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Update on GPU Optimizations in Galaxy S 4by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/31/2013 10:11 AM EST
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jeffkibuule - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkSamsung is clearly violating the reason of benchmarking, which is to test system performance under similar conditions a game would cause. Results from performance tests unachievable during a game are meaningless. And it's not that Samsung lets every app run at max clocks if needed until it needs to be thermally throttled down, they are specifically "boosting" benchmarking apps because it ultimately makes their phone look better.
It's just some shady stuff. Reply
twotwotwo - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkRight--the frequency cap may have made sense, but if so it ought to be on everywhere. Reply
MKBL - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkUnfortunately, many, if not the most, big corporations tend to try such sloppy tricks on consumers every so often. Not necessarily because they are axis of evil, but rather because of unlimited pressure on worker bees from the top to produce superb results no matter what. Executives are smart, so they usually don't explicitly direct R&D and marketing to cheat on consumers, but when pressed for outstanding performance in tight time windows, engineers and product managers have limited choice. If the trick is busted, executives can deny their involvement, and engineers will be scapegoated, if needed. This is the side effect of bad capitalism and profit maximization. Reply
Shadowself - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - link"... many, if not the most, big corporations tend to try such sloppy tricks..."
In a word, "BULL!"
The vast majority of corporations do not play such shady games.The vast majority do not setup -- and keep hidden until caught -- one set of capabilities for the vast majority of uses while utilizing a different set of capabilities for benchmarks and their own applications.
By saying "everyone's doing it" you seem to be saying "Everyone does it so it's OK to do." It's not and never should be.
Yes, it does happen. (I remember such things as far back as the Dhrystone fiasco years ago.) However, every time it comes to light the perpetrators should be treated very, very harshly. No one should have to stand for this crap. Reply
MKBL - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIf my posting offended you, I'm sorry, but seriously I don't understand how you could interpret it such a way. I suggest you to take Reading Comprehension 101 at a local community college. Reply
Dman23 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkNice... attack someones character just because you don't agree with his statement. Maybe you should take a class at YOUR local community college in Debate to realize that turning to character-assination in a reply to an argument is the first sign of a weak and pathetic argument. SEE how easy that is Reply
RadarTheKat - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkI suggest MKBL also consider an Ethics class. Reply
chuchurocket - Saturday, August 03, 2013 - linknvidia and apple both got caught doing similar benchmark boosting, that 2 big corporations that i can immediately recall, I'm sure you can google a bit and find out more. Reply
RadarTheKat - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkAnd they should have been castigated and publicly exposed for doing so. Now its Samsung and so we need to expose this and get them to cease this deplorable activity. Reply
edward kuebler - Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - linkApple? When did that happen? Reply
jleach1 - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkYou're being extremely naive. The vast majority of companies HAVE done this AT SOME IN TIME, most of the time until they were caught. Key word: caught. Companies to this day design their hardware around benchmarks, or they might even attempt to release their own benchmarking software.
I'd bet my sister that most are doing this in far more subtle and far more undetectable ways. Reply
Kirus93x - Thursday, September 19, 2013 - linkSo your saying because there device is programmed to not use it's GPU to it's full potential when it's not needed is a bad thing? Are you that dense? It's not to make there device look better, it's to safe the user battery life. Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIsn't what Samsung is doing pretty much what Intel is doing with the Turbo-Boost activated in benchmarks, too? Reply
BillyONeal - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkNo, turbo does not favor anyone. It just allows the CPU to use unused thermal headroom. Reply
Dman23 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link"Under ordinary conditions, the GALAXY S4 has been designed to allow a maximum GPU frequency of 533MHz." This is absolute bullocks. CLEARLY after these two postings / findings by Anand and Brian, they are cherry-picking which Apps of access to this higher "boost-mode". This might as well be called "cheat-mode" because it is not something all apps can use if the thermal and battery requirements are there, and it seems to target mostly benchmarking apps (i.e. GLBenchmark, Quadrant, and AnTuTu) and superfluous apps such as their camera app, gallery app, and video player, mostly because most people wouldn't test to see if there was any shenanigans going on in these stock apps.
Kudos to AnandTech for finding these shandy engineering tactics and exposing them to the general public. I don't care which company has done this, if a company is engineering ways to cheat / boost their results on benchmark tests, they need to be ridiculed and shamed regardless of how prevalent it is. And if this company is cherry-picking only certain apps from having access to this type of higher GPU frequency-mode, then they should be even more ridiculed and shamed. Reply
BC2009 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkDon't forget that the switching from the A7 cores to the A15 cores is also not instantaneous. The normal thing would be for the increased load from a benchmark app to eventually push the device to its power-hungry A15 cores. However, Samsung locked the device into using those CPU cores form the get-go and refused to let it drop to the A7 cores.
The big problem with ARM A15 cores is that they were designed for higher power consumption and not for mobile. The Big Little config with the A7 cores is there to mitigate that and it is part of the real-world performance profile of the device. Samsung has made it so the CPU benchmarks strictly use the A15 cores, which is very misleading (In addition to over-clocking the GPU). Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkTurbo doesn't take input from specific applications/OS calls. Intel's CPU's do not increase their clock speeds when a specific application is run.Thermal level, power consumption and thread load are the three metrics which determine what frequency the chip runs at with tubro. Reply
Chloiber - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThe difference is that turbo boost can potentially be used by every application. It basically says "If you have thermal headroom, use the boost." And it is done in hardware.
Samsung on the other hand only allows that boost for benchmarks, which is bad.
And they should feel bad... Reply
jameskatt - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkSamsung is never going to admit wrong doing. To do so loses face. They would have to admit they are cheating. They have less shame than Lance Armstrong. So Samsung is never going to admit wrongdoing. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkI guess you missed the single MOST IMPORTANT point of the post above:
"Furthermore, I think this also highlights a real issue with the way DVFS management is done presently in the mobile space. Software is absolutely the wrong place to handle DVFS, it needs to be done in hardware."
Doing fine-grained power management scaling in HW is absolutely the correct way to do things. It is more responsive, it allows access to more information about whatever the relevant parameters are (current budget, thermals,...), it can't be borked by a broken driver, etc etc.
It will be interesting (though will we ever know?) to see how rapidly Apple goes down this path. They have the total control which allows them to decide whether they want to make the tradeoff in HW vs SW, and my guess is they will want to move to HW ASAP (gated, of course, by their current practical concerns --- getting to 64bit soon, and figuring out where the thing will be fabbed and what that implies going forward). Reply
watersb - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkAgreed.
Seems like Samsung is trying to maintain a whitelist of apps that are almost all GPU, minimal CPU, and and staying inside the thermal envelope.
They somehow can't get proper cache coherency in this weird big.little octa-core beast, so they have to do gonzo tricks in software to deliver a stable platform.
Actually maybe they are being conservative with this thing. But it's the best they can do right now.
It seems to be an engineering thing, not a cheating-on-tests thing. Reply
Rezurecta - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkWrong, benchmarks are a measure of theoretical performance, and, as we see with PC, the only way to test gaming performance is to test the game. Reply
bronze_elephant - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkRezurecta, you should perhaps change that comment to say "theoretical peformance within thermal constraints" and then it would be more accurate. Professionaly written 3D graphics benchmarks like the one being discussed here exist to serve as a predictor of the relative performance for real world applications like games or in some caes GUI. Games are seldom a practical way for reviewers like AnandTech to quantify the relative performance of one platform vs. another...note I say "quantify", as in having a frame rate number that is repeatable irrespective of who is doing the testing, and reported numerically in a manner that can be compared from one platform to the next. You are correct that games should ALSO be tested to round out the analysis (noting at least the qualitative results), but Kishonti's GLBenchmark tests are a reasonable and repeatable proxy for actual game testing. So too are the graphics benchmark tests from Rightware, Futuremark and others. Antutu's so-called graphics tests are a joke by comparison today, but I'm told that it will get better in a future future release.
Detecting a gaming style benchmark like GLBenchmark and invoking a GPU clocking scenario that is unattainable for sustained use games just to obtain a benchmark higher score is cheating. I think everybody can understand why that's the case. Therefore Samsung should amend their statement to read as follows:
"Under ordinary conditions, the GALAXY S4 Exynos 5410 has been designed to run at a GPU frequency of 480MHz. However, the maximum GPU frequency is rasied to to 532MHz primarly for benchmarks but also for any application where the graphics rendering workload is substantial only for a period of a few seconds or less."
Another form of cheating on benchmarks is if the workload of a benchmark itself is changed through application detection software, with an "optimization" that would not be applied for a similar scenario with a real world application. Kudos to AnandTech for exposing both of them.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=23300... Reply
SteelRing - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkClearly it is not safe for samsung to allow users/developers to access the higher frequency that would demand higher power and generate higher heat. A rogue behavior from a bug, intentional or not, could make it a safety issue for a handheld device to get overheated real quick and then who would be blamed? the developer? It's gonna be samsung's ass on the line and I'd side with them to be safe than sorry. Reply
doobydoo - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThe point being that if that performance isn't safe to utilise, it shouldn't be the one which is benchmarked. Reply
HighTech4US - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkBINGO we have a winner/ Reply
melgross - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkBut even a 10% boost in several benchmarks, if the reason for it isn't known, can be enough to move a device to the top of the chart. And there will always be enough people to think that it's a good reason to buy the product.
And then, of course, that top rating will be written about, and even used in promotional materials, etc. overall, it's simply not proper, and somewhat slimey Reply
James5mith - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkMuch like their choice of plastic for the back of the phone!
(couldn't resist) Reply
GokieKS - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkSo they're claiming that they're not boosting clock speeds for higher benchmarks, but it just happens that those benchmarks are given access to the maximum GPU clock speed but other non-Samsung apps aren't. Yeah, somehow that comes off as no less shady. Reply
milans - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkShame on you Shamesung! This is clearly cheating... and there should be consequences. And they even lie about it, as you guys clearly showed in this Update. Reply
Tangey - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIn relation to the camera app running at full frequency for filters, this might be a strong pointer to samsung using gpgpu compute for those filters. Imagination did specifically demo such filters taking significantly less power and running quicker when done on the gpu rather than the CPU, and did indicate that licencees would be using the gpgpu computer facilities, in some interviews done a while before the samsung chip/phone was released. Reply
cbf - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkSo in other words, the only apps that are actually allowed to access the highest GPU speed for more than a brief period of time are benchmarks. Reply
ananduser - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkNice detective work. Let's see if wp or ios are equally at fault. Reply
BC2009 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkAnand, here's a question for you....
Can you deactivate the benchmark booster and re-run the Galaxy S4 benchmarks against the HTC One and iPhone 5. Would love to see the results. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIf the boost is not available outside (selected) benchmarks there is absolutely no point in having it - except cheating.
Clever power management, on the other hand, is something phones really need. As far as I know there are already different power settings in Android. To make actual use of boost all one would have to do is to include it there for the highest setting. Offer separate settings for "on battery" and "at the wall" (don't know if this is already there) and check SoC temperatures - reduce maximum voltage and frequency bins if too hot. If done correctly it's Intel Turbo done in software. Reply
SirPerro - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkWell... Considered how other devices are heavily criticised and have negative media impact because of a conservative approach (ie thermal throttling in N4) I would have done the same.
Bored people are happy with big numbers in the benchmarks? Let them be. No one can't make the difference between 450 and 500 MHz in real life usage so who fucking cares. Reply
chuchurocket - Saturday, August 03, 2013 - linkSo let's say samsung allows a new demanding 3d game to run at the 533 mhz speed, does that mean they stopped cheating? or they are cheating more now because now they cheat the benchmark and the game? By the same logic anyone who doesn't use demanding apps like games are being cheated 100% of the time regardless of whatever devices they are using Reply
chuchurocket - Saturday, August 03, 2013 - linkYour original finding was that ONLY benchmarks accessed the highest speed, that's quite a bold claim, since that meant that you stress tested ALL apps available to the galaxy s4. Then you found out that at least one other app, the camera, also accessed the highest speed. so shouldn't you retract your original statement? Reply


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Information seeking behaviour refers to the way people search for and utilize information.[1] In 2000, Wilson described information seeking behaviour as the totality of human behaviour in relation to sources and channels of information, including both active and passive information-seeking, and information use.[2] He described purposive seeking of information as a consequence of a need to satisfy some goal. Information Seeking behaviour is the micro-level of behaviour employed by the searcher in interacting with information systems of all kinds, be it between the seeker and the system, or the pure method of creating and following up on a search.
A variety of theories of information behaviour - e.g. Zipf's Principle of Least Effort, Brenda Dervin's Sense Making, Elfreda Chatman's Life in the Round - seek to understand the processes that surround information seeking.[citation needed]
Information Search Process (ISP)Edit
ISP was proposed and developed by Carol Kuhlthau.
A holistic framework based initially on research into high school students, but extended over time to include a diverse range of people, including those in the workplace. It examined the role of emotions, specifically uncertainty, in the information seeking process, concluding that many searches are abandoned due to an overwhelmingly high level of uncertainty.[3]
ISP is a 6 stage process, with each stage each encompassing 4 aspects;
- Cognitive (thoughts) - what is to be accomplished
- Affective (feelings) - what the searcher was feeling
- Actions (physical) - what the searcher did
- Strategies (physical) - what the searcher was trying to achieve[4]
|Task initiation
|Contemplating assignment, comprehending task, relating prior experience and knowledge, considering possible topics
|Apprehension of work ahead, uncertainty
|Talking with others, browsing library
|Brainstorming, discussing, contemplating possibilities, tolerating uncertainty
|Topic selection
|Weighing topics against criteria such as personal interest, project requirements, information available, time available; predicting outcome of possible choices, choosing topic with potential for success
|Confusion, sometimes anxiety, brief elation (after selection), anticipation of task
|Consulting informal mediators, using reference collections, preliminary searches
|Discussing possible topics, predicting outcomes of choices, gaining general overview of topic
|Pre-focus exploration
|Becoming informed about general topic, seeking focus in general information found, identifying possible foci, inability to express precise information needed
|Confusion, doubt, sometimes threat, uncertainty
|Locating relevant information, reading to become informed, taking notes, making bibliographic citations
|Reading to learn about topic, tolerating inconsistency and incompatibility of information encountered, intentionally seeking possible focus, listing descriptors
|Focus formation
|Predicting outcome of possible foci, using stage 2 task criteria, identifying ideas in information to form focus, sometimes characterised by a sudden moment of insight
|Optimism, confidence of ability to complete task
|Reading notes for themes
|Making a survey of notes, listing possible foci, choosing a focus while rejecting others OR combining several themes to form one focus
|Information collection
|Seeking information to support focus, defining and extending focus through information, gathering pertinent information, organising information in notes
|Realisation of extensive work to be done, confidence in ability to complete task, increased interest
|Using library to collect pertinent information, requesting specific sources, talking detailed notes with bibliographic citations
|Using descriptors to search out pertinent information, making comprehensive search of various types of materials i.e. reference, periodicals, non-fiction and biography, using indexes, requesting assistance of librarian
|Search closure
|Identify need for any additional information, considering time limit, diminishing relevance, increasing redundancy, exhausting resources
|Sense of relief, sometimes satisfaction, sometimes disappointment
|Re-checking information for information initially overlooked, confirming information and bibliographic citations
|Returning to library to make summary search, keeping books until completion of writing to re-check information
David EllisEdit
Investigated the behaviour of researchers in the physical and social sciences[6] and engineers and research scientists [7] through semi-structured interviews using a grounded theory approach, with a focus on describing the activities rather than a process.
These initial investigations produced six key activities within the information seeking process:
- Starting (activities that form the information search)
- Chaining (backwards or forwards - following references in initial information sources)
- Browsing (semi-directed search)
- Differentiating (filtering and selecting sources based on judgements of quality and relevance)
- Monitoring (keeping track of developments in an area)
- Extracting (systematic extraction of material of interest from sources)
Later studies by Ellis (focusing on academic researchers in other disciplines) resulted in the addition of two more activities;
- Verifying (checking accuracy)
- Ending (a final search, checking all material covered)
Episodic ModelEdit
The episodic model was developed by Nicholas J. Belkin.
The episodic model is based largely on intuition and insight and concentrates on interactions with information. There are 4 dimensions which characterise search behaviour. These dimensions can be combined in 16 different ways.
- Method of interaction (scanning/searching)
- Goal of interaction (learning/selecting)
- Mode of retrieval (recognition/specification)
- Resource considered (information/meta-information)
Anomalous State of Knowledge (ASK)Edit
ASK was also developed by Nicholas J. Belkin.
An anomalous state of knowledge is one in which the searcher recognises a gap in the state of knowledge. This, his further hypothesis, is influential in studying why people start to search.[8]
Wilson's theory of Information BehaviourEdit
Thomas Wilson proposed that information behaviour covers all aspects of human information behaviour, whether active or passive.
Information Seeking behaviour is the act of actively seeking information in order to answer a specific query.
Information Searching behaviour is the behaviour which stems from the searcher interacting with the system in question. This system could be a technological one, such as the searcher interacting with a search engine, or a manual one, such as the searcher selecting which book is most pertinent to their query.
Information Use behaviour pertains to the searcher adopting the knowledge they sought.
- Main article: Thomas Wilson
Information ForagingEdit
Developed by Stuart Card, Ed H. Chi and Peter Pirolli.
This model is derived from anthropological theories and is comparable to foraging for food. Information seekers use clues (or information scents) such as links, summaries and images to estimate how close they are to target information. A scent must be obvious as users often browse aimlessly or look for specific information. Information foraging is descriptive of why and not how people search in particular ways.[9]
- Main article: Information foraging
Life in the roundEdit
Developed by Elfreda Chatman.
She defines life in the round as a world of tolerated approximation. It acknowledges reality at its most routine, predictable enough that unless an initial problem should arise, there is no point in seeking information.[10]
Chatman examined this principle within a small world: a world which imposes on its participants similar concerns and awareness of who is important; which ideas are relevant and whom to trust. Partcipants in this world are considered insiders.[11]
Chatman focused her study on women at a maximum security prison. She learned that over time, prisoner's private views were assimilated to a communal acceptance of life in the round: a small world perceived in accordance with agreed upon standards and communal perspective. Members who live in the round will not cross the boundaries of their world to seek information unless it is critical; there is a collecive expectation expectation that information is relevant; or life lived in the round no longer functions. The world outside prison has secondary importance to inmates who are absent from this reality which is changing with time.[12] .
Sense MakingEdit
Brenda Dervin developed the concept of sensemaking. Sensemaking considers how we (attempt to) make sense of uncertain situations.[13] Her description of Sensemaking consisted of the definition of how we interpret information to use for our own information related decisions.
Brenda Dervin described sensemaking as a method through which people make sense of their worlds in their own language.
For more, please reference
- Main article: Sensemaking
Principle of least effortEdit
This explains that information seekers prioritise the most convenient path to acceptable information.[14]
- Main article: Principle of least effort
This compares the internet search methods of experienced information seekers(navigators) and inexperienced information seekers(explorers). Navigators revisit domains; follow sequential searches and have few deviations or regressions within their search patterns and interactions. Explorers visit many domains; submit many questions and their search trails branch frequently.[15]
Information sources: Other people and/or information repositories Edit
Robinson's (2010)[16] research suggests that when seeking information at work, people rely on both other people and information repositories (e.g., documents and databases), and spend similar amounts of time consulting each (7.8% and 6.4% of work time, respectively; 14.2% in total). However, of theoretical interest, the distribution of time among the constituent information seeking stages differs depending on the source. When consulting other people, people spend less time locating the information source and information within that source, similar time understanding the information, and more time problem solving and decision making, than when consulting information repositories. Furthermore, the research found that people spend substantially more time receiving information passively (i.e., information that they have not requested) than actively (i.e., information that they have requested), and this pattern is also reflected when they provide others with information.
Similarities between modelsEdit
A review of the literature on information seeking behaviour shows that information seeking has generally been accepted as dynamic and non-linear (Foster, 2005; Kuhlthau 2006). People experience the Information Search Process as an interplay of thoughts, feelings and actions (Kuhlthau, 2006).
Information seeking has been found to be linked to a variety of interpersonal communication behaviors beyond question-asking, to include strategies such as candidate answers.[citation needed]
A search for information may be linked to decision making. The decision involved may vary from a trivial personal matter to a decision which affects billions or may have cumulative economic or political effects as individual buying or voting decisions may.[17]
Information Seeking BehavioursEdit
Nicolaisen[18] described four distinct types of information seeking behaviours: visceral, conscious, formalized and compromised. The visceral need is expressed as the actual information need before it has been expressed. The conscious need is the need once it has been recognized by the seeker. The formalized need is the statement of the need and the compromised need is the query when related to the information system.
JISC's study of the Google Generation [19] detailed six different characteristics of online information seeking behaviour;
- horizontal information seekers
- navigation
- viewers
- squirreling behaviour
- diverse information seekers
- checking information seekers.
Horizontal information seeking is the method sometimes referred to as "skimming". An information seeker who skims views a couple of pages, then subsequently follows other links without necessarily returning to the initial sites. Navigators, as might be expected, spend their time finding their way around. Wilson found that users of e-book or e-journal sites were most likely spend, on average, a mere four to eight minutes viewing said sites. Squirreling behaviour relates to users who download lots of documents but might not necessarily end up reading them. Checking information seekers assess the host in order to ascertain trustworthiness. The bracket of users named diverse information seekers are users whose behaviour differs from the above sectors.
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Fairer–Wessels, 1990, page 361.
- ↑ Wilson, T. (2000). Human Information Behaviour. Informing Science 3 (2): 49–55.
- ↑ Kuhlthau, Carol Carol Kuhlthau. URL accessed on 2011-03-30.
- ↑ Kuhlthau, Carol Carol Kuhlthau. URL accessed on 2011-03-30.
- ↑ Kuhlthau's Model of the Stages of the Information Process. URL accessed on 2011-03-30.
- ↑ Ellis, David, Cox, Deborah, Hall, katherine (1993). A COMPARISON OF THE INFORMATION SEEKING PATTERNS OF RESEARCHERS IN THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. Journal of Documentation 49 (4): 356–369.
- ↑ David, Ellis, Haugan, Merete (1997). Modelling the information seeking patterns of engineers and research scientists in an industrial environment. Journal of Documentation 53 (4): 384–403.
- ↑ Belkin, Nicholas J. "Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval," Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science,5 pp.133-143.
- ↑ Chi,E.H; Pirolli,P; Chen, K; and Pitkow J. "Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the web," In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems 2001, pp. 490-497
- ↑ Chatman, Elfreda "A theory of life in the round," The journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3):207-217.
- ↑ Chatman, Elfreda "A theory of life in the round," The journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3):207-217.
- ↑ Chatman, Elfreda "A theory of life in the round," The journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3):207-217.
- ↑ Klein, G., Moon, B. and Hoffman, R.F. "Making sense of sensemaking I: alternative perspectives,"IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(4), 70-73.
- ↑ Case Donald O. "Principle of least effort,"Theories Of Information Behavior, Karen Fisher ed. p50.
- ↑ White, Ryen W and Drucker, Steven M "Investigating behavioural variability in web search," 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007)
- ↑ Robinson, M. A. (2010). An empirical analysis of engineers' information behaviors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(4), 640–658. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21290
- ↑ Case, Donald O. (2002). Looking for information: a survey of research on information seeking, needs and behavior, Academic Press.
- ↑ Nicolaisen, J. (2004-2009). Compromised need and the label effect: An examination of claims and evidence. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60 (10).
- ↑ The Google Generation.
External links and further readingEdit
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Truth be told, Fight Club is not the best book I've ever read, nor is it the best movie I've ever seen. However, it is by far the most enjoyable book I've encountered so far, and the same goes for the movie. Yes, I'm critical. I like details. Nitpicking. Fight Club, book, is always next to my pillow--call me obsessed, or just plain addicted.
I didn't like Survivor. Oh, I liked the plot, I liked Tender, I liked the dialogue and everything else. I just hated the atmosphere. To each their own.
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A review of Twilight
The problem with Twilight for me isn't really the story, however; it's the narrator, Bella Swan. Bella claims to have wanted to go to Forks to live with her father, yet complains about it for a while. And it wasn't just Forks either. Bella complains about nearly everything. No matter how many times I read Twilight, I find myself thinking every single time, Why does nothing please, Bella?! Another problem: Edward. Edward is a total jerk, in my opinion. I know he's struggling to not kill Bella, but threatening to drag her into his car is just bad. Bella and Edward are obviously in a bad relationship, but what can anyone do, you know? They're in love. On the other hand, I liked the action, but that didn't come for a long time. Twilight is okay, but definitely not my favorite Twilight novel.
A review of New Moon
The Quileutes bring a warmth to the Twilight Saga that the vampires didn't have. I think of New Moon as the best Twilight book; it had a sense of personality and emotion, something that I feel the first novel did not have. Sure, our protagonist Bella Swan is a bit obsessive, but I fell in love with her relationship with Jacob Black.
A review of Eclipse
I find Eclipse both good and bad, but I also think it's the total package: action, romance, drama, humor...There's something in Eclipse for everybody. However, It's easy to like but also easy to dislike at the same time. It's a lot darker and edgier than Twilight and New Moon, which I like a lot. I loved discovering Rosalie's past, to have a full understanding of her, as well as Jasper's past. The Quileute legends were also great.
A review of Breaking Dawn
If you're one of those people that doesn't like: a) unpleasant surprises; b) long stories that could have been way shorter; or c) pregnancies, babies, marriage, and/or drama altogether, then Breaking Dawn, the last installment of the Twilight Saga isn't for you. I, personally, don't like unpleasant surprises, but when I first started reading Breaking Dawn, I wasn't warned about what was to come. I think Breaking Dawn is just bad. So bad, that I'd rewrite it myself. The marriage was lovely, the honeymoon was blissful, and then everything went crazy for Bella and Edward from there. What is the problem, you might ask? Bella. Is. Pregnant. (I know, I think Edward should have thought of birth control before, too.) The perspective shifts to the perspective of Jacob Black, the second-placed werewolf, who is still mourning over the fact that Bella decided to give her life away to become a vampire. Jacob's perspective is great and a fresh change from Bella's (more voice!), and Book 2 is rather eventful and awkward (with a gruesome birth at the end), but Book 3 is...boring. Many vampires are introduced, which I liked since the Cullens are rather tiresome, but everyone was preparing for a fight that didn't happen. Very anti-climactic. If you're not a Twihard and you want to read Breaking Dawn, save yourself the time and watch the movie. It's not like the book anyway.


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THREE goals inside the opening 20 minutes set Dursley on their way to a derby victory over Uley and a first three-point haul since the opening day of the season.
Ricky Swift, Bruno Goncalves and Lee Crosbee effectively secured the win with early strikes, while player-boss Antony Nash added a fourth before Rich Kemp's late reply.
The visitors were up against it from the moment Crosbee was fouled inside the penalty area and Swift gave the hosts a tenth-minute lead from the spot.
Dursley doubled their lead five minutes later when front man Goncalves cut in and drove a terrific shot beyond the goalkeeper and into the top corner of the net.
The home side had even less time to wait for their third, Goncalves and Jordan Warner combining well before Crosbee slotted home for a three-goal cushion.
Uley steadied the ship thereafter, but they never really threatened a comeback as Nash knocked in a fourth 20 minutes from time before Kemp headed a consolation.
Dursley: P Dykes; D Clark (N Hart 70), R Crowcombe, M Workman; W Taylor (J Aldridge 75), R Swift, L Peters (I Lyon 60), Antony Nash, J Warner; B Goncalves, L Crosbee.
Goals: Swift pen (10), Goncalves (15), Crosbee (18), Nash (70).
* Dursley thirds' game at home to Minchinhampton was postponed due to the first-team pitch being unfit and the reserve-team game being switched across the Rec.
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DURSLEY warmed-up for Saturday's home derby against Cam by getting in some much-needed match practice against Taverners on the artificial surface at Rednock.
In a game of few chances, Town trailed to a Mark Harsant penalty ten minutes before the break after Dan McNally had bundled into the back of the goalscorer.
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Five minutes from time, Taverners secured victory when the unfortunate Dan French headed a Harsant cross into his own net with his first touch in first-team football.
Dursley: K Watson; S Hobbs, C Wilkins, D McNally, J Stevenson; A Forgione, L Thomas, M Humphrey; N Vines, C Mills; D Lees. Rolling substitutes: K Ward, B Jones, J Dolbear, D French.
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AMD Lists New Kaveri Desktop Processorsby Ian Cutress on 6/10/2014 1:30 PM EST
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yannigr - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkI have been waiting from the day of the first review the A8-7600. I abandoned that plan 15 days ago. Staying with my AM3.
Question: A8-7600 is it going to have True Audio or is it removed like it was said for the A8 models? Reply
Anonymous Blowhard - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkI swear I saw this article already a couple days ago. Here, not on another site. Did it get embargoed or something?
Anyhow, I'll go ahead and offer an Internet high-five to Ian for the burn on the A8-7600 being marked as "New" complete with quotes in the chart. I've been wanting to build a low-wattage APU setup for light gaming since the "launch" but AMD seems determined to refuse my money. Reply
lmcd - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkWhy is there a 30 watt discrepancy at the top? It would show better to display the actual TDP... Or does 100 MHz really do all that to the heat dissipated? Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkThe design's apparently hitting the clock speed wall and needs a lot more power to get marginally faster; however I suspect the higher TDP is probably driven by the 200mhz non-turbo bump and being able to stay at turbo for longer. Reply
MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkThe higher TDP should allow both the CPU and GPU islands to run at max load without throttling. Sure, nominal clock speeds don't change much, but as in the mobile SoC space, a difference in TDP can lead to significant performance deltas under sustained load. This might be especially true in the OEM space where a system with an A8-7600 (@45W TDP) only has a cooler capable of dissipating ~45W of heat.
Also, I'm sure there's differences in CPU binning. To hit higher clocks they may be going with higher leakage parts. To hit lower TDPs they're probably picking lower leakage chips. That would also be a good explanation as to why the lower TDP parts have been delayed - binning. Reply
MattVincent - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkI was interested in the a8-7600 as well but AMD processors seem like vapor ware lately. Ended up going intel Reply
t.s. - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkYeah. And their price point too. Too expensive. Reply
tuxRoller - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkDo any of these have an ecc aware memory controller? Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkNo, they're all consumer-level chips and they should be quite cheap. As far as I know the FM2+ socket doesn't not support ECC on any CPU parts. Reply
tuxRoller - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkAre the opterons the only AMD chips that support ecc? Don't they have anything equivalent to Intel's Xeon e3? Reply
argosreality - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkThe AM3+ FX series all support ECC memory Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkThank you! It's been ridiculously hard to find this info. Reply
hojnikb - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkWhile APUs seem great at first, they don't really make much sense, if you think about it. If you want to build a gaming rig on tight budget, then a cheap 250X and athlon x4 is a better fit, since its not that more expensive and performs much much better even compared to top end apu with 512SPs.
This would make sense, if it was priced lower or had better grapics. Although it makes ton of sense already for someone building a lowprofile mITX build, where dGPU wouldn't fit. Reply
hojnikb - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - link... or for someone, that has actual use for HSA. Reply
ecstubblebine - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkLike every Mantle game and ALL console ports for the foreseeable future. I DEFINITELY have a use for HSA Reply
techguyz - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkHSA is a feature that only applies to GPU+CPU combo's. it by no means, means faster than a separate CPU and GPU.
HSA = shared memory
NO HSA = no shared memory
That's the ONLY difference.
APU's will always be limited by memory bandwidth. Your average 5 year old videocard has 150GB/s vram. System RAM (which is what APU's use) only goes about 10 to 20GB/s.
As for Mantle, that works regardless of CPU, so you can see mantle benefits even in Intel CPU's, or without any APU system.
DX12 will win out over Mantle. Mantle will end up just like PhsyX did....and Phsyx is basically dead and only relegated to menial physics calculations in some games, rather than worthwhile eyecandy. . Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkThey're good for standard Best-Buy systems. No graphics card, restricted form factor, low price and little Jimmy can play games on it too. I actually recommend A-series processors for anyone I know who isn't really in to computers because the improved GPU performance is worth the reduced CPU performance in almost everything that most people use. Reply
MartinT - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkI wonder how someone who isn't really into computers would end up playing games that would benefit from the step up in performance you get by going from Intel HD graphics to Kaveri.
Frankly, single-threaded performance seems way more important to casual users, and Haswell Pentiums slap Kaveri silly in that regard. (and are quite frugal in terms of power consumption, too) Reply
Hubb1e - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkUmm, every family with a boy Reply
izmanq - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkit's not only cheaper, power consumption is lower with APU :) Reply
extremesheep49 - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkTypo:
A10-7700K should be 95W per the AMD site. Reply
havefunbob - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkYes it is Reply
moozoo - Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - linkWhat is the fp32:fp64 ratio on the A10 PRO-7850B?
if its 1/2 then I'm interested :) Reply
Gadgety - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - linkHeeere's A8-7600. Maybe. Reply
deruberhanyok - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkLike a few others that posted, I was hoping to build a low power system based around the A8-7600 (or A10-7800), but got tired of waiting. I ordered parts for an Intel system a few days ago, as even though AMD is making these new announcements (and one "new" one, I giggled a bit), "Exact release date and pricing has not yet been announced".
However, I wanted to mention that when I stopped by Micro Center to pick up a processor, I noticed that they had both of the AMD K processors at a significant discount - I want to say they were $120/$140. If there had been a 65W version available, I might have considered picking one up.
Alas, maybe next time. :(
AMD: Kaveri looks tasty, can't wait to see it out in the open! Reply
Valantar - Sunday, July 27, 2014 - linkIt's been almost two months since this post now, and there's still no sign of these new CPUs anywhere. What's going on here? I would buy an A10-7800 (or an A8-7600) today if it was available. Please, AMD, take my money. That's all I'm asking. Reply


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Two Arizona State University professors can add an unusual honor to the long list of accolades they have received: An asteroid has been named after each of them. This "out-of-this-world" honor has been conferred on professors Phil Christensen and Dave Williams. The two planetary geologists, both faculty members in ASU's School of Earth and Space… Read More →


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Next week I am giving a talk at the XML Conference and Exposition 2005, which is the one show that is the source for everything XML and just XML, running November 14-18 at the Atlanta Hilton in Atlanta, Georgia. You can find out more at http://www.xmlconference.org.
We also attended the sister conference XTech in Amsterdam earlier this year, and that was a great gathering of gurus with groovy gadgets grinding on the topics driving SOA.
This particular 3-hour cruise entitled "Web Services and Architecture: The Next Generation" takes place on Monday morning (stardate 11.14) as part of the pre-show tutorials. Forgive the trekkie title, but it is a bit of an episodic where the actors change daily, and we are constantly pouring over the trade rags to find out the latest on their relationships. We also toyed with sub-titles like "Back to the Enterprise" and "Thoughts from the Bridge", but in the end we called it like it is. The next generation, which is to say the one right before the next one after that.
"We are going to run out of 'unobtainium' any minute now…I'm giving her all she's got, captain."
Like many technologists, I confess to being a little embarassed when I think that I probably spend more time talking about SOA than I do actually executing on it. I have been speaking on Web services standards and SOA for over five years and I keep promising myself that this is the year when I will ask the question, "Who out there is doing SOA now?" and everyone will put up their hand. I'm counting on you and I can honestly say that we get to put our collective hand up with the work we are doing on the LiveCycle platform at Adobe.
If we go back about five years I remember reading in a published study that more people were planning on doing web services than were actually aware of what they were. In other words, the awareness stat was lower than the adoption stat. Strange science indeed, but it struck me then and it does again, that the reason this was the case was that it was so complicated (yes, even then), was that in order to truly understand it you actually had to plan for a launch.
IMHO, I am not sure my talk at XML 2005 will remove the necessary cloaking devices but I do know that it is going to be a full three hours or more of up-to-the-minute, feet-first diving into the standards forces that are at play. And, I do know that I am counting on the fact that the discussions following the talk and during the course of the four day show will take me to parts of the galaxy I didn't know existed.
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Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) - The Cincinnati Bengals re-signed restricted free agent wide receiver Dane Sanzenbacher on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old was limited to six receptions for 61 yards in only 10 games for the Bengals last season.
An undrafted player signed by the Bears in 2011 out of Ohio State, Sanzenbacher has compiled 34 catches for 344 yards and three touchdowns over 31 games in four NFL seasons.
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Lenovo's BEACON Brings Evansport to the Living Roomby Ganesh T S on 1/8/2014 6:00 AM EST
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Ryan Smith - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkYou know it's late when you read the title twice, and both times you initially read it as "bacon". Reply
creed3020 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkI seriously did the exact same thing. So confused why Lenovo would be selling bacon...yumm Reply
nathanddrews - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkJBOD?
Either way 8TB isn't a lot when you start backing up Blu-ray discs. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkIf you're accumulating that level of data you'd be better served with a NAS located somewhere else and just a small media streamer in the entertainment center. Reply
bobbozzo - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkHi, since it has HDMI out, does it also have an IR sensor for a remote, or the ability to add a USB IR sensor?
Also, the networking speed wasn't stated... gigE?
Thanks! Reply
mhungry - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkI prefer the Thecus N2560 simply because it has an actual dedicated optical spdif output separate from the HDMI. HDMI won't pass through 5.1 to the optical output on my Samsung TV, so I need a separate audio output, which my Boxee Box has.
That said, it's half the price, and if I can add an external $25-$30 spdif output to it easily via USB, I'll be all over it. Reply


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A NUMBER of swimmers caused a splash when they went the distance for charity.
Worcester Swimming Pool and Fitness Centre, Sansome Walk, donated the use of it's pool and staff for the annual Sainsbury's Swimathon in aid of Sport Relief on Saturday and Sunday, March 22-23.
Some 45 swimmers completed distances of up to five kilometres, or 200 lengths, as they collected funds for the worthy cause.
David Pugh, contract manager at the pool and fitness centre, said: "Swimathon 2014 was a huge success. It was great to see so many members of the local community take in this fantastic fund-raising event and make 2014 even more memorable for sport.
"The events ability to provide challenging swims and raise money for great causes remains as strong as ever."
The Swimathon is the UK's biggest fund-raising swimming event with thousands of people taking the plunge around the country, with more than 600 pools taking part.


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CONTINENTAL — The Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary
Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) announced Steelworker 1st Class Shawn
Herr's selection as NAVFAC's 2013 (Sea) Sailor of the Year, Feb. 20.
Herr is a 2004 graduate of Continental High School.
Herr, attached
to NAVFAC EXWC's Mobile Utilities Support Equipment (MUSE) division,
was selected for his outstanding work as Detachment Officer in Charge
overseeing more than 60 military and civilian personnel in the
inspection, operation, and maintenance of vital power generation
equipment at naval installations worldwide.
"Petty Officer Herr
did a phenomenal job leading his team in the support of essential power
needs in diverse locations with varied energy supply requirements," said
NAVFAC EXWC Commanding Officer Capt. Mark. K. Edelson. "He is fully
deserving of this high honor and his actions exemplify the Navy's core
values of honor, courage, and commitment, and the spirit of NAVFAC."
NAVFAC Sailor of the Year program recognizes Sailors who best represent
superior dedicated service in a particular type of duty. The Sailor of
the Year epitomizes Navy core values and is typified by a history of
sustained superior performance, including significant positive command
impact, outstanding mission contribution, and proven leadership ability.
distinguished himself as the lead petty officer for MUSE as they
supplied power for more than 7,000 personnel at Naval Base Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba; Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti; and the Naval Surface Warfare
Center, Dahlgren, Va. His direct efforts saved the Navy $16 million in
labor costs and contracted equipment.
"I'm honored to be chosen as
the 2013 NAVFAC Sea Sailor of the Year," said Herr. "I feel privileged
to represent my command, NAVFAC EXWC MUSE Division. I wouldn't be where
I'm at in my career without the support of my family."
guidance and support of my command and shipmates have made me a better
sailor and they all aided in my selection," Herr said. "They deserve
this honor."
Herr will represent the entire NAVFAC enterprise and
compete with more than 25 Echelon II winners for the Vice Chief of Naval
Operations (VCNO) Sailor of the Year.
Herr is the son of Shellie Moran and Buddy Herr.
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gotta move on to Chrome now. Firefox is just too slow
I appreciate the level of dedication Mozilla puts into its flagship software. In my opinion, the reason why there are so many updates is because; 1. They actually integrate user requested features, 2. feedback from millions of users surface more flaws and bugs to be fixed to create a more stable version, and 3. Mozilla's developer community needs flexibility within Firefox and updates are necessary to accommodate add-ons and plugins to customize Firefox.


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A MAN who helped his partner escape from a prison near York has avoided an immediate jail sentence himself.
Kulvat Bhangal, 43, pleaded guilty to assisting Natasha Richards to escape from Askham Grange Prison, but said he tried to convince her to hand herself in.
York Crown Court heard Ms Richards had been transferred to the prison for the final weeks of a burglary sentence, but "struggled to cope with the regime change" as she was no longer in her own cell, but in dormitory-style accommodation.
She had been in a relationship with Bhangal for a number of months, and when he visited on November 17, suggested she could escape the jail with him.
The court heard Bhangal – of Countess Street, Walsall – tried to dissuade her, but waited in the car park after his visit. Ms Richards climbed a small perimeter fence and got into the car before they drove on the A1 towards Bradford.
Twenty minutes after they left the prison, police officers pulled over the car, and both were arrested, despite Ms Richards taking full responsibility.
Ben Campbell, for Bhangal, said his client has lost his previous good character due to the offence, and was the "more vulnerable of the two", but had tried to convince Ms Richards to hand herself in at a nearby police station.
Mr Campbell said: "He recommended to her a sensible course of action.
"He's a man who finds his heart in the right place but on this occasion bent to the will of somebody whose was not."
Recorder Michelle Heeley told Bhangal: "One must respect the prison system. When Natasha Richards asked you to assist her, you at least tried to dissuade her from it.
"Whatever your motivation, from the heart, it was still a very foolish thing to do."
Bhangal was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work.


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Back-to-back games with double-digit strikeouts on July 26 and August 1, 2008. Back-to-back National League Cy Young Awards in 2008 and 2009. A four-hit shutout on September 13, 2008. A two-hitter with 14 strikeouts in Game One of the 2010 National League Division Series, the first step toward the first of his two World Series rings.
But as Lincecum's fastball velocity waned and the dominance that once came so easily became more difficult to attain, one feat proved elusive.
Fourteen months later, Matt Cain, who had supplanted Lincecum as the Giants' ace, tossed a perfect game. His predecessor in the top spot of Bruce Bochy's rotation did not complete a contest between May 21, 2011 and July 12, 2013, much less hold an opponent hitless while doing so.
Finally, in the 212th (postseason included) start of his big-league career—after watching his opposite number, Homer Bailey, do it against him in his 210th—Lincecum put an end to all of those droughts, leading the way in a 7-0 win.
The 29-year-old's former fastball velocity did not magically return. He needed 23 pitches just to escape the first inning and 148 to go all the way. But Lincecum's array of secondary pitches baffled a scuffling Padres lineup, and adrenaline carried him to the finish line—one that Bochy, even as the pitch count soared, dared not tell him he couldn't cross.
With his four-seamer barely scraping 92 mph, Lincecum twirled a bevy of curveballs, sliders, and splitters at the Padres, commanding all three of his specialty pitches throughout the night. He earned 16 swings and misses on 47 splitters, 77 percent of which went for strikes. And of the 39 breaking balls he threw, only two—a fly out by Alexi Amarista and a ground out by Will Venable—were put into play.
Lincecum got ample help from Hunter Pence, who tripled and homered in the game and delivered this catch in right field to preserve the no-hitter at the end of the eighth inning, but he did much of the work himself. Thirteen of the right-hander's 27 outs were strikeouts, 12 of them swinging, making this the second straight 10-plus K effort for Lincecum, who fanned 10 Mets on July 8. Lincecum had not notched 13 punch outs in an outing since April 6, 2011 and had not posted consecutive double-digit showings since he followed up an 11-strikeout regular-season finale with the aforementioned NLDS gem against the Braves in 2010.
The 13 strikeouts came on 29 total whiffs, a regular-season record for Lincecum, who missed 30 bats in the 14-strikeout post-season blanking of Atlanta. And five of the baker's dozen were notched in back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back fashion, between the last of the second and the end of the third, when Lincecum needed only 17 pitches to tell Venable, Rene Rivera, Edinson Volquez, Everth Cabrera, and Amarista to grab some pine.
Despite his electric stuff and what that five-strikeout streak might suggest, efficiency never has been one of Lincecum's strong suits. Bochy reluctantly allowed Lincecum to throw 138 pitches so that he could earn his first career shutout, also at Petco Park, nearly five years ago. And the 148 that Lincecum threw on Saturday night, as he walked four and hit one, represented the second-highest total amassed in a no-hitter since at least 1988, topped only by the 149 used by Edwin Jackson in his eight-walk no-no versus the Rays on June 25, 2010.
The no-hitter brightened a bleak patch for the Giants, who for less than 24 hours enjoyed their longest winning streak since May 10-12. It clinched the club's first series victory since June 17-19, also against the Padres, and ensured that San Francisco would not fall any further behind in the National League West. The Giants still have not won consecutive games against a team other than San Diego since June 13-14, but they remain on the periphery of the post-season race, 6 ½ games behind the first-place Diamondbacks, who, like San Francisco, lost on Sunday.
Besides giving Giants fans, who have grown accustomed to celebrating in recent years, another night of ecstasy, the 15th no-hitter in franchise history created, in the punny words of FOX Sports' Jon Morosi, a "giant freakin' dilemma." Should general manager Brian Sabean buy or sell? And if he sells, should he sell Lincecum, whose two-year, $40.5 million contract and six years of team control run out at the end of the year?
Sabean will ponder those questions over the All-Star break while Lincecum rests his arm. Barring a rash decision by the league's longest-tenured GM, Lincecum's bid to equal Johnny Vander Meer's unparalleled record will come a week from today, when the Reds, Vander Meer's team at the time of his back-to-back no-hitters in 1938, visit AT&T Park.
WYNTK will feature a recap of the All-Star Game on Wednesday and a preview of the weekend action on Friday before returning to its regular schedule next week.
Daniel Rathman is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @danielrathman
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MANHATTEN, Kan. - Rodney McGruder, who played his high school basketball at Arlington Country Day, had 16 points and three rebounds to lead Kansas State to a 74-55 win over North Florida on Sunday afternoon.
Playing a team they nearly lost to a year ago, the Wildcats looked like a better team this time around. Despite needing overtime to beat the Ospreys last season, this time around, the contest was never in serious doubt.
Kansas State (4-0) opened the game on a 12-4 run with six points each from McGruder and Nino Williams, and led 16-6 with 13:23 to play in the first half. A 7-2 run helped the Wildcats go-ahead 23-9 and never looked back.
Beau Beech led North Florida (1-3) with 15 points and seven rebounds.
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HOUSTON - Police need help finding the person or persons who shot two men, killing one of them, in a southwest Houston parking lot.
Houston police said Silas Armando Najera-Hernandez, 23, and a 20-year-old man were shot in the parking lot of Bar Uno in the 5800 block of South Gessner near Harwin about 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 3.
Najera-Hernandez died at a nearby hospital and the other man suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Detectives said Najera-Hernandez and three other men were listening to loud music in a pickup truck.
The four circled the parking lot a few times and parked behind a dark green SUV, possibly a Toyota 4Runner, police said.
At least one person inside the SUV then started shooting at the pickup truck, investigators said.
Police said the driver and passenger inside the SUV were both Hispanic and spoke Spanish. The driver was described as heavyset and bald. The passenger had an average build and was wearing a dark-colored baseball cap.
Anyone with information is asked to call the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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