video be destroyed.
"I sincerely apologize, but most importantly I apologize to all those people I serve, to those I work with on a daily basis in the community and I just ask their forgiveness," he said.
Brandi Kruse is a reporter for KIRO Radio who is as spontaneous and adventurous in her free time as she is on the job. Brandi arrived at KIRO Radio in March 2011 and has already collected three regional Edward R. Murrow awards for her reporting.
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Installing the Printer Driver Located in Windows Vista
The driver solution for this product is included in your Windows Vista operating system and is already on your computer. There is no need to download anything. Follow the steps below to quickly and easily get your product working with Windows Vista.
Installing the printer driver
- Verify that the printer is turned on.
- Connect the Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable to the printer and to the computer.
- After plugging in the device, select Don't show this message again for this device.
- Click Continue on User Access Control (UAC) Window.
- Go to the Start () icon, click Control Panel, click Hardware and Sounds, and then click Printers.
- Click Add a printer.
- Click Add a local printer.
- Select the Use an existing port check box.
- In the Use an existing port drop-down list, select USB001 and then click Next.
- Under Manufacturer on the Install the printer driver dialog box, select HP.
- Under Printers, select HP Photosmart 8400 series and then click Next.
- In the Printer name text box, type the printer name and then click Next. The printer driver starts to install.
- When the message You're successful and HP Photosmart 8400 series appears, you can print a test page to ensure that the printer is working correctly and then click Finish.
Using the basic printer functions
- Open the document to be printed in the software application in which it was created.
- Click File, and then click Print.
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Importing and viewing images on a memory card
- Insert the memory card into the appropriate memory card slot on the product.NOTE:If the memory card is already inserted, remove it, and then reinsert it.
- On the Autoplay window that opens, click Import Pictures, View Pictures, or Open folder to view files.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
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The following video demonstrates how to import and view images on a memory card in Windows 7.
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Using the advanced printer functions
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The new additions enhance the Sims experience as a whole, to the point that your more realistic sims may seem outdated and mundane after a few hours with Supernatural. To count but a few of the new abilities, fairies can fly about and bless other sims with auras that calm or grant boosts to skills; witches can conjure valuable items with enough practice and dish out hexes and fire and frost spells; and werewolves can travel in packs and (much like dogs in the Pets expansion) can hunt down expensive hidden items. The only issue with the latter--apart from their annoying tendency to scratch up the furniture--is that their transformations get to be a pain, particularly since they abandon any activities in the queue they were doing the moment they feel the tug of the full moon.
Indeed, the moon takes on a new significance here, as indicated by the addition to the UI that tracks lunar cycles. It affects far more than werewolves; it also triggers initially amusing attacks of lunacy amid the local populace and cues the first appearances of zombies. And herein lies Supernatural's greatest flaw. Zombies push the limits of annoyance. You can't disable them in the settings, and you can't do much to stop them from damaging your homes and crops aside from avoiding them.
The Limited Edition provides the only way to directly attack them in the form of Plants vs. Zombies' signature peashooter plant, but its attacks are weak at best. Sometimes bugs cause the effects of the full moon to last for days longer than they should, which may lead you to turn off the lunar cycles altogether in the options menu. Doing so usually clears up the problem (even though the zombies still shuffle about), but it also seems like a waste of such a promising concept.
In their spare time, werewolves enjoy throwing their arms in the air and waving them like they just don't care.
The good news is that Supernatural offers other options to make up for this slight, such as the new fortune-teller career. It's disappointing that there aren't other careers available, but fortune-telling provides plenty of memorable experiences by giving you the option of two paths: one that sets you in the role of a hack who merely guesses the fortunes of visitors, and one that grants you the role of a true soothsayer. On a more personal level, the new alchemist skill lets you gather ingredients and brew potions that can grant bonuses to yourself and other sims or turn them into zombies. It's worth pursuing, because it eventually allows you to change your supernatural type entirely. If you're sick of being a fairy, for example, you can concoct a complex potion that transforms you into a witch.
If you can look past the issues surrounding the zombies and the lunar cycles, The Sims 3: Supernatural provides one of the richest experiences the latest outing of the beloved franchise has offered in years. Its timing also couldn't be better, since such a rich and quirky take on the everyday lives of the sims may be enough to lure back players who lost interest over the previous six expansions. In its best moments, it presents a fresh experience without sacrificing the enjoyment of the game proper, and it reveals new and delightful surprises in every cobwebbed corner.


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Sprinkles Ice Cream Debuts Willy Wonka-Style
The thinkers at Sprinkles are coming up with some pretty clever marketing. A few weeks ago, Sprinkles had Dallas abuzz about its cupcake ATM, from elected officials to TV personalities:
YUM! RT @tanyafosterfilm: @sprinklesicecrm is opening it's door next to @sprinklesdallas on Friday, August 16. @PlazaatPreston #sprinkles
— Amanda Salinas (@AmandaSalinas) August 8, 2013
Park Cities Problem: Cupcake ATM out of service! pic.twitter.com/trFrKTBuG5
— Lee Kleinman (@LeeforDallas) August 11, 2013
Tomorrow, the Sprinkles ice cream store opens at the Plaza at Preston Center — and it's got a surprise up its sleeve:
Golden tickets will be randomly hidden inside 10 ice cream pints sold! Celebrate opening day with your chance to win one of ten $100 Sprinkles gift cards!
Can't wait to see tomorrow's Tweets proclaiming, "I've got a golden ticket!"By Rick Lopez Aug. 15, 2013 | 1:00 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
Methodist Opens Center at Northwest, Midway
Methodist Health System announced today the opening of the Methodist Family Health Center – Preston Hollow, located at 4235 W. Northwest Hwy., west of Midway Road.
Leading the center is Dr. Jennifer Bang. The center treats "everything from aches and pains and allergies" and also offers preventive services for families. Read more here.By Rick Lopez Jul. 22, 2013 | 10:49 am | No Comments | Comments RSS
Villalba Has One More Thing to Boast About
It must be good to be Jason Villalba right now. Not only was he named one of the best freshman legislators in Dallas by a political observer on Tuesday, but he also had this nugget of good news to share with followers today:By Rick Lopez May. 29, 2013 | 12:46 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
"NorthPark Has Nothing On Us"
Tucked into Steve and Jane Sanders' cozy Preston Hollow abode is a 2,000-square foot chamber that's an ode to his fondest childhood memory: riding trains from camp. He began collecting trains after he closed his hobby shop on Central Expressway in the 1970s. Read more about this indoor marvel and the latest trends in interior design in Homes and Design, which premieres in this week's newspaper.By Rick Lopez Mar. 22, 2013 | 12:01 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
Alice Hurmis
Alice Hurmis, 81, went to be with the Lord on March 9, 2013, in Dallas. Born November 5, 1931, to George and Sona Ameer in Yonkers, N.Y., she was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, Bob Ameer and Sonny Ameer; and her sister, Sadie Sargis.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, David Hurmis; her son, Darrell, and wife Kim, her daughter, Darlene Hurmis Morley, and husband Rob; and her four granddaughters who were her pride and joy and will miss their Nana dearly: Holly Hurmis Langford and husband Chace, Jordan Morley, Callie Hurmis, and Paige Morley.
Alice was the most loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother one could ask for. She was a longtime member of John Calvin Presbyterian Church and a 38-year breast cancer survivor who looked forward every year to participating in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Dallas.
A memorial service honoring Alice will be celebrated Saturday, March 16, 2013, at 11 a.m. at John Calvin Presbyterian Church, 4151 Royal Lane, Dallas. Memorials may be made in her name to John Calvin Presbyterian Church.By Rick Lopez Mar. 14, 2013 | 12:15 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
Preston Hollow People March 15, 2013By Rick Lopez Mar. 14, 2013 | 10:44 am | No Comments | Comments RSS
A Sad Announcement for Dallas Fashionistas
Remember those four years of Fashion's Night Out in Dallas? Last year alone, it included parties at Elements on Lovers Lane, Jan Strimple's huge show at Highland Park Village, and tons of fanfare at NorthPark Center (not to mention other soirees at Bittano's and Tootsies).
According to today's announcement from the organization's headquarters in New York, the annual event will "go on hiatus" in the United States but will continue "in select international cities."By Rick Lopez Feb. 27, 2013 | 4:18 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
Love Is In The Air at Preston Hollow People!
Do you cry at weddings? Never miss "The Bachelor?" Check out this week's issue of Preston Hollow People for the debut of Society Weddings. It's packed with wedding and engagement announcements about people in your neighborhood. You'll also read the tale of Preston Hollow's Alice Ann Spurgin, whose guest list included almost every bridesmaid and groomsman involved in her parents' nuptials 38 years ago. Pick up a copy today!By Rick Lopez Feb. 14, 2013 | 1:17 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
This Week Hasn't Been A Good One For "W"
Things aren't looking good for Preston Hollow's most popular resident.
Earlier this week, George W. Bush's beloved Scottish Terrier, Barney, passed away. Now, there's news reports that hackers have wormed their way into three years of Dubya's personal emails and photos, literally exposing an intimate portrait of what's ruminating inside 43's head lately.
The culprit has only identified himself as "Guccifer," which gives me the impression he doesn't live too far the former president or The Galleria. Read more here.By Rick Lopez Feb. 8, 2013 | 3:41 pm | No Comments | Comments RSS
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This weekend, communities are coming together in Dayton to show there's still some life in economically depressed areas. For the past year, Dayton, Cleveland, Youngstown and Canton have been laboring under the title fastest dying cities in the country. It was last August that Forbes called them as the walking dead.
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Object of the month: Frei Montalva's most famous speech
Throughout August, the full speech written and given by Eduardo Frei Montalva at the Teatro Caupolicán ("Caupolicán Theater") in 1980, goes on display as an especial exhibition, highlightig the former president as a leader opposed to the Regime of the time.
The speech given by Eduardo Frei Montalva at the Teatro Caupolicán in August 27th, 1980, is without a doubt one of the most popular and prominent ceremonies highlighted by the press of the time and that of our own time. The typed up speech, only 20-pages long, and currently considered a highly valuable historical document, will be on exhibition in the main hall of our Museum throughout this month.
In order to appreciate the contents and the historical significance of the speech, it is essential to understand that the words said by Frei Montalva before thousands of people, that day of August, represent the focal point of his thought, which he had expressed years before.
In spite of leaving office in 1970, Montalva maintained an active leadership and a strong presence abroad. His participation in the (1) Brandt Commission , an advisory body formed by leaders from different countries around the world, stands out.
After the disruption of democracy in Chile, and given that freedom of speech was no longer guaranteed in the country, Montalva skillfully made use of his strong media presence in international forums, to later introduce his thought in Chile through publications and interviews. This, in turn, made him into a well-known and respected figure among those opposing the Regime. An example of these publications are two of his sixteen books written between 1975 and 1980: "El mandato de la historia y las exigencias del porvenir" and "Futura Institucionalidad para la Paz en Chile". Both texts reaffirmed the former president's belief that, in spite of the 1973 crisis, the "historical mandate of Chile" had to be restored, in the sense of preserving the democratic achievementes that had made our national social history stand out since 1883 (the time when the independence of Chile was consolidated).
In the context of the celebration of the first 100-year anniversary of the former president's birth, the "El mandato de la historia y las exigencias del porvenir" book has been reissued by our Museum and will soon be available for the public.
Frei Montalva's ideas as an opponent of the Regime made themselves felt in the '80s. Six days before the "Caupolicanazo", as the press of the time called it, the former president sent a letter to the Regime's Minister of Home Affairs, requesting, in his capacity as former President of the Republic, to be authorized to give a public discourse with a radio and a television network.
The authorization was granted on August 24th–three days before the ceremony–however, with the exception of Radio Cooperativa and Radio Chilena which would broadcast the event live, there would be no media network. Hours before announcing the speech, Frei Montalva arranged an international press conference, which was held in the dining room of his house in Hindenburg street (see picture); a space which remains untouched and is currently open for the public.
Thousands of people, with different opinions and political orientations, attended what was called "Acto de los Chilenos Libres" ("Ceremony of the Free Chileans") at the Teatro Caupolicán.
An essential point in his speech was the rejection of any system making power reside in a minority group, even more when that system sustains itself by restricting the basic principles of individual freedom and individual rights, thus breaking the consitutional and democratic normalcy. According to him, totalitarian regimes of any political orientation could only lead to catastrophe.
The former President created not only a speech to say "No" to the Plebiscite–which called citizens to support the 1980 Constitution–but also pointed the path–one in accordance to a democratic perspective–to give people back the power which would guarantee their individual freedom.
We invite you to tour our Museum–the place where this speech was written–to appreciate the contents of this discourse, which, in 20 pages, summarises the former President's thoughts and allows us to understand, in large part, the social and political context of our recent history.(1) Commission created by Willy Brandt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969-1974) and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1971. Created in September 1977, the commission had the aim of giving reports to improve the efforts made by world organizations in order to solve problems related to the economic disparity between the First and the Third World.
For the speech in its full length, please visit here
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AMD's Processor Shift: The Future Really is Fusion
Retiring the Workhorses
There is an inevitable shift coming. Honestly, this has been quite obvious for some time, but it has just taken AMD a bit longer to get here than many have expected. Some years back we saw AMD release their new motto, "The Future is Fusion". While many thought it somewhat interesting and trite, it actually foreshadowed the massive shift from monolithic CPU cores to their APUs. Right now AMD's APUs are doing "ok" in desktops and are gaining traction in mobile applications. What most people do not realize is that AMD will be going all APU all the time in the very near future.
We can look over the past few years and see that AMD has been headed in this direction for some time, but they simply have not had all the materials in place to make this dramatic shift. To get a better understanding of where AMD is heading, how they plan to address multiple markets, and what kind of pressures they are under, we have to look at the two major non-APU markets that AMD is currently hanging onto by a thread. In some ways, timing has been against AMD, not to mention available process technologies.
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The Desktop and the End of AM3+
Currently AMD has two levels of desktop products; the FM2 based APUs and the AM3+ based FX CPUs (as well as the older Athlon II and Phenom II products that are still available). The foundation of the AM3+ socket infrastructure is a mature one, but it still very fast and effective for what it does. For a while AMD had some of the most feature packed chipsets available for their processors, but often these were overshadowed by the lower performing CPUs as compared to Intel's latest products of the time. The release of the 890FX with the SB850 southbridge was a watershed event as they arguably had the most advanced chipset out at the time. The 40 PCI-E 2.0 lanes supported by the 890FX were complemented by the first SATA 6G based southbridge available. Not only that, but it was the first to natively support six SATA 6G devices.
The Asus Crosshair IV was an excellent example of the then cutting-edge 890FX/SB850 combo. Too bad the base chipset has not been improved upon in years... and likely never will be.
AMD had a chipset that hit all the major checkmarks for OEMs. They complemented the 890FX with cut down versions of the chipset to hit different price points. They still had very competitive integrated graphics with the 880F and 890G. The Phenom II CPUs were doing "ok" against the latest Intel offerings of the time, but they were certainly not at the performance level of the i7 series of the time. The promise of Bulldozer was initially good, and AMD was expecting to compete with Intel's fastest. Things went sideways at this time. Early Bulldozer results were very disappointing. The fastest chips off the line were barely hitting Phenom II X6 1090T performance. A few delays later and we finally got to see the much-ballyhooed FX processors, and were duly unimpressed.
To ready the market for Bulldozer support, AMD released the 990FX chipset family. The 990FX was simply a rebrand of the 890FX. They rebranded this to insure the change in VRM specifications from the AM3 to AM3+ socket infrastructure, so as not to confuse customers. During this time the decision was made to cancel the upcoming 1090FX northbridge and the SB1050 southbridge. This was the first real tip-off that AM3+ would not be a supported platform after a certain point.
This was later confirmed when roadmaps were released and showed that the Vishera lineup would be supported for the AM3+ platform throughout 2013 and 2014. The Steamroller architecture, which will be introduced with the Kaveri parts, will not be represented on AM3+. Steamroller does appear to be a big step up in both IPC and multi-processing as compared to Zambezi and Piledriver architectures. Sadly, for those users hoping for one last upgrade on the AM3+ platform, it looks like prospects of a large Steamroller based product on that platform are slim.
The Server Market
The original Opteron was another great success for AMD, and it catapulted them into the server market in a big way. These processors featured HyperTransport connectivity, integrated memory controllers, native 64 bit processing, and performance that outpaced every other Xeon on the market. Unfortunately, the salad days did not last terribly long for AMD. Intel came back with Core 2 based products and soon regularly outpaced AMD and their latest.
Over the years AMD's marketshare in the server space has continued to erode. They have been able to stave off extinction here by focusing on high core count products at very reasonable prices. AMD keeps the TDPs low and the core count high, and have been able to maintain a presence in this lucrative market. The cracks are showing though. AMD has yet to really update the server side chipset offerings since around 2008. The southbridge that is implemented in nearly every board is based on the old (and somewhat buggy) SB750. This means no SATA-6G capabilities, not to mention the slower I/O speeds even with modern SSDs.
Things are slightly different here than with the desktop. AMD announced the Warsaw based processors for the server market. Very little information has been released about the specifics of these products, but the one thing they were quick to point out is that they will be faster and more power efficient than the current Opteron 6300 series of products. These claims point to these chips being based on the new Steamroller architecture and being manufactured on 28 nm rather than the larger/older 32 nm PD-SOI process current AMD CPUs and APUs are manufactured on.
The Supermicro H8SGL is still considered a modern motherboard supporting G34 based Opterons. Unfortunately, it is still several years old and relies on a chipset design that was released in 2008/2009.
Here is where things get interesting. If AMD was going to go ahead and design Steamroller parts for C32 and G34, why wouldn't they port these numbers over to AM3+? Also, why have they not updated their server chipsets if they are going to keep pushing these sockets? There will be no PCI-E 3.0 northbridges, and I do not believe that AMD is putting in the extra effort on their latest A85X and A88X I/O hubs so that they can be certified to work on server platforms. So why even go there?
The answer to that one seems to be that Warsaw is a stopgap measure to keep AMD's foot in the door in the server market. AMD has put in the time to create the Warsaw design, but they will not be focusing on optimizing the design for high clock speeds. Manufacturing and design appear to be aimed at getting the new product into the upper 2 GHz range while still supporting 4, 8, 12, and 16 thread models. They look to be aiming at keeping these faster than previous Interlagos based chips and not going overboard on the TDP. While designing any modern CPU is a time and manpower intensive operation, this particular scenario looks to be one where AMD is abandoning the high end and putting out a product that is better than previous, and good enough for what that aim is. Warsaw is designed to make AMD stay relevant in the server market and keep their current partners pleased with the offerings. It really does look to be a stopgap measure as the rest of the Opteron ecosystem has remained essentially untouched (and un-updated) for years.
the purpose of fusion is not to force user to use a built in gpu but to allow massive parallelism within the compute unit (or api). there will still be a place for discrete graphics. The fusion concept allows massive levels of computing to be done if the workload is designed for it. It would only be enhanced with the addition of discrete gpu(s).
You wont be stuck with APU graphics. If you read up on the goals of DirectCompute and OpenCL you will see what i am talking about, though perhaps not so clearly worded. :-)
Nothing good I can see from all-APU path for AMD, and I'm pretty sure this is bad, extremely bad for us end-users. I can't understand how AMD chose NOW this APU path when Intel locked it's CPUs for overclocking. NOW is the best chance for unlocked DESCRETE CPU and they are switching to APU?? This is so wrong I suspect this some Intel-AMD deal, and I doubt Intel will ever have monoply problems with EU/US as before.
With hUMA/HSA AMD is hoping to leverage the power of the GPU for more compute intensive applications. They are not forcing us into APUs, they are trying to guide software dev and applications to utilize all of that floating point power that a GPU possesses. The software to really implement this effectively is not yet out, but will be seeing the light of day in 2014. Kaveri looks to be the driving factor for this transition.
A video that complements your great article and podcast breakdown.
Ehh guys .. just a side note, Warsaw is neither 28nm nor Steamroller. It is 32nm Piledriver .. again. That is official information, just take a look at the official roadmap.
Ugh, bummer. Well, that makes more sense than my hypothesis.
Stuff happens ;-) It is not easy to follow all the little bits of information.
IMO the currently best and official future AMD outlook can be seen here:
On that slide you can see that Hypertransport is phased out in favor of Seamicro's freedom fabric. That means no more ccNUMA systems, which means no more 2P or 4P Opteron systems, which also means no more Opteron MCMs (like G34).
Cache coherency is becoming a bigger problem, eating up die-size and consuming power. Just have a look at the recent Hotchips 25 presentations of Oracle and IBM. The interconnects are going to be insanely complex.
Therefore the overall strategy to spend die estate on more GPU circuits on an APU instead of interconnect logic and then "fuse" these 1P-APU-systems loosely together by a cheap I/O-interconnect is not that bad.
It wont be suitable for all calculation problems, but it should be good enough for the most. Let intel's xeons/Oracle/IBM fight for 5% of the market and take the rest of the market. Instead of ccNUMA across whole server racks, concentrate memory coherency on the chip level and use heterogeneous chips (APUs). It should be fast and cheap.
Thanks Josh, this was a great lesson on the current standing of AMD.
i'm hopeing that future games will take advantage of AMD Cores better.
i just hope that the future AMD APUs feature the abality to have the onboard GPU still function and do calculations if a large GPU is installed externally. so Physics and Hair Calculations are done on the APU, and the possibly a Nvidia PhysX work around to get it to work on the APU's GPU instead of the APU's CPU. That is a long shot seeing that the PhysX is a closed Nvidia only party.
Also can AMD move to the LGA already, or a PGA that has a 'lid' on the APU that will keep the APU on the Motherboard. i am tired of changing heatsinks and pulling the CPU out with the heatsink.
So AMD is dead for enthusiast user??
I'm big AMD fan but it I want to upgrade they propose nothing in the futur....
It's total disaster for a fan like me that look for a top end PC
For this year FX8150 IS quite good but 2014 nothing comming with 8 core....
Release an APU with 8 core !!!!!
or I will switch for intel sadly
8350 sorry
All this HUMA, heterogeneous shit isn't the future, and was never going to be.
To see AMD reaffirm this crappy long term plan after several years of it taking them ever closer to bankruptcy is more than a little disappointing.
AMD needs to go back to how they used to run things: manual placement of transistors, high autonomy for engineers, and a focus on performance per core.
Instead, you have management that fires people and replaces their work with lousy automated programs that don't do nearly as good of a job, and when faced with garbage results management as always takes care of management. Instead of admitting a mistake, they say to themselves, so our per core performance is shit, just add more cores. What? Even with our multiple cores intel is light years ahead? Let's put a super-low-end ati chip onboard, call it an apu, and say intel are the ones behind the curve, because ZOMG THE FUTURE IS FUSION? WHAT IS FUSION, I JUST MADE IT UP BRO!
Nice try AMD.
Integrated graphics have ALWAYS been good enough for facebook and email, and NEVER been good enough for someone interested in a little more gaming than just farmville.
Get your processors up to modern standards AMD, or you will cease to exist. You can have the top dog spread his "vision" to his yes-men in the echo-chamber of the remaining AMD employees, but all the cult-like belief in the whole world won't make bring in revenues when people don't want to buy your shit.
By the way, anyone know what the hell "The future is fusion" really means? If so, email AMD cause they sure as hell would like to know too.
Hey Genius, about 100 million people will be playing the latest games on AMD APUs in the Xbox One and PS4. A lot of people play games with less GPU than will be available on the Kaveri Desktop APU.
I cannot argue with your point on AMD's missteps at CPU design, and am frustrated with them myself, but I can agree that Fusion is a better future and will be much more powerful than any CPU in the future. When the onboard GPU is used as thousands of floating point units like any CPU has floating point units. It will eventually be the processor capable of the most computing, which is immediately great for mobile world with small processors that sip power, but also have a GPU onboard that can easily render your excel spread sheet and run matlab simulations that could take several minutes on a normal CPU.
AMD has already introduced their APUs into the server market with the Opteron x2100 and x1100 series chips. From reading the article above, it gives the impression that AMD has not released server APUs. They can be found here http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/2100seriesplatform/Page... and have be available for a while now.
I think AMD is heading in the right direction with offloading workloads to their strong side (gpu) which is probably why their fpu performance isn't great compared to integer performance on their bulldozer/piledriver/steamroller architectures while their GCN is much more capable of handling these workloads. Optimizing the execution of different processes through different parts of their APU while working together to produce a much more efficient/intelligent system. You are right about intel holding their cards close to their chest. Even though Intel has integrated gpus in their cpus, it seems they have no intentions of moving in the direction that AMD is. I think Intel is making a mistake by not really trying to improve their offerings like AMD is. If AMD continues the hard work on creating a more efficient, intelligent and more versatile processors capable of almost any workload, I think they will catch Intel off guard and will probably outpace them.
I had forgotten about those. Quick question though, have we seen any products actually using these Opteron chips? I'm looking over the Seamicro site, and they don't seem to have these puppies. http://www.seamicro.com/products
For the low power servers they are still using Atoms.
I guess my next build will use a core i5 or core i7.
The pink elephant AMD is ignoring is that even the fastest APU chips are stuck on a 128 bit, DDR3 interface. As such, they are starved for bandwidth and will never produce acceptable GPU performance for the mid-range and higher gaming market. (I question the 'compute' performance too; most GPU apps run much better on high badnwidth cards.) Sure, you can add a discrete GPU to the system, but at that point all those bazillions of gpu transistors on the APU are suddenly rendered 99% useless and are doing nothing more than taking up space that could/should have been dedicated to another CPU module or two. I'm hoping against hope that AMD releases a 3 and 4 module (6/8 core) steamroller derivative on FM2+ with minimal or no GPU components on-chip. Failing to do this will essentially throw away what mid-range+ market-share they currently have.
OR, just maybe, they'll get a cluepon and port Steamroller to AM3+. Doing so can't be that hard. Such an upgrade path would smooth the transition for the enthusiast crowd while buying time for the Fusion platform to mature and gain a bit of desperately needed bandwidth when DDR4 is introduced.
"Software coding is still in the relative dark ages and will stay that way until tools like HSAIL (HSA Intermediate Layer) are implemented. C++ and Java are on their way to natively supporting hUMA type architectures, but they again are not quite there yet. Most of the heavy lifting on the software side will appear in late 2014."
This could be a BIG problem. This is exactly what went wrong with the Intel IA64 architecture. It was dependent on compiler tricks and programming to make use of the architecture. When they released it those features were not yet available in compiles and it suffered. I hope that AMD isn't making the same mistake by releasing a platform with poor compiler support. AMD64 was fine because it could emulate the 32 bit instruction sets, and I suppose steamroller will be ok in that it will be backward compatible. However, if they miss performance again for another year+ while the programming tools get up to speed it could mean Intel catches up. Or it could mean people ignore the steamroller CPUs and make the company rethink strategy (as Intel did with IA64).
The difference is that nobody could use IA64 processors until that stuff was developed. AMD's APUs have floating point work done within the CPU portion right now (half the resources compared to integer work) so they are currently able to do all the required work that's out there. They won't shift that completely to the GPU portion until it makes sense with software support and with automatic switching in hardware.
AMD consolidating on the FM2+ socket seems like a logical step to simplify development of products.
AMD can make an FM2+ compatible 8-core CPU (not APU) in an FM2+ socket. if they wish. They won't be able to do it with an existing APU with an inactivated GPU; they would have to use a CPU, so they could fit the 8 cores on the die.
I suspect as time goes by, GPU performance will be so good that very few people will need or want to buy a discrete video card anyway.
You may be correct but I don't think so. There are non APU Steamroller based CPUs already slated for 2014, they are called Bald Eagle Embedded 4 core CPUs. Now, why would AMD create Steamroller cores, make an embedded Steamroller CPU, but not a socketed one? There are about 10 million AM3+ motherboard owners just waiting to update, otherwise will never get another AMD sale most likely. They will be alienated regardless of what AMD comes up with later in 2015.
Not launching it goes against AMD's own mantra of late. To leverage its IP and existing R&D. So AMD already has the cores developed at 28nm with dual channel DDR3 RAM, already has the socket AM3+, wallah! You have millions of instant sales and could even be at a premium with great margins with little development cost.
How do you think the HPC guys with $500 million dollar supercomputers are going to feel with AMD leaving them out to dry on their normal socketed CPU update they have counted on to remain relevant and drove a lot of previous Opteron sales. There is value to drop in plug and play upgrades that do not require all new motherboards when you have thousands of them.
Is AMD being devious and not releasing a socketed client computing roadmap so people buy their old stuff hoping for an upgrade? Or are they keeping it a secret, for a CES surprise and not try to overhype them for months before an actual release. Are there going to be FM2+ boards with 3 X16 slots for triple crossfire GPUs? FX processors also have a GPU attach rate, and if youre buying an AMD FX cpu, youre getting an AMD GPU.
pretty sad because APUs are pretty slow plus if i gonna play with other gpu APUs GPU will not be used.......
Hoping release of Pentium IV with 12 cores :D
APU's Suck! Dump the GPU and give me more CPU! I have video cards for the workload in your choice of SLI or Crosfire! I want more threads and more cores not less! Why would anyone want less?!?! Why?!?
Since I just read the article....I have to say it is very well written and to this day pretty accurate "hats off to the author for having great vision and keeping well up to date . The only thing you left out on a OLD article is the new Cortex A57 4- 8 core 64 bit arm CPU with 10ggbit switches to become AMD's Opteron A1100 series, features either 4 or 8 AMD Cortex A57 cores.Each core will run at a frequency somewhere north of 2GHz, each pair of cores shares a 1MB L2 cache, for a total of up to 4MB of L2 cache for the chip. All cores share a unified L3 cache of up to 8MB in size. The SoC is built on a 28nm process at Global Foundries. Also AMD designed a new memory controller for the Opteron A1100 that's capable of supporting both DDR3 or DDR4. The memory interface is 128-bits wide and supports up to 4 SODIMMs, UDIMMs or RDIMMs. On top of all that it even comes with 8 lanes of PCI express 3.0. sounds very promising.
I am hoping if the A1100 has enough CPU power to have a version of it in the form of a Passivly Cooled miniITX form factor with a DDR 4 memory, PCIe 16x slot "running at email@example.com is plenty enough fast since its the same as PCIex16 with 2.0 specs, and does not slwe down a high end GTX 770 or 780 a maximun of 10% with a light load and under a couple % with a heavy load" to be Honest PCIe 2.0@8X doesnt even slow down my new GTX770 classified 4GB card made by EVGA. and My p67-ud4-b3 gigabyte motherboard loved 2 GTX560 TI superclocked cards runnng at 1ghx core and 2400 memory only scoring 10350 3DMark 11 perf settings points. My EVGA GTX770 Classifed scores 11600 3dmarl points in the identical test running at PCIE 2.0@16X......NOW to finally get to my original point I was trying to make is with the 8 low power ARM cores running x86 @ between 2.5-2.7GHZ passivly cooled, along with fast ddr4 memory withy 8 lanes of PCIE 3.0 lanes that could hold a nice r7 260x or Hd 7790 video card would make for a fantastic HTPC and light 1080p gaming rig.
Hats off to the writer again...great vision!!
Since I just read the article....I have to say it is very well written and to this day pretty accurate "hats off to the author for having great vision and keeping well up to date . The only thing you left out on a OLD article is the new Cortex A57 4- 8 core 64 bit arm CPU with 10ggbit switches to become AMD's Opteron A1100 series, features either 4 or 8 AMD Cortex A57 cores.Each core will run at a frequency somewhere north of 2GHz, each pair of cores shares a 1MB L2 cache, for a total of up to 4MB of L2 cache for the chip. All cores share a unified L3 cache of up to 8MB in size. The SoC is built on a 28nm process at Global Foundries. Also AMD designed a new memory controller for the Opteron A1100 that's capable of supporting both DDR3 or DDR4. The memory interface is 128-bits wide and supports up to 4 SODIMMs, UDIMMs or RDIMMs. On top of all that it even comes with 8 lanes of PCI express 3.0. sounds very promising.
I am hoping if the A1100 has enough CPU power to have a version of it in the form of a Passivly Cooled miniITX form factor with a DDR 4 memory, PCIe 16x slot "running at firstname.lastname@example.com is plenty enough fast since its the same as PCIex16 with 2.0 specs, and does not slwe down a high end GTX 770 or 780 a maximun of 10% with a light load and under a couple % with a heavy load" to be Honest PCIe 2.0@8X doesnt even slow down my new GTX770 classified 4GB card made by EVGA. and My p67-ud4-b3 gigabyte motherboard loved 2 GTX560 TI superclocked cards runnng at 1ghx core and 2400 memory only scoring 10350 3DMark 11 perf settings points. My EVGA GTX770 Classifed scores 11600 3dmarl points in the identical test running at PCIE 2.0@16X......NOW to finally get to my original point I was trying to make is with the 8 low power ARM cores running x86 @ between 2.5-2.7GHZ passivly cooled, along with fast ddr4 memory withy 8 lanes of PCIE 3.0 lanes that could hold a nice r7 260x or Hd 7790 video card would make for a fantastic HTPC and light 1080p gaming rig.
Hats off to the writer again...great vision!!
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