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Seagate Reboots Network Storage Offerings with Rangeley NAS Pro and ARMADA NAS Lineupsby Ganesh T S on 7/15/2014 10:00 AM EST
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ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkDo you have any information on the underlying filesystem?
As nice as having prebuilt NASes are, IMO they just don't offer enough to sway me away from a custom ZFS-based box (NAS4Free on an Avoton/Rangeley SoC comes the closest in my experience). Reply
SirMaster - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkYeah, this is like the main thing I would be concerned about in a NAS. Whats the RAID system they are using? Reply
takeshi7 - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkI'm pretty sure you can set up any RAID system you want. Or at least some combination of 0/1/5/ and/or 6. Reply
ganeshts - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkEXT4 file system.
You can roll your own definitely [ I have an upcoming article too :) ], but this target market - SMB / SOHO - needs something working right out of the box, need someone to turn to / call a support line if something strange starts happening with the system. Reply
anandtech_user01 - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - link> You can roll your own definitely [ I have an upcoming article too :) ]
Glad to hear it. May I make a suggestion for that? I hope it is not too much of an imposition. This is something which was already emailed to Anand about a couple of weeks ago.
You can install any of these 3 to test with: NAS4Free, FreeNAS or OpenMediaVault. But please please please can we have a direct (NAS-oriented) performance comparison between these following 2 CPUs ?
* The TDP of i3 is often lower then intel adverdise, so being 'similar enough TDP to the Avoton.
* The price of CPU + motherboard is nearly the same.
* One is 4 thread, the other 8 core, they are a good match in performance.
* The i3 has 'for free' HD 4600 iGPU with quicksync. Which can be useful (in future) for Plex media transcoding.
* Both of these CPU support ECC for ZFS, if partnered with a suitable Supermicro or AsRock 'server' motherboard. Including the IPMI etc.
Many thanks. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkThe Avoton/Rageley platform has a few benefits over the normal i3 platform though: integrated 4x1Gbit (or 4x2.5Gbit, never seen that deployed) MACs, motherboards designed with a bunch of SATA ports on board and a truly fanless design. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkNot safe enough for me: I have seen a brand new drive chomp the filetable and break stuff.
If an SMB/SOHO NAS would ship with ZFS RAIDZ1/2, it would completely change the market for me, from "little unreliable toys" as I call 'em to being something I can have faith in. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkAlso, no matter how good the support is, that's no help when your usual RAID5/6 fails horribly during rebuild due to uncaught UREs, or if say cryptolocker/cryptowall comes in and encrypts all your data. ZFS fights UREs by regularly verifying the drives, and cryptolocker/cryptowall can be mitigated very well using a good snapshotting routine. Reply
bernstein - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkyeah i can relate... anything below zfs (or any other filesystem doing block checksumming (& recovery in raid)) is just not state of the art.
sadly only few people know that ~$1200 buys you a completely silent 16 bay diskless zfs ecc-enabled server... sure it's a steep buy-in, but then you get enterprise only components (supermicro/lsi) Reply
JimmaDaRustla - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkHoly shit, 2 bay NAS for 169 with a 1.2ghz, that should blow the Synology 214se out of the water? Reply
JimmaDaRustla - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkOn newegg.ca, I can pick up the Synology DS214se (169.99) and two Seagate 4TB NAS 3.5" drives (174.99 each) for 519.97, so not huge savings when you add drives, but it should be a faster machine. As the graph shows, the real competition to Synology is the DS213j. Reply
austinsguitar - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkI dont know what it is but ive always been a sucker for seagate. I've always prefered them over any other hard drive company. i think ill get this for my business. :) Reply
bernstein - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkwell i have to hand it to wd, for their WD MyBook Live Duo is awsome at it's price... for only $100 more i got a complete 2-bay nas that works really well. it has *official* full root ssh access to the debian it's running.
BUT compared to a fileserver with an sandy bridge i3, agonizingly SLOW. (even for very low i/o stuff) plus by now it has probably more security holes than swiss cheese (unpatched debian lenny from ~2011)... plus while using linux md raid & ext4, the filesystem requires a custom kernel to be mounted... so recovery is still a pain in the a**
my point:
hardware seems fine, but i fear seagate provides the same crappy software Reply
Mike1111 - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - link"We should get BETTER PERFORMANCE and lower power consumption with the NAS Pro as compared to the competition".
Better performance? What about the QNAP TS-x51 NAS Series? How does Seagate's 1.7Ghz Rangeley Atom C2338 compare to QNAP's 2.41GHz Bay Trail-D Celeron J1800? Reply
ganeshts - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkTS-x51 and the Seagate NAS / NAS Pro target completely different markets.
TS-x51 is for home and power users. Targets media enthusiasts.
Avoton / Rangeley is for SMB / performance oriented servers and data storage systems.
Just check number of in-built PCIe lanes / SATA ports in the Avoton and Rangeley parts. Clock for clock, yes, the J1800 is better, but the speed at which the peripherals connect to the main SoC / configuration of connections probably makes the Avoton / Rangeley SoCs better.
I will try to get in a 4-bay NAS Pro for evaluation and then you will have benchmarks for the TS-451 and the Seagate NAS. Reply
slowfox - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkThe performance of prosumer / SMB NAS boxes tends to collapse when using encrypted folders / volumes. It would be quite interesting to know whether Seagate uses the AES-NI capabilities of the cpu and how much of a difference this will make. Reply
Filiprino - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkRAID5 write hole... if there's no ZFS then there's no match. Reply
Wolfpup - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkI have to admit I'm still kind of baffled by NAS stuff. Have wanted something like this since Windows Home Server, but...still confused. I just want something to copy files to for a backup, that 's RAIDed in some meaningful way, and hopefully is accessible even if the device itself dies (I'd prefer these were running Windows and NTFS...)
Regarding "apps" and whatnot, zero interest. I'm a home user for this stuff but I just want secure storage on my network and that's it... Reply
harshw - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkSo what happens now with LaCie ? I have a 5Big NAS Pro and I am seriously underwhelmed. LaCie just doesn't have the same kind of community that Synology or QNAP has. The not-so-quiet 5Big actually overheated in a room when the temp went to 86F and marked a disk as 'bad'. Rebuilding the array failed three times until I deselected the spin down options for the HDDs.
If the Seagate NAS builds on top of NAS OS3 and makes it better, along with a more vibrant community - then great, because I'd then buy the 6 bay unit.
But it could also mean that LaCie NAS boxes don't get any updates and slowly fade away ... Reply


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I finally made a knit – without a zig zag stich – on a treadle! Yes, it's possible! Even I can't believe I made such a nice soft drapey shirt – a nice break from my usual stiff woven fabrics.
I wrote more in my sewing journal here: http://cathywu.com/journal/treadling/2013/07/25/sewaholic-renfrew/
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Your sewing skills are awesome!!! Considering you are sewing with a treadle! Enjoy your new soft drapey happiness :)
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I found that in the past I was having a harder time with training in winter compared to the period between late spring and late autumn. especially regarding muscles, unspecific pain would pop up too easily, clearly something to do with slower recovery.
(though the comparison between seasons isn't entirely fair as in winter I typically do more easy runs, no hard fast training...still that should make the winter easier shouldn't it? not the opposite, right?)
then I found an article on vitamin D's role in muscle function. I knew I was significantly deficient in vit D based on a previous blood test (had only 23 nmol/L where recommended is 80 and anything below 50 is deficient!) but I didn't do much about it because I didn't think anything of it. well well..
I put two and two together and I started taking 2000 units then later 8000 units of vit D daily. started in december. well, this winter has been beautiful! I didn't feel any different compared to other non-winter seasons. my paces are improving (that's due to training consistently too, hehe!). muscles feel good too.
(I have to add for a complete picture that my training has also been slightly different, a bit Hadd-ish in principle, modified though.. anyway the point here is that I was/am using the ILTHR sessions on top of the sloooooow easy runs. but it wouldn't make sense to say that this training should feel easier than slow-pace-only winter training in the past, right?)
I will hold off a final conclusion until I get a blood test to see if my vitamin levels have really gone up. and to have a more proper experiment here.
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Great thread, C. Great reminder. Thanks.
I've been slacking off on my Vitamin D3. And it's been a gray winter here.
Luckily, it's getting a bit warmer here, and the sun should be getting high enough
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Does vitamin D come in pill form in bottles in the pharmacy section of my favorite superstore? Is it effective to take it that way? Will I begin to feel the effects right away or does it take a few days to build up in my system? This long, grey winter is leaving me feeling a little beat down.
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Good point. Thanks!
Where I am in 'sunny' Glasgow our sun stops producing vitD from Oct to April ..it's only now that my times are starting to improve especially at low hr levels ..me and a friend are comparing mile times at 90bpm ..My HRV scores are also improving


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The grandson of the novelist JRR Tolkien disclosed on Sunday how the Lord of the Rings films tore his family apart and provoked a feud with his father.
Simon Tolkien, 53, admitted for the first time how the immense popularity of Sir Peter Jackson's Hollywood adaptations damaged his family in what was akin to being "hit by a juggernaut".
The former barrister, now himself a successful novelist, said he began to lose "sight" of his identity and became "suffocated" by being known as "JRR Tolkien's grandson".
The problems also provoked an "incredibly, dreadfully painful" feud with his father, Christopher, with the falling out becoming so bad, the pair didn't speak for "a while".
His son also got bullied at school. He wrote in a Sunday newspaper: "Maybe some people assumed it was about money ... I don't know.
"In hindsight, I think all of my anger was being driven by this feeling that I was trapped. All I was ever going to be was the grandson of a very famous writer. That was the sum total of my achievements."
He said he managed to turn his life around thanks in part to his 50-year-old American-born wife, Tracy, with whom he now lives in California.
While his grandfather died in 1973, aged 81, his 87-year-old father is still alive and the pair have since "sorted out all our differences".
He dedicated his latest book to his father, adding: "I guess I just feel lucky that I got the chance to put things right with my dad.
"But I'm grateful that he took the time to read my books and tell me that he liked them. That made me feel very fulfilled."
He said that now "the arrival of a Tolkien blockbuster no longer fills me with the trepidation it once did. I won't be getting another sideswipe from the juggernaut".
His wife, whom he met at Oxford University 30 years ago, said it was traumatic watching her husband "shrinking away".
She said: "Sure, he knows he's never going to be as famous as his grandfather, or sell as many books, but at least he feels he's achieved something on his own terms. It's just so good to see Simon in a much better place."
The Daily Telegraph, London


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Martin Crane
The families of Martin Crane and Seaborn Coker migrated from Alabama to Conway Co. Arkansas in 1852 shortley after the marriage of their two children James and Sarah.
Shortley after they arrived his son in law James Duncan Coker passed away and a bitter custody battle for the grandchildren James Duncan Jr and Mary insued between the Cranes and Cokers. The Cranes lost the battle.


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HOUSTON - Houston's mayor, city controller and 16 city council members were sworn in to office on Tuesday.
Seven new council members took the oath for the first time. Five council members were unseated by term limits and two incumbents, Jolanda Jones and Brenda Stardig, were voted out.
Two new council seats were created this year because Houston's population has grown past the 2 million mark.
The celebration took place at the Hobby Center in downtown.
An estimated 5,000 people were invited to attend the event, which included performances from Grammy winner Yolanda Adams and choirs from around the city.
"I do love this city," Mayor Annise Parker said. "I thank Houstonians for honoring me once again with your trust and your hopes for your future. This council represents the amazing diversity of our city with the two new seats to reflect our increasing population."
Parker said her goal is to keep Houstonians working.
"My No. 1 job for the next two years is to continue to bring jobs to Houston," Parker said. "We will expand the programs we already started to stimulate small business with access to loans and training. We will hire Houston first."
After the inauguration, Parker, City Controller Ronald Green and the city council headed to City Hall for the first official council meeting of 2012.
"We're going to have a lot of work to do this next two years," Parker said. "Running a city is a little like riding a bicycle. You have to keep moving forward or you fall down."
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Must be category #3 based on the poll results!
To all,
I am having a ball with BT2. And, the benefit to me is that on my own system I have converted to WPA and No SSID. And, I am slowing learning Linux and BT2...another plus.
But, wondering with all the forums, software, and the nice BT2 CD (and other CDs out there), what is the main usage by all the folks out there? What percentage of the users are:
...Security Professionals
...War Drivers
...Travellers tieing into Airport or other WEP hotspots
And, yes, I know the last one is illegal....but, .... I wonder what the % is who actually do that. Seems like in an urban area....this would be tempting.
And, what is the Wardriving all about? What is the goal or pleasure? Is it kind of like gps treasure hunting?
Just wondering. I have high speed DSL but realize from the forums and web sites that there seems to be a pretty hefty industry built around this software.
Even on ebay, the sellers seem to know what the hot BT2 cards are with higher prices.
Any thoughts or inputs?
Must be category #3 based on the poll results!
lol category 3 again
im voluntary homeless, living in an campingtruck(11T), and i need web when im travelling, so yes category 3 too
Watch your back, your packetz will belong to me soon... xD
BackTrack : Giving Machine Guns to Monkeys since 2006
There seems to be some confusion about what live cds are really good for.
I'm a long term linux user. I use live cds, including BT, for many things, on and off the job. There is so much more to a live linux system than just the ability to steal someone's bandwith. I've recently used a live cd to do all of the following:
System recovery
copying and partitioning hard drives
checking system compatibility before ...
installing linux and that other OS
trouble shooting and testing hardware
cleaning up spyware and viri on that other OS and occasionally changing some lusers password that they managed to forget.
data recovery
trying and learning new applications or new versions of old applications
Portable system, in your pocket
and, of course, hacking and stealing my next door neighbor's internet connection. That's a joke, BTW. All my neighbors run wpa. I should know, I set most of them up.
I modified a live cd several years ago to recover files off an old Xenix system. That job bought a few sushi dinners. :-)
From reading some of these posts, I'd say the #1 use BT sees around here is education. I've made lots of converts with live cds. Everybody has to start somewhere. When I started using linux, by the time you got it installed and running, you'd actually learned something. People starting out now don't realize how good they've got it. I get a real kick when I see someone complaining that some point and click app doesn't work or menu entries are wrong. The "I'm being hacked" posts are a riot.
Knowing something can be done is half the battle.
Have Fun


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Nicholas Coleridge
Orion, $45
There's a blogging astrologist who goes under the name of Madame Arcati (remember the sporty spiritualist in Blithe Spirit?) and who invariably refers to Nicholas Coleridge as the world's worst novelist. This statement has almost the precise extravagance and over-determined specificity as saying Mario Vargas Llosa, say, was the best novelist in the world. But the managing director of Conde Nast, who delights in writing novels, offers pleasures that the limits of art cannot touch, nor wish to. Evil empire builders of business, earnest supermarket acquirers, a more or less incredible assemblage of characters obeying no laws of probability known to fiction, and therefore, if you have a taste for it, an occasion for unusual delights that make most television soaps look like Dickens.
Speaking of the Victorians, this one is a kind of rewrite of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Cath Fox, the main character, is no one's moral heroine. She starts out working as the matron of a girls' school in the '80s and rapidly disgraces herself by racing off with the father of one of her charges, who becomes the Amelia Sedley of the saga. Cath is a salty Portsmouth lass and she goes from there to working in a dodgy London massage parlour that's actually a knocking shop. This leads to an improbable liaison with a nice old lord who likes to be spanked.
When he dies, she gets a media job - always dangerous in a Nicholas Coleridge novel because he's stimulated by the idea of business and magazines - and after racketing up the career pole, despite being semi-literate, she finds herself, wilfully and cold-heartedly, in the arms of a Manchester United football player whom she marries for money.
This is temporarily bad news for the narrative but there are plenty of other developments. Cath had a daughter when she was a slip of a thing to a thug named Callum, whose tattoo she still bears, and her counterpoint, Annabel (the Amelia figure), marries a cad in the army - again following something like the Vanity Fair plot - and lo and behold, she also has her loyal Dobbin.
Anyway, our bad girl chucks the football yob for an American media tycoon and then - who could believe such powers of invention? - for a minor royal (all Charles-like clipped vowels), who also has an appetite for the go-getter's firm hand.
One of the later delights of The Adventuress is that Cath's daughter, a goody two-shoes who wants to be an investigative journalist, is sent to find the dirt about her anti-heroine (unbeknown to her) mum by the American billionaire when he learns that she's going to ditch him.
If all this sounds like pretty basic stuff, it is. But it can soothe the mind with fantasies that are as familiar for all their soap-bubble shapeliness as the celebrity gossip they share a pew with. This is fiction that has some kind of affinity for Tatler and Hello! magazines.
It's idle and energised and it has the slightly weird quality of being written in a style as modest as the rough-and-tumble of the plot formation. It is, of course, a pure soap-bath fantasy and the mind slides through all its easy stereotypes to hit on this comforting cast of familiar characters.
The Vanity Fair grid all gives a bit more bite to the development and the pleasure is absolutely simple and primitive as the mind romps with the most fundamental archetypes of popular culture (and indeed of its own formation at its most simple).
It's typical of the shamelessness of this book that our superslut/superbitch ends up as a lofty titled lady at Kate and Will's wedding.
This is grovel fiction with a glam facade. If you can stand it at all, you'll love it.


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Tested: Battery Life on the new iPadby Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/19/2012 6:06 PM EST
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sciwizam - Monday, March 19, 2012 - linkDidn't you guys review the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with LTE? Can you include those battery numbers? Reply
deputc26 - Monday, March 19, 2012 - link+1 Reply
tat tvam asi - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkWhat are the folks at Qualcomm feeding Anandtech? Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkIn Win8 review, with all 8 systems "that users aiming for Win 8 are likely to buy" there wasn't a single with AMD CPU.
When kindly asked "WTF dudes?" answer was "well, if you donate for it, I might be so kind to review it, if you behave".
So... Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkYou sound like a mad troll there.
The guy doing the tests didn't have an AMD system at hand, and clearly said so in response to the comments. What could possibly be wrong about this? And what kind of miracles do you expect from this preview version? Rest assured that if there were any, AMD would already have told us about it. Case closed. Reply
mcnabney - Thursday, March 22, 2012 - linkThe point was more on the line of "what kind of person does a broad hardware review and doesn't have a single AMD system?". Reply
scottaw - Monday, March 26, 2012 - linkFor tablets? Everyone. It's not Anandtech's fault that AMD is nowhere to be found (although in truth, you could say the same for any android tablet). Reply
phoenix_0001 - Monday, March 26, 2012 - linkis it retina display? Reply
mavere - Monday, March 19, 2012 - linkMy god, 25.3 hours as a hotspot. Except for the whole data caps thing, that's mind-blowingly amazing. Reply
Fleeb - Monday, March 19, 2012 - linkYes, amazing that you buy an iPad powered with a 42.5Wh battery, and you just turn it into a hotspot. Reply
doobydoo - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkDo you have to 'only' do something to benefit from it? It has the best normal battery life anyway, excluding the iPad 2. Just another benefit. Reply
seapeople - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkWait... so you mean there was an easier way to do it rather than for me to buy a 4G Ipad for 500 and WiFi Ipad for 800? I generally keep the 4G Ipad turned off and use it as a hotspot so I can get better battery life on my WiFi Ipad.
If only I could have it all with just one Ipad. Reply
mcnabney - Thursday, March 22, 2012 - linkVerizon doesn't have a cap and they don't throttle. If you use more you move to a higher bucket of GB. They will even back date you so you don't pay a per GB overage. Might as well get used to it. Wireless network capacity is a scarce commodity. You don't complain that electricty, water, or natural gas are generally metered (even though there are still plenty of people that have unlimited for those too). Reply
gorash - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkAmount it takes to charge? Reply
dagamer34 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkYeah, I'd love to see the amount of time it takes to charge using the AC adapter, Mac USB port, and PC USB port from 0-100%. I suspect that standard spec 500mA are so pitifully slow at charging that they aren't useful anymore. I never bothered using the AC adapter with my previous iPads but I might have to this time. Reply
UpSpin - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - link0.5A * 5V = 2.5W -> 2.5W * 80% efficiency = 2W -> 42.5Whr/2W = 21 hours --> charging via normal USB takes one day. Charging via 1A charger probably half a day.
But I'm also curious to see real life numbers. Reply
cserwin - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkiPads of any generation won't charge at .5A. The included adapter is 2A. I charged from 8% this weekend, it was about 6 hours.
Charge time is the only drawback I have experienced from upgrading from the first gen. Reply
Fanfoot - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkAgreed. Sounds like this is one of the big negatives of the new display and the corresponding 70% increase in battery size. Also, is there any way to speed up the battery charging process? Like using an Innergie 3A/15W wall charger instead of the supplied Apple 2A/10W charger? Or does that not do anything? Reply
seascape - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkI had to become a member to correct that chart. It simply is incorrect.
I own an ipad 3 32g 4g Lte Verizon model and I properly calibrated my battery and I am getting 11 hours battery life with wifi enabled. Please correct your data and run a proper test next time. Reply
stevessvt - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkWith he screen turned off the entire time? Reply
Mordecai Walfish - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkYou do not reserve the right to correct a controlled test like this with your subjective experience with whatever settings you have enabled/disabled on your personal iPad.
I know you're probably smug as hell now that you have that shiny new iThing in your sweaty little mitts, but try not to be a self-righteous jerk because you think 'everyone else is doing it wrong.' Obviously. Reply
B3an - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkHe cant help it, all members of the iCult become iSmug and that then makes them iJerks. I call it the Jobs Effect. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkAnother award winning B3an post Reply
rpmurray - Monday, March 26, 2012 - linkI agree, he is as dumb as a post. Reply
doobydoo - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkI doubt you recreated the web browsing test that Anandtech uses. It's a particularly 'harsh' battery life test which probably explains why you saw better battery life. Reply
euler007 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - link"The chart above is our revamped web browser battery life test "
Can you imagine what a chart of random anecdotal user's experience would look like.
Maybe you should educate yourself a bit more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_%28computin... Reply
tayb - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkI don't understand these results. Mobile phone battery tests show tremendous drop offs when switching from wifi to LTE yet here have less than one hour. How is that possible? I expected the wifi number to greatly exceed 10 hours. With that humongous battery the wifi number is extremely disappointing. Reply
Mordecai Walfish - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkYou must take into account the relation this has with the enhanced battery in general. The retina display uses a lot more juice, as well as the new internal hardware components. Only an hour off this battery time would likely equate to quite a bit more for the smaller, old ipad's batteries. (and even more for smaller mobile batteries) Reply
dvinnen - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkIt's about percentages. Using LTE on a cell phone might be (just making up numbers) 20% of the power draw while on The New Ipad (stupid name) it might be only 5% of the power draw. Reply
UpSpin - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkthe ipad 2 display consumes 2.7W, the iPad 3 display consumes 7W, the iPhone 4 display consumes 0.42W, actording to displaymate.com
So if the LTE modem consumes an additional 0.5W (that's insane, but makes calculation easier), it maybe halfs battery life on the iPhone, but has only minor influence on the iPad 2 and almost no influence on the iPad 3. Reply
eisa01 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkWhat brightness setting did you use? Reply
cserwin - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - link+1 Reply
eisa01 - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkApparently it's 200 nits as stated in the Transformer Prime review, would still be nice to know where that is on the brightness scale for a frame of reference Reply
asrey1975 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkUsed ot own a PC tablet - Fujitsu lifebook and go over it pretty quick about 5 years ago.
The drawcard for me was being able to write notes on it in meetings. What I later realised was that typing was quicker than writing (and you dont have to go back and convert/correct all your hand written notes). So basically a normal laptop would have done me just fine.
When I used it as a pure tablet, all I did was surf the net and check email. Maybe now I'd add watch videos online etc. I had it for about 12mths and sold it.
Not sure why its taken so long for tablets to get off the ground. The formfactor was available back in 2000 or so on Windows 2000 embeded etc, my housemate had one, cost about the same as iPad under $1000.
Will I buy an iPad X - NO. Transformer Prime looks alot better deal, Keyboard +tablet, better everything, graphics chip, battery, flexibility, Android etc.
Will other people buy it iPad 3. Sure. Apple iPad sheeple are everywhere!
All those extra iPad 3 pixels are realy not gonig to make much difference on such a small screen I say. Reply
PeteH - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - link"All those extra iPad 3 pixels are really not gonig to make much difference on such a small screen I say."
I strongly disagree. I've never liked the way text looks on computer displays, and it impacts my reading enjoyment. Quadrupling the pixel count should drastically improve the appearance of text.
The purpose of the resolution increase is not to increase the amount of "stuff" you can fit on screen, it's to increase the level of detail that can be displayed. At any screen size that will make a difference. Whether or not the increased display detail is something you find desirable is a different (and completely subjective) question. Reply
Greg512 - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkI do not see how you can claim the Prime has a better graphics chip. From what I have seen, the Tegra 3's graphics chip is weaker than the 'New' Ipad's. As far as CPU power is concerned, however, the Transformer Prime has a substantial lead. App performance is a different question altogether. Plus, iPad sheeple... seriously. I thought such unsubstantiated name calling went out of popularity a while ago. For the record, I do not own either tablet. I own a HP Touchpad, but would prefer either the Prime or the iPad over it. Reply
ufon68 - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkYou gotta love ignorant people calling others sheeple. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkYou are completely wrong, those small pixels make more and more a difference the closer the display is to your eyes.
As it stands, text on my 24" and 27" 2560x1440 IPS displays look inferior to what is on the iPad. I want high PPI in all my monitors now.
If you can't tell the difference then you should get your eyesight checked. Reply
eallan - Thursday, March 22, 2012 - linkWouldn't it be awesome to not be able to tell the difference? I'd save so much money! Reply
zorxd - Monday, March 26, 2012 - linkText can't look inferior on a 2560x1440 monitor for the simple reason that there are more pixels than on an iPad.
Take any given content, say a web page, and strech it to full screen. The text will be rendered with more pixels on your IPS monitors, and therefore will be clearer by any measure.
PPI doesn't matter, it's all about the number of pixels. Reply
dai - Monday, March 26, 2012 - linkThat is so exactly, 180 degrees wrong. 2560x1440 pixels displayed on a 50 foot screen six foot in front of you will have a very visible grain; displayed on a 10 foot screen, less so. Alternatively, 640x480 pixels on a three inch display will have much less grain than 640x48- pixels on a fourteen inch display. When it comes to the clarity of text, with crisp edges and no visible aliasing, it's all about the number of pixels per inch and distance from the eye. I'm typing this on a 27" monitor and the text quality is noticeably worse than on my iPad 3 or my iPhone 4, because the pixels are bigger Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkAlso, the Transformer Prime is inferior to the iPad 2 from last year, especially in graphics performance. The Tegra 3 is a dog and NVIDIA has serious catch-up to do with the Tegra 4. How do you expect it to be better than the iPad that was released last week?
It is funny though seeing someone so ignorant and misinformed talking about "sheeple" Reply
web2dot0 - Friday, March 23, 2012 - linkAre you serious? Have you seen one in person? That display is gorgeous! I'm sorry, you gotta see it to believe it. You can see a clear difference. It's not even close. As soon as I saw the iPad3 you knew right away that there's something different about the display. It looks life-like and the photos are of print-quality.
I don't know about the Transformer Prime because I haven't seen one myself, but at least check out the thing first before you make a judgement.
"Looks like a better deal" doesn't make it so. There's no way the battery life is better than iPad. That thing's got the biggest battery pack in the industry. If a competitor have a similar display, how can they possibly compete unless it weighs the same as well?
Graphics chip? The A5X is the fastest in the industry. No one even comes close.
I don't know what you smoking, but your list of "Apple pitfalls" is pretty pathetic. At least name the things that are true. Reply
EnerJi - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - linkAnand,
Can you confirm whether there was continuous data transfer during the 20+ hours Verizon LTE hotspot test? If so, that is incredible battery life! Makes me wonder how long next year's iPad could last with the more power efficient 28nm chipset... Reply
dreddit - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkHi Guys I don't get the graph/chart above is this in minutes or decimels, cos otherwise the ATP(Balanced) last's for 9 hours 16 minutes. This is really wierd way of testing gear along a time axis?
Please explain? Reply
homebredcorgi - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - linkIt's in decimal hours. So for the ATP (Balanced), 8.76 hours is equal to 8 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds.
Since 0.76*60 = 45.6 minutes and 0.6*60 = 36 seconds. Reply
RochelleBr - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - link
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Wow, Awesome this is perfect sutff :)
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ytsejam02 - Thursday, March 22, 2012 - linkPerhaps it's just me, but IMO, > 15% drop in battery life seems "huge".
Obviously there's always a trade-off in functionality vs performance vs battery life. Realistically, if I'm using an iPad during the day, maybe for work, the 3rd gen has even less of a chance of making it thru the day, which diminishes it's mobility. Reply
darkcrayon - Friday, March 23, 2012 - linkBut it's only a7% drop, I wouldn't call that "huge"... I'm assuming the iPad 2 number is for wifi and a 3G model isn't listed. Still the difference wouldnt be that great since apple listed the iPad 2 at about 9 hours for 3G. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - linkYes, but they put an enormous battery in there.
Hint: the energy isn't all getting converted to light.
This thing is going to roast your nuts. Reply


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No matter what you're planning to make for Christmas dinner, it's important to choose your wine carefully to enhance the flavors of your dish and ensure that the wine tastes optimal. We picked our top 10 Christmas main dish recipes and recommend varietals for each.
Giada's Bracoile (Shown Above)
Braised beef with Pecorino, Provolone and marinara is an easy match for fruity Merlot.
Chuck's Rib Roast With Mushroom Crust
Prime rib with Cabernet is a classic — and for good reason. An earthier Cabernet would match the wild mushroom crust; a more-tannic one would do well with the rich meat.
Jamie Oliver's Christmas Turkey
Herb butter and halved clementines add flavor to classic roast turkey — it's perfect with a glass of Chardonnay.
Kelsey's Roasted Whole Black Bass
Toasty Chardonnay does wonders with lemony, briny roasted black bass.
Alex Guarnaschelli's Brisket With Parnsnips, Leeks and Green Onions
Brisket could go with either Merlot or Cabernet; since this one's got sweet notes from the parsnips and brown sugar, go with the less-sweet, more-bracing Cabernet.
Alton's City Ham
Pair this with a crisp Chardonnay to set off the richness of the ham and the sweetness of the gingersnaps.
Debi and Gabriele's Lasagna Alla Bolognese
Comfort food demands comfort wine; A glass of fruity Merlot fits here perfectly.
Classic Cioppino
Tomatoes and jalapenos bring this shellfish dish to the red side; Try it with a warm, fruity Merlot.
Roasted Pheasant Alla Fiorentina
Crisp, lemony Pinot grigio acts as a refreshing counterpart to the richness of pork, prosciutto and pheasant.
Laura Calder's Stuffed Guinea Hen
Delicate guinea hens would be set off nicely by flinty Chardonnay. If you can find one that's labeled "unoaked," even better.
Looking for a great wine to get started? Meet entwine, Food Network's line of wines that are perfect on their own or paired with food.


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American University Washington College of Law to Break Ground for New Home on Historic Tenley Campus
New State-of-the-Art, Vibrant Legal Center to Provide Permanent Home for Law School
Washington, D.C., June 11, 2013 - American University Washington College of Law will break ground on a new home at the historic Tenley Campus in a ceremony June 12, hosted by American University President Cornelius Kerwin and Washington College of Law Dean Claudio Grossman. Students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the law school will attend.
The eight-acre Tenley Campus site (pictured right) will provide a permanent home for American University Washington College of Law and enhance its rich tradition of innovation, excellence, and passion for the rule of law in the U.S. and beyond.
"We are extremely proud to share this day with the law school community, and are excited about the opportunities the new Tenley Campus will create," said Claudio Grossman, dean, American University Washington College of Law. "This is an important milestone in the life of the law school that will allow us to better carry out our mission. The Tenley location will improve our access to the branches of government, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations located in the nation's capital that help facilitate unique opportunities for our community, faculty, students, and alumni. With the new campus, we will develop even further one of the most creative institutions in the nation."
The Tenley Campus will be a vibrant legal center where AUWCL's world-class faculty, inspired students, dedicated alumni, and others come together to champion what matters. When construction is complete in fall 2015, AUWCL will be among the most technically advanced law schools in the country. The light-filled and LEED-certified facility, measuring approximately 312,000 square feet, will include flexible teaching spaces, a conference center, expanded clinic space, teaching courtrooms, and multiple indoor and outdoor student study and meeting spaces throughout the campus. The enhanced Pence Law Library will also feature an Alumni Center that will provide our more than 18,000 alumni with research and business resources when they visit. The Tenley Campus is also located one block from the Metro, giving the legal community, business leaders, government officials, and alumni better access to the law school while providing students with a direct line to the heart of Washington, D.C.
Read more about the Tenley Campus: http://tenley.wcl.american.edu/
Media inquiries can be directed to Megan Smith, public relations coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 202-274-4276.
About American University Washington College of Law
In 1896, American University Washington College of Law became the first law school in the country founded by women. More than 100 years since its founding, this law school community is grounded in the values of equality, diversity, and intellectual rigor. The law school's nationally and internationally recognized programs (in clinical legal education, trial advocacy, international law, and intellectual property to name a few) and dedicated faculty provide its 1700 JD, LL.M., and SJD students with the critical skills and values to have an immediate impact as students and as graduates, in Washington, DC and around the world. For more information, visit wcl.american.edu.


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A TEENAGER from Rednock School has smashed her target in a marathon swim event, raising hundreds of pounds in the process.
Sophia Staddon, 13, was hoping to swim at least 80 lengths of Dursley Swimming Pool in an hour on Tuesday, February 18 to raise funds for a defibrillator for the school.
However the keen swimmer from Kingshill Road in Dursley was able to complete 124 lengths and her impressive efforts have ensured that an estimated £300 has been raised.
Sophia is a member of the Dursley Dolphin swimming club and has competed at county level, specialising in long-distance.
Despite her experience, she said she swam a lot further than she had expected to.
"I would like to thank Angela Gillingham and the lifeguards at Dursley Pool for allowing me to use their facility for my swim, my mum who helped me organise everything and all the people who made donations and made my swim worthwhile," she said.
Her efforts will take a sizeable chunk out of the £1,500 her community at the school is attempting to raise in order to buy a defibrillator.
Each year the communities at the school choose a charity to raise money for and this year they decided they would attempt to buy the life-saving equipment following high profile cases of cardiac arrests.
Sophia's mother Mary said she was very pleased with her daughter's achievement.
"I think she was humouring me when she said she would attempt 80 lengths," she said.
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AN inexperienced doctor involved in the delivery of twins, where one later died from complications arising from the birth, is set to face a professional watchdog.
Dr Olufemi Dina is accused of working in breach of conditions on his registration while employed as a locum at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
An inquest, which ended in February 2012, heard that Dr Dina had been involved in the delivery of twins Lien and Arron Almond.
But Arron died from complications caused by the breech birth, in September 2010, and it later emerged that Dr Dina should have been supervised during the procedure by a more senior consultant.
Blackburn Coroner's Court was told that while Lien was delivered successfully, Arron's head was stuck for 20 minutes and he was deprived of oxygen. He died just under three weeks later from his injuries.
An expert witness, Dr Gerald Mason, said at the inquest that the management of the delivery 'fell way below' the expected standard.
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Sigh…I knew it was inevitable. Jelly shoes are back. I don't know whether to be happy or sad about this. I was a little girl when this shoe became popular (back in the day). And now that it's making it's comeback I find myself itching for a pair or two…or three.
Made of PVC plastic, you're going to find jelly shoes in so many different colors, styles, and a wide range of prices. A lot more than when I was a kid. Thanks to a recent collaboration between Forever 21 and Brazilian brand Melissa, they're really going to hit the streets soon.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Question Mark 2010
I'll probably regret later that I commented on this today, since it's still sinking in. I wonder... will I look back on this day, many years from now, and say "They did the sensible thing." Or, will history remember this move as the first in a resigned downward spiral?
The FY2011 Budget overview for NASA was published, along with statements from Charlie Bolden and Buzz Aldrin. I tuned into SpaceVidCast.com's Q&A session held by the Office of Science & Technology Policy, whereby OSTP Chief of Staff Jim Kohlenberger and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver did reply to the press with a fair amount of detail -- but danced around direct questions, armed with honorific buzzwords, because of course that would be a natural reaction.
I'm not a reporter, so again, I won't rehash particulars, but none of the leaked suspicions of the past week were proven counterfactual. Norman Augustine summed it up best, though he probably had no idea he was doing so:
"While many of us who believe strongly in human space flight hoped that further funding would have been possible, this is obviously a demanding period from a budgetary standpoint. The President's proposed program seems to match means to ends, and should therefore be executable."
In other words, Constellation was too much burrito supreme for our tiny taco economy right now. Kennedy, Johnson, Ames, Marshall, Michoud, Langley and Glenn were all mentioned – but no one had the guts to utter the word "layoff," preferring to emphasize redirection or refocus. All the people working on Constellation… how will they be re-assigned? That question was given only a vague response, with the strategic mention of "robotic missions."
Kohlenberger further emphasized that "because we've spent $9 billion on a program that cannot be executed doesn't mean we should spend billions more and potentially still be unable to execute."
Well, yeah, we can all see that point. Buzz is finally on board, so can I try to be? They argue that Constellation forced budget cuts to other NASA programs, which may now thrive again: climate change, ISS extension, telescopes, increasingly "green" aviation, and science-based education programs, etc. I found myself thinking, well, those are positive steps… those shouldn't fall by the wayside. No one is naïve about how difficult it is to control spending and still spur growth in a recession, and many members of Congress (in both parties) have already made it plain they want these spending outlines adjusted or scrapped, so we've hardly heard the last word on the matter.
Then I wonder, am I just doing what they're doing? Rationalizing? Well, of course I am. It's human nature to try to make the best of news you didn't want to hear. We certainly could make a success of bypassing the moon for continued work in low-Earth-orbit, and destinations such as asteroids, the Lagrangian points, Mars and its moons, etc… but it's my honest feeling that these missions will prove far more dangerous without first testing long-duration human existence on a working lunar base.
Bolden wrote: "The new effort will enable our nation to develop more innovative technologies, foster new industries, strengthen international partnerships, and increase our understanding of the earth, our solar system, and the universe beyond. Our endeavors in space can inspire our imaginations and kindle our collective spirit of discovery and adventure."
Really? If this is so keenly inspiring and adventurous, why didn't Obama say it himself during the State of the Union? When the big guy says it on prime time, it's a win. When lesser bureaucrats hold a Monday afternoon tea, it's an acquiescent sigh called "Plan B."
They sounded pretty, but I know a band-aid on a bullet wound when I see one.
I truly hoped international "collaboration" would be the keyword of the 21st century, but Americans seem to be proving we cannot get onboard en masse with anything that isn't rife with "competition."
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- Norman Copeland said...
I realise some of this generations astronuats have trained their entire lives to have an opportunity to travel to 'thinner air', perhaps another planetoid, but, this is a problem i've seen so many times before in business and particularly in science.
It's not sanely fare to expect a businessman to give 10 billion dollars for 20 astronauts to go into Low Earth orbit for scientific tests that have not been chartered or ordered and carry any particular relevance.
Lot's of us have various ideas about what we should be doing with micro gravity research, but, the ultimate value of any off world departures is to populate other worlds.
John f Kennedy gave us our dreams, Sputnik did, monkeys and dogs proved its possible on a limited schedule.
I beleive that the decision was a mature decision regardless of a manned programme or not for the forseable future.
I beleive that with the next 10 years people like myself will have the money on the table to invest in an infrastructure, but, before that happens we need tangible proof that it can be done within the perimeters of our communities safety margins.
Be fair, people are still dying in airplanes from deep vain thrombosis, were trying to build commmunity support for a meaningful way to spend 10's, perhaps and enevitably 100's of billions of pounds.
The money's available, but, can the bum's survive on seats?
I toy around with the nitty gritty at my scrapbook blog www.spacetravel21stcentury.blogspot.com/
with what civilians will need the knowledge of for off world colonising.
It will be tough. I've seen the NASA training schedule, and it's not nearly strict enough if you ask me.
I've been training for 6 years and with all the money NASA has spent, I would be happy to fulfil any vacant astronaut positions for a fraction of the cost it has cost NASA.
Call me a fruitcake.
I know what I'm talking about.
- February 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Fine, you are a fruitcake. You leave comments that are so loopy and random, I doubt anyone takes you seriously. Really, what in the world are you TALKING about? Who's asking a business man to give 10 billion dollars for un-chartered or un-ordered tests that have no "relevance" ? You wouldn't have a cell phone or television channels without NASA, we wouldn't have even a fraction of the medical technology which currently exists, and we would not have led world science for the last half-century if not for the space program. I get so sick and tired of this short-sighted bullshit. How in God's name does anyone expect us to magically "colonize other worlds" if we don't make the sacrifices and take the necessary steps to reach that goal? Meanwhile, China and Russia still see the long run, still consider their space programs a matter of national pride, so where did we go wrong? Maybe we should just start calling ourselves the United Short Attention Spans of America.
- February 1, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Norman Copeland said...
I've explained my opinion of the modern funding situation at 'thespaceadvocate.blogspot.com/'
blog title.
''My Social/Technology Experiment''
I want to get off this planet so bad it hurts, but, we've got to pull everyone else with us, thats the reason I have to admire the government, because they consider all the other people that have different priorities. It's crazy sitting here in the middle of this and just looking. No. I'm not going to start.
Yes. Good luck.
- February 1, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Kuday said...
I believe space researches should be carried on by international collaborations. ESA is a good example but their 2009 budget is about €3,5 million while NASA 2010 budget is almost $18,5 billion. What is the reason of such big difference?
- February 1, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Sach said...
So - basically the White House actually ended up following what the Augustine Committee proposed months ago!?
I remember Sally Ride saying how she was all for getting NASA out of the 'transport-to-LEO-and-back' business. (LEO: Low Earth Orbit)
I loved these comments though:
"Nasa will accelerate and enhance its support for the commercial spaceflight industry to make travel to low-Earth orbit and beyond more accessible and more affordable," said Nasa chief Charlie Bolden.
"Imagine enabling hundreds, even thousands of people to visit or live in low-Earth orbit, while Nasa firmly focuses its gaze on the cosmic horizon beyond Earth."
@Kuday: As for the ESA not having a huge enough budget its two reasons:
First of all the GDP of the ENTIRE European Union is 'only' US$16.19 trillion compared with US$14.2 trillion of USA, by itself.
And then on top of it, its divided amongst 44 countries - Generating a strong Space Vision is difficult in one nation (USA), try doing that in 44 different countries at the same time! :D
- February 2, 2010 at 5:07 AM
- PillowNaut said...
Everyone is entitled to their opinions – I won't delete or suppress anyone's thoughts... but I have a few suggestions for my little block on the blogosphere...
@Freddie – Let's keep it clean in terms of language, as I have many youngsters who visit... and @Norman – perhaps a bit more effort at clarity / brevity :)
- February 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Sach said...
I love it when Pillownaut steps in to keep order! :)
- February 4, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- PillowNaut said...
Don't make me bang my gavel ;)
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The decision to regenerate the area in Brent Cross and Cricklewood is the largest planning application in the history of north west London.
Developers hope Brent Cross Shopping Centre, in Hendon, will be become the biggest in Europe - but many feel poor transport links make it the wrong place for such a scheme.
Others are heartbroken at plans to concrete over the Cricklewood Green Space, which they say is a "lung" against pollution in the area.
On Thursday night, Barnet Borough Council's planning committee approved the plans with a majority of 6:4.
Aime Williams took to the streets to find out what you think.
Sarah Prosser, 50: 'It doesn't need regeneration'
"I used to live down the road from here and would come here a lot. This is convenient and there are some good shops. It doesn't particularly seem like it's needing a regeneration, but people want regeneration in their area, of course."
Tom Hackley, 27: 'People don't like change - but it will be wonderful.'
"Regeneration is a good thing. It's amazing that this is happening. All that financial investment and money coming into the area will be really fantastic. It's good for the infrastructure. There will always be naysayers, people don't like change, but it'll be wonderful to have such a great shopping centre in north west London."
Marek Rzefa, 28: 'People want to see something different'
"I've heard that the whole area will be improved, so it'll be a lot better. Hopefully it'll change the Brent Cross customers because at the moment people have been living here with this shopping centre a long time and they want to see something different. This will bring in fresh customers from the area. The people who live here need to see some change."
Stanley Weiner, 82: 'I understand the importance of expanding the shopping centre'
"I've been in retail all my life. I had my own shop, so I understand the importance of expanding the shopping centre. I remember when this site was the Hendon greyhound track! I'd like to see lots more shops. It's great that it's happening and it's good for the area."
Cricklewood Green Space
Gemma Bailey, 33, Newton Road: 'It would be nice to see it used more'
"It's not exactly the most appealing of spaces but putting some buildings on it isn't exactly going to improve the area. I'd rather it were preserved as a green space but it would be nice to see it used more."
Holly Martin, 17, West Croft Close: 'It's meant to be a community place'
"Sometimes I see children here and people walking their dogs. It's a community place, it's meant as a place for the community to come.
"Building shops would defeat the object. I walk past here every day and see a lot of people relaxing in Summer. They'd be better off doing it up."
Terry McGuinness, 55, Highland Avenue: 'Children play here'
"It would be a shame to lose the space as a lot of little children play over there in the summer. When you look around it's the only bit of green here."
Danielle Fahy, 21, Littlefield Street: 'I always see drunk people on the green'
"The only people I've seen over there are people drinking. Why would parents want their children playing around that? It would be nice to see something other than drunks drinking on the green."
Galina Atahansova, 29: 'Regeneration will be a good thing'
"I think a regeneration will be much better for the area. Now there's just four trees there, but they say it will have one-hundred trees after all the building work has finished. I think it will be better for people. Too many people are sitting here drinking - we sometimes have to call the police about them."
Kurtulus Karakus, 33: 'The development will bring new customers'
"People sit on the green space and get drunk and smoke - they give us a hard time. The development will bring in new customers. It'll be better for us and really good for the area."
Teresa Walden, Brent Cross management team, also told the Times Series: "We're really delighted. It'll really help with the regeneration of the area and provide so many more jobs."
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Sick... how long of a period will this one be over and how far into it are you?
i should have some decent data but Thanksgiving but this will only be for OCNJ.
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Intel Demonstrates Moorestown Smartphones and Tablet Running Moblin, Including LGby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2010 5:30 PM EST
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alkarl - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkcould moblin run epsxe on such devices ?? Reply
Griswold - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkWhen I look at this huge LG phone thingy, I feel set back to the 90s with its phone monstrosities.
Looks like x86 is still far away from being ready to power really small devices. I wouldnt be surprised if we're looking at 4-5hrs standby here. :P
Next please. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkPessimist:
"LG says that the product has a 1850mAh battery and can endure five hours of 3G browsing on a single charge."
"The GW990 gets about 4 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby on its 1850 mAh battery."
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The Aava concept is much smaller. Reply
nofumble62 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkDirect competition to my iPhone hah?? go take a hike. Reply
pcfxer - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkHow was the Starbucks? Or was that not yours? Reply
velanapontinha - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkThis is totally off topic, but I had to let you know: the OCZ DDR3 ad in the homepage is very flashy at spreading ignorance: "lifetime warranty for piece of mind" PIECE of mind??? Reply
MadMan007 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkThe LG Smartphone actually made me 'lol.' It's like a funhouse mirror version of an iPhone...sooo goofy looking! Reply
Roland00 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI am curious of the aspect ratio for that display Reply
Manabu - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI wonder the battery life of those devices. Especially the last phone. This should be really a jump in power efficiency for Intel. I'm surprised.
BUT, those tablets wont be able to run Windows 7, right? Reply
jigglywiggly - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI really can't wait for this, Intel's perf on these cpus will kill everything arm has to offer. Reply
WilcoD - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkActually an in-order Atom is slower per MHz than the out-of-order Cortex-A9 and uses far more power as well. A dual core Cortex-A9 can run at 2GHz and still use less power than a single 1.6GHz Atom, so an ARM CPU kills Atom by a big margin on both performance and battery life.
It doesn't look like this will change any time soon. And given none of these devices run Windows, why use x86 at all? Reply
Fox5 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkFrom the few benchmarks I've seen, general purpose compute power of Atom is about equal per mhz to that of an A8. It will probably be inferior to the A9.
However, Atom has monster FP performance with SSE that is well beyond that of the A8 or A9 per mhz (but probably hobbled by x86's limited register set, Intel refusing to allow atom to run in 64 bit and get 8 more registers, and the lack of software optimized specifically for Atom). But I can't think of much else devices like these would use powerful FP performance other than video and 3d graphics, and the higher end mobile graphics parts look like they could beat intel's igps in power and efficiency. Reply
WilcoD - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkAtom has a higher peak SP Flops/cycle of 6 vs 4 for Cortex-A8 and A9, for DP it is 1.5 Flops/cycle for both Atom and A9 (Atom's non-pipelined DP SSE is much slower). However the out-of-order A9 will be much better at sustaining its peak. So calling Atom having "monster FP performance" is a bit optimistic... Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkAs I said in my other article, I'd like to see in-depth analysis on these phone/pdas. The time has come where these are more useful than ever.
I hope to have (4) different PC devices:
1) Pocket-sized (phone)
2) Tablet-sized (control home system; eg lights, audio, surveilance, wifi devices)
3) Laptop (high-power computing on the go; mainly for mobile work/light gaming)
4) Desktop PC (high-power computing for business and gaming use)
What do you think? Reply
hyc - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkYour (1) and (2) should just be a phone that slots into a cradle for tablet use. Put an HDMI jack on the phone, and put a larger battery and screen in the tablet/cradle. Mate the two via USB+HDMI connectors. No need for a separate standalone device here; that just makes data management/synchronization more tedious.
InternetGeek - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI'm actually looking to get a 3G enabled tablet that can take/make phone calls. On the laptop side a good desktop replacement can do heavy gaming along all your other tasks. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkBut laptop is still not as powerful as a desktop. Besides, I don't want to have to plug my laptop in whenever I want to hook up to all my monitors and nice keyboard and gaming mouse. Besides, I use my home desktop as a mini-server. There's no static IP, but I don't care about it's uptime. In the ease of comfort, I'd like a computer bundle for ~$4K that bundles all 4 devices, that's taking into consideration a bundling discount. Reply
jimhsu - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkNo, it's not power. Laptops with core i7 and dual 280M SLI are quite powerful for basically any task that you might be interested in aside from high end multi monitor apps. The real problem is that finding good performance and good battery life is almost impossible. Asus got a lot of things right with the UL80vt, but as a desktop replacement/semi-replacement it simply isn't powerful enough. On the other side, something like the G51J is an excellent desktop replacement candidate, but has really pathetic battery life.
The real problem is that I think manufacturers just aren't interested enough to make innovative solutions - testing high-end processors for undervolting potential, implementing switchable/hybrid graphics solutions, optimizing heat flow through the laptop, etc. And we're probably simply not there with the tech yet to make things like processors that can run from 0.2-1.5V. Reply
ErikO - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkAs of 9th Dec 2010, there IS a laptop with both i7 AND Sli?
Not sure that exists - been looking to buy one all week. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkBut that's still not as powerful as a desktop. You can't overclock that i7 and GTX280M is just a G92 and far behind a 5870 in performance. A powerful desktop + netbook/tablet should be better for most people, both for mobility and performance. Reply
vol7ron - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkAgreed. But I also believe the future of computing (games and applications) may be cloud-driven. Therefore, gpu, cpu, and RAM are no longer needed to purchase. You plug in your HD (if you want to) and you use an internet computer for processing/playing. Reply
strikeback03 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkI'd say we are a long way away from connection speeds being able to handle that. If gamers are already picky over the latency of wired vs wireless mice, imagine if frame rendering was being done somewhere else. Reply
vol7ron - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkThere are ways around that and a lot of untapped technology out there (lots of theoretical). It'll be a long while before that's possible, but if so, response times might be negligible.
There are many reasons why you wouldn't have just an internet computer, though. The most important one being power failures, etc. Though the day will come when you can have 1TB on your keychain and be able to plug into a socket at the mall, or starbucks and do whatever you like. Maybe it could even be done wirelessly (if that technology improves).
The ideas are endless. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - link"Besides"x2 -- ewww. So much for proof reading. Reply
quiksilvr - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkBut now it seems that there are literally over a dozen alternatives, which is a good thing.
These past three years have been "iPhone" this and "iPhone" that. Maybe this will be the year when we will hear "iPhone what?" amongst these really superior competitors. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI have an iPhone and I have to say, if it wasn't jailbroken, I probably would have turned my phone in after I bought it.
I don't use the jailbreak to install apps illegally, instead I use it to gain control of features that Apple should have gotten off their ass to introduce (eg, multi-tasking, text messaging from w/in an app, password protecting certain apps, app organization, custom backgrounds/icons, the ability to turn off background processes, controlling sound on/off from an app). There are so many useful things that just make the iPhone inept.
sprockkets - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkStill don't understand that Apple is about the "experience", not the features? Reply
CloudX - Sunday, January 17, 2010 - linkiphone owners should have full control..... bottom line Reply
taltamir - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkthe experience being the lack of features Reply
pcfxer - Friday, January 08, 2010 - link...I dunno? I can see why they want to have control over certain aspects of the iPhone but I don't quite think that we have all of the information here.
I like it when companies just come out and say what is up. "We f#$$@ up!" or "The idiots at AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, etc. won't let us give users the freedom because their management is afraid of 'security' issues."
I'm thinking a bit of both on this part. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkThe engineers worked a lot to improving Moorestown, not just the CPU, but the platform overall. This is nothing like Pine Trail.
Intel 45nm SoC process, platform level power gating, integration of many chips that were previously on motherboard in one single chip.
Can't wait to see more details! Reply


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CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Chesterfield Township police hope a surveillance image from a gas station robbery on Sunday can help catch the suspect.
Police say the suspect entered a Speedway gas station at 4 a.m. Sunday on 21 Mile Road near Interstate 94. The man selected some food items from the store and walked up to the cash register with money in his hand.
However, as the clerk, who was working alone, rang up the transaction, the man pulled out a black handgun and demanded all the money from the store's cash register.
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Chesterfield Township police officers, along with a Macomb County Sheriff's Department K-9 unit, were unable to find the suspected robber. They believe he escaped in a vehicle which was parked and waiting nearby.
The man is described as white, between 20 and 25 years old and standing about 6 feet tall. He has a stocky build, facial hair and a lip ring. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a gray sweatshirt underneath. He also had on black gloves.
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$599 for Six Zerona Laser Body-Sculpting Treatments ($2,400 Value)
Designed to spot treat problem areas, such as the abs, hips, back, and thighs, FDA-approved Zerona lasers shrink fat cells, resulting in lost inches. The noninvasive lasers penetrate down to the fat cells, where they disrupt the cells' membranes. This causes the fat cells to release their fatty acids into the body and shrink. The body then flushes out the expelled contents via the lymphatic system or burns them for energy. The 40-minute treatments require little to no downtime. Two weeks of treatment, with three sessions conducted per week, tend to produce the best results.
Calistoga Massage & Chiropractic Center
Calistoga Massage & Chiropractic Center is a chiropractic practice, massage center, massage school, and weight-loss clinic all in one. Its founder, doctor of chiropractic Steven Ticen, has tended to patients for nearly a third of a century with services that run the gamut from chiropractic care and Zerona body contouring to hot-stone massage and spa facials. He employs a number of graduates from his attached massage-therapy school, which teaches students a signature technique, the Calistoga massage—a firm, Swedish–style massage that relieves tension and cures the phobia of other people's fingers.