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The Great Equalizer: Apple, Android & Windows Tablet GPUs Compared using GL/DXBenchmark 2.7by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2013 11:58 PM EST
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glockjs - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI want to see this same write up this time next year. Intel is coming up with some scary tech...also here's to hoping AMD wanders around again. This is just apples to oranges BUT it does show that there is gap worthy of being compared....this is a good thing :D Reply
R0H1T - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSeeing as how the top of the line ARM build(iPad 4) is anywhere between 1.4~3x slower than Intel's HD 4000 whilst greatly saving on power, I'd wager that MS' decision to go alongwith AMD for their next iteration of Surface Pro was a sound one not to mention the fallacy/myth that ARM can't scale up fast enough is soon gonna melt away ! Now I've pretty much always bashed how folks at AT favor Intel over anything & everything else, however this graph should be proof enough that ARM/AMD are squeezing them much harder than what most would like to believe, not to mention the fact that their monopolistic position in traditional x86 market is what is keeping them afloat but with the near collapse of the desktop market up ahead they'll be scrambling for cover not unlike AMD |-: Reply
tuxRoller - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIntel's graphics certainly pull more power than img, but they also deliver much better performance (especially in the fills/triangles/fragment/vertex). Their efficiency looks to be roughly of a kind. That's impressive considering Intel doesn't have to be as concerned with a constrained environment as img. Reply
lmcd - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI disagree, IMG tech has pushed past the chips implemented here already, and by a lot. I see IMG tech really pushing the bar, particularly if they get their CPU side going.
It'd be interesting, if IMG tech sped up the process and put together their own SoC using their graphics and ARM C A15. Reply
Speedfriend - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkFrom what I remember reading, the first version of IMG's new series 6 will be as fast as the iPad4 (but with more features) with the most advanced versions in the future being 2-3x that, so about what the Surface Pro delivers now. By that time, Intel will be delivering 2-3x the current graphics performance. While there is no doubt that IMG is the leader in the smart-phone space, it does look like it will be lagging intel in the tablet space. Reply
R0H1T - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWhere did you get that info, haswell GT3 anyone ?
Intel's IGP have been delivering incremental performance gains, unlike AMD/Nvidia on the dedicated GPU front, not to mention the old adage of moar cores has been their only saving grace thus far ! They've been constantly adding EU's on the CPU die without adding much to the actual CPU transistor count, one of the reasons the CPU gains have flattened since SNB, so nope they'll not deliver ~3x their current IGP performance anytime soon unless of course they double/treble the GPU on die area & drastically cripple the CPU side of things ! Reply
tuxRoller - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI'm not sure what you mean by "pushed past", since, to my knowledge, rogue hasn't been released yet so we don't know how they will really perform, and what they have released is not as fast as what intel has (though it is more efficient).
So, on average, intel is about two and quarter times faster than the 543mp4 while using up to three times the power, so intel is less efficient, but not as much as I'd anticipated. Reply
damianrobertjones - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkAll I see is Arm devices sitting there behind the HD4000 etc. I see nothing positive for Arm as the Atom based devices will soon catch-up and the HD 4600 move further away. Reply
joos2000 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkInteresting indeed. However, ARM didn't develop the GPU cores in the iPad. PowerVR did. PowerVR are delivering the most powerful graphics core in the mobile space at the moment, but everyone else is closing in. It'll be interesting to see if we can get xbox 360 gpu performance in the current powerband within the next couple of years. Reply
rexian96 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI'd like to see the same benchmarks in another 3 - 6 months when we have Tegra 4 based tablets (Android / RT) in the market. If the rumor of Tegra 4 being much faster than all things ARM based today is true, it'll probably be the time for me to seriously consider a tablet (thin but powerful enough to work). Reply
Milliamp - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI think this is interesting for sure. I think another interesting thing to throw in would be a 5 - 7 year old Dell PC with a cheapish dedicated GPU.
I'm also curious how something like Razer Edge compares to the Xbox 360 or PS3 but it would be harder to measure. Something like that serves no purpose than to satisfy my curiosity of how far behind mobile graphics are from other platforms but I am sure other people wonder the same thing. Reply
designerfx - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkhow is this "behind"? The battery life of the Razer edge is defined by the power cable aka nonexistent. Performance wise it's more telling that the Razer performs better than the surface.
I think things are pretty much exactly where they should be. I agree that if you have a unified benchmark it would be a good time to test performance across the board. Reply
extide - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkRazer Edge is faster than Xbox 360/PS3 in both CPU and GPU. Reply
amb9800 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkQuick correction: Surface Pro specs should read "i5-3317U" instead of "i3-3317U." Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt's still not a good test because the Razer Edge's 640M LE should outperform the HD4000 by 50-100% or more, but is behind the iGPU in this one. Even worse than the 3DMark benches. At least 3DMark can be a rough representation of shortly upcoming titles. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt wasn't a surprise to seeing the Surface Pro and the Razer Edge leading the pack in these tests. The question was how much of a lead they'd carry over more mobile centric ARM parts. These numbers don't bode well for Intel. ARM SoC's are looking to further improve CPU and GPU performance this year while in the same thermal envelope as is Intel. The problem is that Intel will still be at a higher power consumption. By the time Broadwell and/or Skylake reach consumers, the battle for control of the mobile market may have already been won by ARM. Part of winning the battle is showing up for the fight. Reply
MadMan007 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYou forget Baytrail Atom SoCs - many CPU architectural improvements, and Intel HD-based graphics. Those will more than 'show up for the fight'. Reply
Kevin G - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIt'll show up at the cost of performance. It is unclear how that new architecture will stack up with ARM's offerings when it arrives. That is still 8 months away with a new generation of ARM and PowerVR chips due out in the same time frame. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkBaytrail is rumored to have a 4core IGP; if it's the same core as in IVB it'll be ~25% as fast as what the SurfacePro is showing give or take variations in clocking/etc. That's between the Nexus10 and iPad4 in performance. While fast enough to be competitive, it's almost certain to be eclipsed by GPUs in this years new arm SoCs. Reply
londiste - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkwhy not bode well? 10w haswell will be a pretty good improvement over the current 17w ivy, given that the performance will be same or better (which so far seems it will be). new generation atoms are also coming in autumn (rumored to have a significant gpu overhaul, probably intel's own hd).
on arm side, things are going well, but they are also starting to run into the same tdp problem on both cpu and gpu front - with substantial improvements in performance, tdp will rise.
and at the same time, both performance and tdp gaps are still significant. interesting times. Reply
Krysto - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHow many times do people have to say it? The 10W version will most likely have POORER performance than the 17W IVB. They will do it the same way they tried to do it with IVB this year, and underclock it to 800 Mhz or something. The "tablet" Haswell will be nowhere near as fast as a laptop/hybrid 17W IVB that we have today. Reply
meacupla - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIf microsoft packed in 8GB of RAM for their surface pro and allocated 512MB to HD4000, unlike only 116MB, I wonder how much closer the scores would have been to GT640M LE? Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkmeacupla: It won't matter. Because the bandwidth is still shared with rest of the platform.
Also in actual games, the GT640M LE drastically outperforms the HD 4000, not by maybe 5-10% or even losing as shown in the latest GL/DX bench. Reply
meacupla - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkah, gotcha. That's good to know.
I'm slightly less disappointed that I can't set the memory size on my surface pro myself. Reply
xTRICKYxx - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI wouldn't worry about it. Even if X amount of memory is allocated to the HD 4000, it will dynamically scale up to a lot higher than what it says. Reply
mayankleoboy1 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkAll i see in these benchmarks is how much the PowerVR GPU's kill the competition.
And if you look at perf/watt, Intels iGPU's are pathetic. Reply
thedemandful - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSo what you're saying is that the PowerVR is so impressive over the other arm devices for using a much larger die and power envelope, but the Intel is crap for doing the same versus the PowerVR? Reply
melgross - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkIt's the difference in power use that matters. Imagine if you scaled Apple's A7 SoC up to 17 watts, or Intel's i5 down to 5 watts. Which do you think would be on top then, and by how much? I'm willi g to bet that the A7 would have a bigger lead than the i5 has now.
What will be interesting is Imagination,s 6000 series, when it arrives this year. How much faster will those be? Reply
extide - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkKinda odd to say that because it could be easily said that the HD4000 in the surface pro probably uses about 15w of the 17w, or so, and the A6X is somewhere round 5W with the majority again being used on GPU, it appears that GPU to GPU you are looking at 3x the perf for 3x the power. In other words, pretty much the same perf/w, especially in shader constrained situations. Reply
kyuu - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHope to see this benchmark used in all tablet reviews from now on, even x86 ones. I'd be especially interested in seeing how the AMD's Z-60 does. Heck, you should throw a Trinity APU on there as well just for curiosity's sake. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYeah, I have a Nexus 7 right now, and I'm on hold for AMD's offerings. The current Atom SOC has such a bad GPU that it really gets noticeable in even simple games. I like AMD's reference design and the turbo dock concept, and I think they will offer more low-end value than Intel.
That said, I'm air disappointed with the XPS 10. I almost bought one last week, and I'm quite surprised that the theoretical advantages it has over T3 do not show up. Drivers maybe? Or is it because it only has 2 cores? Reply
UpSpin - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkBecause the difference between the Razer Edge and the Surface Pro in this benchmark is minimal and on some charts even wrong, whereas in real life the nVidia GPU is magnitudes faster, this benchmark seems to be flawed and wrong. (either Intel paid them a lot, or the benchmakr is crap, and I expect from a techsite like Anandtech to validate a benchmakr before posting results): http://www.anandtech.com/show/6858/the-razer-edge-...
Or does it make sense for you, that in T-Rex HD Onscreen the Surface Pro displaying 1080p outperforms the Razer Edge displaying on just 720p, yet, in Offscreen the Razer Edge is faster suddenly. That makes absolutely no sense.
Additionally is this article flooded with useless and meaningless synthetic benchmarks.
Bases on this flaws, this article and the whole benchmakr became uselesss. Reply
ChronoReverse - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkGLBenchmark has always had these sort of problems and many people have posted complaints about that in the comments for the mobile reviews but nothing has ever been done about it.
All the synthetics being posted is even more silly. What does it matter if GPU X can do Y amount of triangles if you'll never even touch that theoretical limit in even a benchmark (that actually draws something).
It may be academically interesting, but putting it up front and center inflates its significance. Reply
Bast - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThe whole thing smells fishy, I agree.
Take a look at the results of the surface pro onscreen vs off screen. The only difference in these is the v-sync (resolution is 1080p in both). The results vary wildly between twice as fast when v-sync is off and slightly slower. That calls into question what is the effect of v-sync on the various parameters in the benchmark and until that can be answered , I would be very hesitant to make any conclusions. Is it possible to run the offscreen test with v-sync on as well? Reply
extide - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThat makes absolutely no sense. You can't do an offscreen render with v-sync as there is no screen to sync to. It just draws as fast as it can.. Reply
whyso - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI agree that this test is not indicative of performance (or else seems to be very heavily optimized for mobile SOCs). The 640m LE is generally about twice a powerful as the ULV hd 4000 and I'm not seeing that. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkCheck the updated numbers :) Reply
UpSpin - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThank you, makes much more sense now.
- In onscreen benchmarks often V-Sync is the limiting factor. Maybe you can make this visible in the chart with a vertical line indicating 60FPS V-Sync, so people with less knowledge about technology better understand the chart. Additionally, because you always run both on and off-screen, yet, only offscreen makes a comparison between GPUs possible, you could combine both charts and use two bars for each GPU in a single chart (a small bar for onscreen, the prominent one for offscreen)
- The synthetic benchmarks are meaningless. The HD4000 seems to be almost as fast as the nVidia card, yet, in game benchmarks is less than half as fast. So those synthetic benchmarks don't show reality. Quite contrary, Intel seems to be cheating. The Fill Test offscreen performs two times better than the Fill Test offscreen, yet, the resolution (1080) should remain unchanged. (or your results are flawed, again ^^)
Well, it's always easy to fill an article with charts, but at least remove the onscreen synthetic benchmarks. Even better, put all synthetic offscreen benchmarks in a single chart, so one GPU/Product has several bars, one bar for each test, 4 bars in total in different colors.
That way people take a closer look at the 'real world benchmarks' and don't waste their time comparing synthetic benchmarks.
At least I hope that you change something. At the moment the benchmarks are a 'mess' and hard to decipher. Reply
extide - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThe reason the Surface Pro performs better in off-screen is because it is hitting the fps cap in on-screen. Not sure why that is confusing. Reply
UpSpin - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI'm talking about the synthetic benchmark which gets measured in MTexels/s or MTriagels/s and should be independent of the V-Sync, or how can you explain that the Razer is able to output more MTexels/s on a smaller resolution onscreen? You can't. Not sure how this isn't confusing!
Whatever, synthetic benchmarks are meaningless, and they especially don't qualify to get tested on both on and off-screen and take more space in such an article than the 'real world demos'.
Just take a look at recent discrete AMD/NVidia GPU reviews? I see not a single synthetic benchmark 80% games, 20% Benchmark demos, but no synthetic one. There's a reason for this. Reply
Th-z - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHmm, by definition since this is a benchmark program not an actual game or program, everything about it is synthetic, including the real time rendering part -- the "benchmark demo" you referred to. I think what you meant are the individual theoretical tests. Imo they are still useful for research and comparison purposes, if they are accurate.
In normal AMD/NVIDIA GPU reviews because we have so many actual games and applications that use the same platform we can exclude synthetic benchmark programs, but we don't have that luxury in mobile space. If a benchmark program is really good that reflects well in the real world, it's still a good data point to consider. In server people use a lot of synthetic benchmark programs. Reply
shompa - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIts amazing how fast A6X is with a 3+ year old GPU. Imagine how fast PowerVR Rouge will be. With a bit of luck we will see that in A7. Chance to beat Nvidia 640M.
Also remember that Intel/Nvidia parts are 22/28 nm parts while A6X is 32 nm. Just doing ARM on 28nm with SOI makes it possible to clock Cortex9 at 3ghz.
I therefore disagree with the article. Intel can't compete on power. 1) The X86 stuff makes the dies always 1/3 bigger. 2) CISC have always been slower than RISC. 3) Intel uses 64 bit extensions. Remember that X64 is slower than X32 by 3%! On RISC 64 bit have always been much faster than 32bit. Just look at history. Since 2006 intel have increased desktop speeds by about 130%. At the same time ARM is 1700% faster.
And people should be happy about it. No more 1000 dollar Intel CPUs. Instead ARM licensed SoCs where ARM gets 6-10 cent per core. Intel can therefore never compete on price. An ARM SoC cost 15 dollar to produce. Intel can't sustain its leading edge in fabs on that revenue. Reply
hobagman - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkErm, yea, when an ARM beats Intel on performance, then Intel will have a serious problem. But at this point, performance is so closely tied to transistor improvements that Intel is the one with the advantage. They 2-4 years ahead in process technology and they are already developing the 10 nm node. And the reason why ARM's performance looks like it's come up faster is just because it was so much slower to begin with. They're hitting the power wall now, just like Intel, and that's why you see all the smartphones with 2-4 cores. Reply
cjb110 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkUrm, what? Assuming your right about the x86 die size, Intel have a 2y lead in FAB tech, and have been at least one process node ahead of pretty much everyone else.
As for the history, well that's just a daft metric, given that in 2006 Intel had just introduced the Core 2, which can equal current ARM for performance...all your percentage shows is that ARM was damn slow in 2006, and is still pretty slow now.
As AnandTech have been saying for a while, in some senses its a race, ARM to increase performance 4x-6x fold, and Intel to reduce power 2x-3x fold (without sacrificing performance)
However one issue is that Intel might not decide to go all the way down to properly compete in the phone space...if they stop at tablet, then the power budget is much greater. Also ARM can't ignore the phone space, so its race for performance can't increase its power either, otherwise it stands to lose its biggest market.
In my mind given ARM's reliance on third parties, Intel has the upper hand, it has more control over the platform and could hit the power budget by reducing the whole system...i.e. the intel cpu would consume more power than the ARM, but the total system power could be equal. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThe key to me is x86 compatability. I have an android tablet, and I will never consider another one. Never, ever. I have never used a more frustrating device in my life. Reply
aTonyAtlaw - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkReally? Why? I've been considering getting one, but have held off because I'm just not sure it will satisfy me.
What have you found frustrates you so much? Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI have an Android 10.1" tablet, an 11.6" laptop and a powerful desktop. When I'm at home, there is no reason to use the Android tablet for browsing the web or reading emails, as many people seem to do, because I have my desktop PC, a nice 27" monitor and a comfortable chair at my desk. When I'm on the go, I like having the versatility of the laptop (running all my media, having 100+GB space, running full office, Steam and gog.com games) and I am never gone long enough for the battery life advantage of the Android tablet to kick in. Also, I hate having every program full screen in Android. In my Windows devices, I always use the 50/50 split with one window usually being the browser and the other being a video, music player, office document, another browser... Can't do that in Android. I've pretty much only used the Android tablet for some games that took advantage of the larger display compared to my Galaxy Nexus. But those are so few and far between (and many hit Steam these days anyway), that the thing has been gathering dust for months now. ARM Tablet are great for people who don't use a PC for anything resembling productivity and have very limited demands in other areas. Reply
aTonyAtlaw - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThat seems fair. I was really really looking forward to the Microsoft Surface Pro release, but sad to see that they basically bungled it. I'm basically waiting for a proper windows 8 tablet to be truly worth buying. Reply
dcollins - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYou're off by an order of magnitude: x86 decoding takes up about 3% of the CPU die. For an SoC where the CPUs encompass < 50% of the total die, the cost shrinks to 1.5%. The CISC versus RISC debate is pointless these days: the tiny power cost isn't a significant factor compared to architectural differences.
Look at the drastic jump in power consumption between the A9 and the A15. The new Exynos is downclocked to 1.2Ghz to keep power to an acceptable level. You can expect similar increases in the next generation as ARM approaches the holy grail of "good enough not to be noticed"-Core2Duo-level performance. At the same time, Haswell will be targeting high end tablets, preparing Intel for a concerted push into the ~5W SoC market with its successor.
Intel has plenty of work left to compete directly with ARM, particularly since they will need to forego the high margins they've grown accustom to, but you would be a fool to write them off entirely at this point in the game.
Death666Angel - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link"Look at the drastic jump in power consumption between the A9 and the A15. The new Exynos is downclocked to 1.2Ghz to keep power to an acceptable level."
The A15 in the Exynos 5 Octa is clocked at 1.6 GHz. It's the A7 that are at 1.2 GHz. Reply
Kabij2289 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkAn Edge would wreck the PS3 and Xbox. *cough* Seven year old hardware *cough* Reply
Mugur - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI would also like to see for comparison an AMD C50, C60 or C70 at 1 Ghz...
Also, I found it strange that on some benchmarks the results for offscreen are lower than the ones on screen and on some the other way around. Of course, probably offscreen means 1080p and onscreen means whatever resolution the tablet has, which gives less meaning to the onscreen/offscreen comparisons. It should have been better just to include more than one resolution for the "offscreen" test.
A nice comparison would also have been with a top of the line 680 or 7970 system... :-) Reply
Becherovka05 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linknot to be picky but shouldn't the heading be about GPU not CPU Reply
Becherovka05 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkLearn to read lol... my mistake Reply
arthur449 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI see you're missing a Nexus 4. Well, I am too. Here's the results from an LG Optimus G (4.1.2) I have laying around (on/offscreen): Fill rate: 842M/870M Triangle Throughput: 61.2M/49.9M Triangle Throughput (vertex lit): 49.1/41.9 T-Rex HD: 19/14 Egypt HD: 45/34 Reply
AP27 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSo the Adreno 320 gets 14fps on T-Rex offscreen, 2fps behind the iPad 4. That's pretty impressive. Reply
colonelclaw - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI must say I'm seriously impressed with improvements the ARM GPUs have made in the last few years. These tests show they are now only 2 to 3 times slower than a respected desktop/laptop solution. When you consider how tiny they are and how little power they draw its impressive stuff.
It's always nice to see genuine advances made in computer hardware. Reply
Krysto - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI've said it a while ago that Intel's high-end chips for laptops are only ~3x faster than the fastest ARM chips, while using much more power. But nobody seemed to believe me. Many still seemed to think Intel's chips are tens of times faster or something. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkSorry guys - there was a problem with the Razer Edge numbers, they have since been corrected. Vivek still has the Edge and is in Korea right now so debugging funny results had to cross a few timezones :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
Krysto - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI wish you did a better job at explaining why the ARM devices were much weaker in geometry tests. OpenGL ES 2.0, and even OpenGL ES 3.0, doesn't support shaders. So in the end the test is not very comparable, because there are MAJOR differences between the API's - so the DirectX devices will get a considerably larger score because they have extra API features.
It might've been different if we had compared devices with DirectX 11.1 vs OpenGL 4.3. but ideally you really just want to keep it DirectX vs DirectX devices, and OpenGL ES vs OpenGL ES devices. Otherwise the numbers will be very skewed because of the API's, and NOT because of the difference in hardware. Reply
Krysto - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkdoesn't support geometry shaders*. Reply
Krysto - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhy are you comparing a RAZR and Surface Pro? Are 2h and 5h battery life, with $1,000-2,000 price tags actually considered "competition" for the current ARM tablets?
They are not, and will never be. Compare only the Atom ones, and the RT tablets if you want. Otherwise you might as well compare ARM chips with Xeon and Tesla's and say ARM "lost". Reply
meacupla - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkumm, yes?
I switched over from a asus transformer to a sufrace pro, instead of a newer ARM based tablet. Reply
UpSpin - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkPlease read this article: http://anandtech.com/show/6871/a-comment-on-pc-gam...
The iPad also only lasts 4h if you're gaming on it. The Razer should last 8h+ if you use it as an iPad. If you play the much more demanding games on it however, only then it's battery is dead in 2h-3h.
Also those benchmarks show that the gap between X86 laptop/desktop and the ARM smartphone/tablet sector is closing.
Anandtech will surely post power consumption benchmark between those systems (just as they did in the past) with the results, that Intel and ARM are coming closer and closer. Reply
thunng8 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkWhere did you get 4hrs for ipad gaming from? The article you linked says 6 hours for the ipad4 compared to a bit over 2hrs for the Razer Edge. Where did you get 8hrs+ if you use it as an ipad for the razer edge from? Anandtech's review says 5.6hr for web browsing and 4.9 for movie playback compared to 9.5 and 13.45hr for ipad4. Reply
kyuu - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkBecause, uh, the specifications of the devices outside of their CPU/GPU are irrelevant for the purposes of this article? This isn't about "should you get a Surface Pro or a Razer Edge?". Reply
Azzras - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkARM lost. Reply
tipoo - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI'm quite surprised, I knew the performance of SoC GPUs was going up very quickly and the SGX line can be scaled to very high performance, but I never would have thought it would be close to even the HD4000, or even as close as it was to the 640M. I've been underestimating these things on the GPU side. Reply
AP27 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkIs there a reason that some smartphone SoC's aren't included in here? Running offscreen benchmarks would give a good indication of their performance regardless of screen res, right? Would be interesting to see how the Adreno 320/330 and Mali 400 stack up here. The only Adreno GPU used was a 225 and that too in a Windows RT device, which may or may not have the same optimization issues as Tegra 3 on RT. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThat's coming next :) Reply
UpSpin - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThe problem is that a smartphone might use the same SoC a tablet uses, but is clocked much lower and throttled to meet the lower battery capacity and worse heat disspation.
A Tegra 3 in a smartphone scores worse than the same Tegra 3 in a tablet. The Exynos Octa core in the Galaxy S4 performs worse than in a tablet. Reply
araczynski - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkthat's all well and good, but its not like i have a choice to play iOS games on a surface pro, or the android games on the pro, or the pro games on the ios/androis, or any mix of that (short of the IAP shovelware that gets 'diarrhead' onto every conceivable platform). so while the results are somewhat interesting, they're still largely irrelevant in terms of practical applications. Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThere is Blue Stacks for Windows, which emulates Android apps (rather well nowadays I heard). And you can run x86-Android on some Windows laptops/tablets.
But you are mostly missing the point here. This is about showing the performance differences of the platforms, about any games you want to play. Reply
Azzras - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkSurface Pro can play most PC games where as iOS and Android cannot.
Surface Pro can also run Steam. Reply
tuxRoller - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHugely impressed with the performance of hd4000 compared to all the rest (including the razers edge).
It looks to be roughly as efficient at graphical tasks as the best img can manage, and better than nvidia.
Looking forward to haswell, and even more so to broadwell. Reply
kyuu - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkBecause, uh, the specifications of the devices outside of their CPU/GPU are irrelevant for the purposes of this article? This isn't about "should you get a Surface Pro or a Razer Edge". Reply
kyuu - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkArgh, the new comment system strikes again. This was meant to be in response to another comment, please ignore. Reply
NerdT - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkYou should consider the fact that each of these devices have a different power limit and are designed based on that. You need to compare the performance per watt each device achieves, rather than purely comparing the performance numbers you get by just simply running these benchmarks on each device and call yourself a contributor in this community. A good article/argument requires you do lot more research than just comparing the simple scores. otherwise, it could as miss leading as your article... Reply
Da W - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI'm amazed by the amout of people flocking to bash the article in an attempt To défend their beloved ARM socs. It's like seeing middle age priests burning scientists who would dare Say the earth is round.
Truth #1: AMR, X86, i don't care. I'll buy what's good for me.
Truth #2: ARM, Intel, Amd, Nvidia, they all pushed their architecture to the most efficient state possible and, if all made on Intel 22nm process for a given 10W thermal enveloppe, they would bé simular.
Truth #3: autocorrect on my surface pro SUCKS!!! Reply
duploxxx - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkTo me the only compare that should be made is of devices within the same range, in this case you can look at the ARM and the x86 based intel devices, what is shown here is that the atom really sucks in graphics, which was known all the time, it can't even do a decent flash player..... OEM should drop that device instantly and kick Intel in the butt, but no Typycal OEM behaviour go with the flow, notebook all over again,
Oh btw for those who believe HD4000 in this 17W is powerfull here, they should add a 17W trinity to compare, but offcourse you don't find these often due to the same OEM screwup and foolished consumer by store sales and marketing. Reply
shady28 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkReally, comparing Surface Pro to a bunch of ARM tablets? Surface pro has less than HALF the battery life of say a Nexus 10, or iPad 4 while weighing 50% more and costing hundreds more to boot.
Yet again, Anandtech pits mismatched parts meant for different markets at each other and draws erroneous conclusions. The market, however, does not care what Anandtech thinks. The Surface Pro is a flop at this point in time, for reasons which Anand apparently cannot fathom.
The Surface RT was the appropriate competitor to place against this the lineup of Android and iOS devices.
What next Anand? Give us a comparison of a Macbook Pro vs an Eee PC? Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI think you have the wrong Atom CPU for the VivoTab Smart.
Atom Z2560: Clovertrail+ @1.6 GHz, SGX 544MP2, this chip is intended for Android devices.
Atom Z2760: Clovertrail (no + )@1.8 GHz, SGX 545, this chip is intended for Windows devices.
I believe the VivoTab Smart uses the Z2760, especially since it is Windows. Reply
Qellion - Friday, April 12, 2013 - linknot really sure its fair to compare full os tabets/software to ios and android, but interesting non the less. Reply


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ANAHEIM – Honda Center recruiters are starting to pull job applications to hire more than 100 part-time workers so the arena is ready when the Anaheim Ducks return to the ice.
Center employees are working quickly to prepare for the return of hockey following the end of the months-long National Hockey League lockout – expected to come this week with the ratification of a labor deal. On Tuesday, the schedule had yet to be announced, but the first NHL games will be Jan. 19.
Tim Ryan, president of Anaheim Arena Management, which runs the Honda Center, said the center immediately needs to hire more ushers, parking attendants, food servers and other employees. Recruiters planned to start making calls Tuesday to those who had already applied or were referred.
For each game, the center needs 1,000 part-timers to run the venue, Ryan said. The arena holds 17,000 hockey fans.
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Dust & Bubbles couples get cozy for rodeo
Updated 1:04 am, Friday, February 15, 2013
It was sweet rodeo for the 11 couples who spent Valentine's evening in the Dust & Bubbles suite at the AT&T Center.
The event is put on by the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo's Wine Committee and was started by Dinah Covert, who was on hand to keep the champagne flowing from the five cases of Moët that were reserved for the Dust & Bubbles couples.
"We sell out every year," Covert said, noting that even singles have been known to reserve space for the event.
It offered couples from near and far a cozy rodeo experience with a buffet-style dinner, sweets, strawberries and bottomless bubbly.
"When your glass is empty, somebody fills it," said Jon Lally, 34, who came with his wife of 12 years, Corinna, 38. The couple were invited by Corinna's father, Bill Raissle, who was joined by his wife, Stephany Parker.
Dust & Bubbles, now in its fourth year, is pricey at $500 per couple, but Raissle wanted to treat his family to something special for Valentine's Day.
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"Everyone works hard all year, so I wanted to take everyone out for a fun night," Raissle said. "It's a splurge, but these guys are all worth it."
For some of the couples, it was their first rodeo experience. Ed and Diane Soble, a couple from Chicago who've been married for 40 years, were wowed by the rodeo events from their terrace-level seats in the Dust & Bubbles suite.
"It's something totally unlike anything I've ever seen before," Diane Soble said.
"It's a great way to spend Valentine's Day," added Ed Soble. "There aren't a lot of rodeos in Chicago."


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Hobnobbing Highlightsby Angela Moore in View All Posts, October 15th, 2009
Yep, it's more scoop from the New York Wine and Food Festival.
Thursday, 10/8:
Food Network HQ looked like it does every morning when I arrived at the office, but by the end of the day it had transformed into party central for the Chelsea Market After Dark event. Talk about a tour de force of FN talent. I spotted Alton, Guy, Sandra Lee, Aida, Alex, Anne and several contestants from The Next Iron Chef. Guy's party den was out of control, complete with screaming fans, dancing bartenders, Guy tattoos and Jagermeister shots.
Friday, 10/9:
FN staffers were looking and feeling worse for wear after the previous night's festivities. While others headed to the Burger Bash, I chose a calmer evening of lectures and cooking demos.
* Martha Stewart rustled up a gorgeous autumnal feast of seared duck breast with fig sauce, braised red cabbage and a potato cake from her brand-new cookbook. The smells wafting through the auditorium made me feel much happier about the cooler weather and new season.
* Former NY Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni was smart, well-spoken and wildly entertaining, especially when outing certain restaurants for pretending not to recognize him when it was painfully obvious they did. His most-loved foods: aged prime steak and o-toro (tuna belly). Most hated: whole anchovies and sprouts.
* Anthony Bourdain and Chef David Chang, beers in hand, regaled the crowd with their commentary on the food world and the restaurant industry. According to Chang, there is nothing sexy about being a chef. (I hazard FN fans would not agree.) Bourdain brushed off his notoriety as a "bad boy chef," saying he's not a boy, he hasn't been a chef in nine years, and he has invisible tea parties with his two-and-a-half year old. He also put cupcakes, butter, bacon and pork belly on the judge's stand as overexposed foods. Don't tell Paula!
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After checking out the Good Food Garden assembled in the Meatpacking District, I headed to sushi class with Iron Chef Morimoto. We made nigiri with the kitchen staff, drank wine and met the master himself. I rolled out with new skills, a full belly and a sushi mat signed by Morimoto-san. Pure bliss.
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On the final day of the festival, I hit cooking demos featuring two of my favorite chefs.
Top Chef's Tom Colicchio shared a feast of confit: tomato, lemon, tuna and pork. He told the crowd he loves cooking confit at home since it's so hearty and comforting. Want to try your hand at confit? Check out our recipes.
Tom's top restaurant tip: Write your food allergies or dietary restrictions on a card to give to your server. Having written instructions makes it easier for the kitchen to meet individual diners' needs.
Tom's best quote: "We need to get away from always asking how much of an ingredient to use. It's all about the feel. In the restaurant we don't use recipes; we teach methods and techniques."
The crowd hounded Colicchio with questions about Top Chef, but he claimed he doesn't yet know the winner — though he does have the scoop on whose cuisine will reign supreme in The Next Iron Chef. He's not telling.
Iron Chef Morimoto showed up with his arm in a sling and handed over demo duties to his chef de cuisine. So what happened? Morimoto told the crowd to pick their favorite of two stories: he injured himself while a) cage-fighting or b) big-game fishing. I'll place bets on the latter.
Monday, 10/12:
Chef withdrawal.
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Medica's career night fuels resurgent Padres
Rookie homers twice on 5-for-5 night; San Diego notches 20 hits
SAN DIEGO -- Tommy Medica tried out the slightly heavier and longer bat of teammate Yasmani Grandal on Friday night against the Braves. Given that it helped Medica produce the best offensive night of his career, Grandal might have to share that bat for the foreseeable future.
"I'm actually taking it home with me tonight," Medica said. "Before the game I was in the back grabbing a new hat or something, and I saw a nice-looking piece of lumber. I picked it up, and it felt good. So I was like, 'Let's try it out today.'"
The Padres are certainly glad he did. Medica had his first multi-homer and five-hit game on Friday -- with most of his damage coming against struggling Atlanta southpaw Mike Minor -- to lead the Padres (49-60) in their triumphant 10-1 series opener against the Braves (58-52).
Medica went 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout against Minor during the Padres' 8-3 loss on Sunday in Atlanta, but he could do no wrong against the lefty on Friday. He filled up the box score, going 5-for-5 with two homers, four RBIs, four runs and a stolen base, with three of the hits coming against Minor.
"It always helps when you get to see a pitcher twice, especially in one week like that," Medica said. "The hitters have the upper hand on something like that, and we were able to put a lot of good at-bats together."
Medica came into the night without a homer since June 24 but quickly went about fixing that with a two-run clout in the first. He then launched a tape-measure shot in the third that nearly reached the base of the JumboTron in the left-field bleachers to put the Padres up 5-0. The homer was estimated to travel 438 feet.
"Tommy's got some pull power, and that ball was right middle-in," said Padres manager Bud Black. "He got the head to it and really squared it up."
The first baseman went on to add three singles, raising his average from .248 to .273 and making him only the second Padre in history to have two home runs in a five-hit game. The other is Ryan Klesko, who completed the feat on Aug. 29, 2001.
Medica was far from the only Padre to catch fire, though. Every starting position player pitched in to help San Diego tie the franchise record for hits at Petco Park (20), which is also a season high.
Everth Cabrera was 4-for-5, and Abraham Almonte, acquired on Thursday as part of the Chris Denorfia trade, was 1-for-4 with a walk. He showed off his speed in the sixth by legging out a double in the gap that didn't even roll past Atlanta's outfielders.
"When a team starts hitting, it's contagious," Medica said. "You're rolling over the lineup, people are getting more at-bats with less time in between at-bats. That makes it much easier to hit instead of it being about an hour between each at-bat when things aren't going well."
San Diego's offensive eruption let Eric Stults (4-13) work comfortably. He didn't allow any baserunners his first time through the order and only gave up two hits and an unearned run in 6 1/3 innings with four walks and three strikeouts.
Stults had faced the Braves last weekend and was blown up in one inning for six runs. He didn't give up a hit in his other five innings of work, though, which convinced him he didn't need to change his plan of attack.
"The results [Sunday] didn't show how I threw," Stults said. "You might be fresh in their mind, but they're fresh in your mind, too. The game plan we had there was a good game plan."
Chris Johnson and Justin Upton were the only Braves starters to record hits.
"We got pitches to hit, we just didn't hit them tonight," said first baseman Freddie Freeman. "I was getting pitches right down the middle and I'm rolling them over. I can't explain it."
The first baserunner Stults allowed reached on a misplay by Jeff Francoeur, who got turned around on a fly ball by B.J. Upton that bounced off his glove for a two-base error. Johnson followed later in the inning with Atlanta's first hit, an RBI single that cut the lead to 5-1.
But the Padres weren't finished -- they scored at least one run against each Braves reliever who took the mound, and blew it wide open in the seventh against David Hale, who retired just one of the eight hitters he faced via a double play. After Hale gave up three runs and loaded the bases again, David Carpenter had to be called on to end the frame by striking out Jedd Gyorko.
Gyorko did hit an RBI double in the third to extend his modest hitting streak to five games since returning from the disabled list. He's 8-for-19 (.421) during that span.
San Diego had at least one baserunner in every frame against Minor (4-7), who gave up nine hits and five runs with two walks and just one strikeout.
"I felt like I was making decent pitches, and I felt good, and they were still putting the ball on the barrel," Minor said. "The game plan we had last week, they caught on to us and reacted to it."
After fielding the Majors' worst offense (2.9 runs per game) by a wide margin in the first half, the Padres have averaged 5.1 runs in 14 games since the All-Star break.
Black credited the return of Gyorko and the acquisition of Yangervis Solarte as offensive sparks but also thinks the recent outburst can partly be attributed to luck finally smiling on the Padres.
"The at-bats are getting toward how things even out in baseball," Black said. "Today we chopped a couple balls and blooped a couple balls. ... There's reasons why, but it still comes down to every at-bat is counting, and those guys are doing a nice job."
Will Laws is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This could be a short post: Just don't introduce any bugs to your code, then you won't ever have to debug. Clearly, that's easier said than done. But seriously, how do bugs come into this world? I might address this philosophical question in a different post if there is any interest. Today I will assume that developers are not perfect beings and occasionally make mistakes, which don't get caught by the tools they use. That's why they have to debug their code. So how do you debug cross-compiled ActionScript?
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In these days every modern browser comes with a built-in debugger that allows source-level debugging and an interactive console. I have noticed that Safari and Chrome both have difficulties when you jump out of the last expression in a function (tail calls). The debugger seems to get confused and does not stop at that last expression and jumps out to the parent scope. Microsoft's IE10 does not have that problem. If you have to debug, i.e. jQuery's library code you might want to switch to IE10. It will probably save you a lot of time.
Debugging with Flash Builder
So here would be my rough idea how you could implement source-level debugging for Flash Builder…
Frankly, I wouldn't do all that work just to be able to debug from within Flash Builder. This might turn out to be a feature that requires one or more full-time developers.


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Ahead of the emotional return of Mike Miller and Kevin Love to the Target Center Saturday night, the Timberwolves took the show on the road to Philadelphia to take on the 76ers. Along with the Knicks, the Wolves and Sixers are aiming for the most ping pong balls come lottery time and Flip Saunders' Timberwolves took a commanding lead for the pole position.
Friday night's game at Wells Fargo Center was downright embarrassing as the Wolves have lost both match-ups against a terrible basketball team this season. This one came with Kevin Martin and Nikola Pekovic back in the lineup. Just about every preconception I had on this year's team came to fruition in last night's game. I typically reserve some of my thoughts until seeing it with my own eyes … and that is exactly what happened last night.
The first 22 minutes of the game were pretty entertaining basketball if you like offense. If you like defense, you might have wanted to look away. The Wolves got big performances from Pekovic and Gorgui Dieng, while the Sixers were led by Michael Carter-Williams (MCW) and ex-Pup LRMAM.
With about two minutes to go in the first half, the Wolves started to fall apart and the body language of the vast majority of the squad became disturbing. After multiple turnovers, the Wolves gave the ball back to Philadelphia with 3.8 seconds on the clock. MCW received the inbounds pass and drove all the way to the hope for a buzzer beating layup. The lack of energy, effort, frankly anything from the Wolves on that play set the tone for the second half.
Already missing Mo Williams due to injury for Friday's contest, Zach LaVine went down for a while with an ankle injury. After heading to the locker room for a bit, LaVine later returned to the court to play in the 4th quarter. I'm not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing, outside of the fact that the injury itself doesn't seem to be significant. LaVine is very clearly not ready to play Point Guard in the NBA on either side of the court. MCW crushed him throughout the night.
Unfortunately for the Wolves, LaVine's backup is not an NBA caliber player. Lorenzo Brown's return to the team that drafted him should be over upon the return of Ricky Rubio. The Brown signing is the type of laziness that exudes from the Wolves front office – "We drafted this guy a few years ago, so there was something there. He's available and we need a PG. Sign him!"
The second half was the worst half of basketball I have ever seen with my own eyes. The Wolves put up 18 points in the 3rd quarter, outscoring the Sixers 18-17. Not to be outdone, Minnesota put up 17 points in the 4th quarter to allow the Sixers to put them away for good. The loss moves the Wolves to 8-38 on the season, while the Sixers go to 10-37. Minnesota now has a clear track to the most ping pong balls with two losses to Philadelphia. Joy.
The final score: 76ers 103, Timberwolves 94
Game Notes:
- I want to touch on the body language again as there were a few particular examples worth calling out:
- Kevin Martin and the returning to Philly Thad Young could not have looked more disinterested. Martin was a chucker (5-18 FG's) and Young didn't seem to have much emotion returning to Philadelphia.
- The one guy that visibly cared the most, was wearing a suit and still recovering from his ankle injury. Ricky Rubio jumped out of his seat when the Wolves failed to execute in the fast break. The Wolves are lucky Rubio was willing to resign earlier this season.
- When LaVine twisted his ankle it was quite telling that not a single teammate stayed by or even really went to his side before heading to the locker room. This season and all of the losing is likely leading to a lot of this, but in the back of my mind is the fact that this is a Flip Saunders run team and he has never been known to enforce or instill camaraderie with his club. This isn't going to end well.
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General Assembly: Statement by the German Youth Delegates to the UN
(General Assembly: Statement as delivered by the German Youth Delegates to the UN)
"Distinguished chair, honorable delegates, honorable youth delegates,
Statistcally the world is getting younger, half of the world's populaton is younger than 25. In many western countries however, the situaton is different. The number of young people in Germany has been constantly decreasing, and is hence confronted with a growing number of older people. In 25 years we might have the world's oldest populaton, which is why some fear a "war of the generatons". Demographic change will have a strong impact on our lives. In this situaton intergeneratonal fairness is key! When talking about cooperaton among the generatons, we rarely seem to address the Youth. We talk about the elderly and what society owes them but we do not talk about what they might owe us! Because we, the young people, have to live with the consequences of the their actons: financial crises, social crises, environmental crises. And this is what makes it so important to give a voice to young people!
Partcipation on par is the way to build bridges between the old and the young, disabled or not, families and singles. It is more important that we look at what we have in common than what divides us. Let us support each other and use our synergies .
One of these bonds between the generatons must be our common care for a sustainable planet. Every generaton's duty should be to preserve the world in a way that future generations can live at least as good as present generatons do. This means to live a life without being abused as a child soldier, without being victim of genital mutilaton and without living in a society which does not listen to our demands, our woes, a life with the possibility to choose one's own destiny and the right to freely express one's own opinion. If we want to change our ways, doesn't it make sense to ask everyone how they imagine the world ought to be? If you ask young people living in Germany, you get a many differing answers, respective of their ways of life. But there is one common denominator in all the answers: It is not only ourselves we are thinking of. We think in a global way thanks to the connected, globalized and virtual world we are growing up in. We think in networks which exist on symbiotic principles; we think it is unfair that many of our equals in other countries cannot get work because of the irresponsible behavior of a few; we care about each other, no matter which part of the world we live in. We cared about Malala, the young Pakistani girl who fought bravely for her rights and we grieved for the young Indian woman, whose rights were heinously violated.
We imagine a world which is based upon economic, social and ecological fairness and empathy for each other. We want to live our dream of a fair, inclusive and equal world, but almost no one is listening. We want to shape our common way, together with everyone. That is why we strongly call for global youth rights, which guarantee genuine partcipaton of young people in all parts of politcal decision-making and universal access to primary and higher educaton, which includes a lifelong learning concept and facilitates non-formal educaton.
We appreciate that Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed his first Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhindawi, as one big step towards more youth partcipaton. We expect an intense and transparent communicaton and cooperation among him and Youth Representatves, Youth Organisatons and all young people living in the member states. A youth adequate website as well as active participaton through social media are the basics which must be accompanied by a strong advocating of the Envoy for youth representatives at all UN levels and organs. It is important to mainstream youth issues within the whole UN system!
With the post 2015 process comes a perfect opportunity to start listening to us, the young people. We therefore call for an actve and fast integration of young people in the post 2015 process, as we are concerned that there is no youth representation in the post 2015 High-Level Panel. We want to stress that there has to be an obvious holistic approach regarding the post 2015 agenda. One focal point to create a sustainable world must be a comprehensive implementation of the Rio +20 outcome with special atention to sustainable consumption, renewable energy and educaton for sustainable development. Furthermore we demand to place strong emphasis on social issues. In a sustainable world there is no room for discriminaton of race, religion, sexual orientation or gender. In a sustainable world it should be impossible that we statstically produce enough food for everyone, but that there is a child dying of hunger-related causes every 5 seconds. In a sustainable world everyone would have access to sexual and reproductive health and would be able to universally claim sexual and reproductive rights. There is much work ahead of us and we should not forget that we have yet to reach the Millennium Development Goals. Partcipation is one key to tackle these issues. For a sustainable world a broad society movement based on the same duties and the same rights for everyone has to be means and end.
We met thousands of young people on our tour through Germany and they all want to become involved. They want to improve the situaton within their society to take responsibility for a global society and actually promote change.
This is their message to you: Do not only come to realize that half of the world's populaton is young people - strive to be their partners. Partners for a common goal – a just and solidary world. Stand up for these young people, but do not forget to let them stand up for themselves as well !"


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HOUSTON - Four men faced charges Monday after an officer was hit by an SUV when he tried to break up a fight, officials said.
Clute police said the officer, Sgt. Jimmie Sparks, was off-duty at 2:45 a.m. Sunday at his home in the Sherwood apartments on Lake View Drive in Clute when he heard a commotion from a group outside.
Investigators said Sparks then went outside.
"He stepped out of his apartment to check it out and observed 15, approximately 15 people fighting and using profanity," said Officer Belinda Rickman with the Clute Police Department.
Police said Sparks identified himself as an officer and told the group to leave, but they refused.
As Sparks came down to the parking lot to confront the group, police said four of the men jumped into an SUV.
Police said the driver, Richard Lopez, aimed for Sparks, hitting him with the vehicle and then driving off. But the men did not get far.
"He had his police radio, so he then called for backup, and on-duty officers then arrived at the scene. They blocked the entrance to the apartment complex," Rickman said.
After putting the complex on lockdown, officers launched a search and found the four men still inside the SUV in the parking lot, authorities said.
"They asked the guys to step out of the vehicle, but they refused," Rickman said.
Investigators said officers then tried to pull the men out, but two passengers, Uriel Mejia and Joe Escalante, fought back. Officers then used a Taser gun to subdue them, officials said.
Mejia, Escalante, Lopez and Alberto Soto were arrested.
"When you hit an officer, you are in trouble," Rickman said.
Lopez faces a felony charge of aggravated assault of a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Clute police said their officers suffered minor injuries and are expected to make a full recovery.
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