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2010-09-21 00:11 flickr Media - flickr media image plugin addon Post: #1
flickr image plugin currently available from the Addon manager.
Newest bleeding edge updates available on my REPO.
If you need help, ask a question in this thread or join #ruuk on freenode.
Browse your photostream, collections, sets, galleries, tags, places, and favorites. Browse your contacts and their content. Search you or your contacts photostream, or search flickr. View today's interesting photos.
Using the addon with your flickr account requires authentication on a device with a browser. Enable 'Access as user' in the addon settings and follow the instructions from the dialogs when you start the plugin.
Please let me know about bugs, authentication problems, or bad translations.
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-26 20:05 by ruuk.)
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2010-09-24 22:33 Post: #2
Sets and collections crashes the script for me. Any way to get a log?
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2010-09-24 23:07 Post: #3
The log file shoud be located in:
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\XBMC\temp\xbmc.log
Vista: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\temp\xbmc.log
Linux: home/[username]/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
OSX: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/XBMC/temp/xbmc.log
if you could check that out right after it crashes and find and post the error that would help.
Any information about your setup is usually useful as well (for instance so I don't have to find all the possible locations of the log file location )
Also info about how many sets you have, whether collections crashes when you first select it or when you are somewhere down the tree, etc
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2010-09-28 21:00 Post: #4
Fixed a bug with handling non-ascii characters for version 0.9.5
I think that will solve your collections and sets problems, sandos.
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2010-11-01 10:37 Post: #5
I got through the authentication process once but the script failed after I had entered all the info. Wasn't sure why, uninstalled and re-installed, but now it doesn't even give me the option to go to the web site and authenticate. The relevant portion of the logfile is:
01:26:56 T:3116 M:2845368320 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
01:26:59 T:3116 M:2841915392 NOTICE: Mode: None
01:26:59 T:3116 M:2841915392 NOTICE: URL: None
01:26:59 T:3116 M:2841915392 NOTICE: Name: None
01:26:59 T:3116 M:2841915392 NOTICE: Page: 1
01:27:00 T:3116 M:2838863872 ERROR: Error Type: flickrapi.exceptions.FlickrError
01:27:00 T:3116 M:2838863872 ERROR: Error Contents: Error: 1: User not found
01:27:00 T:3116 M:2838863872 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.flickr\default.py", line 600, in ?
File "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.flickr\default.py", line 516, in doPlugin
File "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.flickr\default.py", line 164, in authenticate
user = self.flickr.people_findByUsername(username=self.username)
File "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.flickr\flickrapi\__init__.py", line 349, in handler
parse_format=args['format'], **args)
File "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.flickr\flickrapi\__init__.py", line 435, in __wrap_in_parser
return parser(self, data)
File "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.flickr\flickrapi\__init__.py", line 278, in parse_etree
raise FlickrError(u'Error: %(code)s: %(msg)s' % err.attrib)
FlickrError: Error: 1: User not found
01:27:01 T:1836 M:2838814720 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.image.flickr/
01:27:01 T:1836 M:2838814720 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.image.flickr/) failed
Thanks for any input on how to resolve this.
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2010-11-01 20:04 Post: #6
swalter Wrote:Ruuk,
It appears that it the username the script has for you is not being found on flickr. Check the addon's settings and see if the username matches exactly your flicker account. Try making the username blank (backspace over all the characters) You don't actually need to set the username yourself. Once you authenticate the script can get it from flickr. That should probably work. But thanks for bringing this up. I should make the script handle this error with a message.
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2010-11-10 21:49 Post: #7
Posted to repository.
Adds Chinese (Traditional) Language - thanks to Ramius
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2010-12-27 10:13 Post: #8
Hi Ruuk,
I was trying to install the flickrXBMC on my XBMC Live.
And set the user name in addon's setting.
While trying to open the flickrXBMC from the main menu,
the dialog will ask the email and ID.
The email is the [email protected],right?
And the ID == "the user name in addon's"?
Thank you so much..
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2010-12-28 00:27 Post: #9
eos33 Wrote:Hi Ruuk,
When you first use the addon, it directs you to go to http://2ndmind.com/flickrxbmc (My personal domain)
When you go there it re-directs to flickr authorization which re-directs to a page asking for a secret code and your email address. What email address and code you put here are not important, they are just a means for generating a unique id for the next step.
After you submit the code and email you go back to XBMC and enter the same email and code you entered on the site.
The addon then connects to the 2ndmind site and uses this info to find your access token which allows the addon to access your flickr info.
I hope that made sense
I know this is annoying but you only have to do it the first time (normally).
I am working on a way to do it all within XBMC, but that isn't ready yet.
Hope that helped
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2010-12-28 11:26 Post: #10
Hi Ruuk,
Appreciate for your reply.
I was linking to http://2ndmind.com/flickrxbmc with my laptop.
As you said,it really did need to submit the secret code and email.
And it shows up "Enter the above email and code into the dialogs on flickrXBMC.
Expires in 1 hour."
So what I need to do is re-enter the email and code into the flickrXBMC of XBMC Live again...right?
I think there is no built-in web browser in XBMC Live.
It might cause the re-direct to http://2ndmind.com/flickrxbmc failed...
Just want to say thank you the addons.
They are really useful and fancy for my families who are not fimiliar with computers.
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2010-12-28 15:50 Post: #11
eos33 Wrote:Hi Ruuk,
The addon doesn't open a browser, you need to open a browser yourself on the same or a different computer, and then go to the 2ndmind address.
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Hi Ruuk,
I'm having a similar problem, any idea what it might be? (this is happening for Picasa, Flickr,Facebook etc)
Thanks in advance
20:20:14 T:2124 M:1690230784 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
20:20:14 T:2124 M:1689579520 NOTICE: Mode: 1
20:20:14 T:2124 M:1689579520 NOTICE: URL: me
20:20:14 T:2124 M:1689579520 NOTICE: Name: Albums
20:20:15 T:5320 M:1689944064 ERROR: WebServer: Failed to open C:\Program Files\XBMC\addons\webinterface.default\https:\\graph.facebook.com\me\albums
20:20:15 T:2124 M:1689931776 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.ValueError
20:20:15 T:2124 M:1689931776 ERROR: Error Contents: No JSON object could be decoded
20:20:15 T:2124 M:1689874432 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\default.py", line 344, in ?
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\default.py", line 332, in doPlugin
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\default.py", line 203, in ALBUMS
albums = self.graph.getConnections(uid,'albums')
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\default.py", line 62, in getConnections
return self.get_connections(id, connection_name, **args)
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\facebook.py", line 101, in get_connections
return self.request(id + "/" + connection_name, args)
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\facebook.py", line 175, in request
response = _parse_json(fileob.read())
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.image.facebook\facebook.py", line 48, in <lambda>
_parse_json = lambda s: simplejson.loads(s)
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\__init__.py", line 307, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 335, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
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2011-01-04 20:56 Post: #14
alewijnse Wrote:Hi Ruuk,
What version are you using. I'm pretty sure it's not the most recent (The line numbers are about 150 lines off). Get the most recent version and try again, and if you have errors send a new log, and then I can try to help
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I'm having problems trying to set this up under IOS on an ipad. It opens a browser window in xbmc, I try and login, but it never completes the login process. Here are the errors I'm getting:
11:50:37 T:89993216 M:137297920 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.image.flickr/
11:50:37 T:89993216 M:137297920 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.image.flickr/) failed
11:50:42 T:805195776 M:138891264 NOTICE: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.web.viewer/lib/webviewer/webviewer.py:774: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
xbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog.__init__( self, *args, **kwargs )
11:50:43 T:168566784 M:138584064 NOTICE: http://api.flickr.com/services/auth/?per...i_key=....
11:50:45 T:168566784 M:142934016 NOTICE: WEBVIEWER - ERROR READING PAGE::getWebPage (84) - <urlopen error _ssl.c:310: Invalid SSL protocol variant specified.>
11:50:45 T:168566784 M:142934016 NOTICE: WEBVIEWER: URL: http://api.flickr.com/services/auth/?per...pi_key=...
11:50:59 T:805195776 M:142868480 NOTICE: WEBVIEWER: elementSelected() - No Element
11:51:00 T:168566784 M:142848000 NOTICE: http://api.flickr.com/services/auth/?per...pi_key=...
11:51:02 T:168566784 M:142848000 NOTICE: WEBVIEWER - ERROR READING PAGE::getWebPage (84) - <urlopen error _ssl.c:310: Invalid SSL protocol variant specified.>
11:51:02 T:168566784 M:142848000 NOTICE: WEBVIEWER: URL: http://api.flickr.com/services/auth/?per...pi_key=...
11:51:08 T:805195776 M:143446016 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
11:51:08 T:805195776 M:143446016 ERROR: Error Contents: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
11:51:08 T:805195776 M:143417344 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.image.flickr/default.py", line 604, in <module>
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.image.flickr/default.py", line 520, in doPlugin
if not fsession.authenticate():
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.image.flickr/default.py", line 163, in authenticate
(token, frob) = self.flickr.get_token_part_one(perms='read',auth_callback=self.doTokenDialog) [email protected]
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.image.flickr/flickrapi/__init__.py", line 752, in get_token_part_one
authenticate(frob, perms)
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.image.flickr/default.py", line 148, in doTokenDialog
print 'AUTH RESPONSE URL: ' + url
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
11:51:13 T:805195776 M:139165696 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
11:51:16 T:805195776 M:137129984 NOTICE: Mode: None
11:51:16 T:805195776 M:137129984 NOTICE: URL: None
11:51:16 T:805195776 M:137129984 NOTICE: Name: None
Edited to remove personal data (I've removed all personal data from the URLs).
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Chas Edwards thinks that what will keep Google ( GOOG) Glass from shattering will be exactly one thing: the advertising. "We have trained a generation of people to believe that Web advertising is #$%^," Edwards told me a few weeks ago. Edwards is not any old pissed-off Web consumer. Rather, he's a San Francisco-based new-media sales and marketing exec who has done serious time at CNET, been publisher at the New York-based social media service Digg and co-founded blog syndicator Federated Media. Edwards is deeply worried that Google's slick, soon-to-market, wearable immersive computer, Google Glass, is on track to be Web Advertising 3.0. That is, just another in a long line of Internet marketing disasters. "With Google Glass, users will be able to touch data," he explains. "But unless Google figures out how to make the ads that run in that world something consumers want to touch, Glass is going to be looking at big, big problems." Edwards points out -- totally correctly, by the way -- that just as in the mobile device and Web worlds before it, how advertising integrates into the wearable computer experience is not being properly thought out. He was not surprised when I told him a Google executive told me his company develops products first, then figures out the business model. Or that reports confirm that, at least to start, there will be no traditional advertising on Google Glass, as found on YouTube or the rest of the Internet. emerging ad community that Google half expects others to solve its Google Glass advertising problems for it. "We need to figure out how to make a digital experience on Glass that's not an ad," Raymond Velez, chief technology officer at New York digital agency Razorfish, told AdAge back in May. Edwards argues that even sophisticated media companies such as The New York Times ( NYT) struggle to make ads work properly on the Internet we already have -- never mind sophisticated new products such as Glass. "That is not just Google," Edwards says. "It's the entire Web." He believes that our great advertising minds have not dedicated themselves to solving the basic problems of marketing on the Internet.


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Naf Architect and Design turned a building full of dead space into a gorgeous Japanese home by inserting a wooden box in the heart of the interior. The remarkable renovation project hinges upon a "switch box" made from deck lumber that moderates traffic throughout the four level building while still allowing plenty of air and light to flow throughout. It even has its own karaoke room!


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Helloooo, Florida! You're back. And with important life lessons for us. What can we learn from 53-year-old teacher, Mary Maloney? That if you're arrested for a hit-and-run, it's a very bad idea to offer the police officer oral sex in return for your release. Yeah, that's only going to make matters worse, along with that empty gallon jug of wine behind the driver's seat. It's not looking good for Mary Maloney. There is a time and place to offer a blowjob. This certainly was not it. [Huffington Post]
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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Arielle Kabangu and Abby Evans continued to impress as one scored twice and the other stopped the opposing team from scoring as the Saint Leo women's soccer team claimed a valuable 2-0 road victory over Nova Southeastern in Sunshine State Conference action on Saturday afternoon.
Kabangu was once again the story of the match between these teams, scoring both goals for the Lions (7-3, 2-0 SSC). She now has a NCAA leading 15 goals on the year.
The Sharks (4-6-1, 0-2-1 SSC) had the first great opportunity of the match, 15 minutes into the first half. Malin Broberg made an aggressive move to get the ball around the goalkeeper Evans towards the end line. Broberg then had to play the ball back into the middle, finding an open Rebecca Barb, who took the one time shot towards goal. However, Evans was able to retreat back to her net to make one of her seven saves in the match.
Kabangu continued to add to her impressive freshman campaign, scoring her 14th goal of the season, in the 33rd minute. Kabangu received a through ball that she was able to just sneak past junior goalkeeper Sandrra Rolon. Rolon finished the match with seven saves.
Sarah Keville nearly tied up the match late in the first half, when she took a half-contested shot from the top of the box. The shot was batted down and controlled by Evans, who cut down the angle well on Keville's shot.
The match went into halftime with a 1-0 Saint Leo advantage.
The 54th minute saw more of Kabangu, as she scored her second one-on-one chance of the match, giving the Lions a 2-0 cushion.
The final 36 minutes saw a lot of back and forth action, with neither goalkeeper really being challenged.
This match, like the first meeting, was very aggressive. The teams accumulated for 30 total fouls and five yellow cards.
The Lions had the slight edge in shots, 14-12. Broberg led the Sharks in shots, six, while Kabangu led her side with five.
Saint Leo will look to continue its hot streak as the Lions will take their four-game win streak back to south Florida when they face Barry on Wednesday. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in Miami Shores, Fla.
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Det Insp Jim Elston, from Lancashire Police's Pennine division CID, said he believed the attacker was local to Padiham and that people would know who he was.
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Officers have also been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and scouring CCTV footage for clues.
The assault happened at around 1pm on Thursday when the child was playing out.
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This article was published 24/3/2013 (1612 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I assumed I would be able to get through the rest of this month without writing another heart-tugging column about my passionate love affair with bacon.
I can see now I was a fool.
The problem is, whenever I wax poetic about bacon, I am deluged with emails from readers and editors who want to ensure I am up to date on the latest breaking news about the world's most outstanding breakfast food.
In the last week alone, for example, the following urgent bacon-related developments have been drawn to my attention:
1) The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor-league baseball team, this summer will be letting fans chow down on the Baco, a taco with a shell made entirely from bacon. It was the top vote-getter in a contest wherein fans pick culinary delights to be served at the ballpark. Second place was the Bad Joke, a corn dog covered in cheese with two strips of duck bacon on a bun.
2) A website (instructables.com) featuring a recipe for -- please put your gag reflex on hold -- a bacon-flavoured Jell-O that looks just like you're slicing into a thick slab of home-cured bacon. "Think of it less as a dessert and more as a surprisingly edible piece of concept art," it boasts of the gelatinous creation, which includes a generous helping of actual bacon
3) Another website (outsideonline.com) urging outdoorsy readers to try its artery-hardening recipe for maple-bacon chocolate-chip cookies, which features 12 strips of maple-cured bacon.
But the big bacon news I need to unwrap today is something I learned about during a casual chat with my two children. It began when my son spotted a suitcase-sized cardboard box poking out of the garbage can in our kitchen.
"What was in that?" the Boy wondered aloud.
"Bacon," I sniffed proudly. "Eleven (bad word) pounds of bacon."
I told him the bacon had been presented to me recently by the folks at Sysco Foods as I hosted a gala dinner for charity.
"Sweet!" the young meat-eater muttered, giving me the kind of look that swells a father's heart.
At this point, my daughter, not even looking up from her iPhone, decided to share her thoughts.
"You should have a bacon party," she declared.
I tried not to look confused. "A bacon party?" I whispered. "OK... um, what's a bacon party?"
Glancing up, my daughter fixed me with her own special look, one mixed with equal parts contempt and pity.
"Duh!" she snorted, rolling her eyeballs. "It's a party where all the guests have to bring foods that are made from bacon."
I didn't want to betray my ignorance of an important new social trend among modern youths, but I couldn't help myself. "A bacon party?" I asked. "That's an actual thing?"
"Uh, yes," my daughter sniffed. "It's a thing."
"How do you even know about it?" I demanded, using my most dad-like tone.
"Because WE went to one at a friend's house," she groaned, and by "we," she meant herself and her boyfriend.
As a journalist and pork buff, I had a need to know more. "So," I continued, "what food did you guys bring?"
My daughter shrugged. "Meatballs wrapped with bacon," she said. "Somebody else made bacon dipped in chocolate, but the best thing was the bacon butter tarts. They were delicious."
Drool glands in overdrive at the thought of bacon in tart form, I looked to my son for moral support. "Forget it, Dad," he barked coldly, "Guys like you should stick to quinoa parties instead."
The Boy's right about the quinoa, but that's not the point. The point is I have a lot more bacon bits to share with you... but for some reason my fingers keep slipping off the keyboard.


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The Dana Point Youth Board completed its 14th annual Holiday Home Decorating Contest, rewarding owners for creativity, originality and overall spirit.
Members of the board did the judging Friday, and the winners were announced Monday.
This year's contest drew four entries; usually there are five to 10, said Robert Sedita, the board's staff adviser and a management analyst with the city.
Competitors spoke with the judges to explain their designs and goals, Sedita said.
Winning houses were marked with a sign, and their owners received Christmas ornaments as prizes.
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It's Not Qualcomm's Fault: Dispelling TouchPad Mythsby Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 8/19/2011 6:40 PM EST
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Zink - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkGood job being though, I was kind of surprised at some of the stuff that got posted elsewhere . Reply
Zink - Friday, August 19, 2011 - link*thorough
HP never fully committed to fixing the OS and marketing that was already struggling in the hands of Palm so it is not really a surprise what happened. Reply
Zink - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkI picked up an open box 16gb at futureshop in ontario for $89.99 and am using it right now. Try to snag one for $100 or $150 too. I don't really get it, why didn't they drop to $200, why go so low? Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkare you complaining they made it too low? The only problem I see with them being 100.00 is they are flying off the shelf before I can get there. This may the the slowest pad out there but for 100.00 or less I bite! Reply
Watwatwat - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkbecause they burned the product which had already been failing, now who wants to buy that kind of discontinued failure for a small discount, you have to rip the bandaid off fast. it does them no good to drag it out, these things lose value by the day, and they need some money back asap, salvage what is left and be done with it. time is money, no time should be spent on a dead product line. Reply
Zoomer - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkNot true, go look at ebay. People are buying them for alot more than $100. Given how fast they are selling at $100, HP could have priced them more, easy.
Conclusion: That software guy is an idiot. Canning their pc division is a very risky move, considering it makes up about half their revenues. If this new direction fails, they are in deep shit. And enterprises usually wants to buy a package; how are they going to offer a package of servers + network + software + end clients (PCs) without their pc division? Reply
boobot - Monday, August 29, 2011 - linkHere are a few facts from HPs earnings - The PC division of HP (PSG) makes up 29-30% of HPs revenue not 50%. IPG (printing) brings in 20% revenue and Services+ESSN(Servers) pulls in a hefty 45% of HP's revenue. That's revenue but more importantly the focus is on profit. PSG is only gathering 12-15% of HP's total profit(not bad but not it's core) and that is forecasted to shrink. IPG is pulling 28% of HP's total profits while Services+ESSN is pulling in 55% of HP's profits. PSG is potentially not getting "canned". They are optioning selling off or spinning off the PSG division. A spin-off would likely maintain the HP brand and be backed by HP. Either way it's a low profit and risky market. As for packages of services, yes it would be nice to sell the whole package but appartently other comanies such as IBM and Accenture even Oracle can sell services with hardware and not have a leg in the pc market. That's what HP is focusing on. The earnings are high and the profits follow. Not many people understand that HP is the second largest IT services company in the world Reply
javaflash - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkMr. Anand Lal Shimpi has been behaving like a Quadcomm salesman for quite some time.
There is a clear pattern of bias among his reviews where Quadcomm was always favored, and other chipmakers were marginalized even criticized.
I am concerned that there is an ulterior(financial) motive. Reply
NCM - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkThen, Mr. javaflash, you'd better have some actual data, other than your unsupported opinion, to back that up. Reply
m.amitava - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkQuaDcomm?? LOL... Reply
LoneWolf15 - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - link"There is a clear pattern of bias among his reviews where Quadcomm was always favored, and other chipmakers were marginalized even criticized."*
* - Citation needed. Reply
MrSewerPickle - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkAgreed. If you are an unknown source calling into question the validity of a highly known and respected source then you need facts. Otherwise save it for Facebook or Twitter or where ever else you post non fact based comments. Reply
jmcb - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkI have yet to see what you're talking about. And I've been reading on this site for a few years....before I even knew what chips went inside of phones...or even knowing cpus, gpu's were even being used at all in phones. Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkCant spell Qualcomm right but accuses him of being paid by Qualcomm. Reply
softdrinkviking - Saturday, August 27, 2011 - linkpro11y just a troll. I mean, he really pulled that out of his a$$. Just wants attention. Reply
jjj - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkHP is about to start selling the Touchpad for 100/150$ (16/32 gigs model).
Bestbuy Canada already is http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/hewlett-packar... Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkI've got Amazon set on check4change in Firefox for when the updated pricing goes live there (supposed to be 8/20). I wonder whether they will also drop the Veer in pricing.
I was excited for the Pre 3 too, too bad it'll never see the light of day in the USA. Maybe they'll liquidate those stocks too, they must exist somewhere.
-Brian Reply
lorribot - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkWhat worries me is that HP want to turn themselves in to a software company rather than hardware yet it is the lack of software development that has let them down with the whole Palm WebOS piece.
Hardware is probably the thing that HP has generally done well, granted there isn't the money there any more, but really HP and software what have they ever done in that field?
VMS, HP-UX remember them? Most of their stuff is crippled by poor development (WebJet admin still won't install on Windows 7) and lack of polish with clunky and flake UIs (WebOS anyone?) Reply
z0mb13n3d - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkWhile the article is quite thorough and does give a reasonable explanation of the unfortunate state of webOS, I am more than a bit surprised as to why Anandtech thought it needed to 'clear the air' here. This isn't the first time (and will certainly not be the last) where folks in blogs or forums throughout the internet blame a random vendor for something, but for Anandtech to come out 'defending' a company (Qualcomm in this case) is a bit alarming.
I've been reading tech blogs and sites ever since they started more than a decade ago and have always been a regular AT reader because of the unbiased nature of your articles and also because AT never really sides with any brand, vendor or company. I sincerely hope this article does not signal a change in the way AT handles reviews and articles in future! Reply
sprockkets - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkWhy it is a bit "alarming"? Either qualcomm or hp would come out looking bad, so either way would it look bad to you? Reply
Impulses - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkI don't see how they're paying any special service to Qualcomm while dispelling myths... I read the article in question and saw other sites parrot it verbatim, Engadget even erroneously claimed the TouchPad had a single core SoC... That kinda blatant rumor mongering and headline grabbing (let's not call it journalism please) may seem obvious to you or me, but a lot of other people would read it and take it as gospel. AT's just trying to set the record straight. Reply
NeoteriX - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkSeriously, what are you talking about?
If you've been following AT's discussion on the evolution of the mobile SoC space, you'd know that with each generation of ARM SoC, the performance has been roughly the same, with OMAP, A5, Tegra, and Snapdragon trading blows on different benchmarks and metrics. The kind of "two times" performance gains between a dual core A5 and Snapdragon SoCs are not simply possible from a sole hardware perspective. This isn't about being an improper Qualcomm apologist, but it's clearing the air of misinformation. Reply
z0mb13n3d - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkNot sure why you think I'm contending what Anand and Brian are saying here.
Please read my comment once more. I agree that the article itself is quite factual and explains the scenario very well.
What I'm not so comfortable with is how or why AT felt the need to 'clear the air of misinformation' as you say, when this is definitely not the first time a particular vendor has had fingers pointed at them by random, less than well informed bloggers, for what is basically not their fault.
This should have been more of a Pipeline post than a full-fledged article. I don't remember AT coming out to defend a myriad of other vendors who have been caught in a similarly difficult situations in the past. Reply
bplewis24 - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkI totally understand where this guy is coming from.
I personally don't have any problem with the article itself, but I was shocked to see AT write the article at all. Like the OP, I've seen plenty of misinformation on tons of subjects that AT covers, but I've NEVER seen them write an article to clear the air on any of those subjects. Why this one? Why this time? It's almost like they took is personally.
It's just an odd development IMO. Reply
z0mb13n3d - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkExactly. The tone of the article seemed more like a knee-jerk reaction to defend Qualcomm than to really prove some already useless report wrong.
And just to make sure I wasn't out of my rockers, I did a quick search of AT and realized that there was absolutely no mention at all of the Apple-Samsung fiasco. Surely that would be something a lot more people are interested in knowing more about as it affects two of the major platforms and many major vendors, than how one vendor has been called out for the death of a platform that probably had less than 1% of the market.
Again, hope this article was just a one off. I can always hit up any one of the numerous blogs for product endorsements. Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkI think you are incorrect. This isn't an effort to defend Qualcomm, it reads more like an admonishment of HP for neglecting the performance aspect of webOS. Seems like the point of the article isn't that Qualcomm's feelings were hurt, but that HP made a mistake as a hardware manufacturer in not paying attention to software performance.
Which is a good thing to remind people of, since the biggest issue with, say, Android, is the actual real world performance, what with bloatware and custom UIs installed by the device maker. Reply
feelingshorter - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkThis deserves an article due to the fact that HP is liquidating their TouchPads and a lot of people (including me) was thinking it was the hardware. But infact, it is due to HP not optimizing the hardware. WebOS was reportedly runs 2x faster on the iPad 2 than it does on HP's own hardware. This liquidation is breaking news and has made google news headlines. Why wouldn't it had its own article when he is giving out a ton of technical details that bloggers no nothing about. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkMy apologies if this came off as being something posted to protect Qualcomm, I just thought it was a fitting headline given the horrible misinformation that's been floating around.
You're right that it's not the first time folks have made silly claims online, nor will it be the last. This just struck a nerve with a lot of us. It was clear from the start that webOS needed work. Using silly things like Qualcomm as a scapegoat just seemed very wrong. I had some time so I started writing, Brian added his thoughts and we published. Nothing sinister, I promise :)
Pipeline is limited to ultra short pieces, I didn't figure it was a good fit there as we're trying to build that section to just be for ultra short/quick news to augment our in-depth coverage.
Take care,
Anand Reply
B3an - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkI liked seeing this article Anand and have no problem with it. Infact i think that you should start doing these kinds of articles with other similar BS myths and so called "news" thats contently posted around the web and gets lots of attention. Reply
Kaboose - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkJust ordered from HP directly for 90.09 after tax (using code SAVE15HP) for the 16GB model (or code SAVE30HP) for the 32GB model. Used an academic account. Reply
kmmatney - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkDamn....that's cheap! Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkthey are sold out now :-( Reply
Stuka87 - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkArstechnica had an article today about this exact subject, and about how the hardware was such a limiting factor, and how it was designed over a year ago, and a bunch of other stuff.
And I was really quite sure that this could not be the case (in reference to speed). So thanks for taking the time to clear things up Anand.
I am bummed that WebOS may go the way of the dodo, as I really liked the interface and the way it acted. But it is slow, even on the TouchPad which has a lot of hardware. Reply
killerroach - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkThat being said, Ars does have a pretty long-standing tradition of taking glee in the hardships of anybody not named Apple. Reply
AmdInside - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkWhat about developer relations? It is a key that many big companies use to push their products by offering development assistance to help the customer make a better product. Look at how well tuned apps are to intel processors because of this. Perhaps Qualcomm did not provide sufficient assistance to HP to make WebOS as fast as it could be.
I picked up a couple of Touchpads this evening. Fingers crossed that someone can figure out a way eventually to get honeycomb on the Touchpad. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 19, 2011 - linkI don't know if they actively sought developers out; but it appears they were responsive to anyone who contacted them. A friend of mine contacted HP and offered to port one of his employers games if they gave him hardware. He got both a phone and a tablet to play with. Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkHow poopy the actual Android user experience is. Reply
kmmatney - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkHave to agree...I tried an Android tablet, but the user experience just wasn't there, so sold it and paid a lot more money for an iPad2. I'm itchin to upgrade my 2+ year old 3GS, but at the moment Android is a downgrade, so I'm just waiting for the next iPhone. I'll probably have to wait a month or more after it comes out because of all the hoopla. Pain in the ass to be tied to Apple products, but the user experience is worth it, IMO. Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkPlease define "user experience" Reply
Sterman - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkyou know... that magical thingy that makes you feel good inside. Reply
g1011999 - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkIf this hardware sounds familiar to you it's because it's the modem-less version of the MSM8x60, the same SoC used in the "HTC Thunderbolt" and the EVO 3D.
I think HTC Thunderbolt didn't use the processor but HTC Sensation. Reply
fteoath64 - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkWell, HP is expecting too much in terms of sales when the product does not really measure up in terms of price or performance. It has not even given sufficient time to move the product much less the marketing effort being put into it.
If you look at the Android tablets, they took about 2 years to get to market, then it started moving but not as fast due to the higher price points. If HP were to position the price at $350 initially, it would have moved volumes compared to their initial prices. They did not learn from Xoom pricing which had to be slashed to move the product. The market is more elastic than it seems, so the marketing people are not doing their jobs.
How could Qualcomm be at fault for their SoCs ?. There are plenty of QualComm Soc smartphones that are plenty fast and selling very well in the market. Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkYeah at 100.00 bucks these things are flying off the shelves! I find it odd no one as figured out that to beat Apple they should sell their pad for less not more or even the same. I want competition not more of the same. Reply
DaemonES - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkScorpion core performing in out-of-order. Article mentioned it like in-order. Reply
Wilco1 - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkNo, the Scorpion core is in-order. It is basically a Cortex-A8 clone, with almost identical integer performance. It supports out-of-order completion of instructions which is something entirely different. Instructions are always executed in-order, but memory instructions use a much longer pipeline which means that simpler instructions which execute afterwards may complete earlier.
While out-of-order completion improves performance, any cache miss will still stall the whole core. Given that Cortex-A8 does not support out-of-order completion, and is usually a little faster than Scorpion, it is safe to say that out-of-order completion doesn't provide much performance gain.
An out-of-order core executes instructions out-of-order using register renaming but always completes them in-order. This provides substantial performance gains (20-50%) as the core can continue executing independent instructions after a cache miss. This explains why Scorpion cores have a hard time keeping up with the Cortex-A9, as evidenced by the benchmark results.
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vshah - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - link"the same SoC used in the HTC Thunderbolt and the EVO 3D "
Should be HTC Sensation, no? Reply
jed22281 - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - link"The TouchPad needed more work, and webOS as a whole needs more work. You can either scale a project out by taking more time to get it done, or you can scale its width by committing more resources to it. The latter (and more efficient development) is what Palm has needed since day one, what HP promised to bring to it, and sadly exactly what it ultimately failed to receive at HP."
Sigh, the parallels with what happened to MeeGo inside Nokia are uncanny.
Symbian kept winning the departmental funding wars until far too late.
As a result Maemo had much less resources, was scaled-out, & need more time.
It didn't get the focus it deserved/needed until Jan 2010, the rest is history.
Despite popular misconception, the merging with Moblin into Meego had little impact on Harmattan's progress compared to the aforementioned. Reply
Penti - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkSymbian and MeeGo uses the exact same framework for the applications so there never really was any war, Symbian was carrying QtMobility forward. All the APIs are implemented on Harmattan too. It is a cross-platform runtime/framework and it is a mature runtime/framework/ecosystem/SDK/platform you need. Mango simply isn't getting up to date either it is just trying to catch up technically. It's just a case of killing things too early/before market entry. WebOS was never really launched in a major product by HP as they never got the Pre3 out. Nokia on the other hand had a production used SDK that it ported to run on both Symbian and Linux so it hardly looked hopeless there, however you do have to cancel products some times even before market entry this just wasn't clear that it was the right products that got canceled.
Also such things like making it run on the platforms/SoC's is also up to the hardware vendors, and of course platforms like Symbian, Android and even MeeGo which was getting drivers and whole board support packages for several SoCs when Nokia didn't want it any longer as well as the Linux Kernel in general. It's far easier for WebOS to work for a large range of devices then say WP7. MeeGo was essentially put of the map before they got the bits put together with Nokia's regard. Switching from Clutter to Qt was a good move though if they really would have went through with it fully. It wasn't a question of the OS itself there rather the platform on top of it which isn't OS-bound.
It also kinda is like if they would have given up at RIM with the Blackberry Playbook after 45 days. It's ridiculous and no tablet really other then Apple's which wasn't a finished product itself when released, is gonna take off the first minute it is released. If so it would really only be Apple and Samsung on the market. Here in Sweden they never got to release either the TouchPad or the Veer here for that matter. I don't think you can really judge a platform within 30 days as HP management did, it wasn't even a world release, third party software was of course lagging and would of course be lacking as long as they only had the touchpad and veer on the market. It might been out on the selfs in the US but still just as Palm failed wasn't a world release and wasn't given time for the software to be worked out. It would be quite odd if you could create a software platform and framework which would work on tablets alone today. Not many would be familiar with such a platform. Reply
ssnova - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkTo all those "haters" and paranoid people about Anand selling out to qualcomm, they should find better things to waste their time on, rather than pointing fingers and being useless witchhunters.
I found the article to be as fair as possible and technically "enlightening", if one would see other articles out there that say, "oh webOS runs 2x faster on the ipad2", then most would come to the strict conclusion that hp's touchpad's hardware was the sole thing to blame. But when one examine's the touchpad's hardware the whole story doesn't make sense. Anand basically broke it down for us and shed some light on the subject matter, which I thought was cool and appreciated it as a reader.
From what I get, certain aspects would run faster on different hardware, again, not because the hardware is "that much more superior", but because the old code was optimized for other hardware as well.
Any how, here's to hoping that webOS will either: a.) improve...or b.) someone does a good port of android OS to the touchpad's hardware...as I keep my eye out for a low priced touchdpad, :P
Keep on keeping on Anand, you the man! Reply
BillBear - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkIf we're into clearing up mistaken information on the web, why are you ignoring this?
Mojo based WebOS apps can run in Safari.
Palm's very first webcast introducing the WebOS app environment to potential developers featured writing demo app code in Textmate on a Macintosh and then running that demo app on top of Safari.
You can still catch that webcast here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXS3SQauwPE Reply
seapeople - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - linkI think it's pretty clear that ANAND has sold out to the INTARWEB because of how quickly he used it to past ALL HIS ARTICLES. I know this because I've been reading lots of OTHER TECH BLOGS and they are much more CRITICAL of NON-INTARWEB communication!
I mean, Anand hasn't even mentioned the Verizon strike that's been going on. Should he mention such a major issue in telecommunications? Of course not, it's because he's in the INTARWEB DIRTY MONEY BUSINESS. Reply
ssnova - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - link"I mean, Anand hasn't even mentioned the Verizon strike that's been going on."
If you've been an avid Anandtech reader, then you would know they don't waste their time on politics and issues of that nature. If you want that kind of "intarweb" "buzz" then that's what Dailytech is for. Anandtech has always focused more on technical articles, educating the reader, breaking things down in an informative manner.
I vouch for Anandtech because I've been an avid reader of their articles since 2003, and though no review is perfect, something that I always respected Anandtech for was their thorough in-depth breakdowns of subject matters and drawing logical conclusions(as best as possible, drawn from the subjective/objective data). This goes generally for all their veteran staff, which I haven't seen some of them post articles in a while.
...On a random note, whatever happened to Kristopher Kubicki? I don't even see Dailytech posts by him anymore?
Any how... again... the stuff on here is just a technical breakdown with some insight, perhaps it could have been titled better, but after reading the article I see no reason to try and please the crowd when spitting it out in your own way. Reply
WeaselITB - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link@ssnova
I think you need to get your sarcasm-meter checked ...
-Weasel Reply
jaysns - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkI like this kind of article when you see the internets abuzz, and by that I mean the bigger blogging sites, with misinformation. A lot of sites were reporting on this and a nice little write up explaining why it was untrue and didn't even make sense is a good thing. Not everyone knows these things, and even I who understands this, and is well read up enough at least to notice the BS that engadget and others were putting out, enjoyed reading this. This is my favorite tech site. Just wish you guys posted more :p. Keep up the good work. Reply
Zoolookuk - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkI can't ever remember thinking an Anand article was way off target, but this one is. You dedicated 3 pages to telling us this wasn't a hardware issue, and then showed a benchmark illustrating the TouchPad was half the speed of the iPad 2, which has fairly modest hardware specs. If you reviewed the latest AMD chip and showed it at half the speed of a 6 month old Intel processor, you wouldn't claim it has 'similar performance'. I really don't get that.
The irony here of course isn't you letting a 200% performance gap go, it's that NO ONE is saying the reason the TouchPad bombed is because of overall performance. Leaping to it's defense seems a little weird.
I don't even agree that the issue is WebOS - it's a fine operating system that had a lot of promise. The issues were:
- Terrible design and build quality (it looked and felt like a budget iPad)
- Non-existant or poor marketing (Glee? Really?)
- No integration within anything meaningful. Android has the entire Google eco system, while Apple has iTunes and virtually everything else
Maybe read this too early on a Sunday morning, but you seem to be trying to prove a point that just isn't there. Reply
ViRGE - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - link"Maybe read this too early on a Sunday morning"
I think that would seem to be the case. The only argument Anand is making is that the poor performance you see - "then showed a benchmark illustrating the TouchPad was half the speed of the iPad 2" - is due to the software and not the hardware. That still makes the TouchPad a lousy device, but the purpose of the article is to establish why.
And someone did say the problem was the TouchPad's performance: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/19/hp-tested-w... . That's the article that spurred this one, since the idea that a dual-core A9 is twice as fast as a dual-core Snapdragon (clocked 20% higher) is silly.
Snapdragon ~= Tegra 2 (source: many, many AT phone reviews)
Tegra 2 ~= Apple A5 (source: AT Galaxy Tab 10.1 review)
QED: Snapdragon ~= Apple A5
Hence the idea that the iPad (Apple A5) platform being twice as fast as the Snapdragon platform is silly. The software stinks, the hardware is fine. Reply
tipoo - Saturday, December 10, 2011 - linkNo, he said that it had similar performance to the Tegra 2, then showed the huge performance difference between them, showing that its a software thing and not a CPU thing. Reply
sirsoffrito - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkI was already suspicious of these other websites claiming Qualcomm's incompetency. It seemed pretty hard to believe given the amount of inefficient bloat HP's Windows machines come with. In such a competitive market as tablets now, manufacturer's have exactly *one* shot to prove they are up to snuff, and I can't say I've been terribly impressed with HP's build quality hardware wise in recent years, much less all the software they try and foist upon people. What's funny is that the software is so incredibly important and is often the most ignored. A well optimized program can make all the difference in the world. People respond to a clean, snappy interface; hence Apple's success. Reply
superccs - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - linkSO essentially you are saying that this device has legitimate hardware, just poor implementation...?
Wouldn't this make this device a steal for rooters and modders? Reply
Zoolookuk - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkThe WebOS team apparently experimented with their OS on the iPad2 hardware, where it ran 'twice as fast' .
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/22/hp_r... Reply
casteve - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkAnand:
A ZDNet article on 8/21 by James Kendrick claims "..There is so much event logging in the background that it seriously impacts the TouchPad's performance, as it is constantly doing things it doesn't need to do." He then goes on to show how to disable the logging mechanism. Here's the link:
How about a quantitative analysis to compare before / after performance? :D Reply
pwcee - Thursday, August 25, 2011 - linkI agree, would love to see this done then tested and compared. Reply
tipoo - Saturday, December 10, 2011 - linkThirded but probably too late for them to test it. Lots of people have said disabling logging makes it pretty zippy. Reply
ABR - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkAmusingly in the context of the reports of these being sold in stores for $100, the true market value right now seems to be $280. This whole thing is a very dumb move by HP. They had a reasonable thesis when they acquired Palm -- vertical integration within the enterprise. As with Apple, they could and should have started by targetting consumer market first. Now they'll sell it off and give up one of the few legs up they could have had on IBM. Advantage Google/Motorola. Reply
GotThumbs - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkI've been wondering if anyone has already tried this. Reply
tipoo - Saturday, December 10, 2011 - linkAndroid is being worked on and there is an alpha out for the Touchpad. iOS is not and will never be open source, so we have no way to port it. Reply
Omid.M - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkAnand & Brian,
Would be nice if you could get some devs to speak about working with WebOS and what they think the platform would need to take off, just as an "outsiders' " perspective. You know?
@moids Reply
sooper_anandtech12 - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkI still fail to see how this is HP's fault. Maybe it's HP's fault in name because they acquired Palm and all its webOS engineers. However, I still feel the issue and problem was an inherent issue of Palm's that HP took on when they acquired them. As mentioned in the article, there are simple ways to have improved the performance of webOS and yet for the past how many years has that not been done precisely? I don't expect a company like HP that's not a software company to be able to step in and say, "Yep, yep. See there Mr. webOS software engineer. Here's your problem."
If there's anyone to blame, blame Palm and all of the legacy engineers that HP inherited. How much more resources did HP need to commit to webOS when one author of an article on AnandTech can discern a few that would bring notable performance improvements? Scaling the project out by taking more time was not an option, especially when HP is being crucified by the media for taking their sweet time bring a webOS tablet to the market. Then, when they do, they get lambasted because it's undercooked.
This was a losing proposition for HP no matter how they swung it. Saying that "consumers" were disappointed is giving consumers too much credit. No one mourns the death of webOS. If we did, we'd have been picking up webOS devices from the start, fueling its development. HP was smart by getting out while it still could. Especially in this crazy patent litigating industry, they might even be able to off-load those patents at a profit to el Googs. Reply
The0ne - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkAnand, I appreciate you taking the time to explain some of these rumors and talks but as I read through your explanations I'm asking myself why in the world would you need to. You're basically telling people that because it is a different OS it will require different drives, encoders, decoders and what not. Having to explain this to your audience here is quite pathetic imo. Sure they may be some that are too worked up to see the reasons you've outlined but still, it should have been expected from a more knowledgeable crowd.
It feels as though you are schooling many of the users here and that is just quite sad. I thought many here were professional enough to have thought this through, pass the drivers and basic necessity that an OS requires. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing you, I'm just saying I'm disappointed in the audience because you had to take the time to clear some of these basic issues up. Quite sad. Reply
The0ne - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkEdit:
Ok, I just read Anand's own Jason Mick's article on WebOS. Yea, great headliner to have people start arguing alright. Do us a favor and fire his stupid a** reporting. If you need brain dead reporters that just pick things without thinking first, go to a pet shop and find a bird or rabbit.
So with that adding to the confusion and rumors, you're here defending that idiots' reporting. And yes, that was one God aweful thread as well ending with his "I really don't know and I think it's this and that..." comments. Jesus Christ. Reply
someone0 - Monday, August 22, 2011 - linkThe author start confusing when he trying to prove that there is no hardware problem by saying that the CPU is fine. I'm sure a lot of people here have built their PC before. So, the analogy that CPU=hardware is not valid. Even given that it's CPU package, still shouldn't the author treat the tablet PCB like a motherboard. The whole article totally ignore the existance of the PCB. I'm sure the argument that the software/OS is not optimize, but it is iffy to start blanking a variable here and dumping the whole problem on OS. I guess this answer will be fully answer when we start seeing Android custom ROM on the tablet. But either way the fault still on HP regardless of whether it's hardware or software. Reply
tipoo - Saturday, December 10, 2011 - linkSoC, not CPU. There's a reason these are called System on a Chip(s). Reply
bobbozzo - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link1. s/morover/moreover/ on Page1
2. the CPU instruction set revision should be largely irrelevant:
it's Linux, so it's C, not assembly; therefore it's mostly just a matter of re-compiling. Yes, SMD optimizations (if done manually) are an exception. Reply
p05esto - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkI picked up two 16GB Touchpads for my wife and I at Best Buy Saturday night. ...and I'm KICKING myself for not getting the 32GB versions they also had there. A few movies later and my device is already full. I wish it had a FlashCard reader for additional memory, that part sucks.
But other than that I really LOVE this tablet. The email program is better than Outlook and the other webmail systems I use. The browser renders nice and some of the games are great. The $10 Need for Speed game is AMAZING, the graphics are fantastic, no lag, great detail. I can't believe how good the graphics are on this thing. It totally blows the iPad away in the gaming/graphics power area. It's got a dual-core 1.5ghz CPU which you can overclock to 1.7 with a little effort.
In short, for $100 this was the deal of a lifetime for me. I had no interest in tablets before (due to price point), but now I'm in love. It sure beats a laptop in bed/couch for casual email and web browsing. Also great for movies on the go for the kids or games to keep them all busy.
I hope HP opens up WebOS to the devewloper community, this little platform could really flourish if opened up to all for free. Open source could make this thing take off. With a few tweaks in the UI and cusomtization department I can see the TouchPad becoming a legenday device, a coveted item to own and something that another manufacturer will want to start developing hardware for! Reply
Chadder007 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkAnd what....HP wants to be just a Software company now? LOL Reply
Zextegra - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkSorry I do not agree with your article. People buy to much into these benchmarks used on tablets and phones. They are inaccurate and unproven. Also the architecture of the CPUs look good on paper but most do not understand them and only take what the engineers have to say. I believe the snap dragon is the AMD in this tablet war and the a5 is the intel. I think once we see another os ported on the touchpad that soc was a large part of the fault. Reply
spunkybart - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkI'm mostly an Apple guy (iPad, iPhone, iMac, iPod...), but I was rooting for WebOS -- I had heard it was a decent OS. Apple needs competition so that Apple products get better (and to give users an escape hatch if Apple keeps trying to control user content too much!)
What surprised me most was how fast this all went down. If HP wasn't fully committed to WebOS and tablets for the long haul, then why'd they spend money and time on buying Palm and developing a tablet? It just seems a colossal waste -- and surely a morale buster inside the company. Reply
amorexue - Sunday, September 25, 2011 - linkthis is my site www.loveweddingdress.co.uk Reply
mattj7 - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - linkI recently put Cyanogenmod 9 alpha 3 on my hp touchpad, and the difference is night and day. I honestly thought this was an under powered tablet because of the performance I was getting on webos. NOPE, with android this baby flies! I'm sure the asus transformer prime or ipad 3 would put it to shame, but it has all the power I need to game, browse pdfs, web pages, video, whatever, and Cyanogenmod 9 is still in alpha and full of bugs! But it has the hardware acceleration and thats probably the biggest jump in performance.
It's not the hardware, it's webOS holding back the touchpad. As much as I liked the swipe gestures, the deserted app market, and laggy performance makes having android on it all the sweeter! Reply


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ASRock Shows X99 Micro-ATX: The X99M Killerby Ian Cutress on 8/15/2014 7:18 AM EST
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R3MF - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkM.2 3.0x4 is a must on a new platform at this cost.
Any with USB 3.1 too? Reply
A5 - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkI don't think there are any USB 3.1 controllers available at the moment. Maybe next year's platforms. Reply
swaigo - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkI wanted this feature when I was shopping for a Z97 board but utilization of m.2 x4 would disable the use of SLI. Not a problem with X99 but it is just a consideration for those looking at Z97 + m.2 x4 + SLI. Reply
DIYEyal - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkWay too much red.. Why every manufacturer puts these colors (I could paint the heatsinks, but the PCIe slots and the ram slots are red too). Also the gold caps would bother me a lot.. Hope there will be more than just this and ROG mATX X99.. there wasn't enough choices on x79 mATX..
Also, that's a great decision to put two lan ports on the motherboard, because for the networking enthusiasts there wouldn't be room for two graphics cards and a networking card (unless you go 295x2 or TitanZ). Although I'm not a fan of the killer NIC.. Reply
Omniwar - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkMini-ATX on LGA2011 is a niche of an already small market, I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. The black/red color scheme can look really nice if you don't overdo it, it's probably the best idea to just embrace it and make the best out of it. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkDo what I do, get a case without windows. ;) Sure, they where fun when they first came out(remeber having to cut your own?), but they're just tiresome now. Reply
jabber - Monday, August 18, 2014 - linkYeah Windows just look terrible on 99% of builds. Only useful for dust build up inspections. Reply
Laststop311 - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkI hear ya the all black boards are the best lookin in my opinion like all stealthed out Reply
hojnikb - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkSo much red. I like it. Although one thing comes to mind; Why is nobody offering white pcbs anymore ?
I think one of the MSIs Eco boards suppost to be white, but it turned out to be black afterall for the retail. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkECC and RDIMM support? Now that is interesting as these features have been tied to Xeon chips. Granted, the previous generation X79 could support these technologies when a Xeon chip was put into the socket, though most motherboard manufactures never bothered to run the extra traces to the DIMM slots.
Could this mean that Intel is loosening its grip on some basic RAS features for its high end consumer platforms? If so, this is exciting news for me. Reply
hfp - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkECC is not Xeon-only. Goto ARK and open the Embedded category rather than Desktop and grab an i7 (with ECC) for the usual pricepoint. It's just that ECC does not matter for Desktop. Reply
madmilk - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkThe E5-1650v2 has ECC and is 100MHz faster than the i7-4930K, but it has the same MSRP and is still unlocked. The E5-1660v2 and 1620v2 are similar compared to the 4960X and 4820K. In reality the Xeons are about $100 more expensive because most vendors don't offer them, but if ECC is required the premium is not that large. Reply
Kevin Cobley - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkWhat is the point of the "Killer LAN" when INTEL are suppling the X99 with the worlds best LAN solution.
The "Sound Purity" is the Realtek 886 rebadged.
Use you head ASROCK and junk the junk and sell the board a little cheaper nobody wants that crap, would have done better with Sound Core, I guess cheapskates are cheapskates. Reply
bebimbap - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkI assumed it was because the 1 intel nic is the one integrated into the chipset, while the extra one is not. so the "optional" one they probably have some kind of "deal" with Atheros instead of intel. And if they didn't use the "killer" nic they couldn't use the theme of "fata1ity" with "killer"
one of the reasons I stick with Asus or Gigabyte Reply
Laststop311 - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkYea I only use asus their bios is the best. Reply
Ian Cutress - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkUnless you've heard otherwise, Purity Sound is usually an upgraded ALC1150 package with an EMI shield, PCB separation and filter caps (at a minimum), much like the other upgraded ALC1150 packages on other vendors. The idea behind this is to remove a noisy audio signal away from the digital trace interference as well as adjusting the single response to a much truer sound rather than straight out of the codec.
With the Killer LAN, the package from Qualcomm Atheros also includes network management software, which some motherboard manufacturers believe adds value to their product. The Intel one, despite whatever performance differences, relies on third-party implementations for network prioritization. Reply
StrangerGuy - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkI don't care how much they try to improve Realtek onboard sound. it's not going to beat a ~$50 USB DAC. That's just laws of physics, period. They should just include the latter when they are already charging these boards sky high instead of putting lipsticks on pigs. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkSo what exactly is a Fatality mouse port? Reply
Penti - Saturday, August 16, 2014 - linkJust drop the killer NIC and add a second Intel NIC and this would be a good workstation slash gaming board. I don't trust the Killer low-latency driver. Too bad you can't do NIC teaming on 8.X though. If you want better network performance you basically have to drop in a card for 10GbE or fibre-channel depending on what your doing. Reply
Laststop311 - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkYou would think after being at a 1gbit standard for so long 10 gbit would be the default network port intel automatically included. Reply
nirwander - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkThis shall very likely be my MB of choice. So tired of those huge ATX coffins...
Hope AT will get one for the review. Reply
efficacyman - Monday, August 18, 2014 - linkNeeds 8 dimms for X99 even if they went to laptop SO-DIMMS for increased density Reply
ghitz - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkAgreed, the reason for getting X99 would be because of more RAM capability. This really castrates it for me. Reply


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This winter I wanted to figure out how to make what, in my opinion, is the perfect chicken wing. It should be tender and delicious inside and have perfectly crisped skin. I have found that getting the 2 things just right is difficult to do. I also wanted this to be a dry rub wang and not one that was slathered in sauce. I tried a lot of things over the past 2 years and very intensely this winter. I also had to serve 2 heat palates as the wife likes very little heat and I want something much hotter.
So these were my criteria
1. tender and juicy
2. crispy skin
3. mild for the missus
4.spicy for me
5. great flavor from the dry rub
The full recipe:http://www.quelfood.com/lowcarb/cajunwangs
The steps that seemed to be key are:
1. allow the skin time to dry
2. toss with vegetable oil and rub
3. cook at 400 on a rack
I did most of my test runs in the kitchen on sheet trays and wire racks. I recently did a batch on the egg using the 3-tier rack. They were delicious and had all the quality of the others plus a little smokiness. I did not get photos of that batch as U of L was playing Florida and I was lucky to cook dinner while watching the game. Here are some results
Always good to have big wangs
dried and ready to rub
ready for the oven
I like mine with celery & blue cheese as well as a little Trinidad Scorpion Pepper dipping sauce... that stuff is wicked hot!
I know there are eleventy billion wing recipes and I hear there is a place in Buffalo that makes a mean wing. This is just the way I like them and I hope you like them too.