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When India won ICC World T20 in 2007, it was a format of the game that had intrigued the Indian fans. BCCIIâ?s reluctance to embrace it for three years since its birth had ensured that by the time the World T20 came around the corner, India had played only one T20I.
When India won ICC World T20 in 2007, it was a format of the game that had intrigued the Indian fans. BCCI's reluctance to embrace it for three years since its birth had ensured that by the time the World T20 came around the corner, India had played only one T20I. The fans were enthralled and surprised in equal measures by the win in a tournament which had been given a miss by the otherwise crowd-pulling legends in Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.
This concoction of an exciting new format, a young team led by that long-haired but calm-looking captain and a 'World Cup' win after 24 years had sent the crowds in frenzy. And when the unauthorised Indian Cricket League was born out of the growing frustration over BCCI's denial of TV rights, the board had had no option but to jump in the bandwagon.
The IPL was thus an offshoot of all of the above while its success over the ensuing three seasons germinated from aggressive marketing tactics used on fans eager to lap up anything remotely connected to cricket. It was a formula that its self-proclaimed inventor Lalit Modi was adept at and used it at will.
Almost four years on, the Indians have won again. This time, it is a bigger World Cup and as the proponents of the ODI format and the connoisseurs of the game would point out, at a better stage than before.
The euphoria then that has engulfed the nation is anything but believable. It was not that the Indian team had not gone into the tournament as favourites. The issue, to some in fact, was that the side were favourites to lift the trophy – a tag that has been associated with them by either the enthusiastic fans or the over-zealous media or the sponsors wanting to ride the much-hyped wave leading up to all editions of the World Cup since 1983. And barring the one in 2003 when India got to the final, disappointment has loomed large for the aforementioned stakeholders.
Not this time. The team had genuinely looked good before the tournament, stumbled in the middle but recovered quickly without falling and went on stir up a gamut of emotions amongst the Indians around the world. Patriotism was a definite theme. In some extreme cases, it was jingoism.
The World T20 win in 2007 was different in two aspects. One, there was excitement generated by the win but it was shared with the fans' sudden interest in this behemoth called T20. And secondly, the build-up to the Indian Premier League was almost six months long, which not only stoked interest in the fans but also allowed the buzz from the World T20 triumph to die down. It had allowed the fans to recharge their own batteries.
The World Cup has been anything but an untiring one for the fans. It was not as long as the previous one, but lasted 40 days and for the amount that the average Indian fan went through, the pendulum swung between exhausting and frenzied for them. While travelling for the quarter-final game between India and Australia, this writer came across a compartment full of fans expected to spend 15 hours in train journeys and another four in the queues to watch an eight-hour long contest. One can be reasonably sure that this wasn't a one-off.
The batteries will have only five days of recharge before they get bombarded by the cricket of a different kind – cricket that thrives on inter-regional rivalry. It will be an antithesis of the very apparent patriotism that the World Cup-winning frenzy has generated amongst the fans of the game.
The Indian fans' appetite for cricket consumption would probably give David Boon's beer guzzling spree a run for his money. However, the IPL will be shorn of the marketing-savy Modi and in a backdrop of this Halley's-comet like phenomenon by the name of a national World Cup win, fan exhaustion and with the IPL having yet to touch a cord like its soccer version, EPL has, life could get challenging for both, the board and the broadcaster alike.
The next seven weeks could answer many questions and if you are a marketing man, this could be as much your time to bask in glory as it will be that for the players. The legacy of the World Cup win may well turn out to be an obstacle not a crowd-pulling magnet.


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Licensed to Kill?Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
PC Homes fought back tears looking at the face of Rose Simmons, his best friend's wife. She had three children and six grandchildren. She was a kindly, loving woman in the community who wouldn't hurt a fly. So why had somebody stabbed her in the chest while she was walking her dogs? The massive golden retrievers were howling like sad wolves at the sight of their bloodstained mistress. Charlie would be heartbroken, thought Homes.
But who would be capable of murder in the sleepy little town of Happisburgh in Cornwall? PC Homes could only think of one person - well, three actually...
Three weeks later, three boys stood in front of PC Homes and heartbroken Charlie Simmons. They were triplets; Marcus, Lionel and Romeo, also known as The Clones. They were infamous for being robbers and muggers, and one of them was apparently seen near the murder scene. They were looking confused, having been yanked out of their birthday party to come to the police station.
Homes said: "So, boys, what are your testimonies? We know from witnesses that one guy was seen running away with a knife, which could be one of you three. What were you doing at 12 PM on Sunday, when Rose Simmons was stabbed to death? Don't lie, or you'll be spending the rest of your sweet 16th in a jail cell."
Marcus: "I was getting cigarettes and beer from the off-licence downtown. They have new CCTV and you can see me there. People were calling me Marcus, so you know I'm not covering up for my brothers. My best mates can tell me apart from Lio and Ro."
Lionel: "I was out test-driving my new car. It was a red Punto and many people around town must have sighted it. But I stayed downtown, I swear, and the park is on the other side of town. It is registered to me and only I have the keys. You can check if you like."
Romeo: "I've had my eye on this tiny little studio for ages - it'll be a great party place. Well, our dad's kind of rich, and I have enough already in my bank account to pay for the studio. So I went up there, talked to the owners, signed the contract, and voila, the studio's mine. We may be identical triplets, but our signatures are different. You can check if you like."
After a few days of investigating, PC Homes ordered the boys back to the police station. He said, "Okay, now I know all your testimonies were completely true. You did not murder Rose Simmons. However, I am arresting all of you."
Assuming all their testimonies were actually true, why did PC Homes arrest the triplets?
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AnswerIt is illegal in England to buy alcohol, drive a car, or enter into a contract before the age of 18. It says in the text that it is their 16th birthday, and they are identical triplets so they were probably all born on the same day. One might be a day older/younger, but that doesn't change anything.
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BOTHELL – A Washington Department of Ecology spills response crew is monitoring the recovery of a tugboat that spilled diesel fuel into the water as it sunk on the northeast end of Lake Washington.
The tugboat, operated by Lakeshore Marine Construction, sunk about 1:40 p.m. today (April 18, 2009) but an Ecology spokesman said the "heavy sheen" of diesel created in the sinking has been contained by oil booms.
A contractor is raising the tugboat out of the water. It's not known at this time what caused the sinking.
"We will stay there until the tug is raised," said Ecology spokesman Dick Walker. It is not known how much diesel was spilled.
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How many of you achieved last year's resolutions? How many of you still remember what last years resolutions were? If you don't write down your goals, you're more than likely to forget.
Here's a quick recap of my official five resolutions for 2013 written at the end of 2012. Only two are financial related.
1) Live Free. Although leaving Corporate America in 2012 allowed me to travel freely, I decided to take a moderate approach instead due to the unknown risk of no longer having a paycheck.
Result: Pass. 2013 was much more of how I thought a free life would be like compared to 2012 because all the building blocks were already set. The longer you go without an income, the more confident you are you don't need a job to survive. 12 weeks of travel and setting my own schedule felt great. Now that I've experienced absolute freedom for over a year, I'm now considering going to work part-time for a start-up or even full-time if there's a great fit.
2) Bring The Family Closer. My immediate family all live 5+ hour flights away. I plan to leverage my finances, the internet, and our shared interest for travel to keep our relationships healthy.
Result: Work in progress. I convinced my sister to invite our parents to go visit her during Thanksgiving last year, a win since they live 11 hours by flight away and her apartment doesn't comfortably accommodate four people. She's got a busy life and my parents don't want to intrude. I'm very grateful to have crashed at my sister's place for 10 days this summer. We had awesome life conversations that haven't been discussed in over 10 years. Finally, several articles on FS helped open up some candid dialogue between my parents and I, which is always one of my intentions.
3) Grow Net Worth Faster Than The S&P 500. It's one thing to have the stock portion of your net worth outperform the S&P 500, it's another thing to have your total net worth outperform the index. A 9% net worth increase should be feasible if my stocks and real estate equity grow faster than 11% (70% of net worth) to make up for my CDs and risk free assets which will only grow by about 4% (30% of net worth).
Result: Pass, but disappointed with 32% due to greed since everything went up huge in 2013. I understand why busy people appreciate leaving their money up for others to manage. It feels good knowing someone is looking out for your money manners as you go all out on your entrepreneurial goals. This is my main financial resolution I've had for 10 years.
4) Put My Finances On Autopilot. I've been using an Excel spreadsheet with over 50 line items to track all my expenses, assets, and liabilities manually for the past three years. I still enjoy keeping on top of my finances, but I want to spend less time focusing on the nitty gritty since my spending, saving, and investing patterns are pretty set. Instead, I'm leveraging technology to stay on the ball. To care less about your finances, you first have to care a great deal about your finances.
Result: Pass. After deciding on a savings goal, a monthly spending limit, a comfortable net worth allocation, and a travel budget for the year, that was it. I enjoy checking-in on how my boys are doing to make sure they're behaving, but I don't have an obsession anymore that takes away time from doing other enjoyable things thanks to technology.
5) Smile Much More. When I was younger, a friend of mine nicknamed me, "Smiles" because I would always be smiling and not even know it. I'd walk by strangers on the street who would always weirdly smile back. As I entered into the real world of work, bills, graduate school, and financial responsibility, I think my smiles have faded. I'd like to regain this natural disposition and spread some cheer.
Result: Undecided. When I bashed my face that one night from too much partying, I may have thought to myself, there goes my smile due to the huge hole in my lip. But the doctor stitched me up good and supposedly the scar will fade over a year. But this goal really isn't about physical appearance. It's about being so happy you're unaware about positive physical manifestations that occur that brings more joy to those around you.
Here's a list of 10 financial resolutions / goals that you may want to consider undertaking to really build your wealth. I encourage you to pick only 3 to increase your chances of success.
1) Stop thinking anybody owes you anything. I firmly believe a proper mindset is the number one key to building wealth over time. As soon as you eradicate entitlement, you stop being bitter about other people's success. You will direct your dissatisfaction towards bettering yourself by working smarter, harder, and more creatively to achieve your goals. It's important not to rely on your parents, a rich aunt, or the government to take care of you because they actually will if you let them! If you do get baseline help, you'll never be able to achieve your full potential. Related: Why Not Just Try Harder To Get Ahead?
2) Increase your savings rate to 50%. If you can live off 50% of your after tax income, then every year you work is one year's worth of savings in the bank. For those who are fortunate enough to be in a committed relationship, try to save the lower income partner's income. For those of you who are single and get paid twice a month, an easy trick is to try saving one entire paycheck. If you happen to get a year end bonus, try and save 50-100% of that sum as well. If you feel you just can't save any more, then gradually inch up your percentage savings rate by 1% or 2% a month until it hurts. If your savings amount doesn't hurt, you are not saving enough. Related: How Much Savings Should I Have Accumulated By Age?
3) Review your finances like the CIA. It's hard to devise a plan if you don't fully map out your current financial situation. Figure out whether you are happy with your stock and bond portfolio allocation. Assess your overall net worth allocation and see where you'd like to reallocate based on your risk tolerance. I don't care if you use an Excel spreadsheet, Personal Capital, or hire a financial professional to sit down with you, make sure to spend a good day going over your finances in order to understand what went well and what didn't go so well over the last 1, 3, 5, and 10 years. The better grasp you have on your finances, the better decisions you will make. If you have a partner, please have an open dialogue with him or her. You know you're on top of your finances when you've memorized the balances for every single account you have!
4) Work on your X Factor. You are more than just your job. Remember when you were growing up how creative and active you were? Try to go back to the days where life wasn't just about making money from a day job you don't love. X Factors comes in all shapes and sizes. You'll never know what will hit. I was reading a profile about how a bakery chef ran out of pastry for her cream stuffing so she decided to stuff empty cannoli shells laying around. Now she and her husband have their own business in NYC called Stuffed Artisan Cannolis! Spend 10 minutes a day dreaming about wild and crazy things. Then narrow down your focus and give your X Factor a go!
5) Review your will. You do have a will in case something happens to you right? I bet for those of you who do have wills, it's been a long while since you reviewed what was written. Perhaps little Johnny is no longer your favorite grandson because he never comes to visit anymore. Perhaps your assets have grown over the $5 million mark for tax free inheritance and you've got to accelerate your gifts while you are still alive. Maybe you've got a new granddaughter and you'd like to ensure she has enough money for college in 20 years. Keep your will up to date. Related: Average Inheritance Amounts By Country
6) Get started on passive income creation. The best time to create passive income is yesterday. Meaningful passive income takes an extraordinary amount of time to create. This is why it's best to start as young as possible so that by the time you burn out from work, you'll have enough passive income to hold you over until you find something better to do. I was originally going to put a good 18 years of work until 40 and ride off into the sunset with my passive income. I could only last 13 years in finance, but fortunately had enough passive income to survive and an X Factor to work on. But I started my passive income creation in 1999. There comes an inflection point where your accumulated assets will start returning more than your annual income. Work towards this achievement. Related: Passive Income For Financial Freedom
7) Create a Punt Portfolio. One of the biggest risks in growing your wealth is complacency. When you're satisfied with what you have and living a life of leisure, you're definitely not looking for the next home run investment. I encourage everyone to create a Punt Portfolio equal to at least 5% of your net worth. Your Punt Portfolio's main purpose is to invest in higher risk, higher reward ideas. Everybody should be able to survive a 5-10% hit to their net worth. With a Punt Portfolio you'll be able to satisfy your crazy beliefs and limit the amount of "should of, could of, would of" thoughts in your life when it comes to investing. I've got two punt portfolios, one with Motif Investing, where I buy a basket of 30 stocks at a time for only $9.95 (a motif) to invest in ideas, and one with Fidelity. Motif Investing is a cheap and efficient way to gain exposure to ideas. There are over 150 professional built motifs to purchase, or over 70,000 motifs created by the motif investing social community. Motif is way more fun and cheaper than going through a brokerage firm like E*TRADE.
8) Create a Blackout Fund. After you've calculated your net worth, set aside a Punt Portfolio and figured out your budget, it's time to set aside money for a Blackout Fund. Your Blackout Fund is the money used to have such a fantastic time you blackout! Saving more cash makes us feel happier, but it's more than likely you will die with too much money if you're this serious about building wealth. Set aside money every year for guilt-free spending. By blowing some money every year you'll prevent a massive spending orgy that could one day really cripple your finances. I've set aside a $25,000 blackout fund for travel, conferences, and some new electronics.
9) Make a career move. Day job income is by far the largest source of income for the majority of people. Given this fact, it is perplexing why more people don't get in first, leave last, work weekends, and be great team players with terrific attitudes at work. Even if you dislike your colleagues and think your boss is a bigot, grit your teeth and do good work. If you can't stand your job, then you've got to make a move. Complaining is for losers and you're not a loser! Doing one thing like coming in first over an entire year will do wonders for your career. Another favorite recommendation is to take one senior person out for lunch once a month. If you just implement one new habit in your career, you will get paid and promoted faster than if you did not change. When was the last time you pulled an all-nighter anyway? If it's been a while, you're falling behind the person who wants it more. Related: Never Quit, Get Laid!
10) Work on your communications skills. It doesn't matter how smart you are if you communicate like Golem from Lord Of The Rings. The people who get the farthest are those who are able to make people feel at ease. Part of making people feel at ease is having a knowledge bank so deep that you are able to relate to anything the other party is talking about. Develop your understanding of politics, sports, finance, and trash magazine issues. Learn to speak another language well and travel abroad to understand new cultures. Be a voracious reader. Join ToastMasters. Get into the habit of writing proposals every day. Having good written and oral communication skills will get you farther than any genius brain will.
Having a proper financial mindset is everything to building wealth over the long run. It's very easy to get off track the more money you accumulate because you face more temptation. Once you combine good financial habits and self-belief, there's very little that will stop you from achieving your financial goals.
Next up will be a discussion on net worth growth targets you don't want to miss!
It's been around six years since I started Financial Samurai and I'm actually earning a good passive and active income stream online now. The top 1% of all posts on Financial Samurai generates 31% of all traffic. The average age of the top 1% posts is 2.3 years old. In other words, after putting in the hours to write some very meaty content over two years ago, 10 posts consistently generate a monthly recurring income stream that's completely passive.
I never thought I'd be able to quit my job in 2012 just three years after starting Financial Samurai. But by starting one financial crisis day in 2009, Financial Samurai actually makes more than my entire passive income total that took 15 years to build. If you enjoy writing, creating, connecting with people online, and enjoying more freedom, see how you can set up a WordPress blog in 15 minutes like mine. You never know where the journey will take you!
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Aerospace Notebook: Man behind the 747 tells his story
Updated 10:00 pm, Tuesday, January 24, 2006
It was a cold winter's day in 1969, with patches of snow on the ground at Paine Field in Everett, when a new Boeing jet rose majestically into leaden skies -- and changed aviation more than any commercial plane that has followed.
The Boeing 747, the first widebody passenger jet, has carried millions of passengers, U.S. presidents and even the space shuttle since that maiden flight on the morning of Feb. 9 so long ago.
Today, a new generation of Boeing engineers is at work in Everett on what will be the first major derivative of the 747 in 20 years. The 747-8 will have new technology, and the fuel-efficient engines of the 787. It will be longer and carry more passengers than any previous version. But it's still a 747, Boeing's flagship jet and the world's most recognized airplane.
That the 747 is not only still around but about to be reborn as the sixth variant since the initial jumbo jet is testament to the team of engineers known as the "incredibles" who designed the 747 in the 1960s, and to the salty, iconoclastic young engineer named Joe Sutter who led them and fought the many battles with Boeing executives and with Pan Am's Juan Trippe to see the project through to the end.
Sutter, white-haired and soon to be 85 but still razor-sharp, has finally told his life's story, and that of the 747, in a book with aviation writer Jay Spenser.
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"747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation," won't hit book stores until May. But last week I received an advance copy from the publisher, Smithsonian Books.
Many of the stories in the book about the 747's development have been told before, but they are fun to read again and this time in Sutter's own words. And there are new nuggets about the Boeing engineer who became a legend.
Sutter was born in Seattle and grew up in a lowermiddle-class Beacon Hill neighborhood. His father, an immigrant from Slovenia, owned a meat-cutting shop. On summer days, Sutter and his brother would walk down to the flying field beside Boeing's old Plant 1.
Later, as a paper boy, Sutter had a route that ended at Boeing Field, and he would "lean my blue Elgin bicycle against the low fence and watch aviation history unfold."
His friends wanted to be pilots, but Sutter was not sure what he wanted in life until February 1933, when he saw Boeing's new 247 plane take off from Boeing Field. He was 11 years old.
It was the world's first modern airliner, with 10 seats for passengers.
"As I watched this captivating vision of aviation's future dwindle in the distance, I knew at last what I wanted to do in life. I would become an airplane designer. I saw with great clarity that multiengine machines like the Boeing 247 were aviation's future, and I wanted to be part of it."
Sutter would go on to finish at the top of his aeronautical engineering class at the University of Washington.
He was still in the Navy at the end of World War II when he received job offers from Boeing and from Douglas Aircraft.
Although Sutter was interested in flight tests, George Schairer, who ran Boeing's technical staff at the time, convinced Sutter that a job in aerodynamics would be more interesting. Sutter figured that he would stay with Boeing for a few months, and then he and his wife, Nancy, and their new baby would head off for Douglas and sunny Southern California.
Instead, Sutter remained with Boeing and in the 1960s was one of the engineers on the new 737 program. The initial design called for a T-tail with aft mounted engines.
Sitting at his desk one day, Sutter took scissors and cut up a drawing of the plane and began moving the engines around.
There had to be a better design, he figured. But putting the engines on struts under the wing like the 707 would block boarding access to the main cabin door on the shorter fuselage of the 737.
"I slid the cutout tight under the wing and felt a sudden flash of excitement. Instead of mounting the engines away from the wing on struts, why not mount them hard against the underside of the wing itself?"
The 737, with Sutter's engine idea, would go on to be the world's best-selling jetliner. The 5,000th plane will soon be delivered to Southwest Airlines.
In August 1965, Sutter and his wife took a week's vacation at their cabin on Hood Canal.
Pan American World Airways had been pressing Boeing about a plane much larger than the 707.
Sutter was chopping firewood at his cabin when the phone rang. Boeing's chief engineer for commercial airplanes wanted him to head the company's studies for a bigger plane.
Boeing would soon lose a competition to Lockheed for a large military transport known as the C-5.
"I should add that fostering large high-bypass engines was all that the USAF C-5 competition contributed to the Boeing 747, as my new airplane would be called. Time and again there appears in print the logical but false assumption that Boeing took its losing military C-5 bid and revamped it as the commercial 747. In fact, the 747 would be an entirely original design that owes nothing to the C-5."
The story of the 747 is well-known, how its development nearly bankrupted the company.
Sutter's book recounts many of those tales, including how Pan Am's Trippe wanted a double-decker plane but Sutter and his team decided on a single very wide passenger deck with just an upper-deck hump behind the cockpit.
"In looking back over the 747 program, I don't believe Boeing would have manufactured well over 1,350 747s -- or even 300 for that matter -- if my design team had delivered that double-decker everyone expected us to create. It also seems to me that what my design group actually achieved has never been fully understood or appreciated within Boeing. My hope is that this book will redress this oversight."
Although he retired from Boeing in 1986, Sutter has continued to work for the company as a consultant. He still has an office in the commercial airplanes headquarters building near Renton. He lives in West Seattle.
Recently, Sutter was invited to the Everett plant to be part of an employee event celebrating the approval by Boeing's board to build the 747-8.
After executives finished speaking, many of the Boeing employees crowded around Sutter. They wanted autographs or just to shake the hand of the man known as the father of the 747.
In his book, Sutter recalls a meeting with Charles Lindbergh in the Pan Am boardroom in New York when the 747 was still fairly new in service. Lindbergh had been a consultant to the airline during its development.
"This is one of the great ones," Lindbergh quietly told Sutter. He was speaking of the 747.
The same can be said of Joe Sutter.


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It's always there. It doesn't always seem like it, but it always is. I can tell, because I can check. Just close my eyes, real tight, and move my eyes back and forth real fast. It's fast, but I'm faster. I can catch it. Or maybe it wants to be caught. Maybe it wants me to see it, always on the bare edge of my vision. Taunting me. Teasing me. Waving those ghastly, trailing appendages at the dark, fleeting corners of my peripherals. Only for a second, before it disappears completely. An orb, full of flailing lines. Whites, greys, blacks. Writhing around a great black oval. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it isn't.
I thought I caught it one time. Caught it real good. It must have been dozing. Letting its guard down. I closed my eyes and looked right, and I could see its tentacles swimming. A whole group of them. Lazily, drifting by. Coasting. Floating. I tried focusing on them. Shift my gaze left, right, up, down. It always one step ahead. Just beyond my stare. Bait to my feeble chase.
I scrambled after it. I almost lost it, a few times. Then it stopped moving. It stayed still. I caught it. It was mine. I was its. Its eye.
Its eye. Tendrils, thousands of them. Millions of them. Crawling, ingraining, rooting, seeking. Finding. Feeling. Having.
A dark orb, blackest black. I fell in. Fell, every onyx arm grasping at me. Some, mere inches. Others, miles long. Impossibly long. Disappearing and reappearing at the very corners of my view. It embraced me. It pulled at me. Twisting. Constricting. Suffocating.
I don't chase it anymore.
It's always there. A single arm, lazily floating in front of me. They always come now; eyes open, eyes shut. Floating in front of my gaze.
Begging for attention. Begging to be chased. Begging for me to come back one more time, to see it, to feel it, to find its infinite embrace.
I don't chase it anymore.
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The signs of vision loss come on slowly and painlessly in most cases. First, it's hard to read a menu in a dimly lit restaurant. Then words on the page start to blur; colors seem less intense. Eventually, even well-loved faces become shadowy and unfamiliar. It can be frightening and isolating—and it happens more often than most people realize.
Almost all of us will deal with some form of eye disease as we age. Cataracts await the vast majority, and while those can usually be remedied through surgery, other sight-threatening conditions are still difficult, or impossible, to control. One in three people over the age of 75, for example, develops age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which has no cure and can lead to blindness.
"Some estimate that by 2020, macular degeneration will be epidemic, because people are living so much longer and developing the disease," says Johanna Seddon.
For the 76 million baby boomers, in particular, it's an eye-opening revelation—the generation that has relied on contact lenses and Lasik to stave off wearing glasses will find itself facing far more serious eye issues. Not to mention the potential strain on the health-care system, and the associated costs.
"Some estimate that by 2020, that magic 'perfect-vision' year, macular degeneration will be epidemic, because people are living so much longer and developing the disease," says Johanna Seddon, a professor at Tufts School of Medicine and director of the ophthalmic epidemiology and genetics service at the New England Eye Center at Tufts Medical Center.
One way to tame the threat may be through what we eat. Scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts and elsewhere have been conducting work on the connection between diet and eye diseases.
Specifically, they've been looking at AMD and cataracts, the two eye conditions that affect the largest number of people in the United States. While researchers stress that diet alone is not a cure, there is promise that some relatively simple dietary changes could help forestall some of the worst aspects of these diseases.
"If we could delay the onset of AMD and cataracts for 10 years, we could eliminate 50 percent of the medical problems" associated with them, says Allen Taylor, head of the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision at the HNRCA and a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Taylor's recent work has looked at the connection between the consumption of diets high in simple sugars and the development of AMD and cataracts.
Even for the elderly and those already afflicted with eye disease, "our data is telling us that people can still gain some advantage by modifying their diet even fairly late in life," Taylor says. "But I certainly would be advising my children, and my children's children, to begin a prudent diet."
Blindness and low vision (partial vision loss that cannot be corrected) affect 3.3 million Americans age 40 and over, or 1 in 28, and are projected to affect 5.5 million by the year 2020, according to the National Eye Institute. AMD is the major cause of blindness among white Americans, while glaucoma and cataracts are the leading causes among African Americans and Hispanics, with genetics and health-care disparities accounting for the differences. (No data is available on prevalence of eye disease for Asian Americans or American Indians.)
These diseases strike different parts of the eye. Cataracts are a clouding of the lens. In most cases, the damaged lens can be surgically removed and replaced with an artificial lens. AMD affects the macula, the area at the back of the eye that's responsible for central vision. Glaucoma, an umbrella term for a family of diseases that destroy cells in the optic nerve, erodes peripheral vision. Neither AMD nor glaucoma is curable; vision lost to either cannot be restored completely.
Of these conditions, researchers have been most successful in establishing nutritional ties to AMD. A major National Eye Institute project, the Age-Related Eye Disease Study, completed in 2001, found that high levels of antioxidants—vitamins C and E and beta-carotene—along with zinc and copper, significantly reduced the risk of advanced AMD and its associated vision loss in at-risk individuals.
Other research has shown that two micronutrients in the carotenoid family, lutein and zeaxanthin, may be particularly useful in protecting the macula. "When we think about lutein and zeaxanthin, and AMD, it's one of the most compelling nutrition-disease relationships there is," says Elizabeth Johnson, an assistant professor at the Friedman School and a scientist at the HNRCA.
Lutein and zeaxanthin are the yellow pigments found in leafy green vegetables—in greens that have wilted and lost their emerald sheen, the yellow left behind is the lutein and zeaxanthin. Another good source is egg yolk; while eggs don't contain as much lutein and zeaxanthin as green vegetables, what is there is extremely "bioavailable," or easy for the body to extract and use.
Zeaxanthin is also found in corn. (Mexican Americans, whose traditional diet is often based on corn tortillas and other cornmeal products, tend to have high levels of zeaxanthin, for example.) The Asian berry known as goji, fructus lycii or wolfberry contains extraordinarily high levels of zeaxanthin and has been used for centuries to promote eye health. Carrots, the food usually touted as being "good for your eyes," contain almost no lutein and zeaxanthin, although they are rich in beta-carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A, a crucial nutrient for vision.
A second National Eye Institute study is underway; in addition to the antioxidants examined in the first study, lutein, zeaxanthin and an omega-3 fatty acid have been added to the mix.
Together, lutein and zeaxanthin make up the macula pigment. Scientists believe the macula pigment acts as a sort of shock absorber—or, in this case, a light absorber—protecting the eye against oxidation and light damage. The denser the macula pigment, the more protection available.
"It's one of the most compelling nutrition-disease relationships there is," Elizabeth Johnson says of age-related macular degeneration and the micronutrients lutein and zeaxanthin. Photo: Alonso Nichols
Seddon recommends her patients eat a diet rich in lutein and zeaxanthin. In 1994, while at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, she published the first systematic evaluation of the dietary content of lutein and zeaxanthin in food and how it related to AMD. "Those results indicated a profound effect, and subsequent studies have shown the same thing," she says.
Lutein outpaces zeaxanthin in the American food supply by about 5 to 1, so it is the more often discussed member of the pair, Johnson said. The recommended daily intake for both is 6 mg, but most Americans don't get nearly that much. The most plentiful common source of lutein is spinach—a scant half-cup raw serving is enough to meet the daily recommendation.
"And with lutein, it's not a case of 'more is better,' " Johnson says. "If you're taking mega-supplements, you're just wasting your money."
In most cases, the experts say, it's better to eat lutein-rich foods, which contain other nutrients and fiber, rather than resort to supplements. The most noteworthy exceptions are heart patients, who need blood-thinning medications such as warfarin and are advised to avoid spinach and greens because of possible food-drug interactions, or those prone to kidney disease, because the oxalates in greens may contribute to formation of kidney stones. Johnson advises those looking for an "eye-health" vitamin to check for a lutein content of close to 6 mg per dose; some products contain only minute quantities.
Because of the tough cellular walls of spinach and other greens, they should be cooked a little to get the most nutritional benefit. And, Johnson says, greens should be consumed along with a small amount of a healthful fat to allow absorption of the lutein.
Omega-3 fatty acids may be particularly beneficial. A study by Johnson published in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid, enhances the amount of lutein that can be absorbed by the retina.
In fact, dietary fats may have their own effects on eye health. Earlier work by Seddon found that diets high in omega-3 fatty acids were linked to macular health. She also warns that saturated fats and trans fats can increase risk for AMD. "It's not just about total fat; it's about the kind of fat you eat," Seddon says.
A good source for the helpful omega-3s is fatty fish. "Eat a couple of servings of fish per week," Seddon advises. "The omega-3s might be helpful for AMD and other diseases as well." Salmon, herring, sardines, mackerel, lake trout and albacore tuna are all high in omega-3s.
In most young people, the center of the eye's lens is crystal clear. Over a lifetime, however, the lens slowly tints, turning yellow, then amber, then brown. And often, cloudy, opaque spots—cataracts—develop.
For Allen Taylor, this process evoked the image of a sliced apple, turning brown as it sits on a table. Based on his training in biochemistry, he believed the same principle was responsible for both phenomena.
"It all has to do with oxidation—specifically, the oxidation of carbohydrates," Taylor says. In work that has opened a new direction for vision research, Taylor and his colleagues examined the relationship between intake of foods that are high on the glycemic index (GI)—meaning foods that are rapidly converted to glucose in the body—and the development of AMD and cataracts.
"Simple-sugar intake sets up the body for damage when sugar is oxidized," Taylor says. And those simple sugars are present in the American diet like never before. "Our diet is now 50 percent higher in simple sugars than it was 30 years ago," says Taylor. The effects are being seen in many ways, such as in rising obesity rates. Another probable result, Taylor says, is the prevalence of cataracts.
"If you live long enough, you'll get a cataract," he says. While a damaged lens can be replaced, "for people who are frail and elderly, the last thing they need is another procedure, or to have their abilities compromised. And there is a huge cost: cataract surgery is the biggest line-item in the Medicare budget," he adds.
Taylor's lab looked at high-glycemic index diets in relation to AMD and cataracts, using data from long-term studies. The results showed that those who consumed diets high in simple sugars, as compared to complex carbohydrates, had a higher risk of developing cataracts and AMD. They also developed them at a younger age.
"And more than that," Taylor says, "in people with lower-GI diets, the disease progressed slower. So you're protected in two ways—delayed progress and delayed risk." According to the study, if patients with early stage AMD switched to a low-GI diet, 7.8 percent of advanced cases could be avoided over the next five years.
Taylor is not talking about drastic dietary changes. For people who eat white bread, for example, "by only changing five slices of bread from white to whole-wheat, that would change the GI enough to get into a healthier range," he says. "That shows just how subtle, how doable, how achievable this type of dietary management is."
Doctors and researchers stress there are many other factors besides diet that affect the development and progression of AMD.
"Smoking is a very strong risk factor, stronger than any other, except for genetics," Seddon says. "And that includes exposure to second-hand smoke."
Age and gender (women are affected in greater numbers than men) are also risk factors, as are body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio (the "apples" are at higher risk than the "pears.") High blood pressure and cholesterol levels may play a part as well.
Does the list sound familiar? It should—those are many of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
"If you look up close, on a microvascular level, what you see in the eye is what you see in the heart," Johnson says. "The nice thing about preventive measures for AMD is that they are consistent with everything we know about preventing heart disease and cancer: high consumption of fruits and vegetables, low-fat, normal body weight, exercise. What's good is that a lot of modifications can be done."
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'Paging Dr. Filner … '
In response to "State of the city – and of the new mayor" (Editorial, Jan. 17): Mayor Bob Filner described San Diego's fiscal crisis as a "life-threatening disease," but didn't give it a name. Sixty percent of San Diego voters know the name and would gladly share it with him: public employee entitlements.
Filner declined to share the nature of the illness throughout the campaign, but now that he's mayor and chief medical officer a little candor couldn't hurt. – Doug Bell, Rancho Peñasquitos
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In response to "How SDPD caught movie theater gunman" (UTSanDiego.com, Jan. 14). The San Diego Police Department has shown itself, time and again, to be a capable, resourceful, professional law enforcement agency. "America's Finest City" has truly found an appropriate place on San Diego's police cars. – Steven Kean, Chula Vista
A second chance on life is stained
In response to "After a decade of denial, Armstrong comes clean" (Jan. 15): [Former] seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong once viewed as Superman has fallen to earth. I have never been so disappointed and embarrassed at the behavior of an American athlete. How is it possible for a former cancer survivor to turn his back on life with such unappreciative quality in light of being handed a second chance? This just blows my mind. I am incredulous at this man's psychology.
For those who still defend the man under the premise that everyone else takes drugs consider that liquid seeks its own level. And for those that believe that the ends justify the means consider consequential philosophy in that maybe we all ought to rob banks so as to feed the widows and orphans.
As far as a cure for cancer of which the cyclist devoted such great and passionate work, our federal government could do likewise in perhaps a fraction of time. Mr. Armstrong offers the world too little too late in his confession. At least we have the truth. – Daniel J. Smiechowski, Bay Ho
Holder should be major concern
The current national [Gallup] poll on the major concerns of the American public has just been released. [Low on] the list of concerns was gun control at a mere 4 percent. I spent significant time trying to figure out who the 4 percent may consist of, and came to the highly unscientific conclusion that said bloc consists of La Cosa Nostra, MS-13, Mexican cartels, al-Qaeda, the Mexican Mafia, the Aryan Brotherhood and Eric Holder. Oh, wait; strike the last. Then again, is he not an unindicted co-conspirator in the deaths of at least two American federal agents, not to mention how many Mexican citizens. Oh, and, how about the smuggling of over 2,000 arms into a sovereign nation, a de facto act of war? Holder should be facing the World Court for violating basic International law. – Steve Fanter, Escondido
U.S. attorney right in shuttering pot shops
In "Duffy not quitting pursuit of marijuana outlets" (Local, Jan. 16), I fully support our U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy's actions in shuttering illegal for-profit pot shops. The collaborative law enforcement work to rid our communities of fraudulent and abusive retail pot sales has been long awaited and desperately needed. It's simply too easy for 18-year-old high school seniors to buy pot at a shop for themselves and classmates. Our school resources officers say pot found in pot-shop-labeled bottles on campus is a problem; pot from shops is clearly diverted. It's concerning to think how many kids in substance abuse programs used pot from pot shops. We know last year the Journal Watch Psychiatry reported that 74 percent of teens in two Colorado substance treatment programs admitted to using pot that came from pot shops.
U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy, law enforcement, parents, students and school officials know pot use is a problem, and having retail sales of pot normalizes its use, decreases its perception of harmfulness, and facilitates easy access. Not to mention that state pot laws don't mention retail sales of pot and prohibit profit-making. Federal law prohibits smoking pot partly because the Food and Drug Administration has found it has no medical benefit, has four times and as many cancer causing carcinogens than tobacco and has been found to lower IQs.
Pot shops and pot smoking have proved to be unhealthy choices for individuals, especially the young, and communities. – Jon Sullivan, Oceanside
Israel should not let down its guard
In response to "View from Israel: End of hope for peace isn't embrace of war" (Opinion, Jan. 16): The final solution for an end to Mideast violence that threatens Israel will come as a result of a violent confrontation. If Israel insists that peace lies in more talking, then its very existence as a Jewish state will collapse.
Jews have always avoided reality and I offer Germany in the '30s as an example. The Jewish masses could not believe that Hitler really meant what he said. After all they were loyal Germans first and "Mein Kampf" was just more silly ranting. War was unthinkable.
The West is buying into the idea that Islam is a religion of peace and love. Oh, there are a few radicals that cause all the trouble and it is up to the infidels to get it. This is the big lie. Study and explain "Taqiyya" and I will listen. – Jim Reid, Pacific Beach
Dream world isn't today's world
In response to Louis A. Bajkai (Letters, Jan. 16): This American grandmother would like to live in the world Bajkai described. If fact, I lived there once; it was called the '50s. However, we live in today's world and while Bajkai doesn't want to hear about Congress and the president "discussing" debt and solutions.
I wonder if he has even heard of or knows what a $16.4 TRILLION debt means. While, I too, would like his dream, I DO NOT believe our government should enslave my grandchildren with debt in perpetuity. Without reducing the debt and living within our means, ultimately there will be no jobs to go to every morning, no vacation of any duration, no secure education and certainly no peace, no apple pie and no land with a little house. No one knows when, but all Americans will pay when this bubble bursts. – Roberta Anderson, Poway
Prop. 30: a lesson learned?
In response to "Not all Prop. 30 tax hike money going to schools" (Jan. 13): So, you voted for Prop. 30. You bought the deception from Gov. Brown and his people that all the revenues would go to schools. Well, surprise! A large chunk of it is not going to schools. What a shocker! One would think that low-information liberal voters would be on to the games played in Sacramento by now, but I guess not. Hopefully the voters have finally learned a lesson and won't be fooled by the lying politicians the next time they want more of our money. And there will be a next time, count on it. – George Henry, Valley Center
Quest for immortality opens second term
President Obama's 2013 inauguration to a second term marks the second half of the obsessive-compulsive Obama era, which has diminished the best interests of the United States. Indeed, the historic election of the first black president set in motion candidate Obama's promise to fundamentally transform America, and that's exactly what his presidency has been doing – with or without his direct participation.
Everything President Obama needed to begin his quest for immortality was in place with his media-backed election in 2008 and coronation in 2009. The Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. False blame for the Democrat-caused housing and financial crash was placed on outgoing President Bush. And the president and Congress hurried through government expansion with reckless stimulus spending, enormous debt and overreaching health care and finance regulations, until being delayed by Republicans taking back the House in 2010.
Unfortunately for the American people, President Obama's transformation of our country has included a fundamental increase of government growth and executive power, fundamentally undermining the economy, an ongoing loss of freedoms, and a fundamental decrease in our national security.
President Obama will make it painfully clear that he is going to break the abuse of power barrier with a change of the Cabinet guard, circumventing Congress and the Constitution with imperial edicts and executive orders, which will be backed by the media, and supported by the courts – with impunity. What is most disturbing is that the president knows that regardless of what he does or fails to do, he will not be impeached and removed from office. – Daniel B. Jeffs, Carlsbad


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Tories 'Genuinely' Worried MP Chris Kelly Will Defect To Ukip
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Anyone who thinks dying from an overdose is selfish has a weird idea of what an addict wants out of life. There comes a point at which drinking, drug use, all that - they're not fun anymore. Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn't out partying. He was alone in his bathroom, compelled. Cory Monteith in his hotel room. Chris Kelly in his living room.


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Feb 22 2014
The burrowing owl's genus is named for Athena, goddess of wisdom.
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Underwhelmed by conceptual plans for a key component of the Grand Avenue Project, Los Angeles city and county officials gave the developer three months to come up with a better idea for building a $650-million landmark across the street from Walt Disney Concert Hall.
They rescinded their decision to reject the conceptual plans last week, and granted developer Related Companies an extension to craft a new proposal.
"We are as hopeful as anyone that this project will get moving, and is going to be the first class kind of development that we'd like to see along Grand Ave," county Supervisor Gloria Molina said.
"I feel that site is the best corner in all of L.A. County and so we want the highest quality project," added county Chief Executive Officer William Fujioka. "I'm confident that with Related's renewed commitment to working with us, we will get there."
Related vice president Bea Hsu expressed relief that officials who make up the Grand Avenue Project Joint Powers Authority did not decide to start over with another developer.
"We're really glad to be back in a position to be carrying the project forward," she said. "We've made a very large investment ($120 million) in Grand Avenue — delivered the park, facilitated the museum, constructing an apartment tower. The Authority rejected the conceptual plans unveiled by Related last week. Molina described it as "boxy" and "fort-like," adding it "doesn't have any architectural creativity whatsoever."
She and Fujioka felt the result would not stack up well against the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Broad Museum, whose unique honeycomb exterior is under construction.
However, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad advised against replacing Related.
"Starting over with another developer will delay the project many years and undoubtedly produce a lesser project."


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it looks like amd fans may be getting what they have wanted for a long time: intel's attention. with the addition of 64-bit processors from amd and apple, it would seem that intel is falling a bit behind in the processor market. sure, they have the itanium 2 processor that is performing very well in the high-end server market, but unlike the amd offerings it doesn't perform well with 32-bit apps and you won't find it any desktop systems. intel is publicly saying they still plan to focus on the 32-bit pentium processor for the time being, but rick whittington, an analyst at american technology research, released a report where he states he believes a 64-bit pentium could be out by late 2004. according to whittington, "customers are requesting 64-bit capabilities right now, not in two or three years." he also states that by not having 64-bit processors available for reasonably priced desktops, intel will drive customers to amd. i realize that none of the things mr. whittington has to say are revelations or come as a surprise to anyone; these very sentiments have been echoed by geek.cmo readers and writers alike. but it is noteworthy that industry analysts are beginning to write about it as well. i don't see how intel can ignore it much longer, especially when more operating systems, apps, and games become available with 64-bit support next year. they must also realize that the consumer market is driven by what is perceived as the fastest or newest technology available, regardless of whether it is necessary. joe user may have no need for and see no benefit from a 64-bit processor, but he will buy it because it is the newest thing out. i am sure intel is more than aware of both of these points, and you can bet they will find an answer sooner than later. it is good to see amd having the success they are with great technology like the opteron and athlon 64, but at the same time i am very interested to see how intel responds. my bet is they will have something next year as well; if not they will surely lose out.
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|uhh (8:43am est wed dec 17 2003)
wasnt the itanium 2 a letdown in the high-end market? – by optics261
|itanium (8:54am est wed dec 17 2003)
i believe that intel will avoid moving the pentium architecture to x86-64 (or any other 64 bit instruction set) at all costs. there are two main reasons they don't want to do it.
the first and most important is that they have spent an unbelievable amount of time and money developing itanium. if the p5 (or whatever desktop chip) is 64 bit capable it will no doubt be competitive with the itanium. as it is the opteron is quite competitive with it, in a year the fastest opterons (an 64 bit intel desktop chips) would probably be as fast or faster than itaniums in most scenarios. this would be very bad for intel and their monstrosity of a server processor.
second, they have to decide between making a x86-64 chip or some other 64 bit architecture. while it makes most sense technically to use x86-64 it will be a pr nightmare. they would essentially be confessing to the public that amd has had better, more advanced, and more customer centric products for a year and a half. if they make their own 64 bit instruction set then they will piss off every software vendor under the sun.
all in all, intel has backed themselves into a corner. the longer they wait to go 64 bit the more desktop/small server customers they will lose (their biggest money maker). when they eventually transition to 64 bit desktop offerings they will risk burying the itanium in which they have invested more money then you or i can fathom. – by it's all about the $
|why do people engage in fantasy?? (9:06am est wed dec 17 2003)
intel will never die.
intel could come out tomorrow and say, "amd had the right idea with the x86-64 processors". and no one would care (except fan boys and geeks, which don't count for dick in the $ world).
anyway, intel would simpley say, "we might have got it wrong, but we are doing it better now than amd." then release their own 64 bit, which the masses would eat up, thereby pushing amd's x86-64 into the realms of 3dnow! and every other failed attempt to entrech a standard.
but please, continue with the pointless "i told you so's", while intel continues to pawn the next processor victim…
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|win xp64 bit for amd (9:41am est wed dec 17 2003)
wasn't that to be out months ago ?
any news about that ?
or 2003 server 64 ???
what is m$ waiting for ? – by want 64bit
|lack of foresight (9:46am est wed dec 17 2003)
intel apparently miscalculated when consumers would start getting excited about 64bit processors. amd didn't. they jumped in with no guarantees and their gamble paid off. despite that, the market is still open but intel continues to persist with their 32bit line. and i feel its not feasible to have a true 64 with quite poor 32bit compatibility. perhaps they should for once not focus on the short term profits they could make and instead work to make a 32/64 processor so that when inevitably the consumer does upgrade, its a smooth transition. this might also buy them some time. – by pinny
|yamhill and lga775 (9:49am est wed dec 17 2003)
not that i should really want to put such a cheap shot, but with all the old rumours about "yamhill", and the use of a 775-pin socket in stead of the 478-pin p4 socket, are both indications that intel might do something 64-bit pentium, whatever the instruction set. 297 extra pins are not just for the fun of it… – by skeptick
|re: 3rd post (10:06am est wed dec 17 2003)
you are correct that intel will never die, but you are wrong that intel will come out with their own 64 bit architecture that is not x86-64. microsoft has spoken and they do not intend on developing another 64 os.
the latest rumor is that intel will extend x86-64 with a few of their own instructions just to differentiate them selves from amd. microsoft of course will oblige because its chipzilla who is asking.
amd gambled on x86-64 and appears to have won this round and might even win round two. intel, the master of marketechture, will somehow scape the egg off its face and with enough time and money will pull out a draw in round three. – by theheckler
|a year from now… (10:15am est wed dec 17 2003)
amd will own the market by the end of 2004. amd64 is already showing up everywhere, including on relatively inexpensive machines. there is no reason for the consumer not to go 64 bit if they're buying new. by the end of 2004 amd is going to be everywhere. if or when intel actually mass produces a competitive product they will be the also ran company that will have to prove themselves against the proven and potentially several times upgraged amd product that is about to own the desktop market.
intel did two things that were way stupid: they got greedy, and they blinked. – by tall timbers
|a year from now… (10:20am est wed dec 17 2003)
apple will own the market by the end of 2004. the g5 is already showing up everywhere. there is no reason for the consumer not to go 64 bit if they're buying new. by the end of 2004 apple is going to be everywhere. if or when intel actually mass produces a competitive product they will be the also ran company that will have to prove themselves against the proven and potentially several times upgraged apple product that is about to own the desktop market.
intel did two things that were way stupid: they got greedy, and they blinked. – by iwish
|amd/intel 64 bit (10:34am est wed dec 17 2003)
how right the fantasy author is. its all about muscle. intel has and amd does not.the tech geeks hate intel & ms for that.
intel is all about manufacturing and marketing. they can manufacture amd into the ground. that is why amd is building a $$billion plant in germany. they hope to bootstrap their manufacturing capability to compete against the flood of product that intel can unleash on them.
amd has always had problems manufacturing. they have to be able to target a market and hit it with product at the right time before intel can train its big guns in that direction. they never have so far … – by no axe to grind
|your guys are missing the point (10:41am est wed dec 17 2003)
you people seem to be missing one obvious point.. even though amd has a 64 bit processor out first, it really makes no difference. first i applaude amd for having the forsight for making such a move and hope that they always continue to keep intel on their toes. now to my point. the main thing that adm has to overcome and has always had to overcome is the same thing that the mac has to overcome.. which is the sheer volume of un educated computer users in the market.. sure we geeks are on the in on new processors and technologies but for every geek there are 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 uneducated users who whant nothing more then to surf the web for porn mp3's or other information. these are the people that buy computers in mass volume and it's that market that really counts becuase it's a market largly driven by cost of processor not how technoligy advanced it is. secondly the lack of a true and marketable mainstream 64 bit operating system in the resale channel gives intel some breathing room. do a test ask 100 random people on the street what processor name they most recognise.. intel processor or an damd processor.. most of the replys you will get will be intel. i don't condone it but it is a testament to the power of marketing.
the best part of all this is not who is better but how the competition between the two side will drive better and fatser chips cause in the end that's all that matters. – by redline
|the register coverate, 2. (11:07am est wed dec 17 2003)
– by :-)
|a way for intel (11:07am est wed dec 17 2003)
release a dual core p4, keep it 32 bit. the 64 bit software aint there. when it does come, there is itanium, and it runs 64bit much better than most of the crap out there, including amd. i have a opteron machine, and amd fx machine, and its 64bit has bought me nothing, by the time i see software for it, i will needing a new machine anyway. – by where's the software
|64-bit extension war… (11:38am est wed dec 17 2003)
there has been information to suggest that intel's 64-bit extensions will be incompatible with amd and will only be "enabled" when athlon 64s become more mainstream.
consider the consequences of this:
– pc enthusiasts and amd loyalists jump on the amd64 bandwagon. they become a threat to intel.
– intel then enables their own (imcompatible) 64 bit extensions and puts it through the marketing machine on full tilt.
– ms releases separate os versions for amd and intel 64 bit.
– users are now faced with a choice between two incompatible 64-bit systems.
– both companies engage in a massive pr/advertising battle.
unless software can be easily modified to run on both systems, we will start seeing two versions for everything. kind of like beta/vhs. my guess is that intel wants this battle. they think they can win a systems war. – by apu
|x86-64 (11:48am est wed dec 17 2003)
"x86-64 is a solution to a problem no one has"
"intel is not pursuing yamhill"
straight out of intels mouth – and then they are going to turn and say "opps, sorry? we meant that amd's solution was a problem cause we weren't interested and yamhill was actually being developed all the time – here it is, oh and sorry about pushing all those itanium systems on you, you can just junk those."?
rick whittington also threw out this one about a year ago "dell is going to ship the athlonxp when it comes out" – yea – he was dead on with that one too.
intel will not throw away 10 billion +10 years on r&d on itanium to admit they were wrong – they will want to get everyone to switch then they will lead everyone in a different direction (may it be x86-64 or x86-128 whatever). if they jumped boats now, everyone (the few, the proud, the unknowing) that already bought itanium solutions would jump to sun or power4 and never look back because of the wasted hardware that intel pushed on them, swearing that this is the only direction that the industry is going cause we said so).
intel will not admit its wrong, it will not develop x86-64 and it will suffer. the only way intel will kludge a x86-64 solution together is after amd has taken more than 20% of the 64bit market – but in waiting for that to happen, by the time intel can kludge together a solution (to the problem no one has) and get the infrastructure in place, amd will have 40+% of the 64bit market (thanks to sun and ibm) and intel will be viewed as living in the epic past and no one will jump – period (mush to sun and ibm's delight).
intel, in not wanting to be seen as a follower, is hamstringing itself. it would rather reinvent itself as a comms company rather than admit it was wrong. if the cpu biz starts getting eaten in big chunks by amd, intel will reinvent itself in some other area of the semi biz (like comms which they ventured into and are pushing with centrino), just like they did when they in drams and the asians moved in and destoryed their business.
the yamhill flag waving idiots are up in arms because they finally see that x86-64 is viable, people want it and they have no solution to the problem no one has. they don't want their stock to crash and burn in the rush to get out of the burning theater so they will dredge up any rumor they can with no nod from intel itself as to what is going to save them. all they have is the insight of an analyst that is taking a pot shot in the dark against what the company has repeatedly said – and many of his shots have fallen way off target, such as the dell comment above.
yamhill is a pipe dream for the intel fan boys whose propellers are screwed on to tight, but they don't need to worry becuase all they have to remember is that
1) dell won't ship amd products because dell is intels little bee-yatch.
2) amd is going bankrupt (30 years they have been saying that and trying to make it happen and amd stays there like a bad case of the clap.
3) it's a solution to a problem no one has – ignore it and buy another itainium system for playing pong.
|why bother? (11:49am est wed dec 17 2003)
intel follows the money. they will ramp p until there's loss, either electrical or financial. until then, they will take customers for every penny for 64b. – by andy grove
|gotta love the geeks who post here (11:56am est wed dec 17 2003)
great geeks, but don't know crap about real business. did intel invent 802.11b… no! but intel is the reason hotspots are popping up all around the world so fast. that's the advantage of being a driver. the car moves when you press the gas, regardless of "how good" the passenger is at doing it. and because intel is a driver, centrino is taking off and doing great.
the same goes with 64-bit desktop products. amd was first, but as much as a geek i am, they have not even began to make me want a 64-bit desktop processor. there's no real purpose in having one today for a home user. and with a desktop 64-bit cpu market of a few hundred thousand people worldwide, who cares ? geeks, they care, but they care alone. when intel makes a 64-bit desktop processor, it will be >= amd's offering in performance and competitively priced, like usual, and the desktop os (windows) will be available, and there will be lots of software available and tons on the way, and intel will be right on time. most customers won't ever know there was a 64-bit desktop cpu before intel's, neither will it matter. amd's only glory is that they were early, which really means nothing. truth be told, if intel doesn't go with x86-64 and creates a new 64-bit instruction set, amd's being first could actually be a fatal move for them, unless they reimplement whatever instruction set intel uses. industry software will likely be designed around intel's 64-bit desktop architectural instruction set. it's a concept called mass market penetration. i appreciate the tenebrous forecasts given by the amd fans, but in the process of glorying in what you perceive as a victory, stay real. – by the realist
|on thing though…. (12:02pm est wed dec 17 2003)
those two companies have very strong cross-patenting. so very easily, anything that amd has patented can be made legally by intel.
$. that is everything. these companies don't care about face unless it affects their bottom line. $. if intel believe that the 64-bit processors were the way to go and they thought they would make the most money from them…that is where they would be. $. amd is doing an awesome job of forging ahead with a new technology and because of this they are going to reap some serious benefit…however, intel is too powerful, too intelligent and way to money hbungry to let a big profit not be grabbed for too long. if they deem 64-bit computing the way to go for mainstream computing…then they will go and the computer world will gain the benefit.
and..the second most important thing in this discussion –
$ – by distempered
|sold (12:50pm est wed dec 17 2003)
sold my first amd64 machine this morning… just the beginning. customer doesn't know diddly about computers but knew they wanted 64 bit, cause it is the future.
p.s. apple will continue to be niche player grasping at the fringe of the market place… – by tall timbers
|re: realist (1:44pm est wed dec 17 2003)
once again you have much to say… but it didn't come out
i was hoping that you would argue that intel's profit margin is enormous compared to amd, but you didn't seem to think that's important. real business has to do with margin and volume. who cares if centrino is the lastest flash-in-the-pan…
intel will make a killing this year, selling prescott and prescott celeron to corporations and home users… many times over amd's profit.
you should stick to facts, your x86-64 commentatry makes you look like a dumb-ass. – by chipace
|where is the 64 bit advantage? (2:01pm est wed dec 17 2003)
today or a year from now? unless you are buying a server there isnt any.
none of the fx/64 boards support more than 4 gigs of ram, there is no windows 64 bit supported os fot amd's processor on the market, until both of thoes lacking features disapear 64-bit technology from amd is "useless" in 99% of the desktop market.
it maybe great as a 32 bit chip but why the hell would you buy it as a 64 bit chip when it cant do 64 bit work and address more than 4 gigs of ram as it stands, and cant without a board upgrade and then you might as well buy the faster chip and memory for the next platform, so you better off to biuld a new pc. – by nataku
|amd fans (3:41pm est wed dec 17 2003)
i like amd just fine, i like the competition they bring to the market. their pure performance numbers are not in dispute, niether is their pitiful market share.
but really, are you amd fans going to go out and invest large amounts of your own money in amd stock thinking that they are going to significantly displace the intel & microsoft alliance?
even the folks at amd aren't going to that, because they're smart enough to know better. amd cpu's have their place, market leader isn't it, never will be.
if you think different put your money where your mouth is and we'll see if the stock market makes you rich next year. i doubt it will… – by more $$$
|to all (5:39pm est wed dec 17 2003)
to all of you who claim that amd has a more advanced product, i beg to differ….architecture wise the itanium is the most advanced processor there is and it does beat the pants off of the amd64 chips. yes the amd64 is more customer centric but please dont tell me that amd64 is better than the itanium. – by to all
|…too all (5:53pm est wed dec 17 2003)
one thing that makes amd64 flat out better than itanium is that it can run 32bit natively. i would say that that makes amd64 a superior architecture… – by testy
|…..by more (5:58pm est wed dec 17 2003)
bot 1000's of amd at 7 not too long ago, already sold enough to cover costs so remaing 1000's will be pure profit. i acknowledge that investment in amd is gamble for sure, but one that is likely to pay off those who buy even at todays' amd stock levels – by b'jillionaire
|dell decides … (7:11pm est wed dec 17 2003)
dell is a big intel buyer and the amd64 will kill their sales for workstations and servers.
this means dell will be forced to start buying amd products and i'm sure intel doesn't want that!
intel will swallow all the pride and cost they have to to keep their best customers exclusive. and it will happen before 2005. – by another opinion
|nataku (9:06pm est wed dec 17 2003)
i'm surprised at you…i thought you knew better than that. larger memory addressability is not the only advantage of aa64. i can think of at least 3 huge advantages off the top of my head and i'm not even a computer geek proper:
1) more registers. ia32 has only 8 general purpose registers. aa64 has 16, which will greatly simplify the optimization of speed-critical code.
2) pipelined 64-bit integer math. the
3) aa64 can address more memory.
true, these features are only available if you have a 64-bit operating system, but x86-64 linux has been out and stable for a good 2 years and m$ claims it's about to release xp-64. – by ab
|64 bit running a 32 bit app – waste of $ (9:26pm est wed dec 17 2003)
run a 32 bit application on a 64 bit processor and you'll want to throw your amd out the window (no pun intended). – by save yourself
|hmmmm (10:16pm est wed dec 17 2003)
"architecture wise the itanium is the most advanced processor there is".
right…. and i guess sun's sparc doesn't even get a look-in anymore? how about cray's cpu for their super computers? totally irrelevant i am guessing and not worth even the thought that it can run better than intel's itanium…
amd may not have many software packages that run 64 bits, but all 32 bit applications run much faster than on an xp chip, the onlt programs that are faster on a pentium chip are ones that need higher clock speeds (mp3 encoding, video encoding etc).
|itanium is dead (10:56pm est wed dec 17 2003)
it seems to me that hp focuses its high end servers on itanium chips is a very risky strategy, which may doom it server business. – by kit lo
|criminey pete (11:15pm est wed dec 17 2003)
you all sound like a herd of braying asses. amd is faster than intel, you can't argue that, 64 bit technology is coming like it or not. you think it's not coming, your a damn idiot. amd is in the game early. xp-64 is coming. amd's profits are up, it's only a matter of time before amd starts making serious inroads into intels marketshare. amd's stock is up as well, trust me, i've been watching it soar, much to my delight.
yeah, intel is powerful, but intel aint the only game in town, wise the fuck up people, amd's got the better product and this a capitalist country, eventually it's gonna click in people's minds: buy the better, cheaper product. thats what amd's had in the past and that's what it's got now.
yes there are lots of idiots out there, but you can't deny the fact that amd has hung in this thing like a scrappy pitbull. 3-4 years ago i would have laughed at amd, laughed my ass off. the truth is amd busted intels nuts, looking at the specs of the opteron i about wet my pants, the thing scares me with its raw power.
go ahead, keep whining about how great intel is, in 2 years you'll be feeling awfully lonely.
amd forever.
– by bh3dmod
|by the way (11:24pm est wed dec 17 2003)
i have used hp computers, and they blow. way overpriced, they do have a decent logo on the case. quiet fans. hp is screwed, the only reason they survive is through sheer brand awareness. people know the letters hp, so they buy, hp. it's logical to them, my experience is hp blows, so kudos to you for seeing that.
the anaology obviously works with intel. people like intel, they obviously watch alot of tv, amd wants to help them, it's only a matter of time, amd has proven it can hang in there, and as long as they hang in there amd's day will come. – by bh3dmod
|64bit windows xp performance will determine the need for athlon64 (1:41am est thu dec 18 2003)
if 64bit windows xp is a real smoker (heavy ram requirements expected), the average desktop user could be attracted to athlon64.
i would guess that if 64bit windows xp and 32bit xp have less than a 20% delta, intel's fine…
the workstation and server market is so ram starved that even a neck-and-neck 64bit xp / 32bit xp race will go to amd.
i fully expect an intel x86-64 compatible announcement before may 2004. – by 64dude
|ughhhhhh (3:23am est thu dec 18 2003)
i will let another secret out—intel has a 64-86 cpu and guess what, it's using amd64 technology. write it down and remember where you read it.
realist, that was a dumb post. with your logic, champions remain champions forever. oh an as for 802.11b–do you mean to tell everyone intel is the cause of that? i always thought you were smarter than that. and as for centrino, most people think it's a cpu and do not know the facts about it.
for those who think amd 64 is useless, you have no clue nor are your eyes open.
and for the idiot who said no fx or athlon64 boards support 4 gigs of ram is someone who does not know anything and is still running a p2 unit.
you are all looking at amd's first release of 64bit technolgy—-watch this febuary. intel knows what amd is upto and is in some deep trouble for atleast 9 months. wait until you see the sneak attack amd has for intel upon the release of the prescott :-)
p.s. i love to see how the intel freaks change their stories and excuses. they bash amd for having a 64 bit chip when they wish intel had it. look at the prices of the a64 chips. they are cheap and also the fastest 32/64 bit platform in the world. – by me biggd01
|hmmmm (2:56am est sat dec 20 2003)
doesn't tyan have a dual board with thunder k8w (s2885) [shipping now]
– dual amd opteron� processor support
– agp 8x / agp 8x pro 110w slot
– 8 dimms for up to 16gb ddr memory
now the stuff about xp preformance may be right but with pci expressand amd abilty to change the ht speed just to bust the platform should be very scary to intel. i'm sorry if your making games your gona have a opteron… if the max specsof an app or game require a amd64 product then that is going to be what will sell..
i'm not in the mood to predict stuff right now so i'll just go to church and pray that intel truely isn't stupid enough to ignore 64 bit tech. it's funny once amd get enough money behind it they marketing campain will get better… if that happens and they still have the lead in preformance then the tide will will surely turn – by preacher
|intel (11:10pm est sat dec 20 2003)
is jealous(justkiddin')
is falling way behind
sucks – by billygoat
|adm athron 64 vs athon xp (5:36pm est sat feb 19 2005)
i am not a geek by a long shot. i want to upgrade and am looking at adm processors. my question:
i want a 200.ogb harddrive and i do not know which adm product is best for me.
i am looking at compaq and hp. not happy with dell service in the past.
anyone with an idea?
rick in long beach
|adm athron 64 vs athon xp (5:38pm est sat feb 19 2005)
i am not a geek by a long shot. i want to upgrade and am looking at adm processors. my question:
i want a 200.ogb hard drive and i do not know which adm product is best (athron 64 or athron xp) for me.
i am looking at compaq and hp. not happy with dell service in the past.
anyone with an idea?
rick in long beach


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