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GENEVA—The two largest collaborations of physicists in history Tuesday presented intriguing but tentative clues to the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle thought to endow ordinary matter with mass.
Representing the 6,000 physicists who work on two separate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), called CMS and ATLAS, two spokespersons said that both experiments seemed to agree, as both their data sets suggested that the Higgs has a mass close to that of about 125 hydrogen atoms. The LHC is an international facility hosted by CERN, the European particle physics laboratory outside Geneva.
"We are talking of intriguing, tantalizing hints," said CMS spokesperson Guido Tonelli, speaking to a room filled with dozens of journalists and TV crews. "It's not evidence."
The experiments, in which protons traveling at nearly the speed of light collide head-on, cannot directly detect the Higgs, because the boson would decay within a fraction of a nanosecond into other particles. Instead, physicists must search through the debris of many different types of particle decay to find precise combinations of by-products that the Higgs would produce—and different chains of particle decays may well have the same signatures. A particular combination that appears more often than expected from other, "background" processes may signal the presence of the Higgs. But if it does not appear often enough compared with the expected background, it could just be a statistical fluctuation. Today, neither CMS nor ATLAS could claim to have the "3-sigma" statistical significance needed to claim evidence for a new particle—let alone 5 sigma for the accepted standard to claim a discovery. (A 3-sigma result implies a fraction of a 1 percent chance of a statistical fluke.) Instead, so far each experiment could only claim a statistical significance of around 2 sigma.
Both the detectors and the LHC accelerator itself, however, have been performing better than expected; so all the ducks are now in a row for settling the question soon, according to the researchers. "The nice thing to know is that by the end of 2012—sooner if we are lucky—we should be able to say the final word," Fabiola Gianotti, the ATLAS spokesperson, said at the press conference.
"I find it fantastic that we have the first results on the search for the Higgs, but keep in mind that these are preliminary results. And keep in mind that we have small numbers," said CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer in summarizing presentations that both Tonelli and Gianotti gave during a CERN seminar earlier that day.
"I think the evidence is very encouraging, though it's still too early to be sure," comments Steven Weinberg, a leading theoretical physicist at the University of Texas at Austin and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
A generation of high-energy physicists came of age studying and testing the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory devised in the 1970s that has withstood all experimental challenges. One final piece is missing, though, and it is one without which the whole model could fall. Without the Higgs boson, physicists cannot explain how other particles have mass. The Higgs itself has mass, and going by exclusion, researchers from the LHC and from its predecessor particle colliders were able narrow down the range of its value to between 115 and 140 giga–electron volts, or GeV. (One GeV is roughly the mass of a hydrogen atom.)
Together, the LHC detectors have now reduced the allowed range further: Tonelli said that according to CMS data its mass cannot be greater than 127 GeV. That was not for lack of data—in fact, quite the opposite. "We were not able to exclude the range below 127 GeV because of excesses," or more of certain particle by-products than would be expected in the absence of the Higgs, he remarked during his seminar talk—which was an understated way of saying that the CMS experiment had actually seen hints of a Higgs existing and having a mass of 124 GeV or so. ATLAS saw excesses in a similar range of energies, although the graphs did not quite line up—the ATLAS data favor a Higgs around 126 GeV.


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So HS needs that many "bullets", eh? According to the numbers in the article, that´s OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS usage! Nah, they´re not stockpiling.
It doesn´t matter. Mark Levin said! La la la la...
I don´t see any "debunking" in the article. Do you?
Thanks OP, for all the repeat Sarah articles. I like to be reminded of her. She is the best hope I have seen for a country truly in a state of disarray.As for the bullets, I believed the story until I read the article this morning. It fits their pattern and passes the smell test. Now I am only slightly unsure. The fact I live with is that there is very little ammo out there, and what exists has been price gouged. Someone is buying up whatever has been made. Could it be freemen trying to stock up? Or maybe the communists wanting to hold onto power? Does it even matter?
I´m sure unscrupulous emails are put out from time to time. If the government doesn´t respond with the truth and lets the rumor ride, don´t you expect that people will become suspicious? Frankly, I think this administration loves this turmoil, because they refuse to be transparent.
Article references WaPo and Snopes for it´s "debunking" evidence. Both sources with a definite liberal bent. ´Nuff said.
The comment did succeed in getting her back into the news, didn´t it? If she has a concrete plan for dealing with this situation, I´d be happy to hear it. Otherwise, I´ve been hearing the same prediction since last summer, so it´s a bit old hat at this point.
This stockpiling reporting goes back to 2012. See the article: "ammo? what ammo? DHS takes unprecedented step of redacting mass ammunition purchase" from lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo115.html, which was reprinted in turn from SHTFplan.com. The "redaction" follows on the widespread reporting of the DHS purchases of various kinds and quantities of pistol and rifle ammunition and can be accessed by searching the internet. The specification sheets to the suppliers are available for inspection. There appears to be an attempt to deny the written records of last year, and to discredit Mrs. Palin in the process. The record of DHS paperwork will not go away however.
I neglected to list the date of the "lewrockwell.com" report on DHS ammunition acquisitions. It is August 17, 2012.
You mean the former Governor who warned of DEATH PANELS ?
Soory, pushed "send" prematurely. Palin was right too.
Read the article twice.Apparently, the author believes that WAPO is more qualified to assess motives than Palin, and like WAPO, sees nothing unusual in buying the next century´s practice ammo....all at once....during a budget crisis....while trying to keep arms and ammo out of the hands of taxpayers.Sorry...I figure Palin is right on this one, just as she was on "Death Panels".
And another thing....W.W. Ayers is Obama´s ghost and mentor...Ayers has stated his willingness to kill about ten percent of us in order to have the sort of society he would like. The various federal agencies are just ordering the ammo for the task.
it would be nice to get a Sec.of State that cares about America for a change...huh??
They didn´t believe Sarah about death panels either. I would trust her any day over what we call elected officials.
I wish she would go back to watching Putin from her kitchen in Wassilla. Everytime she does s poorly considered "me too " blast on facebook she reduces her credibility and starts to look like a crackpot instead of a smart potential leader of our country.
I don´t think the questionable part of Mrs. Palin´s claim is the government´s purchase of lots of bullets so much as her implication that the purpose is to use them against citizens. Against "civil unrest". Does she have a source for that charge? If not, it´s pretty irresponsible of her to make it.


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Think I'm just gonna go back to bed. doesn't look like anyone's getting naked right now anyway
my love is like a candle, if you forget me, i will burn your damn house down.
*takes off socks*
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Munnchy: Only Flashier, with impeccable dance moves.
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Dude! put those socks back on! You got a dead rat in those shoes?
Lawdog1521 - I'll go with two. Why? Anytime you have a dead clown you come out ahead.
were you able to make the bed this morning?
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Then forgive my lack of knowledge on crappy video cards. http://www.pcgameshardware.com/&menu=browser&image_id=883993&article_id=657567&page=1&show=original http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_785g_performance/page9.asp More pixels with less eye candy, 12FPS for the HD4200, 10 for the 9400GT. Could be called either way there.
I would gladly pay $15 USD for this card. If nothign else for a experement in overclocking and modding.
I have a 210 and it blows. It's just a backup card for me, but I have it in my main desktop currently to do F@H with my main card, a 9800 GT.
My price still stands. I will buy one and overclock it and see how well it does. When it fails to deliver I will feed it to a 1,000 + HP machine that will grind it to pieces, then feed it to a dairy cow, which will then find no processing good from it, and will shit it out, then it will truly be what it was in the beginning.
sometimes it takes a while to find the witch and I found the witch now we gotta purify the witch no nvidia is made up of gold hungy leprechauns
im highly dissapointed in the performance of the new nvidia 300 line. *stares at binge* DAS RIGHT! thats for saying 5970 was a failure. just poking at you bro. anyhow at this point im starting to feel bad for nvidia, even thought i dont like them its like seeing a old dying cat, and you cant help but feel bad for it.
I can't believe you are comparing results with and without 4xAA/16xAF and pretend they mean anything... I'll leave it there.
What can this card do? lolguys I just heard news. Nvidia is renaming to Nvidia2 so they can rebrand their cards with Nvidia2 lol.
This thread is great. Is the 310 going to be an OEM card? And when will we see the actual Fermi based graphics cards hitting the market? We all know nVidia loves rebadging graphics cards, but this is getting ridiculous. :shadedshu I think I'll stick with ATI for now.
The 210, 220 and 240 were OEM originally but then they got released as retail. I expect the same for the 300 series, at least the low end of the spectrum.
i know there not gonna die, theve made alot of hard earned money renaming cards and ripping people off to survive for awhile all while giving there consumer base nothing but empty promises. LOVE YOU SOLARIS!!!!
well, if it does go to retail and you see a GT210 sitting next to a GT310 at a store and you see someone trying to decide that would be so funny because you know the GT310 will cost like 30 bucks more.


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Hi all, I'm an avid lurker here, been going through old msgs looking for a solution and would love it if someone could elaborate on this tidbit written by Robert G. Brown aka RGB, and maybe point me to useful links or a book. I need to learn this on my own. thanks in advance. I have a room of WinXP boxes (3D and video encoding renderfarm) that I need to image from time to time. I am using Acronis's imaging tools to boot the XP machines via PXE, re-imaging the entire boot disk in the machine. I have created my own scripts to trigger reboots on the nodes, and simply turn the pxe server on when I need to send out a new image, or turn it off for regular reboots into XP (basically letting pxe fail). My issue: I'd like to do what I think RGB is describing below. I'd like to have 2 partitions on local drives in the nodes, one containing winXP and one containing the imaging software. Can I boot nodes via PXE to make the decision of which local partition to boot from? Should I be looking towards making changes to grub via scripting instead? The reason for me to create a new workflow is because Acronis' PXE method can be unreliable, I've been using boot cd's lately. Thanks. ----snipped from an old RGB post----- >Let's see if I can recall the issues. Rebooting from lin to win is easy (change grub, reboot), rebooting automagically from win to lin used to be hard. Now I suspect that if you use PXE (only) to boot the nodes going either way would be pretty easy, if you can figure out how to persuade the Win boxes to reboot themselves after (say) 6 pm when their PXE servers have altered their default boot to lin. Getting the lin nodes to reboot at 6 am is trivial. >These days a really interesting possibility is to use e.g. warewulf, which lets you boot the nodes into lin diskless. So you can ALWAYS put the nodes back to win with a reboot. The WinXX folks tend to have to work to install Windows systems (except where they've worked very hard to master installing from a standard image with network shares) and get irritated if you breathe on their systems once they're semistable. PXE booting a diskless OS leaves their hard-won configurations alone. ---- end of copied body ---- Alpay Kasal Admin/Engineer http://www.NYCRenderfarm.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20051212/5c1b10a2/attachment.html
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The 2011 St. Paul Athena Awards -- which honor female high school student-athletes in that area -- were given out at a banquet Wednesday. Here is a list of the award winners, along with their schools and pictures. (Note: Minneapolis gives out its Athena Awards on May 6). Click for Part I and Part 2 to see the rest of the winners.
DeLaSalle girls' basketball coach Faith Johnson Patterson was anything but happy with her team's 64-29 home loss to Lakeville North on Thursday night.
"A two-point deficit all of a sudden became 20," she said glumly after the Islanders were outscored 37-4 in the second half.
The Class 4A Panthers were clearly the better team. But forgive DeLaSalle if its collective basketball mind wasn't all there.
Just before practice Wednesday afternoon, Johnson Patterson received a phone call no one ever expects to get. Her 14-year-old nephew had collapsed during his basketball practice at Prairie Seeds Academy in Brooklyn Park. Jarvis Johnson, brother of DeLaSalle starting center Tyseanna Johnson, was brought to North Memorial Hospital before being transferred to Children's Hospital in St. Paul. It's believed he suffered a heart attack.
"It was a very serious situation and still is a very serious situation," Johnson Patterson said. "This is a 14-year-old kid that grew up coming to our practices when he wasn't at his. All of the girls know him. He's a big part of us all."
Johnson Patterson said Jarvis was in critical condition at Children's Hospital as of Thursday night but did not know any further details.
"Everybody on our team cried all day long and probably will all night long," she said. "But we had to pull ourselves together to play this game. It was hard to fight through it."
Roseville head girls' basketball coach Jeff Crosby said incoming senior Megan Stuart recently gave a verbal commitment to play for South Dakota State.
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The University of Michigan (or should that be Bring 'Em Young?) offered a scholarship to Hailey Kontny, an eighth-grader who attends Superior Middle School in Wisconsin -- just across the border from Duluth.
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Posted 10:05 PM 11/25/2012 : 18-year-old shot, and pushed out of vehicle
TUCSON - The family of a Tucson man shot and left to die on the side of the road wants justice.
They're hoping the public can help.
Here are the quick facts: On Friday, November 16 two men were shot in the backseat of a car.
It happened near Pantano and Escalante around 11-pm.
Police say the driver who pulled the trigger, threw both men out of the vehicle and took off.
One man died, the other suffered critical injuries.
Loved ones of the man killed describe their loss.
At 18, Andrew Liska's future looked bright.
The recent high school graduate doted on his god-daughter.
Crystal Wainwright, Andrew's sister can't believe he's gone, let alone how it happened.
"He shot my brother and dumped him on the side of the road," said Wainwright.
She says it happened just two blocks away from their mom's house.
Andrew left to meet up with friends but never came home.
"She found the crime scene, she talked to the officer, demanded to know if her son was there, she immediately called me, your brother has been shot I'm going to the hospital," said Wainwright.
"It was awful, it was probably one of the most awful moments of my life."
His injuries were too severe, Andrew died three days later.
The gunman, and his female passenger are still at large.
"Nobody deserves to die like this," says Joe Liska, Andrew's cousin.
The family hopes someone with information will come forward.
"As citizens of the U.S. and Pima County, we can't allow people to do this to our kids, we can't allow this kind of behavior," said Liska.
"I can't even describe what's it like to know that someone killed my brother and he's still out there," says Wainwright. "It's hard for me to think that anyone could do that to anybody. To be that heartless and evil."
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Why not friends forever? They both hate America. They are both dependent on American largesse. They are both darlings of American media. They both vote Democrat...
Rodman is some kind of genius. A friend of the Dear Leader. How can anyone spend three minutes in North Korea and desire to proclaim an affinity with that madman?
Rodman and Un are from the same planet.
Will Kim dye his hair blonde, or tatoo himself all over? What can we expect next?
Revoke Rodman´s passport and leave him there.
DEPORT RODMAN. Make him live by his own rules. Make him live in Kim Jong Un´s paradise.
Maybe Rodman can show his love for Jong by executing a few Korean malcontents while he is there - or at least bouncing a basketball of their foreheads......../sRodman is a dirtbag, as is Penn, Glover, Belafonte and that anti-semite Jew hater Farrakhan.
Hmmm.... wonder if Rodman..the guy with a ring through his nose... has any idea that his new best friend is starving the North Korean people and that his new best friend has prison camps where people die?Rodman is just a clown who wants people to notice him. He was a good basketball player...but has become Bozo.
Look: a scurry of squirrels!
Rodman tells all the wacko´s that...I´ll bet he even told his imaginary rabit the same thing. Harvey? Are you out there?
Rodman is nothing. Who cares?
Rodman has failed at everything besides basketball. Do I expect him to be a good diplomat or recognize a good leader? No. He is free to have his opinions.
They deserve one another.
Detroit Pistons "honored" this freak at a game ceremony last year. I now watch only old wrestling matches.
Maybe Dennis thinks if he hangs around a nutball like Kim he won´t look so cazy in comparison.
Actually, based on the fact that the Nobel Prize committee gave the "Peace Prize" to BHO for no good reason, I bet "The Worm" is now a shoo-in for the Prize next year.


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Senator Marco Rubio's Past and Future
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011The Tequila Party is growing by leaps and bounds! The ground has been fertile for this movement.
When President Obama was in El Paso, Texas, he asked for political grassroots movement, and the Tequila Party will continue to push hard for a strong Latino Get Out the Vote for 2012 to push for immigrant-friendly politicians who don't demonize Latinos, Hispanics, and immigrants.
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Rubio's Past and Future
By Ramon Ruiz
During the past few days, the carefully crafted image of the West Miami-based junior Senator from Florida has begun to unravel. The Latino darling of the tea party has found himself facing a swelling wave of scrutiny focusing on his fundamental political identity, as the son of political exiles.
As the basis of his core political narrative dissolves, it is quickly becoming clear how intensely engaged and dependent upon the tea party he has been during his meteoric rise to the national stage during the past 12 months. He has been seduced by a rabid wing of the Republican Party that portends to be "America's" salvation from big government, high taxes, and illegal aliens. This political movement, which claims to be the most important protector of family values, has embraced Rubio in turn, as the great Latino hope for the party.
Rubio has been a man on a mission, and along the way he has been unforgivably disrespectful of immigrant's rights. His aggressive political posturing for higher office vis-a-vis the Tea Party has led him to a dark corner of American politics where pandering to extreme fears of isolationists and racists manifests itself in instilling big brother oversight in the workplace and violent measures along the Mexican American border.
His desire to propel himself onto the national stage has led him into questionable alliances that betray the true nature of his immigrant roots. His wholehearted embrace of Senator Chick Grassley's and Representative Lamar Smith's E-Verify legislative proposals is tantamount to a mass deportation action and would, in effect, drive 11 million undocumented workers deeper underground – a dark corner of our society where suspicion and fear translates into hate crimes.
Rubio's strong support of Arizona's draconian efforts to arbitrarily demand documents of residents simply because of how they appear is an affront to Mexicans and anyone else that may appear Mexican – again, that dark corner of society. His opposition to the Dream Act, a legislative proposal that would, that not only support young immigrants if they serve in our military, or pursue a serious education, but also potentially add more than a trillion dollars to our tax rolls in the coming decades is disgraceful in its shortsightedness.
Senator Rubio needs to come straight about the true nature of his immigrant beginnings. The economic circumstances that drove his parents to cross the border places him in the same family tree as millions of Latino residents in the United States seeking a better life. His religious affiliations, which range from Catholicism to Evangelicalism, demand that he reexamine his commitment to family values and the human rights inherent in those values.
He has had plenty of opportunity to denounce the inhumane language, such as "anchor babies" and "electrified fences with moats filled with alligators" infecting the Republican debates. But he has chosen to remain largely silent. As the Latino darling of right wing extremism, he will inevitably be held accountable for his actions and inaction, by millions of Latinos searching for some sort of hope within the Republican Party.
This election season is proving to be the great inflection point of Latino participation in American politics. There is no turning back. If Marco Rubio wishes to participate in this sea change of national politics, he must immediately begin to recognize his mistakes. Coming to terms with his immigrant past will not be resolved with a simple press release; instead it should consist of stepping back, away from the dark corner of inhumane policies in our society. A place that many undocumented and documented immigrants know too well.
It has been reported that there has been a 50 percent increase in hate crimes against Latinos in California in 2010 and that this increase has been directly tied to the passage of S.B. 1070 immigration law in Arizona. It goes without question that Senator Rubio's hard working parents must have encountered discrimination during their years working in hotels and restaurants.
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I'm pretty sure the +20% performance over the 7970 Ghz ed. is caused by that low clock. The 680 is 1008mhz and the Titan is 836mhz that's 83% of the 680 clock so the effect of the 2688 shaders is reduced by 83% so they actually perform like 2231shaders at 1008mhz. Also the 680 was bandwidth starved well this is also bandwdith starved as true shader preformance went up by 45% (over the 680) and bandwidth is up 50% and add to that the fact that these are the first drivers for this card and you get why it's so slow. However no amount of driver optimization can make up for the low clock so the max that I can see this card pushing is 45% more performance over an equally optimized 680 while still having that stupidly high price tag
You think that is why Nvidia have broken their own convention of castrating FP64 performance on GeForce cards by allowing full 1:3 rate double precision on a consumer GTX Titan ? It would seem rather obvious (at least to me) that Nvidia is casting a wider net than just Surround gaming. GK110 was developed primarily for compute, yet aside from disabling MPI and ECC memory, the Titan retains not only the full spec of the $3200-4500 Tesla (inc the 6GB memory component) but also allows for the option of a 35% clock increase if the users workload is FP32 based. Hey, but what the fuck do I know? Maybe Nvidia just forgot to disable double precision, and the selling of workstation card at consumer card prices is just the beginning of the end. Strange math. You work on a different numbering system where you live? @ 2560 by W1ZZ's charts the Titan shows an increase of 31.57% over the 7970GE and 42.86% increase over the GTX 680 Depends how you look at it. 1. GK 110 wasn't developed as a gaming chip- the GK104 and Tahiti were. 2. The Titan uses equal power to the 7970GE yet offers 31.57% more gaming performance at 2560x1600 The only real argument is price- which nobody is disputing, and is largely irrelevant since the pricing is 1. Deliberately set high to ensure Nvidia need not keep the consumer channel supplied with GPUs that would return better margins as Quadro and Tesla, and 2. Not to undermine the professional cards above it in the product stack. Whats the point of Nvidia pricing Titan at $499 ? It means that Nvidia then have to sell the GTX 680 for around $299-329, with the rest of the product stack realigned. The same people that are going to buy Titan at $499, would then buy a 680 for $299...or a 7970 at whatever price AMD would need to be competitive....assuming people didn't use the same logic/ performance-per-$ metric and buy a couple of bargain basement priced GTX 660 TI's or 7950's.
How can it not be deliberately set high when there is no Quadro and Tesla option to compete. If you buy a Tesla you need to buy a Quadro for video out thats $6K Something that a $3.5K W10000 will do with full support. Thats half the money and half the slots and 2/3rd the power saved right there unless its CUDA your after. That same premise can be made for every big chip Nvidia has released that went into a Tesla variant. Maybe you have more insight but I havent heard how selling those chips in GeForce variants hurt HPC sales in the past.
Glad to see that we agree, although I'd hate to have you shopping for me: Tesla K20 $3259 + Quadro NVS 510 $365 = $3624 Cool. Where can I buy this imaginary card ? You can't even buy the $3599 S10000 yet. Well, its actually 99.3%....or 74.7% with the same stores K20X. You use the same numerical system as Aquinas ? 3 slots versus 2 slots = two thirds Unlikely. The S10000 is board rated at 375 watts (in comparison; the W9000 is rated at 274 Watts and reaches that consumption) . The K20/K20X is rated at 225/235W, and the Quadro NVS 510 is rated at 35 watts. If you think that two Tahiti GPUs use less power than one GK110 + one GK107 then I'd suggest you do some more fact checking. Considering AMD's pro drivers are basically non-existent, I'd say that the Quadro drivers and apps also come into that equation. Maybe you couldn't understand my previous post. I will re-iterate: Tesla and Quadro cards retain full compute ability. GeForce cards with the exception of the Titan have had their compute features artificially limited to protect the Quadro and Tesla brands.
I like how suddenly money is an issue for a professional setup. What happen to its not targeted at you, TITAN arguement If your gonna try and correct someone atleast reference the proper card yourself K20X $4,450 You can confirm this? Firmware is not limiting factor anymore? Links please. AMD FirePro S10000 TigerDirect SabrePC - Same site you referanced
You know, I love that you guys do price/performance charts, especially broken down by resolution. However, I do have one suggestion that'd would make them absolutely perfect. You guys do the price/performance calculation for us and then order by best "value", and that could be useful for some, but for a lot of us we're looking more for maximum performance without crossing a harsh "diminishing returns" wall. (Kinda like Tom's "Best ___ for the Money" columns). What I'd like to see is price on one axis (That way later we could adjust for price changes mentally) and performance on the other, ordered by performance, and broken down by resolution like it is now. Personally I'm thinking kind of like a line chart, or even the current bar chart rotated 90 degrees, but ordered by performance instead of value. I guess at the end of the day, the question I really want to know with that section is, "At a given resolution, at what point to I hit 60fps average [overkill] or start getting ripped off [diminishing returns]?" It's like, I know a Geforce 660 is a great value, but it's not going to drive the FPS I want at 2560x1440 high details, you know?
Stop trolling. You know full well that I was correcting your faulty $6K figure You mean the card I already referenced ? If you cant comprehend my posts, why bother trying to answer them? [source 1], [source 2], [and source 3 on the first page of this thread]
Really linking to more benchmarks That doesnt establish if the TITAN is not Firmware limited like previous GeForce *80s.
What part of "double precision (FP64) performance is uncapped. That means 1/3 FP32 performance, or roughly 1.3TFLOPS theoretical FP64 performance" don't you understand?
But, running it under LN2, does. Cards are VRM limited for LN2. Firmware doesn't even need to be thought about. Find K1ngP1n's rig pics, and your answer is there.
I'm sure someone will get around to hard modding/adding a daughterboard to the card at some stage...probably about 5 minutes after the HWBot leaderboard becomes congested with unmodded Titans filling the single, 2, 3, and 4 card benchmarks. /Looking forward to a succession of Titan OCérs shattering the 3DM Fire Strike record...by 5 points...every few days
K1ngP1n already did. Which to me says the cards are VRM limited already. 1 day after launch. You just can't compete with these guys that work at the OEMs and have open access to parts. Anything anyone else would try has already been done. Now it's just a matter of binning cards for the best one, and @ $1000 a pop, that's not gonna happen too quickly. 1750 MHz, more than double stock, already posted on HWBOT.
Understandable from a vendors point of view. The nature of the enthusiast is to keep pushing until something breaks...and components breaking-regardless of the circumstances tend to reflect badly on the manufacturer. I'm pretty sure that if thermal throttling were removed from modern CPUs, or average Joe Blow could switch off PowerTune, the blowback would more than negate any gain from HWBot competition. As far as Nvidia are concerned, you could probably see the writing on the wall when GTX 590's started producing fireworks when overvolted. In the days when a YouTube video negates a whole marketing campaign its easy to see why they wouldn't take the chance. Pretty much. With competitive overclocking now being a valid PR and marketing tool, every vendor seems eager to jump on the bandwagon, which means that the traditional enthusiast orientated powerhouses need to up the ante I'd be surprised if the top vendors weren't already binning for factory OCéd "specials" like the Asus Matrix/DCII, MSI Lightning, EVGA SSC/HC, Gigabyte WF3 - in which case, they will certainly be putting aside any golden samples for the extreme crowd.
Meh, they don't cherry pick chips, this has been proven atleast for ASUS, I mean look at the 7970 Platinum, some clock 100 Mhz worse than reference GPUs...
A lot of times the cherry picking is for LN2 and not air on cards like that. I can tell from the ASIC on my chips (in addition to the results of others) that Lightning 7970s are absolutely binned for LN2.
Isn't this kind of like the 7950GT which was released like 3 months before the 8 series, just to pacify the enthusiasts? Just a quick market grab. Money well spent!
You make it sound like you can enable full power DP math on non-Titan GeForce chips. Let's get something perfectly clear. How many shaders and performance did this card have to dedicate to get that 1:3 DP math? You also gimp SP math when you enable full speed DP math. At least the 7970 just does compute well regardless if its DP or SP. You know, ECC memory is pretty important when you're doing compute applications. If you start overclocking the GPU your results can't be guaranteed. ECC at least eliminates the concern for corrupted memory to a point. Most gamers won't ever need full DP math and as far as professionals who use the Tesla cards, I think they might be intested in spending the extra money knowing that they can have their compute scale using MPI and that memory is reliable (ECC). I was considering all resolutions which isn't the best gauge. 30% at 100% price is still a bit steep. A 1:3 ratio of performance relative to price against the 680 isn't exactly great still. You're going to have to prove that I think. Just because it was in Tesla chips first does not mean that it was designed for compute, but the truth of the matter is, we don't know why it came out late and I doubt it was because it wasn't ready. I'm willing to bet if the 7970 was vastly faster and they needed the GK110, they would have released it. They didn't feel that they had to so they waited. The timing was pretty bad though IMHO but I don't agree that the GK110 was developed strictly with compute in mind. You know, for people who actually invest in Tesla and use it's features would think that not having MPI would suck because now it's that much harder to get more than one of them to work together. If Titan is designed for compute, it's designed to do it on its own because anything to allow it to scale or be truly reliable for compute has been gimped. Also once again, most data centers won't be wanted a Titan to crunch, they will be wanting something that's more reliable and has the features they need. With all of that said, GK110 is a GPU that does DP math well when you enable it. I wouldn't go so far to say that it was designed for compute. Telsa has the extra hardware to do that the right way. That is what everyone else is saying, not me. I've been saying $700-750 USD would have been the sweet spot. 500-550 USD is too low and 1000 USD is too high. 750 feels like an acceptable medium that would get more buyers.
Precisely? Zero. Of the 2688 shaders on the chip,1792 are FP32 capable, 896 are FP32/64. There are no dedicated FP64 shaders on the chip. Yes...looks very gimped. Single precision: Double precision: The case for ECC with GDDR5. ECC is generally a province of pro graphics/math co-processors where error detection is critical. Obviously, Titan is being not being aimed at those markets- that is what Quadro and Tesla are for. Titan doesn't allow overclocking when full rate FP64 is enabled for that precise reason: FP64 calculation is obviously slower than FP32, and requires much more power to run. Just as well the laws of physics are in play- a 90% improvement over Tahiti using less power is probably not something AMD would like to see extended. Obviously, there are enough people who just require EDC than full ECC (I'll take the word of the Anandtech guys over a random here I think)...after all, EDC was good enough for every AMD GPU (ECC was implemented only with Southern Islands FirePro) I don't think anyone is suggesting Titan will be used in this manner. If FP64 isn't compute (GPGPU) then what is it ? If you could please list some applications that require double precision that aren't considered compute ? I think you'll find that most commercial applications (i.e. compute orientated Maya and AutoCAD for instance) use a combination of single and double precision. So, what you are trying to convey is that enthusiast gamers wont buy the card because it is too expensive, and GPGPU users wont buy the card because it lacks features...so no one will buy the card! (There aren't a whole lot of options left). So your analysis differs -and you have me believe, superior, to Anandtechs staff and Nvidias strategic marketing planners. Well, hopefully you're right and the price craters a few weeks from now.
If I can add to your debate, Vray (which is a renderer tool I use in 3Dstudio Max instead of the default one) uses both DP and SP code as far as I know. I will use the heck out of my Titan CUDA cores on VRAY CUDA acceleration, this GPU is a bloody good entry level compute monster. I'll give you more details as soon as my order arrives.
Quote: Originally Posted by Aquinus View Post You make it sound like you can enable full power DP math on non-Titan GeForce chips. Let's get something perfectly clear. How many shaders and performance did this card have to dedicate to get that 1:3 DP math? Precisely? Zero. Of the 2688 shaders on the chip,1792 are FP32 capable, 896 are FP32/64. There are no dedicated FP64 shaders on the chip. No. 2688 FP32 only and 896 DP. (16*12 FP32SP and 16*4 FP64 SP per SMX) http://www.anandtech.com/show/6446/nvidia-launches-tesla-k20-k20x-gk110-arrives-at-last/3
The question was I believe was dedicated FP64 cores/shaders. The 896 double precision units are linked to FP32 shaders. As far as my understanding goes, a conventional core/shader encompasses the whole graphics pipeline (Input Assemble > Vertex > Hull > Tessellation > Domain > Geometry > Raster > Pixel) while the FP64 unit is largely a separate entity - and that is why it's differentiated in the literature as a unit rather than shader or core. Is this not correct ? I wouldn't argue that the units take up die real estate (as they do in any architecture), just that the units aren't shaders by definition- I have never heard that the GK 110 die for instance is a 3840 cores GPU. The number is usually defined as 2880.


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In 1990, Congress designated the 1990s the "Decade of the Brain." President George H. W. Bush proclaimed, "A new era of discovery is dawning in brain research." During the ensuing decade, scientists greatly advanced our understanding of the brain.
The editors of Cerebrum asked the directors of seven brain-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the biggest advances, greatest disappointments, and missed opportunities of brain research in the past decade—the decade after the "Decade of the Brain." We also asked them what looks most promising for the coming decade, the 2010s. Our experts focused on research that might change how doctors diagnose and treat human brain disorders.
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Why does drinking alcohol have such profound effects on people's behavior? Why does alcohol dependence develop and persist in some people but not in others? Scientists attempt to answer these questions by studying the brain, where alcohol intoxication and dependence begin. During the past decade, advances in technology have helped us better understand how alcohol changes the brain and how those changes influence alcohol-related behaviors. In the coming decade, this knowledge will help researchers develop drug and other interventions that can reduce the high social, personal and economic costs of alcohol-related problems.
Research supported by NIAAA in the early 1990s demonstrated that people who abuse alcohol for a long time experience lasting changes within the brain's limbic system, which supports emotion and motivation. These changes, which we call neuroadaptation, involve multiple neurotransmitters and other brain chemicals. Neuroadaptation can result in heightened anxiety and distress during abstinence; the drinker can alleviate this discomfort for a short time by drinking more. This may help explain why people with alcohol dependence steadily increase the amount they drink.
As a person's dependence on alcohol grows, the affected neurotransmitter systems change from those that are involved in the brain's reward system to those that cause negative effects such as anxiety, sweating and tremors. It appears that people with alcohol dependence continue to drink despite recurring health and social problems because of a vicious cycle: They are drinking in an attempt to avoid the unpleasant effects of drinking. In the future, alcohol scientists hope to use their understanding of how neuroadaptation occurs to develop targeted medications for treating alcohol dependence.
Researchers have identified stress as a probable trigger for relapse into alcohol dependence. Alcohol neuroscientists have identified several brain-cell receptors that influence resilience to stress and may be involved in susceptibility to alcohol dependence. For example, researchers found that mice lacking a receptor that mediates stress responses voluntarily drank much less alcohol and were more sensitive to its sedative effects than normal mice. In one study, people who had recently gone through alcohol detoxification took a drug that targets this same receptor. They reported fewer alcohol cravings and improved overall well-being.1 This finding might lead to a new treatment for some types of alcohol dependence, which is a central part of the NIAAA's mission.
Scientists also are seeking ways to combat underage drinking, a major public health challenge worldwide. For example, researchers conducting studies on animals have found that adolescents are less sensitive than adults to the negative effects of intoxication, including sleepiness, hangover and impaired coordination. That means it takes more alcohol for teens to begin to experience the negative effects that adults recognize as signs that they have had too much to drink. On the other hand, researchers conducting studies on humans have found that adolescents are more sensitive than adults to alcohol's impairment of memory and social inhibition.2 These findings suggest that adolescents are particularly prone to alcohol-related consequences, such as teenage drinking and driving accidents and lasting cognitive deficits.3 In addition, the earlier drinking begins in adolescence, the greater the risk of alcohol use disorders in adulthood.4 Our next challenge, therefore, is to learn how drinking may interfere with normal adolescent brain development at the cellular and molecular level, as well as how this interference may lead to cognitive impairment and alcohol use disorders. Then we can investigate interventions that will protect people of all ages.
During the Decade of the Brain, scientists developed imaging and electrical recording techniques that allow today's researchers to study how alcohol affects different brain systems and structures. We can also see, in real time, how both the motivation to drink and alcohol itself change the human brain. For example, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists can track how the desire to use alcohol changes specific brain regions. Scientists using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can monitor chemical and metabolic changes that may cause alcohol's short-term pleasurable effects (intoxication) and long-term detrimental effects (dependence).
Furthermore, about half of a person's risk of developing alcoholism is based on his or her genetic makeup,5 and real-time recording techniques also are helping scientists to identify genetic risk factors. For instance, using event-related potentials (ERPs), researchers have identified unusual brainwaves that appear in the brains of children of alcoholics before they have taken their first drink.6 Researchers also have found that certain genetic markers linked to alcohol dependence also are associated with psychiatric disorders such as antisocial personality disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. This finding suggests that these illnesses have genetic connections.7 In order to investigate the interface of genetics and neuroimaging, the NIAAA has promoted imaging research that may clarify how genes associated with alcohol dependence affect the brain. This new field of imaging genetics offers a powerful research tool to help us understand the genes that underlie alcohol-related disorders.
Understanding the effect of alcohol on the brain through discoveries in neuroscience is integral to understanding why people get into trouble from alcohol use and figuring out how to prevent and reduce alcohol-related problems. During the next decade, animal and human studies using increasingly sophisticated technology will provide information that may help bring us closer to these important goals.
1. D. T. George, J. Gilman, J. Hersh, A. Thorsell, D. Herion, C. Geyer, X. Peng, W. Kielbasa, R. Rawlings, J. E. Brandt, D. R. Gehlert, J. T. Tauscher, S. P. Hunt, D. Hommer, and M. Heilig, "Neurokinin 1 Receptor Antagonism as a Possible Therapy for Alcoholism," Science 319, no. 5869 (2008): 1536–1539.
2. A. M. White and H. S. Swartzwelder, "Age-Related Effects of Alcohol on Memory and Memory-Related Brain Function in Adolescents and Adults," Recent Developments in Alcoholism 17 (2005): 161–176.
3. L. M. Squeglia, A. D. Spadoni, M. A. Infante, M. G. Myers, and S. F. Tapert, "Initiating Moderate to Heavy Alcohol Use Predicts Changes in Neuropsychological Functioning for Adolescent Girls and Boys," Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 23, no. 4 (2009): 715–722.
4. B. F. Grant and D. A. Dawson, "Age at Onset of Alcohol Use and Its Association with DSM-IV Alcohol Abuse and Dependence: Results from the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey," Journal of Substance Abuse 9 (1997): 103–110.
5. K. S. Kendler, E. Schmitt, S. H. Aggen, and C. A. Prescott, "Genetic and Environmental Influences on Alcohol, Caffeine, Cannabis, and Nicotine Use from Early Adolescence to Middle Adulthood," Archives of General Psychiatry 65, no. 6 (2008): 674–682.
6. S. M. Singh and D. Basu, "The P300 Event-Related Potential and Its Possible Role as an Endophenotype for Studying Substance Use Disorders: A Review," Addiction Biology 14, no. 3 (2009): 298–309.
7. J. Gelernter and H. Kranzler, "Genetics of Alcohol Dependence," Human Genetics 126, no. 1 (2009): 91–99.


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HTop Pineda Palace Hotel Pineda De Mar enjoys a privileged seafront location and is a couple's paradise. The property is located 66 kilometres from Barcelona's city centre and Ramblas.
All the accommodation units are simply furnished and facilitated with modern amenities accompanied by a balcony that offers spectacular views over the Mediterranean Sea or the beautiful surroundings.
Guests can have pre-dinner drinks at the bar and later, dine at the on-site restaurant that serves a variety of delicacies.
If exercise is a part of your daily routine, work up a sweat at the exercise room that comes with a sauna or just take a dip in the swimming pool, which is an ideal way to relax after a busy day.
Additional Information
- 3 km to City Centre
Hotel Facilities
- Bar / Lounge
- Disabled Facilities
- Jacuzzi / Whirlpool
- Parking Facilities
- Room Service
- Solarium
- Tour Desk
- Children's Playroom
- Faxing Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Plunge Pool
- Safe Deposit Box
- Spa / Wellness Centre
- Currency Exchange Services
- Gym / Fitness Facilities
- Lift / Elevator
- Restaurant
- Sauna
- Swimming Pool - Outdoor
Room Facilities
- Air Conditioning
- Hairdryer
- Telephone
- Cable / Satellite TV
- Mini Bar
- Ensuite / Private Bathroom
- Safe
HTOP Pineda Palace Hotel Pineda De Mar Guest Reviews (3)
this place was good for a base. its basic and attracts an over 50´s crowd but it was a comfortable and affordable place to stay. the included food made good value but it was pretty crap, don´t expect great quality.
Anonymous wrote on March 3, 2008
very pleased with the hotel and booking through rates to go
Anonymous wrote on October 27, 2007
In all aspects we found to be an excellent 4* hotel. and would recommend it. The rooms were well equipped & spotlessly clean. The food was good with a large choice. The staff were helpful & polite. Sited on the sea front with a sandy beach, it was in an ideal situation. One word of warning though, parents with young children ought to be aware that the sea deepens within a few yards of the shore line & supervision is essential. A bus which commutes between the hotels of the H Top group where the AI card was also accepted we found was a great asset. Well worth looking at..
brian stanton wrote on October 20, 2007
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Busy days at the Mac team
I can only agree with people who have commented here that we should get Skype for Mac 2.0 out quicker. And that we should have more news on Mac. As a matter of fact we do have news for you guys but Nils is so busy driving Mac projects that he has very little time for blogging.
Today, for instance, we launched a dedicated [store for Mac stuff](http://accessories.skype.com/section?secid=39163). Check out the new handsets and headsets yourself and stay tuned for more accessories.
Meanwhile our motivation to get more features for Mac out fast keeps growing. One thing is your comments, but guess who recently bought his first Mac. None other than Niklas Zennström, one of Skype's founders, himself. I bet he's as keen to make video calls on his brand new MacBook Pro than any other Mac user out there. So expect to hear from us soon. (Sorry, no dates yet.)
22 thoughts on "Busy days at the Mac team"
gd-jac said 8 years ago
You will do a lot to clam the ardent spirits by releasing in the meantime bug fixes to eliminate especially the one introduced with the latest 126.96.36.199 !?
timshirey said 8 years ago
It's great to hear that Niklas Zennström has a MacBook Pro (Intel).
but PLEASE…. make sure the next Skype upgrade (w/video) is compatible with non-Intel Macs.In Dec. I purchased a G5 PPC "Quad" and a G5 iMac (a few weeks before the new Intel iMacs came out! ) and I use Skype every day to call around the world. My new iSight is not being used because our co-workers only have Skype – not iChat.
Keep in mind the vast majority of Mac users who still do not have Intel machines.
~ Tim -
pascalpvk said 8 years ago
"our motivation to get more features for Mac out fast keeps growing."
This is great information !
… well is it really ?
It looks like teasing more than anything else to me. Stop torturing us
Give us at least some clue : should we count the hours, the days, or the weeks before the release ? -
paco.calderon said 8 years ago
I'll be ready to get the new Skype for Mac.
momolxg said 8 years ago
Long overdue – the codecs been available for the Mac since early this year I thought ? … and still the lame apology of no date.
etorsten said 8 years ago
I´m waiting too…
I just bought a new iSight Camera.And of course Niklas Zennström bought the best Computer around at this moment.
zabaman said 8 years ago
Hello, just added one of those new fangled skype buttons to my website only to discover I can't show my status online because I don't have the option to "Allow my status to be shown on the web" checkbox in the privacy panel. I guess this features not available yet for mac. I am sooooo cheesed off. I am gonna cry. Just ordered my usb phone as well. When… when… when??? please just do this little thing for me, its such a cool idea. I'll never buy a pc so you must help me
da_schlitzer said 8 years ago
Hello Skype-Team,
unless you do not post any release dates, could you please tell us: Will Skype 2.0 also run on my G4 PowerBook? I do not want to buy a new mac only because you guys have a deal with Intel
image31 said 8 years ago
I do have two suggestions for new features for skype.(1) You should be able to see an icon when someone is typing sth. in a chat
(2) Skype-windows should fade out when they are not active. // ( -> blue-screen fade out when launching skype )ich hope you will add those features (they are easy to code)
good night and keep on working
andruspurde said 8 years ago
Hi again, and thanks for feedback.
gd-jac, a little bird whispered in my ear that this bug will be fixed this week.
timshirey and da_schlitzer, of course next Skype for Mac will run on non-Intel Macs. I believe it will work on any Mac running 10.3 and 10.4
image31, thanks for the ideas. Lets see what our product team will do with these.
zabaman, when you compare my and Nils's blogger info (you know, "the By Andrus on April 20, 2006″ next to the headline) on the Mac blog you'll see that there are slight differencies. Nils, using one of the latest builds can already show his online status on our site and any other site; whereas I, using the version most users do (220.127.116.11) get only a grey questionmark next to my name. So we're already testing this.
supertext.ch said 8 years ago
video-codec is ready: http://www.on2.com/company/news-room/press-releases/?id=333
webcam-drivers are ready: http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/
my windows-guys are ready.
what are you waiting for? please, give us a beta to play around.
felix.seyfarth said 8 years ago
Have switched from xp to osx a few weeks after 2.0 for Windwos was released and have been suffering in the skype time-warp since. I used to rely heavily on Skype, promoting it to colleagues, friends and family — have now been forced to use POTS again as Skype client under osx-on-intel is cumbersome, buggy, glacial and a performance-killer. PLEASE show us some love…
timshirey said 8 years ago
I just downloaded the new Mac update – Skype 22.214.171.124 which was made available today (April 26). Could you list the changes made in this version? I have not found this explained anywhere on the website.
A problem….
I replaced the previous Skype version and now Skype 220.127.116.11 version won't even open on my Mac. I've done Skype upgrades on my Mac before but never had a problem with it not starting. -
timshirey said 8 years ago
Just to clarify…
In my previous post a moment ago I stated that the version downloaded was 188.8.131.52. This is what the file info read. The downloaded .dmg filename is 220.127.116.11 (made available today).…still can't get it to startup.
timfrench said 8 years ago
18.104.22.168 failed with a "Check 2 failed. Can't run Skype" error in my console log on a ibook G4, which is the same error reported by users on intel macs as well.
The release looks like it has been pulled shortly after release.
Looks like a whoopsy. Guess that's what we deserve for pestering and being so rude about asking them to hurry up and release a new version
I just hope this mistake was just a hiccup due to them focussing so much on the upcoming 2.0 version…
hugenjolly said 8 years ago
Why advertize sype phones on the mac list THAT AREN'T COMPATIBLE? It's really annoying to find one needs Windows software to make them work. We 5%-ers are underserved – yet being smarter, newer, etc. we should be getting it all at the same time. Right?! C'mon…or I'm off to VONAGE.
andruspurde said 8 years ago
Hi hugenjolly
What model are you referring to? Unless there's some kind of misunderstanding I'm quite sure all phones on our Mac category work on Macs.
deadbunny17 said 8 years ago
you guys are killin' me here…
fl_rv_guy said 8 years ago
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. I'm using Skype very successfully on my Mac G5. I usually have my audio output set to external speakers for background music, but when I place a Skype call I have to go into Preferences and change that preference to my USB Plantronics headset.
Is there some little script that would autmatically change this setting when I go to Skype or its Widget, then change it back when I hang up. It would also be helpful if I could mute the music, which comes from XM-Internet, as Skype does automatically for i-Tunes.
andruspurde said 8 years ago
fl_rv_guy, here's a couple of tips from our Mac team:
* If you want to listen to music through external speakers and use Skype via headset, you could leave general output to extern speakers and set Skype output to headset.
* Also, there seems to be no automatic script for switching, but there's a freeware called "SoundSource" by Rogue Amoeba http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ that makes switching easier.
domariabrock said 7 years ago
Just trying to update me Skype to the latest upgrade, running a mac power book pro but the damn thing won't let me upgrade…
Everytime I try to drag the icon over to apps keeps saying not enough user privileges to install!!!
Anyone encountered this issue before and how to get it sorted?
drumguy151 said 7 years ago
I'm using the lastest Skype for MAC running OS X 10.4.8 and using a plantronics DSP 400 headset (USB). I find when making calls i experience audio fading in and out both transmitting and receiving. My preferences are set correctly and have tested various input & output volume settings. Nothing works to eliminate this problem. I've tested it on My G5 as well as Mac Mini. Same issue on both. Anyone else have this issue?? SO Frustrating ! it's impossible to have a conversation with anyone as the signal constantly fades out the In. ARGH !!!


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Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 03:23 pm |
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Reb till death Member
how far is to far in a joke. like if you are makeing fun of some one or someing. see following jokes for examples |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 03:29 pm |
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Reb till death Member
i want out joy rideing the other day and low and behold I reer ended the guy in front of me we pull over and he gets out and to my surprise it was a dwarf he walks up to me and says well i am not happy i was mad so i said then wich one are you |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 03:47 pm |
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Dixie Girl Southern Belle
well is the way i see thing. you can talk about someone and make fun of them all you want as long as you bless there heart. heres a example: say you know someone who is 1 sandwich short of a picknic (puttin it nicely) and they often make stupid comments. you can call them dingy, and stupid behind their backs as long as you say bless there heart. i know some wont agree but hey it gets the job done and you wont feel bad about it later. ____________________ War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 04:30 pm |
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Johan Steele Life NRA,SUVCW # 48,Legion 352
If you can't say it to a man or womans face... don't bother. Otherwise it's nothing more than concealed cowardice. But that's coming from a man w/ a poor sense of humor who has been on the receiving end of jokes many a time. Laughing at someones pain or humiliation is not what I would consider respectable. Last edited on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 04:45 pm by Johan Steele |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 04:39 pm |
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i am not a coward...well to an extent i haved heard the bless its heart bit i have no problem telling jokes i have found i just dont know if they go to far. |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 04:57 pm |
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Johan Steele Life NRA,SUVCW # 48,Legion 352
If someone dealt w/ you in that way how would you react? That is the question I ask of anyone. Where I mod I have often told people to preview their post before they post it and ask themselves if someone talked to them that way would they be offended. Doesn't usually work, but it's an attempt. Any joke can be taken too far; especially if the intent isn't to make the receipiant laugh but to injure. For me it stems from a childhood where I was bullied and the butt of many a mean joke, one incident taught me that I could beat the tar out of the bullies and from that point on I did repeatedly. Oddly the jokes stopped, I still despised the people who had made them. I came to the realization that many jokes were made on my account because people thought there would be no repurcussions. When I proved them wrong, violently, it was of course my fault. Going after someone behind there back is one thing, but putting them in the joke and including them in the laughter is something else; we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves and never take ourselves too seriously. |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 06:40 pm |
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ole Member
you can talk about someone and make fun of them all you want as long as you bless there heart. heres a example: Have heard about this bit of Dixie charm. When a southern "lady" says "bless his/her heart," you know what's coming. ole |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 09:44 pm |
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booklover Member
I'm overweight, so one might think that fat jokes bother me. They don't. I'm bald, so one might think that bald jokes bother me. They don't. However, if I was black, Polish, Italian, Jewish or whatever, and someone tells a joke that features a characteristic that someone has no control over, that crosses the line. I grew up in a time (and town) where such humor was not only accepted but celebrated. Of course, there were no blacks and very few Jews in my hometown. Some might think that it's harmless to tell such jokes because, after all, they're just words. But behind those words lie stereotypes and prejudices that can wound tremendously. In spite of my non-religiosity, I believe the Golden Rule definitely applies here. Sometimes political correctness goes too far. Other times it hits the nail on the head. Best Rob |
Posted: Sun Feb 24th, 2008 10:33 pm |
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okay know how about this one: George Bush and his secret service were running through the park one day George approached a boy with a box of puppies for sale he asked what type of puppies they were the boy said they were Republicans so the next day he brought Dick Chenney along and asked the boy agian and he said they were Democrats so George asked why the change and the boy said they opened their eyes |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 01:44 am |
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booklover Member
OK, now that's funny! Best Rob |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 02:37 am |
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someone might had heard this one all ready: what happens if you give a politian viagra? they grow taller. |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 02:56 am |
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i dont think this one was all that funny: a priest had just gave a surmon and church was letting out one of the members approached him and said you are a smart man father, only someone of your intelligance could have wrote that surmon and left. the whole week he fumbled over what he meant by that. after the next mass he kindly asked the man what he had ment. he said they say that einstien was so smart no one understood him and well sir i didnt understand your surmon that day Last edited on Mon Feb 25th, 2008 02:58 am by Reb till death |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 04:17 pm |
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younglobo Member
sometimes you can be on the recieving end of a joke and it be funny as long as it is not too harsh , you have to know the person long enough to know what is apporpriate and use good taste. even thought I vote republican RTD puppie joke is funny LOL |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 07:17 pm |
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Dixie Girl Southern Belle
well we Southern Belles are the most charming people you'll ever have the pleasure of knowing. ____________________ War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 08:15 pm |
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Reb till death Member
Hillary has lost the last ten primaries in a row. So any crying from now on is going to be real. - Jay Leno |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 08:19 pm |
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Pulling His Cheney George W. Bush ran into Colin Powell`s office exclaiming, "Dick Cheney hanged himself in his bathroom!" Colin Powell says "Oh, No! Did you cut him down?" "Cut him down?" asks George W. "How could I cut him down? He wasn`t dead yet!" |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 08:20 pm |
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Bush's Favor George W. Bush is sitting in a hotel lobby, planning his speech to a group of businessmen, when a little man walks up to him. "Excuse me, Mr. Bush, but my name is Steve Case, and I'm here with an extremely important client tonight. We're going to see your speech tonight, and it would be a great help to me if, when we walk by, you could impress him by saying, 'Hello, Steve'." Bush readily agrees, and fifteen minutes later, the little man walks by, deep in conversation with his client. Bush came up and said, "Hello, Steve." The little man says, "Buzz off, Bush! I'm in a meeting," and keeps walking. |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 08:21 pm |
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Genie and the Taliban Three guys: a Canadian, Osama bin Laden, and Uncle Sam are out walking together one day. They come across a lantern and a genie pops out of it. "I will give each of you each one wish. That's three wishes total," says the genie. The Canadian says, "I'm a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada." With a blink of the genie's eye, *POOF* the land in Canada was forever made fertile for farming. Bin Laden was amazed, so he said, "I want a wall around Afghanistan, so that no infidels, Jews, or Americans can come into our precious state." Again, with a blink of the genie's eye, *POOF* there was a huge wall around Afghanistan. "Uncle Sam" (A former civil engineer), asks, "I'm very curious. Please tell me more about this wall." The Genie explains, "Well, it's about 15,000 feet high, 500 feet thick, and completely surrounds the country; nothing can get in or out - it's virtually impenetrable." Uncle Sam says, "Fill it with water." |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 08:26 pm |
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I would just like to tell the young Americans that you can just say no to drugs. Just say no. Drugs are bad. Drugs are very bad. That is all. Of course, if I could tell them my side of the story, I would tell them that drugs are very refreshing. I was an addict when I was younger, and it attracts the ladies. I'm not just talking ladies either. I was popular after I smoked. I was cool. It was the one time in my life when I felt accepted.... oh... what? We're still on the air? Oh? Is that what that red glowing light means? Uh... WE ARE NOW EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES |
Posted: Mon Feb 25th, 2008 08:26 pm |
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Bush said the one above. |
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Bernhard, Lucian. Breisgau-Perle, 1914
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The Poster Style, or "Plakatstil", was begun in 1905 by Lucian Bernhard in Berlin. For a poster competition sponsored by Preister matches he took the novel approach of drawing two large matches and writing the brand name above them in clean, bold letters. The stark simplicity of the design won him the competition, and marked a departure from the fussy and decorative Art Nouveau style, which was beginning to lose its vitality.
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Steglitz. Lehmann. I.F. Reiser, circa 1910
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