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Intel Announces Thunderbolt 2 at Computex: 20Gbps Bi-Directional Bandwidth per Channelby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2013 7:18 PM EST
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Poik - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkGiven the implementation on the new Haswell boards it feels as tho thunderbolt is dead. There's no business case for it right now as you'd be insane to bring out a lot of TB based stuff as outside of Apple there's no support. Reply
wicketr - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkAgreed. Until it gets to the point of being really, really fast (PCI Express x16-like) to the point where external graphics cards in a docking station are feasible at comparable speeds, I don't see the point. Reply
boeush - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkSeems to me, external graphics card connections would need not just high bandwidth but low latency; I'd almost say that past a certain practical minimum, low latency becomes much more important than higher bandwidth. It's analogous to the characteristics of your internet connection for online gaming: once you get past a certain minimum bandwidth threshold, what starts to matter most is not more bandwidth but lower ping times (i.e. lower 'lag').
Unless an entire rendering pipeline including all data and logic can fit into the GPU's on-board memory (and execute purely on the GPU), any communication with CPU and load/stores to DRAM would probably be significantly slower over Thunderbolt than over plain PCI Express (due to extra encoding/decoding steps, and extra length of cable.)
I've seen somewhere that Intel plans to eventually move Thunderbolt to a fiber optic implementation, which would help with transmission latency over the cable (and allow for longer cables), but will probably add extra latency due to optical transceivers... so in the end might be a wash. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkIf Apple keeps paying them for the controllers, Intel will keep making and developing the chips. Eventually it will be cheap enough to add in to be relevant in the low-margin PC space. Reply
Dman23 - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkI completely agree. Once Apple implements Thunderbolt into it's Mac Pro and the prices of the cables / controllers continue to become cheaper, which is already happening, TB will become THE choice when it comes to top-of-the-line Interconnect where getting the fastest and reliable speed is key. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkSo, it goes the Firewire road as many have predicted before. Nothing new. Nothing for me. Reply
Dentons - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkThe analogy to Firewire is spot on in nearly every respect.
Formats without enough technical superiority to warrant their tremendous price premium. That few device makers ever adopt due to pricing. Which is nonetheless championed by a small subset of Mac users, while the rest of the world adopt much cheaper rival that is more than good enough for most. Reply
enealDC - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThis! Reply
CalaverasGrande - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkActually Firewire is/was Apple's IP. They charge a licensing fee for every firewire port regardless of whether it is on a pc or mac. TB is Intel's IP. So it probably has a lower fee (if any). I expect Intel is happy just selling the chips and would rather see wider adoption long term, than short term profits. Reply
repoman27 - Saturday, June 08, 2013 - linkActually, FireWire is a trademark held by Apple and freely licensed to third party developers of IEEE 1394 enabled devices who comply with certain guidelines. IEEE 1394 is a serial bus interface standard maintained by the IEEE P1394 Working Group based on an open host controller interface. The standards essential patents required to implement IEEE 1394 are held by 10 corporations including Apple, which was one of the lead designers of the technology, and are licensed as a package by MPEG LA at a rate of 25¢ per finished product, regardless of the number of physical ports.
Thunderbolt is a proprietary Intel technology developed at the behest of Apple, which continues to hold certain standard essential patents related to the technology. The Thunderbolt trademark, although originally registered by Apple was transferred to Intel, and licensing and certification are dictated by Intel. This is one of the most glaring differences between FireWire and Thunderbolt. While FireWire may not be an obviously popular consumer interface, it's actually rather ubiquitous due to its open nature and reasonable licensing arrangement. The closed nature of Thunderbolt and Intel's refusal to allow it to become the interoperable standard that Apple had hoped it would be may result in its undoing sooner rather than later. Reply
Hector2 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkYou really don't have a clue Reply
rangerdavid - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkDrive-by trolling? I'm tempted to agree with every unsubstantiated word! And I'll give you a free "." to end your hastily-typed phrase! Good job! Reply
BMNify - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkThey're still trying to revive this stillborn? Amazing! Say a prayer, bury it and move on already!
USB 3.0 and DisplayPort have won, just stop already Intel! Reply
axien86 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkIt is too expensive to implement on board and for external interfaces, unless you're part of the 1% where money has no boundaries.
Intel should go back to the drawing board... Reply
Sabresiberian - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIt wouldn't be so expensive if Intel would put support for it in their own freakin CPUs.
Seriously. Haswell may be what I'm going to upgrade to when I retire my almost 5-year old X58 system, but it's under protest. 16 PCI lanes, no Thunderbolt, a GPU solution I'll never use and makes overclocking that much harder because Haswell is a bigger chip. Some nice architectural tuning, but not what I want in the bigger picture. Reply
CalaverasGrande - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkFunny, we have an Asus laptop running an external PCIe box over TB. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkSo the aggregate bandwidth is no different, right? Just individual channels are faster, but there's half as many? That's a good thing I suppose, unless you were daisy chaining multiple devices which would be better on multiple channels. Reply
Dentons - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkToo little, too late, too expensive.
USB 3.0 is fast enough for nearly every use case and is orders of magnitude cheaper. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkWell, actually Thunderbolt is generally 5x - 10x more expensive than USB 3.0, which would only be a single order of magnitude, and only in the extreme cases. And Thunderbolt is 2.5x - 8x faster, which makes it worthwhile to the time is money crowd.
While it would have been nice for Intel to have sorted out channel bonding and DP 1.2 support from the get go, it's hardly as if those shortcomings slowed adoption. If Intel has done too little, too late, it's in regards to making the Thunderbolt host controller interface specification available so that it could have a fighting chance of becoming a true interoperable standard. At this rate, as soon as Apple stops buying controllers, Thunderbolt goes out like a proprietary punk bitch. Reply
Dentons - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkIt's often much more than 10 times the price, and that price has to be multiplied for each device, hub, or cable a user may need. The dearth of supported devices is also a major issue.
Combine those factors, and even those with money to burn have very few use cases that could not be handled with USB 3.0, eSATA, or DisplayPort. On paper, TB may have advantages. In the real world, the performance differences may be hardly noticeable.
I fully agree with your conclusion. Whenever Apple tires of driving down this cul de sac, Thunderbolt will suffer a quick death. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkWould you care to point me to a single Thunderbolt device that costs more than 10x what a comparable USB 3.0 product does? While there are some very expensive Thunderbolt products on the market, they are often expensive for reasons other than just the interface. Comparing a Thunderbolt 10GbE interface to a generic USB Ethernet adapter is not really a direct comparison of the cost of Thunderbolt vs USB.
And the cost multiplier remains constant regardless of the number of devices and cables one buys: (n*a)+(n*b)+(n*c) = n*(a+b+c).
There isn't so much a dearth of devices as there is a dearth of devices that you personally require. DP is display only and uses a simplex main link, eSATA is storage centric and tops out at 4.8 Gbit/s or less, and SuperSpeed USB currently hits a wall at 4 Gbit/s. If your application requires more than that, you turn to Thunderbolt. There is also a fair amount of PCI/PCIe to x silicon out there for which no USB to x silicon currently exists. You could argue that most PCIe slots in desktop PCs are useless as well since the majority of users are content plugging devices into the other ports available to them. Reply
Dentons - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - link10x is nothing. How about a 30x price premium? That's how much more you'll pay for Belkin's $300 Thunderbolt hub, or as they say "dock". Sure, it has some add-on features, but most users are never going to use them.
Want a cheaper Thunderbolt hub without the extra ports? The cheapest I've seen is $200.
Face the truth. Most users don't need the features offered. The overwhelming lack of devices and exceptional cost has made Thunderbolt a format with one foot in the grave and the other quickly following. Reply
repoman27 - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkAnd what is it exactly that one is supposed to buy for $10 that is comparable in any way to the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock?
Well, in any event, good luck with your continued trolling. Reply
Dentons - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkOk then, show me a Thunderbolt hub for less than $200? The only hub other than the $300 Belkin seems to be a $200 LaCie. Yes, $200 to $300, for a hub.
If Thunderbolt isn't the dying format I believe it to be, prove me wrong. Why, in the 2 + years since the format's release is there such a dearth of devices? Why does a simple hub cost 20 to 30 times that of a USB hub? Why, two years later are the vast majority of Thunderbolt peripherals a handful of hard drives? Devices that would run equally as fast over far cheaper, existing standards.
Clearly, you don't want to accept the truth, but calling me a troll isn't going to change it. Thunderbolt will be lucky to ever be a 10th as popular as Firewire, and that's saying something. Reply
repoman27 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIf you're not trolling, then you have no idea what you're talking about. There are no "Thunderbolt hubs". What LaCie makes is a daisy-chainable Thunderbolt 2-port eSATA 3Gb/s adapter. LaCie, a company known for making high-priced gear, lists it at $199.00. The cheapest 2-port eSATA 3Gb/s adapters I could find with a quick search of Google shopping and Newegg start at $19.99, i.e. the Thunderbolt version is 10 times more expensive. This is an extreme case, and exactly the one I was considering when I said there were no Thunderbolt devices that cost more than 10x the price of a comparable alternative.
The Thunderbolt docking solutions from Belkin and Matrox are not USB hubs. They're designed so you can quickly and easily plug a single cable into a laptop and by doing so connect it to a display, Gigabit Ethernet, speakers, storage devices, keyboard, mouse, etc. There are a lot of USB 3.0 solutions, most of them based on DisplayLink silicon, that provide similar features. The cheapest one of those I could find is the Kensington sd3000v which you can pick up for $122.09. That makes the Belkin less than 2.5x as expensive, and the USB docks can't do FireWire and require real-time compression / decompression to do display output which results in artifacts and noticeable lag. Furthermore, the Belkin dock is currently one of the very few ways to add USB 3.0 capability to a 2011 Mac.
I'm not out to prove Thunderbolt isn't withering on the vine; it's a technology that has some serious issues to contend with. It just annoys me when folks such as yourself continue to make ridiculous and erroneous claims. For instance, less than a third of the Thunderbolt devices currently available have anything to do with hard drives. If you took the time to check out some of that gear, you'd see why the manufacturers chose Thunderbolt instead of far cheaper, existing standards. Reply
DarkXale - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkYou sure that math is right?
2560(x-res) * 1440(y-res) * 24(bit-depth) * 60(refresh rate) = 5,308,416,000 bits
Thats roughly equal to 4.94 gigabits per display if my math isn't busted. Reply
DarkXale - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkoh damn, where'd this reply run off to? Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkYep. You forgot that CVT even with reduced blanking still requires sending more "pixels" than are actually displayed. There's blanking, front porch, sync and back porch in both the horizontal and vertical dimensions which works out to 2720 * 1481 * 24 * 60 = 5,800,780,800 or near as makes no difference 5.8 Gbit/s. There's no dividing by 1024 here either, 1 Gbit = 1,000,000,000 bits. Reply
wizfactor - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkThis still doesn't solve the cost problem that Thunderbolt faces. I remember when Thunderbolt was first introduced, I couldn't help but feel giddy because external GPUs were now within reach. 2 years later, and we are still no closer to reaching that reality.
It's honestly getting hard to get excited about a mainstream tech (well, mainstream enough to be shipping with every Macbook) that can only be utilised by deep-pocketed professionals. I'm starting to become crazy enough to think that we will see external GPUs running on 10 Gbps USB 3.0 or USB 4.0 before Thunderbolt becomes affordable for mainstream users. Reply
Joel Kleppinger - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkA yawn is the best I can muster. When it costs an extra $50-70 per port/device, it's just not going to happen. Intel has to decide to make it ubiquitous on motherboards to even give it a chance... but it seems like they don't really care.
And if they don't, why should we? Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - link"Current implementations are limited to 10Gbps per channel for data or display, both can't be sent over the same channel."
This... isn't true. You can drive two 2560x1440 displays while writing 440 MB/s to a Thunderbolt RAID with everything daisy chained off of a single port. The two displays alone require 11.6 Gbit/s which is > 10 Gbit/s. Intel has also stated in the past that each direction in each channel can carry display and/or PCIe data. Reply
DarkXale - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkYou sure that math is right?
2560(x-res) * 1440(y-res) * 24(bit-depth) * 60(refresh rate) = 5,308,416,000 bits
Thats roughly equal to 4.94 gigabits per display if my math isn't busted. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkSo actually following the link to Intel's PR spiel yields: "Current versions of Thunderbolt...are limited to an individual 10Gbs channel each for both data and display..." Which is not terribly clear, but I believe is actually trying to say that Thunderbolt devices can currently only make use of a single 10Gbit/s channel at a time. Reply
Zandros - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkYeah, I was wondering about that too.
Also, apparently Anand is expecting Apple to go 2560x1440@2x instead of 4k. 20 Gbit/s isn't enough for that, so…? Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkWhat's the licensing fee? Infinity bagillion dollars Intel? Reply


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Family of abducted teen saying thanks
The family of a teen recently abducted from outside Fox's Reach Pub will be holding a function there on Feb. 10 to thank everyone involved in their daughter's safe return.
The 17-year-old Westview student was approached by a young man on Saturday, Jan. 19, and he asked for help starting his car. He then pulled a pistol, and ordered her to drive away from the Westgate Mall in her car.
He took her to a remote area of Maple Ridge, and severely assaulted her. The teen managed to survive and escape, getting help at a nearby house.
Police released images of the suspect caught by a security camera, and on Tuesday, Jan. 22 he was arrested in Vancouver.
Maple Ridge police expressed appreciation for the quick and accurate information provided by members of the public, leading to the arrest of the accused.
Surrey resident Ian James William Campbell, 25, has been charged with kidnapping using a weapon, choking to overcome resistance, assault causing bodily harm and unlawful confinement.
"The family really wants to thank everybody," said Jennifer Strain, a family friend and the organizer of the event. "They especially want to thank the couple who opened their door for her that night, and the police, and members of the public who put in tips."
The victim was in hospital overnight, with injuries that were not life threatening, but battered and traumatized. Her jaw was so sore that she couldn't open her mouth to eat.
"She was pretty beat up, that little girl," said Strain. "It's amazing what's she's gone through, but she's still here."
The girl had bought a 1993 red Honda Civic just two weeks prior to her abduction. When the family picked it up from police impound, they found it had been doused with gasoline. What's more, the car brings the assault back for the girl.
"She doesn't even want to see the car," said Strain.
The Feb. 10 event will be attended by staff of Fox's Reach, other businesses at Westgate Mall, police and other people by invitation.
Strain hopes the event will help the girl put the incident behind her.
"We want to make it fun, too," she said.
"There's an outpouring of love and support that's coming her way."

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If maggot cheese balls and fruit bat soup is on your menu, you may want to consider swapping the soup for a classic chicken noodle and the cheese balls for a traditional cube of cheddar.
If maggot cheese balls and fruit bat soup is on your menu, you may want to consider swapping the soup for a classic chicken noodle and the cheese balls for a traditional cube of cheddar.
Unless your goal is to scare your guests away before dessert, stay away from any gag-inducing or gross-looking foods that they may not be accustomed to.
And while we're all for watching people with daring taste buds dig in to some of the world's grossest grub, some of these shocking dishes are sure to leave most guests feeling slightly nauseated.
Birds Nest Soup - Sure we're accustomed to using chicken broth in our soups, but the Chinese have taken it one step further and incorporated an actual bird's nest into their Birds Nest Soup. Your guests may prefer a more traditional serving of chicken noodle soup.
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Ikizakana - Sushi lovers may appreciate the flavor of raw fish, but this Japanese Ikizakana sashimi dish puts a new meaning to the word fresh. The fish is killed so recently that it is served while still twitching. Certainly not for the faint at heart.
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Fruit Bat Soup - Another broth we can't say we're totally crazy about trying – this soup is served with a unique fruit eating bat floating at the bottom. Scientists say regular consumption of bats is harmful, but we're sure just one bite wouldn't hurt if you're not super grossed out yet!
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Balut - We may use eggs in most breakfast foods and dessert recipes, but our eggs are usually fetus-free. This dish is essentially a boiled egg with a duck fetus inside, served traditionally in the Philippines.
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Casu Marzu - If you're planning on serving a classy wine and cheese party, we suggest leaving the Casu Marzu off the menu. Your guests might be shocked at the tiny maggots floating around in their cheese.
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Jellied Moose Nose - Because of Alaska's fierce weather, a plush green farm housing cow and chickens are a rarity. The natives of Alaska have turned to other food sources and gotten creative with recipes like this Jellied Moose Nose. Certainly not the choice for a classy dinner party.
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Hasma - is an ingredient commonly used by the Chinese in dessert recipes. It is made from the fallopian tubes of a particular breed of frog.
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Cockscomb - This unique treat is made using the red dangly part under a rooster's beak (cockscomb). A dish served better on fear factor than at dinner.
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Black pudding - This pudding is less of a creamy dessert and more of a meaty sausage. With a nickname like blood sausage, it's not hard to guess that it's main ingredient is blood.
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Holodets (Jellied Meat) - Eastern Europeaners spend hours boiling and mixing this celebratory jellied meat dish, but we don't recommend serving your guests this unique dish without warning. The ingredients vary based on chef, but the main staples include items such as pigs feet and veal shanks.
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The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), Bank of America, FORTUNE and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are proud to announce that they have selected three Phoenix-area companies for their annual Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) program. This year the program received a record-setting 5,200 company nominations from across the country and selected 178 companies for participation. Especially critical in today's economic climate, ICCC identifies inner city businesses in need of growth capital, educates them on the sources of capital, and matches them with capital providers in order to grow their businesses and create jobs.
The three Phoenix-area companies selected include:
- 360 Vantage, 360vantage.com
- Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc, cplc.org
- Welch Companies Inc, welchcompanies.com
Each of these companies was selected for the program because of its strong growth potential and commitment to the inner city.
ICCC, co-founded with Bank of America, educates inner city entrepreneurs on how to access capital and matches them with capital providers. To do this, the program offers selected companies web-based training workshops, coaches to help perfect company pitches, a day-long information session on equity and other forms of growth financing, and an innovative one-day event that directly connects them with investors to make pitches and discuss potential opportunities.
"There is a lack of capital availability in America's inner cities," stated Mary Kay Leonard, ICIC President and CEO. "In fact, 71 percent of inner city businesses have, on average, only a quarter of the capital needed to compete on average in their industries. For many urban entrepreneurs, ICCC helps open the door to a network of financial options that they had limited or no access to previously."
The program is free to the inner city businesses, and 178 companies from across the country have been selected to participate in this year's program. To qualify, a business must be located in the inner city (defined as an area of concentrated economic distress) or have a disproportionate percent of its employees residing in such an area. In addition, a company must have $2 million in revenue. The companies selected for the program represent numerous industries including technology, food and beverage, consumer goods, business and professional services, and manufacturing.
Since its inception in 2005, 375 inner city companies and 150 capital providers have participated in ICCC. Participating companies have raised more than $703 million in capital and created more than 5,694 jobs in their communities.
"ICCC demonstrates that growing inner companies, if given the access to capital, can generate the jobs and wealth that are crucial to the transformation of our urban communities," explained Edward Powers, Managing Director of Bank of America BAML Capital Access Fund. "We are proud to help these growing businesses connect with a vast network of capital providers."
The meetings with potential investors will be held on November 9, 2012 at the headquarters of FORTUNE.


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Bacteria is a group of living beings that reproduce very rapidly. They can take a new form and reach millions in number in a matter of minutes. These living beings employ various mechanisms in order to reproduce. In order to "see" their enemies, their use of sonar-like systems and speech bubbles are only a few of these complex mechanisms.
Unlike from plants and animals, bacteria are a large group of microorganisms that rapidly produce. In terms of their bio-chemical influences, they are very important in maintaining the balance of the world of living beings. Bacteria may live almost everywhere. That is why they are accepted to be the most populated living beings of the world. Bacteria, which have impact on human life in many ways communicate with one another by using very advanced communication systems. Bacteria that have various impacts on human life employ highly developed communication systems to communicate with one another.
Communicating By Sending Packages
The methods bacteria employ to communicate with one another are highly interesting. Some bacteria send one another messages of friendship while some others send packages with bombs. This incredible packaging system uses signals; a very different form of communication other than the system established with chemicals. These signals are in the form of balloons that include messages.
How do these messages carried?
Bacteria wrap these messages with a thin membrane of bacteria. Packages are in the form of ballonets similar to bubbles. These bubbles ensure the communication among bacteria when conditions are proper or, depending on the needs of the moment, carry toxin to the enemy in the form of a bomb package.
Some interesting points deserve mention here.
*While the package prepared by the bacteria ensures communication with other bacteria, how does it suddenly become harmful when it meets an enemy?
*How does the bacterium understand that the one approaching it is a friend or a foe?
*Can a single-celled microorganism think all of these, make trials, learn and then communicate them to the other members of its own species?
*Surely this is not possible. This being the case, all these details show us some of the evidence of glorious artistry of All-Mighty Allah. All-Mighty Allah creates the bacteria that perform these operations. The artistry of All-Mighty Allah's creation and His knowledge is infinite.
Why do the enemies of the bacteria fall into error?
By this system of packaging, bacteria makes benefit of another method of protection. The bubbles that come out of the bacteria membrane and enclose it is perceived by the enemies almost as a bacteria colony. While the microbe colony which will give harm tries to understand whether the bacteria is alone or it is surrounded by its fellows a certain period of time passes. Meanwhile the bacteria gains time to get prepared for the toxin bombardment.
At this point new questions that need to be answered emerge. For instance, while bacteria form these bubbles;
*How is it known that bubbles can be interpreted by its foes as a bacteria colony?
* Who gave this knowledge to them?
*How can microbes that will give harm to bacteria estimate that bacteria possess such a mechanism?
The answer to all these questions point at a perfect creation. All of the complex systems mentioned above are the signs of Allah's infinite might and superior creation.
Say: 'Travel about the earth and see how He brought creation out of nothing. Then later Allah will bring about the next existence. Allah has power over all things. (Surat al-'Ankabut, 20)
All-Mighty Allah endowed bacteria that are invisible to the naked eye a superior consciousness and a quick-wit. Bacteria can determine developments that human beings fail to notice, and even estimate beforehand, and acts proactively. It is not possible, as evolutionists claim, to explain all of these by chance for it is impossible to explain that the first bacteria came into existence "by chance." It is an approach distant to science to claim that bacteria was influenced by conditions in an utterly uncontrolled environment by chance while there are no symptoms of life, that it suddenly began to breathe, that it abruptly went through some changes, and that it acquired its current attributes. The science and technology of our century discovered these miraculous features of bacteria one by one and thus reveal the hoax of evolution theory. Every feature we come across in living beings will be a way to discover Allah's flawless artistry in a living being invisible to the naked eye and to appreciate it. This fact is revealed in the Qur'an thus:
And in your creation and all the creatures He has spread about there are Signs for people with certainty. (Surat al-Jathiyya, 4)
Stephen C. Winans, "Microbiology: Bacterial speech bubbles," Nature, 437, 330 (15 September 2005) | doi: 10.1038/437330a.
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Guest books are not for everyone, and sometimes a lot of the ideas we see can take up time that your guests should be spending with you at your cocktail hour or reception. Here are four ideas that are time sensitive, and quite fun!
1. Mad Libs ~
Quick and easy for the guests to fill out, but each one will have it's own unique touch to it!
2. Photo Booth Pics ~
Have your photo booth company can print two copies of each photo booth session, have your guests put them into a photo album and sign their names.
3. Sign a Balloon ("Up!" inspired guest book) ~
You've seen the idea of having your guest sign leaves on your marriage tree, but this idea is so cute, especially if you loved the movie, "Up!".
4. Inspiration from Love Poems ~
This idea is for a couple who loves poems, or phrases from a certain novel. I love this concept. It allows the guest to share words of wisdom without having to think of something unique and witty (not all of us are quick thinkers on this type of thing).


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The New York Times' Nick Bilton declared this week on Twitter that "my iPhone running iOS 7 crashes more today than my computer running Windows 95 did 15 years ago." I can't speak to Windows 95's crash rate in 1999, but I can tell you that iOS 7 isn't crashing more often than its predecessor, iOS 6.
Bilton's stated experience hasn't matched my own experience running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4, third-generation iPad, and both generations of the iPad Mini, nor that of the many iOS users I know. But Bilton isn't the only person complaining about iOS 7 crashes -- so I asked the folks at Crittercism to examine their application logs to see what's the deal.
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Crittercism, which provides application performance management tools, monitors more than 10,000 apps across 800 million-plus users, clocking about 30 billion application loads a month across mobile platforms. It has a very large sample of the iOS world, covering about 7 billion app loads a month, and if there were a big shift in application crashes due to iOS 7, Crittercism would see it. (Apple declined to comment on iOS 7 app crashes, though it has said it is working to fix a rarer, unrelated home-screen crash issue via a future update.)
After running the numbers for InfoWorld, Crittercism found that the current crash rate for iOS 7 applications over the last 30 days is about 1.27 percent, versus a crash rate for iOS 6 of 1.16 percent in September 2013, before iOS 7's debut and when iOS 6 apps were at their most stable overall. In other words, the rates are basically the same after factoring in relative maturity, says Kalyan Ramanathan, Crittercism's chief marketing officer.
One theory for the surge in crash complaints has centered around the fact that iOS 7 is a 64-bit operating system, but most iOS devices in use are 32-bit, so their apps run in iOS 7's 32-bit mode. (Only the iPhone 5s, iPad Air, and second-generation iPad Mini use 64-bit A7 processors and can run apps in 64-bit mode.) But Crittercism's analysis shows that is not likely a factor: The 64-bit iPhone 5s and 32-bit iPhone 5 have nearly identical crash rates, within a hundredth of a percentage of each other.
But Crittercism did find that some apps are more susceptible than others to crashes: Gaming apps in iOS 7 had a crash rate of about 2.47 percent, about double the average for all apps, and media apps (those that play video and audio) had crash rates of about 1.6 percent, whereas other apps -- for social media, news, utility, productivity, and so on -- had rates equal to or less than the average. Ramanathan theorizes the buffering loads for such content maybe why gaming and media apps are more prone to crashes than other apps.


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The economy is shedding jobs faster than a black lab sheds hair. At last count, some 12.5 million Americans were out of work.
For many frustrated job seekers, getting a resume in front of decision makers seems daunting as responses from potential employers become rare and job offers rarer still.
While it may be fair to point to the economy as the main reason why it's taking so long to bag a job, a key stumbling block could actually be your resume.
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A clinic thousands of miles away in Africa has been named in memory of a Colchester student.
The largest clinic of its kind in Namibia has been named after Catherine Bullen, a medical student who died in the country in 2002.
The clinic in Oshivelo replaces the former centre where Catherine was taken after becoming seriously ill with severe gastro-enteritis.
Catherine, a former student at Colchester County High School for Girls, tragically died aged 22.
Since then her parents, Roger and Linda, supported by family and friends, have tirelessly fundraised in her memory.
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The Race Against Hunger is a national service-learning campaign that unites students in the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. Tapping into the great potential of youth to become powerful agents of change, the Race Against Hunger aims to engage students in learning about the causes of global hunger and inspire them to become part of the solution.
Last year, nearly 11,000 students from more than 40 schools in 12 states across the U.S. and Canada joined this student campaign to end global hunger. These students helped raise awareness about global malnutrition while securing the funds needed to fight this preventable disease. Their efforts helped support Action Against Hunger in our mission to save the lives of malnourished children around the world.
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- Ridge Academy in Chicago extended the educational component of the campaign with a series of student research projects focusing on countries where Action Against Hunger works. After presenting to fellow classmates, students shared a meal of traditional foods from each country.
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- P.S. #5 in Paterson, NJ, better known as The Great School #5, orchestrated a day-long, event for the entire Paterson community. Joined by the mayor, the sheriff and other community leaders, the 600 students opened the Race Against Hunger with a street parade and continued with various festivities throughout the day.
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Hi everyone, I've basically made this thread to have a rant about the way Hogwarts Castle has been changed so much over the course of the film series, but also to talk about the new design seen in the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II.The new Hogwarts is shown here:Prisoner of Azkaban to Order of the Phoenix:
As you can see, what seems to be the Viaduct has become much longer and comes completely infront of the castle. We don't know if this is maybe just a mistake as they could be still editing, but it really made me extremely mad to see it. Why can't they just keep Hogwarts the same as it was, at lest from Half-Blood Prince when they added the Astronomy Tower. I really don't see what was the problem with the castle they came up with in Philosopher's Stone.
Hopefully someone else on here is as mad as I am. Anyone?
Joeworthy 15:36, June 8, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think it's a new Hogwarts. I can see what you mean, but i think, it's another view; another viaduct
- ƃuıuɹoɥʇ(Send me an owl) 15:40, June 8, 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, Warner Bros. changed a lot through the films, but I can't see the reason either... Maybe there is a explanation in the film (but I don't tink so)...??--ƃuıuɹoɥʇ(Send me an owl) 17:31, June 8, 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. This is driving me mad too... It noticed it the first time I saw the trailer, but I hope it will be OK in the final movie. I can understand some changes, but the viaduct and the main tower have stayed there for 10 years, why can't they put them in the final chapter?--El Profeta Vespertino 13:35, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I agree that it is stupid to keep changing Hogwarts. But, think about it: In DH, Harry is 'killed' by Voldemort in the forest. He is then taken to the school, where a fight takes place, and then the dual in the Great Hall. Currently, the only way from the forest to the school is via the clocktower bridge - which is nowhere near the great hall. The 'new viaduct' bridge is probably a link between the entrance cortyard and the grounds, thus allowing Harry to be taken the the Entance Hall where he can escape and then kill Voldemort. 18.104.22.168 14:43, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I understand that it maybe beacuse there is no way to connect the Great Hall with the Forbidden Forest, and that this would sort it out.
- However, they never bothered to change the castle because of parts of the book before. Just think about Half-Blood Prince: Harry leaves the Gryffindor Tower after taking the Veritaserum and says he's going to "Hagrids". He then makes his way down to the Greenhouses on the complete opposite side of the catle before then going back to Hagrid's Hut when they would have had to go back through the Clock Tower and over the Covered Bridge!!! This completely makes no sense, but no-one has ever complained about it.
- Therefore, I'm sure nobody would have mind just seeing everyone walking back through the forest and then we cut to them walk through the Entrance Courtyard and into the Great Hall. I know I would much rather see that than them having to completely redesign Hogwarts ONCE AGAIN!!!
- Also, I don't actually think that this is the old Viaduct being moved, I think it's just a new one coming out from outside the Viaduct Entrance and then going onto the cliff. The old one is hopefully still there. PHEW!
- Does anyone else think I'm going into this in a bit to much deatil?? It just makes me REALLY MAD!!!
- Joeworthy 15:27, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- It makes me mad too, but I agree that they are changing the Viaduct to connect the entrance hall with the forest. However, in the sixth film, we can see Snape leaving the castle and walking across the Great Hall (he had come from the Astronomy Tower). So, don't worry. ;)
- --El Profeta Vespertino 15:44, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Does anybody know who has changed the Hogwarts Castle -> Behind the Scenes -> Deathly Hallows section. It says: " The Entrance Courtyard has been enlarged. This was likely done by renovating the Transfiguration Courtyard from Half Blood Prince. It is likely the designers removed the Astronomy Tower Base and inserted the Great Hall entrance. The Central Tower has been shortened. The boat house now has a new design". Does anybody know where the info comes from?
- --El Profeta Vespertino 15:44, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't have a clue where this info comes from and it all makes no sense what so ever to me. Especially the part about the Transfiguration Courtyard and Astronomy Tower. It was added by an Unredistered Contributer (18.104.22.168) and so I guess we can safely say that it has been made up.
- In this image, on the right, we can see the Astronomy Tower (the tallest one); the Central Tower (the big point just in front of it); the two Bell Towers (the two next to each other at the back); what presumably is the Training Grounds Tower (the shortest one at the back); and the round tower to the right of the Viaduct Entrance. So, these Towers all seem to be in their correct locations from where we ended in Half-Blood Prince, along with the Grand Staircase Tower, Great Hall and Boathouse.
- Thank God none of these have been changed as I literally would have SCREAMED.
- Joeworthy 16:13, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- By the way, I think they have changed the little circular building near the Entrance Courtyard and the Great Hall (I think it is too far away from the courtyard). This could mean that they have changed the courtyard as well... ( I'm sorry ;) ). Am I right?
- --El Profeta Vespertino 23:30, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, I didn't notice that. It's definitely changed from when it was in Order of the Phoenix. I guess that could mean that the area outside the Great Hall including the Entrance Courtyard has been changed.
- I wish they could have given us an image of Hogwarts without all the fire around it, and then we'd be able to see what they've actually done. But, I guess we've got to wait another year and 5 days before its all clear (unless they show it in another trailer).
- Joeworthy 19:43, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Just thought I'd add on here a couple more of the changes which have been noticed. The window pattern on the side of the Great Hall have been changed; on the right tower next to the Viaduct Entrance, the turret has been made taller; the area between the Central Tower and Bell Towers (where the Transfiguration Courtyard is) seems to have just dissappeared; and the Bell Towers seem to be lower than they were.
- Has anyone else noticed anything?
- Joeworthy 08:55, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
Also, does anyone know which is the courtyard in this picture (on the left) and which tower is this (on the right)? They could be the renovated Entrance Courtyard and the Astronomy/Central Towers, or a completely new tower--El Profeta Vespertino 21:34, June 27, 2010 (UTC)
- Now, these new images have really made me mad, however I guess we're going to have to live with it. We can now see that the Viaduct has most definitely been moved to at the end of the Entrance Courtyard. I hope that the film-makers have an exteremly good and reasonable explaination for why they felt this was unavoidable; or they could just really not care about the continuity of the series and only care that they think it looks good - but that's a totally different subject altogether.
- However, it looks as if the Viaduct Entrance is still going to be visible, and so maybe we can hope that our old Viaduct will not have been altered and the new one is a completely different one altogether. So, I'm going to make a new article separating the two of them (if I have no objections, of course).
- Another bit I'm concerned about is the area in the middle of the picture: in between the Grand Staircase Tower and Viaduct Entrance. This has definitely changed at least a small ammount since we last saw it as the towers seem to have got taller.
- About the courtyard in the "fire" photo, I really have no idea where it could be! My initial thought was the Entrance Courtyard, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
- Anyway, we all lived through the massive re-desing of Prisoner of Azkaban and we can't stop them from doing anything else as they have now finished filming and ultimately made up their minds.
- Sorry about giving another lecture about this! Joeworthy 15:55, June 28, 2010 (UTC)
- ENTRANCE COURTYARD: It has been enlarged. Also, an archway opposite to the Entrance Hall doors connects it to the New Viaduct and the floor has been modified. It is unknown whether it is still linked with the Viaduct Entrance by the Old Viaduct or the two Viaducts are the same. Possible reasons: They wanted a bigger courtyard to film the Battle of Hogwarts scenes.
- VIADUCT ENTRANCE: The four towers around it have been made bigger. It is unknown whether it is still linked with the Entrance Courtyard by the Old Viaduct or the two Viaducts are the same. Possible reasons: There is no reason for them to do this, just like the Training Grounds Tower change in Half-Blood Prince.
- PAVED COURTYARD: One of the towers around the courtyard (the one connected to the Stone Bridge) has been enlarged. A new 'brige' or something similar has been added to the tower, connecting it to a completely new little tower. Possible reasons: The scene on the right could be located there.
- BOATHOUSE: It has a new design. I don't know how the Unredistered Contributer (18.104.22.168) managed to predict it when he/she added it to the Hogwarts Castle page weeks ago. Possible reasons: Unknown.
- HOGWARTS TOWERS: The Astronomy Tower is still there, the Bell Towers too. It seems that the Central Tower has been modified, but I am not sure. Possible reasons: Unknown.
- NEW VIADUCT: It has been created. An archway connects it to the Entrance Courtyard, opposite to the Entrance Hall doors. Possible reasons: The film-makers wanted to connect the Entrance Courtyard to the Forbidden Forest to film Harry's death. We found this picture on the right of the set months ago but we didn't know that it actually was the New Viaduct. It is supposed that some scenes will be located there as the set was built.
- OTHER BUILDINGS: It is unknown which other locatations will appear, but it seems that the Covered Bridge entrance will make an appearance, as the set was shown (see picture on the right). Possible reasons: Voldemort's entrance to Hogwarts or a different Battle of Hogwarts scene.
--El Profeta Vespertino 12:13, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
- I think you guys are getting way too worked up about this. They are minor details from the movie set. None of the general public will mind these subtle changes. And, didn't JKR once say she thought the rooms in the castle shifted a little? That was her cover up for her inconsistencies from rooms changing from one floor to the next. Come on, it's Hollywood... It's Magic... Of course it is going to be flawed. It is not a really building, it is not going to stay put. Sorry, but I needed to rant a little bit. 188.8.131.52 03:41, June 30, 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry about this, but here we go again! WB have just released their first promotional poster for the final movies here:
- Here we can see that the Viaduct (I) is in its exact location from the previous movies and there is no sign of the new one. Do we think its just another mistake?
- Also, we can see that they've decided to burn down the Headmaster's office whcih would mean the trio wouldn't be able to go and speak to Dumbledore after the Battle
- Joeworthy 08:31, July 3, 2010 (UTC)
- Firstly, I think this is not footage from the final film and is just a promotional image with the beta Hogwarts that has nothing to do with the Hogwarts we will see in The Deathly Hallows. Secondly, I don´t think the trio wouldn't be able to go to speak to the Headmaster's office; I really think the filmmakers won't care about the burning of the tower and will put the scene.
- I was also wondering where is the boathouse, as we can see in this image. If you watch closely at the staircase, it seems to be divided into two and we can't see it in the promotional image. But don't worry as it appeared redesigned in the trailer.
- El Profeta Vespertino 14:16, July 3, 2010 (UTC)
Although it is driving me mad too i know the answer. during the shooting there was an entirior scene of hogwartrs catching fire. during the take the set caught on fire. so they decided on making a new set
Well I made a possible layout for the new viaduct. I'm really mad about this maybe it's too early to judge their decision. We still have more or less 6 months till part 2 arrives. Well, it's just sad...
Here's the Layout.(Sorry for poor representation)
I think the new viaduct is an extention of the old one. It seems to reach the right viaduct tower, then turns left to the viaduct enterance and straight to the forest. The pictures of the explosions on the viaduct from the trailer seem to show this. Anyone agree? Hschweinlin: LUMOS! 00:22, February 26, 2011 (UTC)


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The Plain Dealer's message was basically that the electric power network is more reliable today than it was in 2003. The DOE report's message was basically that the state of the grid puts the entire network at serious risk.
While the improvements reported in The Plain Dealer are worth celebrating, the risks described by the DOE also are worthy of serious consideration.
According to the DOE report, about 679 power outages occurred nationwide between 2003 and 2012, primarily because of severe weather. Evidently, in 2012, power outages that affected 50,000 or more people in the United States occurred 65 times. In 2011, there were 109 such outages.
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It is a really good thing that improvements to the grid in Northeast Ohio have made it more reliable today than it was 10 years ago. But at the same time, other and more fundamental improvements also need to be made to ensure that the region's businesses continue to get the reliable, available and low cost power they want and need to compete in the long run.
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August 12, 2010, 1:30-3:30 PM
The meeting was called to order at 1:30 PM by Chairperson Ted Carter
Members in Attendance: Gene Barker, Susan Bradley, Ted Carter, Terry Ferebee, Eunice Michalka, Ben Myers, Lucille Schmitt, Roger Svendsen
Members Excused Absences. All other members had excused absences.
Larimer County Representation: County Commissioners Lew Gaither, III, Rob Helmick, LARCO Planning, and Denny Larue, LARCO Community Information Manager
Guests Present: Terri Donnelly and Pat Bradley
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Communications from Committee Members : The members discussed the current vacancy on the RFLPAC and the possibility of another vacancy in the near future. RFL community members are encouraged to apply for membership with the Larimer County Board of County Commissioners www.co.larimer.co.us/boards/#apply deadline is October 4, 2010. Ted Carter recommended that current PAC members encourage community members to apply.
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Comments from the Audience : None
Action Item: None
1. Public Road centerline project update. Rob Helmick advised that the County has received the plans; there are still some monumentation and labeling issues; the final product may be available in September 2010. This project was to do nothing more than identify the centerline of the traveled way of the nine identified roadway segments and to provide as much monumentation documentation as possible and reasonable. Ted Carter recommended that when the project is completed, a copy of the plan be placed in the RFL Library.
2. Rod Helmick advised the PAC that he didnt received any information from DOLA pertaining to community water/sewer issues.
Discussion Item :
1. Update on water
· -Gene Barker advised the PAC that the RFL Storage and Irrigation Company will have their yearly stockholders meeting in September 2010. The PAC membership discussed the issue of RFLs water and sanitation and how to get some movement of this project as the water rights are owned by RFL Storage and Irrigation Company, and as such, the PAC greatly needs the assistance and guidance of the RFL Storage and Irrigation Company Board and stockholders. Gene Barker advised that he has discussed this issue with the Board. Gene further advised that the leadership of the Board will change in September 2010.
· Susan Bradley made a motion that the PAC send a letter to the RFL Storage and Irrigation Company requesting their assistance in addressing the RFL water and sanitation concerns. Gene Barker seconded the motion and all PAC members approved the motion. Roger Svendsen, Lucille Schmitt and Ted Carter will draft the letter. Roger Svendsen will present and discuss the letter to the RFL Storage and Irrigation Company Board and stockholders.
2. Susan Bradley reminded the PAC that when they quote the Red Feather Lakes Area Plan they need to be specific to what the Plan actually states and not generalize.
RFLPAC meeting adjourned at 3:07 PM
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AnandTech Search goes Googleby Jason Clark on 9/5/2005 9:41 PM EST
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bellwether - Thursday, November 29, 2007 - linkThis is a great starting point for search for small businesses. Google's algorithm is effective, but the problem is that the result page sends the user to the Google Mini itself (so they leave your website), and it is in Google's format. XSLT is supposed to help you modify this, but doesn't do that good of a job.
This http://www.components4asp.net/GoogleMini/">custom google mini website search page has something for ASP.NET that lets you add in image thumbnails to the search result and integrate the search into a regular ASPX page that's part of your website. Plus, there's a 30 day free trial. Definitely worth taking a look at. Reply
fzkl - Saturday, September 10, 2005 - linkThe dell memory is probably used because it has life time warranty. Reply
mini - Friday, September 09, 2005 - linkWhat is the OS used in the Google Mini?
Could you please post more administration snapshots?
Tks Reply
Eirikur - Friday, September 09, 2005 - linkI suspect some of your problems with the Full Text Search feature of SQL server might be related to how it breaks text into words and sentences. The word breaker will break by punctuation which is horrendous when it comes to version numbers. The word breaker will look at a version number like "2.0" and decide that "2" and "0" are two separate words in different sentences. Then it will throw both away since it ignores single letter words. In a version number like "2.82.1" only "82" will get indexed. Reply
jberry - Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - linkDoes anyone know how the Google mini counts the 100K page limit with dynamic websites?? Reply
fishy - Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - link
So...When are going to overclock this thing?
ok, just k/d.... Reply
PassMark - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkThere are much cheaper solutions around that you can run on your existing hardware and have similar performance without a limit of 100,000 pages.
The http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/">Zoom Search Engine for $99
Brickster - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkI imagine there are certain documents that you would want only certain users to have access to. How do you control access to the documents that Google has indexed? Does it just return everything despite and document-specific, access security policy? Reply
Verdant - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkhence why the pricetag on the big brother is next to useless imho...
i can't see anyone using anything besides the mini for indexing something like a website, for knowledgebases and the like you need a lot more than just a way to search. Reply
Brickster - Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - linkDude, you should see our company. A full featured search engine alone based on Google would do wonders for our cess pool of organization that is our intranet and file servers. For some, that is enough. Reply
zmagaw - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkthere are a few methods - including creating separate collections by user type filtering out or in urls by pattern matching Reply
Brickster - Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - linkActually, I found you can achieve that with an upgrade... of course :)
Here is the Appliance feature:
Secure Content API - Search across secure content using Google's Authorization API to integrate into existing access control systems.
Looks like the Mini doesn't support secured content. Reply
zmagaw - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkwe signed a non-disclosure that said we couldnt open the google search appliances... although the hardware looks simple and run of the mill... the software is not... a lot of open source stuff on that puppy but execution is everything... the support we got though was horrible... 2 day respose times... so not easy because the software is full of bugs that are not easily diagosed... hardware failures - disks... and speedy google working with large corporations has been seen as a daunting task for the bright people at Google Reply
nadirshakur - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkWhat is the warranty on these puppies. Hey didn't Anandtech void there's by opening it like that and showing the whole world they did. Reply
flatblastard - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkThats okay, if the RAM/CPU goes bad, I'll sell them my old p3 450Mhz system I got laying around for spare parts. Heck, I'll even give them a sweet deal.....$1999.95 and I'll even throw in Windows 98 (not SE)..... ;) Reply
deathwalker - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkIs this really important when it comes to your experience when visiting the AnandTech website? I guess I'll get blasted for that statement!! So much really good stuff that could be the news of the day...this article is just cannon foder...something to fill the need for a new article to read on this day. Reply
Jason Clark - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkGuys, we don't crawl every day :) It crawls 3-4 times a week, since large articles are on the front page, searching for them is pretty unnecessary. Reply
Gooberslot - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkIs it normal for servers to give you no control like that? I wouldn't want anything that had a bios password that I couldn't change.
I'm also surprised that you can even get a P3 or a P3 motherboard anymore. Reply
zmagaw - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linki think when you are buying appliances yes... the reason google does this... you would be able to decompile their software on that hard-drive which is formatted in a google HD format - or so I have heard Reply
smn198 - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkYou could remove BIOS password but then you loose all the BIOS info as well and maybe they are doind something special there. Reply
Calin - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkPentium III processors are still offered in those 1U servers. The reason would be (probably) cheap price for good performance and lower thermal load than any other competitive Intel processors.
Low thermal load helps a lot for dual processors servers. Reply
flatblastard - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkNot only a p3 mobo, but PC133 ram labeled for DELL!?!? I guess Google is buying up all the old junk and putting it to good use. Reply
bhtooefr - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkHeck, I've got a Dell PowerEdge 350 (1U, single 850 P3, i440BX chipset) sitting in front of me, and the RAM's not even labelled Dell... Reply
flatblastard - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkmaking a fortune in the process.... Reply
brownba - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkOk, so I tested it with this query:
google mini search server
- it came back with 18700 useless results.
I also tried the title of the article:
anandtech search goes google
- 712 useless results
how long does it take to crawl?
glennpratt - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkI'm guessing jason clark meant to reply to you. Reply
Rock Hydra - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkI like it. I tested it out and got the returns I was expecting. Very Google-y style. Now if they implemented something this well into the forums search....maybe another day. Reply
TheInvincibleMustard - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkSo, naturally, I searched for iram ... returned zero results, but it did suggest i-ram as a possibility. So I clicked that link ...
doh ... "I" is a very common word and so was not included in my search, meaning all I actually wound up searching for is "RAM" (of which there was several thousand entires, and not one of the top few was actually about the I-RAM product), so perhaps a bit more tweaking is in order ;-)
Granted, though, the search did only take 0.02 seconds! :-D Reply
dvinnen - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkI was playing around with it to. Did the i-ram search also, the first artical presented was an artical from 1997 about memory terms (think EDO). The actuall i-ram artical was actually the forth result presented. Hell, just a google search gives it as the 4th link in all the internets. Defently could use some tweaking (give added weight based on the date of the artical?) but looks to be a step up from the useless one built into SQL server you were useing. Reply
glennpratt - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkDid you read my post?
Did you click on the link that says 'i is a common word and was excluded' in the search? That would have given you a couple of choices on what to do to fix it. Reply
glennpratt - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkAdd quotes when you wan't a common word included, ie:
http://search.anandtech.com/search?q=%22i-ram%22&a...">"i-ram" Reply
Jeff7181 - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkI like the article... but more importantly, AnandTech Search isn't completely useless anymore. Reply
Lifted - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkHell, he will f---ing kill you! Reply
Hi - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linki guess anand is dead
:( Reply
Verdant - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkat $3,000 it is a pretty good deal, but the 100,000 limitation is, well, a huge limitation, and the $30,000 pricetag on it's big brother is not that competitive with software solutions/crawlers.... especially since IT can only search 500,000 documents. Reply
Googer - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkAre you kidding? It's a freaking P3 1.26GHz! I could Do much better for Two grand. Reply
rajivdx - Friday, September 09, 2005 - linkMake no mistake about it its bloody fast!! It makes the rest of the Anandtech site look *absolutely* slow by comparision. Reply
Verdant - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkyou've never looked at the prices of database software licenses, developers or content management packages before, have you? Reply
Calin - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkThere are two processors in fact - and you could buy something like that (no hardware) for $1,500 easily (maybe not so easily as the 1.26GHz Pentium III could be hard to find, but you could replace them with Athlons or Pentium4s at the same performance for cheaper). Reply
JustAnAverageGuy - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - linkYou're mostly paying for the software. Reply
Jynx980 - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkInteresting read, I don't understand a lot of it, but interesting none the less. Were you nervous cracking it open? I'd be sweating like Roger Ebert if I was trying to crack open a $3000 pizza box. Reply
Netopia - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkHow long before we see a big brother for it caching the forums?
Joe Reply
PorBleemo - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkWaaaay too much information in the forums. You would max out the higher-end model easily. Reply
Marlin1975 - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkCan you just not buy the software and install on your own hardware? Heck a 686b southbridge, does VIA even make those anymore, let alone SDRAM? That box must have had a lot of dust on it. Reply
coomar - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linkso searching on anandtech is going to be using google search engine
i didn't know microsoft was responsible for the engine used right now Reply
Verdant - Monday, September 05, 2005 - linki would hardly say microsoft was responsible... it was SQL server, but you can hardly say it is a search engine in a box Reply
bellwether - Thursday, November 29, 2007 - linkNot that Google's search is much better (from a visual stand point). Heck, you had to have people develop http://www.components4asp.net/GoogleMini/">google mini add-ons so it could do things like show image previews and have a layout that doesn't look like a Google search. Reply
leexgx - Friday, December 21, 2007 - linkadding an comment to this is fun when last post was like 2 half years ago heh Reply


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She's one of Hollywood's top leading ladies! From "Boogie Nights" to "The Big Lebowski" to "A Single Man," her credits make up some of the best movies of the passed two decades. JULIANNE MOORE is in our studio to tell Ellen about her remake of another Hollywood classic -- "Carrie"! Later this month, it's set to terrify audiences all over again, and today she's giving the inside scoop on what it was like recreating one of the scariest films in history!
Then, from Disney star to pop icon to "X-Factor" judge, she's had an incredible career -- and she's only 21! Her new album is tearing up the charts, and she's here to perform her hit single, "Made in the USA"! DEMI LOVATO is in the building! Don't miss her incredible performance this Monday!
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Thomas Jefferson's passing game overwhelms Belle Vernon
Joe Carroll was well within reach of becoming the 20th player in PIAA history to throw for 400 yards in a game. If that wasn't enough, he also had a shot at setting his school's single-game passing record — and even an outside chance at the WPIAL mark.
That was until coach Bill Cherpak told his senior quarterback to take a seat on the bench … at halftime.
Carroll threw for 376 first-half yards and five touchdowns — all to Zach Schademan — as Thomas Jefferson remained unbeaten with a 57-13 win over Belle Vernon on Friday night at Jim Weir Stadium in a Big 9 Conference game.
Carroll came 36 yards short of Peter Winovich's single-game record of 412, set in 2003 against Keystone Oaks, and 73 shy of the believed WPIAL record of 449 yards set by Shenango's Rocco Colavecchia in 2006. The WPIAL doesn't keep records, so Colavecchia's total is accepted as the WPIAL mark.
"Trust me, there was no thought at all of putting him out there in the second half," Cherpak said. "Even if I knew, he wasn't going back out there."
That didn't prevent Carroll from urging Cherpak for one more series, even if he wasn't aware how close he was to breaking a couple of records.
"Yeah, I wanted to go out there," Carroll said. "I am not disappointed, though. We knew it was a big game for them to get into the playoffs, and we knew they were going to come to play. It's a team game, so individual records don't matter."
But the Carroll-to-Schademan combination is becoming lethal.
Schademan tied the school record he set three weeks ago with five touchdowns and caught 13 passes for 247 yards — one catch and 18 yards shy of school records.
"Sometimes we do feel like we can't be stopped," he said. "We had a lot of underneath stuff working tonight."
It doesn't help opponents that TJ (7-0, 6-0) goes with such an up-tempo game.
"You can't make adjustments," Cherpak said. "They wanted to make some adjustments but just couldn't do it.
Carroll, who has three five-touchdown games and one six-touchdown game this season, has thrown for 1,490 yards and 28 touchdowns. Schademan upped his season total to 40 receptions for 814 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Cherpak knows a running game is going to be needed as his team heads into the playoffs.
"That's just the way it is," he said. "We are going to run into teams in the playoffs that will be able to match up with some of our receivers better."
The game started off in a strange way. The opening kickoff was fumbled by Derrick Powell and returned by Chase Winovich to the Jaguars' 7-yard line. Jake Farrell scored a play later to give TJ a 6-0 lead.
The ensuing kickoff by Evan Danscak was popped up around midfield, where Matt McCloskey caught the Jaguars (2-4, 2-5) off-guard and rambled 48 yards for a score to take a 7-6 lead 21 seconds into the game.
It was all Carroll-to-Schademan after that. The two hooked up on touchdown passes of 39, 6, 11 and 37 yards in the next nine minutes as Thomas Jefferson built a 34-7 lead.
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Demanding the US administration label China a currency manipulator is an old chestnut, and not one that improves with age.
One, the label is self-evident: by definition any non free-floating currency is "manipulated". The more pertinent issue is whether the currency is under-valued; the answer to that – calculations of multilateral institutions and certain US think-tanks notwithstanding – is less clear-cut.
Two, Washington does not set Chinese monetary policy. If it did, it might pause to consider the wisdom of compelling its biggest creditor to inflate its currency. Since a 5 per cent appreciation would lop, say, $70bn off the value of its largely US dollar-denominated $2,400bn foreign exchange reserves, that might temper Beijing's appetite for US Treasuries. And three, renminbi appreciation would make barely a whit of difference to US jobs or business. Read more


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NVIDIA's 7800GS to Debut Soonby Tuan Nguyen on 10/30/2005 6:17 PM EST
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tfranzese - Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - linkhttp://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Articles&go...">http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Articles&go...
I was going to comment on this tidbit this morning when I first saw the article posted, but was waiting to see if anyone else would speak up. I wouldn't call it plagarism, but I'd be curious if you could actually site the "clever users" where you got this information from. Perhaps your "clever users" were just the messenger for what the above site had done.
I'd be very surprised if you guys didn't recieve this in your news mailbox, I did (both the originals and their plagarism cry). Reply
DigitalFreak - Monday, October 31, 2005 - linkThe GeForce 6150 is probably the onboard video for the 6100/6150 motherboards. Reply
xbdestroya - Monday, October 31, 2005 - linkExactly, the 6150 is definitely just the onboard for the upgraded 6100 video. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 31, 2005 - linkTrue, but 6250 and 6700 are new to me. Reply
plewis00 - Sunday, October 30, 2005 - linkNice find but there are tons of unknown/never seen graphics cards listed in the supported list here:
I suppose the 7800GS (not on this list) is the most interesting to mainstream users, but there are also 6800 XE and XT variants which could be good if they ever materialise. Are you sure the 7800GS isn't OEM-only? Reply
coldpower27 - Sunday, October 30, 2005 - linkThis could be the 6800 Vanilla equivalent of the 7800 Series.
7800 GS hmmmm.... Reply
Shinei - Monday, October 31, 2005 - linkConsidering that a "vanilla" 7800 would still be a significant amount of graphics power, I'd be interested in dropping :200bux: for one, especially if it came in AGP for my ancient rig.
20 pipes with a core clock of 400MHz, 256MB RAM @ 1.0GHz Reply
plewis00 - Monday, October 31, 2005 - linkHow is that a speculation on the 7800GS? That's the same stock spec as a 7800GT.
If anything I'd imagine 7800GS would be a 16-pipe 7-series GPU so that it remains competitive with 6800 chips, but allows for chips with 2 failed quads (i.e. 4 working/good ones) and/or vertex shaders. Reply
Shinei - Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - linkIs it? I thought the 7800GT was set up like the 7800GTX with a lower clock speed... My mistake.
I don't think going to 16 pipes would be a good idea though, since they'd need to lower the price dramatically to cut into the 6800 sales and convert existing 6800 users--I know a couple of 6800GT owners who aren't planning to upgrade for at least another 18 months, so the 7800GS had better be one amazing package for a cheap price point to grab those types of customers. Reply
plewis00 - Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - linkThe X800GT was a way of clearing excess X800 (R420?) cores which had damaged quads (perhaps), so I imagine a high-clock 16-pipe 7-series GPU is a reasonable bet for something better than the 6-series but nicely priced and below the GT and GTX. I guess we'll see on that front. Reply
Kccdx2 - Sunday, October 30, 2005 - linkHaha, nice find. Never woulda thought to look there! Reply


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THE maternity ward for East Lancashire was among those forced to close its doors to admissions at some point last year.
About half the maternity wards in England had to close their doors at least once in 2013, due to a shortage of staff or beds.
Some closures lasted a few hours, while others were closed for two days or more, according to figures obtained by the BBC through Freedom of Information laws.
The maternity unit at Nottingham City Hospital closed 97 times, according to the figures.
However, health chiefs said the closure at Burnley General Hospital lasted just two hours, and was partly due to an increase in admissions. It meant that one woman had to transfer to Preston to give birth.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said the national figures suggest a 'serious shortage of midwives', but midwives at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) recently told inspectors from the Care Quality Commission that their staffing levels were 'satisfactory' after a recent recruitment drive.
And Anita Fleming, head of midwifery, said: "We have improved significantly since last summer and the ratio (of midwives to births) has improved, we are currently recruiting and have taken part in the trust-wide recruitment campaign 'caretomakeadifference'. Midwives that are due to qualify have been appointed and will start in September and October once they have received their registration numbers."
Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the RCM, said: "This Government is bringing more midwives into the NHS and that has to be recognised. However, birth rates remain very high and services are seeing more pregnancies with greater levels of complications because of increases in obesity and older women giving birth, among many other reasons."