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This article was published 2/10/2009 (2880 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
My husband's French is almost non-existent, but he got my message loud and clear as we surveyed the statues that adorn the facade of the National Assembly in Quebec City.
"Une," I said indignantly.
"No, deux," he corrected, spotting a second woman among the 20 male founders of la belle province.
We knew most of the men, household names in history books: Montcalm, Champlain, Wolfe... We didn't know the two women, Sister Marie Guyart and educator Marguerite Bourgeoys, but it got me wondering -- how many women adorn Manitoba's legislative building?
I circled the legislature one warm autumn night, amazed that I could find only one: Queen Victoria, and she never set foot in Canada, much less this province.
What message does that send to the young women of Manitoba who visit our legislature? Or the record number of female MLAs who today comprise more than a third of the house? That we're invisible? Or that we just don't count?
There is a movement to establish a statue in honour of noted feminist Nellie McClung at the legislature, but it's been six years since we first heard about this effort, and still no statue.
No one was willing to talk with the Free Press about the memorial this week. Perhaps it's because there's so much pressure to say and do the right thing in these politically charged times.
But this one seems so obvious, it's hard to believe it hasn't happened yet.
Public symbols and statues and words matter.
Ask the Métis nation, which struggled years ago to get a statue of Louis Riel, the province's founder, at the legislature.
Ask the Ukrainians, who worked hard to get a statue of their poet and hero Taras Shevchenko on the legislative grounds, or the Scots who managed to enshrine Robbie Burns.
They matter.
Alberta seems to have figured this out.
In honour of the "Famous Five" who won the battle in 1929 to have women declared "persons" under the BNA Act, there are plaques and parks and a wonderful monument of the five women sculpted by Canadian artist Barbara Paterson.
It was unveiled in Calgary in 1999, and a replica established on Parliament Hill in 2000.
Interestingly, all five of the women are dubbed Albertans, including Nellie Mooney McClung.
She was 43 when she moved to Edmonton and helped galvanize Alberta's suffrage movement. But she was "Our Nell" for decades before that. She was raised here, came into her own as a public speaker and novelist in Manitou, and became the most famous women's activist in North America after her family moved to Winnipeg in 1911.
It was Nellie and her passionate, hardworking and outspoken colleagues that made this province ground zero of the feminist movement at the turn of the century.
In 1873, when Nellie was born, women couldn't be lawyers, judges or politicians. They could not vote or hold political office.
And yet, despite the formidable odds, McClung grew up to be one of the most remarkable Canadians in history -- a teacher, mother of five, best-selling novelist, provincial politician, public speaker, syndicated newspaper columnist, and an eloquent advocate for social reform.
She made profound changes in our laws and in our society, changes for which every woman in Canada is grateful. And it's here in Manitoba that she truly came into her own.
She knew that.
When a visitor remarked on her beautiful garden in Victoria, B.C., near the end of her long and illustrious life, the ailing McClung replied: "If I were only a few years younger, I'd move tomorrow to Winnipeg with its blizzards."
Ninety-three years after she fought and won the battle to give Manitoba women the right to vote and to hold public office -- a first in North America -- it's time to recognize McClung where she belongs.
It's time to bring Nellie home.


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Thomas Bradshaw's JOB Premiere to Return to The Flea, Jan 4-28
After a sold out run and extension, The Flea Theater announces yet another extension of the New York premiere production of JOB, written by Thomas Bradshaw and directed by Flea Resident Director Benjamin Kamine. A popular and critical success, JOB now will return and play January 4 through 28.
In JOB, the "downtown provocateur" Bradshaw takes on the sacred biblical text to explore issues of faith. How low will God go? Bradshaw says his play is an honest, un-cynical adaptation of the book of Job.
It was recently announced that Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films has teamed up with Bradshaw to develop an hour long HBO drama series about the first black president of a prestigious liberal arts college.
Thomas Bradshaw's plays have been produced at regional theaters, in NYC as well as in Europe. Most recently, his play Burning ran successfully at The New Group in New York City. In 2011, the Goodman Theater produced his play Mary, which they had previously commissioned. The Bereaved, produced by Partial Comfort, was named one of the Best Plays of 2009 in Time Out New York. In 2008, two of his plays premiered in NYC: Southern Promises, at Performance Space 122 in September, and Dawn, at The Flea Theater in November, and both were listed among the Best Performances of Stage and Screen for 2008 in The New Yorker. His plays Purity, Prophet, and Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist and Cleansed were produced in NYC and LA. A German translation of Dawn was presented at Theater Bielefeld in Germany in October 2008 and published by Theater Der Zeit in that same month. Mr. Bradshaw received his M.F.A. from Mac Wellman's playwriting program and is Professor of Playwriting at Northwestern University. He has been featured as one of Time Out New York's ten playwrights to watch, one of Paper Magazine's Beautiful People, and Best Provocative Playwright by the Village Voice. He has received Fellowships from The Lark Play Development Center, Soho Rep. (Streslin Fellow), and New York Theater Workshop. He was the Playwright in Residence at The Soho Theatre in London in February 2009, where he wrote The Ashes. Thomas Bradshaw has received commissions from Soho Theatre (London), The Goodman Theater, Soho Repertory Theater (New York), The Flea Theater, Theater Bielefeld (Germany), and Partial Comfort Productions. He is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2012 Award from the Foundation of Contemporary Art.
Benjamin Kamine is a stage director from Los Angeles. He has a passion for new work, and his recent directing credits include the world premieres of Wars and Whores by Jeffrey Barg and Sarah Ollove, Gutter Space by Keith Boynton, Medea's Got Some Issues by Emilio Williams, and Cheesesteak Latkes by Matt Ocks. He also directed the west coast premiere of The Gift Horse by Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly). He loves ancient cultures, with particular enthusiasm for work that explores his own (Judaism), and he cannot wait to get back to India, where he directed a cross-cultural production of Sophocles' Philoctetes in 2008. He is the Resident Director at the Jewish Plays Project and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. He also works throughout New York as a sound, lighting, and projection designer, and is a Guest Artist at the Lab School for Collaborative Studies. Previous directing credits for The Flea: The Flying Latke by Arthur Yorinks; Kathleen Supove and the Electric Sheep.
The Bats are the resident Acting Company members of The Flea Theater. Each year over a thousand actors audition for a place in this unique company. The Bats perform in extended runs of challenging classic and new plays. The Bats have recently appeared in World Premieres by A.R. Gurney, Will Eno, Adam Rapp, Beau Willimon, Mac Wellman, Elizabeth Swados, Thomas Bradshaw, Itamar Moses, Sheila Callaghan, Julian Sheppard, Ken Urban, Tommy Smith, Jonathan Reynolds, Trista Baldwin, Laurel Haines, Qui Nguyen and Sean Graney.
The Flea Theater, under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres of Anne Nelson's The Guys; six plays by A.R. Gurney (Post Mortem, O Jerusalem, Screenplay, Mrs. Farnsworth, A Light Lunch and Office Hours); Mac Wellman's Cellophane and Two September; Roger Rosenblatt's Ashley Montana Goes Ashore... and The Oldsmobiles; Elizabeth Swados' JABU and Kaspar Hauser; Karen Finley's Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman; Adam Rapp's Bingo with the Indians; Will Eno's Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations; Dawn by Thomas Bradshaw; Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to it) by Itamar Moses, The Great Recession, Jonathan Reynolds' Girls in Trouble, Bathsheba Doran's Parents' Evening, Looking at Christmas by Steven Banks, the Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, and the Drama Desk nominated These Seven Sicknesses by Sean Graney.
JOB runs January 4 - 28, 2013, performance schedule varies. The Flea is located at 41 White Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z and 1 subway lines. Tickets are $25 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org.

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F1 2012 is the biggest waste of money.
I'm trying to get a refund but Valve's CS sucks.
I don't get how it was launched so broken, there is so much understeer I struggle to get round some corners and the car doesn't seem to matter.They've taken out the old fuel and tyre simulation options from 2011 which I loved, sometimes you just want to play with them on or off but now you have no choice and the tyres don't seem to wear like they did before. I hate how the FP setup has gone in favour of just one FP now...... like how is that like F1? I can understand this for short weekend, why don't we even have the option for a full weekend now? Podiums still aren't in, safety cares still never come out from crashes, half the time the A.I magically makes it back on the track within a second and vanishes by the next lap. They've gotten rid of the whole paddock thing and just have boring menus now, like the change with Dirt 2 to 3. You cannot even tell your team when you want to pit which is something that left with 2011 and I don't know why, the team just sticks me on a strategy. It never changes if rain comes down, I'm just meant to magically pit, surely they're meant to give me options like real F1.
There are so many game breaking bugs it's crazy! My engine blows at the end of every race and normally after I use a flashback too. My engine normally just loses all power mid race and I cannot do anything. I play on automatic so it isn't my gear changes and no other F1 game had this problem before, the game doesn't even acknowledge anything has happened so I have no options. Then there's the one where it rains every race, even in Bahrain it started chucking it down, sometimes it can be bright sunny and all of a sudden dark clouds lol. It's really hard to judge which tyre you should be on too, in real F1 it'll be even slightly raining and you have to come in, in F1 2012 you have to wait till you see rivers to even come on inters and it's so hard to see when to go back onto dry.
Then there is the poor A.I which I can be going a second slower a lap and still end up in 2nd. I don't get why they seem to be a faster pace than me and yet they slowly drift backwards. It seems like it's trying to dumb the A.I down to try and give you a chance to win. I mean in the first lap Alone I can go from last to 10th even on hardest settings, they're just so dumb.
You don't even want to try online, their servers have such connection issues trying coop with a friend was us getting booted all the time coupled with none of us finishing a race because our engines kept failing lol. The penalty system is so bad for online multiplayer that people crash into you and you get a penalty for it lol.
Such a bad game I warn you to stay away, I hope codemasters loses the license. I bet Valve wont even give me the refund, if they don't then Steam can fuck off too.
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there was a demo...
The demo didn't really let you race for long, but yeah, should have been enough to pick up the new handling.
But it's funny, I've just finished my first race, Australia, 58 laps, with a Toro Rosso. I won, but I was purposefully racing on "intermediate" difficulty just to get used to all the changes. And I did enjoy myself.
To comment on your points: understeer is indeed the greatest change. You didn't mention which controller you're using, from what I hear people on gamepads are struggling a lot. But the understeering is mostly a matter of learning. I have never driven a real racing car, but I do think it sort of makes sense that you really need to brake a lot before the turn to prevent understeering. In previous games it was more or less easy to correct braking and turning mistakes, now not so much - if you miss the braking point you will end up outside the track. And I don't think that's a bad change, once you get used to it, it's really satisfying to string a few good turns together.
The removal of the two free practices bothers me more in principle than in practice - it's bad when you have to learn a track, but if you already know it, then it's not much of an issue.
I also don't mind the removal of the tyre and fuel simulation toggle. If you race short races, then it shouldn't matter. If you race longer ones, turning them off just makes the races more boring. As for the tyres, I think that just reflects changes made in the actual compounds this year - tyres don't wear out too quickly, but when they do, it really feels like they've turned to soap - the couple of laps before pitstops are really tense.
Podiums, safety car, I agree with you. There are still not enough incidents (no yellow flags at all in my full race), and cars are still just too tough regarding damage. And the "life" outside the race is even more boring, I agree. I can't really comment on the AI since I chose an easy race, but at least they seem to be much better regarding blue flags now.
There is an option to adjust race strategy before the race - just turn right from the monitor. In race, I think it works just like it used to - if you want to pit earlier or later, just head to the pits when you want to - I think the team will be automagically set if you enter the pit lane (just make sure your team mate isn't there).
The engine blowing up bug is indeed very annoying - the workaround is to disable car damage, but yeah, I hope they patch that - but given Codemasters' famous reluctance to patch, that remains to be seen. My weekend in Australia was completely dry, so I can't confirm your complaint that it always rains.
So while I feel that the game is on the whole more or less a cosmetic upgrade over 2011 (it does look and sound much better, and runs better on my machine than 2011 did), and it irks me a bit that I paid full price for it, I do enjoy the new handling model. That, and the fact that it finally doesn't have GFWL means I'll stick with 2012.
I hope you get your refund, but I think Steam tends to be pretty miserly regarding those.
I could tell the game was bad, but this is the pits. *bad-dum-cch!*I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Have you contacted Codemasters about your problems and possible refund? None of these problems sound like Steam's fault and I don't think they should be the source of your wrath. They are not likely to offer you a refund because these are not issues caused by them. Surely Codemasters has a customer support line for you contact.
I haven't played the game or the series, so I'm afraid I can't comment on your problems. Best of luck.
Maybe you can change the setup to remove understeer.
I don't see you getting a refund.
If you do get it that would be very kind of them.
For open-wheelers I recommend netKar Pro.
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I don't know any "stunning" improvements comparing to F1 2011..who can give me a heads-up?City of Steam - Fight in a land of belching furnaces, clockwork marvels, and ancient evils. Visit City of Steam on Facebook for screenshots, dev diaries, and news updates!
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Are you using the same setups from F1 2011? I would say don't because I noticed the description for certain things (roll bars off the top of my head) have changed.
First off I'm using a 360 pad. I can say that the steering has changed. To me it feels like you're driving a proper car as apposed to a nose cone that you point in a certain direction and squirt the throttle.
This of course is only my opinion and everyone has their own driving style.
One down side I've noticed is that even on the highest difficulty the AI brake too early for tight corners. I can go sailing past in a braking zone and still make the corner comfortably.
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I hope the actual track with actual cars prove me wrong, but I'm not convinced this track is anything special just yet."He has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to
the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free". ~ Luke 4:18
I just don't trust Codemasters. They lied for years about how their rally vehicle handling was fully simulated and not a center-pivot model (either that, or they're incompetent). Once in a blue moon they'll publish a gem like Perimeter or SHOWW2, but otherwise they're strictly bargin bin for me.
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I hate how they've gone back to 2010 where your car spins all the frigging time without any feedback or time to save. In 2011 if it happened you could save it, the game gave you the feedback.
Anyways I'm playing 2011 now, much better.
I don't see how it's more realistic because in F1 when they have over or understeer they complain and get the car sorted. F1 cars are basically glued to the track now with so much downforce and they aren't sliding all over the place or struggling to make corners unless they have an issue with their setup or damage. Also the best cars are taking corners flat out, no having to lift like you do in 2012.
F1 2011 is far more realistic than 2012.
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Bumping this just to give Codemasters their due, in the 3 weeks since release they've already produced 4 patches for the PC version of the game, fixing most of the issues discussed here and elsewhere (and creating a few new ones, but, well). I guess the move away from GFWL really helped in this regard - I don't think the console versions have had a single patch yet.
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I got burned twice by Codemasters in quick succession, once for OFP:DR and once for F1-2010. Now F1-2010 wasn't absolutely terrible, but it wasn't great. Whereas OFP:DR just anashamedly lied about itself in practically all the press build up.
Regarding F1-2010 though, there was clear CLEAR rubber banding which the dev team strenuously tried to deny against all the evidence. I remember one quote by a dev on their forum saying "There is no rubber banding, if a driver is behind however he will try harder to catch up and perhaps improve his times." (I'm paraphrasing) which could also be said of Mario Kart. "There is no rubber banding in Mario Kart! However if Donkey Kong is last he just tries harder and speeds up." hilarious.
Anyway I did quite enjoy it online. What I've wanted for ages is a sim with the handling of a super realistic racer in the GTR/RFactor mould, but without all the tedious setup which I don't really understand.
Bad Guy, if you're a race sim person then head over to the unofficial RPS racing group's steam page, Race, Petrol, Skid, and post what racing games you've got in the thread. There's only two of us (Vorrin and I) with netKar Pro at the moment, but hopefully more will appear.
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They've patched the game and made it better fixing a lot of things thank god. My engine doesn't blow all the time now lol.
Look me up on Steam or send me a forum post when you've got it, Meltdown.
It really is superb - unfortunately the development was so stop-start, ill-communicated and ill-publicised that it was a bit of a mess and it never really caught on the way it deserved, but for me there's nothing else that manages to give you so much accurate information about what the tyres and suspension are doing through the FFB, and for someone who isn't a racing driver I think that's the only measure of realism I can be comfortable claiming for it.


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Dog-friendly Great Witcombe, 7 People & Satellite Television
Green Farm, one of 3 holiday properties, is situated on the Witcombe Estate which has been in the same private ownership for over 400 years. Witcombe Estate is situated on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment, in an AONB, and is surrounded by unspoilt countryside, with views to the Malvern Hills and Welsh Mountains.
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HOUSTON - A woman charged in the deaths of four children faced a judge for arraignment Wednesday afternoon, nearly one month after a fire broke out at her home day care while she went shopping.
Jessica Tata, 22, appeared in the 180th Criminal Court and pleaded not guilty to all counts. Famed defense attorney Mike DeGeurin was hired as her attorney and entered the plea on her behalf. Tata did not speak during the arraignment.
Tata has been charged with 13 state felonies, including four counts of manslaughter, three counts of abandoning a child and six counts of reckless injury to a child. She also faces a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. She is being held without bond.
The courtroom was packed with relatives of the children who died in the fire.
"For me, I've got to see her. I need her to see me -- see what she did to me," said Keshia Brown, victim Elias Castillo's mother.
"To know that this is where justice begins and (there's) no more running for Jessica Tata. Now it's time to face justice and that's why we're here -- for the support of our family and to finally see justice start today," said Darlene Price, a victim's relative.
DeGeurin said there is more to the story. He said Tata went into the burning house three times to save the children, and lost her own goddaughter in the fire.
"Even her own goddaughter died. She broke windows with hands, bloodied her arms. The third time in was when she passed out. It was a horror movie," DeGeurin said.
He said Tata was not on the run in Nigeria.
"When she left to to go Nigeria, where her father lives, there were no charges against her. So there's nothing illegal about doing that," DeGeurin said.
Tata spent weeks on the run in Nigeria, prosecutors said. She was arrested there on Saturday and returned to Houston early Tuesday, when she was booked into the Harris County Jail.
DeGeurin wants Tata released on bond while she awaits trial. He has asked for a bond hearing.
Prosecutors filed a request with the court to set Tata's bond at $2 million, confiscate her passports and require her to wear an electronic monitor if she is released.
Tata is being being held in administrative segregation, locked down 23 hours a day in an 8-foot-by-9 1/2-foot cell. Harris County Sheriff's Office officials said it is for her protection.
Shomari Dickerson, 3, Elizabeth Kojah, 20 months, Kendyll Stradford, 20 months, and Elias Castillo died from the fire at a home in the 2800 block of Crestpark at Waypark shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 24. The house served as a day care facility called Jackie's Child Care.
Three other children were injured in the fire.
Arson investigators said the fire started in the kitchen after someone left a pot of oil sitting on a hot burner.
Houston Fire Department officials said Tata was grocery shopping at a Target store nearby when the fire started. Detectives said security video showed her arriving at the store at 1:09 p.m. and driving away from the store at 1:24 p.m. The children had been left home alone, investigators said
Witnesses said Tata returned as smoke began billowing out of the home day care. The first call to 911 was made by someone other than Tata at 1:29 p.m., investigators said.
The manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
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When Apple announced the server edition of its popular Mac Mini late in October, I was excited that the company was finally offering a low-cost small-business server at a terrific price point ($999) for both the hardware and an unlimited license of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server.
I'm a big fan of Apple's server platform. Mac OS X Server is based around open standards and includes a range of enterprise-grade technologies that offer a host of powerful and flexible features: Open Directory (a scalable directory service based around OpenLDAP and Kerberos); established Internet hosting platforms like Apache, BIND for DNS hosting and Dovecot-based mail service; collaboration tools based on open standards like CalDAV and CardDAV; a range of deployment and client management tools; and powerful multiplatform file and print services. Best of all, it makes these features easily available to both experienced administrators, novices who have never set up a server before and everyone in between.
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For small businesses with limited -- or, in some cases, no -- IT staff, having a flexible and robust server platform is important. So is easy setup, management and backup. I've talked previously about the two most recent iterations of Mac OS X Server (Leopard Server and Snow Leopard Server), which offer simplified management through an administration tool -- Server Preferences -- as well as Mac OS X Server's more robust GUI management utilities and various command-line tools.
Server Preferences, which is patterned after Mac OS X's System Preferences, combines the core functions of a typical small business or workgroup server in one place, whether it's file or printer sharing, email and Web site hosting, server and client backup management, client autoconfiguration, VPN access, or hosting Apple's suite of collaborative tools (including shared calendaring, shared contacts, and Apple's wiki and blog services). It's designed to be intuitive enough for any Mac user to manage.
The types of companies where Server Preferences and its simplified approach to administration shine -- small offices or workgroups with a limited number of workstations and users -- are exactly the market Apple has targeted with the Mac Mini server. They're the kind of shops where an Xserve or a Mac Pro functioning as server hardware would be complete overkill, both in terms of unused potential and cost.
Over the past several years, I've worked with many of these types of small businesses. In the days before Leopard Server -- the predecessor to Snow Leopard Server -- and Server Preferences, I usually wound up installing a server and being on call for even the most routine tasks, like adding or deleting new users, adjusting access rights to services or file shares, and verifying backups. Once Leopard Server arrived in 2007, my direct involvement dropped, since companies finally had a familiar and easy-to-use means of handling these tasks.
Regardless of my own involvement, I often recommended that these small firms (typically anywhere from one to a few dozen employees with basic needs) buy Apple's server software and install it on a Mac Mini. Although not big on size or raw computing power, the Mac Mini has always had at least enough power to meet the needs of these less-than-demanding environments. That's also why I was immediately taken with Apple's decision to launch the Mac Mini server configuration (as was Macworld's Jason Snell.)
A true small-business server
The Mac Mini server offers a very small footprint and low power requirements, and it runs cooler than virtually any desktop computer. Those features make it ideal for small-business environments. Its size -- 6.5 inches square and 2 inches high -- means it can be placed in a small locked closet or ventilated storage cabinet for easy security.
Price is also a big draw. For $999, businesses get a server with unlimited client access licensing to all the features that can be run on Snow Leopard Server. And the hardware, while not cutting-edge, is solid: There's a dual-core 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor, the Nvidia GeForce 9400M integrated graphics chip set, five USB 2.0 ports, one Gigabit Ethernet connection and a FireWire 800 port. This contrasts sharply with Microsoft's Windows Small Business Server 2008, for instance. It starts at $1,089 for just the server license -- without the hardware -- and five client access licenses. (Additional client licenses can be purchased singly for $77, in packs of five for $385 or 20 for $1540.)
It's also important to note that a Mac Mini server isn't restricted to using the built-in Server Preferences. If more-varied features like client management and small-scale workstation deployments are needed, the more robust management tools for Snow Leopard Server are available. This allows companies to get the most value from their small investment because they can take advantage of more features as their needs change or business grows.
Small companies also represent a fairly strong market for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the soon-to-be-released iPad. Many of the collaboration tools built into Snow Leopard Server (regardless of the management tools) are designed to pair well with the iPhone platform. That makes the Mac Mini server a logical choice for businesses interested in both Mac and Windows clients -- Mac OS X Server supports both platforms as well as other Unix/Linux flavors, along with its support for Apple's mobile devices.
Not a home or media server
One thing I've been asked about the Mini server is whether it would work as an effective home server. While it can function as a household file, print, and backup server, you'd be better off with Apple's Time Capsule. It's designed to be a wireless access point, a network storage, and print server for both Macs and Windows, and a network-based Time Machine backup location.
I'm also asked whether it might work at home as a media server. And I give the same answer: It's possible, but it isn't the best option. Home media servers come in many forms. The simplest, from an Apple perspective, is to use the sharing features built into iTunes running on a Mac or PC in your home. You can even dedicate a low-end machine to media server duty and have an excellent -- and cheaper -- setup that other machines can access. Or you can use network-attached storage devices that are designed to act as a central repository for media that can be accessed by other computers, set-top boxes and other devices. Using a Mini server is almost certainly overkill, and while it can run iTunes and other media tools, so could a $499 Mac Mini, an iMac or a low-cost PC.
Setup and performance
Setting up a Mac Mini server is easy, even for someone who's never set up a server before. Snow Leopard Server comes preinstalled, and the Server Assistant utility is launched automatically on first start-up. The assistant automatically detects the network environment the server is connected to, asks easy-to-understand questions about the type of setup and services you want, and creates the primary administrator account in just a few minutes.
With the initial setup complete, the available services are pretty much ready to go. You can choose to have the server automatically configure new or existing workstations to access its resources and services, send invitation e-mails to existing users with computers that may already be configured, or set up access manually.
In its default configuration, the Mac Mini server includes two 500GB internal hard drives, with the second drive occupying the space normally reserved for a traditional Mini's optical drive. Like the MacBook Air, you can install software and even erase and reinstall the operating system by sharing an install CD/DVD from the drive of another Mac or Windows computer on the same network. You can also buy the $99 external USB DVD drive available for the MacBook Air to use with the Mini server.
There's no real right or wrong way to work with the configuration of the two internal hard drives. By default, they exist as two different, unpartitioned volumes (one of which is used as the server's start-up drive). You can keep this configuration and use both for storage or use one as a backup drive. You can also combine the two using RAID to act as either a single large volume, a striped volume for increased read/write performance, or a mirrored set in which data is written identically to both drives so that in the event of a failure of one drive, the server will continue functioning without interruption.
Each option is fine, depending on your needs or preferences. The one setup I wouldn't recommend is using the second internal drive for Time Machine backups. For convenience and a bit more security, I'd use a larger external drive that's at least 1TB.
The Mac Mini server comes with only a single Ethernet interface, but it also offers 802.11a/b/g/n wireless, making it an ideal choice in businesses and offices where cabling may be difficult or costly. If additional Ethernet interfaces are needed, you can use the USB-to-Ethernet adapter that Apple sells for the MacBook Air. The five available USB ports give you some room to expand Ethernet access.
Performance with the Mini server is good for a small business, but it's no barn-burner. With the 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo chip and 4GB of 1066MHz RAM, it can easily handle basic services for a few-dozen computers without buckling. Although you could theoretically support even more users, I'd suggest that you limit the number to no more than maybe four dozen users. I'd also be hesitant about using it to host corporate Web sites for the Internet at large.
But for internal use by a small number of people, the Mini server does really well for its size and price.
Final thoughts
The Mac Mini server is a well-priced solution for small businesses. It can scale up to a point as a company grows or its business needs change, but it really isn't designed to take the place of a more powerful server in a larger business or enterprise environment. That doesn't mean it's limited in features; it offers the same services as a top-of-the-line Xserve, albeit on lesser -- and less expensive -- hardware. The ability to handle basic functions like file and printer sharing or to run a small intranet, intraoffice IM server, or any of the other services that Mac OS X Server offers, makes it an ideal product for small offices, design firms, schools, and retail shops.
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Despite the traditionally peaceful ways of his people, Urf, the Manatee, idolized the strength and prowess of Champions in the League of Legends and strived to become one. Of all the League's Champions, there was none that Urf admired more than Jax, Grandmaster at Arms. Since the introduction of the arena, no man has forced the League of Legends to revise their regulations more often than Jax, and the self-proclaimed Grandmaster at Arms rattled off a streak of 152 consecutive wins. In order to compensate for the extreme power of this Champion, the League created special sanctions for Jax: He is only allowed to fight with weapons the League deems suitable. For now, that list includes a lamppost, a chicken's foot, a spatula, a fishing rod and a cardboard tube.
In his admiration and pursuit to become a weapons master like Jax, Urf has equipped himself with the two great symbols of his Manatee heritage as his weapons: a fish (to symbolize the bounty and providence of the sea) and spatula (to pay homage to his people's age-long pursuit for culinary mastery). Urf now begins his aquatic journey as the League's first Manatee Champion, hoping one day he will have the opportunity to cross fish and spatula with chicken's foot and lamppost.
- Death
Unfortunately, today, the story of Urf Day took a tragic turn, for as Urf was swimming along, dutifully guarding the river in the Summoner's Rift, he met with a tragic demise. Eye-witness accounts have been unreliable at best, but everyone seems to agree that just before it happened a blue streak was seen darting out of the nearby jungle. A great clamor ensued, followed by the doleful screams of a manatee done wrong. In the end, all that was left of this brave prince amongst sea cows was his skin... and even that was stolen by this most nefarious of perpetrators.
Now any good story needs a moral. So if there's anything that the story of Urf Day and the story of the Big Bad Wolf have in common, it's this: deep within every wolf, there is a cunning master of disguise just waiting to get out. Take [3], for instance; a giant, bloodthirsty werewolf able to cunningly adapt by blending into even the most innocent of surroundings. He could be anywhere at any time... behind a rock, in the brush, in the jungle, or cleverly masquerading as a lovable, spatula-wielding manatee.
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Riot Games has used Urf the Manatee two years in a row for the April Fool's Day celebration. The first year it was announced as a Champion for the Beta Test as well as the following year. Furthermore, to commemorate the occasion, Riot Games launched a special skin for Warwick:
- If you want to ensure that your Blood Hunter appears completely inconspicuous to even the most wary of foes, be sure to snatch up the Urf the Manatee skin, on sale now in the League of Legends store. Now, you've all heard about Legendary skins. And so, in light of the recent events, Marketing has determined that the Urf the Manatee skin is now even more Legendary than we had originally anticipated. As such, Warwick's Urf the Manatee skin will be available at the cost of 5,000 RP. However, in the interests of giving everyone the opportunity to pay their respects to this magnificent mammal, Marketing has also agreed to offer this tribute to his splendor at 99% off for one week only. That's right: I said 99% off! At a cost of only 50 RP, you have no reason to shirk paying tribute to the passing of this brave soul!
- During the second week of availability, the Urf the Manatee skin will be purchasable for 500 RP (still not a bad deal, considering that's 90% off). And on Urf's final day, if you haven't yet snatched him up, you'll have one final chance to do so for 5000 RP. So hurry and fire up the League of Legends store, already! It's Urf Day!
- Urf the Manatee's final resting place is the Skins section of the Store. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victim's family.''
- R.I.P. Urf the Manatee April 1st, 2009 - April 1st, 2010[3]
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The April Fool's joke was so successful that Riot decided to donate the earnings of that day to SaveTheManatee.org, a charitable organization dedicated to saving these majestic creatures.[4]
- While we knew that Urf was pretty fantastic, there was no way for us to possibly foresee the level of community response Urf's death would garner. You were moved by the tragedy of the event, and so were we. We were so moved, in fact, that we wanted to guarantee that Urf would live on in the hearts and minds of everyone as a champion of all manatees.
- And so, to help ensure that no sea cow shall have to suffer the same fate as our poor, beloved Urf, all the proceeds generated by the sales of Urf's skin on Urf Day have been donated to the Save the Manatee Club. And given that over 15,000 Runeterrans chose to celebrate the memory of this majestic marine mammal in style by sporting their very own Urf suit, that's no pocket change! Even in death, Urf's indomitable spirit endures to help his fellow sea cows in their hour of need! If you're interested in learning more about Save the Manatee Club visit: www.SaveTheManatee.org.
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As this time, there are three Summoner icons that showcase Urf on them, which were offered during various holiday events:
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- A few of Urf's skills are in reference to the song "I'm on a Boat" by the Lonely Island. Most notably are Flippy Floppy, Big Blue Watery Road, Poseidon's Gaze ("Poseidon look at me!"), and an old skill, Straight Floatin'.
- Urf's skill "Omnisplash" is likely a reference to Cloud Strife's final Limit Break from Final Fantasy VII, "Omnislash."
- Urf's skill "Flippy-Floppy" is thematically similar to Switcheroo! , in that Urf uses a different weapon depending on whether the ability is toggled on or off.
- On April 1st 2014, all the icons of champions and items and summoner spells from the League of Legends commentary pages were replaced with Urf's splashart.
- Also for April 1st 2014, Riot released a new, limited time game mode called Ultra Rapid Fire, or URF for short. While this game was available summoners could earn the Urf 2014 icon.


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So, let me start on my Thailand Trip. It's a holiday with my family members, I am so happy! I started taking photos when I reached the airport! I even play with the 'airport transfer'....luckily never kana stopped by the officer..... ha ha!
I took some light snacks while waiting for my flight. Kopi + Half Boiled egg + Toast = my Fav (Ha ha!)
After about 4hrs flight, I reached Thai Airport.......waited quite long for my baggage to load......
My first stop was some animal shows. First I saw snakes.... I can see their teeth.... so scary...not gonna imagine if anyone got bitten by it. The Thais do eat those creatures, can you believe it? I don't dare to try it anyway.
Dream World
I visited 'Dream World', it was so much fun! Just like Disneyland.... I took a lot a lot a lot of photos over there! See Slide below...
Snow Town
It was -2.5dc in Snow Town. I rented a winter coat at entrance. Very nice temperature for a hot weather. But I can't stay there for long.....it's too cold. I just took some photos and leave.
Actually they have games and ice-skating, but not my cup of tea lah! I just take photos! So, what do you think? how do I look?
Animal Farm with Theme
I entered an animal farm, they have different Theme for each farm. Very unique and beautiful. Something like the Elephant Museum or Tiger Zoo. I saw lots of animals there! But frankly speaking, Singapore Zoological is still the best in the world!
They have pigs race. They made the pigs running after the kids, very funny to watch them chasing each other. The pigs do ran very fast though but they smells (Hee!).
I saw scorpions. Actually I can put one on my hand and feel them but I'm scared. There were camels too, very smelly camels (Yucks!). I don't know why their poo smells so bad even if they eat only grass (wondering...).
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Indianapolis, IN (SportsNetwork.com) - Tight end Dallas Clark officially retired as an Indianapolis Colt during an emotional news conference at the team's facility Wednesday.
"Dallas is such a great football player who elevated the horseshoe to another level when he came in," Colts owner Jim Irsay said.
Clark spent nine of his 11 professional seasons with the Colts. He was a key part of two AFC champion teams with Indianapolis in the 2000s.
"My wife told me to keep it lighthearted. I just don't know how to do that because this place and these fans and everyone here mean so much to me," Clark said.
The 35-year-old ranks fourth in club history with 427 catches, while his 4,887 receiving yards are eclipsed only by Hall-of-Famer John Mackey for the most by a Colts tight end.
The 2009 Pro Bowl selection became only the second player during the Colts' tenure in Indianapolis to re-sign and retire with the organization. Clark's former teammate, center Jeff Saturday, did so last year.
"There's not 31 other teams like this. This is special." Clark said.
Chosen by Indianapolis with the 24th overall pick in the 2003 draft, Clark emerged as one of Peyton Manning's most trusted targets during his time with the Colts. He led the team with a career-high 11 touchdown catches in 2007, then posted career bests of 100 receptions and 1,106 yards two years later while helping Indianapolis reach Super Bowl XLIV.
Clark started 12 regular-season games during the Colts' 2006 campaign, which culminated with a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI in Miami.
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Locanda Positano
3617 Laurel Street, San Carlos, CA 94070 (map); 650-591-5700; locanda-positano.com
Pizza style: Neapolitan-inspired
Oven type: Gas
The skinny: It seemed like the Margherita should have gotten us excited, but it somehow lacked a bit of magic
Price: Pies, $14 to $17
Or, if you're of the mind that only a wood-fired oven can turn out a high-quality Neapolitan pizza, then you'd blame my disappointment on that. I actually almost didn't realize that Locanda Positano cooks their pies with gas. Their Valoriani oven looks* more or less like any number of other rigs you'll find in the area until you get close enough to see the line of gas jets inside. No matter the fuel, it doesn't have a problem creating heat—the temperature gauge read 397 degrees Celsius (that's 747°F) when I walked by.
You could blame it on the fact that we let our pies sit on the table a few minutes too long before eating as I tried to convince my camera to take a reasonable picture. Maybe that's why the crust struck me as a bit dense in spots? Still, with a not-quite-spotted lip and tiger stripes of charring underneath, it came out nicely crisp, with a pronounced tang.
I can't come up with any specific excuse for their Margherita. The fresh mozzarella seemed creamy enough, and the tomato sauce had a nice bright flavor. I'd have taken a bit of salt, or maybe I should have asked for some hot pepper?
Okay, so I can confidently blame my disappointment with their sausage pie on the sheer quantity of toppings. From the coins of fennel sausage, to the sliced mushrooms, to the bits of broccoli, there was just a lot of everything. It seemed somehow an incongruous presentation for a pizzeria that styled itself as upscale-artisanal.
As for their ripieno fritto, the fried calzone, that one I understand as well. Just too much fried-ness. The ricotta, mozzarella, and salami inside didn't stand a chance against the amusement park exterior.
With certain pies I can pinpoint my gripe, but I still can't completely explain why I found myself with a case of the blahs even after eating Locanda Positano's Margherita. It might have been their bad day, or it might have been mine. It seems like I should have liked it better, but for the time being I'd point my car in another direction when asked to pick just one Neapolitan-style pizzeria on the Peninsula.
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Salyer resident doesn't get gift delivered by Christmas
SALYER- People across the country have been experiencing some delays with their online shopping this Christmas. In Trinity County, one resident couldn't provide a certain special gift for her children on Christmas morning.
Kelly Morris searched online for nearly a week for a swingset to give to her two children for Christmas. She made the purchase through walmart.com last Friday.
"I saw this guarantee and I'm like 'Oh that would be perfect!'" said Morris.
Two days later, she received a verification email from walmart.com which stated the package had been successfully shipped. The next day, when tracking the package through its delivery service, Fedex, she saw the package was still in Texas. She says a Walmart customer service representative told her it was on schedule while a FedEx representative told her it was sent as FedEx Ground, which would take longer than Christmas Eve to arrive.
"I just had the biggest lump in my throat and my stomach just dropped. It was really dissapointing," Morris said.
So she and her partner drove back to Eureka from their home in Salyer to do more shopping.
Now Morris says she's not even sure if they're going to keep the swingset when it arrives.
"It's like the magic of Christmas, especially for little kids. It's not the same as Christmas morning and it being there," said Morris.
She says she shouldn't have waited so long to get the gift, but would have never purchased the swingset if she didn't see the guarantee.
"We don't know if we're going to take it back and get our money back. It's a significant amount of money," Morris said.
Kelly Morris also says this ordeal has been a significant disappointment.
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With Australia likely to remain the destination of choice among Afghanistan's wealthy, the number of Afghans seeking asylum will increase in the lead-up to the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country next year, says a report by the development consultancy STATT.
Facing dire predictions for the stability of their country, many Afghans are already preparing to leave. The report finds Australia is likely to remain a favoured destination for those who can afford it, particularly the ethnic Hazara minority which faces significant persecution in Afghanistan and Pakistan, many of whom have family in Australia.
''While there is tremendous variation between the migration options facing elites and the poor, overall there is a platform for more diverse, bigger, faster and more distant migration,'' the report says.
''Many countries that already receive regular and irregular migrants from Afghanistan are likely to see these flows increase.''
By international standards Australia is a minor destination for Afghan refugees but the issue has a huge political impact. The report suggests there will be a rise in boat people this year.
The number of Afghans seeking asylum in Australia fell in 2011, for the first time in six years, but the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees show a significant rise in the first half of last year. There were 2126 claims in the first half, more than four times as many as in the same period in 2011.
In the 2011-12 financial year, 3179 Afghan boat people applied for asylum. Another 138 applied in Australia after flying here. This compares with 528 in 2008-09.
There are nearly 3 million Afghan refugees - one in every four - in the world. Afghan refugees are in 79 countries but 95 per cent of them live in Pakistan or Iran.
From more than 20,000 interviews, STATT researchers found many Afghans with the wherewithal to leave were already talking about getting out.
STATT's managing director, Jacob Townsend, said anecdotal evidence pointed to another exodus. ''We have heard lots of references to 2014 from people who seem quite desperate to leave. The fact is, if that is happening already, then it can become that potentially self-fulfilling cycle,'' he said.
''One significant factor is elite pessimism about the future of the country. You're not going to be able to convince Afghanistan's middle class to stay if their leaders are not going to stay.''
The signs of those people preparing to leave are already apparent in the capital. The bubble of Kabul property prices has well and truly burst, with values crashing about 50 per cent.
Valuables are also being spirited out of the country. There are reports of hundreds of gold bars being flown out on commercial flights.The director of the International Organisation for Migration in Afghanistan, Marco Boasso, agreed the departure of foreign forces would lead to a new wave of migration. ''We will see more movement of people … in 2014 because anxiety is there. There is a lot of uncertainty.''
Iran and Pakistan are likely to shoulder much of the Afghan asylum burden but regional attitudes have hardened.
Pakistan's government plans to cancel refugee visas in June and wants to repatriate as many as it can of the 1.7 million Afghan refugees living legally within its borders (1 million more are estimated to be in the country illegally).
A spokesman for the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said: "A range of factors contribute to asylum seeker movements, including of course, situations in home countries, which can see numbers rise and fall in different parts of the world at different times."
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Here's one type of shopping that's hard to ever feel bad about: gifts that give back. In the next month or so, when it comes time to pick presents for friends and family, consider do-good products a go-to resource for holiday buying. From companies that use one-for-one business models to websites that sell products made by female entrepreneurs in developing countries, these eight items will make you feel good about your purchasing power.
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A WOMAN was arrested on suspicion of trespassing after a search operation was launched in Clacton.
Police launched a search following reports of a woman on the railway track in the town.
British Transport Police were called in to search the line, close to Burrs Road, shortly before 11.15am on Monday.
The Essex Police helicopter was also called in to help locate the woman.
A spokesman for the British Transport Police said: "Trains were placed on caution whilst BTP and Essex Police officers carried out a search of the area.
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Somerset First Division
Brislington Reserves 1, Middlezoy Rovers 4
MIDDLEZOY clawed themselves into the promotion mix with a superb 4-1 victory at Brislington - who were previously unbeaten at home this season.
Steve Hall supplied the first with an excellent cross finished by the head of Andy Smith.
The final touch came after a flowing move which featured some incisive passing down the right.
A few minutes later Paul Atyeo crossed for Charlie Lintell who was denied by Ross Hamilton in the Brislington goal at point blank range.
Dan Luce also had a couple of half chances after good hold up play by Atyeo, but failed to hit the target.
The home side were frustrated for large parts of the first half and were unable to breakdown a well organised Middlezoy side.
Clarke Taylor equalised for Brislington early in the second half against the run of play.
Undeterred by the equaliser, Middlezoy continued to dominate and were creating chances at will.
Lance Turner missed a glorious opportunity to give Middlezoy the lead and Dan Luce's header hit the post just after that.
Craig Wright also missed a guilt edged chance before Dan Luce scored on 52 from close range to give them the advantage.
Middlezoy substitute Mike Southgate got a deserved third on 81 minutes from a through ball by Andy Smith.
The fourth was assisted by Southgate and buried by the impressive Dan Luce in the final minute.
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DanNeely - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkIs that showing what's going on in the Frankenstein box? If so the fact that the memory is showing as DDR4 seems to be implying that the CPU is some sort of engineering sample with a DDR4 memory bus; not a standard chip with a DDR4-DDR3 converter in the the middle. Reply
Yorgos - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkyou don't need a cpu, you just need the controller and a circuit to feed it with commands and recieve/send data.
I believe fpgas/cpld are being used in those projects, or some sort of developer board(which usually has an fpga on it).
All those big companies spend r&d money on asic testing units.
That's the big advantage of Intel against AMD, they print essential parts of the processor and test them. fpgas and simulators are good in testing but not as good as testing an implemented circuit.
Also, the cost for taping a bunch of some asic circuits is not that high.
"Given that a wafer processed using latest process technologies can cost $4000 - $5000, it is not hard to guess that the increase may significantly affect the costs of forthcoming graphics cards or consumer electronics."s|a
5k $ is low compared to the billions of $ in r&d those companies have Reply
torsionbar - Sunday, January 27, 2013 - linkHuh? No "converter" is necessary. The article mentions some similar nonsense. Apparently nobody here has ever heard of Fully Buffered dimms. FB-DIMMS allow any kind of memory you want, DDR2, DDR3, DDR4, DDR5, anything, to sit behind the buffer processor. The CPU & memory controller don't know the difference - they're only talking to the buffer processor. This has been around for years. Most large servers use FB DIMMS, even the old Apple Mac Pro used FB DIMMS. They're pretty expensive, because the of the buffer processor, but they allow the system to be memory agnostic. Reply
Kevin G - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkThe problem with the move to DDR4 is that it drops down to one DIMM per channel maximum. For mobile platforms, this isn't going to be an issue as there is already a move to solder down memory (as well as CPU's, see Broadwell). Desktops can get away with using high capacity DIMM's for retail desktops. The DIY enthusiasts will likely just buy the initial high capacity DIMMs at launch and stick with them for some time.
The one DIMM per channel limitation becomes a problem with servers. For VM hosts, it is common to have three registered DIMMs per channel for the added memory support even though bandwidth typically decreases. While DDR4 supports 8 rank DIMMs to double capacity, for servers at launch will experience a decrease in overall capacity. It won't be until 8 Gbit dies arrive that DDR4 will over take DDR3 in terms of capacity. There is another means of side stepping the 1 DIMM per channel limitation and that's adding more channels. The consumer market is set on dual channel for the foreseeable future and servers are currently at quad channel. I do not see a desire from the x86 players to migrate to 6 or 8 channel setups to increase overall memory capacity even at the server level. Reply
name99 - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkWhat's the current state of SMI/SMB?
I can't find details, but I would imagine that any real server (Xeon Haswell) will use SMI/SMB --- don't they have to already?) And that frees up some flexibility in design; you will have say three channels, but the SMB chip at the end could be a low-end version that supports a single DIMM, or a high end version that supports 4 DIMMs.
That's, after all, kinda the point of SMI/SMB --- to decouple the CPU from the limitations of the JEDEC RAM bus, and keep that bus limited to as small an area of the motherboard as possible.
More interesting is how long till we see the end of the JEDEC bus. It's obviously already happened in mobile, where vendors have a whole lot more flexibility in how the package and hook up DRAM, and I could see it happening in a few years in PCs. We start with Intel providing SMI/SMB on every x86 chip, then they let it be known that while their SMB chip will support standard JEDEC DIMMs, they will also support some alternative packaging+connection which is lower power at higher performance.
We'll get the usual bitching and whining about "proprietary" and "pity the poor overclocker" and "back in my day, a SIMM was a SIMM, and nothing should ever change, so this alternative sux", but it strikes me as as inevitable as the move to on-core GPUs. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkThe SMB used in the Xeon 7500/E7 line and Itanium 9300/9500 lines spun off the FB2-DIMM spec that was proposed but never made it through JEDEC. Intel adapted what they had and integrated the buffer chip as part of the chipset as redesigning the memory controllers on the Xeon 7500 would have delayed the chip further.
The interesting thing is that SMB chip has an internal clock speed 6 times that of the effective memory bus speed. IE a SMB using 1066 Mhz run at 6.4 Ghz internally. Supporting 1333 Mhz DDR3 memory would require the SMB to run at 8 Ghz. Any future SMD chip would have to have a redesigned serial-to-parallel protocol, especially since DDR4 starts at 2133 Mhz.
JEDEC not only defines the DIMM format but also the memory protocols on used by the chips on the DIMM. So while the DIMM format is in decline due to the rise of soldered memory in the mobile space, JEDEC still has a role in defining the memory technologies used in the industry.
The only move in the mobile space that wouldn't utilize a JEDEC defined memory bus* would be an SoC that entirely uses custom eDRAM that is either on-die or in package.
*Well there is Rambus but they don't have a presence in mobile and haven't scored any design wins on the desktop in ages. Reply
The Von Matrices - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkThe capacity issue with 1 DIMM per channel shouldn't be an issue since LRDIMMs are available. You can use 4x or more capacity or more per module with LRDIMMs. Reply
Pneumothorax - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkSeeing those DDR dram sticks brought up my repressed memory of the 'Dark Ages' of RDRAM and PC133 SDRAM! Reply
extide - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkHeh, IMO the dark ages truly were 72-pin, and the earlier 30-pin SIMM's! Reply
DanNeely - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkThe dark ages were when you inserted individual ram chips into your mobo's DIP sockets. Reply
JPForums - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkThis ; ' ) Reply
Nfarce - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkHey I resent that! I still have a P4 running 1GB Samsung RAMBUS PC-800 memory running XP built ten years ago. It was my primary gaming rig up to the end of 2008 when I built a Core2 Duo rig! It is still working as a PC dedicated to old games when I feel nostalgic. Reply
custom33 - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkI really wonder what year these will become available for mainstream laptops. Wouldn't entirely change by decision but getting a laptop in 2014 hopefully it will have ddr4. Reply
Beenthere - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkOther than servers, there is no need or advanatge to DDR4 at this time, especially with DDR3 LV DRAM running @ 1.35v and capable of lower voltage operation whenever Samsung and some other manufacturers desire to do so.
Test after test of real applications shows that there is no tangible performance gain above 1600 MHz. for typical disktop PCs, be they AMD or Intel powered because DDR3 even at 1333 MHz. is not a system bottleneck. Reply
JonnyDough - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkNo, but if you're building a new PC it's better to have DDR4 just because it saves energy. Plus, the manufacturing process will use less sili making them even cheaper to manufacture. As long as there is no price setting...hopefully that advantage will trickle down to the consumer. Reply
kyuu - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkI would think that DDR4 will be a real boon for integrated graphics, though, at least until they start integrating a fair amount of memory into the CPU itself. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkThat's my take on it as well. Intel apparently gets big performance improvements from the on-chip RAM with Haswell. And AMD gets big improvements by going from 1066 to 1866 RAM with their iGPUs. So I don't think having more bandwidth for those is a bad thing. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkLooking at road maps, the migration to DDR4 and the addition of eDRAM will happen at roughly the same time. One Haswell part will be receiving eDRAM this year but Broadwell will the be one to really popularize eDRAM. On that same note, Broadwell is looking to be a mobile only part in a BGA configuration and would be an ideal way to introduce DDR4 to the mobile market. This would equate to a massive increase in bandwidth for mobile devices and move the limiting factor of performance more toward the compute side. Reply
menting - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkhttp://www.micron.com/products/dram/ddr3-to-ddr4
some small advantages to signaling and noise. Not worth a price premium, but lower power isn't the only thing that DDR4 has over DDR3.
Not clear about the bank groups giving faster burst access. Reply
Beenthere - Sunday, February 17, 2013 - linkDDR4 is of no value on the desktop. It may offer some value for servers or portables, but it's and expensive change and requires all or nothing as far as RAM quantity. You can't just add RAM like with standard DDR RAM, you replace it all. SInce DDR3 @ 1600 MHz. still isn't a system bottleneck of desktop PCs, DDR4 brings nothing to the table. Reply
takeship - Sunday, December 01, 2013 - linkDDR4 is a huge desktop value once IGPs take over the discrete world and we all need as much memory bandwidth as possible all the time (with reasonable latencies). The current system/gpu split memory setup is going the way of the dodo. Reply
TjPjMusic - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkthe upcoming 8 core Haswell-E processors will reportedly support DDR4 Reply


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I dont know I just been sitting here and feeling like punching my face because I am so stupid, like maybe a hit in the head or a mark of damage will get my brain to work again and I can get motivation. Know what I mean?
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now that i think about it im glad i didnt give myself a black eye that would have been stupid. but i was seriously considering it and i gave my face a few practice punches. lol, i didn't only wuss out but i changed my mind too. Im a quitter
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Be standing directly behind a somewhat chesty woman as you scream behind her, making her jump and turn suddenly?
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