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Graphical issues that look like compression artifacts
I've been trying to get help on this from various tech forums to no avail, so I'm going to crosspost it here if that's okay.
UPDATE: Ok you really can't see it, nor can I on less bright screens. How about this: These are photos. http://imgur.com/a/ERqjR
UPDATE 2: Of course Imgur would be idiotic as soon as I post this. Mirror: http://min.us/mNzeLUWUI1dqW
Hello. Lately I've been seeing a lot of graphical issues on everything that look like compression artifacts. I figured that before, on my smaller screen I just couldn't see them and they were just normal on TV shows and most people didn't care.
But it's happening in video game cutscenes (not in actual gameplay, though).
You might not be able to see these problems, it might just be me, but here goes nothing - these are from the opening cinematic in Hitman Absolution. Mainly noticeable in the edges, and also on the back of his head: (no real spoilers, literally first few seconds):
Link one
Link two
Link three
It's also happened in Max Payne 3 but I'm sure those screenshots will suffice.
So is this normal or is it some sort of problem with my computer? Even if you can't see them, can you just assume that I can and still try to diagnose my problem? Here are my specs:
GPU: AMD Sapphire HD7970 Vapor-X GHZ Edition
CPU: Intel i53570k
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 16GB @ ~1600mhz
Cooler: Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E EXTREME
PSU: Corsair TX750w
SSD: Samsung 830 256GB
HD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB
All my graphical drivers are up to date as far as I'm aware (using Catalyst 12.11).
So, any ideas?
Here's a secondary problem which may just be a bug with Hitman Absolution: I don't hear any voices in cutscenes. At first, I thought it was a rather questionable artistic decision, but then they'd have lengthy conversations and I realised it wasn't supposed to be like that.
Last edited by Sidian; 20-11-2012 at 06:31 PM.
20-11-2012, 06:55 PM #2All my graphical drivers are up to date as far as I'm aware (using Catalyst 12.11).
Heck, it might just be your screen. Have you tried setting it to factory defaults?
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Yeah. Believe me, this screen is bright as fuck on default settings. I've got it to 5 out of 100 brightness. It's a Benq Xl2420t monitor. 12.11 drivers seem to be very popular and a big leap forward, increasing BF3 performance by like 30% (amazingly) so I doubt it's a problem with them.
Have you tried adjusting the "Color Profile" for your monitor? You can find those settings in the "Monitor" control panel in windows (press Calibrate Colours) - Alternatively, you can look for a colour profile on the internet.
In the catalyst control center there is also a "Video Colour" setting which is just for hte playback of video (if the problem solely occurs there)
Your photos are far brighter than the screenshots, on my screen. It may just be that your monitor is too bright. Try calibrating it with this site.
I actually couldn't run the game with the Beta drivers, so maybe try the official ones.


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1688, "student in the second year of university study," lit. "arguer," altered from sophumer (1653, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. sophos "wise" + moros "foolish, dull." Short form soph is attested from 1778. Sophomoric "characteristic of a sophomore" (regarded as self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature) is attested from 1837.
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I'm reading that :: is used to access class methods that perform static operations, i.e., classes that do not need to be instantiated.
But I've also seen this in some examples: parent::constructor($value)
Don't constructors only run when a class is instantiated?
Not when the child has its own constructor. Only one construct will be called. EDIT: This is the case for any magic method (destruct, etc)
class Parent {
public function __construct() {
echo "I'm a parent.\
class Child extends Parent {
public function __construct() {
echo "I'm a child.\
$t = new Child(); // I'm a child.
This is why you'll see your class calling parent construct..
class Parent {
public function __construct() {
echo "I'm a parent.\
class Child extends Parent {
public function __construct() {
echo "I'm a child.\
$t = new Child();
// I'm a parent.
// I'm a child.
So with that being said, I'm not sure I'd say that :: is used for static methods as you can call any public function in the parent in the same way I just called the constructor.
Thanks. Your example makes sense, I think I'm getting tripped up on the syntax itself.
Here's the original question and answer that got me Googling before posting:
Q. What's the difference between accessing a class method via -> and via ::?A. :: is allowed to access methods that can perform static operations, i.e. those, which do not require object initialization.
So is :: only used inside of classes to call other public functions? Or is it possible to see it in general script logic, outside of classes? And is the above answer accurate?
Well honestly I'm not an expert on it, to be able to perfectly explain the difference. The only time I use :: is to access a class name explicitly (shouldn't be needed unless you've poorly named your functions to close together), call the parent, or call a static variable within that class, which is the one I commonly use:
MyClass {
private static $var = 'foo';
public function bar() {
echo self::$var;
You might be able to find something a little more useful here:http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
To answer one of your questions. I believe you will ONLY see :: related to classes. Either accessing a function/method, a variable, or a constant. I have not seen :: used outside of an OOP approach (but that's not to say it doesn't exist there).
The :: is just a mechanism to separate the class name from the method/function, variable, and/or constant that is being referenced in that class. Just like -> is used to separate the class reference variable from the method/function or variable of that given reference. Or \ is used to identify Namespace separation: \Namespace\ClassName::MethodName for example.
Hope that helps clarify a few of your questions.
As I understand it, :: can also be used outside of a class to access static properties and methods without instantiating an object, eg:
class test {
public static $foo = 'Bar';
echo test::$foo; // Bar
Parent is used to call the parent method.
class A {
public function foo {
echo 'Bah';
class B extends A {
public function foo {
echo 'Bah!';
$a = new A();
$a->foo(); // Bah
$b = new B();
$b->foo(); // Bah Bah
parent::method isn't the same thing as Class::method. Confused? Welcome to PHP.
Parent is a magic invocation to call the copy of the method in the parent class. For sanity reasons it should only be used by overriding method calls, though nothing in PHP stops you from using it incorrectly you will be very, very sorry if you do (I learned this one from experience. Talk about nightmare to debug code).
Outside of a child method calling the parent in an override situation, the Paamayim Nekudotayim or :: is only used in a static context as was pointed out previously in the thread.
I'm interested if you might have an example of what can go wrong by using this incorrectly?
A Hell of a lot.
class A {
public function foo() { return 1; }
public function bar() { return 2; }
public function mar() { return 3; }
class B extends A {
public function foo() { return parent::foo(); }
public function bar() { return 10; }
public function lambda() { return 4; }
class C extends B {
public function foo() { return parent::mar(); }
Now, months later, a maintanence programmer goes in and adds a mar method to B. That'll mess up C->foo unexpectedly. As projects grow so to does the complexity of their interactions, and allowing class methods to bypass their sister methods opens up an enormous can of worms and makes code go spaghetti crazy in short order. I know this one particularly because I made that mistake in my first year. Don't do it.
Thank you for the advice
That's a very good example. However the same thing can happen even if you're using parent::method() calls "correctly".
Consider this:
class A {
public function foo() { return 1; }
public function bar() { return 2; }
public function mar() { return 3; }
class B extends A {
public function bar() { return 10; }
public function lambda() { return 4; }
class C extends B {
public function foo() { return parent::foo(); }
C::foo() is expecting to call A::foo(). If B::foo() is defined at a later date, the behaviour of C::foo() may change unexpectedly. This may or may not be desirable. The problem the person who is making changes to the class B has, is that they don't know whether or not any classes are extending it and what effect evenly seemingly safe changes may have on subclasses. This is an example of the Fragile base class problem
If you need complex inheritance trees it's more likely there's a poor separation of concerns. Do the subclasses really use all those inherited behaviours? Probably not! The real answer is to favour composition over inheritance or use interfaces.
I hardly consider that to be an unexpected change. Also, composition has problems of its own. To me its a matter of right tool for the job, and includes design patterns.
It depends what B::foo() is doing, if it alters the state of the object in some manner that C::foo() hasn't anticipated, things in C::foo() will break. This can be avoided to a large extent by only using private variables in both classes, however knock on effects in the change in the implementation can still arise if, for instance, C::foo() is using the return value of parent::foo(). It's a well documented issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_base_class , http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ProtectedData.html , http://zf-william.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/friday-13th-protected-variables-can-be.html
For classes which can be instantiated, you do so by assigning the instance to a variable.
class thing{}$a= new thing();
Non-static methods/ properties will be changed within the instance alone.
$a->someProp=$newval;so essentially you use -> to reach a non-static method/or property.on the other hand static methods and properties, which by their definition cannot be instantiated , you are actually dealing directly with the CLASS itself and not an instance of the class. to reach these you use ::.
:: can be used out side the class definition, accessing a singleton object, for example. or inside a class, you may have even seen :: parent as a way to access a property at the PARENT LEVEL of a class.
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Thoughts on workflow: Photoshop to Flash Catalyst
I was recently commissioned by Web Designer magazine here in the UK to produce a two part tutorial to create and prepare an interface in Photoshop ready for Flash Catalyst.
I expected the design to port straight across from Photoshop without any problems but there are a couple of design features that didn't make it across. I thought it would be a good idea to share with you what they are so you can get up to speed quickly. Once you are familiar with the workflow everything is very smooth.
The main problem I had was with text that that had layer styles. Keeping the text as 'editable' caused Catalyst to lose any layer styling. Flattening the layer to a bitmap worked okay, but if there was a semi-transparent region – with a drop shadow for instance, then this merged with elements of any layers below. This becomes a problem when layers turn off and on as you move from one page/state to another. The solution – flatten the layer in Photoshop first before importing to catalyst. While this loses the editability of text, visually the design remains intact. So there is a trade off here depending on what you need.
The second problem was with vector shape layers that also have layer styles applied – this gave very similar problems to those found above, but the solution here was much simpler. Check the 'editable paths and layer styles' for that layer in the advanced import.
Once the design was into Catalyst it was very easy to apply interactivity and transitions. The main problem seemed to be importing it 5 or 6 times in order to find the right way to get the visual appearance exact. Now as I understand how the design is treated on import, I think this will be very useful software.


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This is an update to Happy Tango: Sallycat's Guide to Dancing in Buenos Aires, 10 More Places to Explore, pages 152 and 153.
In Buenos Aires, perhaps it's the newer milongas and prácticas that are prone to most change — less years in a venue, and/or the use of venues not solely used for tango, can mean location moves as organisers seek to find the magic formula of landlord, space, character, night of the week and clientele that will make the dance event a success and sustainable in the longer term.
So far, since the publication of Happy Tango on 30 June 2010, we've seen the Informal-style* Práctica X move to a new home (and you can find my previous blog post about that here and the Práctica X website with the latest address and programme here).
Recently I've heard of these other changes affecting a couple of the places listed in Happy Tango's 10 More Places to Explore. Do scribble any necessary details on to your The Week at a Glance chart on pages 156 and 157 of the book!
First (this information about Loca! updated 9th January 2011), the Informal-style* Milonga Loca! of Sunday nights is on vacation in January 2011 and not operating until further notice. You can find the latest information at the Loca! website locamilonga.blogspot.com and you can join Loca's Facebook page for updates, too. It's always a good idea to check the organiser's website or make a phone call before setting out to dance in Buenos Aires.
Second, the famous Parakultural have turned their organisational attention from the Informal-style* Wednesday night milongas in C.C. Konex to focus on a new (and I'm anticipating, Informal-style*) offering in Club Fulgor de Villa Crespo. The 'Tango Crew" programme begins TONIGHT, Wednesday 1st December 2010, with the inauguration event. Visit the Parakultural website parakultural.com.ar or the Tango Crew Facebook page for more details. Parakultural continue to host their mega-popular Tourist-circuit-style* milongas in Salon Canning on Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights (so, no change there). Meanwhile, C.C. Konex remains home to La Garfua: Zona Milonga en Konex on Wednesday nights (organised by Gustavo Ameri), and you can see the December programme at the C.C. Konex website or join the La Garufa Zona Milonga en Konex Facebook page for future updates.
Finally, while we're talking about changes, let me mention one small name and website matter affecting the entry for Club Fulgor on page 145 of Happy Tango. I've noticed that the Informal-style* Praktika8 and Milonga10 (also in Club Fulgor, Tuesday and Saturday respectively) are increasingly referred to generically as Milonga10 these days… on the Caseron Porteño Tango Map Guide, for example. There is also a new website that brings everything together at praktika8.milonga10.com. The original separate websites (as given on page 145 of Happy Tango) do redirect to the new webpage (for now), so you shouldn't have missed out on any news, but it might be worth making a note of the most current web address and remembering that when people say Milonga10 they might mean either Tuesday or Saturday in Club Fulgor.
So, that's the latest update to Happy Tango: Sallycat's Guide to Dancing in Buenos Aires. Don't forget you can receive notice of these blog updates by joining Happy Tango's own Facebook page… for those not too familiar with Facebook, you'll need an account, then go to the page at http://facebook.com/happytango and click the 'Like' button at the top of the page: once you've 'Liked' a Facebook page in this way, you'll get all updates from it conveniently posted to it direct into your own Facebook feed. Very handy.
Now, armed with this latest information, dear readers, and especially if you are a fan of the more Informal-style* milongas and prácticas in Buenos Aires, go explore!
Many Happy Tangos in Buenos Aires to you all!
*For my definitions of Informal-style and Tourist-circuit-style (and, of course, Traditional-style, too) you'll have to read Happy Tango. In the book, I define and use these three broad categories in an attempt to guide visitors to the venues, milongas and prácticas in Buenos Aires that are most likely to be some of their 'tango homes'. People tell me that it works!
Buy the guide book for tango dancers Happy Tango: Sallycat's Guide to Dancing in Buenos Aires,and start planning your tango adventure in Buenos Aires, today!
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Author: Sally Blake
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Publication date: 30 June 2010
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If you've enjoyed reading Happy Tango, do recommend it to someone else who would enjoy it too. Thank you!
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Samsung's ATIV Book 9 Plus: 3200 x 1800 Display in an Ultrabookby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/20/2013 7:46 PM EST
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Emyr - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkSo this has a weaker GPU driving almost 4.5X the pixels of the 13" MacBook Air. How's that going to work? Reply
Qbancelli - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkWait and see. Reply
w_km - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkIt doesn't drive native resolution, only 1/4 of it (much like Apple's retina displays). 3200x1800p = 4 x the resolution of the standard 1600x900p so everything scales perfectly (mostly text; with software , images also render at native resolution) even though the GPU is technically only driving 900p (for the most part). Reply
chucknelson - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkWhile the effective size of the elements on screen is equivalent to 900p, as an example, the number of pixels the GPU has to drive is indeed 4x. So the GPU is technically driving all of the pixels. What the user sees is icons and such that look the same in size as the resolution they're used to, but everything is super sharp - which is how retina/hi-dpi works these days. Reply
Jammi - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkThat's not how Apple's retina displays work. Reply
Torrijos - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkActually you have it backwards, the idea of retina or HiDPI display is to always try to render programs at the larger resolution and scale them down to fit on the screen.
Apple GUI elements are either vectorial or bitmaps elements being rendered at 4x the pixels (or with high resolution bitmaps), then scaled down to fit the surface they would on a 900p and the parts of applications using pictures or movies try to run those at their natural resolution. Look at the MBPro retina reviews on this site.
The only apps that tend to upscale lower graphics are games for obvious reasons (even super high end GPUs like the Titan are barely able to rend at 2560x1440), but even then you can chose the native resolution and it's up to the dev to maybe scale part of their graphics or resources to optimise speed (on the iPad some games do render at 1/2 the res and let Apple, then specific, hardware scale up). Reply
ananduser - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkYou're half right. Apple downscales only for non-standard resolutions. It downscales for all the other resolutions apart from 1400x900(half of 2800x1800) which is the optimal retina mode on the rmbp 15".
Windows does not need to render at resolutions above those supported by the panel and downscale thereafter; this means that it will never suffer performance penalties due to pre-rendering routines like OSX. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Saturday, June 22, 2013 - linkThat's not how it works. Doing that would be useless.
The GPU in fact drives the full physical resolution of the display. What they mean when they say the effective res is 1/4, is that the elements on the screen are sized as big as they would be on a screen that was 1/4 the res, but the same size. Rendering the elements at 4x the res is what gives you that sharpness. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkThere's no problem in 2D, the specifications are identical, and performance all up to drivers. Just in 3D its a problem. The problem in Notebooks/Ultrabooks at least in the current models, is that using resolutions lower than the native sucks. On my XPS 12, using 1366x768 resolution rather than 1920x1080 would mean the whole screen real estate would shrink. What's the point of that? Reply
blackbrrd - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkThe reason running 1366x768 resolution on a 1920x1080 display is that one rendered pixel = 1.5 displayed pixels. The only way to do this that makes sense gives you horrible blurring.
Running 1600x900 resolution on a 3200x1800 display gives you one rendered pixel = 4 displayed pixels. No blurring needed and it looks sharp. You can test it by running games in 960x540 on your 1920x1080 display. It will probably look a lot better than 1366x768.
You can run a monitor at half, one third and a quarter of it's (vertical) resolution and still get sharp (but less detailed) pictures. In other words, on a 3200x1800 display you could run your games at 1600x900, 1066x600 and 800x450 and get sharp (but less detailed) images. Reply
bji - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkUpscaling from 1600x900 to 3200x1800 would hardly look "sharp". I can't even imagine how un-sharp 800x450 scaled up to 3200x1800 would look. Reply
blackbrrd - Saturday, June 22, 2013 - linkYou completely missed my point. My point being that 1600x900 on a 3200x1800 screen looks just as good as 1600x900 on a 1600x900 screen. This is not the case for 1366x768 on a 1920x1080 screen. Reply
Alketi - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkIt works because this isn't a gaming machine. I'm more interested to see if you can really get 12 hours of battery life out of it. Reply
Alfinch - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkAs a rule I knock a third off any official battery life given for a product. It's a rule that works for a worrying number of devices, but you never know, Haswell might make all the difference. Reply
xdrol - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkIt has 11% more pixels than the 15 inch rMBP, with a 25% better GPU (at least). Reply
Emyr - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkNo, the 15" rMBP has a discrete nvidia chip. I think you mean the 13" rMBP which has an Intel HD4000 GPU. This Samsung has 1.4X the pixels of the rMBP and a slightly more powerful Intel HD4400 GPU. Many are waiting for the Haswell 13" rMBP as the current rev. struggled with graphics performance if you recall Anand's review last year. Reply
inighthawki - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkYeah but the graphics kernel and desktop composition in Windows is lightyears ahead of what is in OSX. I highly doubt haswell will have trouble composing the screen even at this resolution. Haswell should be capable of driving 4K displays with ease. Reply
bji - Saturday, June 22, 2013 - linkEvidence? I don't believe your statement but I guess we'll know when high resolution Haswell based laptops are tested. Reply
madmilk - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkVery well for typical 2D applications, I would assume. My ancient computer from early 2006 (Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2GB DDR, 7600GT) ran Windows 7 Beta (with Aero) very smoothly at 2560x1600. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkSame here. Even my old Notebook with an nVidia 440 Go never had a problem to feed the 2560x1600 resolution. Reply
MatthiasP - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkI definitely hope they will put the HD 5000 in some of the models. Reply
B3an - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkHaswell can easily drive this res perfectly fine. It's not exactly hard. Don't know why idiots keep saying crap like this you should know better. Obviously gaming at native res will be impossible but no ones going to do that. Reply
ImmortalSamurai - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkIt's MAGIC! #jazzhands #glitter Reply
w_km - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkWhat they should have made is a 4K monitor and sold it for $2000. Talk about potential profits...a--holes Reply
silenceisgolden - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkReally disappointed that this isn't 16:10. Otherwise I would have no doubts about getting one. Reply
Alketi - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkI am too. Still, 1600x900 is better than rMBP 1440x900.
I'm also expecting we'll see a number of 1920x1080 Haswell options coming. Reply
BRImpulse - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkYou mean the MacBook Air with 1440x900 right? The Retina MacBook Pro has a 2560x1600 display.
But yeah, this laptop is a beast. I'm still really interested how they can get 12 hours of battery life with a display this dense if Apple gets 12 hours with a mere 1440x900 display. Reply
Alketi - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkWrong resolution, but I meant the Pro.
2560x1600, you're right, which is even worse because its "native" resolution is 1280x800.
This thing is a beast. I don't see how it sells for less than $1600. Reply
karasaj - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkI believe the battery in the MBA is much smaller. Reply
BRImpulse - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkYeah that's another thing I'm really interested in: the price. Top of the line Ativ 9 looks to be about $1699, so I can't see this being any less than that. Which also means this is out of my budget and I'd probably be better off with a MacBook Air Haswell at this point I guess. Reply
kleos44 - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkIf you are on a budget why would you spend $1100 on a notebook that has a dated display? There will be dozens of choices of horrible display laptops that last for 12 hours in the next few months. And they will cost half as much. Reply
kleos44 - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkThe battery life is (maybe) 12 hours because the screen is probably an IGZO display. They are reputed to draw significantly less power than current displays. Reply
1d107 - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkIn response to: Still, 1600x900 is better than rMBP 1440x900.
To keep the same physical height, a 1600x900 screen needs to be 14.4" diagonal, not 13.3". With the same diagonal, 13.3" 16x9 screen has 7.5% less physical height, which makes similarly rendered letters harder to read. Or, with the same physically-sized letters, you get 7.5% fewer vertical lines of text.
The Office Ribbon can be positioned only at the top and it eats a lot of vertical space. The browsers have tabs, menus, etc., too. Document authoring and text reading convenience got sacrificed for not having horizontal black bars when watching widescreen movies.
13.3" 16:10 = 11.2 x 7.05 (MBA)
14.4" 16:10 = 12.5 x 7.06 (to keep the same physical height)
13.3" 16:9 = 11.5 x 6.52 (ATIV - 7.5% less physical height, only 2.7% more physical width)
(7.05 - 6.52) / 7.05 = 7.5%
(11.5 - 11.2) / 11.2 = 2.7%
http://www.silisoftware.com/tools/screen.php was used to calculate screen dimensions. Reply
FwFred - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkVery nice. I too would have liked 16:10 and GT3, but let's be honest nothing is going to meet my exact preferences. I think the GPU would spend most of its time in games @ 16x9. Reply
teiglin - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkJust makes me cry because if I want 16:10 I have to go Apple. Basically it will depend on pricing between this, Zenbook Infinity, and Haswell rMBP. While I do love the Series 9's industrial design, the rMBP and Zenbook will almost certainly have 28W GT3e SKUs, so despite the slightly higher res, Samsung will have to have a compelling story on both price and battery life (certainly 12hr claim is impressive). Reply
pixelstuff - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkMe too. Wishing there were some decent 16:10 Windows machines now days.
Also, who made the Chromebook Pixel. If they would offer that with a Windows installation (and decent HDD and RAM) I would try the 3:2 ratio. Anything taller than 16:9 has to be an improvement. Reply
coolhardware - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkWow, this is the type of display I was hoping refreshed MacBook Air models would have :-)
As far as I can tell, this Samsung laptop is now in the #1 spot on the pixel density leaderboard:
with HP, Fujitsu and Google Pixel following closely behind and the 13" MBPr coming in 5th or so... of course pixel density isn't everything but it sure doesn't hurt.
Any word when Anandtech will have one of these bad boys to review? Definitely exciting times in the laptop arena! :-) Reply
p1esk - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkIt's going to be a tough choice between Acer S7, Asus Infinity and this one. Unless Apple updates rMBP 13" in the next 3 month. Reply
Connoisseur - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkUnless this laptop has a ridiculously better body, screen or trackpad, the zenbook infinity seems to be a much better deal. For a 13.3" screen, I'd imagine a 2560x1440 would be more than sufficient to get the retina effect. Toss in the fact that the zenbook has a much more powerful integrated gpu (5100) and I don't understand what Samsung is doing... Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkI disagree that 2560x1440 is enough.
I want a 1600x900 screen at 13" at least. That's what I have right now, it's absolutely perfect, although it's 13.1" (Vaio Z) not 13.3". So that doubled up is 3200x1800. Reply
bji - Saturday, June 22, 2013 - linkYou don't *have* to go with an even divisor of the native resolution when you have a display with that high of a DPI. I run my 15 inch rMBP in 1680x1050 which is 0.555x the native resolution of 2880x1800. Yeah it's not even scaling but I cannot see any obvious artifacts even if I look very closely.
1600x900 on a native 2560x1440 display is 0.625, which is very similar to 1920x1200 on my 2880x1800 display (0.666) and it looks just as fine to me. Reply
ananduser - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkEngadget has claimed that both Ativ Books have an excellent trackpad, Apple-like in fact, just like the previous gen Ativ 7 they reviewed; but who cares about the trackpad when you have a touchscreen in your face. Reply
pixelstuff - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkThat's good news. The trackpad is the first thing I test out when looking for a laptop. Apple nearly perfected the trackpad and makes the majority of other designs feel like you are metaphorically walking through water instead of air. Reply
Impulses - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - linkAnyone that's actually gonna work would care, reaching over the keyboard constantly is still an awkward situation (and I say that based off experience with my ASUS Transformer), and busting the mouse out isn't always practical or even an option. Personally I detest pads regardless of whether it's Apple's or not, but a touchscreen is an even poorer substitution (outside of tablet mode or the like obviously). Reply
DanNeely - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkThe main reason for wanting this screen over the Zenbooks is that non-HDPI apps look better when scaled by an integer factor and the ATIV Book 9+ gives 1600x900 instead of 1280x720; giving both HDPI and high effective resolution to have a decent amount of stuff on the screen at the same time. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkAnd as for the GPU, HD 5100 is only available in a 28W TDP package; vs 15W for lesser IGPs. This should give the Samsung significantly better battery life. I do however stand with the people hoping the i7 model has HD5000 graphics (lower clocked GT3). Reply
Connoisseur - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkYeah I know the 12 hour battery life figure is crazy good and I'm sure people have use cases for it but I'd be okay with much better graphics horsepower and "only" 8-10 hour battery life (assuming the zenbook infinity can deliver that). It's not like my smartphone where the battery drains fast in a poor connection when i need it to be always on. For me, worst case scenario with a laptop is maybe I want to take a cross country flight and want to watch a few movies or play some games en route. If I can get a solid 5-6 hours with heavy usage or 8-10 hours with light, I'd be pretty happy with that. Reply
VengenceIsMine - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkIf Samsung is accurate on their battery life claims then the MacBook Air is going to have much tougher competition than it has had in years, though arguably the Sony VAIO Z two years ago was the best of the pre-ultra book rivals.
Advantage Air:
Probably still better keyboard & touchpad, Maybe fractionally better battery life?, Thunderbolt (really small advantage until market for accessories & monitors goes somewhere), PCIe SSD: Specwise a big advantage but not that much in the real world, SSD read speed is becoming less and less of a performance chokepoint, especially for desktop usage.
Advantage Samsung
HUGE screen advantage. So what if the GPU has trouble driving it in 3d, this is an ultrabook not a gaming rig, Sexier industrial design (it's thinner, lighter & newer than the MacBook Air). From a sales perspective it is so much easier to sell big flashy things like that screen than the possibility that the Thunderbolt market might actually turn into something Reply
hakime - Friday, June 21, 2013 - link"it's thinner, lighter & newer than the MacBook Air"
Lighter, really? Seem you should check your facts. The Samsung thing weights 3.06 pounds while the MBA weights 2.96 pound. Still think that it's lighter?
Thinner? Hum... I don't think so. The Samsung thing is 0.54 inches while the MBA is 0.11-0.68 inches. You have to be quite a Samsung lover to claim that the Samsung thing is thinner. Overall, the MBA is indeed thinner.
Sexier industrial design? Newer than the MacBook Air? Really? As far as I can see it and you must be quite blind not to see it, the Samsung thing is just an MBA design knock-off (like Samsung always does and anyone buying their stuff should feel ashamed) with a slightly modified shape and a different color. A knock-off of something can't be newer or more sexy than the original because it's just a knock-off after all.
"Maybe fractionally better battery life". Really? I have never seen a Samsung device that fulfills Samsung claims on battery life. They often throw a number out of an unrealistic test case and right now they had to throw 12 hours if they didn't want to feel embarrassed in front of the MBA. In fact I don't believe one second that this thing can reach something even close to 12 hours with such amount of pixels (which are here just for marketing) and with a GPU way more stressed to drive them (GPU which is by the way not powerful enough to do so hence the marketing resolution). It has maybe a bigger battery as it's heavier and thicker than the MBA, but I don't think it's enough.
"Thunderbolt (really small advantage until market for accessories & monitors goes somewhere)". Really. You would have said the entire opposite if Thunderbolt would be present in the Samsung thing. Suddenly having a super fast connection technology is not relevant, when in fact you find already today on the market a lot of PCI chassis, video and audio devices, mass storage drives ready for Thunderbolt. You don't see it because you don't want to or because being on pc, you haven't noticed that the market is already moving fast towards Thunderbolt. Now you may say ah yeah but those are professional gears. Well maybe, Thunderbolt is for speed otherwise use USB. But it remains that Thunderbolt is today a big advantage if you want to use your laptop for you know real work, not as a toy.
"PCIe SSD: Specwise a big advantage but not that much in the real world, SSD read speed is becoming less and less of a performance chokepoint, especially for desktop usage." Really? Again you would have said the complete opposite if the Samsung thing was built with PCIe SSD. Now suddenly performance does not matter, yes sure nice try! And your claim about SSD read speed becoming less important is total non sense. It's more relevant than ever in fact.
"From a sales perspective it is so much easier to sell big flashy things" Yes sure flashy thing that is an unbalanced computer in terms of performance (slow GPU that can't really handle the number of pixels, false claims on battery life to hide the negative impact of the screen resolution on real world battery life, no fast connections) that has this screen resolution for the sole reason of marketing purposes. And you would be mistaken to judge this screen on resolution alone when color accuracy is also very important and don't expect too much in that regard with this Samsung thing.
Here is my advise. If you want an ultra book that offers no compromise on performance and battery life, that is designed to be very fast (GPU capabilities consistent with the screen resolution, fast CPU, very fast connectivity, fast wireless with 802.11ac Wifi ac and Bluetooth 4.0 ) and for real work, buy a MBA.
If you are looking for a MBA knock-off that has a ton of pixels with a GPU too slow to drive them, poor real world battery life, and which runs a toy OS that is a total mess and frustrating to use (yes I am talking about Windows 8), then spend you money with Samsung. But you being a fool. Reply
inighthawki - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkLol you are a funny one sir... Reply
iamezza - Sunday, June 23, 2013 - linkderp Reply
ingwe - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - linkI like Apple and think their products work really well for some usage scenarios, but calm down man. Reply
ananduser - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkSamsung makes the PCIe SSDs in Apple's recent MBA. What makes you think these devices made by Samsung don't have PCIe SSDs ? Sony's latest Vaios also sport PCIe SSDs. Here's a hint, according to Cnet, this unit boots in 6 seconds and wakes up in 1 second. Surely the SSD has some role in it and not just Windows8. Reply
Penti - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkWhat makes you think it does? It's a SATA M.2 SSD according to the product number showing up in Device manager. It's not that a huge difference between a SATA 6Gbps SSD and a AHCI PCIe x2 SSD, PCIe allows for grater bandwidth, but AHCI/SATA-commands still limits other aspects. Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkVaio Z is heroic. There's still no clear successor.
Bias: I have Sony Vaio Z12 (Intel Core i5-520M 2.4 GHz, 8GiB RAM, 2x 64GB SSD RAID0, Geforce 330M GT 1GiB) Reply
Aho - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkA shop named LambdaTek has the base model listed at £1102.68...not too bad I suppose... Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkThe fact that they'd bundle a 3200x1800 equipped laptop with a micro-HDMI port boggles my mind. That becomes such an awful decision the moment you want to hook up a HiDPI external display.
Nothing less than mini-DP should be acceptable here. Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkNice screen, but piss-weak CPU/GPU. That basically ruins it. I don't care too much about battery life as such - but give me Haswell with at least Iris 5100, or it's kind of a bust.. Reply
Mondozai - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkMoronic statement. Unless you need to do gaming(why?), you dont need Iris graphics. Reply
daviderickson - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkIf there is anything to complain about it is the non-upgradeable 4GB of RAM.. that is truly bad... it should have 8 or 16 at least. And I can't tell, but it looks like only HDMI and USB3 ports? No Displayport makes me go something something..... Reply
Jocelyn - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkThere is an 8GB RAM/256GB SSD option ;) Reply
sherlockwing - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkIt is soldered on LPDDR3 Ram, not user upgradeable DDR3L Ram. Reply
ingwe - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - linkNo. That is the MBA that you are thinking about. The article says that it is DDR3L... Reply
mssoftmind - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkOn the left side of the notebook are connectors USB 3.0, microUSB adapter for connection to RJ45, micro-HDMI and a card reader.
http://www.myelectronicproduct.com/samsung-ativ-bo... Reply
davinleeds - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkI prefer:
http://www.myelectronicproduct.com/samsung-ativ-q-... Reply
Gabik123 - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkI was excited about this until I saw it was just an HD4400 graphics card on that chip. It would require an upgrade to an i7 with an hd5000 or possibly even iris (say hello to at least $200 more for what will already be a grossly overpriced ultrabook, given samsung's MSRPs...)
Guess the Zenbook Infinity it is! Reply
hfm - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkI'm just excited to see that notebooks like these are going to provide the kick in the pants we need to have proper DPI scaling from developers creating applications in Windows. Reply
dwade123 - Sunday, June 23, 2013 - linkYeah right...like people will actually use such a POS Android when they have the choice to use a real full fledge OS. Reply
ESC2000 - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - linkI haven't been able to figure out whether the ativ book 9 plus will be available with an i7 haswell processor and/or 8 GB of RAM... Does anyone know? Reply


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Backify: Up to 512GB of Free Online Storageby Kristian Vättö on 10/14/2011 8:05 AM EST
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Arsynic - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkMozy used to be unlimited too until they reached a certain number of subscribers. This sounds like bait and switch material. I'm sorry, but I'm staying with the devil I know, CrashPlan. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkYeah, that is the concern I have too. Mozy used to be great, but now it's overpriced. Reply
webmastir - Sunday, October 16, 2011 - linkTrue but CrashPlan will soon be going that route soon. They all will eventually. It's impossible this day and age to offer unlimited space when it becomes open to the public. Reply
LeftSide - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkCrashplan is great because you can backup to friends. If you have multiple gigs of family photos and videos, you can seed the upload with an external drive. It would have taken 3 months to upload all my photos and videos, but I brought my parents computer to my house and it took 2 days.
It work the other way around as well. If you have a tornado, it doesn't take a month to download everything, you just get it locally from your backup location. Reply
imaheadcase - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkYet the chart you posted shows $6 a month unlimited. Already i'm fishy about the service. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkIt's $3 a month if you pay the yearly fee ($36). If you subscribe for only one month, then it's more expensive. Reply
CFJ90210 - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkAw, was just about to point that out to imaheadcase. Reply
imaheadcase - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkah ic. Seems pretty cool. I just really worry about new startup's like this. They can come and go fast it would seem to me.
Granted I only have maybe 5gigs of crucial files i would like to keep, I already use WHS to backup computers, been looking for online solutions. Reply
hifiaudio2 - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkSo I just called their toll free number to ask how the software would deal with a USB attached 8 bay drive tower. First, the person just answered the phone with "hello" .. not "Backify".. so that was funny... and second the answer was "I don't know... just install the free account and see if it works.
They literally went live yesterday he said (10/13).
I think I will give this a good while before trusting my data to them.
Sounds great in theory though! Reply
CU - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkWhat prevents you from setting up multiply accounts? One for each computer you have. I just set up CrashPlan with my parents and we are backing up to each other. I would have considered this if it had came out a few days earlier. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkNothing, of course. Having one account may be easier though since all data is under the same account (think about streaming for example). Reply
ImSpartacus - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkWouldn't Crashplan make sure that all the computers have identical copies of the data?
So you could stream with equal effectiveness with any of the Backupify accounts, right?
I'm seriously considering this. Dropbox has been good to me for documents, but my media collection could easily fit within the half TB limit. Reply
ImSpartacus - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkBackify*** Reply
Kelemvor - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkExactly I use Dropbox for the easy transfer of files around but all my media and things doesn't fit. Might try this just to see how it works. I still have local copies on 3 machines via Synctoy so if it doesn't pan out, no big loss. Reply
jramskov - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkThe problem with Crashplan is that it doesn't really support network connections. I have a fast connection (25/25MBit unlimited fiber) and I wanted to setup offsite backup for my family so they could perform remote backup to my Synology NAS. I installed Crashplan on an old thinkpad and mounted my NAS to that. It started out okay and Crashplan sees and uses the mounted NAS but a reboot of either the NAS or the Thinkpad makes it somehow impossible for Crashplan to see/use the existing data there.
I also tried getting Crashplan to run directly on my NAS, others have gotten that to work, but I didn't. It would be pretty cool if Crashplan provided an official client for Synology NAS.
I am now using Duplicati instead: http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/ Reply
Red Storm - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkIf it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Reply
The Fold - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkSo I just signed up for the free account to have a look and downloaded their software.
The package that downloaded is Livedrive, which for anyone who hasn't seen it before is developed by livedrive.com, another online backup/storage company who also offer reseller packages for a low monthly fee.
This makes me dubious about the usability of the briefcase feature as when I trialled livedrive once before it was not only slow to upload files to but whenever I want to view a file it downloaded the whole thing to local storage, which isn't what I was after.
For backup only purposes, this service may well be a good deal, but I'll probably stick with Backblaze until someone says this thing is the best since sliced bread. Reply
Spivonious - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkIf the service is free, they're making money of off you some other way. Reply
ImSpartacus - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkOr they have enough cash to operate long enough to get people hooked so they can change to a paid model (a la Mozy). Reply
zorak4now - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkHave a look at www.beecloud.eu. They offer the same thing also for free. No questions asked. Their mission is to help as many people as possible with good backup. Reply
The Fold - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkBeecloud looks to be the same thing, a Livedrive reseller. Reply
Master_Sigma - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkAll the features and services Backify provides is great, but its severely hamstrung by the bandwidth caps that the ISP consortium is implementing. With 512GB or unlimited storage, I'd be tempted to upload, say, disk images which I can use to restore my machine if something happens Unfortunately, I can't do that without hitting a bandwidth cap and kicked off the net or charged out the rear. Any backup strategy that would make good use of all that storage would be hamstrung by caps.
Media streaming will hit the same problem. I listen to music all the time, and streaming movies anywhere looks tempting. How much of my limited unlimited bandwidth (no, that's not a typo, according to ISPs) will get eaten up by it? Reply
staylor - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkTheir site automatically forces https (yay!) but their certificate is broken (what?).
There are also no details regarding how the service works, aside from, "You just install the thing and things happen!"
Too many red flags for me to even give them my email address, much less any of my data. Reply
firerock - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkSo I poked around their site and when I click on Log In, the modal box didn't work and the whole thing broke. How can you trust some company doesn't even allow you to login w/ your precious data? Reply
liptonbrisk - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkThe registrant is Tarandeep Gill, the same guy behind the "IE users are dumb" hoax.
Way too much storage, half baked site, no logical business plan = bad news. Reply
totovo - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkSigned up for an account and they emailed me my password in plaintext. It's hard to trust a provider that doesn't take security seriously. Reply
MrJawbones - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkI know! I HATE it when sites do that. I need to change that password anyways... Reply
SilthDraeth - Saturday, October 15, 2011 - linkI know right. I mean, they should have emailed you an encrypted hash of your password. That way, you can't even log in, so you know your data is secure.
/sarcasm Reply
LitoP - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkYou can find the benefits for livedrive resellers in http://www.livedrive.com/ForResellers.
It says:
"Backup accounts are free
As a Livedrive reseller, Backup accounts are free! For just the fixed monthly fee of $59.95 per month you can create as many Livedrive Backup accounts as you'd like, with no charge per account. Livedrive Backup accounts make a fantastic value-add to any of your existing services" Reply
LitoP - Friday, October 14, 2011 - linkhttp://www.livedrive.com/ForResellers Reply
Golgatha - Monday, October 17, 2011 - linkKilled this offer before it had a chance to live. Reply
mfeller2 - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkIt's a lot of storage, but in case it doesn't pan out...raised rates, becomes a failed startup, etc., I am thinking about a strategy of using multiple services as they come along.
For critical/sensitive files, my idea is to put them in a Truecrypt store, and then back *that* up to the "cloud". It won't hurt having multiple copies off-site. Reply
Fluence1st - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkhttp://fluxuz.tumblr.com/post/12879563686/backifya... Reply
teedeedet - Monday, February 20, 2012 - linkI use Iozeta.com and I've never had any problems. Reply
Ghost 519 - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkAnandTech should make a note that the company was a fraud. Reply


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Lack of offense looms in Harvey's no-decision
Ike falls short in crucial at-bat with Mets in position to strike late
NEW YORK -- The onus officially fell to Ike Davis in the aftermath of Saturday's loss to the Pirates. Needing offense, Mets manager Terry Collins laid out a plan to stack his best run producers in the middle of his lineup. What Collins left unsaid, Davis put into words a day later, when his latest critical strikeout led to Sunday's 3-2 defeat to Pittsburgh.
"I have to produce more," Davis said, "or I won't play at this level."
In bumping Davis back to the cleanup spot, Collins increased the odds that opportunities might come. Hours later, in the eighth inning Sunday, such a moment appeared as if scripted.
Second baseman Daniel Murphy, who had been slumping even worse than Davis, sparked the rally with a one-out double in a one-run game. He moved to third on a wild pitch, prompting the Pirates to walk David Wright with the game on the line.
That put runners on the corners and brought Davis to the plate, one swing away from a happy flight to St. Louis. Instead, the first baseman swung through a fastball, fouled off a curve and swung at another breaking ball in the dirt, whiffing for a second out.
"I definitely let the team down, for sure," Davis said. "It's an at-bat that I have to come through."
The Mets still had a chance to tie the game, but Lucas Duda's rocket-fueled grounder bounced off the first-base bag and into Brandon Inge's glove, allowing the Pirates to escape. A quick ninth inning put a stamp on the loss, the Mets' 11th in their last 15 games.
"We're getting hit now with a two-headed monster: we're not hitting and we're not pitching," Collins said. "Certainly we've got to get it going, and there's no secret formula how to do it. You've got to go out and work your butt off and execute."
Pitching, at least on this day, was not the Mets' problem. Though starter Matt Harvey showcased something less than his best swing-and-miss stuff, he rebounded from two early walks and a Clint Barmes homer to give the Mets seven innings of two-run ball. Harvey noted that he felt "just a little off rhythm" all afternoon, and the Mets lauded his ability to keep them in the game regardless.
"He did his job," Collins said. "He can't do all the hitting for us."
Indeed, for just the second time in Harvey's seven starts, the Mets could not parlay his efforts into a win. Collins made a vow in the eighth inning that if the Pirates put a runner in scoring position, he would bring closer Bobby Parnell into the game. They did, and he did, but Parnell served up a go-ahead single to the first batter he faced, Pedro Alvarez.
That was all Parnell allowed, giving Davis his shot in the eighth.
The result was a quiet plane ride to Missouri, where the Mets' scuffling offense will meet the Cardinals' vaunted pitching for four ominous games. Perhaps Sunday's truest words rolled off the tongue of Duda, who noted that "you can't win games if you don't score."
The problems run up and down New York's roster, from Murphy's slump to Duda's inconsistency to John Buck's tale of two seasons. But the key to everything is Davis, who reported to Spring Training healthy, optimistic and ready to forget his disastrous first half of 2012.
When Davis began last season in a 2 1/2-month funk, the Mets pointed to his ongoing recovery from a major left ankle injury, as well as the Valley Fever scare that upturned his Spring Training. Mostly for those reasons, they opted against demoting Davis to the Minors when his slump reached its nadir. The former first-round Draft pick rewarded them handsomely, producing at elite levels from mid-June through September.
This year, those excuses are gone, though Davis does possess another crutch. He can lean on last summer, when he so suddenly and completely emerged from his funk.
"He got that callous from it," said outfielder Mike Baxter, whose game-tying hit in the seventh inning temporarily brightened the Mets' outlook. "He knows that it will turn. And that's what's great about Ike."
Baxter described Davis as constantly upbeat despite his slump. Yet it was a noticeably morose first baseman who appeared in the clubhouse after Sunday's game, wondering -- like everybody else -- when his fortunes might change."
"It's my job," Davis said. "I don't like doing horrible at my job."
Nor do his teammates, who sit a season-low six games under .500. This is a club searching for answers, though the Mets do know one thing for certain: if their season is to suddenly and unexpectedly change course, Davis will need to be the engine behind it.
"He's going to have to reach down inside and grind out at-bats," Collins said. "I asked if he was up to it and he said, 'Absolutely. Sign me up.'"
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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quote:Pod problem alters NCL Hawaii routes
Norwegian Cruise Line revised the schedule for Norwegian Star's Hawai`i itineraries due to damage to the forward thrust bearing in the ship's Azipod system.
The ship can still travel 18 knots but cannot achieve the normal 25 knots needed to run the Hawai`i itinerary including Fanning Island. Starting Sunday, through April 25, Norwegian Star will drop Fanning Island and operate a revised itinerary with more time in the Hawai`ian islands.
The vessel will enter its previously scheduled dry dock early for repairs to the Azipod. As a result, NCL cancelled Norwegian Star's May 2 Trans Pacific voyage from Honolulu to Vancouver. Passengers booked on this sailing will receive a full refund, a certificate qual to 25% of the amount they paid for the cruise and applicable airline change fees.