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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By SCOTT RICHARDSON
It starts with the realization that it would be useful to exchange data between your company's marketing systems and your enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications.
A marketing manager thinks, "Wouldn't it be great if a salesperson -- while he is preparing a proposal and gathering supporting materials from the company's marketing asset management system -- could quickly determine product availability based on inventory information stored in our ERP application?" Or a marketing communications manager wonders, "Wouldn't we increase efficiency if our marketing portal could email brochures to prospects directly from our CRM application?"
The fact is, every minute saved counts in business, and efficiency is needed more than ever in these times of reduced headcounts. But the quality of the end-user experience, whether she or he is a salesperson inside the company, a distribution partner, or a customer, also is important. This is why many organizations increasingly are taking steps to make that experience a good one by implementing a robust marketing asset management (MAM) system.
According to a 2010 study by Aberdeen Group, Marketing Asset Management: Managing Brand Compliance in Distributed Marketing Environments, marketing asset management systems that centralize the processes of accessing, creating and deploying marketing materials are key for corporate brand control and company-wide efficiency. This study found that companies who deployed these MAM systems achieved a 24% average year-over-year increase in annual revenue, compared to a 2% increase in other companies.
The Next Step
Once you've implemented a marketing asset management system, what is the next step? Synching up marketing asset management (MAM) systems with core CRM and ERP technologies is developing into a mainstream "best practice" across industries. Thus MAM systems are "growing up" to become essential information repositories within the enterprise.
A challenge arises in integrating these applications and systems successfully. If problems occur when independent resources such as MAM, CRM and ERP become interdependent and begin to collaborate across IT boundaries, the issue won't just be "a slow application" – even though that is exactly what the end-user will experience. It might also result in inaccurate information, sales team frustration, customer dissatisfaction, and lost sales.
The importance of having a successful integration, and an experienced MAM company with good references handling the integration, therefore becomes paramount. Chris Houpis, a senior analyst, Marketing Strategy and Effectiveness, Aberdeen Group, confirms this. Of 431 organizations he surveyed, 60% look for demonstrated success as their top vendor selection criterion for marketing asset management solutions.
Successful Integrations
It's good to report that some companies have achieved success integrating their MAM systems with other enterprise applications to automate production and distribution of marketing assets. They are reaping the benefits, including a simpler user experience.
Quincy Compressor, which makes and sells high-quality air compressors and vacuum pumps, integrated its MAM system with the company's CRM application. This integration resulted in a lead management process whereby customer data captured by the MAM system during literature requests on the public web site automatically is fed into the CRM/lead generation and management system. A reduction in the cost of lead processing has already occurred thanks to this integration.
The company also ties its MAM system into its quote and product ordering system. When a quote is requested, literature easily can be attached to the quote and sent as a complete package. This helps its distributors deliver a more professional-looking presentation to prospective customers.
The integration of Quincy Compressor's MAM and CRM systems has improved the accuracy, quality and timeliness of the information that the field receives. It has increased marketing's ability to serve multiple sales channels and support its sales executives and reps with the same or less staff than before. It has also greatly reduced the print budget and inventory, and significantly reduced print waste.
Another company, a unit of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the $10 billion world leader in serving science, has 29,000 marketing and technical documents in its MAM, including over 22,000 Certificates of Analysis, which are documents required by customers to identify exact formulas and certify each product lot.
Of course, loading such a large volume of assets manually is not possible. So the company's MAM system automatically uploads new and updated product data and documents from the company's SAP system. This greatly streamlines the distribution of these assets in support of the sales process.
A leading pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company is taking another approach. Its MAM automates the creation and management of items from master product data pulled from SAP. Its eCommerce and sales support system imports product data and spec sheets that retailers need to order products, and exports orders to its SAP inventory management system. Product activity information is also sent by the MAM system to its SAP system.
What Does the Future Hold?
Where does MAM grow from here? With the trend toward less people managing more content in expanding global organizations, it's heading in the direction of more mixed technology environments at companies who need to automate and streamline their marketing/sales processes even further.
Industry analysts predict that leading-edge marketers will transition to Marketing Asset Collaboration, with increased plugs to CRM systems such as Salesforce.com and Oracle. This is already being seen. One industry analyst, Kim Collins of Gartner, says that marketing resource management is shifting into a platform model and that many companies now want to put an end-to-end process in place that enables marketing assets to be accessible and re-usable throughout the enterprise.
One thing is certain. marketing asset management has become mission critical and will continue to evolve as companies' information needs become more complex and interconnected.
Scott Richardson is CEO and president of Longwood Software, developer of the RevBase® (www.revbase.com) SaaS marketing asset management solution and ForFile® (www.forfile.com) SaaS file transfer service. Contact him at email@example.com.


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Mets ride Duda's bat, Wheeler's arm to win vs. A's
Slugger hits three-run homer; righty allows four runs, two earned
OAKLAND -- Considering all the things that have gone wrong for the Mets this season, those that have gone right have stood out in stark relief. Two in particular were on display in Wednesday's 8-5 win over the A's: first baseman Lucas Duda's continued emergence and starting pitcher Zack Wheeler's obvious growth.
The former resulted in the crispest highlight of an otherwise sloppy game. Duda's three-run homer off Jeff Samardzija in the third inning at O.co Coliseum padded the Mets' early lead, upping his career-high total to 23. Since taking over as the Mets' everyday first baseman in April, Duda has slowly -- and recently, more rapidly -- developed into a legitimate Major League slugger.
"It's something to build on," Duda said.
Wheeler's growth has likewise accelerated as the season has progressed. Though he was not even close to his sharpest in Wednesday's victory, his ability to overcome multiple defensive lapses behind him served him well.
In the past, Wheeler might have caved amidst the shortcomings of second baseman Daniel Murphy -- a throwing error in the third inning, a bobble in the fourth and a fielding error later that inning, two of which resulted in runs. Instead, Wheeler escaped each rally with minimal damage, pitching into the sixth while holding the A's to four runs, two earned.
"It's easier to pitch when you've got some runs," Wheeler said. "Every time we score, you try and go out there and put up a zero. It didn't happen that way today, but luckily we had the bats going."
In that sense he easily outpitched Samardzija, Oakland's non-waiver Trade Deadline import, who left to scattered boos after giving up seven runs in 3 2/3 innings -- one of them coming on an Eric Campbell solo homer.
"I gave up a couple hits and then [Duda's] home run, which was the dagger," Samardzija said. "A day your team comes out and gives you five runs, you've got to turn those into victories."
The A's did storm back late, drawing three walks -- including one with the bases loaded -- off Vic Black and Jeurys Familia in the eighth. But Familia retired Josh Donaldson, who entered the game in the seventh as a pinch-hitter, on a sharp groundout to leave the potential tying run on base. Then -- with regular closer Jenrry Mejia unavailable due to back stiffness -- Familia worked around a double in the ninth to nail down his fourth save.
That made a winner out of Wheeler, who rebounded from some early hiccups to go 6-0 with a 2.12 ERA since June 30, establishing himself as one of the league's best young starting pitchers. The Mets, in turn, have won seven of Wheeler's last 10 starts. So while his learning curve may have been steeper than that of 2013 All-Star Matt Harvey, Wheeler appears to have conquered it.
"That's our goal, is to go out there every time and try to give our team a chance to win," Wheeler said. "It's been fun."
His emergence gives the Mets two young players with peers in high places. In mid-April, the organization took a significant risk when it traded Ike Davis to the Pirates, effectively choosing Duda over Davis. While Davis, a former first-round Draft pick, has struggled in Pittsburgh, Duda has spent the past two months establishing himself at an elite level. Since June 13, only two big leaguers have more home runs than Duda's 15, and only five have posted a higher OPS.
That does not mean Duda and Wheeler alone can cure the Mets' ills. But when the team begins wading through its year-end inventory and working to improve for 2015, those two will be on the list of solutions -- not problems.
Ten months ago, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon said there were only four players guaranteed roster spots on the 2014 club: David Wright, Wheeler, Dillon Gee and Jon Niese. Now there are at least twice that many, with Duda and Familia establishing themselves, Black and Mejia improving the bullpen and Travis d'Arnaud breaking out behind the plate. Curtis Granderson will be back next year and, barring a trade, so will Daniel Murphy. A full 18 months removed from Tommy John surgery, Matt Harvey should be on the roster as well.
So it's fair for the Mets to be optimistic about 2015, even if they refuse to look completely past 2014 just yet.
"I think right now you can't really look at personal stats or whatever it is," Duda said. "You've got to think about winning games. Some people think that we're out of it, but everybody in the room believes we still have a chance. That's all we need."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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THE elected politician in charge of health across Worcestershire has admitted the childhood obesity battle is far from won - despite encouraging figures.
Councillor Marcus Hart has has likened the problem of overweight youngsters to smoking, saying it could take decades to fully change today's sedentary lifestyles.
His call has been backed up by other politicians in the county, who say they "despair" over young people not exercising enough.
Figures out in December showed the county is starting to win its high-profile battle with the bulge, with 32 per cent of year six children being classed as either overweight or obese, compared to 33.5 per cent last year.
But almost one in three 10 and 11-year-olds are still overweight or clinically obese.
Coun Hart, Conservative cabinet member for health and wellbeing, said: "It is too soon to say with any certainty that we are winning the battle with obesity.
"Look at smoking, it took almost 30 to 40 years to win that battle.
"The figures are encouraging but obesity remains a priority for Worcestershire's health and wellbeing board.
"We are aiming to tackle it in many ways, through healthy lifestyles and workplaces, and by empowering people to make their own choices about better health."
His comments, made during a full council meeting, have been backed by other politicians.
Councillor Martin Jenkins, from UKIP, said: "School is often a place where this can be monitored, but the attitude I often get from parents is one of frustration and despair.
"Of course we want our children to be bright but we also want them to be fit and healthy."
He called for more PE lessons in schools to help "solve this epidemic once and for all".
Exactly 17.6 per cent of year six children in Worcestershire are currently classed as obese, down from 18.2 per cent a year ago.
The sample of 5,096 children by NHS Worcestershire also showed wide discrepancies in obesity rates for children in different parts of the county.
Children in the Wyre Forest are the fattest in the county, with 20.4 per cent of year six children obese, while in Bromsgrove the figure is just 14.8 per cent.
Worcester's rate is 16.7 per cent, down 2.8 per cent on the previous year, but levels have risen slightly to 18.9 per cent in Wychavon.
Obesity in children costs the public sector in Worcestershire, including the NHS and county council, more than £80 million yearly.


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NVIDIA's GTX 400 Series Gets A Launch Date: March 26thby Ryan Smith on 2/22/2010 12:00 AM EST
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PublixE - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkBut Nvidia is 1Q behind.
Aside from the obvious statement I made, I just hope "Fermi" is not another fiasco like the FX 5800 ultra was. Anyone remember the "Vacuum"?
Anyways, I will let you know I am an ATI fanboy - but I do hope Nvidia does well with "Fermi". Having only 2 -main- add-in graphics cards makers is a real bummer (***n you Intel for making crappy integrated video, and ***n you for cancelling larrabee).
I am quite interested though in the capabilities of this video card - I will be watching for the full review of the cards in the very near future. Reply
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distortion620 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkI have been using an 8800gt and I am ready for a new card. I cannot wait for Nvidia to finally release there cards. I hope Fermi the best, but like many of you theres no way im paying over 400$ for any graphics card. I cannot wait because it will finally lower the 5870's prices, which is what ive been waiting for all along =). Thanks Nvidia! Please don't disappoint! Reply
beck2448 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkCharlie also predicted the 280 gtx would be a massive failure. Turns out he was 100% wrong there. Let's wait and see before making dire predictions. Reply
erple2 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkI'd say that he was only 60% wrong. While it was a big step up from ATI's fastest card (the 3870) (about 60% faster), it was also about 2-3x the cost. What were the adoption rates of the 280? Good? Bad? Did nvidia make solid profit with the card? I don't know. I do know, however, that it was a large, hot, hungry, powerful card that cost way too much for me to even consider, and I'm not averse to dropping 400-500 dollars on a Video Card (but definitely not 650 dollars). Reply
tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkGiven that the 3870 series almost sunk ATi, and the mere mention of the part among cycles inside AMD triggers dormant ulcers... that should pretty much answer your query.
The 3870 also was from a previous generation wrt GTX 280 BTW. The GT200 was also significantly faster than the 60% you quote wrt to the RV600. You are off by an order of magnitude, since most tests the GT200 beat the ATi part by about 400%. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkThe 3870 series almost sunk ATi? Link please.
I'm really not sure why the 3870 and 280 are being compared. They were launched 6 months apart, and vastly different in terms of price and power requirements. The 3870 can't ever have been expected to perform anywhere near the same level, and to be honest, you would probably be able to get three similar performing (to the 3870; try finding the 3870 nowadays) ATi cards cheaper than a single 280. I did some checking on the THQ charts and the difference at 1920x1200 goes from 297% at 8x AA to 225% at 0x AA, and that's mainly because of the massive advantage in bus speed and width that the 280 enjoys, along with the way that the 3870 performs AA. The two simply weren't made to compete with each other.
Sorry if it looks like I'm picking on you but I'm just going through the new posts and you seem to have made every single one that I've come to thus far ;) Reply
tterremmotto - Monday, March 08, 2010 - linkAll the red herring arguments in the world don't make up for the fact that the 3xxx series were the worst possible follow up to the disaster that were the 2xxx series.
Simply because NVIDIA had better offerings at every single performance level during that generation. The G80/92 were far better performers than the cores in the 3xxx. And we're talking 2x speedup.
That little detail was reflected on the huge market share ATI lost in the mid and top ranges during the 3xxx series. So feel free to move the goalposts and make all sorts of hand wavy arguments, which you seem to think of as facts. But reality said a very different story. And yes, the 3xxx series do open a lot of ulcers inside ATI because hadn't it been for the R700 they would be pretty much dead in the water. Reply
erple2 - Friday, February 26, 2010 - linkI included the 3870 vs. the 280 because that was the "best" card ATI had available when the gtx280 came out. Clearly, 60% was a low-ball estimate. Based on the initial testing that Anandtech did for the GTX280 (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334...">http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334..., the 280 was about 100-150% faster than the 3870 in the tests run.
The 2900 was what almost sunk ATI, I think it was... Reply
siuol11 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkWhere did you get that? Have you seen a 480? Do tell... Reply
geok1ng - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkWOW! A seven lines news, and a ton of posts, ranging from fanboy flaming to tech sites comparisons.
I will use my seer powers and predict:
1- fermi will be slightly faster that 5870, dual Fermi will be slightly faster than 5970. Expect the cards to trade blows in a game by game basis.
2- fermi will run hotter, dual fermi will thermal throttle under stock settings.
3-fermi will cost more and offer poor bang for the buck against radeons
4- Fermi drivers will run smother and with less problems than catalysts
how do i reached these conclusions?
Because that's how the GPU market has been for the past 3 generations! Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkhow the hell is there going to be a dual fermi, given how much juice a single one uses? Reply
Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkSimply impossible given the limit of 300 watt to be PCI-E certified. And the amazing quantities of answer to that 7 line news is that it's the first time Nvidia is late in a schedule that much. They never did that from TNT all the way up to GTX2xx. Reply
bhougha10 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkFunny stuff here. Can't believe how the sheep gather.
Odds are 1 in 100 that the 480 is only 5% faster.
I'm glad ATI has gotten a little breathing room to make the margins, but you people need to stay real.
Manufactor this stuff in the USA and we would have the cards by now. And we may actually have jobs to buy a few of these cards. Reply
jimijuke - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkHa! If microchips were made in the us we would still be using ATI Rage 128 cards (and poorly made ones!). There is a reason that most chips come out of Taiwan and it isn't just price. Reply
tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkYou do realize most (if not all) the GPUs from NVIDIA, ATi, and Intel are designed in the USA right?
Also the US still leads in silicon output, Intel being the largest IC manufacturer has most of its fabs in the US. As do IBM and in a lesser part Global Foundries.
The chips themselves are not the issue, but the board assembly and the labor required, which is why most of that moved over to Asia. But not due to cost, since they never pass the savings on to the customer, but due to increased profits.
More American corporations should be taken to task for all that stupid outsourcing. But honestly the US has to also understand that basing all our existence on an economic system which follows a sociopathic model of behavior (esp. due to the lack of any sort of national allegiance by capital) while expecting it to act rationally/humanely is supremely naive and stupid. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkIsn't ATi Canadian? :) Reply
Galid - Saturday, February 27, 2010 - linkUsed to be, before they started the Radeon series. Then they expanded and mostly moved in the US I think. Reply
bhougha10 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkThat's funny, I was only talking about the manufacturing part when they put the boards together. Like the person said below intels fab is in the US and the global found is building one in the US, other big fab is in Germany I think. The biggest chip maker from Taiwan took the tech from Intel.
The manufacturing part is the easy part, the engineers do the design, witch I believe is done in the US. I doubt the guys in China who manufacture the boards have much schooling at all.
Keep sending the jobs overseas and it won't matter if it would cost 100% more, we won't be able to buy them at a 200% discount without a job. Reply
Lord Banshee - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkYou know intel has Fabs in the US(AZ,NM,OR maybe some others) and AMD/Global Foundries are building one in New York. Reply
TheManY2K3 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkWow, I hope you don't live in the US. Reply
obiwantoby - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI wonder how much more expensive they would be if they were made in a Western Nation? Reply
siuol11 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkThousands of dollars... Seeing as we would have to import most of the engineering talent. Reply
Holly - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkRough guess 40% up, maybe even more. Reply
Aeternum - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkreally?
Aeternum - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkhttp://www.acnnewswire.com/Article.Asp?Art_ID=2849...">http://www.acnnewswire.com/Article.Asp?Art_ID=2849... Reply
Wwhat - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkSo let me put it on the table: why the hate?
And frankly I think they must have some issues with the card because they take quite some time, and even the date mentioned might be extended, but I also think the cards will be more than 5% faster than the current ATI's, except by that time ATI might indeed have something new and improved to release, not that it matters since they are sitting pretty anyway.
Plus it will obviously be very dependent on the game, with all the FP horsepower the fermi reportedly has I guess it would be very good in OpenCL/directcompute/CUDA and games using that should thus leap ahead.
Anyway I hope they remain competitive enough to put pressure on ATI and make enough to stay in business, because the HD4850/70 were half the price of their 5xxx counterparts, and I can't help feeling it's because of the lack of pressure from the competition. Reply
Galid - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI'll answer to why the hate, ATI fanboys see Nvidia winning often and every Nvidia fanboy speaking against ATI(while they'Re not bad at all). So 90% of the time Nvidia fanboy has the right to say whatever he wants cauz ''his'' team wins.
Now ATI fanboys are taking a good breath of fresh air even if it's for a little moment. And by the way, a company that when doesn't only try to reach for the top, takes something like physx keeps it for themselves(try to be a little like intel against AMD), I call that being a cheapster. ATI never did that. I'm no fanboy but I feel a little empathy. I personally own a 9800GTX+ and a radeon HD4870. Both runs great and overclock well one for me and the other for the wife and kids. Reply
erple2 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkTo be fair, ATI has been "in the lead" since after the 3870 was launched in late 2007, at least for the given market segment. They were also in the lead when the 9700 Pro came out (and for that full generation of cards). They were also in the lead when the X1950 came out, too. The x800 was a bit of a misstep (though not drastic), and the 2900 was not what I'd call successful (at all). So I'd say that in the last 10 years, NVidia has managed to do well enough to come out ahead a bit more than 1/2 of the time (6xxx, 7xxx, 8xxx, gt200), and ATI has done the same (9700, x1950, "3870", 48xx, and now 5xxx). I wouldn't say it's 90% - probably closer to 60-65%? Reply
tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linknvidia still has a bigger share of the mid and high end markets, and intel rules the low end. ATi is exactly in the same position as it was almost 1 decade ago: third.
Whatever "lead" ATi is supposed to have had, has not been reflected in the market share significantly. Plus having the AMD albatross around their necks, gives ATi little room for error in their execution. Which is a shame, because their RV7/8 parts have been outstanding. Hopefully AMD can clean up their act this year, and if ATi can finally move over to GF they may be able to differentiate their products better from nvidia. Reply
Galid - Saturday, February 27, 2010 - linkATI had the lead in video card price/performance ratio, not in the market share. And that did reflect if you type market share Q2 2009 ATI you'll find out it did something... Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkYour argument is a little flawed in that AMD isn't dead, therefore that particular albatross is still flying high :) However, I do agree in that AMD is somewhat of a shackle on ATi. The proposed 4 year lifespan of the STARS architecture and AMD's inability to advertise its products aren't doing it any real favours. The next 18-24 months will say an awful lot for AMD. Reply
tterremmotto - Monday, March 08, 2010 - linkAMD is an albatross, because even though they are not dead... their have been running on the red and bleeding cash left and right.
Therefore ATI has to match or beat NVIDIA, while at the same time not having access to the cash reserves that NVIDIA has. They are doing a hell of an execution in the past couple of years. And hopefully AMD is getting their act together after the Intel cash infusion. Reply
BernardP - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkDespite the fact that Nvidia current product line is mostly made up of 2 and 3 times renamed cards from 2 year-old technology, they are still making a lot of money:
Yes, Nvida is behind technologically, But OEMs and individual users are still buying a lot more NVidia than ATI cards.
Let's hope ATI can profit from the present NVidia difficulties to gain significant market share and even the playing field.
Tewt - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkThis. I don't despise Nvidia but I like to root for the underdog. AMD/ATI has been getting slammed from the competition for years so when their competitors fall a little behind, in the spirit of continued competition, I cheer when they can gain some market share as well as actually turn a profit for once.
AMD/ATI have operated in the red longer than Nvidia ever has so I have no doubt they can weather a bad cycle or two. As mentioned above, they are doing quite well in the mobile/integrated graphics department. I don't think we need Nvidia to go head-to-head with ATI on this cycle of graphics cards because the 5800 series is already competitively priced. Considering the strength of Intel and Nvidia, I prefer to see AMD/ATI have a cycle(or three) where they can "catch up" in order to stay in the game longer, to the benefit of us all. Reply
Mugur - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI don't like those rumors. What I would like is for AMD/ATI and NVIDIA to go head to head...
Former NVIDIA fan (now owns a 5770 and a 4670...) :-) Reply
michal1980 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkIs there any hope for the Green team? Or are they about to go poof? Reply
Exodite - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkIt's unlikely nVidia would face any serious financial trouble even if Fermi were to flop. The company has deeper pockets than AMD, who's been struggling for some time, and the high-end and performance segments of discrete GPUs is probably their least important - if most visual - markets.
The real money is in mobility chips/SoCs (Tegra), professional cards (Tesla and to an extent Quadro) and mainstream discrete chips.
nVidia is doing very well in these markets and will continue to do so even if Fermi turns out to be less than inspiring.
That said it would be preferable if it's at least competitive as it'd benefit us, as consumers, with the following price wars etc.
I'm still on a 4870 myself, and doing great TBH, but I'll keep an eye on the market the coming months even if I'm unlikely to upgrade before 6k hits. Reply
michal1980 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linki'm still on an 8800 card. thats been redone howmany times now?
this year will be the year of new pc's in my house. doubt I'll be getting another nV card. Reply
Hauk - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI often wonder how people can have such disdain for nVidia. At face value, it's a focused, successful company. How can someone despise them so?
Well yesterday, I saw their dark side, the arrogant side that people have been ranting about. The global gaming community has been begging for information on Fermi for months!
It was arrogant of nVidia to throw out a teaser then offer nothing, KNOWING the world was expecting more, anything more. We wanted pricing, release dates, benchmarks, anything! We've f&*cking waited long enough! Who the hell do you think you are?? It was either extreme arrogance, or an attempt to cover something. Perhaps the reports of an underperformer are true. Either way, a total bullshit move on nVidia's part yesterday.
I think I know now what can drive a person to dislike a company. I had two 5870's in my basket yesterday. If it weren't for 2GB versions coming soon, I'd have grabbed them and been done wih you nVidia. I'm tired of waiting. You peeking out your door to piss on me helps very little.
Those 2GB 5870s will be mine on release. I may be one person, but I hope you feel the sting regardless. Reply
Ahmed0 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkNvidia needs a mouthful of humble pie when it comes to PR.
They have been incredibly arrogant and at times even hypocritical. Like the whole "laughabee" business.
I do hope they can wriggle themselves out of this one for the sake of competition but they really deserve what they get from the press and fans right now. Reply
akse - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link[quote]I often wonder how people can have such disdain for nVidia. At face value, it's a focused, successful company. How can someone despise them so? [/quote]
Maybe because the have been renaming their G92 cards for how long?:) Reply
tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkWell, good to see people are having problems with nvidia not based on technical issues, but on their numbering schemes for marketing. Reply
Targon - Friday, February 26, 2010 - linkI think a part of the problem that some people have is the attitude that comes from some of the NVIDIA fans out there. If you look at it, you continually hear about people slamming AMD/ATI driver quality, yet at this point, the driver quality has been at LEAST as good from AMD/ATI as from NVIDIA, if not better.
So, when people keep screaming that their preferred product is better in this way and that, even with evidence pointing to problems with their preferred product, it rubs some people the wrong way. There will always be those who prefer the underdog, but there are also those who watch what goes on and is said, and grow to dislike companies who take on a superior attitude, yet can't handle it when they make a mistake.
You can even see this in the AMD vs. Intel comparisons. You have a LOT of people out there saying how Intel is better, yet, the only really superior products that Intel makes are the processors. Think about that for a moment, Intel chipsets are really not all that great in the budget to mid range areas, and are only acceptable in the high end. Intel graphics are pretty damned pathetic, their wireless chipsets may be very sensitive, but can drop signal at times(even with good signal strength), and so on. Basically, name an area outside of CPU and fab process technology that Intel makes a superior product. AMD may not have the best CPU and fab process technology, but from a total platform perspective, AMD really isn't doing that bad of a job, and system prices in the low to mid range reflect that.
fshaharyar - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkHey guys thought you might look at this there are stories going around and it might very reasonable and probable that fermi may not be fast with regards to ATI HD 5870 in term of perfomance just see it your self Special mention of Anand is there for his unruffled story about ATI's Fightback
just see it and decide for your self.
tachi1247 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI would hardly consider this article unbiased. There isn't a single article on the website that has anything objective to say about nVidia. While they may have had problems that lead to delays, I highly doubt the problems are as bad as they have been made out to be. Reply
Sivar - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkFor an always-welcome fact check on semiaccurate.com, http://charliedemerjianisadouchebag.blogspot.com">http://charliedemerjianisadouchebag.blogspot.com is available and seems fairly level-headed to me. Of course, only time will tell. Reply
siuol11 - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkThis guy's "sources" are BSN and Fudzilla? And his main argument is that somehow Charlie is a douche because he writes negative stuff about Nvidia? AND you think he's level headed? Really? His head appears to be on the same level as his ass... That's about it. Reply
fshaharyar - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkHello mate don't get into bashing but most of thing on the site that has been published is getting true some are still speculations. but you have to admit this that there part is not as good as it seemed to be they will get it better with new revisions later on in the months to come with better clock ability and I want better competition that will help consumers with better option and price drop by ATI
And it seems that ATI has won this round not the whole match. I am an ATI fan with 4xxx series but 88xx series were unstoppable by nVidia but now it is the turn of red team. Reply
Sivar - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkLevel headed compared to who he's criticizing, yes. Of course, one has to take into account the name of the blog.
I'd say his sources are logic and reason (and maybe a little anger). Those may not be the best, but compare them to the other Charlie's sources.
Reading through the content that is there, he does a fairly good job of pointing out some of the flaws in arguments made on Charlie's website, and showing that some of his predictions have not worked out very well.
Still, time will tell. The only way to know for sure is to see what nVidia has in March, and whether they can manufacture a decent number of them. Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linktime has told. that site hasn't published anything since October, and Charlie's predictions only looks better since then Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI'm unfamiliar with the site but it seemed like the author had a lot of inside info. The article was certainly detailed and a great read, I just wonder if most of it was accurate and not just a slam piece.
I'd be interested in hearing a comment or two from one of Anand's authors on specifics from that article...while a captivating read I'm not in the fab industry and a lot went over my head.
Thanks again for the link! Reply
samspqr - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkthe author is Charlie Demerjian, of Inquirer fame
he has a very personal conflict with nvidia, but so far he's been right on everything he's said about fermi (I think it was october when he said it wouldn't come out before march, and Fudo was still saying it would arrive in 2009)
If the clocks and shader counts he quotes are right, I'm quite confident that a 5% margin is everything nvidia can get with the unmanufacturable GTX480, while the GTX470 will be just on par with 5870 and cost at least $100 more Reply
Arbie - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI agree with you. I've been following SemiAccurate's Nvidia news since last summer and not only have Demerjian's schedule predictions come true, but he explains very well where he's getting them from. He may dislike Nvidia's management, but he understands the technical points and does the math. So I believe his further predictions that Nvidia will have nothing real until Fermi 2. We'll see a few press release parts and skeleton stocks at the etailers, but only for show.
And I think I think Fudo was conned on this by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Last fall Mr. Huang - no doubt alerted by Mr. Demerjian's analyses of Fermi production pitfalls - made a point of personally glad-handing a bunch of tech journalists. Fudzilla even ran a shot of Fudo in the happy embrace. That usually skeptical site has, since then, seemed to accept Nvidia's decreasingly credible spin on its increasingly evident 40nm disaster.
I hope Nvidia will eventually get back on track and give ATI some competition, because otherwise ATI itself will get complacent. But we need ATI/AMD in the bigger picture, and I'm very glad they've got an entire generation of undisputed graphics card leadership here, to help them rebuild their finances. Reply
Arbie - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI agree with you. I've been following SemiAccurate's Nvidia news since last summer and not only have Demerjian's schedule predictions come true, but he explains very well where he's getting them from. He may dislike Nvidia's management, but he understands the technical points and does the math. So I believe his further predictions that Nvidia will have nothing real until Fermi 2. We'll see a few press release parts and skeleton stocks at the etailers, but only for show.
And I think I think Fudo was conned on this by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Last fall Mr. Huang - no doubt alerted by Mr. Demerjian's analyses of Fermi production pitfalls - made a point of personally glad-handing a bunch of tech journalists. Fudzilla even ran a shot of Fudo in the happy embrace. That usually skeptical site has, since then, seemed to accept Nvidia's decreasingly credible spin on its increasingly evident 40nm disaster.
I hope Nvidia will eventually get back on track and give ATI some competition, because otherwise ATI itself will get complacent. But we need ATI/AMD in the bigger picture, and I'm very glad they've got an entire generation of undisputed graphics card leadership here, to help them rebuild their finances. Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkI'm happy to see ATI kick some butt this round so that AMD can stick around. Intel needs some competition too Reply
Galid - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkDo not even worry about Nvidia, they survived for a long enough time making money that it won't stop them. We need both companies to survive, competition is good for us, the consumers. Heard that fanboys? WE need BOTH companies to survive. Reply
Parhel - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkWhere did you get the idea that the GTX470 will be on par with the HD5870? If the GTX480 is only expected to beat the 5870 by 5%, the GTX470 should come in just a bit faster than a HD5850 . . .
This doesn't bode well for NVidia considering that ATI could most likely get a HD5890 out the door at 1Ghz, possible with 2GB memory and six display ports as well. Reply
samspqr - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI did some math, see here:
(the magic number is 0.61: that's the power I used to convert raw power into real world performance, and it seems to work quite well)
ATI only needs a 925MHz card to match GTX480; at 1GHz they would have the same advantage over GTX480 as that one will have over 5870 Reply
fshaharyar - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkHey guys you are forgetting the main point here there first spin off came with only 448sp's that means going for the brute part that is 480 they might just launch the 470 early as due to the lower clock scale due to half hot clock being around 600mhz which restrict until the yeilds are better.
so it is an option that 470 might be around 5% to 8% faster than 5850 but ATI has the scale tilted with price cuts and at that time their yeilds will be very good with overclocks going near 7-800 mhz.
which will narrow the gap between 470.
Now the ball rolls into Nvidia's die, sorry Side.
blyndy - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkI read the semiaccurate links and the main point isn't that Fermi is having teething problems or how Nvidia should position it against ATI until yields improve, those problems are moot.
The main points, according to semiaccurate are:
-Fermi is a complete balls-up in terms of manufacturing
-It is super hot, and power hungry and with no headroom for either (result: Fermi certified cases)
-yields are <10% and <10,000 chips will be made
-Nvidia will sell each chip for $400+ US, but at a loss! (the 5870 chip is sold for $80)
-Fermi was far-from-finished general-purpose compute research project that was dusted off after their first GPU design hit some problem, and rushed into production
-It is a general-purpose compute architecture with GPU functions tacked on
-Just to FIX the current design would take 6+ months
-Even if yields were equivalent to the 5870 it would still be economically uncompetitive against the 5870
-Fermi 2 is a fantasy at this point, definitely not on TSMCs 40nm, and TSMCs next process, 28nm, is also a fantasy
-Nvidia management got way too complacent on R&D spending, engineer numbers and process research
-Fermi is the 'Laughabee'
tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkPeople should stop giving undue validity to the technical opinions of people, with little professional experience or proper formal education on a field as complex as computer architecture and fabrication technologies.
As a person working in the belly of the beast, it is laughable the level of disconnect between the realities of the field, and the opinions expressed by some of these so-called "experts."
Anandtech and ars being the few glaring exceptions among the litany of mainstream gadget-oriented sites which filled with writers which have absolutely no effing idea of what they are talking about. I also blame tech companies for cater to these people and allow marketing to run rampant... Reply
Targon - Friday, February 26, 2010 - linkSo, how do you explain the delays in getting this GPU out the door and no engineering samples making their way into the hands of review sites? This alone implies that Fermi is in trouble, and may easily miss an April, May, or even June release date.
It normally takes three or more months from when review sites get their samples to when it is actually released. With NDA, the PUBLIC may not get the information, but review sites have the inside scoop months in advance. If Anandtech and the other sites just don't have them yet, that isn't a good sign for Fermi.
tterremmotto - Monday, March 08, 2010 - linkBecause there is a big difference between being 1 Quarter late to a psychological deadline. And the non-sense that the chip is broken and unfixable that chap over in the UK, who knows jack squat about the realities of the industry, is quacking about.
Yes, AMD beat NVIDIA to market in the DX11 parts. But the only ones making up the deadline for Fermi are NVIDIA themselves, not web bloggers who decide when a product should have been released. Reply
Targon - Friday, February 26, 2010 - linkSo, how do you explain the delays in getting this GPU out the door and no engineering samples making their way into the hands of review sites? This alone implies that Fermi is in trouble, and may easily miss an April, May, or even June release date.
It normally takes three or more months from when review sites get their samples to when it is actually released. With NDA, the PUBLIC may not get the information, but review sites have the inside scoop months in advance. If Anandtech and the other sites just don't have them yet, that isn't a good sign for Fermi.
Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkYou know what, it's logical. Think about it. 40nm has problem about yeilds and still has. The bigger your chip is the bigger the problem of yeilds occur in your batch. ATI had problems with that and it's still not as good as they'd like.
Imagine now ATI has problems with a chip ALOT smaller than GF100 is supposed to be. It's more than double in size, the problem with yeilds with double size doesn't means half less liveable chips, it's more like a quarter. And those still can't be called no defects fully enabled chips cauz of heat and wattage problems(40nm problems).
Plus the architecture, they got big groups of simds, they can't disable one on 512 cores, they come in BIG blocks of 32. ATI did the right thing by making lots of smaller groups, why they got 1600 cores instead of 512(supposed for fermi). Reply
boe - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkIt seems odd they don't have any out for advance review and benchmarking if they are coming soon. My guess is either the cards aren't as good as nVidia claimed they would be, they don't have drivers that work reliably or they have such a manufacturing issue they can't produce many and they won't have more than a few hundred available for the release.
I'm not an ATI fanboy - I still can't ever find the silenced 5870's in stock since I started searching in November. So ATI clearly can't get enough of these out the door either. Reply
Griswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkNot a guess, its pretty much a given. Reply
philosofa - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkJoe's post above did set me thinking - if Nvidia are going to release Fermi as planned it'll be worth watching to see when their cards are released to reviewers, as well as when the NDA ends.
I have an HD 5870, the first ATI card since an X1950 PRO (and only the second of nine or so cards), I'm crossing my fingers for Nvidia, but I have to admit I have my doubts about GF100 being anything special at all. Reply
Grit - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkSweet! Thanks Nvidia! Now I know what date to start looking for ATI to release the 5890 and to drop prices on the 5870. Time to unload my old nvidia card! And thanks for making be both comfortable and happy about my first ATI graphics card purchase in almost 10 years!
Nvidia - convincing you to buy graphics cards, just not theirs. Reply
Doormat - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkTypical PR move for bad news, you dump it on Friday afternoon when you hope fewer people are watching. Reply
fragMasterFlash - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkMake with the polygons, already! At this rate ATI will probably be sampling Northern Islands by the time NVidia gets Fermi into production. Reply
Lunyone - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkThen on March 19th, they will post a new release date in early April, followed up with a late release in April.....It's getting a bit old, don't you think?? Reply
iGas - Monday, February 22, 2010 - link
Will Fermi be a Hammer or will it be an Itanium?
samspqr - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkit will be itanium: charlie at semiaccurate has already leaked some results, and it seems the $650 fermi will be just 5% faster than 5870 (and so hammered by 5970), while the $500 one will be just on par with 5870 Reply
coldpower27 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkCharlie is extremely biased against nVidia so no, not gonna believe any of what he says. Let's way till the cards come out shall we. Reply
Galid - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkSo Biased that He was right about 80% of what happened about fermi for the last 6 months... read a bit before attacking for nothing. Reply
tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkHow can one be 80% right in regards to predictions about a product which is not shipping?
Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkBy learning about TSMC's 40nm and tech about GPUs, Ok the guy's on the side of ATI because he can't say anything bad about them. But he's got some info on tsmc's and engineering that are pretty good. He's just not digging about bad rumors turning around ATI.
Read what he said a while ago about fermi and do some research about what's happening NOW and you'll find the similarities. Reply
CptTripps - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkRight, so the $500 card is on par with a 5870 but they are charging an extra $150 to be 5% faster than a 5870. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and I highly doubt it's true.
Aside from that, what games were benched for that 5% difference? Were any games that use DX11 tested with tesselation?
I'm still on the fence on what to purchase and have a tough time swallowing rumors. Reply
Griswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkIt makes no sense? If this chipzilla does indeed have such horrible yield rates (and common sense points to 'yes'), its not a surprise nvidia will have to charge alot more for it than they had hoped to, should it be the expected performance disappointment. They simply hope to pull off an Apple, where the loyal fanboys storm in and buy whatever little supply there will be at whatever high price they're selling it.
Face it fanboys, either way, thermi will not be what you wanted it to be. Reply
Griswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkIt makes no sense? If this chipzilla does indeed have such horrible yield rates (and common sense points to 'yes'), its not a surprise nvidia will have to charge alot more for it than they had hoped to, should it be the expected performance disappointment. They simply hope to pull off an Apple, where the loyal fanboys storm in and buy whatever little supply there will be at whatever high price they're selling it.
Face it fanboys, either way, thermi will not be what you wanted it to be. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkI see what you did there. Reply
yacoub - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkSounds like NVidia is gambling on how much extra people will pay to get a card with a stable set of drivers after all the headaches the 5000 series ATI cards have been causing. =P Reply
Griswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkYou mean, how many people will pay the extra dough for a thermonuclear furnace. Reply
formulav8 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI've heard of a gray screen and mouse cursor problem but nothing death defying??
Am I just overlooking a major problem out there for the ATI drivers?
Jason Reply
Iketh - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkIt's only for win7+5xxx series users. The big mouse cursor is "almost" taken care of. It very rarely pops up anymore (about once every 2 days), but when it does, you're on a countdown for your system crashing. Rebooting is the only way out.
Oh and the grey screen? I'm forced to dual-boot winxp just to work with video captured with fraps. Reply
LordanSS - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkDepending on the video I'm watching, my computer crashes. Mouse cursor every other day? I'm having to stick to the hotfix 9.12 drivers, as they were the only one who got it fixed right. The 10.1, 10.2 drivers kept popping out the big cursor after a little while, and that's not acceptable.
Mouse trails "fixes" the problem, but if you enable that, you don't get a mouse cursor in many games, so it's a no go.
I didn't have any problems at all when I switched from my old 8800GTS 320mb to a 4870, years ago. I was actually quite happy with it. Had no idea things would be this bad this time around. =/ Reply
banthracis - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkI'm curious, do you have a gigabyte MOBO?
If you do, the mouse cursor and crashing on video's issue is bios related not driver related. Flash your bios to F6 or w/e most recent on is and the issues are fixed.
I had the same issue for a while last year, thought it was ATI's fault the whole time, turned out to be gigabyte's.
Galid - Friday, February 26, 2010 - linkmost of the time the problems are hardware related and not necessarily ATI/drivers problems. Face it, search Nvidia driver problem or ATI driver problem, and there's not much results. Points out to nothing bad in either companies.
I always tend to hear ATI's driver problems, but I owned and build systems with lots of them and no more problems than with Nvidia, sorry fanboys... Cept the fan adjustment on 4xxx series and CCC being a prick when playing with options, don't install it FFS, never did hate it, get ATI tray tools or some other third party.
But do you remember the SUPER fuck Nvidia had with 6800 series and Nforce 2 chipset on socket 754? Nvidia never did anything bout it, the infinite stuttering shitty bug with their OWN pieces of hardware. Emailed them, wrote on the forums, but hey they already had the money in their pocket and it was too complicated to fix, Thanks again! Reply
Ananke - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - linkI have Athlon X4 and XFX Radeon 5850 ZANFC. The system is running 43 days already 24/7 - no crushes. I played Crysis, Modern Warfare 2 perfectly. The crushes and gray screen problem is highly exaggerated - it was almost immediately taken care with patches and recent drivers.
I did experience gray screen with the same card in my Intel machine though - I think sth with the mobo chipset has to do with this issue... Reply
Holly - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkHonestly, rumors are just and only rumors. Until there are hard solid facts (AT benchmarks and actualy available cards on store shelves) I keep /ignore mode.
I hope GTX480 delivers since I would like to upgrade for higher CUDA as well as get better gaming performance (running 8800GT) and investing in outdated DX10.1 cards ain't worth it imo.
b15h09 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkWhy would you even read something posted by Charlie? One of the sorriest excuses of human flesh I've ever heard of. I thought he had discredited himself enough by now that people stopped reading. Reply
Nate007 - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - linkLike they say , Put up or shut up . Nvidia cant seem to put up or out anything at the moment so when,if and untill they do Charlie had my vote.
Jen-Hsun Huang puppy trick was just shame full. Not to mention it smacks of no respect for anyone and everyone that buy his products.
You dont hold out your product in hand and lie to your buyers. That was just the last straw for me.
As far as I'm concerned Jen-Hsun Huangand Nvidia lost whatever trust I had for them that day.
Feb -28-2010 ........still no Fermi. Reply
Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkNvidia fanboy, nothing to see... move along Reply
Galid - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkDiscredited by what, you sound like a judge that got no argument. I read him and the only biased opinion in the last thing he wrote about fermi must be when he said Nvidia solution to the problem was engineering by screaming at people. Everything else is techspeech about 40nm process and the problem of making something BIG... which is quite true due to the fact that... there's no fermi yet for a product that was supposed taped out during the summer and in store in november..... learn what is a transistor... Reply
Magius - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkSo if I start spewing half-accurate technobabble at you, will you believe I am telling you the complete truth? Come on, even his "readers" admit he's got a grudge at Nvidia. Do you know what people with grudges do? They will not necessarily lie at you but they will twist the truth until the facts line up according to what they want you to believe.
All his pieces are biased crap, not worth the magnetic bits they are saved on. Reply
Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkYou just said it, they will not necessarily lie... I read other tech than him, google search about 40nm and find out about it. Okay the guy won't find anything bad about ATI... he's got a side, but doesn't mean what he says his all false... that's said by nvidia's fanboys who I think are blinder than anyone else
And himself says that he heard rumors, speaking with people linked to TSMC... but then again do the research on google about it and find the similarities. The guy is not THE ultimate reference, but it'S not up to say he's worth nothing without explaining why... Reply
Parhel - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkI like Charlie's work. He's no Anand, but of all the tabloid style tech reporters, he's the only one worth reading. Sure, he blows stories out of proportion at times, and he clearly has a bias against nvidia. But he's been spot-on about Fermi all along, and months before everyone else. He alone was responsible for exposing the fake Fermi cards. Frankly, until HardOCP reviews the card, I'll believe what Charlie says about Fermi over any other source. Reply
afkrotch - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - linkI won't believe anyone on a card that isn't even out in the open yet. Reply
Taft12 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - linkExamples or it's not true. He's been right about an awful lot, personal vendetta or not. Reply
hwhacker - Monday, February 22, 2010 - linknVIDIA uses every marketing/pr trick in the book. Friday means everything.
sweetspot - Friday, March 05, 2010 - linkFYI for those posting about nvidia skipping 300 series, well that is incorect on your part.
Nvidia 300 series parts as you can see on thier web site is specifically for OEM branded use, basically its thier built in video on laptops and mobo's series, not actually buy off the shelf video card series.
But the new cards are not going to do well since they cant compete with ATI currently.
And no this is not a fan boy remark at all,
check specs comon logistics,
Nvidia 400 series will do 3 panel display only if you have SLI so you need to buy more cards just to make it work, and also the max resolution they spec for thier new 3 panel option is 1920x1080.
Ok why would anyone fan boy or not spend cash for 3 LCD's and have to buy 2 or 3 vid cards just to run at 1920x1080 ? even if they are a bit faster then ATI, most would prefer a single card that can run 5760x1200 or even go portait mode 3600x1920 for 3 screens. Ill take the 5760x1200 or 3600x1920 any day over a 1920x1080 max even if i lose a few FPS for it. Bottom line nvidia is in trouble, as there 3D touting stuff is only a gimick item for a few games, when ATI gives you 5760x1200 which you can use for work as well as just play, its got more overall long term usage value due to that effect alone, reguardless of speed.
Most poeople buy LCD based on size 1st then quality. Reply
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As the game wound down, many of the 880-plus in the Bowman Center began to turn their attention to another game within the SSC. Watching the result of the Florida Southern-Eckerd contest fall in favor of the Tritons meant Saint Leo regained control of the top spot in the SSC regular season standings with just two games remaining.
Both results, in addition to the announcement that Marcus Ruh was named the Academic All-America of the Year, have the Saint Leo community abuzz with just a week left in the season.
Ruh set the tone for the contest with a game-high 21 points as he connected on 4-of-8 chances from long range. Trent Thomas also reached into double figures with 12 points including a 4-for-5 effort from the free throw line.
Shaun Adams set the tone defensively with a career-high 14 rebounds in 25 minutes. The 14 boards surpass his previous mark of 11 in only his second game in the Green and Gold back on November 11, 2011 against Southeastern.
For Tampa (16-10, 3-10 SSC), Stefon Barfield posted a team-high 12 points and Anthony Griffis added 11 in the loss.
The Lions now prepare for their final road trip of the regular season as they travel to Winter Park, Fla. to face the Rollins College Tars on Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Warden Arena in the Alfond Sports Center.
For more information on the nationally ranked men's basketball team and all other Saint Leo Athletics' happenings, be sure to follow us on Twitter at @SaintLeoLions.


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Oct 19 is #iPowerDown day 15 mins moment of iDevice silence as a tribute to #SteveJobs help make it happen
Someone please hold me! :'(
*Starts crying while holding the iPhone 4 with grip*
Steve Jobs WAS one of the world's greatest technological contributers. As for the 'Steve Jobs Day', I think it's a sweet idea. A contribution to a great man!


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Making the 'smart grid' smarter with broadband wireless networks and the InternetComments Email Print
In a typical smart grid deployment, the utility installs and manages a proprietary home network and a smart meter, which serves as the gateway that connects the home or commercial building to the grid. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 20.3 million smart meters were in operation nationwide in 2010 – 18.4 million were residential customers and the other 1.9 million were commercial and light industrial installations.
Despite some early success with smart grid deployment, it still faces significant barriers, including the costs of the smart meters, which are owned by utilities and are a pass-through cost to customers. The proprietary nature of the various utilities' home networking systems and smart meters adds complexity and additional cost that further erode the value proposition. As a result, the search for innovative new ways to connect energy users to the smart grid is ongoing, and one of the most promising solutions has a base right here in Northeast Ohio. Intwine Energy, a private company founded in 2010 and based in Chagrin Falls, has developed a system that can use in-home broadband wireless networks and the internet to facilitate smart, two-way communications with the grid. The Intwine system, has three main elements:
• Web-connected "smart energy" devices, including a whole-house power monitor, internet-connected thermostat and smart plugs
• Cloud computing-based analytics
• Integrated local and remote user interfaces, which include a Web portal, smart phone apps and in-home display
The Intwine approach leverages existing broadband and internet infrastructure to enable homeowners to monitor and adjust their energy usage in real time, which has significant energy efficiency and cost benefits. Intwine's technology is highly adaptable – its broadband network-based system can interface with a smart meter or the internet to connect to the utility grid. Intwine's most significant installation to date involves approximately 500 homes in Oklahoma in spring 2012.
"We believe being able to tap into the existing internet connectivity in broadband-equipped homes and use the World Wide Web, rather than having to rely so much on proprietary, 'closed' systems, offers significant benefits to homeowners and utilities," said Dave Martin, president and founder of Intwine Energy. "Our systems enhance collaboration between the homeowner and the utility. As a result, energy users can customize their energy management practices based on their lifestyle, and energy producers can meet their demand management commitments without having to engineer and deploy their own proprietary systems."
The drive for internet -based grid communications seems to be accelerating, led by the development of open source network standards, known as OpenADR (automated demand response), which are nearing completion. OpenADR will provide an open and standardized way for electricity providers and system operators to communicate with each other and with their customers using a common language over the internet.
The smart grid will get smarter and become more ubiquitous – increasingly relying on internet -based systems that provide a customized, highly scalable gateway to the power grid.


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Here's a little idea from a blog named chew ~
If you follow these easy steps, you'll know just what to do ~
First get yourself a box ~
Then a Sharpie and some mox(y) ~
And soon you'll be wrapping like this too!
Okay, so forget the rap career. In my next life I'm coming back as a gift wrapper anyway (my mom was a gift wrapper at the Boston Store – it's in my genes!), one who creates really awesome custom wraps like this one from chewingthecud, whose editor is a San Francisco-based designer.
I absolutely love this and am beyond impressed. Such a simple idea executed so well. The color pops and the black ribbon ties it off to perfection. I'd love to receive a gift like this. I might even find a place to put it on permanent display. For all the quick, easy steps, visit chewingthecud.com.


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Americans credit supernatural entity for human origin
The Pew Research Center just released poll data on how adults in the United States explain the existence of humans: 57% believe that a supernatural being created humans either gradually, through artificial selection, or instantly, in a single poof. If you teach biology in public school, you should be addressing this ignorance. If you need resources, here are disclaimers for biology textbooks, Charles Darwin Has a Posse stickers, and a Portable Darwin for your classroom.
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NU Sustainability
Niagara University's sustainability committee is charged with enhancing the ability of current generations to meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
Environmental Goals
- Identify areas where the university can benefit from more environmentally responsible practices.
- Facilitate positive actions to improve the physical environment of the university.
- Educate and explore opportunities to improve or start new educational programs that highlight "green issues" on our campus.
- Lead or initiate programs to improve our physical surroundings and build awareness to the issues that confront our world.
Reduce, Reuse Recycle Goals
- Reduce: Minimize our waste stream by increasing our knowledge of other environmentally-friendly processes and actions.
- Reuse : Start or enhance programs that will increase the life of previously purchased materials.
- Recycle: Promote the increased use, and ease of programs that restore materials to an almost new condition.
Energy Goals
- Change the way the university faculty, staff and administration think about energy usage.
- Find ways to conserve electricity and avoid using fossil fuel-generated electricity.
- Consider alternatives to fossil fuels for vehicles and building systems.
- Recommend that we purchase items that are energy efficient.
- Communicate what Niagara is doing to protect the environment to the university community.


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In all the hoo-ha about the Groupon listing, I can't quite escape the idea that social shopping is about to become the next big thing in social media. It is, after all, the simplest way to monetize the phenomenon.
If in doubt, simply consider the latest entrants to the field: Henry Kim and Harish Abbott, founders of Sneakpeeq, one of the most interesting new entrants I've encountered.
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Collin Lollar
Age: 18
School: Columbus North High School
Who are your parents, grandparents and siblings?
Parents, Joe and Susan Lollar; siblings, Sierra and Bryce Lollar; grandparents, Carroll and Faye Ridpath, Betty and Jerry Lollar.
Which elementary and middle schools did you attend?
Southside Elementary and Central Middle School.
What is your favorite class or part of the school day and why?
Passages, because I like the way Mrs. Bingham teaches.
In which extracurricular activities, including music, sports and clubs, do you participate?
Baseball, Student Athletics Board.
When you're not in school, where is your favorite place to be and why?
Place: Baseball fields.
Reason: I love baseball.
What has been your greatest high school memory so far and why?
Winning the sectional sophomore year (because) North hadn't won in 18 years.
What are you looking forward to after graduation and why?
I'm looking forward to going to Ohio State to play baseball.
Who in your life inspired you or whom do you look up to and why?
I look up to my dad because he has taught me everything I know, from sports to being a great person.
What is the most important thing you've learned during or from high school?
To be hard working in everything you do.


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Plugin Information
This plugin generates the trend report for compiler warnings in the console log or in log files.
Quick Overview
This plug-in is supported by the Static Analysis Collector plug-in that collects different analysis results and shows the results in aggregated trend graphs. Additionally, health reporting and build stability is also based on the aggregated results.
The Warnings plug-in scans the console log or specified log files for warnings of different formats and reports the number of warnings found. This plug-in is part of the suite of static code analysis plug-ins that are documented on a separate WIKI page.
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François Schauber says:Hey, How could I use this plug-in with Matrix Jobs? Because when building a mat...
How could I use this plug-in with Matrix Jobs? Because when building a matrix job, builder output are not visible in the main log while the plug-in only parse this main log.
Jan 07, 2011
Ulli Hafner says:This is not supported yet, see issue #6772.
This is not supported yet, see issue #6772.
Nov 08, 2011
Ben Voigt says:I am trying to capture warnings generated by ModelSim (a VHDL compiler/simulator...
I am trying to capture warnings generated by ModelSim (a VHDL compiler/simulator).
They use the following format:
** Warning: ../MMLC-Cyclone/../common/interleaver/token_passing_ping_pong_streamer.vhd(96): (vcom-1400) Synthesis Warning: Signal "read_addr_signal" is read in the process but is not in the sensitivity list.
What options do I need to specify for the Compiler Warnings plugin to recognize this pattern? I'm willing to transform this into some other format in my perl script that executes the build (and will probably need to do this anyway in order to fix up the path), but the documentation here doesn't provide any examples of what a warning should look like, or what formats are preferred / most likely to stay maintained.
Nov 09, 2011
Ulli Hafner says:There is a howto at: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Warnings+Plugin
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PLANS for an extra classroom block have been devised to cope with an expected baby boom in the Bacup area.
Birth rates in the Rossendale town rose by just over 17 per cent between 2001-02 and 2010-11, leaving an accommodation headache for education bosses.
But proposals have now been put forward to build an extension to Britannia Community Primary, in Rochdale Road, to meet the expected demand.
The decision to choose Britannia for the project was taken after consulting the headteachers of schools in the Bacup and Whitworth areas.
Land to the rear of the existing school will be used and an initial 15 pupils will join the school's roll this September.
The 'bulge' is only expected to last for the seven years the age group takes to complete their primary education but pupil numbers will be kept under close scrutiny.
A Lancashire County Council spokesman said: "Following a detailed feasibility study, which was completed in October 2013, the most practical and appropriate location for was determined.
"The location of the new classroom has been selected taking in to account the potential impact on nearby residents and balancing this with the needs of the school in relation to the key stage the classroom will serve.
"Currently the proposed location is screened on all relevant boundaries, which provides sufficient cover and privacy. " Rising birth rates have seen similar extensions in Burnley, West Craven and Pendle.


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Hampton & Richmond Borough hotshot Charlie Moone reckons an FA Trophy first round clash with Blue Square South Chelmsford City will be a good benchmark of his club's ambitions.
Moone's double and one from Tom Hickey gave the Beavers a 3-2 replay win over Leiston at the Beveree on Tuesday night after Saturday's third qualifying round stalemate.
Boss Mark Harper's men are top of the Ryman Premier League table in spite of their recent inconsistent form that has seen them lose to Concord Rangers and Wealdstone.
Beavers chairman Steve McPherson and Harper have put a swift return to the Blue Square South at the top of their list of priorities following last season's relegation.
And Moone admitted beating the Clarets would be a strong indication of where the club's future might lie next year.
"Obviously, they will have the advantage because of their league status, but we have plenty of experience and we are at home," he said.
"This is a new team and a different one to the team that got relegated last season, but all have played in the Blue Square South and even higher."
"We already know what it takes to get results in that league and will need to draw on that experience to prove we deserve to get there.
"We are top of the table at the moment and we have suffered a bit because teams have raised their game against us.
"The manager has said the league is our priority.
"But with the FA Trophy there is a realistic chance of reaching Wembley.
"There is no bigger place to play than Wembley and that is something we'd all love to achieve."
But far from thinking of Wembley, Harper was just relieved to get through.
"It was a very nervy second half after a fantastic performance in the first, but the important thing is that we won," he said.
"The opportunity to play a Conference South side, with home advantage, will be a measure of how far we have come."
Moone, who scored the opener in Saturday's 1-1 draw that secured Tuesday's replay, now has 13 goals to his credit this term and he is hoping to get off that mark when Cray Wanderers visit this weekend.
"I got 11 last season and my first target was to get past that," he added.
"I've been setting myself small targets and the next one is to get off 13 as quick as I can."
While Joel Ledgister and Tresor Kandol have beefed up Hampton's striking options in recent weeks, Moone has admitted the competition does not bother him.
"Our position in the league and our ambitions mean players liek Tresor want to come and play for us," he said.
"We are a tight knit squad but it is good to draw on that sort of experience.
"We are scoring goals at the moment, but the guys up top appreaciate the tightness of our defence at the moment."


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I am a retired Primary School headteacher. I have set up a home studio and continue to develop my throwing skills. I like to alter, carve and incise my pieces, being more interested in shape, design and form, than colour and glaze finishes. I am currently working in smooth, white earthenware and would eventually love to move on to porcelain once I feel my skill level justifies the cost! I have a small electric kiln with digital controller, which has enabled me to eliminate glaze crazing issues. I have recently tried working in stoneware but am not yet convinced it is better for me than earthenware. I have also begun mixing my own glazes and will be happy once I have just 3 or 4 that are reliable.
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Jill asks…
I had great plans of creating DIY thank you cards personalized for each of my guests, including a photo of myself, my husband, and the guest at our wedding reception. But when we returned home from our honeymoon, it was a whirlwind of moving into a new house, catching up on two weeks of missed work, and settling in to our new married life. Somehow, four months have passed, and not a single thank you note has been sent. Am I too late? Would it be better to just not send a thank you card at all, at this point?
Etta says…
While the proper time frame for a wedding thank you note is within two weeks of returning from your honeymoon, it is never too late to send a thank you card. Any guest that truly appreciates receiving a thank you card will know you haven't sent one yet, and will be happy to find one in the mail (even if it is four months late). Remember, something is better than nothing, in this case. As for your other guests, if they haven't realized your thank you cards are late, it's likely that they don't know the proper etiquette timeframe. Therefore, your note will be a lovely surprise for them.
The inclusion of a photo is a thoughtful addition to a thank you card, but individual photos can be time consuming. Choose your favorite photo from your wedding day of you and your groom, and use the same image for all cards to help manage your time effectively.
If you need help on how to craft the perfect thank you card, I have tackled that question here: The Golden Rules of Gratitude.
I hope this helps, Jill!
Have an etiquette question for Etta? Email us at email@example.com and she'll post an answer for you.


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HI, Smashing work - I was sooo dissapointed with the G7 not handling raw. Anyway - installed the version (I know these are quite fluid builds) but my G7 (firmware v "I") now wont respond to the ON/OFF control on the top of the camera, to get work you need to activate through on button at the the back and then half depress the shutter. Not a big problem for me but you may want to know. Keep this up - it's massive!
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This online memorial was created in loving memory of Dorothy Agee, whose life story is told throughout this memorial website. Please sign Dorothy's guest book and let us know you came to visit. We will remember Dorothy forever.
Dorothy Frances Martin Agee passed away peacefully at her home in Nashville, TN, on Saturday morning, June 20, 2015, at the age of 93. She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Dr. Oliver King Agee, her parents Lee Eckhart and Thomas T. Martin, and her brothers Bruce Martin and Thomas Martin. Fondly known in the Maryville community as "Dottie," she operated a Christian bookstore, PTL Love Shop, for 18 years. As a former Sunday school teacher at Maryville First Baptist Church and life-long student of the Bible, Dottie led numerous Bible study groups and provided spiritual leadership for her family.
She is survived by her four children: Carolyn Ann Agee King of Arlington, VA, Annabel Lee Agee of Nashville, TN, John Oliver Agee of Maryville, TN, and Diane Elizabeth Agee of Kernersville, NC; by her six grandchildren: Catherine Marie Wyatt (Melbourne, FL), David Louis Wyatt, Jr. and wife Cindy (Knoxville, TN), Anna Rebecca Stokes (Washington, DC), Robert Oliver Samuel Stokes (Arlington, VA), Dr. Mark David Hughes and wife Sara (Nashville, TN), Kimberly Marie Hughes Agee (Melbourne, FL); by her eleven great-grandchildren: Keeana Agee (Maryville, TN), Dashawn Williams (Melbourne, FL), Emma, Grady, and Stella Hughes (Nashville, TN); Andrew Johnson and wife Shahad (Washington, DC), Koty Wyatt (Knoxville, TN), Destin-Jabez (DJ) Stokes (Melbourne, FL), Julia Coello (New Orleans, LA), Brooklyn and Santiago Aguilar (Washington, DC); by nieces and nephews Steve Martin and Terrie Martin McVey (Knoxville, TN), David Martin and wife Barbara (Alcoa, TN), and Ben Martin (Knoxville, TN); and by many close family friends including Jan Shortt (Abington, VA), Nancy Rose (Maryville, TN), Dave Reynolds (Nashville, TN), and Kathryn Proctor (Nashville, TN).
In addition, she volunteered her time and expertise with the Blount County Literacy Program and the Blount County Library. Dottie was born in Columbus, GA, moved to the Atlanta area for a short period and then settled with her family in Knoxville, TN. She graduated Knoxville High School, attended the University of Tennessee, and worked for TVA while her husband was in medical school. In her later years she was employed by First Tennessee Bank and did the electronic medical billing for her husband's nursing home practice. In 2010, her book Revelation for God's Children was published by Tate Publishing.
Dottie was an enthusiastic tennis player throughout her life, and she was on a tennis league into her late 70s. In fact, she was recently observed "hitting a few balls" on the tennis court near her home in Nashville. Since her move to Nashville in March 2015, she has continued working her daily crossword and Sudoku puzzles via The Daily Times, forwarded by mail from Maryville.
Following her husband's example, Dottie arranged to donate her body to UT Medical Center in Memphis. In lieu of an immediate memorial service, her family has elected to provide an online memorial which can be viewed at http://email@example.com. A physical service will be scheduled at a later date, when her ashes are returned from the medical school. Dottie requested that donations of time or other resources be directed to the Blount County Literacy Program on her behalf.
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We chose the Datacastle RED suite because it has lower Total-Cost-of-Ownership and is a superior security solution to HP Connected®. With Datacastle RED, we get stronger security architecture and security elements that are not available even as options with our previous provider. And, we don't have end users calling in for glitches anymore.
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Impressive, professional-level speed and capacity for capturing high-quality images and extended HD video.
The premium Lexar Professional 400x SDXC UHS-I card leverages UHS-I technology to deliver professional-level, high-speed performance and reliability, with 400x (60MB/s) minimum guaranteed read transfer speed. This extended-capacity card is an excellent choice for sustained, rapid-fire shooting and capturing extended lengths of 1080p HD video with your SDXC-compatible camera. The Lexar Professional 400x SDXC UHS-I card is available in 64GB and 128GB capacities.
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Bill Clinton Says He "Kind of Liked To See Barack And Hillary Fight"
Bill Clinton, distinguished former president, author, lawyer, oral sex aficionado, and humanitarian, has now become a fight promoter. While addressing a church crowd in Greenville, S.C., the potential first First Man suggested that he "kind of liked to see Barack and Hillary fight." Whoa there tiger! As if the verbal mud slinging hasn't been graphic enough, Bill seems to want his wife to literally mud wrestle a strapping black guy. Now that kind of smack down action would put the "raise" in fund-raising! So let's fill up a kiddie pool and call it the next Democratic Debate. Bill Clinton still knows what the American people want! [The Huffington Post]


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HOUSTON - An Amber Alert was canceled Monday after the 14-year-old it was issued for was found safe in Florida.
The teen left her home in the 15000 block of By The Lake Way near Water Scene Trail on Tuesday afternoon. According to neighbors, she willingly left with 33-year-old Jacob West, a former neighbor.
Relatives said until recently, they didn't realize that the teen had formed such a close relationship with West.
"We let him stay with us for a couple of weeks because his family was having problems," said the teen's mother.
The teen's mother and grandmother said Monday that she had been found safe at a motel in Fort Pierce, Fla. FBI officials said West was with her and was arrested by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.
"Mr. West had two loaded semiautomatic pistols when he was apprehended," St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken J. Mascara.
Officials have not said when the teen and West will return to Houston.
"I started crying," said the teen's mother. "I was excited. I can't wait to go get my baby."
Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said they had been called out to the teen's home in the past. According to court documents, the teen's grandmother called 911 when the teen left with West on Jan. 15. A Harris County sheriff's deputy found the pair and the teen returned home.
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