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WINTER PARK, Fla. - Saint Leo sophomore Laura Kemkes has been recognized as Sunshine State Conference Women's Tennis Player of the Week, it was announced Monday by league officials.
Kemkes went a combined 4-0 in #1 singles and doubles play to lead the Lions to a 1-1 weekly record. Kemkes began the week by breezing past Thashia Garcia 6-1, 6-2 in Saint Leo's 9-0 sweep at Tampa. She joined Emily Singleton for an 8-3 doubles win over Meg Wladimirski and Megan Mancini. Kemkes then rose to the occasion in the unranked Lions' narrow 5-4 loss to No. 4 Barry. She upset No. 21 Cristina Valladares 6-7 (7-5), 7-5, 10-3 in a thriller in the top singles flight. She again partnered with Singleton in doubles, and the No. 12-ranked Lions duo upended Barry's No. 26 tandem of Valladares and Sarah Krohnen 8-3.
Kemkes is one of 21 Saint Leo student-athletes to be named SSC Player of the Week.
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Encarnacion's slam punctuates batting showcase
Arencibia homers, drives in four; every player scores or drives in a run
TORONTO -- It took a couple of innings, but when the Blue Jays offense finally broke out against Orioles prospect Kevin Gausman and the bullpen, they never looked back.
Toronto's offense started the game slowly, and was unable to take advantage of having men on base in each of the first three innings.
Cracks in the Orioles rookie's armor began to show in the fourth, and the Blue Jays were able to take advantage of a couple of timely home runs, including an Edwin Encarnacion grand slam, to defeat Baltimore, 12-6, at Rogers Centre on Thursday.
"Our team is built around those guys," Toronto manager John Gibbons said of Encarnacion and last night's hero, Jose Bautista. "They're two of the better ones in the game.
"The centerpieces of all good teams, the teams that win, they got a couple of guys there in the middle that carry you."
On Thursday, it was Encarnacion who did most of the heavy lifting. Orioles reliever Pedro Strop walked Bautista to load the bases in the sixth before serving up 1-1 fastball to the Toronto slugger, who hit a line-drive home run off the foul pole in left field to clear the bases.
That home run extended the Blue Jays' lead to 8-3 and gave the club more than enough room.
"Edwin hitting that ball to give us some breathing room it makes the game, definitely not easier, but definitely a little more relaxing," said J.P. Arencibia, who had a home run and four RBIs.
Although Encarnacion's grand slam, the fifth of his career, was the biggest shot of the game, it was a team effort offensively.
The Blue Jays tallied 11 hits, and every single player scored at least one run or drove one in.
"Jose [Bautista] pretty much won the game for us [yesterday]. Then we come back and different guys come back and contribute today," Arencibia said. "I think that's a sign of when things get going [offensively]."
After a slow start, things started to click for the Blue Jays offense after a two-run fourth. Gausman's debut had been solid up to that point, but it got away from him in the fifth.
After retiring the first two batters, the 22-year-old gave up a single to Adam Lind. On the very next pitch, Arencibia hit a home run into the Blue Jays bullpen in left field to take the lead.
"He gave us a chance to win against a team swinging the bat as hot as anybody," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of his starter. "I thought he handled himself the way you'd like to see a young pitcher handle himself. He's only going to get better."
Gausman allowed four earned runs in five innings on seven hits and two walks, while striking out five. However, it could've been much worse.
In the fourth inning, the Blue Jays had already scored twice and had runners on the corners with only one away, but the righty was able to wiggle his way out of the jam. He induced a popup on an attempted bunt by Munenori Kawasaki, and quickly followed that with a loud flyout by Melky Cabrera to end the threat.
"It looked like he belonged out there," Gibbons said. "For a debut, I thought he did a heck of a job. It looks like he'll have a bright future."
Brandon Morrow ended up the beneficiary of Toronto's potent offense, although his pitching line is uglier than it really was.
"The offense did their job and got us a big lead and won the game for us," Morrow said.
Morrow had patches of a good outing, but he was unable to put it all together for the entire night. After allowing four runs through seven innings, the Blue Jays right-hander surrendered two solo home runs in the eighth that ended his night on a sour note.
"I thought I had good stuff. I thought I threw the wrong pitch in a couple of situations and got hurt," Morrow said. "It's frustrating for me to go out and give up the two home runs without getting an out there in the eighth. It was a good win, but it put a sour taste in my mouth."
In total, the 28-year-old gave up six earned runs -- three on solo home runs -- on 10 hits and a walk, with five strikeouts.
"He did a good job. The score, and the runs that he gave up, are definitely not a good showing of the performance he had out there," Arencibia said.
The Blue Jays piled on an additional four runs in the eighth to put the game out of reach, ending any thoughts of a comeback for the Orioles. That additional run support was something that was lacking earlier in the season for Toronto.
"We chipped away and then we exploded there in the end," Gibbons said. "We've been playing some pretty good baseball. We really have."
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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On Bobby Flay's Basket of Brunch Goodies episode of Brunch @ Bobby's (which you can watch in full here), Bobby cooks up a spread of American favorites like Shoo-Fly Muffins, Banana Bread with Vanilla Bean-Pecan Butter and homemade Fruit Filled Mini Toaster Pastries! Then he creates a one-of-a-kind bellini bar that is sure to impress any brunch guest.
There are several benefits to putting together a bellini bar if you're hosting a continental brunch. They're delicious and everyone will have fun making their own cocktails. Traditionally, the bellini is made with a white peach puree and topped with prosecco (it originated in Venice) but you can put any sparkling wine on ice and put out a variety of add-ins.
Bobby Flay's suggestions for a great bellini bar:
California sparkling wine
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Fruit Puree Add-Ins:
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5. Mac sales send mixed messages.
For at least the first half of the PC slump, MacBooks and iMacs seemed relatively impervious to the larger market's struggle. This resiliency might be fading: Apple's U.S. market share dropped year-over-year, although IDC and Gartner disagree by how much, and the company also shipped fewer units.
Should Apple be concerned? It's hard to say. Macs are obviously a small part of the Apple's iOS-dominated bottom line. Plus, OS X has gained global market share in the last year, albeit modestly. Apple's sales also aren't being propelled by enterprise refreshes like those of Lenovo, HP and Dell, which suggests Macs are performing relatively decently among consumers.
And though Apple's market share is modest, it devours a huge chunk of the industry's profit because it's the only manufacturer that sells high-margin computers in vast numbers. Apple also appears to have deliberately constrained its inventory, which might mean the company is trying to find the right supply-demand balance to sustain its place in the market, and which would somewhat explain the shipment reduction. Apple, which just refreshed its iMac line, is expected to launch a variety of new OS X products in coming months, including a redesigned Mac Pro and Haswell-based MacBook Pros later this year, and a MacBook Air with Retina display some time in 2014.
6. Tablets continue to cannibalize PC sales.
Both IDC and Gartner reiterated that tablets are cannibalizing PC sales. Tablets are approaching a sort of equilibrium with PCs in developed markets such as the United States but continue to eat heavily into desktop and laptop sales in emerging markets. An August IDC report said tablet growth is slowing modestly as markets mature, and as phablets and wearable tech begin vying for consumer dollars.
7. Asus and Acer are crumbling.
The new shipment figures were great for Lenovo, mostly positive for Dell and HP, and mixed for Apple -- but downright terrible for Asus and Acer. Both manufacturers shipped fewer PCs than they did in the third quarter of 2012, and both lost substantial market share. Neither ranked among the top five U.S. vendors, and Apple, despite slowing sales, might break into the global top five for the first time merely because Acer and Asus, who rank fourth and fifth internationally, are fading so fast. Both companies have shifted more of their attention to tablets.
8. Things are just as bad as they look for PCs.
PCs and PC operating systems aren't going extinct any time soon, but the PC market probably still hasn't hit rock bottom, and will never return to its glory days. The third-quarter numbers failed to improve from a meager baseline, even though sales should have been better in recent months due to the release of computers with Intel's Haswell processor, which improves battery life and graphics performance and makes thinner notebooks possible. Time will tell if sales improve over the holidays.


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THE BOTTLENOSE dolphin that had been spotted on various occasions swimming in the River Severn has been found dead.
The dolphin was spotted by members of Minsterworth Water Ski Club around 500m downstream from Elmore.
It is then believed that the dolphin followed fish up the River Severn passing by Severn Beach and Oldbury-on-Severn before last being spotted as far upstream as Stonebench, near Gloucester.
Around 300-400 bottlenose dolphins, which are a protected species, live in the sea around the UK and a group was known to be living around the South West coast.
It is thought that this individual separated from its pod as part of a process called fission fusion.
Last week it was hoped that the dolphin would find its way back downstream but the dolphin was spotted not far from where it was last seen.
Stephen Marsh, operations manager for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue said:
"Sadly, with no further reports of sightings from anyone in the area we were all under the impression that the dolphin had returned to open water as they normally do.
"We will try to secure the body and have let the CSIP (Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme) know and one of their pathologists will try and collect samples from it for further analysis.
"Bottlenose dolphins rarely get into trouble so this is not a common happening."
David Longbotham, Commodore at Minsterworth Water Ski Club, who spotted the dolphin said:
"We were looking out for any signs of the dolphin as we had seen the recent video and knew it was likely to still be in the area.
"Recent high tides would likely disorientate the dolphin, and as we had not heard of additional sightings, we suspected it may have grown tired and anxious in the muddy tidal water."
He added: "We were out wakeboarding on a sunny Sunday and whilst driving our boat I was looking towards the bank in the Elmore area and saw a large dark cylinder shape by the steep bank, sheltered in the shade under an overhanging tree.
"I knew immediately that it was a fish or seal, as one of its pectoral fins was protruding upright above the main body, like a shark's dorsal fin.
"On closer inspection, we could see that it was lying on its side, but floating its mouth open, with teeth visible in a long jawbone confirming absolutely that it was a bottlenose dolphin, about 7 or 8 feet in length, and about 2 foot across the belly.
"There were no marks from injury or disease, so it looked like it had died naturally.
"It was a sad sight, as we had all hoped the dolphin had returned to the channel, but it was also interesting to see it up close.
"We took some photographs, and left it where it lay."


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In the above example 'object2' is able to call the 'function1' method from its super class because it is part of the 'function1' method inside 'class2'.
What i would like to know is if it is possible for 'object2' to call 'function1' from 'class1' from inside the 'main' function without making it an explicit method first.
I have attempted to do achieve this using the line of code which is commented out. Hopefully you will know what I'm trying to say once you've looked at it.
Is what I'm trying to do possible or is this impossible for security issues I don't fully understand yet? (novice programmer here)
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One of the most surprising revelations to come from the FT's recent mini Business of Luxury summit in NYC was the realisation that architect Peter Marino is busy creating a shadow art world in fashion under all our noses, and almost no one has put it together. At one point, about a decade ago, he noted, the grand pooh-bahs of luxury decided it was time to take things "to the next level" with their stores. And that next level was… art.
Consider: he says he has a deal with brands such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton that allows him to commission three to five pieces of new art from pretty much any artists he wants. And though he does recycle it from store to store on occasion, mostly this is new. So given that stores get refits every five to seven years – well, you do the maths. He says he has probably been responsible for commissioning about 200 or more works of art from artists including Vik Muniz, Jean-Michel Othoniel (that's his glass swirl, above, in a Chanel boutique), Richard Prince, and others. That's practically a museum in itself. You think it's a coincidence that Louis Vuitton is opening its own art foundation in the Bois de Boulogne this year? Read more


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|Sanxiantai greets the New Year dawn
|Welcoming the dawn has always been the premier activity on New Year's Day. Located in eastern Taiwan, Sanxiantai is the best scenic spot in all of Taiwan to welcome the first rays of the sun on that morning and every year attracts people to make the pilgrimage there to look toward the east awaiting the day's first light. As the curtain slowly lifts in the sky, the first light of the new year slowly peeks above the horizon and we can imagine how each visitor is already anticipating a beautiful start to the new year! Sanxiantai is a small island some 80m off the east coast of Taiwan and has three huge rocks soaring straight up into the air. Legend has it that three of China's Eight Immortals, Lü Dongbin, He Xiangu, and Li Tieguai, once came to earth there, hence the name Sanxiantai, "terrace of the Three Immortals." The island preserves some treasured flora and is the most important "outdoor geological classroom" of eastern Taiwan. Standing on the red bridge connecting Sanxiantai to the headland, one can appreciate a beautiful land- and seascape that melt into each other. Sanxiantai, with its many traditional legends, is a must-see for both Taiwanese and foreigners who pay the east cost of Taiwan a visit. While "Sanxiantai greets the New Year dawn," the East Coast National Scenic Area also holds a series of exciting events. In addition to the lively singing and dancing of the local indigenous Ami people that adds to the celebratory atmosphere of the New Year, visitors can go onto small offshore islands for a panoramic view of the endless ocean or can follow the coast from Sanxiantai to Donghe and along the way enjoy the oceans of flowers growing on the fallow land, or see the beautiful scenery from the deck of a small bamboo raft.
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Before I continue onto long exposure, there was one more thing to add to the Focal Length and Angle of View thread from Part 03.
That is, to show a practical example of what sort of effect different focal lengths can have on the kind of things we, as freelance web-designers, might have to photograph.
So let's take, for example, the following product;
Before I continue onto long exposure, there was one more thing to add to the Focal Length and Angle of View thread from Part 03.
That is, to show a practical example of what sort of effect different focal lengths can have on the kind of things we, as freelance web-designers, might have to photograph.
So let's take, for example, the following product;
Yes, I know it looks like testicles on the label, but it's actually African Sea Coconut, taken for cough (I've had a bad cough for a week now). Drinking it is sort of like drinking Vicks VapoRub.
Anyways, so we learnt last time that long focal lengths keep perspective lines straight, and short focal lengths can warp perspective lines.
So, how can that be used?
First of all, let's set up our lighting.
I'll be using one of those inexpensive light tree things, plugged in on the opposite side of the room from the product (next to my bookshelf).
I'll also be using my same, cute, little Powershot from last week. I certainly don't want to use the pop-up flash, as both the bottle and the box are reflective objects which will pick-up glare from any light pointed directly at them.
See for yourself;
Clearly that won't work.
What we need here is a soft, overall illumination. One great way to do that, is to take advantage of the small room I'm in, and the white table I have the product sitting on. Notice it's on a white cloth, with a white cardboard behind, beside a white cupboard.
So what I can do is angle all of those lamps on my treelight upward or away from where my product is sitting; toward the ceiling, toward the walls of the room, letting the light bounce around and fill the room with a nice, soft, even-ish light.
I neglected to take a snapshot of my treelight with all the lamps pointed up, but I'm sure you can imagine it. Something like this;
And we take a look at the resulting photo you'll see it's a much better effect. There's still a little hot spot on the top of the box, but that's easy to fix by moving around the lights until it goes away.
So, finally we're ready to photograph.
First up, as we learnt in the second thread, we'll need a small aperture. This is a product photo, and we want to show off as much of the product as we can. We therefore need as much of the product in sharp focus as we can, therefore a wide depth of field, therefore a small opening in our lens.
We also need a low sensitivity, low ISO, because we want the product to look bright and clean, without grainy noise everywhere.
Dropping the ISO and reducing the aperture has severely killed the amount of light coming into the camera though. We'll therefore need a longer shutterspeed, in this case, it was 1 second.
1 second is too long a time to handhold a camera. No matter how sturdy you may believe your hands are, you are never perfectly still. There's a slight movement in your fingers from your nerves firing back and forth, not to mention your pulse, so handholding is out for such a long period of time as a second.
Tripod to the rescue!
The idea of a tripod is to grab and hold onto the camera for you. That way, removing your handshake from affecting the camera, causing motion blurs.
I used a tripod here because I have one, and it was convenient. I could just as easily have brought in a chair from the kitchen, sat down my camera on that, and used that instead. The idea is just to find something to hold the camera steady.
So, camera steady, light diffused through the room, wide depth of field, long focal length to keep our lines straight, let's see what we get.
A nice, straight forward product photograph, showing off the labels, and pefect for cropping onto a white background and uploading to our product catalogue.
This type of photograph would be perfect for that kind of application.
But now let's play with focal lengths to achieve something more dramatic.
We know from last time that short focal lengths give us "wide-angles", warped perspective lines. How can we apply that to the bottle?
There's a concept known as the "heroic angle".
Have you ever seen those Superman comics where he bursts through the wall of the bad guy's warehouse, standing right at the edge of the rubble, looking down at the henchmen, all mighty and important like?
What makes him look that way?
The answer is, the angle at which we see him. We see him from low, looking up, which makes him look more tall, more important, more big. It's like looking up at a mountain or a skyscraper. You're at its feet, and seeing the stone or bricks soaring up for miles and miles over your head.
That's the heroic angle.
So let's apply the heroic angle to our bottle.
We're going to come up close, drop our camera low, and to exaggerate the effect, we'll zoom out to a wide angle to force the vertical lines to converge, the way the edges of a skyscraper would seem to converge at the tower's top, while looking from the bottom.
Nice, eh?
How about even closer, even wider and even lower?
Notice the trade off though. Our bottle looks more exciting, yes, but we're not able to see part of the label at the bottom anymore.
That's not good for a catalogue photograph, but let's say we were using this for an advertisment or for a special webpage about the product.
ah, Yes. I can see it now...
Tell me you don't want to drink some of that powerful, big, important African Sea Coconut now!
Someone who's a much better graphic artist than me could run with it.
Anyways, thanks for reading!
I hope it was interesting and helpful. What you should take away from this is the importance of experimenting. Practice. Play with angles. Play with distances. Move all around your product until you find what suits it and the appication best.
nice work Shaun on both Articles (had to catch up) :tup: hope the cough is gone, that stuff looks like tar :shifty:
When will you be posting the motion blur? :shifty:
Shaun, I'm wondering too. Is there more to come? I sure hope so
Thanks for the great article Shaun. You make it so easy to understand and follow.
Is there more coming up?
Ah, it all starts to make sense. Thanks! I kept thinking I needed to point the light at the object - oops!
great photography. love to see more pic.
Just to give my thanks too - good stuff, Shaun. Now just to get a camera that has manual settings to try these things out myself. As luck would have it, the new point and shot camera which I recently bought and thought was pretty good, doesn't actually have a real "manual" mode (darn it!).
amazing lightening effect man
Great post Shaun The previous ones where good too, but I really like the practical point of view of this one. I'm learning a lot. Keep up the great work !
Do you have some of that African Coconut Cough drink for sale?
Thanks for the Angle o' View thread, still reading it.
Already looking forward for the long exposures.I'm totally into night photography for years (with long exposures of course).
Fantastic illustration of some important points, Shaun.And you have shown off some of your drawing skills, too!
I'll have to keep the light tree in mind - that would be useful for me even for non-photography stuff.
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11. RiseAgainst94 (Posts: 281; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
Did you all get the update? I haven't. Will I get it if I have a Windows 7.5 device?
12. Landmarkcm (Posts: 506; Member since: 11 Aug 2009)
I was abt to ask the same thing. Well im on 7.8 . There shouldn't be any reason why we shouldn't get it though. Hopefully they got the chat thing fixed.
18. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
You have to wait a very Looooooooong time
2. HASHTAG (unregistered)
Looks nice! Can't wait until I get my hands on the Samsung ATIV S Neo!
3. akki20892 (Posts: 3902; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
what...?.....no nokia. oh com'on
5. HASHTAG (unregistered)
I would go for a Nokia, but I have Sprint who apparently doesn't like Nokia or WP8.
21. ebubekir26 (Posts: 334; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
akki what's wrong? it's his choice,...
maybe he prefers Samsung,..
maybe he prefers higher specs, better updates ((since Samsung is the best in terms of updates maybe he always wants to be up to date.))
22. Alexander_K (Posts: 19; Member since: 18 Feb 2013)
We're talking about WP8 devices and you say Samsung is the best.... Hello? Where have you been? Samsung can't compete with Nokia on Windows Phone... they are too afraid to even try.
33. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
they are too arfraid to try.
Hmm, if Samsung would care for WP or see any true profit from it, they would be able to compete with nokia or even surpass it. If they would take for example SGS4, change the design a bit, make it ouf of kevlar or glass, like nexus 4, put S800 in it, AMOLED and start marketing and nokia will have some serious trouble. Microsoft also asks for too much money to licence WP, android is freaking free(open-source). The only reason why Nokia is leading WP is that no-one else gives a damn about WP.
36. Alexander_K (Posts: 19; Member since: 18 Feb 2013)
For one thing you're right Samsung can't make profit from WP. But it's not because it's a bad platform but because they tried with the ATIV S and they failed miserably. And also Nokia makes profit from WP. It's easy to say you don't give a damn about something when you've failed, it's a great excuse. If you make a device for a platform it means you care, so Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, ZTE, Acer, Dell - they all cared enough, they just failed to compete with Nokia. Deal with it.
25. lorenzattractor (Posts: 68; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
They are better with updates with Android, but not with Windows Phone. Nokia releases updates faster on WP than any other OEM.
4. abcdefgh (banned) (Posts: 471; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)
dont know why PA hates WP so much.first they say UI is same as in android app then they say UI is sucks.really?
7. HASHTAG (unregistered)
Which is why I usually go to WP Central for news about Windows.
16. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
Because that isn't bias at all!
26. Timmehor (Posts: 599; Member since: 09 Mar 2013)
19. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
True the ui really sucks. Yuck.
34. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2720; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I'm sorry, could you explain that again? I'm having trouble understanding how it comes off as "hating WP" to want the official Facebook app to have the Metro UI rather than the Android UI.
6. KINGJUAN27 (Posts: 210; Member since: 02 Jul 2012)
Hey PA! When you post using this app will it say "via Facebook for Windows Phone" still?
20. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
8. Gizzy (Posts: 1; Member since: 01 Jul 2013)
Long awaited, looks great.
9. toondewachter (Posts: 54; Member since: 24 Jan 2012)
It seems this update is unavailable for my wp7.8 again. Never WP no more!
13. Landmarkcm (Posts: 506; Member since: 11 Aug 2009)
Im on 7.8 to using an HTC Radar . You don't think were gonna get it . Why shouldn't we??
17. toondewachter (Posts: 54; Member since: 24 Jan 2012)
Cause that's how it's been ever since WP8 was announced. Despite their promises, WP7 users are being left in the dark. Almost every app that's announced or comes with an update says that the app/update is not available on my phone, not available in my area, that I might need to update my phone, etc.
Sorry mate, but Windows phone just lacks severely in app support. I kinda liked it, but it's these kind of things that drive me nuts. I'm done with the platform.
23. Damo579 (Posts: 242; Member since: 18 May 2013)
to all of the WP 7.5 and 7.8 users it will be coming soon.
29. Landmarkcm (Posts: 506; Member since: 11 Aug 2009)
Ya I guess the workaround for now if you want full functionality is just going to the mobile website on the browser.
31. Landmarkcm (Posts: 506; Member since: 11 Aug 2009)
Discovered it's missing some stuff too. Lol Like I said always something right.
30. Landmarkcm (Posts: 506; Member since: 11 Aug 2009)
Ya I guess it's always something right. I actually even was surprised there was no battery percentage status app untul I found a homebrew one that works on current unlocked phone im using. I still like WP better then Android etc overall right now due to ease, no app crashing, & better battery life.
32. toondewachter (Posts: 54; Member since: 24 Jan 2012)
True, that's why I'm probably going for iOS soon. All the apps, no hassle. At least that's what I'm hoping for...
10. papss (unregistered)
So I thought the Facebook app was done by M$? Whatever, I'm just glad there is good support on the platform


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Google and Acer Bring Chromebooks to $199by Jason Inofuentes on 11/12/2012 1:34 PM EST
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Articuno - Monday, November 12, 2012 - link$199 would be a great price if it had even 16 GB of NAND, and that way Google could help subsidize it with further Google Drive subscriptions past the one year mark. But with a mechanical drive, I wouldn't pay one dollar for this. Reply
pixelstuff - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkAgreed. Mechanical hard drive and the low battery life. I wish they would shift back to the 8+ hours minimum, even if it cost a little more. The last three Chromebooks haven't reached this kind of battery life. Reply
SM123456 - Saturday, November 17, 2012 - linkI don't think any of the Chromebook device hardwate are being subsidised - it would not make sense if they leave a developer switch in place.
The Go passes and free 100GB storage are subsidied for Google services - you will need a Google account to access them. Reply
xTRICKYxx - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkWhy did Acer include a 320GB HDD? My only guess is they have a huge leftover of cheap, slow 320GB HDD's and would rather use leftover supply than a tiny SSD.
But this contradicts Google's message to the cloud. Reply
SM123456 - Saturday, November 17, 2012 - linkI think they have a huge leftover pile of Windows netbooks and budget laptops, not just hard drives. Reply
Conficio - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkI'd guess that MS does not charge $100 for the OS. That begs the questions:
Does the MS version come with lots of bloat ware that makes it worthwhile for Acer?
Does google subsidize the hardware?
Or is it that the MS version is also offered in off lien stores and so has to keep price parity </speculation>?
My name is George and I'm curious. Reply
SleepyFE - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkWell you should look at some laptops (similar specs, compare with and without Windows) in online stores, and how much Windows cost.
Bottom line: they do charge 100$ for Windows. Reply
Taft12 - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkWell, Acer doesn't pay MS $100 for Windows. That should make it very clear Acer would rather you bought the laptop with Windows on it for $100 more!! Reply
Romberry - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkOEM's like Acer don't pay anything even close to 100 dollars for each copy of Windows they ship. It's way lower than that. Way lower. Reply
Spivonious - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkI've read that the bigger OEMs pay about $20-$30 for a Windows license.
It's $100 more because Acer knows the market for a Windows netbook is much bigger than that for a Chromebook.
And 100GB of GoogleDrive for two years? After that you're stuck paying Google just to keep your stuff. MS doesn't give you nearly as much with Skydrive (7GB for new users, 25GB for grandfathered users) but at least it's free forever. Reply
mcnabney - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkAnd Gmail comes with 5GB - so? Reply
misfratz - Thursday, November 15, 2012 - link"And 100GB of GoogleDrive for two years? After that you're stuck paying Google just to keep your stuff."
On a point of order, that isn't true, see http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=e...
"When you cancel your storage plan or when your storage plan expires, your storage limits will be set back to the free levels for each product at the end of your billing cycle. Everything in Google Drive, Picasa and Gmail will still be accessible, but you won't be able to create or add anything new over the free storage limit."
I'm wary about the chromebook because I don't want to get sucked into a subscription, but it's not as bad as you claim. Reply
Vincent - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkJust swap in the extra SSD you have lying around and you will have a great system. Reply
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkThis would make a great little Linux machine to mess around with, too. :) Reply
twotwotwo - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkMy first thought was, "Wow, Intel must be practically giving away the chips here to try to kill the first ARM laptop." My second thought was that my first thought was a ridiculous conspiracy theory and it's just your basic cheap netbook, combined with Google's free OS and love of low hardware margins.
Any idea which it is? Plausible that Intel cut a deal to make the Acer cheaper than the Samsung? Or this is basically what you'd expect a zero-margin netbook to cost given the specs? Reply
normcf - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkI suspect that if Intel really wanted to crush Arm chromebooks, they would have included using their own SSD in the deal. Reply
Taft12 - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkI don't get it. From Newegg:
320GB laptop drive: ~$50
32GB SSD (Crucial V4): ~$50. Hell, it's $55 for a 64GB SSD!
Now Acer does not pay the same you or I do for hard drives, but only if the SSD is much more likely to lead to returns does that make any sense, and it should be the opposite (rotational drives more likely to fail).
The need for local storage is squat with Chrome OS and the user experience will be much better. Reply
slackpenguin - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkThe reason Acer didn't include a SSD was they would have to disassemble the Aspire Ones. This way, they just hot glue the Chrome emblem on and put them in a new box. Reply
nubie - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkThey have a pile of them, it is cheaper for them to use old stock up. Reply
jeffyablon - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkThe Acer Chromebook is confirmed to have a 320 GB HDD, alleviating the "no storage" issue.
In my opinion, it's no competitor to the Samsung book; you save $50, you gain that storage, and you add a half-pound, size, and a speed hit: http://answerguy.com/2012/11/05/google-chromebook-... Reply
LogOver - Monday, November 12, 2012 - linkCeleron is noticiable faster than exynos.
+ you get the ability to stream video (including netflix)
+ getting rid of custom crashing with latest samsung chromebook. Reply
SM123456 - Saturday, November 17, 2012 - linkThe Acer has a mechanical HDD which is a lot slower than the SSD on the $250 ARM Chromebook, and this slows down a lot of operations - case in point the ARM device has a 10 sec book time compared to an 18 sec boot time for the Acer. This will considerably slow down a lot of operations as some reviews have noted.
The Acer is also clocked at 1.1 GHz instead of 1.3 GHz for the Samsung 550 Celeron Chromebook, and has 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB. This will mean the Acer is slower than the Samsung device benchmarked.
One other thing about the ARM Chromebook is that the GPU and hardware media acceleration is really good, and matches or exceeds the HD3000 Intel GPU in performance. With the ARM processor, multi-media and codec processing is handled by the hardware alone leaving the CPU unburdened. Therefore although the Exynos 5 ARM CPU might look about 2/3rds of the performance of the Intel Celeron Chromebook on paper, the Intel Celeron CPU will slow down if it has to use the CPU for codec processing at the same time as it does general processing, while the ARM CPU will not because it uses dedicated hardware. In any case, the CPU performance will only be critical for intensive flash or HTML5 processing - ie. Flash or HTML5 Javascript games. For normal rich web browsing the graphics and multi-media decoding is what governs speed, not the CPU.
Most reviewers who have run a comparison on both the ARM and Celeron Samsung Chromebooks have commented that it is difficult to tell the difference between the two except if you open 20 or more active tabs, in which case the ARM device slows down a little due to the 2GB of RAM rather than 4GB. In the case of the Acer Celeron Chromebook, this slowdown should be far more noticeable because paging from RAM to disk will be half the speed as the ARM Chromebook's SSD, and unlike Javascript execution speed where a 50% increase in speed will reduce execution time from 0.2 secs to 0.1secs saving 0.1 sec, this is something that will affect the overall speed a lot because the time saved paging to SSD rather than RAM will be seconds not milliseconds. Reply
iwod - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkThis is not Netbook Atom CPU, but a proper Dual Core SandyBridge 1.1Ghz CPU.
Intel actually has very decent Linux Graphics Drivers.
320GB Storage.
If you think of it as purely not as a Netbook, Chromebook, but a Notebook with Media And Internet function this seems like a good deal. For those who use it only with Office Work and Internet browsing.
I hope in future version they could allow 8GB RAM version, you could run everything in memory and still get most the snappiess without an SSD. Reply
blckgrffn - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkI really want to see a break down of this - including if it is possible to get an SSD in there.
Also, a short guide on putting something like Mint on there and how well that worked out of the box would be very interesting. Reply
Mr Perfect - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkCall this heresy if you want, but can these things be loaded up with Windows? It might be fun to put 7 and a whole bunch of classic games on it , kind of like a PC Gamer's GameBoy. At $200 it's cheap enough to be worth it. Reply
LogOver - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkThis chromebook is actually renamed Acer Aspire AO756 which you can buy from bestbuy for $250 (including Windows7 Home Premium 64-bit and faster CPU):
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Acer+-+Aspire+One+11.6... Reply
SM123456 - Saturday, November 17, 2012 - linkThe prices at the budget end of the Windows laptop market seems to have crashed very recently. These machines cost a lot more a couple of months ago. This would seem to indicate that the Acer Aspire AO756 and other budget Windows laptops and netbooks aren't selling, and are being sold cheap to clear surplus stock. The fact that Acer's $199 Chromebook is a re-purposed Windows laptop with a 320 GB HDD more appropriate to Windows and a lousy battery life rather than one with 16GB SSD supports this.
I would suggest that the $199 Acer Chromebook is an interim device which will be sold until Acer can get sufficient supplies of the Exynos Soc to do a proper competing design to the Samsung ARM based Chromebook. Reply
SM123456 - Saturday, November 17, 2012 - linkThere is a developer switch on it, so you can install Linux or Windows on it if you want. Reply
joanie - Friday, October 04, 2013 - linki just bought the 11 inch screen version i really like it bought at wallmart for 199.00 around 11 at nite, small enough for ttravel /model joanie bosserman 10-2013 Reply


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NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Performance Previewby Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/3/2009 9:01 AM EST
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Roy2001 - Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - linkWith single chip solution, it costs less than 945G. nVidia should chanrge less for Ion chip.
Or it would have no chance, Intel is going to integrate chipset in CPU, it already did, but for MID now. Reply
Roy2001 - Sunday, February 15, 2009 - linkOnly a few HTPC lover would buy it. Whoelse? Those who want to play games with Atom? No, you can barely play under 800x600 with lowest quality and barely 30fps. So, who will buy it? Reply
Aeridyne - Friday, February 13, 2009 - linkI just had a great idea for one, would work just fine on the regular 945 systems too... plug in 2 usb controllers for a really mobile little machine to play roms on, mini arcade... i think i just gave myself a reason to buy one :) Reply
araczynski - Monday, February 09, 2009 - linkwhat's the point of adding all that gpu decoding if it only works to be good 99% of the time? and still releasing it as a finished product?
like putting sexy tires on a car and saying, every few days they'll go flat on you, but that's ok.
oh, and try to keep your opinions of what looks ugly and what doesn't to yourself anand, your ego is getting up there with tom's and too many others. stick with the numbers and facts. Reply
Penti - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkI don't feel to excited about the Atom any more. 9400M is overrated, mainly because of Apple, a Conroe-L would be so much better too. Atom will never cut it for multimedia. Even the AMD Neo is a bit weak but at least it's powerful enough for Vista Business. Atom is a nice chip for embedded computing but I don't care for it any where else. Netbooks is fun but I don't care much for XP Home or linpus/xandros (I would just install a distro my self) and Netbooks with hard drives or a bit bigger SSDs aren't cheap. So they don't feel like the right device for me. Reply
nubie - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkIs the Celeron 430 really a 1MB level 2 cache?
I have two and they are most certainly 512mb cache.
(I can't tell if you are using the mobile Celeron 430 or not.)
Yet another reason the D201GLY2 motherboard should never have been killed.
I would rather see a 2Ghz Core2 Solo and the 9400m paired up on a mini-itx board.
Actually a Pentium Dual Core 2.2-2.4Ghz with 2 or 3 MB level 2 cache sounds perfect. And it may even be affordable if the 9300 Itx board comes out.
The real problem is the case, we need better slimmer cases with heatpipe cooling (no moving parts). Lian Li needs to get on it and make a Mini-itx case.
(I understand that this is smaller than mini-itx, but I don't care, mini-itx is a better standard for general purpose machines, the Ion project is for netbooks and appliances, not enthusiasts.) Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkThere are fanless cases, you just need to know where to look.
Gen ITX news: www.mini-ITX.com
www.mini-box.com Reply
nubie - Saturday, February 07, 2009 - linkI have been building ITX systems for 6 years, I am well aware of the cases available.
Re-read what I said:
The real problem is the case, we need better slimmer cases with heatpipe cooling (no moving parts). Lian Li needs to get on it and make a Mini-itx case.
As I said, the current crop of cases is too bulky and stupid looking with not enough cooling.
If you allowed the unit to be only as tall as the rear panel I/O and used a good heatpipe to one side of the motherboard PCB, with room for either an expansion card to the other side with a 90° header you could get a 9800GT and a 3.2Ghz dual core into a case a little bigger than a Eeepc 904, with a heck of a lot more power.
If you want to tell me there are sexy mini-itx cases save your breath, I haven't seen one half as compelling as this: http://sportcompactpc.com/web/default.aspx">http://sportcompactpc.com/web/default.aspx
That case can hold a full ATX board with a dual-slot pci-e card, a full hard drive (or two), and isn't all that much bigger than most ITX cases.
I have some requirements:
Slim (as mentioned, only 2-3cm more than the rear panel header opening)
No moving parts (no fans)
Heatpipe cooling (for the video card too.)
Room for an 9800GT (or the new 9600GT with the reduced power requirements).
If I had a couple thousand to spend I would assuredly design my own and start prototyping it on some of the services that make custom cases. (sorry, cant' find it now, but they offer a free CAD program so you can design your case)
My problems with current cases?
CD Drives block heatsinks and make the case too big, put them under the motherboard in an additional expansion, so you can remove it if you don't need it.
Cases are too deep, front to back I haven't seen one that is the same size as a standard VCR/DVD player (AKA they won't fit around my TV in the entertainment cabinet). Fix this by making the motherboard abut the front of the case with a small gap of 1-2cm and then make the front panel modular so that the RAM slots/Headers are still usable.
Lack of good cooling solutions. Not one case has a good heatsink that comes with it. What use is a small PC if you need a freaking 1U fan that screams at 13,000RPM? Or you are forced to use a (shudder) Atom CPU?
Lack of proper space for add-on card. The only case I know of with proper add-on card space is the Morex Cubid series, unfortunately they are obscenely deep and look like a DirecTV box. Reply
sikahr - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkYou see, Pineview is first Intel CPU with integrated GPU, available first quarter 2010, and after that there will be no "simple" atoms without graphics. Result, bye bye Ion.
Nvidia is out of chipset business very soon. Reply
Slappi - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkYou are a nutjob.
AMD is going bust as we speak.
INTC's chip combo will be weak.
NVDA has 1.3 billion dollars.
NVDA is making money.
You are a moron. Reply
sikahr - Thursday, February 05, 2009 - linkIt'2 not about money.
It'2 not about weak INTC's chip combo.
It's about platforms. AMD&Intel have whole platform to sell.
NVidia haven't.
Soon there will be no entry level processors from Intel&AMD without integrated GPU in CPU.
So, to resume it:
Nvidia is out of chipset business very soon.
You can call me nutjob or moron, but that is how things really are.
Look, I don't hate Nvidia, all my 3d video cards till now are Nvidia, but this is reality about future of chipsets.
chrnochime - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkYou've just made yourself a fanboy by calling someone a moron.
So what if they have 1.3b? Intel has tons more money and they can crush Nvidia anytime they want.
Hrel - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkWhat the hell is going on with that guy's face in the Casino Royal picture??!! It looks like his face is morphing with male genitalia??? Reply
yyrkoon - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - link"The GeForce 9400M is a far better chipset than Intel's 945G. It should be, it's a good four years newer. But I do wonder if we've taken things a little too far here. I wonder if Ion actually has too much GPU and not enough CPU? Don't get me wrong, I like Ion; I'd like to have it over a standard 945G platform. I'm just not sure what I'd do with it."
I'd use it on our RE system ( renewable energy; Solar/Wind ), and worry less about how much power I am drawing while watching SD video at night. Also perfect for many other applications such as low res gaming, IRC, Photo editing with CS2/CS3, web browsing, and the list goes on and . . .
Bottom line; Whether you're on grid, or off grid ( RE, or utility power ) you're going to use less power and worry less about either your battery bank going down too far, or paying too much for power for doing most mundane tasks.
Right now, I use a AM2 mini ATX board with nv 6150 graphics, an AM2 1210 underclocked to 1Ghz, and undervolted to .80v, and still use ~75W with a 19" WS LCD. It'll play some modest games well @ 1024x728, it'll run CS3 well enough. However, I suspect an ION system would handle all this just as good or better while cutting another 20-30W power consumption.
Now . . . here is to hoping that "we" will see some good ~100W 80Plus power supplies around the corner. That is, assuming OEMs give us a desktop/barebones options. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkAs mentioned, these power numbers don't seem exactly impressive. Assuming the quoted numbers are correct, plenty of laptops can match/beat those. Plus, they already include the power supplies. Assuming your monitor draws around 30W, you could easily use that with a laptop and get 40-45W total at idle, and maybe 60 W at load. Plus, it would probably not be nearly as painful as Atom to run Photoshop on. Reply
iwodo - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkAm i the only one who thinks there is something wrong with that Idle Power?
You mentioned 1 Atom Core being disabled, is that re enabled during other benchmark?
I cant wait to see how a 40nm Geforce 9400 will do.
Only If Atom is 64Bit Capable. I could see new Mac Mini coming.
Honestly I think Ion is capable of doing 95% of what i do day to day on my computer. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkThe Atom is 64-bit capable and is hyperthreading enabled. Going from a C2D to an Atom is a downgrade for the Mac Mini.
But that won't stop Apple from putting a positive spin on that... Reply
Casper42 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkYou guys crack me up.
"We didn't have an external Blu-ray drive so this was the best method of being able to watch a Blu-ray on the machine"
1) Grab a SATA to eSATA converter that comes with every Gigabyte Mobo you have reviewed in the last 3 years and use that to connect a SATA BluRay Drive (I dont think they even make PATA Blu-Ray) to one of the eSATA ports on the Ion
2) Hook up a power supply from a nearby ATX machine OR use a single drive power supply like the ones that come with the USB to SATA Adapter most good PC Techs keep in their bag (http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimag...">http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimag...
Problem solved! Reply
anandtech02148 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkwe're good to go for summer browsing. decent gpu is perfectly match for widescreen web browsing. sounds like a fun hobby to build one of these little toy.
UNCjigga - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkAny chance AMD will slip you a full-on Neo "Yukon" reference platform for comparison testing?
Also, will the Ion chipset support VIA's Nano? Reply
chizow - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkCertainly getting ahead of myself a bit, but I wouldn't be shocked if Nvidia starts moving in this direction with a low-cost, decent performing fixed hardware PC gaming platform. All you'd need is slightly faster CPU and GPU, throw in a cheap GPU for dedicated PhysX.
The ability to web-surf and play Blu-Ray back on a small platform is certainly interesting though. I agree they'll need to improve the aesthetics a bit on the housing, but for $200-300, the same price as a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, the Ion would certainly be a compelling option.
I think some of the road blocks would be the Blu-Ray drive itself, whether you could actually play Blu-Ray media. Relying on streaming or ripped copies would make the tech much less appealing. Also, how about outputs? Is the Ion able to output 8ch LPCM or lossless bitstreams like DTS-HD or TrueHD? Anyways, looks interesting for sure and certainly a nice alternative to Intel's gimpy Atom chipset/platform. Reply
JimmiG - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkTo be honest, I don't think a more powerful GPU would have changed the way I use my Aspire One netbook.
There's no need to be able to watch blu-ray movies, because lower resolution DivX etc. looks just as good on the 8.9" screen, and you can store a lot more of it locally (the system obviously lacks an optical drive).
As for games, I might have installed a couple of games just for fun to see how awful they run. But I would quickly grow bored with them. Why play games at the lowest settings at 800x600 on a tiny screen using a mini-keyboard and at best a flimsy laptop mouse, when I've got a 22" monitor hooked up to a quad-core machine with 4850 graphics in the other room? If I was serious about playing games on the move, I would have skipped my desktop system altogether and bought a gaming notebook.
It might be somewhat useful as a HTPC. The usefulness of the EeeBox in such a setting was severely limited by the poor graphics performance. On the other hand, you could just as easily get a small, stylish u-ATX case and build something around a cheap Athlon X2 or low-end Core2 Duo/Pentium Dual Core. With a PCI-E x16 slot, you could even install a decent videocard (4830) and not only use the system to play HD video, but also play the latest games on the living room TV. The system would only be slightly larger and hardly louder, but the cost would be about the same and you'd get a much more flexible system, Reply
cosmotic - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkHow about older games with potentially playable frame rates like Quake3, Warcraft3, and maybe even UT2004? Reply
cosmotic - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI think you are confusing CODECs with compression algorithms. The CODEC you are using in these tests is Cyberlink's h.264 CODEC which is a) tightly coupled to Cyberlink's super-crappy player, and b) (and im guessing here) only available in Cyberlink's super-crappy player. This isn't unexpected considering basically every other hardware accelerated decoder works the same way. However, I really wish that hardware decoder manufactueres would realize that it would be worlds more useful to users for their chips to ship with Generic DirectShow h.264 CODECs which could be used in ANY DirectShow based program.
Please Anand, tell me I'm wrong and that the Cyberlink Player is actually running off of a DirectShow CODEC which is available to any other application!!! (in which case, why are you using that crap software?) Reply
BikeDude - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI would like to know the same thing myself. (I am certainly no Cyberlink fan -- they have a buggy codebase mixed with terrible support)
Also: Is the PureVideo codec payware, or will this thing come with it bundled? (I assume PureVideo HD _is_ DirectShow) Reply
cosmotic - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkLast I checked, PureVideo is a player using it's own CODEC. I think it's up to the OEM to pay to include it with their cards and I dont think any of them do, or if they do, they include what amount to 'lite' versions of old versions. I'm guessing nVidia decided to forgo maintaining their own player and just let Cyberlink handle all that. Even their website says to buy PowerDVD instead of PureVideo if you're running vista. Reply
QChronoD - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkSo the Ion won't do decoding on the graphics chip if you are playing a random .mkv through VLC??? Reply
apanloco - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkThat's correct. It won't. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkI've played 720p content on a dual core atom platform with VLC, but it works only if you turn off the deblocking of h264, which kills most of what makes h264 look so nice. Forget about 1080p. Reply
xRyanCat - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkPureVideo is just marketing lingo for GPU accelerated video. All cards from 6600GT and up (I have a 6600GT, but it might apply to earlier cards) can offload a certain amount of CPU load to the GPU. With a 6600GT and an Athlon 64 3200+ (@2.5GHz) a 1080p video results in about 60%-80% constant CPU usage. Without GPU acceleration even 720p videos are unplayable. And VLC supports offsetting load to the GPU on Linux and Windows platforms. I know gXine also has the same support on Linux.
I can't see why it wouldn't work. Reply
cosmotic - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkPureVideo is more than a trademark... Its an application which interfaces with the nVidia driver to accelerate decoding. A program cannot simply offload to the GPU. Each card implements decode acceleration differently and applications must use some API that the driver exposes. Research would indicate that VLC is NOT hardware accelerated on Windows or MacOSX. Reply
djc208 - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linknVidia offered two different items under the Purevideo name. One is the Purevideo software which was their for sale MPEG2 decoder for DVDs and similar content. It is just a codec designed to allow other programs to play back MPEG content. It does support certain hardware acceleration features but does not do anything other than MPEG2.
The newer PureVideo HD is the name given the hardware decoding engine built into most 8xxx series and all newer graphics cards for handling H.264 decoding. It requires a software codec to implement it on the hardware, hence the use of Cyberlink in the tests. The GPU driver won't automatically shift H.264 decoding to the GPU.
My understanding was that nVidia supported little of the VC-1 decoding on-chip. It's ATI that offers support for both in hardware. Reply
xaris106 - Thursday, February 05, 2009 - linkTo be able to get hardware acceleration you need a DXVA enabled decoder.(assuming windows platform)
The Cyberlink decoder uses this and you can use the decoder with any player you want (that can be configured with external decoders)
I use the Cybelink decoder with Media player classic.
Another decoder that has DXVA support is the internal decoder of media player classic home cinema, so you dont need to buy powerdvd for the decoder.
see http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html
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npp - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkWell, I can see a very nice and proper application for that kind of platform, it's exactly the thing I would buy right now - a tiny "file server" where I can easily pile up my music, and various backups as well.
Zotac was very close to the point, with a mini-ITX board at CES, loaded with the GeForce 9300 chipset and all kinds of other goodies. However, it had a major problem, in my opinion - it just needed a "stand-alone" CPU, wich leads to the nasty problem with cooling. I have some sleek mini-ITX cases in mind, but they would never allow something bigger that a low-profile heatsink to fit in.
In the same time, the lowest TDP offering from Intel for s775 right now is a 35W Celeron 420, which may make things difficult on the cooling side.
So a mini-ITX board built around an Atom 330 could be a very decent solution. If you wonder why I haven't bought one of Intel's offering by now - well, I would like at least Aero enabled on my machine :) (ok, GMA950 can handle it to some extent, but it's not a smooth experience). Beyond that, none of the "essential" boards with embedded Atoms feature PCIe slot, which is something I would hope for on a Ion board.
sprockkets - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkJust go to the mini ITX case section at newegg.com. They have a bunch of cases that can handle those higher power processors.
I'm testing the Winsys case, works great, and not too tight. Has a 200w power supply, but could be a bit higher quality. The Foxconn case is nice, has a FSP power supply, but is a bit cramped with the optical drive, and ppl say it has a loud fan in it.
For that matter, a 2.5ghz dual core 45nm Pentium takes so little energy anyhow. My SG31G2 with that proc takes 75 watts at full load, with a 750GB WD Green drive.
And, the heatsink that comes with that processor is fairly low profile, and will fit fine in the Foxconn or Winsys case. It will kinda fit in those Apex cases if you deal with the power supply a bit. Reply
mrsmegz - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkWhat kind of Sleek ITX cases you have in mind. I find that the case selection is really the pitfall of the ITX market now. Would be nice if Lian-Li made some no BS case and Antec Came out w/ something nice bu affordable. Reply
npp - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkYou may want to take a look at caseking.de, I saw some really nice offerings from Silverstone there. There are a couple of models that come with built-in low power PSUs (must be some variation of the picoPSU), like that nice La Scala SST-LC19B-R or the real gem I would eagerly buy, the SST-ML02B-R Milo. The prices aren't exactly bargain, but given the high quality and niche status of such cases I find the ~170E level relatively acceptable. The only problem is the realy low height of those models which makes component selection a nightmare. Reply
Casper42 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkWhat would be nice is to see Case MFGs make some cases dedicated to Mini ITX file servers.
Take something that looks like a NAS box with 4 drive bays and just stick a Mini ITX mount in the very bottom. Compared to 4 x 3.5" SATA drives, the Mini ITX board would be quite small.
the caveat here is you would need a way to run 4 drives. But the Ion reference has 1 SATA and 2eSATA, and you could always add a JMicron type chip as well seeing as now nVidia says no limitations on bundles, so it shouldnt be that hard. Reply
Casper42 - Thursday, February 05, 2009 - linkHehe, ask and you shall receive!
QNAP has introduced an Atom Powered NAS device. Reply
mrsmegz - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkThis thing is screaming for a Boxee install on it. Since its open source, would be an awesome way to make a linux install w/ all drivers on disk ready to go for such a machine like this that could offer everything. Also looks like Nvidia will have a little competition from intel since the N280 is coming out later this year along with the GN40 chipset that will replace the craptastic 945G. Reply
sprockkets - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkAnand reported the GN40 will be mobile only and have no SATA on it. Not the same markets. Reply
SirKronan - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI have a car that has a decent-sized LCD screen built into the front of the dashboard (review camera, climate controls, etc.) From the moment I heard about Ion I got excited. I want to build one of those things into my car. I sure hope they are released with good pricing before the summer's over, because that's what my summer project will be. Kits online abound that add an external video input into my car's LCD. With one of those kits, I want to integrate the small Ion PC into my dashboard. I will also connect bluetooth and wireless N to it. I will integrate a USB port right into the dash as well. Using a solid state disk, I'll be able to consume a minimum amount of power, but it will be connected to everything. I'll have music on it, when we park in our driveway we can wirelessly sync content from our home media server, use a bluetooth mouse on the the dashboard, a bluetooth keyboard when we're at a random hotspot to surf the web. I'm so stoked for this. It will be noticeably faster than the 945 in all tasks, and playback video flawlessly. We won't have to pack around the laptop in the car to play videos for my son anymore. And, the project won't cost an arm and a leg ... hopefully.
Thanks, Anand. Good review. Reply
Casper42 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkAnd with the 3D Acceleration, you could use a mapping software that does true 3D rendering as opposed to 2D sprites. Reply
SirKronan - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkAbsolutely. I plan on installing a USB based GPS as well. Will be a lot bigger screen than our current Garmin. Reply
chucky2 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI was thinking along the same lines: This will be great for the Car PC crowd that wants video in their ride.
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Bull Dog - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI thought black was ok, not pretty but ok.
White on the other hand is purely hideous. Reply
shmina - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkThe GeForce 9400M in the MacBook is spec'd at 16SP, with a core running at 450MHz with a 1.1GHz shader clock.
The specs you stated are for the desktop GeForce 9400 that has a 30W TDP vs. the 15W for mobile. Reply
deputc26 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkWait 20W at idle???? My Laptop with T8100, 8600m GT and 1440x900 screen, 802.11n and bluetooth(the huge power hog) draws only 11w at idle. How is this low power?? Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI'm interested in the explaination here as well... Reply
SilentSin - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI noticed this too. Was powerplay not fully implemented in this thing? The Atom 330 is spec'd for 8W TDP vs. 2.5W for the 230 used in the Eee Box so the difference in power usage here seems to reflect that exact bump of about 5.5W in the CPU. So that means those power consumption figures point to the NV chipset using just as much power as the dinosaur 130nm 945G chip. What gives? I know there are a metric crapton of features added by using the NV chipset, but I would still expect an overall reduction. Remember that most reviews of the Atom platform seemed to blame the 945G for the "high" power usage figures. I would have hoped a more focused mobile-oriented chipset would have done better. Maybe the problem is in the demo box? It looks as if they are using dual phase power distribution where they could probably get away with single phase for something like this, maybe that is the culprit. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Friday, February 06, 2009 - linkYou might want to know that the version of 945 used on the Netbooks is 945GSE. It is a very low power part. It's TDP spec is only 5.5W.
Don't be thinking because its 0.13u its a high power part. Chipset TDP of the 65nm 4-series mobile chipsets are higher than 0.13u 945's.
And the 2.5W Atom used on the EEEPCs, the N270s are meant for "Netbooks". The Atom 230's which are meant for "Nettops" are 4W, and 330 is a dual core version of it.
It's 4W vs. 8W. Reply
sprockkets - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkRemember the whole CMOS vs. GTL bus stuff. AND, the US15 has NO SATA on it. Kinda useless for the desktop.
Of course the laptop variants will pull less power than the desktop variants, but the desktop parts should be cheaper.
Btw, with Zotac set to release an Intel 9300 Wifi mini-ITX board, why bother with Ion on the desktop? The current 7100 Zotac ITX board + 430 Celeron costs around $20 more than the dual core Intel Atom board, and the chipset on it runs at the same temps, 60c (that is, I replaced mine with a Zalman blue heatsink). It also gives you a pci-e x1 slot, DVI, better graphics, two slots for ram, and the fan on the Celeron is much quieter and unlike the fan on the Intel 945 chipsets, doesn't die (check out newegg.com for reviews of people 2 months down the road).
I've tested that board and it rocks. You do give up s video and gigabit eth, but the new 9300 board will fix all that with both DVI and HDMI, and will have a x16 pci-e slot. Reply
sprockkets - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkWait, I replaced the crappy useless heatsink fan combo on the Intel board. The Zotac board went as high as 90c while playing Portal, and didn't miss a beat. Reply
sprockkets - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkWait, maybe that whole no SATA thing was the GN40... Reply
Necrosaro420 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI dont get it, what is this? Reply
mobilecomputing - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - linkIts a graphics chipset that processes video so the main CPU doesnt have to as much cos the piddly little Atom processors cant take the heat. Not even the new ones http://news.idealo.co.uk/news/4844/intel-atom-n280...">http://news.idealo.co.uk/news/4844/inte...maller-c... Reply
Slash3 - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkObviously, it is a watermelon. Reply
JTBM - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI think for Ion it would great to see Bittorrent results. For example can it run Vuze (Azeorus)? Reply
mrsmegz - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkBitorrent clients would run extremely well on this machine even if it was clocked at 800mhz. Your bottleneck here is in your internet connection. Of course you could be planning to hide one of these tiny boxes under a floor tile in a server room at work. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkAzureus is a quite heavy application compared to other clients. Reply
stewis - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - linkI have setup a netbook at home (Acer aspire one 150 with 1.5gb of ram) as a bittorrent server that uses uTorrent with webui.
I believe the Acer uses a Atom 270 and this has more than enough power to run the client, apache, windows 7 and various other bits of software I don't want to leave running on my electricity eating monster of a desktop 24/7. Reply
Omega215D - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkThis reference system is what the Mac Mini should have been. Granted it may not look as elegant but the internals more than make up for it. Reply
mmntech - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkI don't know about that. Though the Mini has a weak GMA 950 IGP, the Core 2 "Merom" is inherently faster than the Atom, even at the same clock speeds. Using the 9400M in the MacMini though would be ideal though. The Ion platform is better suited for the Apple TV. In fact, I remember hearing a rumour that Apple was considering it. Reply
Kobaljov - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - link"NVIDIA sent a fully configured Ion reference box with 2GB of DDR3-1066 and a dual-core Intel Atom 330 running at 1.6GHz."
"Casino Royale was encoded in H.264 and the Ion platform decoded it flawlessly. CPU utilization was high averaging between 40 - 50% on a single-core Atom machine with Hyper Threading enabled"
So, the Ion's CPU is single or dual core? Reply
SiliconDoc - Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - linkOnly with the raging red rooster hatred of NVidia can a winning combination on a faster machine be dissed so pathetically.
The massive bias of anand comes out in the first sentence : " It would be silly to dislike ion".
Well, since anand so fervently dislikes nvidia, he had hoped to dislike ion, but it would be silly too.
That still doesn't prevent him from using every angle he can imagine to discount the faster platform as 'no good" "not needed" " unneccessary" and on and on and on. Even "not fun" to play games on.
Oh my, when nvidia stiffs him again, and derek, and they drool out some more absolutely ridiculous bias that they would NEVER say concerning nvidia's competitor, neither one will feel any personal reason why they got hammered -again- it will be a clueless blank drooling stare immediately followed by anger and more hatred, if that were actually possible, directed at nvidia... for "being unfair" and "arrogant". lol
It's really hilarious, and sickly, too. Reply
Kobaljov - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkAhh, I see the comment in the article about it, sorry... Reply
Crono - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - link"NVIDIA called me up to its hotel room..."
Dude, not on the first date! Reply
Judguh - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - linkYou beat me to the punch! Reply
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In the gaming tests You used a GeForce 9300 motherboard and paired it up with a Celeron 430 to show what a faster CPU could get you with the same graphics used on an Ion platform. You tested with both single and dual channel DDR2-800 memory configurations here, and overclocked the 9300 to the 9400's GPU speeds.
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Coconut oil is both a healthy and great-tasting addition to smothies, shakes, and other treats. I add a spoonful to my pomegranate, soy protein, and flax seed oil shakes. The coconut flavor cuts the sharpness of the pomegranate a bit and adds some creaminess to the mix. Totally recommended.


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This article was published 18/7/2013 (1495 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It was the end of an era.
Two weeks ago, Paul Vogt, the clerk of the executive council, quietly announced he was leaving the provincial government to return to academia. There was no fanfare or crush of media attention accompanying Vogt's departure. That is not because it was an unimportant event. Rather, it's a reflection of how little attention voters and journalists pay to the lives of the key people who make government run.
Most people have never heard of the clerk of the executive council, let alone understand what he or she does. As clerk, Vogt was a top adviser to former premier Gary Doer and current Premier Greg Selinger, helping develop and implement government policy. He was the main liaison with deputy ministers and a constant presence in daily meetings between the premier and senior political staff. In other words, he was the most senior, most important voice advising the premier directly.
Vogt was also the last member of an impressive team of advisers and strategists who engineered the NDP's 1999 election victory. The others included: union executive Bob Dewar, campaign manager in 1999 and 2003 who also served as Doer's first chief of staff after the election win; Eugene Kostyra, a former NDP finance minister who was a key campaign adviser and went on to serve as secretary to the Community Economic Development secretariat; David Woodbury, a key policy adviser who was Doer's eyes and ears on the Treasury Board; and communications director Donne Flanagan, a former journalist who died very prematurely of a heart attack in 2008.
But Selinger's current staff is not without experience. Many of his key advisers understudied with the 1999 election brain trust. Anna Rothney, secretary of the priorities and planning committee of cabinet, started with the NDP government in the early 2000s. Chief of staff Liam Martin, son of NDP MP Pat Martin, is a veteran organizer. Nammi Poorooshasb, Selinger's director of communication, gained a wealth of experience working for the NDP in Ontario before coming here. And there is Jim Eldridge, a former clerk of the executive council, who came out of retirement to serve as an adviser on intergovernmental and international affairs.
Even so, Vogt's departure marks a watershed in the evolution of an NDP government that will celebrate its 14th anniversary this October against a backdrop of profound political and fiscal uncertainty. Running behind the Opposition Progressive Conservatives in polls and still struggling to overcome a deficit, Selinger faces an April 2015 election that will be the most competitive since 1999.
Opinion in NDP circles is mixed about whether this new group -- a combination of new talent and accomplished understudies from the Doer years -- is ready for the next election.
Many insiders believe the preliminary test of the Selinger team was the most recent provincial budget, which was highlighted by a surprising decision to raise the provincial sales tax to fund infrastructure without holding a referendum as required under the balanced-budget law. This after Selinger and the NDP promised during the 2011 general election not to raise taxes to increase investment in infrastructure.
In this instance it is not so much what Selinger did, but how he did it. Or, perhaps more accurately, when he did it.
Some of that skepticism is Monday-morning quarterback stuff, the judgmental analysis of former Doer staff who would never acknowledge anyone can do it as well as they did. It deserves to be said that the PST hike did occur on Vogt's watch. Still, Vogt's departure definitely signals a generational shift in the staff that advise and support the premier. There are many ways to test a government, but right now attention is focused on a tax increase that may become the seminal issue in the next election.
If there is any saving grace for the NDP, it is that the budget is only the undercard in a larger, longer battle for control of Manitoba. A lot can, and likely will, happen during the next two years.
And as anyone in politics can tell you, an election result is the only true test of any political team.


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Controversial author Neil Gevisser talks to MICHAEL MARSH about being chased out of South Africa, mingling with Hollywood movie stars and his new life in the place he calls the Beverly Hills of England... Wiveliscombe.
FROM South Africa to Wiveliscombe via Hollywood, Neil Gevisser has witnessed first-hand the best and worst of the world.
Exiled out of apartheid South Africa aged 21, the poet discovered a rosier side to life working as a masseuse for some of the biggest names in show business.
Neil's exit was aided by his controversial anti-Government poetry book, Picking up the Pieces of Yourself, condemning the racially-segregated country's apartheid regime.
His poems rose to fame on the South African University campus and were banned by right-wing leaders. Six months later, Neil was given eight hours to leave South Africa to avoid facing jail - or worse - and it wasn't until 2005 that his passport was returned to him.
Some 40 years on, Neil has finally penned his first novel of his experiences living in Cape Town's notorious District Six as a teenager in the 1970s.
"The book is a microcosm of what goes on in the world," says Neil. "There have been many books written about South African during apartheid showing behaviour, but I thought behaviour is one thing, and psychology is the study of lying.
"If you watch a person's behaviour it's not always going to tell you what's going on, so I saw this as an opportunity to write a book on how people think, before they behave."
The Tyranny of Trust is based partly on a year living on the fringes of the district in 1972, seven years after it was cleared by the apartheid Government.
Neil mingled with fighters, political activists and hippies until the situation became too dangerous and he left.
Neil said: "I rented a house in District Six in the early 70s and there were very interesting characters.
"Out of these characters I decided that I would listen to their different stories and write something fictitious based on real conversations.
"There were people both left and right of the political spectrum in the same house and I saw the hypocrisy; the left and right could have been the same person.
"You think they would be opposites but they weren't. The book could have been called The Tyranny of Appearance because things are not as they seem and people are hypocrites."
One of the reasons it took 42 years to complete is because Neil admitted he had not been mature enough to digest one what gone on.
"It was written by a 19-year-old but edited by a 60-something year old," Neil explained.
"The book is not politically correct. All the myth-forming we have in terms of what a person is like this way or what a person is like that way, this book turns on its head.
"The stereotype is turned upside down."
Neil Gevisser, left, with Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.
After fleeing South Africa when his mother was privately tipped off that her son would go to prison for his anti-Government blast, Neil found himself in the US after brief respite in Israel.
And, as he was born into a family with a history of massage therapy, Neil found his calling in glitzy Hollywood, earning a living through manipulative massage.
Among his list of clients and friends are movie stars Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, as well as greats of the sporting world Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl.
"I was fortunate enough to work with some of the greatest sportsmen in the world, develop with them and grow through word of mouth," said Neil.
"Life was much different for me. The lifestyle abroad was an entirely different thing to District Six, especially dealing with alpha males and alpha females at the top of their professions."
These days, Neil, 62, and partner Emma, an artist, split their time between London and the place he calls the Beverly Hills of England - Wiveliscombe.
He followed in the footsteps of his mother, Zena Zulman, who once ran the largest modelling agency in South Africa and founded Oil of Olay.
"My mother was always anti-apartheid and when she retired she decided to come back to England, because she was English but married by South African father," said Neil.
"She heard of Wiveliscombe because of her secretary, who was Irish and also retired here. I wanted to be with her in her declining years so I moved here too, and I believe if you take all the factors, Wivey is the Beverly Hills of England and we love it."
The Tyranny of Trust is available at amazon.co.uk and on Kindle.


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No, really, I can't wait. I Hope I get Beta Access. I don't even care if that stuff doesn't get saved, I jst want to play... then on my PS3... OOOOOOO BOOOYYYYYY.
Anyone else feel this way or am I complete mark?
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A Spooky Image for Your Halloween
"Eerie" is a word that well describes this photograph entitled Duntroon Castle, Argyllshire, Scotland. The artist is Simon Marsden, a photographer who lives and works in England.
On this Halloween, I want to share with you one of the nearly 7,000 photographs in the collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts. In this case a pretty spooky image of a real castle in Western Scotland.
The oldest parts of the castle date from the thirteenth century, and it is reported to be the oldest continually inhabited castle in Scotland. As might be expected of a building of this age, the castle comes complete with its own ghost story. It is said to be haunted by the headless ghost of a seventeenth-century piper.
Throughout his career Simon Marsden has traveled extensively in Europe and the United States to photograph the ancient ruins and historic sites where such supernatural legends exist. He credits his fascination with the mystical and the paranormal to a childhood spent exploring the scary old houses in which he grew up, and listening to ghost stories from his family's extensive library.
In this black-and-white image of Duntroon Castle, Marsden depicts a menacing fortress on a hill against a foreboding gray sky. The otherworldly effect is achieved in part through the artist's use of infrared film to capture and record light that is not visible to the human eye. The resulting image is one that is both sinister and engrossing, made even more so by the ominously inviting open gate in the foreground.


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PRINCETON, N.J. – The Saint Leo women's tennis team, who sport a 5-3 overall mark, including a 2-3 record in the Sunshine State Conference, leaped from the unranked to No.17 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll, it was announced Wednesday.
Achieving their highest ranking in program history, the women also saw a pair of singles competitors land in the top-40 as Laura Kemkes and Emily Singleton now stand at 34th and 40th, respectively.
Meanwhile, the doubles duo of Kemkes and Singleton jumped four spots and now claim the title of eighth-best team in the country.
Complete men's rankings will be released within the coming days.
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Jerk Off: 9 Celebs Caught Performing "Lewd Acts" In Public
We loved Nick Stahl in the too-short HBO series Carnivale, and man, has that guy had a strange year. He was missing, then found, then missing again. And now, just Thursday evening, he was caught masturbating in a Hollywood adult video store. Cops arrested him and charged him with committing "lewd conduct," which is a misdemeanor charge, and released him a few hours later. Stahl claims it was all a "misunderstanding." As in, I misunderstood my dick for a writing utensil? Or, I misunderstood the difference between public and private? Ah, the world may never know.
But Nick is hardly the only celeb who's ever been caught jerking off in public. Oh no, it's verily an epidemic! Click through to see who else was found getting a bit too frisky in public.


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A MOPED rider was taken to hospital with back injuries following a collision on the A19 near Selby.
The 21-year-old man was travelling north on the A19 between Chapel Haddlesey and Burn, at about 7.50 last night.
A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said a Vauxhall Astra which was travelling in the opposite direction, tried to overtake a tractor when it was in collision with the moped.
The moped rider was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary for treatment to a back injury, and the police spokesman said a large number of motorists who were in traffic behind the tractor could provide vital information to the investigation.
A female driver of a large people carrier did stop at the scene, but did not leave her details, and officers have also appealed for her and the driver of the tractor to contact them as soon as possible.
Anyone who can help officers with their inquiries should contact North Yorkshire Police on 101, email firstname.lastname@example.com or phone Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.