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EDA Industry Revenue Growth Tops 20% in Q1 1998
[PR Newswire 08/10]
Profile Name: IC
Total Quarterly Revenues Hit New Record - $743
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium)
announced today that its Market Statistics Service (MSS)
reported record new license and services revenues for Q1
1998. The EDA industry grew by 22% overall in the
quarter (compared to the same period last year) to reach
$743 million. This marks the 13th consecutive quarter
of double-digit growth.
The EDA
Consortium's MSS report is the EDA industry's most timely
barometer of revenue data. Revenue data is reported to
subscribers for each quarter.
Aart de Geus, chairman
and CEO of Synopsys, Inc., and the EDA Consortium's
chairman, noted, "The reported Q1 1998 EDA revenue marks
the third quarter in a row that the EDA industry has
reported more than $700 million in new license and service
revenues. Our industry's continuing revenue growth reflects
the growing importance of EDA to the electronics
industry, especially in the evolution of system-on-a-chip
Q1 1998 MSS Highlights vs. Q1 1997:
Reported quarterly revenues showed that the new EDA
licenses and Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP)
products and tools grew by 20% (over the same period in
1997), to reach $447 million.
Services revenue increased by 49% to reach $79 million, a
new quarterly high.
All regions posted
positive revenue growth figures, despite the publicized
economic difficulties in Japan and Asia. North America led
revenue growth last quarter, increasing 35% to reach $423
million in total revenues. This marked the first time any
region has generated more than $400 million in a single
quarter, a new record for the industry.
IC Layout
was the fastest growing EDA tools category for the
fifth straight quarter, and eight out of the last nine
quarters. New license revenues for IC Layout tools posted a
45% increase over Q1 1997, to reach $131 million.
Growth was fueled by substantial increases in Automatic
Place and Route tools (81% over Q1 1997) and
Full-custom Layout tools (79% growth vs. Q1 '97). IC Layout
license revenues have increased by at least 33% in each
quarter of 1997 and 1998 (thus far).
CAE revenue
growth accelerated in Q1 1998, led by 30-plus percentage
growth in Design Entry, VHDL and Verilog Simulation,
Cycle-based Simulation and Analysis Tools.
Semiconductor IP products and tools revenue more than doubled
from Q1 1997 to Q1 1998, to reach $34 million.
Hi friends,
Who are CDN's chief competitors?
Ken E.
Your comments regarding executive stock purchases
is right on the money; however, for those of you who
owned Cadence back in 1993, Joe Costello stepped up and
bought 200,000 shares at $9 each right near the bottom
of this past cycle (i.e. $2 to $39 since mid 1993
thru mid 1998). I would like to see other executives
at Cadence have the guts to step up and buy the
stock if they think it so cheap. Joe did it. And your
right. He did have hundreds of thousands of options of
Cadence at the time. One final note. Joe never sold a
share of Cadence while he was CEO. These new guys can't
seem to sell the stock fast enough. Just look at the
CDA Insider Trading Activity Chart for the past year.
Even the CFO sold at $38.51--within 1/2 point of the
all time high.
Don't be short w/MU and INTC headed higher. Get short again at higher levels. IMOO.
On the surface , it would be easy to assume that
demand in Asia
has completely collapsed. If you do a
little research, however,
you find that the Japanese,
in particular, are not about to let up on R&D. For
example, both Sanyo and Matsushita plan to double the
number of engineers they employ by the year 2000. This
is typical of large asian electronics co's. They
realize that they must continue to increase R&D despite
the current gloom.
If you like Cisco, Dell,
Compaq,IBM etc. (all Cadence customers).... and you believe
that high tech is the future-- then you must believe
that over the long term, Cadence is in the right place
at the right time
Options are FREE!! Put your money where your
mouth is. Cash is king. Risk your own capital not just
the shareholders. Also, major shareholders have known
for awhile that business in Asia isn't quite as good
as mgt states. Why else do start a "financing"
program? Looking for the acquisition writeoffs in the
future. IMOO.
Congratulations to all of you geniuses! Your
hindsight is perfect... It's amazing that CDN has done so
poorly given how well the rest of the market has been
doing. Clearly CDN must have really screwed
Get real - CDN tanked along with the rest of the
market, for reasons that had very little to do with CDN
performance. And oh by the way, why should the insider execs
buy stock, when they are granted several thousand
options? Why tie up their own cash, when all they need to
do is exercise options at the right time? If you're
waiting for the execs to buy, you're going to be waiting
a long time.
what can I say? It seems that every
Cadence insider was bailing out the stock by May. Hell,
even the CFO sold his last batch of stock at $38.51 a
share (May 20). Better timing than I ever had. I keep
waiting for someone on the inside to step up and buy the
stock; however, I haven't noticed any insider buying
yet. These guys were smart since most software firms
sell for 3-5 times revenue. Cadence, at the top, sold
for a price-to-sales ratio of 8 to 9. Even if Cadence
can grow the company at 24% per year, they won't hit
the $2 Billion run rate till the end of December,
2000. Maybe then, the company will be worth $30 to $50
a share. One can always hope.
Yea...the blade got slapped, but not the one between the legs :-<
I believe that CDN found its bottom today at
$20/s (possible downside to $18/s if Janus blows it
out). Looking for a trade back to $33-35/s. (Sox, SNPS,
MU, INTC...). CDN is a semiconductor stock. IMOO.
and CDN is not at 30, and is closer to 20; maybe you've been slapping your blade too much;


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Jury finds Milwaukee man guilty in fatal shooting of George Webb cook
Delorean Bryson was found guilty Thursday of a lesser charge in the shooting of Reginald T. Evans in December.
A jury found Delorean Bryson guilty Thursday of a lesser charge of first-degree reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of George Webb cook Reginald T. Evans in the east side restaurant late last year.
Bryson, 29, of Milwaukee, had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, a more serious charge, after shooting Evans, 21, following a fight that had broken out between Bryson's group, restaurant staff and a customer in the early hours of Dec. 20. Evans was attempting to break up the fight and protect co-workers, according to the criminal complaint.
With the lesser charge, Bryson faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison with 20 years of extended supervision. A first-degree intentional homicide conviction carries a life imprisonment sentence.
"We are of course disappointed the jury did not find the lesser included (charge) of second-degree reckless homicide, but grateful that they did not find that he had intentionally killed Reginald Evans," Defense Attorney Michael Plaisted said.
Witnesses testified Monday that Bryson had been in and out of the restaurant before shooting Evans in the chest at point-blank range. Bryson had exchanged words with a customer and the cook, and had thrown creamers at the customer before engaging in the ultimately fatal fight with Evans. Bryson may have reacted to the customer referring to Bryson's group as "you people," witnesses said.
Bryson had taken the stand in his own defense Wednesday and said he illegally carried the gun used to shoot Evans for self-defense and did not know that he had struck or killed Evans after firing the shot. Bryson testified that he had been drinking throughout the evening leading up to the incident and fired the gun because Evans was seemingly threatening his cousin while holding a coffee pot.
Bryson had said he had not entered the restaurant with the intent to shoot Evans and had aimed to hit the cook's arm.
Three others also are charged and will be tried separately. Joycelyn Long, 37, and Schalanda Long, 32, are both charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Oliver Kennedy, 35, is charged with a felony count of harboring or aiding a felon.
Bryson's family members who were in court when the verdict was read said they knew Delorean regretted his actions and said they were still in shock over everything that had happened. The relatives extended their apologies to the Evans family.
"What hurts the most is that somebody died. Not this," said Laverne Bryson, Delorean's mother, while motioning to the courtroom. "From me and my family, the most sincerest of apologies to (Evans') family."
Laverne Bryson said she was pleased with the verdict and thought Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Timothy G. Dugan conducted a fair trial. She did not think, however, that prosecutors depicted her son in a true light.
"I feel prosecutors tried to paint a picture of my baby that wasn't him," Bryson said.
Mark Williams, Milwaukee County assistant district attorney, who prosecuted the case, said of the verdict and the jury:
"They decided what they decided, and that's what the justice system is for."
Bryson is scheduled to be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 20.
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So far we have done a good job of correcting the colors in this image in the Lab Color mode, but our goal is not to do a good job, it's to do a great job. So this is Lab version of the image thus far and the name of this document by the way I have gone ahead and saved my progress. It's called The Lab clouds so far.psd found inside the 02 what it can do folder. These are the RGB clouds, which look somewhat better in the color department a little bit I would say but look much worse in terms of the noise department, witness most prominently up here in the upper right corner of the image and this is what we are going for.
We want to get this effect here which is just it's almost noiseless, has very little noise associated with it and it just oh, just beautiful. All right, so let's see what we can do here. Our mistake thus far as that we are relying on the Levels Command. The Levels Command is great if you only need to go so far because it's easy to use. It's little more predictable in my opinion. But you kind of top out. Whereas with the Curves Command you have a lot more flexibility but you also have a lot more to manage. So let's give it a try. I'm going to tab back my palettes here and I'm going to turn off the Levels Adjustment Layer.
You could if you wanted to. You could just go ahead and click on the Levels Adjustment Layer. You can go up to Layer menu and you could say Change Layer Content and you could choose Curves and that will transform it into a Curves Adjustment Layer. But you will lose all of your adjustments. It will start over from scratch. So what I suggest you do instead, go ahead and Cancel out. What I suggest you do is just turn it off. That way you can come back to it if you need to and then click on the original version of the image. What is now a Smart Object. Press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, click on the black/white icon and choose Curves and by the way it's perfectly acceptable to add a bunch of adjustment layers to an image that you are not using, because they take barely any room up inside of your image file.
It only added a few K, they are very small. So I'm going to change the name of this guy to curves you know modification or something along those line and then I'm going to click OK and we are working in the Lightness Channels for starters and then there is the A and B Channels as well. Now the Curves dialog box works differently. We can't see here in Photoshop CS3. We can see a histogram in the background. So we know where to put our white and black points. So here is the Black Point. By default you should see this setup here where you are seeing black in a lower left corner and white in the upper right corner.
That's the way I prefer to work. Some people prefer to work differently but if you are going to work along with me you need to make sure, notice that I click this double down pointing arrowhead thing. You need to make sure that Show Amount of is set to Light, not Pigment. That way we are working the same way we are used to working and I'm going to go ahead drag this Black point over to the left and notice that as I do it or I could just click on Auto. That's what I will do click on Auto and then it will just automatically fix just like we did with Levels. That will automatically fix that Lightness Channel. But notice instead of setting the Input Value to 61 as it did in the case of Levels, a couple of exercises ago you may recall, it sets it to 23 and instead of setting I will go ahead and click on the White point, instead of setting it to what was it before, it was something like 221 or something I can't remember exactly what.
But it sets it to something around 80, the high 80s, the low 90s because it just kind of moved it when I clicked on it. Let's click Auto again. See what it sets. 89. Is what it sets it to. So what in the world is going on? Well, we are not working with luminance levels anymore or at least we are but it's not talking to us that way. Curves is, instead of talking to us from zero to 255, the way the Levels dialog box was talking to us, it's talking to us from zero for Black to 100 for White. So we have 101 different levels.
We actually still have the same 256 different levels it's just the values don't react in the same way. So it's a little confusing, which is another reason I kind of prefer to work with Levels. But anyway let's go back down here I'm going to Ctrl+Tab, if you press Ctrl+Tab inside the Curves dialog box and this is either a Mac or a Windows Ctrl+Tab, you will switch back and forth between points. So that you don't run the risk of like clicking on it and slightly nudging it to a different location. I'm going to change this Input Value to 21 by pressing a left arrow key a couple or three times, actually more than three times, as many times as it takes to get it down to 21.
Because every time you nudge that from the keyboard you are changing a luminance level, so have 256 different luminance levels to work with but you only have a 101 values that are going to show up here. So it's going to take you probably five presses of the left arrow key to get from 23 down to 21 there. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to add -- well actually you know what, I'm going to Ctrl+Tab up to this white point there and let's go ahead and press the right arrow key a few times until we change the Input Value to 93.
So we are just saying anything that has an Input of 93 is going to change to an Output of a 100. So it's going to get brighter and now I'm going to add a few significant points to the graph, and the way that we do that is you just drag around inside of the image. You just click and drag around inside of the image and you follow the bouncing ball. See that bouncing ball is showing up here in the upper right-hand corner. When I drag again and that shows you that this range of colors if you want to be able to control them are around the array indicated by the bouncing ball and if you just want to add a point to that location then you Ctrl+Click or you Cmd+Click inside of the image on the Macintosh side of things.
We don't have to press the Shift key or anything the way we do in RGB. We just get a point at this location, just inside the Lightness Channel because that's the channel we are working on. You can only work in one channel at a time when you working in Lab and let's go ahead and take this guy. Right now for me it's showing up as an Input Value of 76 and Output Value of 76. What we want is an input of 75 and we want an output of 79. So you can change the values or you can just press the arrow keys. You change the Input Value, if you are pressing arrow keys. You change the Input Value by pressing the left and the right arrow keys.
You change the Output Value by pressing the up and down arrow keys and that's what I'm doing. Work any way you like to work and then let's sort of click over here in this region in order to sort of lift the color and I'm going to Ctrl or Cmd+Click right there in the section of the clouds and I get 28, 38 whatever but we wanted to be because an Input of 44 that's what's going to work best for us and how did I figure this out. Good little trial and error, I found some values that work for us. Input of 44, and Output of 32 is going to hold us in good stead here.
Now, that's not giving me as much brightness as I want down here sort of in this low level, this far distant portion of the clouds down through the bottom of the image. So I'm going to click midway between these two points right here. I'm going to click right about there in order to set a point and we want that one to be an Input of 54 and the Output Value should be 50. So I'm going to go ahead and take that down. So I took it down into the left and then finally I'm going to set another point down here just so that we can sink the darks a little bit.
I really want those clouds to be nice and dark. We want some nice shadows. Some rich shadows going on, so click right about there and we will change that guy to -- well, let's say how about 37 as I recall it's going to work out Well for us. An Input of 37 and an Output of 10. Oh, it's already set to an Output of 10. So this should work out pretty nicely. So just to review all the points we have in our lumpy looking graph here. I'm going to press Ctrl+Shift+Tab in order to go to the first.
You can go backward to the points with Ctrl+Shift+Tab forward to the points with Ctrl+Tab. So we have got 21, 0 and then we have got 37, 10. I'm reading the Input Value first and the Output Value second and then we have 44, 32 and then we have 54, 50, we have got 75, 79 and we have got 93, 100. How would you know to use such values? You would play around and try to figure it out. You can always go back, right? Click OK in order to accept those modifications.
If you change your mind later, all you have to do is double-click on this icon to bring up the Curves dialog box and play some more until you get exactly the result you want. All right, I'm going to click OK because that's enough for now. All we have done is we have transformed the luminance levels because we just changed the Lightness Channel and nothing else. In the next exercise, we are going to correct the A and B Channels. Get sight.


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76 year old John Alford from Trowbridge has described winning the lottery as "a wonderful, wonderful feeling knowing that we won't have a financial care in the world for the rest of our days". John and his wife Pauline have been playing the lottery since it first started in 1994.
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Those who are now buying InVivo (NVIV) at these sale prices will be richly rewarded in the coming three to nine months. For a biotech stock this is very short time frame to wait. Let's get to the facts…
Fact 1: Currently there is nothing approved that can restore function to patients with traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI, paralysis). Each year $10 billion is spent on patients with acute SCI, so the market potential is huge.
Fact 2: InVivo's polymer-based medical treatments have been successful in restoring, within three to five weeks, functional improvement in more than 40 paralyzed green monkeys. No other company has ever restored function to a single paralyzed monkey.
Fact 3: The DNA in green monkeys is a 98% match to the DNA in humans so there is an overwhelming chance that this will work just as well in humans. Clinical trials in humans will begin in early 2013.
Fact 4: InVivo's "scaffold" is a biopolymer material already approved by the FDA for other uses, such a sutures, that ultimately dissolve into CO2 and water.
Fact 5: In April 2012, the FDA confirmed that the Company's biopolymer scaffolding device can indeed be considered a medical device (not a pharmaceutical) and therefore follow the pathway for an Investigational Device Exemption. The FDA will allow the device to proceed along the Humanitarian Use Device/Humanitarian Device Exemption pathway. This means that the Company might only have to try this on as few as 5 patients before receiving FDA approval for the device to be marketed for humanitarian use while testing continues.
Fact 6: On May 9, 2012, Frank M. Reynolds, the Chief Executive Officer of InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp., terminated his previously disclosed Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which covered potential sales of up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company. No sales were made pursuant to the Rule 10b5-1 Plan. Frank has not sold a share since April 2012 and previous sales were due to a one-time personal reason and had nothing to do with future company performance.
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bump these facts regarding the outstanding success of InVivo's spinal scaffolding device in monkey trials.
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Panaji: The Goa Football Association (GFA) has sought an appointment with Fifa president Gianni Infantino during his short visit to Goa to ensure that the All India Football Federation (AIFF) upholds the principles enshrined in the Fifa statutes while making any changes to the existing football structure. Infantino will arrive in Goa early on Tuesday to attend the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Extraordinary Congress and leave for Switzerland within 24 hours. The proposed roadmap drawn up by the AIFF has caused heartbreak in Goan football with all three I-League clubs – Salgaocar FC, Dempo SC and Sporting Clube de Goa – expected to miss out on the top league next year. Salgaocar and Sporting have already exited from this year's I-League and it's only a matter of time before Dempo announce that they too have joined the other two clubs. "We fully endorse the opinion of the clubs that the proposed road map, if implemented by AIFF, will lead to the demise of long standing I-League teams from Goa and result in disastrous consequences for Goan football. "Money flow into the system will be depleted. There will be lack of opportunities for players. Worst of all, young aspiring footballers, now being groomed at the grassroot and youth development level will suddenly find that the pathways to progress are limited or no longer exist," GFA president Elvis Gomes wrote in his letter to the Fifa president after getting a go ahead from the GFA executive committee. The GFA president explained how at one time Goa fielded six teams in the country's top league -- Salgoacar, Dempo, Churchill Brothers, Vasco Sports Club, Fransa Football Club and Sporting Clube – and three either bowed out, or were forced to bow out. "Vasco were relegated, Fransa withdrew due to the apathetical attitude of AIFF and a year back Churchill Brothers fell victim to the stringent Club Licensing norms implemented by AIFF without first putting their own house in order," said Gomes. Gomes said Goa is the only state where football has been declared state sport and explained how Goan teams have dominated the Indian football scene in the last few decades. "Since inception of the country wide top league NFL in 1996 and I League in 2007, Goan teams have won the title nine times, which is almost 50 per cent. Goa, having a population of 0.2% of India, has contributed 68 players to the senior Indian national team, which is about 13% of the total," said Gomes. From next season, the AIFF plans to turn the Indian Super League (ISL) into India's top tier league and relegate I-League to League One, or the second division with no promotion to the top league. Only three existing I-League clubs, Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Bengaluru FC can hope to make the top grade.
- Football: Schalke suffer worst ever Bundesliga start
Berlin, Sept 25, 2016 (AFP) -Schalke 04 have made the worst start to a Bundesliga season in the club's history with Sunday's 2-1 loss at Hoffenheim their fifth straight league defeat. The latest set-back piles the pressure on Schalke's new coach Markus Weinzierl.
- Let's football
Punnoose Mammen is a financial analyst. That's what he does for a liv ing, but his passion is football. Actually kicking a ball, not just follow ing the glorious pursuits of European sides in cash-rich foreign leagues or playing in the virtual sphere. Mammen recalls, a year ago, a casual conversation across an office bay resulted in a few of his colleagues getting together for a five-a-side game post-work. "Soon it became a Thursday feature, late-evening get-togethers," he says, "We pooled money, booked a turf and played till midnight," the 25-year-old executive says, looking back on his football friendship. Bengaluru -Garden City, bean town, pub city, India's silicon valley and more recently runners' paradise -is gaining ground as the country's amateur football capital. Mini turfs, hosting five and seven-a-side games, have grown from a mere three to over 60 in the last three years. Working professionals, young and middle-aged, men and women, are getting their football studs out of the shelves and on to the pitch on weekends for conversations and kickabouts. The city has over 150 amateur football teams, some of which will feature in a newly floated amateur league. The amateur part is only in format. Amith Reddy , a local businessman, who was instrumental in building Friends United, explained that banter and the Beautiful Game are regular features on weekends at the Astro Arena in Bellandur. "We started as a small group, but we've grown in number since," he says. "We play at least twice a week in the evenings. We've also started to compete in tournaments. We consider the facility as our home ground, we go to other turfs to play too." Like the big clubs around the world, Friends United has custom-made uniforms, with different jerseys for home and away games. Hemant Varghese, who earlier worked as a manager at the Bengaluru International Airport, started Prakrida Sports, a specialized football store. He explained, "The demand for customized gear is like never before. There is more variety on the racks, footballs and boots especially ." Amateur football has caught on big time with working professionals, so much so that there are over 10 turfs on the Sarjapur Road stretch alone, catering to the IT industry. Socializing in Bengaluru might well have a new name, with flood-lit facilities being kept open past midnight and into the morning, depending on demand. Shree Harsha, a representative of AddRush Sports, hosts of the Football Fives League (FFL) for amateur city teams, says, "In every 5-km radius there's a football pitch, either turf or hard ground. There are more than 150 amateur teams including some 50 corporate sides competing in tournaments hosted on weekends on a regular basis here." Women too are taking to amateur football in a big way . Rutvi Tiwari, in the finance business, spends most of her evenings playing football with close friends -HR executive Anna Shaji and marketing professional Shanu. "We used to watch our friends play and then decided to try our luck. Now we are hooked to the game," recalls Rutvi. Some of the women play alongside the men, while others have got together to form all-girl sides. Social media has aided the movement, connecting people who are looking to get their kicks from a bit of casual footy . Footballers, even amateur ones, can be picky, not all of them go with the five-a-side version played on modified surfaces.Joseph Anto, a software professional, connected with a group upon moving to the city recently ."Luckily ," he says, making little effort to hide his relief, "it was a bunch who play the game the oldschool way on grass and muddy grounds, which requires a lot more stamina and skill unlike tplaying on turfs." Clearly, it's got something for everybody -old school or new age, turf or wading through slush, men or women, exercise or exchange.


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The Indiana Pacers' season was on the line in Game 5 on Wednesday night, so Lance Stephenson pulled out all of his tricks.
His bizarre ear-blowing tactic will get all of the attention, but it's what he did early in the fourth quarter that will get the NBA's attention.
With LeBron James playing with five fouls, Stephenson did everything he could to try to fool the referees into calling a sixth.
Nice try.
Update: Thursday, May 29 at 3:50 p.m. ET
As expected, the league has fined Stephenson for the flop:
NBA fines Lance Stephenson and Roy Hibbert for flopping in Game 5 vs Heat. • Stephenson: $10K for 2nd violation of playoffs • Hibbert: $5K— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 29, 2014
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Miesha Tate's victory over Jessica Eye at UFC on FOX 16 in Chicago was her fourth consecutive win, and it earned her a title shot.
Holly Holm became the first woman to ever defeat Ronda Rousey when she KO'd Rousey at UFC 193 and took the bantamweight belt.
No World Tour? No Go Big press conference? Where the heck is the hype for the Rafael dos Anjos vs. Conor McGregor champion vs. champion
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Women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm doesn't care if a rematch with Ronda Rousey happens, or if the former champion returns.
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Check out the first face-offs between Rafael doj Anjos and Conor McGregor, as well as Holly Holm and Miesha Tate, as the UFC 197 stars
The participants in the two UFC 197 world title fights participated in a press conference on Wednesday in Las Vegas promoting the March 5 event.
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Former women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey wants more time off from fighting and will not be competing on the July 9 UFC 200 fight card.
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Conor McGregor vs. Rafael dos Anjos, as well as a Holly Holm title defense against Miesha Tate, are reportedly going to headline a revamped UFC
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All right, well now that we know a little bit about Upright, let's dig a bit deeper. Let's dig in to the other Upright controls that we have, which will help us to correct perspective. In particular, we'll be working on two different images. We'll start off with this photograph here that I captured of this beautiful concert hall. In this case, I was using a wide angle lens. As a result, there is some distortion. You'll see the distortion on the sides of the photograph as these columns are leaning out. Let's see if we can make some corrections to the overall distortion of this image and also add a few of our own manual adjustments as well.
In order to make corrections using Upright, we'll navigate to the Lens Corrections panel. Next, we'll start off in Basic. In Basic, if we have the ability to turn on Enable Profile Corrections, we want to do that, as I mentioned previously. Next after having done that, we can flip on the toggle switch to see the before and after view. In this case, the Profile Corrections is really helping this image out, yet it isn't helping with the overall distortion that I am seeing here. Next, we'll turn on the option to Constrain Crop and then we'll look at some of our upright controls.
Now there are four controls here. We have Auto, Level, Vertical, and Full. But what do all these mean and how do they work? What Auto will do is it will automatically make corrections to our picture. It will correct any distortions due to the overall way that the image was captured. In this case, Auto does a phenomenal job. If you click on the toggle switch here to see the before and after, here's before and then now here is after. The image just looks much better. Let's turn Auto off so we can talk about level, vertical, and full.
What level does, as we've already seen, is it allows us to level our image out. Vertical, it allows us to work on vertical perspective, so as I click on this, one of the things that you're going to see is that it really corrects these columns. This option will not only level the image out, but it also will help to correct the vertical perspective that you have in your photograph. All right, well what about Full? What Full does is it allows us to correct the level in horizontal perspective, but it also makes some slight 3D corrections. We'll talk more about this one in the next movie, but for now, I'll click it here with this image, because you may be thinking, well why not use Full compared to Auto? Here Full does a pretty good job, but when we compare this Auto, I think Auto looks better.
With certain images as we'll see in the next movie, Full will work better, yet in most situations, what I found is that Auto works extremely well. All right, well the image looks a ton better, yet I want to apply a few more of my own adjustments to this. So after having used Upright, I'm going to navigate to the Manual tab. Underneath manual, I've decided I want to remove a bit more of the distortion. Here you can see how you can change the Distortion value. In this case, I'm just going to remove a little bit of that distortion. Next, I'll work on Aspect.
Here with Aspect, we can either stretch the image out horizontally or we can stretch it out vertically. In this case, I'm just going to add a little bit of height to the picture. As you do this, you may want to turn on Constrain Crop. By doing that, if ever you're seeing white edges like this here, with Constrain Crop, It will crop the image so that you're unable to see that edge, so that you're just looking at pixels. Again, here with this image though, I just want a slight adjustment. Next, in regards to the edges or the corners, the vignette there, what I'm going to do is I'm going to brighten up those corners and I'll do so by clicking on my Amount slider underneath Lens Vignetting.
Why have I highlighted these extra controls here? I've highlighted these because oftentimes we can achieve the best result by starting off in the Basic tab, by applying Upright Corrections and then by going to Manual to really finish things off. The other reason why I wanted to highlight that is, often once we have made adjustments, we'll need to go back to the Basic tab and click on Reanalyze. We'll need to click on Reanalyze because we've made some corrections to our image in the Manual tab, therefore Photoshop needs to recalculate how it can best correct the perspective in this image.
In this particular case, that reanalyze step, well it made all the difference in the world and the image now looks really strong. If we click on our toggle switch, here we can see there's a before and now here is the after. All right, well let's take a look at one more photograph so that we can really see how all of these settings work. In this case, I have a different type of picture. This is a portrait of a really good friend, Eric. He's a phenomenal artist and here he is standing in his studio. If you look at the image, you'll notice that the overall perspective isn't very good.
So in order to correct an image like this, again, we want to turn on Enable Profile Corrections. Next, turn on Constrain Crop and then one of the things that you want to do first, now that you understand Upright is typically to go straight for Auto. If Auto doesn't work, you can try out some of those other options. In this case, I think Auto looks really good and you know what, in regards to the Lens Corrections, I think that's a wrap for this image. It looks great. Here we'll click on that toggle switch so you can see there is the before and now here is the after.
I wanted to include this second image just to highlight that you can use Upright in a number of different situations. It's helpful with architectural photography, portraits, landscapes, you name it, Upright can help out as you're starting to see here. All right, we have more ground to cover when it comes to Upright. Let's continue to work with this new tool and we'll do that in the next movie.
- Leveling photographs with Upright
- Applying more flexible and precise retouching
- Using the Radial filter in your workflow
- Generating Smart Previews
- Building photo books
- Creating a slideshow with both still images and video
- Dragging photos to saved map location
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Turner Hall screens 'Searching for Sugarman'
The Oscar-winning British/Swedish documentary "Searching for Sugarman" will be shown at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. 4th St., at 8 p.m. March 22.
The movie chronicles two fans' search for the "lost" Sixto Díaz Rodríguez, an American musician who was hugely popular in South Africa. »Read Full Article
No word yet on fate of Michelle Shocked show at Madison bar
Michelle Shocked's May 4 show in Madison - the last remaining gig on her tour, after anti-gay comments at a concert over the weekend led the rest of the venues to cancel the alt-folk singer's shows - is still on, at least for now.
The Capitol Times in Madison reports that the Harmony Bar in Madison is waiting to make a final decision on the show until the bar's owner, Keith Daniels, returns from an out-of-town vacation late next week. »Read Full Article
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Bruins at Panthers preview
|12.27.10 at 4:46 am ET
The Bruins are coming off perhaps their most monumental win of the season, a 4-1 victory over the Thrashers that featured the grit and emotion the team had lacked over its previous 1-3-1 stretch.
The B's play the next five on the road, starting with Monday's matchup with the Panthers. The Bruins have won both games against Florida this season, most recently grabbing a 3-1 victory at BankAtlantic Center behind two goals from Mark Recchi on Nov. 24.
– The Panthers are 7-6-0 at BankAtlantic Center this season, though they probably feel as though they don't know the place anymore with the way their schedule has been. Nine of their last 12 games have been played on the road. They're 2-4-0 in their last six home contests dating back to Nov. 22.
– The Bruins are 9-5-1 on the road and have dropped their last three away from the Garden.
– The Panthers are the only team in the NHL to not have an overtime loss this season. The Bruins have come away with the single point in four contests.
– Milan Lucic has gone without a point in three straight games for the first time this season. His last point came on Dec. 16 in Montreal, a third-period power play goal. Despite his mini-slump, he continues to lead the Bruins with 16 goals.
– Each of the Bruins goaltenders have put together impressive performances vs. the Panthers this season. Tuukka Rask grabbed a shutout on Nov. 18 at the Garden, while Tim Thomas allowed on goal on Nov. 24th. Florida is the only team that both Bruins goaltenders have beaten.
– The Bruins have allowed 35 shots or more in seven games in December. If David Booth comes close to the 14 shots he had against the Bruins on Nov. 18, they might be in for a high shots allowed total again.
– The biggest question for this Bruins team is how they can sustain what they did Thursday for an entire road trip, and then beyond that. They have Tampa Bay Tuesday, followed by a rematch against the Thrashers on Thursday. If the Bruins want to carry momentum from their victory last Thursday they will need to kick off the road trip with a win over the Panthers.
– The Bruins have not sat Tuukka Rask for five straight games yet this season. Tim Thomas has started the last four, and has had such a stretch only twice this season. It might make sense for Rask to get the nod against the lowly Panthers, which would avoid overwhelming Thomas with three starts in four days, but reports out of Florida suggest Thomas will be between the pipes.
– The Bruins benefit greatly from the fact that Lucic was not suspended for Monday's game. This way, they can take their time with bringing Brad Marchand (soreness) back and not have to summon an extra forward while they're away. Claude Julien told reporters Monday that Marchand will not play.
Brad Marchand returns to practice with Bruins
|12.26.10 at 2:27 pm ET
Injured Bruins forward Brad Marchand (soreness from Dec. 16's P.K. Subban hit) made a step Sunday toward his eventual return to the lineup when he skated with teammates in practice for the first time since leaving last Saturday's game vs. Washington.
Marchand had skated with fellow injured Bruin Mark Stuart (hand) on Thursday morning, but Sunday marked the 22-year-old's first full practice with the team since the Washington game. The undersized winger was in the lineup for the bout with the Capitals but left in the second period after feeling too uncomfortable from Subban's hit on him two days prior.
Coach Claude Julien told reporters on hand for Sunday's practice in Wilmington that the team has yet to determine whether he'll be able to go on back-to-back days, as the Bruins will face the Panthers on Monday and the Lightning on Tuesday.
The uncertainty over Marchand's status is also tied to the other Bruins news of the day. The fact that Milan Lucic will not be suspended after receiving a match penalty on Thursday night means the team could play Daniel Paille in Marchand's place without having to call up an extra forward for the team's five-game road trip.
Milan Lucic not suspended for punching Freddy Meyer, gesturing to Atlanta bench
|12.26.10 at 1:19 pm ET
Bruins left wing Milan Lucic will not be suspended after sucker punching Thrashers defenseman Freddy Meyer in the head and gesturing to the Atlanta bench in the third period of the B's 4-1 victory at TD Garden on Thursday. He will instead receive fines totaling $3,500.
Lucic had received an intent to injure match penalty for punching Meyer after the Thrashers defenseman hit Lucic high, a hit deemed dirty by all Bruins skaters on the ice, as a line brawl broke out between the two teams. The match penalty carries with it an automatic suspension pending a review, and after Lucic met with NHL vice presidents of hockey operations Mike Murphy on Sunday, it was determined that he will not miss any time.
Following is the statement released by Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli:
'The NHL has informed us that Milan will not be suspended as a result of the match penalty assessed to him during our game against the Thrashers last Thursday. He will be fined $2,500 for the punch thrown in the scrum and $1,000 for making an obscene gesture directed at the Thrashers bench. He will join the team on the flight to Florida and be available for Monday's game against the Panthers.'
That's what Christmas means to Zee: A look at European Bruins' traditions
|12.24.10 at 6:10 pm ET
The Bruins gave fans an early Christmas with a statement-making win on Thursday, but when it comes to the Black and Gold, there's plenty about Christmas that the average Bostonian doesn't know. David Krejci, Zdeno Chara, Tuukka Rask, and Dennis Seidenberg spoke to WEEI.com about what Christmas is like in their native countries.
Here's a look at each player's customs and holiday memories:
Santa who? Jezisek (pronounced "eshishik") is the man, er, boy for the job back home for Krejci. Czech for "Child Jesus," Jezisek is a child who delivers gifts to families, much like St. Nick would in these parts.
As is the case in Europe, Krejci's family is all done with sharing gifts by the time the 25th rolls around.
"We have dinner on the 24th, and right after, we open gifts, so Christmas is the 24th," Krejci said.
Given his years in juniors and now in the NHL, Krejci, like his European teammates doesn't get to celebrate Christmas back home.
"It's been a long time since the last time I was back home for Christmas," Krejci said. "I guess I'm used to it. It still sucks that you're not with your family, but I'm getting older and it's been a long time, so I guess I'm getting used to it now."
Teammate Tyler Seguin, like many North American kids in the '90's, remembers asking for Power Rangers toys and all things Barney. Over in Sternberk, then a part of Czechoslovakia, Krejci couldn't think of anything but his future career.
"When I was growing up I always wanted skates, hockey sticks, and all the cool stuff that was really expensive that I couldn't afford," Krejci said. "So I asked my parents. I never got it, but I was excited for it anyways."
What do Rask and Santa Claus share in common? Nothing, besides the fact that they hail from the same land.
"Santa Claus is Finnish," the 23-year-old goaltender told a now-enlightened WEEI.com. It's a fact that can be confirmed here.
Aside from that interesting tidbit and opening presents on the 24th ("That's the only thing I've known, ever since growing up"), Rask doesn't think his time on Christmas as a child is too dissimilar from that of an American.
"The food is different," Rask, who remembers meals of ham, salmon, and bread, said. "I think every family has their different traditions, but to stay at home and be with the family, that's the same everywhere."
The biggest difference that Seidenberg notices between the States and West Germany around the holidays is level to which it's taken.
"It feels like there's a lot more toys under the Christmas tree here," said a smiling Seidenberg. "It's just a lot more done-up, it seems, than in Europe."
A traditional Christmas meal is also different from in the USA, and from the countries of his European teammates.
"We eat a lot of duck with cabbage, mashed potatoes, and stuff like that," Seidenberg said.
The Bruins will practice on Sunday, which probably wouldn't take place over in West Germany. After eating and opening presents on the 24th, they get the 25th and 26th off as Christmas holidays.
While Krejci had Jezisek and Rask had Santa Claus, the Bruins' captain grew up with both.
"One thing we have is Santa — that's 'Mikalas' — and then whoever brings the presents is Jezisek," Chara said.
Chara shares Rask's logic that despite the differences between the countries, there's no cultural differences (hey, remember those? Those were funny!) when it comes to the most important part of the holidays: family.
"It's pretty much the same as over here," Chara said. "We all get together, the families gather together and want to spend it together. We have a nice dinner, and in Europe we open the presents on the 24th at night.
"As far as everything else, it's almost the same. We have different food traditions for dinners. You guys have different over here, but I think the atmosphere around Christmas is pretty much the same."
Happy holidays from the Big Bad Blog and WEEI.com.
Milan Lucic hearing scheduled for Sunday
|12.24.10 at 2:52 pm ET
According to a tweet from TSN's Darren Dreger, a hearing has been set for Sunday between the league and Bruins forward Milan Lucic. The 22-year-old faces a suspension after receiving a match penalty for clocking Thrashers defenseman Freddy Meyer in the temple on Thursday following Meyer's high hit on Lucic. Because Gregory Campbell plays for the Bruins, Mike Murphy will handle the hearing rather than Colin Campbell.
Lucic said after the game that he — like coach Claude Julien — felt Meyer's hit was dirty, though Lucic added that he would "face the consequences" for the punch that refs deemed intent to injure.
The hit from Meyer resulted in a line-brawl between all skaters on the ice, with Nathan Horton fighting Evander Kane, Marc Savard taking on Bryan Little, and Andrew Ference dropping the gloves with Anthony Stewart.
The Bruins won the game, 4-1.
The Hat Trick: Bruins respond in big way
|12.24.10 at 3:24 am ET
It seemed a forgone conclusion this week that Dec. 23 was going to be a critical day in the 2010-11 Bruins' season. It was the day the town was watching to see what they were made of, and Boston was going to get an answer, one way or another.
The answer the B's gave came in perhaps their most complete game of the season, a 4-1 pounding of the Thrashers (recap) at TD Garden. Everything that was missing in Monday's 3-0 loss to the Ducks, particularly the drive that seemed to escape the Bruins recently, was there. They scored, they played sound special teams, and they fought (a lot).
Now, with the Bruins going from playing their worst game of the season Monday to perhaps their best, it's only natural to wonder if this could be a turning point for the team. Did everything this week, from the criticism to the questions to the absurd rumors that Claude Julien was on the hot seat, get to these Bruins and inspire them to put an end to the madness?
"You learn more from the losses and from the tough times," Andrew Ference said after the game. "When you finally put it together and get a game where you take a step in the right direction, it definitely helps."
Bruins players had mixed reactions to the idea that Thursday was a statement game, but there is no question a statement was made. Should the town get carried away with it? Why not? Hey, it did after the last game.
Here's the Hat Trick:
Last season, and even this season, the Bruins have been questioned for not responding when their teammates are victims of cheap-shots. On this night of proving everybody wrong about everything, it was only fitting that they responded to one with a line brawl at 4:06 of the third period.
With Milan Lucic coming through the neutral zone, Freddy Meyer elbowed him in the face, and as Lucic hit the ice, so too did every glove (goaltenders excluded) of every skater. Ference went after Meyer, and from a massive scrum came three separate spinoffs. Nathan Horton pounded on Evander Kane, Marc Savard tangoed with Bryan Little, and Ference took on Anthony Stewart. Read the rest of this entry »
With suspension looming, Milan Lucic and Claude Julien call out Freddy Meyer for dirty hit
|12.23.10 at 10:43 pm ET
Milan Lucic and Claude Julien were both upset over Thrashers defenseman Freddy Meyer's hit on the Bruins forward that led to the all-out brawl that took place with 4:06 remaining in the B's 4-1 victory at the Garden Thursday night.
"It was a high hit, for sure. I was bleeding from the lip. After a hit like that — that was the second time he's hit me cheap," Lucic said. "That's the second time. You can't give a guy a free pass too many times."
Lucic was given a match penalty for attempt to injure when he punched a helmet-less Meyer in the temple, knocking him to the ground. He now faces a suspension, pending review. Julien said the fight — which also featured Nathan Horton, Marc Savard, and Andrew Ference — could have been avoided were it not for the hit, which he deemed unequivocally cheap.
"Nobody saw that coming until that dirty hit. And that was a dirty hit," Julien said. "I've looked at it again, and it's a cheap hit, and hopefully it's seen that way.
"If you're a player, with all the head injuries we've had with our team, whether it's [Patrice] Bergeron or Savard, and all the other things where we're talking about cutting down on head shots, you can't blame a player for reacting to those kind of things. I think everybody reacted, and that's what happened."
Thrashers head coach and former Bruins assistant coach Craig Ramsay deemed the hit fair and didn't like the Bruins' response.
"Freddy laid a good hit. That is what happens. You throw a big hit and you have to have a fight," Ramsay said. "We are taking hitting out of the game. He gets a penalty for a good hit. They started all the fights and I thought we should have had a power play for the rest of the game."
Julien disagreed and supported the way Lucic's teammates responded.
"I'm going to stand here and say that our guys [stuck] together for something that was, to me, a real cheap shot and uncalled for. Hopefully the league sees it that way, too."


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The 'Blue Hole' is at the base of Wai'ale'ale, which is just below the cliffs that one of the wettest spots on earth. Locals refer to this location as the Wailua Headwaters; it's where you see the falls coming down the wall. This page is meant to direct you to the Weir (stream diversion) where you can see into the Wai'ale'ale basin; it is not meant to guide you to hike to the Wailua Headwaters. Having done the hike to the back wall myself, I can say with some certainty that the 'Blue Hole' hike is extremely difficult and technical, and for that reason this page is not meant to direct you to the actual 'Blue Hole'. Many people have gotten disoriented attemptiong to reach the Wailua Headwaters; even locals who are familiar with Kauai have been stranded and had to spend one or more nights out in the jungle with no supplies. Moreover, rain can occur quickly and heavily in this area; if it does, the river will flash flood and if you are above 'Guardian Falls,' the way will be impassable until the water subsides. It is not uncommon for clear ankle deep water to trun into a chest high raging torrent in under an hour - you need to be aware of the signs that the environment is changing before it occurs; otehrwise it may be too late to get out before a flood. I cannot stress the importance of this enough; every year people die on Kauai in flash floods and hunders get stranded and either have to spend the night or be rescued by helicopter. A helicopter rescue in Waialeale Basin would be extremely difficult and dangerous and there is no guarantee that you would even be able to get help as cell phone receiption is spotty up in the basin.
If you want to take a good look at Waialeale, go for a moderate hike with knowedgeable local guides, and return home cozy and warm after a 1/2 day, we recommend Aloha Kauai Tours. They have been operating tours on Kauai since 1990 and have a wonderful rainforest group excursion that begins at the 'Jurassic Park Gate' and takes you to the weir.
At the end of Highway 580, Kuamo'o Road will end abruptly at the Keahua Stream crossing near Keahua Arboretum. You can park in the parking lot on your left and begin your hike (unless you have 4x4, then you can proceed at your own risk). The drive beyond the paved highway is very rough, bumpy, often muddy, and dangerous in spots (especially when crossing streams).


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on January 8, 2012 - 12:01 AM
It's a sign of these unsettled times that the analyst who famously announced "the end of history" in 1989, when the Soviet empire was crumbling and liberal, free-market democracy seemed inevitable, has just published a new essay with the provocative title "The Future of History."
Francis Fukuyama's article appears in the January edition of the journal Foreign Affairs. It offers a good introduction to what may be the biggest political issue of 2012 -- the decline of the middle class in the United States and around the world. Without this middle class, Fukuyama argues, liberal democracy loses its anchor.
"Protect the middle class" is a rote slogan for both parties in this presidential election year. But Fukuyama argues that the danger comes not from particular tax or spending policies of either party, but from the very dynamic of the modern, global economy. This new world may be flat, but it's also tilted -- with the benefits flowing disproportionately toward the elites.
"Inequality has always existed, as a result of natural differences in talent and character," writes Fukuyama. "But today's technological world vastly magnifies those differences." The fortunate few "can become financial wizards or software engineers and take home ever-larger proportions of the national wealth."
Fukuyama is a useful bellwether. "The End of History" was widely cited as the apogee of post-Cold War optimism, and then derided after Sept. 11, 2001, when history seemed to have returned with a vengeance.
Fukuyama isn't revising his enthusiasm for liberal democracy, which he still sees as "the default ideology around much of the world today." Instead, he's questioning whether the global market may be the enemy of liberal democracy, rather than its handmaiden. In 1989, he saw the technology-driven global marketplace -- and its ever-spreading wealth -- as a crucial reason for "the end of history" and the universal embrace of democratic values. Now, he worries that globalization is eroding the middle classes that are, historically, the bulwark of a liberal political order.
Fukuyama sees rising anger among middle-class Americans toward Wall Street. But he notes the paradox that the chief beneficiary has been the tea party movement that endorses the corporate status quo, rather than the Occupy protesters who challenge it. As Campaign 2012 begins for real, the core question is the economy. The public is angry at Wall Street elites who seem to be gaming the system. Every candidate has a multitiered plan for economic renewal. What's missing is a formula for breaking the national political deadlock so that any such program can be enacted.
Fukuyama notes: "Many people currently admire the Chinese system not just for its economic record but also because it can make large, complex decisions quickly, compared with the agonizing policy paralysis that has struck both the United States and Europe in the past few years."
That's a warning sign -- when people look to a totalitarian state for a system that works.


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Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for Linux Clusters and IBM G5 servers
On September 13th, IBM introduced a new Power5 server tuned for Linux. Contrary to Harvard Research Group's belief that a transition will occur from RISC to Intel, IBM seems to be betting on RISC again. They may be right, the PowerPC could help them capture market share in the fastest growing sector of the technology market.
On August 27th, O'Grady's Powerpage reported delays in Apple's ability to deliver its own Xserve, iMac, G5 server and desktop computers. The delays reported by Apple has revolved around IBM's inability to deliver the G5 chip.
If IBM has trouble meeting their deliveries to Apple, you might ask why they are heavily marketing their own new OpenPower series. The answer goes back last year's win by Lockheed Martin and the Navy's sonar solution. High Performance Linux server deployment has increased significantly. IBM has been on the hunt for wins in this space and has taken internal criticism for losing to what management considers inferior competitors.
If Lockheed Martin had to buy Apple Xserves and tear them out of their chassis to get to the IBM G4 chip, that indicates a preference for the chip not the Apple server. IBM can now offer hardware platforms that have a specific form-factor, high density processors and Linux.
That provides IBM with an edge in a market catering to more than nuclear submarines. As mentioned above, military aircraft also use sonar arrays. Department of Energy laboratories use large clusters as do places like Los Alamos. Emergency Response Network Systems such as those used to manage storms such as the three hurricanes in Florida.
In spite of the wins Apple has touted in the HPC space, their director of HPC resigned because he did not believe Apple was serious about the market. If Apple has more interest in equipping BMW's with iPods, perhaps IBM doesn't feel that bad about meeting their own needs first.
On their IBM eServer OpenPower 720 web page, IBM states that the 720 is available with SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) only. It is not supported by any of the variants of Red Hat Linux.
In today's government environment, Red Hat has captured a commanding market share. Much of Red Hat's success exists because of partners like HP, Dell and Oracle. Large government contractors, including Lockheed Martin, consider themselves Red Hat shops.
If IBM intends to penetrate the government HPC sector, they will need to partner with Red Hat. But, will Red Hat choose to provide a version for the PowerPC? Much depends on the real commitment to the Linux Standards Base and time. Meanwhile, a small Linux distributor has picked up a significant amount of business because they ported to the PowerPC.
Tom Adelstein lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Yvonne, and works as a Linux and open-source software consultant locally and nationally. He's the co-author of the upcoming book Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop, published by O'Reilly and Associates. Tom has written numerous articles on Linux technical and marketing issues as a guest editor for a variety of publications. His latest venture has him working as the webmaster of JDSHelp.org
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
Hmmm. Maybe you should take the same course. You can't spell. Your sentences lack referential indexes and you use incorrect grammar.
Did Tom push your buttons?
Or did LJ's copy editor do that?
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
This guy needs to take English 100. I don't care anthing about his speculation or analysis when he can't even structure basic sentences correctly. Further, the fact that he fades in and out of speaking to the run on G4s and the supply constraints present in the G5 indicates that he was, at least, heavily distracted when preparing this article. Also, who were his sources for the inuendo about IBM's attitude and Apple's HPC vice president? (We don't need names, but were they unnamed employees of said firms, or was this a conversation he had around the water cooler --perhaps with Alex "Sharky" over at CPU Magazine, who can also not spell or write his way out of a box.)
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
I work for the goverment of Canada... We where just about to finalize our migration from HPUX to Linux (redhat). But since redhat ain't cheep anymore we will be switching to Debian shortly.
The G4 is not an IBM chip.
It is sold by Motorola/Freescale
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip.
Where has Rip Van Winke been?
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip. (What?)
When Apple reported its financial results yesterday, it zinged IBM yet again for not getting enough PowerPC 970 "G5" processors out the door from its 300 mm wafer chip plant in East Fishkill, New York. When questioned about this, Loughridge said that IBM had doubled the yield at the plant from the first to the second quarter, and was on its way to double the yield again in the third quarter. He said that the ramp curve at the chip plant was exactly what IBM had planned, albeit pushed out somewhere between one and two quarters.
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip. (What?)
Sounds like IBM makes the G4 and G5.
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip.
Last February Sony invested $325mn in IBM's chip plant. That made Apple very happy at the time because they didn't know where they would get chips since IBM was losing $250mn a year.
Now, IBM is profitable in the Chip business. IBM makes makes G5s for Apple.
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip.
One version of it. But, IBM furnishes Apple's chip and their own. Motorola moved on to DSPs a long time ago.
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip.
The G4 is not an IBM chip, period!
IBM has G3 and G5, though.
Re: The G4 is not an IBM chip.
The "G4", which is soley an Apple designation, is from the Motorola 7400-series of PowerPC processors. The "G3" processors are the 750-series, which IBM as well as Motorola produce (but I think Apple only shipped Motorola parts), and the "G5" is the IBM-only PowerPC 970 family.
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
This guy seems to have a Red Hat fixation...
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
Which guy? The author? Nah. O'Reilly just released his book called "Exploring the (Sun) JDS Linux Desktop". That would put him as either a Sun fixated person or SuSE fixated person. Of course, he might just be fixated on Linux. Hmmmm.
If you're talking about the first commentor, yeah, some fixation exists. Who would go to the trouble of looking up an obscure web page about an IBM PowerPC low end server that only accepts the highest end Red Hat distribution? That's a little obsessive compulsive.
I found it informative though. I mean that Yellow Dog Linux is in Navy airplanes and nuclear subs. Does that say something about "upstart" Linux or what?
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
Only Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS supports the Power PC and does not support Dynamic Processor Deallocation.
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
This page
shows 8 options for buying Red Hat Linux with the IBM 720, and one option for buying Suse.
How well researched was the rest of this article?
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
All you are seeing is a listing for different support options. If you know what you're doing and don't need to be sucked dry by IBM Global Services, you source the OS from either Red Hat or SuSE directly. After that it's pick-your-flavor. Personally I'd go with SuSE in this case, simply because I've found their corporate support of non-Intel platforms to be superior to that of Red Hat's. The recent IBM/Novell agreement has added weight to that argument IMHO.
Re: Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for
I hardly find it to be any /research/.
Geekspeak I would call it.
Red Hat wasn't ever big supporter of PPC, that's not secret. They enjoy growing Intel market share and try to be concentrated. YDL was always who delivered PPC Red Hat based systems.
One more important thing. It is only with PowerPC970 (aka G5/whatever) IBM have put low-end CPU into HPC. IBM is long time HPC veteran with its Power series CPUs.
PPC offers appeared less then year ago. And as we know HPC market is quite inertial: platform chosen once will be used for quite some time. And it is rather big reshape of HPC market is going to occur due to end-of-life of Alpha CPUs. Alpha systems are still on top500 list.
In my memory it was impressed that IBM started selling PowerPC/64bit based solutions right after HP announcement that development of Alpha line is stopped. And most of the customers wasn't impressed with Itanium performance-to-performance ratio to date.
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