img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/att.jpg" width="250" height="225" /ATT plans to run a single mobile OS on all of its branded smartphones, citing the "support nightmare" of maintaining multiple platforms at once. Curiously, this announcement was made at a emSymbian/em conference. br /br /It's not entirely clear what ATT means by this announcement, but one question was addressed right off the bat: the iPhone, which the company described as "a third-party device" that generally isn't supported or interfered with by the company, is immune. Such a consolidation would push all but one of Microsoft, RIM, Nokia or even Google out of ATT's stable, which might be construed as brash. br /br /Even more bizarre are the implicit expectations for phone manufacturers. Would RIM, assuming their phones aren't deemed "third party products", be expected to adopt a new OS? Will Nokia phones be excluded from ATT's lineup unless they run Windows Mobile? Simultaneously stating that the plan would only include ATT branded smartphones (of which there are few) and that it would be a "dramatic restructuring", the company has left the scope of this initiative a mystery. br /br /As for which OS would be chosen, the location of the announcement and mentions of a preference for an "open" platform are all we have to go on. I could imagine these statements raising a few eyebrows around the industry, so don't be surprised to see some kind of clarification issued in the next few days. [a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081205/tc_pcworld/atampthopesforsinglesmartphoneos"Yahoo/a] br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=b8a7036934b9ad4908ec71e64343d008amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=b8a7036934b9ad4908ec71e64343d008amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=eFihp4eu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=TW7S9mkz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=M0m7sifL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=M0m7sifL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=zO3PIqnH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=zO3PIqnH" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/bmYPww5Wleo" height="1" width="1"/

News from Skeezix:
Hey my friends ..

We're all hungry for our release units, and we all know everyone is dieing for more info and news, and we all know the boys are too busy to fill our demands But there are a few of us devkit lads on board now, so likely some more info will get leaked.

This is unofficial; I'm not speaking for the devs, and may make errors. I'm not intending to step on the toes of any of the very fine devs for any of the devices (disclosure, I've got dev units of all of them!). Craigs statement about saying something that is true for only 3 days being bandied about for 3 months is ever so true It is also tough to post performance numbers without people thinking its a diss to the non-topmost machine. I don't want to say that, since there are other factors (price, portability, screen preferences, add-ons, support, controls, weight, and so on.)

You might recall my past thread http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...opic=44373&hl= comparing gp2x to GP2x Wiz. See that for some commentary on what is accurate or inaccurate for those tests (ie: optimized code on gp2 versus unoptimized code on the Wiz, including SDL versus framebuffer, meaning the Wiz numbers are artificially lower and the gp2x ones are pretty high, so the Wiz should actually perform higher in relation to the gp2x than I showed.) Defining a 'fair' benchmark is hard since everyone has a different idea (all running at their best or worst? the type of test.. be it math, graphics, bus intensive .. it is easy to have a test that hits a weakness in one but a strenght in another, and is that a fair thing (typical use) or a cheat (atypical use)? Hard questions.)

Suffice to say my number is a _SINGLE_ (yet repeatable) test; a good benchmark is comprised of many benchmark tests so you can get a good picture from many perspectives.. not just a 'throwing this out there' number.

Still, it is a pretty telling number sometimes as well!

All that said..

Given OutcaST (an emu for which many of you have seen and used for some 6+ years from me in various forms), in a emulated CPU-torture test. (ie: Atari ST sitting at the GEM desktop with a stock TOS image will be in a tight CPU grind loop.) Doesn't really hit the ST's graphic system hard or the like, but the ST wasn't really a complex machine for graphics anyway. So it tests the emulation pretty well, in a situation that makes the mu perform worse than average. (ie: If it normally woudl run 60fps for a game, it'd run this GEM situation at 40-45fps at a guess.) Its also easy to auto-boot into, so no keyboard or audio or the like making the test more situational.. its pure out emulation with the machine not even trying to play audio.

GP2x stock F100, 200MHz IIRC. Highly optimized code.

GP2x Wiz dev unit (not final hardware but pretty close); The code is on GPH slow software only SDL. (no acceleration.) 533MHz.

Pandora Mk2 (version 1.1) devboard; 500MHz. Notaz quick SDL port using framebuffer. ie: Not optimized, but I think its prolly better than the GPH version on the Wiz. (GPH stuff tends to be slower for some reason, perhaps they don't compile with optimizatoins on in the compiler, or add debugging stuff, or the mouse support is in the way, or something.)

Sony PSP original FAT version. Not optimized for multi-cpu core, not really using the separate GPU for anything in this test. (ie: alpha blendsing UIs and such are in the code, but not during this test.) Essentially the PSP is chugging along at 333MHz if memory serves.. I don't recall if I'm clocking down or not in this case .. didn't loo back at the code to see.

Latest version of Outcast fro mthe gp2x, converted crappily to SDL on the non-F100 machines.

GP2x 49fps

GP2x Wiz 70fps

Pandora dev board mk2 180fps

Sony PSP 53fps

During actual game emulation the numbers are all higher by about 20-25%, but thats out of scope for this.

It is hard to explain the pandora being so far out in front of the others; my guess is the less congested bus, the processor being a multigenerational gap (the Pandora CPU is a far far newer design than in the GP2x), and the big cache on the CPU in the pandora.

Note my comments above; the 70 versus 49 (Wiz to gp2x) may not seem so impressive in relation to the pandora, but going back to the origiunal post I was pretty impressed. The Wiz _IS_ a snappy beasty (and this is a bit of a torture test, not a typical emu gameplay test!), so it is a very exciting device.

The Pandora is freaking goddamned fast.

jeff

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Summary: With their many replicates and their random layouts, Illumina BeadArrays provide greater scope fordetecting spatial artefacts than do other microarray technologies. They are also robust to artefact exclusion, yet there is a lack of tools that can perform these tasks for Illumina. We present BASH, a tool for this purpose. BASH adopts the concepts of Harshlight, but implements them in a manner that utilizes the unique characteristics of the Illumina technology. Using bead-level data, spatial artefacts of various kinds can thus be identified and excluded from further analyses.

Availability: The beadarray Bioconductor package (version 1.10 onwards), www.bioconductor.org

Contact: andy.lynch@cancer.org.uk

Supplementary information: Additional information and a vignette are included in the beadarray package.

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!-- [DocumentBodyStart:9d68613b-72d0-4ece-a449-95517191060c] --div class='jive-rendered-content'pJust wondering if anyone from JB could comment on when we might get a Sybase/MS-SQL/T-SQL dialect?/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/ppAs a somewhat related question: do you think it would ever be possible to get IntelliJ to recognize "scope" (that's probably the wrong word) for the following type of code:/pp style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"nbsp;/p!--[CodeBlockStart:a801f7e7-23bd-4e0f-9df0-7fe1ec224732]--pre class="jive-pre"code class="jive-code jive-sql"span class="jive-sql-keyword"OPEN/span cur_fooIDs span class="jive-sql-keyword"FETCH/span cur_fooIDs span class="jive-sql-keyword"INTO/span @currentUserID WHILE @@sqlstatus = 0 span class="jive-sql-keyword"BEGIN/span     span class="jive-sql-keyword"EXEC/span sp_UpdateNewPassword @currentUserID , @newPassword     span class="jive-sql-keyword"FETCH/span cur_fooIDs span class="jive-sql-keyword"INTO/span @currentUserID span class="jive-sql-keyword"END/span /code/pre!--[CodeBlockEnd:a801f7e7-23bd-4e0f-9df0-7fe1ec224732]--pI would love, love, love to have IntelliJ be able to tell me, when I put my cursor next to 'END', where the matching 'BEGIN' is.  So maybe I don't mean "scope" so much as "bracket matching" ?/p/div!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:9d68613b-72d0-4ece-a449-95517191060c] --

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