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Derek Bryant hit Juwan Moye with a 10-yard touchdown pass in the second overtime to help Fayetteville State outlast Chowan, 35-29, in a CIAA match-up Saturday.
Moments earlier, as Chowan drove for a score, Simeon Marshall picked off Hawks quarterback at the FSU 17.
The victory kept the Broncos (3-2, 2-0) undefeated in CIAA play, while Chowan fell to 2-3, 1-1.
Bryant completed 22 of 30 passes for 324 yards and three touchdowns, while Moye caught seven passes for 165 yards and two scores.
Chowan's signal caller Dain McFarland matched the TD total with only 146 yards but threw three picks, the last being the backbreaker for the Hawks.
FSU took the early lead, in the first quarter, on Andre Montgomery's 24-yard scoring run.
Moye then caught his first touchdown, from 11 yards out on a pass by Jemeryn Jenkins. Moye ran in a two-point conversion to give the Broncos a 15-0 lead.
Chowan got on the board when Willie Hickman intercepted Jenkins and ran the ball back 41 yards to cut the deficit to 15-7 at the half.
The Broncos then broke the tie with 38 seconds to play when Bryant connected with Dwayne Lorrick on a 20-yard score.
Chowan refused to give up, though, and McFarland found Robert Holland from two yards out at time expired to force overtime.
In the first overtime, the teams traded TD's, Bryant with a nine-yard toss to Antonio Allen and McFarland with a six-yard pass to Robert Holland.
Elizabeth City State 26, St. Augustine's 25
Petey Boone rushed for 129 yards to help the Vikings (1-4, 1-1 CIAA) win their first game of the season against the Falcons (2-3, 1-1) at John Baker Stadium in Raleigh.
After SAU's Kharea Roseboro returned an interception 33 yards to cut ECSU's lead to 19-16, Tyrell Houghton burst through the Falcons' defense for a 26-yard TD run that put ECSU up for good.
The victory was in doubt until the end, though.
Roderick Davenport had a two-yard touchdown scamper to cut the ECSU lead to 26-23.
Vikings kicker Brett Symonds then ran out of the back of the end zone with 22 seconds, resulting in a safety and free kick that gave St. Augustine's one last chance.
That last chance fizzled, however, when Jordan Turkvant's pass from A.J. Gilford resulted in a 12-yard loss back to the SAU 38, along with allowing the game clock to run out.
Notes: Neither team's quarterback managed 100 yards passing. Both squads combined for 188 yards passing, with no touchdowns and five interceptions.

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Sage's Theater Institute Presents Dogs of War
November 20th - November 24th, 2013
"Shakespeare's Soldiers is the subtitle of the new work, which was created by Bunce in collaboration with David Salomon. The one-hour show encompasses excerpts from many of Shakespeare's plays, including "Othello," "Henry VIII," "Macbeth" and "The Merchant of Venice." Bunce is the sole performer, and though he was never in the military, his own relationship to war is woven into the evening." - Joseph Dalton, Times Union.
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STEM Women of Influence Workshop
November 11, 2013
The Russell Sage Chemistry, Math and Biology clubs hosted a group of middle school children to participate in a STEM Women of Influence Workshop. Visiting students participated in an afternoon of activities, experiments, and chemistry demonstrations. Dr. Tom Gray served as faculty advisor for the event and provided guidance to Russell Sage College students in this community outreach and service project.
Rafia Zakaria speaks to a crowd, including Russell Sage students, regarding the War on Terror's impact on Pakistan
Bush Memorial, October 24th, 2013
Rafia Zakaria, a columnist and activist who also serves as the general secretary on the board of directors for Amnesty International, emphasized this perspective during her talk with students at Bush Memorial Auditorium at Russell Sage College on Thursday.
"Every part of your life is effected by the war in Pakistan," Zakaria said. "If you're shopping in the market, get on a bus, sitting at home in your apartment, you can be victimized. It creates a lot of paranoia and fear in that society but there's nothing you can do about it. You still have to go to your job."
"I don't think Americans can imagine ever in their small town or their backyards being a supply route for war in another country by a government that is not their own," Zakaria said. "But that's what Pakistani people have to put up with."
- Mike McMahon (including photo credit), The Record
View the full article here.
"Institute's Les Mis a Triumph"
October 2, 2013
"Les Miserables at the Theatre Institute at Sage is wonderful. Michael Musial, the stage and musical director, shapes the musical, with its many parts, into a cohesive, smooth-running whole: 29 roles plus crowd scene members, 50 songs, numerous set changes, nonstop music for a little over two and a half hours and countless costume changes."
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Joining the cast were Broadway's Craig Schulman (Valjean) and Gary Lynch (Javert) as well as Sage Faculty member David Bunce alongside students and local actors.


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In these forums, OP can delete whole thread
You can delete your own posts, but not amend them. But if you are the original poster, the person who starts a thread, then you can still delete the original post even if others reply. And in doing so, wipe out all the posts that others have made in reply.
And it is all too easy to delete a post by accident, as there is no requirement to confirm.
Ps I have tried this with the cooperation of another user, to check whether their response disappeared too. It did.
What's wrong with deleting a topic you created? I like the option.
You like being able to delete other people's contributions? Last night I answered a question. Shortly afterwards, the thread was deleted and the guy asked the same question in another forum. Which someone else then answered. The lost response was just two lines, so no big deal. But quite a bit of thought goes into many of the answers here. Should that just be discarded on the whim of the original poster?
IMHO, the OP should always be able to delete their own postings, whether there be replies or not.
Of course people should be able to retract things they have said (in haste, in anger , by mistake, whatever) - but that shouldn't remove the carefully thought-through and often lengthy replies of the people responding.
I don't have an issue with someone deleting a reply, even if it makes the thread lose some coherence. Maybe the OP should be able to delete their content of their original post (since we don't have the edit facility), but - IMHO - they should not in the process discard other people's replies.
Maybe we agree to differ. I'd be interested in the views of others as well.
Deleting a post must be allowed but the thread should stand even if it loses coherence. The problem is that a response may quote the original, directly or indirectly. i don't think the necessary work can be done automagically and I doubt if the Memrise staff will want to spend time doing manual edits.
So, on balance, the whole thread must go :(
This is an interesting point, and I will see if there is something that we can do easily to make the initial post un-deletable if there are replies to it; but it feels like it is going to be a complex thing to get right, or even to agree on what the ideal behaviour is. I will look into it and think it over though,
Best wishes
If it's not deletable, I won't bother to post anymore until there's an edit button. I tend to make a ton of annoying mistakes sometimes.
Why would someone delete a long discussion thread he created himself. Does not seem to be a big issue with the present community and more important improvements in the pipe. I like the idea of a "confirm dialogue" to prevent accidents.
By the way, reordering long lists is not only unpleasant with the current fancy reordering tool, but it is also easy to accidentally delete words in the process. If you don't notice, the words are damned to an endless and purposeless life in the wiki. A confirm button (trivial to implement, or not?) would easily solve this issue until further changes come.
We had a case where flaming ensued. With the 0% forum moderation we have here, deleting one's own thread might be the only way to stop something like that.
However, I feel I am the one who owns his written word. If I am to leave it here without the choice to revoke it, I will stop writing here. Seriously, removing the deletion without adding an edit button is ...
To repeat, no issue at all with someone deleting their own posts. But, like you, I like to feel ownership of what I write. As things stand, I could delete this thread now, and your wriitten words (in this thread) would disappear. I don't think I should be able to do that.
Of course I take your point that there should be an edit button, and I also understand that the edit button, and/or the ability to delete the original posts without at the same time deleting responses, are desirable options to go on the wishlist for when other things are working. Also understand the risk of a flame war or silly troll-like behaviour.
But, as to the principle, do you really think anyone should be able to delete posts made by their peers?
We didn't really disagree from the beginning. We just approach it from different angles.
IMHO, as long as the OP doesn't have control over their own post, if they chose to remove it, so be it. If one can edit their own posts, there's no reason to remove anything written by anyone else. Removal of one's own entries has priority over the right to keep the stuff online for others who reply, though.


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The long awaited Ruby virtual machine shootout is here. In this report I've compared the performances of several Ruby implementations against a set of synthetic benchmarks. The implementations that I tested were Ruby 1.8 (aka MRI), Ruby 1.9 (aka Yarv), Ruby Enterprise Edition (aka REE), JRuby 1.1.6RC1, Rubinius, MagLev, MacRuby 0.3 and IronRuby.
Just as with the previous shootout, before proceeding to the results, I urge you to consider the following important points:
All of the Ruby implementations that were able to run the current Ruby Benchmark Suite have been grouped together in one main shootout. This group consists of Ruby 1.8.7 (p72, built from source, and installed through apt-get), Ruby 1.9.1 (from trunk, p5000 revision 20560), Ruby Enterprise Edition (1.8.6-20081205), JRuby 1.1.6RC1 and Rubinius (from trunk), all of them were tested on Ubuntu 8.10 x64, plus Ruby 1.8.6 (p287. from the One-Click Installer) on Windows Vista Ultimate x64. The hardware used for this benchmark was my desktop workstation with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz) CPU and 8 GB of RAM. JRuby was run with the -J-server option enabled and by specifying 4 Mb of stack (required to pass certain recursive benchmarks). The best times out of five iterations were reported, and these do not include startup times or the time required to parse and compile classes and method for the first time. Several of these new tests also have variable input sizes.
The MagLev team provided me with an early alpha version of MagLev for the purpose of testing it in this shootout. Since this VM is not mature enough yet to run the Ruby Benchmark Suite, I used custom scripts against an old version of the Ruby Benchmark Suite on Ubuntu 8.10 x64. MagLev was tested, along with Ruby 1.8.6 (p287), on the same machine as that of the main shotoout, though the benchmarks were different (even when they had the same names as the ones in the main shootout).
MacRuby 0.3 and Ruby 1.8.6 (p114) were tested on Mac OS X Leopard using the previous version of the Ruby Benchamrk Suite. Since my MacBook Pro died (sigh), for this benchmark I used a Mac Pro, with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz processors and 18 GB of RAM.
IronRuby (from trunk) and Ruby 1.8.6 (p287) were tested on a previous version of the Ruby Benchmark Suite on Windows Vista x64 on the same quad-core used for the main shootout. The MagLev, MacRuby and IronRuby numbers reported here were the best times out of five iterations, and include startup time. IronRuby on Mono was not tested because I couldn't get it to work on my machine, despite having tried several IronRuby versions and two different Mono versions. Please also notice that Ruby 1.8.6 (p287) was tested twice on Windows, once for the main shootout against the current Ruby Benchmark Suite, and a second time to compare it with IronRuby, against the old benchmarks.
Note: As tempting as it is, do not compare implementations that belong to different shootouts directly to one another. It would be very disingenuous to directly compare VMs tested with different benchmarks and/or different machines. The only comparisons that make sense are the ones within each of the four groups.
The following table shows the run times for the main implementations. The table is fairly wide, so you'll have to click on the image to view the data in a new tab.
Green, bold values indicate that the given virtual machine was faster than Ruby 1.8.7 on GNU/Linux (our baseline), whereas a yellow background indicates the absolute fastest implementation for a given benchmark. Values in red are slower than the baseline. Timeout indicates that the script didn't terminate in a reasonable amount of time and was (automatically) interrupted. The values reported at the bottom are the total amounts of time (in seconds) that it would take to run the common subset of benchmarks which were successfully executed by every virtual machine. When our baseline VM generated an error, others were used, starting with Ruby 1.8.7 on Vista (for color coding purposes only).
The following image shows a bar chart of the total time requested for the common subset of successfully executed benchmarks (those whose names are in blue within the tables):
More interestingly, the following table shows the ratios of each Ruby implementation based on the baseline (MRI):
The baseline time is divided by the time at hand to obtain a number that tells us "how many times faster" an implementation is for a given benchmark. 2.0 means twice as fast, while 0.5 means half the speed (so twice as slow). The geometric mean at the bottom of the table tells us how much faster or slower a virtual machine was when compared to the main Ruby interpreter, on "average". Just as with the totals above, only those 101 tests, which were successfully run by each VM, where included in the calculation.
More concisely, here is a bar chart showing the geometric mean of the ratios for the various implementations tested:
I prefer to let the data speak for itself, but I'd like to briefly comment on these results. Just a few quick considerations.
Working off of the geometric mean of the ratios for the successful tests, Ruby MRI compiled from source is twice as fast than the Ruby shipped by Ubuntu, and by the One-Click Installer on Vista. The huge performance gap between ./configure && make && sudo make install and sudo apt-get install ruby-full should not be taken lightly when deploying in production. These numbers also reveal what most of us already knew: Ruby is particularly slow on Windows (800-pound gorillas in the room, or not).
Performance-wise Rubinius has more work left to be done to catch up with Ruby 1.8.7 and other faster VMs, particularly if we take into account the number of timeouts. But it has improved in the past year and I think it's on the right track.
Ruby Enterprise Edition is about as fast as Ruby 1.8.7 compiled from source, which is reasonable considering that it's a patched version of Ruby 1.8.6 aimed at the reduction of memory consumption (a parameter which wasn't tested within the current shootout).
Speaking of excellent results, Ruby 1.9.1 and JRuby 1.1.6 both did very well. It looks like we finally have a couple of relatively fast alternatives to what is a slow main interpreter. According to the results above, and with the exception of a few tests, on average they are respectively 2.5 and 2 times faster than Ruby 1.8.7 (from source), and 5 and 4 times faster than Ruby 1.8.7 installed through apt-get on Ubuntu or Ruby 1.8.6 installed through the One-Click installer on Vista. Again, this does not mean than every program (particularly Rails) will gain that kind of speed, but these results are very encouraging nevertheless.
There has been a lot of buzz about MagLev since Avi Bryant's first benchmarks were shown a few months ago. Here we finally see it being put to the test. The table below shows the times obtained by running MagLev and Ruby 1.8.6 (p287) against MagLev's set of benchmarks based on the old Ruby Benchmark Suite:
And here are the ratios:
You'll notice how MagLev swings from being much faster than MRI to being much slower. I believe there is much room for improvement, but at almost twice the speed of MRI, these early results are definitely promising.
These are the times for MacRuby 0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.5:
And of course, the ratios against the MRI baseline:
MacRuby is relatively new, so these are not bad results. More work is required, but it's a good start.
Finally (I promise these are the last ones), here are the two tables for IronRuby and Ruby 1.8.6:
IronRuby is slower than Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows, which in turn is much slower than Ruby 1.8.7 on GNU/Linux. This is not very surprising. This project has been focusing on integrating with .NET and catching up with the implementation of the language by improving the RSpec pass rate, as opposed to performing any optimizations and/or fine tuning (as per John Lam's presentation at RubyConf 2008). We'll measure its improvements in the next shootouts.
Overall I think these are great results. Ruby 1.8 (MRI), with its slowness and memory leaks, belongs to the past. It's time for the community to move forward and on to something better and faster – and we don't lack interesting alternatives to do so at this stage.
I hope that for the next shootout, MagLev, MacRuby and IronRuby will be able to run the benchmark suite, so that they can all be tested and directly compared with each other. I also hope to include Tim Bray's XML benchmark, some sort of "Pet Shop" sample Rails and Merb application and, above all, include memory usage statistics.
You can find the Excel file for the main shootout here. That's all for now. Feel free to comment, subscribe to my feed, share this link and promote it on Hacker News, Reddit, DZone, StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Co. Putting together this shootout was a lot of work, so I definitely appreciate you spreading the word about it. Until next time…
Update (December 10, 2008): This article has been updated to correct a couple of major issues with yesterday's results. I adjusted my commentary as well, in light of the corrected figures.
Update (February 7, 2009): Thanks to Makoto Kuwata, a Japanese version of this article was published in the Rubyist Magazine.
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does the meaning of jruby is best?
Thanks for putting this together. I had recently tested JRuby, IronRuby and the Ruby versions myself, but MacRuby, Rubinius and MagLev I had yet to test…
JRuby is decidedly a good 1.8.6 implementation at this point. I have recently switched to it on my Web applications serving in order to test it in a longer running application and so far it looks to be stable:
junior 15740 0.0 51.9 702848 123756 ? Sl Dec05 6:12 \_ java -client -Djruby.memory.max=500m -Djruby.stack.max=1
Process uptime:
$ ps --no-headers -o etime -p 15740
It may use more memory than Ruby 1.9 when doing the same sort of thing, but Java can handle lots of memory due its maturity and excellent garbage collectors and stuff.
But Ruby 1.9 is decidedly the way to go for pure Ruby.
Regarding the other Ruby implementations, while they had an easier time trying to beat the oldie Ruby 1.8, with Ruby 1.9 it has become a little tougher, so in terms of incentive, they have just got what they asked for. Go and create great Ruby implementations for all of us! Thanks!
[…] Cangiano has released another Ruby Shootout which are always fun to check out. Looks like Ruby 1.9 is leading the pack with JRuby 1.1.6RC1 […]
The results look very nice, thanks for updating the suite and running this shootout again.
I'm looking forward to seeing another update once JRuby finishes 1.9 support, since these JRuby numbers don't reflect execution and library optimizations 1.9 provides. I expect that JRuby in 1.9 mode will perform much closer to Ruby 1.9.
Until then, it's good to hear we're the fastest 1.8 implementation. Thanks again!
Well, Jruby is doing very well!
I hope we can benchmark rails or merb with this various implementations also.
This is really encouraging for all of the new Ruby implementations.
I'd also be very interested in seeing how JRuby does in 1.9 mode when it's finished (somepoint in the next couple of months I believe)
Suggest you label the "Total Time" and "Geometric Mean" title or x-axis so that they can survive being cut/pasted out of context.
Time – what units?
Geometric Mean – relative to what?
As the charts only show those tests which every implementation successfully completed – how many tests out of the total were successfully completed?
The tests are run with a range of input values – so are timings from all input values included in the "Total Time" and "Geometric Mean" or only times for some particular input value?
Could you comment on the errors? E.g., were they a matter of memory exhaustion, or bad memory references (e.g., segfault), or wrong results? Thank you for distinguishing timeout from error.
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Thanks for taking the time to run these tests! really interesting
We should all switch to JRuby.
Second in the performance test and first concerning security. The sandbox built into the JVM is really great and is one the reasons tons of server-side code is written in Java and not C++ nowadays.
The JVM is a mature piece of software and JRuby benefits from this naturally.
+1, sir. Good show
Thanks so much for this, it was a fascinating read.
Now we know which Ruby runtime is the best. How about a shootout with PHP, Perl, Python, ASP and JSP? That'll be very interesting too.
Ruby 1.8.7 uses green threads, right?
How is that that JRuby fell behind Ruby 1.8.7 in the thread management set of tests?
Any chance you could throw into the shootout a java-language-based application that runs in the same environment as the JRuby application?
Thank you for this enlightening article.
Thank you for your benchmarks!
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Just to be clear, these results are not very representative of real-life scenarios. Assuming, from these benches, that "Ruby 1.9 is fastest" and "Ruby 1.8.7 is slowest" would be a mistake, and not borne out by benches on even slightly complex scenarios (like running a Rails or Merb request through the dispatch cycle or even running a simple Rack or Mongrel request).
Of course, real-life scenarios are confounded by other variables (is it really fair to compare MRI's mongrel with JRuby's?) so these VM benches provide some measure of head-to-head performance, but again, I'd be wary about drawing any high-level conclusions from these results.
I'd be very interested in participating in a project to create a more representative suite for real-life results, as Antonio seems to be interested in according to his post
I am in no way demeaning Antonio's work. I think it's useful and important. The question is what exactly it tells us.
Overall I think these are great results. Ruby 1.8 (MRI), with its slowness and memory leaks, belongs to the past.
What in this test led you to the conclusion that MRI 1.9.1 doesn't suffer from 1.8's memory leaks?
I'm not familiar with the test suite, does it deliberately try to exercise those bugs?
Great, great, great work!
[…] The Great Ruby Shootout […]
Some higher level conclusions:
– These results give a boost in confidence that Matz made a great choice with YARV and that the upgrade to 1.9 is looking like a success (duh?). It is crucial that the leader of the pack stay ahead of the pack so nobody looses confidence in their decisions and starts a rebellion.
– JRuby is the leader in the alternative implementations and is a viable alternative especially to those already on the JVM.
– MagLev looks like the rising star but they have yet to prove themselves. Still, this platform is extremely secretive, closed and will probably be expensive.
1) Antonio, I can't get the Excel file "Times" to sum (using OpenOffice) to the same totals you show!
For example, even if I set all the Error and Timeout values to 0 Rubinius sums to 714.65 not 601.01?
2) "All the input values were included in the total time."
Doesn't that mean some implementations had 0s included in the total time when they failed or timedout while successful implementations were disadvantaged because they succeeded? That would mean the "Total Times" chart is really really misleading.
The Geometric Mean values seem to sum differently also – JRuby 4.68 not 3.62?
Seems like when a test is only run with one input size the input size is set to n/a – why not just provide the information, that single input value?
For example, micro-benchmarks/bm_nbody.rb takes 9.96s with Ruby 1.8.7 so I'd guess something like 100,000 but why make me guess?
This is a very interesting article. Thanks for the excellent work. One thing that I am still wondering about and cannot get a straight answer for is – why is rails so slow on Windows. While the performance of the VM is not very different on Windows vs. linux, the observed difference in our practice has been much larger. Rails startup time on Windows is on an order of 10x slower than on linux on the same machine. Our rspec suite (not a performance benchmark) runs similarly slow mostly due to the poor performance of boot.rb on Windows (I was using Vista 64bit on a dual core w/ 4GB RAM for those observations).
I noticed that the benchmarks that performed poorly on Windows in your shootout seemed to be focused on string processing more than others (maybe? am I off?). Does this account for the Rails performance difference? Not sure.
Another thing is that rails produces a large amount of transient objects, which can tax the VM garbage collector. Could this account for a large difference. Does this hint at possibly better performance of JRuby, especially on Windows, if garbage collection is delegated to the Java VM (is it?)
So bottom line – I've been unable to get straight answers from the rails community, as there seems to be overt hostility to Windows, and commonly the anser one gets is "switch to Linux", which is no answer at all.
I'd be *very* interested in seeing a rails based benchmark numbers, and would also like to get solid numbers on JRuby performance differences between Linux and Windows. Do you know of any that were done already? Does any reader know *objectively* why there are such huge performance differences between rails performance on Windows and Linux, even though the underlying VM has very similar performance characteristics? Does anyone know of any serious effort to fix this problem?
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I recommend to you to test JRuby with -J-client option for reasons behind the jruby implementation in some cases several JRuby programs can run faster with this option instead of -J-server
I also share Arnons curiosity about the performance issues surrounding Ruby on windows.
Switching to Linux is not an option for us. All our internal (yes, these are 'enterprise' apps) applications run on Windows and management will not budge on this issue.
Has anyone done any benchmarks of JRuby and Ruby 1.9.1 (if possible) on Windows?
Has anyone successfully deployed JRuby on an IBM AS400, iSeries or Power products?
I would love to see JRuby and Rails/Merb applications running on these products. RPG, COBOL and C are WAY long in the tooth and I'm surprised that IBM hasn't supported Ruby or Python on these platforms. If they did, these platforms may prove viable for sometime to come, instead of dying in the slow death spiral in which they currently find themselves.
Looks like I'm going to look at JRuby again. Thanks!
Man, very great this tests!
Good job man, very good.
also has some nice 'gc related' benchmarks that might be nice to add to the suite [with some modification].
Thanks for your good work on this.
Also interesting would be to try to 'eke' out performance of MRI, using compile options [compilers, etc], though I suppose that merits its own separate test
Isn't Ruby suposed to be horribly slow on Windows? Possibly we should ignore the 1.8.6 results.
Assuming 1.8.7 is on Linux or some such then this test confirms again that Yarv is about 3 times faster than the old Ruby. I was hoping for 10x. So it does look like Ruby is always going to be slower than Python.
why was REE slow?
You can also get better windows performance out of the mingw version in the works.
Balast: Yes, we have heard of at least one person deploying on AS/400. I don't know about the others, but we recently made an effort to get JRuby running well on IBM JDKs. It ought to work fine.
All interested in Windows: Hotspot has had a lot of work done to run well on Windows, and I doubt we'd see any significant performance drop from using JRuby on Windows. Give it a try yourself, but if Ruby has such severe perf issues on Windows, then JRuby could be a really excellent option for you.
BlackHand: The -client option is usually on by default, and switches to the faster-starting, non-optimizing JIT compiler. So it's faster for some things, but in almost all cases the -server option will perform a lot better.
Arnon: JRuby is internally "just Java" so we're taking full advantage of the JVM's GC, threading, and optimization capabilities.
Shimnon: JRuby is much more than a good option for those already on the JVM; we have many users starting to switch to JRuby simply because it performs so well and scales well on multicore systems. The JVM is just a means for us to create an excellent Ruby impl.
Hey man, great ! Is nice to see Ruby rising up! good job !
[…] Cangiano has posted some great benchmarks for Ruby incorporating all the big implementations of the language (e.g. IronRuby, 1.9, […]
Could you please tell us which version of the JVM was used to test JRuby? If I'm not mistaken, Ubuntu includes many implementations of the JVM, the 3 most popular beeing Sun's 6.10, Sun's 18.104.22.168 and OpenJDK's 6b12.
[…] the performance of JRuby. According to Antonio Cangiano, the guy behind the great ruby shootout here and here: Ruby 1.9 and JRuby are very close, respectively 2.5 and 1.9 faster than Ruby 1.8.7 (from […]
[…] (From: The Great Ruby Shootout) coding, science Subscribe to RSS feed a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href; […]
[…] 1.8 ??????? (?? Antonio Cangiano ? benchmarks […]
[…] a month ago, Antonio Cangiano ran some benchmarks against a Ruby 1.9.1 preview versus several other Ruby interpreters. Ruby 1.9.1 clocked in at at least twice as fast as Ruby […]
[…] Ruby 1.9.1 merupakan rilis stabil dari seri Ruby 1.9 sudah dirilis di mana Ruby 1.9 banyak mengalami peningkatan kecepatan dari versi 1.8 dan bisa dikatakan versi Ruby tercepat saat ini. Untuk melihat performa benchmark versi 1.9.1 ini dapat dilihat di: http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/09/the-great-ruby-shootout-december-2008/ […]
[…] 1.9.1 is out: Just a month ago, Antonio Cangiano ran some benchmarks against a Ruby 1.9.1 preview versus several other Ruby interpreters. Ruby 1.9.1 clocked in at at […]
[…] a 1.8.7 como a atual versão estável da linguagem Ruby. Alguns testes demonstram que Ruby 1.9 é bem mais rápida que a versão 1.8 (isso vai para aqueles que diziam "Ruby é […]
[…] though, comparisons here and here indicate that the tides may be changing, and that Ruby 1.9 or JRuby might be faster. For now, […]
[…] a month ago, Antonio Cangiano ran some benchmarks against a Ruby 1.9.1 preview versus several other Ruby interpreters. Ruby 1.9.1 clocked in at at least twice as fast as Ruby […]
[…] The December 2008 Great Ruby Shootout – Antonio Cangiano's famous Ruby benchmarking shootout. It wasn't without flaws (what benchmarks are?) but it showed us that Ruby 1.9 is approximately double the speed of 1.8. […]
[…] O grande duelo de Ruby em Dezembro 2008 – O famoso duelo de Benchmarking de Antonio Cangiano. Não é sem defeitos (qual benchmark é?) mas mostrou que o Ruby 1.9 é aproximadamente 2 vezes mais rápido que o 1.8. […]
[…] The December 2008 Great Ruby Shootout – Antonio Cangiano's famous Ruby benchmarking shootout. It wasn't without flaws (what benchmarks are?) but it showed us that Ruby 1.9 is approximately double the speed of 1.8. […]
[…] The December 2008 Great Ruby Shootout […]
[…] a um mês atrás, Antonio Cangiano rodou alguns benchmarks com o Ruby 1.9.1 preview Ruby 1.9.1 fez números no minimo duas vezes mais rápidos que o Ruby 1.8.7. Isso é um grande […]
[…] 1.9.1. However, I fully replicated Antonio Cangiano's benchmarks in my test environment (see The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008)) and MRI 1.9.1. did indeed crush the other Ruby interpreters in Fibonacci number crunching (amongst […]
[…] So why would you skip over JRuby when that's exactly what it does? If you take a look at The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008) you'll see that JRuby is over 3 times as fast as the Ruby 1.8.6 VM. JRuby has gotten faster […]
Are there plans to do a shootout for 2009? It'll be interesting with all the progress rubinius has made.
[…] optimize your code… A great comparison of the different Ruby interpreters can be found here. It is a bit old, but helps getting the […]
[…] of the early goals for JRuby was to run Rails apps, and they've succeeded, while also being much faster than the reference […]
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The National Park system offers amazing natural wonders all over the country. Many travelers were disappointed in 2013 when the U.S. government shutdown closed the parks for several weeks. Now that budget deals have been signed, it appears that there won't be another shutdown in the near future. That makes this coming year a great time to visit one of the 58 National Parks in the USA. This is short list of parks in various parts of the country that are great for family, couple or solo trips.
Arches NP, South Dakota
The high desert of Utah is home to one of the most unique parks in the country. Arches National Park boasts over 2,000 naturally occurring stone arches. The arches form when wind and water erode away the softer stone below a harder top, leaving an arch, sometimes called a natural bridge. The arches here range from a couple of feet across to the 290 foot long Landscape Arch. Hiking trails abound throughout the park. The Fiery Furnace Trail is one of the most intense. The visitor is required to either check in and leave their itinerary at a ranger station or go with a Park Service guide. The nearby town of Moab offers additional outdoor activities like mountain biking, Jeep rentals and white water rafting.
Badlands NP, South Dakota
Anyone who has traveled west along Interstate 90 has seen the nearly ubiquitous signs for Wall Drug. While this is one of the most notorious tourist traps in the west, Wall is also the jumping off point for a visit to Badlands National Park. The Badlands feature some of the most amazing rock formations in the western United States. Centuries of wind and water have eroded the flat topography of southwestern South Dakota to reveal multicolored stone formations. The mounds and spires of the park are striped in red, gold, yellow and orange. It resembles a giant children's sand painting. There are hiking trails galore, but be advised. This is a beautiful, but difficult, landscape to cross. That being said, there are plenty of hikes that are short and easy enough for the kids, plus many more strenuous hikes for those looking for a little more adventure.
Great Smoky Mountains NP
Atop a ridge in the Appalachian Mountains, Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the Tennessee/North Carolina state line. This is the most visited National Park in the country, with over nine million visitors a year. Don't worry about feeling crowded, the park boast over 520,000 acres of land. The mountains get their name from the "smoke", really a thick mist, which rises from the trees. A great vantage point for seeing the park is from the top of Clingman's Dome, the highest spot in Tennessee. Black bears make their home in these woods and backpacker's should plan on sleeping in the bear shelters in designated areas of the park. Speaking of backpacking, the Appalachian Trail runs through the park.
Olympic NP, Washington
The far northwest corner of the continental United States is taken up by Olympic National Park. Part mountain range, part rain forest and part seashore, this park truly has something for everyone. One great excursion is to go to the top of Hurricane Ridge in the late spring. The mountain range is over a mile in the sky. There will more than likely still be snow on the ground. Put on your boots and hike through the snow, then drive down the mountain, ending up at the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Now take of those boots and wade in the Pacific Ocean. Olympic is one of the few places in the country where you can go from snow to seashore in an hour.
Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
The oldest and arguably the best of the U.S. National Parks, Yellowstone is located mainly in the northwest corner of Wyoming. However, the iconic Yellowstone entrance arch is in Gardiner, Montana. The park has mountains, geysers, lakes, rivers, and wildlife. In fact there are so many animals that it's almost like going to a large zoo, except there are no fences. Instead of being at the zoo, the visitor is inside the zoo. Care is encouraged for those up-close encounters with bison, elk and moose. Bear, wolves and coyotes can also be seen, but usually at a distance. There are more geysers in Yellowstone than anywhere else in the world. In all, over 10,000 thermal features encompassing geysers, steaming pools, mud pots and fumaroles cover the park. The best known is Old Faithful, which erupts every 60 to 90 minutes and draws some of the biggest crowds in the park.


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This question came up in an Internet discussion last week, and it is really an interesting question. Let's assume your grandfather is 60 years older than you are. This would take you back to around 1950. And if your grandfather was farming in 1950, he was using a lot of agricultural products on his farm. Despite the bucolic image of farming, it is terribly hard work, and farmers were pretty quick to adopt any new products that looked like they would make the job easier. And in the 1950s, insecticides and fertilizers were very common indeed.
To look at the history of this in perspective, we need to go much farther back than 50-60 years. Records show that sulfur was used as a pesticide by the Romans in 2000 BC, and by 100 BC, they were using extracts of hellebores (ranunculus) for insect control.
We know from colonial records that they were using nicotine (extracts of tobacco) as an insecticide as early as 1690, and rotenone was extracted from jicama and other plants as early as 1848 and used as an insecticide and to kill fish.
But the first real manmade pesticide came about in France quite by accident. In the Bordeaux region of France, growers had taken to spraying the grapes near the roads with a mixture of copper sulfate and lime to keep pilferers from stealing the grapes. It was bitter tasting and easily visible from the road.
However, this was a period when downy mildew was a serious problem on wine grapes, and botany Professor Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet of the University of Nancy noted that grapes near the roadway did not seem to be affected by the downy mildew. It was clear that the copper sulfate/lime mixture acted as a fungicide, and it was dubbed "Bordeaux mixture."
As Dixon notes, this was hardly an accidental discovery. Millardet developed the exact proportions and techniques for applying Bordeaux mixture through extensive experimentation. It is also interesting to note that this historical compound is highly poisonous and has been replaced by much safer and more effective fungicides today. Nonetheless, the organic growing industry insisted that it be allowed to continue to use it over newer, safer methods even though the EU had planned to ban it in 2002.
Millardet was also responsible for finding a way to battle the Phyloxera pest that was decimating the wine grapes in France, and for these two major accomplishments he could have been as famous as Petri or Bunsen had he been any sort of self-promoter.
Phyloxera, a sort of aphid-like pest, was accidentally introduced to France from the US where it was much less of a problem. Millardet and a colleague controlled the spread of phyloxera by grafting French grapevines onto American rootstock, creating a grapevine that was resistant to the bug, thus saving the French wine industry.
Farming in the 19th Century
My great-great grandfather, William A Cooper, emigrated from Wolverhampton, England to the US in 1840, settling on a small farm on land near Pittsburgh in what is now Oakmont, PA. We don't know exactly how small it was, but the tax rolls showed it valued at $240, much less than the neighboring farms. Nonetheless, he and his family farmed this land successfully until nearly 1890. This was most probably what we'd call a "subsistence farm," where they fed themselves, but probably had little excess crops or livestock to sell. This was the most common mode of farming in the 19th century although larger farms began to spring up by 1900.
In early farming, it was common to rotate crops between at least corn and alfalfa, so that the nitrogen required by the corn would be replaced by the legume, alfalfa. Sometimes farmers rotated through three or four crops, giving the soil a chance to rebuild.
Insecticides in the late 19th century were catch as catch can affairs, and mostly didn't work very well. Some farmers tried to chase away bugs by dragging logs around the perimeter of the field and filling the resulting trenches with kerosene, tar and the like. Arsenic based poisons like Paris Green (copper arsenite) and London purple, an arsenite of lime. Both were by-products of dye manufacture, and while they were marginally successful at insect control, they were quite poisonous to humans and led to some deaths among the hired hands, and eventually among a few consumers. This led to the banning of the arsenites, which actually didn't work all that well.
But the main transition in farming took place in the 1930s, when farmers were only 21% of the populace compared to 93.3% in the 1790s. Under these conditions, farmers began to specialize in single cash crops, leading to broad swathes of farmlands growing much the same crops. This quickly became an ideal "salad bar" for insects, and the pest problem became much worse.
In the 1930s, farmers were using:
- Arsenicals, 80-90 million pounds
- Sulfur, 73 million pounds
- Kerosene, 10 million gallons
- Mineral Oil Emulsion, 40 million pounds
- Naphthalene and paradichlorobenzene, 21 million pounds
- Pyrethrum, 10 million pounds
- Nicotine sulphate, 2 million pounds
- Rotenone, 1.5 million pounds
In addition, as international commerce increased, insects began to arrive from foreign shores who had no local natural enemies. Among those were San Jose scale, which was discovered in San Jose in 1881, but had probably come from China on some imported fruit trees. While there were natural enemies that could be imported in a few cases, overall, it was the vast number of immigrant insects that farmers had to deal with that turned them to chemical controls.
This took place much more effectively after World War II, with the introduction of DDT to farmers and the development of many hundreds of other similar insecticides. They were cheap, effective and seemed at first to be relatively harmless (to humans). However, as we now know from Rachel Carson's writings, some of these early insecticides bioaccumulated and had substantial environmental effects. Carson's book contained a number of exaggerations and assertions that turned out not to be true, but it did raise the consciousness of a whole generation of farmers and consumers about the safety and effectiveness of some of the chlorinated organics like DDT, and resulted in its banning in the US. DDT remains an important tool in fighting malaria and is still legally used in many tropical countries. The EPA also completely banned chlordane and heptachlor in 1973 because of their carcinogenicity.
In the US, however, this resulted in the introduction of considerably less toxic pesticides including Bt, as well as the reduction in the quantities used. Savage has detailed this reduction in toxicity recently.
So, if you grandfather farmed anytime since the late 19th century, he certainly used pesticides, and if he is farming today, he probably is using a lot fewer pesticides and most likely using ones that are considerably less harmful to humans and the environment.
Early farmers either rotated crops between heavy feeders like corn and restoring crops like alfalfa, or they simply moved to new ground once the land had become depleted. Of course, they also used whatever available manure they had to enrich the soil, but the amount of manure they really needed was often more than they could obtain from their livestock.
At the same time, farmers were trying to increase the yield of their crops, particularly of cash crops such as corn. As Crow points out, the usual approach was to select the tallest, strongest ears as seed for the next year's crops. However, this became less and less successful over time, because their corn was becoming inbred, and successive generations slowly became weaker.
G.H. Shull was born in 1874 into a family of sharecroppers, where he was one of eight children. Because of the demands of farming, he had little time for education and was largely self-taught. He did manage to work his way through high school and ended up teaching in a country school for a couple of years. Then, he went to Antioch College, where he worked as a janitor while studying, and managed to graduate near the top of his class. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with some of his Chicago colleages.
As early as 1876, Charles Darwin pointed out that inbreeding produced weaker plants, while cross-breeding produced stronger ones. However, once Mendel's laws were rediscovered in 1900, the reasons for this became obvious.
But it was Shull who pointed out in 1908 that hybrids between two inbred lines restored the original plants' vigor. This eventually led to the idea of 4-way crosses between the crosses of two inbred lines, and that is the methodology that Henry Wallace used to develop his first commercial hybrid seed. Later, techniques for predicting which crosses would be more productive allowed breeders to produce equally productive hybrids using just single crosses. These hybrids were stronger, more productive and more drought resistant and quickly became the only seeds farmers used by 1935. This was particularly important during the dust bowl period from 1934-36.
This corn was more productive and eventually required more nitrogen and thus the use of more fertilizers. And following World War II, nitrogen fertilizers became much more inexpensive and available. The great increase in productivity in corn farming was thus a combination of these more productive hybrids and the fertilizers farmers applied.
So, to conclude, your grandfather probably used pesticides and fertilizers just as we do today. However, the pesticides we use now are certainly safer and used in lower quantities. And, as Bruce Ames pointed out in his classic paper, 99% of the pesticides we find on plants were made by the plant itself for self-protection, and the amount of actual man-made pesticides is way too small to be of any significance.
Like Thomas Wolff said, You Can't Go Home Again. Farming has changed because of larger farms which attract more insects, foreign insects without natural enemies, and more productive hybrid cash crops that require more inputs such as fertilizers.
- Frederick Fishel, "Pest Management and Perspectives," University of Florida IFAS Extension, Publication #P1219, bit.ly/1lUvCRs
- Bernard Dixon, "Pushing Bordeaux Mixture," The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 4(9) 594, 2004. bit.ly/1dv3hfn
- James E McWilliams, "Let us Spray: the transition to manufactured insecticides," bit.ly/1roWQDx
- USDA. Farmer's Cyclopedia, Plant diseases, prevention and Control. 1919, bit.ly/1jwQD30
- Wessel's Living History Farm, "Early Pesticides; 1930s," bit.ly/NKH5H8
- Wessel's Living History Farm, "The Dawning of the Chemical Age of Pesticides: 1940s," http://bit.ly/1m65ZNF
- S. Savage, "Why you probably don't know that pesticides have changed," Applied Mythology blog, bit.ly/1iA7vqg
- James Crow, "90 Years ago: the beginning of hybrid maize," Genetic Society of America, bit.ly/1p5RgnI
- Bruce Ames, et. al., "Dietary Pesticides are 99.9% natural," Proc Natl Acad . Sci, 87, 7771-7781, 1990. bit.ly/1jboGAN


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5:56 p.m. (ET) - So Central has whipped through the first round and is now tearing through Round 2 -- 50 names have been voted upon. While I know it's probably killing you not to know who is rated where, my apologies. The final list is tentatively scheduled for release on April 9.
Beginning 9 a.m. Sunday morning, the boys will return to the conference room and look over the lists. It's possible a few hand votes will take place if there is a discrepancy somewhere.
4:17 p.m. (ET) - The OHL is now complete and that means the scouts will be voting on those players who should be considered in the first round, in order. Central Scouting Director Dan Marr (tongue in cheek) just asked me in front of the whole group, "Ok Mike, who do you take?"
A great honor indeed. But I passed. Marr is now just awaiting word from New York that 'Meeting Manager' is ready to accept votes. The scouts will then load in their first few picks and 'Meeting Manager' will then provide the average picks. Discussion will then commence.
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I'm very interested in finding out where Yakupov's teammate in Sarnia,
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2:15 p.m. (ET) - Jack Barzee still meandering through US West players and we're now discussing possible sixth-round picks. Al Jensen, David Gregory and Dan Marr all making their points as Barzee moves down his list.
1:10 p.m. (ET) - So Hockey Hall of Famer Jim Gregory opened up the afternoon with some inspiring and encouraging words. He basically told the boys how proud he is to be associated with such a great group of workers. The scouts then thanked Gregory.
Jack Barzee is now leading the talks on those U.S. - Western players on the chart. The players are from many U.S. colleges, high schools and the United States Hockey League, which includes the National Team Development Program. Needless to say, USNTDP defenseman
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EUGENE - In Wednesday's final non-conference action of the season, the No. 19 University of Oregon softball team (32-14, 7-8) came back to beat Portland State (25-25, 14-2) by a 5-4 score in the opener, but the Vikings earned revenge with a 4-1 victory in the nightcap in the doubleheader at Howe Field.
In the opener, PSU scored two runs in both the first and third innings to stake a 4-1 lead, but UO came back to tie the game, 4-4 in the fourth. Senior Neena Bryant then knocked in the deciding run in the fifth on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to the left field warning track - her fourth game-winning RBI of the season.
UO sophomore Mikayla Endicott (3-0) got the win in relief, and her eight strikeouts in 4.2 innings was one shy of her season and career high (9) vs. No. 1 Washington in mid-April. The Roseburg, Ore., native also walked one, and allowed no hits or runs.
After a walk by freshman Kaylan Howard in the second inning, freshman Allie Burger knocked in Oregon's first run with her team-leading third triple of the season.
In the third, UO cut it to 4-2 when Bryant tagged and scored on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Howard.
Oregon finally drew even, 4-4, in the fourth. Burger opened with a single, and after junior Ashley Kivett stroked a base hit to left field, Bryant walked to load the bases with one out. A fielder's choice by freshman Samantha Pappas scored Burger, and Kivett came across on a fielding error by the pitcher.
In her first start of the season at designated player, senior Shelley Deadmond came through with her first career double to open the fifth. After a pair of walks loaded the bases, Bryant connected on her team-leading third sacrifice fly of the season.
For the game, Burger went 2-for-2 with an RBI, and two other Ducks hit safely - Ashley Kivett (1-for-2, 2 walks) and Deadmond (1-for-3).
PSU sarter Tori Rogers pitched the first 3.1 innings, struck out five, walked five, allowed three hits, and two of her four runs allowed were earned. Reliever Nichole Latham (8-6) struck out one, walked two, gave up one hit, and her run allowed was earned.
In the second game, PSU staked a 1-0 lead in the second, scored another run in the fourth and two more in the seventh. UO's lone run came in the fifth on a delayed steal of home by junior Ashley Kivett after Pappas drew a throw to second base on the initial steal attempt.
The Las Flores, Calif., native Pappas went 3-for-4 for her team-high, sixth three-hit day of the season. Burger (2-for-3) singled twice, and Ashley Kivett, Howard and Deadmond each went 1-for-3.
Duck freshman Jessica Moore (13-9) struck out a career-high 14 batters - two more than her previous best with UO's third-best 'K' tally in school history. The Sutter, Calif., native walked two, gave up eight hits, and only one of her four runs allowed were earned in her 10th complete game of the season.
PSU starter Kendra Suhr (1-0), struck out one, walked one, allowed six hits and no runs. Anna Bertrand got her second save of the season, and struck out three, walked one, yielded two hits, and her one run allowed was earned.
Earlier this season in March, UO helped clinch its seventh series over PSU the last eight years with its 3-2 and 2-0 victories in Portland.
The Ducks return to action in their season finale series vs. No. 3 Arizona with single games Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. The season finale is also Senior Day, and UO's five-member class will be honored before their final game at Howe Field.
Promotion-wise, Friday's game is a Go 'O' Day, and fans that wear their 'Go O or Go Home' spirit t-shirt can receive a general admission ticket for $1. On Saturday, youth that wear Kidsports shirts get in free. Sunday's Senior Day is Mother's Day, and mothers get in free.
Fans should note that Sunday's home finale is scheduled one hour earlier than originally announced, and was changed Wednesday.
Game 1 - #19 Oregon 5, Portland State 4 (May 05, 2010 at Eugene, Ore.)
Portland State...... 202 000 0 - 4 8 3 (24-25)
Oregon.............. 011 210 X - 5 4 1 (32-13)
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On the 30th of August, 2006, at Caixaforum ( Barcelona ), Freesound organized a multitudinous (more than 300 people) performance and sound recording called "La audiencia disponible". This sound is one of those recorded that day. Among who made all this possible there is Ruben Grilo, Bram de jong and Jaume Ferrete, with Jose Lozano on sound and Mateo Vergara as crowd conductor and the help and support of Carmen Garrido director of La Mediateca at Fundació la Caixa. Screaming, yelling, everybody at the same time.
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Syracuse University Outdoor Education offers a variety of teambuilding program options, including both an indoor and outdoor challenge course, as well as a portable teambuilding program, which can bring the adventure to a location of your groups choosing!
The Outdoor Education Center and Challenge Course located at 600 Skytop Rd. on the Syracuse University South Campus (behind the Inn Complete) offers a variety of teambuilding program options that will challenge your group to engage each other in a unique learning environment. In that environment, our facilitation staff will work with your group to help them build relationships, establish trust and camaraderie, as they move through a series of activities, designed to help take your group to the next level, both literally and metaphorically, as you ascend the Outdoor Challenge Course.
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HTC is getting ready to launch a red version of the One Max, its first phablet. We now know this because of a leaked promotional flyer coming from FarEasTone, a carrier in HTC's home country of Taiwan.
The HTC One Max was officially announced in mid-October following weeks upon weeks of leaked details. The phablet has so far been available only in silver. But it looks like HTC wants to spice things up a bit and thus go for the much more in-your-face red hue. This will be sure to appeal to some.
And with the new color the Taiwanese company may be hoping to boost sales of the One Max ever so slightly. The One also got new color versions, such as red and blue, at some point after its initial release, so this strategy isn't really new for HTC.
We don't expect there to be any other differences between the red One Max and the silver model, save for the color. So the red HTC One Max should sport the same 5.9-inch 1080p Full HD touchscreen, 4 MP UltraPixel rear camera, 2 MP front camera, 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 or 32 GB of storage, all the connectivity options you can think of, and a 3,300 mAh battery. It should also run Android 4.3 Jelly Bean from day one.


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Ok, I figured I'd make a sticky of this because a lot of people get this error, and instead of 100 individual posts about the same error being made, why not just one post that explains the fix. What I am talking about is if you go to load up Jedi Outcast after installation, whether its from a new format of the hard drive, or just for the first time, and you are all excited and you get this error:
You begin to freak out because you are unsure of what this means, so you come here to the Lucasforums, and the answer to this dilemma is that you need updated drivers that have support for OpenGL.
Here are some of the more popular video card manufacturer websites which have drivers that support OpenGL:
http://www.nvidia.com For those with GeForce, Ti, MX, and other cards (the recommended download is version 30.18 i believe, but I personally go with the Detonation Drivers, which are pretty stable, and you can access them under Download Drivers-> Download drivers-> Graphics and Drivers- > Detonator 40-> [Choose OS]
http://www.ati.com For Those with Radeon cards.
So, hopefully, this will solve the basic OpenGL subsystem errors.
But what the heck should i do when i got a diffrent graphic card called SiS(kinda good but also no one knows it)
I am about to explode cause i cant figure out why this piece of junk demo(jk2) wont work....
your drivers didnt help me....
PLZ Could you find something else?
What you should have done before downloading the demo was to check to see if your computer met the specifications of ALL the requirements for JK2. Because with the newer the games, the bigger the demand for high-performing video cards. And your SiS video card is probably an integrated one, (built onto the motherboard) which games like Q3 and Jedi Outcast give a run for their money. Jedi Outcast is a farily high maintanence game with graphics.
I know i've seen somewhere that will allow Jedi Outcast to run in D3D (Direct3D) and it having to do with some command parameter, but the command is escaping me.
so that means i cant play this rottn game with my damn Graphic card or what?...........i really hate my life....
Well, you still might be able to play, but there are no guarantees on how the game will look. Like I said, there is a way to get the game to run Direct3d, or at least that's what I've heard, but I personally do not know where this setting would be.
Well......if you dont know it....then who else could know this? and why the heck can i play Q3A and not Jk2.............THIS IS REALLY SCARY!
I am a Star Wars fan, but my damn Computer isnt one.......PIECE OF JUNK!!! REALLY!!!
Does someone out there know how to set there parameters or something....PLEASE!!! I BEG YOU!
God hates me.....
I can play almost EVERY Q3 engine game.....but only JK2 wont work........
you know Star Trek Voyager? its based on Q3A too and i play it the whole day long....But this Goddamn Graphic card is driving me crazy........i hate my life no kidding
Ummm andy thats fine and dandy and all but 1 prob. What u just said is straight common sense. I came to this forum becuz i reformatted my comp and now opengl won't work. I went to www.ati.com cuz i have Rage 128 pro to install the newest display driver but it says its not compatible with my display adaptor which is impossible. What do i do now einstein:confused: I'm stuck with diablo2 L.O.D. untill you can help me.
I figured it out on my own. If the new driver won't install it may be because you video card came with you comp. and if that is so you will have to download the driver directly from the manufacturer for example dell.
Dont understand
Dont understand an word what u guys saying i dont know what driver i have how do u know what driver u have. And can u gimme an link for the driver Exact so i can download. THX THX THX:(
ok... just trying to clarify, I've got the most recent drivers from Nvidia, (41.09) and I'm still getting the message that prompted this thread. Should I back my drivers down? or should I just give up?:fett: a prompt answer would be nice, but I understand if one can not be given (seeing as how there are several who have moved on to bigger games)
Still get error messages using both newest and "suggested" drivers
Already have the most up-to-date drivers installed on my rig - Athlon XP 1800 + Abit NF7-S NForce2 + GeForce2 GTS - and still getting that OGL error. Any other ideas?
EDIT: Fixed it. My problem apparently is that I was running the Nvidia Nforce2 drivers, but not the 41.09 Detonator drivers. The Nforce2 drivers recognized my GF2 GTS in the Display Control Panel, but must not have included the OGL support like the Detonators do. I just took a wild guess and installed the 41.09 Detonator drivers on top of the Nforce2 drivers, and that got it working. I didn't uninstall the Nforce2 drivers, despite being warned by the Detonator Setup program that could cause problems, I just installed Detonator right on top of Nforce2. No problems yet, and the game works.
Hope this is helpful to others.
I have finally found the solution to all this ;)
After hours of search on the net, trying all sorts of drivers the game finally starts normally.
I am now playing JKII on a 3 years old laptop (Compaq Presario 1200XL109) which has a Trident CyberBlade i7 with 8MB memory (shared with RAM!!!) by disabling most of the visual effects (which doesn't bother me).
This graphic card has only OpenGL support in windows98 but now I can fully use it under Windows XP Pro.
I haven't advanced single player mode a lot (and I guess that it would get somewhat slow at later larger stages) but for now I am very happy that I can play multiplayer without a glitch ;)
Enough babbling, on with the essential steps :
1. As others have already stated : Find the most updated drivers for your graphic card. This should eliminate all problems with OpenGL.
2. If you have an old (and probably obsolete) graphic card, download GLDirect from
www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/gld/gldirect-3.0.0.exe (21 days shareware :( )
Install it. Go to the control panel and click on SciTech GLDirect.
On the Main tab, under Set Rendering Options choose "Maximum Performance (Use SciTech GLDirect GAME Driver)", then under it Hardware (Direct3D Hardware Acceleration). Make sure your "Select Display Device" is correct.
Under the Advanced tab, you should only tick on "Always Blit (primary only)" and "Enable Mipmapping". You should experiment with turning these on and off (not necessarily simultaneously) and see what works best for you.
That's all folks ;)
I really hope that this works for other people too. Those especially with Voodoo cards who seem to have the most problems.
Hey qwerty52
i went to look for other GlDirect downloads which werent going to be shareware but it kept puting up some Scitech GLDirect.wats the difference between them both???
I´ve recently had the "GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem" problem, updating my videocard drivers did not help after a while i discovered that I had another porgram that was causing this, it was MatLab , i just closed the matlab.exe and matlabserver that were in the taskmanager and it solve the problem.
There are two solutions to this problem.
1. GLDirect - works fine imitating OpenGL, but after 21 days you have to pay and it may slow your gaming down
2. Update your display adapters as one helpful soul suggested I do. Display upgrades should be free and will solve almost every OpenGL crisis.
Works wonders :D
Actually GLDirect didn't work for me either, and neither did driver updates.
Seems like I'm doomed never to be able to play this damn game... :cry:
What are your system specs, and what video card do you have?
sys specs:
Win XP Pro
voodoo3 2000 PCI
I actually made a topic concerning my probs in more detail a but further down on the forum - it's called 'voodoo 3 issues'
I have tried all the fixes in the other sticky, btw - wickedGL and everything. :P
I heard if you renamed jk2sp.exe to quake3.exe or something like that, WickedGL would be able to install the necessary components to get GL working for the Voodoo3 series. But even if you could get it working, the game would be running extremely slow because of the processor and the video card.
I did actually try that. WickedGL installed the opengl32.dll file to the gamedata folder however this dll file was actually older than the one that I already have with WinXP. Needless to say, it didn't work. Maybe it was the fact that I couldn't find a new version of wickedGL and was using a circa 2000 build?
I have a
2.2 GHz
some kind of Nvidia graphics card
anyway, I had this error when I first tried JKII and I installed the detonator and everything worked beautifully. Anyway, a little while ago I decided I wasn't playing it anymore and uninstalled it. Of course now I really want to play again, and I'm getting the openGL error.
Well, I tried installing the new detonator and it doesn't work. :(
I only read the first page, I hope that you guys haven't answered this problem 10 times already.
me too
I have the same problem,the firts time that I installed the game didn´t have a problem, I uninstalled it and reinstalled everytime I want, the game never showed a problem and 1 year later the game start to show this error.
COMPUTER do you WANT TO FLY OUT THE WINDOW!!!, superman wannabe
i have updated my card and still have probs my friend now says i ned patches or sumit is this true if so why??
does everyone run the game in safe mode and do i need to change my ares from local to national, my friend is making me angry:atat:
I tried to update my driver but it says a major woraning like: This could mess up your computer real bad if it doesn't work. :(
That warning probably is the digital signing warning that appears that says that this device has not been digitally signed by Microsoft Corp. and may cause problems and instability in your system. And it gives 2 options, Continue Anyways or Stop the Installation (or something to that effect)
All it means is that Microsoft has not certified that version of drivers as of yet as being 100% without-a-doubt compatible... But if you downloaded the right version for your video card, you will be fine by selecting Continue Anyways (guessing that you are running XP probably)
I was having problems with this game with the latest drivers from nvidia. I installed the 44.03 whql certified driver from last november and it fixed all my problems. Note that the newest drivers are whql certified for the fx line, not the geforce, even though they are listed for both. Hope this helps.
P.S. I have a gf2 gts/pro. I had extreme choppiness in the in game menu and loading problems with the newer drivers.
What are your system specs besides the video card? The choppiness could be the CPU, RAM, Swap File... any # of things can cause it.. Maxing out the graphic details.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. The older drivers fixed everything, including the choppiness in the menus. I can now run the game at highest detail settings so long as I keep the resolution at 800X600. Haven't tried 1024X768 but I dought that it will run it with quality setting due to the gf2. My 9500pro will arrive tomorrow though, so that will change.:D
make sure to remove the old drivers before even installing the video card into the machine, or it will cause problems.
I will, I read your advice about regcleaner so I downloaded it and tried it out. It's a great program. I have heard that ati reccomends that you use the power plug going to a hard drive for the card, but I have an extra plug not in use. Don't you think it would be better to use the spare one?
Well...I am having this problem after fresh reformatting my system (got that fricken windows blast worm grrr) Anyways, before I reformatted I could play JK II just fine now I get this OpenGL problem.
I have an RAGE 128 PRO Ultra GL
I cant just go update my drivers though, I have a newer driver set than what ATI has available to download on their website.
Mine is version 188.8.131.5219 and the one available on ATI's site is version 6.13.3279
I have tried GLDirect, but it slow's the game incredibly. Anyone have any suggestuions on a course of action?
my system specs;
Dell Dimension 4400
P4 1.6Ghz
RAGE 128 PRO Ultra GL AGP
40x CDRW
you still may want to try the ATI's listed drivers since they may contain the OpenGL system instructions that will allow you to play JO.
That's true.
Just a pain in the neck to download a 9 meg file when one only has a 56k modem :p
Try using a download manager like Download Accelerator which helps to improve download speeds, even on a 56k dial-up, and most of the time, allows users to resume their downloads which is convenient especially for our dial-up users.
and all worked fine, until I downoaded some updates from
microsoft, then i get error message.
I uninstalled, then re-installed game, and all ok,
Hope this helps
had that problem with a Nvidia card
go to nividia and dl the update driver that help me :compcry: :swear:
p.s try directx update too
got problems too
i got problems too with jk2. my pc is
ow yeah, i've downloaded a driver already on nvidia.com, but my brother is the administrator on my pc ( :bdroid1: not fun) but he don't want to install the driver. he says it's a bad one, but it isn't because i used it earlier! i need to know his password :D .
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Pay's For A's is a program that rewards students who have earned an "A" on their report card. In order to receive the reward (prize pack), your child must bring their report card to Valley West Mall's Guest Services. Each prize pack offers a free pretzel from Auntie Anne's, a chocolate mouse from Chocolaterie Stam, and a toy or piece of candy from the prize box at Games and More!
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Dick Cheney in Washington D.C. on Feb. 18 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Today, former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from George Washington University Hospital after suffering a mild heart attack. Cheney was hospitalized on Monday after complaining of chest pains. Stress tests and a heart catheterization confirmed that the pains were caused by heart attack.
This is the fifth heart attack in Cheney's medical history, with the first occuring in 1978 at the young age of 37. Cheney is now 69 years old.
The former Vice President was described as being in good spirits, and reportedly had lunch in his hospital room with two visitors yesterday, even working to edit a chapter of the book he is currently writing. Cheney is expected to resume his regular schedule soon.
Cheney recently made a surprise appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Thursday, just three days before his heart attack. Perhaps the thunderous applause he received from the crowd was a bit much for the man.
Cheney not only has a history of suffering heart attacks, but also causing them, as in 2006, when he shot 78 year old Texas attorney Harry Whittington in the face with bird shot, while hunting on Valentine's Day. Whittington survived a heart attack and atrial fibrillation as a result of at least one lead-shot pellet lodging in, or near, his heart.
This month, The Boston Channel published an informative bulletin from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on heart attack warning signs. It reminds us that mere minutes matter at the onset of a heart attack, and that not all heart attacks have sudden, obvious symptoms.
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Special Investigators - Episode 1 - MOTUEKA TRACTOR FATALITY
"The fact is that the seatbelt was available. It wasn't used, and we'll never know of course, but it could have meant the difference between life and death or serious injury."
Department of Labour inspector Ron Burt
A Nelson man who was fatally crushed when his tractor tipped over a bank had worked with tractors for most of his life. One simple act could have saved his life - fastening his seatbelt.
Hudson Boyes was employed to maintain a Nelson vineyard and gardens. One day in January 2005, Hudson hired a 2004 Kubota tractor - in near-new condition, fitted with a safety frame, front-end loader and a seat belt. There were clear signs advising the tractor operator to wear the seatbelt, and this information was repeated in the operator instructions of the hire agreement. To put it simply, the equipment was safe for its intended use.
Image 1: Kubota Tractor Safety Notices
There was no reason why it shouldn't be a straightforward job - Hudson had carried out this kind of work before and was familiar with the property.
The Department of Labour's investigation into the accident identified that Hudson lost control of the tractor while mowing the side of a bank covered in heavy grass. The tractor went over the edge of the bank and rolled, dropping the driver from the seat and landing on him.
Long grass and blackberry growth along the edge of the bank meant Hudson couldn't easily identify the edge of the bank. A tree planted near the edge of the bank reduced his driving space.
An action as simple as walking along the bank or fencing along the edge of the creek could have helped define the edge of the bank.
Tragically, it was the simplest action which could have played the most important role in saving Hudson's life - fastening the seatbelt.
Inspector Ron Burt sums it up: "He's done all the right things apart from putting the seatbelt on."
DOs AND DON'Ts
- Get to know the intended work area and select equipment that's appropriate for the location and the task. Consider ground conditions, slope, holes or ditches, power lines etc
- Understand how your equipment works and any safety features - this is especially important if hiring unfamiliar equipment
- Specify a ROPS frame and seat belt and use the seat belt at all times
- In the event of a rollover, stay within the protective cage - don't try and jump out as you may get trapped by the vehicle or the frame
- Guard all power takeoff shafts and other dangerous parts
- Ensure all power is turned off before clearing blockages
- Before getting off a tractor disengage the drive, put the handbrake on and switch off the ignition
- Make sure you have some way of contacting people in an emergency - carry a mobile phone
- Make sure someone knows where you are and when you're expected back
- Tractors are involved in about 19% of all fatal injuries on farms and about 7% of injuries requiring hospitalisation
- Almost a quarter of tractor injuries involve falls (eg dismounting) 20% result from being run over, 13% from rollovers and 11% from overturns
- A Swedish study found that between 1964 and 1986 roll over fatalities decreased from 12 to 0.2 per 100,000 farm tractors. During that same period, the proportion of tractors equipped with ROPS increased from 6% to 93%, and the total number of tractors rose by 275%
- Studies in the USA have shown similar results. NIOSH (the USA body National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) reported that while 40% of people died in tractor roll-over accidents in a study, only 2% in another study died from similar incidents in which ROPS were fitted (the 2% who died weren't wearing seat belts)


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Hansel and Gretel might not have needed that trail of bread crumbs if they'd used TruePosition's location software and services. The company provides wireless positioning applications (using a variety of technologies including GPS and cellular) that it sells to wireless carriers and enterprises. Its software and related network devices enable a 911 service for carriers, allowing them to pinpoint an emergency caller's location, as well as enabling traffic alerts, turn-by-turn directions, and directory assistance. TruePosition also provides consulting, systems integration, network design and support, and training services. Founded in 1992, the company owns more than 300 patents and is owned by