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America's Best Value Inn - Cheekwood Inn
Located at exit #18 off I-57, offering 40 modern rooms with inside corridors and an indoor swimming pool.
Anna Plaza Motel
16-room motel, restaurants within walking distance. Credit cards accepted. Pets allowed. Free local calls. Cable TV with remotes.
Big Creek Cabins
Big Creek Cabins is the perfect place for a romantic weekend or quick getaway from the busy rush of daily life. The moment you check-in to our fully furnished luxury log cabin, you can't help but to slow down and relax. Unwind and get chin deep in the hot tub on the large cover decks overlooking a private pond all situated on 20 very secluded acres. Perhaps enjoy a game a pool on the executive pool table by the fireplace with family or good friends. There are many reasons why Big Creek Cabins is quickly becoming the most popular cabin retreat in Southern Illinois, but we want to personally invite you to a place where memories are made and experience them first hand.
Davie School Inn
This 1910 schoolhouse features spacious suites with nine-foot-tall windows overlooking Anna Park. Each guest room contains an original chalkboard and bookcase from the old school days. Located near Carbondale, the Davie School Inn makes a great base for exploring the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail and Giant City State Park.
Doc's Lakeside Cabin
If you're looking to get away from it all, you've come to the right place. At Doc's Lakeside Cabin we'll give you the most spectacular view in Southern Illinois. Doc's Lakeside Cabin was built in 2012 and is located in beautiful Southern Illinois. Accommodations include: 2 bedrooms with queen size bed in each room, 1 Full Bath with Shower, Fully furnished kitchen, Living/Great Room, Spacious Hot Tub, ?and, Screened Balcony. Guest are welcome to enjoy a leisure time of fishing in our lake.
Goddard Place
A log cabin with hot tub and gas log fireplace. Enjoy adelicious breakfast in a quiet country setting. You have to see it to believe it!
Grand Chain Lodge & Campground
The lodge offers four spacious suites, each furnished with two queen-sized beds, a Jacuzzi bath tub, and access to the Observation Deck with a spectacular view of the Ohio River. If you want even more privacy or have a larger group. you can stay in one of our two fully equipped cabins that also offer Jacuzzi tubs, private decks overlooking the river as well as full kitchens and a loft bedroom. Each cabin sleeps six and offers, not only a beautiful panorama of the Ohio, but close up observation of an area teaming with wildlife.
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Hidden Lake Guest House
Nestled amongst 12 acres of woods, gardens and water, finely appointed guest rooms and suites welcome you to first class treatment and quiet country elegance. Fireplaces, jacuzzis, private balconies and private baths are just a few of the amenities.
Hotel 7 Inn- Anna
Opened in 2001. Includes 43 rooms, indoor pool, fitness center and a complimentary breakfast.
Lofty Acres Bed & Breakfast
Master bedroom/bath on main floor, queen bed, whirlpool tub. 2 rooms/baths upstairs. Fireplace.
Quality Inn - Cairo
Daily or weekly rates. Kids under 14 free. Continental breakfast. Pets welcome.
Rustic Getaway Cabins
Three cozy, private cabins located in the Southernmost part of Illinois. Located on 22 acres of rolling hills, each cabin features: full kitchens, TV/VCR, full bath and sleeps 4. During your stay, enjoy nearby outdoor activities, such as hiking, hunting, fishing, biking, canoeing and horseback riding. Each cabin features a private wooded setting. Relax and enjoy nature at its best.
Rustic Hideaway Cabins
Private log cabins in a wooded setting. Hot tub on covered back deck. Full kitchen including dishes. TV/VCR. Linens and paper products supplied. Fireplace. Loft.
Sassafras Hill
Farmhouse rental ideal for sportsman. 3 double beds and 3 single beds, 2 baths and full kitchen, with washer & dryer.
Shawnee Forest Cabins
Brand new log cabins in the Shawnee National Forest. Closest cabins to the popular Garden of the Gods hike and just a short drive to many more. One and Two Bedroom cabins available all year. Hot tubs, Fireplaces, DirecTV, FiberOptic High-speed internet, fully furnished, with fire pits, free firewood, and charcoal grills. All cabins have full kitchens, towels, linens and all amenities; just bring your food and fun! Located at 745 Garden of the Gods Rd, Herod, IL. Please visit our website for more information and availability
Timber Ridge Inn
A rustic retreat featuring 3 bedrooms (sleeps 6), 2 bathrooms, a kitchen with microwave and refrigerator, and a fireplace, on 80 wooded acres.
Trail of Tears Lodge
A remote lodge surrounded by the Shawnee National Forest. An abundance of outdoor recreation: horseback riding, hiking, hunting, fishing, shooting range, archery range, dirt bike & ATV trails. Outdoor pool, game room, hot tub and pets accepted.
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(n)A Rock/pop band hailing from Port Townsend WA. Catchy as hell and great for dancing.Signed with Loveless Records after they won the Sound Off 2008 competition in Seattle. Has one album, named "Two years". Played at Bumbershoot in 2008.
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New Faces are an Indie pop band formed in Port Townsend, Washington in 2006. The band has received very good reviews, and won Seattle's local under-21 music compitetion, Sound Off!. They played at the Capitol Hill Block Party 2008 and Bumbershoot 2008 and were well-received both times. The band is also the youngest band to be signed by Seattle-based Loveless Records. The band digitally released two singles off of their first album, "Two Years", on July 22nd, before releasing the full album on August 26th. The band has been aired on Seattle music station 90.3 KEXP and on 107.7 The End).
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Ah, the Apple iPad, that 10.1-inch window on the future, the multipurpose, multitasking slab left behind by some visiting alien race to make all our lives better. Starting at $499 and boasting a gorgeous touch-screen, this premiere tablet is creeping up against the established high-end, custom-installed remote control brands that require professional integrators to set up. However, the iPad faces certain design realities that limit its out-of-the-box readiness as a consumer electronics controller. (Note that all of our comments herein are applicable to both the original iPad and the newer iPads.)
The iPad communicates with other devices one of two ways. It connects to the internet via Wi-Fi, supporting the fastest, state-of-the-art 802.11n version. Bluetooth is the second flavor of wireless inside the iPad, typically used for connecting accessories such as earpieces or keyboards or even a compact speaker systems. In my experience, Bluetooth range is a robust 30-35 feet and does not require a direct line of sight between linked devices.
Now, most of the remotes currently littering your coffee table use infrared (IR) signals to send their commands to the television or Blu-ray player or whatever. It's an older technology which requires line-of-sight between the remote control and the component's IR receiver. And IR is not supported by the iPad (some Android tablets do feature built-in IR).
However, if we search The App Store via the iPad itself using the term "tv remote," we will see a variety of paid applications from a host of independent publishers to help us bridge the gap. Some offer to replace the remote control that came with your Mac computer or Apple TV.
Some require the addition of a dongle that attaches to the iPad, a physical plug in that is operated by us and the iPad to control the TV or any other supported device via IR commands that are generated on-the-fly. Such an adapter (sold separately of course) is mandatory if we want to fit our rectangular iPad into the dodecahedronal world of IR.
Griffin Technology makes a wonderful little standalone device called Beacon which communicates with the iPad via Bluetooth, converts our commands to IR, and then passes them along to the television. Powered by Dijit Media's free universal remote software, Beacon works, it's versatile, and best of all it does not require us to plug anything into the iPad itself.
The alternative method of control takes advantage of the iPad's aforementioned Wi-Fi prowess, particularly useful in the age of the Internet-ready TV. Wi-Fi-based control applications use the iPad to access our wireless home network, the local network receives the commands that we input on the touch-screen and sends them on out in turn to the connected television, wired or wirelessly. Some TV manufacturers require the use of their own proprietary apps in order to operate their specific televisions, but all of those that we found - for the Samsung, LG and Panasonic brands, some exclusive to the iPad - were free, which makes perfect sense: You already paid a pretty penny for the latest in high-tech IPTVs, they want you to make the most of it, say "wow" a lot, and brag about it to your friends.
Service providers such as DISH Network, DirecTV and others as well as stalwart TiVo also offer their own free custom apps that allow us to access their set-top boxes in a variety of newfangled ways, even managing our content, scheduling new recordings and watching live TV from anywhere in the world. There are also paid third-party applications in The App Store that allow us to control a vast array of home theater components, assuming that they too are somehow internet-connected.
Taking the iPad control concept a step further, to uses such as Blu-ray playback, Deluxe Digital Studios offers the free pocket BLU app, supported by a long list of Universal Blu-ray discs with a few Fox titles as well. Included among its many features is an enhanced remote control which utilizes two-way communication to deliver a custom interface optimized for the large tablet screen, bringing an instant-access video timeline for that disc as well as a virtual QWERTY keyboard to expedite data entry. Discs from Universal, Sony and Disney also enable some variant of a "second screen" function that displays relevant, synchronized content on the iPad during a small-but-growing collection of movies, much like picture-in-picture (Bonus View) but without obscuring the movie itself in any way. In actuality, second screen programs are sizable downloads to the iPad performed before we press Play, but the experience is all but seamless.
Or course, now that we are using the iPad as the remote control of our Buck Rogers dreams, we run the risk of it sprouting legs and disappearing just like remote controls of yore. Wonder if there's a LoJack app for that….
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For some reason kids are fascinated with their ears and will often put things in there - peas or beads or all kinds of different things. I'm Dr. Allen Greene and let's talk about how to get things out of the ear when they go in.
If there is a pea or a bead or a small toy that's gone into the ear and you can see it there, then take a pair of tweezers, turn the head to the side, gently grasp it and pull it out. If you can't see it though and you suspect there is something in there, it's time for a trip to the doctor. They have the tools to see be able to see it and better tools for pulling it out.
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What happens when a bug crawls into the ear? It does happen. Same thing applies. If you can see it, pull it out with tweezers. If you can't though, there is a trick you could use. If you turn the head to the side and put a few drops of baby oil in, often that will bother the bug enough that they'll come up to the surface where you can grab it with the tweezers.
The other thing is kids will sometimes put a Q-tip down deep in the ear or even a pencil down deep in the ear digging around. And it's not a problem getting it out, but they scream in pain because something got hurt. They can rupture their eardrum with things they put in there. If there is pain when something goes into the ear, that's another time to take them to the doctor. Often it will heal well on its own, but it should definitely be checked.
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Located on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency, the recently renovated Eagle's Nest rotates to offer one of the best views in Indianapolis. Unfortunately, the restaurant's food and service don't live up to its lofty setting.
On our recent visit, we waited 40 minutes for appetizers and another 30 for entrees—luckier than the diners at the next table over who waited almost two hours for their meals. Although the restaurant was only a quarter full, the waitstaff seemed overwhelmed, and we curiously had to surrender our menus quickly because they were needed elsewhere.
Choices include traditional fine-dining classics like crab cakes, steaks and fish, but nearly everything is underseasoned and overcooked, including a tiny piece of pan-seared halibut for an astronomical $42. The Parmesan-truffle steak fries ($8) were a high point, crisp with good flavor. Chicken fricassee ($28) was cooked well but lacked salt. When asked for a dessert recommendation, the server instead launched into a surprising criticism of the offerings she didn't like.
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Style: Straight Material: Human Hair Blend Length: Short; 2 3/4"front, top & crown; 1" upper back; 1 3/4" side & nape. Weight: 2.1 oz. Features: FiberFusion, Permatease, Permalift, Extended neck.
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Really like the weight and texture. Great price for blended wig. Wish it was a bit smaller. Very comfortable in the valley heat. Good bye wearing baseball caps! My hair has always...Read complete review
Really like the weight and texture. Great price for blended wig. Wish it was a bit smaller. Very comfortable in the valley heat. Good bye wearing baseball caps! My hair has always been thin, so this is the most hair I've had since my teens. My husband loved how I looked which sold me!
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I bought a wig because I am tired of spending money to dye my hair every 2 weeks.I wore the wig for the first time on Monday. I was very nervous wearing it to work but the people at work Loooovvvved it! They kept saying I looked wonderful and it softened my face and more than one person said it made me look younger!
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Comments about Blended Vikki Wig by Paula Young®:
I just love it so many of my friends and family couldn't tell it was a wig it looks so real:)
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awesome wig - have 2 dif/colors
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true to color - love it
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Superior wig
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I wear this wig for special occasions. It's very cool and comfortable to wear.
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Love the wig. Love the style. Unfortunately, the colors offered were very limited. And if you think you'll be able to "curl" it when you get it - FORGET IT. I'm a hairdresser and even I could not get a single curl into it. Not even a bend. But overall, it's a cute wig if you keep in mind that contrary to what they say you can do with it, you can't.
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Cute cut
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Like the style but have returned it for a different color
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Cute but uncomfortable
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I love the style of this wig and have had many compliments on the new way I am wearing my "hair." However, I wear glasses and have behind-the-ear hearing aids, and this wig is downright uncomfortable. I finally ended up cutting a couple of slots around each ear where the tabs were (which I removed) to allow for some expansion because there is a hard area that just plain hurts. I don't want to compromise the look of the wig, but it was just too uncomfortable to wear all day. i would recommend to a friend who doesn't wear glasses or a hearing aid.
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Over-all arrivial was on time. Looks great but not on me. Service god takes a bit of time for refund, but they hold true to there agreements.
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Blended Viki - not worth the $$
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I bought this to use while my hair is growing out. I liked the way it appeared online but when I received it, it was not styled well and was hard to style. The wig actually looked like someone purchased it, tried to syle it, did a poor job, and returned it. This was my first purchase from Paula Young. I will try one more time, hoping that was just a bad experience. If the next product arrives like this, I will find another company to support my wig purchases.


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The Erving is a wild basketball-inspired skate shoe that scores plenty of style points with a thin, flaired tongue, lace flaps and unique panels all supported by a traditional vulcanized outsole.
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I recently spoke with a coworker who was skeptical that the search suggestion feature we'd implemented in our company intranet could be effective. "I could be searching for anything—it couldn't possibly know what I'm going to type in." Smiling smugly, I asked him to think of something he might want to find on the company intranet, something he thought he would really need.
Glancing around his desk, he pointed to an empty box and said, "I need to order new business cards." I asked him to start typing "business cards" into the search box one letter at a time. He typed in "b" and up popped the list, and the first search it suggested was "business cards." Still unconvinced, my coworker said "Suppose I lost the key to my desk." He typed in "k" and the search engine immediately suggested "key request." "I want to know which holidays we have off this year;" the letter "h" immediately brought up "holiday schedule 2010."
"Okay, what if I want to enroll in a yoga class?" I thought he had me, but the first item listed under "y" was in fact "yoga." He played it cool, but the expression on his face told me he was puzzled, taken aback, and possibly just a bit scared.
More Than Just a Magic Trick
That was a fun moment, but suggest functions shouldn't be mistaken for parlor tricks. Anyone who has looked at search logs closely has probably surmised that user skill is a pervasive problem. It's very common for users to submit poorly phrased queries—often just a single word, or an imprecisely phrased idea—that bring back tons of results that have nothing to do with what the user really wanted to find. It's also common that users give up instead of trying to compose their search a second time.
Suggestions help resolve that problem. By providing users with better phrasings, they make it much easier for users to be successful on the first try. In practice, it solves the problem of turning an abstract idea into concrete words so concisely and so effectively that it's quickly becoming accepted as an essential feature of any search engine.
It's getting to the point where sites that don't have a suggest function implemented yet are starting to look a little behind the times. The good news is that they're not especially difficult to implement, and with the right planning they can be wildly successful.
How to Read a User's Mind
Predicting what a user wants to find is actually pretty easy, because probability is on your side. If you take a list of the most commonly submitted searches and chart them by their popularity, you get a shape that looks a lot like this:
This means that there are a very small number of search phrases that a large number of people are submitting, and there are also a very large number of search phrases that only a few people are submitting. The really important lesson here is that without knowing anything about a random user, it's possible to know something about what they're likely to search for. If they provide even just a little bit of additional information—such as a few characters in the search box—the odds narrow so dramatically that it's overwhelmingly likely that the search engine can accurately guess what they're trying to find.
To get this effect to really work, the function needs to return suggestions matching the character string the user has entered, sorted by popularity. This is almost always better than sorting the suggestions in some other way (e.g., alphabetically) because it stacks the deck in your favor. The original suggest function that Wikipedia implemented made the mistake of returning search strings sorted alphabetically. The result was that if the user typed in "abraham", it returned:
I have no idea who Abraham "Chick" Kazen is, and I'm betting that no one at Wikipedia knows either. Mr. Kazen was first in the list because the code orders quotation marks before letters in an alphabetical sort, even though it's extremely unlikely that a user would actually submit that search. Happily, Wikipedia since fixed this and now typing just two letters returns what we all instinctively feel is the right answer:
There are a few cases where you might instead order the suggestion list alphabetically—for example, with a corporate directory. But most of the time it's the wrong way to go.
Major Types of Suggest Functions
There are three principal ways suggest functions can work. Which one should be used depends upon the nature of the information that users are searching.
An exploratory function works best when many of the things users are trying to find have no official name. In these cases, people enter keywords that approximate the idea they have in their heads. For example, users of a college website who want to find a map of the buildings might search for:
- campus map
- building locations
- directions to buildings
- places on campus
- finding your way around
Given the enormous number of other things people could be searching for on a college website, there is an infinity of possible phrases.
It's impossible to work with a list of potential searches that's infinitely long, so it has to be cut off somewhere. Fortunately, the magic of probability makes it possible to cut the list fairly short and still provide the vast majority of users with good suggestions. Even for a site that sees more than a million unique searches in a year, often just the first few thousand from the list of the most common searches will suffice. This can be small enough to store the complete list on the client side, so there's absolutely no lag as the user types in the search.
The suggestion list needs to be scrubbed to remove multiple word forms (e.g., singular or plural), misspellings, closely related phrasings, and other common problems. But the shortness of the suggestion list makes this fairly easy.
Known item
For other searches, everything the user might try to find has a specific name. This is the case, for example, with websites that are principally product catalogs, such as Apple or Amazon. Other examples of known items include movie titles, airports, and major world cities. In these contexts, suggest functions can help people remember what something is called, eliminate misspellings, and help people figure out what searches will actually give them useful results.
For such known-item searches, truncated lists don't work because the absence of an item implies that it's not available. Since the list needs to be comprehensive, it can be very long indeed (just think of every product that Amazon sells), so it often can't all be stored on the client side. Instead, it would need to be retrieved from the server in real-time. This may introduce some lag, but it can be made more efficient by limiting the number of strings shown at any one time. Ten has become the industry standard.
These are searches that the user has submitted in the past. People are likely to search for something that they've looked for in the past, like a particular destination in a mapping application. A system can make itself much more personally relevant when it retains a memory of the things that a user has done before, and then makes it easier for the user to do them again.
It still makes the most sense to sort the list of historical searches first by the number of times the user has submitted them. But when two searches have been submitted the same number of times, consider breaking the tie based on recentness.
Some clever designers have seized the best of all worlds by creating hybrid approaches that first display searches that the user has submitted in the past, followed by a list of the most popular searches submitted by other people.
Designing by the Numbers
Suggest functions exploit quantitative information in a way that has only become possible through the enormous volume of usage of the modern Web. They're a creative application of data that's just sitting out there, waiting for innovative minds to find ways to make it useful. There's a real beauty and elegance to this kind of a strategy, not to mention the fun of knowing what your users are going to say before they even say it.
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Very nice article. Also don't forget:
- geolocation context (useful on mobile or geo enabled devices when looking for places; see gmaps and google app on iphone)
-explicitly tagged (like in awesome bar in FF; though this is just another example of historical)
- contextual disambiguation (see yahoo search and more recently google suggest; ajax programming vs ajax amsterdam)
The last one when first user tested in a next gen search at yahoo (2006) Had consistent surprise by users that it "knew what they were thinking"
Really interesting post - this gave me some ideas on how to improve search suggestions.
I have implemented a suggestion feature on Iconfinder.com but instead of showing the most popular search terms, it shows the most popular tags ranked by the number of search results. This could probably be improved by ranking them based on their popularity.
Great post.
It is also interesting to see how search suggestions work on product sites, when there are more than a single content type to suggest (when they don't use search filter - or filter set to all).
We needed to create one like this on our music product, and we separated the suggestion list to:
Most relevant Artists (2 suggestions)
Most relevant Songs (4 suggestions)
Most relevant Albums (2 suggestions)
All sorted by popularity, and when no related suggestions we show no albums/artists/songs.


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Shuriken-Throwing blades of the Ninja. Translates as basically Shu-Hand-Ri-released-Ken-blade. Hand released blade. Shuriken dont have *sides* as such, but have points. There were certain Shuriken particular to a tradition of Ninpo, ect Togakure Ryu used the classic 4 pointed Shuriken that appeared to be nearly square. There are only roughly 3 or 4 true designs of flat shuriken, commerciality has created many more. There are also Bo shuriken, which are practical iron darts. Each tradition has a specific specification ect one style would have 15cm Bo shuriken, another tradition would have 18 cm. Contrary to popular belief, Shuriken were not coated in poison. There was no need-Poison was dangerous to carry on sharp objects and difficult to aquire, and usually did not work quicly. Rust was the most dangerous aspect of a Shuriken-as throwing objects they were intended to distract and slow down as a ninja escaped ect, and would not fataly wound an enemy, but could penetrate. If rust got into the cut, it could be lethal. It is ironic that you can buy Shuriken through postal order these days-they used to be fuedal ninja famalies most closest guarded secrets.
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In preparing for XDC2011 Chicago, the X.Org developers' summit that begins in just ten days that I have organized, the schedule is being worked out at the moment. One of the items that is set to be talked about at XDC2011 during the Nouveau driver discussion is TimeGraph. This is an open-source GPU command scheduler that sounds fairly interesting.
Is the command scheduler on the GPU something new & unique? Do nouveau and AMD's open source drivers currently have no scheduler? Do the proprietary drivers have such schedulers?
I like how Linux is shaping up to be a gaming platform. The article said it's for GPGPU, but users just want to be able to play games. Linux has a long way to go, but every step counts.
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This seems like it could be important when someone is running a GPGPU program in order to keep Compiz/KWin from stalling. Otherwise, I wouldn't think it would matter that much.
Right. From my understanding, this really has nothing at all to do with improving performance for single applications that are the sole consumer of the graphics hardware (e.g. a fullscreen game). It's about ensuring that two or more apps using the GPU simultaneously don't screw each other over in horrible ways. Without a proper scheduler, two apps running on the GPU may get only 10% of the performance they'd get by themselves (rather than the 50% you might expect) because each app is booting the others' computations and memory data out, causing a lot of thrashing and synchronization bottlenecks. The scheduler would allow them to get closer to that ideal 50% utilization each. Games benefit if other apps are trying to use the GPU while you're gaming, but otherwise this work is not likely to have any kind of impact on gaming.
(Granted, as more and more apps are using the GPU for general purpose processing, this is of course very important to ensuring that your games don't behave poorly when other apps are running.)
It could have improvements for single apps too; the scheduler could batch/reorder calls, remove duplicates/no-ops...
Cool hopefully it will be 1 step closer to being able to run FAH using the GPU.
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I hope it is not over-complicated.
Current FIFO-like scheduler in kernel is quite to simple right, but too much configurability, and too complex design will make it hard to merge this into mainline kernel. I hope they will somehow divide this into pieces (because even simple priority queuing and fair bandwidth sharing will help), and that changes will benefit all GPUs.
This is quite important for desktop user, as currently multiple applications, desktop and games uses OpenGL/OpenCL and other GPU acceleration in the same time.
Good point. I wonder whether that's something that would be best handled in the scheduler or the GL driver, though? Ideal ordering of the commands may be based on a lot of factors that the scheduler couldn't easily ascertain but which the code actually generating the commands could. Certainly beyond my level of driver programming knowledge.


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During the day, the gallery space is infused with an even natural glow and at night the interior lights shine out through the portholes on the roof.
The Städel Museum reopened to the public last weekend after 3 years of renovations and expansions by local Frankfurt firm, Schneider Schumacher. The renovation included an extension placed along the central axis, which works to reinstate the historic spatial arrangement. The central foyer and all the vertical axis circulations were renovated to provide wheelchair access. A new special exhibition area was also created on the ground floor, while the administration, auditorium, and library were relocated to the west wing.
The star of the renovation though is the new contemporary gallery located in the courtyard, and topped with a bulging green roof. The garden/roof is dotted with huge round skylights that flood the subterranean gallery with loads of natural daylight. During the day, the gallery space is infused with an even natural glow and at night the interior lights shine out through the portholes on the roof. Visitors can freely walk on the round skylights and lounge in the garden. In addition, the museum underwent energy efficiency upgrades and makes use of a large heat storage capacity to create an optimal room climate with minimal energy consumption. As the jury noted in their citation, "Frankfurt is given not only a distinctive and unique exhibition space, but a state of the art green building too."
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Very impressive results regarding the installation of a skylight inside the museum. Great design also the construction of materials, I really love to check this out.
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Does anyone know if this system is any good? I've been looking for a home theatre in this price range, so if you have other recommendations around $300, please let me know.
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Can anyone suggest a receiver to replace the receiver that came with my Onkyo HT-S770 system? The specs for my current system are below.
I would like to upgrade to one with HDMI connections (hopefully 3in 1 out) and as much output (though I know not all output claims are created equal). I would like to spend around this much or less and don't mind if it is refurbished. Thanks.
Rated #1 by consumer reports.
What was rated #1? I want to know so I can avoid it.
I think this system offers a great bang for the buck, at this price you really can't go wrong. A word of advice, if you are considering this unit, I would recommend that you try to demo it at a store in your area before pulling the trigger. The box weighs over 100lbs and you have to pay the return freight if you're not satisified.
I think this system offers a great bang for the buck, at this price you really can't go wrong. A word of advice, if you are considering this unit, I would recommend that you try to demo it at a store in your area before pulling the trigger. The box weighs over 100lbs and you have to pay the return freight if you're not satisified.
Onkyo makes solid quality products. My parents bought an all-in-one system a few years back and that thing rocks. I don't know who makes their speakers, but they sound quite good.
Does anyone know if there is a wireless speaker kit that I can use for the rear speakers on this system?
#1, it is a bad idea to buy a stereo or HT system without listening to it first.
Only buy Onkyo receivers. Its speakers crap.
#10 is right, onkyo makes great rcvr but speakers are not so great. however at < $300 probably not too bad for the $$
I bought the older version on this kit 2 years ago and that day i found out how good music can sound. Onkyo makes the best receivers on the market and their TIB kits include real speakers That are hard to beat when it comes to sound. They move alot of air. The problem most people have with these systems is that the speakers are large. They are hard to hide in your living room. I am in the process of replacing mine with built in speakers that don't sound as good but look better. Anyone that says that these speakers are crap prabably doesn't own them. Just don't expect to hide them. I have yet to see wire less speakers that are any good but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
it's the third on the list, click on it for the full review, it's a review by someone credible.
It's a decent system, but keep in mind that the HDMI inputs on the receiver are pass-thru's only -- meaning you will have to hook up an audio source to have sound. I was a little disappointed by this, but you can't really expect everything from a system that retails for less than $500.
This refurb model seems to be available for under $300 from several resellers on Froogle.
i bought this brand new for about $350.. great system for a great price.
this price is not too bad.... but i rather by JBL speakers.
yea, speakers aren't that great
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Jennifer Fulwiler wrote an extraordinary piece called Why I Lost Faith in the Pro-Choice Movement. It's extraordinary not because she explains how she moved from being pro-abortion to being pro-life, although that is worth the read, but because she describes the one key morality warping difference between the two sides. It's the key assumption that creates a poison tree from which the whole pro-abortion mentality flows.
I was looking through a Time magazine article whose infograph cited data from the Guttmacher Institute about the most common reasons women have abortions. It immediately struck me that none of the factors on the list were conditions that we tell women to consider before engaging in sexual activity. Don't have the money to raise a child? Don't think your boyfriend would be a good father? Don't feel ready to be a mother? Women were never encouraged to consider these factors before they had sex; only before they had a baby.
The fundamental truth of the pro-choice movement, from which all of its tenets flow, is that sex does not have to have life-altering consequences. I suddenly saw that it was the struggle to uphold this "truth" that led to all the shady dealings, all the fear of information, all the mental gymnastics that I'd observed. For example:
–> If it is true that sex does not have to have life-altering consequences, then life within the womb cannot be human. Otherwise, when your contraception fails or you otherwise end up with an unplanned pregnancy, you just became a parent, and that truth was proven false.
–> If it is true that sex does not have to have life-altering consequences, then people should be able to engage in sexual activity as they see fit, without giving a second thought to parenthood. And if it true that it is morally acceptable for people to engage in sexual activity without giving a second thought to parenthood, then abortion must be okay. Contraception has abysmal actual use effectiveness rates, especially when taken over the long term. Combine that with the fact that the contraceptive mentality tells women to go ahead and engage in the act that creates babies, even if they feel certain that they're in no position to have a baby, and you see how women would feel trapped, and think that their only way out is through the doors of their local abortion mill.
Over the years I'd heard many pro-lifers say things along the lines of, "If you're engaging in the act that creates babies, you might create a baby; if you are absolutely certain that you're not ready to have a baby, avoid the act that creates babies." The pro-choice movement dismissed such statements, often sneeringly, as being overly simplistic and even oppressive. Yet is it not true?
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn once wrote, "It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions" — and that's very true. If a woman gets herself in a fix, she will do what she has to do to get out of it, and then backwards rationalize. The same goes for a man, a couple, a group of people, or a country.
If you start with the assumption that you can have sex with whomever you like without any potential life-altering consequences, you're probably going to be fine with killing babies — at least on the surface. Deep down in your heart, where you know that you murdered your own child, it may not be so pretty.
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It kind of sucks that the older GPUs don't support the new formats. I wonder if something like that could be implemented with CUDA?
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The NVIDIA 190.xx driver series already delivers on OpenGL 3.2 support and other new features, but continuing on with beta releases, NVIDIA's Linux engineers have released a new beta (v190.32) that brings a few more features. The NVIDIA 190.32 beta was just released in time for the weekend and one of the two prominent new features is now support for controlling the GPU's fan speed from within their Linux driver. This fan speed control support for NVIDIA graphics cards is exposed through the NV-CONTROL extension with CoolBits. The other big improvement with the NVIDIA 190.32 Linux driver comes down to yet another batch of VDPAU enhancements...
It kind of sucks that the older GPUs don't support the new formats. I wonder if something like that could be implemented with CUDA?
They are not implemented yet..... will they are implement with "not so old" NVIDIA hardware...? Good question. That still better than ATI with their driver.
Wait & see !
Those are all mobile cards listed (right?) so could they just be testing it on those first and then moving to the rest of the 9-series and up?
Did they even change the video decoding hardware between the G9x chips and the 200-series cards?
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The level of support of the different formats is quite fragmented with the NVIDIA cards. *IF* we see anything in the near future with AMDs video acceleration hopefully it's not as fragmented as NVIDIA's is. Definitely does not make things easy!
I would expect all the same-series branded GPUs to have the same features as each other
Those class C chips are really too rare. Also you can not buy em as PCI-E card, so very expensive if you want to test em.


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The music industry has spawned many extraordinary byproducts - political movements, global awareness of social issues, advances in technology, etc. One of the least known however (and rightly so) must be the range of industry magazines that document the technical side of touring and entertainment. There are exceptions but generally these rank as possibly the dullest publications in the history of the written word. One of these 'Total Production' was hosting its annual awards ceremony this evening at the fabulous Novotel West in Hammersmith. Its a long time since Id been to one of these events but the publisher had invited me to come and Id agreed. Come the day I wasnt sure if this was a good call, but colour me surprised having sat on the tube wondering what the hell I was doing showing up to some wretched evening with the usual shower of losers, I walk into said Novotel and the first two people I see are Michael Tait (builder of U2s stages since 1983) and Roy Bennett (international show design deity), both of whom had flown in from the U.S. Clearly the fleet was in and there were rakes of people there whom I know and love dearly. Smasher, the Vertigo tours video director, had Eurostarred in from Belgium, but the surprise of the night was running into Pete, a sound engineer with whom I did two Stiff Little Fingers tours around 1981. We became quite pally on the tour (when youre doing 35 club dates in France in 36 days its sink-or-swim) and I havent seen him since, though remarkably, with the exception perhaps of marginally fewer teeth, he was entirely unchanged. It all turned out to be shockingly A-list, which frankly is a little depressing as I would hate people to start taking these events seriously, but I could see that this had potential to be a very enjoyable night. It was a sit down dinner for over 500 roadies and I found myself seated next to Harvey Goldsmith and Bob Geldof, neither of whom Id properly met before but they were both very engaging. Geldof is every bit as entertaining dinner party company as youd imagine and I particularly enjoyed hearing his take on some of the political jaunts, as I only ever hear Bonos side of the stories. Bobs a little more...direct, perhaps.
The giving of awards began at midnight or so by which time all present were howling drunk. Geldof and Goldsmith received an award for Live 8 being the event of the year and responded with the required speeches. Bobs speech was both hilarious and uplifting as he slagged off the 'Novotel fucking West', ('was there a problem with the Dorchester?') but went on to thank everyone in the room whom he maintained, however indirectly, was part of the success of Live 8. No other industry, he reminded us, can do this, let alone pull off something of this scale and significance in six weeks. The movie industry couldnt, the banking community couldnt and the political fraternity wouldnt know where to start. Theres something about the live music industry which inspires those within it to just get on and do whatever needs doing. And so say all of us.
I was named Lighting Designer of the Year which was gratifying though I have reservations about the whole concept. The last thing we want in this industry is people being pitched against each other. As Bono always says, its only when they numbered the charts from 1 to 10 that music turned into a competition. Better surely to celebrate all of the good stuff and leave it at that.
Inevitably found myself pissed and freezing on a deserted Hammersmith Broadway at 4am clutching a large perspex award with not even the smell of a taxi for miles. Eventually found a night bus to take me back to the West End in the company of kebab wielding inebriates, an experience which I actually quite enjoyed in a perverse kind of a way. Very possibly the managing to not get mugged aspect helped me see it as an interesting societal experiment for a Monday night rather than merely running the gauntlet. I bet Gwyneth Paltrow always gets the night bus home from the Oscars for the same reason.
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I haven't read any of Richard's written works, but I have enjoyed his onscreen material immensely over the years. The Incredible Shrinking Man has been a favourite since I was small.
My thoughts are with his family and friends. Another one gone.
I never read any of his work but I think I've seen everything of his that was adapted to movies or the stuff he personally wrote for the screen.
A great and influential figure in the world of sci-fi, movies, and pop culture.
Good journey to you into the Twilight Zone! He IS Legend.
I had to look up what he did. Some interesting stuff. My thoughts go out to his family.
Very sad.
Next to Ray Bradbury, one of the most infuential SF writers of the last century.
Rest in peace, sir.
Anyone who has seen his Twilight Zone episodes or read his short stories and novels knows what a creative, wonderful writer this man was. He was one of the greatest voices in science fiction ever. "I am legend" indeed. You are a legend Richard. Thank for your life's work. You will definitely be missed.