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Lab Update: The Pre, Nokia and Intel, SSDs and Moreby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/24/2009 6:00 PM EST
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Pandamonium - Monday, June 29, 2009 - linkAnand,
Is AT doing a review of the ASRock ION 330-BD? I'm very much interested in its FLV capabilities. Sorry to harp on the HTPC-potential, it's just that since it doesn't look like Intel will be releasing a dual core Atom in the near future, the 330 is all that we can play with. Tweaktown's review suggests that the ASRock units might be overclockable to 2.1 GHz, and I think it might use the 9400 compared to Zotac's 9300. If this is enough additional horsepower to handle Hulu, then I know what I'll buy. Tweaktown's reviews, however, aren't as thorough or clear as yours though. So I'm waiting for the AT verdict.
Thanks! Reply
Tutor - Friday, June 26, 2009 - linkIf you're interested in the possibility of upgrading an i7 or Xeon Mac Pro check out this discussion thread and benchmark result to see what Anand's blog has inspired:
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/143750">http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/143750 Reply
Tutor - Saturday, June 27, 2009 - linkUpdate: Thread is at:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=71393...">http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=71393... Reply
gwolfman - Friday, June 26, 2009 - linkThanks Anand for the updates... keeps us eager for more news/reviews. :) Reply
procaregiver - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkPlease tell me the CPU upgrade was for the 8-core Nehalem Mac Pro. It should be as easy as purchasing two off-the-shelf Xeon (Gainestown) and having a bit of patience in removing the heatspreaders from the replacement CPUs. The only issue I see is with the 3.2GHz W5580, as the TDP is 130 W and it's only a guess whether it will work until somebody with large pockets tries it out. Reply
doclucas - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkThis cool PCIe drive delivers insane performance and huge storage at quite an affordable price (in comparison with other SSD prices). When can we expect a review of this monster? Reply
halcyon - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkI know you are in the USA, but a big portion of your readers come from outside.
Please do not make the same idiotic mistake that 99% of US mobile bloggers do: assume that their readers only care about Sprint, Verizon, AT&T or that they think that iPHone is the world's most sold smartphone (it's probably not even in top 5).
Symbian dominates the smartphone world, totally, even if it sucks in market share in the US. While I'm on WM myself, I like to see coverage of all the major platforms and Symbian is one of them. Talking about Pre/WebOs so much with it's miniscule installed based, US-only availability and just a few phones sold really skews the picture.
There are more symbian and windows smart phones sold every week than the combined total of Pre. More Symbian devices every day than 3GS in the first whole week.
That should give you an idea of what the "rest of the world" (outside) US is buying and concentrating on.
And yes, new and upcoming things are interesting, but so are old, tried and tested.
anandtech02148 - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkWe are at a point where Apple has less to improve on except more market shares, a purple or metallic iphone that can play more nintendo video games.
I hate to see Apple or Google dominate the smartphone market with their cheap built on the fly from Taiwan/China.
I'm a big fan of Symbian Os for Nokia E71, one of the best looking phone/price without the evil ccellphone contract, i feel as though Nokia is like Bmw and minicoop.
Also anything coming from Rim is just excessive plastic from China, with their Gui heading toward the Palm Treos graveyard.
Nvidia and Intel are going to bring their guns to the smartphone market. Yay for us all.
Nvidia Tegra, Intel should make the smartphone market much more interesting.
PaulaTejano - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkWell , I'm thinking a SSD is a need for my new rig. I was looking between x-25 M or OCZ vertex 60gb.
These are the prices in Swiss francs (and the same amount in dollars)
Intel X25-M 80GB, SATA-II, 2,5 Zoll : 369.- ($ 337.60)
OCZ SSD Vertex 60GB, SATA-II, 2,5 Zoll, MLC 32MB Cache : 315.- ($288)
The 128 gb version will cost me like : 479.- ($ 438)
I'm thinking it's still time to wait , to see prices come down...
What you guys think about it ? Reply
djc208 - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkHave to agree, I'm thinking my Win 7 upgrade may be a good time to move my system drive to an SSD. My CPU and GPU are both fast enough for the work and play I do, so this may be a good upgrade path.
Price will always be moving, I'm not sure you'll see a big change, especially in Intel pricing till someone gets much closer to their performance level.
I am curious to see if anything significant is around the corner. It doesn't sound like it but it may change my timeline. Reply
fedemaste - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkTry using using GPUs that are not for Mac, is it possible? Maybe with a firmware update you can, and they are cheaper!
Can you also test SLI configurations for OSX and Windows?
danielk - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkMore than anything, i would like to know a bit more about SSD roadmaps, specifically Intel's. I'm in the market for getting a x25-m, but dont want to see a next-gen 'uber' disk released a month after my purchase.
vr-zone.com supposedly posted intels SSD roadmap earlier this year, vaguely stating the SSD's will get a revamp in Q4(50nm to 34nm and "an updated controller").
By the looks of how long TRIM is taking, im tempted to think that either TRIM will be launched along side the next-gen Intel SSD's, or TRIM will be popped 'soon'(tm) and used to milk the current Intels a bit more -probably resulting in the next gen release being delayed?
Any thoughts? Reply
The0ne - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkJust my thoughts...
If you aren't in a hurry and can wait til end of the year I think you should wait. Competition is hot, designs are changing and improving and there's lots to improve still. While it may be a couple more years for it to compete competitively with hard drives, it'll eventually get there. Then there's the manufacturing process that will also improve and drive cost down. Reply
lux47 - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkWhen testing SSD-s, it would be great if you managed to include Velociraptor (10000 RPM drive) results. You performed Velociraptor tests some time back; it would be interesting to compare these with SSD-s now, when TRIM is supported and new generation of SSDs has arrived.
Thanks for the great articles! Reply
TA152H - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkx86 plaguing computers isn't bad enough? We need it to grow like a cancer and spread to phones?
x86 costs the world tons of money, and needs to go away. We don't need it spreading to graphics cards, and phones, we need it gone. It makes processors slower, bigger, and more expensive to make.
Maybe it's not a huge amount per processor, but when you multiply it by the number out there, it's an enormous amount of waste.
I don't understand Intel. They tried to kill x86 with the Itanium, and now they are spreading this disease with reckless abandon.
What the Hell are they doing???? Reply
Rasterman - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkit is unquestionable that x86 wastes some performance and power, but any transistors or energy lost dealing with x86 is insignificant when compared to the amount of research, training, tools, development, and programs that exist for it. supporting x86 isn't really a choice, its a requirement.
what would you rather have:
a 1-10% slower machine OR 99% less programs to run?
a 1-10% increase in battery life OR a device that costs 90% more? Reply
The0ne - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkIf that was the case for many things you would not have seen advances and innovations in the technical field, software included. At some point there has to be change. People often get too comfortable and often times too lazy with what is already familiar and refuse to change. Someone has to try something they believe will be of more benefit in the long term or else the field goes nowhere. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkback when x86 support on an otherwise RISC-style CPU first came to be (the P6 in the Pentium Pro), Intel had to use something like 30% of the die to handle the x86 translation. That was huge, and it was space that could have been put to better use perhaps. Now, though, x86 is ubiquitous, well understood, has excellent compilers, and the chips are highly optimized.
If you have a 5 million transistor processor, using 1.5 million transistors to handle x86 decoding (i.e. translate into RISC-style micro ops) is a costly affair. Now we're looking at chips with over a billion transistors; needless to say, using less than 1% of the transistors to maintain x86 compatibility isn't really a problem.
Also note that pretty much no one writes in ASM anymore, so there's another reason x86 isn't a problem. Compilers need to handle it properly, and that's about it.
Sure, Atom and such are a lot smaller at "only" 47 million transistors, but the extra million (or two or three million) trannies to handle x86 is a drop in the bucket http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">compared to the potential benefits. Reply
TA152H - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkWhat you're saying ignores a couple of important issues.
First, there are no benefits, except for compatibility. Who needs this compatibility with a phone? ARM is a cleaner instruction set, and the wasted transistors are big. Keep in mind, a transistor isn't a transistor. You throw around numbers while apparently not taking into account decode logic is a lot larger per transistor than cache memory.
You might be too young to know this, but x86 was considered a bad instruction set even when it was made. Most people preferred the 68K, and even the 6809. It was damn annoying then.
Also, you point to transistor count like that's the only issue. How about those extra steps that have to be done? They slow it down, requiring more hardware to perform at the same level, or simply performing worse.
Then there is all the legacy garbage, like operating modes that aren't useful anymore. How often do you think 286 protected mode is still used? Then there's the lovely x87 section, that serves no purpose at all anymore, and is not even part of x86-64. Of course, if you buy an AMD, you get 3D Now!, which never really was 3D Now!, and certainly isn't today. It was rarely used.
On top of this, there are limits to what you can do behind it with the RISC engine that has to deal with it. It's not like this RISC engine can be anything you want, except for the fact you have to convert from a bad instruction set. It does limit IPC.
Then there are the very few registers. Far less than most RISC implementations.
And, of course, we have multiple forms of software. You can get 32-bit, and 64-bit. So, there is money spent on that.
And, AMD actually pads the L1 cache to help with decoding, making it smaller than what 128K for actual data.
Writing compilers for it is also difficult, since you aren't writing for the execution engine. You're writing for something before it, and that level of indirection adds complexity, and can negatively affect efficiency. It's also harder to implement virtually anything because of this level of indirection. It's not that different to writing to an API rather than the actual hardware, although certainly the penalty is lower in magnitude.
Maybe you like slower performance, extra cost, and extra power use, but I don't. It's bad enough in a PC, but now in phones???? Yes, I really want my battery time chewed up with decode logic. Yup, I really want it chewed up by necessary extra clock speeds to compensate for the speed penalty introduced by extra stages. Even if it were a good CISC implementation, like the 6809 or 68K, or even the VAX, I could live with it a little easier since it might make coding easier. Have you ever heard anyone say x86 code helped in ease of development???? It's a damn nightmare. It blows even for CISC. Why do we want to spread this? Reply
Penti - Thursday, July 02, 2009 - linkYour forgetting that Intel got rid for their XScale PXA arm including it's engineers. You can't expect Intel to go ARM for MIDs/Handhelds again. Neither is the chip only for those devices. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkI actually learned to program ASM back in college on a 68000 system; you're right: x86 is a nightmare by comparison. However, nearly all of the issues you bring up have been "solved" - and in fact most instructions sets are moving back towards CISC in a sense, what with the proliferation of vector instruction sets.
As an example, the limited number of registers is a non-issue, since we have register renaming and other tricks going on. Yes, it adds to the bulk of the chip, but seriously: how much larger is an Atom compared to an equivalent performance ARM CPU? Let's say it's still 10%; does Intel have the resources to make up that deficit? Ask AMD the answer to that one. Core i7 and Phenom II are very similar in many ways, but Intel is a lot faster in the vast majority of applications - and it's not just clock speeds or Hyper-Threading.
I could throw out Apple switching to x86 as an example of how unimportant instruction set really is in the modern era, but there are political reasons for the move as much as anything I think. Still, with the money invested in x86, anything that uses it benefits - even smart phones. Backwards compatibility for, i.e. DOS/Windows/Linux apps, clearly isn't a real concern for a phone, but having a similar code base is a big deal from the programming side. You'll still have to do some extra work, but potentially not as much as if you use/target a completely different instructions set.
So while I definitely agree that x86 is a Frankenstein instruction set that has been added to and mangled over the years, it's still so honed that the vast majority of systems run that ISA today. About the only real competitors are POWER and ARM, and those are for a different market. Can Intel penetrate both those markets with x86 modifications and specialized CPUs? Like it or not, they're going to try. Reply
emboss - Saturday, June 27, 2009 - link"You'll still have to do some extra work, but potentially not as much as if you use/target a completely different instructions set."
Porting some piece of software from desktop x86 to mobile phone x86 will involve almost exactly the same amount of work as porting from desktop x86 to mobile phone any-other-architecture. Why? Because 99.999% of non-OS code falls into one of two cases:
1) Non-performance critical code, written in some HLL. Underlying CPU instruction set doesn't matter here.
2) Performance critical code, written in assembler. This is going to have to be completely rewritten even for mobile phone x86 because the instruction timings etc mean that the code will run poorly on a mobile phone x86.
The remainder of the code is non-performance-critical assembler, which IMO should be binned ASAP.
*If* Intel was merely managing to run a Core 2 (say) at a really low power level, keeping everything else as-is, then the "x86 has a huge codebase" argument would make sense. But they're not.
The main reason Intel is going for x86 everywhere is partially that it makes it harder for everyone else to compete, and partially an over-reaction due to the failure of IA64 (x86 IS still important on the desktop). Besides the whole legal issue in getting Intel to give out an x86 license (they haven't for over a decade), designing a fast x86 decoder is a nightmare. Intel already has the decoders figured out, so they're an easy roadblock to throw in front of any would-be competitors.
It's the same for Larrabee - there the x86 part is really only going to be used for branching and address computations (any real work will be done with LRBni), so would have been much better replaced with something more tuned for that task (again, compatibility with existing code is a non-starter). But if they can get Larrabee established as a graphics/HPC platform instead of a vendor-independant thing like OpenCL they can have a much more secure hold on their marketshare. Reply
The0ne - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkI also started on the 68k series processors and had been designing controllers for quite some time. I like it much better than the x86 of course. I think both of your arguments are correct and it'll be interesting to see how the Intel does.
One thing that I believe whole heartily that will overshadow both your argument is the poor programming that will come about in any event. The increase in memory will always produce poor programming from "managers" that don't care not matter what instruction set you are using. Reply
winterspan - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkI'm pretty sure you are wrong about Apple using SSDs that have the same new SSD ( Samsung S3C29RBB01) controller as the Corsair P256.
The P256 is able to hit read and write rates over 200MB/sec, while Apple has said directly during the recent SATA issue that they don't sell SSDs that can make use of anything above SATA/150.
Additionally, I have seen pretty recent benchmarks of a Macbook Pro ordered with SSD and then replaced with the OCZ Vertex, and the Vertex was far faster in sequential read and write.
I believe at least most of the Apple SSDs they are using are Samsung OEM units using the old S3C49RBX01 controller --- just like the Corsair S64/S128 uses. Again, these drives are far different than the Corsair P256 which uses the newer and far faster Samsung S3C29RBB01 controller. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkYou're very correct, Samsung is phasing out the older drives and replacing them with the newer ones but I believe most if not all of the older Macs used the previous gen controller.
Take care,
Anand Reply
RamarC - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkWow. That's surprising since it took Samsung/Sprint 8 MONTHS to get the Instinct to a usable state (text input in any app, a browser that worked, video that was actually viewable, GPS that would load 90% of the time). It wasn't that they weren't fixing things, but they just wouldn't release the fixes except once every other month! Reply
bbomb - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkSamsung doesn't believe in software updates once a phone is released. It was truly an act of God that you ended up with one for the Instinct.
I have the Eternity and Samsung jut released the Impression which is basically the Eternity with a keypad in a different body. They get the ToughWizUI version 2 and yet the Eternity gets jack when it should be a simple update for us.
strikeback03 - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkThat seems to be the case with most of these cell phone makers. As far as I can tell the LG Versa and Dare are pretty much the same thing, except that the firmware is more ironed out in the Versa. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkI hope you'll add Boot Camp results of the Mac Pro to Anandtech Bench to provide a reference point to the capabilities of dual processor setups. Certainly the Nehalem Mac Pro and the Harpertown and Clovertown Mac Pros if you have them.
For your iPhone review, I hope you'll also do some benchmark comparisons between iPhone OS 2.2.1 and iPhone OS 3.0 on the iPhone 3G to see how much the OS update contributes to improved performance. Certainly with load times and web rendering and battery life as you've done, but also fps in games if possible. With the iPhone 3G S being marketed as 2x faster than the iPhone 3G, John Cormack has speculated that a 2x speedup in games is possible on the ARM11+MBX platform if Apple spent the time milking the software. I'd also be curious to know what the memory speed of the various iPhones are since CPU and GPU speeds have been confirmed or speculated on. Reply
reckert - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkI'd be interested to see a comparison of the file systems as well.
I actually found situations where on flash drives, NTFS beats out FAT32 and exFat.
My test scenario came when I installed World of Warcraft on a OCZ Slate drive using USB.
Initially it was formatted with the default settings as a FAT32 drive. Every time I logged out, it took 15 minutes to save everything.
I wound up using some of the tools from sysinternals and found there was a lot of 2-30 byte writes occurring. Since the clusters were large, each write was writing at the performance of the drive, but io in the app was slow -
Long story short, I tried various combinations of exFat, Fat32 and NTfS and found in the end for scenarios where there are a large number of small write io/s the NTFS out performed the Fat32 and exFat dramatically. - This is on Windows 7 x64 RC, with a 32 Gb OCZ Slate flash drive, with 'Optimize for Performance' (Bought the drive for a laptop I was getting for work, but then they ordered a model with out the express card slot)
Fox5 - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkNTFS has additional caching that FAT32 doesn't, so even if actual speed isn't as good as FAT32, perceived performance is better.
It should be very hard to beat FAT32 in sequential performance, but the FAT file system is rather horrible for random access. Reply
meson2000 - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkWhy does it seem like you are always leaving out RIM as a competitor in the smart phone market?? Reply
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SLEEPER5555 - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkmy exact thoughts the new curve 8900 and its cdma twin the 9630 are great phones. and now rim even has an apps store with over 1000 apps to date. i love my 8900 but i am tempted to give the Palm Pee a try and just might. Reply
fyleow - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - linkSimply because he does not have RIM phones. It was mentioned in the other article.
Pretty sure Anand is a big BB fan and has nothing against them. Reply
PrinceGaz - Thursday, June 25, 2009 - linkfor several moments there I was thinking "I didn't know Anand was a fan of Big Brother, but what has that got to do with smart phones"... :) Reply


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ATI's OCUR Brings CableCard and HDTV Support to Windows Vistaby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2006 6:00 AM EST
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Jynx980 - Sunday, January 08, 2006 - linkThumbsup for watching Bill and Teds Bogus Journey! Reply
Tujan - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkimatation miniture cable box that you put on your pc. Dhh ha.
(all it good jest).
ElJefe - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkI cant wait till someone smart hacks it.
DRM is retarded. I have heard that computers must port it out to a crap tv. all tv's are crap compared to a 800 dollar crt monitor, however, rumour is that the content once decoded on the computer wont be put there. I have no idea why this would besides for copy protection. Even though you already bought the movie or whatever.
gay = drm
Tujan - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkDont understand a bunch about DRM myself. Know that as it is downloadable(software)music files have only been in dayview for a few years wich use the DRM. First the DRM itself has problems between propriety x,and propriety y - you purchased from 2 different places etc. To you they are the same WMV file,or what have ya,but they get moved around on the drive - then comes calling the 'authentication,and 'legally the two proprieties are not obligated to talk to anybody about what they have for DRM between them.
Second within all of this is the ideal of the 'liscence',wich you can see in plain site describing what you can do,yet you change out the modem,ethernet card,or cpu,and the description of that detail is out the window,with DRM.Then making it 'your problem,that you must then communicate back to the propriety (wich has a list BTW of everything you've ever purchased)in order to run under the DRM.
But I didn't post here to say something about the DRM. Everybody on the 'in'side of DRM,knows it is simply programable on the software side.And must run on the client side. And still the 'user does not know what the features of the DRM is to the items they purchase'. You simply crash,and burn them..literally.
What I really wanted to say,is that Cable,has a legal obligation to its sponsors.They dont necesarily 'distribute',they merely 'show what its obligations have been the result of.Even though the technology side,can offer so much more (now give me a 19.5 Mbs internet connection etc),the usability model of copyrighted works haven't edged all that far from the intillment of the agenda its present manufacturing,production,and distribution structure has from due cause.
If everybody continues to deal with 'liscence'then the technology will be used as it is today.To create that the featureset of the technology is that of the copyright holder.I think that there could be a 'first sale'right in software downloads,even though the copyright is as they are. Cause I know I would,and do intention to collect what archives pass for time in this life of mortality.Even though the copyrighted agenda seems waining to believe they are immortal,and require class above reasonable intelegence.
The FCC cant do it all.Since programability comes with the infinite possibilities of the digital realm. But there are not any 'standards'in copyright.So that that 'first sale,can compete with all the lawyers - and those copyright notices BTW,wich are certainly flawed in their person.The truth about it is,that we cannot simply be whooed by a light bulb of one-way broadcast anymore.We have better,we know it.The instillment of copyrights,or no copyrights does not change the relationship we have with the technology. It changes only the relationship of the copyrighted works and the technology.
With cable,I'll just put in an early request for a hot-button 'buy" into the programming of the cable.Buy 'movie". The same ubiquity as that of the different media,and pertaining to the same copyright law.Then BTW give me a receipt on the screen,next to that copyright notice.
Copyrighted works have the same friends they have had in the past.It is not too much to have them sit on microscopic shelf for the retention of their immortal souls.As an asset to my own managerie.Knowing them by their name.Of course.
nullpointerus - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkThe HD support itself shouldn't be news to you, but the hardware that enables the support is what we're here to talk about today and the only company that's currently demonstrating it is ATI.
How disappointing!
Although protected by Vista's DRM, once on your machine you should be able to share the content throughout your network, however it has yet to be seen exactly how that's going to work. We would assume that you should at least be able to stream the content to any Xbox 360s on your network.
Gee, how nice of them. Look, I have fair use rights which I expect journalists to stand up for. You guys should ask these questions up front instead of just letting people get excited about the technology.
I am not paying money to upgrade all my home computers to Vista just for HD support - especially not if it doesn't produce unencrypted, non-proprietary, HD-quality files. Sorry, ATI.
While Vista itself has a lot going for it, quite possibly the most exciting feature of all will be support for CableCard made possible by ATI's tuner - it's what we're looking forward to this year.
You look forward to paying people just to take away your fair use rights? Reply
The Boston Dangler - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkHardware and cable companies aren't to blame for this DRM nightmare. It's entirely driven by content creators. Hardware and communications would like you to buy and use their products to your heart's content, and this is hampered by DRM.
2 Examples:
ATI's AIW x800 and higher were held up as much as a year because the design did not comply with the proposed Broadcast Flag, which was delayed but not yet beaten. This legal uncertainty prevented ATI from committing to and developing the new AIW cards.
Any decent cable company offers high speed internet service. Many times, any slowdown you may observe is a problem with the open internet, not your connection to the cable company. The question now is, what to do with all that internet? Any law-abiding citizen would refrain from downloading absolutely tons of illegal material. I get tons of legit music freely from bt.etree.org (GD, Phish, DMB, PJ, many, many more) Other than that, what? There's no high-quality network streams. I'd like to go to wbz.com (my local CBS) and watch WBZ live and in HD. Where the Hell is it?
Yes, I work for the cable company, and yes, I've owned an AIW. Reply
Cygni - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkA) Your "fair use" rights died around 1995. Sorry. I too morn their loss, but thats the way it is.
B) Getting angry at ATI for something forced on them by the TV industry isnt exactly productive.
C) Anandtech is a TECHNOLOGY website... and getting people EXCITED ABOUT TECHNOLOGY is what its FOR.
D) It doesnt make alot of sense to drill ATI's engineers for information on a product 1 year away from first launch... and to drill them on legal issues and questiosn that the engineers at a trade show likely have NOTHING to do with.
Thanks. Reply
Chadder007 - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkI blame Bill Clinton for this BS. Reply
nullpointerus - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkA) Your "fair use" rights died around 1995. Sorry. I too morn their loss, but thats the way it is.
I'm glad to hear that you care, but maybe the energy you spend mourning their loss could be better spent exercising a little free political speech.
B) Getting angry at ATI for something forced on them by the TV industry isnt exactly productive.
"The devil made me do it" is a bad argument. If they're producing a product which can only be used with DRM, they're partly to blame for DRM adoption.
C) Anandtech is a TECHNOLOGY website... and getting people EXCITED ABOUT TECHNOLOGY is what its FOR.
I don't recall asking them to avoid getting people excited about the technology. (Note the word "just" in my original post.) The problem is that the article only mentions the legal issues in passing whereas they should be a much higher priority. I would have been happy had they included something like the following:
"While the OCUR uses Vista's DRM technology, it's not clear whether the hardware will be tied to this technology, and we are concerned with how this will play out with third party software such as SageTV and BeyondTV. Traditionally, SDTV tuners have supported the MPEG-2 format as a de facto standard, allowing PVR software and hardware, video editing software, and DVD-burning software from many different companies to work together. If this approach is abandoned in favor of a proprietary format, all this compatibility gets thrown out the window."
After all, you'd think a technology site would care whether the technology was going to be arbitrarily crippled by tying it to a new OS license and proprietary formats. Like, maybe, those of us who may be interested in buying the product.
D) It doesnt make alot of sense to drill ATI's engineers for information on a product 1 year away from first launch...
As per the article, they have the hardware reference design working, and software is being demoed. If at this point they don't have information about what formats and technologies they can legally support, they appear to have some problems. Don't they usually sort out the legal issues FIRST, so that they avoid designing and producing things they can't sell?
and to drill them on legal issues and questiosn that the engineers at a trade show likely have NOTHING to do with.
Point taken, but is it not possible for Anandtech to contact ATI directly on this? Reply
OddTSi - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkWhy does the internal card use a USB connection? Why not PCI or PCI-e? Reply
Venomous - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkOk, so we get cablecard support. Why is it, everyone keeps forgetting about Satellite people? Its a cold day in hell when i submit to the ripoff programming of cable companies in my area. Ill be impressed when SATV owners are included. Reply
Yianaki - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkI bought XP the day it came out and unlike 9x I was extremely happy with the stability and it all around. I do not know if I want to deal with Vista's bloat on any of my boxes. Am I to believe that no one will be coming out with HDTV cable card support in MCE 2005 in the future? I can't say I am nervously waiting for Vista to suck up 512 megs of my memory. I have XP tweaked to 140 MB on loadup and XP suits me fine for the forseable future. Reply
Dismal - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkSo this card can tune HD and digital channels? I'm a newbie in the tuner world but thought that without connecting your existing cable box to your tuner, you could only tune into analog channels with these cards. Reply
SynthDude2001 - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkYes, that's the whole point of Cable Cards. They can do the decryption that a cable box can, with some limitations as mentioned in the article.
Personally I think the idea is cool (though it'll likely be dragged down by DRM as others have said), but I don't really have any interest in paying for premium HDTV channels when I can already get the national networks in HD just fine over the air or cable. Reply
Dismal - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkAhh, I understand. Thanks for the replies guys. Reply
Furen - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkI think that's what the Cablecard slot is for, to allow you to decode the encoded crap your cable provider sends you. Reply
AlexWade - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkJust curious, but is it possible that this device will work for Linux instead? Reply
Doormat - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkSnowball's chance in hell. DRM is the name of the game here.
It is possible however, that there would be Mac drivers, allowing the Mac Mini to act like a PVR utilizing Front Row. Reply
Xenoterranos - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkWell, if there is a MAC driver, then you're only a step away from a serviceable *nix driver for any x86 PC now that MAC's are using intel processors. Reply
DigitalFreak - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkI'm betting we'll see a lot similar products from Taiwan and South Korea that will work just fine without all the DRM crap. I'd much rather see a 1394 interface though, since connecting multiple ones to your PC is going to drive up the CPU utilization over USB. Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkLike who is going to share a 19.2mbps data signal? Recording HDTV will always be a minefield, with allowing who to record what. Reply
gibhunter - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkScrew them and their DRM bull S*^(. I will keep on using my $10/month dual HD tuner DVR and if I need a show on DVD, I'll just connect my laptop through firewire with a driver that makes it appear as a digital vcr.
In the meantime I'll continue laughing at the people that spent $2000 on a media PC only to have less functionality than my $10/month DVR and $70 dvd player with DivX support. Reply
glennpratt - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkUmm, hate to break it to you but, that box has DRM too. Try recording HBO lately? If you are lucky enough to be able to, it won't last long. (I have a couple of firewire tuners at my house... and I use MCE) Reply
Hikari - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkThey don't expire. I just get straight mpeg captures, I can even record HBO HD over firewire. Nothing I've ever gotten 'expired', and they play in 3 different OS as well.
Maybe my local Comcast isn't doing anything yet though, beats me. Reply
glennpratt - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkIt has a record once mode which only lets you play back on the device that recorded it. That's DRM... That your local Comcast doesn't have 5C encryption enabled means your lucky. Mine does on the premium channels, some have it even on broadcast HD stations. Reply
raskren - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkOMG! Terrible Windows DRM! Run while you still can!
What's the problem here kiddies? Afraid you won't be able to pirate movies as easily? Reply
imaheadcase - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkYour not up to date or you would be pissed to, because Vista as it is now has to many restrictions on data. Even your OWN music/movies will have same restrictions if you downloaded a movie online from BT. copy Shrek to a DVD so i could take on laptop on trips, you can't play it on vista because DRM. Lots of stupid stuff like that, basicly you have to play original DVD of shrek. Its ass backwords Reply
glennpratt - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkI don't know where you got this from, it's pretty much total BS. Link please. Reply
AndyKH - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkIsn't it possible to copy e.g. a DVD to a format that doesn't contain DRM as an AVI file. And the DVD content protection has been cracked long ago, how would you make certain that a copied DVD can't be played in Vista. I must admit that I haven't researched the subject much, could you provide a link to some good info about Vista's DRM? Reply
The Boston Dangler - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkhttp://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12893">http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12893 Reply
Furen - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkHah, seriously. The only problem I have with Vista's DRM is that (its rumored) that it will need a special monitor to output HD quality stuff and that I can just see a time limit being imposed on content recorded by the media center PC (then again, archiving stuff recorded from TV IS illegal...). Reply
mino - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkmaybe in the US of A, for instance in DE it is explicitly allowed since anything freely broadcasted on the air is since then considered public, you cannot record and sell it, however you could archive it as long as you like.
I too kinda don't why undestand archiving TV shows is illegal? It's the same nonsense as making illegal archiving newspapers you bought. Maybe the US media machine just doesn't like people to remember what some peple told in the past.
That way proving someone is a liar is illegal. Funnny if it was in was not for real ;( Reply
mino - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkthat typing, that typing ;) Reply
BPB - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkHow do you do this? I've never been able to get my Motorola dual HD tuner to work properly via firewire. I get output, but it's never usuable. If I could get it to work properly I would definitely agree with you. Otherwise, this ATI setup is of real interest to me. I do connect and use a driver that makes it look like a digital vcr, but I can never play the output. Reply
GoatMonkey - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkIf you've got an extra computer anyway it doesn't cost anywhere near $2000 to build a PVR out of it. You don't need a fast computer to do it. My PVR uses my old AMD 2100. I added a Hauppauge dual tuner card and Snapstream Beyond TV. Now it isn't a HD recorder the way I have it set up, but it could be with the addition of a HD tuner. My total cost was less than $200. Saving money is not really the point anyway, it's just fun to do.
Calin - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkFor 10$ a month, you would need two years to cover that $200 investment. I think any way is just as good (but one has the advantage of less clutter and the other the advantage of keeping the PC usable for anything else (including heavy loads) Reply
GoatMonkey - Friday, January 06, 2006 - linkYeah, but DIY is always cooler.
imaheadcase - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkHear hear! DRM has to change drastically before i even consider Vista. Right now most people i know with TV tuners are just not getting vista because of the terrible DRM. Reply
AndyKH - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkI'm hoping ati will release a dual-tuner version (being able to tune 2 analog or digital channels at once). I will most likely buy an external version as it would be nice to stow away the (dual tuner) box by the tv-outlet and then just route the two video channels in one usb cable. Just to bad I would need to use repeaters if the distance is more than 5 metres - a gigabit ethernet version would certainly be better. Reply
tuteja1986 - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkyeah i been wanting a cheap decent dual tv tunner : ) i will just have to wifi bridge it if a ethernet is provide in the final cheap product Reply
tuteja1986 - Thursday, January 05, 2006 - linkMe want one but i wonder how will it cost and should go along with my xbox 360 :) Reply


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WALNUT, Calif. -- As their slogan aptly claims, Mount San Antonio College is "where the world's best athletes come to compete." Over the weekend, two athletes from The Master's College had the privilege of joining that number in the 54th Annual Mt. SAC Relays. The four-day event included athletes ranging from high school, collegiate, professional elite and Olympic developmental divisions.
Mustang runners Anthony Pizzo and John Gilberstson competed among the best on the storied track of Hilmer Lodge Stadium. Over the years, the event has witnessed many world record breaking performances as numerous Olympians and Olympic hopefuls gather at one of the most historic meets in the nation.
On Friday night, John Gilbertson stepped onto the track to race in the open-B heat of the Men's 5000 meter run, with hopes of finishing the 5k under 14 minutes. In the history of the Santa Clarita Valley, the fastest time ever recorded by a local athlete in the 5000m was 13:56.40 by Dave Hartman from Canyon High School. Gilbertson was well aware of this mark as he toed the line before the gun fired. Few collegiate athletes are able to break the 14 minute barrier, but Gilbertson was prepared and determined to do so.
Positioning himself well throughout the race, Gilbertson stayed close to the front of the field for all 12 & ½ laps, allowing his competition to lead and pull him to a fast time. As the leaders took off on the bell lap, Gilbertson trailed close on their heels and demonstrated his exceptional closing speed. With a large crowd of teammates, family and coaches cheering him on from the railing of the stadium grandstand, Gilbertson crossed the finish line placing 4th out of 29 in 13:56.56 while simultaneously setting a new school record and achieving a personal best.
"What Gilbertson accomplished on Friday cannot be overstated," Coach Schroeder commented. "Very few collegiate athletes of any division will ever run under 14 minutes. It was an honor to represent the college among the best in our sport. God continues to bless our program beyond what we would have thought possible."
Anthony Pizzo was also accepted to compete at Mt. SAC in the Invite Elite heat of the Men's 10,000 meter run. However, after a rough start, Coach Schroeder opted to pull him out of the race.
After a week of preparation, Gilbertson, Pizzo, and the rest of the TMC men's track team will compete in the Golden State Athletic Conference Championships on April 27th-28th, hosted by Azusa Pacific University.


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Can someone help me out here. I am trying to install my atheros 9285 wireless and followed the command from a previous posting but i get stuck when doing the make command.
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Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood dismissed any immediate threat from the launch of a local news website by UK newspaper The Guardian.
''The Guardian is an extremely good brand in some suburbs of London, it's not a strong competitive brand in Australia,'' Mr Hywood told analysts on a conference call for the first half financial results of Fairfax, publisher of this website.
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The Guardian is setting up a local news website to capitalise on its Australian audience which forms one of its largest sources of international readers.
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Attention! I´m selling an account you do not, and the data from it and to download a game console yourself that you played with your profile.
On account of either 0-activated system, or the ability to disable all system. Problems with downloading the game will not arise.
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After payment you will instantly get access to the data for the account type mail: pass
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1. Click the user to create (new user) and log in as a new user.
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4. Then enter your login (example: firstname.lastname@example.com) and password (example: 01qw02as).
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A tomoe or tomoye (archaic) (巴; ; ; ) is a Japanese abstract shape, usually used as a necklace, (i.e. a swirl) that resembles a comma or the usual form of magatama. Tomoe are usually seen in a design of three known as mitsudomoe (三つ巴; ; ; ).
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- They form the pattern of the Sharingan.
- They form the Cursed Seal of Heaven.
- They are a part of the Ten-Tails' eye design.
- They are on Madara Uchiha's gunbai.
- The three giant snakes summoned in the Sand/Sound Invasion have tomoe markings on their heads.
- Orochimaru himself wore blue tomoe-shaped earrings.
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- The Yasaka Magatama technique used by Itachi and Madara's Susanoo is a giant shuriken in the shape of a mitsudomoe.
- The Kohaku clan's insignia is a futatsudomoe (tomoe in a design of two), while the Shirogane clan's is a golden mitsudomoe.
- Both Naruto Uzumaki's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and Tailed Beast Mode shrouds feature tomoe-like marking around their collars.[1][2]
- The Sage of the Six Paths had tomoe-like markings around the collar of his cloak as well as nine tomoe of the back underneath the symbol of the Rinnegan.[3]
- A seal that the Sage of the Six Paths stood in the middle of while talking to the nine tailed beasts also featured the use of tomoe markings.[4]
- After transplanting Itachi's eyes, Sasuke has used his Susanoo to fire tomoe-shaped projectiles made of Amaterasu's flames.[5]
- The holes for eyes in Tobi's mask during the Fourth Shinobi World War are tomoe-shaped.[6]
- There are tomoe-shaped markings around the kanji for "fox" in the Uchiha Hideout.[7]
- In the anime, later depictions of Pakura's Scorch Release: Extremely Steaming Murder changed the flaming orbs into flaming tomoe shapes.[8]


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Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football pitch is lost due to logging or destructive practices. Seventy two per cent of Indonesia's intact forest landscapes and 15 per cent of the Amazon's have already been lost forever. Now the Congo's forests face the same threat.
While the causes vary from region to region, they all have one thing in common: human activity. Through agriculture and logging, mining and climate change, humankind is wiping out irreplaceable forests - and the life that depends on them - at a terrifying pace.
Agri-business is responsible for massive rainforest destruction as forests are burned to make way for cattle ranches, or cleared for palm oil or soya plantations. In this way, irreplaceable rainforests are converted into products that are used to make toothpaste, chocolate and animal feed.
Industrial logging for timber, pulp and paper has also devastated much of the world's rainforests. Not only are ancient trees cut down on a vast scale, but unplanned and inefficient practices lead to enormous additional wastage. And, by building roads into pristine rainforests, the logging industry opens them up to secondary effects like human settlement, hunting, fuel-wood gathering and agriculture.
Today, forests face another threat. Deforestation contributes to climate change (overall, it accounts for one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions - which is why Indonesia is the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter and Brazil the fourth). At the same time, climate change itself threatens forests on a terrifying scale.
Rising global temperatures damage and kill trees, and increase drought and forest fires. Dying trees release still more carbon, which further increases our global temperature. This cycle of forest collapse represents a critical feedback loop that could drive warming for centuries, change life cycles on Earth, and usher in a sweeping transformation of human civilisation. The surest way to stop it is to end deforestation.
Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation globally by 2020 because protecting forests is one of the quickest and most effective ways to prevent climate change, protect biodiversity and defend the rights of forest communities.
To realise this vision, the international community, corporations, forest communities and individuals in consumer countries will need to work together in an unprecedented, concerted effort. You can read more about the solutions to forest destruction here.
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Pendants come in such variety and sizes that they are difficult to describe. Pendants are the most classical of all pieces of jewellery, some of the earliest archaeological digs have revealed pendants in their yield, so you can see that women have been enamoured by pendants and necklaces for thousands of years. Shop online for gold Pendants collection at Shiels.


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HOUSTON - Few more days to recharge the batteries then I'll jump back in on Wednesday. Been a good week to catch up on some things, make some calls and prepare for what I expect to be the return of the NFL soon.
HS Football is around the corner and the new July edition of VYPE HS Magazine will hit stores next week. The massive preview edition will be a good one. Malatesta and I along with the entire crew involved have been working on it since April.
Tonight on SPORTS SUNDAY, guests talking Yao include 1560?s Sean Pendergast, Chron's Richard Justice and Jonathon Feigen.
What are your thoughts on Yao's retirement? I wasn't shocked at all but just thought it wouldn't happen until August from what I had been told. Yao's American agent still won't confirm it which is odd. It's out and Yao is holding a newser on July 20.
I look back at Yao's career and am impressed by what he could do on the floor at times. He was one of the best, if not the best, for a short period but injuries on his big frame simply caught up to him. It's a lot of wear and tear for a guy that's been playing serious ball since he was a kid. When he joined the NBA back in 2002 there was talk of potential damaged goods even back then but the Rockets did their homework and still felt it was worth it.
It was a good decision by the Rockets but Yao's career, on the floor, just didn't live up to the hype. His career was cut short so we'll never know really how dominate he would of been over the long run.
I saw Yao as a quiet leader that put up good, not great, numbers. He wasn't a guy that would take over a games like Kobe and Lebron do most nights. Yao just got the job done and frankly did it pretty darn well.
Was he a Hall of Fame material? That's a tough question. On the floor I don't think so but what he did for the NBA globally is hard to argue. He's brought it to a high level in the Far East like nobody else could do.
It's the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame and some in there already probably don't deserve it. If you look at Yao's entire resume on and off the floor he may be deserving of HOF entry. As a player I need someone who plays longer and is dominant to be considered. If that's the criteria then I believe Yao just falls short. If the total package is considered then he should be in.
What's your take? vote now on www.click2houston.com/sports and tell us how you feel.
The Astros will finish the first half with 60+ losses and continue to pace towards 110 losses this season. They won't set a record but it's embarrassing to what this club perform every night. The talent isn't great but there's several in the lineup ML quality that need to produce. Carlos is stinking it up , Bourn has shown quality along with All-Star bound Hunter Pence.
Why is this team so bad? bullpen is horrible, J.A. Happ has regressed big-time and there are plenty of other holes and inexperience but 60+ losses isn't acceptable.
Many of you email, twitter and facebook me with questions about changes. I think Brad Mills is a great guy and knows the game. I hear that he's a great manager but that with little talent he hasn't been given a fair shot. That is probably right but in this day of baseball that sometimes doesn't matter when the record is what it is.
Throw in that Jim Crane is about to take over any time now and I find it hard that he would not clean out for the sake of just starting from scratch. I hope I'm wrong because I like Mills. But if I'm Crane and his group, spending what they spent to buy the club, from a simple PR standpoint bringing back anybody from a club this bad wouldn't make sense.
A lot of good managers have lost their jobs simply because of a record and not their managerial talent or potential.
Stay tuned to see what happens after this season is over
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Yesterday was Support Teen Literature Day. The Young Adult Department ran a contest on FaceBook where people could tell us their favorite young adult novels. Here are people's favorites:
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
The spin-off series from Vampire Academy follows Alchemist Sidney Sage as she must come to the aid of vampires.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Aliens have attacked Earth twice, and the government trains child geniuses to combat the alien threat.
A Million Suns by Beth Revis
In the sequel to Across the Universe, Amy and Elder must join forces to solve a puzzle on the spaceship carrying them to their new home.
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Macy deals with her father's death and opens herself up to new friendships after she begins a catering job.
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Mosquito season is upon us
Published: Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 6:53 p.m.
The annual onslaught is about to start.
Mosquitoes, born in tires and bird baths and any other container filled from recent rain, are starting to pester people in some areas.
The mosquito-spread disease of eastern equine encephalitis has been found in three "sentinel chickens," said Alachua County environmental health director Anthony Dennis. Chickens are placed throughout the county and regularly tested for detection of the disease.
"It's not a surprise for this time of the year. We are at the height of mosquito season, so we get Triple E," Dennis said. "Mosquito populations are up. We've had a lot of rain, so there is a lot of standing water."
So far in July, Gainesville has received 2.66 inches of rain, which is about 1.80 inches above normal, according to the National Weather Service.
June rainfall totaled 6.25 inches, which is almost an inch below normal.
Mosquitoes need just a touch of water in which to grow, so the rainy season tends to create the swarms.
Karen St. Pierre, interim entomologist with the city of Gainesville's mosquito control operation, said the city is trying to keep the little biters to a minimum. The city recently held a tire round-up in which residents brought old tires for recycling to eliminate breeding spots.
"Mosquito control begins in your backyard," St. Pierre said.
St. Pierre said the numbers of adult mosquitoes caught in traps around the city has not reached levels that trigger the need for spraying.
The city pretreated some areas that tend to produce mosquitoes, such as cypress swamps, and also uses the 2-inch-long gambusia fish to eat up larva. But St. Pierre is urging residents to make sure they are taking in or overturning any outdoor objects that hold water.
Qualities that make some neighborhoods attractive to people also can make them mosquito magnets, said Roxanne Connelly, University of Florida associate professor at the Florida Medical Entomological Laboratory in Vero Beach.
For instance, neighborhoods with a heavy tree canopy tend to have more mosquitoes because the trees provide a humid resting place during the day and protection from predators such as bats and birds.
"They have the right amount of moisture and heat," Connelly said.
Connelly added that different species of mosquitoes prefer different environments — some thrive in backyards, others need swamps.
Contrary to urban legend, the relatively jumbo-sized gallinipper mosquito was not blown into Florida by Tropical Storm Debby last year, when gallinipper numbers jumped. The species is known to have a ferocious bite.
"It's always been in Florida since before humans," Connelly said. "It might have been more abundant after Tropical Storm Debby."
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POLICE and crime commissioner Bill Longmore has starred in his own YouTube video as he bravely fights back from cancer.
The elected force figurehead, who was diagnosed with throat cancer during a routine doctor's check last November, used the broadcast to tell viewers it is still "business as usual" for West Mercia Police.
Since finding out he had the disease Mr Longmore endured surgery in January, which was a success, and been taking time away from full-time duties to recover.
The 75-year-old is now planning to return to work properly this month after letting deputy Barrie Sheldon take the lead role over the winter.
Mr Longmore says the wonders of modern technology has allowed him to stay in touch with the force more than he first thought as he battled his health problems.
In the video, he said: "People think as soon as someone's got cancer they are immediately incapacitated and can't do anything, but that's not the case.
"At no time have I been out of touch with the office and I've got a very able deputy who's kept me informed with anything that's been going on.
"Any discussions that needed to be made, we've discussed it and I've made the decision.
"I've had all the technology to keep in touch with the office and with Skype I've been able to have regular meetings with the chief constable.
"I've also been continuously kept up to date with literature, we get quite a bit of that and I've been able to read it in the comfort of my own home."
In the broadcast he also revealed that he went on an outing in February, spending time in Hereford to examine city centre policing and visit a care home.
He said: "I'm keeping myself fully informed of everything that's happened - all in all it's business as usual."
Surgeons performed the operation on Mr Longmore at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in mid-January.
After his ordeal Mr Sheldon went onto Twitter to say his boss felt "very groggy" afterwards.
The retired businessman, who was elected in 2012, is now determined to stay in office until the next set of commissioner elections in 2016, as long as he remains healthy.
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The indebted shipbuilding arm of Dubai World, the conglomerate that triggered Dubai's debt crisis four years ago, signed a deal to develop undersea hotels with a Swiss firm yesterday.
Only a month after it sought insolvency protection in Dubai and Singapore to push through a $US2.2 billion ($A2.13 billion) debt restructuring, Drydocks World unveiled an agreement with BIG InvestConsult, which holds the technology rights, to build the World Discus Hotel.
The hotel, featuring a discus-shaped residential underwater building connected to another discus above water, will be funded by BIG, which is in talks with other investors.
The disc, located up to 10 metres beneath the surface of the sea, is composed of 21 hotel rooms adjacent to the underwater dive centre and a bar.
The rooms will feature a special lighting system and miniature underwater vehicles which can be operated from inside allowing guests totake a closer look at the underwater creatures using macro photography.
"Drydocks and Maritime World is appointed as the exclusive main contractor for construction of the new concept hotels and cities floating in the Middle East," Drydocks said in a statement.
Extravagant projects were the hallmark of Dubai during the 2002-2008 boom years and the emirate is home to man-made islands shaped like palms as well as a map of the world. It also boasts the world's tallest tower and an indoor ski slope.
- Photos: Dubai's mega-projects
- Photos: Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building
- Read: Souk on steroids: Mall of the Emirates
The projects, aimed at boosting Dubai's global profile, were built on massive amounts of leverage that nearly crushed the emirate after the 2008 global credit crunch.
Thanks to a strong showing by its logistics, trade and tourism businesses and benefiting from its status as a safe haven amid the Arab Spring revolts that have roiled the region, Dubai has been making a recovery.
On Wednesday, the firms said two developments with five hotels attached to them are planned in the Middle East. The Swiss firm is eyeing the coast of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
"We are in the design and fabrication side for the project ... it's the same concept as rigs," Khamis Juma Buamim, chairman of Drydocks World told reporters.
"This project has seven different types of designs and (each will cost in) the range of around $US50 million to $US120 million. The amount varies based on the design."
"The discussions are to build these around the world, not just the UAE," he said.
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Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
Kelsey works at a circus and is drawn to a tiger. She eventually learns that this tiger is really an Indian prince cursed to live in animal form, and she travels to India to attempt to break the curse. The poem "Tyger, Tyger" by William Blake features in the novel.
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
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I may be a bit biased, but I truly am proud and honored to introduce my T-shirt line. The tees represent the ideals of my life and my work with my online magazine I Am That Girl. I am That Girl donates 10% of all of it's proceeds to a charity and campaign concept called, «beauty is.» This campaign is dedicated to empowering young, inner city girls to have lofty goals and limitless dreams. Through scholarship applications, young girls are chosen for grants up to 500 dollars to persue their dreams.


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Twins break out the lumber for quality Nolasco
MINNEAPOLIS -- If the Twins are to snap out of their recent funk and get back on track in the second half of the season, they're going to need plenty of help from the offense and from right-hander Ricky Nolasco.
The Twins have had trouble scoring recently, and Nolasco has struggled in the first season of the five-year, $49 million contract he signed over the winter.
But the Twins saw good signs from both on Tuesday night, as Nolasco turned in his first quality start in more than a month, and the offense finally broke out in a 10-2 win over the Royals at Target Field. Eduardo Nunez paced the offense with three hits, three runs and two RBIs, and Chris Parmelee chipped in with two hits, a run and an RBI.
"It was nice," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "The offense came alive. A lot of good things happened with Nunez and Parmelee at the top. Pretty much everybody had a hit who started the game."
It was an especially positive effort by Nolasco, who had been scuffling and hadn't registered a quality start since May 30. He was solid in this one, giving up just one run on eight hits over six innings. It helped him earn his first win since June 4 and lowered his ERA to 5.49. The lone run he allowed came on an RBI single from Mike Moustakas in the second inning.
"I was trying not to do too much," said Nolasco, who had better fastball command this time. "It's always nice to get a ton of runs. The offense did a great job today scoring a ton of runs to make my job a little bit easier."
As Nolasco noted, the Twins provided plenty of offense, reaching double digits in runs for the first time since April 11 and just the fourth time this season. The Twins had scored just eight combined runs over their previous four games.
"We just kept tacking on some offense," Gardenhire said. "Like I've said before, we needed to take some pressure off our pitching, and we did that."
Minnesota hit right-hander James Shields hard, as he gave up five runs (four earned) on nine hits over five innings for his first loss since May 2.
"Tonight I actually thought I made some pretty good pitches," Shields said. "They just found a lot of holes today. It's really frustrating that I'm not getting outs. I'm letting my team down.
The Twins scored early on a double from Parmelee in the first inning that extended his career-high hitting streak to 11 games. They scored another run in the third on an infield single from Kendrys Morales, but the run was unearned, as it was keyed by a rare error from left fielder Alex Gordon.
The early lead was a rarity for the Twins, who trailed early in their previous six games, five of which were losses.
"When you're losing a lot of games and you score first, you feel excited and motivated," Nunez said. "So scoring in the first inning was important for us, because we've been struggling for a week."
Shields gave up three more runs in the fourth after loading the bases with one out. Nunez sent home the first run with an infield single, then Joe Mauer plated two runs with a double to left before exiting the game with a strained right oblique, an injury sustained on the swing.
Minnesota broke open the game with a five-run sixth inning after Shields departed. Nunez started the rally with a solo homer off reliever Michael Mariot before the Twins scored another run, aided by an error from second baseman Omar Infante on a grounder hit by Trevor Plouffe. Mariot then walked Kurt Suzuki with the bases loaded and was removed for left-hander Francisley Bueno, who surrendered a two-run single to Sam Fuld.
The Royals scored their second run in the eighth on a two-out double by former Twins infielder Danny Valencia off reliever Brian Duensing, but the game was well in hand by that point.
The Twins are hoping that the offensive output can carry over, but it may be without Mauer, who will be re-evaluated on Wednesday and could hit the 15-day disabled list.
"I've never had this happen before," Mauer said. "I hope it's a lot sooner than what guys in the past have had."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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- Nothing says "I love you, Dad" quite like a manly burger packed with flavor. Giusto Gusto brings out the big guns with Beef & Sausage Burgers with Horseradish Mayo and Turkey Burgers with Sriracha Mayo.
- What's the secret to making delicious blueberry buttermilk pancakes every time? Visit Cooking Classy's blog and find out!
- Make these adorable lawnmower cupcakes by Six in the Suburbs with the little ones this Father's Day. The sweet treats may even be a subtle reminder of that unruly backyard that needs tending.
- It may be too hot for soup, but that doesn't mean you have to give up it up completely. Iowa Girl Eats took all the greatness of French Onion Soup and transformed it into potstickers for a lighter, more summer-appropriate meal.
- Salad doesn't have to mean green and boring. Some Kitchen Stories made a beautiful and fresh black rice salad with mango that we can't wait to try.
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Tonight, the Secret Sisters headline The Southern Harmony Party at the Lakewood Theater, which also features local band The King Bucks and Audrey Dean Kelley. The night benefits The Women's Chorus of Dallas, a very gay-friendly organization. In a recent interview with Dallas Voice, real-life sisters Lydia and Laura of the Secret Sisters talked up their connection with the gay community and how growing up Church of Christ never stopped them from accepting people as they are:
So first, how did you get hooked up with The Women's Chorus of Dallas? We were playing a show in Birmingham, AL several months ago, and met a really nice promoter named De Foster, who loved our sound and was determined to have us play a show in Dallas. We agreed that we would love to come there and play, and so not long afterwards, he contacted us about playing a show that would benefit the Women's Chorus. We love playing shows that are in conjunction with positive organizations, and especially those that are connected to our favorite hobby: music. So when we got the invitation to play, we were thrilled! We are so excited to meet everyone involved with the chorus, and very excited that the focus of the evening will be on women and music. We both feel that there just aren't enough strong women in the music industry, and we know that the evening will be positive one, that's also a lot of fun.
What do such groups mean to you? Any time that we can use our music to highlight organizations that do good things, we are eager to do so. Both of us were in our high school choruses when we were younger, and we know just how much fun it is to be surrounded by your friends, enjoying music that you are making together. Music means so much to us, and to be able to spend the evening with others who are passionate about it as well is going to be an honor. We've been looking forward to this show for a while now.
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GalleryThis Week in Eating Out
Check out the slideshow for everywhere we've eaten this week, or head to the individual posts below.
- A Sandwich a Day: The Fried Chicken at Son of a Gun (Los Angeles)
- A Sandwich a Day: Chicken Salad Sandwich at Snarf's (Chicago)
- A Sandwich a Day: Halloumi Panino at Bocado Cafe (NYC)
- A Sandwich a Day: The Blue Pig & Fig at Pastoral (Chicago)
- A Sandwich a Day: Smithsonian Grilled Cheese from Row House Cafe (Seattle, WA)
- A Sandwich a Day: Pan de Chicharron at Raymi (NYC)
- A Sandwich a Day: The Skribeye from Skrine Chops (Chicago)
- A Sandwich a Day: Sheek Kebab Kati Roll at Curry & Tandoor Corner (NYC)
- A Sandwich a Day: Pulled Pork Sandwich from Smoque BBQ (Chicago)
- A Sandwich A Day: Torta Ahogada from El Tio Pepe (Tijuana)
- A Sandwich a Day: Kruveet Pita at Taboonette (NYC)
- The Vegetarian Option: The Foraged Mushroom Panini at Fork (Chicago)
- A Sandwich a Day: Napolitano at Piatto Pronto (Chicago)
- A Sandwich A Day: Carne Asada Torta from Tortas Wash Mobile (Tijuana, Mexico)
- Cherry Street East Is Back from the Ashes with a Great Burger (New Canaan, CT)
- Standout Char Burgers at Phil's Last Stand (Chicago)
- Greatness Pops Up at Burger Haven (Pasadena, CA)
- Reality Check: The Fry Lover's Burger from Rally's/Checkers
- Spaghetti Pizza at Farina's (Grapevine, TX)
- Daily Slice: Pizza by Cer Té (NYC)
- Daily Slice: Pizza Bread at Little Gourmet (Los Angeles)
- Mother Dough: Is "Good" Good Enough in Los Angeles?
- Daily Slice: 'Whipper Snapper' at Roberta's (NYC)
- Pizzeria Vesuvius Has Some Secrets... and Spectacular Pies (Atlanta)
- Daily Slice: Maple Fennel Sausage at Flatbread Company (Somerville, MA)
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- The Vegetarian Option: Bedouin Tent (NYC)
- Chicago Tacos: El Pueblito
- A Himalayan Dish a Day: Momos from Norling Tibetan Kitchen (NYC)
- Date Night: Neighborhood Elegance (and Very Good Meatballs) at AlMar in Dumbo (NYC)
- Bronx Eats: Killer Carnitas, Huaraches Done Right, and Farm-To-Bodega Avocado Leaves at El Atoradera, Mott Haven (NYC)
- Slurped: Thick Knife Peel Noodles at Uncle Zhou in Elmhurst (NYC)
- First Look: Chicago's First Maid-Rite Opens in Lincoln Park
- Lunch in the Loop: Tokyo Lunchbox (Chicago)
- A Himalayan Dish a Day: Tingmo at Tashi Delek Momo Palace (NYC)
- Knockout Noodles: Thai Ravioli at Penny's Noodle Shop (Chicago)
- A Himalayan Dish a Day: Shoko sil sil ngoe ma at Phayul (NYC)
- TGI Fry-Day: Iron Fist Fish & Chips from Revolution Brewing (Chicago)
- Apps Only: Solid Small Plates at Walden in Williamsburg (NYC)
- A Himalayan Dish a Day: Tsel Phing at Cafe Himalaya (NYC)
- We Try Guy's American Kitchen and Bar, Guy Fieri's New Times Square Restaurant (NYC)
- We Eat Everything on the Menu at East Side King (Austin, TX)
- A Himalayan Dish a Day: Cheura Tareko ('Beaten Rice') at Himalayan Yak (NYC)
- TGI Fry-Day: Spring Rolls at Cong Ly (NYC)
- Sugar Rush: Caramel and Hot Fudge Sundae at Van Leeuwen (NYC)
- Sugar Rush: Baton Cakes at ChikaLicious (NYC)
- Sugar Rush: Cinnamon Tres Leches at Ivy Bakery (NYC)
- Sugar Rush: McMinnville Cream Doughnut at Voodoo Doughnut (Portland, OR)
- First Look: Sift Cupcake & Dessert Bar (San Francisco)
- Sugar Rush: Cherry Clafoutis at Balthazar Bakery
- We Try Burgerville's Fresh Blackberry Shake (Portland, OR)
- 6 Vermont Craft Beer Bars To Visit During Fall Foliage
- First Look: Cocktails at Whey (Portland, OR)
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