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Five Ancient Sports
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The games we play today have a basis in the games of the past. What follows are five ancient sports that somehow play into modern games.
Duck on a Rock
Originating in the Middle Ages, duck on a rock was a game played by children comparable to tag, if tag included the accidental stoning from time to time.
The game begins when a large stone, known as the "duck" due to the poor quality of medieval public education, is placed on a large stone or tree stump. One child is the guard while the others attempt to knock the duck off of its base by hurling stones at as hard as they can. The only safety measure in place is a line that the stone throwers can't cross before casting their stones. Otherwise, it's time to man up.
The key is to use bigger rocks.
The guard has no means to stop the onslaught. Once the duck has been dethroned, however, he may place it back on the stump and pick up a stone. If he does this, he's able to tag another player but only while they are attempting to retrieve their stones, which most players would do en masse to increase their own odds of not getting tagged. Then whoever was tagged becomes the new guard and it starts all over again.
A recent discovery claims links to duck on a rock and the creation of basketball, which leaves us to wonder just what the hell kind of basketball are people playing? And how do we get invited to that game?
One of the oldest continuously played sports in the world, ulama was born of an early Aztec game. Ulama is also recognized as the oldest game to utilize a rubber ball.
Although technical details vary from region to region, a typical ulama court is divided into two halves with boundaries drawn on the outside. Teams can contain anywhere from two to five people and the game is played by players keeping the ball out of their side of the court but in bounds. Points are scored when the ball reaches the other player's zone and points can be lost if the ball doesn't travel far enough or leaves bounds.
Traditionally ulama is played with the hips. Players may use pads to guard their hips while bashing the ball around. Other variations will use other body parts, but none allow for the use of hands because that's too easy. The more extreme games will make use of heavy two-handed paddles to hit the ball back and forth.
The game is believed to have been played in most (if not all) parts of ancient Mexico as well as southern areas of North America. Rubber balls have been found dating to 1400 BC and nearly one-thousand five-hundred ball courts have been found. The game's current popularity is less so; Spanish Catholics tried to suppress the game after the Spanish Conquest. However, it survived in areas where the Spanish had less control.
Despite the whimsical name, chunkey was serious business for Native Americans. A popular spectator sport in its time, players and audience members were known to gamble on the outcome, some going so far as to wager everything they had. Some losers would even commit suicide. It was just a tad important.
Players would begin by rolling a clay disc out into an open field or area before running and throwing their spear right after it, aiming to have the disc stop somewhere in the area of (or on top of) the spear. It's not as easy as it sounds due to the small size of the disc, around three inches in diameter.
Also, you looked silly doing it.
Chunkey was played from 600 AD up until at least the late 1800s, well after contact had been made with Europeans. Throughout its history it was played on clay fields used strictly for the game and in large arenas in front of massive audiences. The game was most popular in the southeastern United States.
The Australian Sports Commission has recognized woggabaliri as one of the oldest indigenous sports and is the oldest one depicted in art. The object of the game is to keep the ball in the air between all the players without touching it with one's hands or arms.
Players use their legs and feet to keep the ball moving in a circle that's two meters wide and are only allowed to touch it once before another player must touch it. Each successive hit is counted. Should the ball drop or a foul committed players start at zero and work their way up again.
The competitive version of the game is a bit different. Two teams of four players face each other on opposite sides of a court with goals set up behind them. Players are permitted to use their heads or chests to strike the ball but the same rules about successive hits still apply. Players try to strike the ball into the opposing goal while keeping the ball off the ground. If they fail a shot possession goes to the other team and play continues. Games generally take twenty minutes and are divided into two ten minute periods.
The game has been preserved to this day and is thought to be the origin of "keepie-uppie," or juggling a soccer ball without one's hands.
Cuju is ancient football (soccer football – sorry, NFL enthusiasts) as practiced in ye olde China. Though it would eventually catch on in surrounding countries like Japan and Korea, cuju was incredibly popular in China and was played by aristocrats, military men and children alike, sometimes all together – records show a teenaged girl beating a team of soldiers.
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The most enduring variation, called "Bai Da," was played by teams on an enclosed field. The game no longer focused on scoring goals. Instead it was concerned with skill; rather than scoring points, players were penalized for fouls, and the team with the least number of fouls would win. If a player kicked the ball out of bounds, failed to reach another player with a kick, touched the ball with their hands or performed any small technical error would receive a deduction. Previous versions of the game closer resembled football, with two teams of twelve to sixteen members on each side attempting to score goals. The Han Dynasty saw an explosion of popularity for the game as it spread from soldiers to the courts and upper class.
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Antonios Christou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Predictive Sensory Motor Lab (PRISM) where he is investigating the genetic and neural bases of human sensorimotor learning . To achieve that he is utilizing sensorimotor psychophysical techniques and he is conducting genetic investigations to identify novel associations between genes, endophenotypes and sensorimotor behaviour in a healthy young population.
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B.Sc. Psychology, University of Ioannina, Greece (2009)
MA. Inclusion & Special Educational Needs, University of Birmingham, School of Education (2011)
PhD in Psychology: 2011-2014, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology.
I completed a BSc in Psychology from the University of Ioannina, Greece and a MA. in Inclusion and Special Education Needs from the University of Birmingham. I am currently completing my PhD (in Thesis-awaited status) under the supervision of Dr. Joseph McCleery. The primary research focus of my Ph.D. research, is on the genetic and neural bases of developmental psychopathology in normal development, where I utilized electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking techniques and genetic investigations to identify novel associations between genes, endophenotypes and developmental psychopathology during early childhood. My PhD research was funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) with additional support from the School's of Psychology Hilary Green Research Fund.
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Originally posted by Havekk
I was watching a show the other day on people obsessed with climbing mountains. They pay 10's of thousands of dollars to climb a peak like Mt Everest, risk their lives, often lose bits of fingers, toes, noses, ears.. for what? When they get to the top after a couple of days of hypothermia, hypoxia and extreme effort the get to spend 10 minutes or so at the top of the death zone before coming back down. Quite a few die every year.
To me that sounds 'horrible', as the old days of gaming sound 'horrible' to you. The new days of gaming are horrible to me as well. To me it feels like the equivalent of fishing in a fish farm. Everyone gets the rare gear (big fish), no need to explore (head out to sea), you can often just buy your gear with real life money (get the guy at the fish farm to catch, gut and bag it for you) so you can show it off.
The best game I ever played was EQ 1 in the early days of 1999 - 2000, before portals and corpse summons and all the 'ease of play' was introduced by Sony. This was a game where you actually felt like you were in a living breathing very dangerous world.
You could be corpse camped by creatures, your own level or even lower could obliterate you, you could have your gear looted, you could go to the plane of hate and your entire 30 man raid could wipe and be unable to recover your gear without a lot of help. If you couldn't recover it within a week it would disappear. There were creatures that spawned only once a day (Lodizal), once a week (dragons), or only once per server (sleeper) and never spawned again . It took me over a year to get my class weapon, something that was an actual acheivement. It was fantastic.
Whens the last time you played a game and did a boss and you got sweaty palms and an irregular heartbeat lol. Not any more.
As for the devs kissing your ass, they're not kissing your ass. They're exploiting the law of averages as they apply to modern day gaming - that law says "you can create an interesting, intellectually challenging bunch of awards and accolades winning game and sell it to the cream of humanity or create a easy, instantly gratifying, sex and violence filled load of garbage and get x times more customers selling it to the average moron who is much more numerous".
Sad but true fact.
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Joined: 1/15/14
First of all I love solo play when questing, if you get too many people questing together it just gets to be a pain especially when you wander too far and someone comes running back at you when they have aggro'd a crap load of mobs. In my opinion it is the only way to go when questing. On to dungeons, well I love dungeons and raids but you obviously need more than one person to do these. Well not entirely true some games you can but its been awhile since I have played any of those. For the most part I have stuck to WOW and that's what I am basing most of this on.
Love dungeons and raids, but hate when people are unwilling to listen when they don't know the fights. PVP is another animal altogether. I love group PVP. I usually play a caster of some sort so I stay behind the melee and burn down other players in a 5v5 or more situation. I'm not as good when its 3v3, I usually get targeted pretty early. So i guess the point I am trying to make is that its not really black and white for me. I have many pros and cons for both and don't really like one side over the other in an overall point of view.
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Joined: 1/31/11
Originally posted by mrbearacid
Yeah well I'm not exactly a solo nazi myself. I was in a raiding guild on Firiona Vie which I enjoyed. Nothing quite like spending 20 hours crawling through a dungeon when even the blue cons (lower level monsters) can wipe out our group with out a competent team
Sitting in a dungeon, such as the Temple of Srra (sp) waiting for a Rhag (sp) to spawn (a week spawn if I recall), the rush as your guild trying to form up and take him down first before someone else came in and he was down for a week. The excitement of the guild boss looting the corpses, calling out the 10 or so high end binding drops, the tension of whether, this time you might be awarded the item, or the disappointment that you weren't. But also the satisfaction that regardless that loot just made us as a whole more powerful.
Takiing on a boss that could rip you apart, all 80 of you, if the tank drops, or an healer misses a rotation, or an enchanter fails to mezz something and it runs off to train the entire dungeon down apon you (usually speed logging out of healers for the eventual resses as everyone dies).
At the same time its fun to be a powerful class, like an enchanter that can charm an raid mob big enough to wipe out 20 players after giving him haste and shield and stuff. Then using him wipe an entire zone of creatures that you'd usually need a raid for. At any moment our charm could break, instant death and an aweful task of attempting to get your body back naked.
I used to charm a little dwarf on the docks in Iceclad and he'd solo Lodizal, a rare mob that usually required tanks, healers, dps.
Or just running around, invising and sneakiing deep into the bowles of a high level dungeon, killoing a boss, looting him and the exciting looting of his body.
That sort of soloing was extremely difficult, more difficult than grouping and more often than not resulting in multiple deaths but it gave me pleasure to do things that some groups would fail at.
I think that both solo (difficult, highly difficult to almost impossible) should also be a part of hard group content. As I have stated often, a group of 6 people running a dungeon that one person can also run, will usually get 6 times or more of the loot that one person gets, 6 times faster. So the balance is still maintained.
I good developer, with good mechanics can put in place mechanics that can satisify all its customers and customers preferred styles. Soloing should never be as easy as grouping but ti shoudl definitel be viable. I many cases I'd rather spend 6 months to get my uber staff of Awesomeness, even if a group of 6, 10, 15 or 20 could get one in a few hours.
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Originally posted by Hrimnir
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Joined: 1/09/14
I prefer solo, too.
But instanced group events are good, too, in moderation.
Otherwise, I can't stand the MOBA mentality that's overtaken MMOs.
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Joined: 3/10/08
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Originally posted by Wingeye
Because for the average worker who doesn't have the luxury of having a computer at work, he won't even have 8hrs in a day to play even if he wanted too.
Breaking the numbers down for the part-time workers and single kids in college:
Sleep: 6-8hrs a night/day.
Commute time one way: 10mins to 1:30hrs.
Work: 8hrs-12hrs a day/night for 4-7 days a week.
At the minimum 14hrs and 20min of time was eliminated just to sleep, get to work and work.
There isn't even 8hrs left in the day.
Now if you meant you're a single part-time worker without kids or kid in college (i.e., no family responsibilities), say so. The rest of the work force doesn't have the luxury of even having 8hrs a day to play a game...at all.
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Joined: 2/05/14
I like both group and solo play.I like to do most quests solo but some tougher quests i feel i need someone by my side to aid me.Also most dungeons and skirmishes are group based anyway but i notice there is no co-ordination between players everyone doing their own thing and working together as a team.
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Joined: 1/25/04
I miss the days of Everquest, where you almost had to group if you wanted to get somewhere. Unless you wanted to run around and kite mobs for an hour or so. With the demanding grouping you met interesting people. I met some great people that I hung around with most of my Everquest life, just by grouping and chatting while we waited for our mana/health to come back or mobs to respawn.
It was a great part of the game that's been lost due to solo additions in games. Worse is games that let you create or hire a companion to follow you around that takes the place of something you're missing. They have really let the social aspect drift away, in favor of letting people be loners.
And no, zone chat is not a social aspect of a game.
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Joined: 12/06/05
Originally posted by Nightfyre
I never felt "forced" to group in EverQuest you grouped together because you wanted to and you were on a mutual objective. Part of this was the slower and more relaxed pace people weren't in a rush you had time to kick back have a chat inbetween the combat. There wern't group only mobs and solo mobs it was all about the con anything light blue or under was soloable but the light blues could be dicey. Anything that was dark blue to yellow was best to be done in a group. Reds well reds were if you were feeling confident and didnt mind the possibility of a corpse run.
Thing was you could solo EQ1 you just had to accept that while you were limited to soloing say the top level of Befallen and taking it real slow if you were grouped you could be doing the second level as well and moving quicker. This in my opinion is the best approach for gameplay don't force the issue just have the content in place and the player makes the choice of style.
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Joined: 4/04/12
MMORPGs need to heavily encourage grouping by making valuable content unsoloable from the very beginning of the game (not just at max level). It should be possible to play solo, but you need to be missing out on content you'd probably want to complete.
As it stands soloing is superior to finding someone random to group with in almost every single MMORPG on the market (in stark contrast to older MMORPGs, which were usually the other way around), and that is why they are lonely experiences for most people who don't play with friends from elsewhere.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/02/14
Sometimes I like to play solo - because sadly in a lot of MMO's its the most rewarding profile.
But I think MMORPG's should be 90% team play. That;s what for those games are - to be able to interact and play with other people. When playing all alone why not just play a PC solo game.
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Joined: 3/18/14
There's a time for everything. People play single player games for a reason, right? Skyrim wouldn't be the same if you had 400 randoms running around the towns or jumping about in the hills. I often disable chats in WoW, for example.
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Joined: 3/22/14
It really bothers me when people say Everquests mechanics were outdated and no longer work just because they personally didn't enjoy them. Its bothersome because its blatantly false, some of the biggest games out right now take a lot of what made Everquest great and guess what? People love these games. They are heralded as games that are harsh and penalizing like oldschool games and they have a huge following just for that single aspect alone.
Just because games have gotten easier to appeal to a wider audience doesn't mean our games have evolved any more than graduating from algebra only to find all math stops at Addition would be an advancement in mathmatics. Nor is Led Zeppelin to Justin Beiber an evolution of music, although the numbers may make the small minded think that.
As for the games im talking about? Dark/Demon Souls, DayZ, Eve. Games based on no maps, harsh death penalties, corpse runs, a brutal atmosphere, long travel times, the need to eat and drink to survive, the need for grouping(except in Dark souls, but you still need texts to figure out certain secrets and have to group to unlock spells/gear.) These games work, they work well. MMO players are just generally sissies. Sorry.
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Joined: 3/24/14
I like to play solo - because sadly in a lot of MMO's its the most rewarding profile.
Elite Member
Joined: 11/03/07
I just recently got back into SWTOR(again) and I'm having a really fun leveling experience in this solo(?) MMO.
I'm having so much fun as I'm playing with people using the LFG tool. Most of the time I'm just running 4 man dungeons. More often that not the PUGs are great adequate players.
I only land on planets to do the class story.
So much fun in an MMO that people claimed to be a failure and a single player experience.
The thing is, I do feel like it's no different then when I used to play Quake where I'd hop from one server to another. It's very instanced compared to what I was expecting from an MMO. Which is open world group questing.
Group play is still out there in todays MMO's and very easy to find if SWTOR is anything to go by. It's just instanced.
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Joined: 3/25/14
Hey guys! This might me slightly off-topic, am I am sorry for that, but I need some help and this is where I am most likely to get it.
I am a 3rd year psychology student and I am conducting a study for school regarding socializing in MMORPGs, namely the communities that form inside guilds (in other words, the purpose of this study is to prove my mom wrong for all the years she kept nagging me to get some "real" friends). I am looking for volunteers to fill out a questionnaire, it will take 10-15 mins tops, and I would be eternally grateful.
So if you're feeling kind, click on the link below and help me pass my final year!
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Joined: 10/13/10
Gaming Then and Now....
i began online gaming in 1998 with one of the very first mmo's ultima online..i will use my experience in this game and 1 or 2 others to show the contrast of gaming today.
back then when new players entered the game, they were most often greeted with help and support from the other players, so much so that a lot of times complete strangers would hook you up with gold , gear, help you level, and share a few tips as well. you in general never see that today. another difference is player killers those days you would certainly be killed by other players out of the blue and even worse was after they killed you they could take what ever was on you person at the time, meaning you lost it all gear gold what ever. but if you were lucky enough to get back to this person he would most often give it back if not all then most of it., today he'd call you a noob and if you asked for your stuff back he'd quickly tell you where to stick it.. we did have troublesome people from time to time and what happened was the account was perma-banned, if he wanted to continue playing, he had to re-buy the game, and probably had a much better attitude the 2nd time around. in star wars galaxies year 1, you had to hand over your gear to complete strangers to get it enhanced, after a year of playing not once did anyone run off with my gear, something i doubt i could say today if the situation was the same. i also played a delta force 3 and 4 again after 3 years i could probably count on one hand how many time i was insulted win or lose. another thing we did back then was a little thing called a group, didn't matter what we did more often than not we did it as a group.
today mmo doesn't mean mmo, it used to mean multi-player, today it means solo-play along side a bunch of other solo-players. which begs the question why play an mmo if all you want to do is play alone. seriously buy final fantasy or something if you want to play alone. most mmo's its difficult to near impossible to get in a group to do anything and when you do....my next point...be prepared to under go an onslaught of insults and antagonistic vocal abuse if you even so much as breath the wrong way.
i attempted to play smite recently and having little moba experience it takes a bit of time to get things down, well in the learning process there is no helpful hints or understanding that your new to the game, so you have to endure the insults on a constant basis until you get good, and then prepare your self for more insults, once you get good your a kill stealer, a no-life low-life who lives with his mom ,this is a team based game?. and the all time low of lows apparently now you can be reported for not being good at the game...WOW!!! I've heard the argument there are people that feed on purpose and i don't doubt it given the insults flying from your own team that someone would do that.
so i have to ask, what happened to gamers?
the problem lies in the fact that this new generation of gamers hasn't learned how to win or lose with grace and dignity, they haven't learned the concept of team work or team effort, they haven't learned how to give, help or support anyone but themselves and their own agenda's. sure not all gamers are this way but it's certainly an ever growing community of them.
i do miss the old days, when any game whether mmo,fps,or otherwise was an experience filled with group play and helpful communities beyond anything today's gamers seem capable of offering, online gaming wasn't always a drama fest of insults a solidarity that it is today, it certainly shows how low online gaming has become.
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Joined: 12/15/13
In MMORPGs soloing should be harder by default, hello, bye, im out
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Joined: 3/15/13
I'm an mmo loner. I like solo play, because I like open world RPGs. I guess being disappointed in humanity so many times reading trade chat made me antisocial.
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Joined: 4/26/14
Common sense , is not so common
Originally posted by kizechs
I agree . Unfortunately the mmo community is a subgroup of the real world with the same characteristics. Full of competitive, greedy no brainers who find a twisted pleasure in insulting people and behave like assholes. However i am optimistic...
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means"


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Having recently returned from a cruise to Alaska celebrating my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary, I remembered a friend who had remarked that I would be amazed because I was taking a trip to God's country. I've heard those two words before. As a child, my uncle would say the same words when he was heading into the mountains of Utah on a hunting trip. My local friends here in Denver say the same thing when they head into the Rocky Mountains. I could site more examples, but you get the picture.
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DENVER, CO - The question is, why do people say this? What is God's country? Usually it's said when someone is escaping the hustle and bustle of the big city and moving away from the noise that surrounds our daily lives. We leave the concrete jungle and move into nature, trading skyscrapers and freeways for mountains or forests. We trade the work of human hands for the handiwork of our Creator. We seek God in His glory through what He created. Why do we do this? It's part of who we are as a creation of God. How do we know this?
It's in the first part of the Catechism, 'The world: starting from movement, contingency, and the world's order an beauty, one can come to a knowledge of God as the origin and the end of the universe.'
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The first time I ever read those words, I was siting on a stone jetty that protruded out into the Gulf of Mexico. Surrounded by the crashing waves, looking at the white puffy clouds against the blue sky and the sun radiating above, I knew that I was sitting in a perfect place to experience Him. While there exists many ways to seek God, nature remains an awesome way to do so. Can we find Him in what man has made? Of course.
Throughout the centuries mankind has been prolific in creating works of art and architecture, both religious and secular. We marvel at the skill it took to build the Pyramids in Egypt, the first Christian
cathedral in Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia, or any number of icons or paintings of Jesus or the saints. No visit to Paris is complete without seeing the Mona Lisa. However, taking the time to experience God's country is an opportunity to be closer to Him.
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'Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.'
Seeing His majesty displayed in Alaska was an experience I will not forget. Acting as His finger, you can still the massive glaciers that carved the fjords. If you get close enough the cracking ice thunders through the air. Mountains line the coasts as waterfalls deposit melting snow back into the ocean.
Perhaps it is different for each person, but for me, being surrounded by God's handiwork gives me an appreciation for the impressiveness of His Creation. It allows me to look around and open my heart to Him and know that everything around me was not an accident or just happened to come into being. The world had a creator who authored what we see around us. The beauty we find in the mountains,
forests, flowers or whatever landscape you happen too be in are there for us to experience the Divine. It's an elegant proof that we are not alone, and He is inviting us into His presence and glory.
Do you have to go to Alaska to experience this? No, but it was a great trip. What I find amusing is that the US Forest Service is running radio ads across the country attempting to entice teens to visit andexperience the wonders of the forest in hopes of creating lifelong nature lovers.
Please don't tell Forest Service that what they are really doing is inviting teens into God's backyard.
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Dr. Wallin graduated from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis.
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InvestorsHub.com, Inc. operates as a stock discussion site/financial community. It provides a forum for investors to gather and share/equity market information. The company also enables posting on public stock boards, creation of new boards, access to administrators to report problems, tracking of various boards and people, and interface personalization. In addition, it offers ad-free viewing on message pages, ability to send private messages, search messages for specific text, public message archiving, and message filtering services. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Freeman, Missouri. As of September 26, 2006, InvestorsHub.com, Inc. is a subsidiary of ADVFN plc.
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Carrier chief executive officer Dave Barger says JetBlue has already secured financing for the nine aircraft it will take delivery of this year, but is still looking for financing for the three aircraft it is committed to taking next year.
"Of the 2010 deliveries, they are not financed. The treasury team is now in the marketplace," Barger said during today's Bank of America/Merrill Lynch transportation conference in New York.
While JetBlue is taking delivery of nine aircraft from Airbus and Embraer this year, giving it a fleet of 149 aircraft at the end of 2009, the carrier's capacity this year will actually be flat.
"We're still taking nine aircraft. We're just being smarter at how we utilise that," Barger says.
He adds JetBlue is flying less in the very early morning hours and less during the middle of the week.
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LONDON -- Filmmaker Ridley Scott and collaborators are calling on fans of Bruce Springsteen to contribute to Springsteen & I, a user-generated feature documentary about The Boss.
The team plans to mirror the approach behind last year's film Life in a Day, which weaved together footage from people around the world.
Fans of the rock star are being asked to make their own short film about Springsteen and what he means to them, which Ridley Scott Associates, Black Dog Films and Scott Free London will roll into the film.
Life in a Day came out of a partnership between Scott's production firm Scott Free London and YouTube. It spliced together footage shot on a single day, July 24, 2010, by people around the world tasked with capturing a moment of their lives on camera.
The producers are looking for fans' raw footage of personal insights, abstractions and reflections on how Springsteen and his music have affected their lives.
Directed by Baillie Walsh, Springsteen & I is billed as "an open invitation to people all over the world to share stories that celebrate one of the greatest lyrical storytellers of our generation."
Producer Svana Gisla said: "We are searching for a wide variety of creative interpretations, captured in the most visually exciting way you can think of, whether you've been a hardcore Tramp since '73 or have heard one of his songs for the first time today. If you have a parent, a sibling, a neighbor or a colleague who has an interesting tale, we want to know about them. If you can't use a camera or are not sure how to capture your story, then get in touch and we will link you up with someone who can."
Springsteen & I is targeted for a worldwide theatrical release in 2013. Scott Free's Liza Marshall and Jack Arbuthnott will executive produce.
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Liberalism and the 'politics of Difference'
Edinburgh University Press, 2000 - Political Science - 212 pages
For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ significantly from those of the pioneers or even from those of a few years ago. Today's practitioners recognize that empowering others is impossible; social workers can, however, assist others as they empower themselves. This book integrates time-honored approaches with today's more modest goals, mindful of what empowerment can and cannot do. Synthesizing several theoretical supports—the strengths perspective, system theory, theories of family well-being, and theories of coping—the author responds to the question "What works?" with today's families in need. Practice illustrations are provided throughout to bring concepts to life and, more important, to present families describing their own experiences with achieving empowerment.
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TL;DR answer: GPUs have far more processor cores than CPUs, but because each GPU core runs significantly slower than a CPU core and do not have the features needed for modern operating systems, they are not appropriate for performing most of the processing in everyday computing. They are most suited to compute-intensive operations such as video processing ...
What makes the GPU so much faster than the CPU? The GPU is not faster than the CPU. CPU and GPU are designed with two different goals, with different trade-offs, so they have different performance characteristic. Certain tasks are faster in a CPU while other tasks are faster computed in a GPU. The CPU excels at doing complex manipulations to a small set ...
GPUs lack: Virtual memory (!!!) Means of addressing devices other than memory (e.g. keyboards, printers, secondary storage, etc) Interrupts You need these to be able to implement anything like a modern operating system. They are also (relatively) slow at double precision arithmetic (when compared with their single precision arithmetic performance)*, and ...
A CPU is like a worker that goes super fast. A GPU is like a group of clone workers that go fast, but which all have to do exactly the same thing in unison (with the exception that you can have some clones sit idle if you want) Which would you rather have as your fellow developer, one super fast guy, or 100 fast clones that are not actually as fast, but all ...
Because GPUs are designed to do a lot of small things at once, and CPUs are designed to do a one thing at a time. If your process can be made massively parallel, like hashing, the GPU is orders of magnitude faster, otherwise it won't be. Your CPU can compute a hash much, much faster than your GPU can - but the time it takes your CPU to do it, your GPU could ...
Are you really asking why are we not using GPU like architectures in CPU? GPU is just a specialized CPU of a graphics card. We lend GPU non graphics computation because general purpose CPU are just not up to par in parallel and floating point execution. We actually are using different (more GPU-ish) CPU architectures. E.g. Niagara processors are quite ...
I might be horribly mistaken here, and am speaking from little or no authority on the subject, but here goes: I believe each GPU execution units ("core") have a very limited address space compared to a CPU. GPU execution units can't deal with branching efficiently. GPU execution units don't support hardware interrupts in the same way CPUs do. I've always ...
It isn't unless nVidia provides a VMware-compatible paravirtualized driver for that purpose. This discussion on the nVidia forums explains why. Now, newer CPUs and chipsets support "IOMMU", which could serve the similar function as "PCI-E passthrough" that they discuss on that forum. However, this still requires support and cooperation from both VMware's ...
This looks like what you need, although you probably need to recompile, and the SDK linked from there appears specific to Intel CPUs; this link to AMD's documentation appears to describe the equivalent for AMD CPUs.
It does support OpenCL. I have same GPU in my HP laptop. This is how to get OpenCL support: Download AMD app SDK short for AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) SDK (formerly ATI Stream) you get it from here Supported drivers are available here Download and install your driver using the latest Catalyst driver installer for your GPU device After ...
This is nothing about clock speed or purpose. They are both equally able to complete most, if not all tasks; however some are slightly better suited for some tasks then others. There has been a very old argument about whether it's better to have lots of dumb cores or a small group of very smart cores. This goes back easily into the 80's. Inside a CPU there ...
It isn't a GPU if it dosen't do graphics ;) it would be a GPGPU then. You'd want to go for a design that's massively multithreaded and with very good floating point performance. Cell processors are really very specialised power architecture based systems, so that's one option alternately, load up a system with GPGPUs such as the tesla
I'm not aware of any real GPU-only devices, I think the closest you can probably get is the playstation 3 with its cell processor. To my understanding, GPUs are very poorly optimized for memory management (no free lunch!) so they're not really suitable for doing anything other than repetitive simple mathematics.
AFAIK, AMD/ATi begun supporting OpenCL starting with their DirectX 11 cards. Your card is DirectX 10. Here is the list of supported GPUs: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibility.aspx
It is important to keep in mind that there is no magical dividing line in the architecture space that makes one processor the "central" one and another the "graphics" one. (Well, some GPUs may be too crippled to be fully general, but those are not the ones we are are talking about here.) The distinction is one of how they are installed on the board and what ...
There is a point at which you will saturate the resources of your CPU, and the GPU's will be sitting idle. There is also a point at which you could run out of bus resources. Since it is a bus, there is a maximum amount of transferrable data per unit time, which could again cause GPU's to sit idle. That being said, adding GPUs should not decrease ...
The whole point of there being a GPU at all was to relief the CPU from expensive graphics calculations that it was doing at the time. By combining them to a single processor again would be going back to where all started.
How much a GPU can accellerate depends on the code you run. GPUs are extremely good in running simple, massively paralel instructions. Programs which can use that can gain a massive performace boost. Code which is single treaded or complex will fair quite poorly.
I've done a bit more research and I'm going to answer this one myself in case anyone finds themselves looking to do something similar. AWS (and other vendors) provide GPU cloud compute services. This works great for certain applications, but certainly not all. As best I can tell, the virtualized GPU clusters tend to be slower than the actual hardware ...
Most server chassis are not designed for the amount of heat the 4 cards are going to put out. And it sounds like your applications will be pushing the cards to peak levels. You will definitely need to closely monitor the individual cards temperatures, as well as the processor. You very well might need additional fans, or even go to a liquid cooling ...
If you need single floating point performance, go with the GTX680, it is also more power efficient, you won't pay as much for electricity. If you need double floating point performance go with GTX 580. Take a look at this blog post. Also renderstream had a blogpost about an 8GPU 4U server. It's 14k$. The fixed the BIOS to get it working with all 8 cards. I ...
You can just edit your TDR settings. We share information about that in the ArrayFire/Jacket Documentation. No need to disable your GPU in Device Manager.
Windows doesn't recognize the GPU, because it uses the Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) driver model by default for maximal performance. However, Windows uses the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) to enable common graphic features. The card can be switched to the WDDM driver model by the NVIDIA-SMI (System Management Interface) utility: C:\Program ...
I'm not sure how useful or ready for prime time this is (looks like it isn't ready for serious use yet) but I found KGPU interesting. According to this Slashdot article it was used to speed up AES operations for filesystem crypto. Again I currently have no idea how to use it.
If you are ready to use Xen instead of VMware Workstation, you can try out Xen VGA Passthrough and see if your hardware configuration is supported. This would give you full control over the graphic card in the VM. Here is an example of what you can accomplish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtmwnx-k2qg
As far as I'm aware there are none. The reason being that GPUs are really only efficient for certain math related operations. They also lack the instructions necessary to do the things required by an Operating System. Consequently there are no operating systems. However there are frameworks for having code run on the GPU. These are called "GPGPU" Microsoft ...
I would like to broach one Syntactic point: The terms CPU and GPU are functional names not architectural names. If a computer were to use a GPU as its main processor, it would then would become a "central processing unit" (CPU) regardless of the architectural and design.
I've found an interesting solution: Freemake Video Converter. It looks like it supports GPU, and I'm currently converting a 2 hours long video (1.36GB). It got to 50% in 10 minutes. Going to share the results in a comment later.
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