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The 1996-2001 Saturn SW2 may display the warning message "A/C off for Engine Protection" on the instrument panel. This may be accompanied by illumination of the check engine light and the temperature gauge reading cold at all times. This is a feature of the engine that is activated by the power control module when it detects the engine warming up too slowly. The OBD trouble code P0128 may also be stored.
The cause is simply a worn out thermostat that stays open at all times, preventing the engine from reaching the proper operating temperature.
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- FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA: 5 p.m., New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans. Art You Can Eat. (504) 658-4100 or http://noma.org.
- RECEPTION: 6 p.m.-9 p.m., The Foundation, 608 Julia St., New Orleans. Reception for artist Layla Messkoub. Proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children. Drinks and musical stylings of Ju$t Kapital. http://www.foundationgallerynola.com or (504) 568-0955.
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- RECEPTION TO MEET ARTIST ALI GOLKAR: 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Martin Lawrence Galleries, 433 Royal St., New Orleans. RSVP (504) 299-9055.
- BENEITO'S ART: 3618 Magazine St., New Orleans. Jazz, blues and Carnival-themed oil paintings by Bernard Beneito. Gallery hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. (504) 891-9170.
- CALLAN CONTEMPORARY: 518 Julia St., New Orleans. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. "Creeper Lagoon" by John Folsom on view through July 27. (504) 525-0518 or http://www.callancontemporary.com.
- CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: 900 Camp St., New Orleans. "After You've Been Burned by Hot Soup You Blow in Your Yogurt" by Margot Herster, through Aug. 18. "Chalmatia (shall-MAY-shuh)-A Fictional Place Down the Road," through Sept. 8. "A Woman's Work by Women in Film & Television (WIFT)," on view June 24-July 28. (504) 528-3800.
- D.O.C.S. A STUDIO GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART: 709 Camp St., New Orleans. (504) 524-3936. http://www.docsgallery.com. Gallery hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. Annual group exhibition "So Much Art, So Little Time IV," on view through Aug. 1.
- DUTCH ALLEY ARTISTS' CO-OP: 912 N. Peters St., New Orleans. Representing 25 local artists working in fabric, glass, clay, photography, etc. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. (504) 412-9220 or http://dutchalleyartistsco-op.com.
- THE FOUNDATION: 608 Julia St., New Orleans. Gallery hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday. Featured artist of the month, Layla Messkoub's works on view through July 6. Proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children. Works by Zhang Chongguang on view through July 6. http://www.foundationgallerynola.com or (504) 568-0955.
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- LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM, CABILDO: 751 Chartres St., New Orleans. "The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb Pottery of New Orleans," major exhibition of Newcomb art pottery, through September. (504) 568-6968 or http://www.crt.state.la.us/museum/properties/cabildo.aspx.
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- THE MCKENNA MUSEUM: 2003 Carondelet St., New Orleans. "Faces of Treme," photographs by Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun. (504) 586-7432.
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- NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans. "Portrait of Faith: John Paul II in Life and Art," through July 7; "Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms," June 21-Sept. 15; "Shadow and Light," through Aug. 4; Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the Worlde_SSRqs Fairs, through Aug. 4. (504) 658-4100 or http://noma.org.
- OCTAVIA ART GALLERY: 4532 Magazine St., New Orleans. Exhibition of Julie Robinson's new paintings. http://www.octaviaartgallery.com.
- OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: 925 Camp St., New Orleans. "The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth Jr." and "Eudora Welty: Photographs From the 1930s and '40s," through July 14. "When You're Lost, Everything's a Sign: Self-Taught Art From The House of Blues," through July 21. Ongoing: "Walter Inglis Anderson: Selections From the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art" and "Southern Regionalists From the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art." http://www.ogdenmuseum.org or (504) 539-9600.

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>General Running>Finding my LT threshold.
I thought this was about me. Carry on.
The point at which we can no longer tolerate you?
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Since we're on the subject, the title of this thread has been bugging me. Without the abbreviation it would be "Finding my lactate threshold threshold."
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FamilySearch has uploaded parish register images and indexes for Sussex 1530 – 1900, it's hard to tell if every parish is online yet, but I recommend that you look at the Wiki as this has a coverage list. The press release from FamilySearch show that 110,000+ records have been indexed and there are 5,147 images available so don't expect images for every parish, in fact I think this number of images would amount to just about one parish.
Taking into account the above this is still an important addition to the FamilySearch Parish register Collection and I have no doubt that the rest of the images will be going online in the near future. Those of you who read an earlier post may remember me reporting Diane Loosle from the Family History Library in Salt Lake saying that all the films and fiche stored in the famous granite vaults will have been digitised and online with 5 – 7 years, indexing will take 100 years at present rate of progress. If you would like to help with indexing I am sure they would be pleased to hear from you, link below.
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Early DIY electronics projects, 1910-1915
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My experiences as a teenager building simple do-it-yourself automobile and radio electronics projects found in some volumes of "The Boy Mechanic" published between 1910 and 1915 and how it has affected my view of work.
Even though I do not have much time for it now, I have always had an abiding interest in almost any DIY electronics project. One of my favorite pastimes during what little free time I have available, is to use Googles Video search capabilities to look for a variety of DIY electronics videos on You Tube and elsewhere on the Web.
Other than a period in the mid to late 1970s after the introduction of the first 8-bit CISC controllers from Intel and later Motorola and Signetics, my most active period of DIY electronics activity was much earlier - in my early teen years just before high school - during time spent on one of several family farms in Oklahoma where I was sent during summers to learn the value of hard work.
One summer I was on a farm in a rather isolated part of the state with a minimal amount of television reception and only slightly better AM/FM radio. In what little free time I had available after completion between the many manual chores assigned to me around the farm I was bored out of my mind. Then I found a treasure trove of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines collected by my uncle out in a work area in the barn.
While reading the articles occupied my time, most of the how-to projects they included were beyond a teenagers budget and all would have taken more personal time than I had to myself after ten hour dawn to dusk work days. Then I discovered deep in the stacks of magazines four volumes of The Boy Mechanic: A book that tells how to make things, published between 1910 and 1915 by Popular Mechanics Press.
Written for what then was still primarily a rural readership living on farms and in isolated villages, the volumes contain hundreds of tips on how to build a variety of devices and systems that 50 years later we take for granted and which can easily be purchased at a local store. At the time of the volumes were published they provided a real service by providing guidelines to building many of the appliances that we now take for granted.
The volumes also had dozens of projects relating to the high technologies of the day: aeronautics, radio transmitters and receivers and automobiles. One volume had instructions on how to build dozens of different types of model airplane gliders and even a detailed guide to building a full size version of one of the Wright Brother's early unpowered gliders. Another volume had the complete instructions on how to build a working version of their first engine powered airplane.
But what caught my attention initially were the dozens of how to projects on things to do to keep a Model T Ford working, which between 1910-1915 was THE automobile of choice. Half a century later, those tips were invaluable because at the time my cousin and I were responsible for distributing fresh produce, and dairy products to surrounding small towns throughout rural Oklahoma.
The vehicle we depended on was a Model T Ford. He had inherited from my uncle, who had in turn inherited it from his father. It was a constant day to day effort to keep the Model T in good enough working condition for delivery of fresh farm products each week. So my initial DIY efforts involved following the Boy Mechanic instructions on such projects as:
Priming the auto engine
A switch to brighten auto headlights
An auto theft alarm
Preventing corrosion of battery terminals
Removing carbon from auto engine valves
Using clothing cuff links as spark plug terminals
A simple emergency electrical-resistance coil
Testing the electrolyte levels in auto batteries
Building an oscillation transformer
Starting a car with a shorted ignition
Individually each project was pretty simple and had the benefit of helping my cousin and I keep the Model T working. It also gave me the confidence to take on even bigger and more ambitions radio electronics projects, including:
Building an adjustable bridging condenser
Making high frequency Tesla coils
A concealed loop aerial
Winding hollow wireless coils
By the end of the summer I was ready to start on my most ambitious project yet: a simple radio receiver capable of picking up signals from radio transmissions up to 250 miles away, enough to hear broadcasts from stations in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City and sometimes as far away as Austin, Texas.
The reason I took on DIY projects from these circa 1910-1915 volumes rather than those in much more recent Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines was simple: cost and availability. Where the most recent magazines had projects that often involved purchasing a lot of components, the Boy Mechanic volumes offered the possibility of building things based on the odds and ends of components that are available on any working farm.
Heres the parts list for the radio receiver I built most of the components of which I found in various work spaces on the farm, or through trading, from nearby farms: 1 variable condenser, 1 grid condenser, 1 UV-200 detector vacuum tube, 1 tube socket, 4 binding posts, 2 angle irons, 1 bakelite panel, 1 variocoupler, 2 switch levers, 12 contact points, a 22.5 volt B-battery, a six volt 40/60 ampere storage battery, and one pair of 2,000 ohm radio headphones.
By the end of a long grueling summer full of manual labor, I managed to get the receiver up and working once. By that time, though, I was preparing to return to California to attend school.
Did the summer provide me with an appreciation of the value of hard work? Sort of.
Hard work of the manual kind has no redeeming features. It is something to be endured and accomplished as quickly as possible. If it is repetitive and mindless, hard work of any sort, manual, mental, or clerical, is also something to be endured.
But my DIY electronics projects did change my view of "hard work" and my attitude toward it. On these various simple DIY electronics projects, I regularly spent many hours working into the night to finish them, often at the cost of not enough sleep nor enough energy to make my way though the chores for which I was responsible on the farm during the day.
What I learned is that hard work is not hard if what you are doing is interesting, intellectually compelling and creative. That insight about myself is one that I carry with me as an adult and provides the motivation drives me in every aspect of my work life.
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SWINDON Robins number one Peter Kildemand has helped Denmark into the final of the Speedway World Cup this evening.
The Odense racer scored 12 points in Event Two at Vastervik, as the Danes beat hosts Sweden by five points to progress.
Former Robins captain Hans Andersen contributed 12 points with club asset Mads Korneliussen also contributing 13, but it remains to be seen how many of the Event Two team will represent their country in the final given Nicki Pedersen and Niels-Kristian Iversen are waiting in the wings.
In his first ride Kildemand struggled to make the gate from the outside and became embroiled in a battle with Thomas H Jonasson for the final point-scoring place, which ended when the Swede collected the Robins number one's front wheel and sent him to the floor. Jonasson was excluded and, in the re-run, Kildemand barged down the inside of Josef Franc to extend his side's lead with a good victory.
After again missing the start in his second ride, Kildemand got a second chance after Jev Kostigovs slipped off, but could only finish second behind winner Oliver Berntzon.
With Denmark now four points up, Kildemand picked up his second win of the night despite being pushed all the way to the line by Sweden skipper Andreas Jonsson, before finishing second behind Czech Eduard Krcmar in his final programmed ride.
Denmark team boss Anders Secher opted to use Kildemand in the final heat of the night and, with victory already secured, the Dane romped to victory to complete a good night's work.
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TAMPA, Fla. - The mother of a boy who was hit by a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Day 2012 is speaking out in hopes of preventing similar injuries.
Sandy Duran of Ruskin created a campaign called Bullet Free Sky after her 13-year-old son Diego was hit in the head by a bullet while standing in his front yard.
She's urging people not to celebrate with gunshots.
Diego has undergone several surgeries to remove the bullet from his face, as well as for two brain aneurysms and a procedure to seal off leaking spinal fluid.
The non-profit effort was started to raise awareness about the dangers of celebratory gunfire. Sandy Duran created a website and produced a public service announcement to get the message out.
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What is an RSS feed?
RSS is a structured file that sits out on the Internet and represents the content on our site. When something new is added to Poynter.org, it is also added to the appropriate RSS feed. Your RSS reader will then notify you that something new has been added. This will keep you from having to keep your browser set to Romenesko, hitting the "refresh" button all day -- but feel free to continue doing that, if that's your thing. Read more about RSS on Wikipedia.org.
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You will need some device, software or hardware, to collect the RSS feeds for you. Usually, these are called RSS readers or aggregators. Read more about RSS readers at Wikipedia.org. There are so many ways to read RSS feeds that any list we make will surely be incomplete. I will propose several options below, but feel free to mention the RSS devices you like best in the feedback section of this article.
Apple computers have a screen-saver that can display RSS feeds. To enable it, open up the computer's "System Preferences," click on "Desktop & Screen Saver" and choose "RSS Visualizer." If you click the "option" button, you can add any of the Poynter feeds you would like to subscribe to.
Windows XP users have a similar option, called "MSN Screen Saver." This will display RSS feeds on top of your favorite pictures. You can download the free application here. After installation, right-click on your desktop and choose "Properties," click the "Screen Saver" tab, select "MSN Screen Saver" and click on "Settings" to add your feeds.
Here is a list of RSS applications for Windows and for Macs. An RSS application is also built into the new Internet Explorer 7 beta as well as Firefox and Safari on the Mac.
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Did you know?
Tasteless traditional Zulu beer is called isalababa, meaning 'goodbye father', implying that guests must leave their host because his beer cannot be enjoyed.
It is believed that Nomkhubulwana, the Princess of Rain, revealed the secret of traditional beer brewing to the Zulu people, and that white cattle are associated with ancestral spirits, representing purity and fertility. The great empire builder King Shaka banned early marriage to ensure his warriors kept their focus on matters of war, and love letters during courtship took the form of colour symbolism in beadwork.
These are some of the interesting facts the visitor learns at the KwaZulu Cultural Museum in Ondini near Ulundi, which falls into the eMakhosini Valley, the valley of Zulu Kings.
This KwaZulu-Natal cultural museum traces a number of historical themes. In one section it details the early inhabitants of the province, leading up to Shaka and a successor Cetshwayo, followed by the arrival of white settlers and their implications for trade. It also looks at belief systems of the Zulu, and the importance they placed on cattle as a source of wealth. Bringing the story into the present, a display on apartheid laws and their effects is included.
A second section reviews the strict divisions between males and female roles in this patriarchal and polygamous society and how this was reflected in dress, customs and division of labour. A reconstruction of a traditional homestead makes a fascinating display. Other cultural aspects such as the brewing of beer, the manufacture of musical instruments and the significance of beadwork is also covered.
The KwaZulu Cultural Museum is one museum that doesn't freeze the culture it portrays in a timeframe of the past. It examines the Zulu nation of today, and shows the dynamic nature of the Zulu culture as it moves with the times.
Most displays have interactive components, such as toys children can play with, traditional musical instruments to play and the opportunity to try your hand at beadwork.
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From Durban take the N2. After Stanger, take the Dokodweni off ramp, so that you are on the R34 that takes you past Melmoth onwards to Vryheid. 25km past Melmoth turn right to Ulundi on the R66. After crossing the White Umfolozi River and passing the Shell Garage on your right, take the turnoff to your right (P700) signposted to the Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport /Umfolozi Game Reserve. Pass the airport on your right and the Ulundi Battle Memorial on your left. Approximately 5km on you will find the Ondini Cultural Museum
Best time to visit
Balmy KwaZulu-Natal (with the exception of the high-lying Drakensberg) revels in year-round weather.
Around the area
Some other heritage sites in the area include the Anglo-Zulu and (South African (Anglo-Boer) War battlefield sites of Isandlwana, Rorkes Drift and Spioenkop. You will also find the Grave of King Shaka at Dukuza and Mgungundlovu, a reconstruction of the the residence of King Dingaan, in the area, as well as the prehistoric Border Cave. The museum is also close to the the Imfolozi-Hluhluwe Park.
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A tour operator that specialises in the area is a good bet, such as Tinta Safaris.
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For wider touring of the area, you will need to hire a vehicle, or enlist the use of a tour operator knowledgeable of the area.
What will it cost
R20 adults; R10 children under 12
Length of stay
You will need an hour or two to examine the museum, but if you want to spend longer in the area, allocate 2-3 nights.
What to pack
The usual South African sun protection kit - sunglasses, hat and sun block, and shoes for walking.
Where to stay
The uMuzi Bush Camp offers hut accommodation styled on traditional Zulu architecture, but with modern conveniences. Rates per person sharing are in the region of R550 pp per night.


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Del Valle Regional Park is an alpine resort only 10 miles south of Livermore. The area is located deep in a valley framed by oak-covered hills, with a five mile lake that meanders through its center. The Del Valle XTERRA uses the lake, its various inlets, and rolling hills to create a diverse and challenging course. The rolling hills in the region make for quite a few climbing opportunities in both the mountain bike and trail running section. Be ready for trail running and mountain biking that intersects with the various stream crossings. Temperatures during this time of year can be on the hotter side, so getting a bit wet might be a welcomed surprise.
Swim: One (1), 600 meter lap
Bike: 7 miles
Run: 3 miles
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Handsome, hardy and exotic -- words that have been used to describe the Icelandic settlers who came to Manitoba.
They've also been used to describe Icelandic sheep, a breed that's catching on in Manitoba.
"They look like something from a fairy tale," said Inwood sheep farmer Wendy Kunzelman. She and her husband Clayton have 160 sheep of different breeds -- and the Icelandic are their favourite.
Kunzelman crafts the fleece and wool into sweaters, slippers and mitts. The Interlake woman stresses how tough the animals are, able to withstand all kinds of weather and health challenges.
"They're very hardy." Kunzelman saw that in the aftermath of the 2011 flooding in Manitoba.
"With our other breeds, we had a terrible problem with worms." Not with the Icelandics, though.
Their ancestors, the Northern European Short Tail breed, were taken to Iceland by the Norse settlers about 1,200 years ago, the Icelandic Sheep Breeders Association of North America says. Without them, Icelanders would not have survived through centuries of hardship on an isolated island just south of the Arctic Circle.
But the Icelandic sheep are newcomers to Canada, first imported here in 1985.
They arrived sporting a variety of textures, colours and patterns, short tails and curly horns.
"I was always intrigued by them," said Clayton Kunzelman, who grew up on the Interlake farm where he and Wendy live.
Clayton said they bought their first Icelandics five years ago while visiting a farm to buy other livestock.
"We didn't go to buy sheep," he said. "I went to buy a bull. After, we went in for coffee and we were just talking to the family... We came home with a bull and five sheep."
The long-distance trucker said the Icelandics are a gentle breed, and he can hit the road without worrying about leaving his wife and stepdaughter to look after them.
"You can make pets out of them," said Clayton. One of their ewes comes for a chin rub when she sees her people.
"The males look like mountain sheep, with two, big, full curls in their horns."
Wendy likes the Icelandics for their wool. A neighbour shears the animals, and she washes and cards the fleece.
"The Icelandic fleece is needle felting she puts in the bottom of slippers," Clayton said. "It's like walking on a cloud."
The sheep they sell don't go to market but to people looking for Icelandics to add to their farm, he said.
"There are more and more places you can get Icelandics," he said. "They're getting more plentiful all the time... It seems to be that they are catching on."
They have, for sure, at the Kunzelman farm, where they have nine ewes and two rams.
The breed's biggest admirer, though, is ìlafur R. Dýrmundsson with the Farmers Association of Iceland. He's especially fond of the select group of Icelandic sheep who are in no way followers.
"They actually like to lead, to walk in front of the flock," said Dýrmundsson, who has a PhD in sheep reproduction science and is the association's national adviser on organic land use in Iceland.
"No such sheep are found elsewhere in the world," he said in an email interview.
"They have been bred over the centuries as a strain of the Iceland breed of sheep, only for their intelligence," said the hobby farmer who's actively involved in the conservation of livestock breeds.
Since arriving on Iceland's icy, rocky terrain, the sheep had challenges grazing in the winter.
Somehow a unique, small population of sheep developed that were able to help the farmers and shepherds manage the flock on pasture, he said. While farming practices have changed, these highly intelligent "leader-sheep" have retained their special alertness and leadership characteristics, said Dýrmundsson, who owns a few leader-sheep.
"One of the attributes is their ability to 'forecast' changes in the weather," said Dýrmundsson, whose uncle Ásgeir Jónsson wrote a book of stories about leader-sheep in 1950.
"In those days, it was common to winter-graze sheep because fodder was in limited supply. Every morning the farmer/shepherd would drive the sheep from the sheep house to the pasture. In good weather, the leaders would go eagerly out ahead of any other sheep but sometimes they would stay behind, even refuse to go out in apparently nice weather. They might be forced to go with the sheep.
However, by midday a sudden snowstorm broke out, showing their forecasting ability."
In Manitoba, the Kunzelmans say their Icelandic sheep are definitely not leaders. They're more likely to sit through a snowstorm than head for the barn.
"When it snows, they'll lay out there in a snowbank and be happy," said Clayton.
Wendy said foul weather doesn't seem to bother them. "They are the last ones in the barn when it is storming or raining." And in nice weather, too.
"They all come up to the barn at night, and the Icelandic are usually still out there eating, slowly making their way to the barn, the last ones in."
Clayton said he knows some folks of Icelandic heritage and doesn't see any parallels with the sheep.
In Iceland, Dýrmundsson does.
"When I think of it, perhaps we, the Icelandic people, have some of the leader-sheep characteristics -- rather hardy, robust, adapted to a harsh and fluctuating climate and in many ways in close contact with nature in a sparsely populated country."
At the Kunzelmans' sheep farm in Manitoba, the Icelandics keep to themselves.
"We have a few different breeds of sheep and they do tend to mingle, but the Icelandic seem to stick together with their own breed," Wendy observed.
It's what they've gotten used to over hundreds of years, said Dýrmundsson.
"Self-reliance is quite common."


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Is there are 'standard' way to do this?
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Michael Vick was nearly flawless, Nick Foles looked sharp and the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback competition remains close.
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Intel: More Details on Penryn and Nehalemby Johan De Gelas on 3/28/2007 3:00 PM EST
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cornfedone - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkIntel knows they are about to get punished again by AMD so they are greasing the skids to get the media hype they need to delude consumers into believing Intel's products will still be competitive after Barcelona, when the facts prove otherwise.
Hey if nothing else, Intel is good for a laugh. It's nice to see those criminals squirm for a change. It's only gonna get worse when they get to court and AMD proves that Intel violated law over and over and over again in their obsession to eliminate competition.
fitten - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - linkIntel couldn't, and wouldn't, eliminate AMD. In fact, Intel would probably float AMD a loan, if it came to it, in order to keep AMD afloat simply to avoid the backlash of other potential monopoly charges should AMD disappear.
Plus, Penryn is the next thing up for Intel, supposedly out around the time as AMD's Barcelona (later this year - which is 2007). Nahelem is out in 2008-ish and does even more (according to the dates listed, a year before AMD's Fusion which is slated for 2009).
All I can do is laugh giddily because I have no allegiance to either CPU maker. I simply buy what is the best bang for the buck (for a long time now, it was AMD and I've had about a dozen AMD boxes) which, for the next couple/few years, looks like it's going to be Intel. If nothing else, the competition will kick AMD into overdrive and competition will get even hotter... and I benefit regardless of who is on top. Reply
johnsonx - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkah, Cramitpal, how we missed you! Reply
Crassus - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - linkOh year, those were the days ... Reply
amdsupport - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - link
Intel knows they are about to get punished again by AMD so they are greasing the skids to get the media hype they need to delude consumers into believing Intel's products will still be competitive after Barcelona, when the facts prove otherwise.
Congratulations! You've just constructed the 4millionth floor on the edifice of stupidity.
Seriously...there is no basis for claiming AMD's new stuff(or rather, refreshed) will exceed Intel's offerings. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?... ">Anandtech themselves claimed in a previous article that "AMD could come close to offering something competitive to Intel." That sounds like AMD will only bring themselves back in line with Intel's current offerings...not exceed or punish as you claim.
As far as the court proceedings go...any result from it at best would result with a simple "slap on the wrist" punishment at best.
Justin Case - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - linkIf the numbers I've been hearing are right (and they probably are), AMD will get ahead of Intel in terms of floating-point performance, and will extend its lead in terms of memory performance (Intel's real Achilles's heel in HPC and servers).
On the desktop, they'll be more or less matched with Barcelona, but AMD's Fusion could tip the scales in its favor for gaming systems.
Intel will probably retain its lead in mobile platforms, but I don't have much real data on Barcelona's power-saving features, so I really can't say for sure.
Penryn should put Intel back in the lead on the desktop (Fusion being the unknown factor here) and bring them pretty close in servers (Intel is still trying to push Itanium, so there are a lot of internal conflicts about server-oriented improvements, which gives AMD a bit of slack).
All in all, it's business as usual: Intel is better at manufacturing and optimization, AMD takes more risks with design (and, with all the great engineers they hired from DEC, Intel, IBM, ATI, etc., they seem quite capable of pulling it off).
Phynaz - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkIs the sound of piss running down Hectors leg. Reply
HammerFan - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkI really like to see this kind of information, that neither company is sitting down and saying "enough's enough." I wonder though, if Intel is going to use their own graphics systems in their all-in-one chip, or if they'll turn to nVidia/ ATi for a graphics solution. As for chipset manufacturers, how well they do will largely depend on the features they can pack into their SB's IMHO, as that's largely what I look for when I want a new MB, since performance from board to board doesn't vary that much anyway. Reply
chucky2 - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkYeah, I'd myself really like to see AMD, Intel, and nVidia adding support of native 1394b (Firewire 800) in their chipsets, so products like that can start moving forward.
Having eSATA would be nice as well...
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tumbleweed - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkThe earlier a company discloses what their plans are, the earlier they get feedback on how the public likes or dislikes some of their plans.
Think about how much money Intel could have saved if they'd realized much earlier how badly the public hated RAMBUS. Reply
sdsdv10 - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - linkYes, I agree early disclosure is a good thing, but let's clarify the "public" doesn't hate RAMBUS. Most of the "public" doesn't know who Rambus is or even care. The only ones who hate Rambus is a minority of tech geeks who can't move on. Reply
feelingshorter - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkSo Intel will finally use a IMC like AMD. Does that mean overclocking will be relatively flat across the board? If all the CPUs of the same stepping have the same IMC, then overclocks will be less motherboard dependent wont it? Or am I confusing IMC with something else? That also means all the chip manufactures will have to find new business. Although they can continue to manufacture motherboards, we've seen what happened to companies in the past when AMD decided to use IMC. Reply
tuteja1986 - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - linkWell we will have to wait till Q2 of 2008 to see if intel cliams are true or not. Till then my eyes lay on AMD's Barcelona architecture since its coming out this year and if AMD claims are right then it should be able to beat up a intel offering. Reply
Locutus465 - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - linkOh yeah, you hit the nail on the head... Much more important than the actual performance gains is the fact that neither company is going to be sititing on their laurals putting out bad or otherwise unexciting products out for the forseeable future. Reply


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|Modern Tic-tac-toe board.
Often referred to as "the thinking man's board game", Tic-Tac-Toe is generally considered to be the first strategy game ever made in narnia as well as the game which utilises strategy the most, and this is why we use it to make cheese and dumplings. However, it has undergone a surprising amount of evolution, although Christian scientists would disagree.
edit Origins
edit Octosaaitii's versionThe game of Tic-Tac-Toe was invented by Ur Gahay, an Octosaaitii from Planet Reno, during the beginning of time. He got the concept for the game when he watched a rerun of Hollywood Squares. The original version of Tic-Tac-Toe could only be played when the nine planets of the solar system were aligned in a perfect square. The two Octosaaitiis would take turns dropping nukes on the planets, and the first to nuke an entire line of planets was declared the winner.
Gahay received a patent for Tic-Tac-Toe. The reasons for this are unknown, as Planet Reno has no patent office, and the patent just appeared out of nowhere one day. Nevertheless, for the next seventeen years, producers of cheap knock-offs stopped copying Tic-Tac-Toe out of fear of a lawsuit.
The Great Nuclear Arms Shortage plagued Planet Reno, causing games of Tic-Tac-Toe to be outlawed. Fortunately, the shortage ended in May of 2005, and you can once again nuke any planet you wish.
edit Man's version
Eventually, mankind started to notice the Octosaaitii's game. In the year 4800 BC, they decided they'd make a similar game. However, unlike the Octosaaitii's version that comes in an ordinary box, the humans decided they could sell more if the box had flashy colours and had EXTREME MARKETING. They were right. The human version quickly became more popular, and outsold all other variants. Another notable difference is that human Tic-Tac-Toe is played with pen and paper.
edit Modifications over the years
edit Pharaoh's Rules
In 1999 BC, United States Pharaoh Alex Trebek made a revolutionary change to the way Tic-Tac-Toe is played, called "Pharaoh's Rules". The game was played the same way as before, but with one change: the loser's race became the victim of genocide. Note that back then, Pharaoh's Rules were played by default unless it was implied that the game is for fun; this is different from modern Tic-Tac-Toe where Pharaoh's Rules only apply if it is written expressly that they apply. HOBITS LIKE to play a certain type of tic tac toe called bobo. In thier culture it is what makes you a man if you can beat a pineapple in tic tac toe!
edit Cheating
After the death of Moses, mankind agreed that The Ten Commandments no longer applied. Of course this was disproved when The Ghost of Moses came to Earth and kicked some sinner ass and buttocks in 750 AD, but before then cheating was on the rise. Here is a small sample of the cheats that were frequently used in the millennia when cheating was frequent.
- You could add your letter to any square at any time if your opponent turned away or left the room.
- You could add your letter to any square at any time if your opponent was blind.
- At the end of your turn, you could take another turn if you added your letter without giving the other guy a chance.
- You could kill the other guy and burn the game which you would win.
- If you lose, you could insist that the game is best n+1 out of 2n+1, where n is how many times the other guy has won.
edit The Thousand Years Tic-Tac-Toe
The longest game ever played lasted over a millenium, and was played between the French and the English in 1011. The needless deaths ended in 2015 when the English put an O in the bottom left square, ignorant to the fact that the French were one square away from having the entire top row.
edit Renaissance
During the Renaissance, new ways of thinking were common. Many people started to use atomic microscopes to play games of Tic-Tac-Toe that were invisible to the naked eye. In fact, Leonardo DaVinci compiled billions of these games and used them to "paint" The Mona Lisa.
edit The British
The British call Tic-Tac-Toe "noughts and crosses", since litigation in 1905 by the makers of Tic-Tac(tm) mints restricted the term's use to their product.
edit The Mexicans
When brought into Mexico by a returned border jumper, the man Juanito Juanuel called the game in a fair attempt at English "Tic taco con toe". This is played with one horizontal line and two lines, unless only one can be made due to lack of resources. It is played by placing items into the spaces, whatever is available (usually broken glass or a pebble). The winner in this case is he who still has items to place. The loser forfeits all placed items to the winner and goes home broke. In many cases a fight breaks out, and a knife is pulled (unless the knife was put down as a bet).
edit Nazism
In the 1930's, the Nazis decided to declare war on various peoples that did not appreciate Tic-Tac-Toe. Ironically, the Nazis themselves did not have true appreciation for the sport, as their version of the Tic-Tac-Toe board, which was sewn on their flags, was startlingly inaccurate. Tic Tac Toe has been known ever since........................
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In today's technology-based world, it is now possible to play Tic-Tac-Toe on the computer. Here are the simple to follow instructions to install it on your computer:
- Run Notepad.
- Go to the Format menu and select Font.
- Change the font size to 72.
- Hold shift, and press "3".
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AMD Launches Radeon 7700M, 7800M, and 7900M Mobile GPUsby Jarred Walton on 4/24/2012 4:25 AM EST
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Meaker10 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - link"The GPU clock is 850MHz compared to 1100MHz (stock) on the desktop HD 7870"
The 7870 is clocked at 1000MHz stock.
I want the 7970M on a nice MXM-B module to slap in my notebook, cheers :) Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkRight you are; sorry for the error, though I actually had the correct math and just wrote 1100MHz (the overclocked value) instead of 1000. :-) Reply
alterecho_ - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI appreciate AMD as a clean company but they should really stop using non-zero values as their base line, in their graphs. Reply
Goty - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkPeople have really got to get over this point. AMD does it, Intel does it, NVIDIA does it; it's nothing new. If you still have trouble reading charts, you might want to consider going back to elementary school. Reply
BSMonitor - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkPot, this kettle. Kettle this is pot. Reply
nPawn - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkI don't understand what the problem is in the first place?? Reply
suprem1ty - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI think its because it's a bit misleading visually.
Look at the first graph, on the Battlefield 3 results at first glance the difference in height makes AMD's card look 3x faster, when in reality its only (relatively speaking) 60% quicker. Reply
Gc - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkUgh, I agree. This contributes to giving the AMD marketing department a bad name,
and hurts AnandTech for using the bad chart in their article.
I had hoped the AMD marketing purge might have gotten rid of some bad players.
Would be better if the vertical axis showed a gap before it intersects the horizontal axis.
We are used to seeing the intersection of the axes as the origin 0,0.
So just don't show a continuous axis, show a break or even a zigzag.
Bar charts are harder, better to show a break or cut-off in the bars as well.
These 3-d bars are bad, they look like the bars are sitting on a floor, not cut-off. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkAs I comment below: Our text dissects the information, and right now these charts are the only indication of performance that we have. I just assume everyone who comes here is smart enough to read the charts and understand what they mean. I even say, "take the charts with a grain of salt."
This is a press release for the most part, and we're not performing the tests. I certainly don't want to make an AnandTech style graph that people might actually interpret as being our own independent test results! These are AMD's tests and AMD's information, and what they do here isn't all that different from what I've seen elsewhere (e.g. NVIDIA and Intel "what to expect" guides). Reply
doron1 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkActually this graph made me chuckle, I'm surprised no one saw why they did that - http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/news/NVIDIA...
Btw never seen AMD use such graph before, but I could be wrong. Reply
shaw - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkThese charts always cracks me up and I laugh. <AMD Chart>We are more better x2! They are less better x3! Do the math!</AMD Chart>
It's like, with consoles the bit wars tag line has died out, but its PC equivalent has never stopped. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkExcept the charts clearly show the 0.8x to 1.6x times faster labels, so the only people who have problems are those who don't know how to read a graph. Anyone that glances at a graph and thinks, "Wow, the red bar is four times as big as the green bar!" without actually looking at what the bars mean deserves exactly what they get. Reply
erple2 - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkNow Jarred.
Graphing 101 tells us to make clear graphs. The lines marked the way that are listed are clearly done strictly as marketing - it "cheapens" the graph completely by not having a common datum.
The graph is supposed to convey 2 pieces of information - a useful representation of the relative performance of the product, and on more careful examination, the exact differences.
Why bother putting a bar graph in it if you're not actually making a bar graph? That's the problem. You're using a tool designed to graphically convey useful information in an at best misleading and, at worst negligent fashion.
Perhaps the data visualization perfectionist in me cringes every time I see a poor data representation. Either way, I can see that it's just plain wrong. Reply
UltraTech79 - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkWhat kind of shitty attitude is that? Are you seriously defending misleading graphs based on "you should know better, and if not then you deserve to be screwed" ?
You should work for the credit card industry with crappy ethics like that. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkAs I have said twice in the threads, these are AMD's graphs, showing their numbers, and everyone reading this article should be absolutely aware of that. RTFA. Don't tell me how to make graphs when these aren't my graphs, because I certainly wouldn't do a graph like this. I'm likewise not putting the AnandTech graphing style on display, because then the casual reader might think we actually ran some tests. I'm not sure how I can be any more clear than that.
With that said, the graphs are still clear about what they show and you all know exactly what they mean. The graphs come from a marketing department, and marketing loves to try and make things look better. AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA all put out charts like this, and it's allowed because the necessary information to correctly interpret the results is right there in the graphs. It is slightly misleading, but only to people that don't care enough to use their brain cells. I'm guessing when we show the same sort of charts for NVIDIA "launched but not benchmarked by AnandTech" we'll see the exact same comments, only it will probably be by different people.
If you are gullible enough to go out and try to buy something based on a non-review press release type of article, then you deserve to be screwed, yes. And people do stupid stuff like that all the time, which is why we've ended up with lowest common denominator LCDs in laptops. But don't tell me I have bad ethics because I post an article with AMD's graphs and state, right in the text:
"As always, take these graphs for what they're worth." Or, "Results are at 1920x1080/1920x1200 with a variety of quality settings, so take the following with a grain of salt."
You want to talk about unethical practices? How about putting 2GB RAM on a GPU that's so slow that it doesn't matter how much RAM it has, and then all the OEMs selling said GPU as a $80 upgrade? Or what about building laptops that basically are designed to fail after a couple years of regular use, because the materials simply aren't designed to hold up? But you can't force a company to build and use higher quality parts, especially when consumers aren't willing to pay the cost. You can't force people to research hardware if they don't want to; so they'll go into some store and the sales people get to talk them into whatever they can, often selling them hardware that's fast in the wrong areas, more expensive than they need, and not a good fit for their particular needs. Reply
Dracusis - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkI know you didn't make the charts, but as a journalist you should care about information clarity and shouldn't defend them like you did in the comment above.
Oh and implying your readers "deserves exactly what they get", also not the best attitude to exhibit as a journalist.
Sure it may be a press release, but you're reporting on it and re-publishing that information.
Having said all that, I thought your statements in the article were carefully measured against the poor quality materials without being insulting. Honestly I'm not really sure why anyone got upset to begin with - perhaps we need fresh bait in the troll traps. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - linkI'm not saying our readers deserve it, I'm saying people who don't do the research and don't care to pay attention to all the information in a graph deserve what they get. What I specifically said is: "Anyone that glances at a graph and thinks, 'Wow, the red bar is four times as big as the green bar!" without actually looking at what the bars mean deserves exactly what they get.'"
What's crazy is that everyone is harping on this like the data is somehow obscure. The chart starts at 0.8X and goes to 1.7X or 1.4X (depending on which graph we're looking at). To act like that is hard to understand, particularly on a tech savvy web site like ours, is ludicrous. I'm pretty sure that everyone who cares to read articles like this at AnandTech knows what the chart means. If the chart instead said, "Percent improvement" and started at 0% and went up to 70%, no one would have complained, and yet that would be just as "misleading" to the graph impaired that only stare at the bars and not the labels.
Furthermore, right below the AMD vs. AMD graph is the data showing the numbers for AMD vs. NVIDIA. Wow, everything sure is hidden and misleading when you can see a relative performance chart followed by another table showing some actual numbers. Seriously, if people take things out of context and don't read the text or the table and *think* for a minute or two, how are you going to educate them on the Internet? Anyone that clueless wouldn't know why we're even talking about mobile GPUs in the first place. Reply
raghu78 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkCan't wait for the Alienware M17X review. Till Nvidia come out with their GTX 680M based on GK106 its one way traffic. I think even with GTX 680M it might be not so easy for Nvidia to reclaim the mobile performance crown because Pitcairn has 62.5% of the shader count of Tahiti with the exact same front end / tesselator / rasterizer setup whereas I think GK106 is going to be a halving of GK104 with lesser tesselation units. Pitcairn is AMD's best perf/watt GPU in HD 7000 series and HD 7970M will be a true next gen mobility card giving performance close to a GTX 570. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkNVIDIA hasn't made any statements, but I'm guessing we'll see GK104 in a laptop at some point, albeit with lower clocks. If they could get tweaked GF110 into laptops, GK104 should be easy. Now they just need yields on GK104 to reach the point where it's practical. Reply
raghu78 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkNvidia got a GF100 aka GTX 480M into laptops but that was a unmitigated disaster because clocks suffered severely. Only when they got a GF104 aka GTX 485M with power usage suitable for laptops things were better. The GTX 485M was launched in early 2011 and midway into the 40 nm cycle. I would expect the same timeframe for Nvidia (Q4 2012 or Q1 2013) to turn a GK104 into a 100w design with decent clocks and suitable yields.
Having said that as a member of the tech industry press you might know better about Nvidia's roadmap plans. Reply
JPForums - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkNvidia managed to get GF100 into laptops, though I wouldn't call it a success. However, GF104/GF114 (GTX485M/GTX580M) did rather well. The GTX680 only has a 195W TDP (compared to 244W for the GTX580 and 170W for the GTX560Ti). I would expect GK104 to replace Nvidia's current top mobile performers.
Also, given the changes Nvidia made to make the chip smaller, cooler, and more power efficient (at the expense of FP64 and compute functionality) and AMD's efforts at expanding compute capability (at the expense of size and probably power efficiency), this chip is even better positioned than their previous efforts to be top dog in the mobile gaming space.
AMD technologies may give them an edge in battery life (or perhaps not), but I can't imagine Nvidia will loose in raw gaming performance this time around. That said, I get the feeling that, like the desktop variants, AMD will have a significant period of uncontested time in the market. In any case, I doubt we will see a GK104 mobile variant until the production issues with the desktop variants are straightened out. Reply
Meaker10 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkEarly tests at NBR give a stock score of 6100 in 3dmark 11 with a high end SB CPU. Reply
mySN.de - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkDo you have any source link for the benchmark at NBR? Reply
Meaker10 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkhttp://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp186/powwow71/...
Links to the pictures. Reply
Meaker10 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkOriginal thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/658... Reply
quiksilvr - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkYou can pick the lower end M17x for $1500 and upgrade to the 7970 for $200. Reply
quiksilvr - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkUpon further investigation, its amazing how much of a scam these multi-tier level laptop choices are. You can configure the lower end model with the exact same specifications as the middle model for $150 less. The only difference is the video card and the hard drive. Everything else, even the RAM and CPU, are exactly the same. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkVideo card and hard drive upgrades make a lot of money for these laptop builders. Saying they are "exactly" the same except for two major components is a tad bit disingenuous. Reply
extide - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkWrong. If you configure them exactly the same (1920x1080 screen, 750GB 7200RPM) they both come out to exactly $2049. Reply
extide - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkActually that $2049 price is with both of them having the i7 2760. If you leave them both at the default processor (i7 2670) then they are still exactly the same, at $1899. Reply
Brandenburgh_Man - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkWhen you first look at AMD's Radeon HD 7000 Performance graph, the vertical length of the Red bars make the HD 7970M look like it's, on average 3 times faster than the Yellow bars for the HD 6990M. Wow, what a BEAST!
Then you look at the scale on the left and realize that, at best, it's only 60% faster and, on average, 40%. Such cheap tricks make me lose all respect for the company. Reply
A5 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkPretty much every company, ever, has done something like this. Intel, Nvidia, Apple, Qualcomm, ARM, etc. Reply
Gc - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkThat doesn't mean AnandTech has to repeat their misleading graphs.
AnandTech can strive to be a more accurate, less misleading source of information, not just a press release repeater. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkOur text dissects the information, and right now this is the only indication of performance that we have. I just assume everyone who comes here is smart enough to read the charts and understand what they mean. It's a press release for the most part, and we're not performing the tests. I certainly don't want to make an AnandTech style graph that people might actually interpret as being our own independent test results! Reply
6kle - Friday, April 27, 2012 - link"I just assume everyone who comes here is smart enough to read the charts and understand what they mean."
I don't think this is a case of people being too dumb for your article. Why do you think there are so many complaints given for using misleading graphs? It's because when there are tons of readers there will always be some who forgot to "check", even if they are not dumb. It's called being human. Why put such "traps" in an article for people to look out for. You are basically saying people can't skim your articles quickly and need to read all the disclaimers you have placed somewhere in the text? Is that good journalism for a site that strives to provide accurate information.
The only reason to use visual graphs is to give a visual representation of the difference by the means of comparing their size. Not making them start from "zero" completely destroys the very purpose of using them in the first place.
If you need to start reading the numbers at the side of the graphs you might as well just drop the bars entirely and stick to using numbers only.
I find the criticism very valid in this case and would hope for you to learn from it. I am sad to see that you are instead calling some people (indirectly) stupid. I think it's more stupid in this case to use those bars when it can be avoided.
I would suggest you either correct the bars to start from zero or use numbers only (you can put a big clear label above them saying something like "Source: AMD Marketing" so people won't think they are test results from this site. Reply
seapeople - Friday, April 27, 2012 - linkWow, so now in your mind anyone who skims an AnandTech article should be able to quickly glance at the relative height of bars in a graph and presume that AnandTech has conducted in-house tests and validated that card A is 4x better than card B, despite the article and graph both clearly being labeled as based on OEM-provided results only?
I'm glad I don't work for a place like AnandTech, the posters would mentally destabilize me. Reply
6kle - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - linkI don't know what you are talking about. You seem to be quoting me but I never said anything like that. Reply
seapeople - Friday, April 27, 2012 - linkI think Jarred should remake the graph with the minimum value at 0 and then have the maximum value be at 1 million. Would you be happy then? Reply
seapeople - Friday, April 27, 2012 - linkYou must have trouble buying gas, then, because I'm sure someone like you would lose respect for someone who charges $3.99 and 99/100 for a gallon of gas which makes people look and think "Wow, I'm only paying three dollars a gallon!" Reply
Tujan - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkIm confused. You say 'GPU' for a notebook. There is a photo of a 'pin' type processor. And this then is not for a pcie slot ect. Notebooks do not have dual sockets,and I thought that ATI was running APUs within most of their new product lines,and even in notebook.
So what is the situation here ? Exactly how does a 'GPU'run in a notebook that has an APU. Or is this something that runs in a notebooks PCIe slot etc ? Somebody tell me where this 'fits' in,and what notebook platform/series they could be used in/for.
Note:I dont have any notebooks. And haven't gazed a look at any curcuit board layouts for any. Reply
Tujan - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkNotebook equipment built into a desktop,or used by the desktop. So this really tossed me here:
"Enduro will also work with Intel CPUs like Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge."
..so they must be PCIe components . Only marketed for the portable notebooks . Right , or no . Reply
Meaker10 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkThe highend cards will be MXM modules. Reply
André - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkI still think it is rather annoying how the mobile graphic line is upping the same GPUs to a higher naming convention.
Why not just call a shovel what it is, a shovel. Make the differentiation about the letter M instead.
Desktop Pitcairn Radeon HD 7800 series, mobile Pitcairn Radeon HD 7800M series.
Desktop Cape Verde Radeon HD 7700 series, mobile Cape Verde Radeon HD 7700M series.
And so on.
Much easier on consumers and it feels a bit more honest. Reply
bennyg - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkHonesty died when invented numbers being used as names became acceptable.
And sales increased.
I don't know how the consumer has a clue what they're buying. Most reviewers (other than AT of course) don't seem to either.
If I ran the world crap like this would fall under the scope of "Misleading and deceptive conduct" for the purposes of trade practices law. Reply
mczak - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkHopefully ZeroCore will help amd to allow their drivers to be installed without the "help" of the notebook vendors. If the power used in this state is really low enough (it is allegedly sub-1W but it should probably be closer to 0W rather than 1W if it's used in this way) they might not need any of the acpi power switching methods to switch the discrete chip on and off, which means the driver should no longer have such platform dependencies. Reply
Aloonatic - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkWhat really makes laptop gamers feel like second class citizens is waiting for manufacturers to release drivers.
I'll admit, It's put me off buying a laptop for any sort of game playing, as it's just a ridiculously irritating state of affairs. Have AMD pulled their fingers out on this issue, or do manufacturers still have their foot on our throat? Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkRight now, if you want regular driver updates on a notebook you have two viable options:
1) Get a laptop with a discrete GPU and no switchable graphics. It doesn't matter if it's an AMD or an NVIDIA GPU; you should get driver updates. Note however that some OEMs aren't on board with AMD's mobile reference driver program (Sony for sure, maybe HP?), so shop accordingly.
2) Get a laptop with NVIDIA's Optimus Technology. You'll get their regular driver updates and you can install Intel's latest drivers as well -- the two are independent of each other. Reply
zcat - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - linkDoes NVidia have anything yet (for the desktop; not mobile) that can compete with AMD's 7000 series in terms of max performance VS idle wattage under 10Watts, since that what the system will be doing most of the time anyway?
I'd love to go with NVidia in my next mini-ITX system to get VDPAU h/w acceleration that just works in Linux, but AMD's 77XX idling at only 5W is a huge draw.
(And on a related note: Why do AMD's Radeon wikipedia articles all list idle TDP, but none of NVidia's?) Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - link"Idle TDP" doesn't really mean anything, since TDP is "Thermal Design Power", or in other words, how much the cooling system has to be able to safely dissipate. "Idle Power Draw" would be the more appropriate terms, and it's simply a choice not to publish idle power figures. You'll note that AMD and Intel don't publish idle power draw for their CPUs/APUs either, so we generally have to infer how much power they use through measurements -- measurements that include the rest of the system hardware to varying degrees.
As for NVIDIA competing with AMD for high performance/low power, Kepler GK104 (GTX 680) is clearly a major step forward compared to Fermi and GTX 580. We know GK107 is already out for laptops, and GK106 I believe is coming at some point (along with GK110 for the ultra high-end probably in six months or so). I'm guessing the GK106/GK107 parts will be quite competitive with AMD's similar parts. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - linkThere's a difference between "Jarred doesn't like" and "Jarred isn't kowtowing to". Just because I'm not in love with all things AMD doesn't mean I dislike them. I just wish their CPUs were more compelling, because right now, particularly on laptops, all they're doing is improving IGP performance while CPU performance is stagnating. I get the whole "CPU isn't everything" argument, but if someone really cares about graphics performance, they'll use a discrete GPU that's many times faster than the fastest IGP. Which leaves us with a CPU that's less than half what Intel offers. Reply


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DETROIT, Mich - The Parade Company.
It's an annual tradition. Movers and shakers show up at The Parade Company for the honor of flipping pancakes, reveling in their service to the community and being seen. But at the Parade Company 12th Annual VIP Pancake Breakfast, Wayne County Executive, Robert Ficano was busy defending his actions in the recent scandal that has plagued his administration.
This stems from the golden parachute deal with Turkia Mullin who left the county municipal job as Wayne County Development Authority Director with a $200-thousand dollar severance package.
Ficano says mistakes were made on his watch and his aim is to correct them and regain the trust of voters. But when asked how a hefty pay-out could slip beneath his radar, he simply said he's already apologized and has moved on to righting the wrongs of staffers.
While he says the buck stops with him, he's already started cleaning house at the top with trusted staffers but the resignations and firings also stop at him.
When asked if his feet should be held to the fire, as well, he simply told Local 4 that he knows mistakes have been made and he's trying to fix them.
Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano announced Thursday the resignation of his deputy chief and three new faces he was bringing in.
At a news conference, Ficano said he had accepted the resignation of Azzam Elder, who had been serving a 30-day suspension in connection with a severance scandal. He will be replaced by former U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Collins. The county has been under public and federal scrutiny since a severance scandal broke involving the county's former economic development head, Turkia Mullin. Mullin voluntarily left her job with the county to become CEO of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, but was given a $200,000 severance package. She and Ficano were criticized about the amount of the payment. Last month, she repaid the after-tax amount of $135,900.
Ficano has said protocols weren't followed in the severance deal. He suspended two officials involved in the deal and fired a contract worker. The FBI is investigating, too. Ficano also announced former Ford employee Ray Byers would be the county's new director of economic development and Zenna Elhasan would be the new director of corporation council.
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