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For the first time in over a year, Jeff Francoeur will be playing in front of his hometown fans when the Padres open up a four-game series in Atlanta on Friday night.
Francoeur was called up by San Diego earlier this week, and the second stop for the Padres with the former Brave outfielder will be Turner Field.
The 30-year-old Francoeur went to high school in the Atlanta suburbs and began his big league career with the Braves in 2005 -- the first of five seasons he spent in his hometown. With Triple-A El Paso this season, he'd been hitting .294 with 15 homers.
Opposing the Braves will be tall right-hander Jesse Hahn, who is making his first start after a very brief stint in the Minors. He was sent back to Double-A San Antonio at the All-Star break, but Hahn's numbers with the Padres were such that he wasn't going to be away for long.
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The Braves will counter with lefty Alex Wood, who pitched admirably in his last start despite wet conditions. Pitching against the Phillies, Wood allowed only one run on three hits and didn't walk a batter in six strong innings. He also struck out eight.
"In terms of that first start back, it's a little nerve-wracking, because you hope you go out there and have that same feel you had before the break and during the beginning of the season," Wood said. "My No. 1 goal going into my first start back after the All-Star break was no walks, and somehow I was able to manage not to walk anybody, so hopefully I'll just continue to build off that."
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The Padres seem to be taking a long look at Kim Ng for their vacant general manager position. If Ng is in fact the choice, she'd become the first female GM in the sport's history -- or in the history of any major sport, for that matter.
Ng has now had a second interview for the position, the club announced Thursday. She is one of four candidates for the job.
Ng, a former assistant general manager with the Yankees and Dodgers, has had interviews for GM openings with the Dodgers and Mariners previously.
Braves: La Stella continues to be stellar
Despite going hitless Thursday night, Atlanta second baseman Tommy La Stella ranks near the top in several statistical categories among rookies.
He has the third-best batting average (.282) and on-base percentage (.351). Only one rookie, the Mets' Travis d'Arnaud, has registered more walks -- La Stella has 19.
Thursday marked just the fourth time in La Stella's last 17 games that he has gone hitless.
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• This is the first meeting between these two clubs this season. San Diego took five of six from Atlanta last year.
Matt Slovin is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Unfortunately, the article and the commends miss out on the fundamental improvements, so I'll address the issues in series:
1:>4gb RAM addressability (note this does not actually mean max 4gb ram, just 4gb total address space, probably max 3.5ish GB ram). This is future proofing at best. I doubt iphones will be having 4gb RAM or more any time soon.
2:64-bit instructions/math: This only makes a difference if you care about 64bit math. Only a small portion of most integer math is 8 bytes wide. Furthermore, the ARM NEON extensions (SIMD integer/fpu unit) does 64-bit math in parallel and if used well (gcc does a poor job) can make this largely a non-issue for most projects.
3: Double the registers. ARMv8-A has twice the number of registers, allowing for a far fewer number of MOV instructions to perform tasks. The speed improvement mostly comes here, simply with recompilation.
4: Other architecture improvements. Faster ISA, more media decode/encode instructions. Hardware Encryption engine. The rest of the value is here.
When i saw this blog, i am sort of dissatisfied and disappointed : ( with Apple. The 64-bit processor, it seems to be a substantial improvement compared with 32-bit A6 processor.However, i don't think 64-bit has a real improved performance. My friends have both 5 and 5s, however, it's hard for me to differentiate which one is 5 or 5s by the processing speed or performance, it's just completely same. 64-bit processor usually fixed in laptop or desktop,it needs memory addressability exceeds 4 Gigabit ,it is RAM! Not storage! How can a smart phone have a RAM exceed 4-GB, if so, it can work like a PC. So i don't think 5S can take any technical advantage of 64-bit processor,A7 processor just makes no sense! It is probably a consumer deception. : ( The only reason, maybe just find a excuse for Apple is compete with Android : P
When i saw this blog, i am sort of dissatisfied and disappointed : ( with Apple. The 64-bit processor, it seems to be a substantial improvement compared with 32-bit A6 processor.However, i don't think 64-bit has a real improved performance. My friends have both 5 and 5s, however, it's hard for me to differentiate which one is 5 or 5s by the processing speed or performance, it's just completely same. 64-bit processor usually fixed in laptop or desktop,it needs memory addressability exceeds 4 Gigabit ,it is RAM! Not storage! How can a smart phone have a RAM exceed 4-GB, if so, it can work like a PC. So i don't think 5S can take any technical advantage of 64-bit processor,A7 processor just makes no sense! It is probably a consumer deception. : ( The only reason, maybe just find a excuse for Apple is compete with Android : P
Anyone else found the iPhone 5c a curious choice for the image given that it has a 32-bit CPU?
One thing The Economist forgot to mention is that purpose of making the iPhone/iPad have 64 bit chips is so that the code base used in XCode 5.xx could be more consistent across Mac OS X Mavericks and iOS7 as well as consolidate. It hints that Mac OS X and iOS7 are slow moving towards a singular OS.
Look, OS X is "FreeBSD" Unix operating system in disguise!
OS X derived from FreeBSD, like Android derived from Linux.
To make things clearer (or murkier, depending on how you look at it) Linux is not UNIX, OSX is UNIX. Linux is a command compatible operating system with System V UNIX; but, it shares no source code (the point of the SCO lawsuit).
OSX is derived from BSD UNIX. The afore mentioned 'FreeBSD' is also derived from BSD UNIX. OSX and FreeBSD share a common parent, one is not the parent of the other.
The two flavors of UNIX, BSD and System V, are similar in structure; but not identical. Further, there are differences in the commands and command structures.
As the OP stated, while Android is derived from Linux, OSX, like FreeBSD, is derived from BSD. However, the distance between Linux and UNIX is great. While a person familiar with one family is going to be, generally, competent with the other, they are not the same OS.
iOS is also based on FreeBSD, with the XNU/Mach kernel!
Most of the code base, up to and including file system and malloc(3) are (irritatingly) the same. There are some differences with Core Foundation, but any differences in Cocoa are generally well hidden or absolutely obvious, depending on which bit you're looking at.
I'm not sure Apple is moving toward a unified OS; rumor has it that they saw what that's done to Microsoft's offerings. But, yes, they've generally done an excellent job in Xcode 5 and development for iOS and OS X. :-)
I forgot to mention that I think part of the Xcode consistency is aimed at the (hopefully) forthcoming iWatch product as well. I'm pretty sure that's going to have a smaller CPU, perhaps a revamped A5, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was 16 bit, with a 32 bit memory bus. To deal with that, you'd need a development environment that was stellar! :-)
That an iWatch (if one ever appears) would have a processor smaller than the A7 seems reasonable. But why on earth would Apple make that 16-bit? They are moving from 32-bit to 64-bit in the mobile space, and would surely seek to consolidate their software, not further fragment it.
The "revamped A5" that you suggest is an ARMv7 design and therefore a 32-bit processor. A "revamp" which made it 16-bit would be a complete redesign!
Make it a fast 16 bit chip and you have both the lower power requirements and the speed; provide it with a 32-bit memory bus and you've simplified the ABI. The fact that the CPU doesn't have much to do - the screen isn't very big, after all! - indicates that this could be a reasonable trade-off. (Perhaps not a wise one, though?)
The fragmentation issue, as you point out, is a very powerful argument against this suggestion! But I keep coming back to two things: power requirements and size. There is another significant problem with my assumption - all of the WiFi and Bluetooth code is written for 32 and 64 bit CPU's.
I think they will come out with the iWatch; the rumor mill is too active for it to be a fiction. I hope so, at least! :-)
And yeah, I was being a trifle "cute" with my words. :-)
But it wouldn't be that big a deal for Apple to reduce the bit count; ARM, after all, does have a lot of experience with 16-bit CPU's. And Apple has its own chip design team, so it's not that great a stretch to think they might make the power/battery life trade-off. I don't think it's likely, but I wouldn't be surprised if an iWatch did come with a 16-bit CPU.
ARM doesn't do 16-bit CPUs. Even the ARM7 is 32-bit. If you want low-power and ARM compatibility then the Cortex-M series is the place to look.
That said, Apple's design team is very capable and can do whatever they want!
I think one needs to look beyond just RAM addressability regarding benefits of 64 bit computing. Essentially CPU intensive applications like games would benefit since 64 bit operations can be done in hardware instead of being emulated by software. Besides better performance this would lead to better battery life.
IMO the major reason Apple has shifted to 64 bit computing is more strategic - aimed at disrupting the Android ecosystem which is already fragmented (relatively speaking). The article explains it in detail - https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/2785-apple-s-64-bit-plan-finish-a...
As new software taking advantage of the 64 bit arrives the shift will feel more and more necessary.
Look, new software doesn't take advantage of 64 bit!
64 bit is for large-scale servers and data-intensive applications that require over 4GB DRAM. Apple's smartphone has only 1 or 2GB DRAM. It's total consumer deception. DOJ should look at this!
64bit processors do not just mean stack addressability, it also means a 64 bit - wide instruction path and double the registers. People that do not know computing should not post on computing subjects.
You've poked a stick into a hornets' nest there, haven't you? Did you know you had such a nerdy readership?
Actually the graphs show that the new chip offers no radical jump in performance beyond the steady trickle of improvement in speed which can be observed in even 32 bit chips over time. Therefore we can conclude that the 64 bit chip is NOT in fact providing any major technical advantage since phones dont have anywhere near 4GB memory. Qualcomm is right.
Did you actually read the article? You just shot down a straw man. Nobody said it is providing 'any major technical advantage'.
The article clearly states that this is about future-proofing the iPhone, because phones and tablets are replacing PCs as the primary computing device.
And that is true. I used to think of my PC as the centre of my digital life, with my smartphone as a compromise accessory which I used just because of its portability when I didn't have my PC with me. Now, with the bigger screens and more powerful internals, my smartphone is my major device, with my PC being used only occasionally for high-complexity tasks.
The Galaxy Note 3 (my current phone) already has 4GB of RAM. By next year, this will be standard for flagships. Then we'll see the first flagship smartphone with 8GB of RAM. That's when we'll need a 64-bit architecture to take advantage, and witness more immersive 3D games and more powerful mobile apps.
It actually is providing a significant boost; the smoother experience when using the phone belies the raw numbers. And some of the real-time game graphics have to be seen to be believed - they just aren't possible at "that" level of detail, speed or smoothness with 32-bit chips.
It's an "enabling" technological step. Sure, the phones don't come with much memory right now, but in the (near?) future? When 64-bit CPU's hit the desktop market most people didn't have much than a gig or two of memory, either. Now? Even my low-end MacBook Pro has 8GB!
Moving to 64-bit is, in fact, one of the smartest things Apple has done, technologically speaking. It sets them on the road to unifying their programming platform and it provides a powerful baseline for gaming and other processor-intensive needs.
No straw man at all ... this phone and likely the next few versions do not have 4gb memory so 64bit is pointless unless it offers some definite advantage and none has been provided in the article above hand waving about performance and as I mentioned the actual performance is not more than would be expected by a recent iteration of processor design.
"this phone and likely the next few versions do not have 4gb memory"
How do you know what kind of memory the next few versions of the iPhone will have? I'm sure you're not involved in designing Apple's product roadmap. Like I said, Samsung's flagship phone the Galaxy Note 3 already has 4Gb of RAM. I'm sure Apple has noticed.
If Apple made this decision there's a reason. And it's logical: PCs made the jump from 32-bit to 64-bit. Mobile devices are catching up. It's going to happen sooner or later. Apple is just being ahead of the curve. By doing this, they signal to developers to start making more powerful apps and games.
The graphs do not prove a significant boost at all (beyond incremental improvement) and the memory is 1GB (cpu memory NOT storage memory) so the main reason for 64bit cpu is totally unrequired. This article is fudge. I think the value of 64bit on phones will come in time but certainly it is not showing up now .., except as PR of course. Qualcomm is right.
Note 3 has only 3Gb actually and that is irrelevent to this Apple phone now which has only 1GB memory! Storage of course is much more but storage isnt the type of memory we are discussing.
CPU memory? You mean RAM?
The article isn't a fudge - the move was important for a lot of people (including me!) Heck, even as the notice you replied came through I was working on some code for a 64-bit iOS application.
Besides, the graphs don't tell the whole story. Grab one of the phones at an Apple Store, play with it and compare it to, say, an iPhone 4 or 4S. Or even a 5C. You'll notice it's much smoother, it can do more with the camera and it can do realtime graphics that are quite stunning - noticeably better than the 32-bit iPhones.
Granted, there is a long-running debate about moving up to the next word size ("word" being the number of bits); I can remember people wondering if the move from 16 bit CPU's to 32 bit CPU's was worth the extra trouble - after all, no one had the memory in their desktop machines, etc...
It's an enabler, like I said.
I mean memory that can be directly loaded into the cpu registers as opposed to storage memory. I didnt notice any significant difference from 32bit phones in general. This article attempts to justify 64bit but just ends up hand waving.
That's a function of the memory bus... I don't think that changed, except that it got larger. So if it took "x" nanoseconds to load from memory, it will still take "x" nanoseconds. The difference is that *more* data and instructions can be loaded at once. Internally the CPU is probably not as optimized for 64 bit operation as it could be; such things are very difficult to get right from the get-go. Perhaps they didn't increase the L1 and L2 caches? I don't know, I haven't seen those specs.
But like I said, it's an enabling technology. And to be fair, to properly justify the move to 64-bits you do need a fairly detailed knowledge of processor (and subsystem) architectures! Let me put it this way: I noticed the difference. And there's so much more I can do with the 64-bit code than I can with the 32-bit version.
You noticed a difference? So it must be the 64bit thingie right? It more likely to be simply a new generation of ARM processor with better design. I bet you didnt know that 64bit will slow down the average program down not speed it up. The benefit is down to the overall picture not what individual programs do.
The only code I've seen have a problem with 64-bit CPU's is generally badly written, or code that has byte-alignment difficulties (which, by definition, is "badly written"!).
The CPU clock speed is a little slower - if I remember the presentation correctly, but the support infrastructure in and around the chip and its registers are a little more efficient, negating any perceived affect.
But yeah, I did notice a difference. It wasn't dramatic, but the interface just seems "smoother", more responsive. The improvements are quite noticeable both for the individual apps and the overall system. Between the increase in word size and the frankly rather astonishing techniques they've used to preserve battery and ensure responsiveness, what Apple has done is altogether quite remarkable.
Seems you are only here to gush over Apple. I suppose you are paid to do it.
Not at all. I happen to like their products; I'm a little more circumspect about the corporation! I do write code for their products; as I said, I'm working on the code for a 64-bit iOS application.
On the other hand, I have been involved in tech for a little over 30 years. I've seen a lot of it! I decided to spend a moment or two to chat about Apple's technological choices on this forum, that's all. Sorry you don't like my responses!
Dumb question. Why is BATTERY LIFE so miserably short? It's like building an advanced ocean liner that needs to touch land every few hours to refuel.
Most of the speed improvement comes from it being the first ARMv8 SOC to market.64-bit has some improvements sure but there are also some drawbacks.
Apps take up 20%-30% more RAM when 64-bit and Apple has always been stingy when it comes to RAM. The new iPad air is the most capable tablet in the market today (ignoring the Surface)but you certainly pay for it. The problem is it has only 1GB of RAM and when someone is multitasking they can easily enough bump up against the limit and have to reload the app. An extra 1GB of RAM would have cost Apple $1-$2. Apple sacrificed consumer usability for margins.
*The iPhone 5s is mostly fine because people do less with their phones app wise.
An initially excellent post that then slides off the rails. Apple's stinginess with RAM is well known, even on their desktop systems, but in the case of mobile devices it has a point.
RAM is always drawing power, whether it's being used to store software or data or not. This is one of the reasons Android devices, which generally require more RAM due to their VM based software architecture, have shorter battery lives and Apple is fanatical about battery life. You don't get 10+ hours of typical usage on a mobile device by accident.
That makes no sense. Lots of tablets last even longer than the iPad with 2-3 GB of RAM. RAM uses almost no power compared to the other components.
If you just use you iPad for watching netflix and surfing the web you will probably be fine. But 64-bit and new apps are becoming a real issue.
The iPad is being sold as a creation device and extremely capable and yet they have skimped on the RAM. Go look at the MAC forums and you will see thread after thread. If you have bunch of tabs open in Safari and then load a drawing app for example you will run out of memory.
That makes no sense. Lots of tablets last even longer than the iPad with 2-3 GB of RAM. RAM uses almost no power compared to the other components.
If you just use you iPad for watching netflix and surfing the web you will probably be fine. But 64-bit and new apps are becoming a real issue.
The iPad is being sold as a creation device and extremely capable and yet they have skimped on the RAM. Go look at the MAC forums and you will see thread after thread. If you have bunch of tabs open in Safari and then load a drawing app for example you will run out of memory.
Well done ARM. Keep up the good work!
The other key change in hardware is the inclusion of a separate motion processor, the implications of which are explained very nicely here: http://www.davidakka.com/enterprise-mobility/iphone5s/
Why does the new iPhone have a 64-bit processor?
This is Apple's marketing deception! People who does not understand why we need 64-bit processors may assume that it must be superior to 32bit processors. On the contrary to ignorant consumers' perception, 64bit processors are in fact slower than 32bit processors. It's useful only if your applications use more than 4GB memory! Which means it's for servers and data-intensive applications where lots of tasks can run simultaneous. Only idiots buy such smartphones!
I don't agree about the "idiot" part, but yes - Apple has uncharacteristically bragged about technological specifics. Normally, they only go as far as saying "30% faster than last year's model". They may be feeling that the Android makers are breathing down their neck on the innovation front - Samsung has been doing some nice work on sensor use in their new models. Being the first to move to 64-bit may be an easy way of shouting "first" on the messaging boards ... eeh ... in the media. Technically, it's not a big deal to make a 64-bit processor. There have been 64-bit ARM processors around for many, many years, they've just not been miniaturized mobile processors.
As an aide, there have been some fairly presistent rumors about Apple considering to replace Intel with ARM in its Macbook Air product. They will sacrifize some performance for stellar battery life. And they will need more than 4 gigabytes of memory if they're going to allow users to run modern applications on OSX.
Only someone who knows next to nothing about the ARM architecture, or the changes in the ARM v8 design could post something like that. If the only change were moving to 64 bit you might be right, but the 64-bit architecture as implemented by ARM is a huge step up in performance, efficiency and features over the previous 32-bit designs. Here are a few:
More registers, for more efficient processing.
New faster ARM v8 ISA
Hardware accelerated encryption
Hardware isolated secure memory store, used by TouchID
64-bit media features such as encode/decode
So yes, if the only change was to a 64-bit addressing scheme you'd be right. But that isn't the only change, and these advantages are only available on the 64-bit ARM architecture. The truth is Apple has stolen a massive technical coup with the A7, leaving it's competitors face down in the dust and scrabbling to get back into the game. Again.
Look, more features and registers don't make your smartphone any faster or better! 64 bit processors are useful for servers and data intensive applications where larger 4GB DRAM is used. Apple smartphones use only 1 or 2GB DRAM. Note that no 64 bit operation is faster than 32 bit operations. 64 bit operations tend to take longer than 32 bit operations, which means slower overall performance. Why buy slower ones?
Unless you want to use Apple smartphone to run your webserver with 8GB DRAM, Apple's A7 processor is a deception!
Thank you Simon Hibbs for the only sane comment attached to this (slightly weak) article.
Cut out all the BS, in short Apple is still kicking ass. Much as the competition might and indeed many of us laymen do dislike or even detest Apple, the one thing we all have to admit is that they are a very aggressive and competitive bunch who still have fire - despite the death of Steve Jobs, in their belly.
We're approaching the time where a single file system works across kinds of devices - as seen in changes to Numbers, Keynote & Pages - and where the same program can be built to run in 64bit form on these devices. That doesn't mean the entire program is available on your phone but that deploying complex applications across these platforms becomes easier.
The Apple A7 also uses the new instruction set available for ARMv8-A. There are also more registers available. It's more than being able to address more RAM directly.
That accounts for almost all of the performance improvement. With under 4GB of RAM running normal programs a 64-bit CPU derives few benefits from being 64 bits wide. It may even run slower as larger programs take more time to move into and out of memory. But the new architecture has a new instruction set which is much more efficient. A similar though much smaller speedup can be seen between 32 bit and 64-bit x86 CPUs. The much larger speed boost seen in the A7 suggests the previous 32-bit ARMv7 architecture is much less optimised for performance.
That's no practical improvement!
Hardware support for encryption is a real improvement. If it is the only benefit and there are no significant drawbacks it was worth it.
I wonder whether you understand what encryption is!
No significant drawback? Look, it's much slower and comsume more battery!
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Chuck is so sweet and looks happy! I cannot understand the cruelties people place upon precious animals. I'm so happy Chuck is improving. Thank you ASPCA, for all you do for the animals.
What a beautiful and brave dog! Thanks ASPCA.
Great job to the staff, and Chuck is a trooper. This is exacley why I make a monthly contibution to the ASPCA. Great work. Thanks so much.
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its only god's work when the A.S.P.C.A. Helps them not kills them.. There are a lot of killing in the shelters too. Chuck just happens to be a lucky one because he is a pit. but what about the other breeds they need to be lucky too.
To be a born a pitbull is not a lucky fate. Their popularity in the last 10 years have encouraged breeders to exploit them for money, and often they are pulled into fighting rings, mistreated and abused, just like how Chuck was treated earlier in his life.
Because they are so overpopulated and bred, and because so many people buy them thinking they will be the right dog for them, or buy them for the wrong reasons, they realize later that they cannot care for them, or simply dont want them anymore and discard them in one way or another.
Black dogs and pits are certainly unlucky when it comes to euthanasia. From my experience working in shelters, black pets and pit bulls have it rough when trying to get adopted and often are put down.
No breed is necessarily luckier than another, but small dogs, young dogs, pretty dogs and family dogs are certainly adopted and helped more frequently.
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I ran the Fglrx driver once, and that was all it ran. I've never seen anything quite like it in Linux. When I ran it it wasn't any better than what my on board video could do so I didn't work too hard to fix it. It was a lot easier to simply pop the board out and use my on board. Then I took that same ATI board and popped it into another system I have in order to troubleshoot that system. It has a broken graphics connector off the motherboard. The system ran with that ATI board in it until I tried running a latency test, then it locked up. Funny thing there is when I swapped that ATI board out for a Nvidia board it ran the test just fine.
I don't have a whole lot of experience with ATI hardware, but one thing I can say is it has all been bad. So I'm not going to let a little thing like Nvidia honoring their NDAs they've had to make with others stop me from using what works the best. If I wanted to settle I'd go run Windows, something you apparently already do. So I don't see why you're so hung up on open source.
I mean yeah it's great and all but sometimes we all have to be reasonable. I'm not going to cut off my own nose in order to spite my own face. Or run AMD when Nvidia's solutions are better for that matter. If you really want to support Linux then support the graphics company that has supported Linux the most, Nvidia. Their closed source binary driver works so well it is virtually a non-issue today. You're the first person I've seen bring it up negatively in years in fact.


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Phoronix: Open-Source ARM Mali Code Published
The initial code push has taken place for the Lima Project, which is the open-source ARM Mali graphics driver that's under development...
whats wrong with your video cam ? not rally a good position.
Don't get me wrong, i like that you try to make a video, but if you do it like this then please either don't or just make an audio recording.
Guys, come on.
As the organizer of the devroom, i am quite happy that someone else steps forward to get talks captured. Sure, we mostly see Will Stephenson, but the audio is very good, and with the slides available (http://people.freedesktop.org/~libv/), what more do you need?
If any of the complainers would be willing to come to FOSDEM, sit in my devroom all day, and tape stuff, then I'd be happy to hear from you so we can work something out for next year. If not, stop complaining.
Not really. Phoronix is quite a resource and Michael isn't exactly a poor guy from a poor country. Also, it's 2012, not like 2005 when amateurish bad quality video was OK even on respected sites.
Somebody either needs some money or needs to get a grip on reality, afaik even a modern iPhone can capture better video than this (not to mention a dedicated video device, like a camera).
at the end of the video, luc says a drm driver is unimportant and a waste of time, what does he mean by that? is he saying like a x11 2d driver is pointless? because that would make sense. or is he talking about the actual drm component of the kernel driver, because i thought that was just a necessary part of making gallium or the entire linux 3d stack work.
Just a heads-up for anyone looking at upgrading phones to play with this: Samsung produces OMAP and Snapdragon variants of the Galaxy S II as well as the Exynos version, so you can't just go out and buy any "Galaxy S II" and expect to get a Mali GPU.
Ok so if people can reverse engineer NVIDIA GPUs and ARM Mali GPUs, how come no-one has bothered to tackle the PowerVR GPUs?
Is it just a case that no-one with the interest in doing so has started up a project? Is it that PowerVR hardware is much more complex than other hardware that has been reverse engineered so far? Are there legal concerns regarding PowerVR hardware (e.g. PowerVR being more likely to sue over open drivers than NVIDIA or ARM)?


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Commander Matt Kowalski, a veteran of the space program on his final mission, provides encouragement to fellow astronaut Shariff and specialist Dr Ryan Stone, who is in space for the first time to attend to the Hubble Telescope. A Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite creates a debris cloud that rips apart the Space Shuttle Explorer, killing Shariff and hurtling Stone into the inky void of space.
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Kent Salem Program Features Student Research
Posted Apr. 20, 2012
Kent State University is pleased to announce its seventh annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Tuesday afternoon, April 24th. The conference will feature oral presentations and poster sessions by students about research they completed in for-credit classes at the Salem Campus during the 2011-2012 academic year.
This year, Kellie Kawecki (North Jackson) and Leia Peison (Salem) will give presentations on topics in Human Development and Family Studies. Paul Chizmar (Berlin Center) will give a talk based on his Honors research on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Breanna McCreary (Salem) and Kristina Kosman (East Palestine) will give presentations about Chaucer. Two students from the Horticulture program—Robin Cannon and Sarrah Moskin —will talk about creating a 10-15 year master landscape plan for the Rockwell Springs Trout Club in Clyde, Ohio.
Poster sessions will cover a variety of topics in Early Childhood Education, Nursing, Psychology, and Radiologic and Imaging Sciences. Students will present their research in visually appealing display and will be present to answer questions and talk about their work with viewers.
Students who participate in the conference are eligible to win prizes established to encourage excellence in student research.
The Conference takes place at 2491 State Route 45 South on Tuesday, April 24th. Oral presentations will be given in the Library at 2:30. Posters will be on display in the Student Lounge at 1:00 and 4:30.
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Here is Vinny. He is a cat. He has been at the nursery for several months. He is very friendly and loving. He was recently taken to the vet to be tutored. I don't know what they taught him, but they say the tutoring will help in many ways. In fact, male cats, once tutored, are the ideal cat. I believe this. When I went home recently, Vinny treated me as if I was a long-lost friend.
My sister Tracie loves animals and she is trying to place Vinny in a loving home. Vinny cannot be at the nursery during the spring season as we have had bad experiences with cats sitting in the wonderfully soft seedling trays and killing thousands of petunias in one night. This gets expensive. Fast. So, although we believe Vinny to be a dignified and noble addition to our farm place, he's simply got to go.
Sister Tracie has expressed a willingness to drive a good long distance with Vinny to take him to a new home. He is well-adjusted to trips in a kennel, as Tracie found out when she brought him in for tutoring.
If you are interested in Vinny, please send me an email.
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