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5 Free Disk Imaging/Cloning Softwares
When we talk about disk imaging or cloning no doubt Norton Ghost is the best software. Norton Ghost is almost 13 years old software providing Imaging solutions from small to large enterprise. But the license of Norton Ghost is almost of $70. Companies can easily buy the license but if you are home users you surely don't want to spend $70 on Disk Imaging/Cloning software. So, here is solution, there are many Disk Imaging/Cloning software available for free to Home Users. I have gathered a list of 5 Free Disk Imaging/Cloning or Backup softwares. Try these softwares to create images/clones of you disk or to Backup your data. But i generally prefer Macrium Reflect Free Edition because it is the Best Free Disk Imaging software.
1) Macrium Reflect Free Edition:
Absolutely free! No strings! The only free XP, Vista and Windows 7 compatible disk imaging software with BartPE and Linux based recovery options.
* Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS).
* Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
* Built in scheduler.
* 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
* Industry leading compression levels and speed.
* Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB in size!
* Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
* HTML log files.
2) EASEUS Disk Copy Free Advanced Edition:
EASEUS Disk Copy is a potent freeware providing sector-by-sector disk/partition clone regardless of your operating system, file systems and partition scheme by creating a bootable CD. The sector-by-sector method assures you a copy 100% identical to the original. Disk Copy can be used for copy, cloning, or upgrading your original small hard drive to a new larger drive. Simply speaking, it can copy anything from the old hard drive including the deleted, lost files and inaccessible data. So, the freeware is a perfect tool for Data Recovery Wizard to recover files from a backup disk.
3) DriveImage XML:
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.
Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup! Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML is now faster than ever, offering two different compression levels.
DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista and Windows 7 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.
4) Paragon Backup & Recovery:
A disaster recovery tool for stand-alone Windows-based PCs. Combining all the existing backup techniques and exclusive recovery environments, this latest edition satisfies the needs of even the most demanding user and is simply the most powerful free backup tool available today.
5) Second Backup Free Edition:
Second Backup is an easy-to-use file backup and sync tool, it can archive multiple versions backed up copies for different time (for example, the first copy for Monday is 'Backup_1′, the second copy for Tuesday is 'Backup_2′). Automatically backup your important data (includes opening/using files and folders) to external hard drive, USB disk, network, and other storage device.


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ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia rookie goalkeeper Jill Maloney played all three games in goal as her Republic of Ireland U-19 team competed in the UEFA Championships Elite Phase last week in Amsterdam. The Alpharetta native helped the squad into this round by winning its group in the first round of qualifying back in October.
Maloney and Ireland went 2-1 on the trip after entering as the lowest seed in their group, posting a 1-0 win over Italy and a 2-1 win over the Netherlands before suffering a 2-0 loss to Sweden and just narrowly missing out on the Championship round.
Maloney is a mid-year enrollee with the Bulldogs, having joined the team in January following early graduation. An Alpharetta, Ga., product, Maloney was a standout at Alpharetta High School and played club soccer with GSA Phoenix. She also has W-League experience as the back-up keeper for the Atlanta Silverbacks in 2012.
Maloney had participated in 38 international competitions in 24 countries at the time of her signing with the Bulldogs. Additionally, she has played against four English Premier League professional teams and earned her first cap against England in the U-19 Tri-Nations Tournament in 2010, at just 15 years old. With the U.S. National Team, Maloney participated in Training Center events in 2010 and 2011, and was a member of the U-15 National Team Player Pool in 2010 and the U-14 Girls National Team in 2009.

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I think that there must be hundreds of books that treat the Lebesgue integral, but I expect that very few of them are as readable as David Bressoud's A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration. Several times, as I wrote this review, I found myself picking up the book, opening to a random page and reading — and continuing to read because I was captured by the story and I wanted to see what came next. How many analysis books do you know that invite this kind of browsing? Körner's Fourier Analysis, a favorite of mine, is one that comes to mind, and I'm sure there are a few others — but not very many.
Why does the book have this appeal? For one thing, it is written with clarity and directness, one scholar to another. For another, it is historically savvy, sensitive to the context of the developments it describes. The author says, "…this is a textbook informed by history, attempting to communicate the motivations, uncertainties, and difficulties surrounding the key concepts." We get a real sense of the challenges faced by Lebesgue, Riemann, Weierstrass, Cantor and a host of others. Pedagogically this makes a lot of sense. The author, paraphrasing Luzin, puts it this way: "…the ideas, methods, definitions, and theorems of this study are neither natural nor intuitive." He goes on to say, "Here, more than anywhere else in the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate curriculum, the historical context is critical to developing an understanding of the mathematics."
The author's approach focuses on what he calls the five big questions:
The first chapter describes what was known or believed about these questions by 1850, and the rest of the book moves on from there. We see — we participate in — the development of the Lebesgue integral on the real line up through the dominated convergence theorem and Egorov's theorem. But this is not by any means a typical theorem-proof-remark approach. At several points in the historical process we stop with the author to review our progress on the five big questions. We take a hard look at the deficiencies of the Riemann integral, examine what we've perhaps forgotten about the amazing complexity of the real numbers, and see what difficulties nowhere dense sets can cause with the fundamental theorem of calculus. The final two chapters bring us to a conclusion with Lebesgue's fundamental theorem of calculus and the convergence of Fourier series.
What I like best about Bressoud's treatment is the way he conveys the sense that real analysis, and the Lebesgue theory in particular, developed in time, in fits and starts, with contributions from real people who sometimes made mistakes. We also see real analysis as more cohesive and less driven by bizarre counterexamples (as it must sometimes seem to students). Neither does Bressoud avoid the anomalies — after all, they were a driving force in the search for a better integral. The treatment of the interplay between analysis and set theory on the real line is important and is handled very well here. I particularly liked the discussion of non-measurable sets, which faces head-on issues related to the axiom of choice, offering illumination instead of mystification.
Together with the author's earlier A Radical Approach to Real Analysis, this book offers a strong and approachable introduction to analysis. The current book is aimed at advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students. It does not strive for the same breadth as other treatments of graduate-level real analysis; the development is limited to the real line and several of the usual topics from functional analysis are not discussed. Nonetheless, this would have been my first choice as a student.
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1. Introduction; 2. The Riemann integral; 3. Explorations of R; 4. Nowhere dense sets and the problem with the fundamental theorem of calculus; 5. The development of measure theory; 6. The Lebesgue integral; 7. The fundamental theorem of calculus; 8. Fourier series; 9. Epilogue. A. Other directions; B. Hints to selected exercises.


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Nonlinear dynamical systems theory, rigid body dynamics, fluid dynamics, coherent structures, flow mixing, aerodynamic separation, Hamiltonian systems, invariant manifolds, singular perturbation theory
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1999-2001 Associate Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
2001-2005 Associate Professsor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2005-2007 Professsor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2006-2007 Vice President and Head of Budapest Mathematical Modeling Center, Morgan Stanley
2007-2009 Executive Director and Head of Budapest Mathematical Modeling Center; regional co-head of IDEAS, Morgan Stanley
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2009- Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Professor, McGill Univeristy
• J. Manning Assistant Professor 1996• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics 1997• Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Fellow 2003• Doctor of Science, Hungarian Academy of Science 2005• ASME Special Achievement Award in Applied Mechanics 2005• SCI Institute Distinguished Lecturer, University of Utah 2007• Plenary lecture, SIAM Conf. on Applications of Dynamical. Systems 2007• Honorary Doctorate, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2008
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This is among the best books I have ever read. It has everything I love in a book - excellent writing, a connection to history, a well-crafted plot, and bigger-than-life themes. I loved every page.
The four stars are for the first two parts of this book. I loved, loved his childhood in Mexico, the writing was so evocative. I loved the Frida Kahlo story line. Once the main character goes back to the US it becomes far less interesting. But when it was good it was very very good.
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Couldn't finish it the second time either.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this novel, as I did not know how gifted a writer Barbara Kingsolver can be. Yes, I am late to discover her talent! Set half in Mexico and half in the USA, with the main character whose little seen father is American and whose mother is Mexican and always looking for a wealthy man to catch, this novel delves into fascinating history of Mexico and the Mayans, and the USA and Mexico from the 1920s to the 1950s. Taken to Mexico by his mother, Harrison Shepherd is immersed in the culture of Mexico and the Mayans. My favorite chapters deal with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and how Shepherd joins their household as a servant and friend. The Riveras sheltered Leon Trotsky and I learned a lot about Trotsky including how Stalin sent assassins to kill him. I think Kingsolver did excellent research on these artists and captured their personalities well. Shepherd becomes a noted writer, develops a long lasting friendship with his assistant Violet Brown, and unfortunately catches the attention of the dreaded House Unamerican Activities committee.
A bit bogged down with politics and history, but still a good read. The first part takes place in Mexico in the 1930s, with vibrant descriptions of the landscape and the lives of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky. The second part plays out in 1950s, small-town America, where the reclusive narrator, who happens to be a writer and gay, gains notoriety as an author whose fans turn on him for his political views. It's not surprising that he gets blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee due to his communist connections. Although Kingsolver gets a little preachy by working in the internment of Japanese American, racism, and McCarthyism, she succeeds in prompting us to realize that the spirits of J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy are still very much alive and living in America.
Kingsolver, at the top of her craft, builds pyramids of language and scenic highways through mountains of facts, while plotting a mostly tight course through the fictional premises that convey her writing's social conscience. In this book, pacifism, social justice, and free expression are the standards she shoulders.
"The Lacuna" can be enjoyed sheerly for the music of its passages on nature, archaeology, food and friendship; or for its portraits of real and invented people; or for its harmonious choir of voices. But the fuller value of Kingsolver's novel lies in its call to conscience and connection.
Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, "The Lacuna," is the most mature and ambitious one she's written during her celebrated 20-year career, but it's also her most demanding. Spanning three decades, the story comes to us as a collection of diary entries and memoir, punctuated by archivist's notes, newspaper articles, letters, book reviews and congressional transcripts involving some of the 20th century's most radical figures. The sweetness that leavened "The Bean Trees" and "Animal Dreams" has been burned away, and the lurid melodrama that enlivened "The Poisonwood Bible" has been replaced by the cool realism of a narrator who feels permanently alienated from the world.
A serious problem with The Lacuna is telegraphed in its striking title. "Lacuna" refers to a gap or something that's absent. The motif of the crucial missing piece runs throughout the novel, but the thing unintentionally missing here is an engaging main character. Our hero, Harrison Shepherd, is an accidental onlooker to history buffeted by other people's plans and passions.
Narrated in the form of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings, the novel takes a while to get going, but once it does, it achieves a rare dramatic power that reaches its emotional peak when Harrison wittily and eloquently defends himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee (on the panel is a young Dick Nixon). Employed by the American imagination, is how one character describes Harrison, a term that could apply equally to Kingsolver as she masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist.
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Tar Heels headed to Gainesville Regional
For his first three years at North Carolina, Parks Jordan's only concern when he watched the NCAA Tournament selection show was which national seed the Tar Heels would receive.
The senior has an entirely different experience on Monday. With an RPI of 42 and its most losses since 2001, UNC wasn't even a lock to make the 64-team field.
Eventually, it was announced that the program would be making its 13th straight NCAA Tournament appearance – but it was a close call.
The Tar Heels (34-25) earned the No. 3 regional seed in the Gainesville Regional and will face No. 2 Long Beach State (32-24) on Friday (1 p.m., ESPN3.com). No. 2 overall seed Florida (40-21), the host team, and CAA champion College of Charleston (41-17) are also in the regional.
"The majority of the team thought we would get in and thought we should get in," Jordan said. "It's a little nerve-wracking but once you hear your name it's a lot of weight off your shoulders and it's a good feeling right now."
The Tar Heels were one of the last four teams in the field according to the 10-person selection committee, which includes UNC executive associate athletic director Larry Gallo.
UNC has advanced to the College World Series in six of the last eight seasons, but in order to make it back they will have to start on the road for just the second time since 2006. The Tar Heels went to Oklahoma for regionals in 2010 and went 2-2, losing both games it played against the host Sooners.
"It's a different feeling but at the same time, you can't be a national seed every year," Jordan said. "We have had some rough patches this season, but at the same time all you want is a shot and that's we've got. Everyone's on equal ground now. It's a new season."
The Tar Heels went 2-2 this past week in the ACC Tournament, beating N.C. State in a play-in game and topping Maryland after the Terrapins had already clinched a spot in the title game, but losing to Florida State and Virginia.
UNC coach Mike Fox said that the competition in the ACC, which included four games each against national seeds Florida State and Virginia, will help the Tar Heels in a tough regional.
"I don't think in that regard our guys are going to be surprised by the caliber of teams we're going to be facing," Fox said.
The winner of the Gainesville Regional will play the winner of the Coral Gables Regional – which includes Miami, Texas Tech, Columbia and Bethune Cookman – for a spot in the College World Series.
UNC lost 2 of 3 at College of Charleston three months ago in its season-opening series. It has faced Long Beach State just once, in Chapel Hill in 1992, and it last played Florida in the 2005 Gainesville Regional (the Gators beat UNC en route to the College World Series)
Long Beach State finished 14-3 to land in the field for the first time since 2008, while College of Charleston is in the NCAAs for the sixth time in 11 years. Playing in a league that features 10 NCAA Tournament teams, the Gators won the SEC by two games and made the conference title game to earn the No. 2 national seed.
N.C. State, which had an RPI of 59, and No. 82 Duke were not selected for the tournament, which includes seven teams from the ACC – No. 3 overall seed Virginia, No. 5 overall seed Florida State, regional host Miami, ACC champion Georgia Tech, Maryland, UNC and Clemson, which was also one of the last four teams to make it in.
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The Subaru XV Crosstrek might be marketed as crossover, but that usually implies some sort of SUV with carlike attributes. In actuality, the Crosstrek is more like a car with SUV-like attributes. Much like Subaru has done in the past with its Outback model, the smaller XV Crosstrek hatchback features an elevated ride height, a more off-road-ready suspension and rugged looks.
As it's based on the regular Impreza hatchback, the XV comes with a four-cylinder "boxer" engine mated to an available continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). That combo delivers decent acceleration and above-average fuel economy. Add a nicely equipped passenger cabin and ample cargo capacity and you have a go-anywhere vehicle that should appeal to active outdoorsy types who might find Subaru's other offerings too pricey or thirsty.
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The Subaru XV Crosstrek is an all-new model for 2013. While Subaru's all-wheel-drive lineup has developed a reputation for being unflappable in the face of some truly nasty driving conditions, this variation of the Impreza takes things to another level in dicey situations both on- and off-road.
The XV Crosstrek is offered in two trim levels, the entry-level Premium and top-of-the-line Limited. The base model comes standard with a number of desirable features including 17-inch alloy wheels, roof rack side rails, heated front seats, Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity, and an iPod interface. The Limited adds automatic climate control, leather upholstery, rearview camera and a premium audio system with an upgraded touchscreen interface. Major options include a sunroof and a touchscreen navigation system.
Under the hood, the Subaru Crosstrek gets a 2.0-liter horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine that produces 148 horsepower and 145 pound-feet of torque. Transmission choices include a five-speed manual and a CVT. All-wheel drive is standard.
The interior is pretty minimalist in terms of design, but the overall quality of the materials is high. Front and rear passengers enjoy a good amount of head- and legroom, and the standard heated seats are a nice touch given Subaru's popularity in cold-weather states. Folding down both sides of the 60/40-split rear seatbacks creates a flat load floor and 51.9 cubic feet of cargo space, a number that's on par with compact hatchbacks rather than small SUVs.
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And such a band did come to pass, having the given appellation Nile, so named for the brackish river that snakes its way through Egypt.
And it was good.
Nile is a four-man operation from the South that, seemingly tired of death metal's usual array of corpse wolves, grave-robbers and syphilitic barbarians, instead wallows in the misery of Ramses' wake ("I crush the skulls of the dying and sever the hands of the slain/I, Ramses/builder of temples, usurper of monuments/slayer of Hittites/bringer of war") or pestilential curses ("A cesspool breeding the unclean/hordes of locusts/fiends of the south winds/Cleanse the earth from the impure").
But just as those early intrepid archaeologists opened 5,000-year-old tombs only to face the mummy's curse, it seems that this band has stirred some sacred wrath of its own. What else could describe the huge festering boil that appeared on the ass of the group's roadie during one tour? The pustule grew and grew until it finally exploded, sending "icky, icky" stuff throughout the van. The smell was disgusting. "We had to sell that van a couple days later," says singer/guitarist Carl Sanders from his home in Greenville. "It was totally unbearable."
Man, as they used to say in ancient Babylonia, "gnnnnarrrrrly!"
"Well, the story gets even more bizarre," Sanders continues. "It turns out, when he got home he went to the doctor because it was coming back on him again. It turns out it really wasn't a boil. He was growing a tail!"
This story, told with such deadpan sincerity, might just be true. It turns out that every human being has the ability to grow tails and, in fact, has a vestigial nub at the base of his or her spine -- we just lost the genes that made it grow somewhere between monkeytime and now. But for one out of every couple million of us, the tail does start to develop. Surgery can usually correct it. But why the explosion and the smell?
"A lot of times when you're on tour, you're not bathing a whole lot," Sanders explains. "You're driving down the road for twelve hours a day." Lack of showers, sweat, filthy clothes, mummy's curse ... these things add up.
Nile recently released its third full-length album, In Their Darkened Shrines, raising its status as the most buzzworthy band in a genre that's been glutted with sound-alikes for a while now. Most people brushed Nile off at first, judging it yet another gimmicky doom band. But for real aficionados of the form, it became apparent that Nile had chops. They bring their guitars down to A, creating a sort of modal tuning that lends a certain darkness to the proceedings. Not only do they throw in unique flourishes with the Dobro, sitar, waterphone and Tibetan chants, beneath the loud onslaught exist ornate metal symphonies, interesting time changes and yes, even guitar solos.
"I think people tend not to appreciate the amount of work that goes into writing three minutes of death metal," says Sanders. "Sure, it's a noise -- you put it on, and it really is that thing that your parents don't want to hear. To the uninitiated, it's a bunch of noise. But to me it's kind of like avant-garde jazz, where it might sound like noise at first but, as your ears and your mind become accustomed to what it's doing, you start to understand that it's not noise anymore."
For those initiated ears, Nile is the shit; Shrines popped up on many a 2002 top-ten list. "It seems fair to say that they are on the verge of surpassing Cannibal Corpse as the genre's number one band," opined the Music Street Journal.
Mario Perotti, proprietor of San Jose-based metal site Powerslave.com, says there's a simple reason Nile is so hot: pure, technical, brutal death metal. "Each song goes through its own journey, but it's still burly as hell," he says.
But the band also gets attention from the unlikeliest of listeners: college professors. "I get letters, e-mails," Sanders says. "I guess kids in classes start mentioning whatever we do and it becomes an annoyance to the teacher and so they end up checking us out. I get plenty of letters like 'I can't believe you wrote about this completely obscure thing that even I hardly know about' or 'I'm really glad someone is trying to do something worthwhile with the death-metal idiom.'" The band has even been asked to appear at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London.
The minutiae that all these dirt-diggin' nerds are noticing is the result of Sanders' armchair obsession with Egyptian history. That, fused with the fixation on American weird-fiction godfather H.P. Lovecraft, is what he uses to create what he calls his band's "ithyphallic metal." "To be ithyphallic is to be portrayed in a statue form with a massive erect penis," says Sanders, "a godlike erection." Well that certainly fits into metal's glorious bulge-centric history. "Yes," he chuckles, "we're just embracing some really old traditions. In fact, there's nothing new under the sun."
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Well, we're still here: and so are more than a couple singers who really don't deserve to be. So far this season has brought us plagues, pageant moms, tragic falsettos, busted criminals and a couple good songs; you'd think the ratings might reflect what sounds like interesting drama. But alas, this is a singing competition and as the singing has often blowed thus far, the stats on viewership are waaay down. Once the most popular damn thing on TV, Idol has slipped steadily for the last 5 seasons to an all-time low, and do you know why? Well, a lot of reasons, but if you've been following my reviews or the show itself these recent years you'd know that it's become a pageantry of commercialism, false drama and produced moments.
So, where has tonight brought us? Well, there's more than a couple kiddos due to be up on the block as far as last night's sad songs are concerned and we have some performances by Chris Daughtry, Demi Lovato and (wait for it) "SNL" crash and burn tradegy Lana Del Rey– just how rich IS this bitch's dad? I'm here tonight to hopefully see the reinstatement of: "Sing For Your Life" if the judges decide to hear out the least voted for's one more time and for sure to see someone I can't stand going home: please be Shannon or Heejun. Well, let's get to it and see how tonight goes!
If you're a regular Homorazzi reader (thank you!), you'll know that Rihanna having recently collaborated with Chris Brown created quite the stir on our site, with readers and writers alike having very different opinions. It was also very interesting to read the differences in opinion between gays, straights, men, women, victims of domestic violence, and non-victims.
Anyway, Rihanna chatted with Ryan Seacrest live this morning and finally addressed why she chose to work with Chris Brown on "Birthday Cake". Before they got to that, they chatted about where she is, what color her hair is at the moment, Battleship, and fashion. Find out what she had to say about working with Chris Brown below.
I've also included the full interview below should you desire to listen to it.
I am getting sadder and sadder with this show. And, while me saying that seems to prompt many out there to cry out: "Why the hell do you still watch it?", well, honestly, because I'm hoping against hope that something might change. Maybe I'm waiting for enough of the still-there crap singers (Shannon and DeAndre) to go, or maybe I'm waiting for the sponsors to threaten to pull advertisement unless British perv and autonomous train wreck Nigel Lythgoe is fired as Executive Producer. Either way, I've put in way too many seasons into this show to quit now so you're gonna have to keep dealing with my rants.
Today's show was at least a touch spicier with the dramatic expulsion of one of the (worst) singers, Jermaine Jones, for a very checkered, criminal past- but even that was ruined by the show itself as it manages to ruin every aspect of reality left in this thing we call American Idol. Regarding the rest of the kids, well it was god-awful Birthday Week as they sang tunes from the year of their birth (puke) and man oh man did most of them screw that assignment up. I'm not sure if Idol isn't shelling out enough dough to get real options for these contestants or what, but more that half of tonight was unrecognizable. That said, there were a few goodies, as some of the real talent on this show still manages to shine in this mire of blech. Out of protest for the new discovery from last week that the JUDGES control who goes ultimately every week (why does American even vote!?), I'm not referring to the idiot panel of 3's opinions this week and who the hell cares what Will-I-Am thinks? Here goes!
Click through to see the performances, the "BUSTING" of Jermaine and read my review of the night!
RIGHT AWAY I have to ask: Ryan Seacrest, who the hell did your makeup tonight because you look like Ronald McDonald with that foot height of hair and pancake pale makeup. Second, holy crap, how awful was their group performance? Singing god knows what, the Top 13 prove that just because you slap kids (some) with talent together doesn't mean you necessarily have the making of an actual band or even a real performance. Their vocals and tones were all over the place and honestly the only two I didn't want to kill was Elise and Phil because their undeniable voices stood out as unique and poignant where the others got lost in the shuffle. What a terrible start.
As you can see, I'm no nonsense today. As Idol attempts to tell us we're in for a "real treat" as Boys are pitted vs. Girls only to have the judges ultimately decide who goes home, what we ACTUALLY are getting is Exec Producer (I know, I know, I won't leave him alone- but for good reason), Nigel Lythgoe saying "Hey America, we don't want you in charge anymore." It's ridiculous how silently they've passed off this massive change in the format of this show. American Idol is suppose to be about America's next Idol as chosen BY America. But, nope. With the rise of sites like "Vote for the Worst" et al., it's clear to see that the producers don't want to risk good TV performers going home (you know Nigel is even American… she doesn't even go to this school!). Please note that I did not say the BEST performers but rather the best TV performers. That's why people like Brielle and her pageant mom get to have more screen time than they ever ever deserve. But, that rant over: let's get to the night's results!
Click through to find out who goes home and read my review of the night
Auditions, Group Week and Boys vs. Girl all over, we're finally at what
Randy, Steven and Jennifer *cough*Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe*cough* have decided are the TOP 13 of thousands and thousands of contenders, and all I can say is that they better ba-ring it cause there's been more than just a few true talents knocked to the wayside these past weeks. Still, while many of my favourite pics have made it this far into the game (see Phil Phils, Erika, Elise and Skylar), there are MORE than enough WTFs entries still in this game (see DeAndre , Shannon and Jermaine) that prove Idol is not strictly talent but includes a dollop of pandering and commercialism to boot. Still, I have faith and I hope it all comes together tonight as the remaining boys and girls take on some pretty damn big names in the industry.
So, yes, Stevie Wonder has had many a hits (I actually have no clue, I'm sure as we watch tonight I'll come to realize that he's written way more than I ever knew) but the real attraction of tonight's episode is the girls as they take on the recently passed and nearly impossible to match Whitney Houston. Having recently re-watched "The Bodyguard", I'm well-aware of just how epic and huge the songs of Miss Houston are and these girls are gonna have their work cut out for them. Seeing it a bit as a double-edged sword as these covers are going to get them a ton of attention but also that there's SO much to live up to with Whitney's extremely recent death, I'm betting the ladies are either going to shine or crash and burn. As far as the boys are concerned, I only really care about my bf Phil and a bit Colton, unless the rest can start manning up their talent and prove they have the chops a lot of these women do. Well, enough rambling, let's get to the songs!
Click through to see the performances and read my review of the night!
Well, it was the fullest week of Idol we're gonna get this year: 6 hours of singing, screeching, tears and tragedy and what do we have to show for it? Well, a Top 13 for one, and a whole lotta kids that needed to go are GONE. Tonight's result show is the culmination of over two dozen final audition attempts by the Top 25 remaining boys and girls in the competition as they vie for America's attention during this pinnacle week where the chosen few get halved.
If you've been following my recaps this week you'll know that both myself and many of the readers have been incensed at the over-production of grand master exec producer Nigel Lythgoe, annoyed with spurious choreography and showboating, shocked by song doubling and utterly disappointed in the lack of effort and talent put forth by a group of singers titled "America's Best" by our trio of judges. FINE, yes, there were a few good ones: Phil Phils, Jessica, Erika and Elise (oh, how I've forsaken my gender), but overall the ridiculousness far outweighed the brilliance. But, never fear: Elimination Day is here!! I've been banking on America to heed my desperate call to cull of so much crap we've seen these past few days to what will hopefully be the TOP 13 this show has to offer. So, let's get to what happened on tonight's live episode!
THE AUDITIONS ARE FINALLY OVER!! Well, after this final review that is. Typically, the loyal viewers of Idol fall into two groups: those who like the try outs and those who prefer to jump on the wagon once the messes have been sorted. I have always been one to like finding the stars early, before the producers, stylists and makeup men and ladies take hold and change everything about them. So, as we hit the final audition city of St. Louis, I have high hopes that maybe SOMEthing worth a snuff will show up.
A pretty established city for talent and performers who do well enough in past seasons, I'm slightly optimistic going into this but considering the awfulness of the last 6 cities (save for Galveston), that optimism is VERY limited. So, let's take a deep breath, take a few shots of whatever says at least 80 proof and dive into this the final night of what might go down as the lamest series of auds ever recorded.
Click through to read the rest of my review and see the bigger and badder clips
Oh Idol, what a roller-coaster of lameness and slight peaks of excitement you've sent us on thus far. Thank FRIG for Galveston, Texas last week cause otherwise my coverage today might have been a lot more disenchanted and in my world that equals complete and utter bitchiness. So, for the talent's sake, it's a lot better I go into this with an open mind… trust me.
I'm slightly more excited this time around that they're auditioning so close to my hometown in a great city I love to party in… though, once again they choose a slightly no-starter town and state: Portland, Oregon. Yes, the land of Dr. Kevorkian and a mecca to married lesbians everywhere, Portland has many an interesting thing to offer but an abundance of star-worthy talent isn't typically what comes to one's mind: at least not mine. Still, I'm banking on this whole Texas episode thing as being a turnaround moment for this show and hoping against hope that we see something valuable in this "jewel" of the northwest as Ryan so scriptedly puts it.
Click through to read the rest of my review and see some of the highlights from the episode!


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NVIDIA Announces New GTX 680M, The World's Fastest Mobile GPU
Subject: Mobile | June 4, 2012 - 08:15 PM | Matt Smith
Tagged: nvidia, laptop, gtx, gpu
NVIDIA recently revised its notebook GPU lineup, but there was one part notably missing – the GTX 680M. The x80M part has been NVIDIA's fastest mobile GPU in each generation for some time, so we knew that a GTX 680M was coming. We had only two questions. When? And what architecture will it be based on?
Now we have the answers to both questions. NVIDIA has pulled the wraps off its flagship component. The new GTX 680M is a Kepler component (unlike other high-end 600 series parts, which are Fermi) packing 1344 CUDA cores and up to 4GB of GDDR5.
The green team is laying out some big numbers in its press release by claiming that performance is up about 80% in comparison to the GTX 580M and 30% in comparison to the AMD Radeon 7970M. NVIDIA also says that the new part will play every game available today at 1080p with maximum in-game settings.
Other selling points include NVIDIA's FXAA and TXAA, Adaptive V-Sync, Optimus, SLI, PhysX and 3D Vision. The company is clearly making a strong effort to distinguish itself from AMD not only with performance but also with features.
Five launch laptops were announced. They include the Alienware M17x and M18x, the MSI GT70 and the Clevo P150EM/P170EM. The Clevo units are the chassis used by companies like Maingear, Origin and other boutiques. Only the M18x has confirmed SLI support and only the M17x has confirmed 3D Vision support. Pricing has not been announced.
We will of course be looking to obtain a review unit so we can see if the GTX 680M is as mightly as claimed.
Podcast #204 - ioSafe soloPRO and Synology DiskStation 212+, NVIDIA news, the OCZ Agility 4 and more!
Subject: General Tech | May 31, 2012 - 03:53 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, synology, ssd, podcast, ocz, nvidia, iosafe, diskstation, agility4
PC Perspective Podcast #204 - 05/31/2012
Join us this week as we talk about the ioSafe soloPRO and Synology DiskStation 212+, NVIDIA news, the OCZ Agility 4 and more!
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- 0:08:40 ioSafe SoloPRO and Synology DiskStation 212+ Review - Disaster-proof Networked Storage
- 0:18:38 Tegra 3 to see 30 devices this year, LTE support
- 0:20:25 NVIDIA claims GTX 680 sales outpacing GTX 580 sales
- 0:27:30 NVIDIA shows ASUS Zenbook Prime UX32VD
- 0:29:50 HP has 27,000 too many employees
- 0:32:00 Dell leaks Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet
- 0:34:40 Dell promotes their "Copper" ARM-based servers
- 0:39:30 OCZ Launches Agility 4 based on Indilinx Everest 2
- 0:51:20 Intel shows you how to make a processor
- 0:54:00 Time for a GPU Stock Update?
- 0:57:00 Crysis 2 back on Steam? EA and Valve make up?
- 0:59:00 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: Corsair Vengeance 2000 Wireless headset $149
- Jeremy: The best way to blow $10,000
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Leaking low end Kepler specs
Subject: General Tech | May 31, 2012 - 01:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: leak, nvidia, kepler, gt610, gt620, gt640
We will have to wait until the scheduled Computex release for verification but for right now Kitguru seems to have an idea of just what the lower end of NVIDIA's Kepler line will be like. They are not sure of the connectivity options, especially the number of displays a single card can manage but as far as the size of the memory interface, clock speeds and size of the cards Kitguru seems fairly certain they are at least close to the actual specs. Check out the whole list they published here.
"So far, nVidia's launch of the Kepler range has gone smoothly. The only real hiccups have come with stock and the re-branding for some of the old 5xx cards into the 610 and 620. With the low and high ends sorted, focus for Bryan Del Rizzo moves to the mid-range and those pesky 7000 cards hanging out below £100. KitGuru spies hang around outside nVidia's favourite KFC to see what can be overheard."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- One Of The New Valve Linux Employees Is... @ Phoronix
- Intel's Medfield finally tips up in Orange San Diego @ The Inquirer
- Boffins build all-silicon CNOT gate @ The Register
- Data logging directly to Google Docs (Google Drive) @ Hack a Day
- Samsung WB750 12.5 Megapixel BSI CMOS Sensor Wide-Angle Digital Camera Review @ ModSynergy
- NewerTech NuGreen Energy Efficient Flexible Neck LED Desk Lamp @ Nikktech
- Inside the Apple III @ Hardware Secrets
- Weekly Giveaway #27: Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler @ eTeknix
- Win a unique Enermax Fulmo 'England' case for Euro 2012 @ Hardware.Info
Graphics Card (GPU) Stock Check - May 30th, 2012
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 30, 2012 - 09:21 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: stock check, radeon, nvidia, HD 7970, hd 7950, hd 7870, hd 7850, hd 7770, hd 7750, GTX 690, gtx 680, gtx 670, geforce, amd
Due to popular request, I am going to try to keep our readers up to date on the current availability of graphics cards and pricing on the market. With the recent price drops from AMD, the frequent out-of-stock status of the GTX 680 cards and the release of the GTX 670, I thought this would be a great summary of the current situation.
NVIDIA's highest end offering, the GTX 690
We will try to post new updates weekly or maybe more frequently as we see fit. Newegg is our partner of choice for this today, so let's see what we have.
AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Radeon HD 7970 3GB - In Stock
Starting at $469
Radeon HD 7950 3GB - In Stock
Starting at $389
Radeon HD 7870 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $329
Radeon HD 7850 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $249
Radeon HD 7770 1GB - In Stock
Starting at $129
Radeon HD 7750 1GB - In Stock
Starting at $109
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 Series
GeForce GTX 690 4GB - No Stock
Starting at $999
GeForce GTX 680 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $539
GeForce GTX 670 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $399
This week we have some good news! For two full days (in a row!) NVIDIA has had GTX 680 SKUs in stock at Newegg.com. The only downside is that two available at the time of this writing (EVGA Superclocked+ and Zotac AMP!) are priced a bit higher thanks to their overclock settings. The EVGA part has a base clock of 1058 MHz while the Zotac has an impressive 1098 MHz base clock compared to the reference speed of 1006 MHz. As of this post you can find the EVGA model for $539 and the Zotac option for $549. We are almost at the point to offering up these cards in our leaderboard... Gasp!
AMD is still doing great on availability with the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 widely available for the price of $469 / $389 with a set of three free games including DiRT Showdown and Dues Ex: Human Revolution.
If you are looking for our latest graphics reviews to judge the performance of the above cards, here you go:
NVIDIA claims GTX 680 sales outpace GTX 580
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 29, 2012 - 04:56 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: nvidia, kepler, gtx 680, GTX 580, GK104, fermi
During the annual investors meeting with NVIDIA top-brass and the powers that hold the money on Wall Street, an interesting slide was presented in a somewhat veiled answer to the questions we (among many others) have had to the availability and yields of their latest Kepler GPUs.
At first glance, the graph would seem to validate claims that the stock and shipping rate of the new GeForce GTX 680 is simply unable to keep up with higher than expected and higher than normal demand. The line on the bottom represents the GTX 580 (both lines are mislabeled as GT rather than GTX) launch, the top the GTX 680 with the lower axis represented as weeks after launch. The vertical axis is labeled as "Units Sold Out Globally" but there are no numbers attached to it, making things incredibly vague.
When I asked for clarification all I was really given was that "it means sales of boards from AICs to distributors, system builders, e-tailers and retailers." This indicates that we are talking about boards either on Newegg.com, at Fry's or being sold through system builders like Maingear and Puget Systems.
NVIDIA's GTX 690 - one of the Kepler based cards MIA
The term "sold out" gave me a bit of pause - but when questioned "is it fair to translate 'units sold out globally' to 'units sold globally'?" I received an affirmative.
If we take NVIDIA's information as it is presented, then we see that after six weeks of product availability, the GTX 680 has sold and shipped at a rate 60% higher than that of the GeForce GTX 580 which launched in November of 2010. If that is true then we can agree with NVIDIA that demand is much higher for the GTX 680 than any other flagship GPU launch in recent memory and the continued stock and availability problems for Kepler are buyer created and strictly an NVIDIA yield issue.
NVIDIA has told me many times that they would obviously love to have more GTX 680s to sell to consumers as having them out of stock is only costing themselves money. How long it will take NVIDIA to balance out capacity with demand has yet to be seen though, so you can continue to check out our sort-of-weekly updates on GPU stock.
NVIDIA's big chip, the GK110
Subject: General Tech | May 25, 2012 - 11:28 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: nvidia, kepler, GTC 2012, gk110
We at PC Perspective were not the only ones who became a wee bit excited when we had the news from NVIDIA about what the GK110 Kepler chip is going to be capable of. The chip will be powering professional HPC systems with the Telsa K20 board which will deliver over a teraflop of double precision processing power. That precision is not so important to the proper rendering of fluid dynamics in the underground water of Crysis 2 but for scientists trying to model the real world it is double what they say from the previous generation of Fermi based Tesla boards. Check out The Tech Report as they delve into how NVIDIA tweaked their new architecture to deal with new choke points and the compute enhancements they've added.
"At its 2012 GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia revealed plenty of details about the biggest GPU of its Kepler generation. Here's what you need to know."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Grab your iron and add GameCube back to the Wii @ Hack a Day
- Have Internet, will travel @ The Tech Report
- GeIL Taipei Factory Tour - We almost broke an IC Testing Machine @ Tweaktown
- MSI GT70 Ivy Bridge Gaming Notebook Giveaway @ AnandTech
NVIDIA Tegra 3 gets boost with LTE Support, 30 Devices this year
Subject: Mobile | May 24, 2012 - 08:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: wayne, tegra 3, tegra, nvidia, LTE, icera, grey
In the middle of 2011, NVIDIA acquired a small company by the name of Icera, a maker of baseband and RF technologies that would eventually allow the company to integrate the two into a single chip. As LTE-capable devices from Verizon, AT&T and even Sprint have been announced and ship, no NVIDIA Tegra-powered phone or tablet has been able to support the feature with the lone exception of the ZTE Mimosa X in February of this year.
Today NVIDIA officially announced support and validation from AT&T on their new and growing LTE network for the Icera 410 LTE multimode chipset. This will finally allow Tegra + LTE devices to be sold and available in the US and other markets when product manufacturers integrate the two processors in future designs.
As to when we will see those designs, we aren't quite sure but nothing was announced during the NVIDIA investors day today. All we know now is that they will be coming "through this year and next."
"Validation with AT&T is an achievement that paves the way for NVIDIA Icera-powered LTE devices on the AT&T network through this year and next," said Stan Boland, senior vice president of Mobile Communications at NVIDIA.
The NVIDIA Icera 410 LTE modem delivers lightning-fast web browsing, video streaming and multiplayer gaming to tablets and clamshell devices. It is the first Icera modem to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA's software defined radio baseband processor. Together with its multimode radio transceiver, the chipset offers 4G LTE at category 2 data rates (up to 50 Mbps) as well as 4G HSPA+, 3G and 2G compatibility.
What we DID learn at the NVIDIA investors meeting is that Mike Rayfield, GM of Tegra business unit, things we'll see as many as 30 Tegra 3 based devices for sale this year.
NVIDIA has 30 devices planned for the year. So far, we've seen just two. Of those 30 devices, some 15 will be planned for sub-$200 pricing. That's certainly the sweet spot for impulse purchases.
NVIDIA's also looking to make inroads into the Chinese market, with 18 of those 30 tablets targeted for the Asian nation. By comparison, NVIDIA only released five devices in China in 2011, Rayfield said.
The big name to know for the rest of the year is Kai. That's the low-cost, high-performance system that NVIDIA is crowing about these days, and it's what will help bring prices down while keeping prices at a more affordable level. Will there be higher-performing tablets? Sure. But will they be $200?
Producing a number of devices, like 30, is impressive but without context the fact means very little. How many of these devices are going to tablets and how many are phones? How many will be running the Microsoft Win RT operating system for ARM due out in fall?
Speaking of Icera though, NVIDIA also showed the roadmap for LTE integration including the upcoming Icera i500 LTE controller for high-end phones and tablets with newly planned integration directly on the Tegra core in a new chip called "Grey". This new processor will run parallel with the planned 2013 release of "Wayne" though it will be targeted at smartphones and lower end tablets; Wayne is planned to find its way into higher end tablets and the onslaught of clamshells we'll see with Windows RT.
There is a lot more to learn and we expect see more news come our way as we approach Computex in Taipei!
Graphics Card (GPU) Stock Check - May 23rd, 2012
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 23, 2012 - 05:43 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: stock check, radeon, nvidia, HD 7970, hd 7950, hd 7870, hd 7850, hd 7770, hd 7750, GTX 690, gtx 680, gtx 670, geforce, amd
Due to popular request, I am going to try to keep our readers up to date on the current availability of graphics cards and pricing on the market. With the recent price drops from AMD, the frequent out-of-stock status of the GTX 680 cards and the release of the GTX 670, I thought this would be a great summary of the current situation.
NVIDIA's highest end offering, the GTX 690
We will try to post new updates weekly or maybe more frequently as we see fit. Newegg is our partner of choice for this today, so let's see what we have.
AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Radeon HD 7970 3GB - In Stock
Starting at $469
Radeon HD 7950 3GB - In Stock
Starting at $389
Radeon HD 7870 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $329
Radeon HD 7850 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $249
Radeon HD 7770 1GB - In Stock
Starting at $129
Radeon HD 7750 1GB - In Stock
Starting at $109
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 Series
GeForce GTX 690 4GB - No Stock
Starting at $999
GeForce GTX 680 2GB - No Stock
Starting at $499
GeForce GTX 670 2GB - In Stock
Starting at $399
In short, nearly two weeks later, nothing has changed. For NVIDIA neither the GeForce GTX 690 can be found nor can the GTX 680 - a card that launched more than two full months ago. To say we are disappointed in the capability for NVIDIA to keep up their end of the bargain would be an understatement and explains why we STILL have not used the GTX 680 card in our Hardware Leaderboard!! The GTX 670 remains in stock though with four models available at Newegg including an overclocked MSI model for hte $399 MSRP. Considering this might be our new favorite GPU, that is good news at least.
AMD is still doing great on availability with the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 widely available for the price of $469 / $389 with a set of three free games including DiRT Showdown and Dues Ex: Human Revolution.
If you are looking for our latest graphics reviews to judge the performance of the above cards, here you go:
NVIDIA Likely Not Recalling All 600 Series Kepler GPUs
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 21, 2012 - 06:10 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: recall, nvidia, kepler, graphics cards, gpu
Editor's Note: We are getting a lot of flak for posting this story today, telling us that we are "giving the site credibility", referring to the Pnosker site that first started the recall rumor, simply by posting about it on our site. Even though our post by Tim states to "take the leak with a grain of salt" and that "these GPUS go through rigorous testing and certification", some people think we were in the wrong to post about this.
So let me be perfectly clear - the recall referenced in the story below is almost assuredly complete and utter BULLSHIT.
According to Pnosker, NVIDIA is allegedly looking into recalling all Kepler based, 600-series graphics cards. Such a recall would affect users that have purchased GTX 670, GTX 680, and GTX 690 GPUs. The website has stated that their source has indicated that the graphics cards will possibly be recalled because the chips suffer from performance degradation after prolonged periods of heavy usage.
While their source has reportedly been correct in the past, the author cautions readers to take the leak with a grain of salt. Other websites that have picked up on this have mentioned that these GPUs go through rigorous testing and certification processes before getting to the market, so this rumor does not have much ground to stand on. Another reason to take this report with a shaker-full of salt is that if there was such a defect in the Kepler GPU, it would be more likely to completely fail rather than continue working with degraded performance.
This rumor is likely just that: a rumor. Why such a rumor was started is unknown but your Kepler graphics card purchases are probably safe from performance degradation, though they may not get as high of a boost clock as other users' cards.
UPDATE @ 7:30pm ET: To quote from NVIDIA PR - "There is no truth to this rumor."
Get right to the gaming, AMD vs NVIDIA showdown
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 18, 2012 - 03:52 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gtx 680, gtx670, hd7970, amd, nvidia
Ryan pitted the GTX670 and GTX570 against each other to show that in terms of gaming performance the GTX670 is a viable upgrade. [H]ard|OCP did something similar, testing the GTX670 and 680 against the HD7970 in a gaming performance showdown. For those who are only interested in gaming performance they've assembled a great breakdown of four popular games at a variety of resolutions and both at stock clocks and the best OC they could manage. The results are clear, for gamers it is NVIDIA with the clear win, with the GTX670 being a better value than the HD7970 and the GTX680 being a better performer.
"Wondering how the GeForce GTX 680 and GeForce GTX 670 compare to the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950 at stock frequencies as well as overclocked? You ask for it and we have done just that. Hold onto your hard earned cash and take note of just how the new GeForce GTX 670 compares with the rest of the competition."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- AMD vs Nvidia 2012 - The Best Video Card for $200 @ hardCOREware
- Inno3D iChiLL GTX 670 HerculeZ 3000 Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeave
- KFA2 Geforce GTX680 EX OC @ Kitguru
- Sapphire HD 7770 GHz Edition Vapor-X Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Inno3D iChill GEFORCE GTX 670 2GB OC @ Tweaktown
- MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr III OC 2 GB @ techPowerUp
- EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Superclocked Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Gigabyte GTX680 Windforce @ OC3D
- EVGA GeForce GTX 670 SC @ Guru of 3D
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 SLI @ techPowerUp
- Zotac GeForce GTX680 2GB Review @ HardwareLOOK
- NVIDIA GTX 680: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 @ Phoronix
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How to revise a novel
You've finished writing your novel (yay), and now you need to revise it. Where do you start?
Don't start with your writers group. I mean, let's face it — revising someone else's novel? That's purgatory. I've been through it, and I no longer fear death.
There's no point in inflicting upon your friends a rough version of a novel. Polish it as much as possible before you get their feedback.
So try this:
1. Do a "save as" before you start revising.
You'll thank me for this. Why have multiple back copies of your story? So you'll feel more courageous about cutting and slashing and ripping the bloody guts out of the novel. You know your original material is safe. It's not death — it's metamorphosis.
A "save as" a day keeps the mental hospital away.
2. Buy a notebook.
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This book arrived during the last week of classes at Iowa State University, just as I was finishing up a two-semester senior-level geometry sequence, attended mostly by mathematics majors, many (but not all) of whom were planning to go on to teach secondary school mathematics. Because I had not taught this sequence before, and because the syllabus was fairly flexible, I had a number of decisions to make before teaching the class.
Some of these decisions were easy: I knew from the outset, for example, that I wanted to do Euclidean geometry the first semester (including topics that might be considered "advanced", such as the nine-point circle and the theorems of Ceva and Menelaus) and then, in the second semester, talk in more detail about foundational questions and introduce the students to non-Euclidean geometry. Other decisions, though, were much more difficult.
One of the issues on which I was most conflicted was the question of how much of a formal axiomatic development of Euclidean geometry should be done. On the one hand, I am very sympathetic to the idea that students, particularly future high school students, should see a rigorous development of Euclidean geometry. Such an approach seems very valuable and also provides good practice in writing proofs. On the other hand, a formal development like this, if done in a rigorous and intellectually honest way, has some pedagogical drawbacks. It is quite time-consuming, for one thing, and, more seriously, much of that time is spent on proofs of results that the students think of as fairly obvious to begin with. This can be viewed as a learning experience, of course, but I have found that it requires some real degree of mathematical sophistication on the part of students to see why these "obvious" results even need proof in the first place.
In the end, I compromised. At the beginning of the first semester (the text for which was Isaacs' Geometry for College Students) I talked a little bit about Euclid's Elements, but then told the students that we would not make a fetish about a rigorous axiomatic development but would instead allow reasonable reliance on diagrams for what most people would accept as "obvious" conclusions. (For example, we did not require formal proof of the fact that in triangle ABC, the angle bisector of angle A intersected BC between B and C; for that matter, we didn't even formalize the notion of what "between B and C" means.) Using this "naïve" approach, we went on to prove results about Euclidean geometry that went beyond what is currently done in high school, including, for example, the various triangle centers, the nine-point circle, the theorems of Menelaus and Ceva, and straightedge and compass constructions from a fairly serious viewpoint, including issues such as the classical impossible constructions.
For the second semester, I followed (but not terribly closely) the book from which I learned this material 40 years ago and which was, I was pleased to see, still in print: Basic Concepts of Geometry by Prenowitz and Jordan. Here again I effected a compromise: I began the course by taking a careful look at the beginning of the Elements and pointed out why it did not meet current mathematical standards of rigor. This entailed a serious examination of axiom systems in general, after which, to give the students a taste of modern axiomatic reasoning, I talked about incidence geometry, giving models and proving theorems.
I then pointed out to the students that additional axioms covering other aspects of geometry (betweenness, line separation, etc.) could be introduced, but that we would not take the time to do so, and instead I just wrote down a lot of very basic results (vertical angles are equal, the basic congruence criteria, etc.) from "neutral" geometry (i.e., all of the axioms of Euclidean geometry except the Fifth postulate or anything equivalent to it), all of which we accepted without detailed proof, and proceeded from there to prove less familiar results, with the goal being to show the significance that the parallel postulate played in "ordinary" Euclidean geometry. We then talked about the history of the parallel postulate and the various attempts to prove it from the other axioms, and how mathematicians eventually realized (via the use of models) that adopting a different parallel postulate (the hyperbolic one) led to a consistent mathematical theory with unusual theorems. I enjoyed both courses and think most of my students did too, but by the end of the second semester I was still conflicted about whether I had made the right choice.
And that brings me to the book under review. Jack Lee's Axiomatic Geometry, devoted primarily (but not exclusively) to a rigorous axiomatic development of Euclidean geometry, is an ideal book for the kind of course I reluctantly decided not to teach. It is beautifully and carefully written, very well organized, and contains lots of examples and homework exercises. The author deals honestly with the issues raised by a formal axiomatic account of Euclidean geometry and does not take refuge in vague, imprecise axioms; sometimes the author omits a proof as being too hard for the book, but when he does so, he makes it clear what is being skipped and why, and provides a reference for a proof.
The first two chapters of the text look at Euclid's Elements and incidence geometry (as a detailed example of an axiom system). These chapters are about as good an introduction to these topics as anything I have seen in print. The second chapter, in particular, is a lovely introduction to the nature of axiomatic reasoning (and the role of models) and also an excellent primer on how to do proofs. (A couple of appendices also address basic logic and proof techniques; these are also very well written and complement these chapters nicely.) Lee practically takes the reader by the hand and leads him or her through the construction of simple proofs in incidence geometry, which is an excellent example of an axiom system, since the axioms involved are simple and intuitively easy to follow and there are a lot of interesting models, a number of which are discussed.
Having explained why the Elements is not currently considered a rigorous example of axiomatic reasoning, the author then begins (in chapter 3) to give a formal axiomatic development of (plane) Euclidean geometry, a task that takes most of the rest of the book. The particular axioms chosen by the author, a modification of those used by the School Mathematics Study Group, are based on the real numbers; these axioms are introduced a few at a time over the course of chapters 3 through 5, with the consequences of each new set of axioms being explored before moving on to others. One axiom that is consciously not introduced in these three chapters is the Euclidean parallel postulate (that will come later), so that what is really defined at this point is neutral, not Euclidean, geometry; i.e., it is the geometry we get by remaining neutral about a parallel postulate and not assuming any particular one. (Some books call this absolute geometry, but the more recent ones use the term "neutral", a term that, I believe, derives from the aforementioned text by Prenowitz and Jordan.)
In chapter 6, the author takes a break from proving consequences of axioms and discusses some basic models of neutral geometry, particularly the Cartesian model of Euclidean geometry and the Poincare disc model of hyperbolic geometry. Some "nonmodels" of neutral geometry are also presented, the most interesting of which is the fairly well-known "taxicab geometry".
After the discussion of models in chapter 6, the author resumes the study of neutral geometry, looking carefully at perpendicularity and parallelism (chapter 7), polygons (chapter 8) and quadrilaterals (chapter 9). By the end of chapter 9, therefore, the reader has seen a careful and meticulous development of neutral geometry. It is a clearly written account, but does (inevitably) suffer from the pedagogical problems alluded to earlier: a fair amount of time is spent proving things that seem fairly obvious, and sometimes these proofs can be somewhat dry and technical. (As a case in point, it takes the author about a page of text to prove that if three rays emanate from a single point, the sum of the three angles formed with this point as vertex is 360 degrees.) I don't intend this as a criticism of the text: it seems to me to be something that is inherent in any book devoted to this kind of undertaking; a problem that can be avoided only by cutting corners, which is not desirable in a book that intends to teach geometry axiomatically.
At the end of chapter 9, the reader of the book has a choice of continuing down two paths, one considerably longer than the other. The longer path consists of chapters 10 through 16 and entails a detailed study of Euclidean geometry. The Euclidean parallel postulate is introduced as an axiom in chapter 10 and its consequences are developed in some detail in chapters 11 through 16, which cover, in order, the Euclidean theory of area for triangles and parallelograms, similarity (a very nice chapter, which includes not only proofs of the theorems of Ceva and Menelaus but also a good discussion of the golden ratio), right triangles (a nice feature here is a sketch of a proof, not readily found in the elementary textbook literature, that any two models of Euclidean geometry are isomorphic), circles (including central and inscribed angles, and inscribed and circumscribed polygons), circular area (including a discussion of the definition of \(\pi\)), and constructions with straightedge and compass.
This last chapter should be singled out for special mention. It is of course not uncommon for a book on Euclidean geometry to discuss this topic, but this book's treatment struck me as unusually comprehensive. Not only does the author go through the basic constructions (leaving many as exercises), but he also spends considerable time on the classical impossibilities (trisecting an angle, for example), even to the point of giving algebraic proofs that are often skipped in comparable books. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction of the regular n-gon are also carefully stated, but here the proof is skipped: it is, in the author's words, "X-rated". (Professor Lee adopts an amusing rating system for difficulty of proofs, which range from the G-rated proofs that are simple and straightforward, through the PG and R rated ones, up to the X-rated ones that are simply too difficult to include in the book.)
The other path that a reader can take from chapter 9 is to proceed directly to chapters 17 through 19. Chapter 17 talks about statements, in neutral geometry, that are equivalent to Euclid's parallel postulate, thus clarifying the role of that postulate in Euclidean geometry. It is proved, for example, that any neutral geometry is either Euclidean or hyperbolic. The next two chapters (18 and 19) are on hyperbolic geometry and explore the consequences of assuming the hyperbolic parallel postulate, rather than the Euclidean one, as an axiom. It occurred to me as I read these chapters that chapters 1 through 9, followed by 17 through 19, provided a pretty good approximation to my own second semester of geometry as described earlier, though to save time in my course I did not develop neutral geometry as rigorously as does this text. I'm not sure that in a single semester it would be possible to cover all these 12 chapters; I suppose that one could use this text for a one-semester foundations course by cutting a few corners on the rigorous development (covering chapters 1 and 2, and 17 through 19, carefully, but fudging a bit on the development in chapters 3 through 9), but given the fact that an axiomatic development is this book's raison d'etre, I suspect that the author might not approve of this approach.
In addition to all of the preceding, there is a final chapter (chapter 20) that surveys without proof some additional topics in geometry, including, for example, area in hyperbolic geometry, differential geometry, and geometric transformations. No proofs are given here, but the author does provide references for further reading on these topics.
As the above description of the book should make clear, a lot of material is covered. Certainly there is enough for a two-semester course, and that, perhaps, raises a potential problem for those instructors who teach at a university that only offers one semester of geometry. I think that either of the two paths through the book that I described above (chapters 1 through 16, or chapters 1 through 9 and then 17 through 19) probably contain more material than can be comfortably done in a single semester, and it does seem something of a pity to start an axiomatic development of geometry and not see it through to some reasonable conclusion. Perhaps, however, by judicious picking and choosing an instructor could chart a reasonable one-semester path through the material; the author does give some suggestions as to topics that can be omitted. I would certainly hope so, because this book has a great deal to recommend it; it is, as I noted earlier, very nicely written with the needs of the student front and center at all times. At the very least, it makes for an excellent reference for people wanting to see a careful development of Euclidean geometry, and definitely belongs on the shelf of any good college or university library.
Are there things that I wish had been done differently? Sure; it is a rare reviewer who will answer this question "no". I thought, for example, that a disproportionate number of the homework exercises were of the "prove theorem 14.7" variety. I also would have liked to have seen a more extended discussion of the Poincaré half-plane model of hyperbolic geometry, particularly given that model's importance in other areas of mathematics. And, although hyperbolic area theory is discussed briefly in chapter 20, I would have liked to have seen a more expanded account of this topic as well, and would have also liked to see more of a discussion of elliptic geometry. (The author does say that he intends to supplement the text with additional material on the book's website; perhaps these are some things that may appear there.)
Competition for this text include books like Gerard Venema's Foundations of Geometry and Marvin Greenberg's Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History. The book under review, however, is readily distinguishable from both of these. For one thing, both Greenberg and Venema place more of an emphasis on non-Euclidean geometry than does Lee. The book by Greenberg is also somewhat more sophisticated and demanding than is this book and may, in fact, be a bit too demanding for the average college student (though it does contain what I believe to be an unparalleled discussion of the history of non- Euclidean geometry, and really gives the reader a sense of the excitement of this huge revolution in mathematical thought.)
In summary, this is an interesting and valuable book. Apart from its obvious value as a reference to anybody who is interested in geometry, it offers food for thought to any prospective teacher of such a course, and is making me rethink the approach I used in my own two-semester sequence.
Mark Hunacek (firstname.lastname@example.com) teaches mathematics at Iowa State University. The junior-level foundations of geometry course that he took in 1970 is without question the most vivid and exciting mathematics course that he ever took.


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- Counterfoil for a £5 pound postal order payable to Australia House in London, receipt number 594757, issued 17 June 1961. It was used by John Gordon-Kirkby as part of his preparations to migrate to Australia in 1961. John was born in Gibraltar in 1936, although his parent's were living in La Linea, Spain at the time they wanted him to be born on British soil. He lived in Morocco and briefly in England before immigrating to Australia.
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|CC50 / 594757 / COUNTERFOIL / To be detached and kept by the Sender. / The Postmaster General will not consider any application in respect of an Order which has miscarried or has been lost or destroyed, unless the counterfoil is produced. / Postal £5 Order / To whom payable: Australia / At what Office / Whether crossed / Date sent: 17/6/61.
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Sunday's episode of True Blood was totally our favorite by far...and not just because we got some of Joe Manganiello's nakey behind.
We were lucky enough to run into the new HBO hottie and got scoop about what's to come this season
"There's gonna be a lot of blood, a lot of sex and a lot of people are gonna die," Manganiello told us at Comic-Con. OK, you've got our attention...
Joe (who, yes, is just as delectable in person) was strutting his stuff around San Diego with the rest of HBO's hot cast.
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"It's really been a blast," Joe said of his new and basically half-naked role. "This year we have live wolves on the set, which adds an extra element of danger. And my role's a blast. He's just this big, grumpy, lonely, big-hearted guy, and he's trying to do the right thing.
"I was eating a bowl of turkey on set, and I got yelled at," continued Joe about his furry costars. "They said, 'What are you, stupid? Get out of here. They're bringing the wolves on.' And of course, they're dragging this giant 150 pound wolf out onto the set and I'm sitting there eating meat like a moron in front of him."
Uh, is this guy just adorable or what? We have a feeling Sookie is totally gonna hook up with him at some point this season, but Joe was mum when we tried to go there.
As for Sookie's guy sitch, our pal Kristin Dos Santos posted over the weekend how Alan Ball confirmed that Sookie and Bill are "soul mates." Jeez, where's the fun in that? Anna Paquin already gets Bill in real-life; we think Ball should pen her some fun with Alexander Skarsgård or Joe. Agree?
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"Everyone is just asking me, 'When is Tara gonna get a break?' " Rutina Wesley told us at EW's bash over the weekend. "That's the big question. I think hopefully this season we'll see her fight her way out of this tied-up situation she's in."
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