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A YOUNG driver who killed three people just days after being bailed for mowing down a pedestrian has been jailed for 12 and a half years.
Reckless Jak Parker, 24, was speeding in his hot-hatch MG ZR when he caused a horror crash that killed teenage students Rebecca Learoyd and Megan Robinson along with grandmother Anne Peachey.
Just 15 days earlier Parker was arrested after he was involved in a race which ended when unsuspecting Jean Hedley was knocked down and left severely injured as she crossed a road.
Last night relatives of Parker's victims told how his thuggish actions had destroyed their lives.
Teeside Crown Court heard how Parker drove at speed up behind 18-year-old Rebecca Learoyd's Fiat 500 and began fish-tailing her in the wet conditions on evening of June 23 last year.
Minutes later he overtook her travelling at more than twice the 30mph speed limit, causing Rebecca to lose control and plough head-on into another car driven by Mrs Peachey, 60.
Parker then left the trio dying as he sped away from the accident unscathed.
Mrs Peachey's daughter Joanne and her 13-year-old daughter Adele were both badly injured, and - trapped in the vehicle - were forced to listen to her panic-stricken final moments.
They drove through the village of Shotton Colliery Parker raced up behind them doing 72 mph in a 40 mph zone
Rebecca died at the scene while Megan died two days later in hospital.
Parker was arrested after returning to the scene and was jailed after admitting three counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one of causing serious injury.
Fellow boy-racer Roy Morrison, 20, was jailed for three-and-a-half years after being convicted by a jury of causing serious injury to Mrs Hedley by dangerous driving on June 8.
The duo had been racing at 71mph in the village of Wheatley Hill, County Durham, when they struck Mrs Hedley as she crossed a road with a friend. She was left unconscious with two broken legs.
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As they drove through the village of Shotton Colliery Parker raced up behind them doing 72 mph in a 40 mph zone.
The court heard that Rebecca "egged on" by Parker's driving sped-up with her car's black box later showing the vehicle was travelling at 77 miles per hour in a 30pmh zone.
Seconds later Parker overtook causing Rebecca to lose control and veer into the path of Mrs Peachey's Citroen Xsara.
In a harrowing victim impact statement council worker Mrs Peachey's daughter Joanne Harland told how she and her daughter Adele had been trapped with her in the wreckage.
She said: "I cannot forget that day as it is when I lost my mother, who was my best friend.
"I cannot close my eyes without flashbacks. The worst part was the time spent trapped as my precious mother's life ebbed away. I can still hear the panic in her voice."
Megan's mother Jacqueline said: "Her last words "See you later Mam," will stay with me forever."
Rebecca's father John Learoyd added: "My life has been completely shattered by the death of my only child at the age of 18. There is not a day that goes by where I don't think about the loss of Rebecca and how I will not be able to celebrate all the milestones in her life. I feel guilty that I can carry on with my life."
Jailing parker Judge Simon Bourne-Arton said: "You have shattered the lives of three families, three families who have lost respectively a daughter, a mother, a wife and a grandmother.
"You were driving in the most dangerous of fashions, nothing you can say can ever begin to compensate the families and friends of these victims."


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A 70-year old man is heading to North Yorkshire as part of an 18-month sponsored walk across the UK to raise £100,000 for The Salvation Army's work with homeless people and victims of human trafficking.
Andy Peddle will be walking through, Thirsk today, and York on Friday, tehn he'll be moving on to, Driffield, Filey and Middlesbrough, including paying a visit to Middlesbrough Football Club. He will continue to the East Riding of Yorkshire before heading to Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, on 14 November.
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"Like a bird with great wings, the movement of a sailing ship is the poetry of motion."
– Errol Flynn
"Cruise of the Zaca" (1952, Errol Flynn) is a short documentary directed, starring and narrated by the actor who immortalized Robin Hood. Buried under a whole load of bonus material that accompanies an Errol Flynn classic, we find this little treasure coming from the Caribbean Sea. In association with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the actor used his schooner, the Zaca, and financed a series of scientific expeditions intended for marine research. It's a "thoughtful little film"(1) that reveals his deep love for sailing, his "inherited" interest in biology and his genuine adventurous nature. Surrounded by family and friends, Errol opened up the doors to his own paradise. Do not miss out on the opportunity for a fantastic journey aboard the Zaca. Prepare to be amazed.


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CHICAGO, June 5 (UPI) -- Techweek Chicago saw sponsors and supporters drop after they produced an ad that many are calling misogynistic and endemic of the tech business.
The ad promotes a black tie charity event and features women in form-fitting tuxedo costumes posing suggestively. The ad has been widely criticized by people on Twitter.
Tech 100 honorees, including Google engineering manager Brian Fitzpatrick and former Obama for America CTO Harper Reed, told Techweek to remove their names from the list. Crain's Chicago Business, Max Temkin, co-creator of the best-selling game Cards Against Humanity, and Lightspan Digital have either pulled their sponsorship or refused to offer sponsorship in response to the ads.
"How amazingly tone-deaf it is, considering how much discussion there's been, especially in the last six months, around diversity in the tech scene, around misogyny in the tech scene," Dan Sinker, director of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Project, told the Huffington Post.
At the end of May, Google released its data on diversity, showing women only make up 30 percent of the company's staff.
Techweek Chicago issued an apology Wednesday saying, "The last thing we want to do is alienate anyone in the community and we sincerely apologize if this event or imagery is offensive to you."
Attendees of the conference were not impressed.
"In the South, they call it a 'big city apology," said Temkin. "'Sorry if you were offended' puts the onus of the apology on the people who were hurt by it."
Most of the outrage has come from men, which according to Sinkler is due to the hostility women may face if the speak out against the ad.
"At least a certain subset of the tech community [in Chicago] is actively working to get away from [sexism] and have events that are far more welcoming to not just white dudes," said Sinker.


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New Delhi, Nov 11: Australian cricket legend Adam Gilchrist opened up on comparison between talismanic Indian batsman Virat Kohli and cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar.
In an interview to Times of India, Gilchrist said, "They are different types of players. Virat is the 'next generation' player. As an opponent you may feel like he will offer you a chance, but that comes with a risk too. He can take it away from you quickly.
"Sachin, on the other hand, was so clinical. So often you felt like you just won't get him out, dislodge him. He would just build, build, and build. He is the best player I have played against, but I think by the end of Virat's career, his record and the way he is regarded in the cricketing world will right up there, close to Sachin," Gilchrist added further.
('Virat has the potential to match Sachin')
Virat Kohli has been superb with the bat in the year 2016 across all formats. The Delhi dasher has aggregated runs at ease against every opposition this year.
Talking about India's limited overs' skipper MS Dhoni, Gilchrist said he should continue playing for India till the time he deems fit.
Even Indian selectors want Dhoni to continue playing and lead the side till 2019 World Cup, if he feels.
(MS Dhoni can continue playing till 2019 World Cup, feel selectors)
The Captain Cool had only recenlty expressed his desire to continue playing till the next World Cup, a wish which was backed by many in the cricketing fraternity across India.
Sources were quoted as saying, the selectors don't want to change the current hierarchy of the ODI team and would be quite happy if Dhoni continues to play for India till the 2019 World Cup.
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Udupi: A 29-year-old man drowned while swimming in the river near Kurkal Manipura dam here on September 25.
The deceased has been identified as Vijeth Suvarna (29), a resident of Kurkalu, Subhasnagar.
According to the police, Vijeth Suvarna along with eight of his friends had planned to go for swimming in the Manipura River.
While they were swimming in the river, Vijeth and two others were dragged away by a strong current. Other friends tried to save them, they immediately pulled them out from the river and rushed to the Manipal hospital. But Vijeth breathed his last in the hospital. Two others who were admitted in the hospital are out of danger.
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Understanding Planning
DP&E's role
NSW needs a greater variety of homes and more of them; more jobs, and an easy way to get between the two. The Department's role is to plan for growth in NSW, by building great places for people to live and work in a modern and smart way.
Assessment Systems
For all developments an environmental assessment of the impacts of the development is needed. The level of assessment varies according to the size, scale and location of the development. There are eight main development assessment and approval systems in NSW.
Areas requiring special planning and development assessments
Some areas have unique qualities which warrant special development assessment provisions to ensure the level of assessment addresses those characteristics properly.
Environmental Matters
Much of the information that gives us a better understanding of how important environmental matters are addressed during development assessment, are contained in environmental assessment policies and guidelines related to people, built environment, land, water and air.
Each industry has particular characteristics which justify specific policies and guidelines to help ensure that their impacts and benefits are recognised and managed effectively.
Major Projects
Information on current and determined projects in the SSD and SSI systems can be viewed in the Major Projects Register. You can also lodge an application or comment on an application that is on exhibition.
Voluntary Planning Agreements
Agreements between a planning authority (such as the Minister for Planning) and a developer are called Voluntary Planning Agreements (VPAs). Under the agreement a developer agrees to provide or fund: public amenities and public services. The Secretary is required to keep a register of any VPAs entered into by the Minister.
Planning in NSW is largely governed by two pieces of legislation; the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000. Whilst the Act and the Regulation provide the overarching structure for planning in NSW, there are a number of other statutory documents that support that structure including; State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs) and Local Environmental Plans (LEPs).
ePlanning Program
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Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Plays CD Track Listing
Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Plays (1962)
Originally Released 1962\nCD Edition Released 1987\nRemastered CD Edition Released August 1, 2000\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Although it would have been interesting to hear Nat Cole play some piano and perhaps accompany a vocal by George Shearing instead of exclusively the other way around, this session was a big success. Cole is in prime form on such songs as "September Song," "Pick Yourself Up," and "Serenata." Shearing's accompaniment is tasteful and lightly swinging, and the string arrangements help to accentuate the romantic moods. This CD adds three "new" selections from the same sessions to the original program. -- Scott Yanow \n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nIt would be difficult to think of a more perfectly matched pair than this. Shearing and Cole had so much in common--both were brilliant pianists, both had combined good jazz with popular success. They were even born in the same year. Nat Cole's velvet voice sounds even better with the rhythmic spice of Shearing's quintet, plus strings and percussion. The numbers on this 1961 album are all superb examples of classic American song, by such composers as Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, and Matt Dennis. Each one is given a fresh and original treatment by arranger Ralph Carmichael. One of the tracks, "Let There Be Love," went on to become a hit single. The overall impression is of emotional warmth beneath a cool, elegant surface. Not surprisingly, Shearing still cherishes this album as one of his favorites in a long career. All that plus three bonus tracks. Unmissable. --Dave Gelly \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nFrom the Oyster comes the Pearl, or, in this case, Pearls, October 13, 2004\nReviewer: Mark E. Farrington (Albany, NY)\nA poor soul, stuck in this post-9/11 era of ours, might be forgiven, after listening to this impossibly beautiful disc, for thinking of a lost time of breezy, assured prosperity, new jet travel, Jack & Jackie in the White House, and a feeling of "We've got all the time in the world to enjoy these vouschsafed pleasures...Come on in and have at it." \n\nAnd of course, it wasn't so simple: even in his exclusive Hancock Park home, Nat & his family had to deal with racism, IRS harrassment and other controversies... And Geroge Shearing's life, while fulfilling, has hardly been easy, being blind... Still, from the oyster comes the pearl- in this case, 15 pearls (or tracks). \n\nOften the "Shearing Quintet Sound" gets imitated and sounds, well, superficial and "cocktail-y." But in the hands of its creator, this style NEVER sounds like a surface-level bluff; it's beauty, borne of real-life struggle... And after THAT, one can relax, let it unfold and "pleasure" us with its surprises. One of those surprises: beholding the seemingly predictable voicings of melodic phrases that you KNOW are coming; when your "prediction" is fulfilled, you get not only a "logical satisfaction" but a surprise "pleasure hit." Case in point: the instrumental bridge to "Azure-Te." You "know" what's coming, but the FEELING, regardless of how many times you play this track, is a fresh surprise. It has to do with style, discipline and empathy- applied to collective phrasing from one musical "clause" to the next. \n\nAnd speaking of instrumental bridges, just listen to those in "Pick Yourself Up" (track 2) and "Serenata" (track 9); kaleidoscopically unexpected harmonic colors in a relaxed groove- propelled by Shearing and Shelly Manne's drums. \n\nNot to mention Nat's seemingly loose but potent, jazz-inflected delivery of words and music ("I Got It Bad," "Azure-Te, "A Beautiful Friendship"). \n\nThen, see for yourself if track 8, "Fly Me To The Moon," isn't the ultimate in sheer, sensual seduction. (Indeed, to get anything within even hailing distance of this track, we've had to wait- for over 40 years ! - for Michael Bublee's "Put Your Head on My Shoulder." Use BOTH with caution...) \n\nAnd for autumnal tang, "September Song," and "Lost April" with its lament over April's "numbered days" ("...so when they passed/Love couldn't last..."), are worthy jazz/pop equivalents of the andante in Mozart's 39th Symphony. Which makes one realize that, although an album like this seems to flow out of some kind of eternal "spring" from which several MORE could have come... yet, this musical partnership never happened again. Still, there's so much variety of mood, texture and tempo, within this one album, that it nearly "makes a world of its own," and envelopes you in a feeling of such well-being that the autumnal regrets ("the sand particles") become pearls. So, in the end, no regrets: just beautiful collaborative music, in a class of its own. Life is too short NOT to have music like this on hand. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nCole + Shearing = PERFECTION!!!, September 12, 2000\nReviewer: The Fancy One "blackprincess" (New York, NY) \nAs I listened to this CD, in the back of my mind I kept wishing that it were Nat King Cole playing such excellent jazz piano. He certainly was capable. But his career as a singer took off like a jet, and his turns as a musician became fewer and fewer. However, Cole had a reputation for trying new things and liked collaborating with different artists to come up with something fresh and interesting. This CD is just one of the rewards of Cole's versatility. \n\nGeorge Shearing is an excellent jazz pianist that has a style amazingly similar to Nat Cole's. And it's no wonder -- they both have credited ivory tinklers Earl Hines, Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson as their influences. Shearing and his Quintet (especially Emil Richards on vibes) bring the songs here to life with their intimate, jazzy and bluesy nuances...a perfect background for Cole's smoky baritone. Nat swings and seduces you on every irresistable track, and even gets on the Latin tip ("The Game Of Love"). I am totally feeling these particular tracks: "September Song," "Beautiful Friendship," "Pick Yourself Up," "Azure-Te," "Fly Me To The Moon", "Serenata", "There's A Lull In My Life" and "I Got It Bad." Cole also revisits a couple of tunes he originally did with the King Cole Trio, "Lost April" and "I'm Lost." But hands down, the best track on this CD has GOT to be "Let There Be Love"!! It is the epitome of COOL. It is no wonder that this song became so popular when Nat did it in 1962, that it became a permanent part of his act. \n\nThese tracks sound just as fresh and new as if they were recorded yesterday! I highly recommend NAT "KING" COLE SINGS/GEORGE SHEARING PLAYS for anyone who has an appreciation for good music! So whatcha waiting for? Get it NOW! You will not be sorry.\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nEmil Richards, Contributing Artist\nShelly Manne, Contributing Artist\n\n\nAlbum Notes\nThis edition of NAT "KING" COLE SINGS/GEORGE SHEARING PLAYS contains three bonus tracks from the same recording sessions which did not appear on the original album.\n\nPersonnel: Nat Cole (vocals); Ralph Carmichael (conductor); Al Hendrickson (guitar); Paul Horn, Wilbur Schwartz, Justin Gordon (flute, piccolo); Lloyd Ulyate (trombone); George Shearing (piano); Emil Richards (vibraphone); Al McKibbon (bass); Shelly Manne (drums); Carlos Vidal (congas); Nick Martinez, Luis Miranda (percussion).\n\nProducer: Lee Gillette, Tom Morgan.\nReissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.\n\nRecorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California from December 19-22, 1961. Includes liner notes by Pete Welding.\n\nDigitally remastered by Ron McMaster.\n\nThis 1961 recording is a wonderful collaboration between two jazz titans. In fact, it's a shame singer Nat "King" Cole and pianist George Shearing didn't make more albums together. Inviting Shearing to play on this record is an example of Cole's musical selflessness. (A noted pianist himself, Cole might have been insulted by Capitol's suggestion to work with Shearing. Thankfully, history proved otherwise.)\n\nComprised of 12 tracks plus three bonus takes, NAT "KING" COLE SINGS/GEORGE SHEARING PLAYS combines the intimacy of a piano quartet with the immense sound of a string orchestra. A gentle, swaying "September Song" and a surprisingly subdued "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" are two fine examples of the record's relaxed mood. Cole and Shearing's interpretation of "Fly Me to the Moon" is especially stirring; performed as a slow ballad, Bart Howard's melody is captured in all its natural beauty on this rendition like never before. For fans of Cole and/or Shearing, this is a must-have disc.
This jazz cd contains 15 tracks and runs 47min 4sec.
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- Nat King Cole - September Song (03:02)
- Nat King Cole - Pick Yourself Up (03:12)
- Nat King Cole - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (03:44)
- Nat King Cole - Let There Be Love (02:45)
- Nat King Cole - Azure-Te (03:55)
- Nat King Cole - Lost April (03:21)
- Nat King Cole - A Beautiful Friendship (02:41)
- Nat King Cole - Fly Me To The Moon (03:32)
- Nat King Cole - Serenata (03:04)
- Nat King Cole - I'm Lost (03:30)
- Nat King Cole - There's A Lull In My Life (02:27)
- Nat King Cole - Don't Go (02:34)
- Nat King Cole - Everything Happens To Me (Previously Unissued Track from Original Sessions) (03:20)
- Nat King Cole - The Game Of Love (Previously Unissued Track from Original Sessions) (02:57)
- Nat King Cole - Guess I'll Go Back Home (Previously Unissued Track from Original Sessions) (02:49)


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It will do wonders.As language is the medium of expression.So dual language will provide an option and liking to express one thing in English where as the other thing in Spanish.This will increase activity and may lead a way to solutions.


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Hi, Kdet, and welcome! Chutz gave you great advice so I have nothing to add, but I did want to pop in and welcome you to our family. I'm so glad you found us and joined in. We do have wonderful members that love to help one another so I think you will like it here.
Fibro 101...the first thread on the forum...has a lot of good information that can help you and you will learn a lot. Also, we have daily Koffee Klatches where the topic for the day has nothing to do with pain or illness. It helps take your mind off it for a little bit. And, on Thursdays, there is a chat on the forum. Be looking for Chutz's reminder tomorrow.
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Podcast #324 - Civilization: Beyond Earth, Consoles Performance Issues, Samsung SSD updates and more
Subject: General Tech | October 30, 2014 - 02:10 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: xbox one, video, steiger dynamics, ps4, podcast, nvidia, Mantle, LIVA, Intel, ECS, Broadwell-E, amd, Alienware 13
PC Perspective Podcast #324 - 10/30/2014
Join us this week as we discuss Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance, Consoles Performance Issues, Samsung SSD updates and more!
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Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox One Already Hitting a Performance Wall
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | October 27, 2014 - 04:50 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: xbox one, sony, ps4, playstation 4, microsoft, amd
A couple of weeks back a developer on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Unity was quoted that the team had decided to run both the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 variants of the game at 1600x900 resolution "to avoid all the debates and stuff." Of course, the Internet exploded in a collection of theories about why that would be the case: were they paid off by Microsoft?
For those of us that focus more on the world of PC gaming, however, the following week an email into the Giantbomb.com weekly podcast from an anonymous (but seemingly reliable) developer on the Unity team raised even more interesting material. In this email, despite addressing other issues on the value of pixel count and the stunning visuals of the game, the developer asserted that we may have already peaked on the graphical compute capability of these two new gaming consoles. Here is a portion of the information:
The PS4 couldn't do 1080p 30fps for our game, whatever people, or Sony and Microsoft say. ...With all the concessions from Microsoft, backing out of CPU reservations not once, but twice, you're looking at about a 1-2 FPS difference between the two consoles.
What's hard is not getting the game to render but getting everything else in the game at the same level of performance we designed from the start for the graphics. By the amount of content and NPCs in the game, from someone who witnessed a lot of optimizations for games from Ubisoft in the past, this is crazily optimized for such a young generation of consoles. This is really about to define the next-generation unlike any other game beforehand.
We are bound from the CPU because of AI. Around 50% of the CPU is used for the pre-packaged rendering parts..
So, if we take this anonymous developers information as true, and this whole story is based on that assumption, then have learned some interesting things.
- The PS4, the more graphically powerful of the two very similarly designed consoles, was not able to maintain a 30 FPS target when rendering at 1920x1080 resolution with Assassin's Creed Unity.
- The Xbox One (after giving developers access to more compute cycles previously reserved to Kinect) is within a 1-2 FPS mark of the PS4.
- The Ubisoft team see Unity as being "crazily optimized" for the architecture and consoles even as we just now approach the 1 year anniversary of their release.
- Half of the CPU compute time is being used to help the rendering engine by unpacking pre-baked lighting models for the global illumination implementation and thus the game is being limited by the 50% remaining performance power the AI, etc.
It would appear that just as many in the media declared when the specifications for the new consoles were announced, the hardware inside the Playstation 4 and Xbox One undershoots the needs of game developers to truly build "next-generation" games. If, as this developer states, we are less than a year into the life cycle of hardware that was planned for an 8-10 year window and we have reached performance limits, that's a bad sign for game developers that really want to create exciting gaming worlds. Keep in mind that this time around the hardware isn't custom built cores or using a Cell architecture - we are talking about very basic x86 cores and traditional GPU hardware that ALL software developers are intimately familiar with. It does not surprise me one bit that we have seen more advanced development teams hit peak performance.
If the PS4, the slightly more powerful console of the pair, is unable to render reliably at 1080p with a 30 FPS target, then unless the Ubisoft team are completely off the rocker in terms of development capability, the advancement of gaming on consoles would appear to be somewhat limited. Remember the specifications for these two consoles:
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|8-core Jaguar APU
|8-core Jaguar APU
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|1152 Stream Unit APU
|768 Stream Unit APU
|Peak Compute
The custom built parts from AMD both feature an 8-core Jaguar x86 architecture and either 768 or 1152 stream processors. The Jaguar CPU cores aren't high performance parts: single-threaded performance of Jaguar is less than the Intel Silvermont/Bay Trail designs by as much as 25%. Bay Trail is powering lots of super low cost tablets today and even the $179 ECS LIVA palm-sized mini-PC we reviewed this week. And the 1152/768 stream processors in the GPU portion of the AMD APU provide some punch, but a Radeon HD 7790 (now called the R7 260X), released in March of 2013, provides more performance than the PS4 and the Radeon R7 250X is faster than what resides in the Xbox One.
If you were to ask me today what kind of performance would be required from AMD's current GPU lineup for a steady 1080p gaming experience on the PC, I would probably tell you the R9 280, a card you can buy today for around $180. From NVIDIA, I would likely pick a GTX 760 (around $200).
Also note that if the developer is using 50% of the CPU resources for rendering computation and the remaining 50% isn't able to hold up its duties on AI, etc., we likely have hit performance walls on the x86 cores as well.
Even if this developer quote is 100% correct that doesn't mean that the current generation of consoles is completely doomed. Microsoft has already stated that DirectX 12, focused on performance efficiency of current generation hardware, will be coming to the Xbox One and that could mean additional performance gains for developers. The PS4 will likely have access to OpenGL Next that is due in the future. And of course, it's also possible that this developer is just wrong and there is plenty of headroom left in the hardware for games to take advantage of.
But honestly, based on my experience with these GPU and CPU cores, I don't think that's the case. If you look at screenshots of Assassin's Creed Unity and then look at the minimum and recommended specifications for the game on the PC, there is huge, enormous discrepancy. Are the developers just writing lazy code and not truly optimizing for the hardware? It seems unlikely that a company the size of Ubisoft would choose this route on purpose, creating a console game that runs in a less-than-ideal state while also struggling on the PC version. Remember, there is almost no "porting" going on here: the Xbox One and Playstation 4 share the same architecture as the PC now.
Of course, we might just be treading through known waters. I know we are a bit biased, and so is our reader base, but I am curious: do you think MS and Sony have put themselves in a hole with their shortsighted hardware selections?
UPDATE: It would appear that a lot of readers and commentors take our editorial on the state of the PS4 and XB1 as a direct attack on AMD and its APU design. That isn't really the case - regardless of what vendors' hardware is inside the consoles, had Microsoft and Sony still targeted the same performance levels, we would be in the exact same situation. An Intel + NVIDIA hardware combination could just have easily been built to the same peak theoretical compute levels and would have hit the same performance wall just as quickly. MS and Sony could have prevented this by using higher performance hardware, selling the consoles at a loss out the gate and preparing each platform for the next 7-10 years properly. And again, the console manufacturers could have done that with higher end AMD hardware, Intel hardware or NVIDIA hardware. The state of the console performance war is truly hardware agnostic.
AMD Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta for Civilization: Beyond Earth
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 26, 2014 - 02:44 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: amd, driver, catalyst
So Ryan has been playing many games lately, as a comparison between the latest GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA. While Civilization: Beyond Earth is not the most demanding game in existence on GPUs, it is not trivial either. While not the most complex, from a video card's perspective, it is a contender for most demanding game on your main processor (CPU). It also has some of the most thought-out Mantle support of any title using the API, when using the AMD Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta driver.
And now you can!
The Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta drivers support just about anything using the GCN architecture, from APUs (starting with Kaveri) to discrete GPUs (starting with the HD 7000 and HD 7000M series). Beyond enabling Mantle support in Civilization, it also fixes some issues with Metro, Shadow of Mordor, Total War: Rome 2, Watch_Dogs, and other games.
Also, both AMD and Firaxis are aware of a bug in Civilization: Beyond Earth where the mouse cursor does not click exactly where it is supposed to, if the user enables font scaling in Windows. They are working on it, but suggest setting it to the default (100%) if users experience this issue. This could be problematic for customers with high-DPI screens, but could keep you playing until an official patch is released.
You can get 14.9.2 Beta for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 at AMD's website.
AMD Radeon R9 290X Now Selling at $299
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 24, 2014 - 03:44 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: radeon, R9 290X, leaderboard, hwlb, hawaii, amd, 290x
When NVIDIA launched the GTX 980 and GTX 970 last month, it shocked the discrete graphics world. The GTX 970 in particular was an amazing performer and undercut the price of the Radeon R9 290 at the time. That is something that NVIDIA rarely does and we were excited to see some competition in the market.
AMD responded with some price cuts on both the R9 290X and the R9 290 shortly thereafter (though they refuse to call them that) and it seems that AMD and its partners are at it again.
Looking on Amazon.com today we found several R9 290X and R9 290 cards at extremely low prices. For example:
- XFX Radeon R9 290X Double D - $299 (after MIR)
- Gigabyte R9 290X WindForce - $360
- MSI R9 290X Gaming - $366
The R9 290X's primary competition in terms of raw performance is the GeForce GTX 980, currently selling for $549 and up. If you can find them in stock, that means NVIDIA has a hill of $250 to climb when going against the lowest priced R9 290X.
The R9 290 looks interesting as well:
Several other R9 290 cards are selling for upwards of $300-320 making them bone-headed decisions if you can get the R9 290X for the same or lower price, but considering the GeForce GTX 970 is selling for at least $329 today (if you can find it) and you can see why consumers are paying close attention.
Will NVIDIA make any adjustments of its own? It's hard to say right now since stock is so hard to come by of both the GTX 980 and GTX 970 but it's hard to imagine NVIDIA lowering prices as long as parts continue to sell out. NVIDIA believes that its branding and technologies like G-Sync make GeForce cards more valuable and until they being to see a shift in the market, I imagine that will stay the course.
For those of you that utilize our Hardware Leaderboard you'll find that Jeremy has taken these prices into account and update a couple of the system build configurations.
A Civ for a New Generation
Turn-based strategy games have long been defined by the Civilization series. Civ 5 took up hours and hours of the PC Perspective team's non-working hours (and likely the working ones too) and it looks like the new Civilization: Beyond Earth has the chance to do the same. Early reviews of the game from Gamespot, IGN, and Polygon are quite positive, and that's great news for a PC-only release; they can sometimes get overlooked in the games' media.
For us, the game offers an interesting opportunity to discuss performance. Beyond Earth is definitely going to be more CPU-bound than the other games that we tend to use in our benchmark suite, but the fact that this game is new, shiny, and even has a Mantle implementation (AMD's custom API) makes interesting for at least a look at the current state of performance. Both NVIDIA and AMD sent have released drivers with specific optimization for Beyond Earth as well. This game is likely to be popular and it deserves the attention it gets.
Testing Process
Civilization: Beyond Earth, a turn-based strategy game that can take a very long time to complete, ships with an integrated benchmark mode to help users and the industry test performance under different settings and hardware configurations. To enable it, you simple add "-benchmark results.csv" to the Steam game launch options and then start up the game normally. Rather than taking you to the main menu, you'll be transported into a view of a map that represents a somewhat typical gaming state for a long term session. The game will use the last settings you ran the game at to measure your system's performance, without the modified launch options, so be sure to configure that before you prepare to benchmark.
The output of this is the "result.csv" file, saved to your Steam game install root folder. In there, you'll find a list of numbers, separated by commas, representing the frame times for each frame rendering during the run. You don't get averages, a minimum, or a maximum without doing a little work. Fire up Excel or Google Docs and remember the formula:
1000 / Average (All Frame Times) = Avg FPS
It's a crude measurement that doesn't take into account any errors, spikes, or other interesting statistical data, but at least you'll have something to compare with your friends.
Our testing settings
Just as I have done in recent weeks with Shadow of Mordor and Sniper Elite 3, I ran some graphics cards through the testing process with Civilization: Beyond Earth. These include the GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon R9 290X only, along with SLI and CrossFire configurations. The R9 290X was run in both DX11 and Mantle.
- Core i7-3960X
- ASUS Rampage IV Extreme X79
- GeForce GTX 980 Reference (344.48)
- ASUS R9 290X DirectCU II (14.9.2 Beta)
Mantle Additions and Improvements
AMD is proud of this release as it introduces a few interesting things alongside the inclusion of the Mantle API.
- Enhanced-quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA): Improves anti-aliasing quality by doubling the coverage samples (vs. MSAA) at each AA level. This is automatically enabled for AMD users when AA is enabled in the game.
- Multi-threaded command buffering: Utilizing Mantle allows a game developer to queue a much wider flow of information between the graphics card and the CPU. This communication channel is especially good for multi-core CPUs, which have historically gone underutilized in higher-level APIs. You'll see in your testing that Mantle makes a notable difference in smoothness and performance high-draw-call late game testing.
- Split-frame rendering: Mantle empowers a game developer with total control of multi-GPU systems. That "total control" allows them to design an mGPU renderer that best matches the design of their game. In the case of Civilization: Beyond Earth, Firaxis has selected a split-frame rendering (SFR) subsystem. SFR eliminates the latency penalties typically encountered by AFR configurations.
EQAA is an interesting feature as it improves on the quality of MSAA (somewhat) by doubling the coverage sample count while maintaining the same color sample count as MSAA. So 4xEQAA will have 4 color samples and 8 coverage samples while 4xMSAA would have 4 of each. Interestingly, Firaxis has decided the EQAA will be enabled on Beyond Earth anytime a Radeon card is detected (running in Mantle or DX11) and AA is enabled at all. So even though in the menus you might see 4xMSAA enabled, you are actually running at 4xEQAA. For NVIDIA users, 4xMSAA means 4xMSAA. Performance differences should be negligible though, according to AMD (who would actually be "hurt" by this decision if it brought down FPS).
Continue reading our article on Civilization: Beyond Earth performance!!
Who rules the ~$250 market? XFX R9 285 Black Edition versus the GTX 760
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 23, 2014 - 04:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xfx, R9 285 Black Edition, factory overclocked, amd
Currently sitting at $260 the XFX R9 285 Black Edition is a little less expensive than the ASUS ROG STRIKER GTX 760 and significantly more expensive than the ASUS GTX760 DirectCU2 card. Those prices lead [H]ard|OCP to set up a showdown to see which card provided the best bang for the buck, especially once they overclocked the AMD card to 1125MHz core and 6GHz RAM. In the end it was a very close race between the cards, the performance crown did go to the R9 285 BE but that performance comes at a premium as you can get performance almost as good for $50 less. Of course the both the XFX card and the STRIKER sell at a premium compared to cards with less features and a stock setup; you should expect the lower priced R9 285s to be closer in performance to the DirectCU2 card.
"Today we are reviewing the new XFX Radeon R9 285 Black Edition video card. We will compare it to a pair of GeForce GTX 760 based GPUs to determine the best at the sub-$250 price point. XFX states that it is faster than the GTX 760, but that is based on a single synthetic benchmark, let's see how it holds up in real world gaming."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- ZOTAC GTX 780 AMP! Edition Graphics Card Review @ TechwareLabs
- ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 970 4GB @ eTeknix
- GeForce GTX 970 cards from MSI and Asus @ The Tech Report
- ASUS STRIX GTX 980 OC 4 GB @ techPowerUp
- MSI GTX980 Gaming 4G @ Kitguru
- MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G – New Maxwell Price/Performance Beast @ Bjorn3D
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Offers Great Linux Performance @ Phoronix
Podcast #323 - GTX 980M Performance, MSI X99S Gaming 9 AC and more!
Subject: General Tech | October 23, 2014 - 01:56 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, podcast, GTX 980M, msi, X99S GAMING 9 AC, amd, nvidia, Intel, Kingwin, APU, Kaveri, 344.48, dsr
PC Perspective Podcast #323 - 10/23/2014
Join us this week as we discuss GTX 980M Performance, MSI X99S Gaming 9 AC and more!
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Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
Ryan: Moto 360
Jeremy: It's not really a hoverboard
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AMD Cuts APU Prices and Q3 Results Fallout
Subject: Processors | October 22, 2014 - 10:02 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: Richland, Q3 results, lisa su, Kaveri, APU, amd, A10 7850K
While AMD made a small profit last quarter, the Q4 outlook from the company is not nearly as rosy. AMD estimates that Q4 revenues will be around 12% lower than Q3, making for a rare drop in what is typically a robust season for sales. Unlike Intel, AMD is seeing a very soft PC market for their products. Intel so far has been able to deliver parts that are as fast, if not faster than the latest APUs, but they also feature lower TDPs while at a comparable price. The one area that AMD has a significant advantage is in terms of 3D performance and better driver support.
To keep the chips selling during this very important quarter, AMD is cutting the prices on their entire lineup of FM2+ parts. This includes the entire Kaveri based lineup from the top end A10-7850K to the A6-7400K. AMD is also cutting the prices on the previous Richland based parts, which include the A10-6800K. Also of interest is that buyers of A10 APUs will be able to select one of three game titles (Murdered: Soul Suspect, Thief, or Sniper Elite 3) for free, or use the included code to purchase Corel's Aftershot Pro 2 for only $5.
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The A10-7850K is a pretty good part overall, though of course it does suffer at the hands of Intel when it comes to pure CPU performance. It still is a pretty quick part that competes well with Intel's 2 core/4 thread chips. 3D performance from the integrated graphics is class leading, and the potential for using that unit for HSA applications is another checkmark for AMD. We have yet to see widespread adoption of HSA, but we are seeing more and more software products coming out that support it. Having tested it out myself, the GPU portion of the APU can be enabled when using a standalone GPU from either AMD or NVIDIA. The Kaveri chips also support TrueAudio, which will show up in more titles throughout the next year.
One aspect of AMD's latest FM2+ platform that cannot be ignored is the pretty robust selection of good and interesting motherboards that are offered at very low prices. Products such as the Gigabyte G1.Sniper.A88X and the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming motherboards are well rounded products that typically sell in the $90 to $110 range. Top end products like the Asus Crossblade Ranger are still quite affordable at around $160. Budget offerings are still pretty decent and they come in the $50 range.
One other product that has sparked interest is the Athlon X4 860K Black Edition. This product is clocked between 3.7 GHz and 4.0 GHz, features two Steamroller modules, and is priced at a very reasonable $90. The downside is that there is no GPU portion enabled, while the upside is that there is potentially more thermal headroom for the CPU portion to be clocked higher than previous A10-7850K parts. This will of course differ from individual chips, but the potential is there to have a pretty solid CPU for a very low price. Add in the low motherboard prices, and this has the making of a nice budget enthusiast system.
So why the cuts now? We can simply look at last week's results for AMD's previous quarter, as well as how the next quarter is stacking up. While AMD made a small profit last quarter, predictions for Q4 look grim. AMD is looking at around a 12% decrease in revenue, as stated above. AMD has a choice in that they can keep ASPs higher, but risk shipping less product in the very important 4th quarter; or they can sacrifice ASPs and potentially ship a lot more product. The end result of cutting the prices on their entire line of APUs will be of course lower ASPs, but a higher volume of parts being shipped and sold. In terms of cash flow, it is likely more important to see parts flowing rather than having higher inventories with a higher ASP. This also means that more APUs being sold will mean more motherboards from their partners moving through the channel.
Intel does have several huge advantages over AMD in that they have a very solid 22 nm process, a huge workforce that can hand tune their processors, and enough marketing money to make any company other than Apple squirm. AMD is at the mercy of the pure-play foundries in terms of process node tweaks and shrinks. AMD spent a long time at 32 nm PD-SOI before it was able to migrated to 28 nm HKMG. It looks to be 2015 before AMD sees anything below 28 nm for their desktop APUs, but it could be sooner for their smaller APUs and ARM based products on planar 20 nm HKMG processes. We don't know a all of the specifics of the upcoming 16/14nm FinFET products from TSMC, Samsung, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, so it will be hard to compare/contrast to Intel's 2nd generation 14 nm TriGate line. All we know is that it will most assuredly be better than the current 28 nm HKMG that AMD is stuck at.
AMD's anorexia, another 7% of its workforce has been dropped
Subject: General Tech | October 17, 2014 - 01:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd
Sad news again from AMD as roughly 710 employees from across the globe will be getting severance packages for Christmas. The cuts are likely to come from the Computing and Graphics division as they saw a 16% year-on-year decline in income. The Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom division saw a 21% increase and were the reason AMD's total income only dropped 2% when compared to this quarter last year. The news for the future is also not good, with The Inquirer reporting that AMD expects its revenues to slide another 10-16% per cent in the next quarter. Perhaps that is part of the reason Lisa Su will take home a salary that is $150K less than what Rory Read was earning.
"Following a grim earnings report on Thursday, AMD has announced a restructuring plan that includes axing seven per cent of its workforce by the end of the year.
The plan will see AMD issuing layoff notices to about 710 employees worldwide, and is expected to cost the chipmaker $57m in severance payment."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- TSMC to start production of 16nm process products in 2Q15 @ DigiTimes
- The New TrueCrypt - VeraCrypt Or CipherShed @ TechARP
- IBM announces Internet of Things cloud services @ The Inquirer
- iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 pre-orders go live at the Apple Store @ The Inquirer
- Devolo dLAN 500 WiFi Network Kit Review @ NikKTech
- Linksys SE4008 @ HardwareHeaven
- Introducing the F*Watch, a Fully Open Electronic Watch @ Hack a Day
Podcast #322 - GTX 980 4-Way SLI, Samsung's EVO Performance Fix, Intel Earnings and more!
Subject: General Tech | October 16, 2014 - 01:16 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: podcast, video, nvidia, GTX 980, sli, 3-way sli, 4-way sli, amd, R9 290X, Samsung, 840 evo, Intel, corsair, HX1000i, gigabyte, Z97X-UD5H, Lenovo, yoga 3 pro, yoga tablet 2. nexus 9, tegra k1, Denver
PC Perspective Podcast #322 - 10/16/2014
Join us this week as we discuss GTX 980 4-Way SLI, Samsung's EVO Performance Fix, Intel Earnings and more!
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News items of interest:
0:46:25 You Missed It! PCPer Live! Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Game Stream Powered by NVIDIA
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The consumer watchdog has spent two-and-a-half years investigating what it suspects is a widespread cartel to fix the price of Mercedes vans and trucks in the north of England, Wales and Scotland.
If found guilty, the dealers as well as the German car company would face substantial fines.
The OFT said that each alleged infringement involved two or three dealers and that its provisional finding was that Mercedes was also involved in two of the alleged infringements.
"The precise content of the arrangements differs among the five alleged infringements, but all contain, to varying degrees, at least some element of market sharing, price co-ordination and/or exchange of commercially sensitive information," the OFT said in a statement.
"The evidence also suggests that, in respect of two of the alleged infringements, Mercedes-Benz helped to facilitate or consolidate the arrangements amongst the dealers."
The alleged offences took place between 2007 and 2010.
It is understood that the OFT acted of its own accord, and not on a tip-off from a whistle-blower. Cartels are illegal in the UK because they are seen as highly damaging to consumers, potentially costing them substantial amounts of money from the lack of competition.
Mercedes-Benz UK said in a statement: "We now have detailed information about the investigation of the OFT for the first time.
"We will analyse the information and then give our feedback to the OFT."
All the parties have 10 weeks to submit a response to the allegations.
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Jim'll Fix It was a long-running British TV show that specialized in granting people's wishes. It ran from 1975 to 1994, in which time it became a well-known tradition for British viewers. The host was Jimmy Savile, who was later revealed to be a prolific sex offender and Gilles De Rais-level sicko, which is another subject for another time. In any case, on an episode that ran in 1987, the show responded to a request from a 14-year-old viewer named Dom Lawson who wrote in requesting to meet his favorite heavy metal band, Iron Maiden.
With a complete film crew recording his every movement, Lawson assisted the legendary group prepare for a show at Hammersmith Odeon on November 3, 1986. Lawson wrote about that day in The Guardian:
I was greeted by a couple of members of Maiden's road crew, one of whom immediately pointed out that my T-shirt (bought from Woolworths in Hemel Hempstead) was in a fact "a bloody bootleg". I was then led to the backstage catering area and introduced to a vast number of people, most of whom I recognised from the photos in the booklet of Maiden's magnificent Live After Death live album. Being shy and self-conscious, I grinned and blushed a lot. I was terrified, yet I could hardly have been happier. Everyone in Maiden's organisation was friendly and welcoming, including the band themselves: resolutely down-to-earth, they each came and said hello at various points during the day. I remember Steve Harris clocking my West Ham scarf (which I'd worn specifically to attract his attention, natch) and asking if I was a "proper 'ammer". I was (and am), and he beamed his approval. I practically wet myself.
... During those few hours backstage I got to tune Steve's bass guitar, play on Nicko McBrain's insanely huge drum kit, eat in the canteen with the road crew and, best of all, clamber aboard the road crew's tour bus to film a slightly ludicrous skit which involved me pretending to wake up on the bus, peer through the curtains on my bunk and be given the news that it was time to get to work setting up the band's gear. I loved every second of it.
As you can see, Lawson writes quite well, which makes sense insofar that he carried his love of heavy metal through to adulthood, working for two popular magazines, Kerrang! and Metal Hammer. You can even read his glowing review of Iron Maiden's 2003 album Dance of Death (to his credit, Lawson is discriminating in his admiration of Iron Maiden—he disliked Maiden's two previous efforts, No Prayer For The Dying and Virtual XI).
I don't know much about the individual guys in Iron Maiden, but this clip will win you over if you have any doubts—they all seem like terrific fellows. I remember Bruce Dickinson popping up in a documentary about Monty Python, so I already knew he was a good bloke and always keen for a laugh, and this clip certainly confirms that impression.


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