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Tarsnap: On-line Backups for the Truly Paranoid
Your Current Account Balance Is $4.992238237884881224
Tarsnap works on a prepaid utility-metered model. Subscribers deposit a minimum of $5.00 and are charged only for the storage and bandwidth they consume. Although the cost is higher than plain Amazon S3 service, it reflects both the cryptographic, compression and deduplication value-add of Tarsnap. At the time of this writing, Tarsnap costs 30 cents per gigabyte-month for storage and 30 cents per gigabyte transmitted.
This cost may make Tarsnap infeasible for large, whole-server terabyte-size backups. However, it is ideal for critical, sensitive files that must be durable, available and safe in the event an attacker succeeded in compromising them. With no minimum charge or monthly fees, Tarsnap is very economical for small data sets or for data that compresses well. Some examples:
Backing up 100MB of files with 10% daily change rate for a month would cost only 30 cents.
A gigabyte that is backed up weekly with a 20% change rate would cost $1.40 a month.
Tarsnap bills based on attodollars (quintillionths of a dollar) to avoid profiting through rounding. This means your account balance is tracked to 18 decimal places. This is not just "pay by the drink" cloud pricing—it's practically "pay by the atom". Some users find that a small deposit lasts them months or years.
Important Flexibility
One of Tarsnap's best features is how easy it is to script.
The ability to put a
tarsnap cf command into a shell script makes
use in cron jobs very straightforward, which encourages unattended,
automated backups—the best kind.
Crucially, Tarsnap also supports a division of responsibilities. You can use the tarsnap-keymgmt tool to create keyfiles with limited authority. You may have one keyfile that lives on your server with permission to create archives, but not the authority to delete them. A master key with full privileges could be kept off-site, so that if attackers were to compromise your server, they would be unable to destroy your backups.
Using Tarsnap
To get started with Tarsnap, register at tarsnap.com, deposit some funds into your account, and download the client.
The client is available only as source, but the straightforward
./configure ; make install process is very easy. The client is
supported on all major Linux distributions (as well as BSD-based systems).
Take a quick peek at the download page to make sure you have the required
operating system packages, as some of the development packages are not
installed in typical Linux configurations.
If you are using a firewall, be aware that Tarsnap communicates via TCP on port 9279.
There are only two critical configuration items: the location of your keyfile and the location of your Tarsnap cache. Both are set in /usr/local/etc/tarsnap.conf. A tarsnap.conf.example is provided, and you probably can just copy the example as is. It defines your Tarsnap key as /root/tarsnap.key and your cache directory as /usr/local/tarsnap-cache, which will be created if it doesn't exist. The cachedir is a small state-tracking directory that lets Tarsnap keep track of backups.
Next, register your machine as follows. In this case, I'm setting up Tarsnap service for a machine called helicarrier. The e-mail address and password are the ones I used when I signed up for service with Tarsnap:
# tarsnap-keygen --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key
↪--user firstname.lastname@example.com --machine helicarrier
Enter tarsnap account password:
I have a directory I'd like to back up with Tarsnap:
# ls -l /docs
total 2092
-rw-rw---- 1 andrew 1833222 Jun 14 16:38 2011 Tax Return.pdf
-rw------- 1 andrew 48568 Jun 14 16:41 andrew_passwords.psafe3
-rw------- 1 tina 14271 Jun 14 16:42 tina_passwords.psafe3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew 48128 Jun 14 16:41 vacation_hotels.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew 46014 Jun 14 16:35 vacation_notes.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew 134959 Jun 14 16:44 vacation_reservation.pdf
To back up, I just tell Tarsnap what name I want to call my archive ("docs.20120701" in this case) and which directory to back up. There's no requirement to use a date string in the archive name, but it makes versioning straightforward, as you'll see:
# tarsnap cf docs.20120701 /docs
tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
Total size Compressed size
All archives 2132325 1815898
(unique data) 2132325 1815898
This archive 2132325 1815898
New data 2132325 1815898
In my tarsnap.conf, I enabled the
print-stats directive, which gives
the account report shown. Note the compression, which reduces storage
costs and improves cryptographic security. The "compressed
size" of the
"unique data" shows how much data is actually stored at
Tarsnap, and you
pay only for the compressed size.
The next day, I back up docs again to "docs.20120702". If I haven't made many changes, the backup will proceed very quickly and use little additional space:
# tarsnap cf docs.20120702 /docs
tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
Total size Compressed size
All archives 4264650 3631796
(unique data) 2132770 1816935
This archive 2132325 1815898
New data 445 1037
As you can see, although the amount of data for "all archives" has grown, the actual amount of "unique data" has barely increased. Tarsnap is smart enough to avoid backing up data that has not changed.
Andrew Fabbro is a senior technologist living in the Portland, Oregon, area. He's used Linux since Slackware came on floppies and presently works for Con-way, a Fortune 500 transportation company.
great article
I use duplicity too.
I'm curious how Tarsnap measures up against encryption brute force on GPU clusters made to crack passwords. It wasn't that long ago a machine was used to crack any password within 5 hours through a large cluster of GPUs. I'm still a bit skeptical of cloud backups, but perhaps I should be more afraid of using Gmail for that matter. At least Tarsnap doesn't trap my info for eternity with no knowledge of who has access to it. - Ron @ bpl
http? It seems like they do
http? It seems like they do not care about security anyway.
duplicy offers same features -- on own system
I use duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) for a year which offers the same features beside the commercial backup space.
Duplicity use OpenGPG as encryption (key or passphrase based).
From the page, duplicity supports "local file storage, scp/ssh, ftp, rsync, HSI, WebDAV, Tahoe-LAFS, and Amazon S3".
Yes, you need your own backup space. But there are reliable 100GB storage for $5 to $7/month out (and a lot other ones, some smaller but free...).
Thanks for the post. Nice
Thanks for the post. Nice solution for an on-line backup, liked the price scheme too. And of source: that it's a tar based solution.
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Axion Power Concentrator 245: June 19: Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013 318 commentsJun 19, 2013 4:47 PM | about stocks: AXPW
Latest News, Articles and Presentations...
Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013-Press Release
Excerpts from the First Quarter 10-Q --
"Our hybrid passenger vehicle work has entered a new phase. The OEM, in an anticipated effort to insure they will not have a "sole source" issue, has asked us to pursue with them, an alternate provider of our final product. Since this initiative is in keeping with our long stated future strategy ("to become the leading supplier of carbon electrode assemblies for the global lead-acid battery industry"), we embraced the process. We are a few months into that program and it is going well."
"The second hybrid truck program we have been working on is a dual battery design for a truck stop/start technology. This is very similar to the stop/start initiative we have been working toward with passenger vehicle OEM's, except that the battery sizes are larger. In this stop/start program, we have an historical industry leader as an initial strategic partner. We are in the early stages with this program, but we have been told that, if initial data continues to trend as we have predicted, then we will be able to incorporate data we developed in our passenger vehicle stop/start program. This is significant because it will literally reduce time to market by at least 1/3 rd."
"Our Phase II proof of concept effort includes collaboration with strategic partners chosen for their expertise in the development of compatible vehicle systems that are essential for our entry into both historical and emerging markets. The unique properties our PbC® battery exhibits - long cycle life; high charge acceptance; fast re-charge; and inherent string equalization - create a strong case for PbC adoption by historical industry leaders and by those with new cutting edge technologies. Our application pointed out, as further evidence of our potential place in those markets, that we are in various stages of lab or field vehicle testing with these strategic partners."
Axion Power Completes Private Placement for $9 Million in Senior Convertible Notes With Warrants and $1 Million in Subordinated Unsecured Notes With Warrants --
the developer of advanced lead-carbon PbC® batteries and energy storage systems, announced today that it has completed a private placement of $9 million principal amount of senior convertible notes and warrants with institutional investors and an additional $1 millionprincipal amount of subordinated unsecured convertible notes and warrants in an ancillary transaction with directors, officers and one of the original Axion founders. Maxim Group LLC acted as placement agent.
Axion Power on Panel at Energy Storage Economics 2.0 for New YOrk City and Beyond --
The developer of advanced lead-carbon PbC® batteries and energy storage systems, announced its Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Vani Dantam, has been invited to participate as a panel expert on energy storage, at the upcoming AGRION event in NYC.
Axion Power's CEO Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thomas Granville CEO: "We left the designation 'development stage company' in the dust in 2012 and there's no slowdown in sight."
Axion Power Reports Results for 2012 --
Axion Power Completes New Continuous Roll Carbon Sheeting Process
"This is a giant leap forward for us and allows us to make a better product at a reduced cost," said Axion Power's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Granville. "It's the final step in automating our complete activated carbon negative electrode manufacturing process and it brings us tighter quality control, better production yields, meaningful production quantities and significant labor cost reductions..."
--------------------------------------------------------------------Axion Power and EPower Engine Systems Inaugurate Strategic Alliance Using PbC Batteries in Hybrid Drivetrains for Class 8 Trucks
Dr. Ed Buiel, Axion's CTO until the end of 2010 -- A link to an archive of his comments on yadoodle about the PbC battery and much more. Invaluable commentary! Thanks to 481086 for putting the list together.
Axion Power PbC Batteries Continue To Demonstrate Effectiveness For Railroad Applications -- Axion completed shipping its high-performance PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NS), one of North America's leading transportation providers, for use in Norfolk Southern's first all electric locomotive - the NS-999.
Axion Power Residential Energy Storage HUB Certified to UL, CSA Standards -- Axion receives UL certification and CSA Standards for their Residential Energy Storage HUB.
"ePower's Series Hybrid Electric Drive - Unmatched Fuel Economy for Heavy Trucks" -- by John Petersen. Discusses the potential fuel savings for ePower's Hybrid electric drive for class 8 trucks using Axion's PbC batteries.
"Axion Power - A Battery Manufacturer Charging Forward" -- by John Petersen. This is an excellent summation on Axion Power's history. It is a good starting point for introducing Axion Power to friends and family.
Axion Power Weighted Moving Average Prices and Volume:
(updated through 06/17/2013)
Axion Power Monthly Volume versus FINRA Short Percentage:
(by John Petersen)
In late January I wrote an Instablog about the precipitous decline in reported FINRA short sales as a percentage of total trading volume. Over the last two weeks that trend has accelerated and the percentages for the month of February and the last four weeks are solidly in single digits. I view this graph as another confirmation of seller exhaustion. The big uglies are history and it looks like everybody who really wanted to sell already has.
John Petersen's instablog here.
Links to important Axion Power research and websites:
The Axion Power Concentrator Web Sites, created by APC commentator Bangwhiz. It is a complete easy-to-use online archive of all the information contained in the entire Axion Power Concentrator series from day one, including reports, articles, comments and posted links.
Axion Power Wikispaces Web Site, created by APC commentator WDD. It is an excellent ongoing notebook aggregation of Axion Power facts.
Axion Power Website. The first place any prospective investor should go and thoroughly explore with all SEC filings and investor presentations as well as past and present Press Releases.
Axion Power Intra day Statistics Tracking: (updated 6/1/2013) HTL tracks and charts AXPW's intra-day statistics.
PbC Cost Estimating Spreadsheet and Instablog: Apmarshall62 put together an instablog for estimating costs of the PbC. It includes a downloadable spreadsheet that you can use to plug in your own cost estimations.
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"oddly enough",
I enjoy these postings. I view this as a fire and forget investment. I like the technology, and the fact the company is playing with an auto giant, a rail giant, a trucking firm, and the tech appears to have potential in both industrial and home settings.
Sometimes, I think you just have to appreciate the overall picture, and not count the blades of grass. It might not work out, but if my micro cap is gonna have some playmates, these are the playmates I would choose. Relationships strengthen and weaken, but AXPW has had some important guests in its little sandbox.
06/19/2013: EOD stuff partially copied from instablog (up later).
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8:29 AM Ryder (R) says it took delivery of 39 light and medium duty compressed vehicles with natural gas engines. The development only marks a small step forward for taking natural gas engines into the mainstream, but could bode well for Westport Innovations (WPRT), Cummins (CMI), and Navistar (NAV) if more commercial operations dabble with CNG-powered vehicles. [Consumer] 1 Comment
Let's Ask John Peterson
Axion has the most difficult PR dynamic I've ever encountered because the PbC is a completely new technology and current applications were not designed to take advantage of its strengths. In fact, current applications scrupulously avoided the PbC's sweet spot because other battery technologies couldn't stand the strain.
2. testing and validation cycles that resemble sex with a gorilla where you're not done till they say you're done and the best news is usually "well we haven't been killed yet;"
3. a complicated technical story that doesn't comport with common knowledge and urban legend;
4. knowledge that expectations are easier to create than they are to satisfy in a business where the customer is calling the shots;
5. the inherent difficulty of developing a totally new technology and then inventing totally new manufacturing methods to make the darned thing; and
6. a fiscal conservatism that precludes spending lots of time and money on roadshows where you can't show much more than shadow puppets.
Thanks for that. What you say resonates and is an echo of my suspicions.
NS went beyond evaluation when they bought a full set of batteries to get the NS 999 back on the rails. The batteries were delivered in December and the locomotive has been in the shop for several months now. People are incredibly impatient waiting for it to see the light of day, but it certainly seems that NS has gone a step or two beyond the tire kicking phase.
>Valleywood ... Do you have a feel for this new VP of Research and Advanced Technology, Tom W. Schnautz? Previously, Mr. Thelen, a hardware centric guy, was the champion of battery electric locomotives by exploring both the Green Goat & BP4 and I just can't figure out if Mr. Schnautz is interested in evaluating the NS999 project before moving on or burying it. I know he is an EE and very interested in LEADER & UTCS, but I just can't figure if he's a kind of exclusionary actor. Pushing his predecessor's projects that aren't currently critical out until his interests are completed.
JP - well said, throughout. And finally, yes, the gorilla (musk, tier 1 etc) can do whatever the gorilla wants (win or lose, profitable or not, etc.); but for those dependent upon the gorilla (AXPW), not so much. In fact beware of the gorilla droppings; plus be able to dance when dance is called for, etc., like, if you want to eat well, don't tick off the cook.
I have no sense of Messrs. Schnautz or Thelen. They both are from what is called the Mechanical Department. The Mechanical Department is locomotives & rolling stock. I worked in Engineering. That's the right-of-way, bridges, structures, buildings, & rail. I have not had a relationship with either of these men.
>Valleywood ... I'm just a railroad enthusiast. Have been since I was a kid when my mother let me "play" with her father's friend that had set up a prototypical B&O Baltimore-Wilmington Sector. He was the VP for operations and had about the coolest model layout I've ever seen. I came to Axion as a shareholder in 2007 but had been following the technology since the early 1990's because of rail applications.
1. I have not actually identified who my Altoona contact is.
>LabTech ... If you're just hungry for NS999 news, here is a nose shot from the Altoona Works website. In the section labeled Miscellaneous, Page 10, May 2013.
Wtb: I Some good stuff here
I am thinking back to the Exide fiasco, when Axion and Exide jointly applied for and then received $35MM for research from the Feds, only to see the money stay with Exide and never go to Axion. We as a group have savaged Exide for this, but why was our management so incompetent that they could not write a contract that was binding on all parties, or perhaps why could they not forge a working relationship with Exide after receipt of the funds (an alternative scenario)? Then we have the failure with Rosewater, a group with sympathetic management who are large stakeholders in Axion, and yet they are now so disgusted they have removed any mention of Axion from their website.
The DOE grant to Exide with Axion Power was a monumental error by government employees who blithely assumed that two public companies could simply play nice and share their toys. What they didn't understand was that Exide couldn't legally share with Axion without extracting another pound of flesh and Axion wouldn't to sell its heart and soul to Exide in exchange for money that Exide would never have gotten without Axion's technology.
Rick, not saying you're all wet here. Not at all. I also am puzzled as to management performance. I will however offer two anecdotes.
AES to provide energy storage facility for PJM market in Ohio
The fact that some storage "designs" can be "portable" is actually a good reminder. So many different "jurisdictions" to deal with (and, um, "invest" in) ... rules change and it's a small consolation to know that, if you think ahead, you can pick up your ball and go play somewhere else if you don't like the current instance of the rules.
WTB, That's why I like the containerized design. If the regulators in one area change the rules in a manner that doesn't suit your economic needs you pick up and move on. You can also do a little movement as load conditions adjust.
This whole thing with management seems like a relationship going bad and could explain why this board as to deal with the trolls, maybe sometime in the past they were us and had the same experience with what we seem to be going through at this point.
Round II. Ding ding ding....
siliconhillbilly, contributorComments (2753) | + Follow Following - UnfollowIt sounds like a straight forward admission that Li cells are not yet very useful in auto transportation. For whatever reason.
Bosch says eboosting is only a niche technology
It depends on where and when. In Texas, it's around $50 / MWH, but when it get hot, the price can be pushed up to $5000 / MWH. You can't make much on the low end, so the trick is to fill up at night and hope you get a lot of hot sunny days.
More electrification. And it's a safety related function.
What's more effective? AGM with ultracaps or flooded with PbC?
Mack concluded that the HyBoost approach can provide the benefits of electrification at a much lower cost than a full hybrid, making it more appealing to the mass market."
Got a Phase II SBIR grant last year.
Inmatech Enters Phase II Development of Next Generation Supercapacitor through Second NSF Grant
Their home page.
Something to keep an eye on.
My apologies as I am over a week behind in my reading.
If this is old news sorry about that.
<Underwriters Laboratories says there have been more than 350 fires involving lithium-ion batteries since March 2012.>
<According to a survey conducted by AAA, 30 percents of driving-age individuals would not buy an electric vehicle due to range limitations.
An additional 26 percent stated that electric vehicle cost deters them from purchasing one.
And 8 out of 10 surveyed stated that they'd prefer to drive off a dealership's lot with a gas vehicle rather than one that plugs in.>
Today they announced.
Nissan Prices Replacement Battery Cost For LEAF: $100 A Month
This replacement would return owners "capacity bars" back to 12 (that's full) and guarantee to the LEAF to maintain at least 9 bars for the rest of the life of your EV.
Currently, LEAF owners have a 5 year or 60,000 mile warranty that their batteries will remain at least 70% capacity (also 9 bars).
Doing 'the math' on the EV's starting range of 75 miles, that puts the guaranteed EPA range at 52.5 miles under the factory warranty plan, or the extended battery replacement plan.
Nissan has yet to flush out all the details, but says the program will start "during the first half of 2014.">
Mission Motorcycles Introduces RS and S; AKA Tesla on Two Wheels (w/videos)
<The Mission R will be also available with three battery pack sizes – 12, 15 and 17 kWh, with base price of $32.499, $36.499 and $42.499. The smaller battery packs will offer ranges from between 105 to 120 miles, while the drivetrain remains the same.>
Panasonic to Deliver 100 Millionth Lithium-Ion Cell for Tesla Model S by End of June
Every auto plant in the world has a ton of equally impressive operations that are required to put an auto together. This has been going on for decades. Boiler plate for anyone that has ever been near manufacturing.
lindelco: "show me how a tiny auto company could ever afford this and make it available in enough locations so it's not a complete PITA to find one."
Carnardie, Big difference between building a highway of fuel filling stations to accommodate commercial trucking between coasts with cheaper fuel vs a battery swap station for niche rich toys that's to be used for personal transport going to random destinations. Apples and oranges in so many ways IMO.
Carnardie, Forget about my comments on how expensive the interface would need to be in the car for battery swapping and that it's currently an expensive waste. Seems this gentleman has already picked up on the fact that it's not.
Interesting HTL. Thanks!
"Did a job for Honda once and they only allowed 3 physical connections between an electric motor and a "production" connector before the motor was deemed unsalable. The mechanical interface between the two is designed to do things that are not repeatable for too many cycles. Need far more robust designs if that is your intent. "
Not really Froggey. It all depends on the design. There is no problem designing connectors to go through varying numbers of cycles. But it does impact the cost. So in the case of Tesla it would not make sense to have a higher cost connector intended to go thought thousands of cycles if you were never going to use it.
"insufficient use to justify continuing the trial."
" So in the case of Tesla it would not make sense to have a higher cost connector intended to go thought thousands of cycles if you were never going to use it."
JRP3, Understood. And thus my point. If you say it's a feature you have to build the infrastructure for it and have the vehicle design/build robust enough to assure that it will work for the life of the vehicle based on worst case wear. So you're building the cost of this feature into the fleet and as you suggest it will rarely be used as there are easier and more economical alternatives.
There is plenty of production electrical connectors and hydraulic connectors serving the mining industry that are in a far more aggressive environment than automotive, Tesla could just source parts from there, or make their own, or outsource production to Taiwan. Seriously, even 365 day/year daily battery swap is fairly light duty for some vendors.
The point was about adding cost for a feature that some think will rarely if ever be utilized. A more robust connector that needs to assure adequate connections over a lifetime of battery swap adds cost. I'm not questioning if it can be done. I'm questioning if this is a wise allocation of resources for the customer and Tesla.
You might ask the same question about the entire Supercharger infrastructure. The network will require immense capital spending by Tesla with no possibility that the network will return the invested capital, much less provide a return of capital and a reasonable return on capital. Swapping stations will increase the costs by an order of magnitude, particularly if human attendants will be required in case something goes wrong. I see lots of money being spent by Tesla that offers no possible return to Tesla stockholders except the remote possibility that the existence of the Supercharger network will tip enough fence sitters into the buyers camp to justify the spending.
John, a supercharger station costs Tesla $150k-300k depending on the presence of the solar panels. It may go up with energy storage and battery swap to $600k.
What about operating costs? Lease, employees, taxe, insurance, etc?
Nicu> The $150 to $600 K figure people are throwing around does not include the 50 battery packs a swapping station will have in case somebody wants them. Those battery inventory costs are capital outlays just like the charging equipment.
We were talking about additional cars to be sold for infrastructure build, not about EPS. Gross margin, if I understand correctly, includes materials and labor. Operating margins include SG&A, R&D and stock based compensation. Whatever is over 20k per year will bring profit / positive cash flow to be used for recharging network and factory expansion.
I'll guess that less than 5 of these stations will ever be built. Back in 2009 US Cellular (a large regional cell company) launched Battery Swap. If at anypoint you needed/wanted to swap your battery you could come in and swap it out for a new one. Sounds like a great idea, right? They just ended the program this spring as it wasn't used. People didn't like using their batteries, people who did use it abused the batteries knowing they would swap crappy batteries which would then end up being used by someone else. Those other users became mad and didn't recommend the service. Think of how cheap a cell phone batter is and simple. The company expects the discontinuation of the program to save $5M annually.
Tesla products display quite a bit of brutal pragmatism, even though their choices may be unorthodox for the automotive industry. Whether it be avoiding permanent magnets for their motor, using li ion cells that are fungible at the negotiating table, or using the coating's bake to provide a T6 temper for their structure in a post welded condition. These are all reasonable decisions that the automotive industry has managed to avoid making but other industrys do make. To choose robust connectors really is not be that hard.
Renim, The designs, materials and processes selected for mass market vehicles vs niche luxury vehicles will most likely be quite different. Also material selections will often be made based on existing supply chain alignment. That Tesla went with an off the shelf lithium ion battery is not a surprise given their success was not assured so the supplier would be cautious. And Tesla cannot afford to do this on their own. When you start looking at the level of market penetration companies like Nissan are targeting in mass market sectors, price points are much lower and design efficiencies become far more important.
I guess I'm saying they don't have to build for worst case scenario at all. Build it for a much more likely few hundred cycles or so and just repair the extremely rare worst case that may or may not pop up.
JRP3, Understand your point relative to fixing the worst case tail of the population. Unfortunately you can't treat high current electrical connections that way. In a nut shell, thermal events might occur. You have to design and build these things so they are bullet proof at the worst case use rate. The entire population, unless you want to have this as an optional feature.
I was actually thinking of the bolts more than the electrical connection. I have a 6+ year old MP3 player that I plug and unplug from the USB port of my computer at least once a day almost every day, still working perfectly fine. (Original lithium battery too). People plug and unplug their EV's in for charging every day. Electrical connections that can handle high cycles are just not that difficult or expensive to build, obviously scaled up appropriately. I also expect that if the connection were to develop high resistance for some reason the car and pack monitors would sense it and limit current and pop up a service warning. Not that difficult.
JRP3, Most of your understanding, based on what you're relaying to me, comes from connectors in a different environment. The undercarriage of a car is a nasty environment. In order to have the electrical connections perform over a lifetime you have many things to consider that don't happen with your personal electronics connectors. Tape your MP3 player under a car in a rainstorm or in the NE on a salted road for one day and tell me if anything still works. You have to deal with oxidization on contacts, seals that need to wipe areas coming out and come back in clean, seals and their interface surfaces that don't lose their dimensions / elasticity such that they can keep an appropriate level of interference in order to not leak after 10+ years ...
I just have to point out that the pack connections are not hanging down from the bottom of the car exposed, and I'm quite sure they are tightly sealed. I agree that Tesla did incur added expense in designing a swappable pack, I just don't think it's quite the burden you suggest. Obviously neither did Tesla.
06/20/2013: EOD stuff partially copied from instablog (up in ~1 hour).
# Trds: 107, MinTrSz: 400, MaxTrSz: 40000, Vol 735033, AvTrSz: 6869
Min. Pr: 0.1850, Max Pr: 0.1990, VW Avg. Tr. Pr: 0.1925
# Buys, Shares: 20 170898, VW Avg Buy Pr: 0.1940
# Sells, Shares: 85 550012, VW Avg Sell Pr: 0.1920
# Unkn, Shares: 2 14123, VW Avg Unk. Pr: 0.1925
Buy:Sell 1:3.22 (23.3%),DlyShts 146500 (19.93%), Dly Sht % of 'sells' 26.64%
06/20: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2214, in 40 days: $0.1882
$0.1850-$0.1899: 139200 shares, 18.94% of vol, VWAP $0.1873, b:s 1:4.22, 18.5% buys
$0.1900-$0.1945: 334626 shares, 45.53% of vol, VWAP $0.1915, b:s 1:4.06, 19.8% buys
$0.1950-$0.1990: 261207 shares, 35.54% of vol, VWAP $0.1964, b:s 1:2.19, 30.3% buys
09:30-09:56: 024009 shares, 03.27% of vol, VWAP $0.1983, 29.2% buys
10:11-10:47: 084498 shares, 11.50% of vol, VWAP $0.1980, 22.4% buys
11:01-11:59: 192654 shares, 26.21% of vol, VWAP $0.1941, 22.4% buys
12:01-12:36: 031000 shares, 04.22% of vol, VWAP $0.1936, 64.5% buys
13:07-13:51: 062600 shares, 08.52% of vol, VWAP $0.1928, 31.9% buys
14:01-14:53: 207572 shares, 28.24% of vol, VWAP $0.1903, 17.4% buys
15:01-15:52: 132700 shares, 18.05% of vol, VWAP $0.1884, 19.4% buys
Amouna, the good news is that at those levels and below, even small amts of money buy a lot of shares.
Maybe. When we heard some recent chest-pounding here, it was my signal to unload the shares I recently bought. Got 19.8 cents the other day. Better to be lucky than good.
So what you are telling me is that I should sell everything now and wait for 8 more distributions losing roughly 33% each time. Thus the new buy in price is around 1 penny? Assuming there is no news of course...
AWOL E, the upcoming catalysts that we know about:
I posted many concentrators ago that there would be another 50-75 million shares out with this raise, and that there would be 200 million outstanding when it was over, I really got bashed by this group here.
Now you are figuring that there will be 175 million shares if they are issued at current prices ? so say 250 million shares outstanding?
LT, Please don't use the term "this group" like we have an agreed to spokesperson(s) that represents us like the NRA or AARP as examples. This group is a moderated message board with people that share common interests in some sectors of technology and perhaps investing in some of the entities in the sectors with a primary focus on Axion. The people here, as far as I know, have never taken a vote to agree 100% on anything. We attempt to agree and disagree on specific points and maintain, not always perfectly, a level of respect while we spend differing times here based on out individual needs/interests.
Your numbers are nonsense LT. There were 115 million shares outstanding at March 31st. Even at the current price it would only take 67 million new shares to retire the debt.
With the way the documents are structured, I don't see any particular need for the investors to short shares because they get their preliminary settlement and the make good payment in the form of registered shares that are delivered in electronic form through DTC.
The new investors got a big whack of stock a couple days after the registration statement went effective. When you have stock sitting in an account there's no benefit to borrowing shares and selling them instead of simply selling stock you already own.
John: couldn't be any muddier, IMO. from a reply I left in my insta to a query:
"Moreover, as I commented, the most recent short positions report, which I believe normally just shows daily MM shorts that haven't cleared by the report cut off, was excessive relative to historical levels and could *not* be explained by normal MM daily short sales for the period and a normal T+3 settlement allowance.
John: a couple possibilities cross my mind. The more pleasant one is that the financiers may be hedging, as Gilder, Gagnon and Howe used to do on CPST. My guess in that case is net portfolio holds it's value as the long positions lose value the short positions gain an equivalent value. All beta is eliminated.
Good job, HTL. Remember, too, that there are investors that short PIPE stks. Rule of thumb is PIPE stks = wild west.
My calc above was just how the math works with the assumptions given, such as using the current stk price of 17.5 cents. I'm not willing to offer my opinion of the future stk prices and therefore shares o/s, as my guess is no better than everyone else's guesses.
My wild guess - a separate group of investors shorted right before or after the deal, and perhaps added more shorts after the registered shares hit. After capitulation, they covered sub 20c (high volume days). I don't think it's the lending investors, as it's small potatoes for each of them, and they would want to have a good relationship with the partners. Why not swing for the fences...
Mr Investor , thanks for your original reply to my First post. It was exactly what I was looking for. I didn't mean to start a fued over number of outstanding shares. At either length we can all agree that we hope it is as small a number as possible!
AWOL ENGINEER, Here's the link to Alpha.
Some investors make moves "in" when they feel comfortable with the macro situation, and "out" when subjects like the Fed "tapering off" QE come to light.
iinde, roflmao
The last group of investers paid $0.35 per share. They should have had more info. to go on than our group. TG has kept basically quiet between quarters and conference calls in the past. We are getting more agitated because of the extremely low values this time & his promise of 300% increase. His projection could only have come from e-power, N.S. and others. Their expectations were flawed or exagerated due to unknown factors. Perhaps overly optimistic due to various reasons. TG probably was overly optimistic himself. Results for the first quarter may show a lag as to the increase.
I keep thinking back to Mercy Jiménez's comment about sales projections when she got out. If management cannot provide any visibility, then I suppose you're going on hope, regardless of how good the technology is.
Stefan, everyone has to make their own transaction decisions, but when I hear talk about "digging in my heels" and such, I cringe. That investment approach is silly-bad.
>WayneinOregon ... I don't think that the share price of Axion is of any concern to any of the customers we know of. You have to answer the question of why it would?
2) There is enough cash on hand to keep doing business for at least a year, maybe 2, without accruing debt for operations.
3) The product as existing several years ago has proved some worth or the customers would have already left.
4) The product is continuing on an improving quality ramp. So it is better now then when they initially determined it was a viable solution.
LASF, IIRC, Mercy wanted the ability to measure mgmt's results---if not sales, then at least some other metrics. Number of RFPs over time, for example. Or employees. Or cost reductions. Or a host of other milestones.
Mr. Investor- I think the thing with micro caps is to invest when they are on the first stages of commercialization. Otherwise, you'd have to deal with "the valley of death" (and in some cases never get out). Problem is, how do you determine this. I think *now* that it is best to wait until there is some clarity, even if you miss the first double. If management itself is foggy, then what hope is there for an individual investor?
LASF, there's a whole continuum of risk/reward. Get in very early and you need 10-30 baggers to compensate for the fact that many will go bust. Get in a little later, at higher prices after some unknowns become knowns, and you target 5-10 baggers, and so forth.
I told a friend I would take the summer off from the APC's but as I watch the price slide whenever I log into my brokerage site I get sucked into reading the APC's again for help in reading my very dark and cloudy crystal ball. When I peer deep enough all I see is JR rubbing his hands together and cackling gleefully!
Mr. Averill has doubled down but sadly few others have seemed to do so. I think most Axionista bellies are full (or upset) since I no longer see the excitement for dirt cheap shares. How much lower can it go? Not long back people thought this was a $5 stocks. Heck some have cost basis at or above a buck. Now we are talking about a dime =(
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Does the BMW situation even matter on a large sales revenue for the company at this point. Seems to be just a catalyst of news to help move the needle up like it did a couple years ago. Unless they are testing the shit out this thing so they can use it in the majority of the model line.
RyanFBell: The SA moderation folks will probably nail you - they deleted me for the word "b u g g e r" even though admitting it was not used towards anybody or in a derogatory fashion. Claimed "slippery slope" issues threatened their "high level" of discourse and discussion.
Ryan, An agreement would be a gold seal of approval that the market needs PbC. Automotive would sponsor, indirectly, scaling the application. Sales would take time but access to money at more reasonable terms would come because a solid business case could be put together with a firmer vision of future sales in a known time frame. So you'd have a well respected industry giving the technology and the manufacturing plan a thumbs up in essence. Since Axion does not have this now they are forced to negotiate terms in dark back alleys.
Greentonge, I don't think it necessarily needs to be used in the majority of "their" vehicles. The WW market for light passenger vehicles is pretty big so just getting access at a reasonable level at one player opens a big door. And this is only one sector where the characteristics of PbC have application..
Sorry about the language, hopefully it finds it way into a 2014.5 model, if not the 15's will be our best bet.
>RyanfBell ... By the 2017 model years S/S will be standard equipment in many makes & models of autos. It's the cheapest implementation on the road to the 2025 CAFE targets. It probably will be an option on many for 2 more model years until the industry figures out how to get it down pat with just a couple of standard systems.
It's coming DRich.
And these guys are not small potatoes (slide 4). Since they are based in Europe, you can guess, they do significant work for the majors there.
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Interesting Times, contributorComments (15172) | + Follow Following - UnfollowThe soap opera continues I see. .17 cents and all the praying in the world won't solve this one. Sorry to break the news but I haven't posted in months yet I still see the same thoughts year after year !!
Iindelco: After due consideration of your suggestion about "Axion ... shorter", I conclude that you have inadvertently propagated the basic design flaw of the original product. If one is an Axion holder there must be an inverted snorkel.
HTL, Could be but the inverted snorkel would eliminate optimism entirely and shorten the the process to conclusion. An appropriate length snorkel in the depicted orientation allows for just enough relief to afford a longer and thus much more lasting experience. This IMO better represents the Axion journey. Both designs yield the same eventual outcome but to garner the full spectrum of being an Axionista I think the Tantalus series snorkel delivers a more realistic representation than the Hadian design.
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NIce link. Does a great job explaining the point JP always makes here about the scarcity of material breakthroughs vs those who may expect Moore's law type progress in batteries. Not to mention he talks about true battery costs (hint: Tesla batteries estimated over 20k).
I explained the problem last week as "chemistry in a can," which is all any battery is. When you use the same can people have used for decades and make modest adjustments to the can contents, incremental gains of a few percent per year are all you can expect. Step change gains can only come from major changes in chemistry or a complete redesign of the can.
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# Trds: 121, MinTrSz: 220, MaxTrSz: 56573, Vol 808784, AvTrSz: 6684
Min. Pr: 0.1700, Max Pr: 0.1900, VW Avg. Tr. Pr: 0.1751
# Buys, Shares: 48 207300, VW Avg Buy Pr: 0.1767
# Sells, Shares: 69 576084, VW Avg Sell Pr: 0.1744
# Unkn, Shares: 4 25400, VW Avg Unk. Pr: 0.1796
Buy:Sell 1:2.78 (25.6% "buys"), DlyShts 146900 (18.16%), Dly Sht % of 'sells' 25.50%
06/21: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2176, in 40 days: $0.1850
06/14: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2315, in 40 days: $0.1968
06/17: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2292, in 40 days: $0.1948
06/18: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2266, in 40 days: $0.1926
06/19: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2242, in 40 days: $0.1906
06/20: 85% x avg. of 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs, $0.2214, in 40 days: $0.1882
$0.2122, $0.1999, $0.1963, $0.1961, $0.1925 and today's $0.1751.
"An agreement would be a gold seal of approval that the market needs PbC. Sales would take time but access to money at more reasonable terms would come because a solid business case could be put together with a firmer vision of future sales in a known time frame. Since Axion does not have this now they are forced to negotiate terms in dark back alleys."
Axion has already taken the money, all of it. Some of the cash is sitting in restricted Axion accounts, but there is no early exit from the financing. There's no way to tell for sure but I'd be willing to bet even money that the bulk of our selling pressure is coming from retail investors who are afraid of the financiers, rather than from the financiers themselves.
John: with the exception of "bulk", which I'm unsure of, I also believe that a *large* number of shares are being dumped by long retail positions.
"I can tell you that I have spent a lot more time than is reasonable for me considering the wisdom of my long position."
I guess TG doesn't play the fiddle too well; otherwise it's hard to understand this deal we inked =). http://bit.ly/19qELLy
Wayne, the only way out is to continue to eat this elephant. I hope Axionistas keep their appetite. If we can get back near 30 cents then the dilution can be mitigated some. Or better yet, TG needs to release some market breaking news. Some think he must have something to even have dared to enter into this deal we all complain about.
>H.T.Love ... I'm with you and John about who the bulk of sellers are or might be. The lots sold don't make economic sense for a professional because of profit being less than overhead. The only exception that [just] might sense, as HTL pointed out, is as a hedge looking to build a larger long position. I find even that barely over the line of sensible in as illiquid a stock as Axion but I see this game all the time in [paper] Oil albeit the price action is 180 deg different.
WIO, I think that Axion is working hard toward commercialization and that is, at this time, receiving almost all of their focus. Commercialization includes not only the technical progression of the PbC product/process but also supporting customer program requirements.
ARCA's consistent presence on the best offer since the new deal, and very rarely beforehand, tells me some big boys are involved on the sell side one way or another--the new investors hedging, selling down and/or others shorting. Our knowledge of blog comments here has shown that retail has been handled mostly thru CDEL, ATDF and UBSS.
This is flagged as a Ford RFI response. Has some info. on where A123 sees some of the possible system costs for "Advanced Micro Hybrids". (pg. 8)
June 5, 2013
Iindelco: It's nice to see one of our own (Q: who's the adopted and the adopter?) get some satisfaction: on page three is presented an an image and text, "Micro-hybrids are a cost effective solution for higher volume impact on fuel economy requirements", that puts what John has said so many times about 1 big battery in a car vs. many smaller batteries in many cars providing better results.
Rich: Possible additional savings? Since we know SOC/voltage is a linear relationship, might be savings in the sensor, control and/or other conversion equipment?
DRich, Important to me is to understand how small a PbC battery can you get away with for the intended cycling. The biggest disadvantage of PbC is it's mass/volume. So if you're cycling it through it's sweet spot what is the amount of energy that is needed to support xy% of your target energy harvesting opportunities? Understanding this is key to figuring out just how much of an offsetting disadvantage the mass/volume is to the price advantage. It's very important to understand this but we don't know the key factor which is how much energy, worst case, they are really looking to shuttle back and forth over what time frames. ( But hey, It's not like that junk AGM battery is really delivering on this point.)
HTL, Kirk T. was excited about the voltage curve of PbC because of it's contribution to the ability to measure SOC. I can see why he is so excited now that I better understand what BMW is doing with AGM. It's IMO a far better system if you can accurately measure SOC vs having the BMS constantly doing math to try to keep track of it while your battery is aging in different ways depending on climate, varying use cycles etc. The BMW system is a real compromise and it shows if you snoop around the various forums on the internet.
Iindelco: "On you other point concerning the refresh ..."
HTL, How about if you made sure the SS system was disabled for the refresh event and thus the flooded and PbC batteries were full charged when parked for the evening. Maybe there is enough energy in the flooded battery such that it, through the electronics, could perform this task? And the inverse if it makes sense for the flooded battery.
Dr. Buiel's comment in APC#202:
Iindelco: I guess that's reasonable. But I presume that the SLI battery would be downsized since it doesn't have to normally carry the hotel loads? I don't have any idea how much energy would need to be drawn or if there was enough capacity in the SLI to do it w/o risking a failure to start.
NYT article on GE using data analysis on a massive scale in manufacturing and operations. You'd think it's a paid ad from the way the author gushes about what the company is doing. Still, it is very, very cool.
GE is an interesting story now, I took a small stake in it on this pullback last week. Immelt is slowly getting this giant back on track.
If they do this, a buyout might make sense. Always remember that the big USA global corps need things that move the needle as in billions of $$ in sales globally not millions. And GE has enough EPA problems as it is, so anything "lead" is probably out, even if not direct but just associated with it.
PbC has to find markets & apps where constant rapid charge/discharge is the need, not big storage apps.
While on this topic, I sorta expect companies to adopt to Rosewater's plan of matching batteries with the need of the app.
What is the odds of them just licensing the tech to auto instead of spending the money to build out mfg. ? (to me this may be more likely as time goes on, I am interested in other takes on this) A bird in the hand to stop the bleeding while developing more niche products like the PC & ePower might make more sense.
I'm sure BMW's battery partner will want to license.
My preferred embodiment for partners has always been to build an electrode facility to supply a specific manufacturing plant that will service a specific market, like automotive for example, and have the electrode facility owned by a joint venture where the manufacturing plant owner puts up the lion's share (all) of the required capital and Axion takes a reasonable profit share for managing the technology aspects.
I agree time is of the essence here. The Co. should not try to go for a home run with this deal; just get something that will assure survival and allow it to get out of this PIPE with as little damage as possible. My concern is not so much whteher the company survives, but, wtih all the cheap shares coming in, who will benefit from its eventual success.
I think it bears repeating that even if the PIPE issues all approved shares to be issued, at today's price that is still a huge win for all if we do sign up big auto. With a 20m market cap, even if there are 100% new shares, that means we only need a 40m market cap shares to be worth today's price. But what would you assign to a company with assured viability and a first tier partner? 100-200m I'd think. The PIPE fears are really overdone and only short term thinking.
Ranma: "The PIPE fears are really overdone and only short term thinking".
EDIT: Add in that the DOE and others still promote Lithium-based solutions willy-nilly and the pigs at the government troughs are getting their share of the pie as time passes ... opportunities might not be there any more.

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Justice98405 3 years ago#1
And then the New Super Mario Brothers series. I've never played any of them. Where's a good place to start? Just get the Wii U game? Or is one of the older games, maybe for the DS or Wii, worth getting first? This is a series that I'll almost only be playing single-player, by the way. Again, thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.
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HiiiiiTechnical 3 years ago#2
Yes, the Wii U NSMBU is excellent, the only complaint people seem to have is that it isn't very original compared to its predecessors, but, you wouldn't have that problem because you haven't played them.
As for DKCR, some of the levels seem to be long, but not that challenging, maybe that's because I'm only at world 3. I do die a lot on the mine cart levels though
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HiiiiiTechnical posted...
Yes, the Wii U NSMBU is excellent, the only complaint people seem to have is that it isn't very original compared to its predecessors, but, you wouldn't have that problem because you haven't played them.
The mine cart levels get ridiculous. Honestly, I think DKCR is one of the best platformers to come out in a while. NSMBU is really good too (best in the New series) but DKCR is better inmo. Both games can be pretty difficult but NSMBU is definitely easier.
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I haven't played SMBU, but I have DKCR 3D and have beaten it on the Original Mode, where it is the same as the Wii version. Some levels are pretty difficult, but overall it's balanced. You could play on the New Mode that makes things a little easier your first time through. More hearts, potions that let you take more hits on mine cart and rocket stages, etc. It's a great game.
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Yeah, the new mode in DKCR 3D is pretty much what you're looking for as far as making the game less difficult. So, you shouldn't really worry about it being too hard. Note that the new mode is only available for the 3DS version, so that is definitely the version you want to get.
As far as NSMB is concerned, I recommend getting both NSMB 2 and NSMB U. NSMB 2 gets a lot of (somewhat deserved) criticism for being too similar to the first two games, but that's not a problem for you since you haven't played the others, and I find the levels themselves to be very fun.
If that's not enough Mario for you, the one for the Wii is also good, I just don't think it's quite as good as the two mentioned above. I personally don't like the first one for the DS, and you probably want to stay away from the NSMB U Luigi DLC because the levels have a short time limit and can be pretty difficult.
About Donkey Kong Country Returns: Get it. It currently stands as my favorite game (ever, not just Wii/3DS), and I actually own both versions of it. The Wii version does look slightly better, but the 3DS version has 8 extra levels and an easier difficulty setting, so you may want that one. And yeah, the game is certainly on the difficult side, though I don't normally like difficult games either and I had a blast with it (though that might be because it's a 2D platformer, my best genre). I haven't tried the easier setting, but yes, definitely give it a shot.
About New Super Mario Bros.: Start with any of them; it doesn't really matter. As much flak as the games get for having so much recycled content, I enjoyed every one of them. I'd say NSMBU is better than NSMBWii, which is better than the others, and NSMB2 and the original NSMB are about equal (I like the overall design of the first one better, but NSMB2 does have slightly better level design and a lot fewer Mini Mushroom-requiring secrets). I suppose NSMBU is as good a place as any to start, though be prepared for the othersif you get themnot looking as nice as it does. NSMB2 is probably the easiest, between the near-infinite lives you get and the general lack of "That One Level" compared to the others.
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There is an easy mode where you basically get twice as many lives or heart pieces or whatever they are.
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Generally, when a machine is as small as the Alienware X51 (it's around 350mm tall, 100mm thick and 320mm deep) it's usually a business machine that doesn't have a lot of graphics grunt. However, Alienware has made sure that this machine can play the latest games on the market, many of them in Full HD and with high image detail enabled. It's not the fastest system that's available, but it's no slouch either and we think that any gamer who doesn't want an expensive gaming notebook or a bulky, space-hogging desktop PC, will appreciate it. It's also more convenient to take to a LAN party than a regular mid-sized desktop.
Specifications and performance
The Intel Core i5-2320 CPU is joined by 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM, a 1TB, 7200rpm hard drive, and an OEM-only NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 graphics adapter. In our Blender 3D rendering test, the machine recorded a highly respectable time of 17sec; in our iTunes MP3 encoding test it recorded 43sec, which was an expected time. There is no question it's a fast machine that's suitable for everyday tasks, as well as hefty multi-tasking and even for tougher jobs such as video editing and rendering. Its hard drive also proved to be very zippy, notching up a read rate of 120 megabytes per second (MBps) in CrystalDiskMark, along with a write rate of 117MBps. In our own file copy tests, it averaged 57.55MBps, which is a fine result.
For gaming, the GeForce GTX 555 adapter represents the entry point for high-end GTX-based adapters and it's not an adapter you can go out and buy in the stores; it's an OEM-only adapter that has lower memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti adapter, but more CUDA cores and a slightly higher texture fill rate. It put up a respectable score of 21846 in 3DMark06 and also proved that it can handle recent games with lot of their eye-candy enabled. Battlefield 3 ran with a 31 frames per second (fps) average at a resolution of 1920x1200 and with high image detail enabled. F.E.A.R 2 ran at 60fps at 1920x1200 and with high image detail enabled.
Indeed, the X51 is one of the smallest desktop PCs you can buy that also contains a potent configuration for gaming. If you're a do-it-yourself type, you will be able to build a machine with similar grunt for less money. The main configuration (with a GeForce GTX 550 Ti) would rack up a bill of around $750 if you were to procure the parts yourself. Then you'd have to pony up some cash for a decent motherboard, case and power supply, not to mention a Blu-ray/DVD burner and perhaps a new set of input peripherals, and a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium.
All that could bring the do-it-yourself total to around $1200-$1300 depending on the motherboard and case you choose. The chances are you might not be able to find a case as trim and as interesting to look at as the Alienware's though. And then you have to factor in the time to build it and install all the software. Basically, if you're a do-it-yourself person, you could build something as good (or better) than this PC in your own time. If you don't want the hassle of figuring out a configuration, sourcing all the parts and putting it together yourself, then the X51 is worth it.
Physical features
Be aware though that this PC isn't one that can be easily upgraded. The components are tightly packed in the case and there is no space for any internal expansion. If you want to add a new drive, for example, you'll have to go for network attached storage or USB drives. There are six USB ports on the rear (two of them are USB 3.0) and another two on the front of the case. The front also has microphone and headphone ports, while there are more audio ports at the back (both analogue and digital), in addition to Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and DVI ports.
The X51 without its side panel and graphics adapter.
If you must open up the X51, you can do so by removing one screw and sliding the side panel off. It will expose the CPU and memory, but the hard drive will be hidden under the double-thickness graphics adapter, which is installed in a riser card and placed parallel to the micro motherboard. You will need to remove the graphics riser to get to the hard drive and it can be a little tricky.
The graphics adapter on its riser card.
A fan is present at the front of the system, which sucks air from the front vent and pushes it over the hard drive towards the rear of the case. Along with the CPU and graphics adapter fans, the X51 emits some noise, but it's not overly loud. The power supply is external and this is a design choice that has allowed Alienware to make this machine so small, yet powerful. It is a big power adapter though (200x100mm) and it makes the system a little messy overall.
The hard drive and fan at the front of the system.
The vertical orientation of the case means that the slot-loading optical drive will spit out your discs with no support and you'll have to pick them up off the floor — that is, if you still use discs. A tray-based Blu-ray combo drive would be a little more careful with your discs. As it stands, the disrespect this system shows towards discs will probably further your desire to move away from optical media towards downloads and hard drive-based content.
Like other Alienware systems, the X51 has a comprehensive lighting system that works in conjunction with the Alien FX program. It allows you to choose from a wide range of colours for the two side panel lights, as well as the power button light and Alienware logo on the front.
The side panel and alien head lights.
The biggest selling point of this system is its small size, which houses enough graphics grunt to tackle the latest games at high-definition resolutions. It's not an upgradeable system, but then again, not many small systems are. You get ample power for everyday applications and multitasking and more than a handful of USB ports for external storage and other devices.
We like the design of the system and the custom lighting schemes that can be implemented; the input peripherals that are supplied are comfortable to use, too. We don't like the slot-loading Blu-ray combo drive though, which has no means of holding discs when they are ejected, and we think the power adapter is too cumbersome, but we can appreciate that it has been left outside the case so that the system footprint can be smaller overall. In a nutshell, if you're not a do-it-yourself person and you want a small and capable gaming system, then the X51 is worth looking in to.
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The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), based in Reston, Virginia, is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 by Robert E. Kahn as an "activities center around strategic development of network-based information technologies", including the National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the United States.[1]
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CNRI formerly operated the Secretariat of the Internet Engineering Task Force.[3] Guido van Rossum, pioneer for open source software and creator of Python, at one time worked for this company.
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In 1996, the Association of American Publishers announced that R.R. Bowker and the CNRI had been selected to design a Digital Object Identifier system. The effort was initiated after a year-long study of the need for a system to identify electronic copyright ownership and to manage the digital purchase of rights.[4] The CNRI Handle system was first demonstrated at a February 1997 meeting of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) division of the AAP meeting in Washington, DC.[5] The Handle System is a technology specification for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers for digital objects and other resources on the Internet.
D-Lib Magazine is an on-line magazine dedicated to digital library research and development.
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NABO junior lightweight titlist Eloy "The Prince" Perez went through 10 hard rounds of sparring at King's Gym of Oakland on Friday as he continues to prepare for his Feb. 25 challenge of Adrien "The Problem" Broner's WBO 130-pound world title.
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"We're doing a little more boxing," said the elder Garcia. "The last few fights, he was having to go in there, and guys came in to fight, so he was happy to go in there and go at it.
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Perez, who traveled north from his usual home of Salinas to the Bay Area to hold camp, addressed his war of words with Broner, who has continued to direct disparaging remarks toward his foe.
"I've seen [Perez] in the press conference," Broner told BoxingScene's Jake Donovan on Friday. "He had a lot of fat under the chin."
"It doesn't bother me," Perez responded. "I saw the pictures on the press conference. I did look kind of fluffy, but I'm not fluffy. I'm always in shape. I'm always ready. But he's a world champ. I can't underestimate him. He's done his job, and he's done the dream, and now it's my time to shine and take it from him."
Broner-Perez is the co-feature to Devon Alexander's welterweight scrap with Marcos Maidana, which will be televised on HBO and all take place at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Ryan Maquiñana writes a weekly column for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (CSNBayArea.com). He's also a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and Ring Magazine's Ratings Advisory Panel. E-mail him at [email protected], check out his blog at www.maqdown.com, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.
[QUOTE=AlwaysOnTop;11723526]He'll step up and over anybody in his way... [B]He's a legend in the making[/B]...so is Russell Jr... Non-stop greatness...it just keeps flowing..[/QUOTE] Lmao!!! Sure!!!!!Comment by Spray_resistant on 01-30-2012
[QUOTE=AlwaysOnTop;11723526]He'll step up and over anybody in his way... He's a legend in the making...so is Russell Jr... Non-stop greatness...it just keeps flowing..[/QUOTE] This fight will not be easy even if Broner manages to win.Comment by AlwaysOnTop on 01-30-2012
[QUOTE=Mr. Fantastic;11723508]No I won't. Dude is gonna get his ass handed to him once he steps up. I'm going to laugh and enjoy ever minute of it.[/QUOTE]He'll step up and over anybody in his way... He's a legend in the…Comment by Mr. Fantastic on 01-30-2012
[QUOTE=AlwaysOnTop;11723405]You'll be a waiting motherfu.cker..[/QUOTE] No I won't. Dude is gonna get his ass handed to him once he steps up. I'm going to laugh and enjoy ever minute of it.Comment by Spray_resistant on 01-30-2012
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The new Mercedes-Benz vehicle has a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission system, Intelligent Light System, a dashboard finished in ARTICO artificial leather, and electrically adjustable front seats that boasts memory function.
Other notable features include three-stage ESP system with Sport Handling mode, electromechanical speed-sensitive steering, and AMG high-performance brakes.
Mercedes-Benz has announced that the new vehicle would be unveiled in early 2013. However, a specific timing for the new car's unveiling is yet to be declared. But the German manufacturer is widely expected to launch the new car at either the Geneva or the New York Auto Show.
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