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You cna thanks nVidia for that. Had they actually adopted DX9 properly, and DX10, all the needed software would be part of the OS now. But due to them doing thier own thing, we the consumer got screwed. I don't know why you even care if it uses software. All computing does....PC's are useless without software.
But you add it back by longer traces to memory. The benefits are mostly matters of convenience, marketing and packaging, not any performance benefits noticeable to end user. It makes sense from a business standpoint and may eventually lead to performance gains. I'm not arguing that. What I am arguing is that what is currently using these APUs is not hardware based, as in transparent to the OS. They are software based, just like CUDA and Stream. To use the APUs, the program must be specifically written to take advantage of them. Nothing changes that fact. I don't see it happening any time soon. I care only when people claim it's hardware based, when it isn't. And I don't buy the nV argument either.
CUDA says you have no choice. The whole point of DX10 was to provide OPEN access to features such as what CUDA offers, and nV said, quite literally, Microsoft developed APIs, so knew nothing about hardware design, and that thier API (DX) wasn't the right approach. DX10.1 is the perfect example of this behavior continuing. DirectX, is largely, broken, because of CUDA. Should I mention the whole Batman antialiasing mumbo-jumbo? I mean, I understand teh business side, and CUDA, potentially, has saved nV's butt. But it's existence as a closed platform does more harm than good. Thankfully, AMD will have thier GPUs in thier CPUs, which, in hardware, will provide alot more functionality than nV can ever bring to the table.
It is not broken because of CUDA. 10.1 didn't add what CUDA added. And CUDA certainly didn't effect DX9. Granted, 10.1 is what 10 should have been, mostly due to nV, but it had nothing to do with CUDA. More anti-CUDA bs with nothing to back it.
10.1 Didn't add that stuff because of Nvidia not being ready for the features that later became dx11. Tesselation and compute features. ( Ati had a a tessellation unit ready a long time ago)
Unfortunately, it is what is, but not because I'm anti-CUDA. The bolded part is the BS, simply because it's DirectX and Windows that enables such fuctionality, not CUDA. In fact, it's like they are saying they invented GPGPU. In that regard, it's impossible for me to be "anti-CUDA". It's wrapping GPGPU functions into that specific term that's the issue.
DX10 or DX10.1 or whatever was going to be the DX after DX9 never had compute. Compute came to DX thanks to other APIs that came first, like Stream and CUDA, because those ones created demand. And it certainly was not Nvidia the one who prevented compute features added to DirectX. It would have been a COMPLETE win for Nvidia, if DX10 had included them, for instance. Nvidia was ready for compute back then with G80 and with a 6 months lead over Ati's chip, which was clearly inferior. Cayman can barely outclass Nvidia's 5 year old G80 chip on compute oriented features, let alone previous cards. HD2000/3000 and even 4000 were simply no match for G80 for compute tasks. As for tesselation, it was not included because it didn't make sense to include it at all, not because Nvidia was not ready. ANYTHING besides a current high-end card is brought to its knees when tesselation is enabled, so tesselation in HD4000 and worse yet HD2/3000 was a waste of time that no developer really wanted, because it was futile. If they had wanted it then no one would have stopped them from implementing it in games, they don't even use it on the Xbox which is a closed platform and much easier to implement without worries of screwing up for non-supporting cards. Besides a tesselator (especially the one that Ati used before the DX11 implementation) is the most simple thing you can throw on a circuit, it's just an interpolator, and Nvidia already toyed with the idea of interpolated meshes with the FX series. It even had some dedicated hardware for it, like a very archaic tesselator. Remember how that went? Ati also created something similar, much more advanced (yet nowhere near close to DX11 tesselation) and was also scrapped by game developers, because it was not viable. What are you talking about man? CUDA has nothing to do with DirectX. They are two very different API's that have hardware (ISA) correlation on the GPU and are exposed via the GPU drivers. DirectX and Windows have nothing to do with that. BTW considering what you think about it, how do you explain CUDA (GPGPU) on Linux and Apple OS's?
Um, yeah. G80 launched November 2006. R520, which featured CTM, and Compute support(and as such, even supported F@H on GPU long before nVidia did), launched a year earlier, when nVidia had no such options, due to a lack of "double precision", which was the integral feature that G80 brought to the market for nV. This "delay" is EXACTLY what delayed DirectCompute.
That GPGPU implementation was not Ati's work in reality, but Standford University's. That was nothing but BrookGPU and used DirectX instead of accesing the ISA directly like now. Of course Ati collaborated in the development of drivers so they deserve the credit of . That has nothing to do with our discussion though. Ati being first means nothing as to the current and 5 past years situation. Ati was bought and dissapeared a long time ago and in the process the project was abandoned. AMD* was simply not ready to let GPGPU interfere with their need to sell high-end CPU (none is Intel), and that's why they have never really pused for GPGPU programs until now. Until Fusion, so that they can continue selling high-end CPU AND high end GPUs. There's nothing honorable on this Fusion thing. * I want to be clear about a fact that not many see apparently. Ati != AMD and has never been. I never said nothing about what Ati pursued, achieved or made before it was bought. It's after the acquisition that the GPGPU push was completely abandoned. BTW your last sentence holds no water. So DirectCompute was not included in DX10 because Nvidia released a DX10 card 7 months earlier than AMD, which also happens to be compute ready (and can be used even on todays GPGPU programs)? Makes no sense dude. Realistically only AMD could have halted DirectCompute, but reality is that they didn't because DirectCompute never existed, nor was it planned until other APIs appeared and showed that DirectX's supremacy and Windows as a gaming platform was in danger.
OK, if you wanna take that tact, I'll agree. I said, very simply, that nVidia's delayed implementations ("CUDA" hardware support), and the supporting software, has greatly affected the transparacy of "stream"-based computing iin the end-user space. Says it all. The "software" needed is already there(there's actually very limited purposes for "GPU" based computing), and has been for a long time. Hardware functionality is here, with APUs. CUDA has EVERYTHING to do with DirectX, as it replaces it, rather than works with it. Because the actual uses are very limited, there's no reason for a closed API such as CUDA, except to make money. And that's fine, that's business, but it does hurt the consumer in the end.
Wrong. All of nVidia's DX10 cards are capable of computing. nVidia did not hold back DX11 development, they did hold back some features in 10, but those were added back for 10.1. None of those said feature were GPGPU. The compute features of DX11 were developed BECAUSE of the demand for compute functions like CUDA. The early implementation of ATI's tessellation engine is completely different to the current implementation. Their earlier version was proprietary. Exactly the same concept as CUDA vs DX compute. And guess what, that proprietary innovation lead to an open standard. Also just like CUDA. As per usual in this forum, there is a lot of CUDA/nV hate, with no real substance to back it up. Wrong. See above. It creates a market that open standards eventually capitalize on. Again, your disdain for CUDA is still completely unfounded.
Without CUDA GPGPU would have died. Plain and simple. After the only other company interested in GPGPU was bought by a CPU manufacturer, only CUDA remained and only Nvidia pushed for GPGPU. And please don't say AMD has also pushed for it, because that's simply not true. Ati pushed it in 2006 and it's true that AMD has been pushing a little bit, but only since 2009 or so, when it became obvious they would be left behind if they didn't. They always talked about supporting it but never actually released any software or put money on it. That is until now, until they have released Fusion and thanks to that they can still continue milking us customers, by making us buy high end CPUs and high-end GPUs, when a mainstream CPU and high-end GPU would do it just as well. The idea of APU for laptops and HTPC is great, but for HPC or enthusiast use it's retarded and I don't know why so many people are content with it. Why I need 400 SPs on a CPU, which are not enough for modern games, just to run GPGPU code on it, when I can have 3000 on a GPU and use as many as I want? Also when a new game is released and needs 800 SP, oh well I need a new CPU, not because I need a better CPU, but because I need the integrated GPU to have 800 SP. RETARDED. And of course I would still need the 6000 SP GPU for the game to run. It's also false that GPGPU runs better on an APU because t's close to the CPU. It varies with the task. many tasks are run much much better on dedicated GPU, thanks to the high bandwidth and numenrous and fast local cache and registers.
You're missing the point. I'll tend to agree that nVidia, with CUDA has kept GPGPU going, but like I said earlier...it's actually uses are so few and far between, it's almost stupid. It doesn't offer anything to the end user, really. Like why haven't they jsut sold the software to microsoft, already? Why don't they make it work on ATI GPUs too? I mean really...uses are so few, what's the point?
You don't really follow the news a lot isn't it? There's hundreds of uses for GPGPU Because Microsoft never buys something they can copy. Hello DirectCompute. And I'm not saying they copied CUDA btw (although it's very similar), but the concept and CUDA is in fact the evolution of Brook/Brook++/BrookGPU, made by the same people who made Brook in Standford and who actually invented the Stream processor concept. Nvdia didn't invent GPGPU, but many people who did work fr Nvidia now. i.e. Bill Dally. Because AMD doesn't want it and they can't do it without permission. And never wanted it tbh, because it would have exposed their inferiority on that front. Nvidia already offered CUDA and PhysX to AMD and for free in 2007, but AMD refused. Also there's OpenCL which is the same thing and something both AMD and Nvidia are supporting so... Uses are few, there's no point, yet AMD is promoting the same concept as the future. A hint, uses are not few. Until now you don't see many because: 1- Intel and AMD have been trying hard to delay GPGPU. 2- It takes time to implement things. i.e. How much it took developers to implement SSE? And the complexity of SSE in comparison to GPGPU is like... 3- You don't read a lot. There's hundreds of implementations in the scientific arena.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptaylor/archive/2007/03/03/optimized-for-vista-does-not-mean-dx10.aspx Given the state of the NV drivers for the G80 and that ATI hasn't released their hw yet; it's hard to see how this is really a bad plan. We really want to see final ATI hw and production quality NV and ATI drivers before we ship our DX10 support. Early tests on ATI hw show their geometry shader unit is much more performant than the GS unit on the NV hw. That could influence our feature plan.
That's one use, to me, and not one that I personally get any use out of. You falsely inflating the possibilities. As a home user, there's 3D browser acceleration, encoding accelleration, and game physics. Is there more than that for a HOME user? Because that's what I am, right, so that's all I care about. Which brings me to my point...why do I care? GPGPU doesn't offer me much.
Wish people would stop thinking of folding at home when they think of compute. Theirs actually a lot of stuff ATIs architecture is better at. Well cept the 580, that's built for that stuff But barely outclass G80? I've got apps where my 6870 completely smashes apart even top end nvidia cards. May sound a bit fan-boyish here but just sharing my experience take it as you will. Geeks3d and the other tech blogs demi-frequently post up comparisons of cards on new benchmarks or compute programs can find results there. Been a while since I've read up though so can't point you in a specific direction, only that it's not so much a case of hardware vs hardware. Cheers for clearing up about the compute though.
That is not one use. Scientist use GPGPU for physics simulations, treatment and comparison of image data (medical, satellite, military), artificial/distributed intelligence, data reorganization, stock market flow control and many many others. That is not one use. There, then you finally said what you wanted to say. "It does not offer me" is not the same as "it has no use".
You forget awesome game effects. Physics toys! ( my favourite, I love n-body simulations and water simulations) I believe GPGPU can help with search results too if I'm not mistaken. Lot's of stuff can benefit just hard to think of stuff of the top of your head.
Feture set != performance. There's many apps where AMD cards are faster. This is obvious, highly parallel applications which riquire very little CPU-like behavior, will always run on a highly parallelized architecture. That's not to say that Cayman has many GPGPU oriented hardware features that G80 didn't have 5 years ago. And regarding that advantage, AMD is stepping away from that architecture in the future right? They are embracing scalar design. So which architecture was essentially right in 2006? VLIW or scalar? It really is that simple, if moving into the future for AMD means going scalar, there really is very few questions unanswered. When AMD's design is almost a copy* of Kepler and Maxwell which were announced a year ago, there's very few questions about what is the correct direction. And then it just becomes obvious who followed that path before... Well you said "it does not offer anything to the end user". That's not the same as saying that it does not offer anything to you. It offers a lot to me. Of course that's subjective, but even for the arguably few apps where it works, I feel it helps a lot. Kinda unrelated or not, but I usually hear how useless it is because "it only boasts video encoding by 50-100%". Lol you need a completely new $1000 CPU + supporting MB to achieve the same improvement, but nevermind.
Still not sure how scalar has a performance advantage tbh, at a glance it should be weaker It's something I'll need to research more.


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By Subhash K.Jha, Film: "Fire In The Blood" (Documentary); Maker: Dylan Mohan Gray; Rating: ****
Normally we tend to overlook the documentary in the range of our cinematic entertainment. It would be a mistake, a big mistake, to miss "Fire In The Blood" because we would rather have a good time watching "Grand Masti" or "Chennai Express" at a theatre near us.
"Fire In The Blood" is not entertainment. It's much more. It's not a feature film. But the issue it deals with - how the criminal racket allegedly enforced by large pharmaceutical companies to block life saving drugs from third world countries, mainly Africa, touches all our lives.
We could be one of the victims, and we don't even know it!
Indeed director Dylan Mohan Gray - god bless the vistas of visionary velocity that he breaks open in this jolting expose - takes us into a journey through a drama that beats the fictionalised flamboyance of fantasy films by a fabulous margin. There are the specifically-targeted villains and the greed motivated pharmaceutical companies, shown almost as drug cartels operating to stop the process of healing and saving lives of the poor.
The film's premise is appalling in its ramifications. As Gray's tale of avarice and drug-deprived deaths in Africa unfolds, we become shocked witnesses to the abysmal immorality that has gripped all large businesses in the world.
Money doesn't only make the world go round, it flattens every moral consideration. And let's face it, medicines and drugs are a business proposition. To see how pharmaceutical companies ruthlessly operate in non-developed under privileged areas to deny rather than save lives is a process that this film explores and exposes with meticulously researched material and the authoritative voices of people who care about what happens to the poor.
Because the film (I refuse to give it the genre-limiting name of a 'documentary') goes into an area of global concern that has never before been dealt with on film, the narrative does get top heavy with information at times. Bear with it. Deal with the situation that the film so shockingly exposes: that the medicines we so blindly trust to heal us and make us healthy are often used to blackmail and mock mortality.
The singular concern of Gray's film establishes the enormity of the wrongdoers' death-inducing syndicate early in the narrative. The unlikely heroes show up later. They are an Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla and vocal activists which went that extra mile to counter the damage done by the greedy global players in the business.
"Fire In The Blood" is an important treatise on the troubled diseased times we live in when the healers become the destroyers and medicines are turned into malicious money-making agents of destruction.
Very frequently in the course of the narration I was conscious of how little we know about the world that controls our daily lives. It's an intrinsically contaminated world that we live in, a world devoid of heroes and acts of heroism, a world governed by greed... "Fire In The Blood" opens up that world to show us the festering innards of a wounded civilisation.
Some of the world's most high profile spokespersons like Desmond Tutu, Zackie Achmat and Bill Clinton give their voices to make a cogent powerful impact on us. William Hurt's wry cynical saddened narration certainly adds a valuable dimension to the frightening poignancy of the narration.
Watching "Fire In The Blood" is not a a breezy experience. It make us sit up, think hard and reconsider the quality of our lives. In other words, it does everything cinema is supposed to, but seldom does.
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Hello there, I am currently looking to upgrade my PC, I have listed my configuration in my profile if you can't read it please let me know, I am new to this awesome forum but not a stranger to TPU. So my budget is around 350 euro and I was looking at the following: - Upgrade processor & mobo since it is getting a little old and recently I can't get it to 3.6Ghz anymore without instability or without modifying the voltage ( even though I had it this way for some time ). Ivy 3570k or wait for Haswell maybe? - Upgrade graphics card but on my current monitor I believe the 6950 is still a high-end card. - Bigger monitor? But then again i would start getting limited by the processor and graphics card because when I play a game I like to play it on max settings on max possible resolution. I am a Computer Science student and I do play demanding games from time to time but mainly light gaming for example League of Legends. Thank you all for your time and looking forward to your suggestions.
Id just go with the 3570K with some nice mobo and possibly upgrade ya monitor (1920*1080), the rest is fine Nice avatar by the way!
Thank you for your suggestion and compliment! If not too much can you guys also recommend me a good mobo that can help me push the 3570K into the 4-4.5+Ghz range if I decide to go with the CPU upgrade ?
If you only do light gaming I don't see why there is a need to upgrade. Of course, its always upgrade time in TPU so 3570K+motherboard of your choice is a good starting point. No need to wait for Haswell.
How has your computer been performing for you? Knowing what you're happy with and what you're not happy with could help us point you in the direction for new hardware.
Thank you all for your suggestions! Well I'm getting a little worried that my current CPU fails to clock past 3.2 Ghz without causing instability, I am afraid that it will die soon that's why I am leaning more towards a CPU upgrade. I think an 3570k will help out with the little video processing I do and also with Visual Studio and other similar software and lastly better FPS in CPU-intensive games like Starcraft 2. Should I go with the 3570K or wait for Haswell? Also can you guys recommend me a good motherboard that can help achieve 4.5Ghz overclock if I decide to go with 3570k?
Wait for it to die and then get something new. No, no need to wait for Haswell. If you need to upgrade now, do it. If not, then ask the question again when you need to. Any old Z77 board will get you to 4.5Ghz, just up the multiplier to 45x. Overclocking is too easy with SB/IVB.
Well it's not like it's urgent but I have the so called upgrade "itch" that won't go away unless I buy some new hardware
I'm not going to disagree with you since I moved from a Phenom II 940 to an i7 3820 and it was quite the upgrade, but if the his PII is doing everything he needs it to, I would wait for something newer to come out. In the interim you can save money to get something nicer down the road. I'm definitely not disappointed going with SB-E instead of SB or IVB. I upgraded because I needed more memory than 8Gb and I was bottlenecking on memory more than anything else with my Phenom II. I also tend to use a lot of ram.
Don't be so shallow, you have at least half a century of life in you. Half a century ago Intel is not even around.
Keep the CPU. Get a HD7950 with some nice bundled games. Save the rest of the money. The difference you'll see by upgrading your GPU vs. the CPU will be greater than the other way around as far as gaming is involved. You can also think of a new monitor. Just a hint: Also take into account the excellent overclockability of these cards.
My next question is as follows, should I go for the FX 8320 , clock it to 4-4.4 Ghz and save 100 euros for a potential GPU upgrade? Or go with the 3570 and keep my current GPU ( 6950 )
At the ress your using a 6950 will be able to max mostly anything so no point in upgrading that with your current monitor.
You should check this thread: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2777072#post2777072 Pretty consistent 8320 improvement over PII.
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SGI Tackles Big Data Storage
October 23, 2013
-- HPC systems provider unveils a new line of Big Data storage solutions and pre-integrated Hadoop systems.
HDDs Are Still Spinning (Rust Never Sleeps)
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-- Contrary to some accounts, traditional spinning disks continue to play a major role in enterprise storage.
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-- Nimbus Data Systems' E-Class Flash Memory System is a fully redundant multi-protocol solid-state storage system that packs 440 TB into a single rack and is intended for mission-critical enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
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Quantum software doubles deduplication speed
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NEC doubles deduplication performance
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Tandberg ships RDX removable disk library
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Sepaton boosts disk-based backup speed
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Quest to acquire BakBone for $55 million
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Q&A: FalconStor CEO James McNiel
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How do I establish credit? An easy way to start establishing credit is to open a credit card. However, you must manage it properly to ensure you establish good credit and don't incur unnecessary debt. Utility bills and cellular phone bills will also help you establish a credit history.
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What is a credit score? A credit score is a statistical figure used by creditors and other agents to determine a person's creditworthiness and probable ability to repay debts. Your credit score is based solely on information in your consumer credit report maintained at the credit reporting agencies. Credit scores such as FICO scores (the most common credit scores, developed by Fair Isaac) may range from 300-850. The higher your score, the more creditworthy you are. Persons with the highest credit scores are often entitled to savings such as lower interest rates or reduced fees. Information on your credit report that may affect your credit score includes, but is not limited to, payment history, amounts owed, length of credit history, new credit, and types of credit used.
What is a creditworthy applicant? A creditworthy applicant is an applicant or co-applicant whose FICO score or other credit information exceeds a lender's cutoff for approval.
What is a credit-ready applicant? A credit-ready applicant is someone who has not yet established a credit history; many students do not have credit histories. Opening a credit card and making regular timely payments is a good way to start establishing credit.
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The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 is a United States federal law that allows consumers to request and obtain a free credit report once every twelve months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies, as listed below. In cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission, the three major credit reporting agencies set up a website, annualcreditreport.com, to provide free access to annual credit reports.
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The HD disk market has seen another twist with the news that Warner Bros. plans to make all of its high definition film releases exclusive to Blu-ray. The movie label is claiming that the decision was a strategic move, saying: Warner Bros. will stop releasing HD DVD movies in May this year, and any movies it does release before that cut-off will be initially launched on Blu-ray and released on HD DVD after a "short window." This news follows Paramount and DreamWorks announcing that they would release movies exclusively on HD DVD four months ago. Source: DailyTech
Hmm this is quite interesting. Now the HD DVD market has gotten hit with another company leaving them. I myself am Blue - Ray (a lil biased) since I have a PS3. There seems to be a lot more companies doing Blue Ray than there are that are doing HD DVD.
What does "opt" mean? Outright bribery and collusion? (Or, to be politically correct, that certain contracts were signed that had commitments on both sides to protect and benefit certain interested parties?). What poppycock nonsense in their PR statement. "The consumer", "confusion" bs. Think of the parallels in other industries to see how bogus that claim is: imagine a car manufacturer saying "no more left hand drive vehicles", or the EU courts saying "no more french", or MS saying "no more Apple OSX software", or the supermarkets/bakers saying "no more brown bread". LOL. Time for those PR spinners to fall on their swords.
No suprise here clearly Blueray have the advantage. I only seen my first Hd dvds recently in Jb Hifi yet i see Blueray everywhere.
I like both formats, but the titles is what's going to decide who wins and who loses. I myself have a PS3, so I'm happy about this move.
i myself have a DVD player plain old £20 DVD player i see lots more HD DVDs everywhere in Glasgow so i dont know where you live but its common near me blu ray is just a stupid ps3 feature im a pc gamer first and foremost not saying anything but i laughed when they stoped making umd movies it would never work i thought they were making the total hd thing aw well at least hd dvd is cheaper than a blu ray player and the movies are cheaper also not that i care im only a dvd user i dont own a hd tv
this is good news for me, a blu-ray fan boy. i give HD-DVD until the end of this year. by that time the studios that are exclusive HD-DVD will also be releasing blu-ray.
Warner no doubt wants to keep the price of films on disk high and with Blu-ray being more expensive they will certainly do this. For the consumer sake lets hope that Hd-dvd wins so that prices for disk films will stay as they are on the next generation media, but anyway digital downloads of movies will be the next generations of the movie and film industry.
dont care either way which wins tbh ,i really cannot be bothered watching another Betamax/VHS war. i'll just w8 and see who wins then buy that,not gonna waste my money before then.
LOL @ you. Blu-Ray isn't a PS3 feature unlike UMD's for the PSP. It's actually a High Definition format, not a gimmick (like UMD) and IMO is better than HD-DVD (better titles, more space). But I guess you don't know that... And by the way, HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray movies are about the same price, more evidence that you don't know what the hell you're saying. HD-DVD players might be cheaper, but just by $100. But does that matter if you're format doesn't have good titles? Nah...
The price argument isn't 100% true. Many of my Blu-Rays were cheaper than their HD-DVD counterparts. By as much as $6 a movie. The problem is that many of the HDDVDs are in a DVD/HDDVD combo format. Those average about $30. Even when that isn't the case, they're pretty much priced the same. Usually they are the same, or within a dollar. This is another issue blown way out of proportion. As for me, I'm not a fan boy of either. I buy whichever is cheaper. If they're the same price, I buy whichever lands in my hand first. And digital downloads will not be the delivery of choice. In general, consumers want something tangible when they buy movies. There are a few download services, but they aren't near as popular as having a disc with extras, artwork, and a case. I think flash media may be an option.
another blow for the open format (HD-DVD), i do hope that HD-DVD does win as licensed formats will only push up the costs of movies that we see the in cinema and watch at home. yes, blu-ray fans, licensed formats are bad....have you not learnt anything from this site open formats rule!! VHS, DVD & HD-DVD forever!!!
It pays to get a multi-format player now. LG electronics makes a player that plays both these discs. And a HDTV that's 1080i and 1080p.
wrong. prices will decide. If BR starts to dominate and hd player and content prices drop to the floor, what do you think will happen? Wake up people and try to see past your nose. Not everyone owns a PS3 or wants to own a PS3. Same old Sony...get em hooked and jack the price. That has always been their M.O. and will continue to be. This is why they will fail.
We wont no the true winner for a year or so when the prices of players goes down and the same for truehd panels. Im only saying that here on Adelaide i see buggger all hd dvds yet see blueray readily available everywhere.
Okay you've made a point. You could've made it a little more polite. As for prices, that's a useless point, in a market economy if two forces compete, they do so in prices. Eventually a BRD will sell for just as much as an HD-DVD. Even at nect-to-neck pricing the BRD will donminate for its supreior technology to the HD-DVD. As for PS3, it's a brilliant piece of machinery everyone need not own it to attest its technology. End of the day you simply cannot dismiss Sony's contribution to the world of technology. They invented a huge chunk of things we see around and their brands are what go on to become verbs, Walkman, Discman, Handycam... L.B.
The only reason BR is about the same price as HD is because of HD. Without the competition, BR players and movies would be way more expensive. Do you really think the Movie producers will sit back and miss out on HD-DVD revenue for long? They will only do it for as long as Sony subsidizes their losses. Just so you know, UMD is also a format. And when does more space = better format especially when next gen HD-DVD will have more space and be backwards compatible? Will you then say BR is a better format because of more titles only? I think not. Most BR are only single layer anyway which is less capacity than HD-DVD. If you ask me, I'd say the fact that HD-DVD discs are available with double sides, DVD on 1 side HD on the other is pretty powerful. The fact that Sony does not allow this shows their true intentions. They want to force everyone into more expensive players and content. Will you be signing up for your Government coupon to help you replace your obsolete stnd def DVD player??? That's what Sony wants. AGAIN! Now here is someone who knows what they are talking about!


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By Lisa Gutierrez and Joyce Smith The Kansas City Star
The woman on Page 56 of the new Victoria's Secret catalog has long blond hair, a taut midriff, mile-long legs - and a big ol' gap between her two front teeth.
The headline: Sexy in Sweats.
The fashion gods have spoken. Flawless pearly whites? That's so 2011, so ordinary. Imperfect smiles are in.
Incisors with that distinctive little interval have ruled runways and ad campaigns for a few seasons now, and have you noticed the bumper crop on TV? Elisabeth Moss and Jessica Pare on "Mad Men" are both gap-toothed. So is Oscar winner Anna Paquin on "True Blood."
You couldn't miss ex-football player Michael Strahan's imperfect, infectious, face-splitting grin when he took Regis Philbin's place next to Kelly Ripa as co-host of "Live! With Kelly and Michael." In Tampa, Condoleezza Rice smiled big for the cameras at the Republican convention.
"I think we're getting away from that cookie-cutter image. . I think this is kind of breaking the mold," says Kim Hoffman, owner of Hoffman International modeling agency in Overland Park, Kan.
And while women are not yet having gaps installed, the rush to have all teeth touching may be slowing.
The gap-toothed have long been among us, as musicians (Madonna, Elton John) and goofballs (Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Alfred E. Neuman).
Even golfer Tom Watson has been described by countless sportswriters over the years as having a gap-toothed grin/grimace/smile, depending largely on how his putts have dropped.
At the moment, the fashion world can't get enough of Lindsey Wixson, Lara Stone and Mick Jagger's daughter Georgia May, all models with dental divides, all of whom are modeling for the biggest designers - Prada, Chanel, Calvin Klein.
When Wixson was growing up in Wichita, Kan., other girls made fun of her spatially challenged smile. Dentists asked if she wanted braces to close the gap.
"My parents didn't think I needed braces because my teeth were straight," she said by email.
Now she's a teenage supermodel, one of fashion's It Girls, appearing in one photoshoot after another.
So who's grinning now?
Lusty? Lucky? Lovely? Gap teeth have been all those through the ages.
In "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer's wife of Bath had gap teeth and the lustful leanings associated in folkloric tradition. In Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries, a woman with gap teeth is considered beautiful and fertile.
The French call them "les dents du bonheur," teeth of happiness. (Except, one could argue, in the case of French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis. Yes, she models Chanel lipstick with her quirky choppers, but she also recently split up with Johnny Depp, a self-described lover of "teeth that aren't perfect.")
"Celebrities tend to dictate to some people how we look, how we act," said Merle Nunemaker, legislative chairman for the Missouri Dental Association and a dentist in south Kansas City. "But most of my patients, given the opportunity, would like to have those gaps fixed."
The space between the upper incisors - called a diastema - can be from several causes, orthodontists said, such as teeth too small for the jawbone. An extra tooth between the incisors could be forming behind the scenes, keeping them apart.
It could be a family tendency. If a labial frenulum, tissue that attaches the middle of the upper lip to the gum, passes between the incisors, it can keep them from closing.
Not surprisingly, orthodontists are not big fans of the gap-toothed smile.
"Usually there is a problem associated with it. Maybe the bite is off or less than desirable, which could create problems with chewing or wearing down the enamel," said John Buzzatto, president of the American Association of Orthodontists, who practices outside Pittsburgh.
Jessica Pare, who plays Don Draper's latest wife on "Mad Men," reportedly landed the role because the show's creator, Matt Weiner, loved her quirky grin. But it has taken years for those smiles to be in vogue.
When '70s supermodel Lauren Hutton started working, high-power modeling agent Eileen Ford told her to get her teeth fixed. Instead, Hutton wore a piece of wax to hide the gap until, the story goes, legendary photographer Richard Avedon refused to let her wear it. Her trademark was born.
Actress Paquin is fiercely proud of her calling-card smile and thinks it's rude of people to ask why she hasn't "fixed" her smile.
"If you have a whole bunch of work done with your teeth, your face and your boobs, then you're only going to play modern people," she said in one interview. "That's a big choice to make. Very limiting."
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Is Obama's Corporate Tax Plan A Good Idea? >
Obama Proposal a Little Good, Some Bad, a Whole Lot of Ugly
Reform is needed, but the corporate tax plan does not go far enough
February 24, 2012
President Obama's corporate tax plan reminds me of the movie The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. In the movie, Clint Eastwood plays Blondie, who famously states, "You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig."
Politicians, and a few others, hold the guns in America. Ideally, lawmakers try to improve the lives of "those who dig" through policy decisions, such as reforming the corporate tax code. However, the president's plan is only a small step forward, and falls short of improving the lives of American workers and businessmen. The proposal is a little good, some bad, and a whole lot of ugly.
[GOP Candidates Could All Add to Federal Debt.]
The good part lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28 percent. After allowing the corporate tax rate to remain stagnant at 35 percent for nearly 25 years, other companies have shifted operations to lower-taxing countries. For example, in 1960, the U.S. had 17 of the 20 largest firms in the global economy. Presently, the U.S. has six.
In theory, lowering our tax rate will incentivize other countries to bring business operations back to the United States. The president also noted the tax base should be simplified, broadened, and loopholes should be closed. These ideas should be applauded. Unfortunately, the bad and the ugly quickly outweigh these positives.
Slashing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent seems significant, but the average for countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is 25 percent. Even at a reduced 28 percent, we only move from having the second-highest rate to the fourth-highest. Very quickly, "slashing" of the corporate tax rate does not seem as impressive.
Most importantly, the president's proposal completely ignores a glaring impediment to economic growth and job creation in the current corporate tax system. The United States is one of a handful of OECD countries that still uses a worldwide tax system, instead of a territorial system.
[Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]
Under a worldwide system, American firms pay a toll to bring foreign profits into the United States. In order to compete with international firms exempt from this law, domestic firms have to either raise prices or lower expenses, like the wages they pay employees.
This structure robs everyone of potential wealth. It encourages firms to leave profits abroad, instead of reinvesting them in U.S. research, development, jobs, and other economic-generating activities.
Lawmakers should push for a territorial system that protects business from this type of double taxation, and a lower rate in line with the OECD's average.
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14/11/2013 14:45:14
Very warm and snug coat with lovely high collar to fend off biting Pennine winds. Great cuffs inside the sleeve to stop the cold sneaking in. Length is excellent and thankfully the fur trim can be removed from the hood. Haven't worn in the rain yet but I am confident it will give me the high quality protection I was looking for as all the features are good. The really picky reason I haven't give a 5 star rating is due to the patch pockets. I find them too deep and at an awkward angle to get your hand in when the coat is zipped up so not good for quickly retrieving the dog lead. The slanted pockets underneath the patch pocket is great for warming your hands as lined with fleece on one side but items like the dog lead can fall out as they are not meant for carrying items. The other pockets are excellent.
11/01/2013 19:50:45
I was looking for a shower proof coat but when I saw this fully waterproof coat I decided to try it on. It was only available in a size 8 and I normally take a size 10. However the coat is quite big fitting so the 8 fitted nicely. Lots of pockets, very comfortable, adjustable waist, cuffs and hem. I also really liked the detacable hood with detacable fur trim. The photo doesn't do it justice. It looks much nicer in real life. The only thing I was looking for which wasn't included was a detacable inside fleece. But this coat was such good value for money I was happy to compromise. Looking forward to giving it a thorough test in the elements.
12/11/2012 05:04:26
I have been looking for a descent longer coat for a while that and this is excactly what I wanted. Perfect for going walking with the dog in the cold winter months. It will keep me very warm and snug, but, still able to move (I find some bigger coats tend to be heavy) I love the colour, (Kahki) and the quality is great, looks a lot more expensive than the £49.99 paid. The large pockets are an added bonus and a zipped pocket on the chest is perfect for my mobile phone. Overalll I am a very happy customer, thank you Mountain Warehouse!! xXx
23/11/2012 21:34:10
Excellent jacket in a longer length than usual. This jacket is also slightly padded for added warmth which makes it lovely and cosy. The lining is shiny so that makes it very easy to get on and off which i prefer to fleece which tends to drag on other clothing. Colour is true to picture. All in all i am extremely pleased with this jacket and i will be wearing this knowing that no matter how cold it is i am going to stay warm and hopefully dry
14/10/2013 13:18:43
I purchased this jacket for my 12 year old granddaughter who is very fussy about her clothes. She needed a waterproof jacket for an upcoming camping holiday. This one is nice and long. She tells me that it's just what she wanted. I can't make any comment on the actual jacket because I had it sent directly to her so I haven't seen it on her and she hasn't worn it yet.
18/10/2012 13:13:05
It was nice to find a slightly longer waterproof coat as I travel to work by train and need something that keeps me warm as well as dry. The coat has a nice hood which it not too snug a fit so it shouldn't mess up my hair too much! the colour is lovely, a nice shade of olive green which is ideal for the autumn/winter.
08/11/2012 17:22:23
I wanted more coverage of my thighs and upper legs, which tend to get cold when I'm wearing shorter jackets. I bought the jacket specifically for wearing in sub-zero temperatures in Alaska this month, plus wearing to rugby matches this winter. I haven't worn it yet so can't confirm it fits the bill. Watch this space!
26/11/2012 21:42:33
Warm and comfortable on the trip home from the store. Good length and range comes in larger sizes. I would have liked a few different colours including versatile black. Definitely value for money as it was on sale. Will be trying it out on forthcoming trips to Europe.
13/10/2013 15:38:41
I was looking specifically for a longer length.This coat picks all the boxes.Right length, warm, waterproof. Although i normally take a size 14 to 16 in most clothes the size 14 is a good fit and a bit roomy to take account of winter clothing. Not much choice in colours.
27/06/2013 18:38:41
Lovely coat, the only thing that I would say is that the fake fur trim on the collar is not held in place once the hood is tightened to keep out the rain. However, since fake fur is not great in the rain I removed it anyway. I love this coat.
29/11/2012 16:25:05
A perfect fit, definately as advertised and excellent value. I was worried about ordering online without trying on for size but it said size 12 and it is! brilliant, would shop here again and delivery was really fast.
08/11/2012 05:06:59
Excellent coat matching the description in the catalogue. Bought for my wife who has tested it to the full whilst walking our dogs and so far no problems, warm, waterproof and she likes the longer length of the coat.
04/11/2013 07:05:09
The coat fitted really well and although the colour choices were limited, this colour was fine. It was also very good value for money. The detachable fur makes a nice feature and can be taken off for a different look.
09/11/2012 13:57:14
Very pleased with this purchase as it fills a gap in my wardrobe - it is both warm and waterproof and most importantly it is longer length, helping to keep upper thighs warm and dry. It is also attractive.
14/10/2012 15:27:56
Bought it to keep warm and dry whilst walking the dog.Having bought several winter waterproof jackets from you in the past I had no hesitation in buying from you again
19/01/2013 13:49:29
With the snow arriving just as I purchased this coat in the sale I was very pleased with my bargain.-especially as the 10% discount more or less paid for the wash N Proof
21/10/2013 20:32:28
This coat is exactly what I was looking for, stylish, warm and waterproof! It has loads of pockets too. Great value for money, really glad I found Mountain warehouse.
04/11/2013 08:46:58
I have a previous jacket similar to this one from you which i have had for years and have been very pleased with it that is why i returned to buy another.
25/11/2012 10:15:45
Not very many ladies long coats available, but this was a good deal with the fur edged hood, only trouble is no size 18 available so had to opt for a 20
07/11/2012 09:00:00
Lovely long jacket, bought it for walking the dog through the winter. Hood is a bit big and a weird shape but will be ok when I wear a hat under it.


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Mr Walter Agredo Muñoz is a member of the Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos – FCSPP (Political Prisoner's Solidarity Committee).
On 24 September 2012, at approximately 1:19 am, Walter Agredo Muñoz received a text message containing a death threat against 13 individuals. Of the 13 targeted, eight were identified by both a first name and a surname, while five were identified solely by a first name. After first seeing the message at around 6:30 am, Walter Agredo Muñoz called each of the other individuals mentioned in the message and he learned that Ms Aida Quilcué, a leading member of the Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca – CRIC (Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca), had also received the threat.
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I bought these for my daughters birthday, and they were just too cute! Everyone thought so, and they weren't too boyish either. I got the matching cups with lids (great for the kids at my mother-in-law's place. They were more than I expected to pay, but I couldn't find these anywhere else. That said, I'd buy them here again. The delivery was two days faster than I paid for, and I love the product!
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There's a different design on each side. However, I really wanted to use the puppy side but it's more for a little girl's party.
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