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The Braden River High School Choral Department will present its annual Holiday Silent Auction and Choral Concert at 6 p.m., Dec. 15, at the school, 6545 S.R. 70 E.
The choirs of Braden River High School include the Pirate Singers, the Women's Chorale, and the auditioned concert choir, River Rhapsody. Each group will perform holiday selections such favorites as "Sleigh Ride," "Silent Night" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Students will perform pieces in Latin, Spanish, French, German, Italian and English. River Rhapsody will pay tribute to traditional choral music through their haunting rendition of Tomas Luis de Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium.
The choral department regularly gives back to its supportive community by performing at area events and charities. Most recently, River Rhapsody performed for the NOPE Vigil by invitation from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. This holiday season, the choir will perform at Water's Edge, an assisted-living facility in Bradenton, and will carol in the neighborhoods surrounding the school. Students also will offer a service project to a neighboring senior adult community by wrapping Christmas gifts for the residents.
The 2009 Holiday Silent Auction will feature more than 40 items fromfriends and families of the department as well as local businesses. The businesses that have partnered with BRHS Choral Boosters for this event include Bungalow Beach Resort, Cracker Barrel (State Road 64), Discover Chiropractic & Wellness, The Grey Flannel Gallery, The Home Depot (Sarasota), JKB Designs, Let's Eat, Mary Kay (private consultant), Miss Toni & the Macaroni Band, Princess House (private consultant), Rx For Results, Siesta Key Bungalow, Stepping Stone Clinic, Ellenton Subway, Total Care Physical Therapy, Tropical Interiors Florist and WWSB – ABC 7. Some of the items of interest include sports memorabilia, a gas grill, series 6 microderm, several massages and bungalow stays. The chorus students have also created class baskets of different themes that will be auctioned as well.
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31 USC § 7109 - Appropriations available for joint financing
An appropriation available for technical assistance or personnel training under an assistance program is available for technical assistance and training for a project proposed or approved for joint financing involving the program and another assistance program.
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Here's a picture I found online of the older action figure of Battle Armor Skeletor, sculptrisnewb. Might refresh your memory a bit since you only have a few years on me...
Here's a picture I found online of the older action figure of Battle Armor Skeletor, sculptrisnewb. Might refresh your memory a bit since you only have a few years on me...
Lmao! BY THE POWERS OF GREYSKULL, I believe its all coming back to me now
Yeah, I forgot just how ugly and deformed they look by todays standards until I went to search for references.
oh he is really well done and a lot more elegant than the original
Thats because wayyyyyy back then the guys that designed them didnt have the like of Sculptris and ZBrush to help em outOriginally Posted by SporkFuMaster
so they just made stumpy legs and webbed feet.
Thanks mermaidine. Hopefully I can do better the next time around.
And the few that could have sculpted better toys out of clay probably weren't in the business like McFarlen Toys are doing now. That would be one hell of a fun job to have though.
This is a bunch of very nice sculptures in this thread.
Thanks for sharing!
Skeletor doesn't look too threatening there with his bandy legs.
I hope you are feeling better Spork.
Ah, the age of 80's cartoons. Back then, nobody cared that they were 30-minute commercials for action figures. There were definitely some creative ideas flowing back then.
I really like that merman lizard. It looks like a creepy cross between Mer-Man from He-Man and the Little Mermaid.
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Thanks Knacki. Got to love Sculptris.
I know dreamz, not sure what they were thinking when they designed all of them that way back then. Almost looks like a forced perspective. Kind of like you are seeing the figure through one of those lenses that is making the head really big and then tapering out the rest of the body. As for me, at least this cough isn't watering my eyes anymore. So, YEAAA! I might actually get to focus on the screen..
Thanks whale. And times haven't changed much. Now some have their own web pages that combine the cartoons and marketing for the toys. They could still be doing a lot better, but it's to be expected.
Ok, here's the womans body that I made a long time ago. Still would have had a long way to go and I'm still afraid of trying to make a womans hands and feet look right... Pretty much everything about making a woman believable is a daunting task to me. All curves that move into more curves. Next one I start will be with refs.
Something new to play around with.
Going with the chubby body again.
Woah sweet!
Glad you liked it. Here's a bit more of the body. Not sure where to take it just yet. Maybe some rock formations on the back and arms or something.


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The Witcher 2 – Assassin's of Kings: Alternative Ending Guide
We know how frustrating it can be when you want a certain outcome to happen but it all depends on which choices you make in the game. Mostly on the first play through it doesn't matter, but if you want to experience everything that a game has to off then it is very usful to know what decision will lead to what outcome. Therefore we have made a list of all of the possible endings in The Witcher 2 – Assassins of Kings and what decisions you need to take in order for that ending to happen. Make the indicated choice to get the ending you want.
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The rule under which the U.S. Copyright Office allows software object code to be deposited in connection with a computer program registration. Under the rule there is an express understanding that doubt exists as to whether the code qualifies for copyright protection should litigation later occur. In essence, the Copyright Office is saying, "We will let you deposit object code, but since we can't read or understand it, we won't commit ourselves as to its copyrightability." If the registration is accomplished under the rule of doubt, the copyright owner may be unable to claim the presumption of ownership -- an important benefit of registration -- should the issue end up in court because of an alleged copyright infringement.
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The following is a translated reproduction of the blog Ana was asked to write by UNICEF Serbia, as part of its campaign against online bullying:
Doesn't time fly? It seems so recent that I was in London, going to the player party before Wimbledon, and playing in The Championships. When I think that this is the 10th year I've played here, including junior tournaments, it's scary!
Wimbledon is a special tournament not only because of the traditions of the Club but the local area: I like to rent a house nearby, along with most other players. The tournament is unique in this way: we stay in hotels for the rest of the year.
I finally made it to Monterrey! For years now Hernan, the tournament director, and his family have been inviting me and unfortunately it's never fit with my schedule, but this year we made it work :)
I felt that I reached a very high level of tennis in Miami, and it was important that I play another tournament soon after, rather than waiting almost a month until the Fed Cup.
The Sierra Madre Tennis Club is a beautiful facility, with mountains in the background. I've been humbled by the welcome I've received, and flattered by all the kind words of the local tennis fans.
Just a week to go to the new season – it seems crazy to write that! The off-season has gone by so fast. It seems like just a couple of weeks ago we were in Prague for the Fed Cup final.
I did my main tennis training in Dubai. Each time I visit I am amazed by how the place has changed. Dubai is a popular place for players to train before the Australian Open, because the extreme heat prepares you well for what we will experience in Melbourne.
I arrived in London yesterday for the Olympics. There's so much energy and excitement in the air. This is a very special time to be in London and I feel privileged to be here.
I've dreamed about playing in the Olympics for many years, and withdrawing from the 2008 Beijing Games was probably the toughest moment of my career.
Being in the Olympic Village in China, with all the other athletes, and practising at the facility, it just adds to my expectation and eagerness to step onto court here to compete.
I wasn't sure if I should call this a summer update or spring: it is June, after all, but I've just arrived in London and it's hard to say that it's summer!
Everyone is telling me what terrible weather it's been in England lately: I hope it improves in time for the grass court season but it doesn't look very promising.
Mind you, it wouldn't feel like England if it was amazing sunshine every day: I have become used to this weather during all the trips I've made here since I was a junior.
As I write this I still feel a lot of frustration regarding my Indian Wells semi-final. I felt like I was playing very well and had a good chance to win it when I became injured. I know it's part of the sport, and it's probably the most difficult part!
I leave Melbourne with mixed emotions, but overall I'm happy. I played some good tennis and only lost to a great player who is maybe the very best on the Tour at the moment.
It's been an exhausting month of tournaments. I played three tournaments in a row and it took a lot out of me. I've decided not to go back to Europe for the Fed Cup. I've only just recovered from the virus I picked up during the Australian Open, and I'm going to be very careful with my schedule and traveling this year, considering the Olympics and the packed summer months.
It's almost here! I can't say I was bored during the off-season, because I have really enjoyed my time in Australia so far, but I've really missed competing.
I came to Australia straight from Bali actually, and spent time with Adam at tournaments in Sydney and Melbourne. I also visited my family in Melbourne.


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Will Legislature Make Education Funding "Job One?"
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Overnight lane closure set for tonight on SR 522 near Monroe
Tougher New Training Standards for Home Care Aides in WA
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Results of the Holiday DUI Enforcement Patrols In Snohomish County Announced Today
Alaskan Way South drivers rerouted under viaduct for tunnel construction
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WA Pet Food Pantries Doing Booming Business
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Thread: The demise of the 2500 Suburban
The demise of the 2500 Suburban
Word is that there will be no 2500 Suburban for 2014. Dealers are selling from 2013 inventory, which they anticipate will last through the 2014 model year.
2015 brings a new platform. Possibly no 2500 there, either, at least at first.
This will leave a significant gap as the only vehicles with a 3rd row of seats and 10k towing are full-sized vans, which lack 4 wheel drive.Minneapolis area - 1997 K2500 regular cab long bed, pushes plow in the winter, carries camper in the summer - 2004 4x4 Suburban 2500 8.1, pulls 30' Airstream trailer
08-29-2013, 02:08 PM #2That stinks. I think that GM showed us that they are not interested in continuing to make a "work horse" suburban when they eliminated the Diesel option. There is always the option of buying a 1500 and taking it to place like "@duraburb" in Florida and having them do their diesel and HD axle conversion. Of course that is if you have an extra $17000-$25000 laying around after you buy your new Suburban.
On a side note: I have also been told that an extended cab 8 foot bed will no longer be available in a 1500. You have to buy a 2500 to get that combo.
The issue I see with GM doing things like is is that they are pushing themselves right out of certain markets. Sure, the 2500 suburban and an ext cab 8 foot bed silverado does not sell nearly as much as their other trucks. But, a guy is going to go and buy a dodge or ford for a work truck with an 8 foot bed and ext cab. Maybe he will have a great experience at the dealer. Then when it comes time to buy a new family vehicle he is going to consider going back to the ford or dodge dealer for that new car. In my opinion GM is making their trucks for a soccer mom and dad rather than the working folk. This is evident with how hard it is to find a new truck that is a W/T, stripped down version. Now most of the new trucks on the lot are covered in chrome with DVD players and tons of other amenities. I know at least 10 people that would buy a new Suburban with no carpet and a rubber floor if it was available.Last edited by Pikey; 08-29-2013 at 02:22 PM.
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08-29-2013, 03:14 PM #4I think that much of it is that GM is not listening to the brand loyal customers. My father works at the GM tech center and has for over 30 years. Last week I drove him into work. I started laughing about halfway thru the campus. My dad asked me why I was laughing. I told him that I had counted over 90 chrysler miniivans in the parking lots. He said, "yep. pretty dumb that gm employees need to buy a chrysler to get a van, you would figure that an executive would look at their own parking lot and see an issue, it is right under their noses." GM loyal people are leaving GM because they can not get what they want/need. This was on a sunday morning when there were hardly any employees there.
08-29-2013, 03:21 PM #5Remember, GM has to build what sells, sure maybe 1% of the truck buyers might consider a 2500 Suburban with a diesel a great thing, but the truth of the matter is that catering to the extreme fringe is not financially profitable.
The extended cab long box 1500, how often does one even see one of these? It's once in a blue moon. If one wants a long bed, get a regular cab or get an HD truck. Long bed trucks are for work.
GM is under the gun from the taxpayers for the bailout stuff, so to satisfy them they need to buy vehicles that are popular sellers. Once GM fully recovers maybe they can start making fringe vehicles again.
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08-29-2013, 03:24 PM #6Must be where you live, because they are everywhere near me. I am close to a city but also close to many farming areas. Yes, many people use them for work. But, I have at least 6 friends with bed campers that require an 8ft bed, 3 of which have extended cab 8ft bed silverados that they are looking to replace within the next year. As I said before, I understand that the 8ft bed ext cab and 2500 suburban were not huge sellers. But, I see someone going to ford or dodge because they offer the package, then the trickle down effect happens and GM has not only lost one truck sale but, maybe, generations of sales from one family.
08-29-2013, 03:36 PM #7I live in the St. Louis area and you rarely see an extended cab 8 foot bed. The overwhelming majority of 1/2 ton trucks in my area are crew cabs with 5'9" beds. This is probably because long bed trucks are not as attractive as short bed trucks(just my opinion).
Remember, GM has said that crew cab segment is now 43% of the truck market, it just so happens in my area that people prefer to buy crew cabs.
08-29-2013, 03:47 PM #8I agree that you see tons of crew cabs out there. But, I believe that the situation was created by GM. People buy what is on the lot. They offer crazy good lease deals on the crew cabs not the ext cabs. I just saw this ad on tv, I can go get a 2013 crew cab 4x4 for $249 a month. If I want an extended cab the incentives are not as good and it will actually cost me $259 for less room. So, of course if I was in the market I would go with what is going to cost me less and still fit my needs.
Oh, above you stated that GM makes what they can sell and that maybe 1% of truck buyers may want a 2500 suburban diesel. That I can agree with. But, what about elimination of their minivans? They could and did sell those. Sure, Chrysler set and holds the benchmark for the vans, but GM loyal folks would still buy a GM van. I know that in December when I bought my wife's caravan I would have bought a GM van if it was available.Last edited by Pikey; 08-29-2013 at 04:13 PM.
08-29-2013, 05:32 PM #9There does not appear to have been one in 2013 either:
I checked the Chev site (US) for 2013 and 2014, they read exactly the same.
The Canadian site, has options and features for the 2013 2500 model:
The 2014 is not listed on the Canadian site.Ray
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08-29-2013, 06:26 PM #10I can't imagine a significant sales volume for a Suburban (2500) that seats eight and needs to be a towing machine. Most trailers won't sleep 8 comfortably. It's all about dollars, and if the volume isn't there it doesn't make sense to produce. The payloads on half ton trucks are around 1,500 pounds. So the truth of the matter is that 8 foot beds are overkill. A Crew Cab with a long bed is one long truck and I am in truck country and don't see many of those monsters.


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Friday, 8 November 2013
Forbes Top 10 Most Funded Big Data Startups
- MongoDB (formerly 10gen) $231m Document-oriented database
- Mu Sigma $208m Data-Science-as-a-Service
- Cloudera $141m Hadoop-based software, services and training
- Opera Solutions $114 Data-Science-as-a-Service
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Original title and link: Forbes Top 10 Most Funded Big Data Startups ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/10/30/top-10-most-funded-big-data-startups-updated/
Friday, 30 August 2013
Eventful week for Couchbase
This week for Couchbase:
Up to you to decide if drawing a line results in a net win or loss.
It looks like Damien Katz's departure didn't get even the 3 "thank you and good luck" sentences that Hortonworks's Eric Baldescwieler got. Sad. ↩
Original title and link: Eventful week for Couchbase ( ©myNoSQL)
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Damien Katz leaves Couchbase
In just 129 characters, Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB and CTO of Couchbase, announces he's leaving Couchbase:
Couchbase is doing amazing. I decided to leave because after 8 years of working on this it needs me far less than my family does.
— damien katz (@damienkatz) August 26, 2013
Original title and link: Damien Katz leaves Couchbase ( ©myNoSQL)
Monday, 22 April 2013
Conflict Resolution Using Rev Trees and a Comparison With Vector Clocks
Damien Katz has posted on GitHub a design document for the data structures, called rev trees, used to support conflict management in Couchbase. The doc also includes references to the way conflict resolution is done in CouchDB and also compares rev trees with the vector clocks.
When this happens [nb the edits are in conflict] Couchbase will store both edits, pick an interim winner (the same winner will be selected on all nodes) and "hide" the losing conflict(s) and mark the document as being in conflict so that it can found, using views and other searches, by an external agents who can potentially resolve the conflicts.
Original title and link: Conflict Resolution Using Rev Trees and a Comparison With Vector Clocks ( ©myNoSQL)
via: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/cbconflictmgmt/blob/master/revtrees.md
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
A Key-Value Cache for Flash Storage: Facebook's McDipper and What Preceded It
A post on Facebook Engineering's blog:
The outgrowth of this was McDipper, a highly performant flash-based cache server that is Memcache protocol compatible. The main design goals of McDipper are to make efficient use of flash storage (i.e. to deliver performance as close to that of the underlying device as possible) and to be a drop-in replacement for Memcached. McDipper has been in active use in production at Facebook for nearly a year.
I know at least 3 companies that have attacked this problem with different approaches and different results:
- Couchbase (ex-Membase, ex-NorthScale) started as a persistent clustered Memcached implementation. It was not optimized for Flash storage though. Today's Couchbase product is still based on the memcache protocol, but it adding new features inspired by CouchDB.
- RethinkDB, a YC company and the company that I work for, has worked and released in 2011 a Memcache compatible storage engine optimized for SSDs. Since then, RethinkDB has been building and released an enhanced product, a distributed JSON store with advanced data manipulation support.
- Aerospike (ex Citrusleaf) sells a storage engine for flash drives. Its API is not Memcache compatible though.
People interested in this market segment have something to learn from this.
Original title and link: A Key-Value Cache for Flash Storage: Facebook's McDipper and What Preceded It ( ©myNoSQL)
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
NoSQL on MySQL: Stating the Obvious
Matthew Aslett about Couchbase's and DataStax's reactions to Oracle's announcement of MySQL support of NoSQL API:
Sure, Couchbase and DataStax laid it on a bit thick, but these are corporate blog posts – it goes with the territory.
I've already linked and commented about these: Couchbase's reaction and DataStax's reaction. What I didn't know—more accurately I should probably write "I hoped"—is that this sort of reactions come with the "corporate" badge. But I'll keep my hope considering the exhaustive list of reactions from other NoSQL companies.
Original title and link: NoSQL on MySQL: Stating the Obvious ( ©myNoSQL)
Reactions to MySQL 5.6: Couchbase
Bob Wiederhold (Couchbase CEO) about MySQL 5.6, their use of the NoSQL term, and the PR message touting the new version as the solution "combining the best of both worlds":
What we see is a whole new wave of applications that have very different requirements than applications had just a few years ago. More often than not they are cloud-based, need to support a huge and dynamically changing number of users, need to store huge amounts of data, and need a highly flexible data model that allows them to adjust to rapidly changing data capture requirements and process lots of semi-structured and unstructured data. The fundamentally different architectural decisions embedded in NoSQL technologies – along with the easy scalability, consistently high performance, and flexible data model advantages (along with all the other tradeoffs) NoSQL provides – are turning out to be a better fit for an increasing number of these applications.
That doesn't mean MySQL (or relational databases) will go away or won't play a significant role in the database industry in the future.
Bob Wiederhold is also interested in how Oracle positions their products in terms of NoSQL:
As a side note it's curious that the MySQL team seems out of step with other parts of Oracle. While the MySQL team seems to be convinced MySQL can do it all, Oracle's NoSQL team seems to feel differently and is busily trying to catch up to NoSQL leaders like Couchbase, MongoDB, and Cassandra with their own NoSQL product. If relational technology is a one size fits all technology, why is Oracle itself making such a big investment in developing its own NoSQL product?
My supposition, expressed in the post MySQL 5.6 - What's new, is that NoSQL is just a critical checkbox on the marketing and sales departments. Oracle NoSQL database and its precursor BerkleyDB seem to silently live inside the giant.
Original title and link: Reactions to MySQL 5.6: Couchbase ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.couchbase.com/why-mysql-56-no-real-threat-nosql
Monday, 21 January 2013
Zynga Deploys MemSQL for Real-Time Service. Where Does This Leave Couchbase?
Derrick Harris reports for GigaOM about Zynga's deployment of a MemSQL cluster:
Zynga has deployed nearly 100 nodes of MemSQL, the hot new database from two former Facebook engineers. It might not be a magic pill for Zynga's woes, but it could help the company boost revenue and even build new types of games. […] At the very least, it could let the company do some things previously out of its reach, such as serve real-time recommendations and ads, and create advanced multi-player games.
Zynga has been the most prominent and most quoted production deployment for Couchbase. That despite the fact that Zynga has never run stock Couchbase, but a custom in-house version.
The story is clear that the new (100 nodes) MemSQL cluster is augmenting or replacing a part of the Zynga's MySQL cluster. But they are using MemSQL to serve real-time recommendations and ads. A scenario that Couchbase teaches as one of its strenghts.
Original title and link: Zynga Deploys MemSQL for Real-Time Service. Where Does This Leave Couchbase? ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://gigaom.com/2013/01/18/can-a-new-database-help-get-zynga-back-on-track/
Thursday, 10 January 2013
How to Create Couchbase Views From Java
Couchbase 2.0 added support for CouchDB-like views and upgraded the client libraries to support this new feature. Tugdual Grall1 demos defining and querying Couchbase views from Java.
Tugdual Grall is Technical Evangelist at Couchbase ↩
Original title and link: How to Create Couchbase Views From Java ( ©myNoSQL)
Monday, 1 October 2012
Using Riak as Cache Layer
Sean Cribbs explains how to use Riak as a caching solution:
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- The possibility of configuring the cluster for lower guarantees of per-key availability
Then benchmark the system for your scenario.
Original title and link: Using Riak as Cache Layer ( ©myNoSQL)
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Monday, 30 April 2012
The Story of Scaling Draw Something From an Amazon S3 Custom Key-Value Service to Using Couchbase
This is the story of scaling Draw Something told by its CTO Jason Pearlman.
The early days, a custom key-value service built on top of Amazon S3:
The original backend for Draw Something was designed as a simple key/value store with versioning. The service was built into our existing ruby API (using the merb framework and thin web server). Our initial idea was why not use our existing API for all the stuff we've done before, like users, signup/login, virtual currency, inventory; and write some new key/value stuff for Draw Something? Since we design for scale, we initially chose Amazon S3 as our data store for all this key/value data. The idea behind this was why not sacrifice some latency but gain unlimited scalability and storage.
Then the early signs of growth and the same key-value service using a different Ruby stack:
Being always interested in the latest tech out there, we were looking at Ruby 1.9, fibers, and in particular Event Machine + synchrony for a while. Combined with the need for a solution ASAP - this lead us to Goliath, a non-blocking ruby app server written by the guys at PostRank. Over the next 24 hours I ported over the key/value code and other supporting libraries, wrote a few tests and we launched the service live. The result was great. We went from 115 app instances on over six servers to just 15 app instances.
The custom built key-value service didn't last long though and the switch to a real key-value store was made:
We brought up a small cluster of Membase (a.k.a Couchbase) rewrote the entire app, and deployed it live at 3 a.m. that same night. Instantly, our cloud datastore issues slowed down, although we still relied on it to do a lazy migration of data to our new Couchbase cluster.
Finally, learning to scale, tune and operate Couchbase at scale:
Even with the issues we were having with Couchbase, we decided it was too much of a risk to move off our current infrastructure and go with something completely different. At this point, Draw Something was being played by 3-4 million players each day. We contacted Couchbase, got some advice, which really was to expand our clusters, eventually to really beefy machines with SSD hard drives and tons of ram. We did this, made multiple clusters, and sharded between them for even more scalability over the next few days. We were also continuing to improve and scale all of our backend services, as traffic continued to skyrocket. We were now averaging hundreds of drawings per second.
Scaling "Draw something" is a success story. But looking at the above steps and considering how fast things had to change and evolve, think how many could have stumbled at each of these phases, think what would have meant to not be able to tell which parts of the system had to change or to have to take the system offline for upgrading parts of it.
Original title and link: The Story of Scaling Draw Something From an Amazon S3 Custom Key-Value Service to Using Couchbase ( ©myNoSQL)
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Couchbase at OMGPOP: Some Clarifications
When I first read the OMGPOP story I wrote the Two Sides of the OMGPOP Cloud and Couchbase Scalability Story. Then came a long conversation with James Phillips of Couchbase. Now we have a better picture of Couchbase's involvement in OMGPOP scaling success story:
We became aware of our role in their success when they called us to ensure they were employing best practices in planning for growth of their database cluster. As the number of users, games, and drawings grew at an unprecedented rate, they were able to continuously add capacity to the cluster (growing to over 100 servers), while maintaining application performance and with zero application downtime. There was never a performance drop or a single moment when new players couldn't join the party – even in the face of dying hardware! At one point, a motherboard issue with their selected hardware was taking cluster members down at a frightening pace. Couchbase took even those failures in stride without interrupting game operation or performance.
For the future I hope Couchbase people will remember James Phillips' promise. Time to moving on now.
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This is the higher end of high end so shut up and pay if you want the most powerful single GPU in the universe. That's the message here. Premium product from a premium brand. They can launch whenever they like at whatever price, I don't see AMD having anything close to GK110.
Well, if this is what Kepler was 'meant to be' then it explains a lot. I can't see AMD coming close to this but then again, if the Sweclockers info is correct, that price for a single gpu is terrible. Remember, this will be out 14 months after the 7970 released and it looks like it's the old Nvidia technique of massive die size. One monolithic gpu to rule them all, as it were. I wish we knew the whole truth about this card. Is this to the GK100 what the 580 was to the 480? Is this the card they couldn't make a year ago? Remember the initial rumours were that Nvidia were going to learn from the past and release the lower end cards first? Maybe it's taken this long to get it right (and they didn't have to rush due in part to the initial low clock and immature driver performance of the 7970). This looks like the card I wanted 1 1/2 years ago but not at that price. You beat me to it:
awesome. so now instead of running the most demanding PC games on max settings at 100FPS we can run them at 200 FPS.
Please stop folding Please spare me the battling disesase, curing cancer Phrase. There are allready known means to cure each and every disease one can think of. The fact they are kept hidden from public, and you have no clue about it, thats another thing my friend. One of these means is 5000 years old. Lookup Amaroli on google, check Fasting too. The one ruling the world, who purposely try to kill as much of us as possible, dont want these knowledge loose, thats why they are not generaly accepted, nor reasearched, but they do work let me tell yah that. And nobody needed 2880 CUDA GPU to come up with these cures let me tell yah that. Bassicaly, these FOLDING at home sh.it, is using your resource, your electricity, your money, your work, for god knows what, that only they, the elite few will have in the end acces to. So you, the poor user, gets nothing in the end, your money are beeing taken, and dont kid yourself, you wont be getting any cancer cure anytime soon. Poor fools ! Imagine all these folding team, burning electricity, and besides a place in a highscore list, get nothing in return.
AMD cards have hard higher theoretical performance numbers for a while now, the key word being theoretical. Take the 5870 @ 2.72 tflops vs the GTX 480's measly 1.35 tflops for example. Doesn't exactly paint an accurate picture of a cards performance.
Nope, but thanks anyway. If this will really be ~$900, I can't imagine it will get anything but murdered in the price/performance aspect (at least), by a Radeon HD 8970... which will also bring a little more something than just "beefier specs"... AMD's new found driver love for GCN (as opposed to launching barely tapped technology, like it was the case for HD 7000 for a long time... might still be too... que Catalyst 13.2b "Latancy fix" drivers here). Edit: Neah... Honestly, they should probably name it GTX 685 (Ti) or something...
Waiting for GK110 since autumn already, when rumours quietly signalized GTX780. Hopefully coming in march in time for to be fed with GTA V. Time to leave GTX680SLI and pimp up my gaming rig? Not sure. On the other hand GTX680 is a great card in single mode, but tends to be a bit warm in SLI, no need to heat my gaming chamber in winter. Yes, I think I will not be strong enough to resist this card - given that, it doubles performance. Early speculation talked about only 30% increase what would be a no-go. Just found this: GeForce Titan, GeForce Titanium, GeForce GTX 780 Ti Specifications: Kepler GPU with 2688 CUDA Cores 6GB GDDR5 memory Core Clock: 732 MHz Memory Clock: 5200 MHz MSRP: 899 USD http://videocardz.com/39143/geforce-titanium-the-allmighty-gk110-based-graphics-card 6GB video ram would be great
1k with tax? LOL Not in a million years. OC two 670s and spank this stupid card back to nonexistance. And who are buying these as compute cards? They must be higher than a kite.
why not let Asus or MSI put a better cooling option on it..... or better yet, let 'em redesign the pcb and power delivery.... speak for yourself....im all in for a free and open net.... do i agree with all he says....no is there SOME truth to what he says.... yes i no more want him censored than your ability to tell him to fuck off....
But understandable. What do you do when you want high profile PR (reviews) from consumer hardware, but would rather sell the die packaged as a Quadro or Tesla board for a whole lot more? The pricing would likely cover any lack of actual availability, while ensuring (as a reference single GPU SKU) that it sits comfortably atop the benchmark charts even after the next round of releases. Kind of takes the pressure off the GK114 I would have thought. So yeah, crap price, but wasn't it always destined to be if the GK110 made it to GeForce branding? Nice flamebait.
speculation, I added 780ti to the db based on naming so either they copied me or they had the same thought
:shadedshu It's not flamebait, that's what immediately came to mind when I read the article and saw the name Titan. Anyway... February sounds good.
Great sounding card indeed.bit dear for me though but it wont double the gameing performance of a 680 thats just wishfull thinking. As for amd, they are well aware of this chip which imho should mean an apprpriate re action at some point. The next few months will make good reading also whats the compute pro version gpu clocked at?
1st comment: Remember this is a very early report. We had reports about the GTX 680 costing 800 Dollars early on too. - So I wouldn't get to worried yet. 2nd comment: Also AMD has not tipped their hand on how the HD8900 series will perform. (And I don't mean the HD8000M series which is a refresh. I mean the real HD8900 series) So if AMD has something to compete with this card..... Nvidia will not price this card at 899 Dollars. 3rd Comment: Even if AMD can not compete straight out the gate.... we have seen how that works well for us being the end consumer. That would mean we may see another GTX 280/285 vs HD4870 price battle..... Which would be great news for all of us. If you ask me.... Nvidia can keep their over priced card that can perform 25% better then the HD8970. I would get 4 HD8970's for the price of two Titans and have much more fun. All speculation until we hear some real proof.... this article is not enough for me yet.


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Archive Listing December 17, 2009 - December 10, 2009
. Having discussed government involvement in the automotive
industry in the last post, I was going to move on to other Future/Past
topics, but then I realized that a lot of you younger IP readers (i.e.,
under 40) probably have some huge holes in your knowledge of the
American automotive industry.
And those holes are not only interesting
in their own right but also relevant to understanding how the
capitalist system works in good times, bad times, and when the government gets
involved. This post is therefore going to seem something of a
hodge-podge, without a clear political lesson, but my intention is to
make part of the fairly recent past you may think you have a good
handle on a great deal more intriguing and worthy of exploration than
you might have imagined. The Internet contains an immense amount of
information, but unless you know what you're looking for, there are
vast regions of its geography that will remain permanently invisible to
you. End of lecture. Now, on to the good stuff.
Like the clicheed middle child, the middle part of longish histories
tends to get overlooked -- it just doesn't get as much attention as 1)
the exciting beginning and 2) either the sad end or (if the story's not
done yet) the duller and more familiar present. Here's my sense of what
reasonably well educated people know of the history of American
automobiles. They know about the revolutionary breakthrough of the Ford
Model T, the technological dead end of the Stanley Steamer, maybe
something of the early sport marques like the Mercer Raceabout and the
Stutz Bearcat, and almost certainly the (still) startling glamour of
Depression-doomed Grand Marques like the Pierce
Arrow, Packard,
and Duesenberg.
They also know about the rise of the modern American automotive
corporation, best exemplified by the General Motors economic
stratification of markets with brands ranging from the low-end Chevy to
the high-end Cadillac. They know that both Ford and Chrysler prospered
by pursuing the same strategy -- Ford by offering Fords, Mercurys,
Edsels (ha ha), and Lincolns and Chrysler by offering Plymouths,
Dodges, Chryslers, and Imperials. And they may know that there were a
couple of lesser competitors -- Studebaker and American Motors -- who
fell by the wayside sometime in the 1960s or 1970s.
They probably even think of it as basically a two-part story. Part 1
begins with the Model T and ends sometime in the Great Depression when
no one can afford the iconic Duesenberg SJ and coffin-nosed Cord. Then
there are no cars built during World War II, and afterwards (Part 2)
it's all about GM, Ford, and Chrysler, with some minor distractions
provided by the Studebaker Lark and the American Motors Rambler and
(ugh) Gremlin and Pacer. And, oh yeah, somewhere in there is a
mysteriously complicated history of the archetypally American Jeep,
which somehow fills the World War II hole all by itself, being the only
passenger vehicle made in the U.S. between 1942 and 1946.
But if this is your understanding, the hole in your knowledge is far
bigger than World War II, and the Jeep -- which still miraculously
exists -- is only an incredibly important placeholder for what is in
many ways is the most fascinating, and illuminating, part of the
American car story. In fact. this is the part of the story that offers
us the very best available insight into the current state of the
worldwide automotive industry -- both in terms of how we got here and
where we might be going from here. The story of the Jeep is a huge fork
in the road, analogous to what we face today, and back then, as now,
the government of the United States played the deciding role. Are you
ready for some forgotten, almost invisible history?
The car pictured above was manufactured by a company called American
Bantam, which was organized in 1930 at the onset of the Great
Depression by a British entrepreneur who believed there might be a
market in the United States for small, inexpensive cars as an
alternative to the big, comparatively pricey gas hogs of the day. His
plan was to make American cars in America for American consumers,
initially under the Austin name that had prospered in Britain but as
soon as possible under the American Bantam name. Here
is a photo gallery of the American Bantam product offering. And here's
a sampling of what you could have bought between 1930-something and 1940 if you
had a job and didn't need the elbow room of a Buick:
We're not talking Ford Pintos and Chevy Vegas here.
Now. Wouldn't you think that the U.S. government, in the days of FDR's
New Deal, would be rooting for American Bantam to succeed, to prevail
in its attempt to bring a vision of 'less is more' to an American
public so distressed by economic hard times? Yes? Well, here's
actually happened:
In fact, the government had a lot to do with the way the
post-World War II automotive industry developed. Without its Jeep
contracts, Willys would surely have perished before the
post-war boom. But they received the lease on life that the far more
innovative American Bantam never got. Here's
a look at their product lineup through 1953, when they merged with
another automobile manufacturer, Kaiser Motors, which wouldn't have
existed at all if its founder, Henry J. Kaiser,
hadn't become a tycoon by low-bidding on government contracts in World
War II., most notably for the infamous troop-transport "Liberty Ships"
which were renowned for being built in four days and then breaking in
half en route across the Atlantic
In 1946, Kaiser reinvested his shipbuilding fortune in the U.S.
automotive industry and founded Kaiser Motors, which holds the unique
distinction of being the most forgotten player -- well nigh invisible
today -- in the biggest business in post World War II America. If you
think the 1950s were dull, well...
A digression. Most of us have a sense of the fifties that is shaped
more by media -- movies, memoirs, memorabilia, music, nostalgic
creations (a la Happy Days),
and conveniently ignorant oversimplifications -- than actual memory.
We've been taught to think of it as conformist, dull, repressed, safe,
witlessly prosperous, lacking in choice and variety, essentially
sexless except for Elvis and the Righteous Brothers. We reinforce these
cliches every time we (make or) see a movie populated by 1957 Chevies
and poodle skirts. The cars are always Ford, GM, and Chrysler products,
beautifully restored and convincing exemplars of the age. The viewer
can't help but infer a stultifying corporate, rococo conformity. But
the image created thereby is factually and historically wrong. Has it
ever occurred to any of you that part of the creativity of the beatnik
culture of Jack
Kerouac, Ken Kesey,
Allen Ginsberg,
and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti might have have been partially inspired by the
industrial creativity of the era? That they were not the only creative
voices of their time, but merely the angry tip of a monumentally
creative iceberg?
If you don't click on any other link in this post, click on this one, which should, in every sense of the term,
blow your mind. Just a few models of the most bizarre (and occasionally
brilliant) automotive company in American history.
The sports car at bottom was a fiberglass-body roadster that beat the
Chevrolet Corvette to market by a few weeks in 1954. You can like the
cars or not, but they were there, they were part of the competition,
and you don't ever see them in reruns of American Graffiti.
Truth is, the American automotive landscape was a hell of a lot more
interesting in the 1950s than any of our movie-based fake memories
comprehend. There are two levels of perception for you to tumble to
here. First, whatever you think you trust about your inherited sense
memory of the fifties is counterfeit if it doesn't include Hudsons,
and, yes, post-war Packards.
Second, your knowledge of how American big business works is wrong if
you don't understand that even in times of great prosperty like the
fifties, companies die all the time.
On average, company lifespans are shorter than human lifespans. It's
far less amazing that GM, Ford, and Chrysler are dying in their current
incarnations than that they have survived this long. All this talk of
imminent liquidation is just the business equivalent of political scare
tactics. Hudson and Nash didn't liquidate; they became American
Motors. As did the Jeep component of Willys, which survived Willys,
Kaiser, and American Motors
to remain a vital part of today's
Daimler-Chrysler. Because people still wanted the product, regardless of who stamped
their name on it.
Two more points before I move on. Liquidating the entire American
automotive manufacturing capacity makes no economic sense at all.
Automotive demand is not dying, only the business viability of the
companies that have been slowly losing their competitive capabilities
for two generations now. Automotive jobs will not leave the United States.
Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, BMW, and Volkwagen have plants here because
they can't serve
the U.S. market economically without building much of their product
here. That's not going to change.
Just as Hudson, Nash, and Willys
merged with more successful companies, so will GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
If Michigan won't bow to market realities, South Carolina, Georgia, and
Louisiana will. Nor will the profits of foreign manufacture in the U.S.
leave the U.S. We can still buy stock in the companies that do business
here, and we can keep our dividends and capital gains here. If
automotive manufacturing capacity becomes a national security issue, we
can appropriate foreign plants to build tanks and armored personnel
carriers. When it comes to that.
If you're getting hung up on the "too big to fail" argument," remember
this: it's the United States of America that's too big to fail. Not
because we have the biggest government on earth, but because we're the
biggest consumer market on earth. If we stop buying things, the world
economy dies and goes the way of the Maya.
It's okay if GM becomes a footnote like Hudson and Kaiser. Michigan
suffer. The U.S. will continue to prosper.
Second point. It's a 'What if' point. It was the federal government
that killed American Bantam, which -- given the chance -- could have
hired a
financial whore like Henry Kaiser to create the manufacturing capacity
for the Jeep. Think
about it. If American Bantam had been allowed to enjoy the fruits of
its brilliant design, maybe the entire foreign invasion of small cars
could have been blunted, prevented. We'd have had our own homegrown
inoculation against Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, and even British Leyland
and BMW. Just a thought. Yes, the government would have been playing a
role in that outcome, too, but we've reached the age when the
government always has a role. Why couldn't it have come down on the
side of creativity and individual innovation? For once?
INERADICABLE LAW OF BIG GOVERNMENT: When it involves itself in
business, Big Government ALWAYS favors Big Business.
Remember that. The Obama administration will also come down on the side
of big business. They'll faciliate the acquisition of American car
companies by Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi. You know. Bigger-is-better
type stuff. The global economy and all. And the worldwide union label.
So. Join the club,
Detroiters. We'll still always love all your old pictures.
An astute commenter has pointed out the omission of the most famous
Kaiser of all, the Henry J, which was conceived by its eponymous (and
modest) creator as a kind of post-war Model T. It was cheap. Really
cheap. So cheap that it was even sold in the Sears catalogue under the
name 'Allstate.'
Turns out, people didn't want a post-war Model T. Enough said.


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