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Two gay men kicked out of Chico's Tacos restaurant for kissing ...
There are 334 comments on the Las Cruces Sun-News story from Jul 9, 2009, titled Two gay men kicked out of Chico's Tacos restaurant for kissing .... In it, Las Cruces Sun-News reports that:Two gay men kissed at a Chico's Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster.
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#359 Jul 14, 2009
Jesus H. Christ, lady (Amazed_n_LC), take a break. Don't try that religious shit online. It doesn't work. Your constant attempt to interject religion into a f'ing taco meal makes no sense. In fact, it tends to drive away those who might be leaning towards salvation.
Go back to bed, read your Bible, and pray that you might have understanding of ALL humanity.
"Romans 13: 8-10"
Since: Feb 08
#360 Jul 14, 2009
You're right, but you DO need to treat other people right to be a good person. When do you plan to start?
"Romans 13: 8-10"
Since: Feb 08
#361 Jul 14, 2009
Amazed_n_LC--"Amazed_n_LC --"AMEN!!! I stated previously,(MOST) QUEERS are ATHIEST anyway,"
(Lie. There are millions of gay Christians, including excellent ministers, bishops, seminarians, deacons and elders in every church.)
"Ok, so YOU'VE been in EVERY religion and have the inside scoop on them, right?
They use religion to hide behind."
A despicable lie. Absolutely gross. They are not "hiding" behind ANYTHING. We're not talking about someone saying they're 13 so they can get into the movies cheaper, we're talking about people devoting their LIVES to serving God in the ministry. No, they are NOT "hiding behind" religion...YOU are hiding behind it to cover the fact that your bigotry is simple hate and simply immoral. There's NOTHING Christian or Godly about homophobia.
"The Devil is their SAVIOR."
(If they're athiests, they don't have any savior.)
"My Mama always said,"It's much easier to be bad then to be good."
(And you're proving that true by spewing hate instead of Christian love.)
"You believe it's "HATE" if you'd like GOD
says he HATES also because HE HATES WICKEDNESS."
I agree, and your bigotry is wicked. Being gay is NOT. And don't pretend it's NOT hate, it certainly is. You use the SAME lies, the SAME sleazy attacks, the SAME slurs, you just won't be honest and ADMIT your hate. If you did NOT hate gay people we would see it in how you treat them. You don't treat someone you care about in this fashion.
"I don't HATE the person, I hate their Wicked ways."
Lie. Being gay is not a "way". It's not something you do, it's something you ARE. And to call it "wicked" IS HATE!
"Just as I hate drug users, Gang members, Child molesters, bank robbers, murderers...etc...They are all doing evil and wicked things."
Your bigotry is comparable. Being gay is NOT. Those things all cause harm to others. Being gay harms NOBODY. Those are all actions, being gay is NOT. Those are all CHOSEN. Being gay is NOT.
Calling the way God created millions of people "wicked" is blasphemous and insulting to God.
"Up until the end of this world, Queers have a chance to repent and change their ways."
Lie. Being gay is NOT a sin, they have no NEED to "change their ways," and they CANNOT. There is no such thing as a former homosexual. A person CANNOT change their sexual orientation.
"They should grab a bible, instead of lubricating gel. LOL"
(Jeez, ANOTHER homophobe obsessed with gay sex. Pathetic.)
"The only thing PATHETIC, is Condoning WICKEDNESS!"
Which you are doing in your lame excuses for hate and bigotry, and blasphemously blaming your hate on God and using God as a weapon. THAT is wicked. Being gay is not, and I'm not "condoning" it, which would be stupid. Sexual orientation is not chosen, my "condoning" it would be a complete waste of time.
I am condoning NOTHING but what Jesus condoned...treat others with love and kindness. Stop being hateful towards others.
"God hates ALL that is WICKED."
(Your hate and bigotry is wicked. Being gay is not. If God "hated" it, God really messed up in creating millions and millions of gay people.)
"You will be sorry for that one for sure, God doesn't mess up,"
You're right. God didn't mess up in creating millions of gay people. YOU messed up in hating them.
"he gave everyone the opportunity to abide by his word,"
And YOU choose not to. God's word says to treat others with love, you refuse.
God's word NEVER says it's wrong to be gay. Not once.
YOU are the one choosing NOT to abide in God's word. YOU are the one disobeying God.
"he ALLOWS these wicked people to live their lives anyway they choose,"
That's idiotic. Being gay is NOT chosen, GOD chose for them to be gay.
And saying they're "wicked people" proves your hate.
"thats why he will RID the world of all that is wicked and evil."
Like hate, bigotry, and lies.
"Romans 13: 8-10"
Since: Feb 08
#362 Jul 14, 2009
"Look what he did to SODOM AND GOMMORRAH!"
(That is a story, and had NOTHING to do with homosexuality. Do you even HAVE a Bible? Can you read?)
"GEEZ...I really wonder about you. The "STORY" of SODOM and Gommorrah, they were doing all kinds of VILE things in the streets."
NONE of which were homosexuality.
"You really should go back and read it."
I have, dozens of times. I've taught classes on the story, done sermons about it, written articles about it. I don't need to read it again, it will NEVER be about homosexuality. Jesus SAID what it was about, and it had NOTHING to do with sexual orientation.
"They WERE practing HOMOSEXULAITY,"
Lie. Homosexuality is not a practice. It's not something you do, it's something you ARE. The sex in the story was NOT homosexuality, nor was it the reason these towns were supposedly "destroyed."
"they were SODOMIZING each other, and all the other things GOD just couldn't take anymore. so he put a stop to it."
Blasphemous lie. In this STORY God destroyed the cities because of SELFISHNESS, because people refused to help strangers in need. IT WASN'T ABOUT SEX! And the sex was NOT homosexuality, it was ritual abuse and humiliation, like in Abu Graib. You CANNOT be so dense and ignorant as to think they wanted to "know" these men because they loved them, because they found them attractive. It was NOT about sexual orientation.
"Do these QUEERS KNOW where the word "SODOMY" came from? Doubtful!"
(No, they know where the hateful slur comes from, and how ironic it is that people stupidly spew it not knowing that the story has NOTHING to do with homosexuality.)
"HMM.. let's just check this, QUEER MEN have sex in WHAT WAY? It's called SODOMY, GEEZ!"
First off, not every gay person has sex. A gay virgin is still gay. A celebate gay person is still gay. A gay person who is 107 years old and hasn't had sex since Mickey Mantle was a rookie is still gay.
Secondly, the term you hatefully use, "sodomy," refers to an act gay AND straight people do, which is NOT a sin and which harms NOBODY.
(Quit using the Bible as a weapon of hate.)
"QUIT Trying to make Wickedness OK, GOD WILL have the last say."
And God NEVER said it's a sin to be gay. Your hate, on the other hand, is a sin.
"Be afraid, be very afraid. You have never known the WRATH of GOD, but you WILL."
Blasphemous lie. I have NO reason to be afraid, I'm doing nothing wrong. You obviously have never known the love and grace of Jesus Christ. Once again you pretend to be a Christian but have NOTHING but hate and threats and violence and vile meanness within you...forgiveness? Absent. Love? MIA. Grace? Never heard of it.
Your threats and "Fear" are NOT Godly.
"Just as he will put a stop to all the other evil and wicked things in this world."
Like hate and bigotry.
"I bet you think you are going to heaven also,"
I don't think it, I know it. Jesus died for my sins.
"you believe whatever you want, you will be really sorry and in disbelief when he destroys you and your kind."
My kind?
God will NOT "destroy" all gay people. This hateful lie has destroyed many, many lives. GOD DOESN"T DESTROY THEM, YOU DO! Your hate is destroying them, and Christ said it's WRONG.
Even if it WERE a sin to be gay, and it's absolutely not, God forgives sin.
Do you even know the word "forgive"? Ever HEARD of it?
"But at least you'll not go alone!"
That you'd WANT people to be tortured in "hell" shows your hate, once again. You hypocritically pretend not to, but your hate is obvious.
And it's NOT Christian.
"Romans 13: 8-10"
Since: Feb 08
#363 Jul 14, 2009
Amazed_n_LC--"Your Delusional or on Crack! Gay is a sin, always has been always will be."
Lie. It's certainly NOT a sin. It's not an action...not something you do, something you ARE. It's not chosen, and cannot be changed. It harms NOBODY. It is NEVER mentioned in the Bible. You simply don't know what you're talking about, your hate is more important to you than Jesus' love, or commandment to you to love others.
"GOD Didn't create QUEER!"
Lie. God created millions of gay people.
"He created humans with brains to KNOW right from WRONG,"
You're PROVING that people often don't listen to that brain, because your hate and bigotry and lies are VERY wrong. There's nothing wrong with being gay. Your bigotry is extremely wrong.
"these people choose to snub their noses at the word of GOD."
Lie. The word of God never says a WORD about homosexuality, and they don't choose to be gay, they're not "snubbing their noses" at ANYTHING.
"Jesus died for our sins is correct but it was so that WE could have a choice as to how we live our lives,"
SEXUAL ORIENTATION ISN'T CHOSEN!!! The choice in how we live our lives is about loving others, or not, and you've chosen NOT.
"either by GODS word or BY SATANS. Queers CHOOSE Satan."
A blasphemous lie. Being gay is NOT chosen. Your hate is.
"You'll SEE! in the end just HOW Wrong you were. "
More sleazy hateful threats. You're obviously no Christian at all.
"Irony, metaphor, film @ eleven"
Since: Feb 08
Old Mesilla/New Las Cruces
#364 Jul 14, 2009
The next time Chico's has any people who look and act wierd,...and they want them gone......
Next time just call in your own bomb scare,
light off a stink or smoke bomb, or just shut off the friggin' lights.
See what they started with these late nite
jotos with the munchies
Since: Jul 09
Las Cruces NM
#365 Jul 14, 2009
why don't you guys start a bible discussion group!!! this is noghing more then a buch of drnk kids causing trouble by dancing around tables and making trouble they playing the gay card to try and get out of it!!!
#366 Jul 16, 2009
Though you don't recognize who the seat of the catholic church really belongs to. Otherwise...you wouldn't say that.
#367 Jul 16, 2009
Do you eat with that mouth?? Good God. LOL
#368 Jul 16, 2009
I suggest the owner should settle outside the court, start anew and rename his restaurant to: Chico's Fagos.
#372 Jul 20, 2009
they kick him out because no one likes him...
#373 Jul 20, 2009
oh my god!! that manny guy just wants attention!!! thats how he is!! hate him!
#374 Jul 20, 2009
hahaha hes an ass! im glad they kick you out!
#375 Jul 20, 2009
racist place!! but i do agree he deserves that and more!! he make a big deal when he is the same way at the op! now you know stop acting like if u are some one!! and yeah he just wants attention!
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Linksys by Cisco Routers Now Come With Network Magic
Software is critical for protecting your home network from virus attacks, enforcing important parental controls, and preventing identity theft. Unfortunately, one in three consumers experience difficulty setting up their home network, according to an upcoming home networking survey conducted by ABI Research.
Would setup difficulties compromise the trust you have in your home network? Cisco's Peder Ulander shows the easy to use capabilities of Network Magic in this video.
As of today, all Linksys by Cisco wireless routers come equipped with Network Magic home network management software. Network Magic has a consumer-friendly user interface that provides a network map to easily control multiple devices on your home network. The new interface also adds simplified access to printer and file sharing, an easier process for adding wireless devices, and support for an increased number of devices. To take full advantage of your home network's capabilities, it is important to feel comfortable with the technology; especially as faster networks emerge and we purchase more devices that create a media-enabled home. Consumer industry analyst Jason Blackwell shared how the home network is changing in a recent Q&A, "We're seeing a move from data-centric networks — connecting personal computers, laptops and occasionally things like network-attached storage — to home networks that are more media-centric. This brings in a whole new level of connectivity with devices that aren't typically computer-oriented, such as TVs, set-top boxes and game consoles." Now that Network Magic is included with Linksys by Cisco routers, access and control of our photos, music, and movies on multiple devices, anywhere, has become much simpler. If you would like to learn more about pricing and availability, click here for more information or visit www.networkmagic.com. To join more Cisco consumer conversations on the web, follow @DigitalCribs on Twitter or become a fan of Cisco "LinksysbyCisco" and "Digital Cribs" on Facebook.
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Nicky Jones
I have a wireless router and Network Magic gives the splash screen everytime I boot up and since I never, never use it, can I uninstall it without any bad results to my PC or network that my spouse shares with me here at home?
We bought a new wireless linksys wireless router and only received Network Magic on a trial basis and now want me to buy. How do I stop being prompted to buy it every time I turn on my computer?
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I have just bought a Linksys Router connected to my Windows 7 laptop. Please, give me information how to uninstall the installation message which appears every time I start my laptop. Stig Drevemo
Jim Wilson
I have a four year old Linksys router. Is there a way for me to get the Network Magic basic software free??
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I bought a linskey router 6 months ago. I had it installed and it was working perfectly until three ago when magicnetwork came up on my screen to buy ,and now I am having problems.It says that I am not connected. Please insert serial number which I do not have.I am a senior citizen and I do not know what to do. Please give me some advice
Be nice if they would give it to people who have already purchased Linksys routers.
I've used Linksys routers and modems for several years now (recently purchased and installed an e300). Additionally, many years ago I purchased Network Magic before the company was purchased by Cisco. I still use the program and, most importantly, appreciate the great tech support. Great hardware, great software, and consistently, great tech support. Can't ask for much more than that.
Just bought a new wireless linksyd wireless router and onle received Network Magic on a trial basis and now want me to buy .I thought it was included as youd site says it is.
Wish I waited to get my linksys then I could have gotten network magic =(
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'Just Dance' compilation: More moves, less moola
What to do while waiting for Just Dance 4 to debut this October?
Get your groove on with Just Dance: Greatest Hits, a collection of 35 songs from Just Dance (2009) and Just Dance 2 (2010), plus three bonus tracks from last year's Just Dance 3.
For owners of Xbox 360, this new disc lets you play games previously available on the Nintendo Wii— and you get to use the Kinect for Xbox 360 accessory to boogie in front of your television without anything in your hands. For Nintendo Wii players, Just Dance: Greatest Hits has you dance to songs from the first two games at a discounted rate (both games still sell for $40 apiece).
In case you've never played any of these party games, Just Dance: Greatest Hits challenges you to mimic moves of professional dancers in order to rack up as many points as possible. Kinect for Xbox 360 gamers must use the hands-free Kinect for Xbox 360 peripheral; body moves are captured by the sensors and camera to compare your rhythm against the onscreen dancers, which appear as colorful silhouettes in front of an animated background.
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Up to three other friends or family members can step in front of the television at any time — even during a song — and they'll automatically join in on the fun. Nintendo Wii owners must hold the white remote in their hands while dancing. Either way, these games make for great party games for kids, tweens and teens (ok, and adults, too).
Along with earning points for dancing well, you'll also get a quick summary of each move, such as "Ok," "Good" or "Perfect," and you'll earn up to five stars per game. The person with the golden crown over their name means they're currently the top scorer.
The game houses a wide range of musical genres, and from different eras: the '60s (Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas, for example), the '70s (Anita Ward's Ring My Bell, Boney M.'s Rasputin), the '80s (Irene Cara's Fame, Survivor's Eye of the Tiger), the '90s (Snap's The Power, New Kids On The Block's Step By Step) and hits from the 2000s including A. R. Rahman's Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny), Katy Perry's Firework and Ke$ha's TiK ToK. Newer tracks include Rihanna's Only Girl (In the World) and B.o.B.'s Airplanes.
Just Dance: Greatest Hits includes numerous game modes, including the revamped Just Sweat mode — now with varying workout plans and playlists, and support for up to four players. A meter shows you how many calories you're burning while dancing, plus you can set daily or weekly objectives.
A Just Create mode lets you create and record your own choreography and then play it with friends. Dance Battles has you create your own dance crew of up to four players and compete against other crews in a dance off. On that note, you can also connect with friends online in this game; when you select a song you'll see the Friend Score Challenge icon if a friend has outscored you, and has challenged you to beat them. As with past Just Dance games, there's also a Duet and Simon Says mode.
While fun, Just Dance: Greatest Hits has very basic visuals that don't compare to the graphical detail seen in other dancing games like MTV Games' Dance Central series. Plus, you don't see yourself on the television — instead it's silhouettes of professional dancers you're trying to imitate. One other issue is using the hands-free Kinect can be finicky when waving your hands to select a particular mode or song.
Overall, Just Dance: Greatest Hits delivers a lot of bang for the buck. Fans of dancing games who haven't yet purchased the original games should take advantage of this toe-tapping collection.
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Rating: Everyone 10+
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The National Museum of American History is hosting "FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950–2000," an exhibit that explores how post-war social, political, technological, cultural, and economic forces altered the way Americans accessed and thought about food. Last Saturday, as part of this exhibition, the museum featured a live webcast entitled "Taco Nation/Planet Taco: How Mexican-American Food Conquered the World!"
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This review seems to be completely misleading to me.
I'm not sure what router you reviewed but it certainly isn't the same as my Huawei HG533.
(Maybe there really is a model H533?)
All your pictures look like my router.
But mine certainly doesn't have a "Schizophrenic UI" - when I enter the Advanced settings the pages are formatted just the same and bear no resemblance to your D-link screen shot.
Your description says "Manufacturer: D-Link".
My unit is very definitely manufactured by Huawei.
You also say "Want to upgrade? Head to our best routers round-up for our top picks."
If you talk to TalkTalk they will tell you that this is not a good idea, there are various features required for their TV service to work correctly and the HG533 is of course set up to do this. Other routers may not be able to be configured to work with the TalkTalk TV service.
This all seems very strange - I'm not sure that I would trust this review.
TalkTalk have used 2 suppliers for routers for the last few years, the split the supply between Huawei and D-Link. The routers might look the same externally and internally but they have different firmware and model numbers.
I think TR calling it H533 must be a typo and they meant HG533. As for the schizophrenic UI, I assume that's because your version is running Huawei firmware and so uses a different advanced interface. As TR noted in the review, they're looking at the D-link version of this router but Huawei also make an identical looking version.
As far as TalkTalk TV goes, I thought they just used a re-branded YouView box, with access to more online services? In that case, unless TalkTalk have modified the way it works, all it needs is an internet connection provided via ethernet to get it working. However, it would be good to get clarification on this, as what's the point of being forced to use TalkTalk's router for TV if you get notably inferior wireless.
EDIT: According to this TalkTalk page, "If you do not use a supported router then you may not be able to watch the TV Boosts you subscribe to in the TalkTalk Player". The wording is a bit ambiguous so I wonder if you can use a 3rd party router and still use all the features of TalkTalk Plus TV?
I have this router (the Huawei version). It sits on the windowsill in the living room downstairs and communicates wirelessly with my Mac upstairs - at a consistent 13Mbps on copper wire, while also running my YouView box (connected via homeplugs) without any buffering or pixelation - and it will do both at the same time. Are you telling me that these figures won't improve if I switch to fibre optic? Or could it be that your review sample was faulty?
There are important settings for port forwarding and IGMP. Various people who have tried to use routers that are not supported by TalkTalk have hit problems particularly with using TV boosts on their YouView boxes.
It would depend on the distance to your router and the thickness of the walls and floors between it and your computer, but yes I'd be surprised if you got much more with a fibre connection than 13Mbit. It is the limitation of 802.11n 2.4GHz WiFi not of the Fibre connection which is why ISPs should always supply dual band routers with fibre broadband services.
Yes, I mention this at the very start of review.
I explain very clearly at the start of the review that TalkTalk uses 2 router manufacturers: D-Link and Huawei. We received the D-Link version.
It was a typo yes, but thanks for explaining things to YouViewUpdate.
I agree the wording is ambiguous about Plus TV - we didn't have the service to check. That said I'm sure you could disable the Wifi on the TalkTalk router and connect a third party router to its LAN port at worst.
See my reply to this above.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this review is.
You say "Should I buy the TalkTalk Plus fibre router?" and then you don't recommend buying this because it's performance is inferior to dual band routers.
But as far as I can see most people wouldn't consider buying this router in the first place.
Where would you buy it? As far as I'm aware it is only available from TalkTalk, with one obvious exception. That exception is of course eBay. This is not surprising as many people will have received a free HG533 router as part of their broadband deal and may already have a satisfactory router or may have chosen to upgrade. There is one supplier on eBay offering a "buy-it-now" deal at £21.88 including postage, and if you were to choose the bidding option you'd probably be able to buy one for less than this.
Thus in real world terms the going rate for this router is about £20 and that seems to me to be pretty good value for money - surely worth more than 2.5 stars?
So the real starting point of this review should be to say "Many of you will have received an HG533 from TalkTalk as part of your broadband package - is it worth upgrading?"
To which the answer is probably "yes" if you've chosen a fibre connection.
But who might be thinking about this? I think TalkTalk appeal to two categories of users. The first is people who simply want the cheapest deal, and these people are not going to spend another £100 on a new router. Secondly there are those who want a broadband package that includes a YouView box. At present there's only one other ISP offering this so an important question about the HG533 is "How does it compare with the BT Home Hub?" More details would have been useful here.
Having said all this the review does have an important conclusion. "The pre-fibre days have made many ISPs lazy in the routers they supply."
And the message for TalkTalk is that the HG533 "is the wrong standard to supply with fibre optic broadband."
One final minor point for Mr Kelly - your review would be easier to read if you just stuck to one method of describing speeds - Mbps not MBps.
I have a TalkTalk Huawei HG533 router firmware version v1.14t which is causing a big issue with myself and many other TalkTalk customers. It won't allow me to use AirPrint from my ipad to my HP photosmart 7520 wireless printer. I understand that this has been an ongoing problem for the last few months. TalkTalk say that they are working on new firmware to solve the issue but they have no time scale. This is very frustrating as I bought this printer specifically to use AirPrint. Any suggestions would be welcome!
If only their service was as good as their adverts! From scouring the internet the you will get a general feel that TalkTalk customers just aren't happy with the service they receive, due to poor customer service and Internet connection speeds. From my experience TT provide a polar opposite when comparing the big 3s' providers Q&S.
I cant wait for my TT contract to expire, a shoddy experience its been at best, and would advise you all to pay the extra £3-£15 pcm and receive a decent service!
I have a Belkin G Plus Mimo ADSL Router. Was emailed by Talktalk to tell me my router wasnt picking up the best signal and my connection would be impaired??? Really? I was watching Internet TV on my new Smart TV with no problem. But I agreed to *Upgrade* to theirs. OMG what a nightmare. My TV froze and stuttered frame by frame. If I connected with MY laptop my partner could not connect to the internet with his. I rang TalkTalk and so resulted in lots of calls from them, including text, saying they needed to fix my phone line at a £50 charge to myself. Eh?? There is no problem with my phone line, I have never had problems making/receiving calls....and my line had been checked 2 years previous by BT.
After a week of texts from them, many phone calls from me. I finally think I have got it across that it was the new TALKTALK router that was the issue. She said she would send me an upgrade.....at a cost!! My response is not repeatable on this forum (and i dont swear normally).
Finally she agreed to send me one free of charge.
Meanwhile.....I unhitched the Talktalk Router and reconnected my Belkin Router......strange the problem has gone away......just like I will once my contract finishes with Talktalk next March. I was paying quite alot less until this new contract jumped up.....so I may as well Talk with my feet and walk away from Talktalks poor service.....I couldnt even understand whom I was talking too......erm must have been the line or accent not very clear.
I had two faulty Huaweis before TT sent this one; it has lasted more than the 2 weeks of the others, but suffers from constant drop-out and has to be rebooted every time the phone is used or a second computer goes online. I have spent hours on the phone to their support people and had to suffer their denials and bluster, so I am going to buy something better, which this article has pointed me to.
I am talking with talk talk now and I challenged on this and have been told router to be fitted is dual band
I have just had a look at the Dlink Web site search for the tecnical details of DSL-3780L.
Is it different than this one?
I'm not really sure why anyone should care what any of these devices look like or why the reviewer should open his review with such puerile nonsense. Seems to me a "boxy" router, like the older DSL-2680, tucks away in a cupboard or on a shelf out of sight more easily never to see the light of day until it needs rebooting.
As well as the Airprint issue this router (and incidentally the Huawei HG533 and HG523 too) won't passthrough DHCP requests to at least wifi and for the HG533 across the LAN ports too, so if you run your own DHCP server on your LAN you simply cannot use this device at all. This is despite the DSL-3780 router help wrongly telling you that it will, and how to configure the router should this be your network configuration. There are documented vulnerabilities with these routers and I've just had three TT routers fail within a week.
Then, should TT issue a firmware update to fix their Alpha test devices, they are not making it available for direct download, rather only updating via the TR069 protocol. There are reports of people waiting weeks to get their update plus how one gets a firmware update for a router that you cannot actually use on your network is beyond me.
How this garbage even makes it off the development test bench, let alone into production and rolled out to customers simply beggars belief. These ISP provided devices are simply not fit for purpose.
I found setting a different DNS server speeded up openning web pages. As there was a noticeable time between typing in a web address, and webpage opening. Even though my internet connection was 15Meg and seemed to have not problems with downloads.
I honestly envy anyone who can get double-digit broadband speed. After the recent rains mine has gone down to 0.8Mbit download and 0.4Mbit upload (yes, both speeds below 1Mbit). I am just over half a mile from the exchange, TT claim everything is fine their end and there is the familiar offer of an engineer coming to mix my 'set-up issues within the house'. What a lot of nonsense. I am torn between opting for their fibre, hoping it will make things much better (and it is cheap at £10/month) and walking away despite having just paid for another 12 months line rental in advance. NB. they tried to tell me that it may be my house alarm slowing the broadband (????) or the problem was with my laptop - when I have a brand new, super-fast Toshiba! Grrrrrrrrrr!
I was having the exact same issues with them. Upload and download speeds at 0.8. Upgraded to fibre and it made no difference.
I bought a Huawei WS550 a dual core 1GHz processor dual band wireless N with a stated 450MBps throughput. It certainly solved my Archos WiFi instability problem and so far everything appears fine with download speed to mine and others laptops comfortably fast.
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TalkTalk customers have reported disruption to their internet service over the past days.
A spokeswoman from the firm confirmed that its "DSL-3780 routers were affected" but said "only a small percentage of its customers used them."
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(Cincinnati, OH.)--Two suspects are still on the run after an early morning car chase.
A car was reported stolen at a Subway restaurant on Harrison Avenue in the City's West side Monday night.
Around 1am Tuesday Cincinnati Police found the vehicle near Queen City Avenue and White Street in South Fairmount. Police attempted to pull the vehicle over, but the driver sped up, leading police on the chase that ending near Boudinot Avenue and Westbrook Drive in Westwood.
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Toledo Gay Pride!August 23rd, 2013
As a lesbian staff member at The University of Toledo, I couldn't be more excited for Toledo's fourth annual Gay Pride to be kicked off on Main Campus with a Nite Glo 5K. I am even more proud of UT's LGBTQA student organization, Spectrum, for hosting the first event.
Having been involved in Toledo's LGBTQA community for the past five or so years, I cannot believe the progress we've made and the strength our community has gained. Please join me this weekend in supporting Toledo Pride and have a little fun doing it!
Friday, Aug. 23
Nite Glo 5K/ 1-mile fun run, walk, or roll
The University of Toledo — Centennial Mall
Registration opens at 7 p.m.
Race kicks off at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 24
Pride Parade
Downtown Toledo
Kicks off at noon — See a map in the link below!
Saturday, Aug. 24
Festival, Food, Drinks and Entertainment
1 p.m.-midnight
Promenade Park — Downtown Toledo
Sunday, Aug. 25
Sunday Funday
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Noon-4 p.m.
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Hope to see you there. Go Rockets!!
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I have a prologue 2 that I Love. I tried many combo's with this little integrated. I know everyone's system is different but man did I hit it. I am using gold lion 12ax7's rt 12au7's and gold lion kt-88's. dh lab cables and a virtue audio piano m1 player (sleeper awesome player). man at first I put the gold lion's in with some mullard 4003's to much warmth and I had a pair of 1965 rt 12au7/6189's from uncle kevy @ upscale and it opened up the sound stage very nice. Very happy. I also tried a pair of mazda/cifte 12au7's that were nice also but I liked the rt a smidgen better. very cool....Btw The biggest upgrade I have ever done with this amp is change out the caps and put in audience auracaps holy shit!!! open it up everything got MUCH better and refined....
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Have you tried v-caps yet? They are very impressive, but large and difficult to locate if the real estate is limited. Jallen
Have you tried v-caps yet? They are very impressive, but large and difficult to locate if tbe real estate is limited. Jallen
I had a power tube blow 2x ( 3rd owner and JJEL34B tubes :( so Kevin suggested sending it to Mitch in LA. I had him replace the caps with Hovland Musicaps since he had it there and it opened opened up the sound and seemed smoother after they broke in.
I use EL34 with RCA Cleartops and Tungsram 12ax7. I tried the GL 12ax but too dark for my tastes. I did use them in a 15wt EL84 amp and they sound great there lol
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yes there is, I was first looking at Jensen copper & oil but to much $. I had to consider 2 things I had a budget and room inside the amp on the autobias board. The auri caps made a Hugh difference. more air sound stage tighter bass detail separation inner detail just everything was A LOT better. The change was very dramatic compared to the stock solens.
You should have used the Russian K40y-9s or the Russian kbg's...These are military grade caps that are sold for a fraction of their actual value being surplus not to mention they aren't metallized and are hermetically sealed..The larger auricaps don't sound too bad although I don't care for stranded leads going into a cap due to separation and moisture over time..They do have some paper in oil like qualities tho in their sonic nature which is a good thing.
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Grammar Police Rating: The irony of writing a review of an educational game about grammar, named Grammar Police is not lost on me. The chance of getting pulled up on my own grammatical error is extremely high so I must concentrate on my writing as much as the app itself. Grammar Police is an educational game to help pre-intermediate and intermediate … Read More
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When I was a child I remember that I really didn't like doing Math at school. It was probably my worst subject, I wasn't that bad at it I just found it quite boring and not as fun as the other subjects. With that in mind we have picked out 6 of the best apps for iPhone that will help … Read More
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Drake had to pay $100,000 to rapper 4-Tay who claims the rapper stole his lyrics and used them on YG hit, "Who Do You Love."
If you listen to 4-Tay's 1994 hit, "Playaz Club" they are clearly the same bars. The rapper was offended because Drake didn't credit him on the song. No lawsuit was filed since both party's were able to come to an agreement.
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You don't have to go to the countryside to commune with baby animals — the urban jungle is full of cute newborns for you to feed, pet and cuddle. Browse the below gallery for some adorable photos and to find out where you can meet their subjects in London. We'll be adding more pictures as new babies are born.
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1/13 Fluffy duckling
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This year's new ducklings will arrive at Vauxhall city farm on Friday April 4.
2/13 Litter of piglets
Surrey Docks Farm
These piglets are the children of Surrey Docks Farm's resident sow, Blusher.
3/13 Cloud the Lamb
Belmont Farm
Cloud is a North Country Cheviot lamb. You can feed the lambs at Belmont Farm between 11am-2pm every day.
4/13 Axolotl (Mexican aquatic salamander)
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Baby axolotls (above) aren't that cute, but they grow into adorable pink adults (below) who are really friendly to visitors.
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5/13 Hazel the goat kid
Spitalfields City Farm
Hazel the goat was born last April and this is a picture of her when she was a baby.
6/13 Melati the Sumatran tiger and her new cubs
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These three cubs were born to tigress Melati in London Zoo's Tiger Territory enclosure, and captured on film using hidden cameras.
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7/13 Lapwing chick
London Wetland Centre
Lapwings are wading birds and are generally born from May onwards.
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8/13 Newborn lamb
Vauxhall City Farm
This Suffolk Cross lamb was three days old when this photo was taken.
9/13 Tiny seahorse
Sea Life London Aquarium
This seahorse is four days old and only 14mm long.
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10/13 Young calf
Belmont Farm
This Angus-Fresian cross calf was born at Mr Stubb's farm, which is not open to the public, but it's staying at nearby Belmont Farm for a few months so people can meet it.
11/13 Pair of goat kids
Surrey Docks Farm
Newborn goat kid siblings being nuzzled by their mother.
12/13 Quackers the duckling
Belmont Farm
Quackers is a baby Runner Duck. Ducklings often hatch throughout the year, not just in springtime.
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Sensational Butterflies, Natural History Museum, Apr 3-Sep 13
Baby butterflies are caterpillars, but in between they go to sleep in beautiful chrysalises until their winged selves emerge.
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In springtime, London's city farms are pregnant with lambs, piglets, calves and kids, not to mention their feathered friends, ducklings and chicks. Many farms have feeding times and special sessions when you can hold or stroke the animals, and often invite visitors to come up with names for the new arrivals. Belmont Farm's lambs Sunshine and Cloud (pictured above) were named by members of the public.
It's not only farmyard animals whose young are cute. Head to the Sea Life London Aquarium to gawp at all kinds of miniature sea creatures, including baby jellyfish and seahorses, which start life smaller than a fingernail. Twitchers should make for the London Wetland Centre, a nature reserve that's home to hundred's of birds, many of which will be hatching right about now. And visit the zoo to meet London's newest wild animals — London Zoo recently announced their super rare Sumatran tiger Melati had given birth to three cubs.Reuse content


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Hey chris . . . sorry it's taken so long to get your letter to you . . . and my opinion on your book.
i broke 4 ribs and punctured a lung . . . i was in the hospital and then i've just been in a lot of pain. not in a letter writing mood. was going to send you a postcard to you today explaining the delay . . . but, then, here you are!
so i'll get that baby finished. your story is an absolute trip!
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I'm glad you liked it. No, I didn't get your letter, You mean a paper and pen actual mailed letter? Dang, I hate that I missed that. I like getting real mail. Thanks for the good words, though! I'll send you the next one, when I get it done.
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I beat some kinda sports bike (I have no idea what kind, not really my thing). It was raining, so I had a serious advantage there. Took off from a light up to about 70 and I was a nose ahead of him. VDC light flashing like crazy As I was turning off he kept revving his engine at me for a rematch. Sore loser I guess.
Merging onto interstate behind a 2001? Transam, Shining Red, fancy wheels, personalized plates. He was accelerating fast but not wide open. I pulled into passing lane with my '09 WRX Wagon, Cobb, SPT exh. Noticed a puff of smoke from his duals, by this time I was in 3rd. For a split second we were dead even, then as the turbo spooled up, I began pulling away and by this time passing a car, the Pontiac pulled around to pass but abruptly pulled back into the slow lane and shut down, exited freeway. I really thought it would be a tight race. It was not even close. Is there that much difference between acceleration of the WRX and a beefy V8 Pony Car????
If it "wasn't even close", then he wasn't in the gas..assuming an LS1 T/A in good condition.
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Sounds about even to me, but considering you saw smoke come from his exhaust I would say he wasnt running 100% effecient.


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Details on Trinity - AMD's Next Gen APUby Kristian Vättö on 10/25/2011 10:53 AM EST
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Taft12 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkTrinity should make its first appearance in Q1'12, full availability being in Q2'12.
So, we'll get Trinity APUs (and a new socket, bleh) likely before we can even buy the "good" desktop Llanos (A8-3800 or A6-3600).
I like desktop Llano, but it's hard to recommend when it becomes a dead end so fast. It's like the bad old days of Intel (more recently LGA1156) Reply
Snoop - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkI wonder if they are going to be able to get the power down for the mobile market? I cannot imagine a Bulldozer derivative with decent performance without crazy power usage. Reply
Roland00Address - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkThe architecture itself is not power hungry, it is the fact Global Foundries 32nm process is still unmature and thus the chips run hot for there is a lot of leakage and the AMD is using a high voltage for the chips (for a high voltage Llano or Bullzdozer chip is still a possible chip sale for AMD)
There is no doubt that AMD is going to get better performance per watt out of Bulldozer and Bulldozer deritiatives such as Piledriver in the future. Remember how bad Phenom was when it first came out, Agena sucked but it was improved with Deneb and the third improvement Thuban and Stars isn't that bad either. Problem is that AMD competition (Intel and ARM) is a moving target, they have to improve their product faster than everybody else improves theirs. Reply
Snoop - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkI am far from cpu architect but long pipelines, super high transistor counts, with low per clock performance and a reliance on high clock speeds seems to translate to high power usage. How is the GF process going to change this part of the architecture? Reply
niva - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkGF won't change the architecture, it would be up to AMD to change that at a later time. However, once GF gets the manufacturing to a better quality you can reduce the voltage, or increase the clocks for the same heat output.
Architecture changes (like the pipeline, or the single FPU per 2 integer cores) are made for reasons. I'm not happy with the results of the choices they made for the architecture with Bulldozer, maybe in the long term it will turn out to be the right direction but right now, it doesn't seem to be so.
Super high transistor count isn't necessarily a bad thing, CPUs are becoming more and more complicated, expect this trend to continue not just for AMD but any company which makes processors (including ARM). Everything we expect out of these machines is becoming more complicated which drives up the transistor count. Reply
Penti - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkDude the cache does use as many transistors as a whole Nehalem or SandyBridge cpu/processor. That's obviously a mistake, not one they can do on mobile chips like the mobile version of Piledriver though so it ought to be a quite different overall architecture/product/cpu. We'll have to see. Reply
Roland00Address - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkFour Cpu Modules (8 cores)+L2 Cache=852 million transistors
L3 Cache=405 million transistors
Everything Else (I/O, DDR3 memory controller, Logic and Routing)=800 million transistors.
So for Trinity AMD is going to only have two cpu modules so at least 426 million transistors. There will be less everything else since AMD won't be doing any multiple cpu needing interconnects. It is rumored trinity will have a 7000 series gpu based on a 4D arranagement with 480 shaders. Well a turks gpu (480 shaders, hd6670) uses 716 million transistors.
So we are talking a billion transistor chip lets hope they can keep it closer to 1 billion and not 2 billion like bulldozer is. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkYou're confusing fundamentally bad, with Intel botched the implementation here. IBMs power 6 CPUs also used very long pipelines compensated with high clockrates (upto 5ghz shipping parts in 08) quite successfully in thier Power6 architecture.
At the moment most of AMDs troubles appear to be due to GF's 32nm process sucking; although it will probably be a year or two before we know if the process was also masking architectural problems. Reply
Zoomer - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkThe pipeline isn't that long; it's just longer than before. More stages is a legit strategy to split the work up more, perhaps relieving a bottleneck.
Low per clock performance? Per thread, yes. But the overall threaded performance goes up since more threads can run. They had to go 2B transistors for 8 cores; that's because they were first and foremost targeting servers and HPC. These have higher margins than the piddly desktop market, unfortunately. Reply
jeremyshaw - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - link2B transistors is about equal to two Thubans... you could have 12 cores, and better per-core performance, too :p Hell, even comparible power consumption, despite being on 45nm... Reply
frozentundra123456 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkI dont really understand the blame for Bulldozers power usage being laid on GF. I mean didnt they talk to each other during development?? Didnt AMD know what GF could and could not do?? Should they not have designed a chip that took into account the capabilities of GF??
Since AMD has no fabs of its own, it would seem paramount that they know what GF can do and design a chip that GF can produce properly. Just seems like there is some sort of disconnect between AMD and GF. Or GF is just plain incompetent.
And to me it signals trouble for AMD if AMD/GF cannot even design and produce an effecient 32 nm chip when intel has been doing it for what, almost 2 years, and is ready to launch 22 nm. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkThey knew what GF thought it would be capable of doing (and most of the major details were locked in place several years ago). Unfortunately for AMD and for us, GF's 32nm process still has a lot of bugs to be worked out. Cumulatively these are resulting in lower than expected yields, higher than expected leakage currents, and slower than expected clock rates. The net result is that bulldozer is launching in its current underwhelming state. Reply
Roland00Address - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkBut you forgot one last thing, having to use a high voltage on the chip due to the low yields. A high voltage means higher power consumption. Reply
xxtypersxx - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkDepending on when AMD discovered they would miss IPC and clock speed targets with BD, it makes sense that they couldn't correct it within the program schedule due to the amount of design work already done. One can only hope however that when they did come to this realization, Piledriver was early enough in that they could implement the changes in that design. If Piledriver is to Bulldozer was Phenom II was to Phenom I then AMD could be in a pretty good place.
The socket change is disheartening though and makes FM1 AMD's 1156. I just hope it came about as a result of adding hypertransport or something and not because Trinity draws too much power for current FM1 boards... Reply
MySchizoBuddy - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkWhen will they we coming out with an APU for the HPC market. 10,000 APUs sound better than 10,000 CPUs and 10,000 GPUs. Reply
Hubb1e - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link"Bulldozer's poor single-threaded performance might cause the performance upgrades to be limited to multithreaded tasks though"
Not likely. The only reason Bulldozer is able to post any gains at all is because it can run 8 threads vs 4 threads for Phenom II. The Piledriver core in Trinity can only do 4 threads vs 4 threads in Llano. It's a 2 module chip vs a 4 core chip. Either their performance preview is overstated (best case scenario vs average scenario) or they've been able to fix the major issues with Bulldozer. Then again, Llano had pretty pathetic core speed so maybe a 4.2 ghz 2 module Piledriver could come close.
One other thing that worries me about Trinity is the HUGE # of transistors in Bulldozer. If they move that over to Piledriver without optimizations then this chip could be too big even when they take out the unnecessary L3 cache. God I hope graphics can save AMD until their next architecture comes out... Reply
basket687 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link+1
Even if both have similar multi threaded performance then in that case Trinty is likely to have slightly better single threaded performance than llano because of the "module" approach. Reply
eastyy - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkanother socket change is annoying wish the new am3+ processors the fx series had a built in apu for the same price that would have made them more attractive Reply
formulav8 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkIt may be able to run on FM1 boards. It could be similar to how the old AM2 boards worked with Ph1/Ph2 but couldn't give it its full performance benefits since HTT could only run @ 1000mhz instead of 3600-4000mhz. Reply
haukionkannel - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkWell Llano has 4 real cores and Trinity have two 1.5 cores... And still Trinity is expected to perform better than Llano. Interesting indeed. There has to be huge ghz boost, or they is coming some serious upgrades in architecture.
Has anyone seen "low" speed buldoser tested? In the beginning low speed Phenoms were reasonable in their power usage, but leaked like a hell when pushed to extreme. It would be nice to know if bulldoser in less hunry with smaller speed or not? Reply
fic2 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkDidn't Anand or someone here do a side-by-side of a bunch of chips clocked 1GHz? Would be nice to add BD to that list. And yeah, see how low the voltage can go and the power usage at that speed. Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkI'm not sure. I know somebody (Toms?) did a single core comparison a few months back, though. Reply
fic2 - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkThat sounds like what I was thinking of. Reply
C300fans - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkWe all need magic to boost up. If 4 threads Trinity can gain 20% improvement against Llano, it means 8 threads can gain 40%.. That would be a deal. Reply
Hubb1e - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkkeep dreaming. Reports from AMD say that Piledriver is 10% more efficient than Bulldozer per core. The 20% performance gains probably come from clock speed. Llano had a really really pathetic 2.9 ghz clockspeed for 4 cores. Trinity could likely launch at 4.2 ghz on 2 modules and eventually scale to high 4ghz or even into the 5s if they get the process working. This plus the 10% gain in efficiency over Bulldozer could give it a pretty substantial single threaded edge over Llano making up for the fact that it's only a 2 module chip.
And IMO mainstream customers are much better served by fast 2 core chips than slower 4 core chips. Your mom runs very few Apps that take advantage of the extra 2 cores on Llano making the 2 module approach a pretty decent strategy. I think Llano would have been a better mainstream chip if it had 400 stream processors, and only 2 cores at 3.7-3.8 ghz. Likely what happened with Llano is that they didn't reach high clocks because they let automated tools design the chip knowing it's just a stopgap until a new architecture. Reply
IlllI - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link"IPC will be higher
Single threaded performance will be higher" Reply
Malih - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkyeah, that one really hit potential customer in the face. I doubt they'll deliver the planned 20%, maybe more like 20% in one specific application, and the rest of them are below that. Reply
Mishera - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkThey've been pretty reliable on their projections at least for the past few years. Although with this whole "what's a core" thing there may be some confusion on what that 20% is.
I'm just worried about the heat this thing is going to produce with a gpu attached.
They got water-cooling for laptops? Reply
frozentundra123456 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkWell here we go again with another chip for the forums to speculate and argue about, and more promises from AMD that they may or may not be able to back up. The threads from Bulldozer havent even died down yet!!
I thought the best place for Llano was in the mobile market. Unless they can lower the power consumption, improve IPC, and reduce the die size, I am not sure that a trinity based APU will be an improvement over Llano. At least maybe they can get better graphics performance with a reasonable power envelope. The first Llano was not quite strong enough in either the graphics or CPU performance, although decent at both. The problem was Intel CPU performance was much better. AMD graphics was better, but still not quite good enough for the kind of gaming that I want to do.
BTW, did anyone else think that the headline was a bit misleading?? Dont really see any "details" here, just a general overview and the projections from AMD. Lets hope they come closer to the mark than Bulldozer did. Reply
fic2 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkNot to mention nothing new here. Pretty sure all of this has been known for a while now. Reply
Boogaloo - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkA 30% increase in integrated graphics performance is laughably low. Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkDo remember that Trinity is at the same process as Llano. You can't just magic up a massive performance boost if you're looking to keep die size sensible, and regardless, the memory interface can only be improved so far. Reply
Mugur - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkWhat if some of the performance issues will be corrected by simply using the memory controller at cpu speed, like Intel does, instead of the same 2-2.2 Ghz like it's now...? Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkIt'd certainly reduce latency. I'd laugh if a good deal of Bulldozer's problems are solved by doing just that. Reply
arjuna1 - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - link"In terms of speed, AMD is claiming up to 20% increase over Llano. Bulldozer's poor single-threaded performance might cause the performance upgrades to be limited to multithreaded tasks though, unless AMD can do magics with Piledriver (aka 2nd gen Bulldozer)"
Yet another intel fanboi biased comment from from Kristian Vättö, hey Anand, hire a couple of AMD geek's, I mean, to even the scales, this is making your site look really bad. Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkThere's nothing fanboyish about the remark. Piledriver and future iterations of the architecture are rumoured to bring 10-15% improvements on the CPU side, but that is in comparison to the first generation Bulldozer which appears to perform slower clock-for-clock than K10.5.
Unless there's something easily fixable with Bulldozer, Piledriver isn't exactly going to set the world alight. In any case, there's limited space so you can't very well throw in a GPU that's an order of magnitude stronger than the one in the A8-series.
A 20% improvement across the board would be nice. Reply
kenyee - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkSorry, but I'm an AMD fan and have designed chips in a former life. I'd agree w/ that comment unfortunately. Given how BD is roughly the same speed as a Phenom II in single threaded apps, I don't see how it's going to be faster in Llano form. It'll be a dual core 4 thread system :-P Reply
krumme - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - linkNo you are not. You are not sorry, you are not an AMD fan and you havnt designed chips.
Sorry. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkThe numbers are what they are, you can't change them. It's hard to praise AMD since they haven't been anything else but an underdog in the CPU segment lately. Reply
Anonymous Blowhard - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkYeah, that "telling the truth, no matter how much it hurts" is really a bad approach.
U MAD BRO? Reply
Soulkeeper - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkI just built a llano system
Hopefully trinity will be a drop in replacement
FM2 sounds like something that should wait for DDR4 to me Reply
starcaptor - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - linkThis update better be "DA BOMB" if you know what I mean. Reply
TC2 - Sunday, November 06, 2011 - linka free of charge idea:
instead of
"Details on Trinity - AMD's Next Gen APU"
you could name the article
"Details on Trinity - AMD's Next Gen GOSSIP GENERATOR"
Good luck :) Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - linkI know consoles aren't mentioned much here but I'm curious, a supposed insider recently told tech sites that the next Playstation will use an AMD x86-64 CPU as well as a Southern Islands GPU, so that could either be separate chips or something like Trinity. I wonder if it will use the Trinity APU (southern islands GPU with up to four Piledriver cores) or a separate CPU and GPU, with a SI GPU and the FX-Next-like processor with up to eight cores. The four core might outperform the Cell by magnitudes but they spent a lot of time convincing people that the Cell was amazing, and going from 1PPE plus 6 usable SPE cores to 4 would sound like a downgrade to some who know less about hardware. Reply


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Professor Autumn Quezada-Grant, the co-advisor for the FIMRC Chapter at RWU traveled with 13 students to the southwestern coast of Nicaragua to work in the Department of Tola, which comprises about 5 different communities. Our students worked through a FIMRC clinic that partnered locally with a Nicaraguan Health Post. FIRMC projects around the world are sustained through volunteer fees which help pay a site manager as well as to pay the ways of local community leaders in outreach. Fees also are used to help fund the purchasing of health supplies and medicines.
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This extraordinary cake is comprised of two layers: one, a cinnamon-spiced carrot-and-walnut cake; the other, a zucchini cake flavored with ground ginger. Cream-cheese icing creates a snowy landscape with marzipan vegetable plots.
- Yield: Makes one 10-inch layer cake
Source: Martha Stewart Living, April 2000
- Carrot Orange Cake
- Zucchini Cake (see Carrot Orange Cake)
- Cream-Cheese Frosting for Spring Garden Cake
- 1/2 cup chocolate cookie crumbs (approximately 20 cookies), finely ground
- 2 tablespoons green sprinkles
- Marzipan for Spring Garden Cake, about 25 pieces
- Pastillage
Prepare carrot and zucchini cakes as directed, and cool to room temperature. If necessary, use a serrated knife to trim cake tops level. Each cake should be about 1 1/4 inches high.
Prepare cream cheese frosting. Place zucchini cake on a 10-inch cake round, and spread top of cake with 1 1/4 cups cream cheese frosting. Place a carrot cake on top of the frosted zucchini cake. Chill until icing is set, about 15 minutes. Ice entire cake with remaining frosting. Chill until firm, about 30 minutes. This can be done up to 1 day in advance.
Sprinkle top of cake with 1/2 cup cookie crumbs, leaving a 1/4-inch border around perimeter of cake. Using a paring knife, lightly mark cake top, dividing into quarters or four "plots." Rake the plots with the tines of a fork. Place green sprinkles on the perimeter of cake. Arrange marzipan fruits and vegetables on the plots. Carefully press pastillage fence posts onto the side of the cake, about 1/4 inch apart, and place candy pebbles around the base of the fence. Serve cake at room temperature.


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Lutheran ethicist Robert Benne attended the March for Life, which occasioned some interesting reflections on how different Lutheran church bodies approach the abortion controversy.
The Missouri Synod had gathered several hundred with whom we marched. Lutherans for Life—an umbrella organization—provided an additional banner under which another couple hundred marched. However, a stunning realization came to me: I saw not one mainline Protestant banner or organized group. Of course, I could have missed them amid the immensity of the march, but it is safe to say they were not there in any significant mass. That was true for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which more and more resembles mainline liberal Protestantism.
The absence of any trace of the ELCA was no surprise to me. Though it had issued a moderately pro-life social statement in 1991, it has never acted on its statement. It had never produced pro-life literature, joined any pro-life organizations, encouraged local congregations to observe the annual pro-life Sunday (this past year on January 20, right before the march) , promoted participation in state or national marches, nor advocated for pro-life policies in any of its state or national advocacy offices. As far as the ELCA is concerned, there is dead silence on the matter. With that posture in place it is not hard to understand why so few from the ELCA participated in the march.
Moreover, its health insurance coverage allowed abortion to be covered without any conditions attached, a fact that brought forth some protest among pro-life ELCA pastors and laypersons and added to the general discontent with the ELCA.
Though bashful about pro-life issues, the ELCA speaks copiously on a host of issues, about which Christians of good will and intelligence generally disagree. Its pattern of support corresponds with the policies of the Democratic Party, but departs even from that liberal pattern on issues regarding Israel. It has a program called Peace Not Walls that outrageously lectures the Israelis on how they should defend themselves from suicide bombers. (Lutherans of all people should be quiet about these matters given their ambiguous history with the Jews.) Further, the ELCA's Presiding Bishop Hanson joined other liberal Protestants in asking Congress to scrutinize Israel military practices and consider withholding military aid from them.
The Missouri Synod could not be more different. First, it rarely ventures into the public sphere as a church. Second, it wisely limits its public witness to two crucial issues: religious freedom and nascent life. Its most consistent public concern over the years has been the need to guard religious freedom. After all, its pioneers came to this country to escape the coerced union of Reformed and Lutheran congregations in Germany. Further, its schools were threatened by a Nativist movement—including the KKK—that attempted to shut down private schools. Only recently it has won (by a unanimous decision) a case before the Supreme Court (Hosanna vs. Tabor) that preserved the right to continue to hire and fire its parochial school teachers on the basis of its own religious convictions without interference from the government. Its President has also testified against the coercive provisions of Obamacare being applied to church-related social service organizations. This concern for the free exercise of religion also distinguishes it sharply from the ELCA, which has said nothing about these religious freedom issues either domestically or internationally.
Benne, who hails from the ELCA though I believe is involved with the more conservative breakaway group he talks about later, offers some explanations for the difference in the two churches' stance, citing the ELCA's quota system in church representation, which gives feminists a huge influence in official church actions. He also cites some incorrect accounts of the Missouri Synod's schism in the 1970s that "purged" the synod of liberals–political, as well as theological, he claims, though the issues were actually all theological. He goes on to slam the doctrinal "narrowness" of the LCMS, complaining that though he was invited to speak at the pro-life conference sponsored by the LCMS, he couldn't take communion. He does, though, praise the synod's approach to public square issues, focusing not on politics broadly but just on the issues of religious freedom and the pro-life cause. From what he says about that newly-formed denomination:
Enter the third church in the tale of three Lutheran bodies. The new North American Lutheran Church, whose Bishop and ecumenical officer were introduced at the Life Ministries Conference, is a church that hopes to avoid the revisionism of the ELCA—with its attendant biased witness in the public sphere—as well as the narrowness of the Missouri Synod in doctrinal matters. The NALC organized soon after the 2009 decisions of the ELCA to jettison traditional Christian sexual ethics. It is trying to be a centrist Lutheran church, perhaps the last hope for such a church in North America. Though it is building cordial relationships with the LCMS, there will be distinct limits as to how far they can proceed. But in the realm of public witness by the church and its laity and associations, the LCMS has it right. The NALC might well emulate its commitment to form its laity and witness publicly on two issues: the protection of nascent life and the exercise of religious freedom. Those are two issues that ought to occupy any serious Christian church.
via The March for Life and the Tale of Three Lutheran Churches – Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD).
Do you think concentrating on just those two issues is a good strategy? (As opposed to the ELCA, which comments on just about every political issue, except those two?) Are there other issues that might also deserve a strong activist stand from the church?


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re: Re: Global styles definitions
Richard Mercer <richard at rmercer.wright.edu>, quoting YHS, wrote:
>> There's also a way to apply the defaults to existing
>> notebooks, but be warned that it will change *all* styles
>> in the target notebook, not just the one(s) you altered,
>> to their default values.
>Please provide details on how to do this in Windows. I am used to Macs and
>NeXTs where it is no problem, but struggled mightily and could not do it in
>the Windows version.
>Richard Mercer 513-873-2191 office
>Department of Mathematics and Statistics 513-873-2785 message
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Depends on which Windows version you're running. In version 2.2.2 (the
latest shipping upgrade, I believe), under the (S)tyles menu, there is an
option (A)ll Default Styles that does it. If you're running an earlier
version and don't have this, there is still a way, but I've forgotten the
precise details. I *think* what you do is go to the (S)tyles menu, select
Edit (N)otebook Styles to get into the style sheet for that notebook, and
then delete everything and either inhale the default style notebook or paste
in its contents (which would imply having copied them to the clipboard first,
using the option in the same menu to open the default notebook). Apparently,
as of version 2.2.2 (or was it 2.2?), Mma has stopped treating the style
sheets as pseudo-notebooks and gone to a more direct way of accessing them.
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