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Murray, of course, would go on to become King Awesome, the inspiration for generations of melancholy smartasses while Chase is now widely viewed as history's greatest monster. Considering the high spirits, insane competitiveness and drug abusage of the show's early days it's probably surprising that more conflicts didn't explode into screaming matches and fistfights.
Chase was the instant superstar who'd gone Hollywood. Murray was the young Turk eager to prove himself and put Chase in his place. The gloves were off. While Billy Joel crooned onstage Murray and Chase got into a shouting match and then engaged in fisticuffs before while John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Michael O'Donoghue and Tom Davis tried to restrain them.
Murray may not have won that particular battle but he won the war. "Medium talent!" Murray shouted in a fit of rage, a snap judgment history would vindicate. Chase has called leaving Saturday Night Live the biggest mistake of his career, followed closely by everything he's done over the last two decades.
It's safe to assume that the melodrama behind the scenes was a whole lot more fascinating than what made it to the airwaves but the show, bad vibes and all, wasn't bad at all. The episode begins with Chase reprising his Gerald Ford bumbler routine to comment on the Suez Canal. It was the same old shtick but it'd lost its potency. Was anybody really dying for Gerald Ford humor in 1978?
The show had moved on but Chase seemed stuck in the past. In his opening monologue Chase says what he misses most about Saturday Night Live is the applause of the audience, so he hits as many sure-fire applause generators as possible, shouting out just about every street corner and neighborhood in New York. It was a mildly amusing idea botched by bad timing and sleepy execution.
At his best, Chase radiated a sort of sublime Zen detachment, a too-cool-for-school deadpan understatement that later devolved into lazy sleepwalking. There is a thin line between savvy under-playing and just plain not trying Chase crossed more than once in today's episode.
A machine-gun Dan Aykroyd commercial parody chased the monologue, followed by my favorite sketch of the day, an SCTV-style slice-of-life vignette with Chase and Gilda Radner as lovers stumblingly getting to know each other after sex. It's a wryly observational bit where Radner tells a disappointed Chase that she doesn't realize she's had an orgasm until weeks or months later, explaining, "Well, you see, it's like this - I never really feel them immediately. It's sorta like they, uh..kind of store up, and then I feel them all at once, usually, on the first day of Purim. A lot of girls are like that." The idea of storing up all your orgasms for the first day of Purim makes me happy.
It's funny but it's also tremendously observant, more than a little sad and even a little tender. It exposes a soft, vulnerable, seldom-explored sweet side of Chase. On "Weekend Update" Chase tricks Aykroyd into abandoning his post so he can take over for him and joins Emily Littela in calling Jane Curtin, the show's foremost ice queen, a bitch.
Two subsequent sketches are rooted in comic obliviousness: Chevy Chase plays a neophyte customs official who hassles Garret Morris for TWB (traveling while black) while letting John Belushi and Laraine Newman board with a fur coat and suitcase all but exploding with Bolivian Marching Powder and Marijuana.
In a suspiciously similar later sketch, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd play Nazi soldiers passing as Americans who answer Belushi's questions about American culture vit thick Teutonic accents. "You can't be too careful mit dose Krauts" empathizes Aykroyd.
Tonight's episode marks the Saturday Night Live debut of an impossibly young, scruffy Billy Joel, who looks like a substitute teacher gone to seed in his sport jacket, tie and mountain-man beard as he performs "Only The Good Die Young" and "Just The Way You Are". Joel hadn't become a cliché yet. Neither had Chase, who peels back the fourth wall on the episode-ending "No Funny Ending" sketch.


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 DW eleven-13 is a top-end Johannesburg restaurant regularly honoured among the country's best – it is no stranger to top restaurant polls. The curious name of the restaurant is derived from its location at shops 11, 12 and 13 in the Dunkeld West Shopping Centre, and is also a tribute to the time that chef and owner Marthinus Ferreira spent in some of London's finest kitchens.

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 DW eleven-13 is just off one of the main thoroughfares of Johannesburg – Jan Smuts Avenue – and is conveniently located in the suburb of Dunkeld West, behind the Dunkeld West Shopping Centre.

Best time to visit

 DW eleven-13 is open for lunch from Tuesday to Saturday (noon to 2.30pm); on Sundays the restaurant remains open until 3pm. It is open for dinner from Tuesday to Saturday, 6.30 to 10pm.

Around the area

 There are numerous malls in the area, including Hyde Park and Sandton City. The Rosebank African market is a good place to get curios. For before-dinner drinks, try the Champagne Bar at 54 on Bath (hotel).

Tours to do

 Take a tour of Satyagraha House, where Gandhi once lived; or visit Liliesleaf Farm, where Nelson Mandela once hid from the apartheid authorities. Both are within easy driving distance.

What will it cost

 An average main course will cost in the region of R150 to R180. There is a corkage fee as well: R75 for wine and R150 for sparkling wine or champagne.

What to pack

 A healthy appetite.

Where to stay

 Stay at Ten Bompas Hotel, just down the road from DW eleven-13. Ten Bompas is one of Johannesburg's leading boutique hotels and offers luxury accommodation with an African flair. Other boutique options include the Peech Hotel in Melrose or Clico Boutique Hotel in Rosebank.

What to eat

 Bear in mind that chef and owner Marthinus Ferreira changes the menu regularly according to the season and availability of fresh produce. However, the Alaskan crab cocktail (for starters), the butter-roasted hake with white-bean puree, asparagus, crisp Parma ham and beef vinaigrette should do it for main course, while the gorgonzola ice cream is a fine way to finish off.

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 Not too far from DW eleven-13, you will find some of Johannesburg's finest art galleries, including Gallery Momo, the Circa Gallery and the Goodman Gallery.

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Last Sunday, viewers of HBO's Game of Thrones were treated to one of the greatest musical moments in TV history: A surprising act of violence (no spoilers here) followed by a quick cut to a jarring, end-credits rendition of The Bear and the Maiden Fair by indie-rock band the Hold Steady.
This Sunday, you can watch the Juno Awards.
The annual celebration of Canadian music has struggled over the decades to appeal to a broad TV audience while remaining at least somewhat relevant to actual fans. When you add in the fact the CTV broadcast has become one of the few remaining showcases for a beleaguered recording industry, you wind up with programming by committee -- a two-hour, live-television compromise.
This year's show in Regina pairs the vocal genius of Canadian music hall-of-fame inductee k.d. lang with the straight-ahead pop of Carly Rae Jepsen. The shaggy-haired retro rock of Saskatoon's Sheepdogs shares the stage with the smarmy-smooth croonings of host Michael Bublé. There's rock band Billy Talent, reputedly really big in Germany, Serena Ryder and Hannah Georgas' really big voices and Marianas Trench, who are named after a really big hole in the Pacific Ocean.
If that sounds underwhelming, well, good luck assembling a more viable mainstream Canadian music awards show. The Polaris Prize list may be loaded with more creative acts, but the ongoing fragmentation of the music market -- there are way more acts than ever, catering to a wider array of smaller niche markets -- means what's left of the Sunday-night prime-time TV audience would be hard-pressed to recognize critical darlings such as Cadence Weapon or Handsome Furs.
So what's left is a show with a few big names and a roster of nominees that somewhat reflects the breadth of a diverse Canadian music scene. That said, the vast majority of the award categories, including some blessed with acclaimed artists, will be handed out tonight at a non-televised gala.
The something-for-everyone approach is even evident this year in the major award categories. Here's a rundown of a few, along with the short list of Manitobans up for lower-profile prizes tonight:
Single of the year
Nominees: Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen; Viking Death March, Billy Talent; Kiss You Inside Out, Hedley; Stompa, Serena Ryder; The Way It Is, The Sheepdogs.
Call Me, definitely: Though Saskatchewan's Sheepdogs will be the sentimental favourite in Regina, the worldwide ubiquity of Jepsen's infectious ditty last year means there is no choice but to say yes to Maybe.
Album of the year
Nominees: Sans Attendre, Céline Dion; Kiss, Carly Rae Jepsen; Storms, Hedley; Believe, Justin Bieber; Ever After, Marianas Trench.
Are you freaking kidding? Whoever wins, we lose. Despite efforts taken by the Junos over the past few years to acknowledge more inventive and creative Canadian music, this category is completely old-school. It's loaded with lowest-common-denominator pop music that still manages to wind up on the top of album-sales charts, likely through the use of arcane dark arts.
Artist of the year
Nominees: Jepsen, Bieber, Deadmau5, Johnny Reid and Leonard Cohen.
Unfortunately, it's not a MMA bout: The idea of Leonard Cohen engaged in physical combat with The Biebs is more than a little bit exciting, as the old Montrealer would crush any opponent who attempted to enter the Octagon in saggy jeans. Oh, wait -- Bieber now wears skinny jeans? Those offer no mobility, either.
Group of the year
Nominees: Metric, Rush, the Sheepdogs, Billy Talent, Marianas Trench.
Does it matter? On Thursday, after years of fan petitions and critical hand-wringing, Rush finally made it into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. After that bit of long-awaited validation, who cares about beating Marianas Trench in a popularity contest?
Manitoba nominees
James Ehnes: Juilliard-trained violinist Ehnes, a former Brandon resident and perennial Juno nominee, is up for two more awards this year: solo or chamber-ensemble classical album for Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1 and large-ensemble classical album for Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.
Don Amero: Winnipeg singer-songwriter Amero's fourth album, Heart on My Sleeve, is up for aboriginal album of the year. He had three previous albums, but this is his first Juno nomination.
Burnt Project 1: Winnipeg rock band Burnt, led by David Boulanger, has been nominated for aboriginal album three times, winning in 2006 for Hometown. This year's nomination is for The Black List.


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Overthinking It
This Week in Catcher Framing, 5/25
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As commenter Nathan pointed out here—and as I noticed myself l as I kept cornering all of these catchers—catchers conceive of what they do (or at least tell me how they conceive of what they do) in dramatically different ways. Russell Martin told me, "I feel like it's dangerous to be called a 'strike stealer.' I want to be more of a 'strike getter' or a 'strike keeper.'" And then there's Chris Stewart: "I call it stealing strikes." Different strokes for different framers.
League Leaders (Out-of-zone strikes and in-zone balls, not adjusted for other factors)
The Best (min. 60 OZoneStrikes+ZoneBalls)
I don't know whether this has anything to do with pitchers trying to pitch to the strengths of their receivers. You can see why the Rockies would want to pitch low to keep the ball out of the air at Coors, and Brewers pitchers might have the same goal: Miller Park inflates home runs even more than Coors, according to our park factors. (Padres pitchers don't need to worry as much about fly balls doing damage, but by pitching low, they can benefit from Petco Park's BABIP-suppressing infield.) It's also possible that part of the reason that Lucroy and Maldonado rate so well on low pitches is that the Brewers' pitchers are constantly pitching on that edge of the zone, slightly expanding it as a result.
The Worst (min. 60 OZoneStrikes+ZoneBalls)
This Week in Jose Molina, 5/16-5/22
Weekly Net Strikes: 11
Molina caught only 16 innings, but he made the most of them, gaining 11 net strikes. That's some serious receiving.
Watch the end of each of these GIFs for the great reactions.
3. Date: 5/18
Nothing Dickerson could do about that but spit.
2. Date: 5/22
Lind thinks it's ball four, but Bucknor makes him bow to the master.
1. Date: 5/22
Kawasaki's new strategy—take everything!—didn't work that time.
It's worth paying attention to how the Rays have maximized Molina's value while trying to keep him fresh. Molina has come in to catch five games he didn't start. In all five instances, Molina replaced Jose Lobaton in either the eighth or the ninth inning, with the Rays up by one or two runs. On three of those occasions, Lobaton had been replaced by a pinch hitter in the inning before; on the other two, he wasn't, but Molina came in anyway. (On both of the latter occasions, Fernando Rodney was pitching. His control has been shaky, so he needs all the receiving assistance he can get.) It's partially an attempt to maximize offense by sending a better bat than Lobaton's to the plate, but it doesn't hurt to have Molina framing in high-leverage situations as a kind of "pinch catcher." (Question for further study: Is there a pinch-catching penalty?)
This Week in Jonathan Lucroy, 5/16-5/22
Weekly Net Strikes: -16
Lucroy's week was as bad as Molina's was good. Maybe Molina had a few games where his pitchers all hit their spots, and Lucroy had a few where they all missed them. Then again, there's no reason to think that catchers don't go through receiving slumps and hot streaks. If so, this was Lucroy's biggest slump of the season. But we can still pick out a few strong receptions:
3. Date: 5/21
Lucroy sets up inside here, which helps. Gonzalez can only stare at the scene of the crime.
1. Date: 5/21
Same pitcher, pitch, umpire, and count as the first Lucroy reception above, just a bit farther from the center of the plate. If catchers can tell that they're getting a pitch, they'll try to get it again.
Best Frames of the Week
1. Date: 5/17
Marty Foster, meet the Brandon Phillips Death Stare.
4. Date: 5/19
Snyder, like Wieters, is 6'4", so he runs as much risk of blocking umpires as Wieters does. The Orioles definitely don't have a bias against tall catchers.
3. Date: 5/21
We welcomed McCann back to this space last week, and it looks like he's going to be a fixture of the best frames section.
2. Date: 5/21
As I was saying. The pulled-back bunt might have helped here.
1. Date: 5/19
Molina had to go get this one, then bring it back up. The best frames don't always involve a pitcher who hits his spot. Carlos Gomez almost moonwalks.
Worst Frames of the Week
5. Date: 5/16
Stewart seemed surprised by this one, and didn't catch it cleanly. Maybe he was distracted by a baserunner. Note to self: compare framing performance with the bases empty and runners on.
4. Date: 5/17
Lee doesn't miss by that much here (Does he ever?), but Ruiz makes it look like he did. Earlier I mentioned that comparing pitcher-adjusted and non-pitcher adjusted versions of Max Marchi's framing model reveals that the Orioles' staff might be making Matt Wieters look worse than he is. The opposite is the case for Ruiz, who benefits more from removing the pitcher adjustment than any other catcher. That's what comes of catching Lee, Halladay, Hamels, Blanton, Oswalt, Moyer and the rest of the Phillies recent good-command guys.
3. Date: 5/17
Almost a carbon copy of the pitch above. (I've never made an actual carbon copy, but it's so satisfying to say.)
2. Date: 5/19
First step to better framing: don't let the ball go to the backstop.
1. Date: 5/20
Romine had the best reception last week, and this week he has the worst.
Last month, I wrote about the worst called ball of the PITCHf/x era (near the end of this article). It was a pretty similar pitch in a pretty similar location, also thrown by Boone Logan. Maybe Logan's sweeping movement makes him hard to catch.
Bonus Worst Ryan Doumit Frame of the Week
This was the 13th-worst of the week overall. To be fair, Molina had the 12th-worst overall:
(And he couldn't believe it. Notice how he looks back, as if to tell Bucknor, "You know I'm Jose Molina, right?")
The worst 10 this week also featured other good receivers: Buster Posey, Yadier Molina, and Lucroy (twice). It happens to the best of them! (But Doumit isn't the best of them.)
Thanks to Ryan Lind for research assistance.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Great articles! I'm convinced now as to how important catcher framing is for the pitcher.
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South Africa boasts over 900 bird species, ranging from the familiar – swallows, robins and thrushes – to the lesser known, such as turacos, penguins and sunbirds.
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CINCINNATI (AP) -- A judge has temporarily barred the city of Cincinnati from imposing new restrictions on scrap metal sales.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports (http://cin.ci/xLonql ) a Hamilton County judge issued an order preventing the rules from going into effect as scheduled on Friday.
Cincinnati City Council passed the rules in an effort to curb scrap metal theft. They require permits, background checks, licensing and additional record-keeping.
Owners of two scrap yards filed the legal complaint last month saying the restrictions would harm their businesses.
City attorneys argued police have the right to enforce the rules they say are in the public interest. They also say the scrap yards didn't prove the businesses would be harmed.
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Ten years ago, the WAN was the exclusive domain of frame-relay communication and leased lines. Today, a WAN may use anything from IPSec connections and cable modems to MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) tunneled over multimegabit networks. The methods may have changed, but the challenge remains the same: How do you make a WAN seem like one big LAN?
Simply throwing more bandwidth at the problem won't solve it. MPLS, as described last January in Paul Venezia's "Supercharge Your WAN", can go a long way toward improving WAN performance, but the root cause of the problem lies well below the MPLS level.
Other forces are at work conspiring to rob your WAN's performance and response time; latency, congestion, chatty applications, and traffic contention all affect in how the WAN may respond at any given time. These are the dirty secrets of WAN performance that are usually swept under the rug — if they're even detected at all. Most of the time, the focus is on the size of the pipe, not on how the pipe is being used.
Size doesn't matter
In the world of the WAN, the size (that is, bandwidth) of the link often makes little difference in overall performance, particularly when the link is a long one ("long" being more than a few hundred miles). Part of the problem is that TCP and other protocols weren't intended to function beyond the local-network edge. "The reason why long-distance networks don't work is that the protocols weren't designed to do that," explains Dick Pierce, CEO of Orbital Data, which sells WAN-optimization appliances. "They work pretty well on a local basis, and in some cases even short distances. But wide-area networks don't. The whole history of how this market segment [WAN optimization] developed was on that basis."
The problem is that the protocols' efficiency suffers as latency increases. Latency is based on the speed of light and the overall length of the WAN link, something we have little control over. Don't think speed of light is a factor? Just experience the latency in a satellite link. (A few years back, one could have argued that routers and switches added significant latency to WAN links, but most backbone equipment today works in the sub-millisecond range.)
Latency affects network protocols in various ways. TCP, for example, uses ACK (acknowledgement) packets to help provide reliability. By receiving an ACK from the receiving endpoint, the sending system knows the packet made it without any errors. But on high-latency links, waiting for ACKs chokes throughput.
Thus, latency is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — killer of WAN performance, both in response time and overall throughput. Long fat networks (LFNs) run at T1 speeds and higher, but suffer greatly from the inherent latency of the link. For most U.S. terrestrial links, the average round-trip time is approximately 150 ms, with satellite links averaging approximately 800 ms. Global links vary greatly, but it isn't uncommon to see 200 ms to 400 ms or higher RTTs (round-trip times). And increasing the bandwidth doesn't help.
In fact, due to latency, LFNs are largely underutilized. "The reason people built long-distance pipes that turned out to be empty was they were trying to get predictable application performance by overprovisioning," Orbital's Pierce says. "Yet the inherent design of the networks — that they weren't designed for long distance — was the problem."
Rush hour
Congestion also affects WAN performance, of course. Congestion occurs when no bandwidth-allocation policy has been applied to traffic on the WAN. Traffic flows can be bursty, such as when one user tries to retrieve a large
e-mail attachment while another user logs in to a CRM portal. With no bandwidth management, the download can bring the smaller link to a grinding halt.
P.G. Narayanan, CEO of Allot Communications, believes that much of the congestion problem can be solved by applying QoS to the traffic. "The problem most of these networks have, though, is temporary … that second, or that minute it's congested, you can get away with just prioritizing applications. So what you can do is put a gigabit box at the central site to prioritize those applications, the critical applications, on a temporary basis, and you can avoid the congestion, and all other times you're OK anyway," says Narayanan.
Prioritizing application flows is an important part of managing your WAN traffic, but it isn't going to solve TCP's inherent limitations when latency creeps in. On shorter links where latency isn't an issue, simply preallocating your bandwidth will help keep important packets moving, regardless of what else is in the pipe. But on LFNs, latency, not congestion, is the culprit.
Talk, talk, talk
From the end-user point of view, latency gets less tolerable as the back-and-forth communication required for some action increases. And layer 7 protocols — where applications live — are chatty, requiring an absurd number of round-trips to complete a single task. Much like TCP, protocols such as CIFS and MAPI (mail application programming interface) were designed to run inside the LAN, not over the WAN.
The chattiness reaches a crescendo when users map drive letters over the WAN using CIFS (used in Windows networks). Any user that has had to open, edit, and save a Microsoft Word or Excel document from a remote file server knows how long this simple task can take, even over a fat WAN connection. By the same token, users of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange 2000 suffer when they open an e-mail with an attachment over a WAN link. The message appeared to be in their inbox, but in reality it was still on the server waiting to be retrieved.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 was designed to mask this problem by downloading messages and attachments in the background (cached Exchange mode). Although this is great for the end-user, it adds additional traffic on the WAN. For example, Outlook now downloads all attachments to your inbox, regardless if you were going to open them in the first place. This places an additional load on the WAN link, which should never happen.
Out with the old…
Traditionally, WAN performance was attacked at the packet level. Back in 1998, Expand Networks was one of the leaders in WAN compression. Liad Ofek, vice president of technical services at Expand Networks, says that, at the time, the goal was to "squeeze as much data as possible" into existing links.
Expand used a series of compression algorithms to reduce the number of packets on the wire. Other vendors, most notably Packeteer, also used highly advanced compression schemes and began adding QoS to further allocate and manage WAN traffic flows.
File-caching provides yet another way to reduce traffic by storing a copy of recently accessed files on an appliance near requesting users. As with a browser cache, files and objects are kept closer to the remote user, helping to overcome latency and prevent excessive, redundant requests over the WAN. This is typically a "full file" cache and not made up of smaller data segments. Full-file caching isn't nearly as effective as newer segment-caching methods, because the chance of a second or third user requesting the same file is slim. Also, if the file on the file server is renamed or changed, then it won't match the file already in cache and must be transferred again anyway.
In with the new
In recent years, TCP acceleration has taken center stage as one way to improve performance by reducing ACKs and playing games with the TCP window size. Vendors such as Swan Labs, Peribit (now owned by Juniper Networks), Expand Networks, and Riverbed Technology have all developed solutions based on improving TCP's performance.
One of the most effective methods is to handle TCP ACKs locally, using an appliance. The appliance bundles multiple ACKs into a single request, thereby reducing the delays caused by high latency. To the application requesting the data, it receives an ACK just as it expects to, except the ACK comes from the local WAN appliance and not from the far side of the WAN.
The next step beyond TCP tricks is application-specific acceleration. Some WAN optimization vendors use plug-ins in their appliances to help improve application response. Applications such as DNS, Exchange, FTP, Citrix, Notes, and CIFS/NFS can all benefit from reduced chatter on the wire. The plug-ins work much like the TCP ACK optimization in that they handle redundant requests locally instead of sending each one.
There is no quilt
The WAN optimization and acceleration space is heading toward a convergence of sorts. In the past some vendors specialized in a single technology solution, but now they are adding other technologies to solve additional pieces of the WAN problem. Orbital's Pierce sees the multiple approaches to solving WAN problems as "patches, in the context of patches and a quilt. In the end, it's about the quilt; it's not about the patches themselves. Customers buy patches today because there is no quilt." The trend is for vendors to move away from "point" solutions to a more comprehensive managed system.
Several WAN appliances include compression and TCP acceleration along with file-caching and application-specific acceleration. But not all vendors agree that such consolidation is wise. "I think more customers are more worried about just the visibility into the network," says Allot's Narayanan. "They want a good traffic-management company with the ability to decode any application layer properly, not falsify it."
Other vendors, such as Swan Labs, Riverbed, Disksites, and Juniper Networks, are banking on single-box solutions. Tom Tansy, vice president of Marketing at Swan Labs, sees a further consolidation of technology. He believes many customers are suffering from a "box proliferation problem" and will want to roll out a single appliance instead of many disparate solutions.
Either way, when it comes to speeding up WANs, everyone agrees that more bandwidth alone is not the answer. As long as TCP remains unchanged (and for now it has to) and the speed of light governs latency, boosting WAN performance will require tricks at the protocol level, combined with traffic-flow prioritization and application-specific packet reduction. WAN acceleration solutions will continue to evolve to include multiple techniques for getting most out of your link, at least until we find a way to send data faster than the speed of light. Click for larger view.


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My favorite beer - my Mexican beer- is Belgian?
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Jasper Is Here: A Look at the New Xbox 360by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/10/2008 12:00 AM EST
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HYPhoenix - Saturday, September 26, 2009 - linkis it possible for someone with a mid level knowledge of hardware to switch the power connector on the console to make it look like jasper?
The question is just out of pure curiosity. Reply
abul3ass - Monday, June 29, 2009 - linkMy xbox360 has a Zephyr chip and uses 16,5A current rating.. I was wondering if i could put this xbox's CD drive into my new xbox that contains the Falcon chip with a 14,2A current?
Thanks in advance.
Sasparilla - Monday, November 26, 2012 - linkIt depends if you can even use that drive (it has to be the exact same kind and Microsoft used several different kinds throughout production of the Zephyr / Falcon / Jasper machines) and then on top of that Microsoft tied each individual drive via its ROM to each individual xBox (why did they have to make it so hard to keep your machine if your drive failed?) - so if you have the exact same drive type and you have to be able to switch the ROM (a couple of drives this is just unplugging and replugging cables, other drive types you literally have to flash the drive with a copy of the ROM from the original) then you can. Reply
chashint - Saturday, June 06, 2009 - linkI know this is an old article but I am really surprised that the author chose not to do any research into the manufacturing processes of lead free solder and instead chose to generate and perpetuate urban legends in regards to it.
Most of the comments that have been made about the solder, and the design process also illustrate a complete lack of knowledge about the subject matter. Ball grid array packages have been very common for years and the cirduit cards they are soldered to are very well characterized and understood by the circuit designers. To suggest otherwise is a real stretch.
There is only one significant issue that plagues the lead free solder process and it is a worldwide industry issue.
It is called "tin whiskers" which are strands of crystalized tin that grow out of the lead free solder. These whiskers can grow out of the solder connections and create shorts with adjacent conductors.
Since consumer electronics are now considered disposable not many manufacturers worry a whole lot about this, however it is a huge reliability issue with electronics that are used for aircraft, ships, television stations, power plants ... another words for anything that is expected to last for a long time.
Some of you have speculated about the glue under one of the components, if this component is a BGA package I will speculate that the adhesive may be there in an attempt to stop tin whiskers from shorting to the adjacent solder joints. Reply
theolar - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - linkI've just purchased on of these for my grandsons. I have not received it yet, but I do have the Model # 52T-00141. Can I tell if its a Jasper by that number? If it isn't, I'd like to return it without even opening it. Reply
rfast10 - Sunday, March 22, 2009 - linkSo i bought a360 Elite July 25/08. Just 2 days ago i got the E74 single red ring and now my elite will not run period, I'm currently waiting to ship it out to get repaired. Now my Elite has a MFD of Jan.19/08 BUT says 16.5a on the 12v rail, THE TWIST is i have a 175w falcon power brick. So indeed my Elite is a Falcon despite the misleading labels on the back of the console. My xbox elite BOX says LOT NO: 0803 TEAM:CSON and it says 47-63Hz, 203W!!!!!!! Definitely misleading give the power brick is a falcon and the connector on the console is a falcon!!!!! Now im not going to wait to send out my console, get it repaired and get it back, im going to buy another one, i would like to get the PRO but after alot of searching i havent read there have been sightings for the JASPER on the PRO 60gig console,,,,so is this true??? i dont want an arcade BUT i want a JASPER...but let it be known to ALLLLLLL ive owned my 360 ELITE for just UNDER 8 MONTHS and got E74, i knew of ALL the problems and BABIED my machine! its definitely the GPU as my HDMI cable is working FINE...and when i smell the machine around the HDMI/AV connectors it smells BURNT, DEFINITELY something overheated and malfunctioned most likely the GPU has been dislogded or damanged and I HOPE when my ELITE gets repair they repair it with the JASPER motherboard...
Sasparilla - Monday, November 26, 2012 - linkSorry to hear your bad luck on this. Microsoft set up an extensive reprocessing process for RROD 360's (presumably they thought this would be cheaper than actually redesigning the console and providing folks with one that doesn't RROD) and it involves taking the old RROD console and sending out one in its place that previously RROD'd but had been made to work again (they're not new).
They guaranteed to do this for 3 years, if memory serves, obviously the machines folks got in their place would RROD again at a very high rate as nothing was fixed, just made to work again and you got someone else's old RROD'd 360. Folks talked of having 5 or 6 360's that have RROD'd after they send theirs in after their initial RROD because of this. Reply
blau808 - Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - linkDoes the die shrink mean cooler temps and a less noisy fan? I bought my xbox the day it was released and was surprised how noisy it was. It sounds like a turbine compared to my ps3 or pc. If it sit on the floor next to it, it vibrates the floor. Does Jasper bring a little peace and quiet? Also since it uses less power, is the brick a different size? i.e. not the size of an actual brick? Reply
Sasparilla - Monday, November 26, 2012 - linkFor the most part no, because the primary cause of the turbine noise is the fact that the DVD spins at such a high speed (most noise is coming from it) and that is still there no matter what version of the 360 you get. Reply
pockett8 - Thursday, February 26, 2009 - linkit says 12V-12.1A on back of xbox near barcode.
it doesnt say 0842X for lot but 0849X i think?
it doesnt say value bundle 2008 E but xbox 360 but something else i think the value bundle 2008 E sticker was for the us market as the uk sticker says UK/EU i think??.
and it doesnt say XGX-+00019 BUT XGX-+00024 i think not entirely sure..
but my friends what i want to know is, is this the jasper version of the console?? please help.
cheers. Reply
Syphadeus - Sunday, January 04, 2009 - linkWell, after receiving my 360 back from it's THIRD repair (they sent me an Opus to replace my Xenon) and finding that it kept throwing me DREs at random, I decided to hunt for a Jasper today.
I bought an Arcade unit from GAME here in the UK. I asked if I could have a look at the box first and they said no, so I told them to security sticker it because it was a "surprise gift". Turned out to be a Falcon (14.2A). So I'll be taking that back tomorrow.
In the meantime, I went to GameStation and asked and they let me look at the boxes - second one I looked at was a Jasper. It was really easy to see as well, didn't have to move the console, the 12.1A rating was immediately viewable through the cut-out, so I bought it and it works fine. That's another £130 I've thrown at MS - and all because I really can't be bothered to wait another 3 weeks for them to repair my replacement, which is a pretty laughable concept considering I'd had it all of four days. Reply
Manic Penguin - Thursday, January 01, 2009 - linkI had the privilege to use an Xbox 360 Pro (60gb version) last weekend at a friends house. He had just bought the box, so naturally i wondered if it had a Jasper board in it. He told me that he wasn't sure, so I checked the back of the system. Sure enough, it had a power rating of 12,1 A. The power supply itself was a Falcon power block, but the power rating and power input jack on the Xbox both matched up to Jasper specs. I would post pics but my sister didn't let me use her camera. I will see if I can get him to send some pics via email. Reply
XtraCrispi - Friday, December 19, 2008 - linkI just bought an Xbox 360 via Dell and when I got it today I was excited to see that the manufacture date and lot numbers corresponded to what I had read for the Jasper. However after finding and reading this article I've come to realize I've got that rare breed you warned about. It's the 1st gen Xbox with HDMI and a manufactured date of 10-23-08. WTF! So mad.
I might just return the thing because why spend current model prices and take an old model car, right? (No, this Xbox ain't a classic.)
Good thing I called Dell before I opened it and complained that the packaging was terrible and the Xbox box was damaged. They said I can open it up and try it out and send it back if it's damaged. I might just do it, get a refund and go get a Jasper at a local store. Reply
HwaZy - Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - linkWow! I was told in early Nov. that MS will not issue pre-Jasper in retail channels. They will be offered as repair replacement or refurbished only.
I am lucky then and just received my Arcade from DELL today. I wasa a bittle concerned because I used discount coupon. Before I opened it, I confirmed it is indeed Jasper: 12.1V and made 10-18-2008 (3 days after the pictured). The lot#, built-in 256MB memory and bundle label and everything described. Now after opened, the 150W PSU and power connector all confirm it is Jasper. It even has one flyer for the New Experience update.
Great article!
Stop It - Saturday, December 13, 2008 - linkHey there all
I like the article, it helps those wanting to ID their systems well, except for my 360, which...makes no sense.
My 360 (Lot 0745, Made Nov 2007), uses a 175Watt PSU and the Falcon PSU input, but indicates that it uses 16,5A for its 12V rail, an indication of a Zephyr?
Now I WAS 100% sure I had a Falcon, and I'm still pretty sure, but this has confused the hell out of me, surely the Zephyr wouldn't even work with a 175Watt PSU...would it? Reply
turbobozz - Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - linkYou're not going to have a Zephyr on Falcon current, but you could have a Falcon on Zephyr current.
Don't sweat it... you were probably right that you have a Falcon. Reply
daqman - Friday, December 12, 2008 - linkI have two words for Microsoft and any other chip maker fo that matter....Gallium Arsenide! Heat would be a non-factor because there is very little resistence with said substance, therefore it would increase speed also. Reply
turbobozz - Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - linkWhat are you smoking?
You don't know what you are talking about.
Using GaAs would make it far, far more expensive.
And it you're very much misrepresenting the true benefits GaAs has over Si
(Which aren't generally applicable to the 360.)
Wikipedia has a decent article on GaAs... look it up. Reply
araczynski - Friday, December 12, 2008 - linkso far my late 2006 xenon has been working flawlessly, i'll keep my fingers crossed that it stays that way. i wonder if anyone has any records as to what ratio of the failed units were xbox live gold members/players :)
i don't do multiplayer, so perhaps my xbox loves me for not putting it through all the trash talking wannabe kid drivel.
i can hope can't i? Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkSo 6 years later, how did that go? Reply
Cougar21 - Saturday, July 16, 2016 - linkI'd like to know too. So far my 3 Jaspers are running fine. Reply
Snarks - Friday, December 12, 2008 - linkmy xbox is 16.5 amp rated but has the 2nd generation console plug...
?!?!?!?!?!?! Reply
araczynski - Friday, December 12, 2008 - linkditto. Reply
BeefyJed - Friday, December 12, 2008 - linkHad a quick look at mine and it's the same, 16.5A and 2nd gen connector.
The PSU brick however says 14.2A. Which do I believe?
Build date is 29/11/2007. Reply
leonzain - Friday, December 12, 2008 - linkhi, well, first of all, awesome article, seriously, thanks a lot dude, you really know your stuff and you make it fun to read, at the moment im almost literally dying to get my hands on an xbox, but i made the decision to wait for the jasper, only problem is, i live in mexico, and i want an elite, so i dont know where jaspers are coming to my country, maybe ill have to wait a month or so to get an arcade jasper, but i want the elite, and maybe thats more waiting, i dont know, id like to know whether or not elites have the jasper motherboard already, and i was thinkingm if anyone knows it must be you, have you spotted a jasper elite? do you know anyone who has spotted a jasper elite? please answer, id really like to know, thank you Reply
mariush - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkIt says in the chart on the left of the Guaranteed word, it should be 12.1A at 5V, not 12V. Reply
mariush - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkNevermind, there's a crease in the plastic in the picture, which made me mistake. Sorry. Reply
steveyballme - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkThese things rock!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com">http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com Reply
taltamir - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkwhen comparing the three wattages the author pointed out that going from 155 watt to 101 watt was a 50% decrease, while going from 101 watts to 93 was 8%...
The 8% figure is close to the truth on sheer luck, but the 50% is retardedly wrong.
Percent reduced = ((original - new) / original) * 100
35% = ((155 - 101) / 155) * 100 Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkwoops, good catch :) I've updated the numbers.
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george1976 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkI feel sorry for the x360 buyers that experienced RROD. I cant picture myself buying a product with such a high rate of failure.....50%???? Damn. Reply
TiM3SH1FT - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkAnyone knows if the new Jasper is out on other models than the Arcade?
I'd like to have Jasper but not the arcade pack...
Also how do I transfer my HDD content to a new HDD? Reply
01wolff - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkWhen you get a Xbox that has a larger hard drive, you can go on the Xbox 360 site under support and request the transfer kit. It is free from microsoft. They messed up and sent me two of them. If you buy just the hard drive, some come with the kit already (like the 120Gb hard drives). If you just change from one 20Gb to another 20 Gb drive, or from a 60 Gb drive to another 60Gb drive.... Microsoft won't do anything. You have to go up in hard drive capacity. Once you have the kit, then you have to go on the 360 site to modify your DRM information also.
The alternitave is to not get the transfer kit, change your DRM info on the site, and download everything again. I think using the kit is a better option. (did it from my 360 Prem to my 360 Elite) Reply
Myrandex - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkI'm not saying that the failures are made up, but I did want to indicate that I have an original XBox360 Premium and it is still standing up well to the test of time. I have thought about trying to get it real hot and see if it fails just to RMA it and hope for a new one with maybe HDMI and less electricity usage, but I'm pretty satisfied with mine.
Jason Reply
01wolff - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkAfter reading this I had to check both of my 360's. What I found baffled me. My Elite 360 had the 12v like the Jasper, but the second-generation power plug. Hummmmmmmm. Reply
rekcah2000a - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkSame here 16.5A on sticker but power supply 175W and Opus/Falcon power connector
A new strange beats from M$ ?
Tom from BELGIUM Reply
bill3 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkThe power usage comparisons, and most important the die size comparisons are great stuff for console/GPU tech junkies like myself.
Although now that I've seen the comments wishing for noise level comparisons, I have to admit that would have made the article complete.. Reply
bill3 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkBesides comparing Xenos to X1800, another inaccuracy was referring to the 256MB internal flash as a improvement. All that does is replace the 256 MB external memory card that used to come with Arcade unit. In essence the same memory card comes with the unit as before, it has just now been made internal. If anything this is a downgrade, as the external mem card has the advantage of portability, aka taking your profile and saves to a friends house and so forth.
I believe MS made the memory internal to prevent it from being separated from the console in anyway (lost, etc) and having consoles not capable of running NXE (NXE requires 128 MB memory I believe, though I'm not sure if thats only for the install?) out there in the wild. That's my theory. Reply
poohbear - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkBLASPHEMERSS!!!!! you review console stuff on a pc hardware site?!!?!?? how could u
?!?!? Reply
strikeback03 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkThe subtitle says "your source for hardware analysis and news". As this is hardware, I'd say it fits more than reviews of games... Reply
Dinsdale1 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkWhen sending a Elite on to repair for RROD, do they put in a Japer board? I mean why put in an old board that will cause a new RROD in a year? Anybody? Reply
Frallan - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - link
Is it as loud as it was before? That is what has kept me from buying 1 so far.
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Roy2001 - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkAnand, could you put some noise benchmarks? I have 2 original xbox's and they are very noisy. I am thinking to get a 360, but I really hate the noise...
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Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkUnfortunately the loudest thing in the 360 is still the DVD drive, I didn't notice a audible difference between the Falcon and the Jasper.
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gohepcat - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkOhh god yes. Please give some noise comparisons Reply
SuckRaven - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - link"First let's get the codenames right. The first Xbox 360 was released in 2005 and used a motherboard codenamed Xenon. The Xenon platform featured a 90nm Xenon CPU (clever naming there), a 90nm Xenos GPU and a 90nm eDRAM. Microsoft added HDMI support to Xenon and called it Zephyr, the big three chips were still all 90nm designs."
Just thought I'd make the observation that Intel's server and workstation CPUs are called Xeon, not Xenon.
Xenon is the noble gas used in car headlights.
Anyways... Reply
James5mith - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - link"Just thought I'd make the observation that Intel's server and workstation CPUs are called Xeon, not Xenon.
Xenon is the noble gas used in car headlights.
Anyways... "
You do know that the tri-core CPU within the Xbox360 isn't made by Intel, right?
It's a PowerPC chip, codenamed Xenon. Thus his comment about Xenon being a clever naming scheme for the entire original platform. (Just name it after the CPU's codename.)
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js01 - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkIt's kind of pathetic the amount of money some of us spend on our pc just to play console ports that run worse then 4 year old hardware. Reply
bill3 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkSee my post on page 1.
It isnt an X800, thats an inaccuracy by Anand. It's more of a X1800/1900 class card, just as PS3 uses a 500 mhz 7800/7900GTX.
I think your point is pretty valid though. PC's today just mostly get console ports that dont take advantage of the superior PC hardware. The only game in the last few years built to take advatage of PC really is Crysis. Reply
coldpower27 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkI would say Fallout 3 was one of them that got a good PC version. Reply
kilkennycat - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkYep, and for the latest classic example, consider the PC port of GTA4. This port hold the all-time (so far) rotten-banana-prize for the worst console to PC port of a major video-game. Besides the DRM and gross game-play/graphics bugs, the game REQUIRES at least 3 CPU-cores for optimum performance. Code obviously ported over from the 3-core Xbox360 version, with zero optimization for a fewer number of far more capable PC CPU cores. The cartoon-type graphics puts little stress on the GPU. Hopefully, Anandtech in one of the occasional PC game-related articles will lacerate Rockstar and Take Two for this lazily-awful port to the PC. Reply
seriouscat - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkComon AT! Wheres the temperature benchmarks? This was the single most interesting test I was looking foward to after all these months and what do I read? Nothing! Reply
Pirks - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkOtherwise he wouldn't write "I'm actually a bit surprised that we haven't seen more focus on delivering incredible visuals on PC games given the existing performance gap" because the answer to that has been printed in media many times, and here it is posted on DailyTech this morning: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13648">http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13648
See Anand, it's really easy to make you stop feeling surprised. You won't ever now, will ya? Just remember this P-word, always remember it. Reply
Gunbuster - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - link"Most lead-free replacements for conventional Sn60/Pb40 and Sn63/Pb37 solder have melting points from 5–20 °C higher"
You need to back up your facts in this one boys. Reply
Staples - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkI have yet to see someone hook up a Jasper to a current meter to test out how much power the darn thing draws.
I hope this does cure the RROD because my launch system (Xenon) and the Falcon I bought a year ago both have gone bad. The Falcon used much less power but if the GPU was the real cause of the RROD like many speculate, then hopefully this die shrink takes care of it.
And for all of those who do not know which version you have, do what I do. I have never once looked into the console with a flashlight. I have a kill a watt meter and by comparing anand's numbers to that of your own will narrow down the generation of Xbox you have. Reply
ss284 - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkPower(W) = current(A) * voltage(V).
I'm assuming you can do the math. The killawatt is in essence a volt/current meter. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkClose. Watts is energy. Watts over time is power, or kWh. Reply
ahmshaegar - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkWow. Can't believe I just saw someone post that.
The watt is definitely a unit of power. Power is the rate at which you use energy. 1 W = 1 J/s. So the kWh is actually a unit of energy, since you multiply the watt with the hour (a unit of time), which is very odd* if you think about it (1 W = 1 J/s, so 1 kWh is 1000 Wh, or 1000 (J/s)h.
Because 1 hour contains 3600 seconds, 1 kWh is 1000 joules per second multiplied by 1 hour multiplied by 3600 seconds per hour (this last term converts the 1 hour to seconds, so I can cancel out the seconds.)
You then get 1 kWh = 3600000 J, proving that the kWh is indeed a unit of energy.
*It's one of those odd units if you just think about it, but very useful for the utilities. Reply
adhoc - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkI don't understand the comment about lead-free solder melting at high temperatures...
Lead-free solder actually has a HIGHER melting point than leaded solder. Instead of worrying about solder melting at "high temperatures" from chip heat dissipation, I'd be more worried about PCB and component reliabilities due to the initial soldering process. PCB laminates that aren't suited for lead-free/RoHS elevated temperatures can warp and/or delaminate, creating immediate or possibly latent failures.
Aside from the PCB materials, components need to be characterized for the higher temperatures during the reflow/wave processes. Ceramic capacitors come to mind as a specific issue; the ceramic can crack under high temperatures (especially temperature gradients during hand-soldering), which can eventually create an open circuit, or worse even a short between power planes.
In the end, I'm just dubious of the explanation of lead-free solder as the failure mode. On the ohter hand, it may very well be related to the required higher temperatures during assembly (and thus bad PCBs and/or component failures). Reply
The0ne - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkSome designers don't account for the higher temperatures when they design PCBs. Actually there's quite alot of them around. That and mixing leaded and lead free parts where SMT has a much harder time processing them. In such case, they end up separating the process to lead, lead-free and sometimes even hand solder because of the particular design. Then you have designs that doesn't take into consideration of the distances between components or more specifically between vias. With very fine pitches this can become a nightmare for SMT. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkThat was one of the original bits of speculation on the RRoD failures, I've pulled it out since I'm not sure exactly what compound MS used. It's clear that MS viewed the connection between the GPU and motherboard as an issue thanks to the glue in the Falcon and later consoles.
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gohepcat - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkHey Anand,
I know it's just anecdotal evidence that we can use to claim that the Falcon still had RROD problems, but NeoGaf has been keeping a pretty extensive tally for dead 360s and dead falcons seem to be very rare (at last count they only confirmed 1)
Do you know people with dead Falcons?
adhoc - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkI think the glue is probably there to minimize stress fractures between the PCB and BGA chips which bend at different rates from the high-force heatsink. When large (both in area and weight) heatsinks are tightly fastened to PCBs (like many PC motherboards and I think the Xbox360), it causes the PCB to bend. I would suspect the glue is used as a propping mechanism so that when the PCB flexes, the BGA chip does as well starting at the glued edges rather than the solder points of the BGAs. It also might have an effect of "broadening" the flex of the PCB under the BGA so that the surface of the PCB won't be so concave between pins. Reply
Staples - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkI really think the whole solder compound rumor is a myth. If it were that simple, then I am sure MS could have saved themselves a ton of money by using a different compound. It may cost a dollar more per system but it would save them 50$ a console since they would not have to replace 50% of them. Sure the solder joints may break but I doubt that it is because of it being made of the wrong material.
And about the lead free solder, if that is what they are really using (which they should), it is possibly more brittle and could break under stress. Reply
The0ne - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkTypically it's not the compound but more so due to bad soldering/contact. We've recently had similar issues with a few of our PCBs and it had me chasing down the cause down to the compound as well. As it turned out their SMT was fully capable one way or another where we had lifted pins, cold joints, reverse components, etc. These data didn't really showed until we started gathering more and more data to prove it. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkIsn't it true now that all solder has to be lead free? Reply
UltraWide - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkOnly if you want to be RoHS compliant. Reply
Zorlac - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkI think you meant "RRoD Compliant" ;) Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkBut now you cannot sell anything that is not RoHS compliant in the EU. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkOK, AMD's presentation explained it. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkIn the US we would say the number 12.1 as "Twelve point one". In places where comma and period usage are switched, how would 12,1 be spoken? Reply
Spoelie - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - link12,1
"twaalf komma een"
just as you say "point", we say "comma" Reply
strikeback03 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkInteresting, thanks! Reply
Spivonious - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkNot European, but I believe it's "12 mark 1" or still "12 point 1" (i.e. in German it's 12 punkt 1, which translates to 12 point 1". Reply
geogaddi - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkNo - Krauts write "12,1" and say "zwoelf komma eins".
Now comes the time to dance. Dieter, touch my monkey... Reply
dasyentist - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - link''The Xbox 360 had a bit more graphics power than a Radeon X800 XT''
Maybe i'm wrong but from the spec ive read it look more like the core of a x1800/x1900... Reply
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JarredWalton - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - linkThe Xenos GPU is somewhere in between X800 and X1800. It has more in the way of X1800 hardware, but performance is a lot more like X800 I believe. Neither the Xbox 360 nor the PS3 launched with graphics performance that could match - let alone surpass - that of the then-current top PC GPUs (i.e. X1800 and 7800 GTX). But, there is something to be said for having a static hardware to target when making games. Reply
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bill3 - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkI was going to comment on this glaring innacuracy in the article as well! See I'm not the only one who spotted it.
Xenos doesnt match well to any specific ATI PC hardware of the time, being custom, but I feel fully confident in declaring it a good deal more powerful, in fact a generation ahead, of X800XT!
The simplest way to deduce this is to compare to PS3. The RSX in PS3 is simply an 500 mhz 7800GTX with a 128 bit memory bus and a few other minor modifications (such as larger texture caches so it can handle the larger latency from PS3's XDR memory pool). The 128bit bus is not a huge handicap for many reasons. (low 720P rendering resolution, the fact RSX can texture from XDR as well as GDDR for more BW, etc etc).
Now 360 outputs roughly the same level of graphics as PS3 overall (while a few PS3 exclusives seem to look slightly better, OTOH most multiplatform games look/run better on the 360). So it's a necessity to assume Xenos is at least roughly as powerful as 7800GTX. Does X800XT fit that bill? No. In fact the 7800GTX and it's same base specced but higher clocked brother the 7900GTX, traded blows against the ATI X1800 and X1900 cards of the time. So it's much more reasonable to place the Xenos with the X1800/1900 class ATI cards. I believe tape out times would also support that. I believe Xenos taped out in the same time frame (late 04) as G70/R520.
You can also derive that Xenox>X800XT from more complex maneuvers such as execution resources (and probably die size as well, though I dont have that info). Xenos has 48 shader ALU's. Comparable to the 7800GTX which has 24 pipes, with 2 alu's each, for 48 (though it would also contain 6-8 vertex shader ALU's). And X800XT would have 16 pipes X2 ALU's =32 (plus 8? vertex shader ALU's). Now there are all sorts of caveats in comparing ALU's across different parts (if anything Xenos is probably a lot more efficient in utilizing it's more plentiful ALU's over X800XT, due to it's unified shading abilities, and it's ALUs can crunch an extra component as well I believe making the difference even greater), but nonetheless it probably tells us something.
Heck, Xenos even has more raw shader resources than X1800XT. X1800 had only 32 shader ALU's as well, albeit higher clocks. Xenos is probably somewhere between X1800 and X1900 if you ask me, right in that class.
Another evidence of this is the games, I'm not familiar with Gears of War PC benchmarks, but I bet even at 720P a X800XT would be crushed by the game, let alone Gears 2 (even allowing for the greater optimization in consoles doesnt go far enough to negate this point imo). I also dont believe games that look as great as Rage, Resident Evil 5, etc would run on an X800XT. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, December 11, 2008 - linkThe Xenos GPU should have fallen in between the R420 and R520 in terms of performance, remember that Xenos was ATI's first unified shader architecture GPU so direct comparisons between it and the non-unified ATI architectures of the time aren't exactly the easiest to make.
We originally proposed that the Xenos GPU would perform similar to a 24-pipe R420, but you're correct in that it should be closer to the X1800 in performance. I will update the article to reflect that its performance falls in between both R420/520 but is closer to the 520.
Remember that one major advantage Xenos has is its 10MB eDRAM, which definitely helps in the effective bandwidth department - making rendering with AA at 720p much more possible than other high end PC architectures available at the time.
Even if you make the 7800 GTX comparison, we're still around 4x the speed of that with high end PC graphics today. G80 was 2x G70, and GT200 is 2x G80. By the end of next year we'll hopefully have something that is 2x GT200.
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john-ZX10R - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - linkso my elight got the one red light?? 16v. GPU failure ..i went on a search to the game spots and get me my elight 12 1a unit much quieter and power brick is smaller seems good noticed buy touching the top it was a lot cooler after 10 hrs of games and netflix.but seems like the disc tray is a little sloppy when it ejects and goes back in, but i can live with it its the least of my worries i just don't want to get the red ring again i have had if for 2 days and seems to be running good so far i bought a glass pedestal that keeps it about 4 feet off the ground and allows the needed air flow i used the inter cooler on my old one and never had any issues just loud i didn't put it on my new unit as people seem to think it robs power and makes it run hotter due to power usage?? nyko 3 fan system i used to use the usb ports for charging my wireless mic and cell but not with my new one I'm going to try to keep the power usage to just what the xbox needs only.nothing more well that's my 2 cents..Sarasota Florida.. Reply
divinevette - Friday, June 11, 2010 - linkSo after ordering an Elite from Dell, and receiving a Falcon!, I returned it and ordered a bundle from a store that guarantees their Xbox 360 Elites have Jasper http://roycedirect.ecrater.com/p/8345580/jasper-xb...
Happy Hunting! Oh, and they also threw in an extra controller just because I asked nicely. Reply
Cougar21 - Sunday, April 24, 2016 - linkYour link is dead... Reply
joeymather191272 - Thursday, June 16, 2011 - linkhi i have a console came with 150watt power supply.
but the pins on back of xbox360 are not the same it looks very much alike but the jasper one has 2 plastic peices on the top, mine has 2 metal peices. on top and has no internal memory. Reply


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JVC DLA-RS25 Projector Review
JVC DLA-RS25 Physical Appearance
Clean lines, black piano finish and a little gold trim make for a physically very attractive projector. The motorized lens is recessed, and mounted slightly offset to the left of center. An infra-red sensor is just to the left of the lens. The control panel is on the top toward the rear (toward the right side if looking from the front), and the inputs are located low on the right side (looking from the front). Watch out! The IR sensors on the front and back are covered by some almost clear plastic. It's almost impossible to notice the plastic. If you don't remember to remove it, it definitely harms the range of the remote control.
The projector can be shelf or ceiling mounted.
The total depth is just under nineteen inches and it is about fourteen and a half wide. Its height is just over six and a half inches. A motorized door keeps dust off the lens, by closing when the JVC RS25 is powered off. There are adjustable front and rear feet. The inputs are located on the right side (viewing from the front), just above the bottom. This is a plus for many who shelf mount as they don't need a few extra inches for connectors and cabling coming out of the back. For those ceiling mounting, well, I guess it depends which side of the projector faces people with the lights on. The lamp gets replaced from a removable panel in the center of the back of the projector. So there is no need to unmount the RS25, if it is ceiling mounted (unlike a number of projectors who have their lamp doors on the bottom, which would be covered by a ceiling mount).
Control Panel
The RS25's control panel is located on the top. In the image on the right, you are viewing the panel from the back of the projector. The three indicator lamps are closest to the front of the projector. They are: Warning, Lamp, and Standby/On.
Further back is the first button, the Power switch. It's the usual press once for on, press twice for off. Next is the Input button, followed by a Hide button to black out the image.
Then comes the four arrow buttons in a diamond shaped arrangement, with a larger Enter button in the center.
Lastly, side by side, are the Menu, and (menu) Back button. Pretty standard stuff. Of course, we all primarily rely on the remote control, and probably only use the control panel during initial setup, if at all.
There seem to be no changes this year, in terms of I/O – inputs and outputs. Located on the side, from front to back, first there are two HDMI 1.3b compatible inputs. Next comes an analog PC input (standard HD15 connector), which the original RS1, and also the RS10 did not offer. (I'm not sure if the new RS15 has a PC input, but we'll address that when it's reviewed.)
Next up, are three RCA connectors for the component video input, followed by another RCA connector for basic composite video. Next is the S-Video input, followed by the RS-232 connector for controlling the projector directly from a computer or room controller. Finally, there is a 12 volt screen trigger for controlling a motorized screen or masking system.
Add all of them up, and you have a fairly standard complement of inputs and outputs, with no surprises. As with all home theater projectors, I'd still like to see three HDMI ports, but I've only seen that on a couple of 1080p projectors so far.
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This article was published 22/12/2012 (1704 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Removing all the snow
And picking up the trash
That's what cities do
With all your hard-earned cash
It pays for lots of cops
And paves a bunch of streets
And also pays the salaries
Of 16 council seats!
Ne'er-do-wells! Ne'er-do-wells!
Answer my email!
Tell me why Emterra can't move faster than a snail!
Ne'er-do-wells! Ne'er-do-wells!
I voted for you, pal!
Now here's some Santa letters that explain your rationale:
Dear Santa,
All I want this year is for this year to end. Period, end of story, that's all there is to it.
No. 1, any astute person would know this year is over. No. 2, I believe yours truly has already shared his opinion of the matter. So the year will end, we'll move on and council will decide what happens next year. I've always said council is supreme.
- Little Sammy Katz
Dear Santa,
We need more audits, Mr. Santa. Lots and lots of audits. I want your elves' toy-making expenses audited. I want Rudolph's nose-brightening bills audited. I want an explanation for each and every candy cane on every gingerbread house at the North Pole.
And after we're finished auditing the North Pole, we'll audit the South Pole, Mr. Santa. And the premier's office. Whichever is closer to Transcona.
- Little Russell Wyatt
Dear Santa,
I tried asking the fire-paramedic elf, the chief administrative elf and the chief operations elf, but none of them will tell me: What's with the cost overrun at the North Pole fire-paramedic station?
While we're at it, may I have a committee to chair again? Not that those two questions were connected or anything.
- Little Paula Havixbeck
Dear Santa,
All I want is an end to photo radar. Given the speed at which you circumnavigate the planet, I'm sure you share some of the concerns of my constituents.
And seeing as this is my last term as a councillor, I wouldn't mind knowing what the big guy is gonna do in 2014. And I'm not talking about you, Santa.
- Little Scotty Fielding
Dear Santa,
Thanks for putting me back on EPC. Again. What I could really use is another one of those vroom-vroom machines, with the wheels and the engine. What the heck are those called again?
- Little Mikey Pagtakhan
Dear Santa,
Thank you so much for giving me the public works portfolio during a year when a new garbage-collection scheme was rolled out. That was awesome. I'm sending you the best Christmas card, ever. Emterra is going to pick it up so you should get it right away.
- Little Danny Vandal
Dear Santa,
Chief Peguis Trail is awesome! The Disraeli Freeway is awesome! P3s are awesome! That's all I gotta say.
- Little Jeffy Browaty
Dear Santa,
Thanks for easing up on my workload this year. Now build me some of those schools the Dippers promised to build in Waverley West.
- Little Justy Swandel
Dear Santa,
I was going to ask you for some Chicken Delight, but I've changed my mind. I have an unusual craving for a Harvey's burger.
- Little Jenny Gerbasi
Dear Santa,
Oh, boy do I have a big list for you. I want to get rid of all those railroad silos and I want that old fire-paramedic station on Grosvenor Avenue and I want the same old speed limits forever and ever on Grant Avenue and I want a wider Kenaston Boulevard and I want trees, trees everywhere. I also like smiling. Smiling's my favourite.
- Little Johnny Orlikow
Dear Santa,
Bring the elves down to the North End and pick up the garbage. It's an apocalypse, I tell you. I would never exaggerate, nor would I waste your time talking about anything. I know when to be quiet.
- Little Rossco Eadie
Dear Santa,
Thanks for the cane, buddy. Let me tell you this: I prefer the candy kind.
- Little Harvey Smith
Dear Santa,
What happened to those plans to sell golf courses and build new hockey rinks? I'm new enough to assume you actually follow through on this sort of thing.
- Little Bri-Bri Mayes
Dear Santa,
Thanks for giving me all that power during the water-park vote in April. Maybe think of something else to give me next year.
- Little Devi Sharma
Dear Santa,
Thanks for building that new rink at the old Kelvin Community Centre spot. I'm not sure if you know this, but I used to play hockey.
- Little Thommy Steen
Dear Santa,
As the speaker of city council, I'm going to take the opportunity to speak on behalf of all of my colleagues and ask for a lot less crazy in 2013.
- Little Granty Nordman


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text: Annual Chicago Auto Show Food Drive gets a boost from Chrysler February 1, 2010 12:00 AM More than 40 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram dealerships in the Chicagoland area will be collecting canned food donations beginning February 1, 2010 in collaboration with the 2010 Chicago Auto Show Food Drive to benefit A Safe Haven Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting people in crisis and transition. The expanded food drive effort allows auto show goers to receive discounted admission by donating three cans of food at any participating Chrysler Group dealership throughout the month of February. The 2010 food drive will culminate at the McCormick Center during the 2010 Chicago Auto Show, where food can be donated in the main hall February 17, 18 and 19. People who bring in three cans of food will receive a coupon for $4 off a full-price adult admission. A Safe Haven Foundation has recently opened their arms to refugees of the terrible earthquake in Haiti. More than 240 Haitian evacuees have been served by A Safe Haven Foundation since the earthquake in addition to the daily service to Chicago's homeless. All the proceeds of the food drive go to feeding Haiti earthquake victims, residents at A Safe Haven Foundation and North Lawndale citizens via A Safe Haven Foundation's Community Food Pantry. "Chrysler is dedicated to serving the communities in which we live and work," said Lewis Scott, Director of Chrysler's Midwest Business Center. "We are so proud to continue our partnership with A Safe Haven Foundation and the great work they do everyday to feed the people of Chicago and most recently, the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti." "It is an incredible opportunity to once again partner with the American icon automaker Chrysler Corporation to raise awareness and support for those experiencing homelessness from the earthquake in Haiti and for American's that have fallen victims of the economy as they embark on their path to self-sufficiency through an integrated, community-based 'continuum of care' here at A Safe Haven," said Neli Vazquez-Rowland, President of A Safe Haven Foundation. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Chicago Auto Show food drive. To date more than 300,000 pounds of food have been collected through the program and distributed to local food pantries through A Safe Haven Foundation. Back to News