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works on Dell R15. Thanks!Code:quiet splash i915.modeset=1
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hey guys,i am having problem installing backtrack 5 on my hdd,i want dual boot it with my windows 7 ultimate 64-bit,the problem i am facing is that while booting backtrack 5 i can see the whole thing loading but after some secs the whole screen goes black,i cant even see the startx screen...its black before that only,now after a lot of searching i came to know that its a graphics issue,i came to know that i have to disable my graphics but in my bios i cant find any option regarding the graphics card,i am using dell inspiron n4110 laptop with switchable graphics ATI Radeon HD 6470 and Intel HD Graphics 3000,i3 2.xx ghz 2nd gen processor,3gb ddr3 RAM
Please guys help me out installing backtrack 5 Gnome,64/32 bit anything will do..just want to install it,please help me out!!
After a week of frustration, yelling, threatening my laptop, and copious amounts of alcohol and drug usage to make me feel normal again, I finally got it installed. I just wanted to thank everyone for their input, suggestions, and effort to help n00bs like me get our foot in the door. For the record it was this link that helped me out. So yeah... just wanted to say thank you for everybody who posted a suggestion, you're good people.
Please note that the i915.modeset=1 parameter is only used for intel graphics cards.
From here.nomodeset alternatives for other Graphic Cards:
According to our senior member oldfred at ubuntuforums.org, you need to replace nomodeset with some other parameters for different cards.
Older Intel video card: i915.modeset=1 or i915.modeset=0
nVidia: nomodeset
Generic: xforcevesa or nouveau.modeset=0
Radeon: radeon.modeset=0
Replace nomodeset with the appropriate parameter from listed one's.
need some immidiate assistance,,,,i have previously windows 7 on my laptop,,,,with three partition one for 7 and other two were ntfs(dynamic) partition for storing data
c: window partition 36 gb
d: dynamic part 80gb
e: dynamic partition rest of my hdd
i removed win 7 and installed backtrack5 r1 the os is running properly but there is a problem with my dynamic partition
when i run fdisk-l it gives the following op
root@bt:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x944a0823
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5145 41325569 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 5146 38914 271242987+ 42 SFS
/dev/sda5 1 4521 36307968 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 4521 5145 5016576 82 Linux swap / Solaris
i tried mounting the sda4 partition by typing
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda4 /media/sda4 -o defaults,umask=04
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda4': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda4' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
do make sense because backtrack just merged my d: & e: partition
another problem is the sda4 partition is sfs not ntfs
ie/dev/sda4 5146 38914 271242987+ 42 SFS
i have very important data in these drives ,,,so i want to recover it ,,, please someone do help me
Install windows (or boot it from USB), save all your data to an external HDD and format the partition causing problems, preferably to NTFS (no dynamics nor SFS, whatever that is). This seems like your only option, because from what I've red in my quick research, Ubuntu doesn't support SFS (BT5 is based on Ubuntu...).
the actual problem was that I've lost my partition tables for ntfs system and due to sfs file system i was unable to access it ,,
so i did recovered it by booting in mini xp,,,and recovering the partition tables and backup all my data
so now its all fine ,,,,
I just fixed mine with BTr3. When you come to the splash create where you choose your boot environment press 'tab' then in the text field it creates simply type in i915.modeset=1 then press enter. It'll begin your typical black/text boot up and will get to root@bt. Then you can do 'startx' and you will get to the desktop.
The problem is :
Open file grub.cfg and find a line like this :
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38 root=UUID=1ecd35a8-0437-4c37-b*b72-63d014dd846e ro text splash nomodeset vga=791
Yes it's the problem, field vga not yet set.
You can replace the line with :
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38 root=UUID=1ecd35a8-0437-4c37-b*b72-63d014dd846e ro text splash vga=0x791
You can do it through the console, before you type "startx" or with linux booting.
Have fun!


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Intel Cancels Larrabee Retail Products, Larrabee Project Lives Onby Ryan Smith on 12/4/2009 12:00 AM EST
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ProDigit - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkIntel Cancels Larrabee Retail Products,
??? Reply
Cerb - Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - linkThat's totally unrelated. That is a test chip for people to mess with, and figure out where the hardware itself should go, and how software needs to be written for future many-core CPUs.
The kind of fine-grained complicated multithreading of ages past is simply not easy enough to code to be worth using (hence single-threaded apps everywhere that could be pervasively multithreaded), and can be a hindrance to scaling as much as a help. Beyond maybe a dozen decently powerful cores, there get to be many unknowns, and many possible bottlenecks. On top of that, now that we're scaling out by more cores, there's no reason to stop doing so, even if disruptive technology can get us going faster, again--accepting faster speeds as a matter of course has been an invisible crutch.
This will give research folks the ability to actually mess with code on such a computer, so as to be more ready to make the future CPUs work well. Also, such CPUs, with superior, but still weak, cores, may end up being good server CPUs, in the future.
Larrabee "Prime" is a failure due to Intel doing what Intel does best: pointlessly burning away money, and creating hype. They should have quietly gotten a small group of engineers to make a solid core design (the Isreali guys would be a good bet, following history), then once it was working well internally, gotten other groups involved. Once the 2nd or 3rd generation was good internally, polish it up, release it for niche markets, and move out from there. Reply
Zingam - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkI will tell you why! x86 is a dead end and that has been known for decades now. It it only the billions of Intel that keep it afloat yet.
Maybe that would make Intel realize that they have to move on and bring something new, something groundbreaking that is ready for the future! Reply
tygrus - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - link[quote]
"Maybe that would make Intel realize that they have to move on and bring something new, something groundbreaking that is ready for the future"[/quote]
They did years ago and created a new "groundbreaking" 64bit ISA which has become a "dead end" and barely afloat .. the Titanic disaster .. Itanium
snarfbot - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkkinda like how the power architecture is dead and has been for decades now and its only the billions of ibm that keep it afloat? Reply
ProDigit - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkIt has been foreseen by many engineers that the x86 architecture is not really suited for graphics.
There are several reasons, but one of the most striking for me, is that the x86 architecture is not really power efficient.
And with chips that are overclocked (turbo) to a certain thermal value instead of to a fixed value, would mean that the x86 architecture larabee cards used for graphics would be outperformed by the structure or architecture used by ARM.
Graphic cards of today are based on some sort of deviant of ARM architectures.
Still, Larabee's technology might be very interesting in servers for cloud computing, and home PC's, where the motherboard holds place for 4, 6, 8, or 16 cores, that will,and where one can upgrade by just buying CPU cores.
I see a future in Larabee CPU's, not GPU's, unless they go off the x86 structure which they have been holding for years, and which now has become slightly outdated! Reply
PsiAmp - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - link"Prime running the SGEMM HPC benchmark at 1 TeraFLOP"
It has to be FLOPS. 'S' on the end is not representing plural, but 'S' - second.
FLoating point Operations Per Second Reply
spathotan - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkWow...what an INCREDIBLE waste of time and hype. Reply
MadBoris - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkVaporware hits again...How's it feel to be hoodwinked?
Can you admit you were hoodwinked?
I cannot believe how many tech reporters jumped on Intels hype train.
Amazing that no actual product arrived, and yet all these financial analysts affected stock prices for the last year on vaporware.
You have to be stupider than stupid to think Intel can execute in just a few years what GPU companies like NVIDIA and AMD have been eating sleeping, drinking for 24/7/365.
Hype wins again, and yet a few of us had enough common sense to know the claims of dethroning discrete GPU's was impossible on any first several gen products.
I'm actually rather disappointed with the tech sites that bought into the Intel hype, it's not the first time. It showed peoples lack of common sense and experience in the field, and how easily they are still swayed by PR.
High end 3D gaming Graphics is kind of becoming a dying business on PC unfortunately due to console ports. As someone who upgraded GPU's almost every cycle beginning from monster 3d, I now no longer can justify upgrading until the next console comes out. GPU business is ripe for change and will require it but Intel has alot yet to learn. Reply
justonce - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkSomewhere they are laughing at Intel's failure! Reply
kmmatney - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThanks for that. The Voodoo 5 6000 guys are laughing too. Reply
piesquared - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThe concept seems so simple and looks much more efficient. A top of the line CPU on one side, a top of the line GPU on the other and a Fusion APU in the middle. They just created a new market and have the industry backing it. Should prove to work out pretty well for their future... Reply
Spike Africa - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - link"The software side leaves us a bit more curious, as Intel normally has a strong track record here"
On the contrary, Intel historically has been terrible at software. They killed their UNIX expertise just as Linux started, Itanium was proof they don't understand software at any level and they wrongly opposed a move to 64-bit software on x86, losing billions in share to AMD. No surprise they are last to the parallel software party.
The people now in charge at Intel got on the launching pad to the executive suite in the early 90's. That was a time when the chip guys at Intel were doing all they could to "control" the software guys. The chip guys didn't understand software and were threatened by it. They wanted to leave all the software side to Microsoft while Intel focused on line-width and manufacturing. The chip guys won and people like Paul Otellini (nice guy, but clueless about software) took the helm. That's why software is a side show at Intel, why they learned all the wrong lessons from Itanium and why over ten years later when for the first time just turning the crank on x86 won't cut it and they really need a new software paradigm for Larrabee they don't know to do it.
NVIDIA does. They understand the central role software plays in GPGPU. Look at recent events like GTC and the big news is not so much Fermi as it is the presence of numerous software teams who have been working with NVIDIA GPGPU for three years. Fermi in key part is based on the lessons of those software experiences, expertly done by NVIDIA based on experience, not guesswork.
Intel has also been weak at working with paradigm-breakers because they can't get out of this "I'm Intel and you're dirt" mentality they have. Give them advice and they feel threatened. NVIDIA doesn't have that problem. Some of the most advanced work shown at GTC came out of companies nobody every heard of before, to NVIDIA's benefit.
Orangutan2 - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkFor me a lot of the things you say ring true. I would love to see nVida come out with a breakthrough Fermi.
I'll buy Fermi coz I'll use it with Badaboom but I need it to be fast for games or my friends will take the piss.
Intel has really held things back over the (last 20) years so competition all the way.
Companies only work as hard as they have to. Reply
WaltC - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - link"To Intel's credit, even if Larrabee Prime will never see the light of day as a retail product, it has been turning in some impressive numbers at trade shows."
I think this was probably the main reason Intel decided to go ahead and cancel the Larrabee hardware. The tFlop benchmark numbers and the "real-time ray tracing" demos were creating massively unreasonable expectations in the public mind, expectations that Larrabee would not be able to fulfill.
IMO, "Larrabee" has always been heavy on the PR side and very light on the hardware/software side. Intel oversold the concept to the degree that they were not able to actually make a product that would live up to the promises made and the capabilities implied. I think Intel wrung every last bit of PR promotion out of the Larrabee concept before it officially "killed" it. Much better that Intel cancel Larrabee now than go ahead and try to market it and watch it fail catastrophically. Reply
HighTech4US - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkWhy are you giving credit to intel for a hidden hardware demo(s) where it was even stated that they were overclocking the hardware.
Do you not remember the Pentium 4 that was shown clocked at 4 ghz at an intel IDF. It NEVER was released.
Until a part is available for independent review treat all intel trade show numbers with great skepticism. Reply
WaltC - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkAgreed...but, that's exactly what I said in the first place...;) The quote in my original post is from the AnandTech article. Reply
Ryun - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThis was a smart move for Intel, and one that I did not expect. I figured they were going to release it come hell or high water like when Intel pushed Netburst. Reply
Ryun - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - link*edit* Whoops meant Itanium (not sure how I messed that one up) Reply
bupkus - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkas nobody else has thrown this in, I will.
Will Intel try to buy nVidia as AMD did ATI? Reply
mutarasector - Saturday, December 12, 2009 - linkPersonally, I'd rather see Nvidia and AMD join forces somehow and merge their high end HPC/GPGPU technologies into a cohesive seamless technology, and head Intel off at the pass. This would likely never happen for several reasons, the first being that it probably wouldn't pass the SEC and FTC regulatory smell tests. But I'm just *salivating* at the possibilities of the two doing a joint venture. One thing I do know: Nvidia will have to do something -- and real soon. They aren't just getting squeezed out by Intel and ATI not needing their chipsets, but then there is Lucid's Hydra chip which may eventually render both Crossfire and SLI *moot*. Off course, this would affect ATI, but could really hurt Nvidia far more.
Merging with AMD would solve their lack of a "ilicense" agreement.
Another possibility might be Nvidia buying out VIA, but to what end, I'm not really certain, and would be too little too late. Reply
jconan - Sunday, December 13, 2009 - linkAMD did try to buy out Nvidia but Nvidia requested that they be CEO of the new company and hence AMD moved on to ATI... Nvidia could however combine ARM cores with their GPUs like they did similarly with TEGRA using a different type of GPU. This way Nvidia can still forge ahead with a serial and a parallel processor in one and not have to rely on x86 for HPC. Reply
lifeblood - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkIntel may or may not be too proud to do it, but Huang is way to pigheaded to accept it.
Olen Ahkcre - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkThe reason for Intel not buying Nvidia is it would probably run into problems with anti-trust laws.
I seriously don't think the government would allow the number 1 CPU maker and number 1 GPU maker to merge for the reason being they would become too dominant. With the combined technology and engineering assets under one roof, AMD/ATI would not be able to compete.
You might argue Nvidia isn't currently #1 in the GPU arena, but it's just a formality as Fermi will allow Nvidia to retake the #1 spot. Nvidia gave up their lead temporarily to improve on general purpose GPU support. Reply
Gunbuster - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThis is no surprise. With all their R&D money they cant even make a passable driver and control panel for the current integrated "extreme" video chipsets. Thats not even touching on the chips abysmal performance. What revision is this now? 4? each spin touted as "even more extreem" than the last yet all you can run is Unreal 1 at 800X600... Reply
eddieroolz - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkUnreal at 800X600, you're lucky! I can't even run Halo at 640X480 on this GM45HD. Reply
chizow - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThis news basically validates all of the various criticisms leveled at Larrabee over the last few years: that Larrabee wouldnt' be a competent raster GPU, too much die space was wasted on x86 instructions, and Intel was spending far too much effort and R&D on peripheral features, like ray-tracing, instead of focusing efforts on making the part competitive.
It also helps confirm Intel was never really developing Larrabee with discrete graphis in mind, it was always a reactionary response to Nvidia's GPGPU and HPC efforts. I imagine that's why Intel is keeping the project alive. As it is now, same as it was a few months and years ago, Larrabee serves no purpose as it was highly unlikely to serve as a competent discrete 3D raster-based GPU and is actually a conflicting interest for Intel in the only area it might've really been competitive, as a highly parallel x86-based CPU for HPC. Reply
cyberserf - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkthey were also making something in those days that would outclass the competition. look how that turned out.
IdaGno - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkIOW, nVidia is closer to producing their version of an x86 clone than Intel is to producing a viable gaming GPU, integrated or otherwise. Reply
Kiijibari - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThe picture of your so-called "Larrabee Prime" is clearly a Core2 Quad Processor code name "Yorkfield", here is your source:
With an error like this, I doubt now the overall quality of the article. Probably, the only thing that is going to be canceled are the old S775 QuadCores ;-) Reply
Ryan Smith - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkI was in a rush and grabbed that image from our Larrabee deep dive article, believing it to be a short of Larrabee. Clearly that's wrong, and I've pulled the image. Thanks for catching that. Reply
Mike1111 - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkI wonder what that means for 2012's Haswell architecture. It was supposed to unite the CPU with Larrabee extensions (successor to the on-die non-x86 GPU core). If Larrabee isn't ready until 2012 that could be a big problem. Reply
Elementalism - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkA decade later, same poor project management over a compiler driven arch. Reply
sprockkets - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkvaporware Reply
StevoLincolnite - Friday, December 04, 2009 - link[quote]and Intel is still hard at work developing their first discrete GPU.[/quote]
Just to correct an error in this Article that so many people and tech websites seem to make the error on.
Larrabee would not have been Intels first Discreet GPU, they produced the Intel i740 which was there first Discreet GPU almost a decade ago, which used the AGP bus, and was then the basis for the Intel Extreme based Integrated Graphics Processors for years after that. Reply
Olen Ahkcre - Friday, January 08, 2010 - link... Larabee would've been Intel's first "General Purpose" GPU. Reply
cocoviper - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkThe i740 wasn't a GPU. The first GPU was the Geforce 1 which integrated T&L hardware with the traditional fixed rendering pipeline.
The i740 was part of the TNT / Voodoo 2 generation that lacked T&L hardware and was thus simply a basic 2D/3D renderer, not a GPU. Reply
Spoelie - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkGPU is a term coined by NVIDIA to differentiate itself, but that just stuck around to encompass every graphic chip. It's silly to argue over its semantics.
Current GPUs do more than graphics, and ATi's chips should be called VPUs, but we all keep calling them GPUs anyway. Reply
sfc - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - link
Larrabee IS the first GPU Intel has created in-house. Intel didn't design the i740. That was a joint venture with Real3D. They essentially provided the manufacturing capabilities while Real3D provided the engineering and design. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkBear in mind that i740 wasn't designed completely in-house; it was a joint project with Real3D/Lockheed. Larrabee is the first discrete GPU that Intel is designing entirely in-house. Reply
jconan - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkbut Intel owns REAL3D and they still haven't improved on the graphics Reply
StevoLincolnite - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkI'm aware of that, but it was still badged as an Intel Graphics part and thus there first discreet Graphics card. - Glad you made the correction to the article however. Reply
- Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkLarabee is a huge undertaking in x86 speak -to balance speed, low wattage, and tuned software was simply too much to do- if possible at all. Now Intel will have to leave it to the experts...does this mean Intel will be buying IP licenses from AMD? Or does this eye-opening occurrence bring the industry closer together on things like standards?
As I have said before, AMD has the blueprints and ideas for their next-gen products, and they would be dumb not to share an idea or two if it were to help set de facto standards for next-gen HPC/GPGPU's ;that spirit could possibly be evident in the (light) 1.5 billion they agreed on. We'll see what happens
AnandThenMan - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkIntel already has access to at least some of ATI's patents due to the new agreement between the two companies. But having access to patents is hardly a gateway into making a great GPU, you still have to make build the thing, and more importantly you have to support it on the software side. Both Nvidia and ATI have been doing drivers for so long, it's a well oiled machine. Jumping into the fray from scratch is incredibly challenging.
As for Intel making a discreet part before, the i740 was too slow when it came out, a big reason it never gained a foothold. Sadly, some of the tech still lives on in Intel's GMA, the worst thing ever to happen to graphics. Reply
mutarasector - Saturday, December 12, 2009 - link"Intel already has access to at least some of ATI's patents due to the new agreement between the two companies"
It's my understanding that the cross licensing agreements between AMD/ATI and Intel do not cover each other's respective GPGPU technologies, only the x86 side of things and extensions. Reply
dagamer34 - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkWhy would cross patent licensing between AMD and Intel include any ATI intellectual property? Disputes between the two companies have always been about CPUs, not GPUs. Reply
AnandThenMan - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkBecause it does? According to Dirk Meyer's comments, the new agreement as part of Intel's cash payout to AMD includes renewed cross licensing that includes ATI GPU tech.
What we don't know is the actual scope of what is included, but at least some is. Reply
qcmadness - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkThe crappiest is that T&L support started from GMA X3000 (G965 variants).
Virtually software shaders from virtually all GMA IGPs. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkNo, the crappiest was the S3 Savage 2000, Intels TnL implementation actually works, S3's wouldn't function, and if you could get it to function you would get massive amounts of graphic anomalies.
However S3's IGP's are far superior to Intels these days as they are based on the S3 Chrome chip.
Intels main issue is the drivers, they plainly suck, they should take a page out of nVidia and ATI's driver development work and implement a similar strategy.
The Intel x3xxx series had massively varied performance, Direct X 9 performs poorly, Direct X 10 even though the X3100 supports it, will never run with acceptable image quality and thus performance. (If the game ever decides to work), and Direct X 7 and 8 based games, even if they are over 15 years old still perform poorly.
Hence the term "Intel Decelerators". - Personally I would prefer a GMA 950 over the x3000/x3100/x3500 simply because it's faster, and can be overclocked with GMA Booster, despite having a lacking feature set.
Until Intel get there act together concerning there IGP's and drivers for them, I will never take them seriously for a discreet part. - As -every- single piece of Graphics hardware to come from that company has simply sucked. Reply
rs1 - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkI've always been fairly skeptical of Intel's ability to successfully jump in to the GPU market. There's a reason why AMD purchased ATI instead of trying to roll its own GPU's, and there's a reason why nvidia doesn't make CPU's. A world of difference exists between the two, and just because a company has a solid CPU engineering pipeline, it doesn't mean that the same resources can be leveraged to make a solid GPU.
In any case, I think this is a big win for AMD's Fusion architecture. With the failure of Larrabee it now seems very likely that they will be the first/only company to be offering an integrated CPU/GPU combo, or at least the first company to be offering a *decent* one. Purchasing ATI has already proven to be a good move for AMD, and the demise of Larrabee makes it an even better one. Reply
AnandThenMan - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkWhich is quite surprising in retrospect. When AMD purchased ATI, it was heralded by many as one of the worst business deals of all time. Too expensive, ATI tech is not good enough, too much money to pay just to be able to offer a complete platform. (many believed AMD would outright give up doing high end discreet parts)
Yes Intel will be first with a CPU/GPU hybrid, but marrying such a terrible GPU to an excellent CPU yields a very unbalanced and strange piece of silicon. Sure, Intel could potentially improve their GPU, but how many years have we been hearing that was going to happen? Performance is still incredibly lackluster. Wasn't the whole idea of Larrabee in the first place? Get close to the class leading performance, or at least in the same universe.
Ironic how AMD ends being the only one out there with the tech to make a balanced Fusion type product. Reply
mutarasector - Saturday, December 12, 2009 - link"Which is quite surprising in retrospect. When AMD purchased ATI, it was heralded by many as one of the worst business deals of all time. Too expensive, ATI tech is not good enough, too much money to pay just to be able to offer a complete platform"
I remember the criticisms of AMD's aquisition of ATI very well. At the time, I too was a bit concerned - not because it was a bad idea for AMD to buy ATI, but it was a *bad time* to do so considering the legal entanglement with their suit against Intel. While AMD needed to become a complete platform vendor, the expense of chewing two big bites (aquisition + Intel suit) darn near choked AMD.
Strangely enough, the economy tanking may have actually worked to AMD's advantage with regard to the ATI aquisition because it forced AMD to focus on the mid level and low end market segments well ahead of Intel -- essentially beating a 'tactical retreat' and digging in there. ATI, the very thing that almost *choked* AMD is now the very corporate asset that is keeping AMD competitive with just enough cash flow/revenue stream to be able to withstand the losses AMD has had to suffer for as long as they have. Roll the clock ahead a few years, and a nice healthy settlement with Intel, and now there is hope for AMD to actually be able to work back to being competitive in the high-end market segment again - especially with the in-house manufacture limitation *gone* (allowing AMD to go completely fabless). Reply
mutarasector - Saturday, December 12, 2009 - link"Which is quite surprising in retrospect. When AMD purchased ATI, it was heralded by many as one of the worst business deals of all time. Too expensive, ATI tech is not good enough, too much money to pay just to be able to offer a complete platform"
I remember the criticisms of AMD's aquisition of ATI very well. At the time, I too was a bit concerned - not because it was a bad idea for AMD to buy ATI, but it was a *bad time* to do so considering the legal entanglement with their suit against Intel. While AMD needed to become a complete platform vendor, the expense of chewing two big bites (aquisition + Intel suit) darn near choked AMD.
Strangely enough, the economy tanking may have actually worked to AMD's advantage with regard to the ATI aquisition because it forced AMD to focus on the mid level and low end market segments well ahead of Intel -- essentially beating a 'tactical retreat' and digging in there. ATI, the very thing that almost *choked* AMD is now the very corporate asset that is keeping AMD competitive with just enough cash flow/revenue stream to be able to withstand the losses AMD has had to suffer for as long as they have. Roll the clock ahead a few years, and a nice healthy settlement with Intel, and now there is hope for AMD to actually be able to work back to being competitive in the high-end market segment again - especially with the in-house manufacture limitation *gone* (allowing AMD to go completely fabless). Reply
Technium - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkIntegrating Intel's GPU into Sandy Bridge is aimed mostly towards the low end (very low end) segment where FPS in Crysis are meaningless. Practically all the enterprise market and quite a lot of the retail market (desktop/laptop) can settle for a cheap GPU that can do anything but play new games, take zero space and very little power. This will also be the first time an integrated GPU is manufactured on the same process (32nm) as the CPU. Sandy Bridge's successor "Ivy Bridge" will be a 22nm part with even lower power and better performance.
My work PC is a laptop with Intel graphics and it does the job - connect OK to various screens and projectors.
The rant about the performance of the integrated GPUs is ridiculous - for proper game play you must buy a 100W or more GPU. You'll never ever get the same performance from a 5W part during the same generation. Since the game companies always aim towards the mid-high end segment, my statement holds. Reply
eddieroolz - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkI disagree about your assertion that the performance of IGP not mattering in the low end segment.
My laptop, an GMA4500 HP, struggles with heavy flash. The reason partially lies in the weak laptop CPU, but a lot of the lag does have to do with the crappy Intel IGP.
Elsewhere, we have the older X3100-based Macbooks which struggle even to play YouTube in standard definiton, or run a Java game at full speed. Again, those things are slowed down by the Intel solutions, as on a Ion-based system it wouldn't happen.
HD-movies also will benefit from beefier graphical solutions - just look at the difference between Ion and GMA4500. Reply
rs1 - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkExactly, gaming performance is no longer the only reason to want a decent GPU in your system. As Blu-ray drives and HD content continue to become more widespread, and as more applications start going the GPU accelerated route like Flash, the performance of the GPU is going to become more important, even for users who never play a demanding 3d game.
As I said above, the failure of Larrabee leaves AMD in a relatively strong position for the next couple of years. The only question is whether or not they'll be able to execute on it. Reply
AnandThenMan - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkThis writeup has some odd assumptions. You are saying that the architecture itself is sound, but there is some hardware problem, presumably Intel cannot pack enough cores using current fab tech to make it competitive in traditional graphics?
Well if that's so, then the architecture is NOT sound. Waiting for a better process node is pointless, because your competition will move to a new one as well, combined with much better performance. If the architecture was truly solid, then it would be a competitive part if it was made today. Waiting to make the hardware viable and competitive is a losing battle because your competition never sits still, which is exactly what has happened to Larrabee as it stand today.
Larrabee is just not a good idea for traditional graphics rendering. Reply
Olen Ahkcre - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - link"Devil is in the details..."
Larabee looks good on paper, but working out the details is much, MUCH more problematic.
Which general means something is overlooked or the design is more complicated than it needs to be or they're taking the wrong approach to the problem.
In the case of Larabee concept, I think Intel is taking the wrong approach to problem.
GPGPU is in fact not about "cloud-computing" or stream-processors or compute-shaders... GPGPU is in fact largely a misnomer, (a red herring, if you will) which often causes a problem of aiming for the target.
What Intel or AMD or whoever wants to get ahead in next stage of the computer evolution is to build a faster floating-point processor. Which is EXACTLY what Nvidia has done... inadvertently, because the requirements for building a super-fast 3D accelerator requires huge amounts of floating calculations... and when Nvidia bought Aegia PhysX they stumbled on yet another piece of the next computer evolutionary stage, software/hardware physics engine... perfect for doing simulations scientific and otherwise.
Think about what is common in stream-processors and compute-shaders and supercomputing... number crunching... FLOPS (floating-point operation per second).
To put it in the simplest terms what they're aiming for is a massive floating-point processing unit array...
Why Intel shouldn't try to build a GPGPU is, in my opinion this...
They became too dominant in the CPU arena to the point of overlooking THE one major area that they could have excelled the field of supercomputers.... floating point processing and they lost sight of that target when CPUs for personal computers surpassed CPUs designed for super-computers and laps into complacency.
Floating-point calculations... as far as I know, the SSE (Streaming SIMD units) on multicore processors aren't coordinated to operate as a single unit... something for AMD and Intel to look into. The area might be worth looking into for various reasons I won't go into, yet.
The approach one I would recommend is looking to coordinating the SSE units on multicore CPUs from the software stand point and work back to how to improve the hardware design in the CPU for more efficient operating conditions.
The area of focus I would recommend (if I was making the choice) would be Blu-ray (1920x1080 resolution, H.264) decoding. With a the combination of 4-series integrated graphics device and a dual-core processor, there should be enough processing and memory bandwidth to play back Blu-ray movies without dropping any frames. At least that's my opinion anyways.
Why focus on Blu-ray... Blu-ray requires lots of computing power... and it's a more popular format than DVD (or it will be and why someone should start working on a solution now rather than later). Blu-ray movies don't play back all that well on a lot of laptops I've tested.
Another reason for Intel to work this out is Nvidia looks like they're going to take another chunk and/or create a new market segment... set top box sized computers using another flavor of their general-purpose GPU to play-back Blu-ray using dual-core ARM processors.
The area they've overlooked is how to improve computing power... their answer is just add more cores and hyperthreading.... all the while neglecting the SSE units, which could be utilized better.
I mean the whole processor idea could use some serious rethinking.
Set-top box media computers all the way up to supercomputers.
Various types of servers for example don't need floating-point processors at all... (file, print, search engines, databases, etc.)
Logistical analysis (like chess) doesn't require floating-pointing processors...
Intel needs to work out how to divide up the transistor real estate better...
System-on-a-Chip (SOC) up to discreet integer/floating-point units for supercomputing needs.
The number of ... aaahhh-hhhaaa!!!
Sorry for rambling on and on... I need to work out some of the details...
but what I see is several different flavors of overlapping CPU designs... targeted for various market segments...
Still working out the details...
The ideas are coming faster than I can sort out in my head much less type...
Well that's it for now... just some ideas to throw out there if anyone is interested. Reply
qcmadness - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkThe 1024-bit ringbus could be the problem.
Remember when ATi put a ringbus in R520 and removed it in RV770?
I don't think chip-wide cache coherency is good either. Reply
Sahrin - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkThis is exactly what I expected after that weird out-of-the-blue announcement of the suspiciously Larrabee-like 'cloud CPU' with '48' 'very simple x86' cores (read: mesh of 48 in-order x86 CPU's)
Too bad, the graphics market could use the competition (especially since nVidia seems prepared to cede control of the market to ATI).
I wonder if this has anything to do with the anti-trust (that is - probably not a good idea to invest a bunch of money entering a new market place when you're about to get fined billions of dollars and may be told at the end of a long an expensive development project that you can't release the product due to anti-trust sanctions)? Reply
Olen Ahkcre - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkLarabee being cancelled and that ATI being in the number 1 spot shows that the GPU market is in fact extremely competitive right now. Reply
Spoelie - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkI'm still more partial for a software problem. The article may state: "The software side leaves us a bit more curious, as Intel normally has a strong track record here", but that's only in relation to the purely X86 ecosystem.
Given Intel's GPU track record however, that statement is not true at all. Their integrated graphics have underachieving for almost their entire existence - lot's of promises made ("feature x in next driver revistion", ...) but little delivered. Reply
aj28 - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkHmm... I suppose this does tend to imply that the 48-core chip was just Larrabee de-named. Any official confirmation on this though? Reply
brooksmoses - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkI don't think this is the same -- the topology of the dies seems to be very different.
In particular, all the schematics of Larrabee show the cores clustered around a linear ring bus, and this one photo of the die appears to match that:
On the other hand, this new 48-core chip is very much a tiled architecture, and I don't see any evidence of a similar ring bus:
Moreover, there's no mention of the new extra-wide vector instruction set from Larrabee in the new 48-core chip, nor would that really be especially useful in its intended "cloud-computing" target market.
MonkeyPaw - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkI even wonder if Larrabee will have a successor, since it sounds like the initial product is a pretty major disappointment. It's easier for Intel to say the product is not totally dead, but an announcement like this just keeps investors looking to the future. After all, Intel has a very long way to go in a segment of the market where they have totally sucked for a long while. Could Larrabee become another Itanic, where Intel's dream is to take over a segment with their own architecture, only to have it become a niche product? Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Saturday, December 05, 2009 - linkIntel NEEDS a GPU. AMD is going to integrate the GPU on the processor die and eventually move all the fp work to the GPU. How will Intel's CPU's compete with a TFLOP of compute power? Reply
Olen Ahkcre - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkIf you mean Intel needs to build their own GPGPU, I think you're wrong (my opinion). There are already two very successful companies who already make better GPGPUs than Intel... namely NVidia... ATI/AMD, a distant second. But even AMD/ATI is doing better than Intel, otherwise they won't have canceled Larabee (my opinion). And building their own GPGPU they've overlooked something critical... something very critical. The way Intel and AMD are handling the direction of CPUs... they're just adding more and more cores and perhaps wasting valuable transistor real estate that could be put to better use like more cache memory.
They're shifting attention away from where they should be focusing... improving the overall system design of the computer. By improving I don't mean adding more cores to the CPU, but rethinking the CPU/GPGPU relationship and redesigning the whole computer system. They need as they call it another "paradigm-shift".
And integrating a GPU to the CPU isn't really a good idea. You get unnecessary design complexity and end up with a lower performing CPU/graphics design... in engineering textbook this would be a no-no unless you are going towards perhaps a low-transistor/low-power design, which won't hold a candle to the high-end discreet CPU/GPU design.
How will Intel's CPUs compete with a TFLOP(S) of compute power?
Easy... They need to rethink the CPU and GPU... TFLOPS... tera (trillion) floating-point calculations per second... where does it come from... look underneath the hood and you find Stream processors... and what do all Stream processors have in common... they do floating point math...
128-bit floating point math.... There used to be a time when CPU had a discrete math processor call the FPU (80-bit floating-point processing unit), but rather than create multi-core FPUs (because the concept/technology/design methodology and basic knowledge to do something that wasn't available at the time) they integrated the FPU into the CPU (irony).
The reason for the reemergence of floating-point processing is because they are HEAVILY utilized in 3D graphics and their use is universal in computing, especially simulations.
The only thing they don't do is integer operations and this is the part where the CPU design engineers need to look into... creating a discrete part with a massive array of SSE ("Stream"ing SIMD extension) units with some limited integer operations... maybe.
The CPU might be stripped down of unnecessary components and instead integrate with the chipset to become a super fast systems I/O manager... managing I/O, thread manager/scheduler, system watchdog, etc., etc. They've already moved in that direction by incorporating the memory controller hub into the CPU.
There are some details I have left out since it's beyond the scope of this forum/venue.
But it is my belief that traditional multi-core CPUs are on a fast track to becoming obsolete. Reply
swaaye - Sunday, December 06, 2009 - linkGPUs are very limited in their flexbility and so would Larrabee have been. Few programs align ideally with the "massive numbers of simple processing units" design and so general purpose CPUs aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Reply
qcmadness - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkLarrabee is for both HPC (GPGPU) and GPU market.
NVIDIA is aggressively entering the HPC market with Fermi which could harm Intel's own x86 server market.
Both Intel and AMD are touting heterogeneous computing in the distant future. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, December 04, 2009 - linkIntel is like any other company: expand or die. I have no doubts that there will be a Larrabee product at some point in the future. Intel can't afford to ignore the massively parallel computing/HPC market. Reply
Olen Ahkcre - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkThat is the problem isn't it, expand or die. But Intel is trying to expand into the wrong market. They're trying to build a general purpose GPU, instead of expanding into the 128-bit (super)computing market.
Nvidia inadvertently built a massive array of (about 216/240) stream processors- compute shaders- or more plainly speaking... 128-bit math processors into their GPUs, needed for 3D graphics acceleration. And then they bought Aegia PhysX (physics) engine and incorporated into their GPU, what they ended up with was the start of the next generation of supercomputing. The supercomputer built at the University of Antwerp. 13 NVidia GPU that's 4 times faster then their previous supercomputer cluster consisting of 256 AMD Opterons (512 cores) and costs under 6000 euros. The previous supercomputer cost over a million euros. This is a significant development!
Intel is trying to go head-to-head with the NVidia GPUs when they need to be working on a 128-bit processor that complement GPUs, but from the CPU side.
A 128-bit processor not limited to just math, but also useful for some limited integer operations. A processor with a massive array of 128-bit stream processors to do PhysX or physics calculations for better 3D graphics and visual effects. It would allow Nvidia to focus on their GPU design to optimize for 3D graphics rather than allocating GPU resources to do PhysX (physics) calculations or falling into a more general purpose design that ends up wasting transistor real estate ... note: Nvidia lost their GPU crown (temporarily) to AMD/ATI.
On the other hand, Intel could keep trying to build their GPGPU and neglect their end of the spectrum in the massively parallel computing/HPC market.


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Not too long ago, we ran a two-part interview with Matthew Hedstrom, whose book The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century was recently published by Oxford
Aside from the interview, here's a great way to get a bite-sized taste of Matt's work: "Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion," published yesterday at Religion and Politics. A little excerpt:
The pluralist turn of American religious print culture by the 1940s further enhanced the importance of these alternative spiritualities. This story, then, is an ironic tale of initial resistance yet ultimate complicity in the transformation of American religious culture from Protestant dominance, in spite of sizable and significant minority traditions, to a much more open, democratic, even chaotic spiritual environment. The psychologically and mystically rooted cosmopolitanism that came to characterize much of American religion and spirituality after World War II first emerged as a popular reality from the liberal Protestantism and book-buying consumerism of the interwar years—but ultimately took on a life all its own.
The whole piece is a great introduction to his book; highly recommended.
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- Tom Van Dyke at: January 31, 2013 at 9:43 PM said...
Paul, I thank you for this latest batch of posts although I don't know what "liberal religion" is or might be.
It was said back in the day that Reform Judaism's messiah looks a lot like FDR, and that its only difference from the Democratic Party is the holidays.
By extension, "liberal" Christianity now in the 21 century CE: Mighty Jehovah was [re-]incarnated as Barney the Dinosaur, the Bible is reducible to the Sermon on the Mount--- "Beatitudism," if you will.
Where some see liberal theology as progress, others see entropy.
- Paul Harvey at: January 31, 2013 at 9:56 PM said...
Umm, "batch" of posts consists of just this one, since my other posts lately have dealt with conservative evangelicalism. Not even "posts," but just "links," my lazy man's blogging.
Anyway, the post is just to point folks towards Matt's excellent book, which gives a historically nuanced and informative view of the subject, not just "progress" or "entropy." Check it out.
- Mark T. Edwards at: February 1, 2013 at 5:40 AM said...
You should read Matt's book. He's sensitive to the "entropy" charge; it's been levelled since the 1920s when Walter Lippmann repackaged the anti-liberal arguments of the fundies. And still, not only do "liberal" churches persist, but in Matt's estimation (not to mention David Hollinger and Christian Smith) we are in some ways all Barneys, er, liberals, now.


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|Desmond Rice tied a career high with three rushing touchdowns and rushed for a career-best 170 yards during Liberty's Homecoming contest against Coastal Carolina.
LaDarius Hawthorne blocked a potential game-tying 40-yard field goal from John Lunsford in double overtime, allowing No. 6/4 Coastal Carolina to complete its 55-52 comeback victory over the Flames, Saturday evening at Williams Stadium.
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Coastal Carolina's touchdown during Liberty's 21-point spurt was a 34-yard pass play from Alex Ross to Matt Hazel were the wide receiver broke three tackles to score.
Liberty had a chance to use some clock late in the first half, but Coastal Carolina's defense made its presence known. The Chanticleers forced its first three-and-out series of the day to give Coastal Carolina the ball back with 59 seconds remaining before the break.
Ross quickly moved the visitors downfield, completing 4-of-5 passing attempts to set up a career-long 48-yard field goal by Alex Catron. The junior's kick just made it over the crossbar, trimming Liberty's lead to 28-16 at the break.
The two teams combined for 530 total offensive yards during the first half, with Liberty outgaining the visitors, 298 to 232.
Woodrum was the offensive standout, completing 17-of-24 passing attempts for 218 yards and three touchdowns. Ross countered by completing 11-of-19 attempts for 124 yards and one scoring pass.
The Flames picked where they left off during the first half, scoring on their opening drive of the third quarter. Liberty's third 11-play drive of the game was capped off by a Clifton Richardson score on a two-yard run, pushing Liberty's lead to 35-16 at the 9:00 mark of the third.
The Flames looked like they might maintain their largest lead of the game at 19 points when they forced Coastal Carolina into a punting situation midway through the next drive. However, a fake punt by the Chanticleers turned into a momentum shifting play.
Ross completed a six-yard shovel pass to Hazel on the fake, giving Coastal Carolina a new set of downs. Taliaferro was handed the ball on the next two plays, scoring on the second from five yards outs to cut the Flames' lead to 35-23 with 5:25 left to play in the third quarter.
Liberty did answer back on its next drive, pushing the lead back to 19 points, 42-23, on a 10-yard rush by Rice just over three minutes later.
Ross started the next drive off with a 46-yard completion to Hazel and three plays later completed 13-yard scoring pass play to Hazel to begin Coastal Carolina's comeback.
The Chanticleers relentless fourth-quarter push during the 2013 season continued at Williams Stadium, as Coastal Carolina outscored the Flames 15-3 during the final period to force overtime. Coming into the game, Coastal Carolina had outscored opponents, 53-36, during the fourth quarter.
Taliaferro started the fourth-quarter push, scoring his third of what would be four rushing touchdowns from nine yards outs with 8:42 left in the regulation.
Liberty's next drive stalled at the Coastal Carolina five-yard line, leaving the Flames to settle for a Lunsford field goal to put the Flames up eight, 45-37, with 4:13 left to play.
The tandem of Ross and Taliaferro continued to lead Coastal Carolina on what would be a game-tying drive. Ross completed all five of his pass attempts on a nine-play, 75-yard drive, including 15-yard pass to tight end Thomas Pauciello with 46 seconds left on the clock. Ross then completed the two-point conversion pass to Bruce Mapp, knotting the game at 45-45.
The Flames managed to get to midfield on the final drive of regulation, but a deep pass from Woodrum fell incomplete at the goal line, sending Liberty into its first overtime game since 2011.
The first extended period got off to a good start for Liberty, as Rice took the opening overtime handoff and scored from 25 yards. The junior's third rushing touchdown of the game gave Liberty the 52-45 lead.
However, Coastal Carolina struck back, tying the game again when Taliaferro scored from seven yard outs on his third carry of the four-play scoring drive.
Liberty's defense was able to keep the Chanticleers out of the end zone on the next drive, forcing Coastal Carolina to settle for a 35-yard field goal by Catron. The three-point kick gave Coastal Carolina its first lead of the game, 55-52, to begin the second overtime.
Coastal Carolina matched Liberty's defensive effort, allowing the Flames to advance the ball only two yards on the next three plays. Lunsford was brought back on to the field for this second field goal try of the game where Hawthorne was able to tip the ball and keep Coastal Carolina's perfect season alive.
The game's final stat sheet showed sizeable offensive numbers with the two teams combining for 1,169 total offensive yards and 107 total points scored. Liberty managed to outgain Coastal Carolina in the game, 615 yards to 554 yards.
Ross finished the night completing 24-of-39 passing attempts for 294 yards, while Woodrum threw for a career-best 382 yards and completed 29-of-41 attempts. Both quarterbacks had three scoring passes and one interception.
Taliaferro put his name in the Coastal Carolina record book, scoring four rushing touchdowns and rushing for 151 yards on 26 carries. The senior now has 17 rushing touchdowns, breaking the previous record of 13 set by Aundres Perkins in 2003.
Rice also had a career day, rushing for a career-high 170 yards on 21 carries and he posted his third three-rushing touchdown effort of the year.
Hazel led all receivers in the game, finishing the contest with nine catches for 147 yards and two scoring receptions.
Liberty had a pair of 100-yard games for its top two receivers. Henderson crossed the 100-yard threshold for the second-straight game (135 yards), while Darrin Peterson posted his third 100-yard game of the year. Both receivers finished the game with nine catches.
Big South Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Quinn Backus led Coastal Carolina's defense with 10 tackles, followed by nine stops by Richie Sampson.
Nick Sigmon was Liberty's top tackler in the game with the Flames' middle linebacker recording a season-best 12 tackles. Kevin Fogg finished the night with a career-best nine solo tackles to rank second on Liberty's team in tackles.
The Flames continue Big South Conference play next weekend when Liberty travels to Boiling Springs, N.C., to face the Bulldogs of Gardner-Webb (4-3 overall, 0-1 Big South).
Liberty leads the overall series with Gardner-Webb, 10-8-1, and has won each of the last six meetings. Kickoff from Spangler Stadium is set for 1:30 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on ESPN3 through the Big South television package.


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With the arrest of two men on an Atlantis cruise in the harbor in Dominica, the question isn't whether they were having sex, as police claim, or just sunbathing nude, as the couple claims. The question is why a gay cruise is visiting islands where homosexuality is illegal, rewarding these places with tens of thousands of dollars of purchases on each visit when there are more places in the Caribbean where homosexuality is legal and places that even recognize same-sex marriage.
And whether or not they were engaging in sexual activity, the couple was told, "You are being arrested for being gay," according to the Washington Post. As far as the police on Dominica were concerned, every person on that ship was guilty of crime. Why didn't they arrest them all? Because they wanted them to come ashore and spend a lot of gay dollars.
While the Caribbean has an anti-gay reputation, the laws vary from island to island. Actually, homosexuality is perfectly legal in more places than not. The differences range from recognizing same-sex marriage to life in prison. Most perplexing, perhaps is that on some islands, lesbians are legal and gays get 10 years in prison.
French and Dutch territories have the longest history of nondiscrimination. Puerto Rico's laws were struck down along with Texas' sodomy law in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision.
One other thing — in Dominica, the ship does not dock at the shore, but down a long pier. Someone on shore was looking for trouble with binoculars to catch this couple. See which islands welcome the LGBT community after the jump:


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MAX 2011 concluded a few days ago, and as expected there was a lot of excitement. In this post I'm putting together some recordings that I found really interesting.
I'm still working my way through all the recordings available, so I'll update this post. Below are some sessions that were nice.
Sneak Peek to Liquid Layouts
In this short video, Kiyomassa Toma gives you a sneak peek of a potential feature in InDesign to create high quality magazines that automatically re-layout across devices and screen orientation. Totally awesome stuff. A must watch for designers working on challenges for designing for an ever changing array of devices and screen sizes.
There were some other sessions, slightly longer, but as engaging.
I'm still working my way through all the recordings available, so I'll update this post. Meanwhile, if you want go on ahead to Adobe TV and post links here.
Beautiful Typography | A crash course
In this session, Michael Ninness shows you ten practical tips for achieving consistently beautiful typography.
InDesign CS5.5 Power Shortcuts
Michael Ninness shows you how to get more done in less time by keeping your hands on the keyboard as much as possible.
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For some who were experiencing it for the first time, the General Assembly became a cathartic opportunity to unload long-pent-up polemics. Perhaps never having really had their political voices heard off the Internet, newcomers would interrupt the agenda and turn the people's mic into a soapbox. With practice, though, that would change. They'd find that hewing to the process was better than making off-topic speeches. They heard stories about the assemblies in occupied squares in Egypt, Greece and Spain firsthand from people who had been there. Helping shape the daily decisions of the Occupation started to seem actually more empowering than trying to tell Obama what to do.
The anarchists' way of operating was changing our very idea of what politics could be in the first place. This was exhilarating. Some occupiers told me they wanted to take it home with them, to organize assemblies in their own communities. It's no accident, therefore, that when occupations spread around the country, the horizontal assemblies spread too.
At its core, anarchism isn't simply a negative political philosophy, or an excuse for window-breaking, as most people tend to assume it is. Even while calling for an end to the rule of coercive states backed by military bases, prison industries and subjugation, anarchists and other autonomists try to build a culture in which people can take care of themselves and each other through healthy, sustainable communities. Many are resolutely nonviolent. Drawing on modes of organizing as radical as they are ancient, they insist on using forms of participatory direct democracy that naturally resist corruption by money, status and privilege. Everyone's basic needs should take precedence over anyone's greed.
As assemblies enter our own politics through the Occupy movement, we should take care to recognize what they're not and will never be. Even more important, though, is what they've already done. They've reminded us that politics is not a matter of choosing among what we're offered but of fighting for what we and others actually need' not to mention what we hope for. For this, in large part, we have the anarchists to thank.


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Kevin Brockway, Men's Basketball beat writer for The Gainesville Sun speaks with Chip Towers, Georgia beat writer for The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Earlier we discussed the Link System for remembering lists. This is an extremely effective mnemonic system. Let's practice with this list of 20 words. You may think that it's impossible, in only a few minutes, to memorize a list of 20 words in order, but it's actually quite easy. In an earlier practice we gave you some sample visualizations to make, but it's actual more effective if you make your own, so we're going to leave you alone this time. Using the link system, spend at least 3 minutes visualizing these objects and you should have no problem remembering them.
Drums, Teeth, Belt, Rocket, Sports Car, Tennis Ball, Scissors, Pipe, Nail, Grass, Turtle, Wedding Ring, Earth, Dust, Bed, Plate, Candy, Light Bulb, Business Card, Computer
Now close your eyes and try to recall the entire list. See how easy it was? To prove the effectiveness of this technique, make up a different list and try to memorize it without using the link system. Do you see how hard it is without the link system?
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ANAHEIM – The Angels packed up their lockers and dressed up their rookies in personalized red Speedos – and secured their status as the best team in baseball over the last month.
With Wednesday's 3-1 matinee win over the Oakland Athletics in 2013's Angel Stadium finale, the Angels stretched their unbeaten series streak to 10 and their record over the last 32 games to 23-9, the best mark in baseball.
And they did it with small ball and no extra-base hits.
"The fun we're having this month is directly of a result of us playing good baseball," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "We're not driving the ball as much, but we're scoring as many or more runs, and I think that's indicative of the diversity of our offense."
In his first start in 11 days, Jered Weaver (11-8) pitched the Angels to victory by throwing seven smooth innings of one-run ball, scattering five hits and a walk.
His 292/3-inning scoreless streak against the A's was snapped by Jed Lowrie's sixth-inning sacrifice fly, but he lowered his career ERA against Oakland to a sterling 2.23.
Ernesto Frieri earned his 37th save in relief after Dane De La Rosa pitched a scoreless eighth.
The Angels (78-80) got all their offense in the fourth and fifth innings, first on a Josh Hamilton fielder's choice that brought in Erick Aybar, and then on Aybar and Hamilton singles bookended by two walks and two sacrifice bunts, one of which was misplayed for an error.
With the win in his final start of 2013, Weaver became the fourth pitcher in AL history with 110 or more wins, 60 or fewer losses and an ERA lower than 3.30 in his first eight seasons, and the first since Jim Palmer in 1973.
But he missed eight starts in 2013 and battled forearm tightness in a season he described as a "tough one, personally."
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Jean-Claude Biver, the chief executive of Hublot, has some significant things to say about the watch industry, all of which can be summarised as: show them the money.
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Shubrick... was attacked at 00:10, 29 May 1945, by two kamikaze aircraft, one of which crashed into the ship. The bomb carried by the plane blew a 30-foot (10 m) hole in the starboard side, and further damage was done when one of the ship's depth charges exploded. At first the situation looked grim. Van Valkenburg (DD-656) came alongside at 01:13 and removed classified material and all wounded and unnecessary personnel. However, the crew finally controlled the flooding, and Shubrick was towed to Kerama Retto by ATR-9. The ship lost 35 men killed and missing, and 25 wounded in the attack.


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2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid
Completely re-designed, the 2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid is a full-size sedan powered by a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder hybrid (two electric motors) engine that produces 200 hp.
2013 Toyota Camry Hybrid
Now standard with a touch-screen audio system and Bluetooth hands-free capabilities, the 2013 Toyota Camry Hybrid is capable of achieving up to 43 mpg.
2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid
Receiving package updates, the 2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid is a mid-size SUV powered by a 3.5-liter V6 engine that produces 280 hp.
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Now available in a SE trim level, the 2013 Toyota Prius is a mid-size five-door hybrid hatchback capable of achieving up to 51 miles per gallon.
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The compact variant of the Prius, the 2013 Toyota Prius c boasts a plethora of safety features, advanced technology, and an impressive 53 mpg city.
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Largely unchanged for 2013, the Toyota Prius Plug-In hybrid is powered by a 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine and permanent AC synchronous motor, for a combined 134 hp.
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Andrea Lieberman was, arguably, the first celebrity stylist to parlay her success into something bigger than dressing famous people. The born and bred New Yorker was schooled at Parsons and, after traveling the world, set up shop in Manhattan, where her bold-faced customers turned into clients. After dressing stars from Jennifer Lopez to Gwyneth Paltrow (with Diddy in between) she teamed up with Gwen Stefani to launch LAMB, or what's now become a classic business model—the celebrity fashion line with a talented stylist at its core. In 2008, Lieberman branched out, launching her own collection of sleek basics with tailored pants and perfect leather jackets, A.L.C., and late last year she added hardware-inspired jewelry to the line. Given her career, it's no wonder we found Lieberman's closet bursting with treasures. From African treasures to Ann Demeulemeester boots, vintage Ossie Clark to her four-year-old's favorite red lipstick, click through to see how Lieberman's filled her LA closets.
"Paloma, my four-year-old daughter, literally art-directs her outfits for school every morning. She is obsessed with makeup, and recently she has been in a red lipstick phase, which at that age can get a bit messy."
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1.Chemistry a. Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures. b. That can be readily vaporized.
2.a. Tending to vary often or widely, as in price: the ups and downs of volatile stocks. b. Inconstant; fickle: a flirt's volatile affections. c. Lighthearted; flighty: in a volatile mood. d. Ephemeral; fleeting.
3.Tending to violence; explosive: a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation.
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President addresses Joint House-Senate Committee on student costs
Members of the Massachusetts House and Senate Joint Committee on Higher Education's Subcommittee on Student Loans and Debt came to campus to hear testimony about the problems of rising educational costs. Several college and university presidents, senior officers and students from throughout the southeastern Massachusetts region offered testimony.
"We have found it to be most helpful to come out to the various regions of the state and to hear from all of you who are on the front lines of this issue," said state Sen. Eileen Donoghue, co-chair of the committee. "This issue of student debt affects everyone in our society."
President Dana Mohler-Faria was the first to offer testimony. "As someone who has not only spent a long time as an administrator in this system, but as someone who spent nine years as a director of financial aid and fifteen years as a chief financial officer, I've seen this issue close-up," he said. "The financing of higher education, the cost of education, and the burden on students… are important to know in every detail and, specifically, what they mean for our students, and, equally significant, what it means for our commonwealth and our country."
He said the current student loan situation is "a perfect storm" and is due in part because higher education is "labor intensive, so 85 percent of our budget is labor cost." Even an incremental raise in salary has "a tremendous impact, on students" he stated. He added that other factors such as the economy contribute to the problem.
Dr. Mohler-Faria added that, "the decline in support, the decline in the economy, and the rising cost of education (have) all had a substantial negative impact on students. We must look at this in a very comprehensive way. There is a combination of things we must consider."
The president also thanked committee members, "because for the first time in at least 20 years, the support we received from the state allowed us not to raise student fees, so the cost of education for students was not raised this year."
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BLACKBURN with Darwen council is to close two unnamed streets to a former group of garages off Gretna Street in Little Harwood.
Twin Valley homes want the small highways 'stopped up' as the garages at the rear of Whalley New Road are no longer used and they no longer have any purpose.
The social housing group owns all the surrounding land and asked the borough planning and highways committee to take the legal moves to shut the streets.
The committee agreed the two roads were no longer needed and authorised the council's legal officers to apply for the 'stopping up order' from the town's magistrates.


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The serious golfer will have an easy time getting the ball airborne and adding yards with the PING® G20 Tour Fairway Wood. The low-deep center of gravity in the 17-4 stainless steel head creates low spin but a much higher launch. Accuracy comes from perimeter weighting and a slightly larger face that raises the MOI. This ensures a stable clubhead and faster ball velocity for maintaining distance, even on mishits.
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