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Samsung breaks its phone sales record: reaches over 300 million sold units in 2011
0. phoneArena posted on 12 Dec 2011, 02:54
Samsung Electronics said that it had already broken its sales record and has sold over 300 million phones in 2011, a first for the company which is closing the gap between itself and the world's biggest…
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1. The_Miz (Posts: 1496; Member since: 06 Apr 2011)
First. And yet, they still have problems with their phones.
2. TheMegaDinesen (Posts: 8; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
First you are and yet you still have problems in your mind. :/
5. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
what are you FOUR
14. The_Miz (Posts: 1496; Member since: 06 Apr 2011)
You're just made you weren't the first to comment.
18. xray174 (Posts: 85; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
u mad how is your perfect phone doing with battery life and the 4 with the antennagate lol
22. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
he cant tell.. i heard he was on his way to the eye doctor to get new glasses so he could see his tiny screen. :) :) :)
3. shy2papa (Posts: 336; Member since: 23 Jan 2010)
Go Sammy thIs is just the beginning, can't wait for the galaxy s 3 :)
21. hunted (Posts: 403; Member since: 21 Sep 2011)
Me too waiting for S3 flagship
4. whatAdumbASK (Posts: 2; Member since: 12 Dec 2011)
they better not screw up with the sgs3 since they set their own bars so high. Hey Mr.Charlie Kindel if android and sgs2 sucks so much how would you explain these sales?
6. nuadar1 (Posts: 24; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Whole world is idiotic, only MS folks are smart and they all use WP7. 5....
True story...
7. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
That great news for ZTE and Huawei since they are going to take share from Samsung. It's sad that Samsung does the heavy lifting of creating new designs and markets ONLY to have low cost OEMs steal away Samsung's share in the next two years. Samsung knows that the OS (android) is free and there is nothing stopping ZTE or Huawei from using alternatives. Lastly, with Samsung adjudicated as a copyist, it gives fresh ammo for ZTE or Huawei as in if Samsung could do it, so can we!!
You can see it, if Samsung wants to charge $600 for a handset, the carrier counters by saying a comparable ZTE or Huawei handset would go for $500. If Samsung asks for $400, the mainland Chinese firms will be happy with $320. At the end of the day, Samsung just can't compete because they have minimum ROIC requirements while the mainland Chinese are happy as pigs in mud with razor thin margins. Samsung will have to surrender the lower end of the android market, and then the more share as these firm get more aggressive.
8. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
Oh yeah -- my "motorola" Triumph is really a huawei device with the motorola moniker. And huawei is already selling a handset with android 4.0.
Samsung, you need to watch your back -- you created the gameplans so others can use it.
9. Whateverman (Posts: 3285; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Yeah, they're doing a horrible job of competing right now! Instead of celebrating, what Samsung needs to do is just stop making phones altogether. Close up shop. And just allow ZTE and Huawei to take over the low and high end markets. :/
Dude, a simple "Good job Samsung" would have sufficed.
10. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Android would never be where it is now without quality manufacturers like Samsung. Low end phones have been hurting Android more than they've been helping-plenty of people are switching to iPhones from Android because they've been buying low end phones that suck. If all Android phones were low end pieces of crap, then Android would have died out last year. It's not though, because of quality phones being put out. If ZTE and Huawei put out QUALITY phones at a low cost, then yes, they'll take over. However, if their current lineup is any indication, they'll settle for a low place on the totem pole.
People will buy the best quality they can at the price they can afford. This is a basic economic truth.
15. p0rkguy (Posts: 685; Member since: 23 Nov 2010)
It's sad you have to thumb yourself up. lol
16. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
You must suck in school if you thought that was too long.
25. The_Miz (Posts: 1496; Member since: 06 Apr 2011)
Long, pointless, idiotic, ignorant...I can keep the list going on what I thought about that overly long comment.
23. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
like normal, Dr Negative is here to spoil the party.
Sorry ardent, but i have yet to see a single person rushing into the store going "man i just have to have that new el cheapo huawei phone!" (and Tmobile does sell them).
You know what the vast vast majority of our android sales are??? SAMSUNG. They have the ultra high end (sgs2) covered, the middle high (SGS1) and the low (exhibit2) covered. You get better hardware and more value per dollar in each category by using a samsung. Concidering we have probably 15 android sets for sale + blackberry and wp7, and 60-70% of all smartphone sales are samsung, that should tell u something.
But of course, your not hearing it. your just spouting off baseless crap to try to scare people, because your sooooo frikkin negative.
26. The_Miz (Posts: 1496; Member since: 06 Apr 2011)
Negative, really? Really? Really? Negative because Samsung tends to make crap phones that have poor radios or negative because Samsung takes forever to update their phones? Take your pick.
27. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
I wasnt talking about you mizzy, i was talking about ardent
you are way too cute.. lol. j/k i cant take you seriously miz, you are a parody of a fanboy. a parody of taco50 if u wanna think of it that way. i think he really believes what he says. I dont really think you do. maybe its the avatars.. lol
11. bayhuy (Posts: 320; Member since: 23 Jun 2011)
All Samsungs look the same, and TW is ugly.
17. xray174 (Posts: 85; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
19. aries.phills (Posts: 140; Member since: 17 May 2011)
20. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Samsung please bring some WP outside U.S please...
24. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
great job samsung.
look more than one person can have a record year. yaay!
28. dragonnub99 (Posts: 14; Member since: 23 Nov 2011)
in the end with all the phone battle the winner is still the consumer


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PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team earned a second-straight 4-0 victory on Sunday at Penn Park, this time over Mount St. Mary's. The Quakers improved to 2-0-0 on the young season.
For the second time in as many matches, four different players scored for Penn -- Brianna Rano, Elissa Berdini, Megan York and Tahirih Nesmith.
Penn was on MSM (1-5-0) from the start on Sunday, and needed less than 12 minutes to gain a lead it would not relinquish. Lindsey Sawczuk set up the Quakers' first goal, pushing a beautiful ball through the Mountaineer defense that Rano ran onto. She got to the ball just ahead of MSM goalkeeper Vicky Cocozza and pushed it past her inside the right post.
Two goals just 1:22 apart late in the first half ended any doubt on this match. The first came on another fine through-ball, this one from York, that Berdini slammed past Cocozza and just inside the right post. Shortly after that, York was on the finishing end as she headed home a ball right in front. Caroline Dwyer and Erin Mikolai assisted on the goal.
Penn kept the pressure on in the second half, and closed out the scoring in the 67th minute when Rano's free kick was headed home by Nesmith. It was Nesmith's second goal in as many collegiate matches.
Penn outshot Mount St. Mary's, 22-3, and again split the goalkeeping duties between Katherine Myhre and Kalijah Terilli. Terilli had the only save in the Quaker goal.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - James Neal scored twice and Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists to help the Pittsburgh Penguins beat Ottawa 4-2 on Wednesday night in a game marred by the loss of Senators star defenseman Erik Karlsson to a left Achilles injury.
Pascal Dupuis also scored for Pittsburgh, Paul Martin had two assists, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves. The Penguins snapped a two-game losing streak to pull within a point of Eastern Conference-leading New Jersey.
Stephane Da Costa scored his first goal of the season, and Jim O'Brien also scored for Ottawa. The Senators lost for the fifth time in seven games.
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Worcester City Council is on the verge of signing up to a fiveyear extension with a private company to run the revenues and benefits joint service.
Under the deal, the contract with Civica will now run until 2023 rather than 2018, with the firm saying they will safeguard all the current jobs and take on extra ones by bringing in extra work from third parties.
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The Florida Civil Commitment Center is in the middle of the state, miles from anywhere but citrus fields. It houses 655 men convicted of sex crimes and involuntarily committed after finishing their prison sentences because they were deemed too dangerous. The center provides treatment to help the men return to society without reoffending. It takes years, and some will never be released. Others refuse treatment.
Book, 28, wanted to learn more about offenders in hopes of using that knowledge for prevention. She runs Lauren's Kids, a center that helps victims and seeks to prevent future abuse. She stopped at the center while on a 1,500-mile walk across Florida called "Walk In My Shoes" to raise awareness.
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Southwestern Eye Center announced the opening of their new Scottsdale Office. The move allows the physicians to provide greater patient access and services to those in the Scottsdale area, whether or not they have insurance.
"We appreciate the support from our patients, here in the Scottsdale area, that have been with us for many years, and have welcome many more to our practice recently," said Dr. Matthew Palmer, OD. "We are excited for the new facility to help us continue to provide the best care to the community and allow for a greater patient experience."
The new office will be located at 3301 North Miller Rd. in Scottsdale, increasing its previous size by 1000 square feet. The location will be much more accessible, with improved signage and better visibility. With six exam lanes and a minor procedure room, Southwestern Eye Center will be able to better meet the needs of the ever aging population and the influx of young professionals into the heart of Old Town Scottsdale. The local medical practice has 25 locations throughout Arizona and three in New Mexico, serving a wide range of eye related needs in each office.
Dr. Daniel Adelberg M.D., Dr. Michael Champion M.D. and Dr. Denise Garcia M.D. will work alongside Dr. Palmer in providing comprehensive eye care and specialty ophthalmologic services. With the ever changing health care climate, they felt a bigger office will enable them to provide increased services while maintaining close relationships with their patients. The new space will remain in close proximity to the previous office so doctors can continue to see their established patients and allow for continued growth.
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Recently, I added on to my Pretty URL to handle sorting of Article Summaries, and things now look like this...
Where the Sort-Field = 'by-date', Sort-Order = 'desc', and Page-Number = '3'
Before going to bed last night, I realized that I forgot to add Filtering, and would like to further expand my Pretty URL like this...
Where the Filter = 'editors-choice', Sort-Field = 'by-date', Sort-Order = 'desc', and Page-Number = '3'
Does that URL look okay, or is it too unwieldy?
Personally, I'd put the Sort-Field, Sort-Order, and Filter in the query string instead of directly in the URL because:
1) They don't change what is on the site, only how it is displayed (pretty much the definition of the query string)2) The fields are optional, which makes them perfect candidates for query string3) You are creating completely different URLs for the same data, which is not very wise SEO-wise4) You are creating very deep URLs which is again is not very wise SEO-wise
So I would do something like
This to me clearly states that I'm on page 3 of finance/markets, but I've changed it so that it's displaying by date descending, and filters on editor-choice only.Also, with query strings, I can remove any parameter I don't like, and the URL is still valid! With your scheme it isn't all that clear what can just be removed and what not.
Whatever you decide to do, make sure you point to a canonical URL in any URL that has different sorting (not for filtering, it doesn't apply there)
I hope you aren't about to break my website design...
You've totally lost - and scared - me on this...
First off, the sample URLs I posted above are created from an Apache mod_rewrite file that took an enormous amount of work to make things look pretty...
I was under the impression that Query Strings were bad because they look crude, are harder to read, and even can expose the structure of your website to hackers.
Before I started adding on the capability to Filter and Sort, my website/URL was set up like this...
When a user goes to a Section, the URL looks like this...
When a user goes to a Subsection, the URL looks like this...
When a user wants to read an Article, the URL looks like this...
As mentioned above, after building my Subsection home page - which lists Article Summaries for that Subsection - I realized that I needed to break things up into maybe 20 Article Summaries per Page, and that means I need to provide a way for people to Filter and Sort to get to the Articles they want to read.
So I figured the following would be a "pretty" and logical way for users to see how Articles were being sorted on the Subsection home page...
http://www.debbie.com/finance/economy[b]/by-date/desc/3[/b]
You are saying that is bad??
I read that link and it didn't really make sense... :-/
Again, I thought what I was doing was "good"...
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying I wouldn't do it that way, for reasons outlined above. Indeed, some say that query strings are a Bad Thing (tm), but that doesn't mean they don't have their place. For stuff like this I really find the query string a more appropriate location. Others may disagree on this of course.
Regarding the query string being unreadable and showing stuff to hackers, that only applies if you do everything via the query string, i.e.
But I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting a nice structure for the base url, with query string parameters for the sorting and filtering
As for your mod rewrite, you'd just have to remove the sort and filter specific rules. And there is nothing you need to do to add query strings to your URLs, that works out of the box with mod_rewrite.
Basically what it's saying is if that have you have different pages with the same info displayed differently (i.e. one URL with articles sorted ascending, another URL with the same articles sorted descending), you have to pick one of them and deem that the "canonical" version (mostly people use the version you'd see if you don't apply sorting or filtering manually). Suppose we call the one that is sorted ascending canonical, then we'd have to indicate on the page where the articles that are sorted descending that the ascending version is canonical. So you'd place this on the descending page
<link rel="canonical" href="http://blog.example.com/same/articles/but/sorted/ascending" />
Then when a search engine crawls you page with the articles sorted descending it knows not to index that page, but to index the page where the articles are sorted ascending instead. If you let google index both pages there is a chance you will get a duplicate content penalty [since the pages contain the same content but in a different order].
Makes sense?
I guess I'd rather have people challenge me and make me a better web developer, but it sure can be frustrating at times!!
So let's say I took your advice and had this...
Sorry if you explained before, but why wouldn't Google consider these 3 pages as similar or duplicates versus this...
[ot]Finance is the Section and Economy is the Subsection - and not a file - so shouldn't it be...
www.debbie.com/finance/economy[B]/[/B]?sortfield=by-date&sortorder=asc&page=1
www.debbie.com/finance/economy[B]/[/B]?sortfield=by-date&sortorder=asc&page=2
www.debbie.com/finance/economy[B]/[/B]?sortfield=by-date&sortorder=asc&page=3
Yeah, I know, but I worked so hard to craft this perfect mod_rewrite, and now you are saying not to use it because it will hurt me in Google's eyes?!
I guess where I am also confused is that most of my content is dynamic.
A user would have to choose to go to Sort by Date, in Descending Order and land on Page 3.
So how can a Google bot crawl webpages that don't exist as physical files?
P.S. Opinions from other gurus are welcome on this topic!!!
Google doesn't consider pages similar or duplicate based on URL, but only based on the content on that pages. You can structure the URL all you like as far as google is concerned (ever noticed how ugly amazon's URLs are? They still rank fine). Pretty URLs are just a hint that the content is static, while query strings are hint that content is dynamic.
Depends on who you ask. It's a matter of taste really. It's possible to argue either way.
Google doesn't care about files or directories, all google cares about are URLs. So google can crawl both page 1 ascending and page 3 descending, and since they contain the same content, it's wise to put a canonical from page 3 descending to page 1 ascending (and from page 2 descending to page 2 ascending, etc)
While we're at it, you may want to add some pagination hints as well http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
So, on a side note, if I have the same Article cross-referenced in different places on my website, then that is okay?
For example, if I had these URLs all pointing to the same Article, would that be okay...
I guess that I don't understand how crawling works...
I thought what Google did was go to www.debbie.com, and then follow all of the links on my Home Page, and then the links off of each corresponding page until it had "crawled" my entire website. Right?
In the page header, I have "tabs" like "Finance", "Legal", "Management", etc. So Google would crawl the corresponding links: "/finance/", "/legal/", "/management/", right?
And it would crawl links like "/finance/economy/".
But the are no links on my website like "/finance/economy/by-rating/asc/9"
If you clicked on the link "Economy" (i.e. "/finance/economy/") and were routed to the Economy subsection home page, then you would see two drop-downs where you could choose "Filter = 'Last 30 Days'" and "Sort = 'By Rating (Asc)'" and "Page = '5'", and then my script would redirect back to "/finance/economy/by-rating/asc/5, but that URL doesn't exist statically anywhere, so how could it get crawled by Google??
Also, you keep saying, "and since they contain the same content"...
I'm not sure what you mean.
Let's back up...
As it stands now, when you go to "/finance/economy/" there are 200 Article Summaries on that page. (Each is unique!)
Let's say I allow 10 Article Summaries per Page.
So now I have 1, 2, 3,... , 10 pages but each page still has entirely unique content!
And if you toggle between Sort Ascending and Sort Descending, each of those 10 pages will still have unique content!
And if you toggle between Sort by Date and Sort by Title, each of those 10 pages will still have unique content!
So why would Google complain if it indeed did index...
I would agree that maybe the default view of...- No Filter- Sort by Date- Desc- Start on Page 1
...is the "true" home page of the "Economy" section, but I don't see any of those combinations as "duplicate content"... :-/
By contrast, if I had an e-commerce site with 15 products on a page, and one URL showed those 15 products sorted by color, and a second URL showed those same 15 products sorted by price, and so on, THEN you would be creating bloated indexing that serves no purpose, but that is not what I have on my website.
Am I missing something here?
BTW, SEO is very important to me, and I do want to build the best website possible. I am just not understanding what you are telling me.
Hi Debbie,
The approach that I have taken to increase my SEO Brownie Points is:
As an example, Google "crap joke central" "johns-jokes", notice there are 52 references to unique pages.
Following the above five points manages to keep the Master happy
HTML ImprovementsLast updated Apr 24, 2014We didn't detect any content issues with your site. As we crawl your site, we check it to detect any potential issues with content on your pages, including duplicate, missing, or problematic title tags or meta descriptions. These issues won't prevent your site from appearing in Google search results, but paying attention to them can provide Google with more information and even help drive traffic to your site. For example, title and meta description text can appear in search results, and useful, descriptive text is more likely to be clicked on by users. More Information
=====================//====================There should be links to your finance, legal, featured pagination pages on your home page.
As far as the below pagination and searches are concerned I would be inclined to exclude the items in robots.txt and to have a "no-follow, no-index" links. Reason is they are only linked lists and have no SEO link-juice content .
The also create problems with duplicate page content that has identical link-juice
=====================//====================The following pages will create problems that should and can be avoided by eliminating the three categories.www.debbie.com/featured/be-sure-to-charge-sales-tax-onlinewww.debbie.com/legal/taxes/be-sure-to-charge-sales-tax-onlinewww.debbie.com/business-type/online/be-sure-to-charge-sales-tax-online
=====================//====================As far as my joke site is concerned each and every page is included in the dynamically generated Sitemap.xml
Just my two cents for the day
I can't say exactly how Google does it, but in my experience they seem to find most everything. I'm pretty sure their crawler evaluates JavaScript. Plus if anyone on the Web shares one of those links somewhere -- a forum or an article or a tweet or wherever -- then Google can find it that way too. Seems safer to assume that Google will find it one way or another.
My preference would probably be to have sorting and pagination as query string values. The filter seems like a toss-up to me between query string or path segment. If you know that you will only ever use one filter at a time, then it should be find as a path segment. But if you think you ever might want a combination of filters, such as filter=markets & filter=economy, then you'll definitely want to put the filter in the query string.
Yes, that is fine, and even advisable because it's good for your internal link profile. Make sure you link a lot to pages you want to rank high (is what our SEO people told me).
Check what @Jeff_Mott; stated about this above. That's what would've said as well.
Let's for an example that you have 9 articles and you show 3 per page. Then on page 1 ascending you have
and on page 3 descending you have
These are the same articles! Ordered in a different way, but they are the same articles, so basically these pages have the same content, but in a different order.So, I would suggest page 1 ascending is the canonical version of page 3 descending.I don't know how to make it any more clear than that.
I disagree because Debbie's site will have three separate URL's all being populated most probably with identical content.
Google will complain and issue warnings that the URL's have duplicate content, titles and meta content, etc
Goole Webmaster Tools:
HTML ImprovementsLast updated Apr 24, 2014We didn't detect any content issues with your site. As we crawl your site, [b]we check it to detect any potential issues with content on your pages, including duplicate, missing, or problematic title tags or meta descriptions. [b] These issues won't prevent your site from appearing in Google search results, but paying attention to them can provide Google with more information and even help drive traffic to your site. For example, title and meta description text can appear in search results, and useful, descriptive text is more likely to be clicked on by users. More Information
Believe me it has taken years to eliminate Google errors and warnings :)
Believe me it has taken years to eliminate Google errors and warnings :)
Your example is wrong, so obviously it is unclear to me.
If, as you say, I have 9 articles with 3 articles per page, and I sort in Ascending Order, then I would have...
[b][u]Page 1:[/u][/b]
- Article_1
- Article_2
- Article_3
[b][u]Page 2:[/u][/b]
- Article_4
- Article_5
- Article_6
[b][u]Page 3:[/u][/b]
- Article_7
- Article_8
- Article_9
And if I sorted things in Descending Order, then I would have...
[b][u]Page 1:[/u][/b]
- Article_9
- Article_8
- Article_7
[b][u]Page 2:[/u][/b]
- Article_6
- Article_5
- Article_4
[b][u]Page 3:[/u][/b]
- Article_3
- Article_2
- Article_1
In this simple example, yes, Page 2 has "duplicate" articles, but "in real life" it would be unlikely things would fall like that?!
The point being, I basically do NOT have duplicate data by introducing Sorting...
Your example is the same as mine, and they both contain duplicate content, and not just on page 2, see colors below
Or, more generic for n pages, page i ascending contains the same articles as page n+1-iThis is always the case, regardless of how many pages you have.
I must have misread her question. I agree, it's not a good idea to link to all kind of different URLs, but just use one.


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Supporters of an Oregon ballot initiative to require labeling of foods with genetically modified organisms have cleared another legal hurdle, allowing them to begin gathering signatures to qualify for the 2014 ballot.
The move comes on the heels of defeat of similar bills in Washington state and California.
The Oregon Supreme Court Nov. 27 dismissed a challenge to the ballot title, according to court records.
Under the ballot proposal, foods that contain GMOs and are not labeled as such are considered "misbranded."
The proposal also would allow citizens to sue to enforce labeling.
The wording of the Oregon proposal is very similar to that of a recent Washington ballot initiative.
Scott Bates, a Tigard software architect who also heads GMO Free Oregon, says his group was also drafting an alternative measure that might soften criticism from the food and biotechnology industries, according to a Dec. 6 article on Oregonlive.com, the online version of the Portland Oregonian newspaper.
The Washington initiative lost by slightly more than 38,000 votes, or 51.1 percent against and 48.9 percent in favor.
Turn-out in the off-election year was only 45 percent.


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I'm trying to use Drupal (and Views) to generate a list of links to foobar1 from foobar4 if and only if foobar2 node->references foobar3 and is node->referenced by both foobar1 and foobar4.
Here's some more information:[TABLE="class: grid, width: 800, align: left"][TR][TD]Content Type Nodes[/TD][TD]Established References[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]foobar1 (Product Page)[/TD][TD]Node->references foobar2[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]foobar2 (Application Page)[/TD][TD]Node->references foobar3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]foobar3 (Database Page)[/TD][TD]Makes no references.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]foobar4 (Organization Page)[/TD][TD]Node-references foobar2 and foobar3.[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
What I need is to generate title links to foobar1 FROM foobar4, but I don't want ALL of the foobar4 links... Rather, I just want links to foobar1 if and only if foobar1 node->references the same foobar2 pages that foobar4 references.
Example:Let's say we have a product called Widget2000 and it's managed by OrganizationX. Widget2000 uses a MySQL database and makes use of at least 1 application. (Products are different from applications because Products can be associated with applications but encompass services as well.) So with this in mind, products can be associated with organizations, database servers, applications, etc. So in this example, "Product Pages" constitute a profile page for something a business might provide clients. Think of it like a page that encapsulates "everything you need to know about <X-Y-and-Z>." What I need some insight on is how to create a Drupal view to output links to Product pages from organization pages if and only if the organization pages node->reference app pages which are node->referenced from the product pages. I'm still unsure if the database node->reference plays a part in this... Originally, I think it may have.
Whatever the case, I figure this will be done using Views's relationship feature, however, I'm just not sure what needs to be done to do this.
I've been able to do this using 2 views (1 that gets all of foobar2's NIDs and another view that accepts these NIDs as arguments to generate the corresponding field values if they meet the noted criteria, all via "views_embed_view()" within my theme files), but what I want to do is use only 1 view instead because my code would be much more manageable in the future and less confusing.
Any insight into this is not only needed but would be very appreciated. Please let me know if I'm not being clear here and I'll provide another example.
Well, I just thought I'd update this to maybe shine some light on it from a different angle. If nobody responds, I'll let it die:
Each Organization (Org) Page is associated with an Application Page using a CCK node->ref field called "app_ref_1". But then I have a Product Page that also node->references Application Pages using a different node->ref field called "app_ref_2".
Question: Is it possible to generate links to the respective Product Pages from the Org Page if and only if the respective Product and Org Pages both node->reference the same application(s)? I guess this would be a "third-degree" type of JOIN...?
Here's what I've attempted to do (to no avail):1.) Indicate that the field I want to output is a Node Title (which will in fact be the Product Page links).2.) In the arguments, I indicate that I want to provide a default argument of NID (which is to be validated as an NID of type Org Page).3.) For the filters, it's pretty straightforward: filter for IS PUBLISHED = TRUE and CONTENT TYPE = Product Page.4.) Up in the relationships, it gets hairy... The Product Page node references the Application Pages using a different CCK field than the Org pages (it's a long story why). So I tried to do the following: A.) Create a relationship with "app_ref_1" field (leaving "Is Required" unchecked). This is the node->ref field that the Org Pages use. B.) Create a relationship with "app_ref_2" field (leaving "Is Required" unchecked). This is the node->ref field that the Product Pages use. C.) Every Application Page node references a Database Page, so I created a relationship with "database_field" field but made the two app fields above use this relationship by forcing them to require it. I did this because I felt like it would somehow "relate" the two different app fields, thereby making the entire relationship approach work.
I then went back down to the fields section and in the configuration of the Node Title field I intend to output, I told the field to use the "app_ref_1" relationship because this would be the field that the Org Pages use (the page which I'm trying to output these links on). After clicking Preview (and providing an argument of the Org Page I've been using to test with), nothing worked. The query is ran, but no results are shown. This also goes without saying that I indicated in the filters that I wanted it to also use the "app_ref_1" field relationship, thinking that I had to...
So I guess this simply can't be done in Drupal 6.x using Views 3.x without using 2 views (one to fetch all the app NIDs and another to key off of those app NIDs and subsequently generate links to the respective Product Pages). I just thought I could make this view approach a bit less confusing... Guess not. lol
Insights are appreciated.
When dealing with complex relationships it is probably best to write the query manually. The quality of the query generated by views naturally deteriorates as complexity increases. Just because it is possible to do something with a view doesn't really mean you always should. Especially when it comes to complex cases including multiple associations.
I've never had to do that... Do you know which API functions are used for that for D6.x? I think I can probably come up with the query code, but I'm not sure what the API call is to make it all happen (the Drupal way, that is--I don't want to do some raw approach that doesn't sanitize everything the way Drupal does).


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LYMPHOMA survivor Tracy Dixon is preparing to push herself to the limit alongside thousands of fellow runners at the London Marathon in a show of support for blood cancer sufferers – two years to the day since she was diagnosed with the condition.
After developing a lump on her neck, the mother-of-one from Old Town was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in April 2012.
Her health swiftly deteriorated, forcing her to undergo emergency bowel surgery.
Due to her chemotherapy treatment in the days before surgery, her body struggled to cope with the operation and she fell into a coma after the procedure.
She was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Great Western Hospital and her family was warned to prepare for the worst.
Yet she made an unexpected recovery and completed a six-month course of chemotherapy. By November 2012 she was in remission.
Now Tracy, 43, who owns the Run store in Old Town with her husband Liam, is hoping to raise more than £2,000 for the 26-mile race in the capital on April 13 in aid of blood cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
She said: "When Liam and I were given the news that I had non-Hodgkin lymphoma it turned our world upside down. It was high grade and I needed treatment fast.
"Because of the chemo I could not fight infections and every month I would end up with an infection and be admitted to hospital.
"At times I never thought I would get through it, but I did. After the surgery I went in a coma for five days. I knew the risk of having surgery because I had just had chemo but I pulled through thankfully."
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system – a network of vessels and glands spread throughout the body.
It is the fifth most common cancer in the UK and affects 11,500 people each year.
Although her training has been much more taxing than expected, her discomfort and exhaustion has not come close to anything she experienced during the months of aggressive treatment.
"I feel extremely lucky to be running the London Marathon for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and raising money for a charity close to my and my family's heart," said Tracy.
"I never thought I would run a marathon and to be honest I never wanted to. But after everything I have been through and for the amazingly brave people I met along the way that were not so fortunate, I really want to do this.
"The training has been hard but I've been through worse and I'm sure the finish will be an emotional one."
To support Tracy, visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving .com/TracyDixon


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|Forums: Index → Narutopedia Collaboration → Volume 60
Does anyone oppose creating a page for volume 60 already? I know we don't normally do this, but release date, ISBN and page count are already available, meaning we know which chapters will be in it. Once the name is released, all we have to do is move the article to the new name. Would you rather make it already, or wait until there's a name to the volume, to avoid a possible SMW duplicate entry left from the move? Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:18, April 9, 2012 (UTC)
- I agree. It's making works easier.
- --IndxcvNovelist (Talk to Me) 08:39, April 9, 2012 (UTC)
yes we should create it Salil2212™ 08:41, April 9, 2012 (UTC)
guys .. is there anyone who can solve the duplicates volumes and chapters? i guess volume 60 page cover will be about naruto kuubi mode ,bee ,9 tails and 8 tails . chapters 566-575 .volume name might be either The jinchuuriki of the Leaf village or Kurama . it's just my guess . —This unsigned comment was made by 188.8.131.52 (talk • contribs) .
- Only Wikia can fix the duplicate issue. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 20:01, April 14, 2012 (UTC)
U may contact them here--Salil (talk)(Contributions) 06:14, April 27, 2012 (UTC)
- I have reported this bug already. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 03:00, April 28, 2012 (UTC)


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The US Supreme Court was asked to review the infamous Bilski business methods patent decision handed down en banc in October by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit limiting patents to things that "transform an article to a different state or thing" or are "tied to a particular machine."
The decision, which rocked the patent world, has serious implications for software patents. That's why companies like Microsoft, Red Hat and IBM filed friend-of-the-court briefs.
It now remains to be seen whether the Supremes will deign to hear the case. Their decision could come before the end of the current term in June.
The appeals court, which expected a Supreme Court review, consciously sidestepped the issue of software patents, leaving it, it said, to future cases.
Unresolved, for instance, is whether a computer, the point on which many software patents rest, makes the cut as the machine. The Patent and Trademark Office these days thinks general-purpose computers don't but it has reportedly been inconsistent in applying the Bilski principle.
The October ruling, called a "throwback to the 19th century when the economy was manufacturing-based," overturned the 1998 State Street Bank decision that opened the door to business method patents. It said the test for patentability was simply a "useful, concrete and tangible result."
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QNAP's TS-EC1279U-RP 12-bay Flagship Rackmount NAS Reviewby Ganesh T S on 4/29/2013 4:30 PM EST
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mschira - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkI was wondering if one could install a proper Linux on these systems, such as Fedora.
Then one could use it as a medium powerful computation server with lot's of local storage.
Has anybody tried that?
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watersb - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkIt's a bit late for coffee, so please forgive me for not finding a price in the review.
This looks like an interesting product, but I'm a ZFS zealot. Running ZFS with only 4 GB RAM isn't going to fly.
That said, I am *very* interested in anything resembling a mid-range NAS. Storage is a real pain point, and it is tough to build acceptable storage out of cheap disks. So thanks for reviewing this thing! Reply
ganeshts - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkPrice is $5K (MSRP), but retailers are selling it at prices ranging from $3500 to $5000 Reply
davegraham - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - linkWatersb,
Use Nexenta Community Edition (uses OpenIndiana + ZFS) on top of a supermicro server with the same 12 drive bays (and SAS drives) and I'd kill this particular box AND have a more robust solution to boot.
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watersb - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - linkThanks, Ganesh, for the pricing info.
Dave, that's such a good idea, I switched to OpenIndiana in 2009. I'm running 8 2TB drives as four mirrored pairs with a $100 LSI controller. But it will be quite some time before I have the budget to upgrade to a server motherboard with more than 16GB ECC RAM.
ZFS deduplication is *expensive*, folks. Don't do it. I tried adding a 60Gb SSD for L2ARC but it turns out that I would be better off with 60GB of *swap* to hold the deduplication tables.
My kung fu is weak. But I've been running this system through numerous hardware failures, PEBKAC events, and system software updates, and I haven't lost any data. Solaris isn't bulletproof, but it does warn me of impending drive failures before I lose anything.
Sorry for the long rant -- but it IS possible to play with "enterprise" class system configurations on lousy hardware if you are willing to waste^W commit some time doing so. Reply
Walkeer - Thursday, May 09, 2013 - linkI do not understand either why such powerful NAS has only 4GB or RAM looking at the RAM prices these days... Reply
davegraham - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkcan you please nix the usage of the word "enterprise" from your reviews? These QNAP boxes (and pretty much any other storage device y'all review these days) are Commercial, SMB, or Consumer level devices at best. Enterprise describes a category of business that would never use this based on uptime, data integrity, performance, and capability requirements. Reply
ganeshts - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkHmm.. Not sure why you are doubting the performance and capability of these units. With SSDs, they form a very good storage backend for medium sized work groups. Uptime and data integrity - These need more QA, but with the stable firmware version, I really had no trouble keeping it bombarded with data accesses for days together Reply
Gigaplex - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkRead your very own "cons" section. This is exactly why Enterprise wouldn't look at it. As for performance? I've got a dirt cheap home build Llano box using 5 WD Green drives in software RAID 5 and it easily reaches 250-300MB/s transfers. This system had 12 SSDs. Colour me underwhelmed. Reply
Walkeer - Thursday, May 09, 2013 - linkI understand you have 10Gb network at home right? Or InfiniBand 4x perhaps? Else I do not see how you push 300MBps over 1Gb line... or you are talking about your desktop? Man, this article is about NAS... Reply
Jeff7181 - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - linkEMC, Hitachi and NetApp provide enterprise class NAS and SAN arrays. This, nor any, QNAP product is anywhere near that level. Reply
Walkeer - Thursday, May 09, 2013 - linkagreed, plus NAS is not really enterprise anyway since these is SAN Reply
davegraham - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - linkGanesh,
having worked in the storage industry (and now working for an enterprise and carrier networking company doing data center architecture and design) QNAP, Drobo, et al. aren't names that carry any weight for enterprise-class storage. The systems I deal with (for example, EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K) are considered "enterprise class" storage systems (99.999% uptime, SSD caching and tiering, finely tuned atomic memory and storage access, multiple active processing storage engines/directors, fibre channel/FCoE/iSCSI front ends, extensive API command/control sets, replication [local & remote], snapshotting/cloning, etc.). As Jeff7181 notes below, these stand alone in a class by themselves.
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Walkeer - Thursday, May 09, 2013 - linkagreed, this is a SOHO toy... Reply
jaziniho - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - linkUnless this comes in a model with dual controllers (not just dual PSUs), then it's squarely in the SMB rather than enterprise space.
Support for SAS as well as SATA disks would also be high on list of potential requirements for enterprise. With RAID rebuild times on large drives so long, you need disks with decent reliability to give you more confidence in making it through the rebuild. Reply
aloginame - Saturday, May 11, 2013 - linkI agree with the fact that this QNAP is not really a "Enterprise" or "High-End" solution for NAS, however, I have to disagree when it is being compared to something like EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K, for those are really SAN solutions and not NAS. Reply
golemite - Monday, April 29, 2013 - linkHi Ganesh, any chance of getting reviews of lower end rackmount NAS systems like the Synology RS812/812+? Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - linkWe have the Synology RS10613sx+ in the pipeline, but it costs approx. twice that of the TS-EC1279U-RP and caters to users who require more performance / features. Reply
mmayrand - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - linkSo, you spend $3500 for box plus 12 SSD (not free) and you get the 1/3 of the effective bandwidth of a single SSD plugged in a $300 PC. Is there a point to these NAS boxes? Reply
davegraham - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - linkMmayrand,
the concept behind a NAS box is shareable storage across N-number of users in a SoHo or SMB environment. at that point, it makes more sense to have a common pool of storage that can be "protected" (remember, RAID is NOT backup) and utilized more efficiently, than a scattered or siloed collection of independent disk in a laptop or desktop.
it also is a basic requirement for most virtualization (the concept of shared storage) solutions to maintain high availability and portability for virtual machines within a cluster. As a standalone box, you're right, you can hit better performance #'s because you're just straddling a PCIe bus vs. ethernet. however, change the venue and you're looking at a more ideal solution.
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Evadman - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - linkWhy is this so expensive for the performance, and why is single client performance so bad? Granted I deal with actual enterpise class SAN devices from EMC and the like, but even my ~4 year old personal server can beat this box. My crappy home server is a 20 rotational Hitachi 3 TB GST Deskstar 0S03230 disks in RAID 60, a E5200 CPU and an Adaptec 52445 running on MS Server 2008, not even close to being decent for enterprise level. Besides the disks, it cost under a grand and will max out a quadlinked 4gbps connection with one client, I don't need to add 3 or 4 as your graphs show that this box needs. There is no excuse for a 20 rotational disk device to beat this 12 disk SSD NAS/SAN before hitting the network limit. I should get a dozen SSD's and a 10 gig switch and see what my crappy box can do just for kicks. *makes notes to see if a spare switch can be found in the office* Reply
ganeshts - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - linkThe single client performance is for a single client with a 1 GbE link (so it can't max out a 4GbE link obviously). Client machines usually have only a single GbE port.
Our multi-client graphs show performance with multiple clients and indicate limitation because of the network link bandwidth on the NAS side Reply
Evadman - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linkI must be misreading the graphs being presented then. This real world graph: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6922/qnap_ts1279u... shows 5 clients, each at ~20MB/s for a total of 80 MB/s. Theoretical maximum is 125 MB/s, Adding the control data to the payload of the frame, and you should have about 97.5% data. So it looks like it taking more than 5 clients to get to the 1gbps limit. On the single client CIFS graph here: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6922/54437... only 2 of the performance benchmarks appear network limited at 123 MB/s. Office Productivity is low at 25-28 MB/s, as that is probably what a small business is going to be doing the most of. Is this a client/CIFS issue and not a NAS/SAN issue? Reply


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.svg is a special type of image, it workes differently than other image types. Though not all browsers support .svg, but fortunately the MediaWiki system here works specialy, we can upload a .svg file, and when we include the image into a page giving out the size parameter like we normaly do, it creates a .png file in that size, that means that even though a number of browsers can't display the image, we still get the benefits of .svg images because MediaWiki converts them into .pngs. A .png just like a .gif, .jpg, .bmp, or any other image type simply works with a fixed sized set of dots. A .svg is different though. A .svg file is actualy text/xml unlike the binary format of a image file, additionaly to that, a .svg dosen't work in dots, .svgs use objects such as lines, circles, squares, and add effects and colors to them. What's the significance? Well with a normal image such as a .png if we scale up the image to a gigantic proportion all those formerly little dots we saw now look like big boxes. But a .svg dosen't use the dots, instead it uses sets of objects, these objects such as a circle, even when blown up to large scales don't turn into pixelated boxes, this means that no matter how large you make the image it still looks normal. A demonstration if you will:
Both of these images were originaly 48px × 48px, but unlike the .png, the .svg hasen't lost it's quality even though it's been blown up to 350px × 350px over 7× it's normal size.
Now to explain what I'm doing. Using InkScape, I'm drawing up .svg versions of each of the Symbols you can see at commons:Naruto. Can you see the benefit? Dantman (Talk) 00:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi! I've just had the same idea today, and here's the result:
- It's all scalable, so you can stretch it as much as you like:
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How do we handle internal Links? [[Example]] Do we only have one link per page if they are leading to the same place or can people just place them where ever they feel like it? Also if it's the former does it go in ascending order, descending ordr or is it completely random? ~Super Novice-Talk to Me~ 15:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
- Avoid unnecessarily linking a [[word]] every time you see that [[word]] in the page. Generally this means that the first time a special term is used it should be linked to, but should be avoided after that. In the case of large pages with large and a large number of sections, it is fine to place a link in each relevant primary section (link once per large == is fine, but don't bother per === or when the =='s are fairly small in content). ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Apr 1, 2009 @ 16:49 (UTC)