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The thing is, it's the organisation and basic chat discipline that makes the fights good, and the chatter that makes the fights being good so enjoyable. There's got to be some kind of balance.
For instance, the insane infantry charge yesterday across that open ground after we'd defended the checkpoint as a lot better because we could talk in the chat about how it was like the first world war, and how they had tanks and we were all going to die.
I'd like to see things pretty much continue as they are (although I have no problem rewarding the people who tend to step up and lead with ranks, to recognise their contributions), but with slightly less chat when it's busy.
However I think it should be possible to arrange some sort of "Delta Squad" for people who want to talk a lot and just sort of generally head for the platoon waypoint. They're still going to contribute, even if they just turn up at the pointer and then shoot at the baddies.
I think chatter is well and good, but you simply cannot have chatter in a platoon level chat. One dude yesterday got pretty pissed off because of it, and I felt his pain, since it was completely impossible to do anything when there were several people telling stories, overlapping eachother, at the same time, as well as people shouting spots etc. I fail to see how that works in any regrard. If you're 12 people, you can chat and still be tactical. Pilots and gunners can communitcate. Stuff can happen much better, and you can tell stories without interrupting orders, communication, observations and other stuff. That's why channels should be split and linked.
Now we also just play as one single platoon - a 40 man squad. There's no squad level leadership or squad level play. No one ever listens to "squad X go here" as there are commonly no real squad leaders - not with any power at least. Squads therefore never play together, and I think we're really missing out there.
Splitting platoons could work I guess.
Regardless, Cooper, what do you think about all of this? Can you get in contact with the mumble man and what's your word on organization and ranks?
I dont know if you refered to me, as I tried not to be aggressively complain, but you did say that the mumble was lacking features to separate squads.
Yes, it was waaay too chaotic last night. I know some of you are just looking for some random fun and probably have been drinking (which is fun, I agree, but I only do that when I KNOW there is a commander that knows his shit, and everyone follows suit) but goddamn it was hard to keep track of requests and information and such. I know I can be chatty too, but not when theres a shitstorm going on.- Tom De Roeck.
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@Ranks: Didn't really seem necessary to me up to this point, though I haven't been playing for a couple of days. Imho, ranks usually exist to prevent people from taking leadership, and we rather tend to have a problem finding someone who's prepared to call the shots. If the need arises, though, keep them as simple and non-restrictive as possible.
@Coordination: I'd definitely be in for some organised squad-play. Right now we're pretty good at getting the whole platoon into one location -- which is a good start --, but not so good at actually doing something useful while we're there. If we could get a bit more tactics into capture and defence, that might make things even more awesome.
However, this type of play should of course remain opt-in, and we should always have a squad (or platoon, depending on the numbers) with the license to screw around. Moreover, I think there's some middle ground between no squad-level coordination at all and military-like discipline. Personally, I'd already be happy if the squads could just agree to stay together most of the time and follow their leader around.
@Mumble: I agree with the suggestions brought up in this thread. If we decide to go for a more organised approach, squad and command channels would be almost mandatory. As a temporary workaround, we could have squad communication on Mumble and commander communication via the built-in voice comms, or vice versa.
(N.B.: I could contribute my terrible-imitation-of-English-aristrocracy accent, but somehow I doubt you'd like to hear it.)
03-12-2012, 03:44 PM #46- Tom De Roeck.
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It might be worth trying to use one of the features that would let a platoon leader talk in two channels at once, where one channel is the more "serious" channel were we all want to pretend we're at war and our families freedom depends on the outcome of us getting that tech plant and the other channel being less "serious" were we all just want to have a laugh while following along, getting some kills and doing some fun things in flying space ships and tanks.
The only problem with it is, how much are we splitting the group up then? What if someone is half and half about it and can't decide what channel he belongs in. How open is it to swapping channels on a day by day, week by week or even hour by hour basis.
Might be easier on TS, dunno, but last I used it it was awful quality and you had to pay a license fee to get a hold of the server. Mumble is just free.
I could hook my mumble up, but I would need some financial security if it costs like 100 euros per month. From reading on the Amazon EC2 page I should be fine, but I have literally no idea what so ever regarding how much bandwidth we'll consume.
The last time I used TS was the last time because of all the VoiP programs I've used I've never heard such terrible quality. And the fact the WoW guild I was in were paying money to host a server for it blew my mind.
Regarding splitting I don't see how fun/banter is in direct conflict with organization. It doesn't have to be that serious, all you have to do is to somewhat follow orders and play with your squad. All it would do is make chat much less annoying for others, since you're generally talking to 12 people, and make goals much easier to achieve. Overall it would make people participate more in voice chat, open more chances for storytelling and general fun, as well as keep shit real and make stuff happen.
You'd still be able to do fun things, as it would not be much different from now, just a bit fewer people talking, with tighter teamplay.
I don't think having 40 people chatting in one room whilst somewhat pissed and regaling one another with whatever stories whilst occasionally shooting lasers, possibly but not always in the same direction, is a problem. In fact, that we've had that many people on most night doing just that I think is a very good thing, and exactly what I want from the outfit.
I realise, however, that others want something a bit more organised; I wouldn't mind it myself.
Everyone knows they can add temporary channels, right?
Suggested solution:
Create a subchannel; "strategic giraffes". In which sub-subchannels for squads can be created.
The either dedicate one, two or three of the RPS platoon squads to "people who want something a bit more organised" and have them move into the squad subchannels. The other squad(s) can just hang out in the Barney channel as usual
OR: Have two platoon leaders, one leading the strategic giraffes, the other relaying waypoints / orders to those shooting lasers whilst telling jokes.
Use the whisper / shout system to:
a) Have PL(s) have a shout that goes to everyone in any Barney channel.
b) Have PL(s) and SLs part of a '#command' token whisper that allows them to communicate at platoon level.
c) Everyone else either in s "strategic giraffes" subchannel or in the Barney channel having a natter / laugh / laser session.
I'm going to trial this suggestion on Thursday. I'll create a new thread for this. However, expect Wednesday nights to remain dozens of people chatting together whilst shooting lasers."KING GEORGE IS A FROG
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Well, the one wednesday night I was part of it all, was extremely organised and "tactical". I was part of Platoon 2, I still wanted a bit more tighter squad based movement, but generally much more enjoyable than 2.5 platoons in one channel chattering along.
Anyway, yes, sounds like a plan. Also, it would be awesome if squads were formed based on who is actually working actively together over mumble and In The Game™.- Tom De Roeck.
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Had a great time yesterday. Got a little bit crazy for me when we were about 50 people in Mumble, was hard to get orders out, but I guess it could work without splitting in the future as well.
I do fancy trying a more organised direction on Thursday though - are there enough people on to try for a dedicated, organised air force?
By the way, people were following orders quite well yesterday and at least seemed to enjoy it. There was only one thing when a dude just went "let's galdrop something" without a destionation nor orders and just ignored everything, and someone told him off a bit for it.
I honestly felt exactly the same as, I think it was, Qazz, as it's really annoying to try to lead and make stuff happen for everyone when someone just chooses to ignore you. I appreciated the help there at least, but maybe we should discuss how strict it should be during normal, unplanned, every day play?
I for one think orders a long the lines of yesterday aka "go here" and "alpha cap that, bravo that" works fine, but it can be a bitch if not everyone is on Mumble and some people ignore it. Should I or whoever is leading be more lax or more strict? I'm having a hard time judging what the majority wants as the people that speak up clearly favor following orders.
Also it might be overly harsh to just flat out refuse someone to do something, but it was a move that made no sense what so ever, and the dude just clearly wanted to do it because it was cool. That's why I said we're going to gladrop after, as we did, so that the people that wanted to would get their fill. Is that an okay approach you think? I mean, then we're doing it together at least.
Or should we just run two seperate platoons at all times? One mess about one, one stricter one where orders are expected to be followed and rank is somewhat important. Giraffes could be the mess about, Zebras could be the stricter. Will of course split between the two in Mumble and Zebras would likely be split in squads.
I had to leave mumble because of my bloody sound card (Xonar DX). This loop sounds in voip are apparently a known issue with all(?) Xonar cards. I had noticed that before while speaking with a friend over headset, but it seems to be worse in mumble.
Still, I always tried to stay close to the pack and follow the platoon/squad waypoints. I mean that's the point in playing in an Outfit/Squad or PS2 for that matter. For solo running and gunning there are better games.
Maybe having two platoons isn't that bad of an idea. Maybe one platoon that takes very specific tasks when needed like one squad switching completely to AA or going MBT and other platoon that takes more of the general "attack here" and/or "defend here" stuff where everybody can more or less chosse what they think fits the situation best.
I have a Xonar DX and it works fine for me. Mumble was no problem on my DG either. Check drivers I guess? Pretty much all of them are pretty shit though, but I generally have few problems with my DX as long as the drivers have managed to install themselves without destroying something.
Yes, two platoons could work, but then we need to communicate this as well. We also need to get the word out that people must join Mumble, mic or not does not matter. I guess if, for example, I lead the Zebras and Cooper leads the Giraffes we could communicate via shout/whisper-thing in Mumble and determine where we're going, where the giraffes just generally follow some orders a la "go here", and the Zebras specialize and coordinate, play in squads, etc. Then we split the two in two channels in mubmle as I doubt we'll be more in 25 in each, which is manageable for sure.
Someone on Reddit has been suggesting a Platoon Leader Command Concept and this is v2 after some feedback. What are people's thoughts?
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Yesterday eve's direction from PL / SLs / various other experienced folk was really good - there was always quick assesment and decision (brief discussion followed by clear orders - best bit of all!) on new objectives and angles of attack which made things flow very nicely.
I don't know if you found it a bit frustrating working hard on this with the number of people in chat, stragglers not on chat, random unrelated interjections about things in the real world, but this silent grunt for one really, really appreciated the effort command peeps went to last night. So here you are for being awesome (and occasionally slightly angry):


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Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 Review: Next Gen ION is Better & Worse than ION1by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2010 3:51 PM EST
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Swivelguy2 - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkA little typo right up in the title: "Next Gen is ION" should say "Next Gen ION is" Reply
shotage - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkI've been waiting for one of these to hook up to my HD TV. This looks near perfect, but the fact the flash playback sucks is going to make me wait. If Nvidia can fix it with an updated driver i'm off to the shop. Otherwise I'll be back... to curse Zotac Reply
jvdb - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkThey raised the price again? if it's true, I'll wait for the shuttle. Reply
Roy2001 - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkI need to point out that Broadcom Crystal HD decoder has a 40Mbps limitation and Ion does not have. XBMC would report dropped frames with higher than 40Mbps bitrate. That said, BD spec is less than 40Mbps and you can hardly see > 40Mbps mkv files. But I have seen that. Even XBMC with CPU decoding has the 40Mbps limitation and drops frames with CPU utilization less than 70%. Reply
sucram03 - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkYou've seen >40mbps encoded MKV's? Whoever encoded them must have done a horrible job if they're at 1080p. Nothing should have to be encoded with that high of a bitrate -- that's overkill.
A 40mbps limitation shouldn't be a problem. One thing that isn't touched on here, though, is CUDA-enabled decoding, which removes pretty much all limitations on H.264 content when done with DXVA. With CoreAVC 2.0, you'll pretty much never have a file you can't play. That would be the nice thing about this new ION, being that it has VP4 PureVideo. But.. as some have already said, this platform is way too expensive for that usefulness. Reply
mcnabney - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkI have the original Zotac ION HTPC and am relatively pleased with it. Added more RAM and upgrade XP to 7. The memory upgrade made it run much more quickly and moving to Win7 allowed Mediacenter usage (it is a DVR for an HDHomerun and recorded TV is automatically moved to my WHS box).
Old ION $200 @ Best Buy
Win7 upgrade $50
Upgrade to 2GB $40
So under $300 complete.
compare to:
New ION $250
Win7 OEM $100
Now we are at $430 when complete. That is a LOT more money for almost identical performance. Reply
Bateluer - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkThis is a poor comparison. The 200 dollar Ion system the Acer Revo R1600, is an Atom 230 based machine. Single core. The new Ion featured in the review is a D510, dual core machine. Performance won't be light years better by any means, but this isn't a good comparison.
Still, if you already have an Atom 330 Ion system, there's no need to pick up one of these machines unless you have money to burn. Like the Pine Trial platform itself, NG-Ion falls flat. Reply
mcnabney - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - linkWhy wouldn't it be a good comparison? Under the tests that the new ION does surpass the old (would more memory help the old one?) the difference is moving from 49% of the performance of a slow Core2 to 53%. So there is really a very slight difference in performance. But there is a very clear difference in cost. In fact, the original Zotac ION can be purchased for $170 now. Reply
sucram03 - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - linkYou missed the point of the poster. The comparison you're making is between ION2 and the original ION with Atom 330 processor (note the difference -- this is dual-core). The $199 desktop at Best Buy is an Aspire Revo1600, as the poster said, which does NOT have an Atom 330 dual-core, it has a single-core Atom 230. If you want to talk about performance, go ahead and take a look at the benchmarks again, instead now looking at that last-place ranking with the Atom 230 processor which falls short in every benchmark. Not by a huge margin, but enough to make a significant impact, which is exactly what that poster was trying to say.
It was a very valid argument. Just make sure you're backing up your claims with solid proof, links, or other general information instead of throwing together $'s and manipulating the outcome. Reply
shotage - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkThis quote "Streaming high definition Internet video on popular sites such as YouTube™, Vimeo™ and Hulu™ render smoothly and flawlessly in full screen with the ZOTAC ZBOX HD-ID11 and Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1. Video stuttering is a faint thought of the past with the ZOTAC ZBOX HD-ID11 with NVIDIA® ION™ graphics technology."
from Zotacs site: http://zotac.com/index.php?option=com_content&...
Obviously this is incorrect. Anand; maybe someone should tell Zotac? :p Reply
Rayb - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkI'll go with the ION1, since the flash 10.1 patch everything else became a non issue. Reply
QChronoD - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkAre there any tiny systems like this out there which have something faster than an Atom that use the ION chipset? Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkYes, but only if you want an LGA775 processor. It uses the 9300/9400 chipset, which is basically the same thing.
Works great. Except I really, really want fanless. Reply
icrf - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkI've got a Wolfdale HTPC now with one of the Zotac NV9300 Micro-ATX boards, and it works, but it's noisy. The lack of wake-on-USB from S3 and the lack of fan control access from Windows pissed me off about the board enough I'll probably avoid Zotac boards for the foreseeable future. I can live without the wake on USB from S3, but not being able to dynamically control fan speeds is just terrible. Every motherboard I've bought for more than the last five years have had that. I didn't even think to look for it.
More than a little OT, but for me, the big competition for this is something like the Boxee Box, which I haven't heard a peep about since CES. Anyone know any more details about it? I thought it was originally slated for 1H10 but I've seen a bare 2010 quoted, too. I'd probably pick one of those up just to see how well it'd work. I'd be on the pre-order list if I knew I could get XBMC running on it. I've got Boxee, XBMC, and Hulu installed on my HTPC now and can flip between them. Boxee is the one run least often because the other two do what they do much better. Reply
hpmoon - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkMy suspicion about the Boxee Box delay is quite simply that the media assholes are standing at the ready (and have scared Boxee to this effect) for suing them with full force as soon as the hardware hits the market. They must believe (or at least their questionably schooled lawyers must believe) that the legal ramifications suddenly change when it's not just a PC running the Boxee software and thus framing Firefox Web site visits anymore, but an actual non-PC device doing something very different without full-blown Firefox PC functionality.
Of course, if this were the backstory, no one would tell you this. Reply
icrf - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkThe experience of running Hulu through Boxee is bad enough I'm not sure I'd worry about it too much. You can play/pause it, but that's it. Seeking forward or backwards isn't supported. If the stream dies halfway through and you need to restart, or you have to pause it for a long time and the connection times out, or if you just want to repeat what someone said, you're SOL.
If I'm wrong and some of this got fixed, someone holler, but Boxee seemed more about the social aspect than anything else. You can get these little clip videos from all over the internet, publicize what you're watching and what you like or don't, etc. Reply
ClagMaster - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkI wonder if the memory controllers on board the AMD and Intel CPUs are as optimized as those found on the P965, P35 and P45 ?
The P965/G965 has a wonderful memory controller that was far more efficient than that on the AMD 64.
How can one evaluate this ? Reply
aj28 - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkA bit off topic, but I think it's worth pointing out that AMD64 (754/939) was a DDR controller, while Intel's P965 was a DDR2 controller. I miss the old nForce controllers, which were some of the more feature-rich, error-free (at least in my experience) chipsets out there. It's a shame that Intel has designed their new platform the way they have... Reply
Calin - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkNVidia chipsets had that issue with the disk controller (the possibility to totally trash the content of your hard drive). Other than that, they were for quite a time the high point in chipsets. The only "hotter" chipset I remember was the "BX-100" variant (Intel's 66MHz 440BX chipset, made to run with the Pentium !!! processors on a front side bus of 100MHz). Reply
rnjeezy - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkyes, i know there's a point in having it, but it's probably good to have another m.b which removes it, and then add one more lane to the gfx Reply
rnjeezy - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkand switch wifi to usb Reply
Tekkamanraiden - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkWhile this looks pretty kick ass I'm looking forward to the Amd version. I'm curious how well the Neo processor with 3200 will do against the Aton with Ion2. Reply
Soulkeeper - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkI too would like to see products from amd and/or via to compete here.
I'm tired of "the intel show" 24/7
I wouldn't pay $100 for that ion thing Reply
dealcorn - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkAs the Zotac NM10-B-E motherboard is shipping with HDMI and the Intel NM10 chipset, the Broadcom Crystal media solution is a viable build your own HTPC strategy that operates on fewer watts. I would have liked a side by side comparison. Reply
nick.cardwell - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkDoes this or any ION2 nettop use Optimus??? I am looking for a small D510 system to run headless and would be willing to buy an ION2 system strictly for the resale value if it uses Optimus to switch off that power hungry GPU. I am sill waiting on the Shuttle XS35 to show up as it is fanless. Reply
CZroe - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkThe comments in the article about manufacturers not wanting to reclaim PCIe lanes from WiFi and GbE don't sound so convincing. For example, they could easily integrate WiFi via internal USB or an Ethernet bridge.
Heck, if nVidia wanted to make a real symbiotic chipset to go with this they could actually engineer a GbE/WiFi chip that uses multiple internal USB ports to achieve enough bandwidth. And by "enough" I mean "somewhat more than 100mbps but less than 1,000mbps." Users can't often maximize GbE because they need a GbE switch for full duplex and, assuming a max-speed file copy, a destination drive which can write as fast as the source can send. I doubt many users really need GbE over 10/100 Fast Ethernet/802.11n.
Also, what happened to all the rumors of an OC'd PCIe bus for ION2?
As for Zotac's design, I'd much prefer a larger, cooler, quieter design than this, especially if it is going in a home theater. If it would still be super-small, why not give it a proportionally huge HSF? The LEAST they could do is give it metallic housing and throw a heat pipe on it (even just one side). Reply
rennya - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkThe latency guys, the latency. Reply
KaarlisK - Sunday, May 09, 2010 - linkBesides which, the NM10 chipset only has 1 USB2 controller, so no increase in bandwidth from ganging USB ports. Reply
modemide - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkI enjoyed the article and this looks like a viable option for my next HTPC. However, I didn't see anything addressing the signal issues most people experienced with the initial version. Can you comment on that?
Thanks. Reply
Bateluer - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkHow come we don't see any of the ULV CPUs in form factors like this? I cannot imagine it'd be too difficult to stick in a Celeron SU2300, or a Pentium SU4100, or one of the ULV C2S chips. There's super netbooks that are thinner than these nettops that use these ULV chips. I can't imagine that designing a little beefier cooling system in the same Zotac chassis or into the Acer Revo chassis would be overly difficult. It may add a little to the price, but the trade off in performance might be worth it. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkWhy would intel only give 4 pci express lanes? That's just retarded. Why would NVidia even mess with this atom? Why not just use the old atom? Its the same damn thing. Just do a LTB on the old atom. Nvidia should go BK for doing stupid crap like this. Reply
hpmoon - Friday, May 07, 2010 - linkWow. So while we appreciate that Zotac sent an early review unit, they should have paid attention when most of us observed that it would be rather offensive to jack up the price a second time merely by gauging enthusiast interest. $209 --> $239 --> $259 = pissed off customers. Now that the reviews are eh, we're done with you. And it's gonna hit you hard when every reviewer bemoans how $260 is just the beginning, with $100 at a minimum in additional expense for the RAM and hard drive. For truth-in-advertising, let's get real: The HD-ID11 is just under $400.
Moving along. Reply
hemantha - Sunday, May 09, 2010 - linkFrom the power consumption page - "The XBMC Live image I installed doesn't seem to let the Atom cores underclock themselves to 600MHz". I think D510 doesn't support EIST. I believe only Atom Nxxx do. So unless motherboard supports undervolting, I don't think these can be made to run at lower clock speeds. Reply
Nathelion - Monday, May 10, 2010 - linkIs there any information on if/when a Nano-Ion combo will be out? Atom really isn't fast enough to catch my eye, and (C)ULV is too expersive. Reply
sucram03 - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - linkDid you really just mention VIA? That's scary @_@
Really, the whole fact that is unless costs are driven down, users are almost better off getting a cheap AMD Vision-powered laptop for approximately the same price. You can find some of those laptops on sale for <$450 and have Athlon II X2 M300 CPUs and Radeon HD 4200's, which are both good enough to accelerate any videos thanks to the new release of the 10.4 Catalyst version (H.264 decoding up to L5.1). And most have HDMI ports, bluetooth, 802.11n, the list goes on...
Add to that the general flexibility and portability of having a laptop (i.e. having a built-in display right there with the computer, having a battery), and although you will have higher energy usage, it is NOT going to be a major concern for most households when all you do is boot it up for playback.
Broadcom's chipset is interesting, but still is only able to decode up to L4.1 H.264 if I remember correctly. Nvidia's chipsets would be the BEST to use to enable CUDA decoding and remove pretty much all limitations on accelerating any kind of video, but if you're going to have to pay the same as what you could buy a laptop for (or more), then what's the use? IMHO, AMD appears to have positioned themselves in the middle if we're talking about the HTPC/movie playback department for a budget system. Cost, features, benefits all seem to be pointing to them for the best benefit possible. Reply
CereKong - Monday, May 10, 2010 - linkQuote:
While manufacturers can use all four PCIe 1.0 lanes coming off Intel's NM10 Express chipset, most have chosen to use just one leaving the remaining lanes for things like WiFi. A single PCIe 1.0 lane can only provide 250MB/s of bandwidth in either direction, hardly enough for a modern GPU. It's because of this limitation that the next-generation ION GPU could actually perform slower than the first ION.
Thus which manufacturers do provide motherboards with multiple lanes for the GPU - and if possible are there any differences performance wise? Reply
SnazzyS - Thursday, May 13, 2010 - linkNewEgg sold out very quickly. Looks like Logic Supply has some in stock: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/zbox_hd_id11 Reply
idokibovito - Friday, May 14, 2010 - linkNot quite sure there but I've been keeping my eyes on the Acer Revo 3610 which seems to basically be the same thing as this _without_ the cooling fan! Looking at benchmarks the new CPU is 5-10% faster (tops) and the GPU is not much faster either (because of the PCIe 1x lane). In some benchmarks both CPU and GPU are actually slower than ION1 (which has a Geforce 9400M instead of a GT218.
I would prefer the new generation, even if it's just a spit faster (think VPDAU and VP3 vs. VP4). But that fan and seemingly no real life performance benefit keeps me looking back on the Revo, which is cheaper and a hardware that is known to work with XBMC and Linux without dirty patches and evening prayers.
I can't see why this "next-gen" thing is better or even more future proof, however I would like to. Anyone?
Thanks Reply
coutch - Monday, May 24, 2010 - linkany word if the drivers released today (BETA 256) address the flash performance issue ? Reply
Jackie78 - Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - linkWhich version of XBMC did you use, since I guess they do not officially support DXVA accelerated video. Reply

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Manny Forte is this week's good fella. Manny is 36 and originally from Newark, NJ. He's been living in Miami for the last 12 years. He may have spent a long time in Jersey, but his roots are all Puerto Rican. He misses the food from Puerto Rico, though in Miami, he's about as close to being home with all the different cultures that abound. His favorite meal is �Arroz con Gandules y Lechon� (Pigeon peas and rice with pork); while his favorite American fare is the classic cheeseburger. Manny enjoys Soccer and Football. He loves to watch it as well as play it. Manny like to watch a lot of things, in fact. Manny admits he loves jacking off more than anything. He loves to jerk off so much, he'd rather do that then have sex. He would rather watch and stroke his uncut cock himself. Manny has had his dick pimped, and sports what he calls a �rocket�. A rocket is a sub dermal addition, a pearl is often used and it helps provide extra stimulation while fucking. It's located at the top of the cock near the base of the shaft to stimulate the clit�both real and imagined�during the art of making love. (...and by �making love� we mean senseless fucking) He admits he does get people asking him about it from time to time. We bet the gym's showers are now a buzz because of it. �Excuse me is that a 'rocket' and if so�may I have a ride, Papi?�Manny playfully peels off his shirt and undershirt as he shows off his massive pecs. Manny is no stranger to the gym, and his efforts have paid off. His pecs are well-defined and covered with just the right amount of fur. He has tattoos on each arm, as well as one on his pec. He starts to grope his chest as his free hand takes a drive down the happy trail into bush land. There, he finds his cock that's slowly coming to life. Those nipples are hot wired to that meat of his, and it's gonna need a lot more attention than a mere nipple rub in a minute. Manny then drops his jeans and gives us our first view of his hairy ass as it's framed in an orange jock strap. He gets on the couch on all fours and starts to play with it, so that we can get a better view of the goods. His ass is covered in hair. He shows off his hole for us while massaging his muscular ass. Manny licks his lips as he looks directly into the camera. He is loving the fact that he's being watched. The hunter is now the hunted, and he loves it. Manny is at full mast by now and has stroked his cock so that it stands at attention. Manny realizes he is still a bit overdressed and slowly loses his orange jock strap. Now that those have hit the floor, the real fun begins.Manny lies back, spreading his thick thighs wide apart as he gets comfortable. He can now give that big dick of his a proper stroking. He slowly worships his meat, which is now aching for attention. His smooth balls are pulled up tight beneath his thick shaft as Manny continues to stroke his massive cock. We can tell Manny gets into stroking because he doesn't rush anything. He's methodical, slowly appreciating his cock. It glistens as his hand swirls over it, under hand, over hand. He shakes his club around as well before going back to fist fucking with it. Fortunately, one of Manny's favorite all time favorite sessions involved a 3 way with a girl and another guy. We might be able to see just what this fuck pole can do when it's unleashed since Manny said he'd be open to us finding him a male costar in the near future. Manny's cock is throbbing by now. All that specialized attention is paying off. As his nuts begin to tighten, Manny slowly picks up his pace. Without much pomp or circumstance, he nuts. His cock unloads, sending a glazed cascade spilling over his fist, falling onto his furry floor below.
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Went to local Half Price Books today for a ice cream recipe cookbook. We bought a new ice cream maker today. A Cuisinart that has a compressor instead of having to pre-freeze the bowl. I am going to be an ice cream making fool! Hope there's enough room in the freezer! Move over Ben & Jerry! We have a bunch of recipes and know there are hundreds more on the 'net, but I still like books. Bought "The Joy of Ice Cream" by Mathew Klein and "Scoop - 125 Specialty Ice Creams from the Nation's Best Creameries" by Ellen Brown.
Anyway, I'm looking over the barbecue and grilling books - every now and then I find something good that I don't have. Young guy 19 or 20 walks over and says to me ... "Have you ever heard of some guy named Raichlen? I've heard he's pretty good." A new griller who had just gotten his 1st Weber kettle. We talked for about 20 minutes and he bought used copies of "Barbecue Bible" and "How To Grill". Think he paid about $12 for both books. "How To Grill" has always been my "go to" grilling book. I refer to my copy frequently and am willing to bet that I've bought over 20 copies since 2001 to give as gifts for friends and relatives. I recently had to buy a new copy for myself when I went to my bookshelf and mine wasn't there. Realized I had lent it to a guy at work about a year ago and left the company before I got it back.
I ended up buying new copies of "The Totally Chile Pepper Cookbook" by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham, Ted reader's "King of Q's Blue Plate BBQ" and "Wicked Good Barbecue ..." by Andy Husbands & Chris Hart with Andrea Pyenson - Forward by some guy named Steve Raichlen. Spent $17 for all three books.


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When picking a deal team, consider experience, but also temperamentComments Email Print
Is this the right time? How will your employees and customers be affected? Will you get an adequate price? Will the non-financial terms of the deal be acceptable? What can you do to maximize your potential for success?
Having the right deal team in place — particularly the right attorneys and investment bankers — is essential. While cost may be a factor, it generally should be way down the list. In this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, these questions are more important:
It is important to try to gauge whether your deal will be important to the firm and the individual professionals, or whether you will be way down the to-do list. If the deal list shows that the investment banking firm may focus on $100 million-plus deals, your $20 million deal could be lost in the shuffle. On the other hand, you don't want to be too important to the professionals. The attorney may not complete your work quite as efficiently, and the investment banker may have other motivations if he hasn't had a reasonably active track record of success. For instance, the investment banker in that situation could push you to take a deal that would not be in your best interest.
The best legal and financial advisers are generally those who can be strong advocates for their client while maintaining a calm demeanor under pressure. You want the quarterback who looks cool in the two-minute drill while others on the field appear nervous and flustered. Also, you want solutions-oriented advisers who can get knocked down in one area, but who can get right back up and think of other approaches.
By having the right team in place upfront, you will dramatically increase your chances for success.


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