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By volt - September 15, 2003
Since year 2000, Massive Development has been part of Jowood Software Productions. Massive, which is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, is basically a developing studio and are known for AquaNox and its sequel, AquaNox 2: Revelation. The technology behind the Aquanox series of games is the Krass™ Engine. Of course Massive Development isn't only developing games. AquaMark 2 was their first benchmark based on DirectX 8 technology, which was only released to professional testers and hardware review websites.
This year Massive Development brings us the AquaMark3 benchmark, which makes use of new capabilities in Microsoft's DirectX 9 Application Programming Interface (API). While there are currently a limited number of games that use DirectX 9, AquaMark3 contains new graphics technology that will be included in the upcoming generation of games. During the course of this preview, you will see a heavy use of pixel and vertex shaders, ranging from the older DirectX 8 formats (PS 1.1, 1.4 and VS 1.1) to the newest and more complex versions (PS 2.0 and VS 2.0) available in DirectX 9.
Note that AquaMark3 is based on a real world game engine. What this means is that the developers decided on the shader version to use to accomplish a task. Although a specific effect could be done with PS 2.0 does not mean that PS 2.0 was actually used. The developer made a decision, based on a variety of factors, on the shader version that was used.
The AquaMark3 interface is well designed and resembles what you would find in an actual game. The interface operates in full screen mode and consists of a menu driven navigation system.
Installing AquaMark3 was straightforward. One thing that needs to be taken care of is your license. If you downloaded the free version of AquaMark3 Benchmark, then you do not need to unlock the software. There are two ways to unlock the application. Either copy the attached license file into the AquaMark3 directory or inside the benchmark by selecting the "Register AquaMark3" option.
The hardware and software requirements for AquaMark3 are as follows:
There are five different versions of AquaMark3:
AquaMark3 Basic (Free) - Available options are:
AquaMark3 Professional ($9.95 / €9.95) - All features from Basic plus:
AquaMark3 Professional Plus ($19.95 / €19.95) - All features from Professional license plus:
AquaMark3 Commercial ($39.95 / €39.95) - All features from Professional Plus license plus:
AquaMark3 Commercial Plus ($199.95 / €199.95) - All features from Commercial Plus license plus:
AquaMark3 Score Measurement Mode (AquaMark TRISCORE™) - Available for all license types
This mode runs the benchmark using default settings: 1024x768, 32-Bit Color, No antialiasng, 4X anisotropic filtering and maximum details. Together there are nine chapters that AquaMark3 goes through. If you have a basic license, this is the mode you have to use in order to perform a benchmark run. You must complete all nine chapters to get a final score. After completing the benchmark, a TRISCORE™ will be computed and you will be able to upload the results to the ARC database. We will talk about ARC™ later on in this preview.
Let's explain the TRISCORE™ Measuring System. AquaMark3 final mark consists of three independent scores: Graphics, CPU and Overall System Performance. The total score is based on the number of frames that were rendered during the benchmark run. Note that the graphics score is also infleuenced by the processor and memory. However, the graphics score does not contribute to the CPU score.
Clicking the "More" button will take you to an outline of benchmarks that were tested along with average Frames Per Second. Here is a list of chapters that are available in AquaMark3:
Stay tuned for a more detailed overview of each chapter.
Advanced Measurement (single run - not available with Basic license, and multi run - not available with Professional license)
This feature allows you to configure your most important benchmark settings such as:
Being still in Advanced Measurement section, you will spot few checkboxes (If you have a Professional Plus license that is). The above benchmark settings can be tested with one (single pass) value or more (multi pass) values. For example, ticking off the checkboxes next to Color Depth and Resolution modes will create a multi pass benchmark where all resolutions and all color depths will be tested - a very handy feature for people that do not have a lot of time on their hands.
Automated Measurement (via command line) - not available with Basic and Professional licenses
Another great addition to AquaMark3 benchmarking tools is the support of batch processing. You can run batch files after running an Advanced Measurement benchmark. An output file will be then put in your "My Documents/AquaMark3" folder. From there you can edit it to your taste, add jobs and perform multiple benchmarks. In order to start the benchmark with your own script, you must execute the following command from Windows Command Prompt:
AquaMark3.exe –bench <batch config file>
Configurable Demo Mode - Available for all license types
Demo mode is basically a cut-scene with real-time music but without any score computation. It is configurable through Options menu.
Custom Measurement - Not available with Basic license
This measurement allows you for custom benchmarking with settings specified in the Options menu.
Here you have similar settings that are available in Advanced Measurement menu. Additionally you can set Vsync, Triple Buffering and Hyper-Threading Support.
For low-end systems, this is great feature. Setting effects helps improve the performance.
A lot of details can be set within this menu. If you are not familiar with those options, you can easily load a preset and you are ready to go.
Supplementary to the above AquaMark3 benchmark features, Massive Development has implemented three more tests (OVIST™, SVIST™, PIXPM™) that have yet to be introduced in any benchmark. Although they render weird looking scenes, they are very significant while comparing images from two different hardware vendors.
AquaMark3 ASGRA™ (Automated Screen Grabber) - Not available with Basic license
Forget FRAPS and other techniques of capturing screenshots. AquaMark3 is equipped with the right tool to show off those lovely images. Whether you want to compare Antialiasing modes or detailed textures, this is a great addition to the benchmark. How does it work? It's very simple. Just go into Special Features menu, set the duration of time (in frames) between each screenshot, and hit the "Start Screen Capturing" button. If you feel you need to capture five different frames, command line functionality comes into the rescue:
AquaMark3.exe –grabframe 45,102,300,301,1500
AquaMark OVIST™ (Overdraw Visualization Technique, requires DirectX 8 hardware) - Requires DirectX 8 Hardware
This is one of the Special Feature Tests that exposes the heavy use of Particles. What happens here is the scene is rendered the same way as in normal benchmark. In other words, OVIST™ uses the same shaders, but additional post pixel colorization is done to show different stages of Overdrawing.
Here is another screenshot from the OVIST™ test which lays out a better picture of what is happening. For reference, this is an explosion.
AquaMark SVIST™ (Shader Visualization Technique, requires DirectX 9 hardware) - Not available with Basic License
Not every polygon is drawn with a pixel shader. The SVIST™ test is a shader visualization technique that shows how much of a pixel shader is used in a rendered scene. Just like in OVIST™, post pixel colorization is applied to create different levels of shader complexity. Again, the pixels are colored without altering the ordinal shader. It's a painstaking and slow task, however it comes with a fruitful effect.
There are benchmarks out there who i.e. implement trivial PS 2.0 for particles which is insane. Particles are typically rendered without any PS at all. With SVIST™ this is visualized for you. If you change the advanced settings you will notice that the SVIST™ visuals will change, which reflects that the engine uses different code path for different situations. Besides we are able to tell you with SVIST™ the exact amount (absolute, relative and in percentage) of pixels drawn through a specific PS (or even simple texturestages like the particles). AquaMark3 Special Features - SVIST™ In Action SVIST™ is very fine, sophisticated and easy to use feature. Here is what Alexander Jorias, Managing Director of Massive Development had to say about it:
There are benchmarks out there who i.e. implement trivial PS 2.0 for particles which is insane. Particles are typically rendered without any PS at all. With SVIST™ this is visualized for you. If you change the advanced settings you will notice that the SVIST™ visuals will change, which reflects that the engine uses different code path for different situations. Besides we are able to tell you with SVIST™ the exact amount (absolute, relative and in percentage) of pixels drawn through a specific PS (or even simple texturestages like the particles).
SVIST™ is very fine, sophisticated and easy to use feature. Here is what Alexander Jorias, Managing Director of Massive Development had to say about it:
We are convinced that SVIST™ is one of the coolest features of AM3, however we are wondering if people will get the point about it because you have to think about it before you see it's beauty. We hope that there are enough smart guys out there that will tell the others about it.
AquaMark PIXPM™ (Pixel Performance Measurement) - Not available with Basic License
Last but not least is the PIXPM™ test. This is a fillrate benchmark that utilizes pixel shaders. It consists of two separate tests. In the first pass, an overdraw is created for each frame and number of drawn pixels are counted. The second pass takes those results and calculates pixels per second.
This is a screenshot from the first pass of PIXPM™. We did not complete this test since it would take a lot of time which we did not have. An update will be made in couple of days with the scores. Even with low resolution and low details PIXPM™ crawled, and here is why:
Q: What is PIXPM™ ungodly slow? A: With PIXPM™ you are able to benchmark the real world fillrate of a graphics card precisely for the 1st time ever! it is a very complex task to give a precise fillrate score under real world conditions. You have to take the overdraw into account. So in the 1st run we count the sum of all(!) drawn pixels inclusive the overdrawn ones. this may take 45 minutes on a current state of the art system. In the second run we do a realtime run with the same engine setup. Now we are able to calculate the real world fillrate. Like SVIST™ the PIXPM™ technique is very smart and gives you as a user much more transparency about the benchmark and your system then ever before.
Q: What is PIXPM™ ungodly slow?
A: With PIXPM™ you are able to benchmark the real world fillrate of a graphics card precisely for the 1st time ever! it is a very complex task to give a precise fillrate score under real world conditions. You have to take the overdraw into account. So in the 1st run we count the sum of all(!) drawn pixels inclusive the overdrawn ones. this may take 45 minutes on a current state of the art system. In the second run we do a realtime run with the same engine setup. Now we are able to calculate the real world fillrate. Like SVIST™ the PIXPM™ technique is very smart and gives you as a user much more transparency about the benchmark and your system then ever before.
AquaMark3 Benchmark is designed on a state of the art, very sophisticated Krass™ Engine which exploits the new DirectX 9 API features:
The DirectX9 API is used completely for all rendering tasks in the benchmark. Considering the features that are new in DirectX9 compared to the previous version, we use mainly the new shader models (pixel and vertex shader 2.0). We don't use vendor specific (2.x) or not-yet-hardware accelerated (3.0) shader versions. -Ingo Frick, Technical Director of Massive Development
The DirectX9 API is used completely for all rendering tasks in the benchmark. Considering the features that are new in DirectX9 compared to the previous version, we use mainly the new shader models (pixel and vertex shader 2.0). We don't use vendor specific (2.x) or not-yet-hardware accelerated (3.0) shader versions.
-Ingo Frick, Technical Director of Massive Development
In addition to improved shaders, there is a new Antialiasing setup. FSAA can now be applied along with its subroutine: FSAA quality level. Although mixing those settings is not exposed in current drivers, it is possible with the new DirectX 9. Although AquaMark3 Benchmark is designed for the current and future hardware, it is still backward compatible with older graphic cards based on DirectX 8 and DirectX 7 technology. The Krass™ Engine allows for a lot of application level tweaking, making it very versatile for all kinds of systems.
Fore reference, AM3 Benchmark can use a combination of 193 vertex shaders (VS 1.1 and VS 2.0), 39 pixel shaders (PS 1.1, PS 1.4 and PS 2.0) and use a variety of Floating Point Precisions ranging from FP64 to FP128 (High internal precision used by NVIDIA's NV3x).
AquaMark3 Benchmark takes nine commonly used graphical environments and incorporates them into chapters (Cut-scenes). Each chapter contains its own climate, where different technology is applied and exposed to the observer.
Dynamic Occlusion Culling
This is the first chapter of the benchmark. After cruising the canyon, a large underwater city unveils.
What Occlusion Culling does is it detects potential objects that need to be rendered. Each object has to be tested against any blocked / hidden (occluded) object. Before such object can be rendered, its shape has to be tested for occlusion in the depth buffer. Objects are then tested for visibility with regards to the terrain, in our case hills and canyons. Dynamic Occlusion Culling deactivates when previously blocked objects become visible.
While this is a CPU based task, it is very eloquent feature for improving overall GPU performance.
High Particle Count
I'm sure you've been exposed to Particle Effects of some sort. Whether it was a firing weapon or a burning object. This is a commonly used technique for creating any sort of smoke, fire, explosion or rain effects (Of course there are many others, but this is just to give you an idea). In this benchmark, your video card will be stressed for high particle count. Such effects are created from simple 2D textured quads with variation in direction, size and color.
Masked Environment Mapping
Environment Mapping (E.M) is an old technique though improved and perfected. Specular lightning effects and reflections are the main outcomes of this benchmark. Transparency combined with E.M produces very complex effects, like those seen on the ships above. It's hard to capture such effect, but its beauty is heavily visible in AquaMark3 - the real-time benchmark.
Large Scale Vegetation Rendering
AquaMark3 Benchmark uses its own plant rendering system for underwater environment. Its efficiency can generate huge amounts of plants, plankton and other sea-type surroundings. On the above screenshot you can see hundreds of plants growing on the seabed. Each plant is individually animated for more life-like effect. What Massive Development has utilized for this chapter is a Hardware Driven Geometry Instancing Concept. As a result of this technique, only four tasks need to be processed by the CPU: plants size, position, rotation and color. This chapter delivers highest polygon count throughout entire AquaMark3 Benchmark.
Large Scale Terrain Rendering
Massive Development's Krass™ Engine allows for very broad viewing distances. Modern graphics cards should have no major problem coping with this benchmark.
The terrain is produced with a height map which covers the entire underwater world. A cLOD system (continuous Level Of Detail) is then used to extract the geometry from the terrain. Additionally, the landscape is built on two types of materials: sand and rock - which are then colored accordingly.
Vertex And Pixel Lightning
Vertex and Pixel lightning is a very cool technique which adds life-like looking lightning effects to the gaming environment. This approach calculates the "x" amount of light (from the source) that needs to reach a vertex / pixel. Then those vertecies / pixels lit up. As the name implies, this benchmark stresses both vertex and pixel shaders.
3D Volumetric Fog
Volumetric Fog is an atmospheric type effect used to dim objects within a beam of light. This type of fog effect is restricted. In other words it must fit within a specified volume. The 3D Volumetric Fog can be seen throughout the whole AquaMark3 Benchmark. It's a nice addition to the whole underwater environment.
Complex Multimaterial Shader
In this benchmark you will see objects where Multimaterial shaders are applied. Creating sophisticated material shaders gives very realistic effects. Take a look at the above screenshot.
Massive Overdraw
This is the last chapter of the AquaMark3 Benchmark. As mentioned earlier, particles can be used for creation of fantastic looking explosions. In this chapter, you will be exposed to just that: smoke, explosions and missile trails. Your video card will have to render heavy loads of particles which is the main purpose of this test.
Test bed
Abit N7F-S 2.0 Barton 2800+ @ 2.08 GHz TwinX 512MB Corsair 3200LLPT (dual-channel) PixelView GeForce FX 5900 (400 MHz core / 425 MHz memory) Beta Detonator 51.75 Drivers Windows XP with SP1
Here are some results using the beta Detonator 51.75 Drivers. We did not have enough time to complete more detailed benchmarks with this set, but I hope this gives you a picture of what is happening. Detonators 44.33 were about 5-10 FPS slower depending on the chapter.
The first result is a TRISCORE benchmark with default settings: 1024x768x32bit 0AA 4AF, highest quality settings. Overall performance during this test was satisfying. The rest of benchmarks were done using the Advanced Measurement feature. That concludes our performance section since this is only a benchmark preview and not a driver / hardware rant.
ARC™ aka AquaMark Result Comparator is an online database designed for submission of AquaMark3 Benchmark scores.
ARC™ gives you more options and tools for comparison of your benchmark results than any other online benchmark database tool. Just have a look at the many ways you can filter and set comparison options. It is the most powerful online database for benchmarks currently available
Searching and comparing results is easier than with any other software
You will need to register a username in order to use the ARC™ system, or to access the AquaMark forums. You only have to register once, both systems are integrated for easier access and navigation.
Things you can do inside ARC™:
Detailed comparison is also available. It's a three column page that lists both yours and the comparative measurements.
Statement of Massive Development regarding AquaMark3 / IHV cooperation & cheating attempts
As a developer of interactive high-end 3D gaming applications and benchmarks we obviously have to collect in-depth Know-How about a specific hardware from it's manufacturer.
This type of cooperation is common practice for all major developers. It serves the sole purpose to utilise the latest technologies in the correct way and thus giving the customer the best gaming and performance experience possible.
You may decide to support a specific hardware platform or a specific hardware feature by a game application. However this not an option for any serious benchmarking application.
While developing AquaMark3 we take precautions in a way so that all IHV's (Independent Hardware Vendors) with a vital interest in AquaMark3 are treated equally. So there is no reason for those vendors to conduct any cheating attempts on AquaMark3.
Once a benchmark is released there are obviously multiple possibilities to cheat its results (both for any IHV and any user). We took precautions to prevent and detect cheating attempts in this post release phase and during the lifetime of AquaMark3. Unfortunately we can not prevent this in all cases by the application itself.
The most powerful anti cheating tool will be the AquaMark Result Comparator (ARC), the online database and the AquaMark3 forum. We will immediately inform all customers about our evaluation of the latest cheating attempts (if they should happen).
As a developer of high end 3D gaming applications we will of course be very specific and accurate when we have to judge if a specific optimization is of general interest or if it only targets AquaMark3 in a questionable way.
We are always open to discuss our policy with interested users in this forum.
Alexander Jorias / Managing Director Massive Development Ingo Frick / Technical Director Massive Development
Based on information from Alexander Jorias and Ingo Frick from Massive Development AquaMark3 does not contain any vendor-specific codepaths. However, this does not mean a driver cannot modify a shader or lower filtering quality to artificially increase the performance of a graphics card. There are many "optimizations" that simply do not depend on vendor specific codepaths, but can be performed through driver routines. Although I regret we haven't had enough time to test the Image Quality with AquaMark3 and Detonator 51.75, you can expect an update very soon. All I can say right now is that older drivers have a far better IQ than the upcoming release of Detonators (51.xx). This is certainly an indication that NVIDIA's "next-generation automatic shader optimizer" does exist, and will soon kick into high gear. So far it looks like NVIDIA forgot about their own optimization guidelines:
AquaMark3 Benchmark is a fantastic tool, not only for an average Joe, but for people that demand something extra from such an application. Whether you need an accurate fillrate test, apple to apple comparison or a blazing fast and reliable DirectX 9 benchmark with backward compatibility, you can't go wrong with AquaMark3. This is not some predefined synthetic benchmark, it's based on a real game engine: Krass™ Engine. Utilizing latest DirectX 9 API, developers had a great time with the new pixel and vertex shader formats:
The most powerful new feature is the pixel shader 2.0 model, that allows significantly more textures and complexer computations in one pass. Also the new higher-level shading language (HLSL) makes life for a developer much easier, and produces usually as good code as you write by hand.
Weighing only ~60 Megabytes and priced at $9.95 for Professional license, it's simply a steal. Accurate screenshot frame grabber and automated measurement functionality are only two features that stand out from the bunch. Other benchmarks can only dream of accurate SVIST™ or PIXPM™ technologies. Application level settings make this the most sophisticated and easiest to use benchmark ever.
Will AquaMark3 replace Futuremark's benchmark suit? Wait until September 15th and see for yourself.
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Dog hit a homer with his post - see my "like it" tag. DPMS is one of two AR-10 platforms and Armalite is the other. Dog is 100% correct that they don't play well together like on the AR-15. So are you asking about the platform itself as opposed to an assembled rifle from DPMS? If so, I think that both the DPMS platform and the Armalite platform will be well supported as the AR-10 becomes more and more prevalent as a weapon of choice for the civilian populace. I have held in my hands both the Armalite and the DPMS configurations for the AR-10 and they are both what you would expect. It's a receiver, just like other receivers. If you put quality parts on it, it will shoot. If you half ass it, it will half ass you back in performance. I'd love to know your plans. Are you building? Or purchasing outright? JD
Thanks guys. Our family got a pretty good deal on one and bought it outright. The trigger was really gritty so it has been replaced. We have not gotten it out to the range yet. I have gone over it thoroughly and the only thing I noticed was that the castle nut is not staked. I have heard so much feedback on the 556 DPMS rifles but could not find much on the 308s. We typically own several weapons in each caliber we shoot so we can buy ammo in bulk and if a weapon fails and parts are not available all the ammo isn't worthless, so I will defiantly be building one next.
Soon like ordering parts in the next few weeks soon. There are so many new options for the 308 AR that have sprung up recently I really need to do some research. But for parts interchangeability I am sticking with the LR over the AR10. I just hope there are no issues at the range with the DPMS.
Like how some guys don't like Spikes because of their price gouging the last election I will never purchase anything DPMS. I'm sure DPMS will work the majority of the time for most here but... I'm just glad I decided against the SASS I had my eye on before I knew enough to make a good decision. The conversation I had w/ a DPMS rep was ridiculous. He avoided every single question I had. They half-ass and attempt to hide it. I have seen and heard to many stories of imploding DPMS equipment to have any sort of confidence in them. For you that have a DPMS and are happy, I'm happy for you. I will continue to attempt to steer perspective buyers away from them.
I've never had a problem with them. The only American gun maker that I had really bad experiences with is Ruger. And that may (hopefully) have cleared up now that the old man's dead, and junior left the company.
I asked them why they withheld their manufacturing/assembly methods and the materials used in their rifles and they danced like a hippie on lsd, they were all over the grid. Just little ol'me asking a couple simple questions and they wouldn't be honest. Pose the same questions to a company like DD or BCM and see what happens.
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Eastern Henrico FISH depends on the help of local churches and charitable organizations to get members in the community back on their feet. The non-profit serves Henrico residents east and south of Mechanicsville Turnpike including Highland Springs, Varina, and Sandston providing clothes, food, and financial assistance for people with short term emergencies. "We strive for FISH's presence to help strengthen Eastern Henrico through the organizations and community that supports us," said Vickie Martin, director of FISH. Martin has been with FISH since 2002 and got involved with the organization through her church, New Bridge Baptist, and has worked as a volunteer and staff member before becoming director. FISH, which is a nationwide organization, has been in Metro Richmond for 38 years and since 2001 has served clients and donors out of Village Presbyterian Church with a clothes closet, food pantry, information and referral services. "We moved to the church to be more accessible to clients and to make it easier for donors to drop things off," said Martin. The organization helps victims in all kinds of situations that have put them at a disadvantage. FISH covers portions of rent, a mortgage, car repair, or utilities for those that qualify. FISH has established criteria to help the people in the community who are desperately in need of financial aid or other items and takes time to consider circumstances in each household. Last year, it served 400 households, or about 1,100 individuals. "We look at what the need is, we see them through that emergency, and are there to help them get through that bump in the road," said Martin. All of the items such as clothes and food are donated by the community or from members of the 26 churches that are involved with FISH. The group partners with these churches, civic groups, businesses, social services and other government agencies and non-profits to better serve their clients. "We rely on churches in the community for support," said Martin. Fundraisers are held by the non-profit to spread awareness and help to aid their mission. An annual benefit concert is held to bring everyone involved in the organization together and take up donations. It's usually the organization's largest event and is held at different venues each year. The most recent concert was held at Sandston Baptist Church. Eastern Henrico FISH has an average of 50 volunteers, with several coming in each week to assist families and individuals over the phone and work in the clothes closet and food pantry rooms. In 2009, volunteers gave 3,000 hours of their to help clients of FISH. "Without the support of our volunteers we couldn't maintain," said Martin. Eutanaha Fluker has volunteered for FISH for over 20 years and has seen the positive effect the organization has on the community. "FISH does a good job of determining what a person's real needs are and referring them to churches," said Fluker. Like Martin, Fluker is a member of New Bridge Baptist and got involved after word spread about the growing needs of the non-profit. "It's really important for churches to work together to do what we do for FISH," Fluker said. Fluker has served as a church representative for the group in the past, worked the phone taking calls from clients and spent hours in the food pantry and clothes closet. Around this time of year, FISH receives a good amount of food donations for its food pantry but is in serious need of financial donations. It's also seeking other churches that are interested in joining the cause. "We're always looking to add churches to support our mission," said Martin. FISH is available to people in the Eastern Henrico area Monday- Friday from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Families or individuals needing assistance from FISH, or people who wish to make a contribution, can reach the organization at 222-5564. |
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Henrico resident Larry Loving, Jr., will compete with three other locals – Thomas Scribner (Richmond), Roscoe McGhee (Midlothian) and Larry Loving (Richmond) in the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational National Finals at TPC Sawgrass, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Feb. 26-Mar. 1. The foursome qualified for the national golf tournament by winning the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational, held at Whiskey Creek Golf Club in Ijamsville, Md. on June 11. That event supported the RiteCare Center for Childhood Language Disorders.
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The program is designed as a fun and uplifting event for single mothers that is designed to provide support, new friendships, encouragement and motivation. Each event will include weekly prizes and giveaways. > Read more.
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hello everyone. I have a mega battery and it was way too snug. I had to modify the battery. I got the idea from someone on here. He said to cut the taping off of the top of the battery and take it all off. This allows us to take the 3 tab inserts out from in between the 2 cell battery and then retape. it now fits good. I actually think that is the worst thing about the helicopter is getting the battery in. even the stock one.
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Jan 17, 2007, 07:23 PM | |
Putting the LiPo in wires first is a little tough. But if you want to tuck the wires away out of sight that's the best way to do it. I prefer a heli with no evidence of the wires anywhere in sight. Putting the battery into the heli with the wires out and making the connection leaves the wires out in plain view. For a quick, easy battery installation this works, but for a clean looking heli, battery installed wire end first and then tuck all wires into the canopy keeps it looking nice and clean.
Jan 17, 2007, 07:34 PM | ||
Do you still want pics? I can load you up on them. Wing tote has a site that doesn't really provide much in the way of pics. Just let me know. It will be tomorrow at the soonest, was up way to late last night trying to find tools!! Speaking of, I posted in the micro heli forum about tools and got zero replies so far. I would like to find a kit of drivers, flat, philips, hex, torx for working on helis. My Pops vortex lifted off tonight, but I got a lot of work to do on it first. Plenty of trimming to do. However, it uses torx screws for the blades, and i would like to find some nice tools for that and all the other stuff i am doing with the helis. Suggestions? Sites? Thanks Diggs |
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Diggs, you may want to try your LHS. A couple of mine have stocket the tools you are looking for, maybe not in a kit but individually.
I tried the reverse pirouet you talk about doing, it is a little tricky. Here is a video I posted on you tube
I like the look of my CX2 with the cx yellow canopy and stersmans tail boom. Ed |
Jan 17, 2007, 08:47 PM | |
A few mods...
Just a few pics of mods I've done so far. I've added the CF boom & skids from Jamie, aluminum head and that's a Vortex flybar.
First pic shows the CX2 body, and the other 2 pics show a painted CX body. I've moved the servos to the 2nd hole and that together with the Vortex flybar makes for a more than average coax Cheers, RH../ |
Jan 17, 2007, 09:01 PM | ||
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Jan 17, 2007, 09:12 PM | |
Red herrring, I like the look of the black body, what kind of paint did you use to paint the body?
Diggs thanks for the review of the video, its amazing what a digital camera can do now days. I nailed the ceiling fan the other day fubar my heli broke the stock skids 2 blades the flybar head was bent, no fun. BTW, how do I post video here I tried earlier and could not figure it out? Ed |
Jan 17, 2007, 09:17 PM | |
I bought a bronze membership to support the forums, $20 per year to do that. It says it allows you to post video. Check that out here.
Not sure if you have to pay to post them, but kinda looks that way. HEY, did you ever get another charger? Diggs |
Jan 17, 2007, 09:20 PM | |
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Hey Guys
Just got the cx2 and have about 6or7 flights or so and I am lik'en it! Dose Jamie sell the CF boom and skids on rc groups? Could someone give me a link. I am new to helis, upgrading the fly bar to a shorter one what dose this do. More stable how? Thanks |
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Immediately after the crash, Diaz-Martinez fled southbound on foot across the eastbound lanes of the Beltline, over a fence and into a nearby apartment complex, police said. Diaz-Martinez surrendered when officers pursued him.
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S.A Murugesan, District Magistrate, Chamoli, said the makeshift bridge would be dismantled by Sunday morning after all the mules are rescued. In about five days, the Public Works Department will start building a permanent bridge in the area.
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Dilip Jawalkar, District Magistrate (Rudraprayag), saidno bodies were recovered over the past three days and cremations were halted in Kedarnath owing to bad weather.
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New Apache Project 'Drill' Aims to Speed Up Hadoop Queries
Todd R. Weiss
Posted 2012-08-20
Led by Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies, the open-source effort will seek innovative ways to push Hadoop data queries through more quickly for users.
Finding much faster ways to complete Hadoop queries for enterprise users is the aim of "Drill," the latest open-source project being undertaken by the Apache Software Foundation. Drill has been established as an
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"We've spent quite a few months talking to lots of organizations and potential users of Drill and to our customer base as well," said Shiran, who is a founding member of the Drill project. "We wanted to put this out there as an open-source project, rather than just keep it within MapR for our use alone." Drill aids Hadoop users by enabling vastly quicker queries of huge data sets, said Shiran. "With Drill, you'll be able to get really fast responses," he said. Users will be able to get responses within one second, which is a key difference from other tools that are available today, he added.
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E-mail was never designed to harbor 5MB attachments, and the concept that a typical user might see hundreds of messages a day was foreign to the initial e-mail creators. Can corporate America make e-mail useful again?
E-mail is a wonderfully flexible and powerful application, but have corporate users bent it so far that its about to break? More to the point, have users forced e-mail to do so many things that its no longer any good at its core function? This is not an academic discussion. In 2006, e-commerce sites that use e-mail extensively are going to have to evaluate alternative communication and distribution methods. Why? A corporate IT rebellion is brewing, and if they dont ease off their e-mail, theyll be forced to do it.
In the beginning, e-mail was a simple and fast way of exchanging messages with people around the world and down the hall. In many ways, the early e-mail efforts more closely resemble todays IM (instant messaging) communications than what crawls along todays corporate Outlook screens.
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In those days, e-mail was for messaging and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) was for sending large files. The most common FTP Web use today is for downloading applications or virus definition updates. Today, e-mail systems are burdened with sending attachments that are 5MB and sometimes even 9MB large. E-mail was never designed for large-file distribution.
E-mail systems were also not primarily designed to be personal databases, but common practice today has corporate users saving thousands upon thousands of foldered old e-mail messages (complete with oversized attachments) and turning them into multi-GB databases. The potentially most severe threat to e-mail is that its volume is soaring, with users seeing easily hundreds of messages a day. Where are all these messages coming from? Its actually not from true spam (although the spam problem is real and growing), but from an ever-skyrocketing list of "approved" communications. That list starts with fellow employees and then people up and down the corporate ladder, along with customers, suppliers, distributors and others within a typical extranet. Then we add friends and family. But this party gets to be interesting when we legitimize opt-in e-mail. That might start with some free newsletters from respected publishers. Heck, its free, so why not get 10 more? Then there are headline alerts from major news services, tracking status updates from FedEx (both for packages youve sent and are scheduled to receive), alerts about books that you
be interested in (from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble), and sales proposals from a company that you once expressed a strong interest in (expressed through the act of not hanging up). A senior IT executive I recently spoke with said his employees have started losing control of their e-mail. They are now asking colleagues who have something important to say to IM it or leave it in a voice mail. Why? Important messages were being lost amidst the sea of everything else. Lets make this problem even worse. E-mail is now one of the most mission-critical applications of any company today, and this is triply true for e-commerce companies. The typical response today is for tighter spam controls, which means more filters. But that only works for the old-fashioned kind of spam that is not desired. Isnt spam, spam? Not necessarily. Robb Wilson, the product development vice president at Lyris Technologies, makes an eloquent case that the average consumer today pretty much defines spam as any e-mail that they dont want to see. Under that definition, all messages from my editor about missed deadlines are spam. Wilsons team surveyed consumers to better understand how they defined spam and one said, "Its when my uncle sends me really bad jokes that I do not want." Although spam is much more specific than anything thats not desired (its an unsolicited advertisement sent out in bulk), the unfunny uncle example brings up a key problem with filtering. That person may not want to hear those bad jokes from her uncle, but she likely
want to hear from that uncle when he brings news of a family death. Defenders of the current e-mail system argue that its the most efficient and effective tool available today. I agree. But as corporate employees find it more difficult to use e-mail to get timely information, something is going to give. What if e-mail administrators suddenly reject all newsletters, e-commerce site alerts and purchase confirmations, and anything else beyond employees talking to other employees, customers and extranet members? A word of caution as the new year approaches. Consider carefully how aggressively you use customer e-mails. The choice is yours today. Next year? Just like Santa Claus, it depends on how naughty or nice you choose to be.
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Evan Schuman is the editor of CIOInsight.com's Retail industry center. He has covered retail technology issues since 1988 for Ziff-Davis, CMP Media, IDG, Penton, Lebhar-Friedman, VNU, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and United Press International, among others. He can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.
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